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To: fight_truth_decay

http://www.ratherbiased.com/

At the center of Schlesinger’s piece was a woman named Beverly Cocco, a Philadelphia woman who is “sick to my stomach” that her two sons might be drafted. In his report, Schlesinger claimed that Cocco was a Republican and portrayed her as an apolitical (even Republican) mom worried about the future.

Schlesinger did not disclose that Cocco is a chapter president of an advocacy group called People Against the Draft (PAD) which, in addition to opposing any federal proscription, seeks to establish a “peaceful, rational foreign policy” by bringing all U.S. troops out of Iraq. Like Schlesinger’s Cocco, the group portrays itself as “nonpartisan” although its leadership seems to be entirely bereft of any Republicans.

The group’s domain is registered to a man named Jacob Levich, a left-wing activist who in a 2001 essay compared the Bush Administration to the totalitarian government portrayed in George Orwell’s 1984.


9 posted on 09/29/2004 9:34:05 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: finnman69

Re: Your entire post. Why am I not surprised.


27 posted on 09/29/2004 9:44:04 AM PDT by elbucko (A Feral Republican)
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To: finnman69
"Schlesinger did not disclose that"

Many many thanks, it is people like you that make FR a great read.

72 posted on 09/30/2004 8:19:02 AM PDT by jpsb (Nominated 1994/2004 "Worst writer on the net")
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