CNN: Bruce Morton Kills The Bunnypants Election Theme

[KharmaTrain]

Crusty old Bruce Morton just put a great piece on CNN's Inside Politics...not sure if they'll run it again, but I sure hope the DNC grabs it, copies it and sends it all over.

He just took all the * claims of how Kerry was for/against and set the record straight! He took bunnypant's claims point by point and shot them full of holes and then turned them on the regime.

We need to do a lot of this...get every lie and deception met head on with the truth. Do this enough and this regime's credibility will be shreaded and with it all it's proxies on the airwaves.

Kudos Mr. Morton, I knew I could count on a real journalist to set the record straight. Now I hope he and others stay on this story and our side...the one of truth.

Cheers!

[nostamj]

1. damn. missed it...

listening to Randi...

will look for a transcript later. sound like an interesting read

[Leilani]

2. Saw it

It was great!

The Kerry people need to get a copy of this piece!

[trotsky]

10. I want a copy too!

The wingnuts here at work have already been passing around the talking points.

[regnaD kciN]

16. Me, too!

Could you e-mail me a copy?

[nostamj]

3. and, of course, now CNN is skipping Crossfire

for a press conference on the Colorado football SEX scandal

(not saying the rape allegations are not important but... this ain't news)

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Bunnypants??

[nostamj]

5. you've never heard our fearful leader referred to as

COMMANDER BUNNYPANTS?

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. I have, I just don't know if it references anything in particular

or if someone thought it was wicked funny and it just stuck. :)

[nostamj]

9. i *believe* it was first coined

when the pantload went 'hopping' around the country on 9/11 "staying out of harm's way" like a scared bunny

of course, it may have been a reference to the OLD cartoon CRUSADER RABBIT too...

[OneTwentyoNine]

11. Actually it was Sheriff Bunnypants....

Our brave,brave leader on 9/11 flying everywhere but back to DC.

David

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Ok, got it. A 9/11 thing. Thanks :)

[KharmaTrain]

6. Have A Better Name???

I was considering His Assholiness (what we call him around my house), but have seen this used in websites and posts for a long time.

I'm tired of *...

Cheers

[loudnclear]

7. I call this "rapid response." We need more of it.

What are the campaing staffs doing? They more than enough material to nail Bush.

[nostamj]

13. transcript of Morton's report

BRUCE MORTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): President Bush says the Democratic front-runner has been flip-flopping on major issues.

G. BUSH: Candidates are an interesting group, with diverse opinions. For tax cuts, and against them. For NAFTA and against NAFTA. For the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act. In favor of liberating Iraq and opposed to it. And that's just one senator from Massachusetts.

MORTON: Well, let's look at that.

G. BUSH: For tax cuts. And against them.

MORTON: In fact, Kerry didn't vote for either the 2001 or the 2003 tax cuts. He says now he would repeal tax cuts for the rich, those making more than $200,000 a year.

KERRY: And it will be affordable by a combination of rolling back George Bush's tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

G. BUSH: For NAFTA and against NAFTA.

MORTON: Yes, Kerry did vote for NAFTA. Now...

KERRY: If it were before me today, I would vote against it because it doesn't have environmental or labor standards protections in it.

MORTON: And he says he would make sure any future trade agreements did have such standards.

G. BUSH: For the PATRIOT Act and against the PATRIOT Act.

MORTON: Kerry voted for the act. He isn't for repealing it. But he does say that Attorney General John Ashcroft has violated civil liberties, and abused his authority with unjustified invasion of privacy, holding detainees indefinitely without cause, and refusing to provide information on how his department is using the act.

Kerry promises to end the era of John Ashcroft.

G. BUSH: In favor of liberating Iraq and opposed to it.

MORTON: Kerry voted in favor of giving the president the authority to use force but says Bush went at it wrong.

KERRY: There was a right way to do this and there was a wrong way to do it. And the president chose the wrong way because he turned his back on his own pledge to build a legitimate international coalition, to exhaust the remedies of the United Nations in the inspections, and to go to war as a matter of last resort.

MORTON: So he's changed on some issues, not on others. But come to that, four years ago President Bush and Vice President Cheney both said it was up to the states to regulate marriage. Now they favor a constitutional amendment.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0402/27/ip.00.html

[trotsky]

14. Thanks so much, nostamj, for posting this!

This will be fantastic to throw back at the freepers.

[nostamj]

15. oh you're welcome!

glad somebody noticed....

i missed the broadcast so i went looking for it today. very very fair and balanced reporting, and, as such, made the pantload look bad.