but also conveniently 'forget' to delete the original message from the DNC below the body of your own letterLOL!! That is precisely what I'm doing :)
Now pardon me while I sing to the choir...
Posted on 10/03/2004 9:22:14 AM PDT by lowbridge
WE RECEIVED THE following letter from a woman in Yonkers, N.Y.: "Dear editor: This debate made it clear: John Kerry is a leader we can trust to tell us the truth when it comes to our nation's security. George Bush has had his chance; I'm ready for a new direction."
Cogent, succinct, personal -- everything we look for in a letter. So why are we writing about it here, instead of publishing it in the columns to the right? Unfortunately, the letter, perfect in every other way, arrived in our electronic in-box Thursday afternoon, four hours and 14 minutes before debate moderator Jim Lehrer posed his first question.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
good for them!
Amazing the Wash Post is admitting, and writing about,this.
I guess they know it would get out without them.
The question is, how many other papers printed the same variation? I'm sure more than just the ComPost received these seminar letters.
Score one for the Washington Post.
BREAKING: WASHINTON POSTS MOCKS DU.
This is the real story about all those polls taken immediately after the debate. The DNC cooked the polls, as usual. Maybe I missed it, but I saw and heard very little coverage on it. It helps to negate all those "Kerry won the debate polls".
Sweet.
The punchline: "[O]ur goal is to present a sampling of genuine reader opinion, not to become one more battlefield in the spin wars raging all around. And we especially like to hear from readers who can think and write for themselves."
Good on 'em! I imagine many in the media are now afraid of being the next Dan Rather.
A similar story in the Chicago Tribune by Michael Tackett:
Democrats don't fool anyone in post-debate e-mail punditry
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/perspective/chi-0410030319oct03,1,1685545.story?coll=chi-newsopinionperspective-hed
Oddly enought BugMeNot only works for me with the comPost. It even remembers me every time. BugMeNot hasn't worked for me on any other newspaper website.
thanks for the login link.
It seems to me the Washpost is being honest.
They didn't have to mention any of the tactics being used by the dnc. Maybe they're not as partisan as the nyt or the lat.
No.
More aware of the danger of being shown to be pulling transparent scams a la Rather and CBS.
They don't call it the comPost for nothing.
PW: fedup
You took the words right out of my mouth!
When I worked for a local newspaper in New Jersey, we got letters with the SAME PHRASES IN CAPITAL LETTERS always making exactly the same points. Never got one from a Republican. We never printed them.
Not an indictment of the Washington Post, just a curious question as to why they waited for days to announce the DNC's email when FReepers knew of it BEFORE the debate?
LOL. You have to be a real DUmmy to send an email to the editor critiquing a debate before the debate even begins.
Democrats don't fool anyone in post-debate e-mail punditry (Chicago Tribune Editorial)
- finally the Left media is getting their heads handed to them by the left politician. The Post thought only the right was difficult now they see what we have seen in spades because we deal with not only the RAT politican and gov. worker but also their paper of record.
It took them days because it was days before they knew others knew about it.
That email that silverback posted the day of the debate was sent to several online blogs, and they probably sent it to the newspapers for Sunday analysis.
Hahaha...someone pushed 'send' too soon. :)
WP editors scold Dem readers for debate letters, emails to Post
I read the whole editorial. Remarkable, coming from the Washington Post. There may be a slight glimmer of hope for them yet.
Marvelous!
I think several of us should learn from this example and
signup for email alerts from the DNC and other left wing
extremist groups
Then, when they ask us to DUmp on someone's email box,
we do so like this woman...
(but also conveniently 'forget' to delete the original message from the DNC below the body of your own letter)
In fact, WHENEVER we seeBS an e-mail call to arms...
DISTRIBUTE THE ORIGINAL EMAIL HERE to more freepers...
THEN write a pithy but unconvincing argument IN THEIR FAVOR
but include their discrediting 'call to arms' email below yours.
(I'd call it a REVERSE-FREEP)
but also conveniently 'forget' to delete the original message from the DNC below the body of your own letterLOL!! That is precisely what I'm doing :)
Now pardon me while I sing to the choir...
Now, if they will report on the fact that Commy Kerry used cheat notes during the debate. Don't count on it.
There's 2 other threads about 2 other papers also receiving similar letters.
Also a couple of days ago, somebody wrote an article about the DNC's letter telling people to flood the media with emails .. and said, "That was not a good idea for the DNC to publish that info.
Hmmmm? Is the media getting a sense they are being manipulated ..?? That will be a first!
Are you using Explorer or Fire-Fox as a browser? Fire-Fox also remembers all login passwords.
Plug the title into Google News.
Prolly hired an intern to monitor the New Media and give a heads-up on stuff...
the debate was Thursday night, this editorial was Saturday, so for a newspaper that's a pretty quick editorial response ... I'm shocked at the Washington Post and Chicago Tribune, to be honest .. whodathunkit?
Hey, that works, thanks!
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