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The Tangled Roots of Doug Wead: Exclusive Details on the Newly "Released" Bush Tapes
Village Voice ^ | February 23, 2005 | Ward Harkavy

Posted on 02/23/2005 1:30:18 PM PST by govstuff

Preacher, peddler, and Beltway meddler Doug Wead, who selectively released furtively recorded conversations with George W. Bush, told me this morning that he has changed his mind and will turn over book profits to charity and the tapes to Bush. Yesterday, in "The Zelig of the Religious Right," I wrote this about Wead's very selective release of only a small fraction of his tapes to the New York Times: "This latest 'revelation' that George W. Bush is a flawed man of faith and prayer who is thoughtful is just more propaganda." I said that Wead would never hurt Bush, that Wead "played" the Times. I can say this about Wead because I've written more about him than any other reporter on the planet . . .

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; bushtapes; douglaswead; dougwead; reagan; religiousright; tapes; traitor; troll; wead; zot
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1 posted on 02/23/2005 1:30:26 PM PST by govstuff
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To: govstuff

Considering the source of this post is the Village Voice, do I really have to read it to know it will be another Bush bashing piece?


2 posted on 02/23/2005 1:33:10 PM PST by Noachian (We're all one judge away from tyranny.)
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To: govstuff

Well, I think Doug Wead was the conservative activist fired from the GHWB administration in the summer of 1990. He may have an ax against the whole Bush family. GHWB may have helped sink Wead's congressional campaign, and the crusty old Barry Golwater went Democrat to oppose Wead.


3 posted on 02/23/2005 1:33:33 PM PST by Theodore R.
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To: Theodore R.

but the tapes were made in 1998


4 posted on 02/23/2005 1:34:17 PM PST by aynrandfreak (If 9/11 didn't change you, you're a bad human being)
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To: govstuff

Welcome to Free Republic.
What's your opinion?

5 posted on 02/23/2005 1:34:23 PM PST by glock rocks (WYGIWYG)
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To: govstuff

Your first post is from the VV? Hhmmmmm.....


6 posted on 02/23/2005 1:35:54 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Noachian

***Considering the source of this post is the Village Voice***

Sounds like an OP'ed by MoDo or Mollie Ivins

BTW....

govstuff
Since Feb 23, 2005


7 posted on 02/23/2005 1:37:17 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for," - Howard Dean 01/29/2005)
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To: govstuff

Who reads the Village Voice?


8 posted on 02/23/2005 1:37:28 PM PST by SolidRedState (I can't think of a new tagline, so I'll just post without one.)
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To: MeekOneGOP

Check this out...


9 posted on 02/23/2005 1:38:57 PM PST by SolidRedState (I can't think of a new tagline, so I'll just post without one.)
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To: anniegetyourgun; govstuff; MEG33; dubyaismypresident; 4mycountry; Pan_Yans Wife; Charlie OK; ...
Your first post is from the VV? Hhmmmmm.....


Troll / moron detector is going off.....

10 posted on 02/23/2005 1:40:18 PM PST by Arrowhead1952 ("I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for," - Howard Dean 01/29/2005)
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To: govstuff

Karl Rove planned this.


11 posted on 02/23/2005 1:40:29 PM PST by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: SolidRedState

It looks like govstuff does. ;)


12 posted on 02/23/2005 1:40:51 PM PST by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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To: govstuff

So what is your opinion on the article govstuff??


13 posted on 02/23/2005 1:42:45 PM PST by catiwompus
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To: govstuff

Welcome to Free Republic.
What's your opinion?

But... I repeat myself.

14 posted on 02/23/2005 1:43:07 PM PST by glock rocks (WYGIWYG)
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To: govstuff
Am I and thousands of other Americans "conspiracy theorists" because we point out the connections between big business and the lucrative invasion of Iraq? Or the tax cuts for the rich? Or the planned looting of Social Security for the profit of Wall Street firms?

Does this make the author a "conspiracy theorist?" No, it makes him an ideologue who apparently would abandon any policy, regardless of merit, that included benefits for the wealthy or big business. With him in charge the United States would have never risen.

15 posted on 02/23/2005 1:44:44 PM PST by Dolphy
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To: govstuff

Ya know.

If you newbies are going to post the garbage from VV, at least you could have the decency to comment on it!

What are you? 12?


16 posted on 02/23/2005 1:45:08 PM PST by Bigh4u2
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To: Arrowhead1952

Wow....when did FR deploy a troll detector? I really appreciate the wise use of our contributions to this site for such protection! After all, it's the #1 duty of the administration under the FR constitution.....#2 being holding parties.


17 posted on 02/23/2005 1:45:38 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: govstuff

It's against posting rules to make up your own title.


18 posted on 02/23/2005 1:45:43 PM PST by KidGlock (W-1)
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To: anniegetyourgun

You forgot #3.

ZOTTING TROLLS!

:0)


19 posted on 02/23/2005 1:46:18 PM PST by Bigh4u2
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To: Dolphy

It also makes him a nutbag.


20 posted on 02/23/2005 1:46:37 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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