Posted on 09/29/2004 8:05:28 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
Five weeks before the election, Tuesday's CBS Evening News attempted to legitimize baseless Internet rumors that President Bush secretly plans to revive the draft. Reporter Richard Schlesinger focused his piece around how one mother "is petrified about a military draft, and she's not alone. Mass e-mails are circulating among worried parents," as if the political spam had any merit. Instead of trying to allay the woman's fears with facts, Schlesinger instead asked: "Would you vote for a Democrat?" She replied: "Absolutely. I would vote for Howdy Doody if I thought it would keep my boys home and safe."
The story is starting to bubble. Next stop, Drudge...
Both bills come from Democrats.
For MSM, this is Bush's fault.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different result.
They were not taken in-- this story is easy to disprove. This was a deliberate hit piece.
FOX needs to report on this 14 Democrats push draft bill... Let the Democrats answer this charge instead of John Kerry trying to slam the President with it...
I think its true they can make a memo to prove it...
as W has said why send people to fight if they dont want to its not good for the men and mission...
pull the guys out of Europe and asia NOW
I wonder if CBS has tied Rather's fate to John Kerry's???
The irony, IMHO, according to my own files, it was Ralph Nader who began the rumors.
CBS will never learn, will they? Hope this crow will be bigger, much bigger, than the last one they had to eat.
On the other hand, it does not help that the DOD is calling people back into the armed forces and using stop loss orders to keep lots of people from leaving who might want to leave. I understand why these people are so valuable and why it would be so useful to have them stay in the services. That is not the point.
These actions make the wild rumors of a draft seem like they might have some kernel of truth in them. And since so much of this has been handled by word-of-mouth, it is hard to set the record straight. CBS may have actually done Bush a service by getting this into the open where we can rebut it.
CBS is unbelievable! How people could say there not Biased is beyond me. I really wish they would drop the C from CBS! Ha
Rep Abercrombie, Neil [HI-1] - 1/7/2003 | Rep Brown, Corrine [FL-3] - 1/28/2003 |
Rep Christensen, Donna M. [VI] - 5/19/2004 | Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - 1/28/2003 |
Rep Conyers, John, Jr. [MI-14] - 1/7/2003 | Rep Cummings, Elijah E. [MD-7] - 1/28/2003 |
Rep Hastings, Alcee L. [FL-23] - 1/28/2003 | Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. [IL-2] - 7/21/2004 |
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - 1/28/2003 | Rep Lewis, John [GA-5] - 1/7/2003 |
Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - 1/7/2003 | Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8] - 1/28/2003 |
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13] - 1/7/2003 | Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. [NY-12] - 1/28/2003 |
Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes [DC] - 1/28/2003(withdrawn - 6/21/2004) |
The dividing line is stark. I have neighbors and relatives voting for Howdy Doody because they have draft age sons. It get's trickier if they have draft age sons and younger sons as well. Are they willing to delay the fight so their "baby" gets left with the job?
RatherBiased.com is down again??? They have a great story on this. I think I've seen it posted already?
The left of the left. Just like Ted Kennedy before them, they accurately see themselves in a box and out of power as long as foreign policy dominates the agenda. They want the Draft the same way fat Ted wanted his boy J F'ing to work the system in Vietnam so that he could spend a few weeks of face time in order to become the "legitimate voice of protest" against that war.
Al Pacino as fat Ted and Keanu Reeves reprising the role of the young captain John F'ing in the new theatrical release titled Teddy's Advocate.
...Absolutely. I would vote for Howdy Doody if I thought it would keep my boys home and safe...
"I'm John Kerry and I'm (goofy salute) Howdy Doody"
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