Today's RW Drive Time Radio Topic - AWOL

[matcom]

Jay Severin here in Boston:

AWOL

Paraphrasing again:

"I don't yet know the truth but if true, if Bush either didn't serve - or only served some of his duty - and was still honorably discharged because of his name or his daddy or both, then Bush has no business as Commander in Chief of this Country and should be outsted in shame"

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. Fill me in...

What's Severin's political leanings?

[matcom]

4. RWer

calls Clinton a piece of shite just about every show

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Cool!

Obviously, he missed the Globe's story in 2k (as most of America did), but was hit squarely in the face by (the AWOL story) this time around!
:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

Nee-HAH! :thumbsup:

[Trajan]

10. Ya GOTTA thank ..

1) Michael Moore ...
2) Wesley Clark ..
3) Peter Jennings ...

Now? .. just about EVERY RW nutcase is focused on this story: filling their listeners with DOUBT .....

My oh my .... THIS bloody chicken is coming home to roost: .. and for Bush: ... Things re going from bad to worse ...

Yeah ....

[Hubert Flottz]

2. ALLRIGHT!

His Sins are finding him out, just like Gawd said they would!

[CatWoman]

3. Did someone put something in Boston's drinking water?

or perhaps this guy found a pair of those shades from the movie, "They Live".

[calimary]

6. Well, well, well.

Or should I say drip, drip, drip?

MORE than drips now, looks like.

That a knuckle-dragger like this would even start entertaining such thoughts (I saw your post about what he said a few days ago regarding the Whoppers of Mass Distraction), then the tide really is turning.

on edit - forgot something. What was the reaction? What are his callers saying?

[matcom]

9. didn't listen to the callers

i only have a 2 minute ride from work to home so i listened to his 10 minutes of monologue and turned the car off

[barbaraann]

7. The Bush/AWOL story is the top-rated story on Yahoo right now.

:-)

[underpants]

8. A RWer....in BOSTON!?!?!??

Really? I thought they were hunted down by "liberal Massachusetts democrats" in angry mobs with clubs. At least that is the impression we get down he'uhre.

[matcom]

11. Clearchannel Knows No Borders

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[eek]

13. Huzzah! Time to strike whilst iron's hot!

Now that everyone is hearing about it, we must use the same tactics that got the Dixie Chicks, erm, Dixie Chicked!

The RW's, Clear channel et al jumped right on that story with all the cd burning, anti- chick paraphernalia and on and on.

Time to take shoe polish to our car windows, t shirts, bumper stickers, call-iuns, LTTE's with
aWol aWol aWol

Oh, and lest we get re-attacked, be sure to link our aWlo message with our *patriotism*!

[SpiralHawk]

12. And a fine topic it is, if I do say so myself

"I'm the master of low expectations."
- George W. Bush, Aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003

[hackwriter]

14. Jay Severin is not too bad as wingnuts go. ;)

He used to be on in NY. I never really liked him or agreed with him, but I always felt he was honest and really believed what he said. On this one, he's absolutely right. If more RW talk show guys were like Severin, it would be easier to take them seriously.

Here in NY, the guys like Hannity, Limbaugh, Levin, Crowley, etc., all are defending Bush's war on the basis of Clinton saying there was WMD. This after saying that Clinton is a pathological liar. :eyes:

[SoCalDem]

15. Every single person I know who has served

has EVERY single piece of paper relating to their service..

You never know when you will need a certain document for this reason or that..

The fact that his service is so "undocumented and fragmentary" is reason enough for a thorough investigation..

When he served, he was a "high-profile 'kid'".. His Daddy was in government in 1970...

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Poppy's achievements by 1970
<sub>In 1953, Bush got money from Brown Brothers Harriman and, with partners Hugh and Bill Liedtke, formed Zapata Petroleum. By the late 1950s they were millionaires. Bush bought subsidiary Zapata Off-Shore from his partners and went into business on his own in 1954. By 1958, the new company was drilling on the Cay Sal Bank in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. These islands had been leased to Nixon supporter and CIA contractor Howard Hughes the previous year and were later used as a base for CIA raids on Cuba. The CIA was using companies like Zapata to stage and supply secret missions attacking Fidel Castro’s Cuban government in advance of the Bay of Pigs invasion. The CIA’s codename for that invasion was “Operation Zapata.” In 1981, all Securities and Exchange Commission filings for Zapata Off-Shore between 1960 and 1966 were destroyed. In other words, the year Bush became vice president, important records detailing his years at his drilling company disappeared. In 1969, Zapata bought the United Fruit Company of Boston, another company with strong CIA connections.

Career: Political leader. Received the Distinguished Flying Cross for Bravery during World War II; U.S. congressman from Texas (1966-1970), ambassador to the United Nations (1971-1974); Special Envoy to China (1974-1975); Republican National Chairman (1975-1976); Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director (1976-1977); vice president of the U.S. (1981-1989); president of the U.S. (1989-1993).

In 1964, Bush campaigned against the Civil Rights Act. He lost that election but was elected to Congress in 1966 and again in 1968. He was defeated in the race for Senate by Democrat Lloyd Bentsen in 1970</sub>

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There was NO WAY ON EARTH, that the c/o s did not know that they had a "kid-gloves lieutenant" on their hands.. These guys were the very ones who would hope to rise through the ranks, and having a "special connection to GHWB" would help them later..

* was given special treatment, and when he could not even abide under easy rules, they looked the other way and "tidied up his records"..

There can be no other explanation..

If he had served "honorably" as he said, we would be seeing the group photos, and we would have heard from all his "TANG buddies, as they shared their stories about what a great guy he was..

There has been NOTHING.. except silence..

Put it this way.. If you were the c/o of little bushrat, and you knew that his daddy was amnbassador to the UN and up to here with the CIA, would YOU stick your neck out???

[beyurslf]

16. How is that this story was published

4 years ago before he was president and is just now a big story?

Is this "news" to anyone here? I guess I should be happy they (media) are waking up... but 4 years too late?

[matcom]

17. yes, the Boston Globe broke it in 2000

i half blame Gore here. he didn't follow up. one of the HUGE mistakes of that campaign IMHO.

glad it is FINALLY coming out (if WAY too late)

[bloom]

18. I know how it was with my right-wing brother

when I had sent something to him about Bush* being AWOL. He was like - well, if it were true, we would have heard about it in the media.... which he liked to think of as the "Liberal" media. Ha.


So I am very glad to have it out there. :)

[Ilsa]

19. Four freaking years and 500+ dead soldiers,

not to mention the thousands of dead civilians, a trillion dollar deficit, a trashed environment, slashed services, everyone hates us and now they are getting it? And over this? This is the only thing that matters in terms of the Asshole's lies?

[Karenina]

20. Gawd bless Amurika!

:toast: