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***Ben Barnes Memogate Timeline Is Highly Suspicious***

Posted on 09/21/2004 5:25:04 PM PDT by counterpunch

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To: shamusotoole

I read about that on his site.
It is an odd piece of the mystery, but...
Consider this:

The Democrats put together this little oppo file on Bush.
Who knows where it came from. Clearly it was all pulled out of someone's ass.
"Verbal orders" as if anyone knew what orders were or weren't given to Bush verbally 30 years ago...
They probably put that in there because they knew it couldn't be "disputed'>

The thing to remember about Democrats -- something I think that many Republicans do not grasp -- is that they almost exclusively cater to the ignorant, uninformed, and easily fooled. There is a significant portion of the population who will believe something like that. The Democrats constantly lie and mischaracterize because while they may get refuted in the real world, the rumors and misinformation will still travel through the shallow under currents of pop culture and urban legends. That is their target.

Now as I was saying, we really don't know where these little myths came from about verbal orders and what not, whether they were picked up from the dank basement of DU and liberal grapevines, or planted first by DNC counter-intelligence, or invented by the likes of Michael Moore, but one way or another, they came to be in the Kerry oppo reseach file.

But what if you are looking at it backwards..?
Instead of Kerry's press release being based on these memos way back in April, these memos were based on the press release and/or the same opposition file that it came from?

Perhaps Max Cleland's little trip to Texas was all about the now famous "reassembly" of the mythical records..?
Perhaps Cleland broght the DNC's Bush file with him on his trip...


21 posted on 09/22/2004 3:13:41 AM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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To: counterpunch

Seems as if so many things happened at once regarding the Bush Guard story, the interviews, the Democratic attack ads, the McCaulif speech. It almost looks like it was coordinated between CBS and the DNC.


22 posted on 09/22/2004 3:17:10 AM PDT by Casloy
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To: Casloy

Damn straight it was.
No "almost" about it.


23 posted on 09/22/2004 3:32:03 AM PDT by counterpunch (The CouNTeRPuNcH Collection - www.counterpunch.us)
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