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2008-10-29 Home Front: Politix

So let's see if we have this straight...

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Posted by Mike 2008-10-29 08:35|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Yes but we had to be 'entertained' by every rumor and smack about Palin within a week of her nomination and personal data about Joe within two days. All so newsworthy. /sarcasm off

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-10-29 08:53|| 2008-10-29 08:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Nuwt had it right yesterday when he said, "Lay
$ 50,000. out there and the tape will mysteriously appear on your desk the next day." Unfortunately, I don't think it would make any difference if you had Obama his wife, and Bill Ayers manufacturing Zyklon B in their basement, the left would still maintain his innocence and qualification to be president.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-29 09:00|| 2008-10-29 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Makes no sense - why would a source in the first place give a tape of something very newsworthy to the LAT & then ask them not to show it? The LAT couldn't be lying could they?

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-10-29 09:19|| 2008-10-29 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Answer: Source to LAT. Oh by the way, we filmed that event. I got it. You want it? Yes, I DO like Maserati sports cars. Please keep my name out of it.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-29 09:47|| 2008-10-29 09:47|| Front Page Top

#5 As someone noted, the response makes little sense. If the source wanted the tape kept a secret, why give it to a loud-mouthed newspaper jonesin' for a cash infusion? Burning it would have kept the secret a lot better.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2008-10-29 10:31|| 2008-10-29 10:31|| Front Page Top

#6 The only secrets to be kept are the amount of money that changed hands and the 'who did it' of the transfer.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-10-29 10:43|| 2008-10-29 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 You can bet that if the LA Times had a tape on McCain, it would have been out for public consumption faster than yesterday. The LA and NY Times are a bunch of scurrilous rats trying to rig the election by withholding information and printing their biases as truth.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-10-29 11:08|| 2008-10-29 11:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Come on guys give them a break....

They had to 'STOP THE PRESSES!' in order to report on Sarah's shoes.

/SARC

Posted by CrazyFool 2008-10-29 11:12|| 2008-10-29 11:12|| Front Page Top

#9 Why would a source not have a copy of the tape. There is a lot of money floating around out there, and I predict we see the tape. Obama is already trying to deflect it, and he sure wants a lot of people to vote early.

Posted by bman 2008-10-29 11:31|| 2008-10-29 11:31|| Front Page Top

#10 As Hitchcock once said: three can keep a secret if two are dead.

Posted by Steve White 2008-10-29 11:38|| 2008-10-29 11:38|| Front Page Top

#11 I imagine another person is visible in the tape that the tape's owner doesn't want shown publicly.

Steve White. I thought it was Ben Franklin said that.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/benjaminfr151663.html

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-10-29 11:47|| 2008-10-29 11:47|| Front Page Top

#12 "Obama, his wife, and Bill Ayers manufacturing Zyklon B in their basement,"

I've seen the video of this....

Posted by Carbon Monoxide">Carbon Monoxide 2008-10-29 15:03|| 2008-10-29 15:03|| Front Page Top

#13 At some point, when are these people (NYT, LAT CBS etc.) held accountable to the public for their attempts at manipulating elections? Government won't do a thing against them because more than half of the government is interested in their continued complicity.

Some time in the future, I fear we'll see real violence done to some of these characters, and when that starts, I don't think we'll ever be the same.

Posted by Rob06">Rob06 2008-10-29 16:08|| 2008-10-29 16:08|| Front Page Top

#14 If an individual had a tape that could damage the electability of a messiah, then they might want to turn it over to a large public institution, in trust of course, anonymously, to avoid getting measured for those famous Windy City Concrete Sneakers™.

And that large public (but very unprofitable) institution might wish to get free publicity ~~test the market~~ for such a commodity. Value may decline precipitously in the next seven days. Conversely, value may significantly appreciate over the next four years. Your broker makes no guarantees of success.

If a certain campaign had about $600mil to spend, it could probably find seven figure cash to spend on, say, polling research in California ~~or Nevada~~ by a large institution.

And said campaign might even suggest future considerations to the institution for 'protecting' such documentation. Perhaps a Doctrine to regulate internet fairness, so that large public (but very unprofitable) institutions would not have to compete with pajama clad ~~non dues paying advertising stealing editor free circulation robbing heathens~~ bloggers typing in basements.

So yeah, self-interest would be a strong motivator to all involved.

Posted by Skunky Glins 5***">Skunky Glins 5*** 2008-10-29 22:09|| 2008-10-29 22:09|| Front Page Top

#15 This is really *yawn*

We already have the list of international supporters for Sen. Obama. Said list includes the head of every terrorist nation and organization that's been in the news in the past year.

If that won't make a difference, why would airing this mystery tape?

Posted by DLR 2008-10-29 23:17|| 2008-10-29 23:17|| Front Page Top

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