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Washington Prowler: Kerry Behind Attacks on Bush ads
American Spectator ^
| Published 3/8/2004 12:07:49 AM
| By The Prowler
Posted on 03/08/2004 9:01:09 AM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2004; 911families; bush2004; deceit; dirtytricks; kerry
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Hey John Boy, 1st rule of using 3rd parties to do your dirty work: never let them trace it back to you.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at the airport in West Palm Beach, Fla. Monday, March 8, 2004. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola) |
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posted on
03/08/2004 5:54:30 PM PST
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi Mac ... Support Our Troops! ... Defeat the demRats in November!!! ... Beat BoXer!!!)
To: NormsRevenge
A little off topic, sorry, but upon seeing your photo I was reminded of John F'n Kerry's most recent version of his visage.
Don't think you can see it in the photo you posted, but I could swear he was wearing mascara on his lower eyelashes when I saw him on cable today.
Will look for a still showing this.
To: Behind Liberal Lines; P-Marlowe
This means WAR!
P-M, where is that Bugs Bunny sound file?
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posted on
03/08/2004 6:16:41 PM PST
by
xzins
(Retired Army and Proud of it!!)
To: Behind Liberal Lines; Right Wing Puppy; cyncooper
Hmmm, more evidence of trouble between McAwful and the Kerry crew me thinks And more evidence of the fact that McAwful is simply the stooge of the Hildebeast and Slickmeister.
. . . if it is not merely a good-cop/bad-cop routine, which is more nearly the case. Kerry ineffectually insists that McAuliffe stop being mean. The media and even some Freepers think Kerry actually is above the dirty tricks of McAuliffe--but in fact the smears get done, even while Kerry is credited with being pure as the driven snow.
To: freeperfromnj
How can we get this info beyond this page?
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posted on
03/08/2004 6:35:53 PM PST
by
cjmae
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Bumpity Bump Bump
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posted on
03/08/2004 6:41:29 PM PST
by
cameronsmom
(If people walked more, we all wouldnt be so damn fat.)
To: Solamente
The type that would sell photos of their moms in compromising positions for an additional slice of pie or an extra $15,000 grand in the 9/11 survivors fed settlement.
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posted on
03/08/2004 6:47:28 PM PST
by
olde north church
(The wicked flee when no one pursueth but the righteous are as bold as a lion! Proverbs 28.1)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Another reason why the Bush communication team sucks. They could have imagined these tactics upfront and catch the Kerry trap immediately. But what do they do, they were defensive, took their sweet time to drum up their own supporters' claim. Thank god that we are not voting tomorrow, but time for the President to shake his team up real fast. whoever is managing the communication tactics and message better pack the bags now. Go to some third world countries and never come back here running any republican campaigns. The WH is still keeping McClellan as the spokesman, we have never had a spokesman so ill prepared for the job. Maybe dear scotty better not answering anymore campaign messages, just refer to the campaign communication czar to deal with the questions. LOL Where is Ari when we need him? Marlan Fitzwater was great too. Time to send Scotty back to grade school.
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posted on
03/08/2004 6:52:09 PM PST
by
FRgal4u
This started a month ago with McSnotlip's National Guard slander - an effort to negate the inevitable Bush "Flight Deck" commercial.
McSnotlip knows full good and well that visual will work like no other - grabbing the fence-sitters by the throat to 'go with a winner this November.'
McSnotlip also knows that Lurch - at best - is bland, and so they'll never be able to whore up the kind of ad money that Lurch really needs to go toe-to-toe with W.
Without their flunkies at the alphabets working overtime to float Lurch's sewage, they don't have a prayer in hell of winning this election and they know it.
The media whores obligingly repeated McSnotlip's lies to the nth degree and even gave 2-for-1, trotting out pictures of Lurch in country (in what will prove to be a futile attempt) to inoculate Comrade Lurch against the real truth of his post-Viet treason.
As soon as three people stepped forward to offer first-hand knowledge of Bush's Alabama NG service, the story was dropped by the alphabets and went to A14 in print.
As soon as the Soros/Tides/Heinz/Ms.Lurch/TomorrowsNobodies penetrates the mainstream (Rush/Hannity a good thing, but I'm talking more like Jacoby or Safire so that the alphabets can no longer ignore it), the news cycle on this is over, baby, and McSnotlip will move another piece on the chessboard.
Riding it out requires perspective - I believe the election is a foregone conclusion in favor of Bush, so I greatly enjoy watching McSnotlip's exercise in futility. For all his efforts, he'll be the tar baby when Lurch loses. Wait and see.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I'd like to know how they knew what was in the ads before they were aired. Someone leaking to the Kerry campaign?
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posted on
03/08/2004 7:19:39 PM PST
by
arasina
(So there.)
To: xzins
P-M, where is that Bugs Bunny sound file?
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posted on
03/08/2004 7:27:44 PM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o* &AAGG)
To: Maigrey
Thank you.
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posted on
03/08/2004 8:16:03 PM PST
by
azGOPgal
(BUSH '04)
To: Mia T
fyi
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posted on
03/08/2004 8:45:53 PM PST
by
jla
To: FRgal4u
Another reason why the Bush communication team sucks. They could have imagined these tactics upfront and catch the Kerry trap immediately. But what do they do, they were defensiveThe current team does seem to have forgotten the strategy of the 2000 team, to wit, Horowitz's first rule in the Art of Political War: define your opponent first.
To: OXENinFLA
Talk radio and the internet are the real reporters now. Media is way to lazy. They just take the talking points from the DNC.
To: ravingnutter
"The Communists are not about to take over our McDonald hamburger stands." - 1971 Senate Testimony" I'm impressed. 1971. That's when McDonald's had only served "millions" of hamburgers.
To: backhoe; PhiKapMom
Another one for the Kerry files...
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posted on
03/09/2004 1:55:27 AM PST
by
Stultis
To: Behind Liberal Lines
***Returning from his tour of duty, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (search) in 1971, in which he claimed it was U.S. policy in Vietnam to carry out atrocities and war crimes.
A number of Vietnam veterans consider this testimony slanderous and say Kerry had to know it was false. They accuse Kerry of lying about fellow soldiers and officers to push a political agenda, and say his words dishonored comrades in arms at a time of war. "He knew as an officer that those were lies. It never happened," said Vietnam veteran Carlton Sherwood. "He was principally responsible for cementing the image of Vietnam veterans (search) as drugged-out psychopaths who were totally unrestrained and who were a murderous hoard."
After Kerry's testimony, military and independent investigations found that many of the soldiers who told Kerry and others they committed such atrocities were either never in the service, never in Vietnam or couldn't provide more evidence of those horrific actions.*** Source
More at site.
To: Behind Liberal Lines
Dang.
Now this is a story.
I am going to be writing this baby and making some phone calls. Fun stuff!
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posted on
03/09/2004 3:40:37 AM PST
by
rwfromkansas
("Men stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up as if nothing had happened." Churchill)
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