Hey folks,I have to admit that I am writing this Tuesday, Halloween, night. I couldn’t wait to get back to the office to comment on this one. First was the Clinton meltdown, now the Kerry melt down. Maybe they are not so sure about their chances? But what I love is the Clinton meltdown was because someone pointed out what HE did, or didn’t do. Kerry? What HE said. I guarantee you that Pelosi, Reed, Schumer, and the rest of the leaders of the LWL are going nuts right now.
Senator John Kerry, last night at Pasadena City College at a Democratic rally for California Democratic gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides, said,
"You know, education, if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you -- you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Now I am warning you folks, this may get a little lengthy, but just 6 days {When you are reading this} away from the elections, you HAVE to know who these people are. So what did Kerry say? Translation time folks. He said, "Education is important. If you do not study hard, you will end up being a stupid hick, with no future, with no choice but to join the military, and end up in places like Iraq." He called our men and women that are fighting in this war stupid hicks with no other options.
Now let’s be truthful. This was just a stupid comment, made by an idiot. It was bound to be commented on by people like Rush, Hannity, and others. I may have even written a little blurb, quick comment in the montage of daily stupidity, and moved on. The LWL could have also easily waved it off. The MMD {Mass Media Drones}? They could have just ignored it. But NOW?
Of course the inevitable happened. It was talked about. It was a stupid comment by an idiot. But then Kerry "bucked up." He first released this statement on his website,
John Kerry Website
"Washington – Senator John Kerry issued the following statement in response to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, assorted right wing nut-jobs, and right wing talk show hosts desperately distorting Kerry’s comments about President Bush to divert attention from their disastrous record:
"If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize the more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy. This is the classic G.O.P. playbook. I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did.
I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium, or doughy Rush Limbaugh, who no doubt today will take a break from belittling Michael J. Fox’s Parkinson’s disease to start lying about me just as they have lied about Iraq. It disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country lie and distort so blatantly and carelessly about those who have.
The people who owe our troops an apology are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who misled America into war and have given us a Katrina foreign policy that has betrayed our ideals, killed and maimed our soldiers, and widened the terrorist threat instead of defeating it. These Republicans are afraid to debate veterans who live and breathe the concerns of our troops, not the empty slogans of an Administration that sent our brave troops to war without body armor.
Bottom line, these Republicans want to debate straw men because they’re afraid to debate real men. And this time it won’t work because we’re going to stay in their face with the truth and deny them even a sliver of light for their distortions. No Democrat will be bullied by an administration that has a cut and run policy in Afghanistan and a stand still and lose strategy in Iraq."
{LOL} "assorted right wing nut-jobs" " they're crazy" "despicable""real men." {Who might that be?} YOU SAID IT JOHN!!!! Calling names and LYING about your intended meaning isn’t going to work. Again, you said,
"You know, education, if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you -- you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
This was not about Republicans. It was not about President Bush. You told these kids to get an education or end up stupid without any other hope of a future other than those stupid hicks in the military.
The statement didn’t work. So then you had the MMD start to attempt to spin this. Lisa Birnbach, a talk show host from 12 - 3 with Green Stone Media appeared on Fox News saying the Kerry was "just tired."
But then it was released that this was just a "managed joke" against the President. THAT didn’t work either. It just intensified the criticism. Then we all witnessed the "Kerry Meltdown" I’m sure you will be seeing it over and over, or at lease listening to it, it various places, for a while. He came out swinging, I’ll give him that. He said,
"I apologized to no one. My statement yesterday -- and the White House knows this full well -- was a mangled joke about the president and the president's people, not about the troops."
WAIT!!!!! STOP!!! That is NOT what you said, nor meant Senator. You said,
"You know, education, if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you -- you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
We ALL knew what you meant. A joke? Hey folks, have you ever been around a group of people and someone tells what they think is a really good joke? No one thinks it’s funny but the one telling it, and the one telling it is the only one that laughs? Even Kerry didn’t laugh. So, joke? I think not. WAIT AGAIN,, If those that serve in our military are "stupid hicks", and YOU Senator, served there as well, as you love to tell people, would that not make you a "stupid hick"?
He also said,
"I'm sick and tired of a bunch of despicable Republicans who will not debate real policy, who won't take responsibility for their own mistakes, standing up and trying to make other people the butt of those mistakes," he said. "It disgusts me that a bunch of these Republican hacks who've never worn the uniform of our country are willing to lie about those who did."
Ah yes. The old "if you didn’t serve you can’t criticize,," OK. So all the stars that keep saying how "Evil" the war is and how horrible our soldiers are acting should just shut up and go away, right?
There is no way out of this one folks. President Bush said,
"The senator’s suggestion is insulting and shameful. The U.S. military men and women . . . they are plenty smart, and plenty brave, and the senator from Massachusetts owes them an apology."
He is right. People are coming out of the woodwork demanding that Kerry apologize. Now form the wire,
"As a constituent of Senator Kerry's I am disappointed. As leader of The American Legion, I am outraged," said National Commander Paul A. Morin. "A generation ago, Sen. Kerry slandered his comrades in Vietnam by saying that they were rapists and murderers. It wasn't true then and his warped view of today's heroes isn't true now."
"While The American Legion shares the senator's appreciation for education, the troops in Iraq represent the most sophisticated, technologically superior military that the world has ever seen," Morin said. "I think there is a thing or two that they could teach most college professors and campus elitists about the way the world works.
"And while we are on the topic of education, why doesn't the senator and his comrades in Congress improve the GI Bill so all of today's military members - reserves and guard included - can achieve the educational aspirations that the senator so highly values?" Morin said. "The senator's false and outrageous attack was over-the-top and he should apologize now."
I told you this would be lengthy. Pelosi, and the rest have GOT to be having near seizures over Kerry’s completely stupid insults against the our troops. They have been doing everything they can to avoid this type of thing, even up to and including hiding. Yes Kerry NEEDS to apologize, or the LWL NEED to come out against him for this. They, neither, probably will never do this.
6 days to go folks. Forget the Democratic party. It does not exist anymore. WhatI have been warning you for quiet a while now, happen. The LWL, the Looneys, have completely taken over. They do not care about the troops. They do not care about you. All they care about is getting in power, and getting Bush. The economy, your safety and security, this country’s well being, and everything else WILL take a back burner to this main and only goal. Get Bush.
6 days. You SHOULD be informed. Get ready. Go vote.
Peter
Sources:
Reueters- "Kerry draws Republican fire"
AP- "White House, Kerry exchange accusations"
John Kerry’s Website
Green Stone Media
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Here is a little op-ed piece I found that made sense to me and might give you a few things to think about. I doubt you will really think about the ideas expressed. You seem more likely to attack them. Just thought I would try to show you another take on things
Paul Abrams
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11.01.2006
Just WHO Insulted the Military
READ MORE: Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Tom DeLay, Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bush
Listening to the dialogue about the dialogue, Kerry's remarks were clearly taken out of context even if his syntax were botched. Hardballer Chris Matthews, pretty much of a straightshooter, said that he read the entire speech, and said Kerry was clearly speaking about Bush, not the military. Moreover, he could not get a so-called Republican strategist to state that he, the strategist, thought that Kerry insulted the military.
That raises the question of whether there was an insult to the military, and, if so, who was the culprit. Since Kerry never said what they claimed, and one must assume he never has even thought it---after all, he knew his fellow soldiers and depended on one-another for their lives and limbs---it could be argued that what Bush (and Snow and others) accused John Kerry of saying is actually what they (Bush, Cheney, Limbaugh et al.) believe, and thus inserted their own beliefs into John Kerry's mangled syntax.
There is good evidence that this is indeed the psychology that has been inflicted upon us. A White House insider, a Mr. Kuo, who worked in the faith-based initiative office, wrote a book in which he detailed the slurs and ridicule that Bush Administration leveled at evangelical ministers behind their backs, and were just using them as political pawns. Pious platitudes in public coupled with secret scorn. Same pattern. It fits. And, this was from a friend of the White House who heard these comments being made.
The Bushes, and many of the neocons, follow a philosophy that holds that there is indeed an elite, and a deserving one at that. Recall Barbara Bush's statement after Katrina: "these people were underprivileged anyway, so this is working out well for them", is as revealing in its use of "these people" and "them" as in its callous content. Say what you will of George Bush's military record, one fact is incontrovertible: he decided, on his own, to ignore a military regulation for a physical because, he says, he decided he was unlikely to be flying in his new post (to which he probably never showed up). Only someone who believes he is indeed elite could contemplate choosing among the military regulations he would follow. There is no record that his decision was ever approved by his superior officer. Leading neocon William Kristol is alleged to be an adherent of the philosophy of Leo Strauss, who states explicitly that there should be an elite even in a democracy, who determine what is best for the masses, employing the "noble lie". Shadia Drury wrote that Strauss taught that "perpetual deception of the citizens by those in power is critical because they need to be led, and they need strong rulers to tell them what's good for them."
John McCain owes John Kerry a personal apology; how does a colleague/friend/fellow veteran like McCain say what he did, without at least calling his colleague and asking him, first, what he said, rather than swallowing the diatribe of the Rove-Mehlman minions? But it is the Administration, who orchestrated this cynical attack on Kerry, who owes that apology to the military, whom THEY insulted by reading in THEIR views into Kerry's statement.
As former Repubican House Majority Leader, Dick Armey essentially admitted on Hardball today, George Bush could not pass a lie detector test if asked whether he really thought Kerry said what Bush claimed he did. As if there were need for more proof of their deceptive practices, here's another one, same speech, for which the lie detector would be off the charts: "you don't create more terrorists when you are taking the fight to the terrorists". 16 US government agencies who contribute to the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) just told him the opposite.
It is George Bush who insulted the military, not John Kerry. It is George Bush who continues to insult the intelligence, and take cynical advantage, of the general good will of the American people.
"It is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." [Hermann Goering].
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Here is yet another piece for you. With a slightly different take on the isssue but same general idea.
Steve Young
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11.01.2006
Howard Kurtz: Why Not Ask Liberal Mainstream Media™ Why They Hate John Kerry? (22 comments )
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Dear Howard,
Wonder if you would do me a favor and consider the info below for this Sunday's "Inside Sources."
Tuesday night, the 8PM (EST) CBS Radio news opened with the big John Kerry joke story.
The anchor called Kerry's joke one "that fell flat." In comedian circles, that's a joke that the audience didn't get or they got but it just didn't work.
I.E. The audience didn't think it was funny.
CBS then played the now infamous clip of Kerry telling his joke. Not even a titter from his audience of collegians, who should be smart enough to get a joke, even ones botched by a U.S. Senator (one would hope that politicians would unlearn "always open with a joke").
The CBS anchor was right. It fell flat...as a failed presidential pancake.
And that's how I would have left it...if I hadn't heard the actual student reaction to Kerry's flat material on a non-news show.
The audience had laughed. They got the joke. It had, in fact, worked.
The CBS News that continues to be the Right WIng's target as the Network of Rather™, had cut the audience's reaction to Kerry's clumsy joke. If they had included his audience's positive reaction, the "flat" reference wouldn't have worked and the continued demonization of Kerry's comments would have been more difficult to sell.
Cutting the laughter was almost as much as a sin as adding canned laughter to a joke that didn't work on "Two And A Half Men." You add the laughter to make the audience think the joke was funny, because otherwise, based on the content of the joke alone, you'd never know.
CBS News had (cut and) spun™ the "joke" almost as much as the Right Wing Noise Machine™ and President Bush had spun the target of Kerry's quip, because they all knew that in the laughter lay the truth of Kerry's intent.
If Kerry's comment was meant as a dig against the troops, as Karl Rove would like us to believe, why did he get the audience reaction he did?
In the Associated Press version of the story, Jennifer Loven wrote, "... Kerry told a group of California students on Monday that those unable to navigate the country's education system "get stuck in Iraq."
He never said such a thing. Let's go to the tape.
"You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
And yet, despite CBS's seeming intent, the audience laughed.
If it were meant as a dig against the troops, why did the students laugh? Even if they they wanted to undermine the troops™, they might applaud. But laugh? O'Reilly would say, while pitching his latest book, it was because those campus SPs™ were Bush Haters™. Which is exactly the point. In the context of Kerry's comments, his "joke" was a dig at Bush, not the troops.
But left in context, there is no story, except for the RNC trying to drown out the administration's failures in Iraq.
So, Howard, here's another question for your panel.
I realize time is precious and soundbites are just that. But when the soundbite distorts the truth of the news, is that news, or is it just a moment with Sean Hannity?
Then again, you might just want to have me on your panel and I can tell you what I think.
Best,
Steve Young
Less Than Credible Political Columnist, But Award-Winning TV Comedy Writer
www.greatfailure.com
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Hey and thank you for posting these.
I have commented on them in todays "Daily Article." I know you will probably just accuse me of attacking them, but I'm really not. I read both and found them to be just spin. A stretch at that.
But those that checkout these articles will have the other side of the issue. They will decide for themselves.
Again, thanks for posting them here.
Peter
Hey Pete,
I believe, there is a GOD! LOL!
Hey and Welcome to the OPN Marv
Just LOL
Thanks.
Peter
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