Today's Nuze: March 08, 2004

Monday, March 8, 2004

MY GUESS ... THE DEMOCRATIC GAME PLAN WORKED

Keep a sharp eye on the upcoming Bush campaign ads. My guess is that you will probably not see any new Bush campaign ads with any pictures relating to the Islamic* terrorist attacks of 9/11. Is there anything wrong with those images? Of course not. The Bush presidency is defined by the events of 9/11 and what happened afterward. The Democrats know this .. and it doesn't make them happy. They would much rather define the Bush presidency with their skewed view of our economy (Democrats say it's bad, it's not) and the jobs picture (Again, Democrats say it's bad ... and again, it's not.) The Democratic game plan was brilliant. They knew the ads with the images of 9/11 were coming ... so they lined up their personal lapdog, Harold Schaitberger, the president of the largest firefighter's union, and a few widows of 9/11 firefighters who also happened to be Democratic activists to scream in outrage as soon as the ads hit. The Democrats knew that their media fellow travelers would jump right in ... and ohhhh did they!

Rightly ignoring the calls of a pro-Kerry firefighters union and some victims' families, the Bush/Cheney campaign has said not only are they not pulling the ads, they're not changing them either. As you can imagine, this doesn't sit well with the pantywaists on the left. Too bad. As much as the Democrats are trying to bury 9/11 as if it never happened, somebody needs to remind people of that day. Great ... it's about time we had a little backbone from the Bush people. Given the whining and complaining from the Democrats and the media, you would have thought President Bush was running ads on TV showing the clubbing of baby seals.

Speaking on Fox News Sunday, Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot said "This is an entirely appropriate effort on our part, we believe, to recall a memory and to recognize what it is that it's going to take in terms of leadership to lead the war on terror." Right on target, because remember: under a President Kerry, there would be no war on terror. And that, more than anything else, is why John Kerry must be kept as far away from the Oval Office as possible.

This time they're not caving in.

Or are they?

OK ... so they're going to keep these ads running. In fact, I saw one of them on CNN this morning. My guess, though, is that you won't see any new Bush ads which remind Americans of 9/11. Running the ad they've already created is one thing ... creating more is another. We'll see if I'm right ... but for now, I think the Democrats are raising a victory toast.

* YES --- I SAID ISLAMIC TERRORISTS

Note, please, that more often than not when I refer to terrorism or terrorist attacks in the Nuze I will include the word "Islamic." You won't see that in the vast majority of newspapers, magazines and columns, let alone hear it on your nightly news. To this day people and the media still generally refer to the event which occurred on December 7, 1941 as the "Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor." The events of September 11, 2001, however, are merely referred to as the "terrorist attack on New York and Washington." The era of political correctness has intervened. Now, our "sensitivity" demands that we not define these murderers accurately ... as Islamic murderers.

I don't have the exact current numbers, but around the world today you will find about 130 or so "hot spots," where people are killing people in an attempt to exact revenge or to gain power. With just a handful of exceptions, the violence in these dangerous areas is being initiated by Muslims.

LEFTIST ANTI-WAR ACTIVISTS? WHO WOULDA THUNK IT? WELL, ME, FOR ONE.

Now here's something you need to know about these poor bereaved widows who were so mightily upset about Bush using images of 9/11 in his campaign ads. Among the poor, poor bereaved widows featured on TV news shows last week were Monica Gabrielle and Mindy Kleinberg. Though it was never revealed to you in the news coverage last week, these women are members of a leftist group called "September Eleventh Families for a Peaceful Tomorrow." You'll hear more about this group on the show today ... including the fact that this group is heavily funded by ... who? Well ... by none other than Teresa Heinz Kerry, that's who! No ... you won't find these details in The Washington Post or in the New York Times. You could, however, read this story from World Net Daily. Another Boortz I told you so!

"THE NASTIEST CAMPAIGN WE'VE EVER SEEN"

If you think that congratulatory phone call from President Bush to Senator Kerry on the eve of the Democratic front-runner's coronation meant anything, you have another thing coming. The next eight months are going to bring us the most vicious campaign in our nation's history. Forget '88, '92 or even 2000. This will be one for the ages. And what a fun ride it will be.

Senator John McCain had it right yesterday, when he said on ABC's 'This Week' that "I think this is going to be probably the nastiest campaign we've ever seen." Absolutely...and there are many reasons why. The biggest reason is the left's all-consuming hatred for George W. Bush. Make no mistake: the Democrats don't care about the safety and security of the United States of America, nor do they give a rip about taxes, jobs or health care. It's about the Bush-hating.

The Kerry campaign will drone on and on about the deficit, health care and they'll try and use the word "reckless" as much as possible. They're also going to attempt to change the subject as often as possible when Kerry's record is discussed. Oh and remember, he served in Vietnam.

The Bush side, with the Democratic nominee chosen, will spend the next 8 months and millions of dollars exposing Kerry for what he is: a flip-flopping liberal who is soft on terrorism, and someone who wants to turn our military over to the UN to protect us. John Kerry thinks terrorism is a law enforcement problem and George Bush views them as an enemy that must be destroyed. It's no more complicated than that.

So get ready...election day is November 2nd. Nothing is sacred, nothing is off-limits. Let the games begin.

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THE STORY OF FIVE ORDINARY TEENAGERS

I want you to read this story which appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about five teenagers who decided to rob some Hispanic immigrants. These teenagers beat these poor men with pipes. The headline in the story refers to these predators as "5 ordinary teenagers." Yeah, sure they are. In the body of the story you will see that one of these thugs is "a really good little kid." The attorney for another one of the monsters says he "seems like a nice young man." Another is called "a very polite, Christian boy."

Hello! Have you read what these kids did? If there is any justice these five "ordinary teenagers," including the "really good

little kid" and the "very polite Christian boy" will spend about the next ten years in jail. Who knows ... maybe they'll even get the crap beat out of them a few times .. just like their victims.

THEY'RE COMING TO TAKE HER AWAY: MARTHA STEWART GUILTY

Following her conviction last week on all counts, there's an article out today in Newsweek that covers the Martha Stewart case behind the scenes. Martha got some really, really bad legal advice. In other words, her legal team screwed the pooch.

First of all, in the face of damning testimony from her broker's former assistant, her former best friend and her personal assistant, her lawyers chose to only call one witness, and did not even call Martha herself to testify. That left the jury with the impression she thought she was too good for the witness stand. "She's just another human being," said one juror. "I would have loved to have heard the other side of the story." Oops.

And probably the worst part has to be that if she had simply admitted what she did to begin with, she would have gotten off with a fine. As it stands now, Martha Stewart will be hanging drapes in the big house. I hear prison food is pretty lousy..maybe she could pick up the slack in the kitchen too.

NOW .. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO OPPOSE A REPEAL OF THE DEATH TAX

This obituary appeared on Saturday in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I'm going to reprint it in full because I know some of you won't follow the link ... and I want to make sure you read it. Read how a man with no running water ... a man who grows sweet potatoes and tomatoes and then sells them in the town square ... read how this man is suddenly hit with a half-million dollar death tax bill when his brother dies. Yeah ... only the evil, nasty, wretched rich pay death taxes, right?

OBITUARIES: MARIETTA

J.C. HYDE, wanted no wealth, but farm. [Derrick Henry - Staff Saturday, March 6, 3004]

J.C. Hyde was an unassuming farmer, land-rich but cash-poor. For virtually his entire life, he plowed by mule on his 127-acre farm along the Chattahoochee River in east Cobb County, land he had lived on since his father bought it in 1920. Surrounded by pricey subdivisions, it had become one of the largest tracts of undeveloped land in metro Atlanta..

The land survived the boll weevil and the Great Depression. Mr. Hyde intended to make sure it would survive developers.

"I remember being there when a real estate developer drove up, as many did, and said: 'J.C. Hyde, I can make you a wealthy man,' " said Rand Wentworth, head of the Atlanta office of the Trust for Public Land from 1990 to 2002. "J.C. answered : 'But then I would not be happy.' "

Mr. Hyde was plenty happy to live the way he did, in the log house he grew up in, with heat from a pot-bellied stove and water from a well.

"I have running water," he joked in a 1991 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article. "I run out to the well and get it."

Working beside his brother, William "Buck" Hyde, he grew sweet potatoes, corn, okra, green beans, peas and tomatoes, selling them from the back of a pickup truck near Marietta Square. In 1996, Mr. Hyde was selling a bushel of his "Gold Nugget" sweet potatoes --- Grade 1 --- for $16.

After a long day's work, he might pick up his fiddle and play some music.

Mr. Hyde was a bachelor, not given to idle talk. "I remember picking sweet potatoes with him for six hours and during that period he never said more than four words," said Kevin Johnson of Atlanta, Chattahoochee River Program coordinator with the Trust for Public Land.

He lived with his brother, also unmarried. While the men tended the fields, their four married sisters took turns cooking and helping with the domestic chores, said Mr. Wentworth.

When Mr. Hyde's brother died in 1987 and left him his share of the farm, the IRS and state revenue collectors arrived. They assessed Mr. Hyde with a debt of $467,000 to the IRS and $96,000 to the state for estate taxes.

"This is all something new to me," Mr. Hyde said in a Journal-Constitution story in 1991. "I never owed anybody nothing."

The private, nonprofit Trust for Public Land worked out a deal in 1992 with the National Park Service to buy 40 acres of riverfront property from Mr. Hyde for $1 million, more than enough to pay the taxes. The deeded land would become part of the Chattahoochee National Recreation Area, safe from developers. Mr. Hyde, meanwhile, could continue living and working there.

J.C. Hyde, 94, of Marietta died Wednesday. The funeral is 2 p.m. today at Roswell Funeral Home.

"I have never met a better conservationist than J.C. Hyde," said Mr. Wentworth, now president of the Land Trust Alliance in Washington, a national umbrella of conservation organizations. "He cared for that land like it was family, like it was part of his body. When he feared he might have to sell part of it, he said, with tears in his eyes, 'Losing part of this land would be like cutting off my arm.' "

The future of the nearly 90 acres not owned by the National Park Service remains to be determined, said Mr. Wentworth. "The challenge now is that the land could be lost to subdivisions."

Survivors include three sisters, Rosa Lee Stroup of Atlanta, M. Maglee Mitchell of Mableton and Gladys A. Holcomb of Marietta.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

You've probably heard over and over again about the federal budget deficit. Since the problem is federal spending, The Heritage Foundation has a plan to eliminate the deficit, without raising taxes.

Amazing. Kerry votes against the continued funding for our troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, and then criticizes Bush saying that Bush is shortchanging the troops on equipment and supplies.

Did John Kerry get criticized by his Naval commanders for killing too many civilians in Vietnam?

Bob Barr gets it right ... opposes Constitutional amendments dealing with gay marriage.

Let's catch up with Iran and what they're doing with their nuclear weapons program. Oh ... never mind. We really don't have to worry about that, do we? The United Nations is on the job!

So ... what's going on at the University of North Carolina - Wilmington? Thanks to Mike Adams, we know. In a little over a week UNC will spend $6000 of taxpayer funds to pay a group of feminists to dress up like apes and throw bananas at an audience ... Oh, and to campaign against George Bush.

Here's another column about the boogy man du jour ... outsourcing. Danger ... if you blame other people for your job problems, instead of accepting responsibility yourself, you won't want to read this.

The question isn't what John Kerry stands for. The question is "What doesn't John Kerry stand for?"

Will hatred be enough for the Democrats this year?

Thomas Friedman talks about the high cost of protectionism, and why outsourcing to countries like India is really a good idea.

So who will John Kerry pick as his running mate? Jules Witcover recounts some previously disastrous choices and says time is on Kerry's side.

George Will writes that events will shape the coming presidential campaign, not necessarily the candidates themselves.

From opposing the war on terror to wanting to place U.S. armed forces under UN control, Jack Kelley explains how John Kerry's positions are consistently depressing.

More speculation about who the Democrats will pick for the #2 spot...and what about Dick Cheney on the Republican side?

Is the mainstream media pro-Kerry? Absolutely, according to the Media Research Center, which says the networks are already attacking Bush.

Ross Mackenzie attempts to reconcile John Kerry's actions and votes with reality. An interesting piece.

William F. Buckley talks about the impossibility of Social Security reform in an election year.

Fox News' Neil Cavuto wonders why people worship Alan Greenspan so much. What's the big deal?

An embalmer hired by UCLA's medical school to keep better track of cadavers has been arrested on suspicion of selling body parts. I guess everything is not for sale after all.

A lesbian fertility clinic is being set up in Britain called the "Man Not Included New Life Centre." I'll let you make up your own jokes.

Mel Gibson's 'The Passion of the Christ' has now grossed $212 million at the box office. At the current rate, the movie is expected to gross well over $300 million. It's also expected to do brisk business the next five weeks leading up to Easter. Figures...liberals hate the movie, so it does well.

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