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Tabloid ethics take charge during a race for White House
Manchester Union Leader ^ | December 26, 2007 | Kathleen Parker

Posted on 12/26/2007 5:04:53 AM PST by billorites

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1 posted on 12/26/2007 5:04:54 AM PST by billorites
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Was Celebrating Christmas Eve at a restaurant and the TV had Huckabee being grilled in the ‘Situation Room’. The wife and I were disgusted and turned away from it. Can’t they give it a break - even for Christmas?
2 posted on 12/26/2007 5:12:31 AM PST by sr4402
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bump


3 posted on 12/26/2007 5:17:05 AM PST by Thommas (The snout of the camel is in the tent..)
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To: billorites

Oh boo hoo, we’re all so bad. This is the worst ever...yada, yada, yada. Has anyone read history? We do our forefather’s proud. We are their children and this is the way politics has always been conducted in the shinning city on the hill.


4 posted on 12/26/2007 5:17:15 AM PST by rhombus
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To: billorites
Katie Couric asked the leading 2008 presidential candidates whether voters should trust an adulterer.

Hey Kewpie, ask if they should trust the enabling wife of an alleged serial rapist.

5 posted on 12/26/2007 5:18:19 AM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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"Hillary, who is 60, showed a few wrinkles,"

Did they SEE that picture ? My mean old Communist grandma didn't look that decrepit and ugly at 90.

6 posted on 12/26/2007 5:20:07 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~~~Jihad Fever -- Catch It !~~~ (Backup tag: "Live Fred or Die"))
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"This picture makes me like her more." My bet is thousands of others felt the same way.

Fair enough.

Given that it's not possible for me to like her less.

7 posted on 12/26/2007 5:33:45 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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I'm usually in agreement with Kathleen Parker, but she seems to have forgotten how raw and brutal the American press was in times of old.

I've seen fascimilies of old newspapers and cartoons from the eighteen-hundreds, and some of them were savage. Men used to duel over them.

That said, however, I'd sure like to see the press draw back form the 24/7 All Sex 'N Sleaze Mode they seem to be in.

I guess the real news- terror, the spread of Islam, nukes in North Korea and Iran, the illegal invasion- are just too scary for them to bother mentioning...

8 posted on 12/26/2007 5:35:42 AM PST by backhoe ("It's so Easy to spend somebody else's Money..."[ My Dad. circa 1958 ])
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Yeah, it’s irritating that there are people that seem to believe in the “good ‘ol days” political races were substantive, and kind.

Accusing your opponent of having illigitimate children was a routine aspect of 19th Century presidential campaigns, for example.


9 posted on 12/26/2007 5:36:55 AM PST by Strategerist
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FLOATING CROSSES

NO. A bookcase.

A BOOKCASE.

Jeeze...

10 posted on 12/26/2007 5:40:57 AM PST by GOPJ (Drug dealers are NOT "unlicensed pharmacists" and illegals are NOT "undocumented workers". Bailey)
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To: sr4402

This wall-to-wall press coverage is designed to degrade our president. It started earlier than usual and receives greater coverage than usual.


11 posted on 12/26/2007 5:44:23 AM PST by Loud Mime (Merry Christmas! When you hear "holidays," emphasize the CHRISTmas in return!)
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To: rhombus

The nastiest election campaign, ever:

....or so they keep telling us.


12 posted on 12/26/2007 5:45:44 AM PST by period end of story (You need cooling, baby I'm not fooling)
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So does this mean Kathleen Parker will vote for Hillary Clinton? Scary thought. If so, maybe this was all a plot from the Hillary camp to make her a victim.........yet again. No, that would be conspiracy theory, and Hillary is not like that.


13 posted on 12/26/2007 5:46:43 AM PST by Bernard (If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember exactly what you said.)
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To: period end of story; Strategerist

Of course the biggest rift in American politics resulted in a civil war but those who bemoan today’s “nastiness” always seem to forget those details. And then before that Jackson was a bigamist for marrying a divorced woman before the divorce was final and then there was Buchannan whose roommate Rufus King was often derided as Miss Nancy and/or Aunt Fancy. ;-)


14 posted on 12/26/2007 6:07:06 AM PST by rhombus
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"This picture makes me like her more." My bet is thousands of others felt the same way.

WRONG, it didn't make me like her more but I don't think it is possible for me to like her AT ALL. It has nothing to do with her face either. It has to do with the fact that she is pure EVIL.

15 posted on 12/26/2007 6:17:38 AM PST by kcvl
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“Hey Kewpie, ask if they should trust the enabling wife of an alleged serial rapist.”

Yes!!! Follow-up question for Perky Katie: ask Hillary!666 if there’s inherent risk in having a confirmed sex addict, serial adulterer/sexual harrasser and likely rapist in the White House. And what does covering up for said spouse say about Mrs. Clinton’s character?


16 posted on 12/26/2007 6:36:00 AM PST by RooRoobird20 (Thankfully Convered Catholic)
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“This picture makes me like her more.”

I have a mental picture of the kind of woman who would like Hillary! more because of this picture: perpetually angry overweight menopausal women who have a beef against men in general, white Republican men in particular. In short, they are probably hags just like Hillary.

Kathleen misses the point of the hag photo: Almost all previous photos/video of Hillary! had been heavily enhanced to make her appear to be something she isn’t. Hillary is as phony on the outside as she is on the inside, and photo spotlighted this. Besides, “hag” is more about how a woman acts than what she looks like. (Helen Thomas excepted LOL)


17 posted on 12/26/2007 6:44:20 AM PST by RooRoobird20 (Thankfully Convered Catholic)
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Kathleen misses the point of the hag photo: Almost all previous photos/video of Hillary! had been heavily enhanced to make her appear to be something she isn’t.

You are absolutely right, and here's proof:


18 posted on 12/26/2007 7:00:25 AM PST by backhoe ("It's so Easy to spend somebody else's Money..."[ My Dad. circa 1958 ])
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This wall-to-wall press coverage is designed to degrade our president

IMHO, I think they are trying to degrade the process so that we can have a dictator or a Chairman. How about Chairman, Comrade Hillary?

19 posted on 12/26/2007 7:03:58 AM PST by sr4402
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To: period end of story
The nastiest election campaign, ever:

....or so they keep telling us.

I think I've heard that claim made every four years since 1964.

20 posted on 12/26/2007 7:11:53 AM PST by Bob
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