Posted on 09/21/2004 4:17:37 PM PDT by BJungNan
The hot rumor in New York political circles has Roger Stone, the longtime GOP activist, as the source for Dan Rather's dubious Texas Air National Guard "memos."
The irony would be delicious, since Rather became famous confronting President Nixon, in whose service a very young Stone became associated with political "dirty tricks."
Reached at his Florida home, Stone had no comment.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Karl Rove is just too smart for those idiots and they know it.
I believe that TX dems are behind it.
What a smokescreen and who the heck is Stone. It's just a distraction tactic.
Number one, Dan Rather hasn't even admitted they were forged yet.
Number two, Mary Mapes putting Burkett and Lockhart in contact with each other has nothing to do with who penned the docs.
Number three, if CBS could pin this on a Republican, or even suspected a Republican, don't you think they would have said so.
It's just McAuliffe trying to take some of the heat off by turning the conversation off the Mapes, Lockhart connection.
They won't!
What a bunch of mushroom feed. Yeah, a wacko idiot in Texas gets forged documents from a GOP operative in New York? Oh, what the hell am I saying? They still believe that Kerry has a plan.
And Buckhead was a fan of Roger Maris in his youth and owns a Rolling Stones LP! It's a conspiracy!
Wonderful. The Democrats have completely eschewed the principle of Occam's Razor. ...and now they're about to slice off their own nose with said Razor...just to spite their face.
*whistle* That's some "strategery" they got there...
Roger Stone was Sharpton's campaign manager.
I see McAuliffe is also saying this. Whatever - it only keeps the story going and drowning out Kerry from getting any message out. (In fact, it is so obvious that you have to wonder whether this is all intentional to have Kerry lose and make way for Hillary - look at all the visible Kerry players seen recently regarding RatherGate: Lockhart, McAuliffe, Wolfson, ... all Clinton people).
I hope they take the bait then.
I don't know about you, but I think this is great fun!
Say what? Is there more than one Roger Stone?!
Sep 21, 2004
Washington, D.C. - In response to false Republican accusations regarding the CBS documents, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe issued this statement:
In today?s New York Post, Roger Stone, who became associated with political 'dirty tricks' while working for Nixon, refused to deny that he was the source the CBS documents.
"Will Ed Gillespie or the White House admit today what they know about Mr. Stone?s relationship with these forged documents? Will they unequivocally rule out Mr. Stone?s involvement? Or for that matter, others with a known history of dirty tricks, such as Karl Rove or Ralph Reed?"
Which is substantiated by ..what? A "no comment" from Stone? The fact that he decided not to take the call of some duffus journalist who was trying to pin something on the GOP, is prima-facia evidence of complicity in a forgery?
This "hot rumor", first started by the chairman of the DNC, which is still totally unsubstantiated, deserves reporting as if it had any basis in fact at all?
This is journalism?! Why are some many in the lame-steam-press trying to get in on the Rather-action? It's as if they're howling "Hey..I'm as good as Dan! I'm Rather-biased too .. look at ME.. look at my story!".
Idiots.
SFS
Oh my, could the "tooth fairy" be a Republican operative too?
And in another well thought out political move, Terry McAuliffe LEAPED on this little item as 'unimpeachable' evidence that this is another Pubby dirty trick.
McAuliffe for DNC chair for life.
It was KARL ROVE wearing a Roger Stone mask!!!
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