Bush team calls OBL tape "a little gift"

[DrBB]

Has this been up already? They should be MURDERED with this quote:

A senior GOP strategist added, "anything that makes people nervous about their personal safety helps Bush."

He called it "a little gift," saying it helps the President but doesn't guarantee his reelection.

[cubsfan forever]

1. This thread is elsewhere, but not sure where n/t

Professor 2

[southern democrat]

2. That statement is repulsive

[Gin]

5. Kerry campaign.......Use that this weekend.

g

[0007]

40. That statement was so offensive that anyone sitting on the fence

would find this as an organized effort to accomplish a purpose and would be repelled.

[skylarmae]

3. another one of those 'physiological trauma' statements

[Az_lefty]

4. sheesh...their not even trying to hide their tactics anymore...

bushovik bastards!
:mad:

[C_U_L8R]

6. Send It On

The Sunday Morning talk shows should
be deeply examining this "opportunistic"
bullshit from Rove & Co.

Send it on and ensure that they are
aware of these "verified" quotes

[The Wielding Truth]

7. A little gift??? A liitle gift??? Like the one they gave to Osoma. ESCAPE

[GoBlue]

8. And this from the same article

"We want people to think 'terrorism' for the last four days," said a Bush-Cheney campaign official. "And anything that raises the issue in people's minds is good for us."

I'd be real worried if I lived in a battleground state. Monday is ALL SAINTS DAY isn't it?

[canuckybee]

9. absolutely disgusting.

[schultzee]

10. Why not, the devil and Osama are on his side.

[MIMIC]

14. Does this guy work for the Bush campaign?

If so, this is damning material.

[jefferson_dem]

11. They are SO going to get burned with a major blowback here.

This shit needs to be circulated far and wide. Those scumbag, the ones who whined about Kerry not taking a 12 hour truce, are gloating over the OBL tape. They MUST get burned, not only for dropping the OBL ball in the first place, and taking their eye off the target, but for trying to capitalize on public fear. We've always know it. But now they've been exposed.

[Bluebear]

12. DISGRACEFUL.

[DELUSIONAL]

43. Plastic Turkey -- that is inspired photoshopping -- thanks

n/t

[Warren DeMontague]

13. So WHY is the Bush Administration Accepting "Gifts" From Osama Bin Laden?

GIFT GIFT GIFT GIFT GIFT GIFT GIFT GIFT GIFT GIFT GIFT

I we had the media control that they have, we would be hearing this all weekend faster than you can say "Global Test for Cheney Lesbians".

[Warren DeMontague]

15. Do we have another link besides NY Daily rag or whatever that thing is?

n/t

[DrBB]

21. It's a rightish rag, which is GOOD

All the more damning for coming from one of their "own" papers.

[Warren DeMontague]

26. But it'd be nice to have a whole transcript or a secondary quote.

n/t

[Stephanie]

37. In the print version Helen Kennedy has a byline along with DeFrank

She's on staff at the Daily News DC bureau, which has some good reporting. Online only DeFranks' name appears, which is curious.

[JohnnyCougar]

16. I think the Kerry campaign should be alerted to this

And they accuse Kerry of playing politics with the bin Laden tape. More projection from Rove.

[jimshoes]

17. Well chimp referred to the 9-11

terrorist attacks as hitting the trifecta. They just love chaos and terror.

[DrBB]

18. Sending it to ABC, CBS, NBC morning shows--YOU TOO

Hope I'm not the only one. Key thing: they may be aware of it, but they need to know it's resonating out here and not in a GOOD way. It's not just a matter of their knowing about it, even if they do. It will get coverage if we let 'em know we're outraged by it.

Yup, that's how the wingers do it.

Here's what I wrote--write your own frame for the quote if you can, but I advise keeping it pithy, outraged, but not nasty or bitter. "Ordinary citizen nauseated by bad Bush politics" is the tone I'd go for.

Please take note of the following, if you haven't already:

From the NY Daily News (not a lefty rag by any means):

A senior GOP strategist added, "anything that makes people nervous about their personal safety helps Bush."

He called it "a little gift," saying it helps the President but doesn't guarantee his reelection

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/247753p-212149c.html

Anyone who doesn't find that to be about the most repulsive, utterly cynical sentiment they've ever encountered--in an awfully bad year for such--has something seriously wrong with their moral barometer. Hope this quote is featured in your discussions tomorrow. If a senior Kerry staffer had said it, we'd never hear the end of it.

[Bossy Monkey]

19. Also Yahoo News; they don't have it yet

Though if you can get the AP to pick it up, Yahoo automatically gets it too. AP is key because the Sunday newspapers are so important. Yahoo is important mainly because of the childish fun of voting the story a 5.

[DrBB]

20. Everyone needs to do it--work that National Media list! n/t

[ahem]

30. We need to send this out to everyone...

[SSX]

34. DONE

Sent it to all the Sun. Am. shows plus Reuters, UPI, MSNBC even Faux.
Thanks NY Daily News for your little gift."Tis the season" (at least in all my local retail stores.

[Joe Turner]

32. Done! Thanks DrBB This story needs circulation

It exposes the sick mindset of the Bush Administration. They operate and rely on instilling Fear into the American People.

ENOUGH!

[GreenPoet64]

22. This is just repulsive. eom.

[kskiska]

23. Josh Marshall's got it up

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/fast.php

[DrBB]

24. Atrios too. But I want it on the SUNDAY TALK SHOWS

Which means they need to hear from people who are sickened by this and sick to DEATH of the kind of partisan politics it represents. Use the DU national media list!

FUCK 'EM WITH IT, sez I. Jam it up Rove's ass and light the fuse.

[sallyseven]

31. Some of the talk shows are filmed on Thursday

I know that my congrezxsman was filmed on Thursday and not on Sunday when the film was played.

[DrBB]

54. Some of it must be more or less "live" though

They're frequently more up to the minute in the topics--I very much expect OBL tape to be addressed.

[Fla Dem]

25. DESPICABLE !!!! But typical. n/t

[Democat]

27. If Kerry doesn't use this he's making a mistake - Bin Laden wants Bush!

Bin Laden is contributing to the Bush campaign!

[AntiFascist]

28. Hopefully it will backfire....

Watch the DOW on Monday.

[Catfight]

29. Bush's record is based on fear and failure. n/t

[Bullshot]

33. Oh goody! OBL is threatening Americans again, say the GOP leaders.

Is that sick, or what?

Don't elect us for our policies. Elect us because you're scared.

The timing is a little suspicious, and I'm being diplomatic with my choice of words, Mr. Rove.

[soggy]

35. OBL is the best thing that's ever happened to bush

if it weren't for 9/11, what would be *'s approval rating?

8%?

[Beetwasher]

36. WHY DOES OBL WANT TO HELP BUSH???

Anytime it's brought up by Repubs that this tape helps Bush, it should be countered w/ that question.

[Stephanie]

38. Why does BUSH want help from Osama Bin Laden?

That's what I'd like to know. Are there no depths to which he will not stoop?

[sr_pacifica]

59. Because! As long as Bush is in office, he'll never get caught. n/t

[The_Casual_Observer]

39. They can look at it like that if they want to

I prefer the interpretation where chimp failed in his efforts to "smoke him out". Wanted dead or alive, if I recall.

[Stephanie]

41. "We want people to think 'terrorism' for the last four days."

"We want people to think 'terrorism' for the last four days," said a Bush-Cheney campaign official. "And anything that raises the issue in people's minds is good for us."

Have you ever heard anything so disgusting?

[Lorien]

42. DO YOU GET IT NOW LURKING FREEPS????

Your boy WANTS you to live in fear. They'll bludgeon you with it as long as you'll take the beating and behave like bed wetting sheep. Freedom from fear is supposed to be an American right. NOW WHO HATES YOUR FREEDOMS?????

[arewenotdemo]

60. well stated

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

44. Well, you already know what will happen if TeamBush is confronted:

1). Avoid discussing the issue at all for at least two days

2). Emerge from spider-hole to face the media, dismiss it as a "gross exaggeration" initiated by Senator Kerry.

It's the Rove-Hughes style. As Bill Clinton said on the Daily Show, "they do it because they can get away with it, and because it works. When it stops working or they can't get away with it, they'll do something else."

[slor]

45. I trust all Kerry spokespeople...

will be discussing this on the news shows tomorrow. For those dirty bastards to think of this as a "little gift" is beyond repugnant!

[bigtree]

46. amazing

[snowbear]

47. The gift that keeps on giving...

Thought unfortunately for Bush, it won't reap benefits for him.

And that's DESPITE what any of the pollsters and warped media mucks say in the next couple of days.

Screw Newsweek and their mad rush to print an edition with a front page claiming "Bush is surging" or whatever the hell it is they're doing.

I sat next to a butt load of ugly Rethugs at a standing-room only sold out hockey game last night. And during the intermission, they were all saying how screwed their hero was because this thing came out when it did.

When Chris Matthews blabs out that it has to be "all good" for Bush because it reminds people of 911, WHAT IN THE HELL IS HE THINKING !?!?!?

Maybe I'm wrong and some Americans have truly gone mad. But the jerks I had the misfortune to sit next to last night with their NRA caps and their Bush/Cheney '04 pins on their coats, are worried sick that this happened.

They insist that "they're screwed". If Rethugs themselves think this way, how is it that people like Matthews see it so completely differently????

[Shopaholic]

48. And yet, the Repug surrogates had the balls today to claim

that Kerry was politicizing the Bin Laden tape? WTF?

[Mz Pip]

49. Somebody post this

on the Air America blog. I'm not a member. I did send an e-mail to Franken, though.

MzPip
:dem:

[radiofreesrini]

50. here's a flyer to help you clarify things for people

click to download the pdf:
http://www.unamerican.com/media/bushbinladen.pdf

good luck!!!

-rfs

[klook]

51. Looks like Bush has hit the Trifecta

1. Bin Laden on the loose, taunting America.
2. Tons of looted munitions in Iraq.
3. Crappiest economy since the Great Depresson.

Yessirree, things are going great, aren't they? One little gift after another.

[StElsewhere]

52. Walter Cronkite did an interview

with Larry King and Mr. Cronkite said he believes Karl Rove is behind the Bin Laden tape. You may read it on the Drudge Report. Naturally Larry King didn't ask Mr. Cronkite to elaborate. King is such a big fan of the Bush family. I don't understand how the Repuklicans can think of this as a gift. Aside from the shamelessness of the statement, every time Bin Laden shows up on video, it only serves to remind the American people that he's still enjoying a life of freedom, thanks to our retarded Commander in Chief.

[newyawker99]

63. Hi StElsewhere!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[drmom]

53. What planet are they on?

[Technowitch]

55. And I'm sure they consider 9/11 OBL's BIG gift.

Are we surprised by their cynicism anymore? I thought not.

[NurseLefty]

56. OMFG!

These GOP mercenaries are EFFING SCUM! How ANYONE considers anything from OBL as a gift is beyond me! Low-life turds - I am truly scared that these FASCISTS really will go to no end to get a second term for president pea-brain.
This shite has me more scared than anything - Halloween really is kids' play.
BTW, *peabrain is quite accustomed to exchanging little gifts with Saudis, isn't he?

[newyawker99]

64. Hi NurseLefty!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Captain Lance Bass]

57. They can gift this as well

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1236807

[sr_pacifica]

58. My post in the main Bin Laden tape thread was the same

that OBL was doing W a favor for taking the heat off. So Bush's strategists are calling it a little gift. I think there is more truth in that than the average person hearing or reading that may think. Was it a deliberate "leg up" or just something that BushCo find working to their advantage with no deliberation on OBL's part?

[VOX]

61. "GOP = All terror, all the time -- it's what we do best."

This last-ditch right-wing gambit is so utterly transparent that you can read the writing on the wall through it:

"Yes, we **do** deserve better."

[sisenor]

62. By that logic september 11 was a "BIG GIFT"

They are so sick.

[nuisanceiiu]

65. reminiscent of...

"Why, of course, the people don't want war," Goering
shrugged. "Why would some poor slob on a farm want to
risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it
is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the
common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England
nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is
understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country
who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to
drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist
dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist
dictatorship." 

-Hermann Goering

[sakabatou]

66. That is disgusting...

:puke: Maybe I shouldn't have had that peanut butter cup...

[progressivebydesign]

67. Those people belong in prison.

No.. that's too good for them. Gitmo is more like it. I thought I had seen the worst of humanity over the past few months, with Cheney and Bush trying to scare the shit out of voters, but this stuff takes the cake. Pigs. (my apologies to real pigs)>