Posted on 09/28/2006 8:52:50 AM PDT by freespirited
Here are today's Battleground Dispatches — a roundup of what is going on right now in the year's hottest races, based on reports from local and national media.
Virginia Senate: Democratic challenger Jim Webb says he never used the "n-word" as a racial epithet, causing officials with Republican Sen. George Allen's campaign to direct reporters to a former Webb acquaintance who claims Webb, as a freshman at the University of Southern California, would drive through Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood used racial epithets and pointed fake guns at black people, says the Washington Post; the AP reports that Allen will launch TV ads featuring female graduates of the Naval Academy criticizing Webb for a 1979 article he wrote on women in combat; both candidates will participate in an Oct. 9 debate in Richmond, the Loudon Independent reports.
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fyi
And we are totally vulnerable still to the NYT bathhouse boys.
Can we ever have the kind of enormous influence on the public that they do? It seems an impossible task.
The NYT is not alone. I posted the following on two other threads about this race this morning.
The Washington Post has beaten the drums over the macaca word in dozens of articles and opinion pieces. Yet today they ran a story titled "Webb Denies Ever Using Word as Epithet." They are referring to what they like to call the N word, with which they equate the M word, but actually spell out the M word. Got it?
Guess where this headline ran? On the Metro section front page.
Allen and Webb are slinging so much mud in this race, that by November there won't be a dry patch of dirt in all of Virginia.
Yup. Deliberate move to keep the story from being picked up by other papers and broadcast media. Will bet that when those outlets check the Post for stories they only look in the front section.
On the other hand, they didn't include the Webb denial.
so true...fine words spoken by one who understands politics.
m&s
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