Posted on 11/06/2004 8:02:23 AM PST by fastattacksailor
What did Newsweek know — and when did the magazine know it?
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We very lucky that KERRY imploded.......and W saved the day!
Wow, we really did dodge a lurch-laced bullet.
Its time to finish Kerry off once and for all.
For the good of the nation
McCain knew it even before Newsweak did.
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I knew Kerry was bad, but this is something else. At least McCain had some priciples.
This editorial stands as a lesson to those who actually wanted Lurch to become the Prez. If he was willing to do this---the UN would have been running us next, IMHO.
I'm trying to remember just when this took place- (maybe one of you will)- sometime last spring or early summer when McCain endorsed GWB, they were together at a huge rally...McCain gave a TRULY impassioned speech for Bush- it brought me to tears - it was THAT inspiring.
I'd be interested in the timing- perhaps McCain was fresh from these phone calls with Kerry- and finally realized this guy was not presidential??
I read this theory on another thread....McCain probably did tell the Bush campaign. Rove decided it would end up being a "he said, she said" kind of thing. MSM would, of course, back kerry and that campaign would, of course, deny, deny, deny. Might have cost Bush valuable votes.
Then again, if McCain had said something about it, would anyone have believed him? Silly me. The press believes everything that McCain says.
It would also be interesting to know if Sen. McCain informed President Bush about the offer.
If the journalist was bound by some sort of agreement, McCain wasn't. I think it was his Duty to inform the President AND the American public. Everyone would have listened and believed him, even the Dem. Dogs. They were chomping at the idea of him being Kerry's running mate...they couldn't have back-peddled after it was obvious they felt a Kerry-McCain ticket was their hope.
Imagine the election stats if this had been known and the increase in Bush's margin of victory.
No mention of McCain's responsibility to report that Kerry was the public has been made. Why is this aspect being missed?
Kerry's desperation - not surprising at all.
Kerry wanted to identify himself more closely with McCain to appeal to certain independents and supposedly republicans. Therefore, contacts with McCain would help Kerry. In the final days of the campaign, Kerry was constantly saying he would reach out to Bob Dole and John McCain, as if invoking their names meant he had their endorsement.
Maybe he did and that's how it eventually came out. We'll probably never know though.
Kind of funny about McCain. I don't think he would have made 3 votes difference for Kerry, had he been the VP choice.
Just re-inforces my theory that everybody in his party knew he was going to lose except Kerry. Well, maybe Kerry knew he wasn't supposed to win, but decided to double cross the party and go for broke.
"The OLD MEDIA can not, must not be Trusted ever again!"
Your point is solid. It is hugely ludicrous for people to call themselves "journalists," yet promise not to report relevant things heard from a candidate during a NATIONAL election! The obvious question to these so called "journalists" is: - Then why did you bother covering Kerry in the first place? What's the point?
The damage this does to journalists in future campaigns is clearly evident. The question one asks is: "What did you promise to conceal in return for being allowed to tag along with the candidate?"
It becomes evident, again, that the suppression of the truth by CNN during Hussein's rule was not an anomoly, they were simply following the example set by the OM.
Promises are promises, but whatever happened to what, under different circumstances, Newsweek and similar publications would herald as "the public's right to know"?
If this was Bush who had suggested such a thing, don't you think the OM would have reported it using their old stand-by "unnamed source"?
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