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Statement RE: Polls Show Repudiation of McGovern. 3 pgs. [Subject: Campaign] [Other Document], 10/16/1972
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Campaign Statement RE: Polls Show
Repudiation of McGovern. 3 pgs.
Wednesday, June 03, 2015
Page 1 of 1
According to the Gallup, Harris and Yankelovich polls the political
elitism and extremism of George McGovern are about to be repudiated
overwhelmingly by the American people. As they should be. But,
frustrated, twenty-five points behind in the polls, with three weeks to
go, George McGovern -- and his confederates -- have no embarked upon
the "politics of desperation" - - some of the dirtiest tactics and filthiest
rhetoric ever to appear in an American political campaign.
Lashing out wildly, George McGovern has compared the President
of the United States to Adolph Hitler, the Republican Party to the
Ku Klux Klan, and the United States Government to the Third Reich of
Nazi Germany. His personal assaults on the President have been
characterized by such terms as "most corrupt, 11 "murderous" and
"barbaric, 11 and his running-mate has served as an echo chamber.
And the Washington Post has become (an identifiable camp follower of)
a political prostitute for the McGovern organization. The Post's credibility
has today shrunk lower than that of George McGovern.
Using innuendo, third-person hearsay, unsubstantiated charges,
anonymous sources, and huge scare headlines - - the Post has
maliciously sought to give the appearance of a direct connection between
the White House and the Watergate a charge which the Post knows - -
and half a dozen investigations have found - to be false.
The hallmark of the Post's campaign is hypocrisy -- and its
celebrated "double standard" of the Post is today visible for all to see.
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Unproven charges by McGovern aides, or Senator Muskie,
about alleged campaign disruption that occurred months ago are invariably
given treatment normally accorded declaractions of war -- while proven
facts of McGovern-incited disruptions of the President's campaign are
buried on the hog page. When McGovern headquarters in California
was used as a boiler room to rally the Jerry Rubin, hard-core anti-war
militants to confront the President -- that was apparently of no
significance to a newspaper which has dispatched a platoon of reporters
to investigate charges that somebody sent two hundred pizzas to a Muskie
rally.
While the Post itself openly and actively collaborated in the publication
of stolen top secret documents of the Government of the United States sixteen
months ago -- today, it is faking shock and outrage at some lower level
campaign officials who may have been involved in a caper to steal Larry
O'Brien's political documents.
Like George McGovern, who personally encouraged Daniel Ellsbert
to commit the deed for which he faces a possible 115 years in a
Federal Penitentiary -- the Washington Post is a hypocrite. Which is
the worse crime? Stealing top secret documents of the Government of
the United States; or stealing Larry O'Brien's political papers?
The purpose of the Post campaign is clear: To divert public and
national attention away from the real issues of this campaign -- the war,
foreign policy, welfare, taxes, defense and national priorities - and
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onto the phony issues manufactured on L Street and in McGovern
headquarters.
[As for Mr. Daniel Schorr, the Post's parrot at CBS, the fact that
his brother is one of the architects of the McGovern welfare disaster,
the fact that he has publicly and often expressed his personal venom
toward the Nixon Administration, his continued presence on the campaign
trail is a prima facie case of prejudice on the part of CBS.]
The radical chic and the radical left in this country are in for a
deserved thrashing November Seventh -- a thrashing their present
kicking and screaming will do nothing to prevent.
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