Posted on 08/19/2004 2:23:36 PM PDT by ArcLight
Nightline Daily E-Mail August 19, 2004
TONIGHT'S FOCUS: It sounds like John Kerry has decided that the pushing and criticism have just gone too far. Today he sounded angry as he took President Bush on. He was referring to the campaign ad funded by a Republican group that attacks the veracity of John Kerry's war record. Kerry accused the President of letting others do "his dirty work" and invoked the President's own words "bring it on" to challenge him to a one on one debate on their respective war records. The President has not responded. So what happened to make Kerry so mad? And why did he do it now?
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A Republican-funded campaign ad disputing John Kerry's war record has been airing in a few battle ground states since the beginning of the month. The ad consists of interviews with Vietnam veterans, some who served with Kerry and have supported him in the past. They all say he's lying about his record. Today, the Washington Post broke news with documents that directly contradict one of those veteran's assertions against Kerry in one of the ads. Meanwhile, the President is being accused of not being willing to condemn these specific ads while continuing to say that he won't criticize John Kerry's war service for this country.
But the story has continued to grow and it seems to have reached a peak level. It's the lead topic on talk radio and the cable stations and is taking on a life of its own. This has led some senior members of the Democratic Party to push John Kerry to hit back, saying that his strategy of just letting the attacks happen was not working. So today, in front of a room full of firefighters, John Kerry switched tactics and turned to his own wartime service and experience to announce his next move. "More than 30 years ago I learned an important lesson. When you're under attack the best thing to do is turn your boat into the attack. That's what I intend to do today." Anchor Chris Bury bring us an anatomy of a story fueled by the media. How did it get so big so quickly?
So why did he do it? Did he take a lesson from Michael Dukakis who didn't counter attack in his bid for the Presidency? Why now, at this point in the campaign? Has it really reached a point where not responding would harm his candidacy? And what's the effect on the voter? Chris Bury talks to campaign reporters about how we got here and what might happen next.
I hope you'll join us.
Gerry Holmes and the Nightline Staff
Nightline Offices
ABC News Washington Bureau
Goodie, goodie.......
JFKerry's "ship" is sinking, sending out SOS's..... and there is no one to bail out the water....
And Nightline will try to bury it again by focusing on whichever "facts" are most advantageous to Kerry.
a wash compost repeorter will be on MSNBC talkin about
the swiftys at 545 PM EDT
Sweet. According to Hannity, the Kerry folks have backed out of appearing on H and C tonight.
Are these journalists or Democratic campaign strategists?
It will be very slanted, but I wish Ted would ask him who's doing his dirty work. He'll fawn all over him, and feel Kerry's pain. BARF!!!
What's the difference?
However, Kerry's campaign didn't do Kerry any favors by moving the focus to the authorship of the Bronze Star citation.
Consider buying a copy of "Unfit for Command". Give it to the significant women in your life. While they might not vote for Bush, maybe they'll vote for Nader or stay home.
I wonder if ABC called all the Moveon.org ads and other dimocrap 527 ads, Democrat-funded. I think not.
W2004
FREE ADVERTISEMENT AS THE COMMERCIAL SAYS PRICELESS!!!!!!
Nightline joins the Washington Post in the Kerry team's brown book offensive against the Swifties.
"Anchor Chris Bury bring us an anatomy of a story fueled by the media. How did it get so big so quickly?"
"Fueled by the media"??!! It's been uniformly ignored by the media in the hope it would go away!
We had another Liberal LIAR '92-2000
We are not going to get another Liberal LIAR '04-08
So here comes Nightline to Kerry's rescue - - too bad the six people who watch Nightline were already committed to Kerry anyways.
They still aren't interviewing any swifties.
Do they identify all the MoveOn.org ads as "Democratic-funded"?
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