[Lancey Howard]

First, I agree that haranguing reporters is a loser. Totally counterproductive.

Second, it still looks like Stevenson was a willing, panting, tail-wagging lapdog when the DNC fed up these "outraged" 9/11 family members. He couldn't see that this was a DNC-orchestrated quick-response effort, primed and ready to spring at the first Bush TV ad? C'mon.... Nothing could have been more obvious.

A good reporter would have been on this like stink on poop trying to find out how the Democrats dug up these people, how much they were paid and/or promised, what their connection was to the Democrat party, and how they were so quickly lined up for TV, radio, and newspaper interviews all over the nation. A good reporter would have smelled a rat a mile away.

This was a masterpiece of political gamesmanship by the Democrats, no question, but it only worked because of the willing complicity of the liberal newrooms. In none of the stories and in none of the TV interviews was it asked of these "outraged" family members, "Did you have any contact with the Kerry campaign or with the Democrat party or its allies prior to coming forward with these criticisms?"

[BigSkyFreeper]

He couldn't see that this was a DNC-orchestrated quick-response effort, primed and ready to spring at the first Bush TV ad? C'mon.... Nothing could have been more obvious.

You're correct. 12 hours after the release of the Bush campaign ads, there were victims being paraded on TV gabfests all day long, coached into using similar "talking points" as if they were all put into the same room and told what to say, by the DNC.