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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (52196)	10/25/2000 3:18:36 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769667

Fifty Ways To Leave The Liberal Spin By L. Brent Bozell III October 25, 2000 You can sense the desperation in the Al Gore camp. Liberals in the press are now complaining that media somehow hate Gore. "For Gore, there's zero tolerance for anything but the literal truth," whines Margaret Carlson. "If these slips had been made by any other politician, they would have caused barely a peep," snips Jonathan Alter. How much must be overlooked to claim the media have "zero tolerance" for Gore’s lies, errors, and scandals? Let’s help them along with a partial list of things the media have invariably ignored or downplayed from the man whose every speech is a clinic in truth-parsing or gobbledy-gook. 1. When my sister died of cancer, I vowed to fight the tobacco industry until my last breath. 2. Which didn’t stop me from bringing tobacco industry hired gun Carter Eskew to help run my presidential campaign.. 3. I took the initiative in creating the Internet. 4. But I can’t tell you anything about those e-mails, because I’m not an expert on computers. 5. That Buddhist Temple event was not a fundraiser. 6. It was a donor maintenance event. 7. It was not technically a fundraiser, since the money changed hands after I left. 8. I must have had too much iced tea and taken too many bathroom breaks when they discussed how I’d be breaking the rules about fundraising from my office. 9. I’m proud we’re holding this hearing (1985) into the disgusting filthy lyrics coming out of the record companies. 10. I was against holding that hearing into filthy lyrics, and I apologize. 11. Tipper and I are proud of our fight against filthy lyrics. 12. I’m a really big fan of the rock band Hole. ("Hey look me over/I’m where I want to be/ A walking study in demonology.") 13. I will fight for America’s working families. I’m no longer throwing your family out of my dilapidated rental property and into the street, Mrs. Mayberry. 14. What Juanita Broaddrick interview? I must have missed that. 15. I’m against a nuclear test-ban treaty. 16. I’ve favored a nuclear test-ban treaty for 20 years. 17. Federal judges guilty of perjury must be impeached. 18. Presidents guilty of perjury are among our nation’s greatest presidents. 19. I support the Defense of Marriage Act. 20. I support the Vermont Supreme Court ordering the legislature to make gay marriage legal. 21. Jesus and Mary were homeless people. 22. My mother-in-law’s drugs are more expensive than my dog’s. A Democratic stat sheet told me so. 23. The internal combustion engine is a greater enemy than the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. 24. A leopard can’t change his stripes; e pluribus unum means "out of one, many"; and isn’t Michael Jackson an amazing basketball player? 25. Abortion is the taking of a human life. 26. I have always been pro-choice. 27. This little old lady Winifred Skinner here had to walk the streets picking up cans to afford to eat because of high drug costs. Her story was completely spontaneous and unsolicited. 28. I support socialized health care. 29. I support a smaller government. 30. George W. Bush doesn’t have the experience to be President. 31. I’ve never questioned Bush’s experience. 32. I was lulled to sleep as a child by a (1975) union commercial jingle. 33. Actually, it was a 1901 labor anthem. 34. Actually, it was all just a joke. Didn’t you hear them laugh? 35. I’ll fight for you against Big Oil. 36. Bill, please sign the largest privatization in history over to Occidental Petroleum. 37. I will not attack my opponent as a bumbler. 38. My spokesmen call him a bumbler, but they don’t speak for me. 39. Tipper and I were the inspiration for Love Story. 40. Tipper wasn’t, but the error was made by the Nashville Tennessean. 41. This poor student in Sarasota, Florida doesn’t have a desk to sit in. 42. She does, but the error was made by the local paper. 43. I went with FEMA director James Lee Witt to the Parker County, Texas fires in 1996. 44. It was the deputy director of FEMA, in 1998, in Houston, on a fundraising trip. It was just the details I got wrong. 45. I’m not meeting with Al Sharpton. I’m just heading over to Karenna’s apartment on a strictly personal visit.) 46. I’ve been a part of discussions on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve since the beginning, two years before I came to Congress. 47. I wrote crucial lines in Hubert Humphrey’s acceptance speech at the 1968 Democratic convention. 48. I co-sponsored McCain-Feingold in the Senate, after I left the Senate. 49. I can’t think of any lies President Clinton has told in his first two years in office. 50. There's never been a time when I've said something untrue.

To: ColtonGang who wrote (52196)	10/25/2000 3:41:49 PM
From: Selectric II	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I used to be a young idealist and thought so, but I've gotten a little wiser. Sometimes those traits are just labels and thin veneers, rather than values, and are employed to disguise ulterior motives of obtaining power and/or wealth. Marxism, which claims all those things but resulted in enslavement of entire nations and mass murder, is a good example. You claim liberals to be free thinking, but all one has to do is read back on this thread to see how dogmatic, intolerant, and hateful they are of people who disagree with them. You claim liberals to be humanistic, but often it's only so long as their efforts are supported with other peoples' money, of which they never seem to have enough to finish the job. And you claim liberals are compassionate, but it can be just as often a cynical tool they use to obtain and keep power. I'll never forget Bill Clinton entering Ron Brown's funeral, laughing and smirking until he realized the camera was on. His face melted into frowns and tears of compassion. I do like those traits when they are truly heartfelt and not simply a means of obtaining power and wealth. Today's liberals too often are the latter. CLINTON/GORE IS A PRIME EXAMPLE.

To: ColtonGang who wrote (52196)	10/25/2000 3:52:00 PM
From: Joe Btfsplk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

What do you have against liberals?......they're free thinking, humanistic, and compassionate What are now called liberals here lack the knowledge to think seriously. Their focus on perceived evils preclude an ability to understand process, then find great truths. Accepting their prescriptions results in the precise opposite of compassion. Thomas Sowell, with his usual brilliance, examined the differences between liberals and Liberals in his "CONFLICT OF VISIONS". To crudely caricature his observations, liberals have an unconstrained view. They generally believe they can anoint charlatan wizards to wave magic wands and create potions that will make things generally better. That don't work. Many of the finest Liberal thinkers started as twits. Where there was a combination of passion and intellect, they evolved.

To: ColtonGang who wrote (52196)	10/25/2000 5:32:50 PM
From: Elvis Jones	Respond to of 769667

What do you have against liberals?......they're free thinking, humanistic, and compassionate. You don't like these traits in a person? Being free thinking, humanistic and compassionate is never wrong. It is charitable, an honorable trait. I think I have these traits as well. Charity is a gift, a choice we all must decide individually. I choose to give my money to my church, my kids' school programs, the United Way and others. It is my choice. Others who choose not to donate money, time, etc. are free to do so without obligation or scorn. Forcing Americans to support charitable programs via taxes is wrong. And that's what Liberals want us to do.