Nat'l Review, RNC, & Hannity smear Dems re:CBS; NRO quietly takes it back

[woo me with science]

Today I tuned into Hannity, and he was trumpeting that Terry McAuliffe used "the exact same words" to accuse * as were used in the infamous CBS memo, BEFORE THE MEMO WAS RELEASED. McAuliffe's statement accused Bush of looking for someone to "sugarcoat" his record (the term used in the memo), when McAuliffe could have used any other words to convey the same idea. The fact that he used the word "sugarcoat" before the CBS story aired is thus EVIDENCE of CBS/DNC/Kerry collaboration!

Then I googled and found this site:

http://terrymcauliffe.newstrove.com/

The site gives brief excerpts from recent news articles mentioning "mcauliffe" and "sugarcoat." The following entry was about halfway down the page

09/23 03:16 PM
Published in National Review Online - Indexed on Sep 23, 2004 Relevance:
WHY WAS TERRY USING TERMS FROM THE CBS MEMO 9 HOURS BEFORE BROADCAST? -UPDATE: IT WASN'T BEFORE. UPDATE: Turns out McAuliffe's statement referring to "sugarcoated" went out as the CBS report was starting, and it was based on a story on the CBS News web site which was posted before the "60 Minutes II" report was broadcast. The RNC timeline is erroneous. My apologies to readers who read this and concluded there was a smoking gun connection between the DNC and CBS. I should have checked what the RNC stated in its timeline. *sigh* Damn, I'm not as dissimilar to Dan Rather as I thought.
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Gee, do you think Hannity will offer a retraction tomorrow???????? (I looked quickly on the NRO site for the actual retraction but didn't see it. Either I missed it, or they took it off REEEALLY fast.)

[johnnyrocket]

1. Hannity, Coulter, Ingraham, Liddy...as far as I'm concerned...

these people are criminal thugs and represent EVIL and the lowest form of live in our society.

[Mr_Spock]

4. They are not even people as far as I'm concerned.

They are evil "life forms". If they were people and something happened to one of them, I would feel bad.

[Kimber Scott]

7. These kinds of people are doing more damage to our country than terrorists

ever could. They will be our demise.

[deckerd]

8. Quislings

That is the word you are looking for.

** GWB is the Music Man **

[qanda]

2. kick

:kick:

[qanda]

3. I cannot find it anywhere else

Not even on the National Review website. Anybody?

[woo me with science]

9. I can't find it anywhere else either

If it weren't for that site catching it for the brief moment it was on NRO, i would never have heard about the retraction. Of course, Hannity's thousands of listeners NEVER will...

this is just sinister.

[oasis]

5. I'll "sugarcoat" my ass so Hannity can kiss it.

[AuntPatsy]

6. This from a guy who last week stated with in his loud obnoxious

voice that he will do all he can to get all liberals out of office, the fact that anyone takes him seriously is a complete mystery to me, the fact that colmes sits anywhere near to him makes me believe him to be of the same ilk only more so in the closet..

Yuck, I bought his book when it first came out, I ended up putting it in my sons frat house bathroom, I believe it got used for toilet paper when the boys ran out...

I cannot believe that I wasted my money but I was just learing about politics then, so I excuse myself, but have since learned a valuable lesson....

[woo me with science]

10. LOL

At least it went to good use. Although I'm not sure I'd want anything with his name on it touching me there.