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of various headlines.
www.democrats.com emails out political headlines every morning if you sign up for it, as I have.
That, what I posted, was what I was sent by them as one of the headlines.
And the numbers on Rasmussen have been changed since.
Weird.
Here's the whole email from them:
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__DEMOCRATS.COM____The Patriotic Progressives__________________
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Upcoming Events
Bush's NEGATIVE Bounce: He DROPS 3% During Convention {see below for story}
Three-Mile Long 'Unemployment Line' Gives Bush the Pink Slip
Scrub Alert! RNC Scrubs Proof of Active Military Delegates
BUSTED! Backlash Against Mockery of Wounded Troops Orchestrated by the RNC
Giuliani's Mean-Spirited, Misleading Criticisms of Kerry Intended to Deceive Viewers
Republicans' Shameless Exploitation of 9/11 to Bash Democrats and Divide America Disgusts Viewers
NOW Holds Civil Rights Rally in Central Park to Protest the Oppression of the Bush Regime
Ben Barnes to Break Silence on '60 Minutes' - Get Ready for the Mother of All Character Assassinations
Demand the Media Report Ignored Story - Former Lt. Gov. Barnes 'Ashamed' of Getting W into the Guard
Viet Cong Soldier Says Kerry 'Deserves the Medal' For Fierce Combat
John Dean Urges Kerry to Sue the Swifties for Calling Him a 'Babykiller'
GOP Proves It Isn't 'Pro-Life'
Scratch a GOP Delegate and They ALL Think Like Cheney
Theresa LePore Loses Her Job - But Not Until January
DEMOCRATS.COM'S MEDIA METER: Ten of the Most Underreported Stories AUG. 23-30
Bush Election Theft Alert! Suspicious Manuverings in Run Up to Afghanistan's first 'Free Elections'
Media Cartel Cash Ripped Off to Fund Lavish Parties, Salaries and Expense Accounts
__Upcoming Events
On Sept. 2, attend the Texas Truth Convention in Arlington (texastruthconvention.org). On Sept. 2 at 10pm EST, join Al Franken in the Great American Shout-out (thegreatamericanshoutout.org). On Sept. $, protest Bush in Erie, PA. On Sept. 8, Democrats.com co-sponsors a NYC forum on "The Fear Factor: The Political Use and Abuse of 9/11 in 2004" (nysec.org)
http://www.legitgov.org/action.html__Bush's NEGATIVE Bounce: He DROPS 3% During Convention
After 3 days of fawning media coverage for the Republican convention, an astonishing thing is happening - Bush is actually DROPPING in the polls! Just before the convention, Bush led 48%-45% in the Rasmussen's daily tracking poll. By Wednesday, Bush's lead had disappeared, with a 47%-47% tie! It looks like all the nasty attacks on Kerry are backfiring. And Americans aren't stupid - they recognize a "compassion" farce when they see one. As Bush famously said, "fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/Presidential_Tracking_Poll.htm
__Three-Mile Long 'Unemployment Line' Gives Bush the Pink Slip
"Thousands of protesters waving pink fliers that read 'The Next Pink Slip Might Be Yours!' formed a symbolic unemployment line stretching three miles from Wall Street to the site of the Republican convention on Wednesday. 'I've been unemployed before,' said Gary Goff, 57, a data processor. 'I'm concerned that unemployment is going up so drastically under the Bush administration. I think Bush is a disaster for working people.' The peaceful demonstration came a day after police struggled to contain swarms of protesters with metal barriers and orange netting, eventually arresting nearly 1,000 demonstrators. The 'unemployment line,' organized by People for the American Way, was part of the Imagine Festival of Arts, Issues and Ideas that called for a creative response to party politics. 'I can barely survive, and it's because of jobs going oversees,' said Jerry Nowadzky, 49, of Monticello, Iowa, who claimed that two companies for which he worked had outsourced jobs to other countries."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0901-02.htm__Scrub Alert! RNC Scrubs Proof of Active Military Delegates
Bloggers are making a stink about active military personnel serving - illegally! - as delegates to the Republican convention. Exhibit A is an AP story that was prominently featured on the RNC web site (
http://www.gopconvention.com/contents/newsroom/articles). But now if you click "Veterans Set for Republican Convention" you'll find the article has been SCRUBBED! Obviously the Republicans know they have committed a crime and they are trying to destroy the evidence, as they always do. But never fear - Democrats.com has UNSCRUBBED the article. We demand prosecution by New York District Attorney Henry Morgenthau!
http://democrats.com/scrub/rnc-military/__BUSTED! Backlash Against Mockery of Wounded Troops Orchestrated by the RNC
A Washington Post report got it half right. The GOP is "Adding Insults to Injuries" and "Democrats are furious after a number of GOP delegates here showed up Monday wearing bandages bearing tiny purple hearts, a mocking reference to Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry's wounds from the Vietnam War - for which he was awarded three Purple Hearts." Of course they didn't just "show up" with the bandages. RNC leader Morton Blackwell distributed them and orchestrated the mocking attacks on our troops, even though top GOP officials lied about having any involvement. BUSTED! Veterans and all patriotic Americans share disgust with the Chicken Hawk Republicans mocking the military and the RNC-led show of contempt for those who sacrificed for their - and our - freedom.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50690-2004Aug31?language=printer__Giuliani's Mean-Spirited, Misleading Criticisms of Kerry Intended to Deceive Viewers
Washington Post: "In his speech to the Republican National Convention on Monday night, former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani made a number of specific attacks based on statements made by Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry. But Giuliani's description of those comments often lacked context." The former mayor whose ratings were in the low 40% before he exploited 9/11 to aggrandize himself is the Republicans' designated 9/11 exploiter. He mentioned 9/11 several times in his speech. The pro-gay, pro-choice, pro-gun control Republican is way out of step with his Neanderthal party, but hopes to win its nomination in 2008 so these lies are transparent efforts to ingratiate himself to the right wing extreme. Keep dreaming, Rudy. Look what they did to McCain!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51112-2004Aug31?language=printer__Republicans' Shameless Exploitation of 9/11 to Bash Democrats and Divide America Disgusts Viewers
Washington Post: "Ben Wilson sat in his living room in Harlem late Monday and listened as former mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani talked of Sept. 11, 2001, and why the events of that day all but demanded that Americans vote for President Bush. Wilson listened -- and clicked off his television. He had watched the first airplane crash into the World Trade Center. His son serves in Iraq with the Marines. 'Listen to me: A lot of us suffered that day,' said Wilson, who is African American. 'You tell me what Bush has done that gives him the right to come here and milk that attack for votes? Man, the Republicans annoy me.'"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50688-2004Aug31?language=printer __NOW Holds Civil Rights Rally in Central Park to Protest the Oppression of the Bush Regime
US Newswire: "The National Organization for Women's New York City chapter will host a permitted rally this evening to protest the Bush Administration's current war on women, minority groups, and civil liberties. NOW, the largest feminist organization in the country, unanimously voted at its 2004 National Conference, to formally declare an immediate state of emergency through Nov. 2 -- in a radical effort to mobilize and defeat the current administration. 'In only three and a half years, George W. Bush and the right wing leadership in Congress have undermined and eroded more than four decades of advancements for women,' said NOW President Kim Gandy." PLEASE join them today if you can - the Bush brownshirts are planning to turn out to harass them, so help make sure these cowards are intimidated by your sheer numbers!
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=35512__Ben Barnes to Break Silence on '60 Minutes' - Get Ready for the Mother of All Character Assassinations
Eric Boehlert writes, "The campaign battle over Vietnam War records is still raging, but Bush may soon be the one answering uncomfortable questions about his past service. Ben Barnes, the former lieutenant governor of Texas, will finally break his silence and talk to the press about what role he played in helping Bush get a coveted slot in the Texas Air National Guard in 1968. Sources say Barnes has already sat down for a '60 Minutes' interview that will air a week from Sunday... Throughout his political career Bush has adamantly denied that he got a Guard pilot spot through preferential treatment." Emergency meetings are underway in Karl Rove's office. Get ready for the Mother of All Character Assassinations.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/01/barnes60minutes/index.html__Demand the Media Report Ignored Story - Former Lt. Gov. Barnes 'Ashamed' of Getting W into the Guard
Salon: "'I'm very ashamed' - The former Texas official who got George Bush into the National Guard apologizes for making sure that young men with important 'family names' did not have to fight in Vietnam." Also in Salon: "The Ben Barnes blackout - Even with new video of the Texas pol saying he's 'ashamed' of helping President Bush get his National Guard slot, the story gets little play from the media."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/30/barnes_update/print.html Demand the Media report this ignored story. Write / call / fax. Find contact info at the Media Watch Project -
http://democrats.com/mediahttp://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/08/27/barnes/print.html__Viet Cong Soldier Says Kerry 'Deserves the Medal' For Fierce Combat
"Former Viet Cong soldier Duong Hoang Sinh remembers them well -- the one time he tangled with three Swift boats, the Americans killed all of the insurgents in his unit except for two. 'It was very fierce fighting,' said Sinh, 52, who lost his left eye during the war... 'Each side tried to eliminate the other.' Sinh and John Kerry, the U.S. Democratic presidential nominee, were fighting along the Dong Cung canal around roughly the same time 35 years ago in early 1969, experiencing the intensity of war along these muddy waters, but from opposite sides. Although Sinh had never heard of Kerry, he has a strong opinion about the debate surrounding the candidate's Vietnam War record as a U.S. Navy Swift boat commander: Kerry must have had guts to troll the Mekong Delta's spider web of rivers and narrow canals knowing that Viet Cong like himself were waiting to pick him off. 'Kerry served in Vietnam and he was awarded the medal for his bravery,' Sinh said. 'He deserves the medal.'"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/08/31/politics1337EDT0625.DTL__John Dean Urges Kerry to Sue the Swifties for Calling Him a 'Babykiller'
John Dean writes: "'Unfit for Command' doesn't mince words. It accuses Kerry of a number of crimes: fraud, lying before the Senate, filing false reports, dereliction of duty, desertion, and treason -- to mention only a few. As an example, I will analyze just one such charge. Chapter Four of the book opens with a quotation from William Franke, a swift boat veteran: 'I will tell you in all candor that the only baby killer I knew in Vietnam was John F. Kerry.' Where's the support in the book for this? There is none. According to O'Neill, Kerry's swift boat gunner, Steve Gardner -- who is among the most hostile of the Swiftees toward Kerry - says there was a baby-killing incident, but he also says that Kerry had no idea it occurred, and tried to stop further fire at a civilian target. It seems from this that Kerry is better characterized as baby-saver than baby-killer!... Actual malice is often very hard to prove. But that's not so here." Read how Barry Goldwater sued in 1965 - and won.
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20040831.html__GOP Proves It Isn't 'Pro-Life'
Amy Goodman reports, "During Schwarzenegger's address, peace activist and Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin was on the floor of the convention. As she was standing less than 20 feet away from Vice President Dick Cheney, she unfurled a pink banner that read 'Pro-Life: Stop the Killing in Iraq.' Security officials quickly approached her and told her to put it away. Medea responded by saying it was a pro-life banner. Minutes later, a Secret Service man came up and asked for her press credentials. She stalled for a few minutes cheering Schwarzenegger along with the Republican crowd. She was soon surrounded by more security officials. When she realized she was being escorted off the convention floor. Medea Benjamin turned to Vice President Dick Cheney who was sitting 20 feet away and repeatedly yelled 'Stop the killing in Iraq.' Secret service members carried her upside down off the convention floor."
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/01/1424252__Scratch a GOP Delegate and They ALL Think Like Cheney
Tom Engelhardt writes, "Walking the convention floor talking to delegates, what most struck me was the way in which this was really Dick Cheney's convention, even though no delegate I met even mentioned his name. Of all the members of this administration, Cheney was the one who never stopped hammering directly at the supposed connections between the 9/11 attacks, Saddam's regime, al-Qaeda, and the invasion of Iraq; connections that, along with Saddam's 'weapons of mass destruction,' and despite everything we now know, seem seared into the minds of at least 50% of the American people. The Republican Party's audacious decision to convene in New York City, to return to Ground Zero, reinforces such connections without having to engage in argument at all. It reinforces in a deeply emotive and fearful way the idea that the acts of 'them,' an amorphous mass of interchangeable terrorists and bad guys, are all one and the same."
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=1744__Theresa LePore Loses Her Job - But Not Until January
"The county election supervisor whose confusing ballot design contributed to the turmoil of the 2000 presidential election became the butt of late-night talk show jokes and the target of death threats. Now, she's lost her job. Theresa LePore, the inventor of the butterfly ballot that was scrutinized during the presidential recount, lost her re-election bid to remain Palm Beach County elections supervisor. With all 692 precincts reporting, challenger Arthur Anderson had 91,134 votes, or 52%, while LePore had 85,601 votes, or 48%... Speaking of a 'continuous erosion' in confidence in the voting process, Anderson said he ran against LePore to protect 'the right to have our votes count,' and had urged adding printers to voting machines to ensure a paper trail in case of a recount. LePore has said she thinks printers are unnecessary... Despite the loss, LePore will remain in office until Jan. 3 and will oversee the November election in the county."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/politics/wire/sns-ap-butterfly-ballot-election,0,4241747.story__DEMOCRATS.COM'S MEDIA METER: Ten of the Most Underreported Stories AUG. 23-30
Cheryl Seal Writes: "Anyone who routinely scans multiple sources for news, taking in AFP, BBC, Al Jazeera, the Guardian, US Newswire, and other non-Bush-controlled sources will quickly begin to see the gaping holes in US corporate media coverage. Not only do these holes tend to be uniformly in the interests of G.W. Bush and his campaign, they are systematic: it is rare to find one of the members of the US media cartel breaking ranks and giving prominent coverage (as in not buried on page A22 or C12), to a story suppressed by the others. There are laws against price-fixing - a practice acknowledged by all as fraud. So why aren't there laws against 'news fixing?' It, too, is fraud....Now, with the GOP Convention, things in US Media land have gone from bad to WORSE!!
http://www.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=23429__Bush Election Theft Alert! Suspicious Manuverings in Run Up to Afghanistan's first 'Free Elections'
The BBC reports: "A top election observer body has said Afghanistan's security situation makes it impossible to monitor its first-ever polls, due in October. In a report obtained by the BBC, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe said it was not safe for 'meaningful' monitoring. The OSCE added that examining the elections too closely at this stage could actually undermine the process. It also appears there will be few other monitors to fill the gap." How convenient for Bush and Karzai! Especially as another story released today in the Boston Herald states that Kabul "was declared free of heavy weapons Wednesday, a key step in efforts to bolster security before critical national elections. U.S., NATO and Afghan officials feted the commanders of the last unit to pull its big guns out of the city." So what's the deal? Did the US pull its guns out to insure security - or to insure that security would be SO undermined that poll monitors would flee?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3617790.stm__Media Cartel Cash Ripped Off to Fund Lavish Parties, Salaries and Expense Accounts
This story involves just one corporate media "octopus," the one that included the Daily Telegraph, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Jerusalem Post. But you can bet it's just the tip of the iceberg formed by the world's corporate media cartels. "Lord Black of Crossharbour, the former CEO of the publishing giant Hollinger International, and his associates ransacked more than $400 million from his former empire. Lord Black...illegally took the money to fund lavish parties, expensive possessions and massive salaries for himself and his friends." It was also revealed that at least one media commentator was slurping up a lavish "expense account." We are sure similar goings on are occurring with other media cartels, and that similar lavish parties - like those entertaining the "Kalorama Kocktail Klub" of Repug politicos in D.C are funded by media bucks.
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