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DiverDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 10:09 AM
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We need to let the editors of this paper know
that we won't stand for Cindy Sheehan to be called a traitor.

Poll in the Quad City Times:
http://tinyurl.com/bogat

Address to send a LTTE:

opinions@qctimes.com

I sent one in:

Re: your "poll" on 8-27-05

Traitor?
Despicable that the word "traitor" is even used, what happened to my country?
When did it become accepted to call a grieving mother asking simple question, that she has THE RIGHT to ask, a "traitor"?

Why aren't you all over the No armor, no communications, no modern flak jacket issue?

Don't you support the troops?

No you don't, you kow-tow and lick the boots of this administration that got us into a war based on lies.
Doesn't that bother you?, even a little?
What happened to a "free and independent press"?
What a sad excuse for a poll, and a newspaper, for calling a mother of a dead soldier a traitor.

Cindy Sheehan is speaking for me and 10's of thousands of others, asking the questions that YOU should be asking, but refuse to.

I remain,
in utter contempt,

Dave

Phone number available on request.


Lets stuff their inbox!
Not that it will do anything, but I feel better anyway.

Dave
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 10:15 AM
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1. says 90% are calling her a traitor. can this be for real?
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 10:19 AM
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3. poll freeped bigtime
when I voted, there were 75 votes for "traitor" and less than 10 minutes later, there were 1800 votes for "traitor".
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countingbluecars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 10:30 AM
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5. Yes, as I was checking the results,
I watched the "traitor" count jump up hundreds of votes in a few seconds.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 10:18 AM
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2. done!
Mine was milder than yours, but asked why the newspaper used the word "traitor" to describe someone exercising their Constititonal rights-I asked if they were against the Constitution.
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patdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 10:20 AM
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4. Where is the Quad Cities??? 90% call her a traitor??? that is not the
poll from Seattle Times - a real poll. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Iraq%20AP%20Ipsos%20Poll

And why is the poll answer list different than the poll question list??? I cannot imagine 90% of 10,000+ people believe Cindy is a traitor...talk about bogus!!!
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 10:34 AM
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6. Iowa-- now at 87% calling her a traitor.
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LittleWoman Donating Member (217 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 11:14 AM
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8. Quad Cities is on the Illinois-Iowa border
It includes Bettendorf and Davenport Iowa and Moline and Rock Island Illinois. I lived in central Illinois a number of years ago and I found the area to be incredibly conservative. Having said that, I think this poll has been freeped big time. In addition, the paper used a very inflamatory term "traitor" almost as if it wanted the poll to be freeped. I suspect someone involved in this had their own agenda.
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patdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 11:59 AM
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9. Yes, there is another post in GD that proves it is being freeped
says huge numbers voted all at once...I know even the most conservative place would not be 90% against free speach..even if they loved bush** and hated Cindy, they would be loath to call her a traitor.
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brook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 10:42 AM
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7. vote & email done. n/t
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DiverDave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 02:40 PM
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10. Folks, we need to tell them this is
WRONG.

Look, freeper idiocy aside, they are calling this women such a vile name, that I think we just CANNOT let it slide.
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