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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:37 PM
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Ha! Tweets Bats 0-2 In His Attempts To Shape The News Cycle
First, Tweety is all over the NYT piece on the Clinton's marriage. He thinks it will be one of THE defining issues in the 2008 campaign.
So, he has Howard Dean on - who completely shoots down the idea as idle gossip. "Are you telling me, "sez Tweets, "that their marriage
isn't a topic of discussion among top Dems?" Dean: "No, it isn't. It isn't Topic A at all. This is gossip, and I'm going to be hard on this
stuff no matter where it comes from."

BTW - when Tweets and his fellow RW enablers haul out the NY Times as a reliable source, Ds should be saying, "is that the NYT
that ran Jayson Blair's fantasies and Judith Miller's outright falsehoods on Iraq as the truth? We're not talking the NY Times that
broke the Pentagon Papers here."

Secondly - Tweets failed miserably last night in trying to paint *'s false admission of mistakes last PM as being "Lincolnesque."
Unfortunately, no one on his panel bit. In fact, they all disagreed with him. That led Tweets to say that "maybe I'm not such a
big cynic as the rest of you," to which one panelist said bush's false contrition itself was the height of cynicism.

Tweets - on the road to total irrelevancy.
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:38 PM
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1. Tweets is rating quite lowly on the Nielson scale.
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 03:06 PM
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7. Wednesday's #'s: Hardball 123; Countdown 178
In the prized 25 to 54 demographic.

Tweety has lost his tweet.
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Chiyo-chichi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:41 PM
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2. "It's Friday, ya bastids."
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Us vs Them Donating Member (725 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:43 PM
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3. NYT - Liberal Rag or Paper of Record
It can't be both, and personally, I think it's neither. However, you can't expect to claim credibility when you arbitrarily decide which of their stories to trust based solely on your own political ideology.
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:45 PM
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4. Did you see this at Media Matters?
Edited on Fri May-26-06 02:50 PM by rocknation


"...Media Matters does not endorse the decision by elite media figures to take their cues from tabloids, but if they do so, we expect them to be consistent..." (link)


:headbang:
rocknation
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ginnyinWI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:49 PM
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5. he looked like he was about to swoon over *'s appearance
and yes, I agree he was out there all by himself. The other ones weren't impressed. :rofl:
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LibDemAlways Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 02:55 PM
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6. The other night Tweety tried to equate
George Allen's lifelong love affair with the Confederacy with a ficticious kid wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt - implying that Allen really didn't understand the implications and it doesn't matter anyway.

I don't know how much $$ Tweety's accepting under the table to spew this shit, but I hope his ratings sink so deep into the toilet that he gets his ass cancelled soon.
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durrrty libby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 03:11 PM
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8. He is such a transparent tool
Now he needs to discuss the state of W’s marriage using the Globe for reference.


Chris seemed shocked that he was the only one buying into W’s “apology”

He is an ass.


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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 03:15 PM
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9. His orgasm over *'s fake remorse even
made my apolitical daughter in law puke. She walked in as grandma and I were watching (only because we tuned into KO only to hear the stoopid press conference) heard tweety waxing ecstatic over *'s Lincolnesque speech and immediately began making barf noises. She'd never even seen the moran before but knew at a glance she was witnessing a phony.
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 03:34 PM
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10. Oh, Nora O'DONNELL *did* agree with him, both called Shrub
"reflective." Thank Zeus for Keith, and even Dead-intern-Joe who really blasted Shrub, the former saying it was too late and too cutesy with the old story of Pickles egging him to repent, and the latter saying that he was only regretting "words, not ACTIONS."
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 03:39 PM
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11. Maybe she meant "reflexive".
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-26-06 03:45 PM
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12. "Tweets - on the road to total irrelevancy." - A one way street, I hope!
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