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2006-10-01 Home Front: Politix
NYT: Donk's Newest Suicide Strategy - Bash Fox
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Posted by .com 2006-10-01 04:31|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I'll start taking Begala's claims of Dem bashing seriously when he and his fellow travellers call off their dogs (like Matthews, Olberman, Schneider, etc.) in the MSM.
Posted by no mo uro 2006-10-01 06:33||   2006-10-01 06:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah! Somebody gimme another gallon of paint, and where's that first draft of "The Plan"™?
Posted by Bobby 2006-10-01 07:33||   2006-10-01 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't think the Dem strategy of having temper tantrums is going to get them any more votes than they already have.
Posted by anon 2006-10-01 07:46||   2006-10-01 07:46|| Front Page Top

#4 CBS, NBC cash goes
to Democrats
CBS: Of over $111,000 given by network employees, just two $1,000 contributions went to President Bush's re-election campaign.

NBC: NBC's contributions totaled $146,585, none of which went to Bush.

Fox: Of the $25,383 total, $4,930 (just 20%) went to Republicans candidates or committees.


THE POLITICS BEHIND FOX NEWS
News Corporation and their families had given almost $350,000 in campaign contributions, 60 percent of which went to Democrats.

Fox News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch served as vice finance chairman for a Gore fund-raiser in 2000, and contributed $50,000 to the Gore campaign. He also signed off on a deal allowing the Democrats to use the Staples Center for the 2000 Democratic Convention in Los Angeles at no charge. That was worth $10 million.

It just seems that Fox is right wing in Begala's Bizzaro World because Fox employees gave only 80% of money to the Democratic Party vs nothing by NBC and CBS. That's the best logic the Feelings and Unbalanced Party can offer. Money talks. Bullshit walks.
Posted by ed 2006-10-01 08:17||   2006-10-01 08:17|| Front Page Top

#5 80% (not counting that $10 million off the books Staples Center donation to the Dems).
Posted by ed 2006-10-01 08:21||   2006-10-01 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 Can you imagine the bitter envy felt by the people in the Times' newsroom as they worked on this article. A fellow news organization that's having success! and they're not working on our agenda and not letting us set the tone and direction of the national debate, as is our right!! How dare they?!! I think a thought probably momentarily passes through their narrow minds 'perhaps we should adapt and try letting up a little on the elitist, anti-Conservativism.' But most of them would quickly banish such an idea from their head's and then feel slightly ashamed for even having thought it. None would dare mutter it aloud in front of his/her collegues.
Posted by Monsieur Moonbat 2006-10-01 09:25||   2006-10-01 09:25|| Front Page Top

#7 This can really backfire. More people will tune to fox to see what all the hubbub is about and find that its more balanced then the other MSM outlets. Why they have both Democratic and Republican commentators! They dont pre-digest the food for you?
Posted by CrazyFool 2006-10-01 09:33||   2006-10-01 09:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Democrats are using the famous "Shoot the Messenger" strategy, usually employed as a last resort.
Posted by john">john  2006-10-01 09:34||   2006-10-01 09:34|| Front Page Top

#9 The donks are at war with Bush, Halliburton, Cheney, Rummy, Fox, Rush, etc.

The donks are not at war with al Qaeda, terrorism, Iran, etc.
Posted by Captain America 2006-10-01 10:49||   2006-10-01 10:49|| Front Page Top

#10 When your walls are collapsing around you, you are bound to lash out. The subject of your lashing could very well be those who did not come to your side when the walls were merely cracking.
Their next outburst should be 'help'.
Posted by wxjames 2006-10-01 10:58||   2006-10-01 10:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Speaking of Fox News, this morning I watched Chris Wallace interview Michael Scheurer (sp?), Lawrence Wright, and an unknown former NSC hack from the Clinton Admin. It was sort of a carryover from last week's Wallace interview with Clinton.

Best part: Scheurer called Clinton, Clark, and Berger liars (more than once) for claiming they did all they could to take down OBL. Transcript not up yet at Fox, but IIRC Scheurer said "Bill Clinton is flat lying to the American people".

I recall that Scheurer has come in for criticism on these boards, but this morning the guy went after Clinton big time and noted, in passing, that Bush never had any opportunity to take out OBL because we never had "eyes on" OBL during the 8 months of the Bush admin whereas we had "eyes on" OBL under Clinton numerous times.

Posted by Mark Z 2006-10-01 11:15||   2006-10-01 11:15|| Front Page Top

#12 Another important point Scheuer made is that there are classified docs out there that prove his point and that the 9/11 commission either ignored the docs, buried them, or never saw them.
Posted by Mark Z 2006-10-01 11:22||   2006-10-01 11:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Thx for the heads-up - I look forward to seeing the interview, Mark Z.

As for criticism of Scheurer here, he authored (originally anonymously) a Bush hit book ("Imperial Hubris Blah Blah Blah") and received his due for both his breach of oath as a (then) serving CIA employee of 22 yrs with a personal political agenda and for the bogus attempt to paint Bush as an imperious Neocon warmonger. He also authored an earlier book ("Through Our Enemies' Eyes Blah Blah Blah"), anonymously. His books were published through, who else?, the NYT. For his anti-sitting President / self-serving efforts, he deserved some thumping.

Credit where due - on the topic of Clinton, he's calling it as he saw it first-hand while in the CIA - he was the chief of the Counterterrorist Center's bin Laden unit. He's buffing his creds as a professional analyst - not some political hack, someone who was there, by calling the spades when Clinton weasels. In a way, he is what Dickie Clark has claimed to be.

Sometimes it seems the Michael Scheurers and Dickie Clarks and such seem to be singing in harmony, acting in league. That's false, of course. They (and similar ilk) are hawking books and looking for their piece of the Moonbat Money pie, to be sure, but also have differing degrees of actual knowledge, personal integrity, and personal agendas. Although both Scheurer and Clark would love to derail and (?) depose Bush, and find fame, glory, and Big Bux in the process, their reasons differ, IMHO.

Scheurer was one of the people that Goss was sent to root out of the CIA, a Clintoonian holdover who fought to scuttle Bush admin policies, actively working against his President, by abusing his office.

Clark is merely an asshole who, in seeking both a shiny place in history and a job with a future DhimmiDonk admin, has learned how to grovel and grandstand at the same time. A feat, yes, but not worthy of anything but derision, IMHO.

Just my take, Mark.
Posted by .com 2006-10-01 13:12||   2006-10-01 13:12|| Front Page Top

#14 Calling Brit Hume a right-winger would probably be accurate. Calling Chris Wallace a right-winger is a real stretch.
Posted by Super Hose 2006-10-01 23:13||   2006-10-01 23:13|| Front Page Top

#15 WAFFLE-CRATISM = CLINTONISM > LIBERTARIANISM = CONSERVATIVISM and vice versa as per the winds of blame. KONDRACHE + other DEM-leaning FNC pundits are doing more to save the credibility of what was once the [pro-America] DEMOCRATIC PARTY than anything Billary can ever do. AS LONG AS THE RADICAL/FAR/ULTRA-LEFT CONTROL THE DEMS, AMERICAN HIROSHIMA(S) WILL ALWAYS BE OFFICIALLY HATED-DENIED BUT SECRETLY DESIRED. The Commies came into power by REVOLUTION-CIVIL WAR-FACTIONALISM so why should Fascist = Limited Communist Clintonian America = Amerika go against the grain. *OIL STORM miniseries > RUSSIA-CHINA stayed RUSSIA-CHINA, but only America became the USR [United Socialist Republic(s)].
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-10-01 23:48||   2006-10-01 23:48|| Front Page Top

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