COMMAND CONFIDENCE Kerry staff: "Unfit not a problem, media is committed to seeing us win")

THE SPECTATOR ^ | 8/18/04 | WASHINGTON PROWLER

[Liz]

According to a Kerry campaign source, senior campaign advisers tasked two Washington-based campaign staffers to vet the recently published Unfit for Command.

"The purpose was to compare what that book had with what we had on file from Senator Kerry," says the campaign source, who said that the research project developed more than 75 instances where Kerry's recollections, previous remarks, or writings conflicted with the book's reporting.

"We took some of the most glaring examples, like the Christmas in Cambodia story, and presented them to senior staff, and we assume that those things were put in front of Senator Kerry," says the source. "We haven't heard a word about it. All we were told is that it was being taken care of."

The campaign source said that the book was not considered a "serious" problem for the campaign, because, "the media wouldn't have the nerve to come at us with this kind of stuff," says the source.

"The senior staff believes the media is committed to seeing us win this thing, and that the convention inoculated us from these kinds of stories. The senior guys really think we don't have a problem here."

[Liz]

Who's the Freeper with the biggest PING list? This needs a LOT of attention.

[datura]

Hey Dio - I'll post the list of struggles, but the DNC platform is nearly impossible to break down into tabular format - it's 41 pages long in .pdf format.....It requires one to actually read the damned POS at the viewer's risk to their mental health. I'm sure that there is someone out here that has a different version broken down into nice "soundbites", but it isn't me.

I'll FReepmail you the links and the list of struggles, as well as post them here in a few minutes.

[Diago]

bump

[Clive]

"Who's the Freeper with the biggest PING list? This needs a LOT of attention."

It does indeed need to be widely pinged. The chutzpah is breathtaking.

[Liz]

Kerry ia beginning to look more and more like CANDIDATE Clinton.....Clinton was the Energizer Bunny.....kept going and going and going .....right into the WH.

GWB has got to stop himself from looking like a "candidate desperate for votes". He's the president of the USA and he must consider Kerry as the pretender to the office.

[gunnedah]

This is no joke. The so called "Mainstream Media" are die hard liberals and they control 90% of the information and propaganda put out to the public. It is almost a Star Chamber.
What is left is under a vicious attack. The Democrats under the heading of Congress,John Conyers and 4 others sent FOX and veiled threat and accused them of portraying George Bush in to favorable of a light.
Out nation is under assault by the Democrats and the Terrorist and I believe the Democrats are more overall detrimental to our well being because the control the Judicial System through Liberal Lawyers.
America is headed toward a "Dictatorship" if we are not careful and it is closer than most people think.
The upcoming election is strictly about the Supreme Court and everything else is secondary over the long haul!

[Diogenesis]

America is at War with lawyers from Egypt, Syria, Iran and from alQaida-Democrats in America

[RVN Airplane Driver]

You must recognize that most of us have socks that are older than the "pups" who made those statements. You can be assured that they are worried....they have already started their lawyers and attack dogs....but this time they are in for a few surprises....Firstly, they are not playing with a bunch of scared folks...these are honorable men who when attacked will bite back...hard and often. Secondly, thanks to the internet they are well funded and the more the DNC attack...the more funds will roll in. I urge everyone to make another donation at www.swiftvets.com and then let them "BRING IT ON".

[Liz]

Ought to be posted as a separate thread.

[Casloy]

You mean you trust them now? I gave up trusting them in the 70's

[LibLieSlayer]

"Kerry ia beginning to look more and more like CANDIDATE Clinton.....Clinton was the Energizer Bunny.....kept going and going and going .....right into the WH".

kerry looks like a deer, caught in head lights. He looks like a candidate ready to implode!!!

LLS

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

These media traitors would be the first ones imprisoned by the kind of totalitarians they want in office. I'd love to see the looks on the their faces as they got sent to concentration camps by those they helped elect.

[ValerieUSA]

The mainstream media has already ignored an attack against Americans and others departing from Kennedy airport in October, 1999. EgyptAir flight 990 was downed by an al quaeda pilot. No one remembers.....

[stockpirate]

Here is another quote that the mainstream press ignored recently by Sen. Scarry.

``It's great, can we do it now?'' he told reporters when asked about the address. ``Members of the Fourth Estate, I have called you here to tell you that your reign is over,'' Kerry told reporters, using the historical term for the press.

link: http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=aw7A0iyaNKiY&refer=us

[jokemoke]

If this is true, and the media really wants Kerry in the WH, then Rush has surely been wrong about Hitlery wanting to be president in 2008.

[Diogenesis]

If Berger-Burglar, Gorelick, Clarke, Clinton and the ULTRACORRUPT Democrats had been completely HONEST
to the American public about the Islamic-crashed airplanes, like TWA800, etc. etc. etc. in the 90's
then Americans WOULD have been on alert on 911
and would have had the opportunity to prevent the 911 Atrocities.

[datura]

OK - here goes the neighborhood!!! The following tripe is directly taken from the CPUSAs site - you've been warned.

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[johnny7]

I can't beleive this shit!

Last night I heard on Fox that the Kerry Campaign was contacted to explain his 'Christmas in Cambodia' statement and they never responded! The duffus says he was shot at by Cambodians and South Vietnamese!

[mewzilla]

Earth to the senior staff: Unfortunately for you, the lamestream no longer has a lock on the media any more.

[RogueIsland]

Eventually there will be a tipping point and Americans won't put up with being lied to anymore.

Maybe, but the older I get the less confident in that I become. It seems to me that most people just want to be told what they want to hear.