Monday, October 25, 2004
A Week To Go--Keep Your Eye Off the Ball
After the last debate, the news allowed themselves to be handled by the Bush machine over the horror of Kerry infusing Cheney's gay daughter into the debate--the Horror! This despite allowing the President to lie about never making a statement that he was not concerned about finding Osama bin Laden.
So with a week to go, what is the new story? Well, it kinda plays on the flip flop theme and is geared towards the sports enthusiasts who may be thinking about voting.
I have Andy DMX Dudas to thank for this one. Seems the conservative bloggers, particularly some stupid group called "Football Fans for Truth" have run a story that apparently catches Kerry in a flip flop. Kerry recounts his story about being at Game 6 in New York in 1986 when Bill Buckner let the ball roll between his legs. But it also appears that on the same day, Kerry was at a meeting in Boston with New Mexico's governor on behalf of his boss, Governor Michael Dukakis.
Sure enough, this has now bounced around the echo chamber, until it finds its way onto ESPN, who fact check the story for all of us:
Kerry attended both. Kerry attended the event, took a shuttle flight from Boston to New York City (I heard they are relatively close), and got to Shea with the game in progress.
Just like the ridiculous haircut story, this is yet another effort by the conservatives to keep the attention off the real issue--the deplorable leadership exerted by President Bush.
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So with a week to go, what is the new story? Well, it kinda plays on the flip flop theme and is geared towards the sports enthusiasts who may be thinking about voting.
I have Andy DMX Dudas to thank for this one. Seems the conservative bloggers, particularly some stupid group called "Football Fans for Truth" have run a story that apparently catches Kerry in a flip flop. Kerry recounts his story about being at Game 6 in New York in 1986 when Bill Buckner let the ball roll between his legs. But it also appears that on the same day, Kerry was at a meeting in Boston with New Mexico's governor on behalf of his boss, Governor Michael Dukakis.
Sure enough, this has now bounced around the echo chamber, until it finds its way onto ESPN, who fact check the story for all of us:
Kerry attended both. Kerry attended the event, took a shuttle flight from Boston to New York City (I heard they are relatively close), and got to Shea with the game in progress.
Just like the ridiculous haircut story, this is yet another effort by the conservatives to keep the attention off the real issue--the deplorable leadership exerted by President Bush.
