WOW!!! A Swifty liar was listed on Bush campaign page until 8/19!

[grasswire]

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2004_08_15_digbysblog_archive.html#109305446449877913

Blogger Digby has found a google cache that shows swifty liar Ken Cordier was part of the Bush campaign as recently as August 19!

He's on the steering committee of the Bush Cheney 2004 Veterans for Bush! You can see the cache here:

click this link to see Google cache

Cordier's name has been removed from the current page!

http://www.georgewbush.com/Veterans/SteeringCommittee.aspx

EDITED BY ADMIN TO FIX LINK.

[grasswire]

1. another smoking gun??

This is a lesson, pals.

Always remember the power of looking for unprotected or hidden or removed pages on web sites. Remember BBV. Remember this now, too.

[w13rd0]

2. Fascinating, isn't it...

...I hope someone from the Kerry campaign caught that. I think it's very telling that:

a) he was on the official Bush Cheney 2004 site as member of steering committee for Veterans for Bush 2004

b) he was removed as soon as the FEC suit was filed

Gee, you think they might realize that they are FUCKIN STUPID yet? A guy on the STEERING COMMITTEE for Bush/Cheney2004 Veterans for Bush participates in a slanderous "independent, non-partisan" Swiftsmears for Bush ad campaign. Hmmm, what are the odds...

[blondeatlast]

3. Deeper and deeper and deeper... The NYT expose was

published online just slightly before midnight ET on 8/19.

Coincidence? :evilgrin:

Edit: the name is there, then it ain't. I checked. Damn.

[Cocoa]

4. someone actively removed that name

and did it yesterday or today.

Will some reporter ask the Bush campaign who removed it, and why?

[iwantmycountryback]

Evil laugh

This is just too good to be true.

[iwantmycountryback]

5. Evil laugh

This is just too good to be true.

[salvorhardin]

6. That link doesn't work, try this one

Here's a link for the google cache of the page that should work.

[Skinner]

7. Here is the google link to the cache

Just to make it clear that this really is from google, here's
the link. Cut and paste into your browser:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.georgewbush.com%2FVeterans%2FSteeringCommittee.aspx+%22kenneth+cordier%22&btnG=Google+Search

[blondeatlast]

8. Thanks, Skinner, I was a bit nervous that there might be

accusations of editing.

[DUreader]

34. Is it from the 19th or the 2nd?

the screen capture down the thread shows the 2nd

I don't remember what it said when I first looked at it

[Skinner]

9. I added this to our homepage.

That is too good. :)

[Beetwasher]

10. Everyone SAVE THIS, PROTECT IT, FORWARD IT TO KERRY!

This is evidence of a crime!

This is even more direct coordination between the campaign and the smear group.

[Skip Intro]

13. And Olberman, Matthews, NYT

and the rest of the mostly comatose media...

[blondeatlast]

11. This needs to be seen by everyone:

:kick:

[grasswire]

12. and people say bloggers...

...don't report real news!

Kudos to Digby and to Atrios for linking to Digby.

Spread out, pals. There's gotta be more that can be uncovered!

[DUreader]

14. Maybe get a screen capture of the cache , lest it get scrubbed

[grasswire]

15. can someone do that?

I always forget how to do a screen capture. It needs to be saved in a bunch of places.

[DUreader]

16. I need to learn that too, I tried once, I know it is easy, yet ....

makes me feel pretty stupid

[blondeatlast]

17. I asked in the Lounge with a link to this thread. nt

[Catch22Dem]

18. Just hit the Print Screen button

on your keyboard and that copies the image to your clipboard. From there you can paste it anywhere.

[eleny]

21. I tried that but it only copies what's on the screen

It doesn't print the entire scrolled information. So I couldn't get the Image showing the header and also his name in the list. His name is so far down the list that it didn't copy to my clipboard.

I also did a Screen Capture with PhotoImpact. But it will only capture what's visible on the screen at the time. Same problem as "Screen Print". I'd have to scroll donw and do another screen capture and then knit the images together. Wouldn't that invalidate the capture?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

20. As I've said before, Bush_Eats_Beef is here to protect and serve

[eleny]

22. Great!

How did you do the screen capture of the entire page all in one shot? I could only capture portions at a time and would have to knit them together. Please advise! Thanks!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

26. I use "Corel Capture," which is part of Corel Graphics Suite

...This is actually four shots and I'd have to knit 'em together too.

:toast:

[LastKnight]

27. those where multipule screen caps... he posted them consecutively. nt

[DUreader]

24. Nice!

[PfcHammer]

36. PDF version of the page

Acrobat 5.0,

http://s93118771.onlinehome.us/DU/SBVFB/SBVFB080204.pdf

[DS1]

19. I see Aug 2nd on top, but still

Pretty damning stuff!

[DUreader]

28. I see that now, when did the ad get released?

that may be important in terms of law

[LastKnight]

39. during or before the dem convention... late july. nt

[DUreader]

42. we need a link to the release date

also a link showing when this guy resigned would be good

[LastKnight]

48. i know, im looking for each. not much success. nt

[struggle4progress]

57. FactCheck says:

<snip>
"Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" is a group formed March 23 after Kerry wrapped up the Democratic nomination. It held a news conference May 4 denigrating Kerry's military record and his later anti-war pronouncements during the 1970's. The group began running an attack ad Aug. 5 in which 13 veterans variously say Kerry is "not being honest" and "is lying about his record."
<snip>
http://www.factcheck.org/article.aspx?docID=231

[struggle4progress]

56. Maybe early August ...

<snip>
In August 2004, the group "bought television time in three swing states for an advertisement that attacks Senator John Kerry, accusing him of lying about his war record, including the circumstances surrounding his medals, and betraying his comrades by later opposing the war." One of the SWVT "said the group was spending $500,000 to run the advertisement but would not say how long it would be on the air; a Kerry aide said the buy was far smaller, $156,000 in seven smallish markets like Green Bay, Wis., and Toledo, Ohio, suggesting it was a 'vanity buy' intended to attract news coverage."<11>

The August 4 2004 editions of Fox News Channel's Hannity & Colmes and MSNBC's Scarborough Country dedicated coverage and airtime to the SBVT campaign. Misrepresentations and misinformation failed to be addressed. For example, claims that SBVT members served with John Kerry on his boat in Vietnam were supported by the Hannity & Colmes broadcast, which referred to the group as Kerry's "crewmates." Only one of the members of SWVT was actually a crewmate of Kerry. Other served on boats that ran missions with Kerry's boat. (The SBVT ad and official statements by the group correctly claim only that the speakers "served with" Kerry, not that they were on the same boat.)
<snip>
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Swift_Boat_Veterans_for_Truth

If Swifty didn't jumped ship before August 2, then the ad was in production while he was still rallying with the Bushistas.

In any case, it's a perfect "revolving door" example, showing (once again) that Bushista accusations are often precisely designed to forestall criticism of their own bad behavior.

[TheDonkey]

23. Ridiculous

I hope Kerry find out about this and that the media picks this up too.

[LastKnight]

25. ive tried numerous times to right click and do 'save page as'

with no success... why doesnt that work? anyone have any luck with it?

-LK

[DUreader]

29. See reply #20 in this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=647199&mesg_id=647338&page=

[LastKnight]

32. those are screen caps, would be better to save the whole page if poss. nt

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

38. See reply #33 n/t

[janx]

30. I got a couple of screen shots but can't save the whole page.

I don't know why.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

33. Just do this:

Under the "view" pull-down menu, so "View Source."

You'll get a notepad document. Do a "File > Save As" on this.

I saved it as "cordier.html."

In your browser, under the File pull-down, do "File > Open."

Navigate to where you saved "cordier.html," and it will open in your browser.

Works like a charm.

:toast:

[LastKnight]

35. its still not saving for some reason. nt

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

40. Send me a PM if you'd like and I'll try to help you

...so that we don't clog the message board.

:toast:

[grasswire]

31. spread this news to other message boards and blogs

Copy the link to Digby everywhere. He found the cache. He explains the news. He deserves the hits.

This is called EVIDENCE, kids.

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[blondeatlast]

41. Only if YOU save a screenshot, Grovelbot!

Just kidding, I did about a half hour ago.

[mzmolly]

43. Will this play out in the main stream media? This is where DU could

really be a force as Dem strat has said.

Bookmark this stuff and send it off!

[blondeatlast]

44. Too bad he got (understandably) sick of the whining here. nt

[mdmc]

46. Thank you all for this

now, where the FUCK is John Kerry? :kick:

[LastKnight]

45. ive got it saved as a html, think we can legally put it up on our own?

so we have our own copy, or is there some issue with that? or do we even need to put it up?

-LK

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

50. I doubt that very much. Look at the bottom of the page:

© 2004 Bush-Cheney ’04, Inc.

I wouldn't want Asscroft pulling up to MY front door in a white van.

:evilgrin:

[LastKnight]

51. figured as much, thought id check. nt

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

47. More sweet irony from Bush-Cheney 04 site: "No Real Evidence"

I captured this at the exact moment the annoying little Flash movie asked "Do you stand by our president?"

:evilgrin:



http://www.georgewbush.com/News/Read.aspx?ID=3329

[blondeatlast]

54. Well, they wrote the textbook, so they oughta know... nt

[Sparkly]

49. He's still on this list

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2004/bush/bushorgvet.html

Not sure if it's as official as the other one, but there he is!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

52. This is a page on the George Washington University Web Site

...it needs to be the Google cache of the "official" Bush-Cheney site that Digby found. That makes it "incriminating."

:toast:

[Skinner]

53. Here's a screenshot (WARNING: BIG DOWNLOAD)

It's about 450K, so it'll take a bit of time to download. Also, since the page is so long, I had to take four screenshots and then stick them back together to make one big page.

?CLICK

[NMDemDist2]

55. nicely done Skinner, now just pass that along to Dem_Strat eom

[Shopaholic]

58. I'm joining the party late--what media have we sent this to yet?

[Sparkly]

59. Does this mean anything?

Right click and select "view page info."

Modified: Saturday, August 21, 2004 3:38:17 PM

http://www.georgewbush.com/Veterans/SteeringCommittee.aspx

[NMDemDist2]

60. yup, that means they changed the page once they realized they

were getting sued

[AmerDem]

61. I can't wait until shrub and Rove are hauled away in shackles.

repuke bastards!:puke:

[blondeatlast]

62. Pass the Tabasco, please...

it's time for a :kick:!

[skip fox]

63. SBV's vessel is breaking apart!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=69031#

[grasswire]

64. what a great day this has been!

It was one of the most exciting days I've had on the Internet.

All these great stories dug up by NETIZENS and then mouthed by Keith Olbermann!

If we could do this regularly, the Repubs would be destroyed.