The Briar Patch in Ohio, or "Gee, why isn't there a recount?"
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Democrat Voter Fraud
What Hugh Hewitt and company call the "fever swamp" and the rest of us think of as "left wing conspiracy theorists and wing nuts" is in full hue and cry demanding a recount in Ohio and elsewhere.

And the lack of an Ohio recount is a little odd. You'd think as close to the wire as the election got there, and as impassioned as this election was, that a recount would be a natural.

The inhabitants of the fever swamp have concluded that John Kerry just doesn't have the 'nads for an Al Gore-caliber national temper tantrum, and he doesn't want to expose a notional loss of the election due to Republican election fraud:

A much more satisfying and plausible hypothesis is that John Kerry and his close strategists didn't want a recount because they were afraid of exposing massive Democratic voter fraud in Ohio.

Think about it for a second. At least fifteen million dollars, according to dissidents from within the Democrats' inner circles, was available to fund recounts nationwide.

With the massive pool of volunteer talent on tap to stage protests all over the Buckeye State and allege mopery and dopery, why not contest the elections there? Why not do it just on the chance that there were legitimate errors that could have changed the outcome?

The only answer that makes any sense is "Because the Kerry campaign and the Democratic National Committee know they themselves were the ones doing the cheating, stuffing ballot boxes, filing bogus voter registrations, and in general trying to fix the election in Ohio."

It's entirely possible that a thorough recount in Ohio would only have resulted in Federal marshals knocking on the DNC's offices with arrest warrants.

Please, Brer Kerry, don't ask for a recount in Ohio! Whatever you do, don't throw us in that briar patch!

We dodged the bullet called John Kerry... (action: wipes forehead in relief)
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Take THAT, you...
THANK YOU, GOD!!!!

Took me a while to get over the sense of nearly having gotten John Kerry as President. The idea of having the lives of the 1,000-plus Americans who have already died in Iraq and the ones who will die in the future traded for nothing at all in an eventual LBJ/Nixon-style pullout by the Master of Indecision was infuriating.

Bush, by comparison, has a plan - not a perfect one, and probably not the one I'd have gone with, because I'd have told France, Germany and the UN to go to hell and not erected the huge foreign bureaucracy which has now demonstrated its lack of connection with the Iraqi people.

"Pottery Barn theory," my foot - if we broke it, just be grateful there's more "it" we haven't broken yet and shut up. Speaking of which, I hope that in the new Bush administration, Colin Powell is given the chance to represent countries with whose foreign policy he agrees more fully than our own.

But the drubbing which the Sunni resistance has had coming for a while in Fallujah is going to happen.

Other pundits, notably a fellow who wrote a letter to the Weekly Standard a few days ago, have said it better than me - we may never win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, so the idea should be to empower most of the people who live there and want nothing to do with terrorism to run their own country, and kill the terrorists as efficiently as possible. Large-yield high explosives should help.

We may need to partition off the Sunni Triangle, call it "Occupied Iraq," and keep troops there for fifty years - the way we did in Japan, Germany and Korea. Would we have hesitated to do that if it had been Nazis rising up against us in Berlin? If the Islamofascists want to line up for easy destruction in Fallujah, hey, it saves us hunting them down.

But the idea that we are going to get out if Iraq at some point and hang up our shootin' irons is so wrong, it's difficult to say just how wrong it is without resorting to profanity.

There are plenty of other nests of terrorism which need cleaning out, like the entire Indian Ocean and the Sulu Archipelago.

Those Australians who don't see why we need to be delivering bomb-o-grams to every Islamofascist on Earth are going to be getting the memo very soon, because their northern neighbor Indonesia is full of Islamist radicals, many of whom have already started screaming that all those "Crusaders" Down Under need to die. I'm sure someone's going to decide just how Bush caused THAT presently.

But I digress. George W. Bush is the first American President to actually have won a majority in the popular vote in 16 years - since his dad handed Dukakis his butt in the 1988 election. No more "selected, not elected" BS from the fellow travelers.

The President has majorities in both Houses of Congress, which means all he has to deal with is Tom DeLay and people like DeLay who are going to obstruct and hinder the President's agenda to prove how powerful they are. They can, however, be dealt with, even if the cure involves a little Chapstick.

And the Republican majority in the Senate is NOT quite large enough to prevent Democratic filibusters, but IS large enough to make the Republican majority's rumblings about "going nuclear" and amending the procedural rule which permits those filibusters in the first place much more plausible than they were before the election. THAT would be enough of a show to make me get cable, just so I could tape the proceedings on C-SPAN.

I wish that I'd taped Charlie Rose today (we get it on Boulder's PBS station rebroadcast at about 1-2 pm). There they were, four journalists sharing a single frontal lobe, Rose, Mark Halperin (who is something important in ABC News' political department, and who gave the 1992 Clinton campaign an advance look at, and crucial time to spin a response to the letter from 21-year old Bill Clinton thanking his ROTC advisor for "saving him from the draft,"), and two editors from Newsweek, all betraying their lack of objectivity (no surprises there, apart from Mark Halperin squirming uncomfortably when one of the brain donors from Newsweek popped off in a particularly stupid way, and later, Halperin actually standing up for a friend in the Kerry campaign whose name came up during the post mortem) and loyalty to the fallen (sort of a surprise - but maybe crapping on John Kerry is an homage to objectivity for a liberal journalist).

I mainly watch Charlie Rose for the entertainment factor - for those of you unfamiliar with the fellow, imagine if Dan Rather was the product of a massive cloning project - what happens to the clones that fell on their heads or otherwise had less than full Rather mental acuity?

I submit that they are given talk shows on PBS.

Bill Moyers was obviously a pre-production prototype model, and Charlie Rose... well, "BONK... sorry, Charlie, no CBS anchor deal... we'll see if Papa Liberal Smurf Bill can get you on over at Public Broadcasting. Here's a lollipop."

Anyway, it was a good entertainment day on the Rose show. The sharks of the working press were in a frenzy, having discovered (or suddenly felt free to disclose) what a loser John Kerry is as a political candidate (I leave the rich field of all the other ways John Kerry may or may not be a loser unexplored in the interest of brevity).

Bob Shrum came in for a shellacking for not telling Kerry to counter Bush's vicious political tactics sooner (they lost me there... was the Prez being rude about Kerry on washroom stalls or something? I thought that given Kerry's history as a self-promoting, opportunistic, looney-left gladhanding dim bulb, Bush passed up a lot of opportunities to send his opponent through the rhetorical wood-chipper).

But even Nasty John "This Time It's Personal" Kerry couldn't do the job of bearing the guidon of knee-jerk liberalism across the finish line at November. He used dependent clauses in his speeches, fer Chrissake! (I am not making that bit of analysis up. Someone who gets vastly overpaid by Newsweek said it. Vastly overpaid.)

Mrs. Heinz-Kerry, their kids, expensive outside consultants all labored in vain, trying to get the Senator to speak in short, understandable sentences.

In the end, John Forbes Kerry's life-long infatuation with the sound of his own voice may have been the only thing standing between us and a particularly nasty and difficult-to-fathom personality cult.

God works in mysterious ways, His Wonders to perform.

"This collapse of civilization was paid for by the Democratic National Committee."
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Taking back our Culture
The vote of an American citizen is one of the most valuable things on Earth, and should be safeguarded accordingly. The idea that requiring voters to adequately identify themselves before voting is "intimidation" is, not to put too fine a point on it, a load of rank, smelly bullcrap.

Think about the potential for people to show up at a polling place, representing themselves as the voters named on some of those bogus voter registrations we mentioned earlier.

Then think about elections becoming largely meaningless things which have no impact on who runs the country.

I am all too aware that just under half the country may think that's where we are anyway. The staff of the Democratic National Committee makes very nice livings BS-ing people into believing that, and they have a very efficient nationwide network of people to spread their lies for them.

If all of a sudden, people didn't think that when they lost an election, it happened strictly according to the law, the DNC would all have to settle for being much less important than they now conceive themselves to be.

The problem with stirring up anger and hatred in other people's hearts is that it's not a very exact science. Ask Yassir Arafat - the bastard spent his entire career twisting the tail of the tiger he was riding harder and harder to distract its attention from the fat man riding on top of it. If the news reports are accurate, he may already be talking the matter over with a fellow named Shaitan.

The concept of non-stop intifada didn't just happen. Once the Oslo Accords eliminated much of the reason for Yassir Arafat to exist, he needed more unrest just to stay alive, so he had more unrest and has had as much unrest as he needs ever since. Presumably his successors in the "terror as a business" dodge will need even more unrest.

The several potential Yassir Arafats here in the States - the David Dukes, Pat Buchanans, Al Sharptons and Louis Farrakhans may at some point decide to kick it up a notch beyond the very capable work of Terry McAuliffe and James Carville, and convince the people in this country who live in perpetual anger that someone somewhere has it better than they do - what Winston Churchill called "the politics of envy" - to rip our country apart.

Eventually this rhetoric will find tangible expression, as it did during the summer riots of the late Sixties or early Seventies, or the rise of the so-called militias in the Eighties and Nineties.

Anyone want a second Civil War, this time with modern communications, data processing, weapons technology - mass weapons technology, including chemical, biological, radiological and even nuclear weapons - and cryptology? The Democrats are taking us there with their politics of envy and rage and tactics of personal demonization

The new, divisive, demonizing party politics to build up power bases by drastically exaggerating conflicts between groups in society is heading us right down that road. How long before Al-Qaeda and the other Islamofascist groups buy into and deepen the forces splitting our fractured nation as they have in so many other countries?

Maybe by then, the fortunate people high up in the Democratic National Committee will be able to move away from this country before we start actually shooting at each other because we see each other as "those people in the other party." It won't be their problem any more, will it?

Just one more mess they walked away from.

Colorado - 2004's Political Mutant Farm?
Topic: Democrat Voter Fraud
When I was in elementary school in the 1960s, the Atomic Energy Commission used to send these films around for us to watch in class showing this farm over at their plant near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It consisted of a garden all planted in concentric circular rows around a cobalt-60 gamma-ray source. Up close to the gamma-ray emitter, of course, nothing grew, because everything had been killed.

But a little past that distance, there were... things horrible enough to make nine-year old kids go "cool... " - fifty-pound peanuts, twisted and bumpy ears of corn in which the kernels were all different hues, sizes and shapes, pea pods colored and shaped in ways that made hallucinogenic drugs redundant - Hieronymus Bosch's Victory Garden.

That's what Colorado's going to look like, politically speaking, this month thanks to the Democratic National Committee's tactic of trying to win Presidential elections in court, even before the polls are completely closed. Thanks to both high and low jinks, Colorado's going to get more than its fair share of electoral lawsuits.

Example - recently, the judge hearing a lawsuit over the proposed (on a ballot initiative in this election) amendment to the State constitution not only awarding Colorado's electoral votes for the Presidential Election a basis proportional to the popular vote, but doing so RETROACTIVELY, refused to rule on whether the Colorado State Constitution could be so modified, on the basis that he didn't have the necessary jurisdiction.

The lawsuits in courts which DO have the necessary jurisdiction, up to and including the Supreme Court of the United States, to rule on this two-headed calf of an amendment are just the beginning of the fun.

- Over 9,000 voter registrations have been identified as very suspicious, several thousand of those being parolees and other convicts who don't get to vote; other registrations were simply forged. Registrations obtained in this fashion could be used to create bogus votes, valuable commodities in a "swing state" for a party which is committed to winning "by any means necessary."

Only ONE voter registration worker (one of hundreds of people paid to register "new voters" - paid in many cases only if an hourly quota of new voters is met, or if the voters register for certain parties) has been brought up on charges related to these bogus registrations.

Despite these facts, the state Attorney General, who gets to investigate these cases and who is also the Democratic candidate for the US Senate this year, has not recused himself from any investigations of these registrations or of the unethical practices used to obtain them.

We can look for a lawsuit at the very least to suppress the bogus registrations; one would think an inquiry - a Federal inquiry - into what may be a conflict of interest with far-reaching implications would be called for, too.

- "Provisional voting," in which it is not even necessary to produce photo ID to vote (subject to protest by the voter registered under that name), is another new feature of the Colorado voting system (it's supposedly being evaluated for nationwide use) ripe for lawsuits - as it should be.

The vote of an American citizen is one of the most valuable things on Earth, and should be safeguarded accordingly. The idea that requiring voters to adequately identify themselves before voting is "intimidation" is, not to put too fine a point on it, a load of rank, smelly bullcrap.

Think about the potential for people to show up at a polling place, representing themselves as the voters named on some of those bogus voter registrations we mentioned earlier.

If all that stands in the way of acceptance of a bogus provisional ballot is the protest of a voter who doesn't exist, or who has better things to do than check to see if someone fradulently used his vote, or who doesn't even know that he or she has the right TO protest, then a huge number of fradulent votes may have already been cast (Denver and other other parts of Colorado have "early voting" over several days before an election to encourage voter turnout).

- Heavy use of absentee ballots, another "innovation" pushed in the name of election reform, may paradoxically add to the welter of lawsuits surrounding the Colorado elections.

Absentee ballots were originally intended to make it easier for the infirm and those otherwise unable to turn out on Election Day at the polls (such as servicemen or others whose work or other plans take them away from home for elections) to vote.

However, one can request an absentee ballot by mail, making it easy again for bogus votes to be cast, in some cases (when mail is vulnerable to theft or diversion), without the actual registered voter's knowledge.

- The Democratic National Committee has formally instructed local party organizers to complain about incidents of racism or other intimidation whether or not they have happened. In the old days, we used to call this "filing a false report" and throw the people who did it in jail.

It seems reasonable that bogus accusations of this sort will be used, as they were in Florida in 2000, to prop up DNC-funded lawsuits against local registrars of voters.

Since Colorado's Attorney General is himself a candidate supported by the Democratic Party and a recipient of Democratic National Committee largesse, the state's defense in these cases may well be even less spirited than their current prosecution of thousands of bogus voter registrations.

Remember, so far only ONE man has been charged with generating only about 20-30 bogus registrations out of several thousand, and the Attorney General's Office commented that the firm which employed him was probably "a victim."

Investigative reporters with the Denver papers and TV stations found out as early as this August that the "victim" in this case, the firm employing the accused man, is under investigation in several states for incidents of fraud involving legal petitions and voter registration drives.

So, if the voters of Colorado are expecting Ken Salazar to fight the theft of this election by the Democratic Party, they're apt to be disappointed.

Of course, you never know - depending on exactly how accommodating Ken Salazar has been to the Democratic National Committee and its 527-funded cat's paws, his Federal service may be done not in the Senate, but in an institution where he doesn't get to vote on ANYTHING.

And Inauguration Day may come and go before the question of exactly who won the national elections in Colorado is answered - because voting in Colorado has mutated to the point where it may be bearing very strange fruit indeed.

Fear, Loathing and John Kerry - Finally, an endorsement that SAYS something.
Topic: Unintentional truths

"When John Kerry came to Aspen in June, he appointed Thompson his designated host, gave him pride of place in his motorcade, and bought three copies of Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Thompson's outstanding account of Nixon's re-election (viciously illustrated by Steadman). Kerry then made a speech in which he declared that he was considering making Hunter S Thompson his Vice President:

Robert Chalmers, "Hunter S Thompson: More fear and loathing on the campaign trail," the Independent, 31 October 2004

Among the lickspittle Marxist birdcage liners of the world, the Independent has distinguished itself as the logical successor to Pravda.

No alcohol-fueled hallucination regarding the current administration has been too out there for the Independent to publish, no slander of Tony Blair or George Bush too foul (within the commendably strict guidelines of British libel laws).

It's no surprise, then, that they would have the necessary connections to meet with "Doctor" Hunter S Thompson, the inventor of "gonzo journalism," and the man who once said "I hate to recommend alcohol, drugs and violence to young journalists, but they've always worked for me," at his home in Aspen, Colorado.

For those of you reading this too young to remember The Good Doctor's background, Robert Chalmers was kind enough to fill us in:

"Some would argue that Dr Thompson himself is a case study in at least one of the above conditions. His title is a self-awarded doctorate in Gonzo journalism, the term he invented to describe his drug-fuelled, often sublime pieces in which abuse and profanity are as common as love and redemption in the Gospel of St John. In what remains his best-known work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, first published in Rolling Stone 33 years ago, brilliantly enlivened by Steadman's illustrations, the writer took the Wodehousian bachelor's blithe and adventurous attitude to alcohol and extended it to LSD and munitions."

BLOGGER NOTE: Perhaps Kerry thinks he'll get points with the NRA by hanging out with Thompson....

"Hunter S Thompson is not regarded as one of world journalism's easier subjects.

"Interviewing Hunter," Loren Jenkins [Newsweek bureau chief in Saigon, currently based in Baghdad] told me, "was the most excruciating experience of my life."

"It's a combination of things, really: the ubiquitous firearms and narcotics; his nocturnal regime and sudden mood swings. I first encountered him in the early 1990s when I was working for another newspaper which had decided to send him to join the Royal press corps for the Highland Games. I met Thompson at Gatwick, at 6am. He lit his hash pipe while we were still in sight of the customs hall and insisted on being driven to Smithfield Market for whisky. When we reached his hotel, he barricaded himself in his suite for 36 hours, then fled back to Aspen in the middle of the night. His subsequent faxes referred to me as an "evil treacherous dingbat" and a "weird limey freak".

"In a strange way," says Ralph Steadman, "insults are Hunter's way of articulating affection."

"Going up the driveway to his ranch - before you see the wandering peacocks and the Cadillac convertible commemorated in his writing as the Red Shark - you pass incrementally threatening signs such as "Keep Out" and "Danger Zone", culminating in: "Guns in Constant Use".

"Last time I was here with Steadman, in 1996, Thompson was on trial for drink-driving and, at one point, told the judge that his arresting officer had been "lurking under a bridge, like a troll". He now takes the powder from his black bowl orally; a strategy forced on him, some believe, by damage to his nasal septum. Over the years he has been acquitted on charges including possession of drugs and explosives. In July 2000, he shot his then assistant Deborah Fuller and told reporters she'd been wounded because he had "mistaken her for a bear". He was not prosecuted. Thompson tosses me the empty shotgun cartridge, which he's signed and dated."

Aspen, for those unacquainted with the place, is where the unjustifiably rich - movie stars and such - go to complain about the capitalist system that has made it possible for them to play in the snow - the stuff outside on the slopes AND the white stuff specially brought in from the Andes specifically for the movie crowd - when just about everyone else in the United States has to work.

By putting Hunter S. Thompson in the running for Vice-President, Kerry pretty much gives us an idea of what his Administration would be like - heavy on the Fear and Loathing, with ample amounts of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

380 Tons Of BS or, Kerry Just Doesn't "Get" Loyalty
Mood:  irritated
Topic: Kerry's Lies and Spin

Losing track of 380 tons of high explosive is a serious charge. You don't accuse someone of having done something like that without an investigation.

President George W. Bush understands that. He ordered an investigation when foreigners from the International Atomic Energy Agency waited until four days before the election to accuse the US Army of losing nearly 400 tons of high explosive.

He didn't rush to cover his ass, or hang a subordinate out to dry.

Kerry doesn't quite "get" that loyalty goes both ways.

In exchange for swearing to obey lawful orders (even the most idiotic ones conceivable), living almost as far away from home as possible for months on end, willingly risking being killed, shot, tortured, beheaded on camera, and in general doing one of the worst, most thankless jobs there is, our soldiers are entitled to the benefit of the doubt when accused of screwing up.

In fact, there's a whole investigation process mandated by Federal Law which John "Fortunate Son" Kerry decided to dispense with, accusing everyone from the sentries posted to guard the explosives all the way up to their Commander-in-Chief of wrongdoing based on the word of a UN agency which has totally failed to distinguish itself in the realm of accurate assessment of where weapons of mass destruction (like hundred-ton lots of high explosives) might be.

But the UN would like John Kerry to win this election, and they decided to help out a little, it looks like. Why wait three years to tell us about a trifling matter like 380 missing tons of HE, unless this was to be Kerry's "October Surprise"?

One more reason to keep the President we have, the one who understands which flag to salute - ours.

Kerry seems to rotate like the weathervane he resembles, saluting our flag, then the Viet Cong's, then ours again, then the UN flag... as he struggles with the concept of loyalty.

In fairness to himself and us, perhaps Kerry should just resign from the Presidential race until he can take the Oath of Office in good conscience, honestly giving allegiance to the Constitution and loyalty to those whom he would be serving.

Another Libertarian for Bush
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Taking back our Culture
In an article posted to World Net Daily today Dr. John Hospers, the FIRST Libertarian Party candidate for the Presidency of the United States urged Libertarians to vote to re-elect President Bush.

In the article, Dr. Hospers said "I still believe in those principles as strongly as ever, but this year - more than any year since the establishment of the Libertarian Party - I have major concerns about the choices open to us as voting Americans," he wrote in his letter.

"There is a belief that's common among many libertarians that there is no essential difference between the Democrat and Republican Parties - between a John Kerry and a George W. Bush administration; or worse: that a Bush administration would be more undesirable. Such a notion could not be farther from the truth, or potentially more harmful to the cause of liberty."

Hospers goes on to decry John Kerry and his policies, saying the Democratic nominee is part of the "International Totalitarian Left in company with the Hillary and Bill Clintons, the Kofi Annans, the Ted Kennedys, and the Jesse Jacksons of the world."

The former candidate said if Kerry's party wins the presidency it could spell disaster for the nation:

"The Democratic Party today is a haven for anti-Semites, racists, radical environmentalists, plundering trial lawyers, government employee unions, and numerous other self-serving elites who despise the Constitution and loathe private property. ... They will attempt to enact 'hate speech' and 'hate crime' laws and re-institute the Fairness Doctrine, initiate lawsuits, and create new regulations designed to suppress freedom of speech and intimidate their political adversaries."

Hospers continues his letter with more analysis of Kerry himself.

"Kerry, who changes direction with the wind, has tried to convince us that he now disavows the anti-military sentiments that he proclaimed repeatedly in the l970s," he wrote. "But in fact he will weaken our military establishment and devastate American security by placing more value on the United Nations than on the United States. ... In his 30-year career he has demonstrated utter contempt for America, national security, constitutional republicanism, democracy, private property and free markets."

Turning his attention to Bush, Hospers criticizes several of this policies, but then adds, "His great virtue, however, is that he has stood up - knowingly at grave risk to his political viability - to terrorism when his predecessors, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton did not. On many occasions during their administrations terrorists attacked American lives and property. Clinton did nothing, or engaged in a feckless retaliation such as bombing an aspirin factory in the Sudan (based on faulty intelligence, to boot). Then shortly after Bush became president he was hit with 'the big one': 9-11. It was clear to him that terrorism was more than a series of criminal acts: it was a war declared upon the U.S. and indeed to the entire civilized world long before his administration. He decided that action had to be taken to protect us against future 9-11s involving weapons of mass destruction, including 'suitcase' nuclear devices."

"Hospers then lists what he considers Bush's accomplishments: "Afghanistan is no longer a safe haven for terrorists. Saddam's regime is no longer a major player in the worldwide terror network. Libya has relinquished their weapons of terror. The Pakistani black market in weapons of mass destruction has been eliminated. Arafat is rotting in Ramallah. Terrorist cells all over the world have been disrupted, and thousands of terrorists killed. The result: Americans are orders of magnitude safer."

"Hospers hails Bush's tax cuts, the first in 15 years, and reminds his fellow Libertarians that the president has as goals a revision of the income tax code and market-based reform of Social Security.

"Concludes Hosper:

"Thus far, [leftists'] long-term plans have been quite successful. A Kerry presidency will fully open their pipeline to infusions of taxpayer-funded cash and political pull. At least a continued Bush presidency would help to stem this tide, and along the way it might well succeed in preserving Western Civilization against the fanatic Islamo-fascists who have the will, and may shortly have the weapons capability, to bring it to an end."

AMEN.
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I wasn't crazy about Bush in 2000, but I voted for him anyway and was surprised at what a good President he proved to be.

As a Libertarian myself, I have to look at Bush'e record versus Kerry's record and his supporters, all of whom seem to want (when you take their stands together) a weaker America with essentially no way to defend herself in the world at large; and our tax monies poured out for Kerry's political cronies to enjoy.

Kerry is many, many times the the threat to human liberty Bush is, and those are the choices we face - not between bad and slightly worse, but between a tolerable future under Bush and a completely disastrous one under Kerry.

Just don't elect Kerry, PLEASE. Vote for Bush, because it's going to be very close.

Plan B (after Bush beats Kerry like a rug this November)?
Topic: War Criminal Candidates
From the Nov. 7, 1971, Sunday Oklahoman

"The political power structure within the United States can and must change if the nation is to avoid violent efforts to seize power, John F. Kerry, a member of the executive committee of the-Vietnam Veterans Against the War, said in Oklahoma Saturday.

"Meeting with reporters before speaking at the University of Oklahoma, Kerry said, 'If it (the government) doesn't change we are asking for trouble. If it is not done, those who are talking about seizing it will have every right to go after it.'

Kerry walked right into this one.... ADULT LANGUAGE WARNING
Mood:  celebratory
Topic: Unintentional truths
A while back, John Forbes Kerry (back when Shrum was still writing Kerry's stump material - it looks like they've recruited Howard Dean lately) went around in front of grown adults for weeks screaming about the "W" in "George W. Bush" standing for "Wrong" and maybe worse stuff than that.

I know this is a late hit, but what does the "F" in "John F. Kerry" stand for?

ADULT LANGUAGE WARNING










"Foolish?"

Considering that the best Kerry is doing right now is a "statistical tie" in the Zogby polls (which means Bush is leading, just not by more than the degree to which the poll could be wrong considering its statistical design, it just doesn't look good for the Vietnam hero who won't release all of his records - even though Kerry was petulant hypocrite enough to demand Bush release all of his records.

And the Swift Boat Veterans 30 second spots are running after Rather Biased on our local CBS affiliate (which is also CBS-owned - pretty stand-up of KCNC, Channel 4 in Denver, to even accept the ad).

I believe the Swifties a LOT more than I believe Kerry.

All he'd have to do to make these guys look like fools is release those records - unless Kerry and his people are lying and the Swifties are pretty much right that Kerry's record in Vietnam betrays huge defects in character and personal honor.

Spinning Class with Charlie Rose
Mood:  incredulous
Topic: Kerry's Lies and Spin
Just in case

- The News Hour with Jim Lehrer and Gwen Ifill's rudeness to non-liberal guests,

- NOW with Bill "Crankier Every Day" Moyers, and

- an alleged news documentary the other day which had CBS fake memo source Bill Burkett as just another Vietnam vet, which is sort of like casting Charlton Heston as just another leftist actor from the '50s

wasn't enough overt political programming on PBS, there's Charlie Rose, Dan Rather's Book End.

On today's episode, Charlie had:

- ABC News' political director Mark Halperin for some really uncomfortable-to-watch mutual admiration and very enjoyable to watch hard-core anguished denial about the crack John Kerry's behind is in, electorally speaking;

- Two other guests, each with a new book to sell about the hash we're making of relations with militant Islam (as opposed of the hash the new Iraqi National Guard and the US Armed Forces is making OF militant Muslims dumb enough to dance with them in Fallujah lately)

One of the people with new books to flog was French (and who was actually was much more moderate and sensible than Charlie Rose), the other was an Arab law professor at UCLA Law School (and he was quick to explain, that was he was trained both in "sharia law" and good old fashioned American theft with a fountain pen).

With great big compassionate puppy eyes, Charlie Rose asked each of these fellows if it wouldn't have been better if we hadn't gone into Iraq at least twice.

Impeccable timing, considering whose Presidential campaign this helps.

God, please defend me from the temptation to describe my impressions of Mr. Rose's character.

Charlie Rose, one more Democratic apologist and propagandist posing as a journalist from Texas, gets to play talk-stick jockey on publicly-funded television network affiliate stations.

None of the local (Rocky Mountain PBS - I get two separate stations) affiliates apparently have notion one about objectivity, and both are pitching in with Kerry's campaign - if only by running PBS/CPB programming with blatant pro-Kerry bias - as though their fat charitable endowments depended on it.

Well, having to replace Jim Lehrer's Slanted News Chow with local content... ooooh, I don't know about that.

All of Charlie Rose's programming is either tax-paid or paid for by tax-exempt charitable organizations - who should be tap-dancing in front of the Federal Elections Commission explaining why they're helping John Kerry on the public dime, and whether they've filed the requisite paperwork with the Internal Revenue Service.

Hey, I'd pay to watch that.