Jodi Wilgoren's Kerry piece in NYT is transparent: Kerry is like Bush

[AP]

Many, Wilgoren does NOT like Democrats at all.

Her argument is basically, Kerry is a little retarded and wanders off, he lies about not reading the news, but doesn't really like reading the news, and he likes baseball.

Hmm. Does that sound like a retard we all know?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/13/politics/campaign/13TRAIL.html

[LittleApple81]

1. I posted this article on GD yesterday. Some DUers thought

it was a GOOD article about Kerry and that people like me who didn't like it had gone all "freeperish" about nothing.
But I tell you: the first words in the article are the most important (especially in politics) because it sets the perception for whatever comes next. And caged hamster IS NOT a good image, at least in my book.

[AP]

2. Not it isn't. This article is BS. I'm worried about DU'ers who think this

is a good article.

He wandered off to a grass patch? He can't focus? He lies about not having read the newspaper?

Come on.

[malachibk]

4. Please, don't worry about me...

As one of the DUers who thinks it was, overall, a positive piece on Kerry and painted a multi-faceted, human picture of an over-handled man, I worry more about DUers who base their opinions and judgments on the first sentence or two of a lengthy, mostly positive article.

[AP]

8. I'm worried.

[cser]

3. My boyfriend and I have an adopted

developmentally disabled son and take great offense to your use of the word "retard" I showed your post to our son Sunshine and he asked me if you were making fun of him. Please edit your post, or apologize to our son.

[LittleApple81]

6. I don't have that word anywhere on my post. n/t

[cser]

11. Sorry,

I meant to reply to AP.

[AP]

9. I apologize to your son. But I have no doubt that this is the image...

Wilgoren is trying to invoke, so I'm going to have to leave it in my post so that people understand how crazy Wilgoren is.

[rumguy]

12. you showed it to Sunshine?

:spank:

[rumguy]

5. did they change the title - yesterday I thought it said Kerry was

"multisyllabic" today it's not in the title...

I thought the article was wierd. It's nothing like the total puff pieces they do on the boy monster.

[LittleApple81]

7. You are right. The title yesterday was

"Kerry Behind the Scenes: Restless, Multisyllabic"

hmmm... I (and I think other DUers) wrote to them about the article...and they changed "Multisyllabic?"

[rumguy]

10. I'd hope our president was multi-syllabic

The thing is they are working from the script the RNC gave them on Kerry months ago...

:mad: