Re: [OT] The Swift-boating begins...

Author: Leland Jackson

Posted: 2006-12-21 at 19:47:04

It's Politics.

Regards,

LelandJ

Michael Madigan wrote:

>She's dead-on!

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>--- Ed Leafe <ed@leafe.com> wrote:

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>> All too predictable at this point by the right.

>>Don't engage in

>>discussion of ideas; instead, make fun of the guy's

>>name.

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>>http://mediamatters.org/items/200612200008

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>>"On the December 11 edition of The Situation Room,

>>CNN senior

>>political analyst Jeff Greenfield compared the

>>similarity of Obama's

>>"business casual" clothing to Iranian President

>>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's

>>"jacket-and-no-tie look." Greenfield concluded the

>>segment by saying:

>>"Now, it is one thing to have a last name that

>>sounds like Osama and

>>a middle name, Hussein, that is probably less than

>>helpful. But an

>>outfit that reminds people of a charter member of

>>the axis of evil,

>>why, this could leave his presidential hopes hanging

>>by a thread." He

>>later explained on the CNN website that he was

>>making "a joke."

>>

>> Small minds at work.

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>>-- Ed Leafe

>>-- http://leafe.com

>>-- http://dabodev.com

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