Foxnews--another reason to assume the Bush Tapes story's a smokescreen

[bunkerbuster1]

An AP story about the tapes is directly linkable from the FoxNews.com site.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,148167,00.html

Fox News NEVER runs anything that would put Dear Leader in a poor light.

It's obvious bullshit, designed to

a) humanize the man and

b) distract his religious right base from the GAY SEX content of Guckert/Gannongate

[illflem]

1. Typical Fux viewer

[Vinnie From Indy]

3. LOL That's GREAT!!!

I almost choked on my coffee wehn I scrolled down and saw that pict. Well Done!

[Bethany Rockafella]

9. LOL! Great pic of the sheeple!

:thumbsup:

[still_one]

2. You are correct

in addition, they are giving this more coverage than the Gannon story

[fooj]

4. So does this mean we can all smoke pot now? LOL

[Dhalgren]

5. Yes, "blowing joints" is now o.k....

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Gannon has been almost nowhere

So this really says a lot. Especially if Faux is telling about these tapes. Hmm. Now why would they do that to der Bush? Definietly fishy.

[Hoping4Change]

6. There is a "c" to add to your "a" and "b" .

As soon as I heard this story I thought it smelled. Today as I was reading the posts I wondered whether the purpose of releasing the tapes now is that they create sympathy for bush on the basis that he has been betrayed by someone he thought was a friend. How convenient that this betrayal angle plays into Gannon story. Here is yet another person the WH/bush trusted but turned out to be a Judas.

At the end we get a story abount how an innocent trusting honest bush is surrounded on all sides by evil people.

[AntiCoup2K4]

14. Well that much is true.

The Chimp IS surrounded on all sides by evil people. It's just that the truly evil ones aren't going anywhere :(

[Dinger]

7. Yes, The Timing Is Odd, Isn't It?

[fooj]

8. Odd yet predictable! The only transparent thing in this admin. is

their behavior!

[s-cubed]

12. According to one report,

the faked * national guard documents were put out months before they became public. (Sorry, don't have the link.) They were a trap set, ready to catch an unwarey newsperson, and to take attention away from the other national guard documents that were released after the furor had died down. Now, if Rove knew of the tapes, and knew of JimmyJeff, wouldn't he hold on to the tapes to release them at a time when he needed a distraction? (I know, it wasn't Rove who released them, but I can't believe the wh didn't clear their release.) If those assertions are correct, then I would deduce that JimmyJeff could have a lot more to come: you don't use big guns to kill a small scandal.

[s-cubed]

13. According to one report,

the faked * national guard documents were put out months before they became public. (Sorry, don't have the link.) They were a trap set, ready to catch an unwarey newsperson, and to take attention away from the other national guard documents that were released after the furor had died down. Now, if Rove knew of the tapes, and knew of JimmyJeff, wouldn't he hold on to the tapes to release them at a time when he needed a distraction? (I know, it wasn't Rove who released them, but I can't believe the wh didn't clear their release.) If those assertions are correct, then I would deduce that JimmyJeff could have a lot more to come: you don't use big guns to kill a small scandal.

[yurbud]

10. an idea to keep it going

google religious colleges and broadcasters, and send them pics of gannon along with some ethical questions.

Why did the GOP have this guy pretend to be a reporter?

Why did they use a male prostitute for disinformation?

Do you want your tax payer dollars or even donations to the GOP going to a guy like this?

[Roland99]

15. Oh, it's definitely an orchestrated response. Wead is too deep into the

Bush family.



http://www.rickross.com/reference/unif/unif131.html

Top leaders of the Religious Right, including Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) President James Merritt, were among the crows at a Jan. 19 "Inaugural Prayer Lucheon for Unity and Renewal" sponsored by an arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church.

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"I was shocked to see that Sun Myung Moon was on the program and in essence the host," Chapman told the Baptist Press News Service. "I was even more surprised on the way out of the banquet hall to be given a propaganda book on the Unification Church."

Merritt noted that his invitation came from Doug Wead, an evangelical who worked in the White House under President George Bush in the early 1990s. "We knew that it was going to be an interdenominational event, but we had no idea that the luncheon was hosted by Moonies," said Merritt. He added, "I didn't even see the program until I got there. I had no idea this was the nature of the meeting. I believe this incident will teach us to be a little more judicious.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2004/051304.html

Bush has even mentioned his belief that God intervened to put him in the White House. On the day of his second gubernatorial inauguration in Austin, TX, Bush gathered with some close friends and supporters at the governor’s mansion and, according to Richard Land, a director of the Southern Baptist Convention who was present, Bush told the group, “I believe that God wants me to be president.”

Bush reportedly learned this method of signaling to Christian fundamentalists by frequently referring to his Christian faith from Doug Wead, an adviser to his father's 1988 presidential campaign. Wead had written a series of memos on how to communicate with evangelical Christians. Wead's motto was "signal early and signal often," meaning that references to God should be put in speeches and meetings should be held with celebrity Evangelicals.