new drudge/rnc attack-kerry exaggerated about nyc subway

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

it's on matt's site. they're grasping at straws, but we know this will be the talking point on all cable news and talk radio tomorrow, so be prepared


FLASH: Kerry stated: 'That's why they had to close down the subway in New York when the Republican Convention was there.' (Driving home point that Bush as not done enough to protect the country.)
The NYC subway did not close at all during the convention, according to a report on cable outlet

[MattNC]

1. they shut it down below MSG didn't they?

[Justice]

2. Shut down entrances to subway

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/ny-nysub083884309jul08,0,7308048.column?coll=ny-ny-columnists

[Carolab]

5. Here it is right here

"The convention's security plan will essentially close the area around Madison Square Garden to the public. Commuters leaving Penn Station will be channeled to a pedestrian corridor down 32nd Street toward Avenue of the Americas. A barricaded lane will be set up in front of the convention site on Seventh Avenue.

During the convention, the two exits on the Eighth Avenue side of the terminal will be sealed off. In fact, six of the eight entrances to the station will be closed. The two remaining open will be the main entrance on Seventh Avenue at 32nd Street and the Long Island Rail Road entrance on 34th Street just west of Seventh.

Before entering Penn Station, every subway and commuter train will be inspected by officers with bomb-sniffing dogs and hand-held chemical detection devices."

[Justice]

7. email drudge that he is wrong.

[milkyway]

3. The fact checking gotchas don't matter when it's a blowout. They can

look for all the misstatements they want, everybody still knows what they saw--a man fully ready to become a great President versus a wilting dimwit who could barely hold himself together.

[PretzelWarrior]

4. f*ck them. can somebody hack Drudge's site and take it down?

god....they are pathetic. that's what happens when you back evil. you will stoop as low as physiologically possible to promote and maintain the facade.

[nankerphelge]

6. I assumed he..

was talking about closing down stations because there is no way of screening people coming in. They did close down a number of stations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/30/politics/campaign/30CND-PROT.html?ex=1096776000&en=f06e4ac94e8d70d5&ei=5070&oref=login

[Justitia]

8. And Bush LIED about WMD's in Iraq. To quote Kerry: "What's worse?" -eom

[RamboLiberal]

9. Now it's he mixed up KGB HQ with Nazi Concentration Camp

Kerry also misspoke when he referred to looking at KGB records in "Treblinka Square" in a visit to Russia. Treblinka was a Nazi death camp. He meant Lubyanka Square...

http://www.drudgereport.com/

They're Desperate! :evilgrin:

[GernBlanston]

10. Here - cut and paste if you like.

[e-mail]

Regarding your front page blurb re: the closing of NYC subways during the RNC:
<quote>
FLASH: Kerry stated: 'That's why they had to close down the subway in New York when the Republican Convention was there.' (Driving home point that Bush as not done enough to protect the country.)

The NYC subway did not close at all during the convention, according to a report on cable outlet NY1, even though Penn station was shut for several hours...
</quote>

This is not true.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has announced numerous service changes and restrictions affecting Penn Station, which lies beneath Madison Square Garden and serves as a major hub for city subways, commuter trains from Long Island and New Jersey, and Amtrak trains from the Northeast Corridor as well as points west. Many entrances were shut down, and Midtown street closings forced city buses and nonofficial vehicle traffic to be rerouted, causing congestion on many thoroughfares.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/30/politics/campaign/30CND-PROT.html?ex=1096776000&en=f06e4ac94e8d70d5&ei=5070&oref=login

The convention's security plan will essentially close the area around Madison Square Garden to the public. Commuters leaving Penn Station will be channeled to a pedestrian corridor down 32nd Street toward Avenue of the Americas. A barricaded lane will be set up in front of the convention site on Seventh Avenue.

During the convention, the two exits on the Eighth Avenue side of the terminal will be sealed off. In fact, six of the eight entrances to the station will be closed. The two remaining open will be the main entrance on Seventh Avenue at 32nd Street and the Long Island Rail Road entrance on 34th Street just west of Seventh.

http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/columnists/ny-nysub083884309jul08,0,7308048.column?coll=ny-ny-columnists

[bonemachine]

12. Here's another one

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040724_1038.html

Abandoned, elevated rail lines and green girders loom over most of the official demonstration zone that slopes down to a subway station closed for the duration.

[Justice]

11. On CNN - Schneider Did a Piece on Misleading Stuff

Bush won hands down.

Bush said 100,000 police trained - no, misleading. 100,000 is all Iraqis trained at everything not just police.

He had others - I just can't remember them now.