The White House Spins The Boy Who Yawned

[kskiska]

Friday, April 2, 2004; Page C01

The White House, trying to get out in front of the Yawning Boy story, is now in charge of media access to the young man who was seen on David Letterman's show this week yawning his way through one of President Bush's less robust speeches.

Letterman's Worldwide Pants television production company has booked 13-year-old Tyler Crotty -- son of Orange County, Fla., chairman and major Bush fundraiser Richard Crotty -- as a guest on tonight's CBS late-night show.

"He's a young person who strongly supports the president and is excited about getting a chance to talk about it," White House assistant press secretary Reed Dickens told The TV Column yesterday.

Dickens has been named go-to guy for anyone wanting to interview Tyler, who gained national prominence when Letterman introduced a new segment on his show Monday called "George W. Bush Invigorates America's Youth."

(snip)

"I think whatever problems the Bushes might have had with the son they got over with pretty quick as soon as Dad reached 'Pioneer status,' " Maxwell says. That's the hokey title given to anyone who raises more than $100,000 for the president's reelection effort.

"Crotty goes way back with the Bushes; he worked on the dad's campaign in the '80s," Maxwell says. And according to the Orange County government Web site, Richard Crotty was appointed county chairman by Gov. Jeb Bush in 2001.

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[LoZoccolo]

1. You know, if they just made a joke about it and let it go...

...they wouldn't be digging themselves into deeper and deeper shit.

[Guaranteed]

25. It's too late...they've already told three lies. nt

[funkybutt]

46. i thought it was photoshoped!

That is so hilarious that it was real! I just can't believe anyone could yawn and look so completely disinterested continually for such a long time.

[Jade Fox]

59. These morans are clueless about when it might be appropriate to...

reign in the Rovian attack dogs. It makes the them look not only stupid
and dishonest, but remarkable petty.

They are trying to lighten up and joke about it now. Sorry, too late.

[Kbick]

61. Morans

[drhilarius]

2. what's the boy going to say

after he's prepped by the white house
"well,dave, we could talk about my yawning, but I would rather talk about Richard Clarke. Boy, that guy has got credibility problems!"

[Cat Atomic]

3. What the fuck is wrong with those people?

Seriously. Who's shocked that a kid would get bored by a speech?

It's like they just lie and spin as a reflex. It's surreal.

[unblock]

4. bingo

their first, last, and every instinct is to lie for political gain. spin the best picture possible, truth be damned.

the truth is only relevant because sometimes, and i do mean only sometimes, enough other people seem to pay attention to the truth that it becomes an inconvenience and interferes with the message they want to send out. only then to they somewhat cater their message to elements of the truth.

clinton lied about a private affair. bush lies about everything else. but wait, does anyone think bush would tell the truth about an affair? rewind. bush lies about everything. period.

[Nlighten1]

21. The message is king....

and the message must ALWAYS put chimpy in a positive light.

[Mike Daniels]

38. Exactly,

I'm sure there's video footage of politicians everywhere where some kid being used as part of a back drop is obviously disinterested or bored out of his skull.

Kids don't want to be placed in that kind of environment to begin with and the Bush administration should have just let it pass as an obvious joke.

Now, they're going to have the dad bring the kid out to say how much he loves Bush. Makes it actually look worse than if they had done nothing.

[KittyWampus]

47. Guiliani's Son Was Squirming Like CRAZY During His Dad's Inauguration

people thought it was funny.

God, these people are so out of touch with how normal, everyday people react.

[Must_B_Free]

5. How do I hate thee? let me count the lies

1. the boy wasn't there
2. the boy was there, but standing somewhere else
3. the whitehouse didn't call
4. it was just a misunderstanding
5. we're sorry

This so called "news" organization has no credibility left - they just followed Bush over the cliff...

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

58. Is it just me, or does lie #5 look like the greatest of them all? (nt)

[Jim Warren]

81. You're right about that!

These forking cold-blooded reptile brains are incapable of feeling sorry about anything they've done dragging the country into ruin.

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Humiliation of the emperor is a serious offense!

It could lead to other things.

[tom_paine]

66. Exactly. Exactly. I t would be funny if it wasn't so true

The ONLY things the Nazis have on the Busheviks is violence and OVERT racism.

In propaganda efforts the two are equal, adjusted for 60 years of progress in Psychomanipulation.

[Oilwellian]

7. Isn't it nice....

these scumbags use their children as Bush's political props? I didn't see Letterman's show (although I'd have loved to) and I wonder if all of the children behind Bush were the offspring of Bush pioneers. How "invigorating."

[Scairp]

22. It was hilarious

I don't understand why they are making such a huge deal of one funny incident. It really has no impact on the election itself. How typical of these Busheviks to overreact to nothing.

[joeunderdog]

23. This kid will pay. Take away his lunch voucher and spread a rumor that

he has cooties.

He'll never yawn in this town again.

[DoYouEverWonder]

43. There will be no laughing

at the Fuhrer.

[0007]

26. Don't miss it tonight - Dave Letterman will run through the whole

scenario again. The kid will be there as a guest tongiht.

[Mike Daniels]

39. Every politician uses kids in back drops at some point or another

Bush does it, Clinton did it, presidents before them did it and will continue to do it and I'm sure somewhere there's a kid fidgeting in the footage of those event.

[grytpype]

8. The White House is controlling media access to the kid!

Jeebus H. Christmas, this shit gets weirder by the minute!

[countmyvote4real]

9. Did the Hitler youth have a yawning problem?

If they did, we never saw it. And going forward this little piggy is going to "Sieg Heil" all the way home. You can bet some serious discipine was not left on no child's behind.

[Rex]

10. They must control the WH "image", even down to the minute details

This is one of the ways a governing body must use in order to establish legitimacy over a populace (since they didn't get elected).

There are four main ways to show legitimacy as a governing entity:

1. elected by the "people".
2. military force.
3. mass propaganda.
4. divine right of kings.

number one doesn't apply (we all know that). And they can't quite yet use number two (Ashcroft is working on it). Number four is also out.

That only leaves mass propaganda. I believe it is solely the Mainstream Press that gives Bush the power to rule over us. They have been an active participant in this deception from the very beginning. I believe some of them know that they are the only ones that prop up our little Emperor.

[nodehopper]

13. are we sure #4 is out?

God talks to Dubya, you know.

[nolabels]

60. Stalin went as far hiring artists to repaint pictures

After he ofted people he disagreed with and eliminated whole clans of people related to them he would go about finding and obliterating any evidence the people ever existed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2821281.stm
How Russia faced its dark past

By Angus Roxburgh
BBC News Online
One of history's greatest tyrants died 50 years ago today. In his three decades as ruler of the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin killed most of his closest comrades and exterminated the country's finest military leaders and intellectual brains.

He incarcerated millions in labour camps and turned neighbour against neighbour in a frenzy of denunciations and terror.

The "glasnost" era finally let Stalin's true record emerge
He ruthlessly forced peasants into collective farms, causing famine, and turned industry from top to bottom into a command economy which produced impressive quantities of tanks and weapons (enough to defeat Hitler's invading army) but eventually ground creaking to a halt.

Even today historians argue over exactly how many million deaths he was responsible for - an irony, given his own view that "the death of one person is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic".

Stalin created a system of total political control, under which journalists and artists were forced to glorify the Great Leader and the communist system, and even scientists worked in an ideological straitjacket.

In Russia itself all subsequent leaders have been defined by their attitude to him. Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 denounced Stalin's "cult of the personality" and freed millions from the labour camps.
(snip)

[brainoverload]

11. seriously creepy

As creepy as all of the other things bushco has done, this honestly creeps me more than anything. As others point out - there is NO ISSUE HERE. The video was funny - any normal person would embrace the video - turn it into their own joke. The bushies are so programed to lie its CREEPY!!

[scottxyz]

12. This sounds so pathological on the part of the White House

Some kid yawned and they felt like they had to go and plug THAT leak?

How desparate and cornered do they feel right now?

This is bordering on the pathological now.

This is unreal. I don't even want to THINK about what planet they're inhabiting now.

They're acting like cornered animals now.

[Snellius]

24. It's like a madman trying to kill every fly that buzzes by

It's true. The WH is a loony bin, full of paranoid true-believers who jump nervously at the slightest little threatening twitch. Their problems are not from partisan attacks but from their own weird lies about themselves.

[kskiska]

14. Dave thinks the story smells

"This whole thing just smells. Doesn't it smell a little bit?" Letterman asked his audience last night.

"I mean, it just seems all just a little too tidy, just a little too neat. And now, the guy, the kid in Florida -- and his old man -- was really upset in the beginning. . . . Well, now everybody down there loves it. Everybody couldn't be happier; everybody thought it was hilarious. So you see, it's just a little too tidy. Stuff like this never ends happily, certainly not happily for me. I was waiting for the lawsuit, I was waiting to be arrested, I was waiting to be beaten to a pulp, and now, oh, everybody, oh, we couldn't be happier."

[drhilarius]

16. I honestly think

that the only way to reach people (middle America) is through the popular media. I mean, I'm sure Howard Stern is starting to chip away at his listeners who are bush sympathetic. At the other audience extreme we have David letterman telling people something isn't right. The thing that's most impressive is that these aren't simply late night jokes, but this is serious outrage and disgust.

this is the way the bush ends
this is the way the bush ends
this is the way the bush ends
not with a bang, but with laughter.

[Lorien]

53. He also said at the end of his show last night

"And to recap; I'm being stovepiped by the Whitehouse"

Interesting choice of words, given that Seymour Hersh wrote about the CIA term "Stovepiping" recently in an article in the New Yorker. The piece was about the suppression and selected use of certain information about Iraq's nonexistent WMDs.

[Jade Fox]

62. its White House damage control, and yeah it stinks. n/t

[grytpype]

15. Is Howard Hughes running this country?

[Judi Lynn]

17. Among the great comments in this thread, one points out a truth

It's that an organization of basically healthy people would take it in stride and turn it to their advantage, as in laughing along with it. What IS the problem?

The people you'd need to worry about are the ones who are TOO INVOLVED, to the point of obvious phoniness, like the dweeb with the flag. Ohmigosh!

To see photo in question, large, click:

http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I43471-2004Apr01L

Jeez, he coordinates his red, white, and blue tie with his FLAG! Ah, the lady behind is sporting her own Dubya button. Sweet.

[bushisanidiot]

28. Georgie, Did Your Mother Show You How To Pitch?

[Judi Lynn]

29. Awwww, ain't that cute?

Looks like he's had all the time in the world to practice, too, doesn't it?

[since72]

42. Nope, pappy did.

[Judi Lynn]

51. since72, now you're just scaring us!

I'll bet professional players would kill to have his style!

Welcome to DU! :hi: :hi: :hi:

[ixion]

34. they all look creepy, but that guy with the flag takes the cake

There is something very, very wrong with this country right now. :scared:

[DrBB]

36. And now we know something else as well

..thanks to your sig-line pic. To wit, the POTUS, CIC, former baseball team owner, throws like a girl. Guess that's why he was a cheerleader rather than a player.

on edit: No offense intended to women, lots of whom know how to throw a baseball. But that just is the classical expression for this--no other way to put it, really.

[JNelson6563]

41. I thought same and I'm a girl

and I don't even throw like a girl.

Ugh!

Julie

[Lisa]

73. "healthy organization"

Good point. It's the pathological and/or internally-troubled groups that stress out over minor incidents like this.

Note that it's okay for Bush to say his own speeches are boring or excruciating, because that's part of his aw-shucks self-deprecating charm -- but heaven help any unwary audience member who appears less than riveted.

[Catt03]

79. They all look bored

look at their eyes.......those are vacant eyes.

[playahata1]

80. That kid is NOt the ONLY one who looks bored in the picture.

The young African American girl to the left of the father LOOKS like she doesn't want to be there, either. Hell, you can TELL it's all a pose.

[DemBones DemBones]

18. Dave will have high ratings tomorrow night! We all want

to see the next chapter in this strange saga.

It's funny that they're trying to spin it. Dave has plenty of tapes of Bush* himself doing goofy things that they can do nothing about. I mean, Dubya really did go on the show as a candidate and wipe his glasses on a woman staffer's jacket, as if other people exist solely for his convenience. I saw that happen live and it was a lot funnier and weirder than a kid fidgeting during a long speech.

[patricia92243]

27. Look in archives of the Daily Show and they showed a clip of Bush erection

during some meeting! I swear this is the truth!!

On edit: This was, of course, before 9/11 and Bush became smart.

[Judi Lynn]

30. Really!

I was posting at CNN's message boards when that video was shown the first time. (CNN closed it all down under the new management, as they undoubtedly didn't like to have any Democratic posters.)

A poster there said that he saw it. It was during the 2000 Presidential campaign, and he said when he saw it, he was startled, as the guy was out campaigning, and that it was so funny the poster nearly died laughing.

Thanks for the news that it can be howled at by people who missed it the first time!

The poster said that it was totally incongruous, and hilarious.

[Lisa]

70. wasn't that during the RNC convention in 2000?

I recall that some commentator said that it was an "inappropriate reaction" to a political speech! And *'s family members (I mean, as in "mom and dad"), and possibly Laura too, sitting right nearby.

[peekaloo]

72. HA! "Lookit, they all want to see me erected".

As much as I'd like to search for that clip I tend to value my eyesight even more.

Gag, DimSon sportin' wood......:puke:

[radfringe]

19. maybe they should be talking to my cats

whenever bush* is on the tube, my cats walk out of the room

they come back when bush* is done

or better yet -- talk to one of my dogs --- yesterday, just after a bush* commercial aired, my dog gave out a big frustrating sigh and farted... timing was perfect

[imax2268]

20. That's weird...

because the other day when he was on babbling about something...My cat coughed up a hairball and then left the room...heh...!

[SideshowScott]

31. Wow this has really turned into a nightmare for the White house and CNN

And I LOVE it!..
Ive been a letterman fan since his day show and to see this ..Its just classic.
I was wrong about CNN..this goes to show how they are no better than FOX news as far as being lapdogs to the GOP and Bush.They are nothing more than Fox-Lite to me..Letterman has exposed tham and now they look redfaced..GOOD!
Classic Letterman!..Why that hump Leno is beating him is to this day a mystery to me

[patricia92243]

32. What has Limbaugh, O'Reilly , etc been saying about this?

[0007]

71. (0)

[snippy]

33. Ridiculing Bush for his incessant lying needs to become common.

Bush is the most compulsive and incessant liar in the history of American politics.

There is no subject so somber, serious, or shallow that Bush will not lie about it. The only other option is not to lie. And that is something Bush can not do.

These points need to be made and emphasized over and over and over again.

Ridiculing Bush for his compulsive and incessant lying needs to become common, especially among Americans who do not follow politics.

Is it true that John McCain has an illegitimate Negro daughter and the yawning boy was not there and was not yawning and besides he was standing some place else and Richard Clarke had complete access to Bush and Rice which proves that Clarke was out of the loop which is Clinton's fault so unnamed White House sources may be identified whenever Bush wants to even though everyone except Bush himself knows where he was during his Alabama National Guard service which was after he volunteered to go to Viet Nam but before he was no longer required to take a flight physical and about the same time that God told Bush to smite Saddam which is Clinton's fault because the 60 lines of embryonic stem cells prove that republican science is better than sound science but the Bush administration did not illegally reveal the identity of a covert CIA operative which resulted in 2,000,000 new jobs being created because democrats support terrorism and are not good Americans just as the Jews were not good Germans which is Clinton's fault and the White House is cooperating with the 9/11 commission which is why the White House called the republicans on the commission before Clarke testified since the dental xrays prove that Bush did not ignore either the repeated warnings of the dangers of al Qaeda and Osama or the August 2001 intelligence briefing specifically warning of the upcoming 9/11 attacks because the United States is a nation with a mission and that mission is to bring freedom to every single person in the world which will cut the deficit in half if you do not count those parts of the deficit which will increase under Bush which is Clinton's fault but the boxes from China were labeled "Made in USA" which resulted in 2,600,000 new jobs being created even though the $400 billion decorative medicare turkey was not labeled $550 billion which proves that government spending under Bush has gone down if you do not count the increased government spending under Bush which is Clinton's fault and Bush's plane to Baghdad was spotted because before Saddam bought the uranium and became an urgent but not an imminent threat which is Clinton's fault Bush had no plans on his desk to invade Iraq since the invasion was not planned before Bush took office and the aircraft carrier was too far offshore for the Navy to make a large enough Mission Accomplished banner to describe the WMD we have found in Iraq some of which Saddam was giving to Osama for following Saddam's plans and using Iraqi hijackers on 9/11 which is Clinton's fault but everyone who pays income taxes got a tax cut which created 3,000,000 new jobs and allowed Iraqi oil revenue to pay for the cost of the reconstruction of Iraq after the invasion by a small number of troops who would be greeted with floral program related activities except for the dead and wounded troops who are being brought home secretly which is Clinton's fault since Bush is the one who hugs the mothers and the widows and the wives and the kids and that is why Bush who is responsible for good economic numbers but not bad economic numbers which is Clinton's fault wrote the poem that he did not write blaming Laura for dropping the dog?

FIRE THE LIAR

[LunaC]

35. Stop it, stop it, yer killin' me!

Priceless!

When you come up for air, you've GOT to enter this in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.....oh wait.....it's not fiction....must be Clinton's fault.

Nevermind.

[0007]

74. Excellent - well done

Thanks for the chuckle.

BRAVO

[Neecy]

37. they're all just nuts

"Dickens says the Bush campaign was tickled about the whole thing: 'We think it's all in good nature, very good-humored.'"

Then WHY did they call CNN and tell them the video was faked???

CNN is clearly lying here to cover the fact that they give the WH editorial approval of their stories. You don't just dream up the fact that the WH has called and go on air with that. They CALLED.

Good god, they even spin a friggin' kid! And the father sounds like a nut, that he didn't 'prepare him' for the Bush* rally. It's like Hitler youth, like the kid let down der fuehrer.

Of course, the media won't touch this, because it shows how insane this administration is and they must be protected at all costs. Note how the Washington Post didn't even TRY to find out the truth, they just noted CNN's denial.

[rocktivity]

40. Here are the videos if you haven't seen them

Needs Real Player
http://brendanl.net/video/gwbyouth

:headbang:
rocknation

[jean]

50. When you watch the balding, flag guy in that first video he changes

position - first being on yawnboy's left and later on his right.

I bet this is one reason why the stupid WH analysts thought Letterman had fidgeted with the video.

[yellowcanine]

69. CNN got some 'splaining to do

How could they repeat a nonexistent white house quote?
One of two possibilities:

1)Someone at CNN made this up and maybe they didn't think it would get aired. If this is true, why is that person still working at CNN? How is this different from a print reporter making up quotes?

2)Someone, either from the white house or impersonating a white house spokesperson, called CNN and fed them the quote. If this is true why isn't CNN saying that? Why would they cover for this person?

[SideshowScott]

76. Rock you....um nevermind..Lettermans rebuttal was Classic!!!

" So just remember when you cast your vote in November, The white house was trying to make me look like a DOPE! " hahahaha

[Cooley Hurd]

44. Letterman's reply last night was priceless (and VERY telling)...

<snip from the linked article>
"I mean, it just seems all just a little too tidy, just a little too neat. And now, the guy, the kid in Florida -- and his old man -- was really upset in the beginning. . . . Well, now everybody down there loves it. Everybody couldn't be happier; everybody thought it was hilarious. So you see, it's just a little too tidy. Stuff like this never ends happily, certainly not happily for me. I was waiting for the lawsuit, I was waiting to be arrested, I was waiting to be beaten to a pulp, and now, oh . . . we couldn't be happier."
</snip>

Yep, REAL tidy, all right...

[PA Democrat]

45. I thought Letterman was joking

when he said the Whitehouse was handling bookings for this kid. This is really sick. You know they'll have this kid so coached, he's probably spending the entire day being forced to memorize the RNC talking points.

[rocktivity]

48. A picture that's truly worth a thousand

pukes:
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/images/I43471-2004Apr01L

"It turns out, due to what we might say a misunderstanding among the folks who are usually so fantastic behind me here in the newsroom, it turns out that was not true," (CNN's Daryl) Kagan said yesterday. "The White House, it turns out, I guess never did call us about the tape...and apparently we now see no evidence that it was faked."

What "we might say" was a misunderstanding? She "guesses" the White House never called? "Apparently" the tape wasn't faked? How about this: The White House DID call, and CNN is denying it now because it's backfiring publicitywise. I guess that the Mission Accomplished banner scandal went right over their heads--they're lying about things that it isn't important to lie about!

:headbang:
rocknation

[Beetwasher]

52. So Who's Being Fired At CNN For LYING About the WH Calling?

If I was a CNN exec I'd be pissed that someone LIED and said the WH called to refute a story when they didn't and it got out over the air.

If I was the WH and CNN LIED and said that someone from the WH called when they didn't, I'd be pissed.

So who's head is gonna roll? Who's responsible? How did it happen that "The WH Called..." got out over the air and was reported as fact???

Note: I believe the WH DID call, but I'm just saying, the normal reaction would be a head rolling if they DIDN'T call and someone made that up...

[Lorien]

54. Hmm... no image came up for me

can you post it here?

[rocktivity]

65. The image won't post

You'll have to click on the link.

:headbang:
rocknation

[chelsea0011]

49. The Crooked Ones need total control of all speech photo-ops

anal

[skypilot]

55. I just love it.

In the BBC News article the father claims that Tyler was so excited about seeing Bush that he didn't sleep much the night before thus explaining his yawning, etc.

Yeah, that's exactly what I get when I watch that video, a young boy who's REALLY excited about seeing the President. The father looks like a real dickhead, too. Check out the way he's holding the flag. It looks as though he's admiring Bush and saying a prayer at the same time. Creepy, creepy man.

[Jade Fox]

63. yeah, his excitment would explain his looking at his watch...

the problem with that spin is people know boredom when they see it.

I predict this kid will become a raging lefty when he grows up!

[peterh]

78. Nahhh…abused kids don’t go left…

If he’s not in jail, he’ll be a “young repug” in college..I suspect this kid’s mind will be abused for a while to come….both at home and at school….

[nolabels]

64. That is even funny all by its self

This whole thing sounds like it is blowing holes in that over wrought bubble. That bubble with all of the polls that keep on trying lay some innuendo that * is some kind political Dynamo

Dave breaking it softly to non-winger pub side of his audience :nopity:

[tlcandie]

56. More exploitation of the children for his highASSness & the

homeland's sake!!! :puke: Grow up and let kids be kids!!!

[Lorien]

57. If the media outside of CNN picks up on this

then they can say "see, we weren't lapdogs to the Bush* administration; we showed a kid yawning during one of his speeches"! And somehow that will make their non-coverage of their lying about the reason for the Iraq war, the Plame outing, the 9/11 commission stonewalling, the stolen Democratic files, the wretched economy, the environmental destruction of unprecedented scale, the lies, lies, and more damnable lies OK.

[peekaloo]

67. LOL....so will the kid be accompanied by a WH staffer tonight?

I guess Tyler's lack of sleep the night before also explains those leg kicks.......:eyes:

[mulethree]

68. CLIP LINK

http://brendanl.net/video/gwbyouth/AmericasYouth.rm

[RamboLiberal]

75. This one's not passing smell test - kid's dad is * Pioneer

From article.

"I think whatever problems the Bushes might have had with the son they got over with pretty quick as soon as Dad reached 'Pioneer status,' " Maxwell says. That's the hokey title given to anyone who raises more than $100,000 for the president's reelection effort.

"Crotty goes way back with the Bushes; he worked on the dad's campaign in the '80s," Maxwell says. And according to the Orange County government Web site, Richard Crotty was appointed county chairman by Gov. Jeb Bush in 2001.

<snip>

Crotty says he and Tyler were seated a dozen or so seats from the podium. But when event organizers discovered two no-shows in the row right behind Bush, the local party chairman took Tyler and they sat in the empty seats, Crotty said.

<snip>

Turns out that Tyler has a history of upstaging speakers.

Two years ago, he introduced his dad before his annual state-of-the-county speech. Tyler ended by jamming his fist up into the air, which earned him a standing ovation.

"Tyler's peppy introduction earned louder applause than most of what his father said," recalls Orlando Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell, who blew the lid off this week's story of the video kid's identity.

[osaMABUSh]

77. Faux, Drudge or Limbaugh will find a "Kerry boring a kid" story

Will see a video or photoshoped pic of Kerry circa 1990 boring some kid to sleep. It might even have Jane Fonda in it for good measure.

Kerry will fess up that, yes, he is boring to kids. He will explain that he his 60 years old and talking national policy whereas the kids would rather be playing Gamecube and hang out with 12 year olds.

As a result Bush's approval among young voters will increase 10 percentage points.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

82. Remember "Did I just see Air Force One?" Fake story about

British Airways pilot who supposedly saw AF1 on the way to Baghdad Thanksgiving... WH had to retract that this ever occurred when Brit Airways denied any such pilot/even existed. All for a little fluff propaganda story for "extra excitement". Same deal. Seems trivial but I think if people could become widely aware of this stuff it could help us a lot. Lying crooked/crooked lying indeed.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A36688-2003Dec4?language=printer

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/12/02/sprj.nirq.bush.pilot/