Awww, ART, you're ruining all the fun. Isn't it hilarious how the self-righteous boobs on the right like to whine about the smear tactics from the left. !!!!!!! This has got to be one of the most ironic dissemblings I've ever seen. Nobody knows how to smear, and nobody cares less about the truth, than the idealogues on the far right. m
AAA, Read O'Neill's book to gain some insight into the whole Iraq fiasco. It was planned by the hard liners in the Bush admin. right from the very start. They knew what they wanted and just waited till they could justify it. The fact is we are weaker now than we have been in a long time. We have destrtoyed our international image. Our president is considered an idiot throughout the world. Everything gets harder from here on out. Maybe the far right fringe knows something. Maybe the US can only make it now as an imperial power, unable to compete economically anymore. Bush deserves to be called a liar. He is one of the most dishonest and secretive presidents we've ever had. Or rather the people behind him are...those really making the decisions. What a hoot...'the media controlling the country'. How would 'the media' look now if they had jumped on this bullshit story, from that paragon of truth-seeking, Matt Drudge of all people? Yeah, now there is somebody I really want to put my faith in. When I flip around the radio dial, almost all I hear these days is right wing haranguers and they get more outrageous all the time. Then there is FOX 'news' which is all just opinion masquerading as news. And look what the right did to Clinton? Talk about dirty tricks, smearing, slandering, lying; the right has the market cornered. m
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN FEB 15, 2004 23:00:32 ET XXXXX FLASHBACK: MEDIA GRILLED BUSH OVER 'ADULTERY' CLAIMS As main press players blast the DRUDGE REPORT and foreign outlets for revealing details of a behind-the-scenes campaign drama surrounding candidate Kerry and the nature of his relationship with a mystery woman -- just 12 years ago the same players peppered former President George Bush with questions surrounding an infidelity rumor! In 1992 top reporters swiftly reacted to a footnote in a book quoting a long dead ambassador. CNN rushed to get the rumor into the media stream as White House correspondent Mary Tillotson confronted President Bush as he hosted Israel Prime Minister Rabin in the Oval Office. "There is an extensive series of reports in today's New York Post alleging that a former U.S. ambassador, a man now deceased, had told several persons that he arranged for a sexual tryst involving you and one of your female staffers in Geneva in 1984." Asked NBC's Stone Phillips to the president's face at the height of the "rumor mongering": "Have you ever had an affair?" CBS' Harry Smith then confronted Bush spokesperson Mary Matalin over on-air morning coffee: "Let me ask you about something else. There's a book out, or a book that's just about out that in a footnote names that then-Vice President Bush had an affair with an assistant when he was on a mission in Geneva. Well, that footnote has turned into frontpage news (holding up N.Y.POST), at least in New York, in the N.Y. POST. Albeit a tabloid, it is usually a conservative newspaper. Are you ready to say that accusation is a flat out lie?" NEWSWEEK's Jonathan Alter defended the aggressive adultery rumor line-of-questioning of the first President Bush on ABC's NIGHTLINE on August 12, 1992, on a broadcast titled: "The Media Charges George Bush With Adultery." "In this situation, the Oval Office isn't a temple," Alter explained. "The President is a candidate and he has to be asked tough, often distasteful, but nonetheless important kinds of questions." UPI's Helen Thomas also defended the Bush affair reportage: "Some people might have felt that it wasn't appropriate. But when you have the President there, I think it's very legitimate to ask him any question." CUT TO 2004: NEWSWEEK'S Alter blasted any and all coverage of the Kerry infidelity probe last week on a New York City talkradio outlet -- calling the investigation "sleazy." The media outrage over an erupting story of possible infidelity of a presidential candidate -- 2004 -- peaked with Joe Conason's cover story in SALON late last week ["There he goes again! Matt Drudge and the GOP smear machine are back in the Democrats' pants"] Conason lamented: "But the kind of proof usually required by national news organizations isn't what Drudge needs in order to put innuendo into circulation." But is this really the same Joe Conason who in the Summer of 1992 wrote a magazine cover story entitled "1,000 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR GEORGE BUSH?" Consaon's reason #1: "He cheats on his wife." The rumor of President Bush having an affair was never proved by the media. The developing Kerry drama may or may not join it on the shelf.
Now the incorrigible Larry Flynt says he plans to market a Bush abortion story as genuine - in a book to be published this summer by Kensington Press. "This story has got to come out," the wheelchair-bound Hustler magazine honcho told the Daily News' Corky Siemaszko. "There's a lot of hypocrisy in the White House about this whole abortion issue." Flynt claimed that Bush arranged for the procedure in the early '70s. "I've talked to the woman's friends," Flynt said. "I've tracked down the doctor who did the abortion, I tracked down the Bush people who arranged for the abortion," Flynt said. "I got the story nailed." Flynt wouldn't disclose whether he plans to name the woman.
he said the same thing in 2000...made the same threats and then POOOF!....nothing.....BTW..I heard one report that it was Dean who was stirring the affair pot on Kerry
Yeah, good old Larry Flynt was going to publish a book during the end of the Clinton years exposing prominent republicans that cheating on their wives. His hope was to get revenge for the attacks on Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal. He said he was going to name names and he had verifiable proof. Of course the book never came out, no names were exposed and Flynt just quietly disappeared. I'm not holding my breath on this Bush story.
Drudge is just as sleazy an SOB in his own way. There were plenty of Republicans who got exposed...dont' you remember, Mav? A bunch of hypocritical aholes. m
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Democrats_Ballot_Preference_2004.htm Kerry Slips, Edwards Gains, Dean Hangs On Kerry 43% Edwards 25% Dean 13% National Democrats Kerry 43% Edwards 25% Dean 13% Sharpton 4% Kucinich 2% Not Sure 13% RasmussenReports.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 17, 2004--For the first time since winning in Iowa, Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has seen his national poll numbers slip. The latest Rasmussen Reports national tracking poll shows that Kerry now attracts support from 43% of the nation's Democrats, down from 51% three days ago. North Carolina Senator John Edwards is a distant second but gaining. The North Carolina Senator now attracts support from 25% of the nation's Democrats, up from 18% three days ago. Nationally, Howard Dean is supported by 13% of Democrats at this time. Kerry is in a very competitive race with George W. Bush for the General Election. Kerry and Bush are also very even on the question of who voters trust more to manage the economy. One of the most startling recent survey results showed that voters trust Kerry more than Bush on the issue of controlling government spending. The national telephone survey of 570 Democrats was conducted by Rasmussen Reports over the past three nights. The margin of sampling error is +/- 4 percentage points, with a 95% level of confidence.