Net War Room for Bush vs Kerry Debate

ancice writes "Article by Wired. Seems like Bush and Kerry are going to battle in cyberspace. The Bush Team is going to have a War Room to provide live rebuttals to thousands of conversative blogs. Not much info on Kerry's response though. This seems like a good use of the Information Super Highway. Would be interesting to see how this War Room will affect the election. Will this tactic be successful or will it be information overload? Worse still, will technology be exploited? Tune in on Thursday."

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Just a reminder

[wizarddc]

The polls held directly after the first debate between Bush and Gore in 2000 had Gore winning, albeit it by a slight margin. But after the right wing spin machine got going with a full head of steam within three days those same polls showed Bush winning them by a wider margin than Gore had, and that's been the "result" ever since. Mechanisms like these, where the campaigns themselves directly distribute talking points and rebuttals directly after the debates were generally exclusively a Republican tool, while the Democratic party simple played ctach up and defense. It's interesting to see that the Bush squad has put together a better plan for distributing their version of the events than Kerry's team has, but it's not surprising. Perhaps they'll throw something together since this news has come out. I'm sure they're will be a recptive audience to it.

Re:In defense of ideological uniformity

[isaac]

I wrote civil messages on DU which people seemed to enjoy responding to and I was deleted simply because I wasn't a liberal. I don't think that would have happened on FR.

I don't self-identify as a either a liberal or a conservative, but my FR account was summarily deleted when I merely posed the question as to whether Jeb Bush could face eviction from the governor's mansion as a result of his daughter's conviction of a drug offense. (This was back when the US Supreme Court upheld a federal law permitting eviction of family members of those convicted of drug offenses from public housing even if they had no knowledge of the crime.)

My experience doesn't suggest that Freepers are willing to put up with any sort of uncomfortable questions.

-Isaac

Great way to preach to the choir

[raider_red]

If they're pushing their live rebuttals to the convervative blogs, doesn't that mean that they'll only be going out to the conservative base? I think it would be more effective if they could find a way to get this on one of the mainstream news sites like CNN.

Re:In defense of ideological uniformity

[Anonymous Coward]

>...what the fuck were you thinking? Are you just a
>dumbass, or are you actually such a frothing
>partisan that you thought that question was
>reasonable?

Sorry, who did you call a frothing partisan? You seem to be the one worked up into a lather.

Re:I'm Confused

[IndependentVik]

So now you're against every single Vietnam Veteran who took part in free-fire zones? Like these men weren't patriots?

To give your sig context:

There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages.

All of this is contrary to the laws of warfare, all of this is contrary to the Geneva Conventions and all of this is ordered as a matter of written established policy by the government of the United States from the top down. And I believe that the men who designed these, the men who designed the free fire zone, the men who ordered us, the men who signed off the air raid strike areas, I think these men, by the letter of the law, the same letter of the law that tried Lieutenant Calley, are war criminals.

I agree with John Kerry, the men who followed their orders committed atrocities, but the men who gave these orders are the war criminals.

We're going to stand up to you, you know. All the lies and the slandering will be answered back tenfold with the most powerful weapon we have: the truth.

Our soldiers, as a collective, who fought in Vietnam were honorable men, and I won't let you dishonor their memory by dragging one of their number through the mud. So come on, strike back with something pithy about how maybe John Kerry wasn't injured with enough shrapnel for your taste or how maybe he looks a little too French to you. It just makes you look ridiculous. And dishonorable.

Re:In defense of ideological uniformity

[IndependentVik]

What the fuck was he thinking? That maybe the law of the land applies to you even if your surname happens to be "Bush"? Frothing partisan indeed.