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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:20 PM
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Who the HELL is ABC's Marc Ambinder? Why is he shilling for Swiftliars?
Edited on Wed Aug-11-04 12:53 PM by buycitgo
did you read his GUSHING review of that piece of treason in "The Goat" I mean NOTE, ABCs paean to snarky, trash journalism?

snip, which will make you proJECTile vomit:

The book is clear, crisply-written, occasionally compelling, and full of polarizing firepower. It's rather short, padded with long excerpts from Kerry speeches, interviews with Swift Boat veterans, and other books.

Regnery employed its usual brilliant pre-publication marketing strategy — leak selective excerpts and copies to sympathetic reporters and use Drudge to hammer it home. Human Events, the venerable and respected conservative weekly, has been the leader in Swift Boat coverage, and deserves credit for it own deft publicity.

So it might sell a lot of copies. If you're inclined to think John Kerry is brash, self-possessed and occasionally immature (i.e., the Kerry campaign staff demographic), this book will confirm your suspicions. If you're a partisan, you'll have your perceptions reconfirmed, whether you love Kerry and think he's a hero or hate him and think he's a fraud.

If you don't know about him at all, there's a good chance you'll be at least partially swayed to the view expressed by the book's title. And therein lies the danger for the Kerry campaign, even if most of the charges in the book are thinly documented and tinged with animus.

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/TheNote/TheNote.html

thinly documented.......you mean PATENTLY FALSE?
Human Events: VERNERATED? RESPECTED? what planet, pal? what planet did you just drop in from?

thanks, you PRICK! not ONE word about the freeper author, or their CLOSE ties to the pug smear campaign

not one WORD!
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:22 PM
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1. what a surprise
one of the Dean assassins

"Marc Ambinder is a field producer with the political unit based in D.C. He was formerly the off-air reporter for the presidential campaign of former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean. He is a graduate of Harvard College, where he served as associate managing editor of the Harvard Crimson. He is a co-founder, co-writer and co-editor of ABC News' The Note."
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:25 PM
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2. this is what passes for journalism from this SHITstick
from another human POS, Timothy Noah:

"He has prior obligations he can't break."
—Jano Cabrera, spokesman for Al Gore, explaining to Will Lester of the Associated Press why Gore would not be attending a Democratic Leadership Council meeting at the New York Hilton, which drew most of the other likely candidates for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. The AP article was published on July 22.

"esterday, right about when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was wowing the DLC audience with an impassioned riff against GOP charges that the Clinton/Gore years were an 'economic binge' period, the Note has learned that Gore was down the street having lunch at the Regency Hotel."
—Mark Halperin, Elizabeth Wilner, and Mark Ambinder, in the July 30 installment of "The Note," ABC.com's daily political tipsheet. The distance from the Regency to the Hilton, "The Note" observed, is 0.8 miles.


Now THAT's some hard hitting, relevant newsmaking, isn't it?

wonder what sorts of things they've done in a similar vein about the fascist party......
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lancdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:29 PM
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3. That's really bad
Edited on Wed Aug-11-04 12:32 PM by lancdem
Nothing about Corsi, or about how a reputable historian like Douglas Brinkley calls the book nothing more than a smear.
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:33 PM
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5. that's why I put it up
this is EXACTLY why Kerry had better start worrying

THIS is the attitude the media have about him:

ANY old charge will STICK until it's disproven, and even then, it's too late, as the charge has been spread like wildfire by the very outlets that, later on say, OOPS, that wasn't true. but after repeating the charges over and over and over for days on end, if he's LUCKY, like Sandy Berger was NOT, you MIGHT here some sort of retraction.

Sandy Berger?

who's HE?
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incapsulated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:31 PM
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4. "tinged with animus.."
ya think?

Just when shit can't get any more infuriating... it does. :grr:
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buycitgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:35 PM
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6. boy did you strike a nerve with that
almost EVERY single day they do or say something that makes me think it's IMPOSSIBLE to sink any lower, but every time I find myself thinking that, they TOP it

I remember saying that when I called WLS during the TWO THOUSAND campaign, and it's been four more YEARS of the exact same thing

please, lord, PLEASE let it end in three months!
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Jim Sagle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-11-04 12:40 PM
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7. Media to Dems: "Hey Democrats, you suck!"
:mad:
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