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:: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 ::

The Problem with "Some" Conservatives

Here's an article from Counter Bias on Brit Hume:

*** COUNTERBIAS BRIEF *** MAR 28 2004 *** Last Update: Mar 28

FOX NEWS PUNDIT BRIT HUME TELLS FAMILIES OF DEAD AMERICAN SOLDIERS TO "JUST GET OVER IT"

* C O U N T E R B I A S . C O M E X C L U S I V E *

Brit Hume, a conservative news anchor on the right-wing Fox News Channel, continued his staunch support for the Republican Party when he told critics of President Bush--including families of American soldiers killed in his Iraq war--to "just get over it", on the 28 March 2004 edition of Fox News Sunday.

When asked on-air about the criticism Bush had received, from Democrats and families of American soldiers killed in Iraq, concerning jokes about non-existent WMD during a White House event, Mr. Hume unsurprisingly defended Bush, calling his harshly-criticized jokes a "good-natured performance".

Mr. Hume then said of those critical of Bush's WMD jokes, including families of American soldiers killed on the premise that such weapons existed, that "you have to feel like saying to people, 'Just get over it'."

Mr. Hume has long been apologetic to Republican interests, at one point playing tennis on White House courts as a guest of both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush while an 'impartial' Washington reporter for ABC News.

As a man whose son's life was lost to suicide, Mr. Hume would be expected to show more sensitivity to the lives of those Americans who have themselves lost children.

Chris Wallace and Juan Williams, two other Fox pundits appearing in the segment with Mr. Hume, attempted to talk over Mr. Hume during the last part of his monologue ("just get over it") at the realization of the possible damaging effect of his words.

The transcript is provided below:

WALLACE: And one that got a big laugh in the room that day -- and I must say, I still think it's funny -- the day after, some Democrats and the families of some American soldiers in Iraq, some who died in Iraq, said they were offended by this kidding about the missing weapons of mass destruction. Brit?

HUME: Well, we have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.

And in America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously.

My own view of this is, the president's there poking fun at himself over what goes down, I think, as one of his failures. And I thought it was a good-natured performance, and it made him look good only in the sense that it showed he could poke fun at himself. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction.

And you have to feel like saying to people, "Just get over it."

Just get over it? What an a**hole. Six hundred soldiers dead, more than 3,300 wounded. Get over it? My nephew who is in the Marines is coming home from Okinawa in a couple of months and will spend about a month home. After that, he will be going to Iraq for at least six months. For Brit Hume to say what he said says more about him than he realizes. To the families of the next 600 hundred soldiers that may die in this insane war, I say "Never get over it." Brit Hume who never served in the military is a disgrace and he, like Hannity, Limbaugh, Delay, Haskert, Cheney never put on the country's uniform. Bush's National Guard stint was a farce. He knows that he received preferential treatment and is only where he is because of his daddy and his daddy's friends. Just a disgraceful bunch. It's very easy for some folks to be super patriots now, but where were you when it counted? By the way as I have stated before, I served in the Army from 1981 to 1985.

:: DM1 3/30/2004 02:26:00 PM [+] ::
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Another Blast From The Past (July 2003)

Memo to George W. Bush:

So you have moved on from the Iraq/Niger/Uranium issue. Well because you are not the King of the U.S. you will respond fully to all of the questions that are being raised. How cowardly was it to go to Africa after admitting that the Iraq/Africa/Uranium statement in your State of the Union to the Nation was false/inaccurate/a lie? Who are you to tell the American People that you have moved on from this issue when you were out of the country when the admission was made. Arrogance and hubris are not traits that are becoming to a president even for one who was appointed and not elected. You will move on from this issue only when you and your minions have given a full and complete accounting of all the statements made about Iraq and WMD. We, the taxpayers, pay your salary. You are accountable to us and in 2004 we will exercise our responsibility and vote you out of office. What a complete and utter disgrace!

:: Da' Militant 1 7/13/2003 10:49:37 AM

:: DM1 3/28/2004 04:40:00 AM [+] ::
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A Blast from the Past (June 2003)

Memo to Sheep:

These are the words of leading conservative republicans in the matter of presidential lies and misleading statements:

Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Illinois),

“There is a visibility factor in the president's public acts, and those which betray a trust or reveal contempt for the law are hard to sweep under the rug...They reverberate, they ricochet all over the land and provide the worst possible example for our young people.”

Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wisconsin)

“The truth is still the truth, and a lie is still a lie, and the rule of law should apply to everyone, no matter what excuses are made by the president's defenders…We have done so because of our devotion to the rule of law and our fear that if the president does not suffer the legal and constitutional consequences of his actions, the impact of allowing the president to stand above the law will be felt for generations to come…laws not enforced are open invitations for more serious and more criminal behavior.”

Steve Chabot (R-Ohio)

“It would be wrong for you to tell America's children that some lies are all right. It would be wrong to show the rest of the world that some of our laws don't really matter.”

Steve Buyer (R- Indiana)

“I have also heard some senators from both sides of the aisle state publicly: I think these offenses rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. Now, to state publicly that you believe that high crimes and misdemeanors have occurred but for some reason you have this desire not to remove the president -- that desire, though, does not square with the law, the Constitution, and the Senate's precedents for removing federal judges for similar offenses.”

Rep. Lindsey Graham (R - South Carolina, Now Senator)

“The president of the United States sets atop of the legal pyramid. If there's reasonable doubt about his ability to faithfully execute the laws of the land, our future would be better off if that individual is removed. And let me tell you where it all comes down to me. If you can go back and explain to your children and your constituents how you can be truthful and misleading at the same time, good luck.”

Of course, the president that they were speaking of was Bill Clinton. The president that their words apply to is George Bush. Lying about sex: Number of casualties - 0. Lying about war: 190+ killed, hundreds wounded and counting. Who are you going to believe Bush, or your own lying eyes?
:: Da' Militant 1 6/21/2003 01:41:35 PM [+] ::
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Notice that the number of soldiers killed stand at more than 190. The number killed is now at 600. Now what?

:: DM1 3/28/2004 04:33:00 AM [+] ::
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Update on Bill Frist's Claim that Richard Clarke Perjured Himself

Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist accused Richard Clarke of perjury a couple of days ago. Let's look at what Frist is saying now. Here is a excerpt from an MSNBC news article:

Frist later retreated from directly accusing Clarke of perjury, telling reporters that he personally had no knowledge that there were any discrepancies between Clarke’s two appearances. But he said, “Until you have him under oath both times, you don’t know.”

Did you get that? Bill Frist accused Clarke of perjury and now says that he personally has no knowledge that Clarke perjured himself. Can you say, "A disgrace to the Senate?" What type of character does a person have to accuse someone of perjury and then turning around and admitting that they have no knowledge of what they speak? Dick Clarke is going to weather the storms because the Bush Administration and his flunkies know that he is telling the truth. The republicans spent eight years chasing Bill Clinton's gonads and three years covering up for an incompetent that had no business being appointed president. Folks like Clarke are tired of covering up for Bush's failures and so the "chickens are coming home to roost."

:: DM1 3/28/2004 04:27:00 AM [+] ::
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My E-Mail This Morning to Fox and Friends Concerning Condi Rice and the 9/11 Commission

There is only one reason that the incompetent National Security Advisor Condi Rice won't testify under oath at the 9/11 Commission Hearings. It's called "Perjury". She has been lying in many of her statements and it is painfully obvious. For all of the slings and arrows that Richard Clarke has suffered, he has testified under oath. If he is lying bring him up on perjury charges. There is nothing stopping the feckless Bush Administration and the rest of the republican conservative hacks from investigating Clarke. I doubt that they will. It is far better to call Clarke names especially when you can't under oath refute his statements. I see that Oliver North is now on the show rebutting Clarke. This is the same guy that lied to Congress under oath. Fair and balanced? Yeah, right.

:: DM1 3/26/2004 07:20:00 AM [+] ::
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Revisting WMDs

For those of you sheep who still bow down to the Dauphin, ask yourselves, "How come none of the WMD mentioned by anyone in the Bush Adminitsration has been found?" Now as one who was against the invasion in March 2003, I still hoped that some type of WMD would be found because the credibility of the country was at stake. Now for all the hundreds of tons of chemical, biological, and conventional WMDs that were confirmed by the Bush Administration, none have been found. I could understand if instead of hundreds of tons we found several tons, but we have found nothing! Zip! Somebody's been lying, not misleading, lying. If Wild Bill can be impeached for lying about oral sex, then we should alrady have drafted the 20th article of impeachment for His Fraudulency. That we haven't is an indictment on the moral failings and lack of integrity of the people of this nation. I guess if you are white AND conservative AND weathly then there are no consequences for your criminal activities. Excuse me, "policies."

:: DM1 3/20/2004 10:13:00 AM [+] ::
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The Problem with "Dick" Cheney

Here is the problem I have with Dick Cheney:

Elizabeth Cheney, Deferment Baby
How Dick Cheney dodged the Vietnam draft.
By Timothy Noah
Posted Thursday, March 18, 2004, at 2:09 PM PT


"[T]he Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample doubts about his judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security," Vice President Dick Cheney said during a March 17 visit to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum. He was talking, of course, about John Kerry, the putative Democratic presidential nominee. During the past three years, we've all become better acquainted with Vice President Cheney's judgment and attitude toward national security, which are a good deal more hawkish than Kerry's. A widely observed irony is that the dovish Kerry saw combat in Vietnam while the hawkish Cheney accepted a series of student and family-related draft deferments. Cheney's unself-consciousness about this is (or at least was) so pronounced that in 1989 he told George C. Wilson of the Washington Post, "I had other priorities in the '60s than military service."

What Chatterbox never realized until recently, however, is that Cheney's eldest daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, likely owes her very existence to her father's avoidance of the Vietnam draft.

The Washington Post's Phil McCombs made the intimate calculations in a profile published in April 1991, when Cheney was defense secretary. The timeline:

Aug. 29, 1964: Dick and Lynne Cheney marry.

May 19, 1965: The Selective Service classifies Dick Cheney 1-A, "available immediately for military service."

July 28, 1965: President Lyndon Johnson says draft calls will be doubled.

Oct. 26, 1965: The Selective Service declares that married men without children, who were previously exempted from the draft, will now be called up. Married men with children remain exempt.

Jan. 19, 1966: The Selective Service reclassifies Dick Cheney 3-A, "deferred from military service because service would cause hardship upon his family," because his wife is pregnant with their first child.

July 28, 1966: Elizabeth Cheney is born.

Jan. 30, 1967: Dick Cheney turns 26 and therefore becomes ineligible for the draft.

Dedicated students of obstetrics will observe that Elizabeth Cheney's birth date falls precisely nine months and two days after the Selective Service publicly revoked its policy of not drafting childless husbands. This would seem to indicate that the Cheneys, though doubtless planning to have children sometime, were seized with an untamable passion the moment Dick Cheney became vulnerable to the Vietnam draft. And acted on it. Carpe diem!

In a nutshell, you have a wuss trying call out a combat veteran on national defense. A candy-a*s that was too cowardly to voluteer or be drafted. For all of John Kerry's "issues" and he does have some "issues", I will trust John Kerry, who, by the way, VOLUNTEERED for service during Vietnam, to take care of the national defense instead of a weak and cowardly windbag who now does not mind sending other young men and women to their deaths. What an utter fraud! As a republican, I am truly disgusted by the hypocrites and liars that now masquerade as republicans. It started with the Reagan Administration and has taken full flight under the Fraudulancy's Administration. The state of the country reflects the poison that this Administration has been dispensing for three years. Give me the lyin' Bill Clinton any day. The only thing that they ever proved that he lied about was his triste with Monica. However, this current administration relishes in lying to the American public openly and with great conviction. I only hope the the rule of law finally catches up with these weasels and show them want true "conviction" really is. I'm betting on at lest probation and 200 hours of community service!

:: DM1 3/20/2004 10:10:00 AM [+] ::
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The Chickens are Still Coming Home

I've been away for awhile working and taking care of business. I was growing bored of pointing out the failure that is the Bush Administration, but a friend of mine threatened to drop me from his favorite links. Well here goes. The most ridiculous situation out there now is the Bush Administration's insistance that John Kerry come clean and name the foreign leaders that secretly want Bush gone. What? Does John Kerry really have to state the obvious? Isn't it clear that countries like Spain can't stand Bush or his incompetence in leading the so-called "War on Terror"? How about Bush coming clean in front of the 9/11 Commission? How about Iraq? How about Medicare? John Kerry had it right when he referred to folks as liars and crooks. Since he didn't explicitly name Bush or anyone in his administration, their indignation at his comments suggest that they believed that he was speaking of them. Well George for once you have it right. The lies have been so in your face that folks have been having a hard time confronting you and your crowd because it's difficult for them to believe that you could be so in your face about it. Well now it looks like you are facing a democrat that has grown a spine thanks to Howard Dean. You have been rolling out the big guns and shooting yourself in the foot. You have no one, but yourself to blame. You were at a 90% approval rating and started flying to close to the Sun. It's time to pack it in and go clear some more "brush".

:: DM1 3/16/2004 06:59:00 PM [+] ::
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