RE: [DMCForum] Re: Ever have a totally surreal day?

["Dave Stragand" <dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No, no hoax emails trying to scare folks about a draft or anyhting like
that.  =)

-Dave

CBS Uses Phony Documents to Promote Draft Hoax 

September 28, 2004 | 16:49:56 PDT
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Daniel Irvin Rather must be a masochist. You'd think that in the midst of
the terrible publicity he is currently getting for working closely with a
partisan Democrat bent on bringing down President Bush that Dan Rather would
have the good sense to lay off the liberal bias for a while. But common
sense seems to be in short supply at CBS News these days.

Three weeks after he denounced the internet as being "filled with rumors,"
the embattled CBS anchor ran a story on his Tuesday "Evening News" program
hoping to stir up fear of an impending military draft.

In a story that was a textbook example of slipshod reporting, CBS reporter
Richard Schlesinger used debunked internet hoax emails and an unlabeled
interest group member to scare elderly "Evening" viewers into believing that
the U.S. government is poised to resume the draft.

At the center of Schlesinger's piece was a woman named Beverly Cocco, a
Philadelphia woman who is "sick to my stomach" that her two sons might be
drafted. In his report, Schlesinger claimed that Cocco was a Republican and
portrayed her as an apolitical (even Republican) mom worried about the
future.

Schlesinger did not disclose that Cocco is a chapter president of an
advocacy group called People Against the Draft (PAD) which, in addition to
opposing any federal proscription, seeks to establish a "peaceful, rational
foreign policy" by bringing all U.S. troops out of Iraq. Like Schlesinger's
Cocco, the group portrays itself as "nonpartisan" although its leadership
seems to be entirely bereft of any Republicans.

The group's domain is registered to a man named Jacob Levich, a left-wing
activist who in a 2001 essay compared the Bush Administration to the
totalitarian government portrayed in George Orwell's 1984.

PAD also lists Anita Dutt, a Green Party activist who is also a member of an
anti-war group called Bronx Action for Justice and Peace. In a March 3, 2003
New York Times profile of the group reprinted on the organization's web
site, Heidi Hynes, one of its leaders, said of her fellow members that "none
of us are Republicans."

Also left out of the CBS story was the fact that while there are two bills
in Congress that are seeking to reestablish the draft, both of them (S-89
and HR-163) are sponsored exclusively by Democrats and have been pronounced
DOA by the Republican leadership.


-----Original Message-----
From: Andrei Cular [mailto:acular@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 10:29 AM
To: DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Re: Ever have a totally surreal day?


You were trying to apply democtatic techniques to getting voters with 
the republican way of life...

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