Archive for November, 2003
Answer to the Media
Sunday, November 30th, 2003Reader tomj writes in a comment below:
i figure i have one way certain to respond to the bias of the aforementioned liberal liars. i have cancelled my subscripions and get my news articles free via polipundit and realclearpolitics….
Many more people than you may realize are reacting similarly.
In fact the New York Times lost 5.3 percent [...]
Lying Liberal Media
Saturday, November 29th, 2003As an experiment, I wondered how the lying liberal media would have reacted if Republicans were to use their opponents’ rhetoric against them.
Actual Quote from Ted Kennedy: “This [Iraq war] was a fraud.”Hypothetical Quote from, say, Senator Mitch McConnell: “Ted Kennedy is a fraud.”
Actual Quote from Howard Dean: “John Ashcroft is not a patriot.”Hypothetical Quote [...]
The Clark Expose-a-thon
Saturday, November 29th, 2003I know I’ve been on a bit of a Weasel Clark bender lately (in fact, since the day he got into the race.) But it’s a slow news period and Clark is such an inviting target, with his lying, his flip-flops, his pandering, his incoherence, his opportunism, his megalomania…. well, you get the idea.
And, besides, [...]
Shameless Pander of the Day
Saturday, November 29th, 2003“And we are especially thankful this year for Astrid Oviedo Clark, our wonderful daughter-in-law, who is expecting our first grandchild.”
— The third sentence from Weasel Clark’s Thanksgiving greeting. (Astrid “Oviedo” Clark usually calls herself Astrid Clark.)
It’s hard to think of a more condescending way to pander to Hispanics. Imagine if President Bush’s Thanksgiving greeting [...]
Quote of the Day
Friday, November 28th, 2003“This personal attack, especially on a day like today for Governor Dean, is disturbingly ruthless.”
— Howard Dean spokesperson Tricia Enright, after Weasel Clark’s despicable attack on Dean’s patriotism.
Clark had said, “[Dean] was out there skiing when I was recovering from my wounds in Vietnam,” on the same day that Dean had to undergo the [...]
Crazy Weasel Clark
Thursday, November 27th, 2003When Weasel Clark got into the presidential race, I noted some of his bizarre statements and wondered if he was dealing from a full deck.
Now Matt Taibbi, writing for the hard-left Nation magazine, spent some time undercover with the Clark campaign and says there’s something distinctly off-kilter about Clark and his campaign. The piece is [...]
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Thursday, November 27th, 2003Guess who dropped in at Baghdad for a surprise Thanksgiving visit with the troops. No, not Hillary. Think “Senior Administration Official.”
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 26th, 2003Jonah Goldberg says we have much to be thankful for.
Hypocrisy of the Day
Wednesday, November 26th, 2003“They’re just carving each other up. I’ve never seen anything more effective than when they go at each other about who did what 10 or 15 years ago. But the problem I’m worried about is today, tomorrow, next year and the future.”
— Weasel Clark, bemoaning the negative campaigning of his fellow Democrat presidential contenders.
“I [...]
Clark’s Donors
Wednesday, November 26th, 2003Weasel Clark had a novel idea to raise money online: Promise a visit from the candidate himself to the zip code that raised the most online donations.
The Clark campaign has been very quiet about the results. You can see why from this table of the top 10 zip codes:
Rank
Zip Code
City
# of Donors
1
20009
Washington, DC
80
2
10025
New York, NY
31
3
10024
New [...]
Misstatement of the Day
Wednesday, November 26th, 2003“In 30 seconds, this ad distorts the Democrats’ views and impugns their motives more crudely than the Democrats have done to Bush in two years.”
— Slate’s William Saletan on the RNC ad that’s currently running in Iowa and New Hampshire.
Really, Mr. Saletan? Let’s compare it with some of the things Democrats have said about [...]
Wictory Wednesday
Wednesday, November 26th, 2003Around this time next year, you could be sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner while President-elect Weasel Clark goes on a grovelling tour of Europe.
That’s right, folks. If elected, the major Democrat presidential candidates – Dean, Clark and Kerry – are all considering bowing and scraping before Jacques Chirac, Gerhard Schroeder and Kofi Annan before they’re [...]
The Democrat Debates
Wednesday, November 26th, 2003I stopped watching the Democrat presidential “debates” a couple of months ago. No one was paying me to endure the torture of sitting through them for more than 30 minutes; so I decided to let the professionals, who get compensated for their suffering, watch the darn things.
Apparently the professionals have had enough too, as [...]
Quote of the Day
Wednesday, November 26th, 2003“I think the Democrats will look back at 2003 and feel very much like they did in 1971. They could have won the election this year, but not next year.”
— Dick Morris, on how the soaring economy and passage of the prescription drug bill have deprived Democrats of virtually all their issues.
I’ve been saying [...]
A Bush Landslide?
Tuesday, November 25th, 2003In the 2004 predictions thread below, reader Scott Elliott points out an interesting presentation by Republican pollster Bill McInturff. The presentation predicts a Bush landslide in 2004. It’s from June 2003; but its predictions are holding up extremely well so far.