Who all has the Bush Administraion smeared besides Wilson/Plame?

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http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:1I3yi20Q1-QJ:www.isebrand.com/article_GAO_warns_of_borrowing.htm+Joe+wilson+contributed+money+to+the+Bush+campaign&hl=en

Salon interview of Joe Wilson:

You've suggested there's been an attempt by the administration and the Republican Party to smear you -- to paint you as a hardcore partisan out to undermine the administration. Is that an accurate characterization?

At first I thought what they did to me and my wife was clearly a signal to discourage others from coming forward -- if you come forward like Wilson has, this is what we'll do to you. Since then, there have been a number of press reports to suggest this was pure revenge on the part of the White House -- which is not what one hopes that the public officials who are supposed to be stewards of the nation's security would be engaging in.

Now with respect to Gillespie, I only met him once, when he came off a TV set after saying I was a Gore campaign contributor. And I asked him if he knew that I had also contributed to the Bush-Cheney campaign. And he acknowledged that yes, he did know, because of course it's public information. So I find his selective use of the facts to be disingenuous at best.

I am not a rabid partisan. I'm proud of the service to my country. I pledged 27 years ago when I first went overseas to defend the Constitution of the United States. I've done so throughout my career. I found these charges to be without foundation -- and frankly selectively pointing out that I've contributed to the Gore campaign without mentioning my Bush contribution to be duplicitous.

Why did you contribute to both campaigns?

Well, I take great pride in being an American, and I don't believe either party has a monopoly on wisdom. It did seem to me that when Mr. Bush was running as a compassionate conservative, he was going to be the better of the two candidates. I thought it was important that we have the two best candidates. I contributed to the Bush campaign before they went to South Carolina and engaged in their smear tactics against Mr. McCain and his wife and children. And ultimately, as I look back on , I made a mistake.


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Those smeared by the Bush administration (please add to):

1. Joe Wilson
2. Valerie Plame
3. John McCain
4. Max Cleland

Was Jim Jeffords smeared, or did the Bushies leave him alone after he broke from the GOP in disgust with the Bush Administration?

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1. anyone that disagrees with them (nt)

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2. Specifics and link, please?

I'd like to establish a pattern of behavior, and my memory isn't so good when long lists over-tax it.

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3. O'Neil, Clarke and Kerry for starters. nt

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4. Of course, the obvious

Thanks.

[FreedomAngel82]

5. Don't forget John Kerry!

They never got John Edwards though. :shrug: And Ann Richards!

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6. Al Gore, Dan Rather, James Hatfield, John Kerry, the Dixie Chicks

Hans Blix, Scott Ritter, France, anyone else who spoke the truth...

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7. Wow! Homecoming of the sleaze and cheese of the Bush Administration

The names alone bring back so many memories.

[DanCa]

8. pro choice christians and john mccain (nt)

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10. and of course LIBERALS

which is their standard MO, caling anyone they want to smear a "liberal."

[DanCa]

11. Max Clealand

and of course liberals and women.

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9. Gore, certainly...

... the distortions of his record were coming from Rove. The fact that the press picked them up enthusiastically is another matter.

Rove/Bush and the smears about Ann Richards and lesbian associations.

There was a pretty clear effort to paint Bill Burkett as mentally unstable--and to mess with him regarding his medical condition.

There was the exceedingly quick effort to paint Dan Rather as a manufacturer of evidence (that has not been proven to this date).

There were a number of distortions made during the campaign about John Edwards' law practice which suggested that he misrepresented the cases he had undertaken and the nature of his practice.

There's more, I'm sure--they just don't immediately come to mind.

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13. Here's a Burkett link. Thanks for the reminder of Bush's treatment of him

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/20/eveningnews/main644664.shtml

[Bluebear]

19. And of course Poppy called Gore "Ozone man! He's far out, man!"

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/dailynews/TheNote_April22.html

[Bluebear]

12. The entire Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Out of touch with "heartland" values.

'PRESIDENT Bush and Vice President Cheney make reference to "Massachusetts liberals" as if they were referring to people with some kind of disease. I decided it was time to do some research on these people, and here is what I found:

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For all the Bible Belt talk about family values, it is the people from Kerry's home state, along with their neighbors in the Northeast corridor, who live these values. Indeed, it is the "blue" states, led led by Massachusetts and Connecticut, that have been willing to invest more money over time to foster the reality of what it means to leave no children behind. And they have been among the nation's leaders in promoting a living wage as their goal in public employment. The money they have invested in their future is known more popularly as taxes; these so-called liberal people see that money is their investment to help insure a compassionate, humane society. Family values are much more likely to be found in the states mistakenly called out-of-the-mainstream liberal. By their behavior you can know them as the true conservatives. They are showing how to conserve family life through the way they live their family values. William V. D'Antonio is professor emeritus at University of Connecticut and a visiting research professor at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/10/31/walking_the_walk_on_family_values/

[smartvoter]

15. LOL. And the sad part is this is true. nt

[DanCa]

16. The Left Bank of America

Do you remember when the chimp eeked it out that out?

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21. No, I don't remember. Please provide details

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24. I think the chimp said something like

"Senator Kerry you represent the far left bank of america" or some nonsense like that.

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27. Oh, right. The standard smear of liberals

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14. Bunny Greenhouse, the Halliburton contract whistleblower

Not smeared exactly, but definitely raked over the coals. She was the top civilian official overseeing contracts for the US Army Corps of Engineers who was demoted for "poor performance" -- asking tough questions about the no-bid Halliburton & KBR contracts for Iraq. Story here: The Spoils of War - from Vanity Fair, April 2005.

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17. Joan Jett hell they brown shirts stormed her stage

does anyone remember that during a dean fund raiser?

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20. Dean was smeared, since the Bush admin. controls the media

I'd love to see the link of the Jett episode.

[DanCa]

23. This happend durring the primaires

It was linked to her message board as well. I think its www.joanjett.com youll have to do alot of searching. Let me know if you can find it.

[Bluebear]

18. Parents

WASHINGTON -- (August 21, 2001!) President Bush launched his new crusade to promote morality and manners last week with a lecture about the importance of respecting others and teaching children "traditional values."

His advisers think this theme will appeal generally to moderate voters and particularly to suburban women, who thus far have been resisting his charms. They also hope it will help overcome the public suspicion that Bush is too intellectually incurious to understand the problems of ordinary families.

It's nice that our president is encouraging us to do good works, be kind to our parents and be helpful to our neighbors. No one could quarrel with such harmless platitudes.

But the tone of his message is all wrong. He is suggesting that most people are rude louts who don't know how to raise their children or behave properly in polite society. That is taking a very dim view indeed of his fellow Americans.

The president admonished parents to spend more time with their children and teach them "right from wrong." He said: "We can teach our children values that will make an enormous difference for our country as a whole." But he frets about a problem that barely exists....

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/35865_means21.shtml

[Bluebear]

22. The Clinton White House: Fleischer accuses of $200K worth of damage

and all the "W's" taken off typewriters... but months later a GAO report says that ain't true.

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25. That's probably the first smear of Bush's administration, isn't it?

not including the campaign smears?

[Bluebear]

26. Yes and didn't it set the tone? nt

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28. Hans Blix

Wednesday June 11, 2003: (The Guardian) Hans Blix, the UN chief weapons inspector, lashed out last night at the "bastards" who have tried to undermine him throughout the three years he has held his high-profile post.

In an extraordinary departure from the diplomatic language with which he has come to be associated, Mr Blix assailed his critics in both Washington and Iraq.

Speaking exclusively to the Guardian from his 31st floor office at the UN in New York, Mr Blix said: "I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media. Not that I cared very much.

"It was like a mosquito bite in the evening that is there in the morning, an irritant."

In a wide-ranging interview Mr Blix, who retires in three weeks' time, accused:

·The Bush administration of leaning on his inspectors to produce more damning language in their reports;

·"Some elements" of the Pentagon of being behind a smear campaign against him; and

·Washington of regarding the UN as an "alien power" which they hoped would sink into the East river.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3741.htm

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29. NEA--Rod Paige, Sec. of Ed, calls it a "terrorist organization"

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/02/23/paige.terrorist.nea/

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30. Ann Richards, Texas Justices, John Kerry, Paul O'Neal, Richard Clarke,

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31. Can a few of you nominate this list of smears so it can be added to

when others wake up? I have to leave for awhile.

I'd apreciate it. The pattern of bad Bush admin. behavior is being revisited. The list helps to jog memories.

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32. Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni

fired as Middle East envoy after suggesting the aftermath of the Iraq war might be prolonged and difficult and later smeared as an anti-Semite for blaming the Iraq invasion disaster on the Bush neo-cons.

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:q9a58ge438EJ:www.antiwar.com/justin/j010204.html+anthony+zinni+and+bush+smear&hl=en

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33. This Tom Tomorrow comic is good analysis of the process

"Slime and Defend" 3.30.04

http://www.workingforchange.com/comic.cfm?itemid=16674

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34. Army Chief of Staff, Gen. Eric Shinseki

who was fired after saying several hundred thousand troops were needed in Iraq.

http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2895593.php

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35. Wes Clark when he said he got a phone call suggesting the Administration

Was determined to attack Iraq right after 9/11. Clark said that on Meet The Press and they were all over him INSTANTLY!!! They had every Talk Radio person plus Anne Coulter and Drudge after Clark on that. Interesting because Clark seemed to see the same kind of stuff Wilson was seeing.

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36. Lawrence Lindsey, the President's chief economic adviser

who was fired after stating that the cost of the Iraq war could approach $200 billion.

http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/transcripts/2003/feb/030226.ludden.html

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37. Richard Foster, chief actuary for the Medicare program

who was threatened with firing if he told Congress the real cost of the Bush Administration's prescription-drug plan.

http://www.garynull.com/documents/Pringle/130BillionDollar.htm

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38. John Kerry

Hilary Clinton
Michael Dukakis (six degrees of seperation)

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39. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle

when Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) criticized Bush's use of the phrase "axis of evil" and was smeared by Limbaugh and Oliver North as an ally of the so-called axis of rogue states.

http://www.spinsanity.org/post.html?2002_02_10_archive.html