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Months after making headlines, John Murtha's popularity booming
Knight-Ridder, McClatchey Newspapers ^ | August 17. 2006 | Margaret Talev

Posted on 08/17/2006 3:04:02 PM PDT by Dane

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Talk about trying to shove an overdose of murtha "sugar" down a newspaper readers throat.

JMO, with this "article" it seems that murtha is feeling the heat and calling in some local media chips(w. PA, Pittsburgh media market).

BTW, the owner of the newspaper publisher that printed this murtha sugar overdose, Kevin McClatchey, also owns the Pittsburgh Pirates, the perrenial bottom dwellers of MLB.

1 posted on 08/17/2006 3:04:03 PM PDT by Dane
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To: Dane

The only "popularity" that matters now is within Murtha's Congressional district. Who cares if they love him in Berkeley -- those folks can't keep him in Congress.


2 posted on 08/17/2006 3:05:43 PM PDT by inkling
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To: Dane
Okinawa -- its right around the corner.
3 posted on 08/17/2006 3:05:46 PM PDT by msnimje (What part of-- "DEATH TO AMERICA" --do the Democrats not understand?)
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To: Dane

McCrappy papers could have manufactured a poll to back up their claims.

Furthermore, he is not popular among Democrats. He is popular among Pro-Terrorist anti-Americans.


4 posted on 08/17/2006 3:05:54 PM PDT by new yorker 77 (FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
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To: Dane

Perhaps he should follow Murtha's plan and pull the Pirates out of Pittsburgh seeing as how they can't possibly win there.


5 posted on 08/17/2006 3:06:09 PM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: Dane
Gag, blurp, gasp!

Why oh, why didn't you put a BARF ALERT on this excrescence?

6 posted on 08/17/2006 3:06:31 PM PDT by Paul Ross (We cannot be for lawful ordinances and for an alien conspiracy at one and the same moment.-Cicero)
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To: Dane

Murtha is certainly full of himself...how popular is he in Pa though???


7 posted on 08/17/2006 3:07:32 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: inkling

"The only "popularity" that matters now is within Murtha's Congressional district."

Will he run as a dem? Or is he ready to form his own "drooling senility party"?


8 posted on 08/17/2006 3:08:46 PM PDT by Bogtrotter52 (Reading DU daily so you won't hafta)
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To: Dane; Coop; smoothsailing; Just A Nobody

MR. RUSSERT: What’s your response?

REP. MURTHA... We can go to Okinawa.

MR. RUSSERT: But it’d be tough to have a timely response from Okinawa.

REP. MURTHA: Well, it—you know, they—when I say Okinawa, I, I’m saying troops in Okinawa.

9 posted on 08/17/2006 3:09:04 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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He boasts of getting standing ovations...at Democratic fundraisers. Coulda knocked me over with a feather.


10 posted on 08/17/2006 3:15:18 PM PDT by trublu
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To: God luvs America

He's thinking bigger than PA I think.


11 posted on 08/17/2006 3:16:44 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: Dane

Isn't this "news" paper chain on the verge of bankruptcy? Or am I thinking of another chain?


12 posted on 08/17/2006 3:17:36 PM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: trublu

a Senior member of the pro-terrorist Democratic party..they have rigths too


13 posted on 08/17/2006 3:18:16 PM PDT by Youngman442002
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To: Dane

Last time I checked Murtha had a huge fundraising lead over Irey. I believe he had about 4 million give or take and she had a little more than $300,000. Figures were from last month.


14 posted on 08/17/2006 3:18:28 PM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: Dane

Didn't FOB Ron Burkle buy out McClatchy?


15 posted on 08/17/2006 3:19:30 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Dane
Where are the polls? I may be missing them, but it seems as if every race has polling going on, but in this one, nothing.

Is he doing so well it doesn't pay to have one, or is it that he is falling or much lower than expected and the news is being held back to allow more of this type of media life support to have some effect?

16 posted on 08/17/2006 3:21:04 PM PDT by kAcknor (Don't flatter yourself.... It is a gun in my pocket.)
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"Kevin McClatchey, also owns the Pittsburgh Pirates, the perrenial bottom dwellers of MLB."

This year, yeah. But that title usually belongs to the Royals or Devil Rays.


17 posted on 08/17/2006 3:25:48 PM PDT by NapkinUser (CNN/Fox News: Blah blah Israel blah blah Lebanon blah blah Palestine blah blah Middle East blah...)
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Holy crap, look at the google bomb Knight-Ridder/McClatchy newspapers did on this big wet kiss of a story for Murtha.

Link

18 posted on 08/17/2006 3:26:38 PM PDT by Dane ("Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" Ronald Reagan, 1987)
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To: Dane
Just for the heck of it :)

Rendell backed Burkle bid for PNI (Dinosaur Media/DNC Collusion Alert)

19 posted on 08/17/2006 3:31:13 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mainepatsfan

they'll be renamed to the Okinawa Nippon Pirates but of course they can redeploy back to pittsburgh by next season if support grows..:)


20 posted on 08/17/2006 3:31:30 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info)
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