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EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT...
The recent scare conservatives put into liberal Republican Sen. Arlen Specter in
Pennsylvania's GOP primary was just the latest chapter of an ongoing debate -
OK, battle - within the GOP: Is there any room for "Rockefeller Republicans" in
the Big Tent any longer? A "yes" answer is becoming harder and harder to
justify...
Read the rest of this latest Muth's Truths column, "Poisoning the Conservative
Well," in today's News & Views EXTRA at:
http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm
OOPS
Oops. Due to an editing error, I neglected to attribute yesterday's "Reimporting
Death in a Bottle" blurb to columnist Morton Kondrake.
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MONEY QUOTE
"If we want to save the whales, we call the Democrats. If we want to save the
world, we call the Republicans."
- Tom Adkins of CommonConservative.com on Fox News' "Cavuto on Business"
MOMMY, GET YOUR GUN
"It's time to get serious. FIRST, we need to capture and then PUBLICLY EXECUTE
for first-degree murder, what's-his-Arab-name, the terrorist who personally
murdered (Nick) Berg. Then, we need to sweep Fallujah from one end to the
other, and really clean house, no holds barred. Then, next week, for an encore,
pick another difficult Iraqi city and do the same. THEN, we might lose our
tempers a little bit, and do some serious housecleaning in Iraq, and maybe
sanitize Afghanistan while we are at it. The United States Army does NOT LOSE
WARS. If you run out of soldiers, their moms (I'm one) will be happy to fill in.
I have a shotgun, and for age sixty, I'm in good shape."
- News & Views reader Paulette Webb
DISCUSSION BOARD
"What do you think of the situation in Iraq?"
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IS THIS UNPATRIOTIC?
"Yesterday on the program I said that it will only be a matter of time before
some Democrat steps forward and blames the death of Nick Berg on George Bush. I
suggested that this Democrat would say that Berg was job hunting in Iraq because
of Bush's economic policies shipping all of our jobs overseas. Well, folks. I
was a bit late. A Democrat had already beat me to the punch. It was none other
than New York's Charlie Rangel. As early as Tuesday night Rangel was saying that
if the 'Bush economy' hadn't lost 3 million jobs people like Berg wouldn't have
had to go over to Iraq looking for work."
- Talk show host Neal Boortz, 5/13/04
..OR IS THIS?
"This morning in most of the newspapers I scanned during my preparation for the
show the top story was still the Iraqi prison abuse scandal. Nick Berg had
already disappeared from many front pages, but the prison abuse stories remain.
. . . The media also continues to pound the 'Rumsfeld should resign' story. The
New York Times today reports that 'Rumsfeld is said to weigh every day whether
he can continue to effectively run the world's largest military.' Wow! We're at
war, the Secretary of Defense is under relentless attack from the so-called
'loyal opposition' and the nation's media."
- Talk show host Neal Boortz, 5/13/04
HOW ABOUT THIS?
"(Jesse Jackson) is now saying that calls for Donald Rumsfeld to resign aren't
enough. Rumsfeld, says Jackson, ought to be tried for war crimes. Again ... the
same theme. Saying outrageous things that can only make the enemy smile. Just
how many American causalities can we chalk up to the Democrats constant stream
of statements, charges and accusations against Bush's conduct of the war, and
the very fact that the war is taking place. Imagine how much better things might
be going in Iraq if the terrorists knew that while Democrats might have some
domestic policy differences with the president, but that they were solidly
behind him in his determination to destroy Islamic terrorism?"
- Talk show host Neal Boortz
SOME COVER-UP
You've heard a lot of huffing-and-puffing from the left about a Pentagon
cover-up of the Abu Ghraib prison incident. What you might not have heard is
that the incident and its investigation were announced to the world by the
military on January 16, 2004 in a press release headlined, "Detainee Treatment
Investigation." Let's see, that would have been four MONTHS ago. In fact, the
release is still available to inspect in the CentCom web page archives at:
http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/News_Release.asp?NewsRelease=20040143.txt
But since the release was so short and to the point, I'll save you the trouble
of clicking through:
"BAGHDAD, Iraq - An investigation has been initiated into reported incidents of
detainee abuse at a Coalition Forces detention facility. The release of specific
information concerning the incidents could hinder the investigation, which is in
its early stages. The investigation will be conducted in a thorough and
professional manner. The Coalition is committed to treating all persons under
its control with dignity, respect and humanity. Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, the
Commanding General, has reiterated this requirement to all members of CJTF-7."
Bush-hating/Rumsfeld-loathing Members of Congress who claim this is some kind of
Watergate-style cover-up ought to be stripped naked, handcuffed to a bed and
photographed with a leash around their necks.
Oh, I'm sorry. Was that insensitive?
NO WONDER HE MISSED THE MEMO
"Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, is pressing for passage of a bill that would
remove candy, chips and other snack foods from the nation's public schools,"
reports CNSNews.com. Harkin is one of the leading voices out to tar-and-feather
Don Rumsfeld for Congress not knowing about the Iraqi prison brouhaha. Maybe if
Sen. Harkin would focus on the big items...like...oh, I don't know...the war on
terrorists?...instead of what kind of vending machines local public schools
allow in their cafeterias, he wouldn't have missed that crucial press release.
KERRY'S (NON)DEFENSE CHIEF
"Sen. John F. Kerry told MSNBC's 'Imus in the Morning' there are 'any number of
people' that he would name as Secretary of Defense -- and then he named some of
them. . . . But it was Kerry's mention of (Sen. Carl) Levin that raised eyebrows
at the Republican National Committee.
"RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie issued a statement, saying, 'Senator Levin and
Senator Kerry have consistently opposed important defense programs, supported
deep cuts in intelligence funding and voted against the death penalty for
terrorists.' The RNC noted that Sen. Levin voted against both the 1991 Gulf War
and the current Operation Iraqi Freedom; and he voted against the death penalty
for terrorists at least five times."
- CNSNews.com, 5/13/04
THE EXCEPTION WHICH PROVES THE RULE
"The only thing that seems consistent about (John Kerry) is his inconsistency."
- Bush/Cheney campaign chief Marc Racicot
SERVING & PROTECTING
"A couple of weeks ago in (Washington, DC), a bunch of (pro-choice) women got
together for a rally - you might have heard about it. The 'March for Women's
Lives.' Near as near as I could figure, that's as close to false advertising as
you can get. I know who protects my life. And it ain't Planned Parenthood.
It's Smith & Wesson."
- Kay Daly of the Committee for a Fair Judiciary
SMACKDOWN WITH "CHAIRMAN ED"
"The RNC announced Thursday that (Chairman Ed) Gillespie would appear in San
Diego on Monday with some of the nation's superstars of wrestling for the kick
off of World Wrestling Entertainment's 'Smackdown Your Vote.' Gillespie will be
joined WWE Superstars Shawn Michaels, Ric Flair, Randy Orton, The Hurricane,
Shelton Benjamin and Women's Champion Victoria as well as the RNC's 'Reggie the
Registration Rig,' the party's mobile voter registration platform housed in an
18-wheeled semi that will help register attendees at the WWE's Monday Night RAW
Event."
- Peter Roff, UPI's "That's Politics," 5/13/04
ANOTHER REASON FOR REPUBLICANS TO HATE UNIONS
"Unionized electrical workers at Madison Square Garden are blocking non-union
CNN and Fox News crews from installing miles of electrical cables needed to
broadcast the GOP convention. 'This is a union town, these are union jobs, this
is going to be a union convention,' says Brian McLaughlin, president of the New
York City Central Labor Council."
- John Fund, Political Diary, 5/11/04
SUPER-SIZED ABSURDITY
".(I)ndependent filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has invaded the theaters with his
widely praised 'Super Size Me,' a wild, jihadist tilt against the golden arches.
On the one hand, the 33-year-old filmmaker's comico-anarchist sensibility is,
like the greasy Big Macs he simultaneously loves and hates, irresistible. But
the movie's content is completely absurd. By gorging himself on vast quantities
of the worst sludge on the McMenu -- guess what? -- Spurlock gains 25 pounds and
feels like a wilted french fry that has spent too many days under the warmer
lamp. The truth is that if you were to eat a diet of exclusively foie gras,
caviar, and champagne for 30 days you would trash your health just as surely as
Spurlock trashed his. But truth -- along with his sex life -- is the first
casualty in Spurlock's movie."
- Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam
LIB-RADIO ON LIFE SUPPORT
"That dark cloud continues to hang above the much-anticipated liberal talk radio
network, Air America. General Motors has pulled all of its advertising. It seems
that GM doesn't like the 'insensitive' comments about Jews and the Catholic
Church. I guess that GM didn't see the knee-slapping humor in the comparison of
the concept of troops 'pulling out' of Iraq and the Catholic Church's view of
premarital sex. Executives leaving ... advertisers bailing .. employees not
getting paid. It looks like the only way for Air America to succeed would be to
hire conservatives who know something about business to run the place."
- Neal Boortz, 5/13/04
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