Posted on 08/27/2005 1:39:05 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
.........[Frank] Rich [New York Times]pointed out that, once Ms. Sheehan could no longer be ignored, "the Swift Boating began," an allusion to the campaign during the latest presidential race to belittle Democratic Sen. John Kerry's service in Vietnam and the wounds he received there. Rich said such campaigns are launched "whenever the White House is confronted by a critic who challenges it on matters of war."
"True to form, the attack on Cindy Sheehan surfaced early on Fox News, where she was immediately labeled a 'crackpot' by Fred Barnes," Rich wrote. "The right-wing blogosphere quickly spread tales of her divorce, her angry Republican in-laws, her supposed political flip-flops, her incendiary sloganeering and her association with known ticket-stub-carrying attendees of Fahrenheit 9/11."
First meeting
Also on Fox News, Bill O'Reilly called Sheehan's behavior "treasonous" and accused her of changing her opinion on Bush, with whom she met a year ago. ...
......Huffington appeared on CNN's Reliable Sources on Sunday alongside O'Reilly, who said Sheehan was "being used by very far-left elements in this country, elements that not only object to the Iraq war, but object to basically our way of life here."
'A sideshow'
Terry Michael, writing in Thursday's Washington Times, said the Crawford protest "is the opposite of reasoned debate."
"It's a sideshow of verbal combatants yelling past each other," wrote Michael, founder of the Washington Center for Politics & Journalism. "For average citizens to be presented with meaningful alternatives to the current war policy, we must have legitimate, fully engaged discourse, with intelligent voices coming to competing conclusions."
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
What position would that be? And do you have anything but conspiracy theory and hysterical hand-waving to back up yours?
That's very poignant. Thanks for stopping by here at FR.
If we wanted to communicate on our level, discourse would be full of obcentityes, misspellings irrational logic. We know your type. We can smell your putrid hate for America. You empathize with those who wish you dead. Utter nonsense.
is that the witch in the Wizard of Oz?
obcentityes = obscenities
Moonbat = kook.
Synonomous with democrat.
My thoughts exactly. The MSM and Liberals are doing the "woe is me" routine everytime they get caught and they turn their anger on someone who exposes them.
After Dukakis lost the Presidential election in 1988 to George Herbert Walker Bush, all we heard for four years was how "unfair and racist" the Willie Horton ad was. The forgot these facts:
1. Al Gore was the first person to use that ad about Horton in the primaries, and
2. It was true! Dukakis let murderers, rapists, and maniacs out on furlow (so he could be thought of as a "compassionate" liberal)
The Swift Boat vets were ignored by the MSM when they had their first press conference on in May of 2004. The MSM buried it, and only C-SPAN could broadcast it. Everyone with a brain on this forum knew it was political dynamite, and Kerry was finished if the truth got out.
Look at this tidbit from the Media Research center:
Despite the herclean efforts of the MSM to cover it up, it did.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but he is not entitled to his own facts.
The Bush Administration did not say that the invasion of Iraq was imperetive in order to stop Saddam Hussein from deploying weapons of mass destruction. They never even implied that there were stockpiles of WMD that would be found if we invaded.
What they did say, repeatedly and on the record, in teensy-weensy little words even the Leftist moonbats should be able to understand, is that Iraq's refusal to live up to it's responsibilities under the Gulf War I cease fire to verifiably end it's pursuit of WMD required the United Nations and the United States to invade that country to enforce the terms of the cease fire. This position was upheld by the UN Security Council in UNSC 1441.
In UNSC 1441, Iraq was given one last chance to comply with the obligations of the cease fire or face invasion to compel compliance. They declined to do so and the invasion followed. It is really as simple as that.
I've taken to dubbing her "Mutha" Sheehan-- think it will stick?
awesome job....
They ought to be Freeped at every stop, much the way the Huillarycare bus tour was Freeped.
since the Swift boaters were honest men speaking the truth I think that's fine that they "swift boat" this nut-job. They can try to sully the reputation of the heroes from Vietnam who were the swift boat veterans that stepped forward to speak the truth and reveal how Kerry was lying about his record and his secret missions on Christmas eve and all that, but Americans know better than to mindlessly accept their efforts at slander and dismissal of the problems with Sheehan. What do they think we are, Liberal? The majority of Americans are not that dumb.Yes. The left is using "Swiftboating" as the new "McCarthyism."13 posted on 08/27/2005 5:02:17 AM EDT by highlander_UW
When you get in these guys faces with the truth, they unite to poison the messenger and salt the earth around him.
RJayneJ memorial dittoes. Sigh . . .
I wonder where they will stop? Hmmmm. I think I wlll check some local news sources.
They're all fluff and no substance.
A bunch of cliches and feelings.
Bump!
Facts!?
The msm doesn't deal in facts.
His name is Jeff Key and he is gay.
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