1 posted on
03/12/2004 9:02:01 PM PST by
RWR8189
To: RWR8189
Before I read this..... can WE stage a controversy??? Sounds like fun!
2 posted on
03/12/2004 9:04:14 PM PST by
GeronL
(http://www.ArmorforCongress.com......................Send a Freeper to Congress!)
To: RWR8189
Neither is it anything new, of course, when a small group of people with excellent public relations skills and a political axe to grind are able to manipulate an unskeptical media. That should be "'unskeptical' media". It's not like they're innocent bystanders.
3 posted on
03/12/2004 9:04:49 PM PST by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: RWR8189
Arab Americans are now upset over the latest Bush ads...
Discussed at length on Hannity & Colmes and on Colmes radio talk show re: the sinister looking threatening male.....
To: RWR8189
So what went wrong here? Why the fuss over Bush's ads? How is it that so many journalists were willing to be led by the nose to write blatantly misleading stories, when the truth was so easy to ascertain? The simple answer is, well, they were being lazy and partisan. Plus, the straight story--"Peace Activists, Kerry Co-chair Criticize Bush Ads"--is a yawner.The real answer is that the "newsies" tend to be stupid in the extreme. You really don't find your top scholars majoring in jurnalism ~ the propaganda to the contrary, you never did. There may be some exceptions, but for the most part these guys are easily led around by the nose.
5 posted on
03/12/2004 9:13:59 PM PST by
muawiyah
To: RWR8189
He overlooked the fact that maybe the GOP wanted a controversy. Just as Gibson's box-office receipts were enhanced by all the furor, so are the ads getting more exposure than they otherwise would have had.
7 posted on
03/12/2004 9:15:04 PM PST by
expatpat
To: RWR8189
Michael Medved had Jim Zogby of the Arab American Institute on today. Zogby's upset with a Bush ad that supposedly shows a Middle Eastern-type face (in reality the actor is of Italian extraction) when it mentions the war on terror. What Medved pried out of Zogby was that his "outrage" didn't get started until some reporter called and asked him to react. In other words, the media are going around trolling to find (or generate) negative comments about Bush ads.
To: RWR8189
This criticism caught the Bush campaign by surprise.What, were these people born yesterday?! The most effective way of predicting the behavior of sociopaths is to reflect upon their previous behavior (I have used this method in my own life).
How can the Bush campaign be so naive? I'll bet there are hundreds of Freepers who could have predicted the rat's moves ahead of time. They could have saved themselves a lot of grief by just contacting Rush Limbaugh and asking him. Sheesh, it's not rocket surgery.
10 posted on
03/12/2004 9:31:03 PM PST by
Jeff Chandler
(Why the long face, John?)
To: RWR8189; jmstein7
Now this is great reporting. As we knew right away, it was a media setup, and they went along for the ride willingly. The lefties were hoping that some initial bad publicity would get the GOP to back down like Bush did in 1992 with Clinton. Nope, Dubya will stay the course on this.
11 posted on
03/12/2004 9:31:42 PM PST by
doug from upland
(Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
To: RWR8189
Deceptive reporting by the NYT and its cohorts in the liberal media? Say it ain't so! I am so shocked!
To: RWR8189
Strange, the leftist piglets certainly didn't mind Clinton politicizing the Oklahoma City attacks, now did they?
No. They have no principles; they only care about power.
To: All
Devine's boss, John Kerry, told the New York Times, "There are plenty of ways to convey the threat of terror without usurping what I think is a very sensitive memory in the American consciousness." Paul Begala, the CNN pundit and former Clinton adviser, put it bluntly: "The president's use of footage from September 11 in a partisan political commercial has provoked outrage from victims' families and from firefighters who say their brothers and sisters did not sacrifice and suffer for a cheap, cheesy, campaign ad."
Please read:
Kerry Used Vietnam Wall As Backdrop For 1984 Campaign Ad
15 posted on
03/12/2004 10:06:24 PM PST by
Hon
To: RWR8189
BUMP!
16 posted on
03/12/2004 10:20:57 PM PST by
jmstein7
(Real Men Don't Need Chunks of Government Metal on Their Chests to be Heroes)
To: RWR8189
Bump
17 posted on
03/12/2004 11:09:43 PM PST by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi Mac ... Support Our Troops! ... Thrash the demRats in November!!! ... Beat BoXer!!!)
To: RWR8189
Will someone let me know when I can panic without a lot of freepers accusing me of defeatism? How long has it been since Bush began slipping in the polls? Has the Rove team with four years to prepare done anything right?
Gollywompers, the Rats and their allies in the media have convinced a majority of the independents that Bush should not have used the images in the 9/11 ads. Gee whiz, the democrats and their media allies milked the AWOL non-story for weeks while the White House dithered. Holy cow, Kerry is out with a counter ad about taxes accusing Bush of being a liar and Bush is losing the talking head war. Gosh, most of the country thinks Bush lied about WMDs and precious few are aware that Kerry made statements revealing that he thought they were there too.
The entire reaction seems to be to wax indignant about the injustice of it all. Remember when Freepers were reassuring one another that things would be clarified when Bushs ads showed Kerrys record? That was about the time of Bush's fiasco on Meet The Press. Well, it isnt happening. There is no coordination, no anticipation, and no follow through. The President is left unsupported to get creamed on every issue.
In sixty days this campaign can be over and right now Bush looks utterly inept.
To: RWR8189
BTTT
The article could have been titled "CALLING ALL USEFUL IDIOTS".
25 posted on
03/13/2004 10:17:57 AM PST by
neverdem
(Xin loi min oi)
To: RWR8189
If Bush backs down on using 9/11 in his campaign ads, the leftists win. Bush needs a "war room" to respond immediately to these attacks so that don't have an opportunity to infect the entire media. A prompt response could have nipped a lot of this in the bud.
Bush needs to use the clip of the firefighter and him at Ground Zero using the bullhorn to say that those responsible for 9/11 will soon be hearing from America. The GOP should not let the Dems frame the issue and intimidate them about using images of 9/11. Hell, he should even use the carrier image.
26 posted on
03/13/2004 10:54:44 AM PST by
kabar
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