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Vanity | 08/25/2004 | self

Posted on 08/24/2004 9:35:41 PM PDT by Conservative_Rob

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To: Conservative_Rob
...but Lt. Torrey responds to the effect that this assignment is only a resume enhancement to help him get on to the grandstanding general’s staff.

Your analogy is even closer than you think. Kerry today said that when he came back from VN he became an aide on an admiral's staff in New York.

41 posted on 08/24/2004 10:09:11 PM PDT by skip_intro
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To: Conservative_Rob
Keep cool. After the convention, focus will shift to kerry's senate record (or lack thereof).

Remember the one vote needed to extend unemployment benefits? Well kerry missed that vote. Headline: kerry wants unemployed to starve to death.

How about voting against funding the war? Headline: kerry doesn't support troops (some things never change).

Anyway back to you... keep cool, it's only August and kerry doesn't have any powder left.

42 posted on 08/24/2004 10:09:22 PM PDT by ILS21R
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To: landerwy
Where would we be without the internet?

Pretty much right where you are right now, except that you wouldn't know as much. :(

43 posted on 08/24/2004 10:12:57 PM PDT by Dec31,1999 (www.protestwarrior.com)
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To: ILS21R
"Anyway back to you... keep cool, it's only August and kerry doesn't have any powder left."

....except for one he uses on his "prittty face".

44 posted on 08/24/2004 10:13:12 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
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To: Conservative_Rob
Forget the Lamestream media.
We have FR.
45 posted on 08/24/2004 10:13:20 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: gilliam
Just be grateful you have alternate news sources. During the days of the Vietnam war, the alphabet channels really did have complete control of the news. Remember: Walter Cronkite and his buddies helped Kerry and Fonda convince the American public to surrender in Vietnam.

Worth a reply. They still have the same undeserved sway.

It behooves us to replicate thier style.

46 posted on 08/24/2004 10:15:38 PM PDT by Dec31,1999 (www.protestwarrior.com)
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To: ILS21R
Keep cool. After the convention, focus will shift to kerry's senate record (or lack thereof).

No it won't. It never will. Most of the voters are working on sound bites, unfortunately. The reality is that you provide your own or die.

You buy major media outlets, or die. You Initiate major newspapers, or you lose elections. You put a lot of money and thought into it, or your cause loses. You teach the children yourself, or you lose them to the socialist, vulgar culture.

47 posted on 08/24/2004 10:22:16 PM PDT by Dec31,1999 (www.protestwarrior.com)
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To: Dec31,1999

If anyone thinks that any major network will air anything other than admissions of guilt from the Bush campaign then I'd like to sell them oceanfront property in North Dakota. The only way conservatives will get any message out is to massively buy up advertising time and space to tell the American people the truth - it has to be a blitz - not one or two little commercials now an then. Even though the Swift Vets have caused a stir - the truth is still being driven into the ground and trampled. We need a new commercial a day from now to election day. We've got the Kerry campaign on the ropes and we're giving them time to catch their breath.


48 posted on 08/24/2004 10:30:24 PM PDT by Conservative_Rob
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To: Dec31,1999
You buy major media outlets, or die. You Initiate major newspapers, or you lose elections. You put a lot of money and thought into it, or your cause loses. You teach the children yourself, or you lose them to the socialist, vulgar culture.

All true. But don't you think the sound bites will start attacking kerry's senate record. And God bless the vets. I hope they keep it going till election day. I just think President Bush's campaign will focus on where he wants to take the country and kerry's dismal senate record.

49 posted on 08/24/2004 10:32:07 PM PDT by ILS21R
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To: Peach

I'm sorry, but Old Media is nowhere near irrelevent - just as Old Europe isn't... oh well, okay Old Europe is but not the MSM.

You would not believe how many lemmings there are out there (many of them are my friends) who only get their brief news downloads from the three-letter networks, or from their neighborhood daily, which 9 times out of ten is about as liberal as Berkeley.

They bring up something snide about Bush or the War on Terror or Ashcroft... and then I counter with some dissenting facts. Most of the time, if they don't try to change the subject to avoid taxing their cranial cavity, they just blow it off, saying that my point is intereresting but they saw something different on tv or in the paper.

The new media is an awesome tool, but every tool needs someone to utilize it or it's useless.

I have a fear that, even though we are fired up on the inside, we are still basically lazy 21st century Americans who don't want to get out of the recliner or put down the chablis and DO SOMETHING positive. That means we could all wake up November 3rd wondering why the weasels won.


50 posted on 08/24/2004 10:32:25 PM PDT by philsoc
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To: randog
FOX is, however, gaining in market share. This is a very good sign. We do need to stay after them though----to keep them on the straight and narrow.
51 posted on 08/24/2004 10:35:36 PM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,...for without victory there is no survival. -Churchill)
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To: skip_intro
Was that during the time he made his visits to the North Vietnamese? I know he is supposed to have spoken to them while he was still in uniform. It certainly says something(not so good!) about that Admiral's judgment concerning character, doesn't it?
52 posted on 08/24/2004 10:43:41 PM PDT by singfreedom ("Victory at all costs,...for without victory there is no survival. -Churchill)
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To: Conservative_Rob

Send this to your local newspaper for a guest column!


53 posted on 08/24/2004 10:49:01 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation

My local newspaper wouldn't think it worthy of even toilet paper.


54 posted on 08/24/2004 10:53:32 PM PDT by Conservative_Rob
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To: Conservative_Rob
You're going to explode? Imagine how the editors of the NYT/LAT/etc. felt when they realized they would have to start covering the Swift Vet story, no matter how biased they could write it up? You should have a glass of wine (to celebrate and to lower your blood pressure).

We're winning. It's cool. Let's not make the mistake of exploding with rage. Look how cool O'Neill is during his public appearances. Being hyper-angry might be Michael Savage's meal ticket, but it isn't going to win us any elections.

55 posted on 08/24/2004 11:00:15 PM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: landerwy

Yeah, but if Kerry and Krew gets elected, don't think for a minute that every keystroke you make won't be monitored, recorded and used against you at some point. It's coming. It's just a matter of 'how soon'. The internet will be the Kerry Kommies' way of finding dissidents and the 'evidence' against them.

Also, say goodbye to Christianity if the Kommies get in. Kerry is a Catholic in name only. Much like his medals, that's a fake.


56 posted on 08/24/2004 11:07:30 PM PDT by Capricam
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To: Conservative_Rob
When Rock and Jere meet again, Lt. Torrey is a skipper on a PT boat. Admiral Torrey is impressed with Lt. Torrey’s volunteering for such a dangerous assignment, but Lt. Torrey responds to the effect that this assignment is only a resume enhancement to help him get on to the grandstanding general’s staff. He even mentions that he is against “Roosevelt’s War”.

Um, it was ENSIGN Torrey, NOT Lt... Just for the record..

57 posted on 08/24/2004 11:13:07 PM PDT by Experiment 6-2-6 (Meega, Nala Kweesta! Romanes Eunt Domus....)
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To: Capricam

When I get to the place the lies drive me crazy I pray.


58 posted on 08/24/2004 11:17:46 PM PDT by americanmother (Thessalonians chapter 2)
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To: Experiment 6-2-6

You're right, and the dufus general was really an admiral. Is my entire article invalid now?? (it's late, 2:32am EDT, I'm not harping on you, just demonstrating the idiocy of the MSM).


59 posted on 08/24/2004 11:33:17 PM PDT by Conservative_Rob
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To: Iam1ru1-2

suPRESS. I LOVE IT!


60 posted on 08/25/2004 4:51:59 AM PDT by Peach (The Clinton's pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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