Thou Shall Not Bear False Witness, Reverend [Mark Hemingway]
Earlier in the week, I wrote about the Petraeus hearing Monday when a couple of anti-war protesters got arrested. One of them, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr., president of the Hip Hop Caucus, was tackled by the police. Yearwood now claims it was because police wouldn't let him enter the hearing room wearing his "I love the people of Iraq" button. I'm not 100% here, but I'm pretty certain that's a lie. For one thing, many protesters in line were wearing anti-war regalia, and based on what we all saw on C-Span they had no trouble getting seats. According to the Washington Post, he was arrested for trying to cut in line. I was about five feet away when it happened — my article has a photo of his arrest — and I do know for certain he was arrested at the front of the line just outside the rope that demarcated the line. The cops tried to reason with him for quite a while before things got belligerent. Believe me, the last thing Capitol Police wants to do is tackle people wearing clerical collars in front of TV crews.
09/12 11:59 AM
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Good Citizenship [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
I don't care if you listen to or agree with Sean Hannity (I don't think Joe Lieberman, who was at Great Adventure with him last night, agrees with Sean on everything.). But we're at war and some Americans sacrifice a whole lot more than the rest of us. With the fundraising and rallying he's been doing all summer during his Freedom Concerts, Sean Hannity is using his influence to help some of those families who've lost in this war. Specifically, he's helping the Freedom Alliance provide full college scholarships to the children of military men and women who have died in the line of duty.
Sean deserves kudos for what he's doing and I pray he inspires others to do what they can in this war, where they (we) are. One place to start is certainly to help Freedom Alliance help the children of fallen American soldiers.
Anyway, here's my short write-up of Hannity's Freedom Concert work and why he and it rocks. (Links included.)
09/12 01:08 PM
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John McCain Won't MoveOn (Good for Him) [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
ARLINGTON, VA — U.S. Senator John McCain today issued the following statement on leading Democrat presidential candidates' refusal to condemn MoveOn.org's ad in Monday's New York Times:
"I remain deeply disappointed by the failure of leading Democrat presidential candidates to personally and publicly denounce the smear tactics used against General Petraeus by MoveOn.org. There is no greater slander to a soldier than an accusation of betrayal to his nation. I do not understand why those seeking to be commander-in-chief have yet to forcefully denounce, in their own words, this McCarthyite attack on our commander. I hope they would reconsider their silence and not let this slander of an exceptional American stand."
09/12 02:00 PM
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If He Had Higher Ratings, Keith Olbermann Would Be the Worst Person in the World [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Keith Olbermann named Joe Lieberman (occasional NRO contributor) his "Worst Person in the World" last night for going to the Hannity Freedom Concert last night.
Of course, this comes from the same MSNBC host who last year, while broadcasting from Ground Zero on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks, said:
"The polite phrase for how so many of us were duped into supporting a war on the false premise that it had something to do with 9/11 is ‘lying by implication.’ The impolite phrase is ‘impeachable offense.’...When those who dissent are told time and time again — as we will be, if not tonight by the President, then tomorrow by his portable public chorus — that he is preserving our freedom, but that if we use any of that freedom, we are somehow un-American; when we are scolded, that if we merely question, we have ‘forgotten the lessons of 9/11;’ look into this empty space behind me and the bipartisanship upon which this administration also did not build, and tell me this: Who has left this hole in the ground? We have not forgotten, Mr. President. You have. May this country forgive you."
Senator Lieberman supports an event that raises scholarship money for kids who lost a parent serving our country. You could do a helluva lot worse with your time. Like wasting it watching Keith Olbermann.
UPDATE: I learn from Sean's show that Senator Joe couldn't make it because of a vote. So he was the worst person and didn't even get to celebrate with Montgomery Gentry!
09/12 01:44 PM
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