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

To: calgal who wrote (512010)	12/17/2003 7:42:52 PM
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Dean's loose lips Linda Chavez (archive) December 17, 2003 \| Print \| Send Howard Dean is increasingly looking like he's come unhinged. While the Democratic front-runner shows no sign of slowing his long march toward his party's nomination, he has begun saying things that are not only irresponsible, they sound downright wacky. First there was Dean's accusation that the president might have been warned about the September 11, 2001, attacks. On the Diane Rehm show on National Public Radio, Dean said, "The most interesting theory that I have heard so far, which is nothing more than a theory, I can't think -- it can't be proved, is that he was warned ahead of time by the Saudis. Now who knows what the real situation is." Dean tried to back away from the nutty accusation a week later when interviewed by Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." "Why would you say that," Wallace asked him, "Do you believe that?" To which Dean replied, "No, I don't believe that. I can't imagine the president of the United States doing that. But we don't know, and it'd be a nice thing to know." A nice thing to know? I suppose it would be nice to know that the president is not really an alien from outer space sent to rule the world. But most of us who are sane creatures assume that is the case -- certainly no one has to prove it to us. But Dean can't help himself from saying weird things. On Monday, in what was billed as his first major foreign policy address, Dean said that "The capture of Saddam has not made America safer." No doubt Dean would be happier if Saddam were still on the loose, since he, and indeed many in the Democratic Party, had pointed to the inability to capture either Saddam or Osama bin Laden as one of President Bush's major failures in the war on terrorism. But to say that Americans are no safer with Saddam behind bars is just plain strange. Sen. Joseph Lieberman accused Dean of "climbing into his own spider hole of denial." Lieberman sounded offended, as an American: "Saddam Hussein is a homicidal maniac, brutal dictator, supporter of terrorism and enemy of the United States, and there should be no doubt that America and the world are safer with him captured." Howard Dean is an angry man, and he lashes out with such venom and hatred that he sometimes can't control his words -- or those of his most ardent followers. At a recent fundraiser, Dean stood off stage while comedian Judy Gold said of the president of the United States, "We have to get this piece of living, breathing s--- out of the office." Kate Lloyd, another comedian at the event, drew laughs when she referred to Michael Jackson's pending charges of child molestation. "Frankly, I'm far more frightened of Condoleezza Rice," she said, and then went on to refer to Vice President Dick Cheney's wife as Lon Chaney, an actor in horror movies. And trash-mouth comedian Janeane Garofalo, referred to the new Medicare prescription drug bill as the " 'you can go f--- yourself, Grandma' bill." Dean chose to go onstage anyway, forfeiting an opportunity to pull a Bill Clinton "Sister Souljah" move. In 1992, candidate Bill Clinton chastised Jesse Jackson for inviting Sister Souljah to a Rainbow Coalition event because the rapper had suggested, in the wake of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, "If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people." The most Howard Dean would say when he came onstage after the comedians had spewed their filth was a vague reference to some of the language that was used -- which was directed more at the "N" word liberally sprinkled throughout some of the routines. "I just don't have much tolerance for ethnic humor," Dean said. "We are all one community." When a Washington Post reporter asked Dean about the role anger plays in his campaign, "Dean responds negatively -- in fact, angrily, to the suggestion that his campaign is driven by anger." But that anger is making the candidate behave as if he were slightly unbalanced. George W. Bush may drive some Democrats crazy, but they better hope their likely nominee gets a grip on himself soon, or he'll make the whole party look mad next November. Linda Chavez is President of the Center for Equal Opportunity, a Townhall.com member organization. ©2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.

To: calgal who wrote (512010)	12/17/2003 7:44:24 PM
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The Best Notable Quotables of 2003 The 16th Annual Awards For The Year’s Worst Reporting ALEXANDRIA, Va. --- A Boston Globe Magazine reporter’s callous comment has won this year’s “Quote of the Year” in the Media Research Center’s The Best Notable Quotables of 2003, The 16th Annual Awards For The Year’s Worst Reporting. The winning quote was selected by a nationwide panel of more than 40 editors, editorial writers, columnists, media critics, authors and talk show hosts, who also selected winners in 16 other categories. The “Quote of the Year” is included below, as are several category winners. To read the entire Best of NQ 2003, go to www.mediaresearch.org. Quote of the Year “If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.” – Charles Pierce, in a January 5 Boston Globe Magazine article. Kopechne drowned while trapped in Kennedy’s submerged car off Chappaquiddick Island in July 1969, an accident Kennedy did not report for several hours. Begala & Carville Prize for Demonizing George W. Bush: “This is the worst President ever. He is the worst President in all American history.” – Hearst White House columnist Helen Thomas at a Society for Professional Journalism banquet, as quoted by John Bogert of the Torrance, California Daily Breeze, 1/19/03. Politics of Meaninglessness Award for the Silliest Analysis: “To many New Yorkers, the scenes of a city under siege were achingly familiar. New Yorkers watching the televised bombing of Baghdad yesterday said they were riveted by the raw and uninterrupted display of American military might. But for some, the bombing brought back particularly visceral and chilling memories. They could not help thinking about Sept. 11, and how New York, too, was once under assault from the skies.” – New York Times reporter David Chen, in a March 22 news story headlined “Baghdad Bombing Brings Back Memories of 9/11.” Al Franken Cheap Shot Award (for Lambasting Rush Limbaugh): “What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaugh’s world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts to do anything or enter any profession, be it business, politics, art or sports, the only reason they’re allowed entry or, incredibly, attain excellence is because the standard was lowered. Be they liberals, people of color, women, the poor or anyone with an accent. … Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.” – CBS Sunday Morning contributor Nancy Giles, 10/5/03. Good Morning Morons Award: “There’s an article in the Style section of the Washington Post this morning. It says you’ve logged 26 years of personal minutiae, filling 4,400 two-by-three inch notebooks, color-coded by season. An example: ’12:17’ – this is when you made the announcement – ‘Ascend stage, stumble, regain balance; 12:18: Applause, ‘Where the Streets Have No Name,’ plays (U2); 12:19: Clap, wave; 12:20: Adjust tie (red, white stripes); 12:21: Double thumbs up; 12:22: Sing along with National Anthem, right hand on heart.’ What, what do you do this for?!” – Katie Couric to Senator Bob Graham (D-Fla.) on Today, May 7, apparently unaware the article she quoted from was a spoof of the presidential candidate’s diary. Baghdad Bob Award for Parroting Enemy Propaganda: Anchor Diane Sawyer: “I read this morning that he’s (Saddam Hussein) also said the love that the Iraqis have for him is so much greater than anything Americans feel for their President because he’s been loved for 35 years, he says, the whole 35 years.” Reporter Dan Harris in Baghdad: “He is one to point out quite frequently that he is part of a historical trend in this country of restoring Iraq to its greatness, its historical greatness. He points out frequently that he was elected with a hundred percent margin recently.” – ABC’s Good Morning America, 3/7/03. Winners were also selected in these categories: The Dominique de Villepin Snottiness Award for Whining About the War, The Barbra Streisand Political IQ Award for Celebrity Vapidity, The Invisible Liberal Award for Camouflaging Ideology, Media Suck-Up Award, Romanticizing the Rabble Award for Glorifying Protesters, Fruitless Plains of Poverty Award, Media Millionaires for Higher Taxes Award, What Liberal Media? Award, Damn Those Conservatives Award, Pompous Peter Award for Jennings’ Arrogant Condescension and the Bill Moyers Sanctimony Award. Read the entire The Best Notable Quotables of 2003 URL:http://www.mediaresearch.org/press/2003/press20031217.asp