June 30, 2005
Plame probe may reveal more than Bush critics want America to know
No crime has been committed in the Valerie Plame case. That is, none that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is looking into. His narrow focus is to determine who it was at the White House that mentioned Valerie Plame's name to columnist Robert Novak. This futile exercise, while it may ruin careers if anyone is indicted, will not result in a conviction.
From the outset, there has been a question as to whether the CIA operative was still covert in 2003. Some openly questioned her status, including Nicholas Kristof on the pages of the New York Times and I, at several White House daily briefings.
To this point the agency has not been required to prove that Plame was covert, which is the high threshold for prosecution that must be met under the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act. But it would need to do so in court if anyone is ever brought to trial. A requirement of the Act is for the agency and the agent to demonstrate that it had taken "affirmative measures" to conceal an identity. Plame therefore, had an obligation to protect her identity, which it is clear she did not fulfill. The most glaring example of this is the fact that she actively promoted her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson to be sent on a mission to Niger to investigate a claim that Saddam Hussein had sought to acquire uranium. When his report
did not get the attention from the Bush administration that he desired, he wrote a damning piece about it for the New York Times. It was that act that exposed Plame, since the spotlight that Wilson craved was inevitably shone on his wife.
To make the case Plame had been "outed" by someone at the White House, the agency needed to conceal that Plame was part of the group that engaged Wilson, a critic of the Bush policy toward Iraq. The details of the meeting at which Wilson was decided upon were contained in classified internal memo.
First, the CIA tried to discredit the memo and anyone who spoke of it. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post wrote a December 26, 2003 article that quoted a source that said the memo was forged. However, the Senate Intelligence Committee determined otherwise and, in 2004, chastised Wilson for making misleading public statements about how he came to be sent to Niger. Within hours, the Kerry campaign purged him from his role as a senior foreign policy advisor and ceased promoting his book.
I acquired knowledge of the memo and the Wall Street Journal reported on it, but no other media outlet mentioned it. I confronted Wilson about it in a September 2003 interview, for which I was rewarded by a visit from two FBI agents. All of the their questions surrounded the document they could "neither confirm nor deny" even existed. They were not interested in what I had heard that suggested a cell at the agency was actively undermining the Bush administration, payback for being blamed for not preventing the 9/11 attacks. When Porter Goss became the CID in 2004, some familiar names quickly headed for the exits. Grumblings from faithful leakers to the mainstream press indicated that Goss was looking into this.
Still unexplained is Plame's motivation to push her husband to go to Niger. Why wouldn't the agency use one of its own people to get the information? Either the CIA didn't have anyone that was monitoring one of the largest suppliers of uranium or those in charge of the investigation wanted to be sure of the outcome. Plame is purported to be an agency operative on weapons of mass destruction, yet the CIA brings in an outsider for a critical mission?
I'm inclined to believe that Fitzpatrick will simply close up shop, with or without the information from Matt Cooper and Judith Miller, because there is no case. Additionally, there are many more questions that will be raised if the probe results in an indictment. Ultimately, Democrats and the media would probably prefer to wail about the injustice of it all instead of being confronted with the truth about the Plame affair.
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More Democrat vote fraud
Despite widespread belief in allegations of vote fraud by Republicans in 2000 and 2004, it is Democrats that end up being fined or going to jail for it. Here's a lovely group of party types who were buying votes with cash, cigarettes and liquor. STORY
While I'm on the subject of the different parties looking for votes, isn't it telling that Democrats are actively courting and trying to make it easier for felons, illegal aliens and vagrants to vote while Republicans do the same for people of faith and the military?
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June 29, 2005
The case for reforming PBS and NPR
Read what the state-supported National Public Radio White House correspondent David Green writes about President Bush's Ft. Bragg speech. STORY It is precisely the reason Corporation for Public Broadcasting chairman Ken Tomlinson is demanding balace from a media outlet funded by United States taxpayer dollars.
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Newspaper columnist promises to burn US flag
Linda Grist Cunningham, a columnist for the Rockford (Illinois) Register Star thinks the flag burning amendment is a waste of time and will burn one for herself if it passed. Is it any wonder a recent poll revealed that Americans have found newspapers to be increasingly anti-American?
She also launches into a defense of Dick Durbin's indefensible remarks, saying they were taken out of context. STORY
Durbin took a shot at people like myself on CNN Inside Politics, “Well, I think there were a lot of critic who's tried to blow my remarks up as much as they could, and to run them in some aspects of our press over and over and over again. I think they bear some responsibility, too. That speech might never have been noticed but for that activity on that side of the media.”
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Can it be yet another newspaper circulation scandal?
There is news of yet another alleged newspaper scandal, this time involving the Minneapolis Star Tribune. STORY The Marxist-leaning rag is accused of cheating advertisers by inflating circulation numbers.
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No Iraq-9/11 connections?
Liberals hate to be reminded of 9/11, because it upsets their "Kumbaya" world-view of "peace, love and rock and roll." They refuse to believe there are vicious killers with a murderous ideology out there, that is, besides Evangelical Christians and the United States military.
President Bush continues to make reference to 9/11 to remind everyone how life changed on that day and that everything we do must be seen through that lens. Liberals are howling that there were no connections betweeen Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Osama bin Laden and 9/11. Oh really? Andrew McCarthy has a piece at National Review Online that notes plenty of forgotten and unexplored possibilities. STORY
What is really troubling is that there is absolutely no media curiousity about any of this. Now back to the Downing Street Memos and more Koran flushing stories!
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CNN anchor swipes trademarked phrase for Bush bash
After President Bush spoke about the war in Iraq Tuesday night, CNN anchor Aaron Brown used my trademarked phrase (about Harry Reid and Hillary Clinton) "Divorced from reality®" as the set-up for his report. TRANSCRIPT
BROWN: "Politicians, we think, by their nature, want us to see things as all black or all white. Progress is being made. The president is divorced from reality. Take your pick, one or the other."
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FEC fines House member for illegal campaign contributions
What? This isn't about Tom DeLay? Illinois Democrat Lane Evans is fined $185,000 by the Federal Election Commission for receiving illegal campaign contributions from labor unions. STORY
And the networks news stories about this are where?
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Just what the White House press corps needs: more liberals!
New York University journalism professor Jay Rosen is calling on liberal author Norman Mailer to join the White House press corps. STORY
Let's check the scorecard: conservative Gannon out, two liberal bloggers in. That's the answer to the awful news coverage coming out of the White House - more liberals!
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Gannon a prophet?
Aw, shucks! As much as I appreciate the compliment, a majority of American voters have been saying the same thing for the past few elections. STORY
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FEC to decide who is a journalist?
Back when McCain-Feingold campaign finance "reform" was being pushed through the Congress by Goerge Soros-backed groups, true civil libertarians warned that things like this could happen. The Federal Election Commission is holding hearings that may regulate political speech on the internet. STORY
It's time to go back to the First Amendment.
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June 28, 2005
Senate Democrats in quagmire on Bolton nomination
The White House has Senate Democrats over a barrel with the nomination of John Bolton to be Ambassador to the United Nations. Last week, Harry Reid & Co. thought it had a win when Majority Leader Bill Frist announced that there would be no more attempts at cloture after the most recent effort to get an up-or-down vote failed. But following a lunch meeting at the White House, the Republican leader awkwardly reversed course. Clearly, a plan was underway to not only make sure Bolton would be dispatched to New York, but that Democrats would suffer a political price for their partisan opposition.
The Senate minority leadership has tried to “Bork” President Bush’s choice for the UN in order to assert its relevance in the governing process that voters have withdrawn from them in ever greater proportions in the last three elections. It blathers on about principled opposition, but the case barely passes the laugh test. The first objection was that Bolton abused subordinates. If that were sufficient to disqualify someone from public service, then the emasculating, lamp-throwing former First Lady should forget about her presidential aspirations.
There was a charge that Bolton “unfairly” tried to get an analyst reassigned, but that was a non-starter. Democrats finally decided to hold out for the names of intelligence personnel contained in various “intercepts.” It began with 7 names then expanded to 36. Both the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Intelligence Committee reviewed the documents and said that there is no basis for the allegations of misconduct.
The White House is refusing to release the information to the full Senate and is claiming Democrats are “moving the goalposts.” It continues to call for a confirmation vote, but won’t be disappointed if cloture fails once again. The minority faces a dilemma: It can stand fast with the filibuster after which the President would make a recess appointment during the Independence Day holiday or capitulate and give the up-or-down vote. Either way, Bolton will represent the United States at the UN. Democrats have to decide how they want to lose.
If they cave in and allow an up-or-down vote, the last vestige of their perceived influence in the Senate would evaporate. It would also inflame the Democratic base that keeps pressing for greater resistance to the Republican majority. That’s why it won’t happen.
Instead, the next cloture vote will be great political drama. Both sides will take to the floor, Republicans appealing for fairness and Democrats wailing about “minority rights” and “advise and consent.” With every single senator casting a vote, cloture will be defeated, and the President will make a recess appointment. The Democrats will have another round of wailing after Bush gives Bolton the job, but public opinion on this one will come down on the side of majority rule, despite the bleating of the liberal media.
Moreover, the Democrats will have given Karl Rove all that he needs moving toward the 2006 mid-term elections. His remarks last week had Democrats scrambling to deny that they are weak on security issues, but the debacle they created with the Bolton nomination has put them in precisely that spot. Democrats will have put partisan politics above national security by keeping the UN post vacant during a critical point in the global war on terror.
The Democrats have painted themselves into a corner on this one and the ramifications are even more profound when observed a broader context. The chastened minority will have little desire to suffer the same humiliation on a larger scale when a Supreme Court vacancy occurs. An agitated base will turn on the impotent leadership, a spectacle worth watching.
It’s “game over” before the coin-toss, the evil genius has done it again.
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June 27, 2005
Another Old Media meltdown
Marv Essary at ChronWatch.com reports on the latest media scandal that he says may dwarf Jayson Blair. Diana Griego Erwin, formerly a columnist for The Sacramento Bee recently resigned after a preliminary investigation of her work revealed that "43 cases in which individuals named by the writer could not be authenticated as real people." A subsequent inquiry suggests hundreds of similar incident of fraud over a 12-year period.
The newspaper said that the liberal writer's work escaped scrutiny for such a long time because of her "elevated status as a columnist and her journalistic credentials."
Jayson Blair and Jack Kelley were products of the journalism school at University of Maryland and Stephen Glass was a reporter for the newspaper of Ivy League Penn. There you have it, journalism credentials are important to keep frauds, fakes and phonies out of a well-respected profession.
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Hillary supresses media coverage of critical book
Sen. Hillary Clinton recently criticized the mainstream press for not being more aggressive. But she doesn't want that same press to pay any attention to a best-selling book that is critical of her. Her efforts to keep the author, Ed Klein off the air has been revealed.
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Bias exposed by Rove v. Durbin
Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post has a comparison of coverage on the statements of White House political advisor Karl Rove who suggested that liberals were weak in their response to the 9/11 attacks and Illinois Democratic Whip Sen. Dick Durbin who likened the behavior of U. S. soldiers guarding terrorists at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis.
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June 26, 2005
Boston Globe sees Republican infighting over judges
Charlie Savage, a reporter for the Boston Globe, which last year was a major cheerleader for hometown boy John Kerry, writes an article headlined: "GOP rift looms over high court nominations."
This bogus story is a "divide and conquer strategy" from the liberal playbook which demonizes conservative Christians. The most laughable line in what reads like a parody piece is: "Now, many conservatives fear the religious right could hurt the party's cause by using faith-based arguments about abortion, same-sex marriage, and the separation of church and state to promote a Supreme Court nominee." And who does he rely on for this information? Ralph Neas, from the left-wing People for the American Way!
Sorry Charlie, all conservatives, whether Evangelicals or not, want a judicial nominee that will strictly interpret the Constitution.
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NYT's Rich bemoans decline of liberal hold on media
Frank Rich shows that he hasn't lost his taste for liberal Kool-Aid in a piece where he sees a vast right wing conspiracy trying to take over the media. Of course he still refers to Jeff Gannon as "fake" reporter even though that accusation has been disproved.
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Newspaper industry journal spins growing public mistrust
Editor & Publisher is trying to positively spin the results of a new poll that shows an increase in the negative perception of newspapers. Readers surveyed noted more bias and anti-American sentiment than in past years. Most stunning: 40% said that newspapers were too critical of America. That number is probably skewed by the New York Times alone.
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June 24, 2005
This is who Rove is talking about
In case you forgot and the Old Media neglects to remind you, this is who Karl Rove is talking about. MEMORY LANE
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June 23, 2005
Today Show marriage contest will include gay couples
Bowing to threats of discrimination lawsuits, NBC's Today Show has announced a change in its rules to allow all same-sex couples to compete in its wedding contest. STORY
Matt and Katie could soon be presiding over the first nationally televised gay marriage, which it has themed "Today Throws a Hometown Wedding."
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Dems outraged by Rove remarks
Democrats are all in a lather about Karl Rove's remarks to the New York Conservative Party. He said, "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers."
Never once did associate that quote with the Democratic Party, but he did single out MoveOn.org, Michael Moore, Howard Dean. Democrats have no reason to be outraged, because Rove is right.
Read the speech and be enlightened. TRANSCRIPT
For once, Republicans didn't back down in the face of the shrieks of outrage from Democrats and their Old Media amplifiers. One of the loudest voices was Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was demanding repudiation and resignation.
But fellow New Yorkers took on the former First Lady. Newsday reported that Rep. Peter King said, "Karl Rove deserves a medal. Hillary Clinton, she's the one who went to the floor of the Senate and implied President Bush knew about Sept. 11 and let it happen."
Governor George Pataki noted that Clinton hadn't voiced similar outrage over recent controversial comments from Democrats, including national chairman Howard Dean's disparaging remarks about Republicans and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin's invocation of Nazis and Soviet gulags in a speech about the U.S. military installation at Guantanamo Bay.
He said, "I think it's a little hypocritical of Senator Clinton to call on me to repudiate a political figure's comments when she never asked Senator Durbin to repudiate his comments."
Pataki added, "Senator Clinton might think about her propensity to allow outrageous statements from the other side that are far beyond political dialogue - insulting every Republican, comparing our soldiers to Nazis or Soviet gulag guards - and never protesting when she serves with them."
Democrats don't get upset when you compare American troops to Nazis, but are apoplectic when you suggest that liberals are weak in fighting terrorism.
So who is it that has been marching in the streets for the last two years protesting the U. S. presence in Afghanistan and Iraq?
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June 21, 2005
"K Street Memos" may exonerate DeLay
The New York Times is reporting that documents from a Seattle law firm contain information that shows that in 1996 lawyers for the House Ethics Committee advised that it was "propbably legal" for them to arrange the kind of trips that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been criticized for. STORY
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Durbin silent on real torture in Iraq
Dick Durbin and his liberal supporters continue to wring their hands about alleged abuse committed against terror detainees at the hands of American troops at Guantanamo Bay. The Illinois Democrat is in hot water because of the comparision he drew to the horrors of totalitarian regimes. No matter what is going on at Gitmo, it pales in comparison to what terrorists in Iraq are doing to kidnapped civilians. STORY
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Frist demands Durbin apologize for troops insult
Majority Leader Bill Frist is calling on Minority Whip Dick Durbin to apologize for remarks he made on the Senate floor that compared the actions of American solidiers guarding terrorists at Guantanamo Bay to the the tyranny of Pol Pot, Stalin and Hitler.
A spokesman for Minority Leader Harry Reid complained that Frist's letter was released to the media before it was delivered to the Democratic leader. He seems to be upset that the Republicans have adopted one of their favorite techniques. STORY
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Hateful leftist bloggers exposed
Clear Politics has insightful commentary on how the bloggers on the Left showed just what they were all about in their reckless pursuit of Gannongate. STORY There is also a related piece about journalism ethics. STORY
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June 20, 2005
Recess appointment appears likely as minority balks again
The comity and spirit of cooperation the Gang of Fourteen promised as a result of the deal to stop judicial filibusters has been shattered by continued political wrangling over the nomination of John Bolton to be Ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton would be confirmed and on his way to New York City if the Democratic minority had not prevented an up-or-down vote yesterday.
Bloomberg News manages to avoid any mention of Democratic obstruction in its headline about Monday's cloture vote: Republicans Fail to Gain Senate Vote on Bolton Nomination to UN. At least the Washington Post gets it right: Democrats Block Vote on Bolton
For several years the Democrats have been beefing about a lack of diplomacy, but now are determined to keep the seat at the United Nations vacant. It is already known that they don't want reform of the international body and futher investigation into the oil-for-food scandal, but this filibuster is simply more obstruction of the President's agenda.
Observe how quickly the Old Media started to spin that Bush is already a lame duck. But it's just business as usual in what used to be called the "Daschle dead zone." Look for a recess appointment and a push for 60 Republican senators in 2006.
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The Silence of the Jackals
Nearly three weeks ago, I appeared on the PAX-TV reality program, “Lie Detector” where I agreed to submit to a polygraph test and have the results revealed during the broadcast. The question to be answered was if I had been planted in the White House press corps by the Bush administration. This is the only relevant issue in the entire episode now known as Gannongate.
Former network news reporter and “Inside Edition” weekend anchor Rolonda Watts hosts the show. A world-renowned polygraph expert, Dr. Ed Gelb, who counts among his previous subjects such notables as John and Patsy Ramsey, and former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman, conducts the test.
Several news outlets noted that I would be in the hot seat, including the Chicago Tribune and Editor & Publisher. Mike Duffy, television critic for the Detroit Free Press, prejudged the outcome in a particularly nasty piece. The polygraph test determined that I was telling the truth about my role as an independent journalist. The allegation that I was a plant was disproved.
Yet not a single media outlet reported the results. Not Dotty Lynch of CBS who suggested a Karl Rove-Jeff Gannon connection, nor Howard Kurtz or Dan Froomkin of the Washington Post who have written about me extensively of the past few months. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews made no mention of it either. Michael Isikof, who interviewed me for Newsweek wasn’t interested in a follow up. The New York Times’ Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd similarly ignored my vindication. In fact, there has been a complete media blackout of hard evidence that refutes the central point of an alleged scandal.
But anyone writing about Jeff Gannon in the future will need to forgo using terms like “plant” and “shill” as well as “fake,” “phony”, “faux” and “fraud.” I was a real reporter and remain a real journalist.
In response to accusations from Reps. John Conyers and Louise Slaughter, the General Accounting Office ruled last week that I didn’t violate a federal propaganda law. This too, has gone unreported. But nonetheless, “propagandist” must also be dropped from the list of words to describe me. Jeff Gannon can no longer be associated with some liberal conspiracy theory about media manipulation.
Instead, the Gannongate legacy will be an example of 21st century McCarthyism waged against a journalist by the very same people who perpetually decry such tactics. When my name is invoked it will be to represent the politics of personal destruction being used against a reporter. Furious attacks came from liberal media activists desperately trying to preserve what has long been an exclusive franchise, the White House press corps. A conservative journalist in the briefing room could not be tolerated.
For the record, I resigned from my position as a White House correspondent after threats were made against my person, property and family. Those threats stopped, but the stalking by the nameless, faceless activists continued for weeks and is still in progress on the internet. Oddly enough, the same people who complain that the Patriot Act violates privacy rights and civil liberties had no problem illegally obtaining personal information about me and posting it online. Now my social security number, some medical records, financial information and private, personal correspondence is all floating around in cyberspace.
Sadly, the unintended consequence of Gannongate is that open season has been declared on journalists of every stripe. The chilling effect on a free press that liberals are always shrieking about has actually been brought to a new level by their own overzealous pursuit of a scandal that didn’t and doesn’t exist.
Gannongate is the story of the political takedown of a journalist. Liberal activists are proud to have bagged a chipmunk, as Jonah Goldberg observed. But in the process they have lost far more than they have gained. They demonstrated how easily they shed their high principles whenever it benefits their agenda. Few will sympathize with them when the tables are turned and the target of the witch-hunt is one of them.
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June 19, 2005
Hagel infringes - and is wrong about Iraq
Presidential hopeful Sen. Chuck Hagel says that the United States is losing the war in Iraq. On that point he is simply flat out wrong, but he comes very close to infringing on my trademarked phrase "divorced from reality."
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MSNBC helping Byrd to bleach his sheets
Facing the toughest re-election campaign of his career, former Ku Klux Klan recruiter Sen. Robert Byrd is looking to the eager liberal media to sanitize his racist past. The West Virginia Democrat wants voters to view his membership in the deadliest hate group in American history as a combination of "youthful indiscretion" and political oppotunism.
So the explanation is that he only pretended to be a racist because it would help his political career. Alrighty, then - that works.
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Sean Penn: fake journalist convering a fake election
Armed with no jouralism experience whatsoever, actor Sean Penn reports events from Tehran. Mike's America and The People's Cube have the details.
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Be careful what you wish for
The advocates for terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay will be pleased to learn that complaints about conditions are being addressed. Halliburtion has been awarded a $30 million contract to build an air-conditioned facility. STORY
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June 16, 2005
Durbin's comments seen through the wisdom of the ages
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. "For the traitor appears not a traitor – he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear." – Marcus Tullius Cicero 42 B.C
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Seattle PTA leader pushes anti-military agenda, dumber schools
The following stories are all related. The first is an article about a Seattle senior high school class with 44 valedictorians. One of the honorees suggests it is due to "egregious grade inflation"' while an education professor points out that fear of litigation prevents schools from recognizing only one or two students as the very best. Administration officials say that their kids are "super achievers."
Take note that the mother of one of the cluster of 4.0 students is Dr. Amy Hagopian, co-president of the Garfield High School Parent-Teacher-Student Association. She is also the key figure in this New York Times editorial by Leftist Bob Herbert about her anti-military activism.
Hagopian she has produced this gem of a son and is undoubtedly using her position as an "educator" to further her political agenda. Her opponents complain that she rigged the vote in support of a resolution to ban recruiters from campus.
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June 15, 2005
Terri Schiavo died of thirst
The results of the autopsy on Terri Schiavo doesn't change the fact the she was purposefully denied water so that she would die. That is what this is all about. Too bad she wasn't at the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, where she would have been force fed and hydrated.
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Hillary retreats into no-press zone
What she really meant when she challenged reporters to ask tough questions was to ask them of others. STORY
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Hear the piggy squeal!
The New York Times has resorted to pointing to pork in the federal budget to argue against proposed cuts in funding the Public Broadcasting System. To conservatives, the taxpayer supported liberal radio and television programming is the ultimate example of wasteful government spending. The out-of-touch liberal elites haven't quite come to understand that they no longer control the nation's pursestrings. They further demonstrate their arrogance by resisting efforts to reform PBS programming to reflect the political balance in the United States.
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The most selfish generation continues to undermine America
The anti-war crowd that turned America against the war in Vietnam is trying to influence another generation to be as selfish as they are: their children. STORY
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Gay marriage in the ranks
Gay activists are celebrating another milestone advancing their agenda. STORY
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June 14, 2005
This is torture?
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Duncan Hunter released a statement about the "gulag of our time." It makes me wonder if the Left and its handmaidens in the Old Media be any more helpful in undermining the war on terror. Check out the miserable menu!
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Sean Penn laments: Saddam treated me better
Just because you're anti-American it doesn't mean our enemies will embrace you. STORY
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Love that Dick Cheney
Vice President Dick Cheney was at the National Press Club on Monday to present the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Awards. Notable is not who got awards, but who did not. I'm sure the assembled elites choked on their cheesecake during the Q & A session when he spoke about Gitmo and the war on terror. He also got off a great line about excellence in journalism. STORY
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And that makes CBS what?
DNC Chairman Howard Dean lashed out at the #1 cable news network in a speech in Chicago on Sunday. He said, "My view is FOX News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don't comment on FOX News." Does that make CBS the Democrats' public relations firm? STORY
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Only hostile questions to Republican presidents allowed
Liberal media elites are howling about the Fox News inverview Neil Cavuto did with President Bush last week. Another instance of the first rule of Washington journalism: Every question to ANYONE in the Bush administration, especially the President must be hostile or accuasatory. After all, Democrats still need those sound bites...STORY
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June 13, 2005
Funny liberals with pen and paper
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No surprise Felt daughter a far-out liberal
Mark "Deep Throat" Felt's daughter Joan was in a California cult and bears an eerie resemblance to Jane Fonda. STORY You can't make this stuff up!
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Gitmo detainees fed better than American troops
Rep. Duncan Hunter is leading the pushback against the "blame-America-first" crowd complaining about the conditions at Guantanamo Bay. It's about time somebody introduced some reality into the discussion.
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Hard Left claiming 9/11 was "inside job"
I love to read things like this: STORY
Anyone paying attention would know why the Democrats are the minority party in this country since much of its base believes nonsense like this.
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Conyers to step up effort to undermine war on terror
Democratic Rep. John Conyers has grasped onto the latest conspiracy theory called the "Downing Street Memo." The Hard Left believes this document will bring down the Bush administration. Of course, that's what they thought about the phony CBS documents. The headline witness for a mock-hearing will be former Ambassador Joe Wilson, who was thoroughly discredited by the Senate Intelligence Committee report last year. It will be the first time Wilson has been heard from since he was dropped from the Kerry campaign.
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Send detainees to U. S. prisons
Let's give the terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay and their anti-American allies what they want. Close the facility down and put the inmates into the general population in prisons across the United States. On the flight from Cuba to their new cells show them clips from HBO's award-winning series Oz. STORY
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June 12, 2005
Media meltdowns: Different rules for conservatives
The journalism community is up in arms over the aggressive conduct of Fox News' Brian Wilson at the media availabilty with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and DNC Chairman Howard Dean on Thursday. The Washington Post reporter involved in the incident also wrote the article about it. STORY
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June 11, 2005
Democrats' "No UN Left Behind Act"
Rep. Henry Hyde has put together a bill that would tie the performance of the United Nations to the tax dollars the United States provides to it.
Of course, House Democrats have a weaker version of the proposed legislation. STORY
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"Human rights" group silent on China crackdown
Amnesty International is so busy threatening American officials about terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay that it is ignoring (or worse, supporting) the persecution of Christians in China, where they actually do have gulags.
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Liberal PBS may need to get more private funding
Newsmax is reporting that the free lunch for liberals on the airwaves may be over soon or at least will be dished out in much smaller portions. The taxpayer funded programming may have to compete for viewer dollars by actually offering something people want to watch.
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Bush approval rating higher than journalists
Every other day, Old Media types gleefully report that President George W. Bush's approval ratings keep getting lower. Some of them point out that Congress isn't faring much better. What they never mention is that their own ratings are lower than both!
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Gannon is impeachment reason #19
Have a drink, click here and read something truly delusional.
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June 10, 2005
GAO rules Gannongate did not violate propaganda law
The General Accounting Office told House morons Rep. John Conyers and Rep. Louise Slaughter that Gannongate did not violate a federal propaganda law. More vindication! LETTER
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The easy judges confirmed, now the real battle begins
The judicial nominees that were part of the deal that the "Gang of Fourteen" negotiated to avoid triggering the "constitutional option" have now received up-or-down votes and been confirmed. But there are several nominees still waiting. William Myers is opposed by environmentalists and Brett Kavanaugh is being targeted as payback for his work with Ken Starr. A third nominee, Henry Saad, is being opposed on the basis of information contained in a confidential FBI file on him. Harry Reid, got into an ethics jam for mentioning the classified report on the Senate floor.
It will be interesting to see how Democrats will manage to leak this information to the press.
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Absurdity International
Last week it was revealed that the allegedly non-partisan "human rights" group, Amnesty International was lead by a cadre that gave campaign contributions to John Kerry last year. Now, the organization continues to prove itself to be anti-Bush, anti-American and pro-terrorist.
Newsmax has the story of how Amnesty International assisted a 9/11 attack planner to be released from custody in Jordan.
In it's report that called the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, the "gulag of our times" it also warned U. S. officials that they may face arrest and prosecution when travelling to foreign countries.
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June 09, 2005
Reporter "Gannonized" as he closes in on "anonymous" source
David Collins, a veteran reporter for Baltimore's WBAL-TV has come under attack in the form of an anonymous letter sent to the editor of the Baltimore City Paper. Collins has been investigating the curious case of a former staffer to Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich allegedly spreading rumors in an internet discussion website about Baltimore mayor Martin O'Malley.
The accusations come as Collins is closing in on the identity of a person using the screen name MD4BUSH who appeared to be provoking former Ehrlich aide Joe Steffen into discussion of the rumors.
WBAL-TV'S coverage of MD4BUSH-gate
Steffen was fired after the Washington Post published an article exposing the internet postings. The original story emerged nearly simultaneously with the postings, suggesting a coordinated effort between a Democratic operative and a Washington Post reporter or a reporter posing as MD4BUSH in order to entrap Steffen.
The Washington Post has denied knowing the identity of MD4BUSH, but recently reiterated its policy about anonymous sources in the wake of "Deep Throat" coming forward after three decades. On Wednesday, the paper carried a story about anonymous sourcing.
Stephen Spruiell at the National Review Online has recreated the timeline of the story.
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June 08, 2005
Deaniacs throw Biden overboard
When Sen. Joe Biden distanced himself from Screamin' Howard Dean on Sunday, the Hard Left decided to heap on the Delaware senator. His criticism of the DNC chair's injudicious remarks combined with an association with me many years ago seems to much to bear. Check out the lefty blogs to see the venom aimed at Biden that is usually reserved for Republicans or conservative journalists. No link is provided, do your own Google search!
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Daschle gets gay leadership award
Former Sen. Tom Daschle will be honored June 13 in New York City at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Leadership Awards. He is being hailed as "the architect of the defeat of the Federal Marriage Amendment." The voters of South Dakota hailed him for that, too.
Sen. Charles Schumer will be the keynote speaker at the event.
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Democrat compare Iraq war to Holocaust
House Democrat Charles Rangel made a comparison between the war in Iraq and the Holocaust to a radio talk show host. He tried to make a convoluted analogy that simply defies logic. Sorry Charlie, no matter how much you try to spin, it's still idiotic and it demeans the victims of the Holocaust. STORY
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June 07, 2005
Hillary shows her Hard Left roots
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton took a break from her relentless drive toward the political center to remind the Democrats’ radical base that she is still one of them. The New York Times and the Washington Post carried fawning reports of the feisty former First Lady. It almost seems like Clinton wants to steal some of the headlines Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean has been getting for his incendiary remarks about Republicans.
She mouthed the mantra of the Left that includes complaints about abuse of power and a docile media. One choice quote, "It is very hard to stop people who have never been acquainted with the truth," came dangerously close infringing on my trademarked phrase about her and Harry Reid, "Divorced From Reality™"
The money quote is her rhetorical question, "I know it's frustrating for many of you; it's frustrating for me: Why can't the Democrats do more to stop them?" Mrs. Clinton, they're called voters.
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Illegal votes won't void Washington election
Republican Dino Rossi has given up his bid to overturn the results of the 2004 election that his Democratic opponent, Christine Gregoire won after three counts. During the course of the trial, it was discovered that 1,678 felons illegally voted. But that wasn't enough to convince the judge to void the election that the Democrat won by 129 votes. STORY
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Liberals want Pope disinvited to support Live 8
Anti-religion liberals (yes, I am aware of the redundancy) want Live 8 organizer Bob Geldof to disinvite the support of Pope Benedict XVI. The head of the Catholic church, that does more charitable work around the world than every government combined, has yet to comment. STORY
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Liberal journos defend 'heroic' Felt
It's fascinating to watch the liberal journalism establishment try to shield W. Mark Felt, the quintessential anonymous source from any criticism. They downplay the fact that Felt was convicted of running his own breaking and entering operations during his FBI career. STORY
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June 06, 2005
Democrats running to right in PA, Nebraska
Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, a red-state Democratic incumbent, is sounding more Republican every day. He is pro-life, pro-gun and against gay marriage. So too, is Robert Casey, the Democrat challenging Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum. Maybe these two have finally figured out how to win elections: adopt Republican positions! STORY
It's got to be tough for the radical gays and feminists not to have either candidate in these key races support their agenda.
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Daschle touts victimhood to fundraise in Virginia
Tom Daschle, who got the boot from the voters of South Dakota last November, is blaming a Republican smear campaign for his defeat. In a fundraising appeal for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Tim Kaine, he laments that Republicans have made politics "very personal."
This comes from the guy who ran a Sopranos-style political machine in his former home state. STORY
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