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Subject: Chuck Muth's News & Views - Armed Forces Day, 2004
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WE’RE LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD SLUTS
“Shocking shots of sexcapades involving Pfc. Lynndie England were among the
hundreds of X-rated photos and videos from the Abu Ghraib prison scandal shown
to lawmakers in a top-secret Capitol conference room yesterday. ‘She was having
sex with numerous partners. It appeared to be consensual,’ said a lawmaker who
saw the photos.
“And, videos showed the disgraced soldier - made notorious in a photo showing
her holding a leash looped around an Iraqi prisoner's neck - engaged in graphic
sex acts with other soldiers in front of Iraqi prisoners, Pentagon officials
told NBC Nightly News. . . . Before the pictures of England's sex romps were
shown to Congress, the 21-year-old reservist from West Virginia tried to portray
herself as a reluctant participant who was just following orders.”
- New York Post, 5/13/04
IS CONSISTENCY TOO MUCH TO ASK?
“It's time to put up or shut up. If the media wants to advance the Abu Ghraib
story rather than wallow in it, its course is clear. It can help Americans
‘appreciate’ the Nick Berg beheading by showing it over and over. I don't know
if that would be a good idea, but at least the press would be consistent.”
- Columnist Jonah Goldberg
CBS LENDS AID & COMFORT
“As I write on Wednesday afternoon, the CBS News web site continues to offer a
complete ‘photo essay’ of naked Iraqi men being humiliated by Americans in a
variety of poses. But the video of (Nick) Berg's beheading, CBS says, ‘is too
gruesome to show.’ . . . What exactly is the governing rule here? That
incendiary images sure to enrage our enemies and get more Americans killed
should be published, while images that show the world just how evil those
enemies really are should be suppressed? Offensive and shocking pictures that
undermine the war effort should be played up, but offensive and shocking
pictures that remind us why we're at war in the first place shouldn't get played
at all?”
- Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby
OXYMORONS RUN RAMPANT
“Last week, John S. Carroll, editor of the Los Angeles Times, delivered a
lecture during ‘Ethics Week’ of the Society of Professional Journalists. The
speaker has not yet been announced for ‘Abstinence Week’ of the Society of
Professional Whores.”
- Columnist Ann Coulter
THE RUMSFELD WAY
“Don Rumsfeld's surprise trip to Baghdad can be explained in a sentence: ‘I'm
still effective.’ That was the standard he set for whether he ought to resign,
and rather than issuing press releases, he showed with his trip into the war
zone that he could still communicate with the troops, and be accepted by them.
Now if only George Bush's campaign advisers were not leaking hysteria,
frustration and learned helplessness to the press and could show the president
being effective too.”
- Holman Jenkins, Political Diary, 5/14/04
FROM KENNEDY’S LIPS TO ENEMY’S EARS
“Let me remind you of Vietnam. We are an Iraqi people that has faith in God, and
his prophet and his family. The means of victory that are available to us are
much more than what the Vietnamese had. And, God willing, we shall be
victorious.”
- Sheik Muqtada al-Sadr (D-Fallujah), Associated Press, 5/13/04
TODAY ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD
“What do you think of the situation in Iraq?”
http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/
THE REAL AMERICA
“Saddam had their hands cut off. America gave them new ones.” The story which
tells of the true nature of the United States. Catch it here: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110005081
DEPENDS ON YOUR DEFINITION OF “REFORM”
“The Postal Service could be restructured for the first time in more than 30
years, under legislation approved Wednesday by the House Government Reform
Committee,” reports Zach Patton Thursday on GovExec.com. Sounds good...on the
surface. USPS is in big trouble and needs serious reform. But here’s a
unmistakable warning shot conservatives better sit up and take notice of: “Labor
groups Wednesday praised the House bill…”
Uh-oh. Stay tuned. And limber up the ol’ dialing finger. In the meantime, PLEASE
take a second to respond to the current “Survey Says!” online poll if you
haven’t done so already. We’re gonna need some ammunition for our fight in
Congress on this one…
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SENATE FINDS FISCAL RELIGION
“The United States Senate got upset yesterday about President Bush's request for
more money to fight the war on terrorism. . . . (W)hy is it that Congress
always balks at additional expenditures for defense, but gleefully spends
infinitely more money on the failed welfare state? . . . Which would you rather
pay for: guns, bullets, tanks, humvees and body armor for the troops fighting
the war on terror, or more get-out-of-work-free coupons for able-bodied, lazy
wastes of oxygen? Think about it.”
- Talk show host Neal Boortz, 5/14/04
THE HUNT FOR KERRY’S #2
“Speculation over who John Kerry will select as his vice presidential running
mate continues to build. The smart money is that the race has boiled down to
Senator John Edwards and Rep. Dick Gephardt, with Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana
and Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack as dark horses. New Mexico Governor Bill
Richardson is said to have been scratched off the list for indiscretions
involving women.”
- John Fund, Political Diary, 5/14/04 (Hmmm…does this mean if Bill Richardson’s
indiscretions had involved MEN he’d still be in the running?)
FROM ONE EXTREME TO THE OTHER
“Back in 1996, we covered the Reform Party convention in California for The Wall
Street Journal. . . . What struck us most about the party was the utter absence
of any political philosophy. . . . (In 2000) the Reform Party nominated Pat
Buchanan, candidate of the nativist-protectionist-isolationist right. . . . The
Reform Party still exists, albeit barely, and yesterday, the Associated Press
reports, it announced its endorsement for 2004: Ralph Nader. That's right, the
party without ideology went from far right to far left in the space of four
years.”
- James Taranto, Best of the Web, 5/13/04
KERRY AWOL FOR UNEMPLOYED
“Yesterday the U.S. Senate considered a measure that would extend federal
unemployment benefits for 13 weeks. Twelve Republicans joined 46 Democrats and
independent Jim Jeffords in supporting it--but it failed on a 59-40 vote in
favor. Sixty votes were required ‘to overcome objections that extending the
benefits violated last year's budget agreement,’ as the Associated Press
explains. The one senator not voting: John Kerry, who was campaigning in
Kentucky. Kerry apparently supported the measure…(but) he couldn't be troubled
to cast a vote on their behalf.”
- James Taranto, Best of the Web, 5/12/04
PETA EYES FAT GUYS
“As if the manufactured controversy with Disney weren't enough to have to
endure, now Michael Moore has PETA on his behind. People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals has selected Moore as one of the ‘Flab Five,’ a quintet of
celebs that the group will award with a ‘Veg Eye for the Fat Guy’ makeover.
According to PETA, ‘the ‘Downsize This' author has been doing too much
supersizing.’ It recommends that ‘before he gets too big for his britches, Moore
should cut out the stupid white meat and embrace tofu.’ "
- Left Coast Report, 5/11/04
SUPER-SIZED HYPOCRITE
“Limbaugh-sized idiot that he is, (Michael) Moore is raising a big free speech
hoo-ha because ‘Fahrenheit's’ original bankroller, Disney, has blocked the
release of the film. Come on Mike, for someone so critical of big business, why
must you continue to seek funding ($6 million!) from it?”
- Kyle Smith, The Daily Northwestern, 5/13/04
DURBIN’S BLACKMAIL
“Democratic Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois has relished his role as a chief
critic of President Bush's judicial nominees. At last count, some 29 appointees
were being blocked on the Senate floor by filibuster threats. Now Senator Durbin
is indicating there will be no more votes on judicial confirmations this year.
That means all nominations will die and the President will be forced to start
again in the next Congress. Even liberal Republican Senator Arlen Specter calls
the Democratic tactics ‘blackmail..’ “
- John Fund, Political Diary, 5/13/04
ARTSY-FARTSY
“Conduct a quick search on the Internet and you will find dozens of articles
arguing against continued funding of the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA).
Some offer appeasement solutions by playing the middle ground. Others call for
slowly cutting the budgets until it becomes privatized. Still others call for
deep, dramatic, and immediate cuts; the kind that raise the ire of leftist ‘arts
leaders’ like Alec Baldwin. They somehow argue that our friends Franklin,
Madison, and Washington intended that in the year 2004 we would enjoy a
constitutional right to federally-funded pictures of the Virgin Mary covered
with elephant feces. Talk about artsy-fartsy.”
- Jason Wright of Frontiers of Freedom
ONLINE TRUTH-SQUAD WATCHDOGS
Our friend Rob Booth down in Houston, Texas, has joined an effort led by a local
radio talk-show host to counter the left-wing bias of the Houston Chronicle. A
team of “bloggers,” including Rob, will regularly scour the paper’s daily fare
and expose, on a website, examples of liberal and/or biased reporting. Sounds
like a project which just might be up the alley of a number of conservatives in
cities and towns around the country. Take a look at Chronically Biased at:
http://chronicallybiased.com/
SEND IN THE CLOWNS
Las Vegas piano player Bruce Westcott - who last embarrassed himself with a
comical run for Nevada governor back in 1998 - is back and making an ass of
himself with an announcement sure to leave George Bush and John Kerry quaking in
their boots: He’s running as an independent for president. He says his campaign
“has been diligently studied and prepared for a very long period of time.”
Apparently not long enough...despite his contention that he is “capable of
leading our country on the right path, frankly, to salvation.” Hallelujah!
Welcome to the race, Bruce. A circus wouldn’t be complete without its clowns.
While (almost) everyone in this country has the right to run for office, that
right doesn’t include the right to be taken seriously. Do you know Nathan Tabor
or Tony Dane by any chance?
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