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2004-09-30 03:53:54 UTC
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Wednesday 29 September 2004 By Mark Morford San Francisco Gate Columnist
Dan Rather Takes A Bullet
While the Right was demonizing the crusty ol' newsman,
BushCo got away with murder, again
Oh, come on.
I mean, really now. Like anyone worth their even remotely
sober intellect didn't have, during that entire, cute little
"Memogate" scandal, in their mind's eye a slightly oozing
picture of BushCo's master puppeteer and most favoritist
overfed pit bull Karl Rove, sitting there all puffed up and
wheezing and hunched over his grease-stained nail-studded
Compaq Presario after yet another three-Martini,
four-baby-seal-kabob lunch, hammering out those forged
memos about Bush's military ineptitude on his swiped copy
of MS Word.
Can't you just see it ? Hear the heavy breathing ? Smell the gin ?
Could this picture be very far from the truth ? Because, verily,
if it ain't the truth, it's hovering over it like a giant elephant-shaped
radiation cloud.
And who can't clearly see Rove, the ruthless conspirator and
"co-president," http://www.alternet.org/story/18152 grinning
like a troll on ether, orchestrating the whole memo maneuver
and hiring some GOP flunkies to feed the docs to overly gullible
CBS News with the full intent of later discrediting them and
screaming abut the bogus "liberal media" and hanging sad
wonky ol' Dan Rather out to dry and making a big fat nonsensical
media field day of it ?
Voilà, the net effect : a total and shockingly efficient deflection
of all public attention away from the obvious fact that George W.
Bush is, and was, and forever will be an incompetent AWOL
serviceman whose meager and embarrassing record pales in
comparison to Kerry's outstanding heroism, and adding yet
another notch to the Repubs belt of truly outstanding, world-class
deceptions.
Conjecture ? Mere wishful liberal thinking ? Hardly. With Rove,
it's never a difficult leap from the seemingly impossible and
utterly ruthless to the absolutely soulless and eminently doable.
Look. From doctoring the Florida voter rolls to rigging the
Supreme Court to manufacturing the Swift Boat Veterans for
Utter B.S. to creating an entirely discredited "flip flop" claim
against Kerry
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/23/MNGQK8TI8O1.DTL
to forcing the Democratic presidential candidate to actually
defend his stunning Vietnam heroism when not a single
member of Bush's team of sneering flying monkeys could be
bothered to serve in the military, ever, the proof is frightening
and obvious : Rove's GOP spin machine, it is brutal and toxic
and alarming.
And this machine, it is beyond more than capable of
orchestrating just such a tiny, vicious feat as this pointless
"Memogate" nonscandal, given how Karl Rove is the demon
god at calculation and redirection and removing all
accountability from his candidate and making it appear as
though some big media conspiracy is treating Dubya unfairly,
even as Rove manipulates that very same media to smear the
living hell out of bona fide war heroes, all while shrugging
off more than 1,000 dead US soldiers and ignoring the brutal
fact that his boy Bush has almost singlehandedly made
America the most disrespected and openly loathed major
power on the planet.
Do we really not see ? Is much of the nation really this
gullible and lost and easily misled ? Do you already
know the answer ?
Let's be clear : CBS embarrassed itself silly by claiming
those documents are legit. To be sure, their fact-checking
abilities are rather appalling and clumsy and not even as
good as those of an average major daily American newspaper.
And, absolutely, Dan Rather's personality and history of
news reportage are, uh, unconventional and more than a little
weird, and Rather himself may even be, as Slate suggests,
"totally bonkers." http://slate.msn.com/id/2107006
And, furthermore, it may very well be true, as screeching
media pundits so desperately want you to believe, that
"Memogate" will be some sort of tipping point for major
TV-news media, the final straw that broke their aching
back of strained credibility, thus creating a huge hole for
eager-beaver bloggers and false pundits and wanna-be
authorities to rush in and make up the news for themselves
without much thought to integrity whatsoever.
What fun that will be.
But aren't you noticing something ? Something missing ?
Something huge and obvious and slimy and elephant size
and yet somehow utterly ignored during the entire Dan Rather
fiasco ? Of course you don't -- after all, you're not supposed to.
This was the whole point.
It's this : Paperwork or no paperwork, the allegations against
Dubya are entirely true.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/politics/campaign/20bama.html?ex=109660320Dan Rather Takes A Bullet
While the Right was demonizing the crusty ol' newsman,
BushCo got away with murder, again
Oh, come on.
I mean, really now. Like anyone worth their even remotely
sober intellect didn't have, during that entire, cute little
"Memogate" scandal, in their mind's eye a slightly oozing
picture of BushCo's master puppeteer and most favoritist
overfed pit bull Karl Rove, sitting there all puffed up and
wheezing and hunched over his grease-stained nail-studded
Compaq Presario after yet another three-Martini,
four-baby-seal-kabob lunch, hammering out those forged
memos about Bush's military ineptitude on his swiped copy
of MS Word.
Can't you just see it ? Hear the heavy breathing ? Smell the gin ?
Could this picture be very far from the truth ? Because, verily,
if it ain't the truth, it's hovering over it like a giant elephant-shaped
radiation cloud.
And who can't clearly see Rove, the ruthless conspirator and
"co-president," http://www.alternet.org/story/18152 grinning
like a troll on ether, orchestrating the whole memo maneuver
and hiring some GOP flunkies to feed the docs to overly gullible
CBS News with the full intent of later discrediting them and
screaming abut the bogus "liberal media" and hanging sad
wonky ol' Dan Rather out to dry and making a big fat nonsensical
media field day of it ?
Voilà, the net effect : a total and shockingly efficient deflection
of all public attention away from the obvious fact that George W.
Bush is, and was, and forever will be an incompetent AWOL
serviceman whose meager and embarrassing record pales in
comparison to Kerry's outstanding heroism, and adding yet
another notch to the Repubs belt of truly outstanding, world-class
deceptions.
Conjecture ? Mere wishful liberal thinking ? Hardly. With Rove,
it's never a difficult leap from the seemingly impossible and
utterly ruthless to the absolutely soulless and eminently doable.
Look. From doctoring the Florida voter rolls to rigging the
Supreme Court to manufacturing the Swift Boat Veterans for
Utter B.S. to creating an entirely discredited "flip flop" claim
against Kerry
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/23/MNGQK8TI8O1.DTL
to forcing the Democratic presidential candidate to actually
defend his stunning Vietnam heroism when not a single
member of Bush's team of sneering flying monkeys could be
bothered to serve in the military, ever, the proof is frightening
and obvious : Rove's GOP spin machine, it is brutal and toxic
and alarming.
And this machine, it is beyond more than capable of
orchestrating just such a tiny, vicious feat as this pointless
"Memogate" nonscandal, given how Karl Rove is the demon
god at calculation and redirection and removing all
accountability from his candidate and making it appear as
though some big media conspiracy is treating Dubya unfairly,
even as Rove manipulates that very same media to smear the
living hell out of bona fide war heroes, all while shrugging
off more than 1,000 dead US soldiers and ignoring the brutal
fact that his boy Bush has almost singlehandedly made
America the most disrespected and openly loathed major
power on the planet.
Do we really not see ? Is much of the nation really this
gullible and lost and easily misled ? Do you already
know the answer ?
Let's be clear : CBS embarrassed itself silly by claiming
those documents are legit. To be sure, their fact-checking
abilities are rather appalling and clumsy and not even as
good as those of an average major daily American newspaper.
And, absolutely, Dan Rather's personality and history of
news reportage are, uh, unconventional and more than a little
weird, and Rather himself may even be, as Slate suggests,
"totally bonkers." http://slate.msn.com/id/2107006
And, furthermore, it may very well be true, as screeching
media pundits so desperately want you to believe, that
"Memogate" will be some sort of tipping point for major
TV-news media, the final straw that broke their aching
back of strained credibility, thus creating a huge hole for
eager-beaver bloggers and false pundits and wanna-be
authorities to rush in and make up the news for themselves
without much thought to integrity whatsoever.
What fun that will be.
But aren't you noticing something ? Something missing ?
Something huge and obvious and slimy and elephant size
and yet somehow utterly ignored during the entire Dan Rather
fiasco ? Of course you don't -- after all, you're not supposed to.
This was the whole point.
It's this : Paperwork or no paperwork, the allegations against
Dubya are entirely true.
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It is common knowledge. Dubya was a family embarrassment.
A none-too-bright problem child. A mediocre student and
AWOL National Guardsman whose whereabouts can't be
accounted for during large chunks of his "service," unless
you happened to look in the bars down in Tijuana.
He skipped out on Vietnam due to Daddy's connections
and was spoon-fed and coddled, and he binge drank his
way through most of his adult life, and no matter how
much the GOP fluffs up his threadbare "record," even
they can't deny that Bush looks like a spoiled little Texas
brat who could no more wear a military uniform with
dignity and pride than a drag queen can wear a khaki
pantsuit from the Gap.
http://www.democrats.org/wherewasbush/fullchart.html
Funny how that little point got lost. Because, oh right,
that crusty and peculiar 73-year-old CBS newscaster,
he's the real devil here. And forget Bush's stunning
record of flip-flops and lies.
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=118263
It's Kerry who can't make up his mind. And forget all those
dead US soldiers who've lost their lives for no justifiable
reason whatsoever -- it's, uh, Cat Stevens who's the real
threat. Nice.
Clearly, Rove has sold his soul to the devil. After all,
his results are brilliant and troubling. You know your
cold-blooded re-election campaign is a crushing success
when American support for BushCo's handling of this
hideous war is actually on the rise, while simultaneously
every report, and every military general and think tank
and former ally, claims the situation in Iraq is more brutal
and desperate and irreconcilable than ever, and that Bush
has botched nearly every single piece of war policy
imaginable. This is how you know.
http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?040927ta_talk_packer
And do you hear that ? That cackling, hissing laughter ?
It's coming from the brilliantly orchestrated Repubs, all
giddy like greased pigs at how they can so effortlessly
switch the attack to some cranky CBS newscaster and
let some small-minded neoconservative millionaire
attack-dog bloggers get his screeching 15 minutes of
fame, as meanwhile, once again, Bush gets off scot-free,
the entire point lost, his absolutely miserable weak little
character and embarrassing military career instantly
forgotten, again. Applause, Karl. You've done it again.
But let us not give up quite so easily. Let us not discount
the massive wave of unprecedented unrest in this nation,
a dissonant and mutinous anger not seen since Vietnam,
emerging like a flame from the sense that we are being
-- and have been -- regularly, massively duped, and lied to,
and misled, and brutalized, and this shall not stand.
After all, the way to defeat any screaming demon of Rove
is simply to stop. Stop running and stop thinking he has all
the angles, and turn and face the snarling pasty-faced demon,
and ....................................................
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/09/29/notes092904.DTL&nl=fIt is common knowledge. Dubya was a family embarrassment.
A none-too-bright problem child. A mediocre student and
AWOL National Guardsman whose whereabouts can't be
accounted for during large chunks of his "service," unless
you happened to look in the bars down in Tijuana.
He skipped out on Vietnam due to Daddy's connections
and was spoon-fed and coddled, and he binge drank his
way through most of his adult life, and no matter how
much the GOP fluffs up his threadbare "record," even
they can't deny that Bush looks like a spoiled little Texas
brat who could no more wear a military uniform with
dignity and pride than a drag queen can wear a khaki
pantsuit from the Gap.
http://www.democrats.org/wherewasbush/fullchart.html
Funny how that little point got lost. Because, oh right,
that crusty and peculiar 73-year-old CBS newscaster,
he's the real devil here. And forget Bush's stunning
record of flip-flops and lies.
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=118263
It's Kerry who can't make up his mind. And forget all those
dead US soldiers who've lost their lives for no justifiable
reason whatsoever -- it's, uh, Cat Stevens who's the real
threat. Nice.
Clearly, Rove has sold his soul to the devil. After all,
his results are brilliant and troubling. You know your
cold-blooded re-election campaign is a crushing success
when American support for BushCo's handling of this
hideous war is actually on the rise, while simultaneously
every report, and every military general and think tank
and former ally, claims the situation in Iraq is more brutal
and desperate and irreconcilable than ever, and that Bush
has botched nearly every single piece of war policy
imaginable. This is how you know.
http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?040927ta_talk_packer
And do you hear that ? That cackling, hissing laughter ?
It's coming from the brilliantly orchestrated Repubs, all
giddy like greased pigs at how they can so effortlessly
switch the attack to some cranky CBS newscaster and
let some small-minded neoconservative millionaire
attack-dog bloggers get his screeching 15 minutes of
fame, as meanwhile, once again, Bush gets off scot-free,
the entire point lost, his absolutely miserable weak little
character and embarrassing military career instantly
forgotten, again. Applause, Karl. You've done it again.
But let us not give up quite so easily. Let us not discount
the massive wave of unprecedented unrest in this nation,
a dissonant and mutinous anger not seen since Vietnam,
emerging like a flame from the sense that we are being
-- and have been -- regularly, massively duped, and lied to,
and misled, and brutalized, and this shall not stand.
After all, the way to defeat any screaming demon of Rove
is simply to stop. Stop running and stop thinking he has all
the angles, and turn and face the snarling pasty-faced demon,
and ....................................................
ix
Think Karl Rove's underhanded tactics began in 2000 ?
A filmmaker plumbs the disturbing history of a man prepared
to do whatever it takes to get George Bush elected.
http://www.alternet.org/story/18152
NEWS ANALYSIS
Flip-flopping charge unsupported by facts Kerry always pushed
global cooperation, war as last resort
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/23/MNGQK8TI8O1.DTL
Of all the gloriously absurd moments in the Memogate
scandal, only one qualifies for Dan Rather's greatest hits.
Asked last week if he would ever concede that the National
Guard memos he showed on the Sept. 8 broadcast of
60 Minutes were forgeries, Rather replied, "If the documents
are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story."
http://slate.msn.com/id/2107006
He abandoned his once-prized status as a National Guard
pilot by failing to appear for a required physical. He sought
temporary reassignment from the Texas Air National Guard
to an Alabama unit but for six months did not show up for
training. He signed on as an official in the losing campaign
of a Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, and even there
he left few impressions other than as an amiable bachelor with
a good tennis game and a famous father.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/20/politics/campaign/20bama.html?ex=109660320Think Karl Rove's underhanded tactics began in 2000 ?
A filmmaker plumbs the disturbing history of a man prepared
to do whatever it takes to get George Bush elected.
http://www.alternet.org/story/18152
NEWS ANALYSIS
Flip-flopping charge unsupported by facts Kerry always pushed
global cooperation, war as last resort
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/23/MNGQK8TI8O1.DTL
Of all the gloriously absurd moments in the Memogate
scandal, only one qualifies for Dan Rather's greatest hits.
Asked last week if he would ever concede that the National
Guard memos he showed on the Sept. 8 broadcast of
60 Minutes were forgeries, Rather replied, "If the documents
are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story."
http://slate.msn.com/id/2107006
He abandoned his once-prized status as a National Guard
pilot by failing to appear for a required physical. He sought
temporary reassignment from the Texas Air National Guard
to an Alabama unit but for six months did not show up for
training. He signed on as an official in the losing campaign
of a Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, and even there
he left few impressions other than as an amiable bachelor with
a good tennis game and a famous father.
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Kerry and Bush's Vietnam Records Compared
http://www.democrats.org/wherewasbush/fullchart.html
President Bush : Flip-Flopper-In-Chief
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=118263
The Political War
Earlier this year, the United States Agency for International
Development, or USAID, hired a team of independent experts
to go to Iraq and evaluate the agency's programs there. The
experts came back with a mixed review (skiped)
But something happened to the report on the way to publication.
(skiped) the agency finally approved a version for internal use
which one member of the team called "a whitewash" of his
findings. Another expert said, "It's so political, everything
going on out there. They just didn't want to hear any bad news."
http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?040927ta_talk_packer
Kerry and Bush's Vietnam Records Compared
http://www.democrats.org/wherewasbush/fullchart.html
President Bush : Flip-Flopper-In-Chief
http://www.americanprogressaction.org/site/pp.asp?c=klLWJcP7H&b=118263
The Political War
Earlier this year, the United States Agency for International
Development, or USAID, hired a team of independent experts
to go to Iraq and evaluate the agency's programs there. The
experts came back with a mixed review (skiped)
But something happened to the report on the way to publication.
(skiped) the agency finally approved a version for internal use
which one member of the team called "a whitewash" of his
findings. Another expert said, "It's so political, everything
going on out there. They just didn't want to hear any bad news."
http://newyorker.com/talk/content/?040927ta_talk_packer