Friday, April 30, 2004

"The fundamental difference in this election will be between President Bush's steady leadership in the war on terror and John Kerry's consistent political opportunism on the war on terror."
--Steve Schmidt, Bush campaign spokesman

THE FAIR TAX RALLY FOR AMERICA

I'll be speaking tomorrow (Saturday) morning at the Fair Tax "Rally for America" at the Chesapeake Conference Center in Chesapeake (Norfolk) Virginia.  Yes, it's free .. and yes, you can attend.  Registration begins at 8:00 a.m.! 
See you there!

BUSH ANSWERS EVERY QUESTION  --- WITHOUT HELP

So yesterday President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney met with the 9/11 Commission. This meeting was held in the Oval Office and no recording was made of what took place.  The president answered every question, and was not stopped at any point by the White House counsel.  All sides (so far) are praising the session and commission members have said the president was candid and forthcoming. The questions and the answers that have leaked have been pretty predictable...mostly about the August 6th PDB memo and the administration's response to the attacks.  If the media, Democrats in Congress and The Poodle thought they were going to get anything out of this to nail Bush on, they're sorely mistaken.  Better luck next time, though. The media is most certainly disappointed as well.

There was one pretty unbelievable development in all this.  The 9/11 Commission pressed for weeks and weeks to meet with the president and the vice-president.  It absolutely had to happen, we were told, for them to complete their report. It was a very important priority.  So with that as a backdrop, once they get their meeting in the Oval Office with the president, what do two of the Democrats on the commission do?  They leave early!  Vice chairman Lee Hamilton left the White House 70 minutes early, saying that he had a meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister.  Bob Kerrey also left in the middle of the questioning, because he had a previous commitment to meet with Senator Pete Domenici on Capitol Hill.  Why did they leave early?  They left early because they weren't drawing any blood.  They left early because the president was performing above all expectations.  They left early because their agenda was not to gather information, but to embarrass the president.  So .. .if your agenda isn't being met, leave!

Unbelievable.  These two men were appointed to a committee to investigate the historic 9/11 attacks on America, and they can't even clear their schedules to meet with the president of the United States.

ANOTHER 9/11 FAMILY MEMBER HEARD FROM

Last night I was sitting in a little room at the NBC studios here in Atlanta.  I was there to appear on CNBC's 8:00 news program to discuss the ABC Nightline death watch show scheduled for tonight.  While waiting and listening I heard an interview with a mother of a man killed in the 9/11 attacks.  Now ... this may sound just a wee bit insensitive, but losing a family member in the 9/11 attacks doesn't suddenly make you a brilliant commentator on matters of national security.  This woman (sorry, I forgot her name) was discussing the appearance of Bush and Cheney before the 9/11 commission members.  She was upset that Bush and Cheney weren't under oath, and particularly upset that there wasn't a transcript of their testimony made available to the public. 

Hey ... what's your name ... the reason that there is no transcript released is because top secret details of our war on terror were discussed.  What do you want, lady?  Do you want our intelligence operations to be jeopardized just to make you feel better?  I heard you say you wanted to emulate the Jersey Girls .. those four anti-Bush activists who have been playing on their status as 9/11 family members to engage in partisan attacks on the president.  Well ... intellectually, you fit right in.

SLIME ON THE PODIUM

This is almost too good to be true.  John Kerry granted an interview to Black Entertainment Television and, wouldn't you just know it,  one of the questions was about whether Al Sharpton would be a speaker at the Democratic National Convention.  The Poodle's response?  "If he wants to do it, I'd like him to do it.  I think he'd do a terrific job.  I think he'll add something...there's no plea necessary.  It's my invitation."  There's no way in hell Sharpton, who has never found a camera he didn't like, will turn down the invitation.  You can bet he'll be there this summer to give his speech. 

Actually .. .this is good news.  Sharpton's appearance at the Democratic convention will give us an opportunity to highlight the moral decadence of the Democratic party.  Sharpton is a lying pig, though they embrace him.  Never has the saying "you're known by the company you keep" been more true.

Well .. here's an idea for Republicans.  Start now demanding that Al Sharpton use this time at the Democratic National Convention to engage in the Democrats favorite form of moral exhibitionism!  He can issue a few apologies!

Maybe Sharpton can use this speech to apologize to Steve Pagones.  Sharpton accused Pagones, a prosecutor, of raping Tawana Brawley.  Pagones later sued Sharpton and was awarded $345,000.  Sharpton has yet to apologize for his role in the Brawley affair, and his unfounded and slanderous accusations against Pagones and others.

While Sharpton's on a roll, maybe he can apologize to the family of Yankel Rosenbaum.  Rosenbaum was surrounded and stabbed to death by a Brooklyn mob shouting "kill the Jews." The crowd had been whipped into a frenzy by Al Sharpton railing against "diamond merchants" with "the blood of innocent babies" on their hands.  What was this all about?  A young black child was killed in a traffic accident.  A Jew was driving the car that killed him.

Sharpton can finish by apologizing to the families of the seven employees of Freddy's Fashion Mart in Harlem.  Freddy's, you see, was owned by a white Jew.  The owner of Freddy's rents his space from a black landlord.  He then rents a small portion of his space to a music store owned by a black man.  The black landlord raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart.  This means that the owner of Freddy's, the white Jew, must raise the rent on the black man who owns the record store.  Enter Al Sharpton.  Sharpton starts leading demonstrations.  He screams to the crowd that "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business."  Sharpton's mob starts yelling "Burn down the Jew store!" and "We're going to see that this cracker suffers."  A protester enters the store.  He warns all black customers to get out and then shoots four employees point-blank, then sets a fire.  Seven employees dead.  Sharpton owes them an apology. 

The problem here, of course, is that demanding apologies is a Democratic sport, not a Republican one.  Well .. why can't you Republicans take a play out of the Democratic book now!  Get on the record .. .demand Sharpton's apologies.  See if you get any media coverage.

Yeah, right.

INTEMPERATE THOUGHTS

Those pictures of American soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners?  You do know that it was other American soldiers who took those pictures and turned them over to authorities, don't you?  The media will concentrate, though, on the bad apples, not the good ones.

You know that Jamie Gorelick is a member of the 9/11 Commission.  You also probably know that she was an Assistant Attorney General in the Clinton Administration  And .. you might know that she is the Clinton official who wrote that memo that pretty much eliminated any possibility that the CIA and the FBI would cooperate and share intelligence on terrorism.  But .. do you know why Gorelick wrote this memo?  Simple.  To protect Clinton from an investigation into Chinese involvement in his campaign finance scandal.

Boortz the Horse is not running in the Kentucky Derby this weekend.  Drat.  I'm thinking vast left-wing conspiracy.

Speaking of the Derby.  Believe me, after 35 years of talk radio, I've heard some ridiculous things.  Yesterday I heard one that almost topped the list.  Some mindless idiot was saying that Jockey's have a "Constitutional right" to put advertisements on their silks at the Derby.  I'm not sure who this asshat was ... must have been some sort of a union rep.

Air America ... lefty talk radio .... lost two executives this week.  CEO Mark Walsh and Executive Vice President for Programming Dave Logan are gone.  Air America president Jon Sinton says the departures were "as expected."  As expected by whom?  Do you think Walsh and Logan expected it?  I hear a toilet flushing somewhere.

THE DIVISIVE POODLE

Speaking of race, the Kerry campaign is coming under fire from some Democrats and advocacy groups who are upset about the lack of minority representation in the upper levels of The Poodle's campaign.  It's so much fun when Democrats turn on their own, isn't it?

It turns out Kerry's inner circle is mostly white.  Some are complaining about the lack of diversity, but check out who is coming to his defense.  None other than the Congressional Black Caucus, whose leader, Jesse Jackson, Jr. said the criticism was unfounded.  His reason?  "I am concerned about diversity, but more importantly I am concerned about the experience in that diversity - senior policy people who know people from one end of the country to another."  In other words, we aren't really concerned about race....we just want somebody that's knowledgeable and has connections. 

Can you imagine if a Republican tried to get away with that? They wouldn't...and the first people to be jumping up and down screaming if they said something like that would be the Congressional Black Caucus. You know it's true.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

There's good news and bad news in the ongoing government land grabs for private developers under the guise of 'eminent domain.'  Your Talkmaster has the latest.

A Palestinian member of the United Nations police force in Kosovo murdered two American women and an American man on April 17th.  Why haven't you heard about this in the media?

Syrian President Bashar Assad has admitted in an interview his support for the Iraqi resistance. If there was unity in the United States behind the war on terror Assad would have remained silent ... and frightened.  Democrats are enabling this man and others like him. 

So everybody is up in arms about the flag-draped coffin photos.  Mona Charen says the idea that combat deaths undermine domestic support for war is mostly a myth.

Andy Rooney says the soldiers fighting in the war on terror aren't heroes.  Reporting from Iraq, Oliver North disagrees.

After offering more concessions to the Palestinians that got them nothing but criticism, Charles Krauthammer wonders what's next for Israel.

The Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are suggesting that President Bush is being divisive by appointing his political allies to the bench. Nonsense, says David Limbaugh...every other president has done the same thing.

The government is still not implementing the one security measure that would have stopped 9/11: subjecting Middle Eastern passengers to an added degree of pre-flight scrutiny.  Ann Coulter has her say.

Liberal Senator Arlen Specter won the Republican primary by such a small margin, it was probably his support by the president that pushed him over the top. Jonah Goldberg looks at what this means for conservatives.

On June 30th, the United States will transfer sovereignty back to the Iraqi people. George Will talks about how that might happen.

Not only did 9/11 Commission member Jamie Gorelick write the memo that made it impossible for intelligence agencies to share information, but she even rejected an attempt to change it.

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