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Press Gaggle by Scott McClellan (White House Response to Swift Boat group--CBS LIED AGAIN)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/08/20040805-5.html ^ | 8-5-04

Posted on 08/05/2004 12:44:11 PM PDT by truthandlife

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To: finnigan2

Do you have your frigging application in????????? If not best you get on the ball.


41 posted on 08/05/2004 1:21:26 PM PDT by cksharks
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To: CA Conservative; HenryLeeII; new cruelty; Darkwolf377

And this is another reason why I'm here on FR: There's lots of people to help out with keepeing the prespective on things.

Thanks, Folks. It gets rough, nowadays.


42 posted on 08/05/2004 1:28:39 PM PDT by Old Sarge (JFKerry: It Takes An Idiot To Raze A Village!)
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To: Old Sarge

They were roping the dopes again. The statement is a shot across the bow to the rats that if they don't knock it off with their 527 ads,then the GOP will pull out all the stops. They are being very clever ,not slamming the vets but the 527's.


43 posted on 08/05/2004 1:28:56 PM PDT by samantha (Don't panic, the adults are in charge)
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To: truthandlife
Advantage...LURCH! W and his staff should have just kept quite! I don't hear LURCH and his buttboys the mediaWHORES condemning MOVEON.ORG, or Springsteen, and the rest of his WHORES.....WHAT'S THE MATTER with our party! UGH!!! We just knew the bastards were going to twist his words from right under W's nose...WHEN WILL WE LEARNNNNN! Gaspppppp!
44 posted on 08/05/2004 1:29:10 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Ron in Acreage
The WH response should be "We support the 1st amendment.Period."

Exactly. Instead we get this limp defense of the indefensible, not to mention unconsitutional regardless of the Supreme Jokesters say, POS CFR act.

45 posted on 08/05/2004 1:30:48 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: truthandlife

"The press can't stand him because he is boring and stays on message. You must be doing something right if the press does not like you."

Four words for McClellan: "How 'bout a raise?" I used to love watching Ari get's in Helen's grill.


46 posted on 08/05/2004 1:33:58 PM PDT by IamConservative (A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.)
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To: All

In essence, while the WH is saying stop...they do not mention the vet ad even a tad.

They are essentially saying if Kerry pushes for Moveon to shut up, then perhaps things could stop.

It is in very parsed displo-speak so the WH doesn't look like they are advocating the ad in illegal coordination, but the real story is that they refuse to repudiate the ad.

Nice.


47 posted on 08/05/2004 1:35:50 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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To: truthandlife

I heard ABC radio news cover this story. They tried at first to make it sound like the WH was siding with McCain's comments from earlier today, but then when they played some snippets from the briefing I was very pleased with the WH response.

BUMP


48 posted on 08/05/2004 1:36:51 PM PDT by cyncooper ("We will fear no evil...And we will prevail")
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To: RoseofTexas

I think McClellan did a great job. Read his statements again.


49 posted on 08/05/2004 1:38:35 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: Darkwolf377

exactly


50 posted on 08/05/2004 1:39:33 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (BYPASS FORCED WEB REGISTRATION! **** http://www.bugmenot.com ****)
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To: RobbyS
McClellan said as euphemistically as possibile: "You can dish it out but you can't take it!"

To heck with euphemism--I wish Scott had said that, exactly and directly.

But that's not Scott's style, and he can't appear to be partisan or childish.

51 posted on 08/05/2004 1:40:25 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (I approve this message: character and integrity matter. Bush/Cheney '04)
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To: COEXERJ145; Born Conservative

CBS IS ON A ROLE TODAY:

We Are Not 'A Nation In Danger' (8/5/04) [CBS NEWS BARF ALERT]


52 posted on 08/05/2004 1:42:40 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: 12 Gauge Mossberg
And yet, CBS had no problem with MoveOn.org ads, Soros spending millions trying to defeat Bush, Michael Moron's film, etc. Rush was on fire about this early in his segment.

Total, naked, rank hypocrisy from the Left.

________________

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Look and see who runs CBS.

53 posted on 08/05/2004 1:42:57 PM PDT by Major_Risktaker (I predict a easy Bush landslide.)
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To: RoseofTexas; All
This is great stuff.

McClellan effectively pointed out:

In addition, his statements have stirred the pot, drawing greater (nation wide) attention to what was said by the Swift Boat Veterans and also drawing attention to kerry's reaction, which so far has been to call the Veterans liars and to strong arm the media with litigious threats. And now the the media has been warned, they will be sure to watch each other and report on each other's reactions.

54 posted on 08/05/2004 1:46:19 PM PDT by new cruelty (The left can do nothing Right)
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To: Major_Risktaker
The media will do as they always desire and that is to smear our troops ... in this case they will do all they can to smear the vets to support their guy Kerry.

Kerry today noting that he wouldn't have stayed at the school on 9/11 is a perfect lead-in to this story as, it sounded to me as if he was saying, Kerry would have run away like a screaming baby at first sign of trouble, just like he did running away from Vietnam.

55 posted on 08/05/2004 1:47:08 PM PDT by Steven W.
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To: truthandlife

If a media outlet misrepresents a statement at a white house briefing, why don't they simply suspend that particular media outlet from white house access for 1 week? How could they protest the action?


56 posted on 08/05/2004 1:49:47 PM PDT by Jim_Curtis
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To: Steven W.

I think this was a very interesting statement by Kerry today. I really believe he wanted say something fairly shocking to make sure he was on the frontpage and the Swift Boat crew was on the back page.

It will be interesting to see how much of an impact this book and ad will have on the undecideds. If it is like F9/11 then it will not have much of an impact. If people want to dig down deep and gather the truth then it will have a devastating impact.


57 posted on 08/05/2004 1:51:35 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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To: Old Sarge

Sarge, we're all in it together. As I tell my wife when she can't find her car keys that are laying out in plain sight - sometimes it helps to have another set of eyes looking. Happy Freeping and EAGLES UP!!!


58 posted on 08/05/2004 1:58:34 PM PDT by HenryLeeII (sultan88, R.I.P.)
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To: truthandlife
Important questions:

Are the 527 groups and their ads legal according to the current campaign finance laws?

Have negative 527 ads been aired by democrats against GW Bush?

Do the Swift boat vets have a right to voice their concerns about a former boatmate's lying as he runs to become the Commander in Chief?

If the answer to the above is yes, yes, and yes, then Dubya better realize soon that it is unwise to show up at a gun fight with a knife! Else, President Kerry is going to be sworn in next Jan 20......

59 posted on 08/05/2004 2:01:46 PM PDT by eeriegeno
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To: Born Conservative

MORE LIES FROM AFP

White House repudiates anti-Kerry ad


60 posted on 08/05/2004 2:12:39 PM PDT by truthandlife ("Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God." (Ps 20:7))
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