Now that was spin :)

Seems the AP has changed their story.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040903/ap_on_el_pr/bush_clinton_5

The crowd reacted with applause and with some "ooohs,"
apparently surprised by the news that Clinton was ill.

-sm

--- Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I'll vocally agree that a lot of people we see on TV
> spouting political
> opinions shouldn't be there.  But we are a
> celebrity-driven culture and like
> it or not these folks get air-time (and both sides
> leverage that, not just
> the left).
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> Some folks in hollywood do actually have decent
> heads on their shoulders.
> But they're few and far between and like everything
> else the extremists get
> the most play (since they're the most
> "entertaining").
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> I don't think this particular issue deep enough to
> support more than the
> sides it already has.  ;^)  I think that Bush
> definitely misrepresented the
> statement. but it wasn't "misrepresentation in the
> first degree". more like
> the fifth or sixth degree.   Besides Bush's
> statement was no more or less
> poetically driven than Kerry's. I don't really think
> either meant anything
> beyond sounding nice.
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> Jim Davis
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> From: Sam Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 6:23 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: RE: President's speech
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> I guess I see it as Hollywood and the pop stars
> being
> out of touch with reality and representative of only
> a
> handful of extremists. Not all of them but many of
> those that choose to be vocal on politics. This is
> why
> I don't see Bush's comment as off the mark.
>
> We all know there's a lot of spinning going on from
> both sides especially this close to the election. It
> should be easy to find something clearly spun rather
> then something as cloudy as this.
>
> I actually thought there was a whole new side to
> this
> that I missed and that's why I was asking.
>
> -sm
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