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BUSH VERSUS KERRY ROUND TWO -(Osgood File Carrying Water for John Kerry at cBS)
The Osgood File ^ | 11.1.06 | Charles Osgood

Posted on 11/02/2006 6:07:35 AM PST by IncPen

It's Bush v. Kerry Round Two, and once again Bush is spreading soundbite lies about what Kerry really said. Charlie explains:

I'm Charles Osgood.

President Bush is NOT on the ballot next Tuesday. Neither is Senator John Kerry, his opponent in the 2004 Presidential election. But it's like 2004 all over again. with Kerry talking to some students at a campaign event and making what he thought was a humorous remark.

"You study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't you get stuck in Iraq." said Sen. John Kerry, D-MA

And President Bush pretending that Kerry wasn't referring to HIM.

"The senator's suggestion that the men and women of our military are somehow uneducated is insulting and it is shameful." said President George Bush.

Senator Kerry's gaff gave President Bush a chance to express his indignation.

"The members of the United States military are plenty smart and they are plenty brave and the senator from Massachusetts owes them an apology." said Bush.

Kerry admitted he blew the JOKE, but said:

"I apologize to no one for my criticism of the president and of his broken policy." said Kerry.

And then, as if recalling the good old, bad old days of the campaign.

"I'm sick and tired of a whole bunch of Republican attacks, most of which come from people who never wore the uniform and never had the courage to stand up and go to war themselves. Enough is enough." said Kerry.

Republican Senator John McCain went to war.

"The suggestion that only the least educated Americans would agree to serve in the military and fight in Iraq is an insult to every soldier serving in combat today." said Sen. John McCain, R-AZ

CBS Political consultant Mike McCurry and a former spokesman for Kerry: "He was trying to make a joke and it didn't work. He botched it as he said. He was trying to say Bush got us into Iraq and that's the result of not doing your homework well and he's tried to turn the subject back to who's accountable for our policy in Iraq." said CBS News Political analyst Mike McCurry.

The Osgood File. Charles Osgood on the CBS Radio Network.


TOPICS: Editorial; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbs; charlesosgood; johnkerry
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The Breathtaking Mendacity of this man:

Notice that the headline about 'soundbite lies' is not substantiated in Osgood's piece.

I heard Osgood on the radio this morning and almost drove off the road at the comments by another cBS reporter that was giving 'analysis' on today's version of the Osgood file-- which I'll post as soon as it's available.

I also didn't know that McCurry was on the cBS payroll, but it makes sense.

So... I guess they didn't have room for Ari Fleischer or Scott McClellan?

1 posted on 11/02/2006 6:07:36 AM PST by IncPen
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To: IncPen

Bow-tied buggery...


2 posted on 11/02/2006 6:11:04 AM PST by johnny7 (“And what's Fonzie like? Come on Yolanda... what's Fonzie like?!”)
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Bush is spreading soundbite lies about what Kerry really said.

I have never once heard anyone say "Did you see/hear that piece by Osgood?" He must know this. He is a placeholder, a nothing in the world of punditry, and his "thoughts" are forgotten seconds after he's said them. He is a DNC spear carrier and no one cares one bit what he says.

I guess "soundbite lies" are MSM speak for "He has the comment on tape, but that's not what Kerry REALLy said."

3 posted on 11/02/2006 6:11:39 AM PST by Darkwolf377 (Republican, atheist, pro-life)
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To: IncPen
Someone should put that picture on the Kool-Aid labels. He bears a striking similarity to the 'smiling pitcher' character.
4 posted on 11/02/2006 6:12:40 AM PST by Melinda
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To: IncPen
How dare President Bush question Sen. Kerry about what he said by quoting Sen. Kerry Exactly. If Bush was smarter, he would have known everything John Kerry has said for the past two years could be correctly translated as 'If you had elected me emperor, er, president, we would not be stuck in Iraq and probably would have kicked the $@#* out of Vermont by now'. /sarcasm
5 posted on 11/02/2006 6:13:46 AM PST by pikachu (Be alert --we need more lerts!)
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And President Bush pretending that Kerry wasn't referring to HIM.

I have a challenge for you, Mr. Osgood, or any other leftist out there. You show me one single quote from anyone on this planet defending Kerry for his comments in Pasadena BEFORE Kerry gave his statement the afternoon of the 31st. If it was so obvious that Kerry was speaking of President Bush, then why was no one able to figure this out until Kerry offered his explanation the following day?

The truth of the matter is that not one single person came to his defense until AFTER it was explained to them by Kerry that he was talking about the President. No one (and that includes DU).

6 posted on 11/02/2006 6:19:02 AM PST by Hoodat ( ETERNITY - Smoking, or Non-smoking?)
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Osgood comes on at 2 p.m, here in the Philly area, during Rushs' show. What a lefty this clown is. Thankfully he is only on for a minute or two.


7 posted on 11/02/2006 6:21:37 AM PST by ditto h
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Last I heard, President Bush is stuck in Washington DC, not Iraq. Kerry looks funny, but he can't tell a joke.


8 posted on 11/02/2006 6:22:13 AM PST by Kirkwood
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"Soundbite lies", eh?

As I recall, John Kerry uttered that soundbite. We did not "misinterpret" his statements, they stand clearly on their own, and we all know what he meant to say. After all, he has been saying it since 1971.


9 posted on 11/02/2006 6:25:43 AM PST by TommyDale (Iran President Ahmadinejad is shorter than Tom Daschle!)
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CBS has been carrying water for the Dems for months now.


10 posted on 11/02/2006 6:28:35 AM PST by r9etb
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To: ditto h
Charlie is good at rhyme. For years, he did the "end pieces" or brights at the end of the CBS Evening News. He really should stick to what he knows best.
11 posted on 11/02/2006 6:30:09 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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Osgood makes the point, and a reasonable one (albeit a point made by many others), that neither George Bush nor Jon Carry are running for office this year. Which ought to make Osgood and others wonder why Carry would be making purported criticisms of Bush. What is the relevance? The stated topic by Carry was the importance of education. Whether he "botched a joke" or not, this is far from the first time he has denigrated the military. His 1971 statements to Congress are a matter of record, as are his fairly recent comments about US soldiers "terrorizing kids, children, you know, and women in the dead of night..."

One gaffe is always possible, but this is a trend of Mr. Carry...


12 posted on 11/02/2006 6:42:14 AM PST by NCLaw441
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We all know what Kerry said, we heard it a hundred times already. The only people who actually truly know what he meant to say is John Kerry. And Karl Rove.


13 posted on 11/02/2006 6:44:11 AM PST by nativist (Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.)
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Kerry didn't blow any joke or misread his prepared statements. He departed from the text and was improvising, thinking he could get away it. He couldn't resist the condescending, sarcastic jab at people in uniform. When Kerry's handlers realized by Wednesday that the public uproar wasn't going away they rewrote his speech, inserted a new version of the "joke", and distributed it as the original "prepared remarks." This gave the Associated Press, the Washington Post, and partisan radio hacks like Osgood the "evidence" to defend Kerry.


14 posted on 11/02/2006 6:44:28 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee (Anything a politician gives you he has first stolen from you)
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"CBS has been carrying water for the Dems for months now."

Try decades. It started wit Dan Rather questioning President Nixon at a press conference.

15 posted on 11/02/2006 6:47:07 AM PST by TommyDale (Iran President Ahmadinejad is shorter than Tom Daschle!)
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Try decades. It started wit Dan Rather questioning President Nixon at a press conference.

Oh, I know that, but I'm talking specifically of this election. My only exposure to CBS is their top-of-the-hour radio news, and they've been amazingly blatant in their slant. They've really stepped it up over the past few months.

16 posted on 11/02/2006 6:49:32 AM PST by r9etb
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In the movie Anchorman: the Legend of Ron Burgandy, Ron and his team meets his rival news team in the park. When Ron comments on how his team is #1 in the rankings his rival anchor (Vince Vaughn) starts explaining how the ratings are skewed and doesn't take into account houses with more than 1 TV and the samples are too small. Ron replies

"I guess I will just have to take you're word for it..number 2."

Thats what I thought when Kerry started explaining himself and the media chimed in to explain what he meant.

"I guess we'll just have to take your word for it..number 2"

17 posted on 11/02/2006 6:51:07 AM PST by nativist
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Kerry admits he failed in school!

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18 posted on 11/02/2006 6:51:08 AM PST by TommyDale (Iran President Ahmadinejad is shorter than Tom Daschle!)
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"You study hard, you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't you get stuck in Iraq." said Sen. John Kerry, D-MA

And President Bush pretending that Kerry wasn't referring to HIM. {Osgood}


MSM = Democrat Spin Machine

How could that possibly made any sense IF he was referring to the president?

If Kerry meant the President, he have been telling those college students:

"If you don't study hard, don't do your homework, and don't make an effort to be smart you will not do well. You will become President; get us in a war that liberals {like Kerry} oppose; and then soundly defeat me {Kerry} to be reelected for a 2nd term."

An absurd spin that tells us Libs not only think the troops in Iraq are idiots but that the American public are idiots also.

19 posted on 11/02/2006 6:58:22 AM PST by drpix
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You got it.
I couldn't help but notice the time line on the development of this flap; John F'n slanders American servicemen in Iraq, then calls a news conference the very next morning to challenge Rush Limbaugh and Tony Snow to a duel. NEITHER of these individuals had had a chance to say anything--it was manufactured entirely in F'n's mind. Rush and every other talker was presented with a week-long gift.
20 posted on 11/02/2006 7:01:51 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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