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October 24, 2004

This Is the Big Freakin' Story?

For the last few days, right-leaning blogs have been abuzz about a Washington Post story that was supposed to have sever implications for the Kerry campaign. Some people predicted that it might be about a terrorist group supporting Kerry's campaign. Others predicted that there might be some proof that Osama bin Laden was dead. Instead, it seems to be this:

Kerry Lied About Meeting With The United Nations Security Council

Count me in the "so the hell what" crowd. This kind of nitpicky thing is as much a non-starter for the GOP as the Democrats' continued attacks on Bush's war record. People already know that Kerry lies about events for political gain--to the extent that his opportunism is going to influence people, it's already done its damage. This will be ignored by the grand majority of people as one of two things: 1) confirmation of our beliefs from those of us on the right, or 2) sign of a rabid right going after what is, essentially, a little thing.

This ain't gonna change any minds, folks.

Read the rest. Unless you're already prepared to move on.

PS- Luckily we have JeffG to make the story much funnier than it really is. Thank God.

If you look carefully, you'll find ninjas, zombies, and Teresa's domineering bitchiness.

Update: Here's a round-up of responses to this story.

Posted by zombyboy at October 24, 2004 09:26 PM

Comments

Everybody's so busy waiting for The Big October Surprise® That Will Put [the other guy] Away Once and For All™, that this kind of thing is unfortunately inevitable.

If Mowbray's responsible for hyping the story, he needs to be bitchslapped along with everyone else who had a hand in it.

Maybe I should run for Bitchslapper-in-Chief, since I figured out how to score 10 nearly every time at SlapTheCandidate.com

Posted by: McGehee at October 24, 2004 09:44 PM

Oh, man, I normally score a 7 or 8. You have my vote for Bitchslapper-in-Chief.

And you're probably right, this probably was inevitable given situation. This is why I didn't mention it before now--I wanted to see if there actually was a story behind the story.

Posted by: zombyboy at October 24, 2004 09:54 PM

Well, at least it's bigger than Al Gore's "I invented the Internet while posing for nudie pictures for that Love Story book" think he had going on in the last millenium.

Unfortunately, it's not big enough, other than the fact it adds to the "I'll say anything to get elected" pile Kerry keeps adding to.

Right now, other than doing the "caught in bed with a live boy, or a dead girl" thing, I doubt that there is any serious dirt that will hurt Kerry. It will be interesting to see the Wednesday and Thursday polls though. For those of us who are eating and breathing campaign stuff, this expose is nothing. Let's see how Joe six-pack reacts. [Okay, I'm kidding myself. I can't believe I didn't sleep the entire weekend for this drivel.]

Posted by: Remy Logan at October 24, 2004 10:00 PM

No lie, that was a heck of a disappointment.

Posted by: zombyboy at October 24, 2004 10:26 PM

By itself it isn't a huge deal but it's not by itself. It's just another in a long list of exagerations and outright lies.
More importantly it is coming into the last week of the campaign. For at least one day, probably two or three if Fox, talk radio and bloggers pick this up, the Kerry Kampaign will be responding to this story rather than playing their game.
Anybody who doesn't think forcing a campaign off it's game plan in the last week is somebody that's only watched the game from the stands.

Posted by: Peter at October 24, 2004 10:44 PM

Shouldn't you all be watching Desperate Housewives?

Me? Outlining chapters for school, reading blogs and watching Desperate Housewives.

Posted by: Patrick at October 24, 2004 10:56 PM

I have never understood the appeal of Desperate Housewives. On the other hand I don't understand the appeal of a Kerry presidency either.

Posted by: Remy Logan at October 24, 2004 11:58 PM

Oh, man, I normally score a 7 or 8. You have my vote for Bitchslapper-in-Chief.

Keeping your mouse button pressed all the while, drag the hand all the way off the right side of the picture. Then (still keeping your mouse button pressed) drag your cursor over to the left so that a straight line goes through Kerry's (or Bush's, for the commie moonbats) face, and bring the cursor back onto the picture.

Whap! Yeeeaaarrrrggghhhh!

Of course, it takes so long for the slapper to come back that if your goal is to pile up slap points as quickly as possible (points don't matter to the slap count -- a flaw in my opinion) it makes more sense to go for limp-wristed Euro-slaps. You can actually manage to get two in before Nader appears with the next score.

Oh God, I've turned into a gamer geek.

Posted by: McGehee at October 25, 2004 05:47 AM

Caffeine is my friend.

drag your cursor over to the left around the picture, not across it.

if your goal is to pile up slap points as quickly as possible (points don't matter to the slap count -- a flaw in my opinion)

If your goal is to advance the slap COUNT as quickly as possible.

Not only have I turned into a gamer geek, I've turned into one who can't write worth a @#$!

Posted by: McGehee at October 25, 2004 07:09 AM