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Friday we won't be posting any notes. Sorry. We take days off too. Herman Cain will be filling in for Neal. Everything on the Nuze will be back to normal on Monday. Enjoy your weekend!

THIS IS STILL IN THE NEWS?

I'll tell you what's going on here.  At some level, probably the vice-presidential level,  the decision was made to release the story of the hunting accident to the local Corpus Christi newspaper in Texas rather than to the Washington press corps.  Was this a deliberate move to tweak the elite Washington press mob?  Maybe so.  I would sure like to think so.  Sometimes you get the idea that these people sitting out there in the White House briefing room believe that all of our national political news begins and ends with them.  They know they were slighted, and they're furious.  They're going to retaliate .. they're going to show the vice-president and the White House who runs the media show around these parts.  How DARE the vice-president bypass them with the story of this shooting!  

Then ... let's twist the knife just a bit more.  Cheney then gives an interview to the Fox News Channel.  You can't imagine how these White House press darlings hate Fox News.  Remember those recent studies which showed that Fox News Channel was as close to unbiased and centrist as you can get within the national media?  That didn't help the reputation of Fox News Channel with the mainstream (leftist) media.  Again .. how dare he?  Brit Hume managed to get in a bit of a zinger also.  As Hume was waiting at the White House to conduct the interview, one of the network reporters came up and asked him how he had gotten the exclusive, and whether it was because of what people perceived as a pro-Bush bias at the news channel.  Hume's response?  Nope, the administration just wanted Cheney's exclusive on the cable news network that would reach the most people.  Zing!

Last evening on CNN Jack Cafferty was referring to Fox News Channel as "The "F" Word News Channel."  Now that's class!

The Washington press corps is sending a message.  Don't forget who runs the media show around here.

CAN YOU BELIEVE HILLARY?

I stood slack-jawed yesterday when the Media Darling, Hillary Clinton,  positioned herself in front of the cameras to announce to her anxiously waiting myrmidons that this White House just isn't forthcoming on the Cheney incident and other issues of importance to the American public.  OK, Let's see.  We have the Vince Foster episode.  Hillary's own aides were in Vince Foster's office going through his files immediately after Foster's body was found.  Those files were delivered to Hillary.  They've never been seen since.  How's that for being forthcoming?  And then we have that matter of the Rose Law Firm billing records.  The Congress subpoenaed them from Hillary.  She claimed she didn't have them.  She said they probably have been destroyed.  Then, after two years of dodging this legal subpoena, they're found in Hillary's private office in the living quarters of the White House.  They're found with her handwriting and her fingerprints all over them.  Hillary dodges a subpoena for two years, and then she stands before the American public to bitch because the Bush White House hasn't been "forthcoming."  Amazing.  We can only hope that the majority of Americans, and a good number of American women, can see through this phony and dangerous politician's lies and distortions. 

TORTURE AT GITMO?

Yesterday we told you that the U.N. Human Rights Commission had made a finding [pdf] that the United States was using "torture" at the detainee center at the Guantanamo naval base in Cuba.  Now .. are we talking about driving wood splinters up under fingernails?  No.  What about breaking fingers or toes?  Nope.  Not that either.  It seems that we were using light and temperature in naughty ways.  How do you use light?  You use light to keep people awake.  That's torture.  Gitmo is hot too.  Maybe they denied the prisoners air conditioning.  Would that be torture?   

The word "torture" is no longer a word used to describe treatment of a prisoner.  It is now a word used as a weapon against the United States and its efforts to fight Islamic radicals.

This morning I listened to Robin Oakley, the British political editor for CNN, talk about the findings of this phony UN body.  Oakley said: "Now we're going to see pressure to have the U.S. close Guantanamo."  So, what else is new?  Oakley also mentioned the light and the temperature, but he never mentioned force feeding.   That's right ... force-feeding  One of the elements of torture mentioned by the U.N. at Guantanamo was the force-feeding of detainees who are un hunger strikes.  So, according to the U.N., if a detainee tries to kill himself, and you take a measure to save his life, that constitutes torture.  

Message:  Don't take anything the U.N. or the U.N. Human Rights Commission has to say about torture seriously.  

MORE ABU GHRAIB

It has been awhile, hasn't it, since we've seen pictures of the abuses at Abu Ghraib.  As you know, the anti-American mainstream media loves Abu Ghraib.  They love any chance they can get to bash the military, embarrass the president and put pictures of supposedly "tortured" prisoners on the front page.  Here we go again.

Only this time, it's the Australian TV network, SBS. The photos they are showing are from several years ago, in 2003.  Many of  the pictures show Charles Graner, Jr., who is doing 10 years in a military prison for his role in the debacle. Some of the photos even allegedly show Charles Graner having sex with Lynndie England, who is serving a 3-year prison term for her role.  Mercifully, those pictures weren't released.  (Give them time.)

So how long before all of these pictures wind up on the cover of the New York Times?  Shouldn't take more than a few days. Remember, according to the media bias template:  the Abu Ghraib scandal must be mentioned over and over...it can never be forgotten.  It is their addiction...they are fixated on continuing the promotion of what happened.

And somebody tell the Aussies to burn those sex photos. Please.  There are just some things we don't need to see.  

AND AN UPDATE ON THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON AND PAPPY BOYINGTON

I'm happy to report to you that there are other students at the University of Washington who have the good sense to be embarrassed by Jill Edwards.  In fact, one member of the student senate has introduced an item demanding an apology from Edwards.  Here you go:

Wait .. it gets better!  It seems that Jill Edwards is catching a little heat from the great unwashed.  Now that's a shame, isn't it!  Don't you think that a young adult should be allowed to deliver an insult like this to everyone who ever wore the dress blues of a United States Marine without any negative feedback at all?  Jill, it seems, holds a place on the University of Washington student senate due to her membership in something called the "Honors Croquet League."  Now isn't that special.  Jill Edwards is an honors croquet player.  We're all impressed.  Here's an item that she posted on the Internet after the flap over her comments about Marines became public.  We'll just leave the spelling where it is.

HOW ABOUT A PAPPY BOYINGTON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP?

Here is an email I received from a listener named Charles Rutledge:  

If Jill Edwards is opposed to a memorial on campus for Pappy Boyington, maybe a few of us "rich white men" should get together and fund the Pappy Boyington Memorial Scholarship, which would be available to US Marines or their children to attend the University of Washington. Then every year, long after she left the university, Jill Edwards and company would have to live with the knowledge that someone (or some people) was attending UW with money given in Boyington's honor and memory and for the benefit of US Marines and their families. 

I love the idea!  So, here's what I'll offer.  I'm good at coming up with ideas, as is Charles Rutledge.  The problem is that I'm not good at execution.  So, if someone will establish a qualified scholarship fund [pdf] for Marine veterans or for the children of Marines lost in action to attend the University of Washington I'll kick off the fund-raising with a check for $5,000.  This I will do in honor of my father, a Marine aviator, who fought in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Sometimes the most effective burglar alarm is the simplest. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

In case you missed it, here is the full transcript of Dick Cheney's interview with Brit Hume on Fox News last night.

Michelle Malkin just about nails it with this column.  Don't miss this one.

Peggy Noonan has her ear to the ground and she thinks President Bush may be thinking about replacing Dick Cheney.  And she doesn't think it would be because of the hunting accident.  Interesting analysis...after all, there are 3 years left in the administration.

Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid called on Vice President Cheney the other day to have a press conference and criticized the handling of the shooting incident.  But did you know that Harry Reid.....the Senate Minority Leader....had a stroke last year, but hid it from the media for 3 days?  You probably won't hear much from the mainstream media on this one.

Thomas Sowell calls Dick Cheney's bird shot in Texas last weekend the 'shot heard round the Beltway.'  Does anyone outside of Washington actually care about whether or not the public was told Saturday or Sunday?  Probably not.

The administration says it was granted the authority to spy on potential terrorists by Congress when it passed an authorization for the use of force on September 14, 2001.  George Will explores the checks and balances of the situation.

Why are so many Muslims upset about the Mohammed cartoons?  Who should they be upset at?  Why is it Denmark's fault?  Who speaks for Islam, anyway?  These questions and more are addressed in today's Max Boot column.

Ann Coulter writes about the Muslim cartoon riots...and says Muslims are just doing what they do.  When things don't go their way, they riot and set things on fire.  She notes they seem to have an anger management problem.

Larry Elder points out the irony that took place at the Coretta Scott King funeral.  Speaker after speaker stood at the podium and talked about how there was still more work to do in the area of civil rights, yet there was Oprah Winfrey...she seems to have done pretty good for herself.

Professor Mike Adams has a message for liberals who feel morally superior to Dick Cheney because they've never shot someone on a hunting trip.

In California, students must pass an exit exam to be able to receive their high school diploma.  The purpose: to stop graduating kids who can't read and write.  Debra Saunders looks at a court case because one student couldn't pass the English portion.

PSA: don't send a pencil in to do the job of a Viagra tab.

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