DU in this week's TIME

[H2O Man]

I'm pleased to see the Democratic Underground mentioned in this week's top story in TIME (Blue Truth, Red Truth by Nancy Gibbs; 9-27-04; page 29.) "As for the little girl with the sign, the Democratic Underground posted a story claiming that her father is a Bush campaign operative who used his child to create a photo op .....")

[Jack_Dawson]

1. Schweet!

Look for a membership spike.

:toast:

[H2O Man]

3. I was impressed.

I think it's important to know that a wide variety of people read DU.

[karlrschneider]

2. Did they include the URL?

...

[drfemoe]

4. online

The first part of the article is free >>

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101040927/story.html

The DU mention is not included in this section.

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Above all, the stakes of the outcome seem to change the rules. If you believe that your children's safety depends on the right guy winning, what tactics can possibly be out of bounds, and what scruples—political or intellectual or legal or journalistic—are more important than ultimate victory?
...

freeper dot com is ...

<snip>
Within hours of the 60 Minutes broadcast Sept. 8, skeptical bloggers were spitting challenges to the authenticity of the CBS documents on Internet sites like ...

[Me.]

5. It Just Goes To Show

You never know who is reading these threads.

"As for that little girl with the sign, the Democratic Underground posted a story claiming that her father is a Bush campaign operative who used his child to create a partisan photo op, having done the same with a different kid four years ago against Al Gore. No incident is too small to produce its own parallel truths. And the party e-mail lists make sure that these truths make their way into every Red or Blue mailbox."

[Kanary]

6. Now, do we start placing bets on which screen-name the writer

is hiding behind?

:)

Kanary

[pacalo]

7. I'd like to make a point in regard to the great eyes-for-detail at DU...

Here at DU, we have a true hero, Walt Starr. It took a Karl Rove operator to try to play catchup with DU for Free Republic. The significant difference is that Walt Starr righted a wrong, and "Buckhead", an undercover Rove operative, was using the freeper board to cause destruction.

Read all about "Buckhead" here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bu...