Richard Koci Hernandez / Mercury News
Gina and Robert Fesmire outside their Sunnyvale home.
Posted on 06/25/2005 10:19:09 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Gina and Bob Fesmire come across as the average couple next door, taking care of the home front in jeans and sweatpants, struggling to stay one step ahead of a hectic Silicon Valley life.
But they didn't realize how crazy life could be until last month, when Gina Fesmire launched the site www. downingstreetmemo.com on a whim. The site, which has become a bona fide phenomenon, features secret British documents on the lead-up to the Iraq war, first leaked to the press in England.
The site has drawn 700,000 visits since the site went up May 11 with the goal of prodding U.S. media coverage of the documents. It has sparked political discussion around the country and quickly attracted attention from the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.
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Driving the frenzy is the Downing Street memo, the minutes of a meeting on July 23, 2002, in which British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his top aides report on talks with Bush administration officials about Iraq. It was big news in Britain when the Sunday Times of London broke the story May 1, but generated few significant news stories in the United States.
Pundits disagree on whether the memo -- written eight months before the war began -- provides a ``smoking gun'' that proves the Bush administration lied about its intentions and manufactured a case for war. But Democratic politicians and bloggers on the left have jumped on it. A number of media commentators also have concluded that the memo deserved deeper coverage than it initially received.
Besides posting the memo -- actually a series of leaked British government documents -- the site has spearheaded a media campaign. It targets three media outlets daily and urges visitors to ask them to cover the memos.
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Gina and Robert Fesmire outside their Sunnyvale home.
"The site has drawn 700,000 visits since the site went up May 11"
700 DUmmies 1000 times.
isn't sunnyvale the mouth of hell?
Old guy with ponytail alert.
Ugly fat wife alert.
"Liberal" traitor, hate America alert.
It is worthy of note that the DSM WHERE NOT posted but typed transcripts of these "memos" were. IMO these typed pieces of paper have absolutely zero credibility. Even the reporter himself who made typed the transcripts did not say, when asked, that they "proved" anything at all but only pointed in the direction of wrongdoing. You would have to say that even this is nothing more then an opinion.
Gina looks like she should be telling Caroll Anne to walk toward the light.
They call themselves 'Independents'.. lol
Why aren't they facing legal consequences for posting classified documents?
This is hilarious and no doubt will be the credits-roll closing image of the Oliver Stone movie version of the memo (I'm seeing Woody Harrelson as Robert and Gary Coleman as Gina).
bump
BTW, nice ponytail, dork.
Well .. the picture of that couple sure fits the profile of the blame America first crowd. Any guy who wears a pony tail today is ultra-ultra leftist.
And .. since most people on this thread know who Ceci Connelly is .. when she appeared on FOX with Brit - he asked her if she thought there really was a smoking gun in the minutes .. AND SHE SAID - THERE IS NO THERE THERE.
If the ultry liberal leaning Ceci says there is nothing there .. there's nothing there.
Hey! They could be independent! After all, to them, the Democratic Party could be too 'conservative' for them!
" But Democratic politicians and bloggers on the left have jumped on it. "
Let's see. They jumped on Bush talking to school kids during 9/11. They jumped on Bush when he inherited cclintons recession. They jumped on Bush for NCLB. They jumped on Bush for......
They should just have a nice big cup of STFU and let the grownups do what they were elected to do.
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