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...Behind all these ads is the assumption, fostered by the constant spin cycle, that the candidate who makes an attack is himself sleazy or desperate. Certainly, misleading negative ads do a disservice; so do misleading positive ads. But ad watchdog Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, says this year's attacks have been, comparatively, a model of accuracy. "There have been some small inaccuracies on each side, and some mid-level distortions," she says, "but the press has been fairly vigilant about going after them, and then the campaign gets...
...questions about George W. Bush's 1976 drunk driving arrest. But the Bush campaign isn't really answering them (at least not yet), while the silence of the Gore campaign is deafening. So we've decided to cut through the spin and go behind the scenes for a few technical pointers on Maine driving laws. Here is everything you ever wanted to know about drunk driving arrests (or have at least wondered about in the past 24 hours...
...what they got. The New York Post trumpets "LIAR LIAR" on its front page - and the post-debate spin cycle becomes about Gore's perceived chronic character flaw. And so it has gone every week since the debates. The image is enshrined...
...team have tracked down an obscure Gore quote buried within the transcript of a lengthy speech. Gotcha! "It directly contradicts what he just said in the debate! He just lied!" crows Griffin. Seconds later Griffin has fed the contradiction to the Associated Press. This is beyond post-debate spin. This is play-by-play impeachment. And incredibly effective...
...United States after World War II and would ignite America's part in the space race. After developing the rockets that took astronauts to the moon, he turned his attention to the idea of a permanently manned space station. He planned for orbiting wheels that would slowly spin to provide the kind of artificial gravity that would allow hundreds of people to work in an Earth-like environment. But the cost of delivering materials to such a venture, never less than $10,000 a pound, soon diminished the scale of the designer's dreams...