Crawford Iconoclast's recommendation!

Amos: The name of the paper is the The Lone Star Iconoclast.

This is a perfect example of the way you twist things and add to them to present a distorted view in the hope that people will be persuaded vote for your arrogant asshole candidate.

It is published in Clifton Texas in another county, not Crawford county, by W. Leon Smith, a Democrat who was defeated twice in campaigns for the Texas House of Representatives and mayor of that town. He founded the paper in 2000 after the election so he could claim it is the hometown paper of Bush. There is a PO box in Crawford and nothing else.

"About The Clifton Record

The Clifton Record, founded in 1895, has been published since 1979 by Progressive Media Communications, Inc., a corporation owned by James W. Smith and W. Leon Smith. The Record is Clifton's oldest continuing business and the oldest operating newspaper in Bosque County. It is published twice weekly and serves Bosque County and surrounding areas.
For inquiries, call (254) 675-3336 or write to:
The Clifton Record
P.O. Box 353
Clifton, TX 76634"
http://www.cliftonrecord.com/about.asp

"About The Lone Star Iconoclast

The Lone Star Iconoclast began publication in December 2000 and has published weekly ever since. The newspaper is owned by Smith Media, Inc. and has both a print edition and an online edition. The online edition mirrors much of the content that appears in the main print edition.

The editorial staff consists of
W. Leon Smith, editor-in-chief
Don M. Fisher, associate editor
Nathan Diebenow, associate editor"

"The Iconoclast is published weekly, on Wednesdays.
Subscription price:
McLennan and Bosque Counties (Texas), one year: $40.
Elsewhere, one year: $45.
(Please give old address when requesting change of address.)

CONTACT INFORMATION:
e-mail: office@iconoclast-texas.com
telephone: (all departments): (254) 675-3336"
http://www.iconoclast-texas.com/about.htm

Crawford Rallies Behind Bush; Boycotts Local Paper

"Texas town turns on paper over Kerry endorsement
The Associated Press Posted October 13 2004

CRAWFORD, TEXAS -- Signs at the bank, the cafe and the Bottlinger Grain bins all declare Crawford -- the proud home of the president's ranch -- as "Bush Country."

So when the Lone Star Iconoclast, a tiny weekly that bills itself as Bush's hometown paper, endorsed Democrat John Kerry, there was an outcry.

Local businesses pulled their ads and banned the paper from their stores.

Most folks in Crawford, population 705, wholeheartedly support the re-election of the man whose "Western White House" made their town famous.

The paper's publisher, W. Leon Smith, said he never expected such a hostile response. He knew "a person or two might pull an ad, that we might lose a subscriber or two."

"But this has turned a little more vicious," said Smith, 51.

More than a dozen area businesses banded together to take out a two-page ad in a competing newspaper to endorse Bush, and all the stores in Crawford that sold The Iconoclast stopped."

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/orl-aseccrawford13101304oct13,0,5706416.story?coll=sfla-newsnation-front