Posted on 07/09/2008 10:07:48 PM PDT by kristinn
...How important is calumny today? In 2000, calumny effectively led to John McCain's defeat in South Carolina. That smear campaign against him used robo-calls and fliers, and e-mail also played an important role, as the New York Times reported in February 2000. Arguably, calumny defeated John Kerry in 2004, and the infamous Swift boat television ads of that summer were, importantly, preceded by an aggressive Internet campaign begun that January that included perhaps the first viral campaign e-mail: a computer-generated image of Kerry and Jane Fonda beside each other on a podium at an antiwar rally. The image originally emerged at the Web site FreeRepublic.com, and Fonda had not in fact been at the event. But the damage was done. Today we are seeing viral anti-Obama e-mails, some of which I have traced to some of the same origin points for the 2000 and 2004 smear campaigns.
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A right to free speech is no excuse for lying. While strongly protected rights of free speech are critical to a healthy democracy, rights bring responsibilities. Citizens should, as a standard practice, take responsibility for their views -- the matters of fact and principle that they wish to put before the public for consideration -- by appending their full, legal names to their expressions, even in blog posts. While there are times and places for anonymity, it should be the exception. Unfortunately, the Internet has brought us to a point where anonymity is the rule, not the exception. Rather than facilitating free speech, this is corrosive to democratic discourse. It's time to rebuild a responsible culture in which people speak in their full, legal names and honor the truth.
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
All I see is a green smiley face.
Then click on the link...that’s why it’s there...for when pics get blocked or pulled.
DRUDGE: CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS KERRY CONVENTION FILM: WAR SCENES REENACTED
Drudge report ^ | 7/28/04 | Matt drudge
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1180287/posts
“Fake but accurate” footage from John Kerry.
As usual someone else has to do Danielle's job for her.
Photo pulled copyright complaint.
The green smiley face is on the Snopes server too.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1077764/posts
SOME PICTURES ARE FAKE! THIS ZOT WAS REAL!
Some dope, as told to Reddy Kilozot
Posted on Friday, February 13, 2004 5:45:32 PM by bushbananarepublic
www.snopes.com/photos/politics/kerry2.asp
To: bushbananarepublic
“Way to go Ace. FReeRepublic was first with the picture, first to discuss it and first to expose it as a fake. Try to keep up, will you?”
5 posted on Friday, February 13, 2004
The copyright issue deserves re-examining, since that picture now serves as FreeRepublic.com’s defense against libel.
It’s evidence. It can be shown here now.
Someone should ask Allen if this unctuous little sermon also applies to, say, unsigned editorials in the Washington Post and the New York Times...
If a post is that bad an identity is just a subpoena away.
Or the continual lies about the war, ignoring good news about the war, and rewriting history in news articles - all by the media.
She knows they lie - she is just attempting to pull a fast one on the public to promote the lie that what the media reports is truth while the right talk shows/blogs are lies.
“A right to free speech is no excuse for lying.”
True. Fact should be distinguished from opinion or belief.
” While strongly protected rights of free speech are critical to a healthy democracy, rights bring responsibilities. Citizens should, as a standard practice, take responsibility for their views — the matters of fact and principle that they wish to put before the public for consideration — by appending their full, legal names to their expressions, even in blog posts.”
He should go screw himself. He probably helped write McCain-Feingold (OPINION).
For example
“F*** The Army”
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068562/ (1972)
It closed nationally in 3 days and has since been supressed. "The movie opened in theaters in 1972 the same week that Jane Fonda made her controversial trip to Hanoi, North Vietnam."
A movie he appeared in that was a US made North Vietnamese version of a USO tour film where Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda visited troops and cling ons and performed sub-vaudevilian skits.
And the libs who posted reviews on IMDB clearly missed the point, especially from a modern perspective, where we have ALL the facts. Mrs. Fonda was not a peace activist fightnig against all war. She was a proud Communist hoping for a North Vietnamese victory. And she wasn't just for Communist triumph in Vietnam but also in America. She said that we'd all wish we could live under Communism if we only knew what it really was.
Kerry Fonda 2004 election photo controversy Although wiki based, it tracks with my recollection.
Allan Silverman (left), Professor of Philosophy, stands with Danielle Allen, Dean of the Division of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, on April 7, 2006, at the Mershon Center. Allen spoke about the resurgence of interest in the classics since the 2000 movie Gladiator as part of the Citizenship Lecture Series, which Silverman organizes.Is this the same University of Chicago that got a bunch of Obama pork (and a handsome raise for Mobama)? Why yes it is. Even in ancient Athens, people had their price. How sad to see an erstwhile erudite educator pimp her PhD's for a political prevaricator of profound proportions.
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