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Politics : Proof that John Kerry is Unfit for Command -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: puborectalis who wrote (19814)	10/18/2004 1:07:50 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 27181

Chickenhawks: Barking Head Brigade Name: William "Bill" Bennett Born: 1943 Employer: Empower America Conflict Avoided: Vietnam Notes: Bill's occupation used to be "public scold," but since his gambling habit was exposed, he's a little less noisy on that front. Bill's a triple-crown winner as a former bureaucrat, a propagandist, and a barking head. (All barking heads are propagandists, but not all propagandists are barking heads.) Name: Ann Coulter Conflict Avoided: Desert Storm Notes: Critics will howl that a woman can’t be a chickenhawk. In Ann Coulter’s case, that doesn’t matter; anyone with her level of bellicosity deserves to be held to a higher standard. Name: Frank Gaffney Born: 1953 Employer: Indeterminate Conflict Avoided: Vietnam Notes: Frank here is a very clever boy. Built a thing called the Center for Security Policy, which apparently keeps him in nice suits so he will look good in front of the TV cameras, which can't seem to get enough of him. As far as we can tell, Frank is a freelance salesman for the defense industry who is paid by an elaborately circuitous process. For all his obsession with the military, it's funny he never served. Name: Rep. Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich (R-GA) Born: June 17, 1943 Employer: Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy Conflict Avoided: Vietnam Notes: A virtuoso in the art of hypocrisy, the former Speaker of the House now claims the Vietnam War was a splendid idea, but at the time he opposed going himself. Newtie also speaks highly of morality, but as a serial adulterer he doesn’t want to get too close to it himself. Name: Sean Hannity Born: December, 1961 Employer: Rupert Murdoch Conflict Avoided: Desert Storm Notes: Plenty of guys his age were in Desert Storm - what's his excuse? Name: David Limbaugh Born: December 11, 1952 Employer: newspapers with low standards Conflict Avoided: Vietnam Notes: David's no fool - he stayed in school! Straight from high school to college in '71, where he stayed 'till '75, when the war was safely over. Poly sci major, wouldn't you know? The least annoying of the Limbaugh brothers, but only because he's more obscure. Name: Rush Limbaugh Born: 1951 Employer: Yack Radio Conflict Avoided: Vietnam Notes: Where to begin ... a joke about the Hindenburg? No, let's go right to the reason he had to stay home from the war - the world's most famous anal cyst. He's denied it, but www.snopes.com, the Urban Legends Reference Pages, has got the goods on him. Name: William "Bill" O'Reilly Born: 1949 Employer: Rupert Murdoch Conflict Avoided: Vietnam Notes: Bill O’Reilly loves to come off as a straight-talking, blue-collar kind of guy. Funny, a lot of guys who fit that description and graduated high school the same year he did - 1967 - went straight to Vietnam. Not our Bill - he went to college. And he didn’t just go to college, he spent his junior year, 1969-1970, in London. He graduated in 1971, briefly exposing him to the draft again, but Bill was miraculously spared. Name: Michael Reagan Born: March 18, 1946 Employer: Yack Radio Conflict Avoided: Vietnam Notes: What are the odds anyone would know who he is if everybody didn't know who his daddy was? What are the odds he would have escaped the draft if his name had been Manual Rodriguez? Name: Michael Savage Born: Unk. Employer: UNK. Conflict Avoided: Vietnam Notes: We're not sure if this frothing lunatic is still on the air. Didn't he get canned for saying all gays should contract AIDS and die? If only he could have channeled all that animosity against Ho Chi Minh - we'd be selling Big Macs in Vietnam today! Name: Rep. Joseph "Joe" Scarborough (R-FL) Born: April 9, 1963 Employer: MSNBC Conflict Avoided: Desert Storm Notes: A former Republican congresman (1995-2002) turned MSNBC motormouth, Joe qualifies as a politician and a barking head. Where were you during Desert Storm, pal?