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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (2218)	12/10/2003 12:26:56 AM
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GAFFNEY VS. NORQUIST [Kathryn Jean Lopez] Frank Gaffney has a very long piece raising questions about Grover Norquist's ties to unsavory characters, and worse. I haven't had the chance to read the whole thing yet, but it is here. Evidently Grover and Frank had a debate about it on Hugh Hewitt's show today. It's reairing tomorrow. Details here. Posted at 09:59 PM ABC, DEMOCRAT HELPER [Tim Graham] This is the second ABC-sponsored Democratic debate for the purpose of airing snippets at a later time. In May, snippets ran on "This Week," and tonight on "Nightline." As for ABC's record in promoting/airing debates, Brent Bozell recalls 1999. The Republicans assembled three times in December of 1999. The first two debates, on December 2 and 6, drew no ABC evening news summation, not even a snippet on the nights after the events. The third debate, on December 12, finally earned a few video clips – so reporter Dean Reynolds could attack candidate George Bush as "stiff, uninformed, programmed, or all three," while media darling McCain "appeared confident." But when liberals gathered to push their agenda, ABC rolled out the red carpet. On December 16, "Nightline" devoted itself to a New Hampshire town meeting with two favored candidates, liberal Republican McCain and liberal Democrat Bill Bradley, to promote their alliance behind the cause of harsher campaign finance regulations. The next night, ABC sponsored a special 90-minute "Nightline" debate for liberal Al Gore and Bradley. The questions from Koppel were softballs, even silly. What kind of First Ladies would their wives make? What "distinguishes" them to be a better president? Posted at 09:44 PM RE: AP [Tim Graham] Nedra Pickler is a regular political reporter who must have gotten editor's orders to "fact check" the debate, or at least note the usual candidate omissions. It would have been stronger (but taken longer) to get fuller quotes (including Koppel's) to refute. When I caught pieces of the debate (OK, sue me, ESPN2 was running an old film of the Packers "Ice Bowl" of 1967), it seemed like a tape recording of earlier debates. I felt it would be a public service for a reporter to write something like: "This is the third time Dick Gephardt has made a joke about how Bush flunked at 'playing well with others'...This is the fifth time Carol Moseley Braun has told the same sexist story about her mom sending her dad to the hardware store for a toilet fix and he came back with a lawn mower." You can see where reporters get bored on the campaign trail. Posted at 09:35 PM FOR THE RECORD [Rich Lowry] Near the end of his session in the post-debate spin room, a reporter asked Wes Clark what political junkies have been wondering for a long time: “Why don’t you ever blink?” Clark didn’t respond but provided three blinks in rapid succession. For what it’s worth… Posted at 09:31 PM UNBELIEVABLE [Rich Lowry] The two moments that garnered the most laughs in the pressroom where when Wes Clark said at the beginning of the debate that he had never thought of getting an endorsement from either of the Clintons, and when Dennis Kucinich objected to the idea that he had changed his position on abortion “in recent months.” To which the moderator asked, “Well when was it?” nationalreview.com