Keyword: dirtywork
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Far-left actress and activist Bette Midler suggested that President Donald Trump is inciting murderous gunmen to do his “dirty work” in an all-caps tweet referencing the heinous El Paso shooter, who took 22 lives and injured dozens more. “REMEMBER WHEN #DonaldTrump SAID HE COULD SHOOT SOMEONE ON FIFTH AVENUE AND GET AWAY WITH IT?” Midler asked her 1.7 million Twitter followers. “WELL, HE DIDN’T SHOOT SOMEONE HIMSELF, BUT HE INCITED OTHERS TO DO HIS DIRTY WORK FOR HIM, AS HE HAS DONE HIS WHOLE LIFE.”
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Leading gay blogger John Aravosis, writing today at his Americablog about White House spokesman Robert Gibbs attacking inside the beltway progressive critics of Barack Obama, like Aravosis, let slip that he performed surreptitious "dirty work" for Obama at the behest of his 2008 presidential campaign:Joe and I are upset with Obama, and we, for example, raised nearly $43,000 for the man, According to the White House, our money now doesn't count. Great, would they like to give it back? I for one, would love the $1000 back that I personally donated to the Obama campaign. Joe gave even more. I...
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In one of the new joint American-Iraqi security stations in the capital this month, in the volatile Ghazaliya neighborhood, Capt. Darren Fowler was heaping praise on his Iraqi counterparts for helping capture three insurgent suspects who had provided information he believed would save American lives. “The detainee gave us names from the highest to the lowest,” Captain Fowler told the Iraqi soldiers. “He showed us their safe houses, where they store weapons and I.E.D.’s and where they keep kidnap victims, how they get weapons, where weapons come from, how they place I.E.D.’s, attack us and go away. Because you detained...
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Reporting the Report By Published 1/20/2006 12:09:31 AM WASHINGTON -- There was some last-minute drama in Washington before yesterday's release of the long-awaited report by Independent Counsel David Barrett. Sources close to the three-judge panel overseeing the report say that the panel's members were furious about leaks to the press previewing the report's contents. The report, detailing an organized attempt by Clinton Administration officials to shut down an Internal Revenue Service investigation into possible tax violations by President Bill Clinton's secretary of housing and urban development Henry Cisneros, was to be released at 9:00 AM Thursday. The day...
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Senate candidate Jeanine Pirro's spokesman Mike McKeon was right on target Friday when he blamed Hillary Clinton's "attacks dogs and their surrogates" for digging up a four-year-old campaign contribution from a Connecticut company with alleged mob ties. On Saturday, the New York Daily News, which gave the story major coverage, vigorously denied any Clinton connection, insisting, "The News obtained the information from campaign and court records and had no contact with Clinton or any of her aides in drafting the story." The truth is, the News - along with the rest of its mainstream brethren - doesn't need to get...
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"Over the last week or so, a group called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth has been attacking me," Kerry said. "Of course, this group isn't interested in the truth and they're not telling the truth. They didn't even exist until I won the nomination for president.
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Kerry: Bush Lets Groups Do 'Dirty Work' RON FOURNIER Associated Press BOSTON - John Kerry fought back Thursday against campaign allegations that he exaggerated his combat record in Vietnam, accusing President Bush of using a Republican front group "to do his dirty work" and challenging Bush to debate their wartime service records. "Well, if he wants to have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: Bring it on," said the Democratic presidential candidate, reviving an old war and campaign slogan amid strong urging from party leaders for him to respond to two-week-old GOP assertions. As Kerry...
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This morning brought this wire story from the Associated Press: by Ron Fournier BOSTON (AP) - Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush on Thursday of relying on front groups to challenge his record of valor in Vietnam, asserting, "He wants them to do his dirty work." (snip) [John Kerry said] "But here's what you really need to know about them. They're funded by hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Republican contributor out of Texas. They're a front for the Bush campaign. And the fact that the President won't denounce what they're up to tells you everything you need to...
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After weeks of standing by as a group of Vietnam veterans criticized his wartime record, Senator John Kerry fired back today, saying the group, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, is "a front for the Bush campaign" and that the president "wants them to do his dirty work." Members of the organization, led by a commander of one of the Swift boats that served alongside Mr. Kerry's boat in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969, have accused the Massachusetts senator of lying about his wartime record to win several medals. The Bush campaign has declined to denounce the Swift boat advertisement, saying...
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(CNSNews.com) - The Kerry-Edwards campaign on Thursday announced it has released a new TV ad to "set the record straight" about Kerry's "heroic and honorable service in Vietnam." In a press release, the Kerry campaign said its new ad come in response to the "false and dishonest attack ad from Republican supporters of President Bush." The reference is to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a 527 group that recently released an ad saying Kerry lied about his military record. "They're a front for the Bush campaign," Sen. John Kerry said in Boston on Thursday, referring to Swift Boat Veterans for...
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BOSTON, Aug 19 (MASNET & News Agencies) - Democratic Senator John Kerry launched an all-out counterattack at fellow Vietnam War veterans who charge he embellished combat exploits he has made a key part of his campaign for the White House. Kerry accused President George W. Bush of using "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" to do his "dirty work" ahead of the November 2 election, and repeated his defiant demand for the White House to repudiate the group's accusations, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). "They're a front for the Bush campaign. And the fact that the president won't denounce what they're up...
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BOSTON (AP) - Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush on Thursday of relying on front groups to challenge his record of valor in Vietnam, asserting, "He wants them to do his dirty work." Fighting back, Kerry said if Bush wants to "have a debate about our service in Vietnam, here is my answer: 'Bring it on.'" Bush served stateside in the Texas Air National Guard during the war. "Thirty years ago, official Navy reports documented my service in Vietnam and awarded me the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts," Kerry said in remarks to a firefighters convention....
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BOSTON - Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush today of relying on front groups to challenge his record of valor in Vietnam, asserting, "He wants them to do his dirty work. Defending his record, the Democratic presidential candidate said, "Thirty years ago, official Navy reports documented my service in Vietnam and awarded me the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts." "Thirty years ago, this was the plain truth. It still is. And I still carry the shrapnel in my leg from a wound in Vietnam." Kerry received five medals for his service in Vietnam a generation ago,...
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<p>It now turns out that Joseph McCarthy, the witch-hunting, publicity-hungry senator whose investigative zealotry ruined the reputations of many innocent Americans during the Cold War, was just as contemptuous of civil liberties when the TV cameras were not around.</p>
<p>The transcripts of McCarthy's notorious closed-door hearings had been locked away for 50 years -- until Monday, when the National Archives released 4,000 pages of documentation about one of the darkest periods in American history.</p>
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