Monday, May 24, 2004

THE AIRTRAN CARIBBEAN CLASSIC GOLF TOURNAMENT

For the second year in a row I was privileged to host the AirTran Caribbean Classic Golf Tournament at the Our Lucaya Resort on Grand Bahama Island.  This year we had nearly 200 people, with almost 100 golfers on Our Lucaya's two resort golf courses.  The event raised thousands for Prevent Child Abuse Georgia.  Great golf, dinners on the beach, swimming with the dolphins, the pool bar, the casino .... what's not to like!  Most gratifying were the people who came up to me and made me promise to give them advance notice of next year's event so that they could be sure not to miss out.  Thanks, everyone .. and a special thanks to AirTran Airlines for donating two Boeing 717s to get us to and from Freeport.  It was a fantastic time for a great cause.  I'm sure my talk radio buddies will understand why I wasn't at Talker's Magazine New Media Seminar in New York City over the weekend.  Caribbean ... New York City.  Do the math.

CANNES

Did I tell you that the winner of the Cannes Film Festival would be a movie that was either stridently anti-American, leftist or anti-George Bush?  Yup ... seems I told you exactly that, and it seems that I was exactly right.

We already know from "Bowling for Columbine" that the truth means nothing to Michael Moore and that he will stage scenes and present them to the audience as random events.  The whole "Bowling for Columbine" bit was based on a lie.  The Columbine killers, Harris and Klebold, did not go bowling the morning of the their bloody attack.  Well, I guess you can't let the truth get in the way of a clever title, can you?

The jury that awards the Cannes prize is trying to tell the world that their decision was not politically motivated.  We're dealing with an event in France that is judged by our leftist Hollywood elite, and they're telling us that politics has nothing to do with the award? 

Yeah.  We'll go along with that, won't we? 

TERRORISTS GOOD ... BUSH BAD

Michael Berg, the father of terrorist beheading victim Nick Berg, is using his son's death to promote his long-held anti-Bush and anti-war position.  Remember, Michael Berg was a signatory to some of the anti-American Saddam appeasement screeds issued by a group called International ANSWER prior to the beginning of the liberation of Iraq in early 2003.  I'm not going to tell you here of the connections of International ANSWER and the world communist movement.  You just check out that angle yourself.  You won't believe me anyway.

So ... last week Michael Berg writes a little op-ed piece for the London Guardian.  I've lifted a part of that speech from Tranto's Friday Column and placed it here.  Read it ... and try to control your gag reflex:

People ask me why I focus on putting the blame for my son's tragic and atrocious end on the Bush administration. They ask: "Don't you blame the five men who killed him?" I have answered that I blame them no more or less than the Bush administration, but I am wrong: I am sure, knowing my son, that somewhere during their association with him these men became aware of what an extraordinary man my son was. I take comfort that when they did the awful thing they did, they weren't quite as in to it as they might have been. I am sure that they came to admire him.

I am sure that the one who wielded the knife felt Nick's breath on his hand and knew that he had a real human being there. I am sure that the others looked into my son's eyes and got at least a glimmer of what the rest of the world sees. And I am sure that these murderers, for just a brief moment, did not like what they were doing.

George Bush never looked into my son's eyes. George Bush doesn't know my son, and he is the worse for it. George Bush, though a father himself, cannot feel my pain, or that of my family, or of the world that grieves for Nick, because he is a policymaker, and he doesn't have to bear the consequences of his acts. George Bush can see neither the heart of Nick nor that of the American people, let alone that of the Iraqi people his policies are killing daily.

Now isn't that special?  Here we have Michael Berg writing of the essential humanity of the terrorists who killed his son, while painting George Bush as a heartless and unfeeling policymaker.  Forgive the terrorists, for they really didn't like doing what they did anyway.  It's our president who is the bad guy. 

BUSH'S SPEECH TONIGHT

In a nationally televised address tonight at the Army War College in Carlisle, PA, President Bush is expected to lay out his plans for Iraq. The White House has not asked the broadcast networks to carry it, so it looks like it will only be on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC.  Which is probably a good idea politically for the president, since more people sadly care about watching their shows than they do hearing what the president has to say about Iraq.  There's no sense in creating a backlash from people who just can't miss "Everyone Loves Raymond", or whatever the name of that wonderful Hollywood touch of reality is.  We also have the season finale of "The Swan."  Yet another show I haven't seen.

All day long  you are going to be hearing the talking heads in the media advising us of what the president "needs to say" and what he "has to do."  Whatever Bush says tonight will not be good enough for the media, no matter what he says. The only thing we can hope is that people actually watch the speech, and it gets through the thick skulls of the general public (at least the ones that are watching it.)  But it will change no minds in the media, so expect non-stop negative spin.

It's interesting how the media and liberals continue to insist Bush is 'running out of time' in Iraq.  Running out of time for what?  We are still on track for the June 30th handover, which has been planned for months. Despite what the headlines say, much Iraq is at peace.  What are they talking about?  The answer is that they don't care about America's success in the war on terror, all they care about is the defeat of President George W. Bush for re-election.  They believe failure in Iraq would ensure that defeat.

Such is their hatred for the man that they will do anything to limit him to a single term.

THE WEDDING PARTY THAT WON'T GO AWAY

The Associated Press continues to run the story that the Coalition bombed an innocent wedding party in the middle of the desert at 3:00 in the morning last week.  To hear them tell it, the United States military came upon a wedding, and decided that for whatever reason, we should kill everyone in attendance. Sure. That's exactly what happened.  Idiots.

The latest dispatch from the pity party news wire says that  the "videotape obtained Sunday by the Associated Press Television News" (meaning videotape edited and given to them by terrorists) shows that there was only a wedding.  Apparently the terrorists weren't nice enough to include scenes of their meetings and anti-American remarks.  Darn.  Anyway, the news story goes into long, drawn-out detail to do their best to make it seem like that was all that was going on. There was even a wedding singer that was killed by the planes' bombs. Those evil Americans strike again!

The Coalition says they found rifles, machine guns, foreign passports, bedding, syringes and other items suggesting the site was used by foreign fighters coming over the border from Syria. What was that doing there?  And why was there a wedding being held out in the middle of the desert? 

The Bush Administration isn't going to win on this one.  The "America bombed a wedding" story hurts Bush, while an "American destroys a terrorist and insurgent safe house" story would help him.  Guess which one gets the ink?

BUSH-BASHING COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER BOOED

Yes.  There is some good news this morning

Finally, there is some justice in this world for the Bush-hating left.  Writer E.L. Doctorow was nearly booed off stage at Hofstra University yesterday when  he gave a commencement speech bashing President Bush and  basically called him a liar.  As soon as the criticism of Bush began, so did the booing. 

Doctorow spent almost the entire 20-minute address criticizing Bush.  Just how inspirational was this for the students?  Somewhere I thought I read that when giving a commencement speech you're supposed to try to say something that the graduates might actually find inspiring!  All Doctorow did was grind his political axe.

Many parents and relatives were outraged, saying that a commencement was no place for politics. They're right...talk about spoiling an important moment. It's also interesting that most of the faculty gave this guy a standing ovation, but only some of the students did. Maybe there still is hope.

Liberals will never get it...then again, that's why they're liberals. By the way, here's a much better commencement address.

THE MORE I THINK ABOUT THIS, THE MORE I BELIEVE IT IS FUNDAMENTALLY TRUE

I was in the middle of one of my rants last Friday ... just saying whatever came to mind ... when I started talking about the incredible level of rank stupidity and ignorance that not only exists, but seems to thrive in our society.  I know .. it's not really nice to be talking about how stupid people are.  Sorry .. I'm not interested in being nice.  The truth is insensitive.

Here's your basic truth --- and the more I thought about this over the weekend, the more I came to believe that it deserves to be regarded as a truth of life that is above challenge.  About 50% of the adults in this country are simply too damned ignorant and stupid to be living in a free society.  These are people who cannot survive without someone else stepping forward to take care of them.  They need to and deserve to live in a dictatorship, hopefully benevolent. 

I'm working on developing this thought.  One thing that occurs to me is that I am unwilling to surrender my freedoms and economic liberty simply because these idiots can't cope.  That means that they are a danger to me. 

More on this later.

FRIDAY'S NUZE POLL

On Friday we asked you how the economy felt to your family.  Eighty-one percent said that it was getting better.  Congratulations on knowing the truth. 

U.S. CUSTOMS --- FLYING IN FROM THE CARIBBEAN

As many of you know, I flew my Mooney into the Caribbean over the past weekend.  This time when I came back to the States I did not fly to Palm Beach Airport (PBI) to clear customs.  I flew instead to Ft. Pierce (FPR).  For those of you flying private airplanes into the Bahamas, trust me.  Ft. Pierce is a much better choice than PBI. There's an FBO right next door with eager young linemen who will help you with customs, and then fuel your airplane as soon as you're cleared.  Until I manage to get an overflight permit in my hot clutches, it's FPR from now on. 

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Have you heard Kerry's latest ploy?  He wants to actually delay his nomination by the Democratic National Convention by several weeks so that he won't be restricted by the campaign finance reform act that he supported.

Many of you are quick to blame the religious conservatism of George Bush and the Republicans for the recent FCC crackdown on indecency in broadcasting.  You're wrong, you know.  The force behind this crackdown is a Democrat. 

Pew Research has done another poll of media types ... trying to figure out their political leanings.  Here are your results.

7 Iraqis are grateful for the liberation of their country by the United States because Saddam cut off their hands as punishment for using American currency.  Why aren't you hearing more stories like this? Because it won't help defeat George Bush, that's why.

Ralph Nader is advising The Poodle on potential running mates.  I thought Nader was running against sKerry?  

The war in Iraq could wind  up defeating either Kerry or Bush, since The Souffle hasn't come out against the war, like Nader has. Dick Morris unravels the polls.

With the June 30th deadline for the handover of power in Iraq approaching, it's time to crush the insurgents, say Lewis E. Lehrman and William Kristol.

With its latest hearings, the 9/11 Commission has jumped the shark.  Jack Kelly says that what we have here is really the Clown Commission.

Another Vietnam Veteran  is saying he will not vote for The Poodle. Perhaps his Vietnam service isn't all it's cracked up to be. You do know, don't you , that John Kerry's entire chain of command in Vietnam says that he is unfit to serve as commander in chief.

Are some journalists rooting for the enemy in Iraq?  You bet. Cathy Young looks at the gloating.

Think we should cut and run in Iraq?  Listen to what a Democratic member of Congress has to say. You will be surprised.

Tonight the president speaks to the nation.  Michael Barone wonders if Bush can make any headway  when the press wants to put the worst possible face on the war? 

Should all these Abu Ghraib photos be published?  John Leo has a few ideas on some other photos the media should be publishing. 

So what is the Patriot Act, and what is it not?  Has anyone bothered to read it?  Jeff Jacoby looks at the overblown fears.

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