I  arrived yesterday like Jerome Armstrong.  I went straight to the Women's Caucus meeting.  Howard Dean was starting to speak.  He was strong and he was engaged and he smiled a lot.  
In the question and answer period, Judy Tobias Davis, an early Dean for Prez supporter by the way, in her quiet but steely way asked him  how could we let the Repubs claim moral values as theirs alone. She had been hard to hear so Howard rephrased it as "How can we let Republicans claim to be about moral values when they have none?"  We all loved it.  The questioner by the way is the mother of the DNC treasurer, Andy Tobias.

But there is an easy meme or slaogan I think we should use in the Social Security privatization debate ( which will really destroy social Security)

It seems at first blush that he is planning an excuse for Bush and blaming Kerry and the media for unfairly jumping on the story.  

I have to leave to run a phone bank for Palm Beach County so I can't send material to them.  

Someone watch and keep tabs.  Alert Josh Marshall.  Send them Marshall's material.  Demand they interview Marshall.  Send them the NBC piece saying they just had a pit stop there. Factcheck them rigidly afterward.  

This has been a terrible diversion from the real issues; the diversion helps Bush, but if we get back to talking about real issues  that helps Kerry.

http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2004/10/9/21740/1289/98#98

The point I tried to make at 3AM Friday night was that this is incredibly dangerous for democratic societies.  This is a dangerous precedent when corporate owner(s) of media dictate(s) coverage. We won't need government control of the media a la Pravda when corporate control acts in the same way.

Some phone numbers

CNN           404 827 2600
MSNBC         201 583 5000
NBC NEWS         212 664 4444
CNBC             201 585 2622
CBS            212 975 2900
CBS EVENING NEWS    212 975 2824

I don't have ABC if some one does please post it.

Swamp them with their lousy, unfair, biased reporting.  Let them know you will hold them acountable.

I know some will think I am trigger happy but when I went to vote Kerry was only winning 52-48%.  It's CNN they will make something of this vote.

Link below
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/wolf.blitzer.reports/

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/17/politics/campaign/17nader.html

From comments in this diary. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/16/171052/232_We need to start looking at their partisan breakdown.  We need to loudly question their likely voter screen.  We need to find somebody that CNN polled, who uses this site,  and ask that person what questions they asked.  Specifically what questions they were asked to decide if they are a "likely" voter.  It's supposed to be 5-7 questions which determine if you are a likely voter.  We need info to start figuring out why their screen is so tilted toward Bush supporters._

It's Rosh HaShonah, so I am sorry I will not be here to monitor till later tonight, but feel free to post. (There is a diary which puts forward the proposition that could explain the numbers on today Rasmussen Reports)    

Chris Bowers has a very important post at MyDD about why the right wing blogosphere was so much more effective  re the Killian memos than the left wing blogoshere's debunking of the forgery claim.

Theirs' is high volume, single message of the day,
typical rightwing top down method.
We have a more communally oriented site with lots of talking to each other.  There are many messages.  We spend time talking to each other rather than linking to lots of other sites to create a crescendo effect.It makes it harder to flog an item like Instapundit does and make it to a news blarer like Drudge.  And of course we don't have Drudge.

Read it.  I think it is important for this blog.  So recommend this diary, not for me but to make sure Chris Bower's message gets out.

But first to the earlier memos

I used to jokingly say that explained the sudden irrational behavior, the sudden conversion when he became Senator.  But now I think it is a definite diagnostic possibility.  It is almost the talk of a paranoid schizophrenic.  

This is a man who not only can't tell the difference between the lies and the truth; but this is a man who has no control over his verbal impulses.  Logorrhea of the mouth.

 P.S.: kf demands more reporting on what the Note calls the "dissension" in the "wobbling" Kerry campaign. What kf hears--i.e. this is the rumor, not necessarily the truth--is that Kerry aides Shrum and Cahill are being blamed for the slow reaction to the Swifties. The candidate, it's said, wanted to fight back but was restrained. (How odd if Kerry ended up blaming his staff!) Underlying the anti-Shrumism is the dissatisfaction of some Kerry advisers with from the "battleground" strategy of peeling off a few key Bush states rather than attempting a big, general shift of public opinion. ...

Let's seewhat he says as he subs for Aaron Brown, who actually seems most of the time has integrity.

Let's jump down his throat if he repeats his slanders.

    You deny that John Kerry saved Jim Rassman
  Date:    8/26/2004 9:24:00 PM Eastern Daylight  
  From:    D7eb
  To:    miles.obrien@turner.com