Students call Dean posters a hoax

[demdave]

Yesterday morning, Dartmouth students awoke to find posters -- complete with Confederate flag backgrounds -- advertising today's lecture by Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean on bulletin boards across campus. The poster, which purported to be an ad created by the Dean campaign on campus, was a hoax and neither Generation Dean nor the Young Democrats was involved in its creation, according to Young Democrats President Paul Heintz '06.
"Whoever is doing this is engaging in the most negative form of campaigning imaginable or participating in the most awful sort of prank," Heintz said.

Heintz said that he found out about the posters early Wednesday morning via blitzmail. Heintz also said that he is particularly concerned that many students actually think that the flyers were made by either the Young Democrats or Generation Dean.




http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2003111301020

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The problem is, after after being in here for a while and seeing the amount of "my candidate" anger, I don't really even suspect the REPS.:puke:

[UpInArms]

1. someone should take those in and have them checked for

Rove's fingerprints - he seems to have left them -

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/rove072399.htm

excerpt:

n 1973, he and the College Republicans were accused of encouraging dirty tricks during the Watergate campaign year of 1972. The Republican National Committee, which was then chaired by Bush's father, investigated and eventually exonerated Rove, who blames political opponents from his chairmanship race for spreading false allegations.

But Rove acknowledges that, in 1970, he used a false identity to gain entry to the campaign offices of Illinois Democrat Alan Dixon, who was running for state treasurer. Once inside, Rove swiped some letterhead stationery and sent out 1,000 bogus invitations to the opening of the candidate's headquarters promising "free beer, free food, girls and a good time for nothing."

...more...

[komplex]

7. Send them to Mississippi...

Maybe we could steal the state.

[Dagaz]

8. Rove is about to win the lottery

Karl just can't believe that he's about to handed this much fun. He'll have a field day with Dean.

[belle]

2. So does that mean it's time to break out the Bush-on-swastika posters?

It'd work for me...

[lfairban]

10. How about this Free Press cover.

http://www.freepress.org/

[theemu]

3. As a Dartmouth student involved with the Dean campaign...

... I can assure you that the incidents we've had lately concerning Dean and the confederate flag have been perpetrated by an as-yet-unknown smear group on campus. I'll try to keep everyone on the board informed about this as we find out more about the events over the next few days.

[Rose Siding]

4. Thanks, please do

Good luck with it.

[Ediacara]

6. smear group?

As in Republicans or uh.... sore Democrats?

[LoZoccolo]

9. I don't know if it's the /Dartmouth Review/, but...

...if it was organized them I wouldn't be surprised. Ann Coulter and Dinesh D'Souza used to write for it. Also, in one issue they outed some gay students. Real thuggish stuff like that.

[regnaD kciN]

14. Coulter went to Dartmouth, too?

It figures...didn't it used to be an all-male school?

;-)

[johnfunk]

22. Ann Coulter went to Cornell...

... I believe you're thinking of Laura Ingraham

[LoZoccolo]

24. Hmmmm...

I think you're right!

[bluestateguy]

11. The Dartmouth Review perhaps?

They have been doing this kind of stuff since before you were born.

[ClintonTyree]

12. Nazi Youth..............

any "Young Republican's Club" on campus would be the primary suspect. These bastards bring "rat fucking" to a new level. These people are the slime of the earth.

[regnaD kciN]

13. "As-yet-unknown"...?

Hasn't Dartmouth been known over the past couple of decades for having one of he most notorious right-wing student groups (funded by Scaife, if I recall correctly) that was known for such stunts as putting out a fake statement by a "Black Studies Group" written entirely in "ebonics" gibberish? And wasn't that the alma mater for such standouts of the right as Distort D'Newsa?

(Not saying all Dartmouth students are wingnuts, but it does seem to be a hotbed for well-funded wingnuts.)

[theemu]

19. You can't immediately point to the Review...

...for anything. In fact, the Review, independent of its political leanings, offers (at times) some extremely insightful criticism of our Dartmouth administration. One of the Review's writers is actually a Dean supporter, from what I understand.

And yes, D'Souza and Ingraham wrote for the Review. Of course, my brother-in-law was also editor of the Review in the late 80s/early 90s.

As I said, my personal suspicion, and the suspicion of many, is that there is a smear group on campus to destroy Dean's presence here.

[imax2268]

15. get the bastards...!

[Gin]

20. Since Dean brought up the issue...he cannot run from it now....

The issue is racism...Dean must face that issue head on...this poster can work for him with the right approcah. If anyone can do it, Dean can!

[johnfunk]

21. THEEMU: The first place you should look is the Dartmouth Review office

... the place is a notorious training ground for dirty tricksters, dating back to the days when Deborah "Li'l Eva Braun" Stone was the Editor and Anti-apartheid Protest Shantytown Bulldozer Contractor.

[xcentrik]

5. Hmmm... lessee...

Dartmouth ... parties with access to money and printing facilities...history of dirty tricks... nahh.

[JNelson6563]

16. sounds like some DUers I know

Sad but true.

Julie

[demdave]

17. morning kick

for those that do't stay up till 3AM. :party:

[Name removed]

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[RetroLounge]

23. I think your message violated a few DU rules

You may want to edit out the name...

Not cool to call out someone like that.

[wicket]

25. Drudge

Matt Drudge has a picture of the poster on his front page - http://www.drudgereport.com/

Bah, I hate him.

[bushisanidiot]

28. No, He Should Keep It Up. It Shows The Childishness of Repukes

they are showing their true colors early. It is only helping the democratic party look like they want to campaign on the issues vs. the repukes want to campaign on innuendo, red herrings, false accusations and lies.

Dean has game. All the american people have to do is listen to him speak. A silly poster printed by a repuke college kid isn't going to trump Dean's actual words and actions.

[David__77]

26. Hope they were taken down...

The answer to this is to immediately take them all down, and then make similar ones for the Bush campaign.

[bushisanidiot]

27. Average Americans Are Getting Sick & Tired of Repuke Dirty Election Tricks

this is clearly another childish & rovian repuke game.

Nothing but good publicity for dems if you ask me.