Disenchanted Bush Voters Consider Crossing Over (Independent joins GOP in just two weeks time!)

NY Times ^ | 2.22.04

[diotima]

"It was easy for the Times to spell Packer's name right because he is apparently the entire media's designated "man on the street" for all articles ever written. He has appeared in news stories more than 100 times as a random member of the public. Packer was quoted on his reaction to military strikes against Iraq; he was quoted at the St. Patrick's Day Parade, the Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Veterans' Day Parade. He was quoted at not one but two New Year's Eve celebrations at Times Square. He was quoted at the opening of a new "Star Wars" movie, at the opening of an H&M clothing store on Fifth Avenue and at the opening of the viewing stand at Ground Zero. He has been quoted at Yankees games, Mets games, Jets games even getting tickets for the Brooklyn Cyclones. He was quoted at a Clinton fund-raiser at Alec Baldwin's house in the Hamptons and the pope's visit to Giants stadium."

I can't believe I remembered that name....

[Joe Hadenuf]

This article is crap. The men on the street who are cited are all using Democrat talking points: economy, no WMDs, body bags, etc. These are not the areas where internal GOP conflict has any resonance.

Agree. That should have been obvious to most.

[diotima]

George Meagher, the new Greg Packer

[Admin Moderator]

Meet Greg Packer:

heh

[ambrose]

that would make sense...

[LADY J]

"Many are shocked to find themselves switching sides."

If they think they are shocked now - wait until they have another 8 years of Clinton democrats back in the White House.

Some people have thick heads and will never learn.

[neverdem]

Check out what ambrose found, remarkable to say the least!

[meema]

bump to read later

[Triple Word Score]

Interesting article on this phenomenon:

http://www.offthekuff.com/mt/archives/002003.html

[Neets]

"As the president's job rating has fallen, his Democratic supporters have pulled away first, then the independents and now we're starting to see a bit of erosion among the Republicans, who used to support him pretty unanimously," said Evans Witt, the chief executive of Princeton Survey Research Associates. "If 10 to 15 percent of Republicans do not support him anymore, that is not trivial for Bush's re-election."

Check out " Our team of experienced and talented professionals remains in place." at the Princeton Survey Research Associates.

[Wolverine]

....Bill Flanagan a semiretired newspaper worker...

 

This is code for Democrat.

[Consort]

None of these, however, are likely to result in more votes for Democrats, but rather in votes for third party candidates or low turnout.

Yep, Conservatives and others enabling Democrats — again.

[GeronL]

Skaggs has pulled off quite a few capers on his media mission. Using the alias "Dr. Joe Bones," he invented the "Fat Squad" to razz the media for the endless attention it pays to diet fads. Skaggs promoted the Fat Squad as a group of commandos that dieters could hire to keep them away from food. Skaggs said, "It is a joke about how everyone is hyping this weight loss thing. All these books, you know, and the diets and all this stuff. So I said, 'I will have commandos assigned to you 24 hours a day, and they'll beat the crap out of you if you go for that chocolate cake, if it's not on your diet.' "

To promote his Fat Squad, Skaggs simply sent a press release to wire services, which then sent the story to newsrooms across the country. "The Washington Post and The Philadelphia Enquirer both fell for this," Skaggs said. "Another journalist wanting to do their own personal spin on it will call you up, verify that they spoke to you, and then repackage, re-can and put out the same story in essence," he said.

And what newspapers print, television regularly copies. Skaggs, posing as Joe Bones, appeared on ABC's Good Morning America, promoting his Fat Squad. The show's former co-host David Hartman introduced the story by announcing that "six Fat Squad commandos are here now, this morning, live, to maintain tight security around our Good Morning America refrigerator." Hartman displayed a bit of skepticism, asking "Bones" if the Fat Squad was legitimate, but that was the extent of the challenge.

There is, of course, a big difference between Joey Skaggs, a self-styled "satirist" who's looking to fool the media, and Greg Packer, an apparently honest schlub who just wants to see his name in print, but in the end they've been able to do what they do for the same reason: not enough people have paid enough attention to recognize them when they've popped up. I suspect it will be harder for Packer to get in the paper now that he's been outed, but I can just about guarantee we haven't seen the last of him.

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I have decided that we need to do this and make the media look like the fools they are. If they take any PETA front group and make them a front page story about Atkins then we can launch our own organization!

[Temple Owl]

Remember William Jefferson Blythe Clinton. He is the pervert that Dubya replaced.
The NYT along with most other left-wing liberal daily newspapers endorsed that pervert. Vote straight
Republican.

[diotima]

[Temple Owl]

The NYT was outed by Jason Blair.

[Admin Moderator]

lol!!!

[longtermmemmory]

The NYT has not only jumped the shark but has long passed into irrelevance.

Does anyone have a list of all newspapers which are owned by the NYT? It wiould make it easier to spot such propaganda pieces.

[GeronL]

Its nothing more than a liberal front group, their whole point is media attention. Why can't conservatives start doing the same thing and mess with the media the same way??

[Maria S]

1. Clear examples of DNC talking points.
2. From NYT.

Next!!!