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#1 Postby DROliver » Tue Apr 13, 2004 7:48 am

This makes my point:

INTENTIONAL LIES?

For two days the Washington Post has been reporting that the August 6,2001 Presidential Daily Briefing memo -- the one recently declassified by the White House -- "... warned [President Bush] a month before September 11, 2001 attacks that the FBI had information that terrorists might be preparing for a hijacking in the United States and might be targeting a building in Lower Manhattan."

There's a problem here. That problem is that the August 6 memo doesn't say what the Washington Post says it says. Not even close. The memo mentions that some suspects had been casing federal office buildings in New York. Not one mention of Manhattan, and no mention that any building in New York might be the target of a hijacked airliner.

Isn't it clear what's going on here? The Washington Post is reporting -- in two successive news stories on two successive days -- that President Bush was warned specifically that terrorists were going to hijack airliners and target a building in lower Manhattan ... the location of the World Trade Towers. They are presenting the facts this way because they know that the majority of Americans haven't read the actual PDB, and, furthermore, the majority of Americans are very unlikely to learn the truth about those memos. The goal here is to twist the truth so that millions of Americans will come to believe that Bush had a specific warning, and ignored it.

I can tell you where this is going to go. Six months from now, just before the November election, I'll be getting calls from people swearing that they read somewhere that George Bush had a memo in front of him a month before 9/11 telling him just what the terrorists were going to do, and where they were going to do it. The fact that what the Washington Post reported is a lie will be lost. What they reported will not.

Oh ... and pointing out this lie to you is proof of my right wing bias, in case you didn't know




http://boortz.com/nuze/index.html

Take a read of the Nuze section its only going to get worse.I just hope the republicans don't start this crap.

Steve O.
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#2 Postby streetsoldier » Tue Apr 13, 2004 12:08 pm

The DNC is desperate, DROliver...and they have access to all the sympathetic media they need.

They won't convice the "right", they are "preaching to the choir" re: the "left"; such distortions are directed at the "undecided" voters.

And, distortions they ARE...what the RNC needs to do is "counter, counter" and even more "counter"...but do so in a preemptive manner.
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