Another Bush thingy....

[CaramonLS]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...id=694&ncid=716

Interesting story about a certain someones missing records.

Also Dis.. you should watch the Daily show if you don't already.

[Looger]

yep, opening THAT can of worms may prove costly.

the republicans have something working against them - half their membership.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Why should I watch the Daily Show?

I don't have enough time in my life for a half hour daily political satire show. I think Jon Stewart is hilarious and do catch it on occasion, but are you suggesting that I would gain some sort of truth from it...or simple recommending it on comic value?

[Looger]

ever see john mccain on that show?

not saying he's two-faced, i am a huge fan of his, all the way back to when i used to watch cnn crossfire with michael riley (i think...) and pat buchanan, jon sinunu, et al.

but mccain has made some serious fun of the guy he has to support, his ex-rival for the republican nomination, george walker bush - on that very show.

and they do make fun of both sides - say 70/30.

[Lanny_MacDonald]

Checkout the press time on that document. Sun Sep 5,11:55 PM ET. Just something I noticed. Think that is going to make the morning papers? Think there's going to be more stuff that will bump it or move it to the middle of the section into much smaller print.

[Cowperson]

Originally posted by Lanny_MacDonald@Sep 6 2004, 03:58 PM
Checkout the press time on that document. Sun Sep 5,11:55 PM ET. Just something I noticed. Think that is going to make the morning papers? Think there's going to be more stuff that will bump it or move it to the middle of the section into much smaller print.

So . . . . . you're saying the Associated Press went to all the trouble and expense of hiring lawyers to pound out requests under the Freedom of Information act following by authoring a hard-hitting, questioning story . . . . . . only to cover up its efforts with a midnight release?

By the way, that's 9:55 mountain and 8:55 Pacific time, plenty of room to hit any edition in those parts of the USA.

The Detroit News, as one example, posted the story on its website 10 hours ago and will probably have it in a print edition tomorrow. The Miami Herald appears to have the story in today's print edition in spite of the time.

Instead of the time of day you should be more interested in it coming on a public holiday, when people will be out and about and not paying much attention to the news.

One could even argue that releasing the story at midnight Sunday ensures it gets into print on the east coast AFTER the holiday, on Tuesday, when everyone is reading the paper on the train into work in New York and Washington.

That is, if you think its the job of the Associated Press to time bad/good news for GW Bush and John Kerry.

Cowperson

[Lanny_MacDonald]

Originally posted by Cowperson@Sep 6 2004, 05:23 PM
Instead of the time of day you should be more interested in it coming on a public holiday, when people will be out and about and not paying much attention to the news.

A good point. You would think that the "liberal" media would be waiting for the first edition AFTER the ling weekend to hammer Bush with that "stunning expose". Damn liberals can't even get that right.