Posted on 10/26/2004 3:29:49 PM PDT by Spiff
It's October, but it's no surprise. Remember last week, when I highlighted a quote by Newsweek editor Evan Thomas that the media's desire to see John Kerry elected may be worth five-to-twenty million votes, and urged you to be on the look-out for evidence of that desire in articles and news programs?
Well, yesterday the front page of New York Times featured a flawed article asserting, "The Iraqi interim government has warned the United States and international nuclear inspectors that nearly 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives -- used to demolish buildings, make missile warheads and detonate nuclear weapons -- are missing from one of Iraq's most sensitive former military installations. The huge facility, called Al Qaqaa, was supposed to be under American military control but is now a no man's land, still picked over by looters as recently as Sunday."
CBS News' "60 Minutes" admitted today they were saving the same story to air the Sunday before the election.
John Kerry seized on the New York Times headline to launch a political attack on President Bush, saying U.S. troops "failed to guard those stockpiles" and that is "one of the great blunders" of the war.
Senator Kerry and the New York Times leave the impression that these weapons went missing recently and U.S. troops were derilict in their duty to guard the stockpile--neither of which is true.
Network and cable news programs repeated the incomplete report and Sen. Kerry's attacks more than 100 times on Monday.
But last night NBC "Nightly News" reported that on April 10, 2003, one day after Baghdad fell, U.S. troops entered Al Qaqaa, accompanied by an embedded reporter from NBC, and found no such weapons.
It also turns out that our troops have found and destroyed or are destroying 400,000 tons of weapons and explosives.
There was no mention of either one of these facts in today's New York Times front page story, which regurgitated yesterday's charges and Senator Kerry's attacks based on them.
Liberal groups like MoveOn.org have already blasted out e-mails repeating the discredited report and urging people to vote against President Bush based on the flawed coverage.
We can not count on the media to set the story straight. We have to get the truth out to our friends and neighbors ourselves.
We are counting on YOU to set the record straight. Please forward this e-mail and the attached fact sheet to family and friends, call your local network, call talk radio, write letters to the editor, and post facts on blogs.
I suspect you'll be hearing from me again in the course of the next seven days as Mr. Thomas's prediction proves true again.
Sincerely,
Ed Gillespie
Chairman, Republican National Committee
JOHN KERRY...So Easy To Roll...SO Easy TO Fool!
bump to self
BS. We are counting on YOU Mr. Gillespie.
I sent my emails out to everyonme I could think of. I am angry that the media is not helping, but not at all surprised....thank God for FReepers who can help get the word out.
Now all the Bush people and RNC people, need to go on TV and say the same thing. Time someone started to show some balls
No surprise at all......NYTwit Times is looking like SadDan Insane at dnCBS.
Fox - older guy covered the story very good for once -
C-span - listening to the guy who made Stolen Honor - radio station - questions coming in sound good - people know what is going on - from the sounds of it - on this issue and probably what was attempted with the weapons issue -
Program just ended but boy was it good - just as the coverage by Fox on the truth about the weapons -
We're down in the trenches, and we ain't seein' nothin' but trench.
BS - the grass roots are what moves politics in this country.
they're on it - that's what this e-mail is & I just heard Matthew Dowd + Bernie Karrick address it on Hugh Hewitt's show.
Yes, but NBC Nightly News is now backtracking on last night's story. We've got to keep the truth out there where people can see it - we know the MSM will stab us in the back so we can't count on them.
My "surpirse" is the differnce in tone and manners during the election process since the days of John F. Kennedy....my 1st vote ever.
It's apparent to me based upon personal observation and life's experience that we are smack dab in the middle of a Cultural War. I've never seen and read such venom and disrespect for a sitting President in my life. Incidentally I was not a potted plant since 1960 either.
If we're not alert, we are going to see our country attacked with WMD...yet I'm led to believe that only 50% of likely voters understand it, or worst case, give a darn.
How could anyone with half a brain choose Mr. Kerry over President Bush based upon that simple fact alone?
It's the NATIONAL SECURITY, stupid!
You are so right, the media is NOT helping.
Could they be anymore in the Kerry Camp?
Exactly. Gillespie and the rest of the campaign should be making a rebuttal ad about this, not relying on word-of-mouth from us. Kerry is such a slime-bucket.
Mort Kondracke on Fox said Cheney issued a statement. Anyone have this?
No, these explosives are not used to detonate nuclear warheads, and have not been for decades. Another Journalism major was carried away with Science Fiction.
I believe earlier reports mentioned RDX, HMX, and PETN.
If I am a "Reagan Democrat", or a truly undecided voter, this story is true until the President (not Dick Cheney, not Ed Gillespie) says it's not. My hope is that people in the White House are feverishly preparing a comprehensive response that totally discredits the Times report. My belief is that King Karl wants to "ride this storm out", and sit on his 3% "within the margin of error" lead.
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