[Grovenet] "Guess Who the Scoundrel Is"

[Eric Canon]

The swift boat ad was Karl Rove's
(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/8/20/14735/6707),
which is where I've attributed much of this kind
of thing. But there could be no successful libel
suit there. Executive privilege for sure. And, if
they really feel threatened, they can now call
you a terrorist sympathizer and lock you away and
forget about you. It's not nice to attack the
president and his group of aficionados.

Nicely written Joy.

--- JBlair2154 at aol.com wrote:

>  
>  
> In a message dated 10/1/2006 2:04:52 PM Central
> Daylight Time,  
> grovenet-request at rdrop.com writes:
> 
> The  title of this thread is "Guess Who the
> Scroundrel Is".  At this   
> point, I would guess that the answer is "the
> author of the original e-  
> mail".  Right?
> 
> 
> 
> RIGHT.  And wouldn't we just love to be able to
> track  down the source(s) of 
> all the false emails that pollute email boxes
> all over the  world? I can't 
> even count the number of politically slanted
> junk mail forwarded  to me prior to 
> the last two elections, and 99.9% of them
> supported the far right  ideology. 
> If I challenged or disproved the authenticity
> of any of these, I was  attacked 
> by person who had forwarded it to
> me....although of course, the sender  had no 
> idea who had written it.  Unconditional
> acceptance of every lie (or  absurd 
> spin) -- as long as it supports the receiver's
> views -- seems to be part  of 
> the Creed. So I wasn't surprised when Steven
> shrugged off snopes.com -- not  the 
> first time I've seen this happen. Once I asked
> the most radical of my  former 
> classmates to please give me a list of sources
> she considers "truthful"  and 
> therefore non-liberal, so I would be
> enlightened as to where I must go for  
> "accurate" research. She didn't respond.
> Gradually, I discovered, on my own,  
> where much of the dogma originates and/or from
> which it is disseminated. (George 
>  Clooney had an excellent rejoinder to one of
> those sources: one of the 
> prominent  professional political pundits
> posing as a journalist, whose name I've 
> happily  forgotten.) Wouldn't it be nice if
> there were a cost-effective way to 
> track down  the original writers of such emails
> and sue them for libel or 
> slander or  whatever? Now and then, a celebrity
> will take on one of the tabloids, 
> however,  and those things keep being
> published...so I suppose whereever there 
> is a market  for ANYTHING, there will be
> providers -- as every pornographer 
> and drug dealer  knows.
>  
> Joy
> 
> 
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