Posted on 10/05/2006 5:59:56 AM PDT by Quilla
Those homophobic Democrat bastards!!
YES!! Go on offense!! *Ahem*...
American Thinker nails this issue. You know this has backfired when all the news this morning is "Can this hurt the GOP?", and it is the THIRD story they present. There may be more October surprises, but this first one riled up the GOP base. Dems have NOTHING but scandal to run on, and this one was LAME. I cannot wait to vote!!
I did a search. If you copy and paste this article's title in FR's search window, this will be the only thread returned. Apparently the comma has something to do with it. My apologies, your highness. ;-)
IIRC, Rove promised an October Surprise that the Democrats wouldn't like. Hope he can keep his promise.
Republican Congressman Patrick Henry has demanded that nancy pelosi and rahm emanuel sign sworn statements that they did not know of these IM's, and had nothing to do with their release. Republican leaders have signed such a document. emanuel and pelosi REFUSED TO SIGN ANY STATEMENT DENYING INVOLVEMENT IN THIS MATTER!!!
LLS
I wonder though if that is the Murtha sting tapes?
How many October Suprises have to blow up in the Democrat's face before they quit? Will they ever learn?
I notice it always takes them a good 2 to 3 days to catch up with FR. But, then again, having some good freepers outside the ABC doors with posters and signs asking questions (ala Rathergate) could speed the process up.
No problem. That's why I said just put in a word. If you put in the entire title, you will miss people who can't spell or use different punctuation.
But that's my point. Of course they will give it no traction, which means that the whole thing vanishes as quickly as it arrived, and meanwhile, the Dems have made no inroads whatsoever on the national security issue held by the GOP.
KLBJ in Austin is reporting that the teen was 18. They have it out. Of course, the liberal Ed Clements is being liberal as usual.
Maybe ABC's bias is the REAL scandal here.
Interesting... The dems know this how?
Also, ABC *MUST* produce their evidence to demonstrate the "underage" side of things now. This may include names, due to their obvious falsehood or distortion based on the thus-far produced IMs.
I'm curious if ABC actually has ANY more IMs.
"lready Posted:
Worst October Surprise Ever
Search is our friend. Type in a word, hit a button, easy as pie."
You know I really get tired of the bandwidth police here at FR. I am in the Mountain Time Zone, so I appreciate seeing great posts like this, and would miss them is someone did not repost them. I hardle think the FR is suffering because of a few important reposts now and then.
It does get tiring. I searched via several key words for a thread yesterday. Didn't find a thing so I posted a thread. It was amazing how many came out of the woodwork to say it was already being discussed. Well, then put in the keywords so we can find it. I think the moderators are pretty good about letting a certain amount of duplicates over a period of time.
The problem with this "October Surprise" is that it was waaaaaaayyyyy too early in October. I don't think they anticipated all the questions and research that would come with it. Unless they have another shoe to drop the weekend before the election, I agree this is turning out to be a pretty weak surprise. (And a few days ago, I thought it was gonna be effective.)
"I think the moderators are pretty good about letting a certain amount of duplicates over a period of time."
And I am glad they do.
"... freepers outside the ABC doors with posters and signs asking questions (ala Rathergate) could speed the process up"
Ya know..if I were an ABC/Disney shareholder, I'd be screaming for someone's head consequent to this sterling example of media malpractice....
LoL!
It just splits up the conversation, so it's harder to get everybody's opinion. We have to follow two threads to see if someone says something useful in either of them. We see people repeating incorrect stuff because the freepers who know the truth are on the other thread. We see freepers spending time making points that are already made on the other thread.
If all you want to do is make somehing pop back up, there are ways to make that happen. If the people who run FR WANTED people to do this, you could just repost the headline and put the link to the other thread in the header. But if you do that, it will be deleted -- which I think shows how the owners feel.
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