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2004-08-27 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by GK 2004-08-27 08:30|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is more of the usual double-standard from the press - ignoring the lumber in Kerry's eye and complaining loud and long about the speck in Bush's eye.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson boasted last fall that "organizations like these have become the replacement for the national Democratic Party." And their ads have been just as harsh â if not harsher â against Bush than those being run by the Swift boat veterans.

As Ben Ginsberg himself put it, his activities were "precisely the same as [what] the Kerry lawyers did and the DNC lawyers did" â but are being subjected to "a different degree of scrutiny."

Interesting thing is this article puts the names out there. SO fellow rant burgers, open up your magazines and load up - plenty of rhetorical ammo coming your way:

Hypocrisy, anyone?

Which Democratic lawyers?

Start with Robert Bauer. His Web site identifies him as national counsel to the Kerry-Edwards campaign (he's paid by the Democratic National Committee).

But he also represents America Coming Together, which is spending millions on mobilizing pro-Kerry voters and has been described as "the major ground-war vehicle for the Democratic groups."

In fact, ACT's president, Ellen Malcolm, boasts that her group is "looking for effective ways to do the work of delivering the message and getting out the vote that used to be done by the party."

Or Joe Sandler, who advises Move-On.org and also works for the DNC, which works directly with Kerry's folks.

Or Harold Ickes, the former Clinton politico, who also advises both America Coming Together and the Democratic National Committee and is president of the Media Fund.

In fact, there's been a veritable revolving door between the Kerry campaign and these super-rich 527 groups.

Zach Exley, who used to be MoveOn's organizing director, now works for the Kerry campaign, running its Web site.

Bill Knapp, who used to make TV commercials for the Media Fund, now makes campaign spots for the Kerry campaign.

And Jim Jordan, who used to manage the Kerry campaign, now helps run both ACT and the Media Fund.

All of which suggests that these groups are "independent" in name only â and that illegal coordination between the Kerry camp and their allies is under way on a massive scale.

ANd there you go - names, positions and organizations.

Where is the NBC/ABC/CBS/NYT/WaPo great ruckus over these obvious violations of campaign law?

(que the crickets...)

Posted by OldSpook 2004-08-27 9:51:44 AM|| 2004-08-27 9:51:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Dear Old Spook,

If Bush does win by a super landslide, do you think the press will take notice that even their partisan posturing wasn't enough to defeat a wartime president?

I am fairly certain that history will surely catch up to MSM in time, just as the Kerry's perfidy has caught up with him, and is wrecking his presidential campaign. History will eventually condemn contemporary American liberal journalism in general, and the complete loss of their non-partisan mantle in particular, which they keep telling us they are wearing. The question is: will the press take notice and make adjustments, or will they try to hang on to this now ficticious monoply they think they have in non-partisan journalism?

Also, I think that a major loss in November will place into harsh focus a lot of the absolutely insane views democrats now hold and try to use agains Bush. It may, hopefully, bring them back from this self-laid Marxian path they have set for themselves, hopefully making politics more competitive.

It would be downright un-Christian of the right not to start leading journalists into seeing that their views, not necessarily Bush has wrecked their credibility, perhaps for all time.

Posted by badanov 2004-08-27 10:09:16 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-08-27 10:09:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Badnov, OS, agree! JK has been exposed. Those defending him now look silly and partisan; like moms at a soccer match screaming and shrieking that their son didnât commit a foul, even though the majority of the other parents say he did. The more they shriek and defend, the more silly they look.

Those who wish to defend him will one day look back and be embarrassed that they so staunchly stood to support him. Heâs a sinking ship â claiming the ship isnât sinking is now left to fools.

Posted by B 2004-08-27 11:53:46 AM|| 2004-08-27 11:53:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 It is only a matter of time for the MSM. No large institutional investor or small investor is going to throw away their investment monies on 'businesses' which ignor, if not alienate, its market. The Soros of the world only have so much to blow on hobbies before economics finely catch up even with them. We've already seen the tip of the iceberg with some initial circulation numbers found to be bogus. That's fraud on the advertisers. If Bush wins by a unquestionable margin, the MSM will have demonstrated that it can not deliver the goods in the market to the advertisers. Time for the money to go to alternate venues for commercial advertising. Time for investment monies to go to real businesses whose objective is the best return for their investors, and that's by serving the larger portion of the market, not the lesser.

Posted by Don 2004-08-27 1:51:04 PM|| 2004-08-27 1:51:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Rich! We'll be rich! 12 dozen fertilized eggs! I figure at least 141 live ones.

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-27 6:51:02 PM|| 2004-08-27 6:51:02 PM|| Front Page Top

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