Oh. My.God. Their strategy is just: LIE.

[No Exit]

AP's doing it too! Look at the part of this article that I have highlighted. This is truly an outrage.

James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, told an enthusiastic crowd of about 2,500 to 3,000 supporters Tuesday they should judge candidates based on their views about fighting terrorism, gay marriage and abortion.

"If you can find a politician who understands the institution of the family, who wants to protect children from immorality, who understands that we are at war with those who want to destroy us and who understand that liberal judges are undermining us and need to be reined in," Dobson said, "and if you can find a politician who lives by a strong moral code and believes in Jesus Christ ... if you can find such a person, it would be a sin not to vote for him."

(snip)

Dobson also said he has been "very irritated and disappointed with the Republican Party" and that GOP candidates whom "values voters" helped elect in 2004 have "sat on their majorities and not used them productively."

He touched on the uproar over former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, D-Florida, who resigned Friday in a scandal over electronic messages he sent to former teenage male congressional pages.

(snip)

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/politics/15673461.htm

[no_hypocrisy]

1. If you think about it, its beauty is its simplicity. n/t

[habitual]

2. WOW, this is becoming quite a strategy

GAY GAY GAY, democrat democrat democrat...

oh, i'm sorry did i say democrat. woops i meant democrat.

woops, did i say it again, hehe silly me i didn't mean to call GAY DEMOCRAT MARK FOLEY a democrat.

oh damn, i did it again.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Faux did it too

[Matariki]

4. Amazing. This is going to backfire on them big time.

[C_U_L8R]

5. looks like they fixed it

it's like a game of whack-a-mole

[Matariki]

10. not only did they fix it - but now the link directs to a registration page

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Sent them a 'feedback' demanding an immediate retraction. Now to send

one to the AP!

[RedStateShame]

7. And that's a different strategy HOW???

[No Exit]

11. Touche. (sort of)

(assuming "old person" voice) You see, time was, way back when they was called the newspapers, and not "the media", them newspaper boardroom fellas would kind of shade the truth... you know, kind of do selective reporting, and use certain sentence structures to paint the story the way their political masters wanted it painted.

But nowadays, seems like them fellers don't bother with that propaganda stuff. They just flat-out tell a baldfaced lie.

Like sayin' a man's a democrat when he's really a republican.

[sakabatou]

8. Jeebus

[bryant69]

9. You go with what you are comfortable

Look we are in the ninth inning of this particular election cycle (well maybe eighth). Nows not the time for the Republicans to try a new strategy.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[LibDemAlways]

12. I've seen this before. One night Larry King had horrible

repuke Peter King of NY on to sing the praises of the chimp, right before the 04 election. All sorts of shit about him being a great President. The entire time King was identified on screen as a Democrat to create the appearance that he was a Democratic Congressman endorsing the chimp over Kerry.

[lectrobyte]

13. Mark Foley has always been a Democrat. We've always been at war

with Iraq. What picture of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam? Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes? America Uber Alles!

[Junkdrawer]

14. Check it out...Google News search....

Mejias Calls on House Speaker to Resign
LongIslandPress.com, NY - Oct 2, 2006
... Monday that House Speaker Dennis Hastert (D-Illinois) resign after Hastert failed to act on knowledge that former Congressman Mark Foley (D-Florida) engaged in ...

Conservative leader urges Christians to vote their values
San Jose Mercury News, USA - 9 hours ago
... Mark Foley, D-Florida, who resigned Friday in a scandal over electronic messages he sent to former teenage male congressional pages. ...

Dobson Urges Christians To Vote Their Values
cbs4denver.com, CO - 2 hours ago
... Mark Foley, D-Florida, who resigned Friday in a scandal over electronic messages he sent to former teenage male congressional pages. ...

Conservative Urges Supporters To Vote Values
WCCO, MN - 4 hours ago
... Mark Foley, D-Florida, who resigned Friday in a scandal over electronic messages he sent to former teenage male congressional pages. ...

Conservative leader urges Christians to vote their values
Contra Costa Times, CA - 9 hours ago
... Mark Foley, D-Florida, who resigned Friday in a scandal over electronic messages he sent to former teenage male congressional pages. ...

Conservative leader urges Christians to vote their values
Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN - 9 hours ago
... Mark Foley, D-Florida, who resigned Friday in a scandal over electronic messages he sent to former teenage male congressional pages. ...

Conservative leader urges Christians to vote their values
Pioneer Press, MN - 10 hours ago
... Mark Foley, D-Florida, who resigned Friday in a scandal over electronic messages he sent to former teenage male congressional pages. ...


http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=Mark+Foley,+D-Florida&filter=0

[Red Right and BLUE]

15. That is just fucking horrible.

I have no words.

[Avalux]

16. Holy Shit!!!

:wow:

[Junkdrawer]

19. Look at how the article was written...

It implies that voters should vote Republican because of the Democratic scandal...



"If you can find a politician who understands the institution of the family, who wants to protect children from immorality, who understands that we are at war with those who want to destroy us and who understand that liberal judges are undermining us and need to be reined in," Dobson said, "and if you can find a politician who lives by a strong moral code and believes in Jesus Christ ... if you can find such a person, it would be a sin not to vote for him."

He said he wasn't telling supporters whom they should vote for - Focus on the Family can't legally do that with its nonprofit status - but that he was urging them to be guided by their values when they vote.

Dobson also said he has been "very irritated and disappointed with the Republican Party" and that GOP candidates whom "values voters" helped elect in 2004 have "sat on their majorities and not used them productively."

He touched on the uproar over former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, D-Florida, who resigned Friday in a scandal over electronic messages he sent to former teenage male congressional pages.

"Neither party has a cornerstone on morality," he said.

[Avalux]

20. That's just plain evil.

Labeling Foley as a Dem then using him to point out "neither party has a cornerstone on morality"!

These people are unfuckingbelievable.

[Junkdrawer]

21. 8 or 9 hrs later, they fix it online. But how many newspapers...

printed the story? :shrug:

[LibDemAlways]

22. Dobson is a nutcase who advocates that

fathers should shower with their sons to show off their penises. That's somehow supposed to keep the boys from becoming gay. (LOL)

I keep hoping some kid will tell his teacher "Last night my daddy made me take a shower with him so he could show me his penis." By law the teacher would have to call the police. Can you see the guy being lead off in handcuffs, "But officer, good Christian Dr. James Dobson told me to do it..."

[No Exit]

17. We must now fight for the truth, one wingnut at a time.

If this lie is really so widespread, chances are many of us will encounter our usual wingnut neighbors/relatives/co-workers and some of them will say, "Well, I hope you're satisfied... your democrat congressman Mr. Foley turned out to like CHILDREN sexually!"

At that point, moving in for the (rhetorical) "kill" should be easy.

[LibDemAlways]

18. The Long Island Press has Hastert as a Dem, too!

Shows how lazy these papers are about using anything the wire services send their way. Nobody even bothers to fact-check. Horrible.

[SiouxJ]

23. That is the most desperate thing I think I've ever seen them do

and their viewers are so stupid, they'll probably fall for it.