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Soldiers' familes, Dems 'appalled' by Bush jokes ( Media-selected "Victim" alert)
HoustonChronicle.com ^ | 3/27/04 | Frank Jones

Posted on 03/27/2004 10:08:57 AM PST by anonymous_user

Edited on 03/27/2004 10:50:32 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

WASHINGTON -- Democratic critics and some family members of soldiers serving in Iraq are taking President Bush to task for his jokes at a black-tie dinner about the fruitless search for weapons of mass destruction.

The jokes came at Wednesday night's annual Radio and Television Correspondents Association dinner. In a 10-minute, mostly puckish, self-deprecating speech, the president presented a slide show he called "an election-year, White House photo album."

In several photos, he appeared to be searching the Oval Office. A photo of Bush looking under a piece of furniture was flashed on the large projection screens in the ballroom.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bloodforoil; bush; correspondentsdinner; deceit; deciet; jokes; media; mediabias; mediawhore; phonyoutrage; speech; usefulidiot
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To: NYCVirago
thanks! great idea ;)
61 posted on 03/27/2004 12:04:59 PM PST by EDINVA (reporters aren't stupid .. they just think YOU are)
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To: js1138
Gives new meaning to "only joking" -- where did you get that list?

''one of the most despicable acts of a sitting president''

Now, that rises to the level of funny. I'm not concerned about who said it, but I think we need to take into the account the seriousness of the irony.
62 posted on 03/27/2004 12:25:12 PM PST by anonymous_user (Only fools trust the partisan media.)
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To: anonymous_user
where did you get that list?

From these articles and threads.

Sen. Stennis Shot in DC (1973 AFVN Radio transcript)

Kerry Still Backpedaling on Presence at 1971 Anti-War Meetings

Kerry hedges on 1971 KC meeting [for assassination plot]

Bush's Joke About WMD Draws Criticism

I assembled the table myself. I like stories that have a begginning, middle and end.

63 posted on 03/27/2004 12:29:30 PM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
I tip my hat! If only journalists were 1/100th as thorough as you...
64 posted on 03/27/2004 12:46:25 PM PST by anonymous_user (Only fools trust the partisan media.)
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To: anonymous_user
I tip my hat! If only journalists were 1/100th as thorough as you...

They are. But they're on the other side.

65 posted on 03/27/2004 1:04:14 PM PST by js1138
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To: EDINVA
You're welcome! Take care.
66 posted on 03/27/2004 1:20:37 PM PST by NYCVirago
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Yep I thought so too, he definatly got that little smirk before he told the joke. Love it when he smirks!
67 posted on 03/27/2004 1:42:39 PM PST by OMalley
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To: anonymous_user
You want sourses???

I Said It, But That Was Before I Didn't Say It

''Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere ... "

George Bush, March 24, 2004

''This is a very serious issue ,'' Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Friday on ''Good Morning America'' on ABC. ''We've lost hundreds of troops, as you know, over there. Let's not be laughing about not being able to find weapons of mass destruction.''

"...nope, no weapons over there ... maybe under here?''

''...one of the most despicable acts of a sitting president...  Well, that's not a joke to us, Mr. Bush. Five hundred soldiers lost their lives, looking for weapons that weren't there. Billions of taxpayer dollars were spent looking for weapons that weren't there,'' Al Sharpton

"My plan was that, on the last day [of the protest] we would go into the [congressional] offices – we would schedule the most hardcore hawks for last – and we would shoot them all ."

Scott Camil , in a 1992 oral history of the anti-war movement still on file at the University of Florida

Camil told the Sun that he plans to accept an offer by the Florida Kerry organization to become active in Kerry's presidential campaign. Campaign aides to Kerry invited Camil to a meeting for the senator in Orlando last week, but they did not meet directly.

"I was serious," Camil insisted. Targets were to include senators John Stennis , Strom Thurmond and John Tower.

In his book "Tour of Duty," Kerry biographer Douglas Brinkley reports that Kerry left the VVAW a few days before the assassination plot vote , submitting an official letter of resignation on Nov. 10, 1971.

But according to FBI files obtained by CNSNews.com, Kerry was in attendance at the 1971 meeting that included talk of possibly assassinating U.S. senators . VVAW members discussed targeting then-Senators Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, John Tower of Texas and John Stennis of Mississippi because of their continuing support for the Vietnam war.
Early last week, Kerry's presidential campaign spokesman David Wade told the New York Sun, "Kerry was not at the Kansas City meeting ." Wade added that Kerry had resigned from the VVAW "sometime in the summer of 1971."
Gerald Nicosia, author of the book Home to War: A History of the Vietnam Veterans' Movement and a Kerry supporter, told CNSNews.com last week that Kerry was being less than truthful about his anti-war activities.
"If there are valid FBI surveillance reports from credible sources that place some of those disagreements in Kansas City, we accept that historical footnote in the account of his work to end the difficult and divisive war," Wade said in a statement late last week.

In the top of the News, Senator John Stennis underwent a lengthy operation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after he was shot during a hold up in front of his Washington home today.

The surgery was for the removal of two bullets, one from the Senator’s chest, and one from his left leg.

Stennis, who entered the Senate in 1947, is Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Police spokesman say the 71 year-old Mississippi Democrat was shot as he stepped from his car in front of his home.

American Forces Vietnam Network - AFVN, 1973

"Somebody told me the other day that the Secret Service has orders that if George Bush is shot, they're to shoot Quayle. There isn't any press here, is there?"

John Kerry, 1988
DrudgeReport
Thu Mar 25 2004 17:45:05 ET


68 posted on 03/27/2004 2:18:08 PM PST by js1138
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To: Rabid Dog
Exactly! At times I've been amazed at the amount of detail on funding sources, amounts, organizational relationships, names, dates, etc., that some posters have gone to the trouble to pull together from what must be publicly available but obscure web sources. Now, if a determined amateur can get this stuff in only a few days, why can't a team of supposed highly qualified researchers on Rove's staff do it almost instantly?
69 posted on 03/27/2004 6:20:02 PM PST by finnigan2
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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Were they just seeing if they could get liberal heads to explode?

Yeah, I think that's exactly what they are trying to do, and it appears to be working.

70 posted on 03/29/2004 2:21:43 PM PST by CarryaBigStick
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