Kerry's two-faced press secretary

[pruner]

"The strains this created were evident on Sunday. Mr. Kerry's press secretary, Stephanie Cutter, sent an e-mail message to news organizations listing remarks Dr. Dean had made over the past six months that she said demonstrated that his opposition to the war was "politically driven."

But Ms. Cutter, reflecting the concern among the campaigns that they not be viewed as turning a foreign policy victory to political advantage, put a note on the top of the statement demanding that it be reported as "background" and attributed only to a Democratic campaign.

http://nytimes.com/2003/12/15/national/15ELEC.html?hp

[slinkerwink]

1. interestiiiiiing......

sounds like the Kerry team was behind the Osama bin laden ad...

[cindyw]

2. Oh yeah, that proof all right.

:tinfoilhat:

[SahaleArm]

4. When Deanies attack...

Facts are secondary to baseless accusations.

[La_Serpiente]

3. You may have heard about the letter about

Atrios, Pandagon, and other blogs sending a letter to Kerry asking him whether he is connected to the ads.

Here is Pandagon:

Dear Senator Kerry,

We write this open letter as a group of bloggers whose audience you
respect enough that you advertise on our web sites.

We are deeply disturbed that former staff members of your campaign and
other Dean rivals now working at the so-called “Americans for Jobs,
Health Care and Progressive Values” have resorted to the Willie Horton
campaign tactic of linking Howard Dean to Osama Bin Laden. Vigorous
competition among Democrats is expected and welcome, but all
Democratic leaders should denounce these kinds of tactics.

Given your staff link to this attack through your former press
secretary, Robert Gibbs—the new group’s spokesman— we feel it is
incumbent on you and your campaign to make it clear that this kind of
attack is unacceptable. Otherwise, there will be the appearance of
covert cooperation by your campaign in supporting this effort.

If your campaign does not make clear that you have no link to this
scurrilous attack, all of us will have to reevaluate our willingness
to allow advertising by your campaign on our web sites.

We don’t expect to have to make that decision, since we have faith in
your integrity and expect you to quickly make clear your denunciation
of this destructive and anti-democratic operation.

Yours,

Atrios- Eschaton (http://atrios.blogspot.com/)
Jeralyn Merritt- Talk Left (http://www.talkleft.com/)
Nathan Newman- NathanNewman.org (http://www.nathannewman.org/log/)
Oliver Willis- Oliver Willis (http://www.oliverwillis.com/)
Jesse Taylor and Ezra Klein- Pandagon (http://www.pandagon.net )

Pandagon received a reply from the Kerry campaign:

NOTE: Our endorsement of this letter is removed with regards to Senator Kerry. We have been informed that Kerry has denied any affliation with the content or in the making of the mentioned ad.

Here is the link:

http://www.pandagon.net/

[drfemoe]

7. Did you miss this slinkerwink?

Aside from the suspicious timing... why did they not use Sadaam? After all, he's the one we poured all this effort into going after, WTC and all...

brief snip .. see it if you haven't
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=895149#902279

Mr. Feighan is also a founding partner of American Foreign Capital Partners (AFCAP). Maintaining offices in Cleveland, Ohio and St. Petersburg, Russia, AFCAP represents several multi-national businesses in the former Soviet Union. From 1998 until Mr. Feighan joined the senior management of Century Insurance Group, he served as the Managing Partner of Alliance Financial, Limited, a Cleveland, Ohio-based firm specializing in mergers, acquisitions and merchant banking services.

http://www.progressivevalues.com/default.asp?ID=3

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Welcome to the Soros paid ads. Expect many more.

Edward F. Feighan was Bill Clinton's campaign Communications Director who got pretty close to Hillary at the Institute for Policy Studies

[maddezmom]

12. Kerry denied any involvement to that ad.

[drfemoe]

5. the scowling dogs

howwwwwwwwwwl. don't they? Gov Dean's unique style shines brighter every day. You know what they say about trial by fire?

[sandnsea]

6. Dean doesn't have a press secretary???

They don't release background info they want put into stories?

How come the media always dumps on Clark and Kerry? Hmmm? We used to know the media was a tool of the right. Wonder why we forgot.

[drfemoe]

8. I was talking about the candidates in the article

who were snarling at Dean.

Kerry's campaign does this all the time... I know I've read his Dec 7 ceremony which listed his entire three year career including each medal awarded in service to our country in detail with run on sentences. (Background) .. It's not the first time it's been reported either. Maybe they do hate Kerry :shrug:

[Cheswick2.0]

9. actually Kerry is sounding more clueless than ever

as are Gephardt and Lieberman. They are saying the IRW was correct because not Saddam is caught. To me that sounds like the stupidest of sheeple rational. I expect more in a candidate for president.
If Clark has made similar stupid statements I have missed them. So I congratulate him for staying out of the ugly fray.
Dean IMO has made the most sense on this issue.

[sandnsea]

10. He continues to criticize Bush

Exactly as he's always done.

"Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry told NBC's Tom Brokaw Sunday, "This is an opportunity for the president to bury some of the hubris of the administration and the unilateralism of it and go back to the world community and say, 'OK, we all have a stake in making certain that we don't have a failed state in Iraq....' The president has a great moment here to bring people to the task of getting more people on the ground, reducing the risk to American soldiers, reducing the overextension of our forces, and frankly reducing the cost in dollars to the American taxpayer."

[bearfartinthewoods]

11. yes, his unique style of attacking other dems and then whine, whine,

whine when he get's a taste of his own medecine.

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