I haven't read the article yet but he was on John McEnroe's TV show the other night and said he voted for Bush when asked. The audience booed for the most part.
Newsweek is supposed to spill the beans about the real Kerry campaign. From the excerpts I have read it is too bad they didn't print all of this before the election! The MSM did not do it's job, and they know it.
Good read
Good article, thanks for posting it.
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Frank Luntz on Hannity and other shows the night of was all about how the RATS were ahead and winning. He made me and others sick talking about Ohio.
He is no Republican. He is a bandwagon self-promoter who deserves to be run out of TV on a rail. If it wasn't obvious I can't stand the huckster, let me point out that there is no question who the left goes to when they want someone to discuss Republican poll numbers--Mr. Negative, Frank Luntz, chief GOP rat-puffer.
"Some will claim that Mr. Bush won on Tuesday because he waged a campaign of fear. The exact opposite was the case. Americans turned to him precisely because they saw him as the antidote to that fear."
Amen.
"True, the swift boat veterans never fully convinced voters that Mr. Kerry "betrayed" his country in wartime, but they did raise nagging and unresolved doubts about Mr. Kerry's character and judgment at the very moment that voters had begun to make up their minds. "
Labor day is when minds start to get made up. And the vets knew when to hit.
Also,Luntz accuratly says that you just can't be a party that says 'No'. This will help when the SS battle approaches soon. Bush gives a couple PC's on it like today and the Dems will have to worry about 2006 loses.
Reading this article should remind everyone of the vicious personal attacks leveled against the President for the last 18 months and the unrelenting criticism of the last four years. Undermining the President's credibility during a time of war, undermines the war effort itself. The endless condemnation of the President by the voices of hatred from liberal-land, probably cost Bush at least 5% in the final outcome of the election results. Bottomline. The President deserves a metal for having the thickest skin of any politico around today.
I think Kerry lost when he told everyone that certain leaders in the world would prefer him to Bush and then in the debate his remark about the "global test".
Of course thats just a couple of samples. The cumulative effect was devastating to his campaign.
Bush is the anti-Clinton....nuff said.
Kerry's recitation of his "plan" sounded like a bored waiter at a snobby French restaurant reading off the day's specials.
It's a good piece, but it ignores the fact that values were a huge part of this election. Given Luntz's prochoice beliefs, I think we know why.
They're all a bunch of chicken-shit bastards if you ask me. Perhaps I shouldn't concern myself with John Swinton's statement:
""There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print.
I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty four hours my occupation would be gone.
The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press?
We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
Dan Rather/Ted Koppel, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw know it.
What can I say?
In 1917, Congressman Oscar Callaway inserted the following statement in the Congressional Record:
"In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interests, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press of the United States.
These 12 men worked the problem out by selecting 179 newspapers and then began, by an elimination process, to retain only those necessary for the purpose of controlling the general policy of the daily press throughout the country. They found that it was only necessary to purchase control of 25 of the greatest papers. The 25 papers were agreed upon; emissaries were sent to purchase the policy, national and international, of these papers; an agreement was reached; the policy of these papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers...
This policy also included the suppression of everything in opposition to the wishes of the interests being served." Feb 9, 1917, vol 54, pp.2947-48