....and then there is this, .........

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....and then there is this, .........

Publius — 8/13/2004 12:54:34 PM (archived)

The "Mainstream media" you are complaining about so loudly, generally reaches for the headlines and neglects to follow the money trail left by those good little Republicans. But, once in a while a Joe Conason comes along and reports by following the Bush moneytrail to get behind the calumny of Republican diatribe, such as the recent "Swift-boat Veteran" sagas. He reports,

"The group was organized last spring with the assistance of Merrie Spaeth, a Republican public relations executive from Houston whose late husband, Tex Lezar, ran for Texas lieutenant governor on George W. Bush's ticket in 1994. Its guiding spirit is John E. O'Neill, a partner in Lezar's law firm and an early protÃ©gÃ© of Nixon-era dirty trickster Charles Colson. ... Its Web site was put up courtesy of William Franke, a St. Louis businessman with longstanding ties to Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Missouri Republican Party. Its chief financiers, according to the group's last quarterly IRS filing, are Houston builder Bob J. Perry and the Crow family, both major Republican donors from Texas. Last November, the Dallas Morning News profiled the mysterious Perry. During the past four years, he has given more than $5 million to candidates and causes, nearly all of them Republican and extremely conservative. The article didn't say whether Perry himself ever served in the military. The Crow family, a clan of megadevelopers based in Dallas, are close Bush friends as well as generous backers. Harlan Crow is also a trustee of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation. In short, the financial supporters of the Swift Boat Vets are not exactly strangers to George W. Bush and Karl Rove."

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Mainstream media bias, nailed to the wall. - Tom Brosz - 8/13/2004 1:53:43 AM
- Headlines - Tom Brosz - 8/14/2004 8:53:13 PM
  - So? - Mary Anne - 8/15/2004 11:24:57 PM
    - re: So? - Alasdair - 9/4/2004 8:42:56 AM
- Who is Jason? - Mary Anne - 8/14/2004 1:19:32 PM
  - re: Who is Jason? - Tim McNabb - 9/1/2004 1:28:54 PM
    - I appreciate your approach to documentation. - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 1:53:20 AM
  - Who does he have to be? - Tom Brosz - 8/14/2004 8:49:25 PM
    - re: Who does he have to be? Identifiable. - Mary Anne - 8/16/2004 12:05:27 AM
    - Kind of off the main topic - Robert - 8/15/2004 5:23:17 PM
    - BTW... - Tom Brosz - 8/14/2004 9:46:58 PM
      - Interesting. No outfit name? - Mary Anne - 8/15/2004 11:26:33 PM
        
        His e-mail address is right there. Write him a letter. - Tom Brosz - 8/16/2004 7:41:52 PM
        
        Jeez, Tom, I have four emails, but only one is traceable. - Mary Anne - 8/17/2004 7:56:16 PM
        
        re: Jeez, Tom, I have four emails, but only one is traceable. - Observer - 9/1/2004 3:31:03 PM
        
        Thank you. I'm happy you understand my point. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 1:48:13 AM
        
        re: Thank you. I'm happy you understand my point. - Matt - 9/2/2004 7:58:36 PM
        
        True as far as it goes. - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 9:26:01 PM
        
        re: Jeez, Tom, I have four emails, but only one is traceable. - Tim McNabb - 9/1/2004 1:21:25 PM
        
        And he's at Blogger, so he would have to have committed fraud to have gotten those... - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 4:46:38 AM
        
        Fine. Have it your way. The man is imaginary. - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2004 8:47:01 PM
        
        ~sigh~ - Mary Anne - 8/17/2004 10:14:57 PM
        
        re: ~sigh~ - Jason Van Steenwyk - 9/1/2004 3:12:29 AM
        
        Yeah, and Id just like to point out what a great organization is the MBLA - Jason Van Steenwyk - 9/2/2004 4:02:18 PM
        
        PS: that was me (n/t) - alcaray - 9/2/2004 4:03:19 PM
        
        LOL! (n/t) - Mary Anne - 9/3/2004 6:52:49 AM
        
        How do I know you are the same person? - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 1:47:27 AM
        
        re: How do I know you are the same person? - Tim McNabb - 9/2/2004 5:11:55 AM
        
        It's not so much the address as the type of address - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 6:01:03 AM
        
        re: It's not so much the address as the type of address - tim McNabb - 9/2/2004 5:49:03 PM
        
        This whole blogger authority thing has been on my mind for a while. - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 10:52:14 PM
        
        Please keep it up! - alcaray - 9/3/2004 5:09:48 PM
        
        Oops. Ya got me. - Mary Anne - 9/3/2004 6:29:06 PM
        
        I think there's a distinction between a purveyor of news and one of opinions - alcaray - 9/2/2004 6:33:44 PM
        
        re: ~sigh~ - Alasdair - 9/1/2004 7:57:05 PM
        
        ~tbbbthhh~ - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 2:18:33 AM
        
        re: ~tbbbthhh~ - Alasdair - 9/2/2004 6:38:34 AM
        
        "Great Game": Jason is a spy? (n/t) - alcaray - 9/2/2004 4:09:25 PM
        
        A Gilligan's Island reference! How cute! - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 12:09:08 PM
        
        re: A Gilligan's Island reference! How cute! - Alasdair - 9/3/2004 6:24:34 AM
        
        And this is pertinent to the main point of the discussion how? - Mary Anne - 9/3/2004 6:45:46 AM
        
        re: And this is pertinent to the main point of the discussion how? - Alasdair - 9/3/2004 8:30:05 AM
        
        Ah. Clever boy. - Mary Anne - 9/3/2004 12:11:47 PM
        
        re: Ah. Clever boy. - Alasdair - 9/4/2004 8:27:31 AM
        
        re: ~sigh~ - Jeb Hoge - 9/1/2004 2:30:01 PM
        
        Another country heard from - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 2:25:50 AM
        
        re: ~sigh~ - Eric Blair - 9/1/2004 12:44:05 PM
        
        No, some people will never get it. - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 2:33:20 AM
- Neil Boortz - Tom Brosz - 8/13/2004 11:20:44 PM
- re: Maybe the Mainstream Media don't want to touch it because they don't know for sure were the lie is... - Chris Vancil - 8/13/2004 3:40:14 PM
  - If they gave it 10% of the attention of the 'Bush AWOL' non-story earlier this year, it'd be a major improvement - Larry J - 8/13/2004 3:58:57 PM
    - Re; Bush being AWOL is news! He is the sitting POTUS and this isn't resolved except in your mind. - Chris Vancil - 8/13/2004 9:51:50 PM
      - You prove the main point. - Tom Brosz - 8/13/2004 10:09:12 PM
        
        re: You prove the main point. - Chris Vancil - 8/14/2004 9:49:33 PM
        
        re: the main point. - Tom Brosz - 8/15/2004 4:27:28 AM
        
        re: the main point. - Chris Vancil - 8/15/2004 5:47:34 AM
        
        Kerry and dangerous assignments - Tom Brosz - 8/15/2004 7:54:26 AM
        
        re: Any where in Vietnam was dangerous...get a clue! - Chris Vancil - 8/16/2004 9:55:06 AM
        
        Do you have any source that shows Kerry deliberately chose Vietnam over Germany? - Tom Brosz - 8/17/2004 6:43:24 PM
        
        You're making a gross exaggeration - Larry J - 8/17/2004 2:35:47 PM
        
        From the San Francisco Examiner - Larry J - 8/14/2004 12:25:09 AM
- As Tim Blair put it... - Larry J - 8/13/2004 2:02:55 PM
- ....and then there is this, ......... - Publius - 8/13/2004 12:54:34 PM
  - Still killing the messenger, are we? - Tom Brosz - 8/13/2004 5:03:17 PM
- Then there's this... - Tom Brosz - 8/13/2004 5:08:25 AM
- re: Mainstream media bias, nailed to the wall. - tony - 8/13/2004 4:02:24 AM
- The infotainment media is fighting for its political life - Gary - 8/13/2004 3:28:09 AM
  - The internet as primary news source? Oh, good! - Mary Anne - 8/14/2004 12:47:43 PM
    - re: The internet as primary news source? Oh, good! - Aaron - 9/1/2004 8:38:29 AM
      - Spoken as someone who wouldn't know what libraries do if one fell on him. - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 3:05:36 AM
        
        re: Spoken as someone who wouldn't know what libraries do if one fell on him. - Alasdair - 9/4/2004 8:37:17 AM
        
        re: Spoken as someone who wouldn't know what libraries do if one fell on him. - A Little Observer - 9/2/2004 3:26:02 PM
        
        When you don't have anything of substance to say, attack the speaker. - Mary Anne - 9/2/2004 9:10:01 PM
        
        re: When you don't have anything of substance to say, attack the speaker. - Alasdair - 9/4/2004 8:41:09 AM

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