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hector459 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:36 PM
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Something more must be coming on the "Gannon" fraud.
MSM (national meida NBC) picked up on the story tonight. Now you and I know that all the information has been out there for weeks and the MSM wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. However, Hardball, NBC and a few others are talking about it now. I believe they are doing this because something else is about to break and the MSM doesn't want to be accused of NOT covering the story just to protect the President.

What do you DUers think?
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thinkingwoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:39 PM
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1. suddenly
it's everwhere! It does make you wonder.
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Jon8503 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:39 PM
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2. You got it Hector.
This has been brewing and I think the MSM & White House was hoping it would die a quick death. It did not.

I like what the news correspondent said on Hardball about Scott McCellan's wierd answer that everyone has alias. He said he did not know of any news correspondants that did.

Everyone is talking about the security aspect of this as well.

Massage anyone???? You get a good discount if you have your RNC card.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 08:04 PM
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15. probably why Goss was on TV yesterday ratcheting
up the FEAR FACTOR in front of the Senate committee. The terrarists are coming again!!! RUN HIDE!!! Buy your duct tape and plastic --

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Us vs Them Donating Member (725 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:41 PM
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3. The corporate media are just playing catch up
because Jon Stewart made a little funny at their expense.

They will continue to be shamed into coverage from this point forward. Unless its on issues of such dire national importance as Michael Jackson.
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:52 PM
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10. fingers crossed Jon pushes some more tonight
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:43 PM
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4. I think they've spent the last two weeks furiously investigating..
Dems! They will look for a Dem politico/newsman/celebrity that has something similar to or as outrageous as Gannon's background. They will then play the tit-for-tat-they-all-do-it moral standoff card...and the whole thing will recede into media oblivion.
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pscot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:54 PM
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12. We're way beyond moral equivalency here
The republicans have brought the fucking circus to town. This administration is a freak show. No way theDemocrats can keep up.
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:46 PM
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5. it's a sound bite society
and you just got yours.

now they will drop it if they can. Afterall, they did cover it.

back to Jacko...but i wish i were wrong about it.

dp

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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 08:03 PM
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14. Jacko was spirited
off to the hospital by evil liberals so to keep him out of the news. Maybe he stay in the hospital two or three weeks.

180

Sarcasm. But hey whatever works.
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 08:25 PM
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16. he was released already
while the drs. were telling the MSM how grave his illness was....

:eyes:


dp
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oneighty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 08:45 PM
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19. Gee
I guess there goes that diversion.

180
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deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:47 PM
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6. well, jon stewart nailed it, he has a huge audience, then Imus touched on
it yesterday also. It's getting out there, sooner or later they will need to address it.
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Bullshot Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:48 PM
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7. Maybe the mainstream media are offended
at how the Bush Administration has trivialized their positions by having some dumbfuck with no media background get such a prestigious position with the White House press corps, compared to all of the hoops the rest of those clowns had to jump through to get theirs.
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ktowntennesseedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:48 PM
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8. You gotta wonder why they are suddenly paying attention.
I'd like to think that bloggers are finally finding some clout, and that MSM had to at least mention it since its such a hot item in bloggerland. Of course if that's the case, it means that we remain diligent because the right-wing bloggers will expect equal time (equal to them being around 85%) and they will get it in spite of a liberal-biased media (sarcasm==>off).

I hope your hunch in right that something big is about to break and the MSM doesn't want to be, ahem, caught with their pants down.
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dave123williams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:49 PM
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9. Thank God for the Blogsphere...if it were up to the MSM whores, you'd...

...never have heard about this...
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:53 PM
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11. You got THAT right! However, let's not forget there are millions of
Murkins that don't do the internets...
:eyes:
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 07:59 PM
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13. it won't happen, sorry
they started announcing the threat of terror yesterday, that will continued, and this story is dead

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dave123williams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 08:39 PM
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17. You only get to cry wolf so many times....

Scandal feeds the media machine. They won't be able to resist if we stoke the fires a little bit...
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pdxmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-17-05 08:42 PM
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18. Bill Maher's new season opens tomorrow night
and he has Robin Williams, Sen. Biden, and Tommy Thompson on board. If there is anything Maher hates, it's hypocrisy, so with any luck, he and Robin Williams will be all over this one tomorrow night.
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