The TRUE Capitol Hill Blue story the PRESS IGNORED:'Dems plan to undermine America to beat Bush'

FR - thru Capitol Hill Blue ^ | January 6, 2003 | DOUG THOMPSON

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Dems plan to undermine America to beat Bush
CapitolHillBlue ^ | January 6, 2003 | By DOUG THOMPSON

Posted on 01/28/2003 2:07 AM EST by JohnHuang2

Democrats plan to undermine public confidence in President George W. Bush by challenging his credibility and raising doubts about America, sources within the party tell Capitol Hill Blue.

A multi-pronged attack against Republicans and the President will focus not only on economic issues, but question American values, raise doubts about how this country is viewed by other nations and question the patriotism of Bush and his party.

The extensive campaign, developed by senior Democratic consultants and party leaders, was launched last week with attacks on the Bush economic plan by Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Richard Gephardt.

In coming weeks, Democratic elected officials will question the President’s intentions on the pending war with Iraq. Writers and broadcasters friendly to the Democratic cause have already been provided talking points suggesting the war is about oil, not terrorism. “The talking points were developed before the end of last year and sent out to operatives and friendly media,” one Democratic consultant confided. “No Democratic member of Congress will question the President’s patriotism openly but we will use the media and other surrogates to raise doubts.”

Capitol Hill Blue obtained a copy of the talking points when the Democratic National Committee sent them to a news outlet recently acquired by CHB’s parent company. The talking points outline a strategy to raise public doubts of the President’s real intentions, including: --Saying the war is about oil and will be fought to benefit oil companies that have long supported Bush and the Republican party;

--Claiming the Bush administration has “manufactured” evidence against Saddam Hussein and used that evidence to encourage Britain and other allies to join the American fight against Iraq;

--Suggesting a wartime economy is the only way the administration can revive the country’s lagging economic situation.

“It is clear that the current approval ratings of the administration are tied directly to strong American feelings toward traditional values,” the talking points say. “To counter this, doubt must be raised as to America’s true position within the world community and the true intent of the Bush administration in waging war.”

Some Democrats admit privately they are uneasy with the party strategy to undermine American values in an attempt to get Bush.

“My boss doesn’t want anything to do with it,” one senior Senate aide told Capitol Hill Blue on Monday. “You don’t undermine this country to win elections.” Others, however, are willing to try anything to put the White House and Congress back under Democratic control. “The real war isn’t in Iraq,” one Democratic consultant said. “It’s right here at home, at the ballot box in 2004.”

Among the other points Democrats hope to make in the coming weeks:

--Both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are controlled by oil and defense industry special interest groups.

--The war on terrorism is a failure because Osama bin Laden is still at large.

--America is unprepared for another terrorist attack because of White House preoccupation with Iraq. --War will increase the country’s economic woes. --Bush will be forced to raise taxes to finance the war.

“It’s time to take the battle to the people and make them understand just how dangerous George W. Bush’s policies are to the future of America,” the talking points conclude.

Democratic sources say the talking points were developed by Democratic Chairman Terry McAuliffe, former Clinton campaign strategist James Carville, Senate Majority Leader Daschle and former House Democratic Leader Gephardt.

“This is a classic, Jim Carville, scorched earth campaign,” crows one DNC staffer. “Take no prisoners. That’s how you win elections.” Democratic party spokesmen would not return phone calls seeking comment on this report.

© Copyright 2003 Capitol Hill Blue

[CyberAnt]

"operatives and friendly media"

Hmmmm? I thought they didn't have any voice ...??

While they're so busy blasting Limbaugh - they are actually doing what they blame Limbaugh for doing - geeeeee ... where have we heard this story before ..??

[PhilDragoo]

Please feel free to circulate as you like.

[BOBTHENAILER]

I just couldn't work, check the market and freep, all at the same time. (grin)

It get hard, doesn't it?

[Grampa Dave]

You call it a revolution in this reply: Reminds me of how Hitler started the "revolution". It hadn't begun yet, but he walked in and announced it had started, and people believed him.

I call what is being done by the left wing maggots and the third party maggots, "An attempted Electronic Lynching of our president and his cabinet members!"

There is not a red cent's difference between what Hitler did to sieze power than what they are trying to do! They have declared a cultural war on us. This week is like a 9/11 re the attacks and lies on our president and his cabinet.

[hoosiermama]

Shouldn't that be 1. freep 2. check the market 3. work? Let's get our priorities in order!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

If there's a reliable mainstream press source re. Iraq, I haven't found it...and I've looked. You should hear some comments from the troops! Gen. Myers and SOD Rumsfeld help the younger ones - remind them that the American people are behind them, remind them of what our press was like during the Vietnam war.

These are the sources I check most often...with FR, and enterprising people who care about the truth - here's to the increasing irrelevance of the mainstream newsmedia:

VOICES OF FREEDOM
Quotes from the grateful Iraqi people. Y

 

FR *war_list

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/involved?group=34

 

Good discussion board

http://www.strategypage.com/messageboards/default.asp

 

Defend America:

http://www.defendamerica.mil/index.html

 

Good, incl. satellite photos:

http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/iraq/

 

Official website of the Dept. of Defense:

http://www.defenselink.mil/

 

Daily Defense Press schedule:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/press.html

 

DoD Transcripts:

http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/

 

White House awesome Iraqi archives, updated daily:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/

 

White House News:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/

 

Daily appointments, DoS:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/appt/2003/

 

Latest News From CENTCOM:

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/release_list.asp?searchType=1&searchDays=1&searchTopic=

 

CENTCOM:

http://www.centcom.mil/

 

CENTCOM news links:

http://www.centcom.mil/links.htm

 

Latest News From Stars & Stripes:

http://stripes.com

 

Fort Bliss

http://airdefense.bliss.army.mil/adamag/

 

Operation Iraqi Freedom Army News:

http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/news/stories/

 

3d Infantry Division (Mech) Blue Book
Current updates from Operation Iraqi Freedom

 

Locate a Military Unit:

http://www.army.mil/A-Z.htm

 

Marine News:

http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/news

 

Official Navy News:

http://www.news.navy.mil/

 

Operation Iraqi Freedom: Air Force

http://www.af.mil/news/opscenter/index.shtml

 

Defense graphics:

http://www.defenselink.mil/multimedia/web_graphics/

 

http://www.forscom.army.mil/pao/news/news.htm (good news link)

 

Good veterans news.

http://vnis.com/index.html

 

Some good Blogs from Iraq:

*L.T. SMASH - LIVE FROM THE SANDBOX ^

*http://chiefwiggles.blogspot.com/

*http://www.chinpokomon.com/

Some good Int'l bloggers holding int'l press accountable:

 

BBC bias:

*http://www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com/

 

French, seeing a different war:

*http://merdeinfrance.blogspot.com/

*http://www.thedissidentfrogman.com/bureau/index.html

 

Aussie bias:

*http://bunyip.blogspot.com/

[PhiKapMom]

I have a link to a list of every paper in the US that I put up with the Countdown Thread that dealt with letters to the editor.

Something just hit me -- all this media frenzy and Bush Lied talk is starting to remind me of Watergate. And who was a lawyer on the Independent Counsel staff that used to leak like a sieve? Hillary Clinton.

We have RATs calling for an independent counsel, impeachment hearings, Congressional hearings.

[onyx]

A list along the lines you mentioned exists here, (somewhere) but I can't recall which FReeper authored it! I'm thinking.........

[PhiKapMom]

I am on distribution for Air Force News Service where I have been getting the stories out of Iraq that pertain to our men and women over there with a positive view of the good they are doing. I posted the Watermelon story and another one recently about a school the military members were helping in Iraq. Their homepage is:

http://www.afnews.af.mil/internal/ii_01.htm

[hoosiermama]

Yelp! They are experienced in getting their messages out. Now let's get busy. We've got some catching up to do!

Freep mail us a link to the list. Then lets make a short list of articles. We wouldn't want to overwelm them.

Should include this article and the retraction one and the thread that WM wrote explaining what happened to spread the lie. ANy others.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Here you go: a few media, etc, e-mail links.

Thank you, hoosiermama (great name, by the way - lol!).

Here's to a backlash the press and the Dems. won't soon forget.

[PhiKapMom]

This also reminds me of Watergate and the press feeding frenzy. Remember who was on the IOC staff -- Hillary Clinton!

[BOBTHENAILER]

Let's get our priorities in order!

Ah yes, sometimes I forget...thanks for the reminder.

[PhiKapMom]

I found this site to be the best one to find newspaper links and if you look on the lefthand side of the page for NewsLink, there are links to find broadcast media as well as maganizes:

[Vinnie]

Some Democrats admit privately they are uneasy with the party strategy to undermine American values in an attempt to get Bush.

“My boss doesn’t want anything to do with it,” one senior Senate aide told Capitol Hill Blue on Monday. “You don’t undermine this country to win elections.” Others, however, are willing to try anything to put the White House and Congress back under Democratic control.

The dims would sellout their own mother to regain power.
That is the one thing that is so despicable about them. Any that are 'uneasy'concerning these tactics will get in line with the rest of the vermin.

[PhiKapMom]

That was magazines -- my spelling has taken a dive!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

We'll be the press, too. At least we don't have to set type or hide in the basement. (^; I need a BIG mailing list of "we the people".

Thanks for passing on the Air Force press stories. I'm off to post L.T. Smash's latest - his response to the "Uranium" story - from a reserve officer serving in Iraq.

[mewzilla]

CHB ought to put a pic of the talking points on line. I'd like to see a copy, the letterhead, who signed it, etc. Just FWIW.

[PhiKapMom]

Agree with you -- we do need a list!

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for bringing up this bitter history of how the rats drove one republican president out of office. You posted:

This also reminds me of Watergate and the press feeding frenzy. Remember who was on the IOC staff -- Hillary Clinton!