Posted on 09/09/2004 12:06:40 AM PDT by Utah Girl
The first sentence; a complete and utter lie.
Yep. I've been reading this tripe from various sources all day. We MUST fight for corrections and clarifications -- and not on page C-16.
I have contacted Drudge, on the off-chance that he might be interested in this kind of thing. Also advised 60 Minutes (HaHaHa).
FWIW, they were giving a completely different spin on this nonsense on the KABC radio hourly newscast. They referred to Barnes as a Democrat donor, and said that there were documents showing that Bush was suspended from flying, but it didn't matter because he had been approved to do duty at a non-flying unit.
The smear won't work if the MSM isn't working off the same playsheet.
Want to know why the RATs had no bounce, and the GOP a big one?
Simple - the media.
Prior to the formal RAT convention, the Socialist media had been conducting a continous convention on their behalf. No bounce, because the public wasn't exposed to anything new.
Prior to the GOP convention, the Socialist media filtered and blocked the GOP message. A huge bounce resulted when the GOP was able to speak directly to the public for almost the first time.
Moral of the story?
Bush needs to pierce the Socialist media blockade by making and leading the news - meeting with Putin, going to Florida, announcing new initiatives, etc.
I'd like to see how they come up with that.
Yep. Unfortunately, the MO seems to be to put smears out about President Bush (this National Guard smear, and Susan Estrich with the acoholic nonsense.) It gets in the voter's minds, and then the MSM can repent at their leisure. It is despicable.
Thanks! And I hope all is going better for you.
Especially from 'memos' coming from a dead man. How convenient.
FROM a dead man QUOTING other dead men.
This whole 'national guard' thing has worked so well for john kerry and the dems in the past, it's no wonder they're trying it yet again!
Seriously, people know bush by now. They know how he reacts to threats to our national security. He's been given a challenge to our country that's unrivaled in the past 60 years and performed how a commander in chief is expected to perform.
What the kerryites don't get is why the swiftvets were so effective- john kerry was an unknown coming into this election. He attempted to define himself based on his experience in vietnam 35 years ago, and found that rug pulled out from under him. The swift vets were devasting because he had nothing else to stand on.
The libs and the press will huff and puff and think this is going to blow down the bush white house. But it's pointless because people have already formed their impression of bush, for better or for worse. They're going to see this and say "so what". And they're going to be thinking that this makes the kerry campaign look even more pathetic.
The problem was the good guys wanted out because they were offered $50,000 - $150,000 bonuses to get out.
The idiots didn't want to get out because they knew they couldn't make it in the real world so I always wrote that the Gov't has spent XXX thousands training this person and we can't afford to lose him ect.. It never worked but I tried to make my point.
If Bush was a slug this commander wouldn't have tried to keep him !
You are ABSOLUTELY correct on this.
Where did CBS get these memos? I assume there would be hundreds of other memos by Bush's commanding officer, from the same source of a similar nature on other pilots also available.
The White House did NOT release these memos.
And I don't remember them vouching for them. I saw the interview.
They didn't say.
Thanks for the great research that you, and others, are doing here. It's going to make a real-world difference.
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