Save Joe Trippi

[phish420]

He is sinking into the media abyss, and he needs our help. Please write him and let him know he has lost his way and we would like him back!

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My letter:

Ok, first of all I want to say that I have admired your work with the Dean campaign and have, in the past, admired your honest take on most stories…however, your recent appearance on MSNBC confuses me. You said that the bin laden tape proves that he watched f-911?? That is not the slightest bit true. This was a known fact long before f-911. It has been determined by many that he is watching the US media and is somewhat media-savvy, so he very well could have seen a clip on a news show ABOUT f-911, showing that clip, or a commercial, or any number of independent documentaries that mentioned it before f-911 (not to mention the many news channel ‘discussion/debate’ shows that have mentioned this many times). To say this proves he watched f-911 is completely irresponsible.
Secondly, most on the Democratic Underground are not at ALL as you put it, ‘cautious’ about this tape. We are not ‘following the lead of the candidates’…maybe the republicans are, but the free-thinkers are not. We wonder why the media would basically convice the Kerry campaign that it would be bad to politicize this. Why not?!?!? This tape PROVES that bush*s attempt on the war on terror is a complete failure. This tape show that UBL is NOT on the run, as this administration has said, but instead, he is healthy, safe, free, and making videotapes making fun of our ‘president’.
I find it amazing that the media would spin this tape and say that it can only help the president. The argument seems to be that any image of 9/11 helps the president because that is his greatest achievement. ACHIEVEMENT?!? The worst foreign attack on U.S. Soil on HIS watch is his greatest ACHIEVEMENT? My word, has this country lost its MIND?

Please, Mr. Trippi, get your thoughts together and set this straight.

With all due and sincere respect,

(name withheld)
Orlando, FL
http://www.bushlies2.us

[fearnobush]

1. Now we know why Dean fired him.

He's a media whore.

[DaveinMD]

2. he completely mismanaged the Dean campaign

a ton of money is not accounted for. Most Dean folks I know can't stand the man.

[madaboutharry]

3. I think things must have been so much better back

in the old days of television when people like Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, Frank Reynolds, the "old school" types, got on television and discussed politics in a calm and careful manner. They didn't get on television shooting from the hip. Nowadays anyone with a big mouth can get on the box and yak away even if all they are doing is blowing smoke out of their ass.

[patricia92243]

4. If OBL did see F 9/11 and the goat story, what is the big deal?