Posted on 07/04/2005 2:50:40 PM PDT by SmithL
Bob and Gina Fesmire of Sunnyvale are hardly political firebrands.
Bob, a Silicon Valley public relations man who sports a ponytail, grew up in a Republican home and embraces Libertarian values favoring small government that stays out of individuals' lives. Gina, a graphic designer, is more left- leaning, but she stresses that they both are registered independents who focus on issues -- not ideology -- during elections.
However, outraged by what's now known as the "Downing Street Memo" and the scant initial coverage of it in the U.S. media, the Sunnyvale couple teamed with a Chicago law student and a Canadian civil servant to create downingstreetmemo.com.
On May 1, the Times of London broke a story about a 2002 British government memo revealing that the Bush administration had decided war with Iraq was inevitable and had fixed the intelligence to justify using military force to oust Saddam Hussein, eight months before the Iraq invasion.
The goal of the Fesmires' Web is to "Awaken the mainstream media" to the series of eight leaked Blair administration memos on the Iraq war. It has drawn more than 700,000 visits since May 13 and has been covered by newspapers ranging from the New York Times to the Times of London.
"This project has taken on a life of its own,'' said Bob Fesmire, 37, who regularly pulls his wife away from the computer at midnight. "We call it our baby surrogate, because it's very demanding and we don't get any sleep.''
Political partisans may debate whether the documents are smoking guns or old news. But the Fesmires' Internet crusade -- boosted by legions of like- minded bloggers, some demanding a congressional inquiry -- shows "how the ordinary citizen can play a role in national and even global politics,"...
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I may comment once I stop laughing.
Original title: Ailing MSM Tries To Breathe Life Into Dead Story
This is the point where I stopped reading.
Political independents, vote only on issues, grew up in a Republican home, blah, blah, blah. And these two are so fired up about the "no there, there" Downing Street memo. Yeah, we believe you, uh-huh.
Website named FreeRepublic causes Democrats to move to Mexico.
Give San Francisco back to Mexico.
Wasn't there a nearly identical story a week or so ago? Is the Chronicle going to give weekly updates on this "non-partisan" couple and their pathetic website?
Downingstreetmemo- Smoke, but where's the Fire?
...to a fare-thee-well.
Yet I note 'true believers in the perfidy of the infinitely clever and evil ( yet too stupid to walk & chew gum at the same time ) "Boosh!"' remain unconvincable- they really think they can topple this administration with baked wind and monkey doodle ( hat tip to P.J. O'Rourke )-- so be it. Tilt at windmills and call them Giants- they're still windmills...
Wonder if we could pay them to take Boston, NYC and Chicago as well.
Only until the rest of the media properly acknowledges their little story.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!
This sounds like one of those wacky Liberal "it's doesn't matter if the charge is true, it's the SERIOUSNESS of the charge that's important" things. Liberals are such jugheads.
"This project has taken on a life of its own,'' said Bob Fesmire
Maybe you should just GET a life of your own, Bob.
When I first read this story I said, OK, one each girly-man doofus with a liberal past and an ugly wife. Gaspar wins again!
Yep, too obvious!
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