Media Attempts Last Gasp Effort to Finally Interest the Public in Their DNC-Coordinated "AWOL" Tales

For the love of everything holy.

You know what I love? Either way, on November 3rd, this stupid frame-up story is over.

But it would be much better if it were over and we could all laugh at the desperate liberals of the MSM together:

WASHINGTON - Unearthed under legal pressure, three-decade-old documents portray President Bush (news - web sites) as a capable and well-liked Air National Guard pilot who stopped flying and attending regular drills two-thirds of the way through his six-year commitment — without consequence.

The files, many of them forced to light by Freedom of Information lawsuits by The Associated Press, conflict with some of the harshest attacks Democrats have levied on Bush's Vietnam-era service, such as suggestions that Bush was a deserter or absent without leave.

But gaps in the records leave unanswered questions about the final two years of his military service in 1972 and 1973. Chief among them: Why did Bush's commanders apparently blah blah blah blah-blah blah blah blah bla-bla-blah.

But he continues:

Bush's commanders could have blah blah blah bla-bla-blah blah blah. Whine, whine, whine, bitch, bitch, bitch. Cry, cry, cry. Blah blah blah bla-blah-- ba-blah-- ba blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

Ooooh, Snap!

"Obviously, the commander saw the lieutenant's interest in the guard was blah blah blah blah. Goo goo, goo goo. Baby wan' ba-ba wid da wa-wa. Goo goo goo goo goo goo goo, a goo goo, g-goo go goo.

Why are we still talking about this? And yet there's more:

But the culture apparently did ijgoajhhgajk.c -pjkpj, p'japmaiojeajpl.

Sorry, it seems the reporter dozed off in the middle of his own breathless report.

Okay, there's a time when every joke gets old, and I can usually identify that time five minutes after it passes.

Anyway: did I mention you should probably think about voting?

And, oh yeah, sending me some of your hard-won money. But I think that last bit is obvious.

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I don't really think this deserves a Kim Richards siren.

Rasmussen Reports has it 47.8 to 47.8 nationally, a tie to the first decimal. That definitely is not Kim Richards worthy.

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Sorry to be obnoxious, but I'm keeping this post a little sticky throughout the next couple of days. Meaning, it's going to keep getting bumped up near the top.

This is so annoying, I know. But think of me as a right-wing PBS, except instead of boring you to death with the Boston Pops and the seven-billionth "reunion" of Simon & Garfunkel (also known as "Simon & the guy who isn't Simon"), I give you cutting-edge political analysis mixed in with the occasional inappropriate use of the word "pooter."

Here's the pitch:

I figure that just about everyone who reads this site would be willing to donate $1 -- one buck -- four times a year. I figure there are four reason most don't:

more...

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10. Stung by charges that he is a serial fabricator, John Kerry seeks to improve his reputation for honesty by changing his campaign slogan to John Kerry: I Shit You Not

9. 2005's Oscar Winner for Best Actor? Gallagher

8. The American government finally admits the moon landing was faked, calling it a "college prank" that just "took on a life of its own;" also admits that no person named "Chuck Yeager" ever actually existed

7. After begging like railroad hobo, Ace of Spades finally gets a taste of that sweeeet and crazy blog-money he's heard so much about; buys a hot Ducati and kills self attempting to back out of garage

6. Liberal judges admit that primary foundation for most of their rulings is not in fact the Constitution, but the late-sixties hippie cartoons Free to Be You and Me and Yellow Submarine; conservative legal precedents heretofore described as "Blue Meanie dicta"

5. Without explanation, Germans suddenly find David Hasselhof strangely banal

4. At 12:01 AM EST December 12, 2004, MTV breaks format by actually displaying a music video; video in question is tenatively scheduled to be Huey Lewis' Hip to be Square

3. GM unveils new energy-saving car, "the Kleagle," an automobile powered by nothing but pure racial hatred; the celebrity pitchman? Who else-- Leonard Nimoy

2. Bill Clinton rises from his sickbed to campaign for John Kerry; whenever he feels he's losing the crowd, he starts doing that "I'm coming for you!" heart-attack schtick from Sanford & Son

... and the number one announcement that's actually less shocking than Andrew Sullivan's endorsement of John Forbes Kerry...

1. Americans with poor eyesight lobby to replace insensitive term "nearsighted" with more-positive, less-offensive sounding "persons whose eyes are retarded"

Update: Guest blogging at Instapundit, Megan McCardle slaps up Sully's dopey endorsement of Kerry.

Hey-- someone had to read the stupid thing. Better her than me.

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"How do we now turn our attention, ultimately, to Saddam Hussein?"

Great question, Senator.

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Ahem. That's what's known in the blogging trade as an "ironic drudge siren."

The Shrill Shill actually writes:

The endorsement I once never thought I'd write.

Yeah, buddy, you were the last one to know. "I can't believe Andrew Sullivan just endorsed John Kerry!" screamed no one at all.

Meanwhile, George Bush makes a play for the "independent South Park Republican Schwarzenegger-McCain-Guiliani Eagle vote" by saying he doesn't necessarily oppose civil unions, just gay marriage, and disagrees with his party's platform on that score.

I'm mildly against civil unions, but not strongly against them. What I'm strongly against is the liberal courts overturning democracy in order to force them on a public they don't consider sufficiently enlightened to, you know, vote on major issues of the day.

But it looks like Bush's statement comes too late for Andrew "The FMA is my own personal Abu Ghraib" Sullivan. Wouldn't have appeased him anyway-- he wants full gay marriage imposed by liberal courts and he'll accept no substitute.

I have to say, though, that I find this late-game statement by Bush worrying. It's not necessarily a new position, but it is an announcement of a hitherto undeclared position. And I can't say I think such fourth-quarter adjustments are cause for optimism.

Update: Finally, a premise to hang a top ten on! Click here or else just scroll up.

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Among the big points, in close elections, national polls don't mean anything, only state polls do (I don't know if I quite buy that; I guess it depends on what is meant by "close"), and another confirmation that it simply isn't true that undecided voters break for the challenger.

Update: Secure Liberty offers an interesting (and optimistic) take on the election.

I can't believe it's a week away.

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Any guess what kind of t-shirt he was wearing? Right now, Alarming News just says "Developing."

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Kerry's campaign claims he was there:

Web bloggers point to a Boston Globe article from Oct. 26, 1986, the day after Game 6 of the World Series, in which Kerry was noted to have attended the Massachusetts Latino Democratic Committee banquet the night before at the World Trade Center in South Boston.

"Sen. Kerry attended a public event in [Massachusetts] in the early evening and hopped a shuttle flight from Boston to NYC. [Kerry] got to Shea with the game in progress," Michael Meehan, Kerry's senior campaign advisor, wrote to ESPN.com in an e-mail. "Remember the Sox were up 3-2 so all of Red Sox Nation was planning for a Series win."

Look, when a "campaign spokesman" says something like this, it's because they don't want the candidate charged with lying should contrary evidence emerge. There's always that plausible deniability-- "there was some miscommunication between Kerry and Meehan."

We have the facts. The facts cast doubt on Kerry's claims. It's simply not enough to have a paid hack make something up and call that a rebuttal. At the very least, I want Kerry on the record, himself, telling this version of the tale.

ESPN then provides a little assistance to Kerry regarding his Phantom Marathon Running:

Kerry had also claimed to have run in the Boston Marathon in the late 1970s or early '80s, though no records of his finish exist. Meehan said Kerry ran the race unofficially "as a bandit." Running the race without a number was more commonplace 25 years ago than it is today.

Says who? Marty Frickin' Meehan again?

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CBSNews and 60 Minutes forge ahead with their illegal coordination with the DNC, planning to run the fake "missing explosives" story 24 hours before the election.

But remember, it was very, very bad for the Sinclair group to show 4 minutes of anti-Kerry footage. Because, you know, they didn't have the proper "news judgment" that might have informed them that the media is allowed to be partisan, but only in favor of liberals.

If you don't vote, Dan Rather wins.

Please don't let him win.

UPDATE! Corrected Link! Were These Documents Even Real? Garfield Ridge has his doubts:

A "government source" is quoted in The Corner suggesting that it may be. They call the memo a "false letter."

Now, I'm unsure whether this person is accusing El Baradei of writing a false memo in his IAEA report to the U.N. Security Council, or if the original memo El Baradei allegedly received from the Iraqi Ministry of Science & Technology is false.

Obviously, if the original Iraqi memo is false, so is the story. Then again, we already know the story is false-- but what do the memos say?

How, um, shocked would you be if it were turn out 60 Minutes were relying on cheap forgeries for another Bush-bashing bit of illegal coordination with the DNC?

And... CBS' attempt at illegal coordination with the DNC apparently lost it its scoop.

Which, actually, sort of turns out to work in their favor, since the story was a sham from the start.

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