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liberalmike27 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-04 10:37 PM
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Kerry Intern Story, AWOL On Television Media
I dropped over to a friends's house today, we watched four hours of various news channels, and not a peep about Kerry's little story.

You know, if it'd have been Bill Clinton, instead of Kerry, the media's annointed one (just now anyway) then this story would have been pasted all over the media. They are scared to death that all their efforts in trashing Dean, then Clark, now probably Edwards, will be for naught.

I wonder how long a rumor like this will be intensely talked about on the Internet, without being mentioned in what is increasingly an undependable, mind-steering media. Sad, we can't even get any decent news from the media, fair and correct, without the ridiculous spin, so we can make up our minds. Instead, we get sensationalist treatment of a perfectly fair Post-Iowa speech, played incessantly over a thousand times, and destroying a perfectly good Dr. Dean. Now they won't say anything bad about Kerry, hoping that he will get the nod.

If I don't miss my guess, they didn't intend to let this little story out until after Kerry had it all locked up, then the trashing of the two-hundred million will start.
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David Dunham Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-04 10:38 PM
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1. Unlike the Monica Episode, This Story Is Bogus, so no Press
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-04 10:44 PM
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2. The media has been burned by Drudge before
Also, Newsmax was burned by a photoshopped Kerry/Fonda picture today, and many media outlets burnt many manhours prepping to go with the faked picture, only to lose that time when it was revealed to be a fake.

There has to be corroboration on this one now before any outlet will pick it up. National Enquirer and Drudge just don't have any credibility. Yeah, they sometimes get one right, but even a broken clock is right twice each day.
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-04 10:45 PM
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4. True. Sludge has LIED many times in the past.
If Kerry denies the story, it will be dead.
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s8hanse1 Donating Member (37 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-04 10:45 PM
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3. The story hasn't broke yet.
You are jumping the gun here. You will see that Kerry isn't the "anointed one". He is about to get strung through the ringers.
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slinkerwink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-04 10:47 PM
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6. no....the media is going to sit on the story until Kerry is the nominee
and then it's wringer time.
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oregonjen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-04 10:46 PM
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5. For the next nine months, expect a lot of mudslinging
The GOP will stop at nothing, right?
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-04 10:51 PM
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7. There is no story.
That's why it's not hitting the media. It is a story about a possible story about something there seems to be no proof for.
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The Magistrate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-12-04 10:52 PM
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8. So What You Are Saying, Mr. Mike
Is that you are troubled the news channels are covering a matter damaging to the criminals of the '00 Coup, and not concentrating on one possibly damaging to a Democratic Presidential candidate?

What exactly is your problem with this, Sir?
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