Newsmax has come up for a new name for DSM, "Bush Impeachment Memo"

[sabra]

Of course in a biased fashion Newsmax takes their turn to report on the Downing Street Minutes...

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/6/3/00901.shtml

Kerry Touts Bush Impeachment Memo

Failed presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that he intends to confront Congress with a document touted by critics of President Bush as evidence that he committed impeachable crimes by falsifying evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"When I go back (to Washington) on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," Kerry said, referring to the Downing Street Memo in an interview with Massachusetts' Standard Times newspaper.

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The Downing Street Memo, first reported on May 1 by the London Times, was drafted by a Matthew Rycroft, a foreign policy aide to Prime Minister Tony Blair. It is said to be minutes of a July 2002 meeting where Blair allegedly admitted that the Bush administration "fixed" Iraq intelligence to manufacture a rationale for war.
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The British memo, however, contains no quotes from either Bush or Blair, and is notably slim on evidence implicating Bush in a WMD cover-up.
Though largely ignored in the U.S. outside of rabid anti-Bush web sites like MichaelMoore.com, the Downing Street Memo won Sen. Kerry's endorsement in the Standard Times interview:

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[Jade Fox]

1. That actually sounds pretty damning....

even tho the article is clearly trying to poo-poo the memo, and emphasize
Kerry's failure.

Good work, right-wing idiots!

[LiberalVoice]

2. "WMD cover-up"

What WMD cover-up?

[Sparkly]

3. A rightwing ruse

It is not "said to be minutes." That's their basis for discrediting it.

Notice they begin with the word "failed," and tout the memo as something it isn't so they can discredit what it's "said to be."

See Husb's thread on rallying the cry from the public before these jerks get the chance to frame it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3774162

[sabra]

4. there is no doubt in their intentions, though I still like the phrase

"bush impeachment memo" :-)

[Sparkly]

5. No question, but I think they're trying to disempower that phrase. n/t

[oxbow]

7. How do we stop them? nt/

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Probably

The first clue is "failed presidential canidate" like he's a "sore loser" ala Al Gore.

[blm]

12. Or rally their base to jump into the trenches to fight the contents of the

document, no matter what's inside. We all know they count on their base NOT to actually read and absorb facts before them, but, to respond to Bush's need to be protected from the dangers posed inside that document. Truth is not a value to them. Faith in their twisted agenda is.

[blue northern]

6. Total Crappola

The last sentence posted from the article is pure spin and marketing and nothing approaching objectivity or journalism.

Though largely ignored in the U.S. outside of rabid anti-Bush web sites like MichaelMoore.com, the Downing Street Memo won Sen. Kerry's endorsement in the Standard Times interview:

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What a piece of absolute crap propaganda this article is.

Most of the world is anti-*.

* and his PNAC puppeteers are the rabid ones in the equation.

[sabra]

11. Yeah, I thought you would like that paragraph :-)

[FreedomAngel82]

8. Newsweek is covering this?

Okay what's going on??

[blue northern]

10. naw it wasn't newsweek, it was newsmax

It's another right-slanted online propaganda arm.

Here's a sample of their latest gurgitations:

Rather/Cronkite MIA on "Deepthroat"

Woodward rushing to cash in on story

Buchannan: Felt's actions criminal

http://www.newsmax.com if ya got the stomach for it.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[GiovanniC]

13. "Said to Be"... "Allegedly"...

Oh please...

[elehhhhna]

14. "He lied to protect US and help the Iraqis"--bank on hearing it if

push comes to shove.