SwiftVets.com

[snaggletooth]

Just posted on Common Dreams web site.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0224-28.htm

Maureen Dowd's delusional diatribe abuses Swift Vets.
She has to be held accountable for this trashing.

Published on Thursday, February 24, 2005 by the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/opinion/24dowd.html?
Swifties Slime Again
by Maureen Dowd

Instead of trying to destroy AARP, Republicans should be signing up the seniors' lobby to find Osama.
AARP's super-relentless intelligence network is certainly better than that doddering C.I.A's. Osama has to have turned 50, and AARP somehow knows where everyone who has turned 50 lives.

But no. The same Republicans who used to love AARP when it helped them pass the president's prescription drug plan now hate AARP because it is against the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

"They are the boulder in the middle of the highway to personal savings accounts," said Charlie Jarvis, the president of USA Next, a conservative lobbying group. "We will be the dynamite that removes them." He sounded more like Wile E. Coyote than a former interior official in the Reagan and Bush I administrations. "They can run, but they can't hide," he said. But the walker-and-cane set is hard to picture in the Road Runner role.

The Washington Monthly called USA Next's United Seniors Association, a self-styled AARP rival, "a soft-money slush fund for a single G.O.P.-friendly industry: pharmaceuticals." Certainly, AARP, the gigantic special interest flush with money, probably does wield undue influence and certainly can be an obstacle to public policy, sticking up too much for what their critics call "greedy geezers."

But AARP doesn't deserve this treatment from the "Swift Boat" political demolition team. As Glen Justice reported in The Times, USA Next, which has spent millions on Republican policy fights, has pledged to spend as much as $10 million on ads and other tactics to "dynamite" AARP and get Americans to rip up Social Security. It's hiring some of the same consultants who helped the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, who dynamited John Kerry, a war hero, by sliming him as a war criminal.

Once again, just as W. runs into political trouble, he floats above the fray while the help takes out his opponents. Just as John McCain was smeared by Bush supporters in 2000, Swift Boat assassins can rid the president of any meddlesome adversaries now.

The USA Next group intends to combine the two ruthless success stories of the Bush re-election: the Swiftian tactic of amplifying its vicious and dishonest attacks through the media, and the Rovian tactic of hanging gay marriage like an anvil around the neck of a foe.

It began with an almost comically hyperbolic Internet ad that briefly ran on The American Spectator's Web site, painting AARP as pro-gay sex - even though it's tough to think of AARP and steamy lust in the same hot breath - and anti-soldier. It showed a soldier with a red X across him, and two gay men kissing at their nuptuals, with the headline "The REAL AARP Agenda."

(Mr. Jarvis, who used to be executive vice president of James Dobson's Focus on the Family, also urged his Web site readers to "support Mel Gibson's 'The Passion.' " The group's national chairman is Art Linkletter; it seems that aging right-wing trash-talkers say the darndest things.)

AARP has not taken a position on same-sex marriage. But Mr. Jarvis told Judy Woodruff on CNN's "Inside Politics" yesterday that it had opposed a proposal in November to ban same-sex marriage in Ohio.

This was, of course, specious. The Ohio chapter of AARP objected to the proposal because it said the wording could affect legal recognition of any union, even of older heterosexuals living together.

The oleaginous Mr. Jarvis explained that the soldier was X-ed out on the ad because AARP does not "take a position on veterans and combat veterans' health and support an expansion of their assets. And we do." That is so lame. Just because AARP doesn't endorse a USA Next plan for veterans' health, that doesn't mean it hates American soldiers.

Mr. Jarvis defended his ad by saying that he was simply trying to provoke liberal bloggers, and that he succeeded. In fact, part of the sinister beauty of the Swift Boat method is its viral quality: it slips into a host body - "Inside Politics," say - and hijacks it. An ad it showed briefly on the Internet has now been replicated free, all over the world, and, yes, it is now being transmitted through the Op-Ed page of The New York Times.

Senator Jon Corzine of New Jersey sent a letter to President Bush yesterday calling the USA Next ad "incendiary" and asking him to denounce such tactics. But, of course, President Bush has nothing whatsoever to do with any of this. Right?

Can't they get anything right?
The tooth in search of the truth


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Mike "snaggletooth" Solhaug

[nutcase]

Think this way..

There was a disaster in the far east,,, a "Very large wave caused by

a "earth quake" did huge damage there..

1. The US gov. gave lots of money.

2. The AMERICAN PEOPLE ON THEIR OWN , BY $20.00 $10.00 ECT AT

A TIME """ GAVE THREE TIMES AS MUCH AND CONTIUE TO SEND

MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

? Is ,, what do we NEED with the Senate, House, Pres..

and this "bunch of lobby freeks at AARP"

WE JUST FIND A FEW BANKS,, HIRE THEM SEND

"" OURSELFS SOCIAL SECURITY FOR THE FUTURE

FUNDS AND LEAVE THE "CROOKS" OUT..


THINK ,,, THINK,,, THINK,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

other than that I'm ok


signed by.
the mast ,, you can sail with..

[Theresa Alwood]

People acually read Maureen Dowd????? Amazing.
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[d19thdoc]

Theresa Alwood wrote:

[scotty61]

Dowd has moved from being a fairly readable columnist to a shrill harpy. Now she just runs the anti-Bush rant du jour.

You have to go back a quite a few years to when the NYT was a decent newspaper. Now it works best as birdcage liner.
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[Chief RZ]

You would have to go back about 65+ years for "All the News that's fit to print" to be appropriate.

[MrJapan]

Damn snaggletooth.. where you been?! 3 posts in more than a year.. and I though I was a lurker

I just wish all these MSM peeps could open their damn eyes and finally see reality... need I say more?

MJ

[Snipe]

Who's Maureen Dowd? I can't seem to find her in my new copy
of World Weekly News? Is she an alien?


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[snaggletooth]

MrJapan:
Just a humble member of the ever-vigilant, perpetual watch.
We know the truth, and will always make it known.
The tooth speaks the truth.
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[rbshirley]

[carpro]

I like it.

This just means that the Swiftvets are really, really stuck in her liberal craw and she can't get 'em out.

Soon normal people will begin to notice, if they haven't already, that she has an obsession/fixation about the Swiftvets. You know , like mentally unbalanced people do.
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"If he believes his 1971 indictment of his country and his fellow veterans was true, then he couldn't possibly be proud of his Vietnam service."

[Dimsdale]

[GM Strong]

MoDo is just a bitter, bilious misanthrope. Too bad, not our problem. She seems to have a case of the Redbutt for everyone, especially male conservatives and the military.
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[Chief RZ]

I wondered who stole her lolly-pop. That 's what you get when you hang around the hollywood crowd! I hope she gets over it and moves on.

[GM Strong]