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Human Torch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:16 PM
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Fox's Gibson: Clinton "showed his roughneck followers how to fight dirty"


In all the hollering Bill Clinton started when he showed his roughneck followers how to fight dirty in his interview with Chris Wallace, there has been some conspicuous trifling with the facts by FOBs, friends of Bill, including one from his best friend — his wife — who already has a campaign chair for her presidential campaign when she hasn't even announced she is actually running. Look at a couple quotes, and you decide.

Quote No. 1, Hillary Clinton today:

"I'm certain, if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled, 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States' he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team."

Well, he was shown that.

Quote No. 2, a presidential daily brief sent to president Bill Clinton December 4, 1998, just about three years before bin Laden attacked on 9/11:

"Bin Laden and his allies are preparing attacks in the U.S., including aircraft hijacking..."

Will Hillary now correct the record and apologize for misstating the facts? No, she won't. That's because the Democrats have figured it out. The wussiness of the Gore campaign and the Kerry campaign are now officially out. We're back to the old days of brass-knuckle Clinton fighters. Damn the facts, just come out slugging. Politics under Clinton rules is offense, offense, offense. Don't get caught up in the details of what is true and what is not. Just get up a good head of steam, turn purple with rage and attack. Chris Wallace is the wrong guy to go after. He's a straight arrow who is a veteran of both NBC News and ABC News, yet for the offense of a question he is under the slimiest of attacks. It is an outrage, but it has now been sanctioned as perfectly OK in this bare-knuckles brawl designed to fire up Democrat voters and put historians on notice that Bill Clinton will fight any judgment that he was lacking in his war against bin Laden.

And who is the devil these fightin' Dems want to go after? FOX News, of all things. Barbara Boxer, the esteemed senator of California, was rude to Jane Skinner on the air today. Yesterday, Lanny Davis felt he had to attack me, personally, to defend Bill Clinton. Hey, I can take it. FOX can take it. The public should just be warned. This is what the run-up to the election is going to look like. Blame, scapegoat and divert. The Clinton team is back on the field. The games have begun. That's My Word.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,215938,00.html
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AX10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:19 PM
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1. Well it's about time we did so.
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Nickster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:19 PM
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2. I can't keep up, are we mean and nasty or weak willed and wimpy?
Geez Charlie, stick with one stereotype so I can follow along.
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htuttle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:24 PM
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6. I guess we're supposed to be 'effete roughnecks'
I think that's kind of like "Jumbo Shrimp" or something....

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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:31 PM
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10. 'Violent Pansies' jumps to mind
n/t
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:47 PM
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20. Combative militant wusses. n/t
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 06:30 PM
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28. Hostile Pacifists!
Edited on Wed Sep-27-06 06:33 PM by YOY
n/t
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Human Torch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:28 PM
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8. Well, Bill O'Reilly thinks you're ignorant and disrespectful:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2849027&mesg_id=2849027

Fox has all of their talking heads pushing this full-time. "Clinton Goes Wild." Last night on Scarborough Country. Joe "I Killed My Intern And Got Away With It" Scarborough had a really thorough Swift Boating session.

That's really all that Karl Rove's got. Hammer Clinton, which allows Clinton and the Dems to come back with facts regarding what Bush did (or did not) do to prevent 9/11. That's going to be one of the segments on Olbermann's show tonight.

:patriot:
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July Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 02:07 PM
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40. Gibson, O'Reilly, Scarborough, Ailes ALL still talking about WJC.
That tells me that Bill Clinton got significant traction in his smackdown of little Chrissy. These clowns are busy saying, "Who you gonna trust, me or your lying ears?" Framing desperately because the Big Dog made too much sense and got the message across forcefully.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:20 PM
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3. Nothing new to us just you
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:21 PM
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4. Is Gibson who Michael Moore envisioned when he wrote "Stupid White Men"?
What a worthless tree-dweller he is.
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:22 PM
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5. Absolutely! - fight bullshit with intellectuality...
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LSparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:27 PM
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7. Damn straight -- if we gotta get into the mud pit with y'all, so be it
No other way to BEAT rednecks except at their own game ...
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rniel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:29 PM
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9. My advice to Gibson
Please don't go outside without lots of sunscreen.
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LostInAnomie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:31 PM
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11. Talk about not letting the facts get in the way.
When Clinton got a memo saying "Bin Laden and his allies are preparing attacks in the U.S., including aircraft hijacking..." he threw all the weight of the federal law enforcement agencies behind stopping it, and he did stop it.

In contrast, when Bush* received a memo saying "bin Laden determined to attack within the United States" he alerted no one and continued his month long vacation.
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Lindacooks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:39 PM
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12. Projection, projection, projection...
Ol' Bucktooth Gibson been lookin' in a mirror.
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noonwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:50 PM
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13. The "War on Christmas" guy is accusing others of fighting dirty?
Please, this is a guy who says that if you don't give lip service to his God at Christmas, you are declaring war on his religion. If using a religion to demonize others isn't fighting dirty, I don't know what is.
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:53 PM
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14. Discover spine = fight dirty ......................WTF?????
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:54 PM
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15. In the words of Harry Truman
"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell."
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 03:59 PM
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16. Why bother with obectivity? I kind of like to see the political biases of
the Right exposed. Like the Party they cheerlead, there's not an honest one amongst them.
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:04 PM
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17. Yes, john. The games HAVE begun. You'll rue the day.
john gibson whines that we're roughnecks fighting dirty? He ain't seen NOTHING yet. What putzes like him are really whining about is their discomfort that they see their own dirty pool played back at them, coming back into their faces (when by "rights" it should be going in the other direction - from them to US). Typical bully behavior. They sure can dish it out, but they can't take it.

:nopity:
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iamthebandfanman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:12 PM
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18. usually i dont attack people personally ...
but ...
god damn hes a strange looking fellow.
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:44 PM
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19. It would be difficult NOT to inult the likes of Gibson
A so called "Christian" who advocates for torture and spreads lie to boot.

People are fed up with these "journalists" and enjoy watching them get their due comeuppance.
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lumberjack_jeff Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 04:53 PM
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21. Duh Gibson, you dumbass.
December 4th 1998 was when Clinton recieved the briefing suggesting Al-Q millenium attacks. Surely you remember the millenium attacks? When bombers destroyed Disneyland?

Oh, that's right.

The difference between Bush and Clinton is that there's a crater at the location of the target Bush was responsible for (and a perpetrator at large). There's still an amusement park at the place Clinton was responsible for protecting (and a convicted perpetrator in jail).
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calimary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 05:45 PM
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25. Love this! "There's a crater at the location of the target bush was
responsible for" - and the rest of it.

And yes, I remember the Millennium attacks - and the way LAX was laid waste. (sarcasm here)

Hey, results - and FACTS - speak for themselves.
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Pithy Cherub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 07:06 PM
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34. Home Run! Touchdown! You nailed it!
Gibson is Wallace's crappy second after Clinton already won the duel!
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 05:25 PM
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22. The Albino Beaver strikes again. n/t
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 06:34 PM
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29. Best response winner!!!!!
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 01:23 PM
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37. Thank you. n/t
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Riddler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 05:35 PM
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23. Why would anyone give a crap what Gibson says.....
when he's too f'ing stupid to find a decent barber?
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 05:37 PM
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24. Goody! I'm a ROUGHNECK! In 4 inch heels and Lancome, no less.
Bring it on, lowlife, ugly, Heritage Foundation bootlicker.

I'm right over here, Gibson, you asshole...

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niyad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 05:49 PM
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26. uhh, I thought we were all sissy liberal elitists. what a change!!
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AJH032 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 06:04 PM
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27. Did he actually watch the interview?
Clinton made it quite clear that he knew Bin Laden was a threat, and he tried to do what he could to stop him, but could not get the CIA and the FBI to certify Al Qaida's responsibility. So why is Gibson bringing up a 1998 warning that Clinton DID respond to?
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NightOwwl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 06:40 PM
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30. Clinton knows how to put Repugs on the defensive...
A tactic (most of) our Dem "leaders" don't seem to understand the importance of.
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 06:46 PM
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31. That Gibson is such a pussy
He is to be ignored.
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 06:53 PM
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32. All these bleating fools...
.. are just making our job easier. They'd be a lot better off letting Clinton's defense go down the memory hole.

Only the 30% idiot-contingent is going to buy this bullshit spin. His claim about offense, offense, offesnse is directly from the Rove playbook, and it has worked pretty well for the Republicans, it managed to elect an absolute moron to the highest office in the country.

Y'all keep talking, dumbasses.
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 07:02 PM
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-27-06 07:20 PM
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35. DU's Skittles: Gibson is a "certified bush whore"
:puke:
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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 12:28 AM
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36. Must I look at that picture?
Good lord, it will take my eyes months to recover from looking at Mr. Sardonicus!
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Turn CO Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 01:47 PM
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38. I'm confused: Are we effete latte-swilling Liberals or roughnecks?
n/t
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 02:01 PM
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39. Really? All Dems have to do is learn from the right. Which most of us
prefer not to do.
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xkenx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-28-06 04:52 PM
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41. Aw, poor widdle Charlie Gibson, and poor widdle Chris wallace--
BOO FUCKIN' HOO!! The bully shows his cowardice when the victims strike back! Go, Big Dog!!
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