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Did Media Matters push WaPo's edit board?
Politico ^ | 5-14-2008 | Michael Calderone

Posted on 05/14/2008 8:25:54 PM PDT by Kleebo151

Today, the Washington Post editorial board urged Cindy McCain to release her tax returns, repeating a call made four years earlier to Teresa Heinz Kerry.

But the timing seemed coincidental, given that Media Matters just wrote a letter to Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt last Friday. In that letter, the organization brought up the Heinz Kerry editorial from 2004, and asked why a similar request was not made to McCain.

Hiatt tells Politico that the letter wasn't the reason for publishing Wednesday's editorial.

"The editorial actually had been drafted before the [group's effort] began, or at least before I saw anything from Media Matters," Hiatt wrote in an e-mail.

"Getting it in was just a matter of finding the space, given the demands of other news events," he added

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008electionbias; bias; cindymccain; liberalmedia; mediabias; mediamatters; msm; soros; taxreturns; teresaheinz; timingissuspicious
The timing of this editorial seems to suggest that indeed, Media Matters influenced the Washington Post's decision to ask for Cindy's income tax returns.

George Soros has a lot of influence and money, and will use it to destroy any Republican that gets in the way.

1 posted on 05/14/2008 8:25:55 PM PDT by Kleebo151
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To: Kleebo151

“or at least before I saw anything from Media Matters”

As Criswell said in Plan 9 From Outer Space: “Can you prove that it didn’t happen (that way)?”


2 posted on 05/14/2008 8:48:13 PM PDT by weegee (Vote NO on Marxism in 2008.)
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To: Kleebo151

Because Soros had so much success in taking out President Bush and the Republicans back in 2004.

If letters had that much power, the UN would be the most powerful insitution in the world.


3 posted on 05/14/2008 8:55:44 PM PDT by Philly Nomad
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To: Kleebo151

One big difference. Teresa was out with her husband campaigning. Cindy is keeping to herself and remaining private.


4 posted on 05/14/2008 8:59:41 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Parley Baer

Nevertheless, if she doesn’t this won’t go away. Does the party need this story coming back next October? And if keeping her affairs private is the most important thing for her, she isn’t going to be a happy first lady. And no one forced her husband to run for president.


5 posted on 05/14/2008 10:16:52 PM PDT by buck jarret
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To: Kleebo151

They are one in the same, so this question doesn’t matter(s).


6 posted on 05/15/2008 4:22:51 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatives live in the truth. Liberals live in lies.)
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To: weegee
Are you suggesting that we are in a cheesy B-movie?

That would explain a lot of things...

7 posted on 05/15/2008 4:25:27 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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