NICE TRY NBC, but no CIGAR

Friday
11-3-06

Harold Ford's presidential candidate has found a very close friend in the national and sadly at times in the local media.

Before 8 this morning the NBC Today Show hit fifth gear in their drive to spin John Kerry's open attack on the American's fighting in Iraq. In an ambush interview a Today host demanded former white house press spokesman Scott McClellan, to swear that John Kerry was only telling a joke when he said those fighting in Iraq were there because they were stupid. In a beautiful response McClellan reminded the Today Show host of Kerry's long record of quotes demeaning Americans serving their country flowing all the way back to 1971. Unfortunately when confronted with the facts, the Today Show slid more to the left by playing a clip of the President commenting on the words spoken by Kerry and then interjecting their opinion that the comments were all politically based and had nothing to do with what the NBC show felt was the truth.

This dog will not hunt. Harold Ford's presidential candidate said what he said, did not apologize within an appropriate time period, and on the seventh attempt at an explanation of the statement chose the "joke" defense.

Yesterday Bob Corker was in Maryville and said "If you like John Kerry, then you will love Harold Ford Jr." The race is becoming clearer as it moves toward next Tuesday. On one side is Jr. "pretending he is something that he is not" and on the other side is Bob Corker.

As the national and at times local media continue to try to turn local races into a mandate on Iraq and our President they are seeing the spin come full circle and bite them in their shorts. If our President is a problem, yours (John Kerry) would have been a disaster, he proved it this week, and no amount of spin will prove it otherwise.

Early voting has been a very REPUBLICAN experience in Tennessee. Yesterday as Bob Corker spoke on the Blount county court house steps the last of twelve thousand early voters stood in line. Driving by I conducted a very scientific and unofficial poll by yelling "CORKER" and giving those in line a thumbs up, EVERYONE said yes and everyone returned the sign. I was braced for another finger out of the crowd but it was obvious the democrats were home scratching the old Kerry For President stickers off their Yugos. Even though the late afternoon voting poll was positive we still have more than a little work to do between now and Tuesday. Please talk to everyone who used to vote but is going to take a pass this time out and remind them of the stakes. Tell they are not alone in their disenchantment of the national and at times local media support of the Democrats and their single vote is worth much more than an opinion spouted by a TV news reader or national chat show talking head.

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