These "Faux quotes" must be recognized and dealt with as part of a larger GOP strategy to "faggotize" John Kerry. Any use of the quotes, without being counteracted by highlighting Kerry's alpha male performance in the debates, is just promoting this Republican meme into the political discourse. We saw it first with Drudge's $200 haircut stories, and as Bush precedes to get his ass kicked in the upcoming debates, an increasingly desperate GOP will only escalate the Kerry is a bit faggy meme. Besides, we all know Fox is biased, repeating it ad infinitum is like proving 2+2=4. The debatable tactical gain of again proving Fox unfair is hardly worth the strategic disaster of polluting the airways with malicious Republican propaganda.
I will leave it to others to decide whether Josh Marshall is just a naïve moderate stooge or an undercover GOP operator. Kenneth Pollack, the CBS memos, and now the Faux quotes; to me he is too often pushing things the GOP way. Whatever the case, one thing is sure, he took obscure quotes that only the Fox website reading, Bush loving, Neanderthals would have seen, and he put these destructive quotes into the mainstream where they will now influence moderate voters. We are seeing here a slight twist on the case of the fundamentalist preacher who protests a film and ends up helping to promote it, increasing ticket sales with his hysterical condemnations of smut. Marshall didn't help matters either by needing to call the Kerry campaign to see if the quotes were real, adding to the meme that Kerry is a little limp in the wrist.
Two can play this game; if the ReThugs want to get dirty so can we. Kerry was clearly the dominant male in the debate, even W's wife was drawn by Kerry's animal magnetic attraction as documented by the picture of Laura Bush and Theresa Heinz Kerry, in their matching white outfits, struggling to stand closest to Kerry. Bush's grimaces and sighs during the debate can certainly be called less than manly, as is his tendency to tire easily. I mean, come on now, this guy is in his mid-fifties but has the stamina of an eighty-year-old woman. He also sure does seem to come unglued at the slightest criticism, what's up with that? Weak, fragile, emotionally delicate are all adjectives that fit Bush to a T.