BUSH MISLEADS ON CONNECTION TO SMEAR CAMPAIGN
The Daily Mislead
George
W. Bush has adamantly denied any connection to discredited and
unsubstantial attack ads, run by the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth (SBVT), a group that aims to smear John Kerry's record of
honorable military service. On Friday, White House Press Secretary
Scott McClellan said that the White House and the Bush/Cheney campaign
“weren't involved in any way in these [SBVT] ads.”[1]
McClellan
neglected to mention that Kenneth Cordier, who appears prominently in
the SBVT ads, was a member of the Bush/Cheney veterans steering
committee.[2] According to the campaign website, members of the
veterans steering committee “serve as messengers for the pResident's
re-[selection] campaign.”[3] After the Kerry campaign exposed Cordier's
involvement, a spokesman for Bush, Steve Schmidt, announced Cordier
would “no longer participate” in the campaign.[4] According to Schmidt,
the campaign had no idea that Cordier was involved in the SBVT ads –
which have been a major issue in the campaign for weeks and replayed
repeatedly on national television.
Also
skipped over by McClellan: The primary financial backer of the SBVT is
Bob Perry – the top donor to Republicans in the state of Texas.[5]
Perry has also been a friend of Karl Rove, Bush's top political
advisor, for nearly 20 years.[6] Perry ponied up $46,000 for Bush's
gubernatorial campaigns and contributed generously to Bush's
presidential races.[7]
Sources:
1. “Press Gaggle by Scott McClellan,” The White House, 08/20/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51520.
2. “Bush
Campaign Drops Swift Boat Ad Figure,” The Washington Post, 8/22/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51521.
3. “U.S.
Rep. Jim Gibbons Announces Nevada Veterans for Bush Leadership Team,”
GeorgeWBush.com, 8/20/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51522.
4. “Bush
Campaign Drops Swift Boat Ad Figure,” Washington Post, 8/22/04,
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51521.
5. “Ad
Wars: Behind an Attack on Kerry,” International Herald Tribune,
8/20/04, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51523.
6. Ibid, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51523.
7. Ibid, http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1195992&l=51523.
Visit www.Misleader.org for more about Bush Administration distortion.
And speaking of Bush misleading, this biting humor is from the Woodbury County Democratic Party website:
“Bush
the younger has two things going for him that his father never had:
one, an easy charm with regular people and two, the power to make them
disappear without a trial.”
–Bill Maher
“Is
it me or is Bush going everywhere Kerry goes? So far in the past week,
Bush has followed John Kerry to Davenport, Iowa; New Mexico; Las Vegas;
Los Angeles; and he follows him to Portland, Oregon. The only place he
never followed John Kerry was Vietnam.”
–Jay Leno
“Bush is trying to put a positive spin on the latest bad economic numbers. Today he declared victory in the 'War on Jobs.'”
–Craig Kilborn
“This week the Bush campaign
unveiled its new slogan. The new slogan is 'We've Turned A Corner And
We're Not Turning Back.' This replaces their old slogan 'Do What Dick
Cheney Says And Nobody Gets Hurt.'”
-—Conan O'Brien
“The L.A. Times reports that al
Qaeda terrorists have been traced to Iran, and Bush is talking tough.
In fact, he said he will attack the minute he has evidence his approval
rating is under 45 percent.”
-—Jay Leno
“A lot of people are wondering if
these terror threats are politically motivated and today Tom Ridge said
in a press conference: We don't do politics in the Department of
Homeland Security. Our job is to identify the threat and then assign it
a pretty little color to go with it.”
-—Jay Leno
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Oh linda, these jokes are a hoot….props to Woodbury County Democrats
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