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Wednesday, April 28th, 2004I’ve never watched American Idol.
I don’t care about the show.
Hell, I don’t even know much about it beyond its basic concept.
Okay, so it’s like a Star Search reality show where viewers vote for their favorite person.
Woopeee.
Why is it I am not surprised that the Race Card has been played with this show because of a black contestant being voted off the show?
Singing legend Elton John this week joined the chorus of voices decrying “American Idol” as racist.
John criticized the talent show’s voting process, carried out not by the trio of on-air judges but by the American viewing public.
“The three people I was really impressed with — and they just happened to be black, young female singers — all seem to be landing in the bottom three,” the British singer said Tuesday during a promotional appearance for his concert at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
Okay, just because Elton is enthralled by the coincidentally black, young female singers, that means that if the general public disagrees with Sir Elton then by golly, they must be racist pigs pulling for whitey.
Give me a break.
I’m so glad Elton John is one of the annoited few who has such a politically correct perspective that he’s pulling for the three black singers.
I’m sick of this Race Card business. Perhaps America should just vote for the minorities because that’s the nice thing to do? Maybe it’s just politically correct to do that, or maybe people just can’t stand the tought of being called a racist.
Whatever.
In the game of life, people win, people lose, sometimes you have to lose, regardless of the color of your skin. Lose with some dignitiy instead of whining.
It’s Wictory Wednesday
Wednesday, April 28th, 2004Among John Kerry’s laughable attempts to mislead the American voter have been his claims to have voted for and against funding for our troops in Iraq, his claim that he doesn’t own an SUV, even though his “family” owns one, and his recent attempt to explain away the 1971 tape where he claimed to have thrown away his medals.
John Kerry as president would make Bill Clinton seem like a model of probity. He is not the sort of leader our country can afford in these times.
Today is Wictory Wednesday. Every Wednesday, dozens of bloggers ask their readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush 2004 campaign.
If you’re a blogger, you can join Wictory Wednesdays simply by putting up a post like this one every Wednesday, asking your readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush campaign. And then e-mail wictory@blogsforbush.com so that you’ll be added to the Wictory Wednesday blogroll, which will be part of the Wictory Wednesday post on all participating blogs:
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John Kerry DBunking John Kerry
Monday, April 26th, 2004Power Line Blog has discovered that John Kerry’s website, specifically his “DBunker” page on his Vietnam medals, was altered to omit the following phrase
“John Kerry is proud of the work he did to end the Vietnam War, and he has been consistent about the facts and the symbolism of the medal-returning ceremony.”
Believe it! He has screenshots! (I’ve placed them on B4B’s server to save Power Line’s bandwidth)
Screenshot of page taken at 9:50 am.
Screenshot of page taken at 10:26 am.
Power Line notes that “[b]ecause major media have featured this page, the implications of this should be huge.”
I say it should be huge not only because of that, but because with this revision, the Kerry campaign is conceding that John Kerry has been inconsistent. John Kerry has DBunked himself!
Thanks to Jake for the tip!
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Cross posted on Blogs For Bush.
Worse Than John Kerry?
Saturday, April 24th, 2004I had a feeling this story wasn’t going to die yet:
Democrats are furious about a statement by Republicans saying that comparing one of their candidates to presidential candidate John Kerry would be worse than comparing someone to the Ku Klux Klan.
The dispute started when The New York Times inadvertently published a photo of Republican Senate candidate Pete Coors above a story about a KKK member who murdered a black sharecropper. The Times published a correction Saturday.
Cinamon Watson, spokeswoman for Coors, said the error was “so outrageous it’s kind of funny. It could have been worse. Pete could have been identified as John Kerry.”
I do have to say, it was a pretty stupid comment by Ms. Watson. I’m sure it was an on-the-spot remark trying to get a quick jab at Kerry - however, I think that other opportunities would have presented themselves in the future.
Granted, I certainly wouldn’t want to be “identified as John Kerry” but given the context of the situation, a comment like that wasn’t going to unnoticed. The Democrats certainly took the bait:
Chris Gates, chairman of the Colorado Democratic Party, demanded an apology. He said Democrats are “out there campaigning positively on the issues, and the Republicans can’t help but resort to the lowest level of insult and name-calling.”
Kerry spokesman Phil Singer said the comment was “the kind of thing people hate about politics.”
I also wouldn’t want to be identified as Chris Gates, because he is clearly a moron. For one thing, if the Kerry campaign wants to demand an apology let them do it. This wasn’t a jab at the Democrat Party, it was just aimed the neanderthal they have as their presidential nominee. - or let Senator Robert Byrd, former KKK member, demand an apology - after all, its his former club that was being bashed right?
Second, where does Gates get the idea that Democrats are “out there campaigning positively on the issues?”
Positive? Issues? Since when have the Democrats had anything to do with either of these two words?
Bush and Republicans Have Strong Voice On The Internet
Saturday, April 24th, 2004Many people think the powers of the Internet have only been harness by the Democrats. Well, they are wrong:
The GOP’s underreported e-campaign may lack the media razzle-dazzle of the Deaniac phenomenon, but it promises to leave no less a mark on the annals of political campaign history. It all comes down to a difference in style and strategy. For Howard Dean, the Internet was a way for the people to take back the Democratic Party. His e-campaign had all the creative fervor and chaos of Woodstock on servers, but it failed in the end to maintain its candidate’s early momentum. For George W. Bush, the Internet is a potent tactical weapon and his aides intend to wield it with party discipline and order to November 2 and beyond.
This article goes into some detail about the differences between how Democrats and Republicans utilize the Internet.
“If you step back and think about the past century of political activity there is a common pattern,” Ken Mehlman, Bush’s campaign manager, told Internet strategists at a recent gathering. “Whichever party or whichever candidate masters the latest political communications technology has tended to be the party or candidate that is successful.” Beginning in 1999 with just 17,000 e-mail addresses, the Republican Party now has more than 6 million e-mail addresses, triple the size of the Democratic National Committee’s database. The GOP has also signed up a half million interested volunteers on its Web site, who receive chatty notes from party leaders several times a week. The GOP Web site’s campaign loyalty program — called “Team Leader” — allows volunteers to collect points for writing a letter or soliciting a new party member that can be redeemed for coffee mugs or golf caps emblazoned with the party logo.
After getting into the efforts of the Dean campaign, the article goes into Kerry’s Internet efforts:
The John Kerry campaign is far more strait-laced than the Deaniacs, but it does emulate some elements of Dean’s sprawling e-campaign. Kerry staffers are currently talking to stalwarts of the Dean campaign about joining them. Kerry also just signed up Moveon.org activist Zack Exley, who is expected to bring the same brand of satirical humor to the Kerry Internet campaign that he brought to his anti-Republican Web site, GWBush.com.
Read the entire article. Between what the article reveals, and our efforts here at Blogs For Bush, it’s safe to say that Bush beats Kerry on the Internet any day.
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Cross posted at Blogs For Bush
USA Today/CNN/Gallup: Bush Leads Kerry 51% to 46%
Monday, April 19th, 2004Generally speaking, I don’t like being concerned about polls at this stage of a campaign.
However, I have to say considering the events of the past few weeks, I was pleasantly shocked at the results of the latest USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll:
President Bush’s lead over Democrat John Kerry has widened a bit in a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll despite two weeks that have been dominated by a deteriorating security situation in Iraq and criticism of his administration’s handling of the terrorism threat before the Sept. 11 attacks.
The survey, taken Friday through Sunday, showed Bush leading Kerry 51% to 46% among likely voters, slightly wider than the 3-point lead he held in early April. The shifts were within the margin of error of +/ 4 percentage points in the sample of likely voters. (Complete poll results)
Bush’s approval rating is also holding steady at 52%. Considering the huge media blitz aimed at blemishing Bush’s presidency, I think this particular poll says a lot for George W. Bush, as well as reflects poorly on John Kerry.
The way I see things, the key difference betwen Bush supporters and Kerry supporters is that more people who back Bush stand firmly behind his presidency and candidacy. Many of those who have been positioning themselves with Kerry are more anti-Bush, than pro-Kerry. Kerry’s support now is largely from former Dean supporters who feel obligated to vote for Kerry, despite their previous distaste for him.
Other findings of the poll:
- Bush holds an advantage over Kerry in handling the situation in Iraq, but there are qualms about what the president is doing there. By 49% to 48%, those surveyed say they disapprove of the job Bush is doing in handling Iraq. On handling the economy, a 52% majority disapproves of Bush. But he receives a 60% approval rating on handling terrorism.
- The public is split, 50% to 48%, over whether Bush does a good or poor job of explaining his policies. Though Bush’s support didn’t erode with sobering news from Iraq, Zogby noted that it also didn’t rise with his rare prime-time news conference last week. Major appearances by a president often give his standing a bump.
- More than six in 10 voters say Bush and Kerry understand the major issues facing the country. But Bush is given more credit for being straightforward: 56% agree that Bush “means what he says and says what he means.” Forty-four percent say the same of Kerry.
- Kerry’s favorable-unfavorable rating is little changed, at 54% to 37%.
- Independent candidate Ralph Nader draws 4% when he is included in the candidate match-up, taking support disproportionately from Kerry.
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Cross posted on Blogs For Bush.
From Michelle Malkin
Sunday, April 18th, 2004One of the things I haven’t told everyone yet is that after the infamous “Margolis Incident” in Boston last month, I received an e-mail from syndicated columnist and author Michelle Malkin, who wrote the book ”
Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores.” She sent me the following e-mail on Friday, March 26th::
Dear Matt -
Love your blogs. Great job protesting the anti-Bush protesters! I noticed that you just celebrated your birthday and that you have my book, Invasion, on your wish list. I’d like to send you a signed copy. [..]
Best wishes,
Michelle
This week, I received the autographed copy of “Invasion.” She wrote the following:
For Matt Margolis,
Happy Birthday & keep up the great work!
Best,
Michelle Malkin
I’d like to once again thank Michelle Malkin for sending me an autographed copy of her book. It’s great knowing that my efforts get noticed by people like her. I encourage all my visitors to check out her book:
How Does It Feel, Bitch?
Saturday, April 17th, 2004
An Israeli missile strike killed Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi as he rode in his car Saturday evening, hospital officials said. Rantisi’s son Mohammed and a bodyguard were also killed in the attack.
The militant Hamas leader was one of Israel’s top targets after it assassinated Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin in an airstrike last month.
Rantisi’s car was hit with missiles Saturday evening on the road outside his home, leaving only the burned, destroyed vehicle. After the explosion, Israeli helicopters were heard in the area.
Keep it coming, Israel! Show those terrorists what you’re made of!
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