The Curly Apostrophe Nonsense is a Good Thing

[Czolgosz]

When Ben Barnes came out with his admission that he gave Bush preferential treatment, the media yawned.

When the Boston Globe and 60 Minutes came out with the documents proving Bush's false service, the media took one sniff and rolled over.

But when Drudge said the documents were forgeries, this story got legs because -- for the first time -- there was a right-wing response to the documents. Now the story is getting Shifty Boat Liar's media type coverage. This is not an argument for Kerry to win or lose. They're not Kerry's documents, they're the military's, so this isn't Kerry's argument either way.

I doubt the White House or the military sources or CBS would forge any documents, but I know for a fact that John Kerry didn't. The issue is Bush's to clear up. Let the story play. Quit whining and wringing your hands about it. There are a million better things to talk about (and polls isn't one either -- not because one side or the other is up or down but because it's early September and the polls are not even terribly reliable even in late October -- candidate height is a better outcome predictor than polling at this stage). Who cares about curly apostrophes? Drudge. Who cares about keeping this issue in the news? The media, but only for as long as there is a conflict for them to cover. While CBS and Drudge fight their fight, you have better things to focus on.

What DO we care about? Bush has no environmental plan, Kerry does; Bush has no plan to stop job exporting, Kerry does; Bush has no plan to restore fairness to the tax code, Kerry does; Bush has no plan to extend health care, Kerry does; etc. Take your pick.

[glitch]

1. You are correct until the last paragraph - Bush does have plans

on the environment, outsourcing, tax codes, health care, etc.
They're just not ones he publicizes. Maybe we should.

PS Welcome to DU!

[Czolgosz]

4. I've been on several other boards

where freepers are pushing the forgery story. I have found that by responding "they don't believe in the Selectric typewriter existed in the '70s just like they don't believe in Darwinism or the theory of evolution -- it's a religious thing for them" seems to illicit the most apoplectic responses from the freepers.

[glitch]

5. Too funny!

:evilgrin:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. DIND, DING, DING!!! We have a WINNER!!!! eom

[Shopaholic]

3. And why is it getting SBV level coverage?

because they share the same PR company! Per Salon:
by
Eric Boehlert: excerpt:

But there is clear evidence confirming that the same conservative operatives who have been busily promoting the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth smears of Kerry are now engaged in pushing the story that CBS's "60 Minutes Weeknight Edition" aired forged documents in its Wednesday night report on Bush and the National Guard.

Creative Response Concepts, the Arlington, Va., Republican public relations firm run by former Pat Buchanan Communications Director Greg Mueller, with help from former Pat Robertson Communications Director Mike Russell, sent out a media advisory Thursday to hawk a right-wing news dispatch: "60 Minutes' Documents on Bush Might Be Fake." Creative Response Concepts has played a crucial role in hyping the inaccurate, secondhand Swift Boat allegations, with Russell serving as the group's official spokesman. A company spokesman could not be reached for comment.