Tuesday, May 18, 2004

YEAH ... BUT IT WAS ONLY ONE LITTLE BITTY WEAPON!

If you were listening to talk radio yesterday, or if you happened to be watching the Fox News Channel, you learned that Iraqi insurgents tried to use an artillery shell containing Sarin gas in a roadside explosive devise.  A small amount of the deadly gas was released and a few American troops were treated for exposure.

There are two interesting aspects to this story.  As of late yesterday afternoon, the media was virtually ignoring the find.  Second, the appeasement crowd was quick to try to downplay the significance of the find.

I don't watch ABC, CBS or NBC news with any regularity.  Every night it's Special Report with Brit Hume, and in the mornings it's CNN Daybreak with Carol Costello.  I can tell you that as of last night my listeners were reporting that they never did see the Sarin gas story show up on CNN or on the CNN website, though it was featured on Fox all afternoon long.

I don't think that the media is going to be able to completely ignore this story, but they sure will try to downplay it.  Remember the template:  If the story benefits Bush, downplay.  If the story hurts Bush ... run it hard.  That's why the Nick Berg beheading had such a short lifetime, while the prison abuse story is still on the front pages today.

As for the appeasement crowd?  Well, it didn't take long.  Up until now the cry was that we had found no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.  Now that some of those weapons have been discovered (mustard gas last week -- didn't hear about that one either, did you), the appeasement crowd is saying that these are just isolated old weapons being found ... and it doesn't mean there's a stockpile somewhere.  No matter what we find...Hans Blix and his terrorist-appeasing, dictator-loving, Saddam apologist friends at the U.N. will never admit we were right.  After all, to them, Saddam could do no wrong. It's all our fault, you know.
Just great.  Last week the charge was that no WMDs were found.  This week Blix is saying that no "stockpile" has been found.  Find some more weapons and we can argue with the weenies over just what the definition of "stockpile" is.  Pathetic.

Oh yeah ... and you're also going to hear that this was an old shell.  Not a new one.  The theory here, I guess, is that only new WMDs count, not the old ones.  Once they start finding new WMDs in Iraq the left will come up with another excuse.

One thing is for certain.  The leftist argument that Saddam didn't have any WMDs is now dead.  What's next?

MICHAEL MOORE A HERO ..... IN FRANCE.  GO FIGURE.

Earlier this week I told you that the winning film at the Cannes Film Festival would be either anti-capitalist or anti-American.  It looks like the Prophet of the Church of the Painful Truth has scored another one.

There are two real hits at Cannes so far.  One is a German film  called "The Edukators" which features a gang of teenagers who break into the homes of wealthy Germans, rearrange their furniture, and leave behind a not saying "You have too much money."  And just why do these people have too much money?  Because they buy expensive things, that's why.  Because they have worked smart, they have worked hard, they have planned wisely, and they have prospered.  To the leftist, anti-capitalist mind, this is bad.  Everybody should have an equal amount of stuff.  Individual accomplishment is bad ... because it exalts the individual over society.  Mind you, this German film made no mention whatsoever of what would be the fate of the people who earned their livings making all of this expensive stuff that the teens found so distressing.

The other big hit?  Well, no surprise here.  It's Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11," an anti-Bush screed from the hyper-liberal who developed a compilation of lies and half-truths called "Bowling for Columbine" that thrilled the Hollywood crowd mightily.  Drudge was reporting yesterday that Moore's hit-piece drew the longest standing ovation in the history of the film festival.  This is supposed to be news?  Hey, folks.  Cannes, in case you didn't know, is in France!  And the people who are swarming around that place, especially in the showings, are the Hollywood elite!  Of course they're going to jump to their feet and applaud anything that denigrates Bush, America, or our efforts to make the world safe from Islamofascist terrorism. 

If you're surprised that Michael Moore received a standing ovation from that crowd, you need to increase your dosages.

U.S. ATHLETES WARNED NOT TO WAVE FLAGS AT OLYMPICS

U.S. athletes competing in the 2004 summer games in Athens have been warned to tone down their "jingoism," and not to wave the flag excessively.  Apparently, the thinking goes, our image in the world is so low, that we don't want to insult anyone.  What?

Check out this statement from the USOC's acting president, Bill Martin: "We're not the favorite kid in the world right now."  Well .. in part he's right.  We're not exactly on the party invitation list for despotic Islamist regimes.  The Euro-weenies, of course, hate us because they they can't survive without us.  They are depending on us to save them from Islamic terrorism, while taking money behind the back from the very people who prey on them.  And there are a number of countries that hate us, or fear us if you will, because of our strength.  We are the world's reigning superpower.  Some country is going to occupy that role .. and if not the United States, just who would Bill Martin want it to be?

Here's a thought.  If you can't display your pride in your country ...  If you can't wave the flag of the country for whom you are representing in the Olympic games, then what is the point of going?  The USOC has no problem taking billions of dollars from U.S. consumers in the form of TV rights fees, commercials and sponsorships, and we can't wave our flag?  I think not.

The people of the United States should be proud of what we're doing in Iraq.  We've liberated tens of millions of people from one of history's most despotic regimes.  We are attacking terrorism in the very region that spawns it.  We are carrying the water for the gutless United Nations, which didn't have the nads to enforce its own resolutions.  If Bush will get back on tract and renew his allegiance to his own "Bush Doctrine" our actions in the middle east will be noted by historians as noble, not wrong.  I am more proud of our flag today than I have been in many years ... and I want to see it flying at the Olympics.  Let those who envy us or hate us just suffer.

Many countries in the world hate freedom, they hate President Bush, and they hate the United States of America.  That's all there is to it.  Meanwhile, the olympic committee OKs transsexual athletes, and we can't wave the flag.  Idiots.

QUIT THE DAMNED WHINING AND JUST PARK YOUR CAR

Gotta tell ya ... I'm getting just a wee bit weary of all this nonsense about "record" gas prices.  I just got through doing a bit on CNN this morning about these gas prices.  Thank goodness they called me in to put a little common sense into the argument.  There is only one legitimate way to measure the cost of gas .. and that is by factoring in everything.  Inflation, improved gas mileage in today's cars,  wages, etc.  Using all these factors you will come up with a figure of how much you spend on gas to drive one mile.  Adjusting this for inflation, you will find that you are paying quite a bit less to drive a mile than you were in 1974.  So give it a rest.  If you can't handle it, cut down on your driving.  And while you're at it, you may want to cast a jaundiced eye on your friendly environmentalist.  If you're looking for a place to put blame, that may be it.

AND HOW MANY COPIES OF THIS HAVE I RECEIVED IN THE PAST TEN YEARS?

We stopped counting at about 25,000.  But ... it's still damned good, so I'll put it in the Nuze today ... again, with a bit of re-writing.

KERRY'S DAUGHTER

Over 40,000 of you clowns clicked on my link to see Kerry's daughter in her see-through dress yesterday.  You pigs should be ashamed.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

A Wall Street Journal editorial .. weighing in on the Sarin gas find in Iraq.

The 2004 Howard Dean Sellout tour continues. this time in Portland, Oregon.  The Deanie Babies still haven't forgiven their man for caving in to The Poodle.

The Vietnam Veterans that served with The Souffle  want his campaign to stop using group photos of them in his campaign ads. They say he's unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.  Having served with sKerry in combat, imagine what they know that we don't.

How about a never-ending war that the media have given Bill Clinton a complete pass on?  Matt Welch asks the question: why are the architects of Kosovo so down on Gulf War II?  Read on.

The media continues its Kerry-McCain ticket fantasy.  For some reason, they just can't get enough of it.  The Media Research Center reports.

Think the media is not biased?  Still need proof?  You need look no further than the coverage of the Nick Berg story.  Dennis Prager explains.

The media has been eating up the coverage of the Abu Ghraib scandal in the New Yorker by Seymour Hersh.  Not so fast, says Joel Mowbray, who takes issue with the reporting.  Also from Joel Mowbray: the media's bias on Rumsfeld, Abu Ghraib and Iraq.

So what is the solution in Iraq?  If you listen to the media and the liberals, we should cut and run.  But, as David Limbaugh writes, that would be a disaster.

The press claims to have a public right to know, but did anyone really need to see pictures of Nick Berg's family grieving?  Thomas Sowell tells us that when it comes to the media, common decency is out the window.

With voters paying more at the pump, will George Bush pay at the ballot box?  Probably not, as Matt Towery reports.

Paul Crespo looks at the media's double standard on Iraq prison abuse.

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