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On the Road Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:25 PM
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Will Pitt Replay on CSPAN2 Now (10:20PM)
For those of you like me who don't get CSPAN3, try CSPAN2 now. There he is!

Go, Will!!

:toast:
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jbm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:26 PM
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1. He's doing great!!
Go Will!!
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diamondsoul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:28 PM
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3. He's friggin' AWSOME!
Jeez, I've been reading his essays for a while now but WOW! This is great stuff!
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:27 PM
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2. What is this event? nt
nt
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:29 PM
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6. Last Tuesday San Francisco
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Room101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:32 PM
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9. I just saw myself I'm happy like a school girl !
Edited on Tue Aug-12-03 09:36 PM by BEFOREATHOUGHT
It was a Honor to share that room with "Veterans for Peace"
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:35 PM
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11. aah right! Friday! Oops!
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:28 PM
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4. He is awesome!
And so darn cute....
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Maine Mary Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:34 PM
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37. I agree
he looks even better in person. :-) Wish I hadn't missed the replay.
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nothingshocksmeanymore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:29 PM
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5. Thanks!
Think I got him on the hood of my car a couple nights earlier :D
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Oilwellian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:55 PM
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25. LOLOL!
Oh, you beez soooo bad! Hahahaha!

Will, you were fantastic! Bravo, bravo, bravo!

:loveya:
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diamondsoul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:24 PM
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34. Hey there!
That was something! You made me cry and McDermott made me laugh.

It strikes me, though, that's exactly the way this administration is. One minute it's so horrifying you want to cry, and the next so absurd you can't help but laugh.
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Libby2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:30 PM
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7. thanks !!
Go Will !!
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CatWoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:32 PM
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8. Hey, Will looks damn good on television
it's that Scorpio in him :D
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:55 PM
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26. C'Mon Cat, You Know That Scorpios Named Will Are The Cat's Meow !!!
:evilgrin:

BTW - Met Will in SF with the Bay Area DU Faithful Saturday night, and it was one hell of a good time. Will is a lot of fun, both to discuss things with, and to joke around with. A real human being.

And he DID kick ass with that speech!!!

:bounce::kick::bounce:

:hi:
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ParanoidPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:33 PM
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10. Awesome just about says it!
F*ckin' awesome! Thanks! :evilgrin: :thumbsup:
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gardenista Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:35 PM
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12. OMG, Tears are streaming down.
He talked about Mitch Snyder.

God bless you, Will Pitt.
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comsymp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:36 PM
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13. Guess I'm not as jaded as I had thought
That speech gave me goosebumps.

Very well done, Will- we're proud of you.
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PartyPooper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:41 PM
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14. Thanks!
I haven't heard or seen Mr. Pitt before. He is terrific! I tuned in late and caught the latter part of his speech...now, I'm watching the Q & A. WOW!

:D
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KalicoKitty Donating Member (777 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:44 PM
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15. Thanks for letting us know!
He is awesome, and it is great to see him. I love to read his writings. And, he is a good lookin' guy!!!
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:46 PM
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16. Damn!
I came in late. I hope it will get a replay tonight.
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KalicoKitty Donating Member (777 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:48 PM
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20. I wish he'd run for office!
He is so sharp!!!
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sybylla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:47 PM
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17. Tuned in late after a head's up from my hubby.
Hot Stuff, Will. Very moving.
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Ohio Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:47 PM
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18. That was great.
I'd read the speech, but this is the first time I'd seen the delivery of it.

They're doing questions right now. I hate it when I can't hear the questions. Will said "yes" to one of them, but I don't know the question. Any help?

Great job, Will!!!
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:48 PM
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19. REPLAY AT 2:05AM ET TONIGHT
CSPAN2

02:05 am
1:40 (est.)
Forum
Defeating Militarism and the Politics of Fear
Veterans for Peace
Jim McDermott , D-WA
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SharonAnn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 12:42 AM
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45. Waiting to tape it (can't program this VCR) and hear this caller
on C-Span 2 talking about how the administration should tell the truth about this contracts to Halliburton and Bechtel. Then she said we had to get rid of this fascist government! Yeeaaay!
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jbm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:50 PM
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21. standing ovation!
WTG Will!!!!
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:51 PM
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22. It will replay again at 2:05 am
I'm getting my tape recorder ready Woo Hoo ..

Awesome !
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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:52 PM
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23. Great job, Will.
Edited on Tue Aug-12-03 09:54 PM by Kerryfan
I missed the first half. Does anyone know if it will be repeated ? We are all proud of you.

On edit. Repeat at 2:05 thanks.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:53 PM
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24. They're just loving him!!!
"Basically, we went to war on the word of a grad student from Monterey"

Absolutely beautiful!

Great speech, I'm glad he's on our side too!
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billbuckhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:59 PM
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27. Very impressive!
:toast:
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 09:59 PM
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28. Mr. Pitt: You are Damn Good at what you do, BUT>>>>>>>
I was SO impressed.

But when I foirst came to this board you were using your talent to bash Gore and to praise a member of the Bush cabal - that spooky boy Kerry.

To me - all your credibility as a spokeserson for the left rides on this one point: do you still support and endorse JFKerry as YOIUR candidate.

If this is the case, then I think you are a great showman but you are either uninformed about the realities of gobal fascism or you ARE informed but you just don't care if Kerry supports Bush on the war, homeland security, patriot act, etc.. Or something worse....


PLEASE tell me that Kerry is history for you so I can have some faith in your talent and power to wake people up.

If you are only waking them up to endorse Kerry - a member of the cabal you denounce -- then I am not sure I can trust you.

Please tell me I am wrong so I can get (back) on your bandwagon.

Hell -- I would vote for you Waaaaay before I'd ever vote for Kerry. But I need to know you have not sold your soul to Kerry.


Otherwise I must say you were fucking awesome!!!

I hope it is not a waste.
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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:20 PM
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32. What's that expression about the skunk at the garden party ?
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diamondsoul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:26 PM
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35. Um, he DID
mention Dennis Kucinich at the event you just watched, and he's done so in a least one essay online.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:38 PM
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38. Gotta link for the Kucinich article?
That would make me very happy.

I KNOW that Will was backing slowly away from Kerry and I want to be CLEAR on where he stands. If he supports Kerry I can't get giddy.

I want giddy. But that's just me.
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:50 PM
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40. i searched the DU forums
but have no returns, but i saw it here last week before the speech when Will checked in with news of his travels.
maybe you will have better results, all the same i'll look again. I know it's there. but the search function is not returning...

i'll keep trying.
dp
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:55 PM
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41. Let's see what Will says
If he is no longer pushing Kerry I will be ecstatic.

I figure the most honest way to deal withj it is to just ask him.
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:57 PM
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42. Doh! Here it is
it was a TruthOut article.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/080703A.shtml

a snip was here on DU.

read on.

dp
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 11:34 PM
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44. Thanks - Not exactly an endorsement of Dennis BUT
he did not mention Kerry once.

That is a good thing.
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:04 PM
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29. Really proud of you, Will!
I didn't get to see it all, but the part I saw was simply splendid. (And I could see you were thoroughly enjoying yourself as well. Good for you!)

C-Span. Wow. You made the big time. REALLY proud of you.

Eloriel
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:14 PM
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30. Will , That was just
GREAT
you are a little ole cutie too

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hedda_foil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:18 PM
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31. Will you were amazing (and darn cute too!)
Your great delivery did your absolutely remarkable speech proud. It was such a joy to see you up there!
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:22 PM
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33. Wow! Great speech Will. I was cheering!
The part where you explained Colin Powell as a Company Man incapable of doing anything but following orders was brilliant. The exact reason why he should never be president. He would be a PNAC pawn.

"The state department is only effective within an administration that is interested in diplomacy." I believe is what you said. Nailed it perfect.

Great job...

and Congressman McDermott looked truly impressed, saying in effect you are a hard act to follow.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:30 PM
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36. Don't get me wrong, Will...you are the most prolific and talented DUer
in sight.

But we all need to be clear that if you are supporting Kerry, Will, then you ultimately are supporting what he did: vote for the Iraq war, vote to support the ruination of our civil liberties in the Patriot (sic) and Homeland Security (sic) acts, and , thus, are giving support to Bush.

Prove me wrong: endorse ANYONE but Kerry or Leiberman.

USE your power!
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 06:36 AM
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47. Oh shut the fuck up
Jesus, no one on this board appreciates you more than I do. You keep us old crusty bastards honest. But for the love of fucking Jesus, just shut the fuck up with this hysterical anti-Kerry nonsense. God damn it, I'll vote for him with big happy grins coming out of both sides of my asshole come 2004. If you have a problem with that, my brother, you have not been paying adequate attention.
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WillyT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 06:56 AM
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50. ROFLMAO !!! --- A Visual I Did NOT Want To Contemplate !!!
"I'll vote for him with big happy grins coming out of both sides of my asshole come 2004."

Too funny!!!

:bounce::hi::bounce:
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 07:01 AM
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51. Sorry
It's a little early for the visuals. :)
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 12:07 AM
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116. ``old crusty bastards?''
Your hosts and fellow speaker in San Francisco referred to you as a ``kid!'' You can't have it both ways!:D

I knew that you were supporting Kerry, and that's fine with me. When I took that SelectSmart test, he came up number three for me. The thing that you must remember is that a lot of people on DU look to you for leadership. You do have more influence here than most and there are those that may take it personally if you don't share their views or support for a particular candidate. You can let them down gently by reminding them that the right to hold dissenting views is one of the hallmarks of a democracy.:-)
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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 05:03 PM
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121. I don't think this thread was the place for Seventhson to
exhibit more of his anti-Kerry neurosis. This was a thread to congratulate Will on his great speech. Will's response was understandable, even to this old gal.
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bvar22 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:42 PM
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39. C-Span over-the-net
http://www.c-span.org/watch/

All 3 C-Spans are broadcast over-the-net
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 12:52 AM
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46. Thank you for posting this
This is an important point, that C-Span programming is available here.

As for Will, I missed the beginning, so will try to catch the rebroadcast. That's the great thing about C-Span, they repeat things. And yes, Will was absolutely the best, as always. I also enjoyed Jim McDermott. These two are not afraid of the truth and I found this program inspiring!:D
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Vadem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 11:33 PM
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43. Great job, Will!
It was so nice to "meet" you in person after reading your work for so long here on DU and on TruthOut. You "broke a leg".
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 06:38 AM
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48. THANK YOU EVERYONE
It was the most massive honor of my life to deliver that speech to those men and women.
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sugargoose Donating Member (270 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 10:57 PM
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112. Is there a transcript or
has anyone uploaded the video clip to view on a whim?
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molly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 06:51 AM
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49. I just happened upon him on CSPAN-2 - fate
I was on the phone with my husband, so he watched too. I usually am not on DU that time of the night. We are so proud of you Will!!!

:toast:
:loveya:

:kick:
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 07:38 AM
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52. Surfing the tube last night, goddamn that guy looks familiar
Jesus that's Pitt, it looked and sounded like a DU get together on cspan. I loved it, brought big smiles and goddamn rights from my lips, the marshmallow woman looked at me like I was insane. She asked me if I was in heaven, and damned if I wasn't. There on national tv was WRP holding forth, talking sense, talking truth and the people were loving it.

I'm watching the replay now with Jim McDermott, it came on too late for me to watch it complete. God, what a way to start a day.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 08:05 AM
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53. This is a keeper Will, you confirm your adherence to the skull-boy Kerry
Edited on Wed Aug-13-03 08:21 AM by seventhson
It's SAD. And you, despite all that you say, you talk a good game - but when it comes down to it you are the DLC status quo speaking. I am truly sorry. AND I am sorry that such talent is wasted and some here believe you actually stand for something that you do not: a move to the left for the Democrats.


You Said:

"Jesus, no one on this board appreciates you more than I do. You keep us old crusty bastards honest. But for the love of fucking Jesus, just shut the fuck up with this hysterical anti-Kerry nonsense. God damn it, I'll vote for him with big happy grins coming out of both sides of my asshole come 2004. If you have a problem with that, my brother, you have not been paying adequate attention."



"hysterical anti-Kerry nonsense"?


I have studied this evil empire, son, since before you were born.I was a victim of Cointellpro when you were still in diapers There is no hysteria here any more than there would be hysteria if I were trying to warn people about the American corporate financing of Hitler by the Bushes et al. It is a methodical war of attrition. Every time someone like you comes forward and is heralded as a "spokesperson"for the left" (and you are a damn good spokesperson - just for Kerry, NOT for the left) - it is agenda checking time. AND, I am an insider. I grew up with these criminals - went to school with them - my father did intelligence work (as you will see when MY book comes out). He went to Yale. And his Yale scum "friends" ruined him because he would not play the covert-Nazi subversion of democrcy game. Soi he went over to the other side, He became an antifascist. He tried to expose them. And he paid a heavy price. BUT --- he taught me how to fight them too. The first thing is to remember that in politics NOTHING is as it seems. The MONEY is always there hidden in the cracks. The true motivations are hidden. But the power elites will use ANY trick or evil or even mass death to hold their precious ske;etal fingers around power and filthy lucre and mammon, baby.

So, Will, you can insult me all you want but this is a war of attrition. If you support KERRY, then I will retrun to my refrain:

HOW IN JESUS NAME CAN YOU OR ANYONE SUPPORT KERRY AFTER HIS VOTES FOR BUSH'S WARS AGAINST IRAQ AND AGAINST US WHICH ARE CAUSING THE DEATHS OF TENS OF THOUSANDS, UNTOLD MISERY FOR OUR TROOPS AND GENERATIONS OF GENETICALLY DAMAGED CHILDREN, AND THE TOTAL LOSS OF OUR FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS HERE AND GLOBALLY?????????????????


YOU'RE INSANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

just kidding

(Now THAT's Hysterical)


But really, folks, I admire the spunk and articulateness and manic politically correct ranting of Pitt as much as anyone here: he is entertaining and unporedictable (except with this pitiful Kerry thing).

And he needs to be criticized for it. It is out of kilter. Something is awry, amiss, perturbed, disorienting, afoul even.

Something is not right.

And this is just how disinformation works.

I BELIEVE Kerry is the BFEE dem stealth candidate (along with Lieberman). Discount the sociopolitical and economic ties to the Bushes via a century long "brotherhood" of secrecy and political deviance at Yale's secret societies (which are a transparent cover for recruiting corrupt young men into power posts for "intelligence" work and the corruption of democracy) at your peril.

Either Pitt has been taken in by them or he is working for Kerry, I suspect IMHO. Kerry is the richest Senator or Member of Congress. The Forbes Fortune is built on a global real estate empire (especially profitable, thanks to Kerry, in Vietnam and also in repressive Souteast Asia)and was built from the opium trade in China (which financed Skull and Bones). These are sophisticated maneuvers and this is NOT "just a fraternity"

Pitt is incredible. He really is. He relly really is.

But he is doing everything in his power to hel< the DLC's BFEE love child Kerry.[br />
Just be aware of it folks. This is the way blackops work. I am not sayng Will is blackops OR or that that is precisely what is happening here. But like ME or anyone else here -- he COULD be.

You ALL need to be aware of that. If Bushco could pull of 9-11 (if in fact they did) then is it a stretch to imagine that they would coopt our heroes. It is as old as history itself, such deceptions. Just be smart and you will not be fooled.





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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 08:08 AM
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54. Seek help
Seriously.

No, seriously.

Seriously.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 08:33 AM
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56. I don't need help, buddy
Edited on Wed Aug-13-03 08:34 AM by seventhson
I work with veterans and PTSD folks.I am not intimidated or fooled by a common and trivial insult -- nor am I unaware that the first subterfuge refuge of those being politcally critiqued like this is: where are your meds?

The tired refrain of "hysteria" or "get help" is old hat.

The PROBLEM is with YOU Will. YOU SUPPORT KERRY.

KERRY GOT US INTO THIS WAR AND SUPPORTED BUSH AS GUNG HO AS HE DOVE INTO THE VIETNAM BUSH WITH HIS MINICAM TO SHOOT HIS WAR "EXPLOITS" FOR HIS FUTURE POLITICAL COMMERCIALS.

KERRY SOLD US OUT: IRAQ WAR. PATRIOT ACT.HOMELAND SECURITY ACT. SELLOUTS ALL!!!

no sellouts!!!


Sorry, will, as long as you are singing the happy assholes for Kerry song I can't get jiggy with you. I love what you say, Will, but it all turns to mush when you conclude by endorsing Kerry. It doesn't work. Sorry. I tried.


try a downer -- you might sleep better.




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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 08:36 AM
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57. Keep trying
to seek help.

Seriously.

Black ops? Me?

Get thyself a grip.

Seriously.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:06 AM
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59. Oh they all say that. Kerry is one of the head spooks
his family financed skull and bones with opium trade money in the 1830's. It is intergenerational.

Instead of a downer you need to:

READ SOME HISTORY!!!



But SERIOUSLY, Will:

Instead of cating insults and aspersions

WHY DON'T YOU SIMPLY TRY TO ARGUE WHY YOU SUPPORT KERRY AND WHY HIS TIES TO THE BFEE DON'T MATTER TO YOU (WITHOUT CALLING SKULL, "JUST A FRATERNITY" WHICH WE ALL KNOW IS A CROCK).

These sociopolitical elite networks are the backbone of corrupt global corporate fascism.

Kerry is part of it. And you know it.

So DEFEND it and quit disparaging me for challenging you to defend what I believe is indefensible. If you can defend it then do so.

But defend it so your supporters can understand it.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:14 AM
Response to Reply #59
61. Yesssssssssss 'they' all say that
MWWWAAAAAHH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAH HAHHHHHHH...

Seek.

Help.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:16 AM
Response to Reply #61
63. STAY AWAY FROM THE LIGHT, HONEY!!!! THE LIGHT IS EVIL!!!!
Edited on Wed Aug-13-03 09:18 AM by seventhson
Follow my voice to the portal, Will. Redemption and favor is waiting.

Forget Kerry's billions.

Camel. Eye of Needle. All that stuff. Filthy lucre. Kerry.

Or REDEMPTION (Marley)
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:19 AM
Response to Reply #63
65. All your billions are belong to us.
Seek.

Help.
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:16 AM
Response to Reply #59
62. hey, seventhson
spell it out about kerry, ok?? do you have any links or references?? this is all new to me. linked to the bfee?? family financed skull and bones in the 1830's with chinese opium trade money??? :tinfoilhat:

not saying that i put anything beyond the corporate nazis but you do sound a bit, um, out there. especially with innuendo about will, in my mind, no one with such passion and insight as he shows in his writings and talks can really have a hidden agenda.

way to go will, kerry is not my choice at the present time but he certainly could not be worse than the boy king.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:18 AM
Response to Reply #62
64. "he certainly could not be worse than the boy king"
Pretty much the point.

That, and I am being financed by the Kerry/Bush/Cheney/Skull/Bones/BFEE/Saudi/Black Helicopter/My Fillings Are Bugged/The TV Is Watching Me/Opium Tong Combine.

Explains things, yes?

P.S. Thanks.
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:26 AM
Response to Reply #64
66. no, thank YOU
i have enjoyed your essays on truthout for months before i discovered du. the world needs people like you to speak the truth articulately. have you ever considered running for office?? with all that financing you should be a shoo-in!!!!
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DemLikr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:35 AM
Response to Reply #64
67. Damn, Will, I missed you on the tube somehow!
I've been flipping around when I see these posts and I am always apparently JUST missing you on these replays.

Congrats!

Do you have any idea of a schedule of replays? I reeeeeeeeeeallly want to see you give your speech and I'm very curious to see what you look like!

Again, congrats!
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never cry wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:42 AM
Response to Reply #67
68. me too
i was only able to catch about 10 mins of the q and a. i read the speech but didn't see it. anybody know if there is an archeive or will be a reairing??
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 06:59 PM
Response to Reply #64
106. well
in the last week I've been called a Halliburton shill, so anything's possible, right? :D
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:46 AM
Response to Reply #62
69. Thgere was actually an archive of this stuff a while back so it did not
need to get reposted.

I would start by googling Kerry and Skull and Bones.

Skull and Bones and Opium Trade (the Forbes name will appear and Kerry is of the Boston Forbes family that set up the Russell trust for Skull and Bones in the 1830's with the profits.

It is an elaborate story.

I grew up in a Yale (and Harvard) family. I went to a prep school (like Andover/Exeter where Bush went (and Kerry I believe), In Massachusetts. At the school a "secret society" set up by the old boy CIA network was outed when someone rebelled, kiked his tappers' asses and the police were called. The whole scholl knoew about and , according to classmate of mind, the "old boys" in Intelligence were "furious" because this was a direct route to the secret societies at Yale, Harvard and Princeton where they would join the other spookie offspring on their way to corporate jobs, the CIA, state department or wherever they wanted to plant them, Historically militart servicve and fake or contrived medals were part of the modus operandi (this is ultimately a life and death business). Bush was a chicken shit and, due to his connections, was able to fudge that part -- plus his skull name was "temporary" and NO ONE expected the drunk to get called into service. He was too satupid, lazy, and inept.

KERRY, on the other hand, was groomed for the "opposition" spook party role amongst the Dems. He got a quicky Nam assignment and some quicky medals (all filmed in dramataiv recreations in "hostiler" territory by Kerry's crew with his handy dandy 8 mm handheld movie camera (to be used in future political commercials) and he then (after only four months and four medals awarded outside the usual channels) made it back stateside, got an early release from his military obligations, then got organized to run for Congress. In the interim he used his old sjkull buddies to set him up and get him on tv and in Congress to testify as an antiwar veteran, where he fake threw his medals away on national tv (but really kept them), and then quit the vietnam vets against the war cause they were "too left" for Kerry.

It takes a lot of knowledge and research to understand how these things work.

But, as I have said, I KNOW these people from the inside.

I have no evidence other than Will's undying support for Kerry that Will's word cannot be trusted.

But to say that the RICHEST Senator (worth more than a Half a BILLION dollars) richer than ANY OTHER CONGRESSMAN, would not hire or support or publish someone here on DU or elsewhere to push for his candidacy from the left is not only probable but likley.

And if I were Kerry I would be paying Pitt if he isn't already.

That is sheer speculation on my part, though.

But otherwise Will's schtick just not add up.

I don't believe you can say the things Will does and then credibly back Kerry. It smells funny to me and I have a very good nose.

But Will, paid or unpaid, is promoting Kerry and will be cracking smiles out of both sides of his asshole if he wins so....

you tell me why....


And do little independent researchGoogle Kerry and Skull and Bones for starters.

I also recommend as a primer Tarpley.net Bush biography which links a chapter on Skull and Yale and cushy military service, etc.)which is overly opinionated but well sourced for nmany facts (unsourced facts are sometimes unreliably, I've found)



PS - the Vietnam real estate deals that Kerry promoted are also disturbing because his family has huge investments there, This story is mostly pushed by the right wing vietnam veterans who are angry at Kerry for, whatever.... But looking at it objectively it is very disturbing. There is just little written by the left on this. But being a "target" of the right is another blackop method of boosting your "progressive" credentials. Naming him as being on an enemies list, for example.





His
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:49 AM
Response to Reply #69
70. "I have no evidence..."
You're a lot of talk, boy-o. Flap your gob all you want with this crap, it's a free country. But don't try to drag me into your little mental melodrama.

Prozac.

Demerol.

Something.

Anything.

Seek.

Help.
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molly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:56 AM
Response to Reply #69
72. If you could just tell us who you REALLY are, maybe you
would have some credibility. You went to " prep school (like Andover/Exeter where Bush went (and Kerry I believe" - which one?

"The whole scholl knoew about and , according to classmate of mind, the "old boys" in Intelligence were "furious" because this was a direct route to the secret societies at Yale, Harvard and Princeton where they would join the other spookie offspring on their way to corporate jobs, the CIA, state department or wherever they wanted to plant them "

The stuff you post is SOOOOOO FAR OUT - it must come from some other universe.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 10:21 AM
Response to Reply #72
77. not at all.
Because I am from the inside of this sociopolitical network I am more of a target (I don't keep their secrets) and the death threats against me and my family have been severe. For this reason I will stay anonymous until my book comes out next year.

I have been on the history channel and even appear in a documentary on the Nazis being covered for by the spooks in the US government at the end of WWII. But exposing my name here would be dangerous now. LATER I will.


There were plenty of witnesses to the events I described and it was even the subject of a schoolwide lecture on the fdanger of these secret societies. But these guys play for keeps. I will tell you which school when the time is right. It is already too dangerous to give more info now. I have given too much already. The spooks know who I am (and most of them agree with me on this stuff). All I know is public info, but I know enough of how it works to tie the loose ends together and spot somebody like Kerry (who was off my radar, frankly, until Will started bashing Gore and promoting Kerry when I first arrived here). But I know where to look. I know their names. I went to school with them. I went to their compounds and I am related to many of them.


But it is real.

Y'all Keerryites can carry hgis flg if you want. But it is the flag of global fascism.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 10:22 AM
Response to Reply #77
78. Yap yap yap yap yap yap
"Because I am from the inside of this sociopolitical network I am more of a target (I don't keep their secrets) and the death threats against me and my family have been severe. For this reason I will stay anonymous until my book comes out next year.

I have been on the history channel and even appear in a documentary on the Nazis being covered for by the spooks in the US government at the end of WWII. But exposing my name here would be dangerous now. LATER I will."

LOL.

I say, I say LOL.

LOL.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 10:53 AM
Response to Reply #78
80. I'd give you the link to the history channel piece, Will
but, Yap Yap,


I can't trust you as long YAP as you are shilling YAp YAP for Kerry and his spook YAP friends.

I'll give it to you later. You can buy it. I have actually privately shown it to a few folks here via private email.


I am TRYING to keep YOU honest Will.

You can't make this shit up. It is deadly real.

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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 11:19 AM
Response to Reply #80
83. ...but you can't, right? They'll kill you, right? The whole hockey thing
right?

Right.
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nolabels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 12:52 PM
Response to Reply #80
96. Hey, seventhson ever seen anything on this file before
A few connecting points, I hate the dead Armadillo approach, but I guess that is how you how you have to find things out sometimes.

http://www.parallaxresearch.com/dataclips/pub/research/Brown_%20Ron/Ron%20Brown%20Assasination%20Informat
(snip from the end)

This report came out well before the 1992 Presidential Campaign rolled
into gear. Isn't it odd that neither President George Bush nor Governor
Bill Clinton ever used this information to trash the other? Is this
the reason why Bush and Clinton made a quid pro quo where Bush won't
criticize Clinton and Clinton won't investigate Bush?

Larry
(snip)
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diamondsoul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 11:42 AM
Response to Reply #54
86. Ok honest question here, Will
And you've probably been over it dozens of times already, but I haven't seen it.

Kerry supported the Iraq war, with stipulations, so I don't hold that against him. He knew what he was told, and that was all any of us knew at the time. I think he's probably not far behind Kucinich for me, but I'm curious.

You've had a lot of glowing things to say about Kucinich and I can't figure out why you chose Kerry over him. Care to enlighten me?

Also thank you, thank you, and thank you some more for truthout. I absolutely love your work!
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 11:46 AM
Response to Reply #86
87. I back Kerry because
I think he has the best chance to win, overall, and because (despite nefarious insinuations to the contrary) I think his record describes a hard-working, dedicated progressive. Warts? Sure. Plenty. I've augmented my coping skills to seek George out the door.

That being said, I will work slavishly for whomever wins the nomination. Period.
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diamondsoul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 12:10 PM
Response to Reply #87
90. Thanks very much.
And I also thank you for the kind things you've said about Kucinich.

It's funny, I watch all the candidate bashing on various boards, and even in every day conversation and I don't get it. I mean I understand it's part of the process, but the vicious nature of it at times is just mindboggling.

There are plenty of things to admire about all of them, imho. Why is it those of us who are all after the same outcome (ousting King George and cronies) can't just say, "You know I was listening to so-and-so about healthcare, and I just don't think his/her plan is the best one.". What the hell happened to old fashioned honest debate around here?

I'm old enough to remember when Presidential candidates had open debates, three channels and the debates were on every one of them. I was a kid then and I hated it, but BOY do I long for it now! Two and three hours of listening to them challenge each other. When you walked away from that you KNEW what every one of them stood for. The 30 second soundbyte just doesn't cut it.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 12:13 PM
Response to Reply #90
91. Yup to all points
I remember that, too. It is early yet.
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wellst0nev0ter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 02:16 AM
Response to Reply #87
118. You Forgot To Add "My Spider Sense Told Me. . ."
But seriously, no one should be able to blame you for choosing Kerry if they ever saw your eloquent and lucid defense of him. You're right, back when Kerry surrendered the war-powers vote, the level at which the administration was willing to use rank deception couldn't possibly be known (the biggest evidence of the sort, that Bush lied about the IAEA report, could be dismissed as a "misstatement") and given the fact that Saddam doesn't exactly fit the description of a sentimental victim, and it was conventional wisdom back then that Saddam had at least SOME weaponsofmassdestruction stashed somewhere, it was easy to be swayed by the administration's argument.

As you said, almost everyone who voted against the war-powers act did so because they didn't want to surrender the congressional power to declare war, not that they did not want to prepare for war. Hindsight is always 20/20, and Kerry has done a good job so far criticizing Bush's deceptive drive to war.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 07:26 AM
Response to Reply #118
120. I disagree
Kerry has been a disgrace. Weak, Two-faced, PLUS he said "get over it".

Anyone fooled by Kerry is ignorant of history IMO
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ima_sinnic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:00 AM
Response to Reply #53
58. as someone who can't stand Kerry
I for one take seventhson seriously.
I have nowhere his(?) apparent insider knowledge but something deep inside me says Kerry is a bad mistake. Thank you seventhson for aticulating this vague uncomfortableness that I've been feeling.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:12 AM
Response to Reply #58
60. Thank you. I know MANY think Kerry is REALLY BAD news and Will's
support for Kerry is just appalling.

Some overlook it because he is such a great showman and an articulate spekaer. He IS, dammit.

And if I can't convert Will Pitt away from the global fascists like Kerry then hope for America and the world really is almost completely lost.

I cannot support a man who voted for this war, for the theft of our liberies and rights, and for a global fascist order that allows the Bush cabal to steal and murder men and women and children and traffic in misery.

I would LOVE to hear Will Pitt and Aaron Magruder debate Kerry on the merits.
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Crewleader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 08:26 AM
Response to Original message
55. I missed seeing YOU William...but just now heard
you speak...goosebumps!

You're the ONE they need to speak at the National Democratic Convention in 2004...
it's a HONOR for all of us who know you and love you to be the VOICE everyone needs to hear!

So proud...:loveya:

I hope I get to see you with this speech you did for the Veterans...I've been waiting for this! :-)

Will CSPAN show it again soon?


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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:55 AM
Response to Original message
71. Holy SHIT!!! JFKerry was teammates with Robert Mueller , FBI BFEE
Trying to find dsome educational links (and check where Kerry went to prep school, lookie, lookie....

Mueller is a head coverup artist for the BFEE and he was teammates with Kerry in prep school in high shool sports.


Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit. The noose tightens on definitive evidence of Kerry BFEE collusion.


http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20030729-025829-7031r.htm

Just read the facts and forget who published it. Of COURSE they want Bush to beat the Dems. But if Bush loses the BFEE wants their coverup artists in place (i.e.Kerry)

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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 09:58 AM
Response to Reply #71
73. Holy shit!!! You need to seek help!!!
Seriously.
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 10:00 AM
Response to Reply #71
74. We get the point. We get the point. We get the point.
We get it. Enough already.

Start your own thread for crying out loud.

Man, when a threadjacker like me calls you out, you've crossed some kind of line. ;-)
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 10:10 AM
Response to Reply #74
75. This is about Pitt. He has put himself at the dais and he wants us to...
believe in him. Trust him. He wants to speak for us.

People need to know what he is saying. This thread is old anyway. but the issue of Will's trust will remian.

I think that folks need to read the link on Mueller being a hockey teammate with Kerry and not be distracted by the Will's disparagement of me. I don't care about that really.

I just wnt folks to know the facts.

Doesn' the fact that Kerry was a hockey teammate with FBI's top coverup artist Robert Mueller give you the heebie-jeebies???

or does it make timid souls who can't take the heat hit alert?

This type of information is EXACTLY why Kerry cannot be trusted nd why this throws the new public figure speaking for the left, Mr. Pitt's, credibility into play.

It doesn't need a new thread. This adulatory thread is perfect for it.

And I LOVED Will's excellent speech.

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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 10:14 AM
Response to Reply #75
76. "Kerry was a hockey teammate with FBI's top coverup artist Robert Mueller
You = insane.
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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 10:39 AM
Response to Reply #76
79. I told him in this thread 12 hours ago he was a skunk at this garden party
Edited on Wed Aug-13-03 10:40 AM by Kerryfan
but he wouldn't take the hint and leave. Sorry you have to put up with this nonsense.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 11:07 AM
Response to Reply #79
82. All you Kerryites Garden Parties Smell funny anyways. A Skunk would be
an improvement.

Kerry Stinks.

But Will does not need a defender here. He is a man. He can take the heat from the left for standing behind Kerry (but can he stand the smell?).

But instead of casting insults you all should be defending the rancidity of your candidate (or at least trying to clean it up).

Kerry simply looks worse and worse as the minutes tick by. Dean looks immeasurably better (though I have questions about his elitist ties too).

You can insult me all day long --- but as long s you dodge the facts and the issues it won't do any good.


peace really



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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 11:00 AM
Response to Reply #76
81. But you do not deny it. It happens to be true
AND if your best rebuttal to information like this is "you are insane" then all the more reason for me to provide this info to those who think you are god's gift to the left.


The article linked at the Washington Times is pretty sure to be accurate. But I am sure an old St. Paul's school yearbook (where Mueller and Kerry went to school together) would clear it up.

It is like Nader being Rumsfled's classmate (and bragging about it) at Princeton -- or Carlucci (CIA/NSC/CARLYLE) being Rumsfeld Wrestling teammate at Princeton.

It follows a pattern of elitist social and political networks (an area of some expertise for me). Corrupt sociopolitical networks.


Call me Crazy, Will Pitt. But you cannot deny that it is true.

And since it is true does it change your perspective on Kerry or is it all just an act?

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OKNancy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 11:26 AM
Response to Reply #81
84. You make it so easy
You were/are a big Gore supporter right?

Gore has connections too you know...they all do. THat is the way of the world.

Here is a little tidbit for you:

George W. Bush and Al Gore maintained at least some of their prep school friendships for the rest of their lives. Bush's Andover classmate and fellow Texan Clay Johnson is now Bush's appointments secretary.

At a recent Andover reunion, Johnson handed Bush a list showing a prestigious Bush Administration appointment for every one of their Adover classmates. The list was meant as a joke (and a good way to help raise contributions) but it also shows the powerful impact of friendships formed at these prestigious schools.

Al Gore's St. Albans pal Reed Hundt now serves on Gore's presidential campaign as what he calls "informal 'oldest friend' advisor." Reed and Al attended The Beatles' first U.S. concert together and later were debate partners.

Today, Hundt is a senior advisor with a prestigious consulting firm and previously served as the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Hundt later attended school with George W. Bush at Yale.

Another St. Albans ally for Al, though several years behind him at St. Albans, is Senator Evan Bayh from Indiana.

snip


Do these stories show there is an "old boys network" among graduates of these prestigious schools? Many alumni are hesitant to admit it flat out. But St. Albans and Andover, like most colleges, mail free alumni networking books to their graduates and encourage alumni to stay in touch and help each other find jobs. As Jon McVoy puts it, "You aren't guaranteed a job because you went to St. Albans, but they have done a lot of the work for you by way of giving you a list of contacts."

One recent St. Albans graduate interviewed for this article said he's still close with his St. Albans "brothers" who all now hold high-salaried positions on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley. He dreams of "hitting up" his St. Albans friends for loans some day to finance a bar or restaurant.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/features/july-dec00/privateschools.html
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 11:28 AM
Response to Reply #84
85. You're obviously one of 'Them'
Yeah, mobbed up with the Kerry/Bush/Gore/Cheney/Jesus/Opium Tong/My TV Is Watching Me/My Socks Are Bugged By The DEA crew is what you are.

Welcome to The Club.

*secret handshake*
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 11:51 AM
Response to Reply #85
88. A Link for the doubtful on prep schools/elites/cia/bush/kerry etc
That Will wants you to disbelieve
in...

http://www.redrat.net/blackhole/andoverbush.htm

St Pauls, where Kerry and Mueller were high school hockey teammates is from the same ilk.

Where'd YOU go will? Were you tapped? Or are you just in the gofer jv team?
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 11:55 AM
Response to Reply #88
89. I was with Gore
in exactly the same clubs/schools/organizations/administrations.

Poof to your theories.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 12:49 PM
Response to Reply #89
94. Same as Gore? Specifics?
Poof to my theories axactly how?

You went to the same schools as Gore so your supporting Kerry means that you are not supporting someone who went to the same school as you?

If you went to Harvard were you Porcellian? (I know its a secret)

That is the CIA/Spook BFEE club equivalent of Skull and Bones.


Selling out to the BFEE is the point. Not everybody does. But you know the tree by its fruits.

You support Kerry.

Kerry supports Bush (in the war and the destruction of our constitutional rights)

Bush and Kerry are Skull and Bones, the BFEE secret society whose members specialize in promoting fascism and destabilizing democracies.

The fruits are rotten.

Gore's fruits were (or would have been) much more pure and delicious. We suffer. You bashed Gore and promoted Kerry.

That is where we started.


Do you work for Kerry? Paid by him?

Where do your loyalties lie? Mueller's teammate? (okay okay I admit that the simple fact that they were teammates does not PROVE collusion between Mueller and Kerry -- but it is evidence of their sociopolitical and economic ties. That is why it is so critically important. They are THISCLOSE. That is disturbing.

Oh well. I gotta take my kids swimming. Peace. Later.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 01:03 PM
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98. While you're out
be sure to seek help.

Seriously.
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diamondsoul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 12:16 PM
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92. Jeez, I think I'm with Will, Seek help!
Haven't you had enough of conspiracy theories yet?

Damn, I hung out with a group of socialists in High School, does that scare you too?
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 12:35 PM
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93. Roosevelt on Conspiracy theories:
In politics, nothing ever happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet it was planned that way." Franklin Delano Roosevelt


My father used to quote that.

So, Will Pitt, you were in the same schools as Gore? Harvard, etc?

fascinating.

Were you in a secret society at Harvard?

The CIA/NSA one? (I forget the name at the moment but it will come to me.


The point is NOT whether or not you actually attended the schools. What makes the difference is what you do with those connections. Mueller being a teammate with Kerry on the St. Paul Hockey team is a piece of information that reveals their closeness.

These elites do interact and support each other. But if you become a spook or covert secret society operator it will get revealed ovver time. Gore is not the issue: WHAT did he do with those connections.

I have concerns about Dean for the same reasons. Can he be trusted? I don't know. But if we are infoirmed then we can watch them all the more carefully.

For ME, Kerry's BCCI and cocain/cia coverup as well as his proBush votes in the past tweo years demonstrates that he is on the side of the BFEE.

His fakey vietnam medals things and his home movies reenacting his heroics there and the Vietnam real estate deals all make me believe that he is at one with his Bushit Skull and Bones blood brothers.

So the simple fact that someone was at the same school at the same time is NOT an indictment. It raises suspicions and watchfulness. These ties (unmentioned until recently) about the closeness of Mueller and Kerry are really troubling. They MUST be close in many ways. Would Kerry sell out his old St Paul teammate if he were complict with the BFEE.

Those are the questions that need to be raised.
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 12:52 PM
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97. Pitt on seventhson
:crazy:
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 01:48 PM
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101. yes you do drive me a little crazy, Will
I guess it is an honor to be a target of your affectations.

But seriously did you even KNOW that Kerry and FBI drone Mueller were hockey teammates at St. Paul's. Doesn't that drive you a little crzy too?

I thought it might.

In any event you don't deny it - instead you use all your talent to disparage me. Ther BFEE would LOVE for me to take prozac, I'm sure. Then I might shut up about Kerry and the Nazis and the Bushes et al.


PEACE dudes and dudettes!!!
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 01:51 PM
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102. I couldn't give one fetid dingo's kidney about their hockey relationship
Basically. Thought I'd made that clear.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 02:32 PM
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103. That is what I suspected
These ties are not significant to you and that is my reason for concern.


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nolabels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 01:14 PM
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99. Hey seventhson do you know what was going here with this
I saw the report about Kerrys deals with land deals in Nam but can't seem to find it right now, anyway thought you might know, anyway, thanks for the posts, people are listening, even while others attack.
I will go go eat my hat now, its time for lunch

http://www.bidness.com/dega/actionalert.html
(half way down)
While demanding increased trade, Hanoi has conducted a media blitz covering up its litany of human rights abuses against the Montagnards and other Vietnamese peoples. SRV President Tran Duc Luong condemned the recently passed Vietnam Human Rights Act, HR 2833 linking improved human rights to increased trade as "brazen interference" in the affairs of Vietnam. Passed in House by a vote of 410 to 1, this Act is now frozen in the Senate by Senator John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, and a long-time advocate for the Vietnamese communist government. Mr. Kerry seemingly cares more for a government that sponsors terrorism than for our allies who are the victims of terrorism.
(snip)
(snip)
Another distortion is the newspapers' contention that the Vietnam Human Rights Act failed to pass the U.S. Senate. In truth, one senator, John Kerry of Massachusetts, is keeping the bill from a vote. In a behind-the-scenes maneuver, Mr. Kerry blocked the bill from coming to the Senate floor, where it surely would pass, as it did overwhelmingly in the House of Representatives.
In its attempt to slander Mr. Benge and cover up the truth of who he is and the abuse of the Montagnards, the Vietnamese embassy failed to mention another important fact: Mr. Benge is an expert witness concerning Vietnamese human rights violations. He was held in a North Vietnamese communist prison, where he was tortured, held in solitary confinement, starved and beaten, from 1968 to 1973. This was in violation of the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, which Vietnam signed. Mr. Benge also buried fellow prisoners who died of abuse and deliberate neglect at the hands of the North Vietnamese government. Mr. Benge was a noncombatant when he was captured — a civilian working to help the Montagnards and Vietnamese as a member of the U.S. Agency for International Development, the same agency to which Vietnam now has its hand out for assistance.
(snip)

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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 10:40 PM
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110. It concerns me a lot
But I only know what I have read posted here and googles a bit.

Kerry's cousin got the Vietnam harbor real estate development deal after Kerry got Vietnam certified as clear of MIA's and human rights abuses. A lot of vets (and Vietnamese) are pissed. But , again, most of the attacks come from the right. I think the left should be concerned.

I will try to find the name of the company which is one of the largest real estate companies in the world, particularly asia, and is kinda like Carlyle in its magnitude, except in real estate.

It smells awful.


And I think the left is being fooled by Kerry's act. Especially Pitt, unfortunately. Unless he is not fooled - which is worse and sad to me.

Cause I think Pitt's talent should go to the more progressive candidates.
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LWolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 12:52 PM
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95. I saw part of it.
If I can skip past the Kerry/bash/fest to the thread topic...

I don't get CSpan 3 but I found it on 2 and saw a portion. I thought you did a great job, Will, and I enjoyed putting a real person with the words I've read online and between the pages of your book (Sedition).

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ianbruce Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 01:44 PM
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100. Cspan page for the forum with images...
Like these...


(I fixed the aspect ratio)


Forum:
Defeating Militarism and the Politics of Fear
Veterans for Peace
San Francisco, California (United States)
ID: 177745 - 08/08/2003 - 1:40 - $60.00

http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=167778910
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 05:13 PM
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104. CSpan has the video replay up and I am watching it right now!
This speech is great and it feeds this weary soul!

William Pitt video here
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-03 05:52 PM
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122. Thank you so much for this!
I missed the beginning!:D
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 06:27 PM
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105. One more fun Kerry Link: Boston Herald on Skull and Bones (and Pitt)
just kidding about it being on Pitt.

Here's the link about a skull and bones presidency next time:
(for those who think it doesn't matter):


http://www.propagandamatrix.com/kerry_made_his_bones_in_secret_club

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KC21304 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 07:37 PM
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108. More Bull and Scones for everyone !
Thanks again Will, for all your hard work. We will get this counterfeit out of our White House. The free world is depending on us.
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seventhson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 10:53 PM
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111. What - and replace Bush with another counterfeit?
No Thanks, Boys.
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 07:18 PM
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107. The cause is my heart beat
Thank you Will for standing our ground. Rep. Jim McDermott (d-wash) is no slouch either.

Thanks.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 07:37 PM
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109. wow! looking forward to Will's NYC appearance....

there's a single-malt scotch with his name on it for sure!
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KeepHopeAlive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 11:26 PM
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113. Excellent!
Just watched the video replay. Parts of it gave me chills.

You speak as well as your write--excellent!
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TheDonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 11:31 PM
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114. Who is Will Pitt!!! HELP
I need info! Who is will Pitt! I must know if I'm going to stay up that late ;). Thanks!
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WilliamPitt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 11:35 PM
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115. He's me n/t
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 01:21 AM
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117. Mr Pitt, you were looking good!
And it's the most truth I heard in one sitting on CSPAN in a long time!

I did wonder why you kept scratching your nose though. Didn't your mum tell you to take a handkerchief?

And why weren't you wearing your DU t-shirt and drinking beer? You are going mainstream so fast, they will be dying your hair like Tweety soon! Ha Ha.

Thanks for a rousing oration!
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Rhiannon12866 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-14-03 05:49 AM
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119. Will Pitt found you, which is hardly surprising
He has yet to get ``too big for his britches'' for his friends on DU. He must know that we are his most loyal supporters.:-)
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