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Title: Wesley Clark: I Was Victim Of 'Right Wing Freak Machine'
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URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/ ... ark-i-was-victim_n_113487.html
Published: Jul 18, 2008
Author: Sam Stein
Post Date: 2008-07-18 09:38:22 by christine
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Late Thursday night, General Wesley Clark cast himself as a victim of the "right wing freak machine" after his comments on John McCain's military service caused a bout of political pandemonium. Speaking to an adoring crowd at Netroots Nation in Austin, the General said that he "was taken out of context" when, on CBS' Face the Nation, he remarked that McCain's time as a POW did not serve as a qualification for the White House "There is just no other way to say it," said Clark. "Someone said to me 'This is a playbook operation by the right wing freak machine, the great freak show where they take a statement, distort it, blast it out of context and make it personal. They are so good at it they did all three steps in three hours and you fought back and I'm grateful for you from the bottom of my heart.'" Putting aside the descriptive words, Clark's remarks were clearly used as campaign kindling for McCain, whose campaign held three straight days of press conferences to hammer both the general and Barack Obama on the issue. The presumptive Republican nominee and his surrogates said Clark had belittled McCain's service for political gain. In the process McCain trotted out a member of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to not only defend the Arizona Republican but also attack Clark's record as well. The irony continued soon thereafter, when the McCain campaign (after insinuating that military service was not fodder for a general election) put out a campaign commercial that focused greatly on his time in Vietnam.
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#1. To: All (#0)
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Another progressive victim. Send him a box of Russell Stovers and an invitation to the Collective.
Translation.... "the General said he was caught lying again".
Politicians misspeak and are taken out of context. The public seems to buy it, so who can blame them?
It was a vast right-wing conspiracy....
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
victim
#2. To: christine (#0)
, the General said that he "was taken out of context"
#3. To: Cynicom (#2)
#4. To: christine (#0)
General Wesley Clark cast himself as a victim of the "right wing freak machine"
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#5. To: Christine, JethroTull (#0)
What a butchering weasel of a man.
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