Washington Prowler: Kerry Behind Attacks on Bush ads

American Spectator ^ | Published 3/8/2004 12:07:49 AM | By The Prowler

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Despite denials that the Kerry campaign criticized the Bush ads, the Kerry camp did reach out family members of people killed on 9/11 whom they knew were supporters of Kerry and asked if they'd be willing to denounce the ads publicly. Those people were given the names of assignment editors at cable news channels and network news outlets, as well as talking points for them to use if they were interviewed.

[OXENinFLA]

Flip on Hannity, sounds like he's going to be bringing this topic up.

[hillarynot]

re - Susan Estrich

Is it just me or is her voice about the most irritating sound on the planet

[cyncooper]

Probably not bad blood. It's just convenient for the Kerry people to blame the DNC in order to keep themselves distant from the scheme.

The facts seem to point both the DNC and Kerry campaign orchestrated the attacks on the Bush ads.

[abner]

Hannity just mentioned it.

[nutmeg]

BTTT

[OXENinFLA]

re - Susan Estrich

Is it just me or is her voice about the most irritating sound on the planet

No, it's not just you.

I can't stand her and usually turn the channel when she comes on.

Fox News needs to find a better 'political annalist'.

And when did she start smoking, age 8?

[doug from upland]

The mainstream is not going to be allowed to ignore this too much longer. Go FReepers!!!

[capitan_refugio]

That would be Law Professor Susan Estrich. She is very articulate, very opinionated, and very liberal. She may not be "officially" working with the Kerry campaign, but she knows all of the principals from when she ran political campaigns back east.

Estrich is the big name token liberal on an otherwise conservative Southern California campus. She is surprisingly honest at times ... as in the Gray Davis recall.

[capitan_refugio]

Keep in mind, too, that Rita Cosby isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. You might recall that she got the Gore-Bush Supreme court decision totally bass-ackwards.

[capitan_refugio]

"How [are] so many professional journalists fooled?"

"THEY ARE ALL DEMOCRATS!"

There's more to it than just that. Most reporters today aren't really "reporters,", they are "repeaters." They dutifully repeat what they are told by their sources. Often, young "reporters" spend years developing inside-the-beltway contacts and protect their sources like they would protect their own lives - it's their livelihood.

Today, anybody who actually goes out and works a story has a new name - "investigative reporter." The trouble is, they should all work like that, instead of being hand-fed.

[Libertina]

BUMP to what you said. And I am personally sick and tired of us doing the mainstream media's work for them.

[ravingnutter]

They're all in cahoots:

Military Families Speak Out linked to September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows

I hope this story breaks wide open! The Dems will look like fools.

[ravingnutter]

ostrich...er ..estrich

Hubby calls her Susan Estrogen, he loves to imitate her. I tease him about her being his girlfriend, LOL!

[ravingnutter]

Susan Estrich is the one who said on TV that the Boston papers have been sitting on dirt about Kerry for years; and she said it WAS going to come out.

Not sure who it was on talk radio, some woman pundit, but last week she mentioned that portions of the Kerry FBI files from his anti-war period will come out in public and it would ruin him.

[ravingnutter]

because he thinks the threat of terrorism is "exaggerated"

John Kerry doesn't believe Communism was a threat either, found this in a search today:

"I think it is bogus, totally artificial. There is no threat. The Communists are not about to take over our McDonald hamburger stands." - 1971 Senate Testimony

John Kerry : Threat of Communism Is Exaggerated

Another interesting story about his father:

Kerry's World: Father Knows Best

An excerpt:

The Soviet Union wasn't nearly as imperialistic as American politicians warned, [Richard] Kerry argues. "Seeing the Soviet Union as the aggressor in every instance, and the U.S. as only reacting defensively, relieves an American observer from the need to see any parallel between our use of military power in distant parts of the world, and the Soviet use of military power outside the Soviet Union," he writes. He further claims that "Third world Marxist movements were autonomous national movements" -- outside Moscow's orbit. The book culminates in a plea for a hardheaded, realist foreign policy that removes any pretense of U.S. moral superiority.

[dalebert]

They have been called and emailed for a week over the bush ad and then spent the entire weekend acting like they didn't know anything. I had to turn them off. And whats with the simple minded weekend staff. I had to turn off my tv.

[dalebert]

I caught the tail end of it also. Don't know who the guest was but I don't see FXN exploring it. That prissy bunch on the weekend Friends morning show is so bad I can't watch them."I think the Presidents team made a very distasteful mistake and should say they are sorry and stop the ads."

[jackbill]

Did you catch Fox's Special Report with Brit Hume? He had a lengthy segment on Kerry's audio and comments by a Democrat vet - Carlton Sherwood I believe his name was. They also had a bit of Douglas Brinkley, who wrote the book about Kerry. He admitted that it was potentially damaging.

It will be interesting to see if the panel picks it up.

I doubt that this is the last that we hear of this on FNC.

[dalebert]

I heard it. But still no mention of the Tides foundation. FOX had to have been pounded with information about the fake attack on the Bush ad(I pounded them myself) but still not a word.

[The Raven]

>>Despite denials that the Kerry campaign criticized the Bush ads, the Kerry camp did reach out family members of people killed on 9/11 whom they knew were supporters of Kerry and asked if they'd be willing to denounce the ads publicly. Those people were given the names of assignment editors at cable news channels and network news outlets, as well as talking points for them to use if they were interviewed.


Wasn't that obvious to all but the Kerry supporters (eg the media)????