Friday, February 20, 2004
Josh MArshall points to Bush's newly unvieled job growth package in the WAPO:
"The artificial windows revealed an inviting blue sky. Bush portrayed a similarly sunny outlook with remarks that used "optimistic" or "optimism" seven times in 49 minutes. He repeatedly stressed the power of positive thinking as an engine of job creation."
CLose your eyes and just wish really really hard!
Anatomy of a smear.
Wes Pruden, who runs the Moonie Times, is a world renouwned smear artist. In fact journalists have come to call the distortion and fabrication of news to serve a partisan purpose the act of being “prudenized”.
So obviously it was only a matter of time before he went to work on John Kerry. At issue is the accusation that has been peddled regarding Kerry “smearing” vet’s by accusing them of atrocities. Bucktoothed hag Kate O’bierene did it on Capital Gang. Now Wesley joins the fun.
And he is so blatantly and deliberately dishonest, it just rises to another level:
"They ... raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power," he told a Senate committee in 1971 when he was just home from the war, and "cut off limbs, [blew] up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam."
Miserable lies, and he never produced evidence or repudiated the lies. Americans tolerate a lot of hyperbole in election season, but stuff like this will unhorse even a Botox man.
Leaving aside the “botox” crack, which was never more than an internet rumor, and would technically if one was to be accurate, rise to the level of a “miserable lie”, look at Kerry’s quote. Gosh, you would think he had Kerry dead to rights.There he is saying unequivocally that they (meaning soldiers) raped and killed. Gosh….
Now let’s look at Kerry’s testimony without the conveniently added ellipses:
They told stories that at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Ghengis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.
So Kery was lying by saying her heard testimony from veterans describing their own actions? Can anyone prove that he did not in fact here this testimony?
Does the truth mean anything to these people?
Will I ever learn how to type correctly?
Thursday, February 19, 2004
Sometimes the depth's of my utter and complete nerdenss overwhelm even me.
My Star wars galaxies guild sell's merchandise.
I feel like the alocoholic who has just realized the depths of his problem, yet is unsure as to his next move.
So instead of buying a guild mousepad, I will instead spend the moeny this friday on a hockey game.
Baby steps.
John Ashcroft spent 12 million dollars prosecuting Tommy Chong because he sold bongs on the internet.
In other news, 3 more Americans were killed in Iraq and the debt just topped 7 trillion dollars.
Drug War Rant has a list of things 12 million dollars would have paid for.
$12 million would pay for treatment for 3,500 drug addicts for an entire year.
$12 million would pay for enough needle exchange programs to prevent 1,258 HIV infections.
Feel free to add your own.....
Tuesday, February 17, 2004
Damn. Looks Like Ron was in the Peggy Noonan chat on washingtonpost.com. Peggy got the smackdown.
St. Louis, Mo.: Will enchanted dolphins arrive in time to save President Bush's drowning Presidency like they saved Elian?
Peggy Noonan: Maybe. And maybe he won't need saving. And maybe the Democrats will. And maybe by the election you'll need saving, and perhaps some of Bush's decisions made in connection to the war on terror will save you. It's all the maybes that keep us getting up in the morning with a sense of excitement and anticipation, don't you think?
Peggy “mystical dolphins” Noonan:
Will people buy George W. Bush as a shirker and an operator? Those who hate him will. But the rest -- that would be the majority -- have watched him for three years in dramatic circumstances, and they know who he is.
They certainly do…..
Most Americans believe President Bush either lied or deliberately exaggerated evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify war, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
I ask again. It can't continue to be this easy can it?
Ed gillespie gets smacked down by Russert.
MR. RUSSERT: When the Bush campaign released the attack on the Web site that I showed Charles Rangel, the Kerry Web site responded last night. Let's watch.
(Videotape): Unidentified Narrator: Who's the politician that has taken more special interest money than anyone in history? The same one who's attacking John Kerry's record because he can't defend his own. (End videotape)
MR. RUSSERT: And this is on the whole issue of special interest money.
MR. GILLESPIE: Right.
MR. RUSSERT: The Washington Post examined the records of both men. This was their conclusion: "He Ought to Know. It's hard to recall a more brazen display of political chutzpah than the Bush campaign's assault on Sen. John F. Kerry as a captive of special interests. ..."Mr. Bush's acceptance of special-interest money and his subsequent rewards to the industries doing the giving dwarf anything in Mr. Kerry's record. ... "Of Mr. Bush's Pioneers--those who raised at least $100,000 in the 2000 campaign--21 snagged ambassadorships ... Checks from `HMOs, telecom, drug companies?' Mr. Bush has swamped Mr. Kerry in all three sectors during this campaign raking in 10 times as much from donors connected to the pharmaceutical industry and telecommunications ..." A new book out called "The Buying of the President, 2004" by the Center for Public Integrity has this page: George W. Bush Top Career Patrons. And there number one is the Enron Corporation. Attacking John Kerry on special interests, according to The Washington Post, is chutzpah by the Bush campaign.
MR. GILLESPIE: Well, let me tell you what chutzpah is, Tim, and the issue here is not special interests. Look, I think that John Kerry, you know, the contributors and supporters that he has who are, you know, the trial lawyers and the public employee unions, those are special interests by my lights. He thinks that the Chamber of Commerce and Second Amendment advocates who support the president are special interests. One candidate's supporters are another's special interests. The issue here is this is a guy who is the number-one recipient of lobbyist money in the United States Senate over the past 15 years saying he's going to drive the money changers out of the temple when he's been changing money in the temple for 19 years now.
MR. RUSSERT: Charles Rangel said the president raised more money from lobbyists in one night than John Kerry raised his entire career.
MR. GILLESPIE: I don't believe that's accurate, but I don't know. I don't...
MR. RUSSERT: No, but he also said that John Kerry has agreed to release any meeting he's had with lobbyists. Will President Bush release any meeting he's ever had with a lobbyist?
MR. GILLESPIE: I don't speak for the president, as you well know, but I do know this:
Blah blah "change the subject", blah blah "hate speech"......
Its amazing how inept they are
Ad:
Who's the politician that has taken more special interest money than anyone in history? The same one who's attacking John Kerry's record because he can't defend his own.
Gilelspie:
the issue here is not special interests.
It can't continue to be this easy, can it?
Monday, February 16, 2004
Bush on Meet the Press:
"There is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial regime of iron-clad absolutely solid evidence. The evidence I had was the best possible evidence that he had a weapon."
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."
Dick Cheney, August 26th, 2002
There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more.
Colin Powell, February 7th, 2003
