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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 04:40 AM
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Smoke and Mirrors by the Hocus-POTUS review
recently it came to light that the medicare "NEWS" story featurer "reporters" who were actually actors posing as reporters and reading from a bush* admin "script"

Prior to that - the controversial 9-11 campaign ad featured firemen who were also actors

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five other instances of HOCUS-POTUS come to mind:

-- 2000 Florida re-count: a now fairly known photo shows a group of "voters" storming the re-count room. these voters were GOP stooges of various ranks within the GOP machine

-- 2001 taxcut: at a rally to shove the taxcut through Congress, bush* appeared on stage with a group of "reg'ler 'muricans" . Turns out these "reg'ler 'muricans" were part of the bush* team and were instructed to play dress-up like a "reg'ler 'muricans"

-- 2002 Made in where?: at yet another "rally" to push a taxcut through - bush* appeared with a staged backdrop of boxes that were stamped "made in USA". A behind the scenes look, showed that these boxes were actually marked as "MADE IN CHINA"

-- 2003 "Mission Accomplished" banner: First story cited that the crew of the Lincoln made the banner and put it up. Later we find that bush* inc. provided the banner

-- 2003 Lincoln Jet Landing: Originally we were told that the Lincoln was "too far out to sea" to accomodate another ship transporting bush* to the Lincoln - hence he was "flown" in on a jet.
However, we then find out that the coast line was easily in site when bush* "landed". Meanwhile it was never adequately explained that if the Lincoln was sooooo far out to sea - then how did the bush* advance crew get on the ship?

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these were just the instances that came readily to mind -- please add others that I have missed
perhaps we can add these to the bush* flip-flops and call them Smoke and Mirrors by the Hocus-POTUS
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 04:49 AM
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1. Great List Rad,
as a retired Fire Capt, I am pissed the Pubs would stoop to hiring actors to portray FF's. What a dufus decision was that?
Damn.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 04:54 AM
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2. Fake Thanksgiving Turkey?
:wtf:
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Racenut20 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 05:29 AM
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3. Wonder how much Halliburton charged for the turkey???
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-16-04 01:02 PM
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4. kick
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