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Easy Mac
05-22-2004, 03:59 PM
I'm watching FoxNews waiting till its time to flip to ESPN2 for soccer.

They have a short thing on about Thomas Hamill, the American who escaped from the FMR during a gunfight with US troops. Besides saying he literally ran to US troops (no shit, he was trying not to get shot), the also called him a Die-hard American. What the hell is this? Is he like Bruce Willis or something? I have no idea what this is supposed to mean, I'd like to know if FoxNews does as well.

From my limited dictionary search, die-hard means:
Stubbornly resisting change or clinging to a seemingly hopeless or outdated cause.

So being an American is a hopeless or outdated cause? Is it really too much to ask for journalists to look up words before they use them so they don't completely look like jackasses?

(Note: not a FoxNews rant, just a rant about idiot journalists)

mordhiem
05-22-2004, 04:02 PM
Stop being such a die-hard pedantic.

Dutch
05-22-2004, 04:04 PM
I know how you feel EM....trust me. Journalists are slowly making lawyers look literally like grade-A Saints. (whatever that means)

Philliesfan980
05-22-2004, 04:04 PM
Stop being such a die-hard pedantic.


Leave him alone... he's just trying to find a way to get to 5,000 posts :)