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Soopercali Donating Member (257 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:03 PM
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Merrie Spaeth on Scarborough Country coming up...
And gee, what do you want to guess she denies any SBVT collaboration with the Bush campaign?:hurts:
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:14 PM
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1. She Once Said Her McCAIN Smear Was One of the Top Five
things she regrets most in her life. Yep, that's the ticket. So she moves on to do it again.
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SayitAintSo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:52 PM
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15. If she did ... she's lying like a dog now ....
On Scarborough .... unbelievable ... They know no shame ...
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 10:03 PM
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21. Link to Where She Said She WAS Involved
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http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Merrie_Spa...

Merrie Spaeth

Merrie Spaeth is "the public relations consultant representing" Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SBVT). "According to CBS television news, election commission records gave the maximum possible £2,000 donation" to the Bush-Cheney '04 Inc. re-election campaign in June 2003. <1>

Her role with the SBVT attack on Kerry prompted the Kerry campaign allegations that she played a role in attempting to discredit John McCain in the Republican presidential primary in 2000. Spaeth told National Review that she was approached to provide PR support after the two Texas millionaires Sam and Charles Wyly, created the front group Republicans for Clean Air to attack McCains environmental policies.

Spaeth said that she agreed to field press inquiries for the group. It "turned out to be the biggest mistake, at least one of the top five," of her life, she said. "I regret being involved in any way," she said. <2>

Spaeth, founder of Spaeth Communications, Inc., "served as a White House Fellow and was assigned to FBI Director William Webster. She was the first Fellow and one of the first two women on the director’s staff. From the FBI, she served two years at the Federal Trade Commission as director of public affairs, and in 1983, President Ronald Reagan named her director of media relations at the White House. Merrie introduced satellite communications to the White House, and the electronic White House News Service. One newspaper headline said she 'took the White House into the Space Age.' <3>
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democrat_patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:54 PM
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18. She said ZERO connection to McCain

Do you have any links where she was involved?
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:36 PM
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2. Wow, the "MSNBC Analyst" Says JK Campaign Doing Great with Swiftbots
One Flavia COLGAN, who says that the initial response wasn't fast enough but doing great at the local level, that it needs to be "tied to (Shrub) more."

SPAETH coming up next.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:43 PM
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3. Who Is Flavia COLGAN? She's GREAT!
She just said that the swiftbots are being sunk, that every day more of their charges are discredited, more eyewitnesses come forward, and more citations surface, plus there are daily pictures of JK "with a chestful of medals," that these pics trigger the subconscious question about what Shrub was doing at the time! WHOA!

SPAETH coming up next.
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democrat_patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:48 PM
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4. Flavia rocks!!
Who is she????

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Bush was AWOL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:51 PM
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12. She is the best looking strategist I've ever seen
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:57 PM
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19. She is awesome! She gives the shit right back like no other!
:toast: to Flavia !
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 10:03 PM
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20. Flavia Colgan is only 26 and is a Political Strategist. Read more:
Edited on Tue Aug-24-04 10:04 PM by mzmolly
FLAVIA COLGAN

AGE: 26.

WHO SHE IS: Political wunderkind, who has worked on statewide elections and served as Lieutenant Governor Catherine Baker Knoll's chief of staff.

WHY SHE'S ON THE SPOT: Colgan recently shed the political life for work as a full-time pundit, signing a contract with MSNBC that puts her on deck for talking-head shots on NBC and CNBC.

D-DAY: Whenever that red "On Air" camera light is illuminated, usually during MSNBC "Scarborough Country" show at 10 p.m.

FRIENDS: Anyone at a political cocktail party or fund-raiser.

FOES: Nobody who will go on record.

DID YOU KNOW...Colgan is working on two books, including a political quiz that she says will help people decide if they are a Republican or Democrat, and a tome of advice on how teenage girls can survive high school.

QUOTE: "I've never been told to shut up by Chris Matthews."


http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/7635207.htm?1c
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wndycty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 10:04 PM
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22. Only 26 here is what I found on google
4 FLAVIA COLGAN

AGE: 26.

WHO SHE IS: Political wunderkind, who has worked on statewide elections and served as Lieutenant Governor Catherine Baker Knoll's chief of staff.

WHY SHE'S ON THE SPOT: Colgan recently shed the political life for work as a full-time pundit, signing a contract with MSNBC that puts her on deck for talking-head shots on NBC and CNBC.

D-DAY: Whenever that red "On Air" camera light is illuminated, usually during MSNBC "Scarborough Country" show at 10 p.m.

FRIENDS: Anyone at a political cocktail party or fund-raiser.

FOES: Nobody who will go on record.

DID YOU KNOW...Colgan is working on two books, including a political quiz that she says will help people decide if they are a Republican or Democrat, and a tome of advice on how teenage girls can survive high school.

QUOTE: "I've never been told to shut up by Chris Matthews."

CHANCES OF SUCCESS: 5 out of 10.

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/7635207.htm?1c
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:48 PM
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5. There She Is - "Web of connections (Shrub) Campaign"
"Are you the conduit?" She says, "There is NO connection. The swifties are entirely independent. It is INSULTING to them, these honorable men... Admiral HOFFMAN, who is their chairman, said this is not a political issue.... They formed themselves spontaneously"
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:50 PM
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10. They formed spontaneously!
35 years after the fact.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:53 PM
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16. Yaas, Like Athena Springing from Zeus's Head or Wherever n/t
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:48 PM
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6. apologize for that post n/t
Edited on Tue Aug-24-04 09:51 PM by cynatnite
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MissB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:49 PM
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7. I don't like to comment on someone's looks
But I'm thinking botox, not makeup.
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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:50 PM
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9. I couldn't tell actually.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:49 PM
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8. "Always Tell the Truth because you can remember it in a pinch"
That's her philosophy. Her deceased hubby ran with Shrub in Texas.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 10:15 PM
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23. She Sez JK Campaign "Twists things" -----Here's how SHE Twists
Edited on Tue Aug-24-04 10:23 PM by UTUSN
She takes one grain of truth and builds a sand castle. Here's the deal. She says that the JK campaign try to link her to Shrub by saying that her husband "ran with" Shrub when Shrub ran for governor (while her husband ran for LT gov).

She says that in Texas, the guv and LT guv don't run as a team, like on the national level of prez/veep. O.K., that's true that they don't win or lose TOGETHER.

But------------they are REPUKES together!!!! They run on a REPUKE TICKET, on a REPUKE SLATE.

So, I would say that the two DID "RUN WITH" each other. If her hubby had beat Big Daddy ("Dem") Bob BULLOCK, does she think that her hubby would NOT cooperate with his fellow Repuke Shrub?

Not to say that BULLOCK didn't help Shrub more than any Repuke could. The old dictator BULLOCK is who put Shrub on the road more than anybody but Poppy's sperm and Babs' egg.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:50 PM
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11. The McCAIN Smear
She says, "Yes! Let's TALK about it!"
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:52 PM
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13. "Not true. I didn't run (the McCAIN Smear)"
"None connection. Zero. What's lower than zero. The KERRY campaign twists things."
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:52 PM
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14. Spaeth's astounded!
She's very disturbed that journalists didn't bother to check into the facts. Oddly enough, that was the linchpin of the Swifties' strategy.
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democrat_patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 09:54 PM
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17. Spaeth is a %^&^^%(&%^%^ !!!
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-24-04 11:14 PM
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24. Good Night Kick for Flavia COLGAN n/t
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