Developing : REPIG gets copy of DNC internal memo !!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://drudgereport.com/flash2ng.htm


DEMS UNVEIL '08 MESSAGE: 'YOU'RE FAT!'
Tue Feb 14 2006 08:28:55 ET

**Exclusive**

THE DRUDGE REPORT has obtained an email sent Monday evening by Democratic National Committee (DNC) research director Devorah Adler that contains ten opposition research packets on potential 2008 GOP presidential contenders.

In one packet titled “Newt Gingrich: 08 Watch February 2006” a picture of the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA) appears with --- him holding two full plates of food!

The quote underneath the Gingrich photo reads “In His Own Words: Gingrich’s Solution To Childhood Obesity: ‘Turn off the TV, cut the fatty diet and get exercise.’ ”

The ten Republicans picked by the Democrat Party include: Sen. George Allen (R-VA), Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN), Gingrich, Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R-NY), Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR), Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Gov. George Pataki (R-NY) and Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA).

One Republican strategist who had seen the opposition research packets said: 'We should expect nothing less than name-calling and referring to one’s political opponents as ‘fat’ from Howard Dean’s Democrat Party.'

Developing...

[hang a left]

1. What a freakin newsflash that was...

Fat assholes!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. It's just me, but if I was going to prepare strategy docs, I would

have sent them US mail and only to the most loyal recipients.

[Wickerman]

2. loverly

someway or the other this will become a much bigger deal than any of the sins of the Bush Cheney reign of terror.

[Roland99]

3. Fine with me. Maybe the Dems are going to show some guts this year!

[librechik]

4. "One Republican Strategist" forgot these words: "After the way we

have acted for the last decade or so..."

[Pryderi]

5. We're going to believe a Drudge, "developing" story?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. not usually, no. take it for what it's worth. but this does look rather

real, given he names the DNC person who sent it.

[xchrom]

6. they are fat.

:shrug:

[wtbymark]

9. and they don't trash Hillary?

or Dean, or Gore, or Durbin, or Fiengold - the only one they don't trash is Lieberman and that's because he's really a republican (shhhhhhhh):sarcasm:

[redqueen]

10. So? Theirs is "you side with terrorists"! I got three words for 'em:

GFY.

[Pryderi]

11. I want to see them in their Pampers crying

[janx]

12. Some healthy skepticism is in order here.

It's Drudge.

[AlCzervik]

13. True or not Newt Gingrich is symptomatic of what wrong with the GOP

Fat, puffy, bloated and arrogant.

[Norquist Nemesis]

14. "Democrat Party" "Democrat Party" "Democrat Party"

Given the recent events of the Party's Leadership initiative, let's just all do something simple today. Write a note to every Democratic Congressman (federal and state) with the message: "Pledge: I will donate $100 each time I hear elected Democratic officials quip, 'it's DEMOCRATIC PARTY'."

That will get some action. LOL!

[SillyGoose]

15. Wait a minute. How did Drudge get hold of an internal DNC memo

Remember back in 2004 when the republicans got into the computers and private memos of Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee?? The confidential info got leaked to Novak.

Democratic staffers wrote and transmitted confidential memoranda describing the means they would use to block such nominations in general, and the nomination of conservative Republican Miguel Estrada in particular. A year ago, in February 2003, columnist Robert Novak -- the same columnist responsible for revealing the name of a CIA operative on a leak from government officials -- published information from these Democratic strategy memos. Novak reported that the information came from "internal Senate sources" but refused to identify these sources when questioned by Boston Globe reporter Charlie Savage.

It now appears that the memos were stored on a computer server that also served the Judiciary Committee. When the Republicans regained control of the Senate, they regained control of the Judiciary Committee as well. Eager young staffers apparently discovered that access to the Democratic strategy memos was not password-protected, and was located on the shared server, where they could access it by clicking on the "My Network Places" icon on their own desktops.

There is some dispute over what happened next -- though in my opinion it makes no difference. The Republicans argued that a computer technician told the Democrats about the configuration problem in the summer of 2002, and the Democrats claim they knew nothing about it until November of 2003. In either event, it's clear that Republican staffers, learning of the lack of protection to the documents, used the opportunity to take, read and leak the contents of the memos.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/02/10/the_first_fallout_from_cybergate/

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. good point. what we don't know is who the email recipients are

if it went to a giant pool of people it would just take one person who was not a 100% committed democrat to forward the email to anyone else. Call me over-cautious, but I would have used usmail.

Hmm, maybe the email had "keywords" in it that the NSA picked up on while performing their illegal and unconstitutional data sweep !

[tanyev]

16. Maybe it is a little childish to point out that FAT Newt Gingrich

is promoting a solution a childhood obesity and that FAT Newt Gingrich's solution is to tell kids to cut the fatty diet while he loads up TWO FULL plates of food. So sue me.

:+

[flyarm]

17. now i have to shower..drudge?????????ewww wee! n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. does it mean you weren't going to shower otherwise?

:)

[flyarm]

20. i took one..then had to hit the showers again!! lol.....n/t

[Kerrytravelers]

21. I question have real this is.

Hagel, while stil la rethug, takes swipes at king george. McCain isn't worth going after since he's got a stronghold in AZ.

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