"Former POW Resigns From Bush Campaign" - What The Hell Is That?

[DrFunkenstein]

What does this asshead's status as POW have to do with his resignation? Don't you think that's putting a little (cough) twist on the story? Kind of like taking a detail of a story and making it seem more, I don't know, relevant and even, uh, the central focus of the article?

Former POW Resigns From Bush Campaign

WASHINGTON - A former POW resigned as a volunteer to President Bush's re-election campaign Saturday after it was learned that he appeared in an anti-John Kerry ad sponsored by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

(not part of the group - he actually APPEARED in the ad!!!)

"Col. Cordier did not inform the campaign of his involvement in the advertisement," the Bush campaign said in a statement. "Because of his involvement (with the group) Col. Cordier will no longer participate as a volunteer for Bush-Cheney '04."

Cordier spent six years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.

The White House and the Bush campaign have denied any direct connection with Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, which is funded in part by a top GOP donor in Texas.

(Gee, is there any other, you know, relevant details about this top donor and, say, his long-standing relationship with George W. Bush?)

How about this?

"Republican donor Bob Perry has given $200,000 to the group running the ads, The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and had worked with Rove as early as 1986 in connection with a Texas gubernatorial campaign."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040821/photos_pl/mdf666830

Mr. AP Journalist person, do you think that might be worth mentioning in passing?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=14&u=/ap/bush_cordier



Ken Cordier, apparently a POW...

[Feanorcurufinwe]

1. I noticed that headline too

[mzmolly]

2. I actually kinda like the headline. I assumed it was because of the lies

about Kerry before reading the story. :evilgrin:

[IronLionZion]

3. another yahoo headline:

Bush Supporter Leaves Campaign Over Role in Ad

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040822/pl_nm/campaign_ads_dc

much more accurate

[DrFunkenstein]

5. Member of Bush's veterans' steering committee

AFP: "Bush campaign aide resigns amid controversy over campaign ads"

Even better, but still not enough.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040822/pl_afp/us_vote_040822213524

How many mentions of Bush purging his name from the website?

[Catfight]

4. Next to this pic should be a pic of Bush doing a line of coke.

While Kerry was protesting what was AWOL Bush doing?

[DrFunkenstein]

6. This Is Close...

[Catfight]

9. LOL..exactly! Only we know he was doing drugs.

[Democat]

7. Yahoo is one of the worst mainstream online Bush ass kissers

They will re-write AP headlines sometimes to make them more flattering to Bush - as if AP doesn't kiss enough of Bush's ass on their own.

The front page of Yahoo should be considered part of Bush's campaign website.

[Lefty48197]

8. Are the headlines still written by someone other than the one who wrote

the actual story? I know that was the case just a few years ago, but that was when Journalists still existed. Now that Journalism has died, do the writers write their own headlines?