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Kristol: N.Y. Times and CBS 'Conspiring' With Kerry to Defeat Bush

What a treat on "Fox & Friends" this morning: William Kristol hammered the pro-Democrat New York Times and pro-Democrat CBS for "colluding" and "conspiring" with Sen. John Kerry to topple President Bush.

Even Kerry's own handlers now admit they have no proof to back up the issue the Democrats concocted with their media allies.

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Kristol notes in his new column for the Weekly Standard: "Pressed on Tuesday afternoon about the accuracy of the allegations on Fox's Big Story with John Gibson, Richard Holbrooke, a senior adviser to the Kerry campaign, said: 'You don't know the truth and I don't know the truth.' He later underscored this point: 'I don't know the truth.'"

Vice President Dick Cheney, campaigning today in Kissimmee, Fla., noted that Kerry "doesn't know" and that Holbrooke "admitted as much." He reiterated that "John Kerry will say and do anything except give our troops the backing and praise they deserve."

Kristol continued: "That minor issue hasn't kept the Kerry campaign from creating a television ad based on what may well be untruthful claims. ... Shouldn't he at least make sure that such a charge is true?"

But in the Democrat playbook there's no entry for truth. The party's longtime strategy is to repeat a lie until people believe it. Thanks to their media collaborators, and President Bush's wimpy refusal to denounce the Times and "60 Minutes" and Kerry and John Edwards, the stunt could succeed.

At least a few voices are speaking out. "Kerry gins up his attack machine based on a flawed New York Times story," the Republican National Committee noted Tuesday.

Richard Lessner, executive director of American Conservative Union, blasted the story as "a cheap, baseless and partisan hit-job on President Bush" and pointed out that "neither the Times nor CBS has much interest in reporting the facts."

FrontPage Magazine's War Blog noted today: "Now that the story is both a fraud, and at the same time confirmation that Saddam had (1) very dangerous stuff and (2) WMD might have been spirited away as war threatened or broke out, the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign must be welcoming the complete incompetence of the Kerry forces, who have once again decided to charge uphill into the face of withering down-hill fire, on terrain chosen by the Bush-Cheney 2004 team, namely, who would be a better Commander-in-Chief in a conflict where the bad guys – Saddam and his terrorist allies – have access to tons and tons of RMX?"

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