Freepers are screaming about the Swift Boat headline inaccuracy too

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

...but for different reasons.



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1197631/posts

1). To: ppaul
I was wondering how long it would take the media to spin the President's dissatisfaction with (failed) CFR and 527s into an attack on the Swifties. The answer....minutes.

6 posted on 08/23/2004 12:35:59 PM PDT by blanknoone (Republicans need to acknowledge that campaign finance reform failed and start setting up 527s.)

2). To: ppaul
Another misleading headline from the MSM. Bush said ALL 527 ads, and refused to specifically condemn the Swift Boat ads.

8 posted on 08/23/2004 12:36:11 PM PDT by dirtboy (Forget Berger's socks - has ANYONE searched his skin folds for classified documents?)

08/23/2004 12:36:40 PM PDT by kezekiel

3). To: ppaul
I listened carefully to what W said this morning. He called for an end to the 527's. I didn't hear him go after the Swiftboat Vets in particular. You won't hear that because I believe the current McCain/Finegold Campaign Finance laws disallow that. It won't matter because the Vets are not going to let up, as they said on Rush's show this morning.

14 posted on 08/23/2004 12:56:27 PM PDT by cousair

4). To: Huck
This is great because he called for both sides to stop all ads at once.

He knows the Left will not stop their ads, so he has nothing to worry about, but he gets credit for calling off the attack dogs. But he did NOT call them off AND all he really did was point out skerry's hypocrisy.

15 posted on 08/23/2004 12:59:54 PM PDT by Notwithstanding

[Doosh]

1. Oh look it's the 5 stooges

[David__77]

2. Ah, but really the headline is music to my ears!

Now we can certainly say "Bush has apologized" and thereby take the "wind" out of the sails of this so-called story. Indeed, Bush's commentary that Kerry "should be proud" of his military record is politically unwise--he is now being defensive and fumbled an opportunity to sit back and say nothing.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. "Kerry should be proud" is Rove's way of saying...

..."unless you want to look REALLY bad, Senator Kerry, shut the hell UP about President Bush's AWOL."

Karl Rove makes no apologies. Karl Rove gives NOTHING away. He can't defend Bush against the AWOL charges because they are TRUE, so he does the next best thing...he kills anyone who brings them up with "kindness."

Very, very transparent stuff.

[The Magistrate]

5. Hardly, Sir

That can of worms is already opened and dumped out on the dining table; it cannot be called back, and there is no counter to it. Mainstream commentators of the stature of Mr. Phillips and Mr. Crawford have said as much. If anything, this is merely a pathetic attempt by rolling belly up to ward off further harm through appeal to pity, but that is an emotion distinctly out of place in this conflict, and the manouver should serve as nothing more than occassion to commence a serious rib-kicking.

"LET'S GO GET THOSE BUSH BASTARDS!"

[jayfish]

7. Absolutely Not.

He must denounce the ads by name. If he does not, then in 2 months it will be just like the phrases "imminent threat" or "cake-walk". All of the Shrubya surrogates hit the media hard before the invasion of Iraq with these talking points in hand. Thing is though, Bush never said them so he has an out. If he is given a pass on this, the ads will still run and two months from now Bus* can say he never condemned them.

Jay

[CrispyQ]

4. The only thing about Bush that I like is Barney.

He sure is a cute little guy!

Who is the guy on the right?

[oasis]

6. Poor Barney, such company he keeps. Bill Syke's dog had a similar plight

if you remember "Oliver". A murderous villian for a master.

That's Gen. Myers on the right. He is Rummy's #1 yes man.

[MallRat]

8. Where have I seen this picture before?

Compare and contrast.





-MR