Premature panic (Kerry campaign barely begun)

The doom-and-gloom brigade is savaging Kerry because the race is still tied after Bush's horrible April. But the campaign has barely begun.

With just months to go in an election that ought to be a referendum on President Bush, the New York Times runs a front-page story: The Democrats are in serious trouble. Although Bush's approval ratings are low, the presumptive Democratic nominee can't get any traction. His campaign "continues to confront a cloud of doubts and reservations," the Times says, and voters are complaining that he hasn't offered the country a clear vision for the future.

It may sound like the Times on John Kerry in 2004. In fact, it's the Times on Bill Clinton in 1992.

The media began making funeral plans for the Kerry campaign over the weekend, and the New York Times led the way with a gloomy front-pager by Adam Nagourney. As it turns out, the predictions of Kerry's demise were more replay than revelation. It's certainly true that Kerry has problems -- his campaign lacks the money, the organizational structure, and the message discipline of the well-oiled Bush-Cheney machine -- but we've heard this before.

The Times painted an equally dour assessment of Clinton's prospects in a front-page piece in April 1992 headlined "Clinton Dogged by Voter Doubt." The Times said then that unnamed "political professionals in the Democratic Party" were troubled that Clinton hadn't made a better impression on the nation's voters. Nagourney's piece Sunday reported that "Democratic Party officials" have similar worries about Kerry.

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they really do.

They have people in America wrapped around their little finger.

Anybody with a real desire to know what is going on AND about
2 hours a day to read the news can find out what is going on.

Take this torture thing. This is old news. We were giving them
hell about this on the Unknownnews.net a long, long time ago.
This is not new. Repeat for emphasis. This is not new.

But now the American, big-money media has deigned to cover this
story. Well, goodie for them. Goodie for the American people
who now know (or do they?) that we are putting guys in cells with
attack dogs. Great. Big deal.

Can the media make or break Kerry? Well, if I were a betting man,
which I am, I'd say yes. Look what they did to Dean.

sorry, must have hit the submit button twice.

That's what best describes this country.

"Those who cannot remember history are doomed to repeat it." Truer words were never spoken. The mass media almost never gives any context to what it reports, and newspapers are the worst. Everything seems to happen in a vacuum, and earlier warnings -- like the millions who knew the war in Iraq would be wrong and protested around the world to let everyone else know -- are forgotten.

Subj: Cc: DNC Should Screen Moore's New Film
Date: 5/5/04 9:11:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time
From: LEVEYMG
To: mike@michaelmoore.com



Mike - Have been floating this in Dem circles. Hope that is okay with you.
Regards - Mark
__________________________________________________________________
Dear DNC Staffer -


Here's a great fundraising opportunity. Disney has refused to distribute Michael Moore's "Farhenheit 911". The DNC should franchize the film, and screen it nationwide this summer through all the state/local committees as a fundraiser. IT WILL DRAW BIG CROWDS AND $$$s.

Look at what happened with Gibson's "Passion."

Pass this on to YOUR boss.

See, NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/05/national/05DISN.html

cc: DNC, VA State and Alexandria committees, Mike Moore

Mark Levey