I Need Help Responding to This Smear Job

[dusty64]

that was on the front page of my local rag today. There is hardly a mention of the many reasons why Congressman Hinchey has brought these charges against rove and this article makes him out to be a nutcase. Hardly a peep about gannon/guckert and the growing evidence that the corporate media is nothing more than a propaganda arm of the BFEE. I need some more good points in my letter to this once fairly decent publication and where better to get them then from the brilliant minds of DU.



Hinchey's conspiracy theory sets off cyberspace firestorm
Bloggers let him have it on charge that Rove set up Rather over National Guard.
Saturday, February 26, 2005
By Peter Lyman
Washington bureau
For more than two centuries, members of Congress came back to their districts during Washington recesses and met with constituents. They discussed a broad range of issues, and the world at large took little note.

That was before cyberspace. In the digital age, a lawmaker's casual remark in a tiny forum can become a national story within hours.

Just ask Maurice Hinchey.
The Democratic congressman, whose district stretches from the Hudson River to Tompkins County, was in Ithaca a week ago, speaking to fewer than 100 people at a town hall meeting. The topic was President Bush's proposals to reform Social Security.

During a question-and-answer period at the meeting's end, Hinchey's impromptu comments on an unrelated matter ignited a firestorm of attacks by squads of angry cyber commandos.

Hinchey, D-Saugerties, expressed the theory that Dan Rather and CBS News were victims of a White House plot, suckered into citing bogus documents in a scheme to damage the network's credibility and deflect criticism from Bush during the presidential campaign.

Last fall, a report by Rather cited documents questioning Bush's National Guard service during the Vietnam War. Those documents, Rather and CBS later admitted, were of dubious origin and reliability.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/poststandard/index.ssf?/base/news-2/110941087520172.xml

[dusty64]

1. Somebody,

Anybody???? :kick:

[applegrove]

2. When Judy Woodriffe was interviewing him she pointed out that

the findings of the CBS commission on the Rathergate papers couldn't conclusively say if they were phony or not. I thought it had been proven phony.

Look for that on some blog somewhere - the interview he did with Judy Woodriffe on that day because he defended himself preety good (considering what he said had no evidence or witnessing of the events)

[never cry wolf]

3. Here you go, for starters...

Stark Rove-ing Mad
Naked City
BY ROBERT BRYCE


September 29, 2000:

The case of the purloined videotape is far from over, but fingers are already pointing at Karl Rove, Gov. George W. Bush's chief political strategist. There's no proof that Rove or any other of the Bush campaign insiders sent the tape of Bush preparing for his upcoming debate to an ally of Al Gore's two weeks ago. But many pundits are suggesting Rove did it, pointing to a 1986 bugging incident at Rove's office to bolster their allegations.

In October of 1986, Rove was working for Republican Bill Clements in his race against then-Gov. Mark White. A few days before the candidates were to debate, Rove discovered a listening device that had been planted behind a needlepoint picture of an elephant hanging on his wall. The FBI investigated. Accusations and counteraccusations were made. But no charges were ever brought, and the matter slowly dissipated, amid general speculation that Rove had planted the bug himself.

The latest dirty trick took place earlier this month, when a videotape was apparently taken from the offices of Bush media advisor Mark McKinnon. The tape, along with copies of other debate briefing materials, was then mailed to the office of Gore ally, lobbyist, and former U.S. Rep. Thomas Downey, where it arrived on Sept. 13. Only a handful of Bush campaign staffers had access to the materials, including Rove, McKinnon, communications director Karen Hughes, campaign manager Joe Allbaugh, campaign chairman Don Evans, and policy director Josh Bolten.

Although no suspects have been named, the FBI, which is investigating the matter, has told several media outlets that it believes the tape was sent by someone inside the Bush camp, presumably in an attempt to entrap the Gore campaign. And given Rove's history, which includes more than a passing familiarity with dirty tricks, many pundits believe Rove is the chief suspect. Rove did not return calls from the Chronicle.

more---> http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2000-09-29/pols_naked3.html