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To: JohnM who wrote (66355)	1/16/2003 7:47:30 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 281500

Gotcha,, I was waiting for you to come to Al's defense again. I think they keep him for fair and balanced reporting g Granted , he does come up with a good article once in a great while..The ones I like best is when he says he was wrong..

To: JohnM who wrote (66355)	1/16/2003 8:59:08 AM
From: Rascal	Respond to of 281500

There they go Again. The Liberal Media! Boos for Bush silenced at AMA? MSNBC Jan. 15 — Did ABC censor a crowd’s disapproval of George H. Bush? The former president — and father of the current president — delivered a taped message at the American Music Awards on Monday night, and sources who were there tell The Scoop that the crowd booed him. WHEN THE BAND Alabama received the Award of Merit, the elder Bush’s face appeared on screen. “I’m very proud to be part of tonight’s tribute honoring one of the most highly successful bands country music has ever known,” said the former president, but his image was met with a loud chorus of boos. One source says Randy Owen, the lead singer for the band, was “pretty shaken” by the crowd’s reaction. The boos from the crowd, however, were not audible in the broadcast, leading some to believe that they were deleted by censors. “To be honest, I can’t tell you,” a spokesman for ABC told The Scoop, who referred the question to a spokesman for the production company. “I don’t know and I can’t tell you,” said a spokesman for the production company, who referred questions back to ABC. msnbc.com Rascal@ thecannonsareturning.com

To: JohnM who wrote (66355)	1/16/2003 9:05:48 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

JohnM, he's one of the few voices of reason on the WSJ editorial page maybe because he is the only one you agree with? :-) Seriously though, this gets to the core of our weakness - we follow party and partisan lines too closely. A serious consideration of SK & NK policy would be to withdraw from the south and let them try and sunshine the north. In a post cold war world we really do not have any strategic interest in Korea. We sign a non-invasion pact tied to proliferation. However, the NKoreans propensity to proliferate is a strategic issue, so at first sign of proliferation - we go in and take them out - period. We start talking softly and carry a VERY big stick. No treaties without verification and no mixed messages to the thugs. The plus side is we could now sign the land-mine treaty :-) The other factor is it tells the Taiwanese and Japanese they might be next - so maybe they need their own detterents. This might get the Chinese off their asses and get them to clean up North Korea. Right now they don't like what North Korea is doing, but its got to be getting a chuckle in their inner circle (seeing the position its puts the US in). John