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SemiCharmedQuark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 01:41 PM
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"Bush Bashing Fizzles"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/bushbashingfizzles;_ylt=ArDsCDEJTGEjBqPuCAwvl3oDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

"This summer, one big story is replaced by another--the London bombings July 7, the speculation that Karl Rove illegally named a covert
CIA agent, the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court, more London bombings last week. But beneath the hubbub, we can see the playing out of another, less reported story: the collapse of the attempts by liberal Democrats and their sympathizers in the mainstream media--the New York Times, etc., etc.--to delegitimize yet another Republican administration."
"This project has been ongoing for more than 30 years.
Richard Nixon, by obstructing investigation of the Watergate burglary, unwittingly colluded in the successful attempt to besmirch his administration. Less than two years after carrying 49 states, he was compelled to resign. The attempt to delegitimize the Reagan administration seemed at the time reasonably successful. Reagan was widely dismissed as a lightweight ideologue, and the rejection of his nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court in 1987 contributed to the impression that his years in office were, to take the title of a book by a first-rate journalist, "the Reagan detour." As time went on, as the Berlin Wall fell and
Bill Clinton proclaimed that the era of big government was over, it became clear that Reagan was a successful transformational president--something the mainstream media grudgingly admitted when he died in 2004 after a decade out of public view."





What a joke. Bush is screwing himself over, with no help from the evil liberals. It hasn't ended it has just begun.
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spooked911 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 01:43 PM
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1. Barone is a %$#!@ idiot. Thanks for the laugh.
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Redstone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 01:45 PM
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2. So when did yahoo news become a subsidiary of fox news?
This column sure sounds like they have.

Redstone
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 02:01 PM
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4. He's a columnist for US News & World Report...
...AND a frequent commentator on the vulpine network.
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 02:00 PM
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3. Another case of wishful thinking posing as a column
Here's the obvious point:

If Republican administrations would just stop committing crimes, we'd stop "trying to delegitimize" them.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 02:01 PM
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5. As if! Barone is such a suck up.
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4democracy Donating Member (285 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-01-05 02:08 PM
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6. Rove is probably the REAL author of this tall tale! n/t
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