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southernleftylady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:07 PM
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OK with all this energy with this "fake reporter" story that we have..
do you think it will be picked up by other sources or just die away like EVERYTHING else does with this administration?
seems like this admin. is like Teflon.. nothing sticks.. I'm just not going to get all excited about this till it act. DOES something bad against bush.. we all know he has MANY skeletons in the closet yet nothing sticks...

so.. you think this will stick or not?
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Evacuation7 Donating Member (13 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:11 PM
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1. won't stick
I like the Teflon line too!
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lectrobyte Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:11 PM
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2. If I didn't read DU and the web, I'd probably not even heard of this

story. So, sadly, I'm thinking no stick.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:11 PM
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3. it depends
if it turns out that they can pin Plamegate on him the press will mention it in passing, once, during microphone technical difficulties, while they breathlessly cover the Michael Jackson trial 24/7 with a permanent breaking news banner about what boy he diddled this time.
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KoKo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:12 PM
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4. Here's a clue...I went over to Drudge and he's got several "gay" posts
but NOTHING about this. Now we know that Drudge is cruel and is happy to post anything sick he can find if it's about children or animals or the Clintons or Dems.

There's nothing there. :shrug:
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:18 PM
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10. I noticed that too
Just imagine if:

1. It's 1997
2. A "reporter" from "DEMUSA.COM" get's daily passes to the White House Press room.
3. A "reporter" gets into the White House press room and uses a fake name.
4. The "reporter" throws softball questions to the President's Press Secretary or even the President of the United States.
5. The "reporter" is associated with some "escort" web sites.

Drudge wouldn't cover it at all - yeah right. (It would have been bigger than Monica)

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progressoid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:29 PM
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14. Too true...................nt
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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:13 PM
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5. I think this one might stick - it has some legs.
All the freeps are praying that it won't stick, but they do seem awfully worried. This just might be the one...
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dvaravati Donating Member (81 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:14 PM
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6. wont stick
nothing does.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:14 PM
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7. Doesn't matter..... grist for the mill. One more layer of shit.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:15 PM
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8. It won't stick.
It may not deserve to stick. It's another instance of our getting all excited that we've finally found the silver bullet. Well, we may find it some day, but we haven't found it with this.
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:16 PM
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9. There is no connection to the WH yet
of course it won't stick because it is all about Guckert at this point. A story about the shady pasts of the Watergate burglars wouldn't have stuck to Nixon either.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:20 PM
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11. It's sticky alright... and Happy Valentine's Day!


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AG78 Donating Member (840 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:25 PM
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12. I see no reason why it would stick
Why would THIS be the story that takes down the empire?

What happened after Abu Graib? We're still flying people around the planet to be tortured.

What happened after no WMD were found in Iraq? We're using the same story for Iran.

What happened after Valerie Plame? Nothing. And whether Gannon(or whatever) had a hand in that won't make a difference.

Was there outrage over Armstrong Williams? Who?

It won't stick outside of our little lefty world.
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meisje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:26 PM
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13. It's got no legs, not even stubbs!
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dbt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:29 PM
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15. The Media is very close to tipping on this story.
In the first place, any sex-scandal is irresistible to them. In the second place, there's the gay aspect of it, in a time where bu$h was supposedly re-elected on a promise to keep the gays down.

Critical mass is rapidly approaching: the Media Borg's mission to cover bu$h's ass at all times VS a good old White House SEX SCANDAL, something they haven't had since Clinton.

Squirm, motherfuckers.

:evilgrin:
dbt
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:32 PM
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17. I agree
They will NOT be able to resist a great sex scandal.

Get your popcorn ready folks! :)


GAY MAN-SEX PROSTITUTION IN THE WHITE HOUSE! :D
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lala_rawraw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:30 PM
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16. No, this is
Sadly the one thing that MSM will pick up, scandal involving sex. They don't get care about criminal activity by our leader, or the falling apart of this country. What they really want is something involving sex, or a mother killing her kid. That is the only news they want to cover.
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 03:52 PM
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18. Media will kill quick. "Operation Mockingbird" and CNN and PsyOps
demand it.
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yodermon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-14-05 04:16 PM
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19. Newsflash: THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS NOT ON OUR SIDE
and never has been. All this surprise about how stories don't "stick" to the "teflon * presidency" makes me :eyes:. Geez. we've known that the MSM have been bought and paid for many times over, yet we get all red-faced when, once again, TimeWarner/GeneralElectric/Viacom/Newscorp give * a pass.

If we had a real media in this country, */cheney et. al. would be impeached, tried, conviced, sentenced, and rotting by now.

But golly gee-willikers! I really hope Keef has does a 2 minute bit on Jimmy-Jeff tonight! :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:
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