This morning, James Joyner noted a press release at the Kerry website that lists purported “Lies, Mischaracterizations, Distortions, And Half-Truths” from the RNC. The memo is nothing more than a list of quotes from convention speeches with titles.
I see that Jay Tea had the same response that I did:
It’s called a list of lies, but it’s merely 143 “talking points” from the convention.That’s it. No rebuttal, no individual attention, no supporting evidence. Just listing the talking points under the title “Lies, Mischaracterizations, Distortions, And Half-Truths” is all the proof they think they need to reinforce the True Believers, sway the Doubters, and utterly discredit the Heretics.
Indeed, I almost posted a comment at the time. It is a most strange list of quotes, insofar if you took the exact same list, changed the title to “Bush Supporters Counter Kerry” and posted the list on the Bush web site it could almost be a Bush press release because the quotes sans rebuttal are all positive vis-a-vis Bush. Even most of the bullet points are written in the affirmative, e.g., “Bush Works Across Party Lines”. As you get down the list you find some written in the negative, like “Bush Lies About Cost of Kerry’s Programs” but you have to go to the end of the list to find those.
It would seem that the Kerry folks still need to do some retooling.
The Shape of Days noticed as well.
Update: So has Chris Lawrence.
Is this all the Dem “Truth Squad” could muster?
Comment by Roundguy — Wednesday, September 8, 2024 @ 8:45 pm