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Fox News Special Report: There Is No Santa Claus

post #1 of 24
7/31/08 at 9:29pm
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http://chud.com/articles/articles/15...AUS/Page1.html
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post #2 of 24
7/31/08 at 9:34pm
And thus you have what's known as an incredibly slow news day. Or misplaced priorities. Whatever your choice.
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post #3 of 24
7/31/08 at 9:41pm
There's going to be a point in the future where "skeptic" will be a derogatory word...
My big question however would be "what do they think is real magic?", then again, its Fox News so they probably do believe satanists are raising demons in the suburbs of America.
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post #4 of 24
7/31/08 at 9:44pm
The Terrible Secret behind the worlds greatest card trick
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post #5 of 24
7/31/08 at 9:45pm
Not to derail but I never quite got the Criss Angel hate. I know there's a local radio show that rags on him constantly. I mean the cross stuff is overdone but he's not David Blaine and he's not constantly shilling like Gene Simmons. So I never did understand that.
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post #6 of 24
7/31/08 at 9:53pm
Didn't some Florida affiliate do a 5-part series during sweeps on How to Get to Heaven?
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post #7 of 24
7/31/08 at 10:12pm
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Originally Posted by Alanthar View Post
Did you actually find this funny?
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post #8 of 24
7/31/08 at 10:36pm
Criss Angel is a bigger douche than David Blaine. Everything he does involves pre-taped crap and fake audiences and shit. Though FOX is probably black balled from the Alliance now.
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post #9 of 24
7/31/08 at 11:13pm
I find it hilarious some producer actually thought this was news. Then again, I find it completely true that they would think it was news. Fuck I hate the modern news business.
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post #10 of 24
8/1/08 at 1:26am
Fox News: Keeping the nation's fucktarded updated on the shit they missed out on the first time.
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post #11 of 24
8/1/08 at 4:36am
Yesterday, I'd find it more likely to believe that magic exists than that a major network would actually make a piece like that.

Chris Angel isn't actually a wizard? Hold the fucking presses!

Next on FOX: A three part series that proves the existence of gravity.
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post #12 of 24
8/1/08 at 4:58am
Gravity: MYTH OR MENACE?
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post #13 of 24
8/1/08 at 9:57am
I love the title of this article. At first I was hoping that it was a ploy to get some fanboys really pissed off. "Faraci doesn't believe in Jesus, Batman or Santa Claus! Fuck him!"
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post #14 of 24
8/1/08 at 12:25pm
Jesus, Batman, and Santa are but three facets of one omnipotent God-being.

I'm waiting on the MUMMY 3 weekend numbers for my fix of pissed-off fanboy histrionics.
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post #15 of 24
8/1/08 at 1:32pm
"Is Obama a Terrorist? Find out after this breaking new clip of our best friend, the Two-Legged Skateboarding Dog!"
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post #16 of 24
8/1/08 at 3:09pm
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI View Post
Criss Angel is a bigger douche than David Blaine. Everything he does involves pre-taped crap and fake audiences and shit. Though FOX is probably black balled from the Alliance now.
Exactly why I find myself rolling my eyes all the time at Angel's "magic". I read the argument that the fake audiences (he uses reaaaally bad actors) and shit is fine if you think of it in terms of one (as in, yourself the viewer) being the only one he's trying to trick; thinking of them as tools of the illusion he's doing for you... but it still reeks of bullcrap. There's a video of Angel himself showing you how he does his "levitating three feet off the ground" trick and the way it's done anyone within one foot of him or more would be able to PLAINLY see how he does it. I dunno, I just can't get over that to enjoy his stuff well enough. Plus, his brother's are annoying.

Chewer: "I was checking out your DVDAf page and it says you own all three seasons of Mindfreak."

Hey, hey, hey, don't JUDGE me! Don't you fucking JUDGE me, man!
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post #17 of 24
8/1/08 at 3:11pm
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I'm ok with fake audiences. Having a ringer go up on stage has a long history in magic.
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post #18 of 24
8/1/08 at 4:21pm
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I'm ok with fake audiences. Having a ringer go up on stage has a long history in magic.
I once saw this show of a blonde magician, older fellow, who was gonna make an airplane disappear. He was gonna set up a giant, err, blanket or whatever that would block the view of the audience on the ground and when it'd drop the plane would be gone. BUT, he had a "hand-picked" group of around 12 people up on a crane who would be able to "see the plane disappear before their eyes".

Well, blanket goes up, blanket goes down, plane is gone... now let's interview the people on the crane!

Cue the WORST FUCKING ACTORS YOU CAN IMAGINE saying shit like "Oh my gawd, it was so amazing! It was there and then it wasn't!" It was embarassing, really, just awful acting.

Also, the Criss Angel trick with a KoRn voodoo doll had awful fake "people on the street". So blatant and fake you just wanna fast-forward through it.
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post #19 of 24
8/1/08 at 4:25pm
Who said they were getting high caliber actors to play ringers? This isn't Royal Shakespere Company we're talking about.
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post #20 of 24
8/1/08 at 7:45pm
If these FOX news heroes were around during the Salem witch trials, imagine the lives that could have been saved!
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post #21 of 24
8/1/08 at 7:52pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
If these FOX news heroes were around during the Salem witch trials, imagine the lives that could have been saved!
Swap out the words "Salem witch trials" with "war on terror" and you'll see that the opposite is true.
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post #22 of 24
8/1/08 at 9:57pm
Seriously, "Joan of Arc? Possessed? This Is Fox News!"
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post #23 of 24
8/1/08 at 11:11pm
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Originally Posted by Brad_Lohan View Post
Swap out the words "Salem witch trials" with "war on terror" and you'll see that the opposite is true.
Newsflash people, this is a local news station (fox affiliate) here in Tampa ... seems like whenever people see "Fox News" they go nuts.

I never watch the local news, this is actually more interesting than the usual no-news they broadcast.

And I'm glad they showed this, I love finding out how magic tricks work plus the pre tape video thing is just super cheap.
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post #24 of 24
8/2/08 at 2:17pm
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Originally Posted by ElCapitanAmerica View Post

I love finding out how magic tricks work
Illoooooooooozions, Capitan!
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