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Today Show on Swift Boat Ad: Ask Not if it's True; Ask if Bush Campaign Should Apologize
The Today Show

Posted on 08/06/2004 4:30:40 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

When it comes to toeing the Dem line, NBC's Campbell Brown takes a back seat to no one, including Katie Couric.

Filling in for Al-Kaety today, Brown did her best Terry McAuliffe impersonation. Interviewing Tim Russert, Brown showed a clip from the swift boat veterans' TV commercial in which a number of Kerry's fellow veterans question his honesty and integrity.

Campbell was utterly disinterested in whether the charges are true. Indeed, she effectively seemed to presume the falseness of the allegations.

She observed to Russert: "Republican Sen. John McCain says the ad is dishonest and dishonorable." She then asked: "Should the Bush campaign be doing the same thing?"

Was the ad factual? Campbell could care less. Bush must apologize!

Brown then got an answer she surely didn't want when discussion turned to Kerry's attack on W for not immediately leaving the elementary school classroom when informed of the second 9/11 plane attack. She observed: "Kerry has faulted Bush for a scene people are familiar with from Fahrenheit 911." NBC then displayed Rudy Giuliani's response: "Kerry must be frustrated if he is campaigning based on cues from Michael Moore."

Russert's response: "I'm surprised that Kerry raised it. He might be preaching to the choir. I'm not sure how it will play with independents." When someone in Russert's position says he was "surprised," you know it means that he thought it was a mistake.

Campbell concluded by asking Russert who won the week.

Russert: "What happpened after the Dem convention was that everything froze after the terror alerts. People in both camps believe any time you're talking about terror rather than the economy, it's a plus for the Bush campaign."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ads; jumpedtheshark; kerry; mediabias; nbcnews; swiftboatveterans
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To: TigersEye

Good point.


101 posted on 08/06/2004 8:06:37 AM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Russert's response: "I'm surprised that Kerry raised it. He might be preaching to the choir.

Could it have anything to do with that Moveon.org and George Soros is picking up the tab of commercial ads till Sept??

102 posted on 08/06/2004 8:51:17 AM PDT by Mo1 (Kerry & Edwards .... they will leave no Special Interest Group behind)
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To: maryz
Ask and ye shall receive

"NOBODY COULD THINK"

103 posted on 08/06/2004 9:00:29 AM PDT by Kryptonite
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To: Kryptonite

Thanks so much! I have a friend who has a yellow-dog Dem "friend" he's always arguing with, and I wanted to be able to give him the reference.


104 posted on 08/06/2004 9:09:15 AM PDT by maryz
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Rush is playing your song!!!!! Killing me Softly!!!


105 posted on 08/06/2004 10:40:25 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: AppyPappy

McCain is protecting his own military reocrd.

He has his own skeletons.


McCain does not want it to be SOP to release all military records.


106 posted on 08/06/2004 11:21:03 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: Just mythoughts

Oh my gosh!!!! Is it possible that he came up with the idea himself? Surely either he or one of his staffers reads FR. It would be nice to get credit!


107 posted on 08/06/2004 11:52:42 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

"Oh my gosh!!!! Is it possible that he came up with the idea himself? Surely either he or one of his staffers reads FR. It would be nice to get credit!"


Hey, I do not know about the origin of where "RUSH" came up with it, however, I remember where I read it first.....


108 posted on 08/06/2004 11:55:59 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Again, thank you for doing for me what I cannot do. You're an angel of mercy. Have a great weekend.


109 posted on 08/07/2004 5:22:17 AM PDT by mrtysmm
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Of course the Today crowd didn't mention the Kerry convention dead cat bounce. Neither did any of the weekly news magazines, although US News and World Report did hint at it with that cover of Kerry's head unravelling. Worse, they didn't mention Kerry's delusional proposals to keep secret whatever he plans to do if elected. Happily, most Americans weren't born yesterday and know a tax hike when it hits them right between the eyes. They also know that 'sensitive' and 'war' are two words that can't sensibly exist in a sane sentence.

The idea that this poseur plotted for years not only to stalk and then marry stupid, rich women, and with that wealth as a base, launch himself onto the body politic (as a tick), as the next JFK, even going so far as to laboriously copy the first JFK's signature for hours on end, so it would look 'natural' is, well, ludicrous. He's an empty suit. There's no one there, just a pastische of what he and his advisers think will play in Hollywood and the Hamptons. Besides, with a compliant press, everything is deniable. Lies, treachery, stuffing classified docs in one's pants and socks, fraudulent medals and that phony war hero career.

Considering the whacko nature of the RAT campaign, it's not beyond belief that Hillary had the goods on Kerry months ago and plotted all this. If his war record falls apart, the RATs might suggest early retirement -- and she'd gallantly step forward. What a gal.


110 posted on 08/07/2004 5:53:41 AM PDT by hershey
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

That's sad. Bush, IIRC, has disassociated himself from the ad. The ad's truthfulness can be a subject for debate, 9 out of 10 people who served on Kerry's boat support him. Tha ad's truthfulness should also be the subject on this show, not whether Bush is sorry.


111 posted on 08/07/2004 6:08:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Kerry/Edwards--Celebrity Metrosexual Ticket 2004)
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