"Well, the reason they keep mentioning Halliburton is because they're trying to throw up a smokescreen... It's an effort that they've made repeatedly to try to confuse the voters and to raise questions, but there's no substance to the charges."
-- Vice President Cheney, 10/5/04 (http://www.debates.org/pages/trans2004b.html)
VERSUS
"The FBI is investigating whether U.S. officials improperly awarded Vice President Dick Cheney's former company [Halliburton] a lucrative contract work without competition, a probe that was confirmed only days after a top Army contract officer raised the issue of favoritism."
-- AP, 10/29/04 (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Halliburton-Contracts.html?oref=login)
DAILY OUTRAGE
The IRS is threatening to revoke the NAACP's tax-exempt status (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7433-2004Oct28.html) because the civil rights group's chairman, Julian Bond, "condemned the administration policies of George W. Bush" during a speech this summer.
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Poltics: Daily Outrage and Versus
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