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Why Arlen? Arlen is the TV home of "King of the Hill." It's a small conservative town that is threatened with ruination on a regular basis by twig boys, enviro wackos, diversity nuts, "PC" police and other ivory tower liberals. I like to think of Arlen as a metaphor for this here great nation of ours.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Posted
4:49 AM
by Hank
The Ithaca Journal (fourth item), is reporting that a public forum will be held in that City on various election issues. The series, entitled "The Morals Behind the Headlines: Election 2004", will focus on "the value dimensions of the issues voters will face in the 2004 elections [including] church and state." Despite a concern over the separation of church and state, the forums will be held at "The First Unitarian Church of Ithaca." I guess they feel that there's no need for separation of church and state if the church promotes liberal causes. Monday, September 27, 2004
Posted
5:08 AM
by Hank
Heading up the week's "irony" department is the news that music legend Bob Dylan, muse to a million hippies and pacifists, believes in handguns for self defense. In his new autobiography, Dylan speaks about how he got the guns, " two pistols and a rifle," to protect himself from his "fans":
Dylan also seems to disparage the very baby boomers that worship him, when he notes: So to recap: Bob Dylan owns handguns for self-defense, lives a suburban dad lifestyle, would go fishing, and disparages the 1960s generation. Are we sure he isn't a closet Republican? Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Posted
10:27 AM
by Hank
Liberals, and their willing allies in the media, were aghast when the "grieving mother" of a soldier killed in Iraq was arrested for disrupting a New Jersey appearance by First Lady Laura Bush last week. For example, columnist Jimmy Breslin bemoaned, "they whisked her out of the place and arrested her for using free speech." CBS News, that bastion of accuracy, declared her a "Grieving Mom." Now, however, it turns out that the woman, Sue Niederer of Hopewell, N.J., may have been more of a threat than the media portrayed her. WNBC news is reporting that the Secret Service in investigating Niederer for threatening to shoot President Bush last May:
As WNBC notes, "It is a federal crime to threaten to kill the president." With the Secret Service involved, Niederer now claims that she did not mean it when she threatened the president. However, given that threats to shoot the president were made, no one should be surprised, or disturbed, that Niederer was taken away from the First Lady as soon as possible. Monday, September 20, 2004
Posted
7:55 PM
by Hank
Connections between CBS, the Kerry campaign and the likely source of the forged documents about President Bush's National Guard service are beginning to develop. The Associated Press is reporting that two Kerry advisors, Joe Lockhart and Max Cleland, spoke to the CBS story's source, "retired Texas National Guard officer Bill Burkett," at least twice before the story aired. Furthermore, the AP notes, in the case of Lockhart, he spoke to Burkett after CBS news producer Mary Mapes suggested he do so. In short, evidence is developing that seems to establish a coordinated effort between a presidential campaign and a major news organization to attack the other candidate...with a story based on forged documents. Is it time to start talking about a "vast left wing conspiracy" yet? Sunday, September 19, 2004
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1:37 PM
by Hank
This, in and of itself, would not be news. However, it turns out that the Judge, Wendy York, is a contributor to the Kerry campaign, having donated $1000.00. As the Albuquerque Journal noted:
York now faces complaints to the New Mexico Commission on Judicial Conduct from Republicans. Libertarians, the Green Party and even one Democrat, the article notes. Given that, as the article says, York made a sizeable contribution to Kerry's campaign, it seems like the Judge would have a hard time claiming that she didn't have a "personal bias" towards Kerry and against Nader (and Bush for that matter). On the other hand, as a Kerry supporter, maybe the Judge can chalk it up to some sort of "flip flop" or "nuance." Monday, September 13, 2004
Saturday, September 11, 2004
Posted
11:36 AM
by Hank
Fellow Blogger Kevin Probasco, brings more evidence to the table that the documents being vetted by CBS are forged. Probasco, who "served as administrative communications officer and assistant chief of central base administration for the 92d Combat Support Group at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington," is familiar the the document formatting of the National Guard during the time these memos were reportedly written. He notes: As has been pointed out by many observers, twelve pitch Times Roman font in Microsoft Word automatically and precisely generates the superscript, line breaks, and letter spacing (including kerning) of the Staudt memorandum if the left and right page margins are set at one-inch on 8.5 x 11 paper (Word’s default settings). That’s a problem.He also points out: Paper stocks at Air Force and Guard units in the 1970s were ordered and maintained by the office of central base administration, a headquarters-level staff office, to be distributed to individual units and squadrons as needed. Probasco concludes: It defies common sense to believe that in 1973 Lt Col Killian used nonstandard three-quarter inch margins on 8.0 inch paper that by astounding coincidence would produce the exact line breaks generated by Microsoft Word 31 years later using Word’s default one-inch margins on 8.5 x 11 paper. With the evidence mounting, the question is becoming less and less about Bush's service and more and more about whether Rather and, perhaps, Kerry, can survive this scandal. Monday, September 06, 2004
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6:49 AM
by Hank
What's up with the Associated Press these days? First, their coverage of the Republican Convention contains more "Bush bashing" than a press release from Michael Moore, even going so far as to write stories from John Kerry's point of view. Now they are manufacturing stories to make Republicans look bad: On Friday the AP falsely reported that a crowd at a Bush rally booed the news that Bill Clinton had been hospitalized, and President Bush "did nothing to stop them." Did George Soros buy the company lately and no one bother to report it? Friday, September 03, 2004
Posted
10:32 AM
by Hank
An unpopular war and 1.1 million lost jobs is enough to kill a presidency, so President Bush tried Thursday night to make the election about something else: himself and his leadership style. "Even when we don't agree," he told an anxious and divided nation, "you know what I believe and where I stand." Not content to tell insinuate that Bush is a failure, the AP also claimed that he is out of touch: He sought to make a virtue of his differences with half or more of the electorate... They even out and out mocked his speech: He'll simplify the tax code (who wouldn't?) and put health centers in every poor county (why not?), but he didn't say how.In short, the AP, told the reader that "The idea is to make people afraid to change, even as they're craving it." This is objective news coverage? On what planet? Maybe this is not the AP's fault. Maybe the local paper I got this from took an intended "news analysis" piece and put it on the front page, by accident or otherwise> However, even if this was analysis, the AP's biases still show loud and clear.
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