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trof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 06:51 AM
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Debunk this e-mail?
Got this in my morning mail.
Nothing on this @ Snopes, Break the Chain or Urbanlegends.com yet.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story that follows seems to put the lie to it. Anyone else seen this?
trof

Hi! Received this from a very good friend in PA. she wants everyone to know what she saw.

Kerry Coverage~
Good Tuesday morning! John Kerry brought his "front porch meeting" to our Canonsburg, PA neighborhood on Labor Day morning. Since you will never hear the truth from the TV or print media I thought that you should know from someone who was `almost' there.

The residents who live on the street where the event took place were not allowed to attend.

Kerry shipped in approximately 90 invitation only VIPs. In addition, there was a hard luck case who was about to lose her job at USAIR and another was an elderly woman who was having health care problems. Neither one was from this neighborhood. The street was closed to all traffic the night before and all residents on the street were REQUIRED to remove their Bush/Cheney signs.

The sympathetic police officers on duty told us that Kerry used imminent domain to claim the street for his purposes. Residents who have homes within the perimeter (approximately 1 full block) were kept behind a line away from the partisan crowd. The rest of us were not allowed within the 1 block cordon. A neighbor from across the street came to the line where we were being kept and asked us to come onto his property. The police told us that we could stand on this mans FORMERLY private property! This was set up so that Kerry's views could be heard - but not the neighbors. About 30 peoples (mostly neighbors) shouts echoed down the street "Let the neighbors in".

We could barely hear Kerry speaking with his microphone because press buses were used to block us off from view! This mornings papers are reporting hecklers tried to interrupt Kerry as he spoke to the neighborhood gathering, but he turned our chants to his favor by calling us rude. Even though most of the media was there to record our stories of not being included in the neighborhood forum, not one of them printed or aired the truth. This is what America will look like if Kerry becomes president.

Get registered and get all of your friends registered to vote if they have not already. Kerry thinks that he is better than the rest of us and he has the media on his side to make him out to be what he is not! Finally, last night as I drove down the street where the rally was, I was shocked to see Bush/Cheney signs in almost every yard on the street! Please send this e-mail on to as many people as you can.
LET FREEDOM RING!


In Canonsburg, Kerry jousts with hecklers
He turns 'porch' taunts into jabs at Bush record

Tuesday, September 07, 2004

By Milan Simonich, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

With a friendly crowd in Canonsburg lobbing softball questions yesterday, Democratic presidential nominee John F. Kerry could have ignored a pocket of hecklers that tried to disrupt his campaign.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04251/374641.stm

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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 06:54 AM
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1. it's LaughabLe
it's projection too - that description accurateLy recounts just about every singLe bush event. vetted crowd, buses bLocking off protesters.

and iminent domain? ha!
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BeachBuckeye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 06:57 AM
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2. Lets see the story from the Pittsburgh paper
I doubt any of this happened.
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IdaBriggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 06:59 AM
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3. Already done. See this link for details.
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 07:02 AM
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4. Sounds like spin control ...
on how *'s are. "Well if Kerry does this, then so can *".

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missjudy6 Donating Member (70 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 07:04 AM
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5. Here's an interesting aspect
of the Canonsburg article:
The photo shows B/C supporters holding up signs, clearly in view of all in attendance. When do you suppose Americans would enjoy that right of free speech at a B/C event?
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 07:20 AM
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6. well, in the real world no politician running for office,
particularly a presidential candidate, would publicly violate the many laws that this person recites in her bogus story.

I repeat, it's a crap story -- blatantly bogus and with multiple misspellings throughout. Done by someone who is very naive and unsophisticated about politicians, government, law, grammar, and real life in general.

It's laughable. It doesn't even make good fiction!!

. . . . . . . . .

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