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Wednesday, September 24, 2003

You know it is really open season when you hear the GOPblastfax smears repeated on NPR. 

  

Just heard Mara Liasson, that wingnut tool, repeating two of the media-created lies about Clark today: the “war vote flip-flop” and the “think tank urging him to link 9/11 to Iraq.”

 

Gee, I wonder… if she had repeated the “WWIII in Kosovo” blarney as well would she have hit the “trifecta”?

 

Or has that word been expunged from the media’s talking points vocabulary?

 

It seems the Bush strategy for Clark is the same as it was for Gore: manipulate or fabricate “quotes” (love canal, love story, earth tones etc) and when the candidate denies the false quote, accuse them of “flip-flopping” and “reinventing” themselves.

 

Remember the GOP campaign plan: if you can’t beat the message, destroy the messenger.


10:39:25 PM    

What to my wondering eyes did appear… but an imbecile spouting stuff that should come out of his rear:

 

Bush said he insulates himself from the "opinions" that seep into news coverage by getting his news from his own aides. He said he scans headlines, but rarely reads news stories.

 

“I appreciate people's opinions, but I'm more interested in news," the president said. "And the best way to get the news is from objective sources, and the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world."

 

A co-worker’s response?

 

Oh. My. Gosh.

 

My response?

 

I guess that explains how you “objectively” end up pissing off the entire rest of the world…

 

Geez, the last world power to be so “adroitly” guided in world affairs was Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II.

 

Hmmm… wait a GD minute!

 

Historians are divided on whether such a mental incapacity may have contributed to his frequently aggressive, tactless, headstrong and occasionally bullying approach to problems and people, which was evident in both his personal and political lives.…

 

His rule was noted for his militaristic push to assert [his nation’s] power.

 

Despite his attitude it is difficult to say that he sought [fill in the blank war], although he did little to halt it. He had allied with [out of control partners] and encouraged their hard-line in the [the powderkeg of the world], and although he lost his nerve at the last minute it was too late, and he soon recovered to push his generals for great achievements. During the war he was Commander in Chief but he soon lost all control of [national] policy and his popularity plunged.

 

Check out these other coincidences:

 

Hmmm: spoiled, petty, and vindictive; Check

 

likes to play dress-up in military costumes;  Check

 

“inherited” power; Check

 

had problems living up to the expectations and accomplishments of his father; Check

 

and, managed to bog down the finest military machine of the time in a debilitating war through arrogant, unilateral, militaristic actions that alienated allies and convinced most of the rest of the world that his regime posed a grave threat to the international norms of the time. Double Check

 

No doubt about it, we’re being led by Kaiser Dubya, Jr!

 

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9:42:26 PM    

Ahhnuld: one trick pony who didn’t have enough one-liners to make up for the lack of gray matter.

 

McClintock: Best quality, he’s a man of his word; worst quality, he’s a man of his word.

 

Camejo: Mr. Peabody in search of his boy Sherman…

 

Moderator: “fair and balanced” from the Fox network school of reporting… actually called Ahhnuld “governor Schwarzenegger”?!?

 

Arianna: brightest person there – too bright in fact; she wanted to address the big picture when the format was designed to focus on “little picture” questions – not unimportant questions, just questions that focus on the symptoms rather than the causes.

 

Bustamante: Seemingly the only adult on the stage, he’ll be laughing all way to the governor’s mansion while Ahhnuld and Arianna get the headlines.


9:08:32 PM    

It is long past time to bury the “popularity” canard.


9:00:22 PM    



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