Adam's Apple
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- Apr 25, 2004
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The conservatives on this board will enjoy reading Bill Sammons new book entitled Strategery (pronouned struh-TEE-jer-ee and chosen as the title of this book because it was SNLs take-off on the way President Bush pronounced the word strategy).
The book deals largely (but not all) with the 2004 presidential campaign and gives numerous examples of how the Kerry campaign, the DNC and the MSM worked together as a tightly knit unit to defeat President Bush. The chapter on CBS, Dan Rather and Memogate is hilarious. I enjoyed it so much I read it twice and couldnt help thinking what a great TV movie this storytold like it really happenedwould make. Of course, that will never happen, considering that Hollywood is Liberal Land with an extreme hatred for GWB.
I also enjoyed the account of how Osama Bin Laden tried to interject himself into the 2004 campaign. Reading again Bin Ladens exact words was very revealing as to how up-to-date OSB is on everything that goes on politically in the U.S. I would imagine that OSB has far more knowledge of what is going on in America politically than 80% of ordinary Americans.
Sammons recounting of the false Newsweek story of how American soldiers in Gitmo flushed a Koran down the toilet was also very revealing as to what links the libs will go to try to publicly humiliate the Bush Administration. The publication of this story caused an uproar in the Arab world, 15 people died as a result of riots, and many more were injured. In the end, the story was proven to be false, and Newsweek was forced to recantbut very, very reluctantly. The liberal press continued to act as if the story was true even though the person who had given the story to Newsweek could not back up his story with any proof when the military challenged it and things got a bit hot. (Shades of Dan Rather and CBS!)
There are so many behind-the-scene parallels in how the Koran story, Abu Ghraib and Memogate all got published, and yet the MSM insists that they are the real providers of responsible journalism. You will get a kick out of Dan Rathers quote about CBS: CBS News has a culture, has a historythat for those of us who work here, it is very realthat we see it as a sort of magical, mystical, kingdom of journalistic knights. Magical, mystical, knights?? Yep, it sounds just like a work of fiction to me.
You can always predict with certainly that when the MSMs big exposes are exposed as blatantly false, rather than accepting responsibility and recanting their false stories willingly, they try to find a way to imply that in some way, somehow, the Republicans/White House were behind these fables and were purposely trying to discredit the MSM. So much for their estimate of the intelligence of the American people. They are, you know, the intellectual elites, after all.
Even James Carville--in his own sly way--gives this book a thumbs up: Bill Sammon has some of the best sources within the Bush campaign of anyone. His book contains a treasure trove of insight into how Bush won the 2004 election. (Not to mention the fact that the Bushies couldnt have gotten better help than was provided by the Democrats own candidate, John Kerry.)
The book deals largely (but not all) with the 2004 presidential campaign and gives numerous examples of how the Kerry campaign, the DNC and the MSM worked together as a tightly knit unit to defeat President Bush. The chapter on CBS, Dan Rather and Memogate is hilarious. I enjoyed it so much I read it twice and couldnt help thinking what a great TV movie this storytold like it really happenedwould make. Of course, that will never happen, considering that Hollywood is Liberal Land with an extreme hatred for GWB.
I also enjoyed the account of how Osama Bin Laden tried to interject himself into the 2004 campaign. Reading again Bin Ladens exact words was very revealing as to how up-to-date OSB is on everything that goes on politically in the U.S. I would imagine that OSB has far more knowledge of what is going on in America politically than 80% of ordinary Americans.
Sammons recounting of the false Newsweek story of how American soldiers in Gitmo flushed a Koran down the toilet was also very revealing as to what links the libs will go to try to publicly humiliate the Bush Administration. The publication of this story caused an uproar in the Arab world, 15 people died as a result of riots, and many more were injured. In the end, the story was proven to be false, and Newsweek was forced to recantbut very, very reluctantly. The liberal press continued to act as if the story was true even though the person who had given the story to Newsweek could not back up his story with any proof when the military challenged it and things got a bit hot. (Shades of Dan Rather and CBS!)
There are so many behind-the-scene parallels in how the Koran story, Abu Ghraib and Memogate all got published, and yet the MSM insists that they are the real providers of responsible journalism. You will get a kick out of Dan Rathers quote about CBS: CBS News has a culture, has a historythat for those of us who work here, it is very realthat we see it as a sort of magical, mystical, kingdom of journalistic knights. Magical, mystical, knights?? Yep, it sounds just like a work of fiction to me.
You can always predict with certainly that when the MSMs big exposes are exposed as blatantly false, rather than accepting responsibility and recanting their false stories willingly, they try to find a way to imply that in some way, somehow, the Republicans/White House were behind these fables and were purposely trying to discredit the MSM. So much for their estimate of the intelligence of the American people. They are, you know, the intellectual elites, after all.
Even James Carville--in his own sly way--gives this book a thumbs up: Bill Sammon has some of the best sources within the Bush campaign of anyone. His book contains a treasure trove of insight into how Bush won the 2004 election. (Not to mention the fact that the Bushies couldnt have gotten better help than was provided by the Democrats own candidate, John Kerry.)
