http://www.samefacts.com/2006/05/uncategorized/running-against-the-saudis/ Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:54:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.samefacts.com/2006/05/uncategorized/running-against-the-saudis/comment-page-1/#comment-9172 John Emerson Fri, 26 May 2006 10:31:29 +0000 http://samefacts.dreamhosters.com/2006/05/uncategorized/running-against-the-saudis/#comment-9172 During the campaign I compiled a lot of documentaion of the "Bandar Bush" story, and the Kerry people knew it was out there and wouldn't touch it. Kerry's blog "outreach" person was told to keep blogs at arms length. I also tried to do opp research on the various grous putting together the Swiftboat-type smears, and they seemed uninterested in that too. They felt that putting their head under the covers and waiting for that stuff to go away would be the most effective response. During the campaign I compiled a lot of documentaion of the “Bandar Bush” story, and the Kerry people knew it was out there and wouldn’t touch it. Kerry’s blog “outreach” person was told to keep blogs at arms length. I also tried to do opp research on the various grous putting together the Swiftboat-type smears, and they seemed uninterested in that too. They felt that putting their head under the covers and waiting for that stuff to go away would be the most effective response.

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