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Subj: Lowest score ever recorded for a state of the union address? I saw Frank Newport from Gallup on CNN, report that the overall state of the union score was a 45. The lowest ever recorded. Lower than George senior before he was booted out (53) and lower than Clinton as he was about to be impeached (54). CNN has the video clip online but you have to subscribe to get it. I can't find anything about it online except the following quote: "If Bush and his advisers had been looking to this speech to rally American support for the president and for the war in Iraq, it failed." -- Frank Newport, editor in chief of the Gallup poll commenting on reaction to GWB’s SOTU speech last Sunday night Can you please find out more and report on it? Thank you, Todd Smyth Subj: Janklow I am surprised the old coot got 100 days, with good behavior, he will be out in his car terrorizing the Dakota roads, in oh, say...about 30 days. Ain't the judicial system grand....'specially to republicans.... Shirley............St. Louis Subj: Life's Bitter Pill Ironically, the builders of the Guantanamo prison camp may end up being it's inhabitants! Thomas
L Potter "Candidates Rap Bush As N.H. Primary Looms" This is the funniest line I've heard in a long time.
Yeah, they're real scared of you Joe. That's why they never even mention your name. Barbara in NYC Subj: Dean's last Iowa pep-rally speech. Dear Buzz, Some think Howard Dean should have given more of a gracious concession speech, but I don't agree. Dean was not there to give a "concession" speech because the election is not over.the campaign is not over. Concession speeches are given on election night by the loser of the election -- after which everyone moves on with a new administration. This was nothing of the sort. This was a bump in the road at the very beginning of the primary election season. There are many primaries and many votes to go before there is any call for concession speeches. Howard Dean was speaking to a room filled with his supporters and workers, many of whom had traveled hundreds if not thousands of miles to work for his campaign. They had worked hard and cared deeply; some were feeling " down, but most in the room were clapping and shouting and cheering for Dean. He came out to cheer them up and demonstrate that after a bump like this, one picks one's self up, dusts one's self off and moves on to the next challenge. Dean caught their enthusiasm and returned it in kind. Those who were there said they could hardly hear him; what we saw on TV was the scene with the audience mikes turned off, but the din and roar there were stupendous. So the effect on television was that only Dean was shouting. Not so. Everyone there was shouting along with Dean's speech -- adding states, and adding thoughts. If Dean had come out and "explained" all the reasons they didn't come in first or second in Iowa, how do you think these eager, devoted workers would have felt going into the next state? They would take their cues from him. He gave them a pep talk by showing that he was upbeat and ready to fight for the next win. He is a scrapper.and that's what so many of us cherish about him. I can recall, in the early days of Dean's campaign, when the media pundits all thought Americans were not ready or willing to hear negative talk about their president "in times of peril to this nation"!! Well, Dean proved them wrong. We were not only ready and willing to hear negative talk about our president; we were thirsting to hear someone speak up and speak out about the terrible things this president was doing to our country. Soon, the other candidates began to grasp that we wanted our Democratic leaders to fight back against Bush and to stop beginning every one of their mildly critical statements of Bush with disclaimers about "how great a leader Bush has been since 9/11"! Soon, the other candidates were ratcheting up their attacks on Bush's policies and actions; they were also ratcheting up their volume -- they were following Dean's lead. So, I will ignore appraisals of Dean by media pundits eager to trash any Democratic candidate that is the front-runner. For some in the media, political campaigns are a convenient substitute for cock-fighting, which has been outlawed in America. Howard Dean was not there that final night in Iowa to give a concession speech; he was there to energize his supporters and workers, and to let them know that he was ready and primed for the next battle for votes. Once we start letting the media define our candidates and nominees for us, we're lost and the bad people win. Sincerely, Lois Erwin Hi Buzz It's the 'Media' STUPID !! Not that the economy is something to brag about. After all 1000 new jobs is a real WOW !! And how many have been disemployed in the last three years (how many Millions that is)? It's just that the 'media' is its own "SECRET SOCIETY". Give Novak a secret leak and he runs with it, but he won't mention the leaker. The leak is damn near treason but the secret society of media code is held firmly in the dank crypt of 'journalistic ethics'--Thou shalt print but not Reveal. He is not the only one to have been given the leak of Valerie Plame working for the CIA but others, at least, did not print it. Only the true red blooded hero of Journalism Novak uses the Freedom of the Press to protect thieves of freedom. How many times has Novak or any of the 'secret society of the media' mentioned anything about the attempt to wire tape foreign diplomats (to gain information to use for prewar buildup) as revealed by a British equivalent of Daniel Elsberg? She is to be tried and not a word of this nor a mention of her name by our 'secret society'. There have been many articles in Buzz referring to the lies and distortions of the gwb mob which just sails over the head of the 'secret society of the media', but give them one chance to attack a Democratic Dean and it is like the 'Society' just pulled in the shallow journalistic Hail Mary of the year. A media gotcha Frenzy follows, feeding on plankton, while the whale continues to distort and lie in his SOTU without comment. Not one troop is going to get Maimed or Die in Iraq because of the Iowa Caucus. Not one troop who was Maimed or Died in Iraq in gwb's illegal Invasion promoted by lies was even mentioned in the SOTU. They come into Dover under cover of secrecy. They come into Walter Reed under cover of secrecy. The 'Secret Society' of the media has curled up with the gwb mob in the tomb, pulling blank pages up over them to cover their naked writings. If 'Secrecy' wins then Democracy looses. Best Cole... Why is it that not supporting this pResident and questioning his policies makes you a BushHater and an unpatriotic American yet it was ok for all those Repuglicans to hate Bill Clinton and try to run him into the ground every opportunity they got? If I hear one more Repug tell me it's my duty as an American to support the current Administration and not question anything they say or do I swear I'm going to strangle them..... The hypocrisy blows my mind. Sue S. Subj: Caving to the Right Wing When are we - WE - the people going to stop the Republicans and the extreme right wing from finally taking over our country? With the "redistricting" and other semi-illegal acts, the country is being run by right wing Republicans, and WE are letting it happen. WE, as the majority, are sitting by while the country is being taken over from within. WE let the theft of the election happen. WE are letting the Republicans tell us who and what we want for the candidates who will run against Bush. WE let them describe Dean's finest moment as insanity, as the angry of an unstable man. Damn! What will it take? When WE wake up and the country is totally run by Republicans and there are no Dems in any office, won't it be too late? WE are nearly there. While we opt to stay home because it's too cold or too wet or too snowy or too warm or we're too overworked or not worked at all, or we have to take care of the kids, and we can't go vote - WE are letting them take over. The majority of the voters in this country - and there are very few registered voters, which in itself is disgusting - voted for Al Gore last time. With a measly CONTESTED 537 votes in Florida, Bush's machine took over the country. Now they are trying to take over the world. As Lex Luthor in disguise, our top government officials are out to rule the world, one country at a time, with unprovoked attacks that are solely designed to keep the sheep-like inhabitants of our country fooled into thinking we need them to run the war machine. Cheney is the real president. If not, why is he kept out of sight most of the time? Why was HE whisked away immediately after Sept. 11, and kept in secret hidey holes for months? Why is HE the one who gets away with illegal and unethical activities in Iraq and in the Halliburton and other scandals? Little George is NOT swift enough to even be allowed to speak to the press without his "handlers" (makes on think of dangerous snakes, eh?) and yet people applaud madly when he presents a speech someone else wrote, which he has practiced for weeks, and which, if questioned, he could not explain. What is this phenomenon? Why is it WE are letting our country simply be taken over? Was Khrushchev right when he said the country would be destroyed without the enemy ever having fired a shot? It's happening, folks, all around us. One at a time, we're powerless. Together, we're the most powerful force on earth. But WE can't let them tell us what to say, how to debate, what to wear, how to think. For the most part, Dems and Liberals are smarter, funnier, better educated, and are generally better people than THEY are. So why do WE allow THEM to do this to us? You want to make a difference? Write lots of letters to the editors of your local paper, and make the public face the truth. Write letters to the editors of large magazines and newspapers. Tell it like it really is. Show the public that Emperor George, Little George, Chicken Little, has no clothes. Writing to each other, here on BuzzFlash and elsewhere, isn't doing anyone any good. WE need to do more. Speak up. Speak out. Be more like Carville, Moore, et al. I have been and continue to do so. You all should too. And you should contact everyone who thinks like you and have THEM become active too. WE have a few more months to save our land and our way of life. If WE don't, WE will lose it forever, and it will be OUR fault. And VOTE! And register everyone you know. And take everyone you know to the polls to vote. Make the election so overwhelming there CAN'T be another sham like the last one. Do it. For WE the people. Do it for yourself. Do it. Be like Buzz. Create a stir. Make waves. Make people dislike you. Make people accuse you of being a little unstable like Howard Dean. But make a noise. Don't sit meekly by and wait to inherit the earth. You won't know what to do with it even if you do. Thanks for reading this and PLEASE! Do something! From the bottom of my heart, Hattie Falin Subject: Response to Joe's letter in the January 22nd Mailbag: Dear Joe: Yes, it was priceless to see the Democratic protest from the other side of the aisle at the SOTU address. Bush was so undone, he turned his body away so he wouldn't have to look at Sen. Ted Kennedy's look of disgust, or Rep. Maxine Waters' equally disgusted look because they couldn't stomach all the lies. Maxine Waters looked like if she had a brick, she would have thrown it at GeeDubya. I watched this on C-Span and the cameras caught everything, even a priceless shot of Laura Bush, who wore a pained expression the entire duration of the speech, and a forced smile at the end, as if someone nudged her and told her to put on the Stepford Wives' smile she always wears, otherwise the public would find out she wasn't supporting her husband or was proud of his accomplishments (who can be proud of a loved one's lying to start a war, and the killing of more than 4000 innocent people {the 3000 who died on 9/11, as well as the 500+ troops in Iraq; the loss of 3 million jobs from the economy and complete polarization of our country he professes to love?}). However, in that brief moment, the camera caught her looking as if she was sitting in a courtroom, watching Perry Mason expose her husband's lies and is just waiting for the verdict! Her look said "If I KNOW he's lying, why can't the American people see that he's lying? I didn't sign on for THIS..." It was a MasterCard moment: PRICELESS. Leutisha - Loyal BuzzFlash Reader, and an Angry but Proud Liberal Re: Republican Party Chairman Ed Gillespie on Activist Groups `Soft Money' in Republicans try to cut off 'soft money' to activist groups, by Jim Drinkard; 1/21 USA Today Dear Buzz: In his 1/21 USA TODAY article Republicans try to cut off 'soft money' to activist groups, Jim Drinkard's report of Republican Party Chairman Ed Gillespie
regarding `soft money' contributions goes beyond the pot calling the kettle black. Skirting the law is habitual with Repugnicans! Regards, William
Wilgus Sent to: 'oreilly@foxnews.com' <oreilly@foxnews.com>: Dear Mr. O'Reilly, We're still waiting for your apology... or are you waiting to see if we'll find WMDs on Mars? Judith Subj: Rush on Drug addicts VS Rush's Attorney on Rush "What this says to me is that too many whites are getting away with drug use. Too many whites are getting away with drug sales. Too many whites are getting away with trafficking in this stuff. The answer to this disparity is not to start letting people out of jail because we're not putting others in jail who are breaking the law. The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too." http://www.fair.org/extra/0311/limbaugh-drugs.html "I believe this proposal would be in keeping with the public interest. The public is better served by treating addicts as patients rather than criminals." No comment necessary Roger Subj: Bush Admits His True Feelings In a speech today, Bush inadvertently spilled his true gut feelings when he basically said "Retired people are useless". This might help explain a lot. I would love to hear the media play this one over and over like they did the Dean pep rally speech. Jack Pryor Subj: Is this Bush's plan for Iraqi Freedom? After reading that 16,000 Iraqis have been killed since the start of the war, I was horrified! Over 500 soldiers dead is horribly devastating! But 16,000 Iraqis ~ that's a whole race! Is this Bush's plan for Iraqi Freedom? Is it his thinking that the Iraqis are better off dead than under Saddam's regime? How is he any better than Saddam, or Hitler for that matter? Good luck to this man on judgement day! I hope our prayers our strong enough to end this war. Judy Subj: Howard Dean's Slip Dear Buzz, Hopefully Dems and Dem wannabe's will soon realize that Howard is human. He's the same guy he was before the Iowa caucus - so voters, why are you SO fickle? Are you allowing the media manipulate you? Again? Too bad MoveOn.org identified the Dem frontrunner so early on (their election you know...the Repub's did not have to do a thing...the name was handed to them). Pamela of the Poconos Subj: Alice's Restaurant The answer to the dark riddle, "What is wrong with these people?" (re Wars 'useful', says US army chief") is: Not all who enlist equate bloodshed with patriotism. But the people who find wars "useful" like to kill and see killing. After all, a society that fails to provide employment for its sociopaths, like evolution, is not an equal opportunity employer. Sincerely, Suzanne Gorenfeld I'm supporting Howard Dean because the Bush controlled news media has singled him out for bad press coverage. This convinces me that Dean is the man that Bush and the right wing press are most afraid of. And with good reason to. Although any of the Democrats are better than Bush - Dean is someone who gets it when it comes to the war in Iraq being a fraud and he doesn't have the burden of having voted for Bush's fake war. Marc Perkel Why isn't BuzzFlash demanding that Limbaugh get the treatment he always demands for others. Jail time seems appropriate. Joseph Subj: Majority Rules January 23, 2003 About 5:45 this morning I awoke to someone on TV saying, "they are trying to take God out of all communications. I feel sorry for teachers who can't mention God or anything about God because of some perverted little student. We are in the majority, they aren't and the majority always wins." It was a guy named Arnold Murray from the Shepherd's Chapel in Gravette, Ark. I have no idea how large Gravette is, but I doubt his church members are a majority of the citizens, even in Gravette. I really like the idea of ministers calling school children perverted little anythings, especially when they are in the minority and according to him should be forced to listen to anything the majority puts out. A majority of voters, voted for Al Gore, but a questionable majority of Floridians were allowed to negate that majority rule and then when it was looking bad for the governor's brother, a majority of 5 out of a possible 9 voters that only 51 guys, that I didn't vote for, put in the position of choosing the president of the Untied States and telling the majority of voters that they voted for the wrong guy. I suspect that the majority Rev. Arnold Murray was talking about is Christians and he disagrees with the Christianity of a great many of those and if you do a search on the Internet you will find that a great many Christians don't want him in their group. A guy here in Oklahoma wrote in the newspaper that you can't be Christian and vote democrat. If in order to prove my Christianity I have to vote for guys who want to give a lot of money to people who don't need it. Guys who say they are helping out aliens, but in reality are making it possible for the obscenely wealthy to recruit foreign laborers at wages you couldn't support a basset hound on in Mississippi. Guys who do not think all Americans deserve health care. Guys who support the rights of drug companies to force US citizens to make up the loses they suffer from foreign countries who won't permit them to gouge their citizens. I have to vote for guys who think my gay brother should live alone and that Newt Gingrich is a fine example of marriage even though he went after Bill Clinton with a vengeance while he was doing and is still doing exactly the same thing. I am supposed to prove my Christianity by voting for George W. Bush who lied about every reason for the war in Iraq and has gotten 500 kids killed, 11,000 injured who are warehoused waiting for treatment while he is cutting the money to military hospitals. While people have to work for a minimum wage of less than $6 an hour while CEO's are committing every kind of fraud there is and I am supposed to prove my Christianity by voting for these guys. Ken Lay is still on the street and ENRON is still Bush's biggest contributor. Well no thanks Rev Murray because the majority is not always right and kids should not be forcibly taught religion in public schools. I dare say if the Unification Church were in the majority in Gravette, Arkansas the Rev. Murray would find it just what his kids need. Well if I have to do all that to prove my Christianity, then I don't care whether the GOP or anyone else thinks I am a Christian, or not. Karen Webb, Moore, Ok Subj: the nixonian diane sawyer interviewing the drs. dean please, please, please, print something about the extremely negative way diane sawyer interviewed dr. howard dean and his wife, dr. judy steinberg, on abc's "primetime" last night. her questioning was negative, biased and thoroughly inappropriate. she asked questions about their different religions and how they were raising their children (has any journalist ever asked the bushes if their daughters are born-agains like daddy?). she harangued judy with accusations about her absence from the campaign trail. she asked judy, in so many words, why she's such a plain-jane and if she wouldn't be uncomfortable getting dolled up for white house state dinners. (i mean, has anyone dubbed laura bush a fashion plate lately?) find a transcript. count the number of biased and right-skewing questions in this interview. jeez, she kept returning to that "i have a scream speech," trying to make dean angry, which she never did. i thought his explanation for that moment of exuberance was appropriate. it's the media who are making him look stupid. the same media who don't make news out of bush's "bushisms" on a daily basis. i've been a journalist for 25 years and, except for bill o'reilly, i've never heard such twaddle in my life as ms. sawyer's attack on the deans. love your website. elaine in dallas Subj: Jennings is Very Clever So, here’s the dilemma: You’re a national news anchor who really wants to keep his job, but you know that there are questions about GWB’s military record which really should be discussed. So, you phrase a question to W. Clark as though the allegations are baseless thereby reigniting the controversy and bringing it to the attention of the nation. Now, GWB may actually have to account for the missing time and other major media can no longer ignore it. Even the undisputed (preferential treatment, low aptitude scores, unearned promotion, loss of flight status) part of the record is a political embarrassment. Mission Accomplished Peter! Turk Meister Re: CIA Picks New Leader for Iraq Weapons Hunt The Bush administration is fully aware that it will be found guilty of naked aggression if WMDs are not discovered in Iraq. That was the only possible justification for the invasion. With the CIA involved in the hunt, don't be surprised if everyone hasn't heard the end of something being claimed to be found. Was it or bin Laden mention in the SOU? No. The majority of the American people can't be stupid enough to believe this is not the most dangerous regime in this country's history. They have contrived to take over this country and run it their way -- like a dictatorship. Everything this administration has done over the past three years has proven that. Becoming the servants of the rich and powerful who have been generously rewarded for their support of the most unqualified candidate for president in this nation's history with huge tax cuts, tax-free medical accounts and our tax money to help pay for their children's private schools; corporate America, which has moved the majority of their operations overseas at a cost of millions of decent jobs in this country, besides enjoying enormous tax benefits and pork handouts; the Christian Coalition, which is getting our tax dollars for so-called charity to be used for recruiting more followers, along with our tax dollars for their religious schools; the energy industry which helped enrich themselves with Cheney's approval scheming together in the sick legislation which even Repubs refused to pass in the Senate; all of the violators who pollute the nation's land, water and air, by putting the environmental laws in limbo; and all the other illegal, corrupt and abuse of power tactics which is aimed at satisfying the wishes of their supporters, including oil companies. Their pitiful Medicare reform bill which was another pork handout to the insurance and pharmaceutical companies which doesn't even throw a bone to the elderly, and will add several hundred billion dollars more to the national debt, which is expected to reach several trillion dollars if Bush is reelected. Let's face it, our country has been stolen from us, and we need to take it back, and fast. Their blatant refusal to listen to the American people on anything is justification alone, even if they weren't destroying the country. The irresponsible fiscal policies and blunders pulled by this administration is leading the country in the opposite direction it should be headed. Let's all join together and stop this madness. VOTE THEM OUT! A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: Rush-ing to Judgement "The public is better served by treating addicts as patients rather than criminals." CNN Qwik-Quiz!!! Who said this? Rush Limbaugh? Or his lawyer? You decide. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4037128/ Also please reference: http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hypocrisy John L. Johnson Subj: Peacemakers Never Sleep Dear Buzz, First I'd like to congratulate you on the huge increase of letters to the Mailbag. Obviously the word is getting out: BuzzFlash is the place to go for Truth, Justice and The American Way of voicing our ideas, our hopes and our dissent. Way to go Buzz! (ps: I promote you constantly and I am ridiculed for it. I can't wait till you make the big time, which will be soon!) Anyway, I'd like to address Shirley of St. Louis, if it's OK with you, Buzz: * * * Dear Shirley, I'd like to thank you for your daily letters, your passionate concern for our country, your poignant worries for your granddaughter in Iraq, and your lovely sense of humor. I feel that I know you! I hope you don't mind that I think of you as a grandmother (I don't have one) who dispenses wisdom and concern, advice and admonishment, and you do it all in a clear, pointed, and motivating manner...lastly, you are utterly charming! And I wanted to reassure you, Shirley: it's always the Peace Makers, like us, who lose sleep at night, not the war-mongers. They lose no sleep at all. But don't worry: the angels are watching over us and listening as we lie awake and worry and wonder. We Peacemakers are not alone. And when the time comes for Bush to get his big wake up call, which will come soon, he will be very surprised indeed, having slept through it all while we prepared to take back our country. So thanks, Shirley, and thanks Buzz, for bringing the voice of America into your public square....I'd be lost without you!! Power to the Peaceful, elaine in Petaluma Subj: Don't Count Him Out I personally have no problem with what happened in Iowa except that I know many other people do. Many have closed the door on Dean and will have a hard time opening it again. So it's going to be tough. He has the money to weather the storm if the media will let it go. Thank god for Ben and Jen taking the spotlight. I like Edwards and Clark and to some degree Kerry but I still have a hard time getting over the idea that they did not stand up against the war when there was still time to create pressure and stop it from happening the way that it did. I looked at Kerry's platform online for the first time the other day and it's like milk toast. Hardly the kind of tough stand that he has been talking about lately. On the other hand, he does have the best presence and demeanor to make GW look inadequate. I still like Dean best because his campaign financing is a direct assault against corrupt corporate influence in our government. I also think he is the most financially realistic and responsible of anyone who I have ever seen run for political office. I've watched very carefully at the accusations of Dean's so called flip flopping and the one overwhelming consistent pattern I see is that he wants the fewest people to be harmed while helping the most people possible. Sometimes that means changing a position because the conditions change over time. The same solution in a good economy isn't always the best solution in a recession. Dean will make these changes despite the media's obsession with them. We can only hope for some luck and that more Americans will better inform themselves about President George W. Bush. Thank you Todd Smyth Subj: Internet Surveillance And who says Bush doesn't like treaties? He does when they violate privacy rights and laws. Another powerful coalition of the shilling. This is from www.dawn.com from 1/22/04 "Bush plans to permit Internet surveillance" A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: Front runners getting "Gored" While everyone is screaming about Dean's scream, it seems to me that it is amazing how quickly we forget the lessons of the past and instead glom on to the media's mischaracterization of a leading Democrat, rather than defending him as Republicans would do if he were a fellow Republican. Gore got "Gore-d" in the 2000 debates. Next, Kerry got "Gore-d" in the beginning of the primary campaign. Next it was Edwards. Then Dean. Then Clark. Then Dean some more. People, get a grip. The second Dean is off the radar, the media will start "Gore-ing" Kerry again. And once they've torn Kerry down to size, they'll be "Gore-ing" whoever is left. Democrats have got to quit playing into the Republicans' hands by voluntarily agreeing to eat our own. In 2000, I was stunned at how few Ds came to Gore's defense in the debates. Instead, the Rs quickly mischaracterized Gore's supposed "flub" at being frustrated by Bush's repeated out and out lies, and the Ds said, "yeah, Gore did mess that up". Rs would never eat their own the way Ds do. If Bush had been rolling his eyes and sighing at Gore, rest assured the media would have been doing exactly the same thing and even commending Bush for being frustrated. This stuff has got to stop if we want to win in November folks. It's simply got to stop and we have to quit buying the Rs deliberate mischaracterizations of whoever our front-runner is, whether it's Dean, Kerry, Edwards, Clark or anyone else. Stop playing into the hands of the Rs by shooting your fellow Democrats. Let's aim our fire at the Rs for a change. A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: Always good for a laugh I saw this some time ago, and just received it again. I enjoyed it before, and enjoyed it again this time. Sending it on if by chance anyone hasn't seen it. Three Texas surgeons were playing golf together and discussing surgeries they had performed. One of them said, "I'm the best surgeon in Texas. A concert pianist lost 7 fingers in an accident, I reattached them, and 8 months later he performed a private concert for the Queen of England." One of the others said. "That's nothing. A young man lost both arms and legs in an accident, I reattached them, and 2 years later he won a gold medal in field events in the Olympics." The third surgeon said, "You guys are amateurs. Several years ago a cowboy who was high on cocaine and alcohol rode a horse head-on into a train traveling 80 miles an hour. All I had left to work with was the horse's ass and a cowboy hat. Now he's president of the United States." A BuzzFlash Reader Subj: Bush As profiler and poet: You know he lies when he wears his red ties. Don Aren’t Bob Novak’s 15 minutes up yet? Why is it he seems to be the only American journalist granted free speech? The GOP is up to more of its illegal tricks, and good ‘ol boy Bob is right in the center of it again. It seems that GOP staff members of the Senate Judiciary Committee were tapping into Democratic computer files, grabbing strategy memos, and passing copies to the media (insert Bob “Leaker of Choice”Novak). http://www.boston.com/news/ Excerpted from the article:
Sorry Bob, you are very ordinary! Barry Baker Subj: If Bush had done the Dean Iowa speech... A spokesperson would explain: The president was making a private comment to his supporters. Bush would look sullen and say: "I just think it's interesting that the press is bringing this up a week before the primary." A Bush spokesperson would issue an official non-apology, saying "George Bush regrets that a private comment he made was overheard by the media" The article would appear on page 34 of the NY Times and promptly fall off the radar. Scott CLICK HERE FOR PART 2 OF THE JANUARY 26, 2004 BUZZFLASH MAILBAG. |
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