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DEMS CLAIM NASA LEAKED PHOTOS TO SMEAR
Drudge Report ^ | July 27, 2004 | Matt Drudge

Posted on 07/27/2004 6:01:33 PM PDT by we_will_prevail

DEMS CLAIM NASA LEAKED PHOTOS TO SMEAR

Kerry campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill claims 'dirty tricks' by NASA after it released 'surprise' photographs showing the Dem presidential hopeful dressed in a space suit crawling through a rocket hatch.

Cahill, asked by FOXNEWS whether it was a dirty trick, said: 'Well, what do you think?' No photos were supposed to be taken, she said.

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HUME: i must ask you about this photograph that suddenly turned up and fell in our laps last night nobody thought it was come. nobody had reported on the event which led to-t but there he was, the senator, on all fours in this very peculiar outfit, which i guess nasa had given him. how did that come about?

CAHILL: well, yesterday senator john glenn, obviously he was an astronaut in his previous life sexrvings senator carr took a tour of a bio facility at nasa. it was just the two of them, and the nasa staff, and all of a sudden this is a leaked photo.

HUME: it was leaked?

CAHILL: yes.

HUME: it was made by nasa, right?

CAHILL: yes, it was.

HUME: so the campaign had no idea there would be any photographs.

CAHILL: none.

HUME: when it was agreed he would put on his th costume.

CAHILL: there was no press there. there was -- nothing. all of the sudden these photographs are out.

HUME: do you smell a dirty trick here? CAHILL: well, what do you think?

HUME: that isa is not a particularly political organization.

CAHILL: this was a pledge i want tour, obviously that, senator glenn and senator kerry were taking at cape canaveral, and all of the sudden these photographs appeared, and, you know, take it as you may. brit: well, is there any concern that this photo might prove as embarrassing as the fabled tank photo did in 1988?

CAHILL: you know, i think probably nasa will release the photograph of senator glenn, former astronaut, in the same –

HUME: in fact, there is a shot with a bunch of them in these outfits. he is not running, of course.

CAHILL: and the thing is this is a legitimate tour of a nasa facility, and this photograph appeared out of nowhere. we were surprised. we're not surprised now.

HUME: you don't have anyone in mind? do you think -- CAHILL: i don't.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kerry; kerrythewrongstuff; photogate; thewrongstuff
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1 posted on 07/27/2004 6:01:34 PM PDT by we_will_prevail
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To: we_will_prevail

bAWHAHAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...this only means one thing...THE RATS ARE RUNNING SCARED! OOOOOHHHH YEAH, a Dukakis moment for SURRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEE!


2 posted on 07/27/2004 6:04:06 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: we_will_prevail

Is she for real?? This is hilarious!


3 posted on 07/27/2004 6:04:16 PM PDT by truthkeeper
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To: we_will_prevail
HUME: so the campaign had no idea there would be any photographs.

CAHILL: none.

This one stinketh like the day-old product of a dyspeptic bull. A presidential candidate puts that getup on at this stage of his campaign for a photo-op, period. Mr. Cahill is a liar.

4 posted on 07/27/2004 6:06:12 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: we_will_prevail

"obviously he was an astronaut in his previous life sexrvings senator carr "

I beg your pardon?


5 posted on 07/27/2004 6:06:22 PM PDT by Pikamax
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To: Billthedrill

Ms. Cahill. Statement stands.


6 posted on 07/27/2004 6:06:45 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: we_will_prevail

Sandy Berger snuck the photo out in his socks.


7 posted on 07/27/2004 6:06:53 PM PDT by Boss_Jim_Gettys ("Hi, Sandy. More highly classified documents or are you just glad to see me?" -- John Kerry)
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To: Boss_Jim_Gettys

Kerry doesn't go anywhere without his photographer. He even took him to Reagan's viewing. I think Dufus thought he looked really cool and gave the photo to the press himself. Cahill was lying through her teeth. And what was with Cahill's hairdo. She looked like she had a mushroom on her head. Talk about looking dopey.


8 posted on 07/27/2004 6:09:47 PM PDT by Merry
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To: we_will_prevail

so let me get this right, Kerry put on this clown suit, and makes a st eating grin for whoever is taking the pic and now the dems say the photo was leaked to smear Kerry...LOL..did the GOP force him into the clown suit and put the fake smile on his face? I suggest it was taken by dems for publicity and it backfired, thus another Kerry flip-Flop....


9 posted on 07/27/2004 6:10:07 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: we_will_prevail
HUME: so the campaign had no idea there would be any photographs.

CAHILL: none.

That man can smell a camera from three thousand yards. The photographer probably knows what Kerry had for lunch.

10 posted on 07/27/2004 6:10:12 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (Unemployed people should forfeit their right to vote.)
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To: RoseofTexas

Mary Cahill is not quite right. First, I posed for photographs.
Then it did not."

11 posted on 07/27/2004 6:10:48 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Re: Protection from up on high, Keyser Sose has nothing on Sandy Berger, the DNC Burglar)
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To: we_will_prevail

If they'd just shut up the photos wouldn't get anywhere as much attention ! He was in a clean facility & had to wear the suit, no big deal. It's a funny pic but not derogatory. They need to lighten up :)


12 posted on 07/27/2004 6:10:50 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: we_will_prevail

Drat, the RATS have caught the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy again! When we put that crackpipe in Marion Barry's hands, we thought we had him. When we convinced Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky to seduce and betray Bill Clinton by telling the truth to the Grand Jury, we thought we had him. But our greatest operation, putting Ketchup Boy in a suit that makes him look like Woody Allen, and convincing him to make that goofy grin has backfired. We're lost....


13 posted on 07/27/2004 6:12:08 PM PDT by ABG(anybody but Gore) (For a conservative, it's morning in America. For a RAT, it's five minutes to midnight.)
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To: Boss_Jim_Gettys

Didn't know photos were going to be taken?

"Hi Mr. Kerry - having FUN? Let's see a BIG smile so I know you're having fun! Can you turn a little more to your left and look more at the flower in my lapel when you smile please?"


14 posted on 07/27/2004 6:13:02 PM PDT by geopyg (Peace..................through decisive and ultimate VICTORY. (Democracy, whiskey, sexy))
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To: Boss_Jim_Gettys

Sandy Berger "inadvertantly" took the photo while stuffing Nasa documents in his pants. and those evil Bush lovers at Nasa leaked the photo - no one ever cares about leaks unless it is suspected that a deviant Bushie mighta done it.BTW- it is Republican territory at KSC- so bight me John Whiney Kerry


15 posted on 07/27/2004 6:13:28 PM PDT by newzhawk
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To: we_will_prevail

SORRY, but every person that I've met from NASA has a sense of humor like a brick-None.

They are not to publicity-sensitive , so they thought they were granting Lurch a favor, in case he won, to keep their programs alive.


16 posted on 07/27/2004 6:13:37 PM PDT by Ramonan (You never get something for nothing..)
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To: Boss_Jim_Gettys

Sandy Berger "inadvertantly" took the photo while stuffing Nasa documents in his pants. and those evil Bush lovers at Nasa leaked the photo - no one ever cares about leaks unless it is suspected that a deviant Bushie mighta done it.BTW- it is Republican territory at KSC- so bite me John Whiney Kerry


17 posted on 07/27/2004 6:13:45 PM PDT by newzhawk
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To: 1066AD
If he had any brains, he wouldn't have posed in that position. There are other photos from that visit, where he looks normal, like just another dignitary being given a dog-and-pony show in a clean room. But in that one particular photo, he could best be captioned as Dorkus Maximus
18 posted on 07/27/2004 6:14:40 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: we_will_prevail
Kerry had lots of fun pretending to be a Woody Allen spermatozoa with a special itch to find the world's richest women. h


19 posted on 07/27/2004 6:15:24 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (Some know what's good for others, some make goods for others; it's the meddlers against the peddlers)
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To: we_will_prevail
Kerry had lots of fun pretending to be a Woody Allen spermatozoa with a special itch to find the world's richest women. h


20 posted on 07/27/2004 6:15:29 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (Some know what's good for others, some make goods for others; it's the meddlers against the peddlers)
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To: we_will_prevail

If Kerry is such a good guy why are so many groups and people out to get him?


21 posted on 07/27/2004 6:16:05 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.)
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To: we_will_prevail

The spermatazoa ready for their, er mission, in Woody Allen's Everything You Always Wanted To Ask About Sex.

22 posted on 07/27/2004 6:16:42 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: we_will_prevail

I agree with Fox News, I think he looks remarkably like an Ooompa Loompa


23 posted on 07/27/2004 6:16:44 PM PDT by Hodar (With Rights, comes Responsibilities. Don't assume one, without assuming the other.)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Beat me to the draw, pardnuh... ;-)


24 posted on 07/27/2004 6:17:42 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: we_will_prevail

Where is the obligatory Crying Baby Demoncratic Seal?


25 posted on 07/27/2004 6:18:24 PM PDT by chuknospam
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To: we_will_prevail

Kerry on Mary Beth Cahill: The bitch set me up!!!


26 posted on 07/27/2004 6:18:59 PM PDT by kabar
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To: we_will_prevail
CAHILL: and the thing is this is a legitimate tour of a nasa facility, and this photograph appeared out of nowhere. we were surprised. we're not surprised now.

OR

We were surprised he looked so stupid in those pictures,

so we're denying they were ever supposed to take them!

27 posted on 07/27/2004 6:22:10 PM PDT by MamaTexan (Liberals are just communists in metrosexual clothing)
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To: Diogenesis

In the space suit, Kerry looks like a character in a Planned Parenthood sex-ed training film showing kids how much "fun" it is to use condoms. Looks like he's got a condom on his head. Does that mean he's a p****?


28 posted on 07/27/2004 6:22:55 PM PDT by Liz
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HUME: so the campaign had no idea there would be any photographs.
CAHILL: none.

Riiiightt.....no idear whatsover!!!!!.

29 posted on 07/27/2004 6:23:17 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: Diogenesis

"Here comes Peter Cottontail..Hopping down the bunny trail"...I look at that picture and break out in song!...;)


30 posted on 07/27/2004 6:23:21 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: Hodar

31 posted on 07/27/2004 6:23:59 PM PDT by jaz.357 (The more you bet, The less you win, When you loose.)
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To: Billthedrill

"Mr." is pretty close....


32 posted on 07/27/2004 6:24:03 PM PDT by clintonh8r ("Just because I could.......")
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To: Merry
that was my thoughts exactly...i figured it was his photographer who took the f'ing pictures to start with....
33 posted on 07/27/2004 6:24:29 PM PDT by BamaDi
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To: Merry
that was my thoughts exactly...i figured it was his photographer who took the f'ing pictures to start with....
34 posted on 07/27/2004 6:24:31 PM PDT by BamaDi
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To: Merry
that was my thoughts exactly...i figured it was his photographer who took the f'ing pictures to start with....
35 posted on 07/27/2004 6:24:35 PM PDT by BamaDi
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To: Boss_Jim_Gettys

"Sandy Berger snuck the photo out in his socks."

LMAO


36 posted on 07/27/2004 6:25:53 PM PDT by Arpege92 (Moore is so fat that when he hauls a$$ it takes two trips - tractorman!)
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To: sam_paine

It was a VRW plot..as they pose unknown that those cameras contain film!


37 posted on 07/27/2004 6:26:26 PM PDT by MEG33 (John Kerry has been AWOL for two decades on issues of National Security)
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To: we_will_prevail

Kerry knew the photographs were being taken before he knew the photographs were not being taken?


38 posted on 07/27/2004 6:26:35 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
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To: Merry

kerry had video footage shot of him while he was serving in Vietnam, for goodness' sake. his every move was documented for a period of time by that Butler guy. he is always photographed. give me a break. it seems to me they should have answered that hard-working Americans work in such attire to forward the space program every day for the benefit of all mankind, and that there is absolutely nothing funny about that. instead they appear to be ashamed to be seen in these outfits-disparaging those that do! a PR botch job!


39 posted on 07/27/2004 6:26:36 PM PDT by avital2
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To: we_will_prevail

ROTFLOL... the bunny suit photo is going to snowball into even greater photo ops. This should be fun to watch.


40 posted on 07/27/2004 6:26:58 PM PDT by new cruelty
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To: we_will_prevail

ROTFLOL... the bunny suit photo is going to snowball into even greater photo ops. This should be fun to watch.


41 posted on 07/27/2004 6:27:16 PM PDT by new cruelty
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To: Merry; Boss_Jim_Gettys; rolling_stone; Pan_Yan; Diogenesis; geopyg; ArrogantBustard
Ms. Cahill, explain this if no pictures were expected.....
42 posted on 07/27/2004 6:27:34 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: we_will_prevail

John Kerry (D) performs on his boogie board for reporters.

43 posted on 07/27/2004 6:28:31 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: we_will_prevail
No doubt the folks at NASA will be pleased to know that they are accused of dirty tricks by the Kerry camp.

Florida will remember.

44 posted on 07/27/2004 6:29:04 PM PDT by OldFriend (IF YOU CAN READ THIS, THANK A TEACHER.......AND SINCE IT'S IN ENGLISH, THANK A SOLDIER)
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To: sam_paine

After this interview, Brit went on further to mention that those photos were on Kerry's website and they were taken from there.

Did anyone see that other than me? I lol when he came out to finish the story with that little tidbit.

What a bunch of liars they are.


45 posted on 07/27/2004 6:29:51 PM PDT by grannie9 (I live for today, 'cause I can't remember yesterday, and chances are tomorrow could suck.)
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To: Hodar

I intitally thought Kerry looked like a character in a Planned Parenthood sex-ed training film showing kids birth control techniques, wearing a condom on his head.

However, the thing on the left looks like it could be hooked up to a suction machine. So maybe Kerry's a fun-loving Planned Parenthood character showing kids how much "fun" it to have an abortion?


46 posted on 07/27/2004 6:30:23 PM PDT by Liz
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To: sam_paine

This staged photo --- the one in post # 29 of Kerry, Glenn, and two other Demdoodles --- was certainly NOT a surprise to them. it's a NASA photo, staged. Planned. NOT a surprise.


47 posted on 07/27/2004 6:31:48 PM PDT by TexasGreg ("Democrats Piss Me Off")
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To: Diogenesis

Dang....I bust-out laughing every time I see that one with the bunny ears. It's a classic for sure.


48 posted on 07/27/2004 6:33:01 PM PDT by Godebert
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To: sam_paine

Can you repost that...it's BRILLIANT!! LOL!!! (they had no idea they were being photographed...HAHAHAHAHAHAH...they really do think we are STUPID!


49 posted on 07/27/2004 6:33:19 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: grannie9
What a bunch of liars they are.

But effective! I worry that the dims are destroying the meaning of truth via effective lying, just like they are destroying the meaning of marriage with gay marriage.

What right is wrong...etc. Ensuring their party's security through obscurity.

50 posted on 07/27/2004 6:33:53 PM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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