{"id":136,"date":"2004-08-23T00:10:23","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T05:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/?p=136"},"modified":"2004-08-23T00:10:23","modified_gmt":"2004-08-23T05:10:23","slug":"a-web-of-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/08\/23\/a-web-of-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"A web of connections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogs for Bush puts together a web of connections… nay, a web of direct links<\/a><\/strong> between Kerry\/Edwards, billionaire financier George Soros, various 527 groups, and even convicted mobster Donnie Shacks aka Dominic Montemarano. (With thanks to Polipundit<\/a>)
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\nWhether or not you thought that the allegations of Bush-SBVT connections had any merit at all, this is a must see.<\/p>\n

On the subject of connections<\/a>, Kerry-Edwards has already shown they’re going to overplay their hand on the connection angle. Their first card? An internet ad<\/a> that all but asserts an outright Bush-SBVT connection. Of course, any such connection would not be allowed by the Federal Election Commission. (Really, Sen. Kerry, just who<\/em> is desperate<\/a> here?)<\/p>\n

And finally, there seems to be some issue with Bush “supporters” funding the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. I mean, really, who did they expect to fund the ads? Veterans for Kerry ’04? Nader for President? Really, guys, you must<\/em> come up with something a little more definitive. Your “web of connections” is a pathetic attempt to respond to the charges that have been leveled against John Kerry. You should have seen this coming<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

UPDATE: The Wisconsin State Journal has their own spin<\/a> on this (though it’s hardly original). [NOTE TO the Kerry-Edwards campaign: Make sure you either put the facts in the hands of your defenders, or instruct them to keep quiet when they’re tempted to invoke the phrase “slime machine.” I know that’s what you believe, but seriously, do you think the undecided voters are buying it?]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blogs for Bush puts together a web of connections… nay, a web of direct links between Kerry\/Edwards, billionaire financier George Soros, various 527 groups, and even convicted mobster Donnie Shacks aka Dominic Montemarano. (With thanks to Polipundit)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-new-jfk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-2c","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}