A little more on Jon Stewart's Crossfire appearance

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Monday October 18, 2004 · 4:44 AM PDT

2004/10/18 · 04:44

Other than MTV's Bitchslap article, I haven't seen any coverage of Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire -- there may have been diaries pointing out instances where print or electronic media outlets covered it, but I missed them.

Thus, I was interested to find this from the student newspaper at my alma mater, The George Washigtnon University Hatchet -- where Crossfire is shot.

It's not a great article, but I did learn a couple of things from it:

-- CNN refused to respond to the reporter on the substance of the comments (maybe that explains why they don't criticize Bush, they think ignoring substantive questions is a legitimate way to hold power).

-- The argument apparently continued during commercial breaks.

-- Tucker Carlson said afterwards that it was the most uncomfortable 30 minutes of television (to which I say, too bad Dick.)

http://www.gwhatchet.com/news/771422.html?mkey=90783

Gwen Ifill did a disservice to America

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Tuesday October 05, 2004 · 8:53 PM PDT

2004/10/05 · 20:53

To me the big story of tonight is how Gwen Ifill did an unbelievable disservice to the American people.

Edwards clearly won the debate, but it didn't matter. Most Americans watching that debate were probably sick of the Iraq discussion after 20 minutes and got nearly nothing out of the Domestic part.

And it's Gwen Ifill's fault. (UPDATED DIARY TITLE ON REQUEST) Read More

Democracy Corps shows great news for Kerry

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Friday October 01, 2004 · 4:25 AM PDT

2004/10/01 · 04:25

Democracy Corps conducted a panel poll of 1318 voters overnight, that is they interviewed the same 1318 people before and after the debate.

He gained two points in the vote, to cut Bush's lead to 2 (and this sample skews Republican, too). However, more important are the huge gains Kerry made on personal characteristics like leadership and likability, and the similarly massive gains he made on comparisons with Bush about handling of the war on terror, Iraq and other issues. Those are the leading indicators and the kinds of things you see move right after a debate.

Very, very good news for Kerry.

Read their release below:

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Thursday September 16, 2004 · 11:11 PM PDT

2004/09/16 · 23:11

There have been great diary entries by others about Gallup's flaws. I thought it would behoove us to take a page out of the Republican playbook and come up with some simple bulleted talking points about Galup. Hopefully, these will get to Democrats who have to go on TV tomorrow.

So with credit to those who have enlightened me, below the jump is my condensed version.

Let me know if I've missed anything and I'll update. Read More

Did anyone else catch Nightline?

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Monday September 13, 2004 · 10:31 PM PDT

2004/09/13 · 22:31

It made me ill.

I hope someone more enterprising will get a transcript and post it. Especially Daily Howler.

I didn't take notes and this isn't verbatim, but I want to share my perception of the horribly biased report I just saw: Read More

Please stop hammering Bush on debates

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Wednesday September 08, 2004 · 4:50 PM PDT

2004/09/08 · 16:50

I don't know if this is worthy of a diary or not, but I have a point to make that is getting lost in the comment sections and doesn't seem to be made by others:

Please stop hitting Bush for trying to weasel out of the third debate.

That is a trap the Republicans have laid for us, and many here are falling right into it.

With all due respect, Kos points it out on the front page & Atrios is calling him Chicken George. Others have written diaries about Bush chickening out of the debates and I've seen comments from people suggesting lines of attack centering on the debates including calling Bush AWOL from debates.

I hope you'll all stop falling into the trap, and I'll explain why below the jump.
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Bush's past drug use crippling his ability to fight terror?

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Wednesday September 01, 2004 · 5:09 PM PDT

2004/09/01 · 17:09

For those of you who didn't see the Daily Show, Steven Colbert did a bit on the unbelievable gaul of the Republican convention. When you combine it with the Swift Boat attacks and Denny Hasterts slander of George Soros, their theme amounts to: "FUCK YOU, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?"

They can slander, smear, slime, lie, manipulate, abuse 9/11 for politics, and then rub it in our noses because they know the media won't call them on it, they know their surrogates can do it with a straight face and they know we don't have the lack of conscience necessary to fight back equally.

I say, we take a page out of their book.

Below the jump is my, "F YOU WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT" suggestion.
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Steven Colbert achieves new level of brilliance

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Tuesday August 31, 2004 · 8:16 PM PDT

2004/08/31 · 20:16

Steven Colbert's segment on the Daily Show was amazing tonight. can't wait for the transcript.

In the meantime, some highlights:

-- Calling the convention, "Crass-tastic".

-- Saying that calling their convention manipulative would be like calling Marcel Marceau just a little quiet

-- Referrring to their theme for Thursday as, "Fuck you, what are you going to do about it?" and then when Jon Stewart asks whether that's going too far, he responds, "Yes, but Fuck You, what are you going to do about it?"

It was just a genius skewering of the unmitigating gaul of the Republicans. They truly have no soul and Colbert nailed it.

Most of us missing the big Raum/AP mistake

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Monday August 30, 2004 · 4:08 PM PDT

2004/08/30 · 16:08

Many of us have written or phoned our complaint about the misleading AP article by Tom Raum.

He has even responded to some people here, as has an AP editor.

However, I think we've been fighting the wrong battle.

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Debunking help needed

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Saturday August 21, 2004 · 12:07 PM PDT

2004/08/21 · 12:07

On another board, one that is supposed to be non-political (and for me, hopefully a respite from the wingnut slime I have to see every day), there is someone who uses a signature that says,

"John Kerry and Jane Fonda met with the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong while our troops were still fighting on the ground in Vietnam."

I understand that John Kerry met with the NV during the Paris Peace Talks (which Nixon set up). Was Jane Fonda there? Did they meet toghether with the Vietcong? Any other suggestions for debunking this wing-nut?

Another Nagourney hatchet job

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Friday July 30, 2004 · 10:30 AM PDT

2004/07/30 · 10:30

Check out the way Adam Nagourney covered this thing (this is the paragraph excerpted in the Hotline):

New York Times' Nagourney: "More than reinforcing his own credentials as a wartime president, Mr. Kerry used this speech on Thursday -- to what was certainly the largest audience the four-term senator from Massachusetts has ever faced -- to offer a blistering critique of Mr. Bush's 42 months in office, going so far as to echo one of the signature attacks Mr. Bush used against Bill Clinton when he ran in 2000 by challenging Mr. Bush's honesty. ... And the gauzy introductions leading up to his arrival -- folksy and personal tributes from his two daughters, a Hollywood biographic video, war stories from one of his buddies from Vietnam -- signaled another goal of his convention: to provide a softer view of a politician whose own friends describe him as cool and distant" (7/30).
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Better than Howard Dean's bat

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Tuesday July 27, 2004 · 10:51 AM PDT

2004/07/27 · 10:51

Jeff Smith's "choose his ad" feature on his website seems to be doing well. He's raised over $8,000 in a few days with it.

Basically, it's like a bat, but one that actually gives his contributors some genuine control over his campaign message.

For those who aren't famliar: Jeff Smith is the progressive running for Gephardt's open Congressional seat in St. Louis, MO. A Democrat is almost certain to win in November so as a liberal pragmatist I've adopted this race as one place I can support a true progressive without fear of losing a seat to a Republican. Of his 3 major opponents, two are anti-choice and the one who is pro-choice (Russ Carnahan) voted for MO's law that bans gay marraige -- so basically Jeff Smith is our only chance to get a progressive with backbone in this seat.

My understanding is that he been running his campaign largely with targeted direct mail, but it is about to go on TV, too.

He currently has on his website two possible TV ads. He is asking on-line contributors to make a donation in the name of one ad or the other. Then, whichever one gets the most donations will be the ad he airs.

The election is one week from today, so I have to think they will choose today or tomorrow at the latest. Currently, it's neck and neck between the two.

I hope people will check it out and consider sending some bucks to one race that will shape what kind of Democratic party we have in Congress.

http://www.jeffsmith2004.com/

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