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Wednesday, May 19th, 2004Do you want to wake up on November 3, 2004, and hear that John Kerry has been elected president? How will you feel when he starts appointing ultra-liberal judges to the bench, harasses businesses, raises your taxes by vetoing the Bush tax cuts, appeases anti-American world leaders by conceding defeat to the terrorists, and appears night after night on your TV as “President Kerry?”
You can prevent this horror from happening.
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“You’re Turning Violet, Violet!”
Monday, May 17th, 2004Holy sh*t Michael Moore is getting huge…
Yes, I mean size-wise… Perhaps I’m not one to judge, but for crying out loud, the guy with the fat head has seriously ballooned… He looks like that scene from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
The resemblance is uncanny.
Kerry/McCain 2004? Not A Chance
Monday, May 17th, 2004There’s some interesting discussion over at Blogs For Bush on the subject.
Air America Has Their Panties In A Bunch
Sunday, May 16th, 2004I’m not 100% sure why Drudge thought this was news, but Air America has apparently launched an online store which, amongst other things is selling Air America thongs:
My only guess as to why this was considered newsworthy is because Drudge implied that this store was a recently launched…
…and if this store was recently launched what does that mean….
…does that mean that Air America is in real need of some money to say alive…
I think someone should send Al Franken a memo explaining that Air America thongs are not a turn on.
Police Union Endorses Kerry… Why?
Saturday, May 15th, 2004John Kerry has received an endorsement from the International Brotherhood of Police Officers (IBPO)– which backed Bush in the 2000 election. What does this mean? Not much really, because Interestingly enough, this same union also endorsed Bill Clinton back in 1992 and 1996. David Holway, who was elected President of the National Association of Government Employees (NAGE), which is the parent organization of the IBPO, in September of 2002, hails from Cambridge, MA. The union itself is based in Quincy, MA.
Take that for what its worth. John Kerry voted for the Patriot Act and is now against it. In a statement provided by the Kerry campaign, Holway, (from Cambridge, MA, by the way) said:
“After 3 1/2 years of disappointing leadership under George Bush, we need to change course in November and elect a president with a real record of supporting police officers and a lifetime of standing with law enforcement.”
But what’s the real truth?
Bernard Kerik, former NYC Police Commissioner issued the following statement regarding Kerry’s remarks to the International Brotherhood of Police Officers:
“John Kerry’s attacks on the President over his support for police and first responders are completely detached from reality. President Bush has provided unprecedented support for first responders. Under the President’s leadership, the federal government has provided more than $13 billion to state and local governments to prepare for terrorism. Last year, President Bush increased funding for the State Domestic Preparedness Program by 2,600 percent over the funding levels when he came into office. The President’s 2005 budget allocates $3.561 billion to state and local governments, an increase of $3.1 billion or 680 percent over the previous administration.
“The President has given law enforcement the tools to do their job in the Patriot Act, while John Kerry attacks the law on the campaign trail. The Patriot Act is giving federal, state and law enforcement officials the same tools to bring terrorists to justice that they have long had to investigate and prosecute organized crime. This law is critical to the ongoing War on Terror.
“John Kerry attacked the President for overemphasizing the War on Terror on the same day that Osama Bin Laden issued a new threat against the United States. The President needs no reminder that we are at war against terrorism. His steady leadership in the War on Terror is the reason that we are fighting the terrorists in Baghdad instead of Boston.”
Do these facts matter to the Kerry campaign? Probably not, after all, Kerry voted for the Patriot Act and now (as of Saturday, May 15, 2004) is speaking out against it. I guess for Kerry, law enforcement is just another “program” to throw money at. The campaign cites cuts to the COPS program, crying that it took cops off the streets, when back in 2001, the Heritage Foundation released a study on the ineffectiveness of that program, including it’s failure to reduce crime, failure to put more cops on the streets, and failure to promote effective crime-fighting strategies. If Kerry wants to fund an ineffective program instead of really fighting crime, then that’s his problem.
Browsing through Kerry’s webpage on the endorsement, I saw one claim which sparked some curiosity: ” Kerry is a National Leader in Working to Ban “Cop Killer Bullets.”
I wonder what John Kerry has to say about his wife’s financing of the Tides Foundation. Amongst many other radical left causes it supports, it also funds the National Lawyers Guild, which earlier this year posted a petition for “Post-Conviction Relief” for convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. [Hat tip to Frontpage Magazine]
Isn’t that interesting? Kerry’s wife funds an organization that supports a convicted cop-killer.
Did the IBPO know that?
Kerry can glow over this endorsement all he wants, but when he thinks funding ineffective programs and letting his wife’s money go towards supporting a cop killer, one has to question his committment to reducing crime.
Doggone It, Air America Is Going Down
Thursday, May 13th, 2004I know this is getting redundant, but once again, things just aren’t looking very good for Air America:
Air America has shut its sales offices in Los Angeles and Chicago and is recasting its business plan, the network’s president said on Wednesday as troubles beset the liberal talk show network.
With Air America not broadcasting in those two cities after a financial dispute in April, network president Jon Sinton said, “There’s not much sense in having sales offices in cities where you don’t control a station.”
About 15 to 20 people were laid off in the closing of the sales offices, the latest sign of problems for Air America, launched on March 31 as a liberal alternative to the country’s predominantly conservative talk show culture led by right-wing icons like Rush Limbaugh.
Gee, who would have thought…
Kerry Wants To Have Open Season Against Bush
Wednesday, May 12th, 2004John Kerry, putting on his “fighter front” recently told his politicial opponents to not attack his wife:
Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry warned his political opponents on Monday against attacking his outspoken wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, saying, “They’re going to have to go through me.”
Oooooooooh, Johnny, we’re so scared…
“If they want to attack her, they’re going to have to go through me. I’ll be the first to defend anything she does. … She doesn’t pull her punches,” Kerry said in one television interview when asked if Republicans were targeting his wife.
“I think that they’re foolhardy to do it, personally, because I think that she’s so down to earth and so straightforward,” Kerry said. “I think people who meet her love her.”
You know something, I would tend to agree that the spouse of a candidate should be off-limits, just as much as the children of a candidate should be. After, Al Gore’s children, Clinton’s brother and brother-in-law, or Howard Dean’s son never became liabilities for them… despite their illegal acitvities.
Nevertheless, there’s only one problem, if John Kerry is going to use and exploit his wife a surrogate for his campaign, then she is fair game. Let’s take a look at her recent attacks on behalf of her gold digging husband’s campaign:
Vice President Dick Cheney is “unpatriotic” because of his efforts to avoid military service during the Vietnam era, Teresa Heinz Kerry said in a television interview aired Thursday night.
In an unusually vigorous foray into election-year politics, the outspoken prospective first lady slammed the vice president’s activities during the Vietnam War while defending her husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.
“To have a couple of people who escaped four, five, six times and deferred, deferred and deferred, calling [Kerry] anything or doubting his heroism is in and of itself unpatriotic,” Heinz Kerry said. She added that she was referring to Cheney’s lack of military service and to the attacks from the Bush campaign on various aspects of the Vietnam service of her husband.
Sorry Johnny-boy, if you’re gonna put her on the front lines of your campaign, expect that occasionally she’ll be shot at. If she wants to just sip pina coladas at the country club all day and not be an attack dog for her candidate-husband then she’ll be ignored. If John Kerry wants to use a drunk driving murderer as a surrogate, hey, we’ll play ball with him too.
If Teresa has something to hide that could damage Kerry’s political aspirations, then she’s got to slip back out of the spotlight, because we could care less about her if she just keeps quiet.
Air America A Lot Of Hot Air
Wednesday, May 12th, 2004I have to say I’ve never listen to Air America, but when I read stuff like this, I wonder why even liberals could stand listening to it:
The United States “is on the slippery slope to theocratic fascism.” “The Catholic Church has been secretly encouraging oral sex for years.”
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld “ought to be tortured.” President Bush should be taken out and shot.Those are a few nutso nuggets from the hosts of Air America Radio, which calls itself the new liberal voice. The fledgling network is carried in New York on WLIB, 1190 AM. With the Iraq torture scandal everywhere, I tuned in, expecting to hear sober policy analysis mixed with glee over President Bush’s political pickle.
Instead, I got 10 hours of rancid venom directed at the President, Rumsfeld, Rush Limbaugh, the Catholic Church and anyone else the hosts felt like slamming. If you’re a card-carrying lib who likes crude sex jokes and a cartoonish echo chamber, Air America is for you.
It sounds like Air America has tried so hard they’ve completely missed the point on how real talk radio became a success. It doesn’t even sound like liberals can “learn anything” from Air America, it sounds more like a conservative bashing fest that makes no attempt to have any substance whatsoever.
The church was a day-long obsession, as was Limbaugh. He is an “awful man,” “a pig” and “a Nazi.”
Color me confused. If Franken & Co. hate the pill-popping Limbaugh so much, why imitate his tarpit tone? Sounds like Limbaugh has simply driven them nuts.
Missing was the tension that comes from honest debate. Only Franken had guests voicing even slight distance from the party line, which is that John Kerry is perfect except he should attack Bush more.
The queen of venom, Randi Rhodes, followed Franken in the host slot. Her imitation of a cracker military type telling a soldier to “insert this fluorescent light bulb into that man’s buttocks” was revolting. She compared U.S. prisons in Iraq to the “Nazi gulag” and said, “The day I say thank you to Rumsfeld is the same day I’ll say thank you to the 12 people who raped me.”
Rock bottom came when she compared Bush and his family to the Corleones in the “Godfather” saga. “Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw,” she said, imitating the sound of gunfire.
With content like that, they’re bound to lose sponsors quickly…
Hey, what do you know, I was right:
During a day of torture by radio, I heard ads for Hewlett-Packard, Greyhound and, especially, General Motors. I asked GM why it appeared in such shows.
Ryndee Carney, GM’s manager of marketing communications, said the ads were wrongly picked up from an earlier deal with WLIB. She said the station was ordered to “cease and desist” yesterday, and added: “GM will not advertise on any Air America affiliates.”
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