Thursday, May 20, 2004

MORE ON THE SARIN GAS

The New York Times is joining the liberal media cabal in doing its level best to downplay the discovery of that artillery shell loaded with sarin gas near the Baghdad airport.  The latest?  It was only a "very small trace" that was discovered.  About one gallon of sarin, in liquid form, is a "very small trace" to the Times.  Yesterday on the Neal Boortz Show we learned that there is enough sarin gas in four liters to kill over 60,000 people.  That would make just one gallon of this stuff an arsenal.  To the Times, though, it was just a small trace. 

Remember the template.

A WEDDING PARTY?  YEAH, SURE IT WAS.

Splashed all over the front pages of everywhere is this lead story: United States bombs Iraqi wedding and kills 40 people, including women and children.  Yup...those evil Americans are at it again!  The clear insinuation is that the United States goes around bombing civilians on purpose.  The mainstream media tilts so far to the left, you have to watch the news on an incline sometimes.  It's ridiculous.

So what really happened?  As always with stories like this, there are two versions: the anti-American, left-wing biased media's account, and what the Pentagon says happened.  What's being reported is that the United States Army, out of the blue, went to a wedding party with helicopters and slaughtered 40 civilians, including women and children (they add that for effect, of course.)  The Pentagon says hey, wait a minute, we destroyed a safe house for foreign fighters.  A coalition official says a military operation was conducted, the troops came under fire, and they called in close air support and blew the place up.

The official said forces on the ground recovered numerous weapons, 2 million Iraqi and Syrian dinar, foreign passports and a satcom radio. What is he talking about?  Those sounds like ordinary wedding gifts to me!  He added: "It is not our belief that there was a wedding party in the open desert."  Of course, tell that to the media, who can't stop running the bleeding-heart images of people digging graves and burying their dead.

The United States Military is guilty until proven innocent.  If they turn out to be right (and it looks like they are,) there will not be the same fervor dedicated to getting the story right as there was to getting it wrong (unless you watch Fox News Channel.)

When it comes to war reporting, the mainstream media gives yellow journalism a bad name.

What are the terrorists going to say?  Are they going to issue a release stating their anger at the US military knocking out one of the safe houses, and killing about 20 terrorists in the process?  Somehow, I rather doubt it.

Here's a hint for future Iraqi weddings.  Don't have your wedding parties near encampments of terrorist insurgents. 

MY GOD.  IS EVERYBODY ROOTING FOR THE TERRORISTS?

How many innocent Israelis have been murdered by Yassir Arafat's "Palestinian" suicide bombers in the last few years?

Who is it, Palestinians or Israelis, who swear that they will not cease their violent, murderous ways until the last Israeli Jew has been pushed out of the Middle East?   Oh yeah, that would be the Palestinians.

Where do ill Palestinians go for the best medical care available? Oh yeah .. I believe that's Israel.

And here comes Brian Cowen, the Irish Foreign Minister (Ireland is currently holding the EU presidency) who tells the world that it is Israel, not the Palestinians, who are showing what he calls a "reckless disregard for human life."  When the so-called Palestinians stop their campaign of violence and murder against Israel, and when the Palestinians decide that they are willing to co-exist in the Middle East with the Israeli Nation, Israel will be ready to cease all military operations against the Palestinian terrorists.   The bad guys here are the ones drawing the sympathy of the EU.  Who's side are they on anyway?

THE TIRESOME 9/11 FAMILY ACTIVISTS

No one who hasn't been through it can possibly know the grief of a loved one suffering a horrible death at the hands of a terrorist.  When a victim's family acts irrational or says dumb things, you give them a pass and chalk it up to grief.  That is what most people, including the press, have been doing at these 9/11 Commission hearings.  All the victims' families have done is heckled those testifying, applauded, booed and in general made complete idiots out of themselves.  The honeymoon is over, it's time to start calling these people out.

It should be clear to most of you by now that the hearings being conducted by the 9/11 Commission are turning into a complete farce.  Gone is any pretense that the commission is truly engaged in a bipartisan effort.  Now we see the hearings as a way to make political points rather than an effort to discover causes and develop preventative measures.

The failure lies with the chairman, Republican Thomas H. Kean.  He has failed to insist on the decorum demanded for this important effort.  The very first time a demonstrator disrupted a hearing weeks ago Kean should have sent a message by calling a halt to the proceedings until all spectators and all cameras were removed.  The message  would be clear.  If you want to observe the proceedings, fine.  If you attempt to become a part of the proceedings you will be removed, along with the television cameras for which you were performing.

In yesterday's hearings dealing with emergency responses some of the 9/11 family members were actually carrying signs that read "truth" and "fiction."  They would chose which sign to wave depending on their feelings about the testimony being offered.  There is no way these signs should have been allowed in the hearing room, and no way they should have been allowed to stay once their little ploy became clear.

There is, I suppose, still a chance that the 9/11 Commission could produce a final report worth attention ... but the failure of Chairman Kean to reign in the partisanship and control the activist 9/11 families doesn't bring much cause for hope.

RALPHIE BOY TOWING THE PARTY LINE

Yesterday. The Poodle met with Ralph Nader.  After the meeting, Ralphie Boy came out all smiles and praised The Poodle.  Now keep in mind that this is the same Ralph Nader that was saying there was no fundamental difference between John Kerry and George Bush. Makes you wonder exactly what's going on, doesn't it?

For Nader's part, it's all about ego. He wants people to pay attention to him.  He knows he has no chance of winning, and he knows that, like in 2000, he could throw the election by siphoning off just enough votes from The Poodle to re-elect Bush.  This is all about making Kerry come to him and beg for his support.

According to an aide, Kerry told Nader "I have fought with you.  I have been with you on a range of issues and you should judge me by my record in the Senate."  Now this is rather odd, isn't it?  The Souffle wants Nadar to judge him by his Senate record.  Why?  Because he was recently designated the most liberal Senator out there ... even more to the left than Teddy Kennedy.  But the voters?  For the voters it's a different story.  sKerry wants you to believe he's a centrist who wants to go out there and kick terrorist butt.  The same man who once said that US troops abroad should be under the control of the United Nations now wants to position himself to the voters as a gung ho warrior against terrorism.  But for Nader ... "Look, Ralphie.  It's me.  The Senate's greatest liberal?  You don't want to mess up my chances, do you?"

In the end, Nader will probably pull out of the race and fall in line with Kerry, just like any other good liberal Democrat.  But not before he gets some more press down there at Ralph, Inc.

HAVE YOU EVER READ THIS BEFORE?

I was going through the Constitution of the United States this morning, doing some research for a Town Hall column that should appear tomorrow.  I stopped for a few moments to re-read Article I, Section 8.  This is where the powers delegated to the federal government are enumerated.  Give it a read ... you might find it interesting.

Now that you've learned a bit about the specific powers granted to the federal government under our Constitution, do you have a few more seconds to read Amendment X of the Bill of Rights.  Go ahead.  It's short:

That all seems pretty clear, doesn't it?  In one section you have a specific list of powers delegated to the federal government, and in the Bill of Rights you see that all powers not delegated to the feds belong to the states, or to the people ... to you. 

Now I don't have much time here before I head for the Boortz Show Studios on Peachtree Street, but I'm wondering if any of you can read these sections of our Constitution and tell me just where the Imperial Federal Government of the United States gets the power to take money from you at the point of a gun and (a) give it to an artist who can't survive in the free marketplace; (b) give it to someone so that they can buy filet mignon at the checkout stand while you stand there with your pound of pork chops;  or (c) give it to McDonalds to help them advertise Big Macs in Djibouti? 

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Peggy Noonan has a conversation with a swing voter who is leaning toward The Poodle.

Libertarian businessman T.J. Rodgers unloads ... damned good read.

A Marine serving in Iraq sees what the spineless, gutless, defeatist , doom-and-gloom media does not: victory.  Major Ben Connable checks in from the 1st Marine Divison. Excellent column.

Remember the LA Times editor that was lecturing us all about the rise of 'pseudo-journalism?'  Ann Coulter takes issue, and in her usual way, rips the guy a new one.

Nick Berg's grieving father has blamed Donald Rumsfeld and George Bush for his son's death. Larry Elder talks about that misplaced outrage.

Miramax films has hired a number of Bush-bashers to promote Michael Moore's new anti-American, left-wing film diatribe.

Thomas Sowell tells a story about how social workers gave back a baby with broken bones to his parents, and the baby wound up dead.

It only happens every four years -- a graduating college class gets to vote for president.  Suzanne Fields looks at a recent commencement speech by President Bush.

The size and scope of the federal government is growing faster under George Bush than any president previously, and according to Robert Novak, that has the conservative base upset.

When it comes to national security, the American people are suffering from one giant case of attention deficit disorder.  Gary Aldrich explains.

Sarin gas was discovered in Iraq, confirming the existence of weapons of mass destruction in that country. So why did the media do its best to downplay it?  William Safire has the goods.

President Bush's best bet for winning re-election is by taking bold action.  John Podhoretz explains how.

So how can President Bush get back up in the polls and defeat The Poodle?  Just ask Dick Morris.

The media's obsession with John McCain switching parties and joining the sKerry ticket has now reached a fever pitch.  Eric Fettman wonders, has anyone in the Democratic party checked McCain's voting record?

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