Tuesday, October 12, 2004
Bill Virgin: Conservative Insurgent
In what has got to be one of the most amazing spectacles in recent Seattle history, Bill Virgin (pronounced with a soft g), the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Business Editor has a column today that takes a swipe at the bias of the Seattle PI, in the Seattle PI.
The PI is a rag, a leftist talking-points memo. But here, let’s let Bill say what he thinks (this is his opening paragraph):
Want more? Okay:
Good job, Bill. And in return, here’s a useful link: http://pugetsoundhelpwanted.com
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In what has got to be one of the most amazing spectacles in recent Seattle history, Bill Virgin (pronounced with a soft g), the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Business Editor has a column today that takes a swipe at the bias of the Seattle PI, in the Seattle PI.
The PI is a rag, a leftist talking-points memo. But here, let’s let Bill say what he thinks (this is his opening paragraph):
Given the verbiage contained in this daily fish wrap celebrating John Kerry and wailing what a threat to the planet George W. Bush constitutes, I suppose it is time for someone to sluice out the Augean stables of accumulated political nonsense.BAM! Sweet sufferin’ Jezebel. You read that right, “daily fish wrap”. That’s going to make those Tully’s-swilling Seattleites blast right out of their Birkenstocks.
Want more? Okay:
Somebody needs to help back up on the turnip truck those who not only fell off yesterday but, having done so, proceeded to purchase (at full retail) every vial of snake oil being peddled by the Kerryites, and explain why the president should be re-elected.And more:
That person would be me.
The Kerryites and others with limited mental dexterity have a hard time distinguishing between the words "safe" and "safer." Did booting the Taliban from Afghanistan, forcing Saddam to live like a dissolute hobbit and putting al-Qaida on the run make the world "safe"? Of course not. The world wasn't "safe" then, isn't "safe" now, never will be "safe."
But did taking those actions make the world safer, and better, not just for Americans but for those nations that aspire to some degree of freedom and tranquility? Absolutely. Deposing Saddam deprived global terrorism of one place in which to set up an operating base and one more sponsor (and yes, Saddam was working on more nasty weapons to supplement those he hid or shipped to Syria, and he was definitely working on being al-Qaida's new best friend).
It also sent to the rest of the world a message of American resoluteness, that it would not cower at home in anticipation of the next attack. Compare that with the Kerry approach, which appears to be a mixture of obsequiousness and forelock tugging before the corrupt and venal United Nations.
Good job, Bill. And in return, here’s a useful link: http://pugetsoundhelpwanted.com
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Monday, October 11, 2004
Notice Of Up-Coming Absence
I’m going to be gone from October 18 to 29. Going to San Diego on a business trip. Probably will be taking Alaska Airlines. And yes, somebody pointed out to me that, like my return flight on the 29th, which is three days before the election, Spain got hit three days before it’s election.
Time to put on my “Rambo” face. Heh heh.
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I’m going to be gone from October 18 to 29. Going to San Diego on a business trip. Probably will be taking Alaska Airlines. And yes, somebody pointed out to me that, like my return flight on the 29th, which is three days before the election, Spain got hit three days before it’s election.
Time to put on my “Rambo” face. Heh heh.
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More On Afghanistan
Story first:
John Kerry called Afghanistan a mess. I guess he would see the vastly and impressively successful election there as just another nuisance.
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Story first:
Afghan Opposition Candidate Backs Off Boycott
Monday, October 11, 2004
KABUL, Afghanistan — The main opposition candidate in Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election backed off a boycott of the vote Monday, saying he would accept the formation of an independent commission to look into alleged cheating.
Ethnic Tajik candidate Yunus Qanooni, considered the likely runner-up to interim President Hamid Karzai, made the announcement at his Kabul home on Monday, a day after two other candidates also peeled away from the boycott.
John Kerry called Afghanistan a mess. I guess he would see the vastly and impressively successful election there as just another nuisance.
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Newest Battleground Poll
Unaided ballot (ballot-taker had to come up with the name on his/her own):
Bush 44%
Kerry 40%
Nader 1%
Unsure 15%
"Favorability" rating:
Bush 53%
Kerry 51%
Bush job approval rating: 52%
Aided ballot (ballot-taker was provided the choices):
Bush 49%
Kerry 46% Other 5%
Nader 1%
Aided ballot (two choices only):
Bush 43%
Kerry 39%
Congress:
Democrat 43%
Republican 42%
Undecided 15%
Safeguarding America from a terrorist threat:
Bush 57%
Kerry 36%
Dealing with Iraq:
Bush 53%
Kerry 41%
Creating jobs:
Kerry 51%
Bush 41%
Keeping America prosperous:
Bush 48%
Kerry 44%
Is a strong leader:
Bush 54%
Kerry 39%
Shares your values:
Bush 50%
Kerry 43%
Note: Zogby has Bush down by 3. Over the two previous election cycles, Zogby has been shown to be the most accurate. But I don't ever recall Zogby being so out of step with the other polls (including Rasmussen). I think he has it wrong this time.
Note 2: Look again at the Congress number. I don't think I've ever seen those two numbers so close. Whenever the Reps get within a few points of the Dem number the Reps increase their numbers in the Congress (a result I've never understood - but there it is). Having the numbers this close might be an omen that the Reps are going to pick up quite a few seats. Long & Short: even if Kerry wins, he'll have a Republican Congress to deal with.
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Unaided ballot (ballot-taker had to come up with the name on his/her own):
Bush 44%
Kerry 40%
Nader 1%
Unsure 15%
"Favorability" rating:
Bush 53%
Kerry 51%
Bush job approval rating: 52%
Aided ballot (ballot-taker was provided the choices):
Bush 49%
Kerry 46% Other 5%
Nader 1%
Aided ballot (two choices only):
Bush 43%
Kerry 39%
Congress:
Democrat 43%
Republican 42%
Undecided 15%
Safeguarding America from a terrorist threat:
Bush 57%
Kerry 36%
Dealing with Iraq:
Bush 53%
Kerry 41%
Creating jobs:
Kerry 51%
Bush 41%
Keeping America prosperous:
Bush 48%
Kerry 44%
Is a strong leader:
Bush 54%
Kerry 39%
Shares your values:
Bush 50%
Kerry 43%
Note: Zogby has Bush down by 3. Over the two previous election cycles, Zogby has been shown to be the most accurate. But I don't ever recall Zogby being so out of step with the other polls (including Rasmussen). I think he has it wrong this time.
Note 2: Look again at the Congress number. I don't think I've ever seen those two numbers so close. Whenever the Reps get within a few points of the Dem number the Reps increase their numbers in the Congress (a result I've never understood - but there it is). Having the numbers this close might be an omen that the Reps are going to pick up quite a few seats. Long & Short: even if Kerry wins, he'll have a Republican Congress to deal with.
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Sunday, October 10, 2004
Mark Halperin's ABC News Memo
I cannot believe I haven’t dealt with this here yet.
First, let’s have a look at the memo that Drudge acquired.
I want you to think about the implications of this memo. Consider that this is the thinking of a major player in one of the Big Three networks, somebody with the power and authority to advise and direct the actions of researchers, producers, reporters and news-readers. He has influence.
Also consider that he actually wrote and issued a memo that so clearly shows a bias. He’s concluding that President Bush is far more nefarious than is Senator Kerry in their respective campaign activities. This is a judgment about the inherent value of what each of them has said. These are issues that are still under contention, not finally decided by historians or the people, and are still legitimate matters of debate. But Halperin proceeds as if they’re already matters of record. Decided. Facts.
This, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and those in between, is called bias.
This is exactly what people like me are endlessly droning on and on about. I’m just a little surprised that we get handed to us such a compelling and documented example of what we’d been saying for years.
Finally, consider that Mr. Halperin felt comfortable in issuing this memo within his organization. Why would that be? I mean, wouldn’t the wary be a little reluctant to be so blatant in front of one’s peers? I would think so unless Mr. Halperin, who is a professional and certainly not stupid, felt that his memo’s point of view would be well received by the people to whom he'd sent it. And why would that be? Why would he assume that there’d be not a ripple of concern from the recipients of the memo?
The reason is that what he wrote proceeds from a point of view that is something he encounters every day around the water cooler and espresso machine in the offices of ABC News. When everybody you talk to at work thinks a certain way then restating that way of thinking in a memo is just a natural and comfortable thing to do. Who’d object, after all?
And that, my friends, is a little scary and a whole lot illuminating. It’s as if people like me had been running around for decades in our tinfoil hats warning about an alien invasion, and one day we log on to Drudge and he’s reporting that the aliens have actually landed next to the Washington Monument.
And it makes you wonder exactly how pervasive this bias really is in the halls of the mainstream media. Sure, Pew Research polls have been telling us for a long time that the mainstream press is biased (80% or so voting for the Democrats), but to see how completely relaxed they are about putting that bias into their reporting is jaw-droppingly amazing.
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I cannot believe I haven’t dealt with this here yet.
First, let’s have a look at the memo that Drudge acquired.
Halperin Memo Dated Friday October 8, 2004
It goes without saying that the stakes are getting very high for the country and the campaigns - and our responsibilities become quite grave
I do not want to set off (sp?) and endless colloquy that none of us have time for today - nor do I want to stifle one. Please respond if you feel you can advance the discussion.
The New York Times (Nagourney/Stevenson) and Howard Fineman on the web both make the same point today: the current Bush attacks on Kerry involve distortions and taking things out of context in a way that goes beyond what Kerry has done.
Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win.
We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides "equally" accountable when the facts don't warrant that.
I'm sure many of you have this week felt the stepped up Bush efforts to complain about our coverage. This is all part of their efforts to get away with as much as possible with the stepped up, renewed efforts to win the election by destroying Senator Kerry at least partly through distortions.
It's up to Kerry to defend himself, of course. But as one of the few news organizations with the skill and strength to help voters evaluate what the candidates are saying to serve the public interest. Now is the time for all of us to step up and do that right.
I want you to think about the implications of this memo. Consider that this is the thinking of a major player in one of the Big Three networks, somebody with the power and authority to advise and direct the actions of researchers, producers, reporters and news-readers. He has influence.
Also consider that he actually wrote and issued a memo that so clearly shows a bias. He’s concluding that President Bush is far more nefarious than is Senator Kerry in their respective campaign activities. This is a judgment about the inherent value of what each of them has said. These are issues that are still under contention, not finally decided by historians or the people, and are still legitimate matters of debate. But Halperin proceeds as if they’re already matters of record. Decided. Facts.
This, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, and those in between, is called bias.
This is exactly what people like me are endlessly droning on and on about. I’m just a little surprised that we get handed to us such a compelling and documented example of what we’d been saying for years.
Finally, consider that Mr. Halperin felt comfortable in issuing this memo within his organization. Why would that be? I mean, wouldn’t the wary be a little reluctant to be so blatant in front of one’s peers? I would think so unless Mr. Halperin, who is a professional and certainly not stupid, felt that his memo’s point of view would be well received by the people to whom he'd sent it. And why would that be? Why would he assume that there’d be not a ripple of concern from the recipients of the memo?
The reason is that what he wrote proceeds from a point of view that is something he encounters every day around the water cooler and espresso machine in the offices of ABC News. When everybody you talk to at work thinks a certain way then restating that way of thinking in a memo is just a natural and comfortable thing to do. Who’d object, after all?
And that, my friends, is a little scary and a whole lot illuminating. It’s as if people like me had been running around for decades in our tinfoil hats warning about an alien invasion, and one day we log on to Drudge and he’s reporting that the aliens have actually landed next to the Washington Monument.
And it makes you wonder exactly how pervasive this bias really is in the halls of the mainstream media. Sure, Pew Research polls have been telling us for a long time that the mainstream press is biased (80% or so voting for the Democrats), but to see how completely relaxed they are about putting that bias into their reporting is jaw-droppingly amazing.
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Caught Red Han... Um, Well You’ll See...
To add to Mike's extensive list I’ll reference the following (with video clip):
(Turn up the sound)
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To add to Mike's extensive list I’ll reference the following (with video clip):
Men videotaped vandalizing signhttp://members.picgoo.com/kenroad2000/BlogPics/bush_sign.mov
Summit elections official catches culprits tearing down Bush-Cheney poster
By Marilyn Miller and Andale GrossBeacon Journal staff writers
Two men who tore down a Bush-Cheney sign and urinated on it were caught on videotape by Summit County Republican officials early Friday morning.
(Turn up the sound)
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al-QaeDems
Mike at Different Tack is all over the increasing level of violence demonstrated by the Party of Free Speech™.
I thought about repeating his work here, but I think it’s sufficient to link to his report. He’s done some serious heavy lifting on this and has come up with over a dozen reports of incidents of slugging, spitting, pushing, shoving, and other shenanigans. Including groups of al-QaeDems rushing into, and taking over Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters.
They’re on the move. And I would not be surprised to find active interference at polling stations in traditionally Republican counties.
It might be time for the Reps to recruit some Louisville Slugger-wielding poll workers to ensure that the al-QaeDems don’t get away with suppressing the vote.
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Mike at Different Tack is all over the increasing level of violence demonstrated by the Party of Free Speech™.
I thought about repeating his work here, but I think it’s sufficient to link to his report. He’s done some serious heavy lifting on this and has come up with over a dozen reports of incidents of slugging, spitting, pushing, shoving, and other shenanigans. Including groups of al-QaeDems rushing into, and taking over Bush/Cheney campaign headquarters.
They’re on the move. And I would not be surprised to find active interference at polling stations in traditionally Republican counties.
It might be time for the Reps to recruit some Louisville Slugger-wielding poll workers to ensure that the al-QaeDems don’t get away with suppressing the vote.
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Saturday, October 09, 2004
I’m BAAAAAACK
Sorry for the lull. Got busy elsewhere. As a peace offering I offer the following gift I picked up somewhere.
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Sorry for the lull. Got busy elsewhere. As a peace offering I offer the following gift I picked up somewhere.
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Monday, October 04, 2004
The Nerve Of Some People
I pulled a Vanity Google a few minutes ago and guess what I found? Three lawyers who obviously have an excellent sense of style and irony. Check it out.
And yes, I initiated this blog two months before they did theirs. So I win. Heh heh.
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I pulled a Vanity Google a few minutes ago and guess what I found? Three lawyers who obviously have an excellent sense of style and irony. Check it out.
And yes, I initiated this blog two months before they did theirs. So I win. Heh heh.
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Newest Battleground Poll
Just came out this morning.
Answering when given the names:
Bush /definitely............................................................45% Bush /probably..............................................................6% Bush /lean......................................................................1%
Total: 52%
Kerry /definitely ..........................................................38% Kerry /probably ............................................................5% Kerry /lean.....................................................................1%
Total: 44%
Difference: 8 points.
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Just came out this morning.
Answering when given the names:
Bush /definitely............................................................45% Bush /probably..............................................................6% Bush /lean......................................................................1%
Total: 52%
Kerry /definitely ..........................................................38% Kerry /probably ............................................................5% Kerry /lean.....................................................................1%
Total: 44%
Difference: 8 points.
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You Were Waiting For The Other Shoe To Drop?
Thump:
Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror TiesI’m going to let this one rattle around inside the hallowed halls of the Press for a bit. Let other reporters and organizations vet these docs.
By Scott Wheeler
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
October 04, 2004
(CNSNews.com) - Iraqi intelligence documents, confiscated by U.S. forces and obtained by CNSNews.com, show numerous efforts by Saddam Hussein's regime to work with some of the world's most notorious terror organizations, including al Qaeda, to target Americans. They demonstrate that Saddam's government possessed mustard gas and anthrax, both considered weapons of mass destruction, in the summer of 2000, during the period in which United Nations weapons inspectors were not present in Iraq. And the papers show that Iraq trained dozens of terrorists inside its borders.
Nevertheless, if this pans out it counts as a huge KABOOM moment for Senator Kerry & Co.
(hat tip to the Kerry Spot)
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And You Know What Else?
Since I already have the bitchslappin’ Glove-o-Rebuke™ out, it’s time to give Rush Limbaugh and Tony Snow a couple of 90mph lovetaps.
What is it with you two and this “Note-Gate” thing? You’re telling us that it won’t amount to anything. Maybe true, but the reasons you gave caused me to reconsider whether you really understand how tremendously important the seismic changes that have happened over the last few years really are.
The Rathergate story isn’t important because it caught one of the Big Three in a sloppy, conceited lie. It was important because it was an indicator of how things have changed, and a test case for the new openness from which we’re benefiting.
Whether “Note-Gate” ends up catching on isn’t particularly important (well, maybe it is), but (and mark my words) something will come of these changes. And all it takes are two things: 1) instances of the Left (i.e. the mainstream media and the Dem Party) lying, cheating and defrauding their way to their goal de jour, and 2) the Right picking up the ball and running with it (psssst! Rush, Tony! That means you guys!).
As long as “our side” continues with old-think they won’t understand, much less use, the new tools in our hands.
Get over it, and get with it already.
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Since I already have the bitchslappin’ Glove-o-Rebuke™ out, it’s time to give Rush Limbaugh and Tony Snow a couple of 90mph lovetaps.
What is it with you two and this “Note-Gate” thing? You’re telling us that it won’t amount to anything. Maybe true, but the reasons you gave caused me to reconsider whether you really understand how tremendously important the seismic changes that have happened over the last few years really are.
The Rathergate story isn’t important because it caught one of the Big Three in a sloppy, conceited lie. It was important because it was an indicator of how things have changed, and a test case for the new openness from which we’re benefiting.
Whether “Note-Gate” ends up catching on isn’t particularly important (well, maybe it is), but (and mark my words) something will come of these changes. And all it takes are two things: 1) instances of the Left (i.e. the mainstream media and the Dem Party) lying, cheating and defrauding their way to their goal de jour, and 2) the Right picking up the ball and running with it (psssst! Rush, Tony! That means you guys!).
As long as “our side” continues with old-think they won’t understand, much less use, the new tools in our hands.
Get over it, and get with it already.
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Gee, I Guess It’s Okay To Talk About Iran Now
Jonah Goldberg’s current article tells us that the Iran situation is heading up.
Oh, really? I hadn't noticed.
More:
(Go for it, man! Cut loose!)
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Jonah Goldberg’s current article tells us that the Iran situation is heading up.
Oh, really? I hadn't noticed.
I'm ashamed of myself. I haven't written a word about Iran in years, and Iran may be the most important story no one is talking about.Makes me want to bitchslap him. I like Goldberg’s writing and choice of topics most days, but this strikes me a little like the band leader hurrying up to catch up with the parade. Granted, Iran has not been the primary topic of the conservative press or the Pajamahadeen (a.k.a. Bloggers), but many of us have been talking about it. If you’ve watched this site you already know this.
I shouldn't say no one. Michael Ledeen has been writing about Iran with a constancy his fans call Churchillian and his enemies call deranged. Ledeen is convinced, as are numerous Iranian activists and exiles, that Iran is poised for a democratic revolution.
More:
Even if this weren't such a powerful human-interest story, it would still be appalling how completely the mainstream media have downplayed what could be one of the most important news stories of our lives.And you could have helped offset that earlier, Jonah.
So here's why we should all be ashamed we haven't paid more attention to this situation: The only way Iranian regime change will ever come about is if we — Americans, Europeans, the West — want it to. By ignoring the story, the press is in effect lending its support to the corrupt theocrats ruling Iran.(smacks forehead) Really?! You think so?
So please, start paying attention. I will.I feel like channeling Howard Dean right now.
(Go for it, man! Cut loose!)
YEAAARRRRGGGHHHH
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Ribald Humor Moment
Do Not, repeat Not access the following link if you are one of the Digi Youth Ninja Squad, or are easily offended (or even mildly hard to offend).
It’s got nothing to do with politics or anything important at all. I just found it somewhat humorous (which doesn’t say a lot good about me, heh heh).
http://home.comcast.net/~welder1956/att00003.htm
(Try the “male” button first. Trust me.)
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Do Not, repeat Not access the following link if you are one of the Digi Youth Ninja Squad, or are easily offended (or even mildly hard to offend).
It’s got nothing to do with politics or anything important at all. I just found it somewhat humorous (which doesn’t say a lot good about me, heh heh).
http://home.comcast.net/~welder1956/att00003.htm
(Try the “male” button first. Trust me.)
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Sunday, October 03, 2004
I, Of Course, Disagree
So I wrote to him. Here’s what I said (if he responds I’ll post it here).
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So I wrote to him. Here’s what I said (if he responds I’ll post it here).
Jim,
I have to disagree with you when you wrote, “The predictable explosion of enthusiasm for Kerry and the optimism about his chances in the mainstream media will not be interrupted by a mere breaking of the debate rules.”
I’m not saying you’re wrong, though I remain unconvinced. I’m saying that I think you are missing the point. Whether we stop the mainstream press from doing cartwheels for Kerry isn’t the issue at hand. The Swifties demonstrated that. It’s one of the central lessons of the Rathergate episode.
The VRWC trio of Talk Radio, Fox News, and the Pajamahadeen (of which I’m a card-carrying, though small-time member) can now make enough noise to sidestep the mainstream press to a significant degree. Just because Tom, Peter and Dan aren’t saying it doesn’t mean it’s not being heard by millions. Not anymore, at least.
You also wrote, “No one has much incentive to make an issue of this, least of all the President or the Bush campaign - they would be immediately labeled whiners by Kerry and his fans in the media.”
I have to take issue with this, too. Not in the central point you made, but the level of determinative value you place on this point. Obviously, the President and his people can’t address this. But there are tens of thousands of others out there who can, will, and are talking about it, and nowadays, some of them have some pretty loud voices. And the sweet part is that there’s no way the Dems or their handmaidens in the mainstream press would call us whiners because, in order to do that, they’d have to bring up the subject.
They’re in a hole regarding this matter. They just don’t realize how deep it is.
Sure, we’ll never turn the die-hard Kerryphiles away from their candidate, but that’s never been the issue. It’s those people who were sort of undecided and were impressed by Kerry’s apparent depth and breadth of foreign policy knowledge and aplomb during the debate. If those people catch wind of that impression being based on a fraud (cheat notes), that will most definitely not impress them.
In the end you may be proved right in this. This may not catch fire. But because of the items I mentioned above, it just might. And if not this, perhaps something else may come along that follows the Rathergate/Swiftie road to ignominy.
Regards,
Ken
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Jim Geraghty Reacts To “Note-Gate”
From the Kerry Spot
CAN I BE A SKEPTIC ON KERRY'S "NOTE-GATE" [10/03 08:53 PM]
Drudge, InDC Journal and Hugh are up in arms about Kerry's alleged use of notes during the debate. Hugh goes so far as to write, "he's toast in all of the red states and many of the blues. It is the sort of accusation that a wrongfully accused man would immediately appear to refute by answering all questions of the press corps assembled."
I wish I could ride with the rest of the Pajamahadeen on this one, but color me a skeptic that this issue will attract much attention. Even if it were true, Kerry's fans will stick with him. The predictable explosion of enthusiasm for Kerry and the optimism about his chances in the mainstream media will not be interrupted by a mere breaking of the debate rules. No one has much incentive to make an issue of this, least of all the President or the Bush campaign - they would be immediately labeled whiners by Kerry and his fans in the media.
No, the relentless message from the mainstream media after the first debate was that Kerry ran rings around Bush. The only way Bush can change that for the next two is to hit it out of the park, and to do so well that the pro-Kerry spin looks ridiculous.
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From the Kerry Spot
CAN I BE A SKEPTIC ON KERRY'S "NOTE-GATE" [10/03 08:53 PM]
Drudge, InDC Journal and Hugh are up in arms about Kerry's alleged use of notes during the debate. Hugh goes so far as to write, "he's toast in all of the red states and many of the blues. It is the sort of accusation that a wrongfully accused man would immediately appear to refute by answering all questions of the press corps assembled."
I wish I could ride with the rest of the Pajamahadeen on this one, but color me a skeptic that this issue will attract much attention. Even if it were true, Kerry's fans will stick with him. The predictable explosion of enthusiasm for Kerry and the optimism about his chances in the mainstream media will not be interrupted by a mere breaking of the debate rules. No one has much incentive to make an issue of this, least of all the President or the Bush campaign - they would be immediately labeled whiners by Kerry and his fans in the media.
No, the relentless message from the mainstream media after the first debate was that Kerry ran rings around Bush. The only way Bush can change that for the next two is to hit it out of the park, and to do so well that the pro-Kerry spin looks ridiculous.
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Lying, Cheating Bastard
Simply unbelievable. I wasn’t going to comment on this until Drudge got the video link, but in an amazing clip posted by The Daily Recycler of last week’s Presidential Debate, John Fraud Kerry is clearly shown pulling something from his jacket as he rounds the podium to stand behind it. Then, as he sets the white object on the podium he appears to be doing something with it.
Look for yourself (here).
Doesn’t it just figure. Remember those reviews we all had to sit through? “Ohhhh, John is soooooo smart. Did you notice how he had all those fact in his head? He sounded so Presidential and so very on top of the foreign policy thing!”
Makes it a little easier to pull that off if you have a cheat sheet right in front of you.
I don't care how Kerry tries to excuse this. Maybe he'll do us all a favor by ignoring it until it blows up on him (a-la Swift Boat Vets For Truth). All I hear righ now is. “Blah blah blah - I’m a cheating whore.”
What is with this nitwit? First he thinks we would have forgotten about his history as a tool for the Viet Cong. Then, forgotten about his Congressional record. Then believed his lie about having only ONE position on Iraq. Every time he tries to pull one over on us, and fails, he’s surprised.
And this guy is supposed to be some kind of genius?
Once again he’s been tripped up by the very people he sought to dupe. Because, you see, he as so much contempt for us that it never even enters his mind that we might have something to say, and the means to say it. Loudly.
UPDATE
LGF has a higher-resolution version of this clip (right-click here, Save Target As.)
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Simply unbelievable. I wasn’t going to comment on this until Drudge got the video link, but in an amazing clip posted by The Daily Recycler of last week’s Presidential Debate, John Fraud Kerry is clearly shown pulling something from his jacket as he rounds the podium to stand behind it. Then, as he sets the white object on the podium he appears to be doing something with it.
Look for yourself (here).
Doesn’t it just figure. Remember those reviews we all had to sit through? “Ohhhh, John is soooooo smart. Did you notice how he had all those fact in his head? He sounded so Presidential and so very on top of the foreign policy thing!”
Makes it a little easier to pull that off if you have a cheat sheet right in front of you.
I don't care how Kerry tries to excuse this. Maybe he'll do us all a favor by ignoring it until it blows up on him (a-la Swift Boat Vets For Truth). All I hear righ now is. “Blah blah blah - I’m a cheating whore.”
What is with this nitwit? First he thinks we would have forgotten about his history as a tool for the Viet Cong. Then, forgotten about his Congressional record. Then believed his lie about having only ONE position on Iraq. Every time he tries to pull one over on us, and fails, he’s surprised.
And this guy is supposed to be some kind of genius?
Once again he’s been tripped up by the very people he sought to dupe. Because, you see, he as so much contempt for us that it never even enters his mind that we might have something to say, and the means to say it. Loudly.
UPDATE
LGF has a higher-resolution version of this clip (right-click here, Save Target As.)
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Where Have They Gone?
I’m sitting here watching TBS’s presentation of From The Earth To The Moon. Good stuff.
But watching it causes a pestering question to keep coming up in my mind.
There was a President who once said: "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard."
Admirable. And forward-looking. Even inspirational.
That president, John Kennedy, was a Democrat. And I really don’t see any remnants of that spirit left in that party anymore.
Anybody here seen my old friend John? Scoop? Harry?
I didn’t think so.
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I’m sitting here watching TBS’s presentation of From The Earth To The Moon. Good stuff.
But watching it causes a pestering question to keep coming up in my mind.
There was a President who once said: "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard."
Admirable. And forward-looking. Even inspirational.
That president, John Kennedy, was a Democrat. And I really don’t see any remnants of that spirit left in that party anymore.
Anybody here seen my old friend John? Scoop? Harry?
I didn’t think so.
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Told Ya
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October 01, 2004My analysis can be found here.
Destroyer patrol is first step in defense against missile attacks
By Eric Talmadge
Associated Press
TOKYO - Amid heightened concerns of a North Korean missile test, a U.S. destroyer has started patrolling the Sea of Japan in what officials say is a first step toward creating a shield to protect the United States and its allies from a foreign missile attack. Navy officials confirmed that the Curtis Wilbur, one of three ships in the U.S. 7th Fleet tasked with the patrols, left its base just south of Tokyo earlier this week.
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BooYah!
In what was one of the truly smashstomping moments of human history, the 2004 Ladybugs took the South Kitsap Renegades on a hometown tour of misery.
The World-o-Hurt provided by MY team was served up by the young ladies seen below.
Check this: 11 to ZERO. Ouch! It even gets better. For a long while we only had eight (that’s right, 8!) players on the field when the Renegades were fielding 10. I even had to take some of the more skilled players off the field, and in the last quarter I put a player in the goal who’d never been there in her life, and she did wonderfully!
Just goes to show ya: you can run, but you can't hide from the Ladybugs.
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In what was one of the truly smashstomping moments of human history, the 2004 Ladybugs took the South Kitsap Renegades on a hometown tour of misery.
The World-o-Hurt provided by MY team was served up by the young ladies seen below.
Check this: 11 to ZERO. Ouch! It even gets better. For a long while we only had eight (that’s right, 8!) players on the field when the Renegades were fielding 10. I even had to take some of the more skilled players off the field, and in the last quarter I put a player in the goal who’d never been there in her life, and she did wonderfully!
Just goes to show ya: you can run, but you can't hide from the Ladybugs.
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Friday, October 01, 2004
Thar She Blows!
Go to the site and click the video link at middle-right. Maybe the ol’ gal is just clearing her throat, getting ready to really sing.
[Or they could just turn on Fox News, ya goof!]
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St. Helens Erupts
September 30, 2004 By KOMO Staff & News Services
SEATTLE - Mount St. Helens released a thick plume of white steam Friday, more than a week after a flurry of earthquakes first warned an eruption was on the way.
We are gathering more details. It will be posted soon.
Go to the site and click the video link at middle-right. Maybe the ol’ gal is just clearing her throat, getting ready to really sing.
[Or they could just turn on Fox News, ya goof!]
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Lookie What My Daughter Sent Me
Funny link: http://www.wketchup.com/
Strange thing is that, even with this ketchup, I get a huge sense AN-TIC-I-PATION...
(Don’t get it? See here. Sorry, requires registration.)
Hat tip to Amanda (when you gonna give me something of your own I can link to?!)
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Funny link: http://www.wketchup.com/
Strange thing is that, even with this ketchup, I get a huge sense AN-TIC-I-PATION...
(Don’t get it? See here. Sorry, requires registration.)
Hat tip to Amanda (when you gonna give me something of your own I can link to?!)
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“Radicalized”
Brian Suits, a lieutenant in the US Army, and also a KVI host, is in Iraq. And he occasionally phones in live reports from the battlefield.
I’ve taken a great deal of my impressions about what’s really going on there from his reports. And Brian has consistently been optimistic, even when he was nearly killed by an RPG some time ago (near, near, NEAR miss).
The man is everything you want in a soldier: smart, observant, straightforward, and tough as a tank.
And so it was with some alarm that I heard him just now, on the radio.
As you may have heard, yesterday was a particularly bad day in Iraq. 35 children were murdered by a car-bomber. And what Brian said was that the bomber was gunning for US troops, him included. You see, he was there. On the scene.
He reported that the car-bomber drove through the crowd of children, intentionally, just to get to the US troops. Then detonated.
Brian described a scene from hell. Dismembered kids, and the limbs from which they’d been separated. And you could tell from how Brian was speaking that this got to him.
And then Brian took on a tone of voice, and an aspect of attitude, I’d never heard before. The man is enraged, and looking for somebody to punish for this. And he said something else: those people (the terrorists) should be worrying our people becoming “radicalized.”
Brian then cut loose with some comments that, though I agree completely, were not emblematic of how he usually sounds. He said that, when he gets back here, he knows he has a talk show to return to, and made it sound like a threat. And that he’s not interested, any longer, in hearing anything about the “Religion of Peace.” If you would have heard him you would have known exactly what he meant.
Kirby Wilbur (the morning host) kind of shut Brian down at that point, I think. To keep him from saying something he probably shouldn’t. That was probably a good move because Lieutenant Suits was very, very upset, even hours after the event.
But hearing him was particularly worrying because the man is a rock, and never gets perturbed. But, for the first time, I heard an unbridled and unabashed hate in his voice.
And I got the distinct feeling that it was an itch he is most definitely going to scratch.
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Brian Suits, a lieutenant in the US Army, and also a KVI host, is in Iraq. And he occasionally phones in live reports from the battlefield.
I’ve taken a great deal of my impressions about what’s really going on there from his reports. And Brian has consistently been optimistic, even when he was nearly killed by an RPG some time ago (near, near, NEAR miss).
The man is everything you want in a soldier: smart, observant, straightforward, and tough as a tank.
And so it was with some alarm that I heard him just now, on the radio.
As you may have heard, yesterday was a particularly bad day in Iraq. 35 children were murdered by a car-bomber. And what Brian said was that the bomber was gunning for US troops, him included. You see, he was there. On the scene.
He reported that the car-bomber drove through the crowd of children, intentionally, just to get to the US troops. Then detonated.
Brian described a scene from hell. Dismembered kids, and the limbs from which they’d been separated. And you could tell from how Brian was speaking that this got to him.
And then Brian took on a tone of voice, and an aspect of attitude, I’d never heard before. The man is enraged, and looking for somebody to punish for this. And he said something else: those people (the terrorists) should be worrying our people becoming “radicalized.”
Brian then cut loose with some comments that, though I agree completely, were not emblematic of how he usually sounds. He said that, when he gets back here, he knows he has a talk show to return to, and made it sound like a threat. And that he’s not interested, any longer, in hearing anything about the “Religion of Peace.” If you would have heard him you would have known exactly what he meant.
Kirby Wilbur (the morning host) kind of shut Brian down at that point, I think. To keep him from saying something he probably shouldn’t. That was probably a good move because Lieutenant Suits was very, very upset, even hours after the event.
But hearing him was particularly worrying because the man is a rock, and never gets perturbed. But, for the first time, I heard an unbridled and unabashed hate in his voice.
And I got the distinct feeling that it was an itch he is most definitely going to scratch.
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USS Curtis Wilbur Deployed to Sea of Japan
Heads up. Paul Harvey (website: http://www.paulharvey.com/ ) reports that DDG-54 (http://www.curtis-wilbur.navy.mil/ ), a Guided Missile Destroyer (AEGIS equipped), has been deployed to the Sea of Japan for interdiction duties having to do with North Korea.
Why is this important? Well, at a guess, I’d have to say that because the Wilbur is part of the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63, website: http://www.kittyhawk.navy.mil/main.html ) battle group, and is being deployed separately to the Sea of Japan, it kind of looks serious. If we were doing the “show of force” thing we’d send the carrier. Sending an AEGIS-capable ship (with the ability to shoot down missiles), alone, means that somebody is taking the situation quite seriously.
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Heads up. Paul Harvey (website: http://www.paulharvey.com/ ) reports that DDG-54 (http://www.curtis-wilbur.navy.mil/ ), a Guided Missile Destroyer (AEGIS equipped), has been deployed to the Sea of Japan for interdiction duties having to do with North Korea.
Why is this important? Well, at a guess, I’d have to say that because the Wilbur is part of the USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63, website: http://www.kittyhawk.navy.mil/main.html ) battle group, and is being deployed separately to the Sea of Japan, it kind of looks serious. If we were doing the “show of force” thing we’d send the carrier. Sending an AEGIS-capable ship (with the ability to shoot down missiles), alone, means that somebody is taking the situation quite seriously.
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Outside Reaction (Kerry Spot with Jim Geraghty Reporting)
http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerryspot.asp
THREE PREDICTIONS [09/30 10:57 PM]
I don't think this varies from my initial reaction much. One word: draw.
Four more words: not enough for Kerry.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/kerry/kerryspot.asp
THREE PREDICTIONS [09/30 10:57 PM]
Overall thought: Compared to past debates, like Gore's sighing and
"lockbox", the Clinton-Dole snoozers in 1996, and Perot's nuttiness in 1992, this was a great back-and-forth debate. Two guys who just see the world completely differently, got up there, and each guy confidently made hiscase.
Prediction One: The Kerry camp will come out of this high-fiving, convinced their man did no worse than a draw on a debate that was supposed to be Bush's best area. They probably feared Bush was going to put this race away tonight, and so far there's not much sign he did.
Prediction Two: The Bushies will be a little down. Every time Kerry opened his mouth, conservatives thought of the eight different responses and attacks that they wanted to see, and Bush mostly didn't use them. Bush focused almost entirely on principles tonight, not policies.
Prediction Three: Here's my shocker: No bounce for either side out of this. This evening's comments just reinforced the messages that came out of each party's convention. Of course, Kerry got no convention bounce, while Bush got a fairly solid convention bounce, so maybe he'll get a little bump.
But my sense is that in the coming polls, Bush retains his lead, outside the margin of error, in the mid-to-high single digits.
UPDATE: Kerry Spot reader Keith offers this observation that I agree with: As much as some of us political geeks may have enjoyed tonight, because there was nothing shocking or surprising, there's no way that much of the public is going to watch two more 9- minute sessions of this. They'll catch a few minutes, but so far the debate has just confirmed what they already knew.
I don't think this varies from my initial reaction much. One word: draw.
Four more words: not enough for Kerry.
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