Slime Time Live (Newsweek/msnbc.com)

[johnfunk]

Slime Time Live

In your face: Fueled by shadowy cash, the attacks get uglier and uglier. Why the mud's flying so thick and fast
Authentic? CBS broke the news of the Killian memos
By Howard Fineman and Michael Isikoff
Newsweek

Sept. 20 issue - The rap on Mary Beth Cahill, even inside the presidential campaign she administers, is that she is too reserved—a schoolmarmish sort who rules with icy glances, who frets overmuch about "going negative" and who, therefore, is the wrong person to guide the fortunes of Sen. John Kerry during this hypernasty political season. Maybe so, but hers was among the first congratulatory calls Ben Barnes received in Austin late last Wednesday night. As the speaker of the Texas House in 1968, Barnes now says, he had helped the well connected—including George W. Bush—find safe haven from Vietnam by applying pressure to the state Air National Guard. These days a high-octane lobbyist with business ties to both parties, Barnes had been reluctant to discuss the Guard—until his Democratic allies (and his own anger at charges aimed at Kerry by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth) persuaded him to tell his story on "60 Minutes II" last week. "You did a great job," Cahill told him after it had aired.

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1. "NewsweAKKK"

[chicagoprogressive]

3. Drudge Reporting New Slime To Come

DNC TO LAUNCH FRESH ATTACK ON BUSH GUARD DUTY: WILL RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT 1978 CAMPAIGN LIT

**Exclusive**

Faster than a CBS eye can blink, dogged Dems are set to take to the airwaves anew hoping to keep questions about President Bush's National Guard duty in play, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Candidate Kerry apparently has rejected former President Clinton's advice not to get further locked in a 2004 Vietnam quagmire.

"George W. Bush's campaign literature claimed that he 'served in the U.S. Air Force.' The only problem? He didn't," slams a new DNC press release set for distribution.

Dems will attempt to increase the heat on Bush ahead of his planned Tuesday address before The National Guard Association gathering in Las Vegas.

http://www.drudgereport.com/dnc77.htm

[lancdem]

4. I love it how Drudge makes it sound like Kerry

is disregarding Clinton's advice. When did Clinton say Kerry shouldn't fight fire with fire?

[Nlighten1]

2. Howard Fineman

O' whore, where art thou.

[demgrrrll]

6. I think Atrios has a post up about this article, Isikoff out and out lied

about what the Texans for truth guy told him. Never forget he is Luciferanne Goldberg's pal "SpikeY".

[The Zanti Regent]

7. Here's the link showing Issikoff lying for Bush (as usual)...

http://www.bopnews.com/archives/001541.html#1541

I am so sick of liars like Whoreward Fineman and Spikey Mikey. The time has come to institute a 3 Strikes law against the media! 3 lies and you're out!

[shoopnyc123]

5. The most important part of this article...

..don't even bother reading it...here it is..

>>>(NEWSWEEK has a strategic partnership with NBC and MSNBC, two of CBS's rivals.)>>>


So, that's it. Game over.

[gumby]

8. Doesn't Isakoff have a blue dress to sniff?

Or something like that?

[Cocoa]

9. slime time was the Clinton impeachment

which Isikoff knows all about.

[johnfunk]

10. Chimpfluffer Isikoff "outs" Bill Burkett as source of the 60MinII memos

... and tries to discredit him to boot.

Problem for Chimpfluffer Isikoff is that Burkett is as honest and patriotic as the day is long.

[Moderator]

11. Not Latest Breaking News

This is a news analysis article. Not Breaking News.

[yardwork]

12. The blatan bias in this article made me so mad I sent a strong email

to Fineman. I doubt it will ever see the light of day. I'm following it up with more to Newsweek, though. I'm a subscriber. There going to hear from me. This is the last straw! This is an outrageously one-sided article!