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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004Welcome everyone to the new version of my blog.
This new version is slimmer, less busy than previous versions. This new version is the brain child of myself and Mike over at Owl Eye Designs.
Feel free to post comments here on what you think of the new design.
Blog Upgrade
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004Tonight my blog will be experiencing some upgrades.. Most noticeable to you will be a new look.
Regular readers of my blog are advised to clear your browser caches so you’ll immediately see the changes when they take affect. I will post again tonight after the blog upgrade is complete.
You Have To Work Before You Get Paid
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004Seems like Kerry is facing some ethical problems:
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) met with Secretary of the Senate Emily Reynolds Wednesday to discuss ethics complaints stemming from his prolonged absence from the legislative body while he campaigns for president. Kerry and Reynolds were spotted by Congressional staffers slipping into one of the many antechambers of the Capitol where the pair likely reviewed options for dealing with the complaints filed against both of them.
A complaint filed by Hofstra law student Jonathan Stein accuses Reynolds of willfully violating a federal statute that requires her to make deductions from Kerry’s Senate paycheck for his absences. Kerry is also named in the complaint for knowingly accepting salary to which he is not entitled.
Oh mainstream media, where art thou?
The O’Franken Factor: The No-Listener Zone
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2004Things just look worse and worse for Franken’s liberal talk radio experiment:
Encouraging preliminary ratings for all-liberal Air America in New York have collapsed along with the fledgling radio network’s finances.
An unofficial “extrapolation” of Arbitron data released last Friday — which Air America’s hosts crowed about last month but virtually ignored yesterday — showed WLIB’s ratings dropping back to their lowly levels before the net’s April launch.Arbitron cautions stations and advertisers not to read too much into this interim monthly data — but that didn’t stop Air America star Al Franken from boasting last month that he’d beaten WABC’s Rush Limbaugh among the 25- to 54-year-old listeners chased by radio advertisers.
The response by Air America President, Jon Sinton, was typical. “It takes a long time to develop a [talk radio] audience,” he said. “This is a long-term project.”
Yeah, but the whole point of Air America was to try and get Bush out of office. The reality is they expected Air America to just flourish effortlessly - but that’s not how talk radio works. The bottom line is without a large audience, Air America will have no impact whatsoever on the election. Al Franken’s baby is just a big failure.
John Kerry Chooses Ideology over Science
Monday, June 21st, 2004John Kerry has apparently accused President Bush of choosing “ideology over science.”
You know what the problem is with his accusation? The problem is that John Kerry himself is guilty of choosing ideology over science … in the worst possible place: our military. John Kerry has voted against weapons systems vital to our national security.
Kerry makes me laugh sometimes.
Gee, Big Surprise.
Monday, June 21st, 2004Liberal Radio Network AIR AMERICA In Deep Financial Crisis
Things just continue to look worse and worse for Air America. Blogging about their troubles has become virtually redundant…
The Boy Who Cried YYEEEEARRRGGHHHH!
Sunday, June 20th, 2004I can’t believe I missed this, but can you believe that the former-Democrat-frontrunner-turned-embarressment Howard Dean is denying the infamous scream ever happened:
Howard Dean said the scream speech “never happened,” and that its repetition more than 900 times in the following week showed cable “at its worst” and revealed cable news as a “Murdochized” entertainment medium, not journalism.
The former Vermont governor and presidential candidate calls it part of the “Murdochization,” of cable, referring to the growing success of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Channel. “Not because Murdoch is a right winger, which he is,” says Dean, “but because [Fox News Channel head] Roger Ailes is so incredibly good at what he does that the other stations [sic] are starting to copy what Fox does.”
Dean told a crowd of broadcasters in Washington Monday morning that all the cable networks showed of the speech following his loss in Iowa was “me at a microphone carrying on. No crowd noise or crowd shot,” that would have shown that the crowd was screaming and Dean was trying to make himself heard. None of the pool reporters reported the scream initially, he said. It was only the next day, when their editors saw it, with the noise-canceling mike making Dean stand out, that it became a story. “The speech as it was portrayed in cable television shows 937 times in one week “never happened,” he said.
Does Howard Dean think this it’s going to help him save face by crying about it? I watched that infamous speech live and my first thought was “He’s a f**king lunatic.”
Dean imploded. He screwed up. He was a lousy candidate with lousy ideas, and didn’t have a chance in hell of winning the general election. He’d do himself a favor if he’d stop whining about it and let it go.
YYEEEEARRRGGHHHH!
Letter To The Editor: Kerry Should Resign From Senate
Saturday, June 19th, 2004This week I submitted a Letter To The Editor to a number of different Boston area newspapers. Yesterday I discovered one paper that printed it. Hopefully, this will be the start of many more Letters To The Editor in the future:
To the Editor:
John Kerry may be running for president, but at the same time he’s been running from the job he was elected to do in the U.S. Senate.
During the first session of the 108th Congress, he missed 64 percent, or 292 of the votes. Some votes were on major issues like the partial-birth-abortion ban, which Kerry said last November was “a dangerous effort to undermine a woman’s right to choose, which is a constitutional amendment I will always fight to protect.”
But he wasn’t there to fight against it.
Some votes were even so close that Kerry’s presence could have actually impacted the results. In April, Kerry was pushing for the extension of unemployment benefits but wasn’t there to vote for it. It was rejected by one vote — John Kerry’s vote. In fact, he was the only senator to miss that vote.
Regardless of whether or not you agree with Kerry’s policies, he’s not doing the job he was elected to do at the expense of the taxpayers.
The people of Massachusetts deserve more than an MIA senator. As the final months of the presidential campaign approach, it’s safe to say Kerry will be even less inclined to do the job we pay him to do.
It’s time for John Kerry to stop getting paid to spend all his time campaigning. It’s time for John Kerry to resign from the U.S. Senate.
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