Wednesday, October 27, 2004. October Surprise day

[Walt Starr]

Here it is folks, an "American" is on a one hour long tape claiming another attack on America for "electing George W. Bush".

This is the October Surprise we've been waiting for. I knew I would know the October Surprise when I saw it. This is it!

[Joe the Revelator]

1. This is a pretty lame "Oct. Surprise"....

that i think hurts Bush more then Kerry.


This isn't it. IF they were to pull out an "Oct Suprise" it would be much more directly related to Kerry then this is.

[displacedtexan]

2. Timothy McVeigh's clone?

This just bites George W.'s "foreign terrorists are coming to get you"
theory in the ass!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

8. homegrown terrorists are our biggest threat

they would be entirely off the radar until the moment they struck.
Bush gets an 'F' in this subject.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Actually, I think you may be right about that

especially since I saw the thread about Rush's recent 'outrage.' They're going to try and turn this into..."See? See? AQ does not want Bush re-elected because he is a strong and resolute leader. The terrorists are again using scare tactics to get John Kerry elected because they know he would be weak on the war on terror."

Count on it.

[Randi_Listener]

4. A lame surprise.

Fuckface Rove must do better.

[Fluffdaddy]

5. yep here it is

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. Is this the one sent to ABC news?

And it has an American? Wouldn't by any chance have a southern accent and wearing a plaid shirt? The only surprise here is that rove would try anything this pathetically stupid. They couldn't even hire some Arab engineering students who needed a little extra spending money?
This is really bad.

[global1]

9. Was That "AssMan the American" aka .....

Rove.

[Garbo 2004]

14. I hope they check the tape for prints. surely rove's must be on file.

This appears to be a case of a conveniently self-fulfilling prophecy given how the Bush Administration has people primed after months of repetition to expect some such thing around election time.

Also how convenient that the Bush campaign has spent weeks associating Kerry with impending terra and terraist attacks and then on cue up pops this tape. It comes from Pakistan supposedly? Even if it really does, that in itself isn't a voucher for any authenticity.

And the tape makes at least one significant error, we didn't elect Bush. (A true Kerry supporter wouldn't make that mistake, seems to me.) Either the guy's working off a Republican script or he's woefully misinformed and his beef is with the Supremes not the voters.

[Tim_in_HK]

7. Is there a link to this? n/t

[MattP]

10. Reply Now!!

Everyone has to email CNN,MSNBC,ABC news,CBS and explain why the hell would Al Queda say the Taliban has been destroyed!! FAKE AS HELL!!!!

[montana500]

11. email the media so they talk about it?

nm

[LiberalAndProud]

12. another *dud*

The tape will not run because the tape is a fraud. Drudge is grasping at firecrackers that are blowing up in his face. He expected the explosives story to hurt Kerry for pity's sake.

[Beetwasher]

13. Rove Is A MORON

He used an American for goodness sake! And after he TRASHED CBS for forgeries, he shot himself in the foot because this tape will get MEGA scrutiny before it EVER sees the light of day now...

What a buffon!