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Did Obama Plant Bogus Dowd Column to Victimize Himself?
Townhall.com ^ | July 17, 2008 | Peter J. Wirs

Posted on 07/17/2008 6:24:48 AM PDT by libstripper

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To: devolve

[I originally thought it was hers several weeks ago ]

I had no idea it had been ‘out’ that long, just saw it yesterday. But then I’m doing other things and miss stuff.


41 posted on 07/17/2008 10:55:37 AM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: PGalt; devolve

[LOL! Thanks for the reminder! ]

Ya...sometimes it takes reminding, lol.

Enjoyed your witty comments a lot PGalt!! My comments often happen in the same manner [extemporaneous], just not as witty as yours.


42 posted on 07/17/2008 11:00:04 AM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: potlatch

‘girie’ = girlie
But sometimes they’re girie.......


43 posted on 07/17/2008 11:02:35 AM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: potlatch; PGalt; Grampa Dave; PhilDragoo; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP


Catherine Zeta Jonesthe early years

44 posted on 07/17/2008 11:07:19 AM PDT by devolve (- "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: devolve

Lol, my first laugh of the day - - - but I slept really late!

My new 22 inch monitor has scroll room. Woodstock needs to make shorter trips!


45 posted on 07/17/2008 11:13:15 AM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: libstripper

Funny, if you go to gawker.com you can find this piece that supposedly was posted on May 08 2008:

“Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd sat down with the kids at the Harvard Political Review and discussed the important issue of “real news” verus “fake news.” The debate has raged for years now, and it pits the network evening news against Comedy Central, basically. The New York Times counts as “real news,” even though they publish Dowd’s column. Dowd, obv, is unworried about this pretend news crisis. Because, she would like to remind you, she invented it! Sort of.

“When I first started my columns,” Dowd explains, “Michael Kinsley and Bill Safire said to me, ‘You have to stop doing humor columns because you’ll be seen as too girly.’ And I said I would never take humor out of politics.” Thank god she didn’t listen to those buzzkills and stop doing funny columns! Think of how many tortured Sex & the City references and cutesy nicknames we were almost denied!

Perhaps Kinsley and Safire meant “You should stop doing humor columns because you don’t do it as well as Molly Ivins,” but they were too gentlemanly to spell it out?

Dowd isn’t worried about the rise of “blogs” either because she doesn’t know how to turn her iPod on. So she probably doesn’t even know the terrible things some of us have been saying about her for years now.

Anyway we can’t wait to see what new way she comes up with of calling Barack Obama a fag tomorrow.”


46 posted on 07/17/2008 11:22:23 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: devolve

ROFL! (She was a cutie then, also)


47 posted on 07/17/2008 11:24:28 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Old Professer

http://gawker.com/387740/maureen-dowd-unconcerned-about-fake-news


48 posted on 07/17/2008 11:25:10 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: JohnnyP
I think Hewitt's point was that the birth certificate could be a similar bait and switch tactic by the Obama campaign. Let everyone get all hot and bothered at what looks like a bogus cert (which may have been intentionally altered, then sent to Kos, for that purpose), and then produce a bona fide cert that says the same thing as the bogus one, declaring everyone who doubted the first cert a "right-wing" conspiracist. Case closed, media agrees. No more questions allowed.

The biggest problem with these tactics is that they may be pre-emptive cover-ups. As the author of this article says,

"Should a legitimate Republican entity make such allegations about Obama’s campaign finance misconduct, the Obama people can readily dismiss the attacks as the GOP following the rants of a conservative blogger. In most instances, the "mainstream" media will be disinclined to follow such a story because Obama has already stigmatized it as the product of a right-wing fringe conspiracy....If this is what Obama means by "hope" and "change" then I’m terrified about the future of this campaign."

And, of course, McCain won't touch it with a ten-foot pole. 


49 posted on 07/17/2008 11:57:15 AM PDT by browardchad
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To: potlatch

.

Color must be great on the monitor
The 980x735 width is to little or too much much now?

Needs to be 1024x768 maybe?

Lucy was one of the first of the Peanuts Gang we animated


50 posted on 07/17/2008 12:02:39 PM PDT by devolve (- "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: devolve

[Color must be great on the monitor]

It’s so big and bright it blinds me now, lol. Color is beautiful but all the ‘whiteness’ is WHITE!!

A bit ago I had scroll room on the Woodstock gif, now I don’t!! Don’t know the reason.

Installed the new monitor and the resolution is supposed to be 1680 X 1050, but it’s still set to 1024 x 768! So, rounds become a bit oval, lol.

In other words, I have a new large monitor but the settings are still for the 19 inch old one. At least it will be easier to work on my gifs now.


51 posted on 07/17/2008 12:11:52 PM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: potlatch

Set at 980x768 may give you the best quality images and views of combo internet webpages

Have you tried viewing some webpages yet at Amazon, etc.?

1680x1050 may be a higher density of pixels - I dunno


52 posted on 07/17/2008 12:18:59 PM PDT by devolve (- "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it." Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: devolve

I can’t set it even lower devolve, rounds would become ovals. At 1024 they are a bit flattened.

Actually I ‘think’ I was supposed to uninstall settings for the old monitor first, but I was afraid to do that as ‘what would I be seeing’ in order to install the new monitor? Not enough directions and when I put the installation CD in it doesn’t do anything.

Yes, this is Greek I know. I need a computer Geek to tell me.


53 posted on 07/17/2008 12:26:17 PM PDT by potlatch (MICHELLE OBAMA - The gift that just keeps on giving....!)
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To: SERKIT

I just might do that. I loved “Primary Colors”.


54 posted on 07/17/2008 5:58:08 PM PDT by no dems (99% of the Politicians give all the others a bad name.)
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To: Grampa Dave
Aloha Dave!

Obama is getting beau coups bucks from legions of small donors.....under the radar of the Campaign Financing oversight.

Isn't this the M.O. of Chicago community organizer? Bundlers pass out chump change to Obama supporters, $20 or $30 or $40, and tell them to send some or all to Obama's campaign. Names don't matter, addresses neither. A racket the real Mayor Richard Daley would be proud of.

The article was fake, the racket's the real deal.
55 posted on 07/17/2008 7:40:31 PM PDT by BIGLOOK (Keelhaul Congress! It's the sensible solution to restore Command to the People.)
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To: libstripper; FARS; SunkenCiv
Look out for references to this alleged Dowd column. It IS A FAKE. When I first saw it referred to here on FR I went to the June 29 issue of the NYT and looked up the rela column, which doesn't contain any such references.

I couldn't find it either when it first appeared, meant to point that out to you FARS and Civ and forgot, sorry.

56 posted on 07/17/2008 8:43:24 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: potlatch

I saw that link, and told folks that it was to her site.

Nothing of value was there.

Good to “see” you!


57 posted on 07/17/2008 11:57:47 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Between Barack and a hard place...)
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To: libstripper

Apparently there was also a fake Thomas Sowell column that claimed Obama was not an American citizen. It seems unlikely that Obama would plant multiple fake columns against himself as this could obviously backfire.


58 posted on 07/18/2008 12:14:19 AM PDT by wideminded
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To: potlatch; devolve; PGalt; libstripper

Check out “Barack the Magic Negro” on YouTube.
By Paul Shanklin and made for Rush Limbaugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXz2xaLNMQ

Sung by Al Sharpton using his “No justice/no peace”
bullhorn !

It’s a real hoot, too !!


59 posted on 07/18/2008 12:15:32 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Free Lazamataz! Free Lazamataz! Free Lazamataz!)
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To: potlatch

I got a reply back from the NY Slimes but all it said
was that they would pass the info to Her Heinous Maureen
Dowd, that volume of mail was heavy and I may or may not
get a reply back ...

I doubt that I’ll hear back from her, ya know??

:)


60 posted on 07/18/2008 12:21:45 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Free Lazamataz! Free Lazamataz! Free Lazamataz!)
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