THE DNC'S DIRTY DISK (Terry caught with his pants down??)

Washington Prowler ^ | 6/24/02 | The Prowler

[mikesmad]

All of my presentations are free for the asking, except my super secretive "Twenty ways to burn all bridges while telling your employer to take a flying leap". This is a work in process that I hope to present one day soon. :)

[Corin Stormhands]

The files DO NOT - Repeat - DO NOT get saved on a temporary file on the projection system.

Yup. That's right.

[Corin Stormhands]

There was no disk, because you can't easily store a full PowerPoint presentation on a disk like that.

Do it all the time.

[OldFriend]

I don't believe the critical stories of Card, Ridge, and weekly revolving people in the dog house any more than I believe the story about the disk being 'mysteriously found' on the street.

Best not to respond to media fiction.....after all it's summer and they are getting desperate for ways to bash the President and lower his poll numbers.

[leadpenny]

According to White House sources, no one was impressed with Tom Ridge's performance on Capitol Hill last Thursday. "It certainly confirmed in our minds the reasons why we didn't let him testify before. It wasn't good," says a White House policy staffer.

The question I have is, why would Ridge allow himself to be 'hung out to dry' over the last eight months? At this point he has to feel used and abused by an administration that called on him to leave his secure elected position in PA to take, what has turned out to be, a thankless job.

[DB]

I wish you great success in your endeavor!

[Bogey78O]

I was thinking of that. Seems plausible.

[aristeides]

If hotel staff did this, it's likely a lot of people working at the hotel are aware of what happened. I wonder if the Republicans could get answers by threatening to withhold their business from the hotel.

[hobbes1]

Perhaps they have less than zero knowledge of how stuff works. The only realistic possability might be that a someone could have pointed a video camera at the screen and videotaped the presentation & slipped it to the Dems.

Hardly. The most obvious explanation, is a sympathizer, Writing down the points, and reproducing the Presentation...Considering that NO ONE has Seen the Dems Copy and the Pub Copy, you dont even know that they are in the same layout. It is more likely that the points were written down, and McAuliffe is crowing to make his boys look good.....(also not last week, the Prowler quoted McAuliffe, as Hoping to KEEP the senate....conceding the possibility of a loss..)

[BlackRazor]

"At this point he has to feel used and abused by an administration that called on him to leave his secure elected position in PA to take, what has turned out to be, a thankless job."

Secure, but also very temporary. Ridge was prohibited from running for re-election this year due to term limits. I'm sure he saw this current position as a means to increase his national exposure and further his future political ambitions. He may even have thought this could be a stepping stone to the 2004 VP nomination.

[twntaipan]

This is the computer generation's version of Watergate.

It is imperative that the demonRATS be fully investigated. Follow the money. Who knew what when. Did McAwful pay for this service?

This is about as likely to happen as it is for Clinton to own up to his felonies.

[FairWitness]

I have a "library" of 45 powerpoint files from various presentations I have done. They range in size from 54 kb to 16,000 kb. The size of the file does not directly relate to the number of "slides". My biggest (16,000 kb) file has only 10 fairly fancy colored slides, but I have files only 1300 kb in size, which would fit on a floppy, that contain 18 black&white slides. One would need more information to know if the presentation in question could have fit on a floppy.

[leadpenny]

Ridge was prohibited from running for re-election this year due to term limits.

Thanks. That sheds some light on the subject.

I'm sure he saw this current position as a means to increase his national exposure and further his future political ambitions. He may even have thought this could be a stepping stone to the 2004 VP nomination.

Very insightful. As I remember, before W selected Cheney, Ridge was on the VP 'short list.' The talk back then was that W would have been intimidated by Ridge's physical size.

[SwatTeam]

This is the computer generation's version of Watergate.

Exactly, just what I thought, too.

[PhiKapMom]

Don't think it is Hughes leaving although am not sure she is back in Texas full time yet. Some lower level staffers that have become friendly with the press should probably zip their lips! But then you have folks leaking that may not be all that loyal to this Administration. After all the President's schedule used to turn up on RATS.com before the place he was going got the schedule.

That presentation takes a series of discs if you are going to save it to discs. No way will it fit on one disc. Maybe the front pages of the sections on one disc.

The DemocRATS do have the presentation and so does the press so the RATS gave at least CNN and John King a copy because one of the charts he flashed on the screen is in the briefing.

[Dales]

As some on the thread have pointed out, most projection systems don't function in this manner (copying files temporarily). Most projection systems act just like regular monitors.

However, as some others have pointed out, some high end models do.

Either way, the fact is my experience tells me that most professionals would not be using floppies in situations like this. Most professionals would be bringing their laptop, with the files on the hard drive.

I remember when the story first broke, the thought that kept popping into my head was "why the hell were they using floppies anyway? Wouldn't they have brought a laptop?"

[PhiKapMom]

This briefing has too much data for a standard disc; however, you are right about a Zip disc!

[Dales]

I'll tell ya. If I find out that Mark McKinnon's media outlet had any hand in the development of the presentation, I am going to be extraordinarily p.o.ed.

[Dales]

Most of the time, when you use the facilities at a hotel for a business meeting, they may have a projection system, but generally they will not have a computer attached. In general, the one giving the presentation will bring a laptop to connect to the projection system.

Generally, there will be no removable disks (floppy or zip) involved at all.

[lonestar]

The talk back then was that W would have been intimidated by Ridge's physical size.

Would be fun to have him next to Daschle.

Ridge is big but Dubya doesn't have to stand on boxes!