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Posted on 10/04/2003 4:14:17 PM PDT by amordei
Edited on 04/12/2004 5:58:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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Well, we hope they did find him and . . .
The only mention of Arnold's internals comes in a third-hand report -- a report about what reporters were hearing that Democrats were saying -- and not about "internal polls" specifically. The mention of internals comes only in the Schwarzenegger camp's denial that their internals are falling:
The Schwarzenegger camp insists that its internal polls show their candidate gaining strength since the groping charges first appeared. But en route to Modesto, reporters following the campaign started hearing by phone that Democrats were claiming overnight polls showed support for Schwarzenegger plummeting and the recall election's fate within the margin of error.
Veeeeeerrrry interesting.....
It's easy to tell when a Democrat is lying. It is any time the public or a reporter can hear them.
But en route to Modesto, reporters following the campaign started hearing by phone that Democrats were claiming overnight polls showed support for Schwarzenegger plummeting and the recall election's fate within the margin of error.
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Then, upon arrival, the campaign distributed a piece published just minutes before on the website of the LA Weekly by reporter Bill Bradley. The article noted that peace activist Jodie Evans, who helped organize a press conference with one of Schwarzenegger’s accusers, has known and worked with Davis since their days in the Jerry Brown administration. But The Times, Bradley wrote, failed to point that out in its coverage today.That would be THIS article:Bradley wrote his short piece on a Blackberry portable computer from aboard the bus and told campaign officials that it was coming. They quickly arranged to print it out at a Modesto copy shop and make copies for the entire press corps...
The Davis Touch: A Democratic operative is behind part of the Times’ latest story
LA Weekly ^ | 10-4-03 | Bill Bradley
Posted on 10/04/2003 1:43 PM PDT by ambrose
OCTOBER 3 - 9, 2003The Davis Touch
A Democratic operative is behind part of the Times’ latest story
by Bill Bradley
The L.A. Times has a story Saturday about three more women who allege that gubernatorial front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger engaged in sexual misconduct over the years. Schwarzenegger, on his bus tour north of Fresno, said charges in Saturday’s story "are absolutely untrue."
The Times maintains that none of the women came forward at the behest of Schwarzenegger’s opponents. That claim, however, is looking increasingly dubious. One of the three women in the story says she came forward at the urging of Jodie Evans, described by the Times as a peace activist and "co-founder of the women’s peace group Code Pink." At best, this is an incomplete, misleading description
Here’s what the newspaper should have said about Evans. She is actually a former close colleague of Gov. Gray Davis, a longtime Democratic operative and a friend of noted Democratic hit man Bob Mulholland. Evans is also the ex-wife of Westside financier Max Palevsky, the man who gave Gray Davis his first job in politics as the fund-raiser in Tom Bradley’s 1973 mayoral campaign.
Oops! Someone should have told John Carroll, the Times editor and anti-bias crusader.
Evans worked closely with Davis in the administration of Gov. Jerry Brown. While Davis served as Brown’s chief of staff, Evans was Brown’s chief fund-raiser and director of administration in the governor’s office.
Why didn’t the Times give an accurate description of Evans, who has pushed at least one woman to come forward with last-minute charges? On the campaign bus outside Fresno just now, I asked veteran Times columnist George Skelton, who acknowledges the reality of Evans’ deep ties to Davis and the Democrats, why the Times described her so disingenuously.
"Maybe the reporters and editors just didn’t know," he says.
The Times is presenting itself authoritatively on these matters. If the Times doesn’t know where the stories are coming from, what else does it not know? If the Times is not ignorant about these connections, that is whole different kettle of fish.
As most Californians know by now, Davis is the champion of negative campaigning and has nearly perfected the strategy of last-minute allegations breaking in the final days of the campaign. It should not be surprising to Times Mirror Square that his fingerprints appear on at least the latest story.
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