talk about twisting/spinning facts and a new framing, read this:

[donsu]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/sneed/cst-nws-sneed02.html


this Scoopsville article was written with this motif:

to wit:
the buckshot:
the scattershot:
the sideshot:
the parting shot:
the backshot:
the endshot:
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Sneed has learned that Ald. Ed Burke (14th) and three other aldermen fighting to halt $16 million in payments to the Venezuela-owned voting machine company that was at the center of the recent ballot-counting debacle plan to ante up their threat.

*To wit: Watch for the cadre, which also includes Ald. William Beavers (7th), City Council President Pro Tem Danny Solis (25th) and Ald. Manny Flores (1st), to request that the company's president appear before the City Council.

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*The scattershot: "We plan to request the appearance of appropriate officers of Sequoia and put the head of the company under oath to respond to questions about the true ownership of the company and possible links to anti-American Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez," said Burke.

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*The parting shot: According to the Miami Herald, a company called Smartmatic International and its Venezuelan owners bought Sequoia last year "without the deal receiving any scrutiny by federal regulators -- including the Treasury Department's Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States , which is tasked with determining whether foreign takeovers pose security risks."

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wish I could have posted all of it, like the endshot

do they want to blame their tinkering with voting machines on Chavez?

opening up this issue to daylight will sift the wheat from the chaf

[donsu]

1. I'm wondering why this thread got no responses?

just curious