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Barf Alert... Analysis: Clinton Calm in Hostage Crisis
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071202/D8T96VNO0.html ^ | Billy Kess

Posted on 12/02/2007 8:36:45 AM PST by PatriotEdition

Of course the media is on the democrat's side, but this is just ridiculous...

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By GLEN JOHNSON

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) - When the hostages had been released and their alleged captor arrested, a regal-looking Hillary Rodham Clinton strolled out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis.

The image, broadcast just as the network news began, conveyed the message a thousand town hall meetings and campaign commercials strive for - namely, that the Democratic presidential contender can face disorder in a most orderly manner.

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OF COURSE she was calm!! She wasn't one of the hostages!! Sheesh! Leave it to the Associated Press to put Hillary on a pedestal because of some psycho who went into her campaign office claiming he had a bomb.

And when they do an article about Romney, it would be nice if they had someone with some intelligence going over it before printing. I mean, I am not the best speller myself, but you would think that the people who write for AP would be.

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A Wonkish Romney Turns Up on the Trail

By LIZ SIDOTI

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) - Mitt Romney loves statistics. The former venture capitalist pores over charts and grafs. He analyzes situations and data from every angle. It's little wonder, then, that as he campaigns for president, the Republican sometimes shows his wonkish side.

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I could be wrong, but shouldn't pores be "pours" and grafs be "graphs"? I mean, I know it's not the New York Times, but shouldn't AP have some standards, too? Or is it that they just don't care enough when it's an article about a republican candidate?

Billy Kess



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To: PatriotEdition

How would they know she was calm? She did not appear in public. She canceled her appearances.


21 posted on 12/02/2007 8:53:12 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: sinanju; All

Thank you. Yes, I knew for sure that grafs was wrong. Wasn’t sure if pores or pours was correct. lol


22 posted on 12/02/2007 8:55:15 AM PST by PatriotEdition (www.billykess.com)
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To: PatriotEdition
pore 1 intr.v. pored, pores

To read or study carefully and attentively: pored over the classified ads in search of a new job.
To gaze intently; stare.
To meditate deeply; ponder: pored on the matter.


Onto more important matters... Clinton looked "regal"? This MSM bs is so over the top it's downright funny, lol.
23 posted on 12/02/2007 8:57:44 AM PST by khnyny (Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Winston Churchill)
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To: Toespi
I think she was very calm as well, amazingly so, considering the excitement and glee she must have experienced in knowing she would get some free press. Not to mention the opportunity to show how SHE would handle a crisis situation, when faced with terrorism. If the hostage situation would have continued I am sure she could have borrowed Janet Reno’s play book.
24 posted on 12/02/2007 8:57:59 AM PST by PatriotEdition (www.billykess.com)
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To: PatriotEdition

It’s guaranteed this story will be front and center in any and all pitches for hitlerycare from now on. This clown’s plight will be played up more than Rodney King’s beat down.


25 posted on 12/02/2007 8:58:15 AM PST by JoeSixPack1
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To: Bob

“IIRC, it’s been ‘lede’ in the newspaper business for a very long time.

Similarly, ‘grafs’ is a newspaper slang term for ‘paragraphs’.”
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Why thanks, then I was always getting “lead paragraph” mixed up with “lede.” Now I can talk like a proper ink-stained wretch.


26 posted on 12/02/2007 8:58:21 AM PST by sinanju
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To: PatriotEdition

You knew this was going to happen. The media was going to spin this hostage thing into some positive for Hillary. In fact, I still expect to see it come out eventually that Eisenberg is a Hillary plant and the whole charade was to take the “CNN debate-Hillary plant” story off the cable news cycles because it was spinning badly not just for Clinton News Network but for also for Clinton, Inc. If the Clintons can get their people in as debate questioners for CNN, it’s got to be even easier for them to get their people into hostage situations at their own campaign headquarters.


27 posted on 12/02/2007 8:59:33 AM PST by Tall_Texan (No Third Term For Bill Clinton!)
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To: Graybeard58

Pour your heart out while you peruse and pore over today’s news.


28 posted on 12/02/2007 9:02:34 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: sinanju; Bob

Okay, newspaper trivia time:

Can anyone explain the meaning of ETAOIN SHRDLU

:0)


29 posted on 12/02/2007 9:02:45 AM PST by Mugwump
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To: doug from upland

Hahhaaaaaaaaaaaa.


30 posted on 12/02/2007 9:03:52 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Mugwump
LINK. Trivia just isn't what it used to be with Wikipedia on line.
31 posted on 12/02/2007 9:06:13 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Toespi
I suspect she and bubba were hoping for a “rightwing gun nut wearing an I love cheney t-shirt”

as to synchophantic AP reporters gushing over hillary, in this age of the internet and HDTV, where we were all ‘there’ the media is losings its power to influence public perceptions of events.

its like when Lucy and Ricardo splept in separate beds on tv. Weve all moved on but they still dont get it.

32 posted on 12/02/2007 9:08:30 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: PatriotEdition
She was home doing a poll on which lipstick color better matched her cashmere scarf.


Hillary Clinton speaks in front of her house after the standoff ended.
33 posted on 12/02/2007 9:11:15 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Tall_Texan

Now that would really be wagging the dog, lol.

This hostage taking perp also plays right into Clinton’s whole view of the absolute need for socialized medicine, too. After all, the poor guy couldn’t afford his meds. (He could afford to get drunk at the bar, though).


34 posted on 12/02/2007 9:12:22 AM PST by khnyny (Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Winston Churchill)
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To: Mugwump
Can anyone explain the meaning of ETAOIN SHRDLU

The Unpronounceable Wing of the Irish Republican Army? :-)

35 posted on 12/02/2007 9:19:46 AM PST by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

DANG!

But you had to look it up, anyway...


36 posted on 12/02/2007 9:20:03 AM PST by Mugwump
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To: Riley

LOL! That reminds me of that famous Irish last name, Feaoirghuieshiaoun.

You know, “Ferguson.”


37 posted on 12/02/2007 9:23:03 AM PST by Mugwump
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To: Bob

This snippet from WIKI describes 90% of today’s touchy-feely approach:

“A feature’s first paragraphs often relate an intriguing moment or event, as in an “anecdotal lede”. From the particulars of a person or episode, its view quickly broadens to generalities about the story’s subject.”

Like in, “Jose and Maria stood outside the welfare office door in the same old line for the fourth day like others of their color, only to be sent to the back of the line to wait another day.”

“Maria, almost full-term now, swollen legs aching and shivering in the hostile gloom of November so far from their desperately escaped homeland, reminded herself how hard she had worked to get here - to make sure her baby would be born free in a land where each person was as good as...”

That sort of stuff by way of telling us once again how meanspirited the powers-that-be against the innocent and proud who just want their fair share, etc., etc.


38 posted on 12/02/2007 9:23:47 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: PatriotEdition
Washington DC---->Manchester, NH. 482 miles per Mapquest.

Not exactly Road Flare Ground Zero.

39 posted on 12/02/2007 9:24:07 AM PST by elli1
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To: PatriotEdition

Why not be calm? She had something that would get her Shillaries off the front pages with something that seemed to make her appear a “victim”. There was nothing for her to do except make certain she got to New Hampshire AFTER the crisis was over...and she would be a winner regardless of whether the New Hampshire police were successful in getting the nutcase to surrender or whether he blew up or burned down her storefront campaign headquarters.


40 posted on 12/02/2007 9:39:56 AM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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