Posted on 09/12/2004 7:34:19 PM PDT by lonestar67
NEWS SUMMARY
At this precise time every four years, the most media-savvy members of the Gang of 500 begin to think about their roles in the premiere post-election forum that revisits the actions and players of the presidential race.
The quadrennial gabfest — hosted by Harvard's Institute of Politics in the winter after each presidential election — features a group of journalists who covered the campaign leading top political players from all camps through a chronological discussion of who-did-what-when-and-why behind the scenes during the course of the nomination and general election periods.
The goal is near-contemporaneous candor, although over the years, some participants have become no more forthcoming than they would be in, say, a "Good Housekeeping" interview.
Still, this cycle there will be a lot to look forward to — Joe Trippi's self-deprecation; Karl Rove's lavish praise of Michael Whouley and Steve Rosenthal; Steve Elmendorf's witty asides; Ben Ginsberg's whispered asides — to Bob Bauer; Kevin Zeese's adorable star-struck look; and Jack Oliver's nonchalance.
But if nothing changes in the race as it now stands — with President Bush winning a decent-sized victory — much of the talk will be about the greater technical proficiency of the Bush-Cheney effort.
Nothing will change because Kerry won't shut-up about Vietnam. Bush WINS!
Big time FReeper mention in the story.
It must be "technical" superiority, the Old Media knows it can't be better issue positions and a better candidate.
A rebarbative commentary. What's all this nonsense about Bush being unwilling to discuss Iraq. He's given several major speeches on it, which the networks were unwilling to air. Kerry, on the other hand, has never said what he would do about Iraq, except that it would be very different from Bush. The media never call him on that.
We always favor looking at the content and substance over WHO is offering up the information, but in the war that will ensue about WHO gave CBS the potentially phony documents, it is interesting to Note that the right (Drudge, Fox, right-leaning blogs, others) led the way in pointing out the questions we have all been asking — and they were onto the questions, with remarkable detail, relatively soon after the documents were made public.
At 8:00 pm ET Wednesday night, CBS News does the story . . .
at 11:59 pm ET (8:59 pm PT), the documents come into question via a poster named Buckhead on the Free Republic Web site: LINK Buckhead seems well-read on his forensic document examination skills.
"Howlin, every single one of these memos to file is in a proportionally spaced font, probably Palatino or Times New Roman. In 1972 people used typewriters for this sort of thing, and typewriters used monospaced fonts. The use of proportionally spaced fonts did not come into common use for office memos until the introduction of laser printers, word processing software, and personal computers. They were not widespread until the mid to late 90's. Before then, you needed typesetting equipment, and that wasn't used for personal memos to file. Even the Wang systems that were dominant in the mid 80's used monospaced fonts. I am saying these documents are forgeries, run through a copier for 15 generations to make them look old."
Well, this is bandied about by dozens of Freepers, as they're called and is picked up at 8:30 am ET and added to by www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/ — this little green football guy is a very popular conservative blogger . . .
one of the largest 527's for kerry is Harvard's Pac...... check it out
That is what grabbed me to. The MSM seems to be running up the white flag here. THE NOTE is an organizational nerve center for the MSM. Most major agenda making on a weekly basis originates with this commentary.
Even the Onion has a cover article on how rhetorically aggressive conservatives are on demolishing the Kerry campaign.
She'll probably tell the volunteer firemen that the evil Republicans are going to export their volunteer firemen jobs to China.
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