Bush spokesman outraged by "Kerry's misleading scare tactics"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

I know, I know. If it weren't true, it would be a piece from "The Onion." But how DO you react to a spokesman from the Bush campaign referring to John Kerry as "a candidate who will say anything to get elected?" Rove & Hughes have turned "scare tactics" into some kind of unholy art form. The only thing missing from Schmidt's statement is the word "litany"...then we'd know it's straight from the ass...er, I mean MOUTH...of Karen Hughes.

Meanwhile, Bush prepares his "significant" new "terror speech," most likely filled with "misleading scare tactics," to be delivered today in the shadow of the 9/11 disaster.

:grr:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/campaign_rdp

"I'll tell you what. I will never privatize Social Security. I'll never cut the benefits and I won't raise the retirement age," Kerry told an audience in Pembroke Pines, Fla.

The Massachusetts senator seized on a New York Times Magazine story to attack Bush. The article quoted the president telling supporters that "privatizing Social Security" would be high on his second-term agenda.

"John Kerry's misleading senior scare tactics are just another example of a candidate who will say anything to get elected," said spokesman Steve Schmidt. "No matter how false his accusations or how contradictory they are with his record of repeatedly voting for higher taxes on Social Security."

Bush spent the day at the White House, emerging to attend church services and go for a bike ride. He is scheduled to make what aides billed as a major speech on terrorism Monday in New Jersey, where millions live within sight of the terrorist-scarred lower Manhattan skyline.

[aden_nak]

1. TERR'RR'LERT! TERR'RR'LERT! TERR'RR'LERT!

[liberal N proud]

5. Spread the FEAR.

With a little help from the major networks it will work. And we will find out after the election the threat was last year.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Message To Bush's Spokesman

Blow Me....

[BootinUp]

3. Well, if we had any responsible journalists

they would eventually realize there is a story on whether the Bush charges or Kerry charges are true. Guess I'm just dreaming.

[NYCGirl]

4. You know what the Republicans are really really good at?

Fake outrage. They're the world champs at fake outrage.

[DrZeeLit]

6. "Outrage" the new Buzz Word

Outrage has become their mantra.
And who are the drama queens.
Really.
"Look, Henny Penny, the sky is falling!"
Tsk, tsk. Will they never learn???

[NewYorkerfromMass]

7. Sorry but you can't see Manhattan from where Bush will be.

He'll be down near Philly somewhere.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

8. This is one example of the way the story's being reported:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,135717,00.html

"WASHINGTON — George W. Bush (search) is telling voters in New Jersey — a state that hasn't backed a Republican presidential candidate since 1988 — that his battle plan for fighting terrorists is better than Democrat John Kerry's.

With a little more than two weeks before Election Day (search), the president is campaigning on Monday in New Jersey, a state in the shadow of the Manhattan skyline that was scarred by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001."

...so if it's incorrect or misleading, that's the news media, I guess...

ON EDIT: You're right. I just found this on Fox (but the original stories are STILL misleading):

"You can't see downtown Manhattan from Marlton, a city in southern New Jersey where Bush will speak, but it's within the Philadelphia media market and Pennsylvania is a state where the candidates are competing head-to-head too."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,135717,00.html