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BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!

29 Sep 04 - 06:22 PM (#1284374)
Subject: BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!
From: Nerd

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The newspaper in President Bush's adopted hometown of Crawford threw its support on Tuesday behind Bush's Democratic rival, Sen. John Kerry.

The weekly Lone Star Iconoclast criticized Bush's handling of the war in Iraq and for turning budget surpluses into record deficits. The editorial also criticized Bush's proposals on Social Security and Medicare.

"The publishers of The Iconoclast endorsed Bush four years ago, based on the things he promised, not on this smoke-screened agenda," the newspaper said in its editorial. "Today, we are endorsing his opponent, John Kerry."

It urged "Texans not to rate the candidate by his hometown or even his political party, but instead by where he intends to take the country."

Bush spends many of his weekends and holidays at his Crawford, Texas, ranch.

The Iconoclast's publisher and editor-in-chief, W. Leon Smith, said the newspaper is sent to Bush's ranch each week. "But I don't know if he reads it," Smith said.

The Kerry campaign welcomed the endorsement in an email to reporters


29 Sep 04 - 07:10 PM (#1284424)
Subject: RE: BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!
From: Little Hawk

Bearded Bruce will not like that one bit.


29 Sep 04 - 07:31 PM (#1284445)
Subject: RE: BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!
From: kendall

OH, DOUG??? where are you?


29 Sep 04 - 07:32 PM (#1284447)
Subject: RE: BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!
From: artbrooks

Weekly paper, circulation under 500, not exactly a media giant. I think Rupert Murdoch is safe from their competition. Lone Star Iconoclast


29 Sep 04 - 09:36 PM (#1284541)
Subject: RE: BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!
From: pdq

I don't care who they endorse, The Lone Star Iconoclast is one of the all-time great names for a newspaper.

Almost as good as my hometown's li'l paper The Buzzard's Roost Flux.


29 Sep 04 - 09:45 PM (#1284547)
Subject: RE: BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!
From: Little Hawk

Absolutely. Beats hell out of the Barrie Advance or the Orillia Packet & Times.


29 Sep 04 - 09:48 PM (#1284554)
Subject: RE: BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!
From: Peace

Weekly paper, circulation under 500, not exactly a media giant.

True, but they oughta know.


30 Sep 04 - 08:47 AM (#1284834)
Subject: RE: BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!
From: Rapparee

Ranks right up there with my idea to go out the house Skull & Bones owns in the Thousand Islands area of New York and cover it with Kerry stickers.


30 Sep 04 - 11:48 PM (#1285594)
Subject: RE: BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull

wahts a kerry sticker?


01 Oct 04 - 11:04 AM (#1286072)
Subject: RE: BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!
From: Amos

John:

It's a promotional ad with a sticky back for posting on bumpers, windows, etc. New technology. You'll get used to it in your part of the world next year.


A


01 Oct 04 - 11:57 AM (#1286141)
Subject: RE: BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!
From: Little Hawk

This just in: The Lone Star Iconoclast has decided to endorse jOhn from Hull.


01 Oct 04 - 05:41 PM (#1286408)
Subject: RE: BS: Bush's hometown paper endorses...Kerry!
From: Peace

See, told ya they oughta know.