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No, the source is huffingtonpost. No quotes other than the one word "blindsided". Thus it is the interpretation of the huffpost writer. Not what Ridge actually wrote being sourced.
Tom Ridge: I Was Pressured To Raise Terror Alert To Help Bush Win
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No, the source is huffingtonpost. No quotes other than the one word "blindsided". Thus it is the interpretation of the huffpost writer. Not what Ridge actually wrote being sourced.
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Nope... that is just a blogger... who essentially cut and paste from huff post... sorry...
side note: since when did Dems think Tom Ridge was a credible source???
Look at the righties go immediately into full-blown distraction mode by focusing on source and trying to pre-emptively nail anyone who sees the merit in what Tom Ridge is actually saying with some sort of "well, you criticize sources too!" gotcha.
It's weak & predictable, but man, did they learn their lessons well during the Bush years.
This is just more evidence, more proof, more verification of what we already know, and the systematic approach the Bush admin took to misinformation & deception. It's BS, and WTF Damo & SF...WTF. How can something like this not make you at least set aside some pause for thought.
It's weak & predictable, but man, did they learn their lessons well during the Bush years.
This is just more evidence, more proof, more verification of what we already know, and the systematic approach the Bush admin took to misinformation & deception. It's BS, and WTF Damo & SF...WTF. How can something like this not make you at least set aside some pause for thought.
It's not even that. It's less than that, nobody is alarmed by it. Even if Ridge did this supposedly to gain votes for Bush it would have been extremely ineffective. Do you remember the discussions of that time? We constantly spoke about how weak and obvious this was.
Shh.... You are interrupting a discussion on the actual topic. I'm sorry you got embarrassed, we'll work in the future to exclude your more embarrassing moments from the JPP radar to make you feel better.
Interesting theory. So the Huffington Post piece, which provided a link to the US News piece, was actually the source for the US News piece that was linked to in the HuffPo piece?
Whatev', It is clear you did not avail yourself of your education and actually read the words of the thread. Now, participate or dig deeper, I really don't care. I'm holding a conversation about Ridge and the effectiveness of the "Terror Alerts", you are here trying to explain why this particular huffpo link isn't really a huffpo link.
Pshshshsh...
I remember this "terror alert" during the campaign, we spent time talking about how ineffective the system was even then. This particular "alert" did nothing to help Bush win the election.
Yeah, pretty stupid stuff.
That and it's from that bastion of news and honest and fair reporting the HuffPo.
Whatevuh!
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Right, I attempted to tell you that wasn't where you wanted to go, but you took that turn anyway. I'll watch you walk down that lane by yourself and continue to attempt to get this topic back on track.
Anyway. When Ridge did this back in the campaign we all pretty much saw through it, except maybe Dixie and we all made fun of the "color" themes of the "terror alerts." Not even one person changed their vote to Bush suddenly because of it, and I personally do not believe that this helped him to win at all.
ib1yysguy
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I remember posting a graph correlating the Bush approval number dips with the increase in terror alerts and it match very well. I also remember Superfreak coming on and saying something retarded like, "You can statistically correlate anything you want! This doesn't mean anything! This doesn't prove they're increasing the terror alerts for political reasons11!"
Socrtease
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Why should we care about what effect they had on Gore. There were no terra alerts when Gore ran for President. Matter of fact, the 9-11-01 attacks came 8 months after Bush assumed the Presidency. 2004 Kerry ran for president. *big stupid shrug*
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It was a US News BLOG.... not a piece. You know... one of those op-eds you like to quickly dismiss should it come from the Journal.
ib1yysguy
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Southern Man is a retard.