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To: JSteff
RE: "The MSM makes calls for politicians and regular citizens to show documents to back up claims of all sorts every day."

The MSM employees had no problem blaring complaints about McCain and calling in heavy weights to debate McCain's birth certificate.

"Imagine what would happen if the courts were to overturn an election simply based on eligibility. It would be a disaster. After what happened in 2000, people would completely lose faith in the electoral process."

That was said about the brouhaha over McCain's birth place.

BTW, the article said "Curiously enough, there is no record of McCain's birth in the Panama Canal Zone Health Department's bound birth registers, which are publicly available at the National Archives in College Park. A search of the 'Child Born Abroad' records of the U.S. consular service for August 1936 included many U.S. citizens born in the Canal Zone but did not turn up any mention of John McCain."

McCain handed over a paper copy to all which was carefully checked out by the MSM employees -- no jpg's allowed.

12 posted on 12/22/2008 2:06:29 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
“The MSM makes calls for politicians and regular citizens to show documents to back up claims of all sorts every day.”

That is EXACTLY why the founders put such strong protections on the FREEDOM OF SPEECH. The founders thought a loud vocal nongovernmental body help balance out the politicians with a voice the common man alone did not have.

So it IS their job to question everything LOUDLY. They are the only group of private citizens whose rights and independent jobs were in the forefront of the founders minds.

15 posted on 12/22/2008 2:31:33 AM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
“McCain handed over a paper copy to all which was carefully checked out by the MSM employees — no jpg’s allowed. “

On this point, didn't you answer your own questions? 1. McCain did not sue because it is the right of the press, particularly in politics to ask those questions.
2. The press did not get sued for these questions. bHo should react similarly.

Case closed.

19 posted on 12/22/2008 2:59:38 AM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
BTW, the article said "Curiously enough, there is no record of McCain's birth in the Panama Canal Zone Health Department's bound birth registers,...

Not surprising since McCain wasn't born in the Canal Zone.

47 posted on 12/22/2008 11:01:56 AM PST by TigersEye (I threw my shoe at Mohammed and hit Allah in the butt.)
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