Wednesday, September 15, 2004

You mean to tell me that Hannity didn't think that up on his own?

I was watching CNN the other day, right about when the CBS memos came out, but the day before they started floating the forgery story. Anyway, the conservative talking head was basically doing the standard, unsubstantiated character assasination on the guy that supposedly pulled the strings to get Bush into the National Guard. The funny thing was that he was saying nearly word-for-word the same thing as some other jackass on Fox or whatever was saying. And this is not an isolated incident. It turns out the OUTFOXED was right about the whole dissemination of RNC talking points. From Take Back the Media:

It is come to my attention that either someone in the Bush
campaign or a close contributor has been emailing various right wing radio talk
show hosts talking points. I have a source that works for the Steve Malzberg
show. The source has provided me with a copy of an email sent to Steve from
someone at the Bush campaign. The source has heard that this email has been
passed to other talk radio hosts at WABC radio 770 am including Sean Hannity,
Laura Ingram, and Rush Limbaugh. The text of the email includes instructions for
what the talk show hosts should concentrate on each week. It directs them how to
shape the arguments and how to respond to pro Kerry callers. For example in the
week following the Russian school terrorist attack it called upon them to
greatly focus on this tragedy. It stated they should link it to America's war on
terror and play up the fear that the next terrorist attack in America could be
against a school.