The Bush Smear Machine: A Primer.

[TruthIsAll]

***************BUSH SMEARS O’NEILL**************

the wyeth wire
DEAR BOB NOVAK, GET 'YER SMEARS HERE: Now that the Bush administration has launched an investigation into Paul O'Neill's handling of secret ...
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lying in ponds: Joe Conason
... Vile Ann Coulter smears a war hero 18 February 2004, ... Dennis Hastert, White House, administration, Bush, the President ... O'Neill tells all, and it's not pretty 14 ...
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Newsday.com - News Columnists
... An unnamed Bush aide is already saying O'Neill was never really taken seriously at the White House, anyway. But O'Neill was prepared for whispers and smears. ...
www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nydugg133624107jan13,0,6345560.column?coll=ny-news-columnists - 47k - Cached - Similar pages

Bush administration smear campaigns - Disinfopedia
... Become a Scum Pond of Betrayals and Gutter Smears Under Bush ... and misinformation that the Bush Administration seems ... Former Secretary of the Treasury Paul O'Neill. ...
www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Bush_administration_smear_campaigns - 28k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

Salon.com | Blowing a whistle on Bush's 9/11 failures
... something more than the usual White House smears. ... appalling indifference of the incoming Bush team in ... by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who reported ...
archive.salon.com/opinion/scheer/2004/03/24/clarke/ - 36k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

Perry: Bush Wars :
... goers aren't easily swayed by emotional appeals or smears. ... candidate ease up on his or her criticisms of Bush. ... Thanks to Paul O'Neill, it couldn't possibly be ...
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THE NEW YORK OBSERVER, Featuring Joe Conason
9/11 Commission? ... O’Neill Tells All, And It’s Not Pretty by Joe Conason ...
www.observer.com/pages/author_look.asp?Author=Joe%20Conason - 16k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages


***************BUSH SMEARS CLELAND**********************

Vile Ann Coulter Smears a War Hero
despite his sacrifice—for one reason alone: Mr. Cleland is a ... George W. Bush, of course, served far from Vietnam in the ...
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lying in ponds: Joe Conason
... Vile Ann Coulter smears a war hero 18 ... Cleland, Cleland, Max Cleland, Cleland, Cleland, Cleland 1R+: Republicans ... the President, George W. Bush, Republican, Bush ...
www.lyinginponds.com/jconason.nyo.html - 12k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

BUSH AWOL
... You can ask why Bush failed to take his flight physical in 1972 ... Well, there are two smears involved here ... The first one is that since Cleland got injured in a non ...
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The Nation
... This 4th of July weekend, spare a thought for decorated Vietnam veteran Max Cleland, a man who ... The Bush Republicans are all about such vague smears. ...
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The Smirking Chimp
... track of the Kerry (and Cleland) smears Add a ... don't clearly distinguish between lies, smears, insinuations, innuendos ... an unusually dirty campaign (Bush has very ...
www.smirkingchimp.com/viewtopic.php?topic=36760&forum=2 - 29k - Cached - Similar pages

Terrorizing freedom - Campus Watch
... Such smears also are a Bush family tradition ... make his opposition appear unpatriotic, George W. Bush and his ... Max Cleland of Georgia, a triple-amputee veteran of ...
www.campus-watch.org/article/id/437 - 15k - Cached - Similar pages

The Wage Slave Journal
... 2003 A bitter American hero Max Cleland's story is ... Will there be political fallout from Bush's lies to ... 1 Rule of Republican Political Smears: Corrections never ...
www.wage-slave.org/archives/00000108.html - 12k - Cached - Similar pages

Inside Politics
... Their lies, smears and intimidation will end, and I ... Shields contends Chambliss hinted Cleland was a traitor. ... of such items as President Bush's education reform ...
www.georgiatrend.com/site/page1096.html - 17k - Cached - Similar pages

CNN.com - Transcripts
... In terms of Max Cleland, he voted against the president on ... of the reasons why you're seeing these personal smears and gutter ... And George Bush is going to prevail ...
www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/03/wbr.00.html - 71k - Cached - Similar pages

*********************BUSH SMEARS GORE*************************

CONASON: HOW THE RIGHT SMEARS GORE, HELPED BY "SLOPPY JOURNALISM ... IN A TOILET." www.bushwatch.com/gorejune.htm - 67k - Cached - Similar pages

The Bush Watch
... The advertisement then declares, "The Gore prescription plan ... considered the father of political smears and directed the Poppy Bush campaign featuring ...
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the american street: Smears
... Smears. ... For any die-hard apologists out there who might think that Bush may have forgotten this incident ... They even spun it to make Gore and the Democrats look bad ...
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Environmental Ethics and Public Policy
... Worst of all, as Dukakis manager Susan Estrich later admitted, Bush's smears were unanswered, and ... simply dusted off Poppy's play book as if the Gore Team had ...
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The Case for a Dumb President By David Plotz and Eve Gerber
... Gore is a born-again Baptist who regularly invokes ... can't produce any actual evidence of smears. ... A review trashes George W. Bush's ghostwritten autobiography as ...
http://slate.msn.com/id/56749/ - 35k - Cached - Similar pages


********************BUSH SMEARS CLINTON**********************


Spinsanity - Countering rhetoric with reason
... cut dissembling from Bush administration (Ben Fritz, 11/13) -Limbaugh whitewashes his Jennings misquotes (Brendan Nyhan, 11/09) -Limbaugh smears Clinton with ...
www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2001_11_11_archive.html - 27k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages
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Bill Clinton
... Then-President Bush even ordered the State Department and others to ... followed the hate radio, publishing lies and smears against President Clinton. ...
www.mikehersh.com/cat_index_15.shtml - 41k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

Bush administration smear campaigns - Disinfopedia
... 2003, BuzzFlash Editorial "The Integrity and Dignity of the White House Become a Scum Pond of Betrayals and Gutter Smears Under Bush." Clinton administration. ...
www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Bush_administration_smear_campaigns - 28k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

New York Observer, The: One Last Flurry of Beltway Smears. ...
... Day at the behest of Hillary Rodham Clinton, to avoid ... In recent days, Bush adviser Karl Rove has been ... data that showed how effectively these smears had played ...
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American Politics Journal -- Strippers and Straw Men
... ended an 18-month affair with one George W. Bush of Houston ... was not allowed to reverberate unchallenged, the way anti-Clinton or anti-Gore smears are, for ...
www.americanpolitics.com/20000103Baker.html - 12k - Cached - Similar pages


***************************BUSH SMEARS WILSON******************

The Pinocchio presidency
By Joe Wilson. ... These smears must be understood as part of the Bush campaign strategy of "slime and defend.". ...
http://fairuse.1accesshost.com/news1/wilson-salon.html - 11k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

The Integrity and Dignity of the White House Become a Scum Pond of ... Wilson, who disputed claims Iraq was trying to buy ... police state implications, while the Bush cartel was ... Internet strategy: leaking gutter level smears to Matt ...
www.buzzflash.com/editorial/03/07/23.html - 29k - Cached - Similar pages

Bush Gang Breaks Law
... they may be vulnerable to these types of smears." Some in the ... But the fact is the Bush officials, by revealing to Novack the name of Wilson's wife as ...
www.anewdeale-zine.com/bush_gang_breaks_law.htm - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

Anger Management Course: Karl Rove in irons
... of this campaign, it was leaked to Bush crony and ... GOP fifth columnist Robert Novak that Wilson's wife, Valerie ... in a column parroting various smears fed him by ...
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Outing a CIA agent is illegal, not to mention unpatriotic!
... can deflect the blame from the Bush administration ... Linda Chavez descended to unsubstantiated smears in her column about former Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his ...
www.apfn.net/messageboard/10-16-03/discussion.cgi.13.html - 12k - Cached - Similar pages

Open Source Politics: Comment on The Valerie Plame Affair ...
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***************BUSH SMEARS CLARKE**********************

DNC: Kicking Ass - Look out for the smears
... smears. If you listen closely, you can hear the sounds of the Bush smear machine cranking up. Tonight on 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl is interviewing Richard Clarke ...
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WorkingForChange-Clarke's book shows why Bush fears truth
... the White House smears Mr. Clarke because of his friendship with Rand Beers, another career public servant who resigned as Mr. Bush's senior counterterror ...
www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=16646 - 26k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

Clarke’s Book Shows Why Bush Fears Truth
... Today, the White House smears Mr. Clarke because of his friendship with Rand Beers, another career public servant who resigned as Mr. Bush’s senior ...
www.commondreams.org/views04/0324-11.htm - 16k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

Blowing a Whistle on Bush's 9/11 Failures
... President Bush failed the country in its hour of ... Richard Clarke, who served every US president since Ronald ... something more than the usual White House smears. ...
www.commondreams.org/views04/0323-07.htm - 15k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

If Clarke Is Right, Bush Must Go - by Christopher Deliso
... rather pedestrian smears have been backed up by nothing more than adjectives. Thus the Pentagon demeaned Clarke's allegation that George W. Bush has failed the ...
www.antiwar.com/deliso/ - 36k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages


*********************BUSH SMEARS DASCHLE*******************

One Thousand Reasons
... do that," Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South ... with something more than the usual White House smears. ... Bush is running an insulated White House driven ...
www.thousandreasons.org/ - 101k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

Full Statment Of Senator Patrick leahy Thursday Address During ...
... by the anthrax letters addressed to Senator Daschle and to me ... bench and choose, instead, to use smears and the ... 21 women, nominated by President Bush in just 17 ...
leahy.senate.gov/press/200311/111303b.html - 47k - Mar 26, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages

Salon.com Politics | Joe Conason's Journal
... I then asked Rush how Bush might respond ... to me by name with the usual cheap smears, and I ... whenever Limbaugh slurs a patriot like Kerry, Daschle, McCain, Harkin ...
www.salon.com/politics/conason/2002/12/05/bush/ - 43k - Cached - Similar pages

To The Point: November 2003 Archives
... Daschle is starting to take it on the chin for ... This certainly builds the Bush brand as supporting the troops ... Miller smears Wesley Clark, and talks up the tax ...
www.unplusdoublegood.com/archives/2003_11.html - 51k - Cached - Similar pages


*********************BUSH SMEARS MCCAIN*****************


Salon.com | The Vietnam smear -- from McCain to Kerry
... vital as deflecting questions about Bush's military record ... out how much damage such smears could inflict ... After McCain declared his presidential candidacy in 1999 ...
www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/02/10/kerry_smear/ - 43k - Cached - Similar pages

VegSource.com -- Another GOP senator condemns White House smears ...
... Another GOP senator condemns White House smears on Kerry ... to break ranks with the Bush-Cheney campaign's ... John McCain (R-Ariz.) in criticizing ads sponsored by ...
www.vegsource.com/talk/flame/messages/97693.html - 20k - Cached - Similar pages

IHT: As Bush and McCain Spar, Fears Rise for November
... language yet, a top aide for Governor George W. Bush of Texas accused Senator John McCain of Arizona of running a ''sleazy, anonymous'' campaign of smears. ...
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[Melodybe]

1. Thanks for a very decent list of articles, and thanks for your hard work.

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