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Recount Revisited (Stealing Credit For Sore/Loserman-Surrender Gorethy?)
The New Republic ^ | May 23, 2008 | by Jay Roach, Danny Strong, and Jonathan Chait

Posted on 05/27/2008 10:03:04 PM PDT by icwhatudo

"Brad Blakeman, a very charming, intelligent spinmeister in Florida depicted in the film. He was, by his own account, the man at least partly behind "Sore Loserman," "Surrender Gorethy," "The Gorinch Who Stole the Election,"

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TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Free Republic; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: blakeman; bradblakeman; florida2000; floriduh; recount; registered; revisionisthistory; soreloserman
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IIRC many of these ideas were first brought forth on Free Republic and it was freeper who hired the plane shown in the movie towing the "Surrender Gorethy" banner.
1 posted on 05/27/2008 10:03:05 PM PDT by icwhatudo
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To: flygirl; DJ88; Registered; L.N. Smithee; CPL BAUM; Spiff

FYI


2 posted on 05/27/2008 10:09:08 PM PDT by icwhatudo
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To: icwhatudo

"Go Lie!"

3 posted on 05/27/2008 10:14:37 PM PDT by weegee (We cant keep our homes on 72 at all times & just expect that other countries are going to say OK -BO)
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My memory is that Registered created the Sore Loserman banner.


4 posted on 05/27/2008 11:16:36 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: icwhatudo

As I wrote in an earlier thread, I might have enjoyed the movie if I wasn’t a news and FR junkie, and was too ignorant to know that it was 75% crap. I watched because I wondered where “Sore/Loserman” would show up, and sadly, only one scene contained the signs, and you had to pause your recorder to see it.


6 posted on 05/27/2008 11:41:33 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee
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To: icwhatudo; All

The best book about the election in 2000 was written by Bill Sammon, “At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election”.

It’s riviting .. you will not be able to put it down.


7 posted on 05/27/2008 11:44:12 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Yon: "The U.S. military is the most respected institution in Iraq.")
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To: CyberAnt
"written by Bill Sammon, “At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election”."

It is a good account and factual.

Those were great days in front of the Veeps mansion at 34th & Mass.

Teasing the Gorons with "Get out of Cheneys house" was big fun.

8 posted on 05/28/2008 3:28:33 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: Jimmy Valentine
Driving from Maine to Massachusetts for Thanksgiving that year with the Sore/Loserman sticker on the rear window was funny as all get out too. We started calling it The Fingers From Fags Tour.

Great times...

9 posted on 05/28/2008 3:44:59 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: metesky

heheh. We went around town and replaced folks bumper stickers and yard signs. It was so much fun.


10 posted on 05/28/2008 7:51:50 AM PDT by no-s
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To: weegee

Your caption should read “See if you can find the ‘GO LIE’ poster in this picture”......took me way too long to find it to admit! I just thought you mis-spelled ‘golly’!


11 posted on 05/28/2008 8:48:13 AM PDT by CRBDeuce (an armed society is a polite society)
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To: metesky
The Fingers From Fags Tour.

Priceless!

12 posted on 05/28/2008 8:50:15 AM PDT by CRBDeuce (an armed society is a polite society)
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To: icwhatudo; Registered

Hello Rich...you out there?


13 posted on 05/28/2008 8:51:13 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; george76; ...

Weird that this should come up. Should have been in 2000, or 2004. Lieberman will appear at the Pubbie convention, I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.


14 posted on 05/28/2008 9:36:17 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Profile updated Monday, April 28, 2008)
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To: CyberAnt
The best book about the election in 2000 was written by Bill Sammon, “At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election”. It’s riviting .. you will not be able to put it down.

I have that book...it was my first exposure to "Super Stretch" Sammon. I've since bought two of his other books, Misunderestimated and Strategery. All three of them were great reads.

15 posted on 05/28/2008 10:57:30 AM PDT by Christian4Bush ("In Israel, the President hit the nail on the head. The nails are complaining loudly." - John Bolton)
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To: D-fendr
My memory is that Registered created the Sore Loserman banner.

I believe Registered also did the "Surrender Gorethy" written in the sky! Then, someone from here hired a banner plane.

The picture of the Surrender Gorethy was a FR classic. This past week the sky was such a deep blue and the clouds so white, I laughed and recalled that picture with my husband.

16 posted on 05/28/2008 11:06:38 AM PDT by World'sGoneInsane (LET NO ONE BE FORGOTTEN, LET NO ONE FORGET)
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To: D-fendr

Correct. Then I marketed the crap out of it. And Free Republic got almost $20K in the next year’s fund raisers. I still have about 300 bumper stickers.

Memories......:)


17 posted on 05/28/2008 1:02:54 PM PDT by Technocrat (McCain-Romney 2008. Crap.)
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To: icwhatudo
"I've got a great idea, I call it the 'internet'... we're talking Nobel prize."

18 posted on 05/28/2008 1:09:43 PM PDT by evets (beer)
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To: Liberty Valance

Ah, those were heady days on FR! (Have an extra large version of that in my garage :)


19 posted on 05/28/2008 3:57:31 PM PDT by Libertina
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To: icwhatudo

Bookmark


20 posted on 05/28/2008 5:29:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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