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RSchewe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:01 AM
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The media got the memo, associate the Dems with the Culture of Corruption.
Edited on Wed Nov-30-05 12:08 AM by RSchewe
The New York Times
via Talking Points Memo

(snip)

Though some Republican officials said Democrats in Congress were equally guilty of questionable behavior, including lobbyist-paid trips and underreporting of campaign contributions, they acknowledged that Republicans, because they control the White House and Congress, are being held to a higher standard by many voters. They also expressed shock and embarrassment at the extent of Mr. Cunningham's wrongdoing, which the president described on Tuesday as "outrageous."

more...

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007136.php


TPMCafe || The Dorgan Smear

There will be a lot of elephant dust being kicked up to obscure the one-party corruption machine revealed by the Abramoff investigation. A good example of it is this ABC story, unfortunately picked up on the DailyKos, implying that Senator Byron Dorgan is somehow caught up in the Abramoff mess

more...

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/11/29/162345/98


Josh Marshall has been posting about it all day. The media never ceases to amaze me. It should be no surprise though that the war machine parent company of Hardball, GE, has put Tweety on notice to quash the avalanche of Republican problems. Even the newspapers are in line too.

Dems have been on the attack with this for a while now plastering the phrase Culture of Corruption all over the Republican party since before the Delay indictment. Now the Republicans have pulled there levers and put their news ducks in a row and are trying to attack Democrats for what Republicans are obviously the focus of in these investigations, indictments, and in the Dukestir's case now pleading guilty. The machine is running on all cylinders now.
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:07 AM
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1. If the Dems weren't so good, the Repubs wouldn't look so bad by comparison
:evilgrin:
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:12 AM
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2. Hi's and hugs to you, Straight Shooter! Truth be told, you're right! nt
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:26 AM
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8. I appreciate that, sis.
:hug:
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:14 AM
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3. This past week or earlier this week
Clinton was speaking in Texas for something and it was on the Book channel (it's on canofun.com/blog) and he was talking about all of the attacking and he said that Gingrich said that they attacked him so much because he was so good and if they didn't attack him he would win all the time.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:17 AM
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7. That was from the Austin Boox Fair, I think
He was so good. I miss him.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:15 AM
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4. Same old boring playbook
Edited on Wed Nov-30-05 12:16 AM by Patsy Stone
Project your faults on others. Scream it loudly and point it out to anyone who will listen. Watch for the line of Dems with a suddenly questionable character.

The Godfather anyone?

MICHAEL

Tom, wait a minute. I'm talking about a cop -- that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about ah - ah - a dishonest cop -- a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him.

That's a terrific story. And we have newspaper people on the payroll, don't we, Tom?

(Hagen nods in the affirmative)

And they might like a story like that.

HAGEN

They might, they just might...
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Mass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:16 AM
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5. Not surprising coming from the MSM ... The sad part is that ...
kos believes everything the MSM says. This is so helpful.
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agincourt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:17 AM
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6. It's always the same,
Either Republicans can to no wrong according to the pig-boy media, or they fanny spank conservatives a little, like tweety. They criticize just enough to not look like suckling pigs,to not be a Rush-clone, and then when the time is right, they full court press for the RNC.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:36 AM
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9. "Republicans...are being held to a higher standard by many voters"
:rofl: :rofl:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


"they acknowledged that Republicans, because they control the White House and Congress, are being held to a higher standard by many voters."

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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:41 AM
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10. honesty and integrity are a higher standard? than WHAT, just as a
matter of curiousity.
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Wordie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 12:53 AM
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11. It might just have something to do with GWB's "restoring integrity"
theme, which helped a lot of the Republicans in Congress to win seats, too. If you win an election or two on that theme, then yeah, the voters just may hold you to that very standard!!! Surprise! LOL
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thefloyd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-30-05 01:20 AM
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12. MSM Parrots again
Rush compiled list of corrupt democrats and Republicans. Surely you can
guess which side had more. Democrats must speak about Conservatives riding into town with Bible in one hand and paddle in another. Hypocrites. Bottom line.
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