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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 06:28 PM
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The net has been scrubbed of this pic. It's the only one I could find. It's all you need to know
about Rove's tactics, and what McCain has chosen to embrace as a campaign tactic.



Rove, Dan Bartlett and Karen Hughes dressed up in hunting gear that Halloween in order to mock a recent John Kerry hunting trip.

Real adult, huh? Fucking mature, isn't it? Really gets the issues out, right?

Rove is running the McCain Campaign. His tactics disgusted people then, and will disgust people now. There is much, much more at stake now.


Bush Aides in Kerry-Mocking Halloween Costumes Not Amusing to CNN

"The Bush campaign team had a little fun at Halloween," ABC's Charlie Gibson noted Monday morning over video of top Bush aides dressed for Halloween in hunting outfits which matched what John Kerry donned when he had his goose-hunting phot-op. But CNN anchor Carol Lin was not amused. On CNN Sunday Night, she demanded of a Bush campaign spokesman: "Was this a cheap shot at the Kerry campaign?" She then lectured him that if "you're a technologist who has seen your job outsourced to India, or you're a father or a mother with a son or daughter in Iraq and you see the lead characters, Karen Hughes, Karl Rove, no less, coming out in these outfits to make fun of John Kerry, how do you think those undecided voters are going, going to read these pictures?" MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, on Monday night, sarcastically opined: "No truth to rumors that they found these outfits at the same costume shop where they found President Bush's flight suit for the big 'Mission Accomplished' landing."

Lin's rebuke came during an October 31 session, on the 10pm EST CNN Sunday Night, with Phil Singer of the Kerry/Edwards campaign and Reed Dickens with Bush/Cheney campaign, both of whom appeared via satellite. The MRC's Rich Noyes caught the exchange.

Over video of Karl Rove, wearing a camouflage jacket and hunting hat with flaps hanging down over the ears, going down the steps of an airplane, and a clip of an identically-attired Karen Hughes, Scott McClellan and Dan Bartlett at the bottom of the stairs at the Northern Kentucky Airport, Lin, in Atlanta, announced:

"Reed, I've got to show you some pictures that came into the CNN Center tonight. I think you'll be able to see them in your monitor. This is, these are the most senior people of the Bush campaign, de-planing tonight in duck hunting outfits, Kerry pumpkins. It is Halloween. Was this just to be funny, or was this a cheap shot at the Kerry campaign?"

Dickens: "I think out on the road they have a lot of fun. I traveled with the President for three years, and I think it was all in good fun. Look, this is a very -- we're very excited about what's happening tomorrow. The American people are going to have a very clear choice between a President who's provided consistent leadership and led this country through some very difficult times-"

Lin cut him off: "Wait a second, Reed. If you're, if you're an unemployed steel worker out there, or you're technologist who has seen your job outsourced to India, or you're a father or a mother with a son or daughter in Iraq and you see the lead characters, Karen Hughes, Karl Rove, no less, coming out in these outfits to make fun of John Kerry, how do you think those undecided voters are going, going to read these pictures?"

Dickens: "I think you're being a little unfair. It's Halloween night, and these people travel all the time..."

http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20041102.asp#1
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Parche Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 06:31 PM
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1. Its The Same As The Ignorant Purple Bandaid Lady
:grr: :grr: :hi: :hug: :hug:


OH MEOW



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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 06:33 PM
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2. awwwwwwwwwwwwww
not THAT'S a cutie!!! :loveya:

the kitty, not that crazy loon sporting the band aid :)
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 06:35 PM
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3. I think its been killed
sorry
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PetrusMonsFormicarum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 07:05 PM
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4. Bunch of fucking rummies
if you ask me. ". . . I think it was all in good fun." Arrested development at the frathouse level, coupled with an endless struggle to fuck the entire world in an ultimate act of nerd revenge. This scumbag is nothing less than a supervillain in the employ of the US Government.



A fella can dream.
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Submariner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 07:07 PM
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5. This photo always disturbs me


I can't get my arms around the idea that a former POW would lower himself to suck up to a yellow bellied draft dodging coward like this Bush hug.

He can't have a sense of dignity to shame himself like this.
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-01-08 07:13 PM
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6. that picture is PAST disgusting
McCain has sold what's left of his soul.

I hope it wasn't worth it.
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