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dave502d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 09:54 PM
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CNN's "Undecided" Voter Turns Out To Be A GOP Operative
Yesterday, CNN's Bill Hemmer interviewed "undecided" voter, Edward Martos. Martos is actually a GOP operative who is involved heavily with the University of Miami College Republicans' and who has served as the Assistant Editor in Chief of the College Republicans' newsletter. He is such an undecided voter that he actually helped draft the constitution of the University Of Miami College Republicans. Martos, of course, by all measure, is not an undecided voter, but CNN refuses to report that they were duped.

Martos made the statement below to CNN, discussing why he is an "undecided" voter.


http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/298596.shtml
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 09:56 PM
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1. they do this often
recently they interviewed an "average soccer mom" who came on and spouted * talking point. She is also a GOP operative from Long Island, I think.

Let's "Rather" Bill Hummert.
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 09:57 PM
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Not surprised
SOP for the BFEE. Plus the media whores' ignorance is amplified.
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tinanator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:08 PM
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10. BIG mistake
that aint ignorance. They werent duped into having psych op military interns either.
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Lord_StarFyre Donating Member (592 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 09:57 PM
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2. OK Folks, Time to Hammer Hemmer & Co.
Does ANYONE have all the email addresses needed to really flood them about this?

Time for Republinazi Dirty Tricksters to be publicly exposed as the LYING Swine they are!
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dave502d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 09:58 PM
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3. Cheat
Is their anything they don't cheat at?
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fearnobush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 09:58 PM
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4. Don't forget that CNN is a GOP operative. Even the non political
people at work say CNN is not much different than FOX.
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dave502d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:00 PM
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5. so is msnbc and abc
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tinanator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:18 PM
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13. they are worse
Edited on Sun Oct-10-04 10:18 PM by tinanator
its like the perception of C-SPAN. gravely mistaken psychop fascist traitors. take that to the bank.
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The Velveteen Ocelot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:02 PM
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6. Feh. Like CNN didn't know who this guy was.
I just Googled Edward Martos, and there's a ton of hits that identify him as a Repub activist. Did CNN do that? If they didn't, they should have, but it's more likely they knew all along. Bill Hemorrhoid is one of their best, blow-dried Bushwhores. And don't you love this comment Martos, pretending to be an undecided voter, made: "I think the problems in foreign policy are so great that -- and he created them himself -- that he's the only one capable of solving the problem." In other words, Bush fucked up so bad that nobody else can fix the mess? Kinda proves where he's coming from, I'd say.

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dave502d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:06 PM
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7. CNN allows skewed poll favoring Bush
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speedoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:06 PM
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8. Bill Hemmer is an idiot.
Either that or he himself is a rethug activist.

Either way, I stopped wasting my time with him months ago.

I don't watch Blitzer any more either, or Rush's bimbo, or Larry King.

I basically only click to CNN for news or Lou Dobbs.
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w4rma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:08 PM
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9. Wait a second. He drafted that in '03. He's now Pres of some "nonpartisan"
Edited on Sun Oct-10-04 10:11 PM by w4rma
thing called the Council for Democracy. It sounds like he is disillusioned with Bush. It sounds like he is better characterized as a "former" GOP Operative.
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dave502d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:12 PM
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12. Did your ever think you would hate the NEWS in the USA.
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riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:10 PM
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11. Hemmer's email
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Lord_StarFyre Donating Member (592 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:27 PM
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14. OK, Let's start flooding
...this unrepentant GOP Shill.

In my note to him I demanded a Public Apology from him on tommorrow morning's show.

If not, I start flooding every editor's desk at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, and especially CBS about Mr. Hemmer's collusion with the Bush White House
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Carla in Ca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:31 PM
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15. I just emailed Hemmer,,"you are a schmuck".
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:35 PM
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16. Well, he probably *is* undecided.
He probably hasn't yet decided how many absentee ballots he'll send in, or when, or even when he'll go to several local polling places and vote again. :shrug:
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greekspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 10:37 PM
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17. Where is the outrage?
Every member of the media besides CBS was all over that fucking memo like white on rice. But this? Not a peep. Nary a word. Damn librul media.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-10-04 11:06 PM
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18. Self-evident lunacy of bush* supporter:
<quote from linked article>

"I think the problems in foreign policy are so great that -- and he created them himself -- that he's the only one capable of solving the problem."

<end>

Does this sound like a good reason to give bush* another term?

Sounds like a GREAT reason to FIRE the man who created a foreign policy DISASTER!
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