Could the Press Grow a Spine?

WalterM140 wrote:
Fact: Kerry went to war. Bush didn't.



Ed mentioned Orwell. It's orwellian to belittle the hero and laud the shirker.

Walt

The Republicans and their junior college instructor lackey's have a long
history of belittling those who served well while exaggerating the
military records of their, more prudent, candidates.

Can anyone remember the 1972 election? During WWII Richard Nixon ran a
Navy fruit drink stand at some South Pacific backwater supply base while
George McGovern was leading groups of B24s in daylight attacks on Nazi
Europe. AFter the war McGovern used the GI Bill to get a Ph.D., while
Nixon used slush funds to finance red baiting.

By election time in 1972 the Republican propaganda machine convinced the
weak minded and ignorant that Nixon was the warrior and McGovern the dodger.

They're trying to pull the same trick in 2004.

Cheers

--mike

"Mike Dargan" wrote in message
news:qd0Dc.117009$0y.58857@attbi_s03...

The Republicans and their junior college instructor lackey's have a long
history of belittling those who served well while exaggerating the
military records of their, more prudent, candidates.

Can anyone remember the 1972 election? During WWII Richard Nixon ran a
Navy fruit drink stand at some South Pacific backwater supply base while
George McGovern was leading groups of B24s in daylight attacks on Nazi
Europe. AFter the war McGovern used the GI Bill to get a Ph.D., while
Nixon used slush funds to finance red baiting.

By election time in 1972 the Republican propaganda machine convinced the
weak minded and ignorant that Nixon was the warrior and McGovern the
dodger.

They're trying to pull the same trick in 2004.


I can remember the 1972 election, but I sure don't remember what you
described. I think you fabricated it.

I can remember the 1972 election, but I sure don't remember what you
described. I think you fabricated it.



A Republican operative named Donald Segretti served jail time for his
activities in disrupting Democratic Party activities.

You can look it up.

Or perhaps you have heard of Nixon's "Plumbers", or maybe you are familiar with
a little contretemps known as Watergate.

Walt

"WalterM140" wrote in message
...

A Republican operative named Donald Segretti served jail time for his
activities in disrupting Democratic Party activities.

You can look it up.

Or perhaps you have heard of Nixon's "Plumbers", or maybe you are
familiar with a little contretemps known as Watergate.


I'm familiar with those things, but I'm not familiar with any attempt by
Republicans to portray Nixon as a warrior and McGovern as a draft dodger. I
don't believe it happened. I believe Mike Dargan fabricated it just like
you fabricated your assertions about Bush.

I believe Mike Dargan fabricated it just like
you fabricated your assertions about Bush.

The record shows a 16 month break -at least- in Bush's service. He just blew
off his commitment.

Walt

"WalterM140" wrote in message
...

The record shows a 16 month break -at least- in Bush's service.
He just blew off his commitment.


The record shows that Bush completed his service and that you're a partisan
loon.

The record shows a 16 month break -at least- in Bush's service.
He just blew off his commitment.


The record shows that Bush completed his service and that you're a partisan
loon.


The records do show that. But the Bushies forgot to scrub/cover up/alter the
one document that conclusively shows that Bush was AWOL for 16 months.

Walt

Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Mike Dargan" wrote in message
news:qd0Dc.117009$0y.58857@attbi_s03...

The Republicans and their junior college instructor lackey's have a long
history of belittling those who served well while exaggerating the
military records of their, more prudent, candidates.

Can anyone remember the 1972 election? During WWII Richard Nixon ran a
Navy fruit drink stand at some South Pacific backwater supply base while
George McGovern was leading groups of B24s in daylight attacks on Nazi
Europe. AFter the war McGovern used the GI Bill to get a Ph.D., while
Nixon used slush funds to finance red baiting.

By election time in 1972 the Republican propaganda machine convinced the
weak minded and ignorant that Nixon was the warrior and McGovern the

dodger.

They're trying to pull the same trick in 2004.



I can remember the 1972 election, but I sure don't remember what you
described. I think you fabricated it.

Well Steve, if you don't think very well, try to not think very much:

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3...scheer20021029

Cheers,

--mike

"Mike Dargan" wrote:
Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
"Mike Dargan" wrote in message
news:qd0Dc.117009$0y.58857@attbi_s03...

The Republicans and their junior college instructor lackey's have a long
history of belittling those who served well while exaggerating the
military records of their, more prudent, candidates.

Can anyone remember the 1972 election? During WWII Richard Nixon ran a
Navy fruit drink stand at some South Pacific backwater supply base while
George McGovern was leading groups of B24s in daylight attacks on Nazi
Europe. AFter the war McGovern used the GI Bill to get a Ph.D., while
Nixon used slush funds to finance red baiting.

By election time in 1972 the Republican propaganda machine convinced the
weak minded and ignorant that Nixon was the warrior and McGovern the

dodger.

They're trying to pull the same trick in 2004.



I can remember the 1972 election, but I sure don't remember what you
described. I think you fabricated it.

Well Steve, if you don't think very well, try to not think very much:

http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml%3...scheer20021029

That modern review you selected appears to have missed who actually
supported McGovern's in the primaries (it also doesn't provide any evidence
that the Nixon campaign portrayed McGovern as a draft dodger).
It wasn't the Nixon campaign that painted McGovern the "subversive peacenik"
it was the news shots of his anti-war, anti-capitalist supporters and his
own campaign rhetoric at the Democratic convention and the many campaign
rallies leading up to the election that November.

"Brett" wrote in message ...


... McGovern the "subversive peacenik"
it was the news shots of his anti-war, anti-capitalist supporters and his
own campaign rhetoric at the Democratic convention and the many campaign
rallies leading up to the election that November.

You say that like it was a bad thing.

I don't trust anyone who is not 'anti-war' though I trust some
who feel that sometimes the alternative to war is worse than war.

--

FF