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Generator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:56 PM
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Is the Kerry GPA media spin
Because "they" want us to feel better about having a really stupid idiot boy king for President?

See: look, folks, Bush ain't no dumber than Kerry.

Man, they really think WE are dumb.

Oh yeah, that will make us feel better about the shit economy and the pointless war without end.


And who cares? He's he important or something? Oh yeah-he's the real president (yeah we aren't that dumb either)...that's why anything he says or does has merit.

It's subtle but I'll take it. They have decided Hillary is the 2008 golden gal so who cares about Kerry? mmmmmmm He still must be trashed if at all possible because "they" know we "know" who really won this election.

Repeat after me media:

Must Make Bush Look Good. (At all costs.)

Kerry bad.

Repeat endlessly.




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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:58 PM
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1. A small part that
a bigger part to cover up that there was nothing in his records to justify the Smear vets. They'd rather you focused on the GPA.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 07:58 PM
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2. bingo
:thumbsup:
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ultraist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:51 PM
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11. I agree,
It's all about pumping up Bush. "Look, Bush did just as well in college as Kerry." And, "let's divert the attention from Kerry's excellent military record." :eyes: MSM Yappers!
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 09:55 PM
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17. Only thing wrong with that
is Bush just stayed at his C point and Kerry got better at college and was involved in a lot of activities from political debate clubs to a couple sports. What did Bush do? He was a cheer leader and probably had a lot of parties.
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 09:58 PM
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19. Looking at half the story
like saying that Janice Brown got elected by 75% and then neglecting to say that she was unopposed and unopposed judges always have that high a percentage.

Repubs are good at that shit.
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 11:51 PM
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23. Not one word from the Smear Vets
The GPA story is a smokescreen.

Check out Media Matters.

Boston Globe highlighted Kerry's Yale grades, buried revelation that 2004 campaign attacks were baseless

http://mediamatters.org/
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Pryderi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:03 PM
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3. Was Kerry's dad a Yalie or member of the Skull and Bones?
I doubt it.
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Island Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:17 PM
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6. I think Kerry's father went to Yale
but I don't think he was Skull and Bones.

This whole issue is stupid. Did anyone really vote for Kerry because they thought he got better grades at Yale than Boosh did? I'm sure plenty of people voted for him because they think he is smarter than Boosh is now (and he is), but who gives a rat's ass what their grade were in college. Besides if Boosh got the best grades that money could buy and he only had a "C" average, that shows just how big of a moran he really is!



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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 09:04 PM
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12. Speaking of Kerry's dad
I thought it was cute that Kerry said he told his dad that the D's were for "distinction."

Apparently that was in the release somewhere.
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gordianot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:07 PM
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4. I am encouraged by this story.
It sounds to me that KKKarl Rove is worried about something. Maybe there is something on the way soon.


:popcorn:
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corbett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:18 PM
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7. Otherwise, He'd Squelch The Story
You're on to something. It seems to me that KKKarl hauled this one out of mothballs, perhaps in anticipation of Kerry's forthcoming hellfire and brimstone speech about the Downing Street Memo.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050601/the_key_to_impeachment.php
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 09:57 PM
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18. I think so too
I think it's all about the minutes. The republicans like to be ahead of the game and frame the debate. Something for sure is up.
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:31 PM
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9. Karl's GPA is nothing to brag about
I think he dropped out after the first semester.

Neither is Dick Cheney's. He was kicked out of Yale.
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gordianot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 09:53 PM
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16. Poor Dick the Chicken-hawk.
All those deferments so little to show scholastically. You could say deferments kept his miserable body alive so he could attain high office and develop heart trouble in later years.
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Gothmog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:15 PM
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5. Yes, it was the only negative thing found in Kerry's military records
Senator Kerry released his military records finally and the only negative thing that the press could play on was the grades. This is pure spin. The press is not covering the fact that Kerry's military records back up his account of his military service.
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LittleClarkie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 09:05 PM
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13. They also said that most of it was a repeat of what they'd already seen
during the campaign.
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Jon8503 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:27 PM
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8. I don't buy the fact that Bush even earned the grades he got!
Edited on Tue Jun-07-05 08:29 PM by Jon8503
I don't even believe he would have been able to get in Yale on his own let alone the grades he got.

You know the family name and money is what got him through.

I would think Yale would be embarrased when they hear him speak or at least whoever taught him English.

How lame is the US Media going to get. They basically are getting more laughable every day.
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kskiska Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 08:33 PM
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10. I think *'s grades were much lower
and were raised to barely passing to save the Bushes some embarrassment and keep him in school.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 09:59 PM
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20. I think so too
Isn't Bush's family a major donor to the school or was back then anyways? Plus Poppy Bush was getting pretty powerful back then. I wonder if Bush ever did any homework or if he paid people to do it for him.
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 09:07 PM
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14. hannity let it slip
that kerry finished 4 points ahead of bush.
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Melynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 09:43 PM
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15. Kerry's freshman GPA - what a stupid issue
All the other issues going on and the media comes up this with. At time like this, I think that Lame Stream Media isn't corrupt, just stupid.
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AngryWhiteLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 10:01 PM
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21. Effort to discredit Kerry before any comment he makes on DSM.
Unfortunately (and stupidly), Kerry telegraphed that he was going to make a statement on the DSM giving the Repuke media machine time to dig up any negative shit they could find.

JB
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lady lib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 11:59 PM
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24. Yes, and media just go along it.
I can't stand it. They have NO journalistic integrity. None.
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LightningFlash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-07-05 11:48 PM
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22. I can smell the fear on the face of the Corporate media.....
They know Bush's stupid clown squad stole the election, and that Kerry is the real president. So they're trying to downplay Kerry constantly, making him to look like a big fool.

They are such heartless SOBs.......And all of them have the blood of this war on their hands you can read it in their eyes.
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