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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (51500)	11/1/2005 12:59:30 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

And then there is that vast industry of Palestinian, Arab League and United Nations funded and distributed doctored footage and fake film massacres, fake gun battles, the faked death of Palestinian children at Jewish and Israeli hands. Our Islamist opponents have turned out this propaganda nonstop around the world. As propagandists, they are far more sophisticated than Goebbels, and far more patient. We cannot afford to underestimate their skill at telling Big Lies. Islamists understood that if they funded madrassas in the East and Middle Eastern Institutes in the West, and if they funded the total Palestinianization of the United Nations and of every international human rights groups that in thirty to fifty years, they would have brainwashed generations to see things their way. frontpagemag.com

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (51500)	11/1/2005 1:32:54 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

PISSING MATCH AT CBS ..... radaronline.com When newly-promoted CBS News president Sean McManus gets around to chatting with Dan Rather about the fallout from his Bush National Guard story, we hope he uses more tact than Mike Wallace. According to sources inside the network, Wallace recently got into a shouting match with Rather after telling the disgraced journo he should have resigned over “Memogate”—while the two men were standing side-by-side at a urinal. The argument erupted in a men’s room at CBS headquarters in New York, we hear, after Wallace sidled up to his whizzing 60 Minutes colleague of three decades and told him he had just confided to Katie Couric in a Today Show interview—scheduled to air this morning—that he thought Rather should have resigned when his underlings were canned for basing the National Guard story on what turned out to be phony documents. “They were both standing at the urinals when Wallace casually mentioned what he had told Katie,” says the source. ”There proceeded a twenty-minute shouting match in the bathroom” between Rather and the 87-year-old journalist. Reached for comment, Wallace confirmed that a “discussion” had taken place—”I don’t remember whether it was in a men’s room,” he said—but called the notion that tempers flared “bullshit.” “I said to Dan—and I told him that I said this to Katie—’Did it never occur to you after the people who worked with you were fired that you might have resigned in sympathy with them?’” Wallace said. “And he replied, ‘Yes, it did occur to me.’ And we had a very pleasant, straightforward conversation about it.” “Dan and I are friends,” Wallace continued, “and I figured, whatever I said to Katie Couric, if he were to see it on the air for the first time without having heard it from me, he would be upset. Therefore, I felt that it was important that I let Dan know what I had said. There were no fights—he’s a much younger and bigger and stronger man than I.” Rather could not be reached for comment by press time, but one imagines he would have taken umbrage at Wallace’s remark—especially considering his old pal’s new habit of taking pot shots at him since he was forced to step down as anchor in March. (Reports that CBS kingpin Les Moonves has been wooing Couric as Rather’s replacement on the CBS Evening News when her NBC contract expires in May can’t have helped matters.) In an interview with the New Yorker’s Ken Auletta, Wallace called Rather “uptight and occasionally contrived” and said he didn’t find him “as satisfying to watch” as other network anchors. Not that the silver-haired newscaster is himself immune to journalistic failings—or buck-passing in the face of them. In a widely reported episode dramatized in The Insider, Wallace (portrayed by Christopher Plummer) sided with CBS execs in whitewashing a 60 Minutes exposé on tobacco company Brown & Williamson. (In his new autobiography, Between You and Me: A Memoir, Wallace places blame for the decision squarely on network honchos.) Perhaps Rather, who turns 74 today, and whose tarnished reputation hasn’t exactly been buffed by his buddy’s sniping, should think twice before inviting Wallace to his birthday party.

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (51500)	11/1/2005 3:03:27 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

WHOOPI AT "FAMILY SHOW":TOM DELAY IN HANDCUFFS MADE MY WEEK Federal Review ^ \| Monday, October 31, 2005 ITHACA—Outspoken liberal actor Whoopi Goldberg delivered an obscenity laden tirade to students and parents, bashing Republicans and joking about drugs and menopause, at Cornell University’s “family weekend” comedy show on Friday (October 28). “Tom DeLay in handcuffs made my week,”Goldberg reportedly said, referring to the arrest of the former House majority leader. “When they took his mug shot and fingerprints, I thought I’d died and went to heaven.” In addition to attacks on the Bush adminstration and FEMA, Goldberg also “shocked audience members with frank talk about bathroom humor, her marijuana use and aging,” the Cornell Daily Sun reported. “If you thought you were coming to see Sister Act, you were f**king wrong,” Goldberg said. As a “family weekend” comedy show, Goldberg’s performance attracted an “all ages” crowd, including college students, their parents and even some elementary school aged children, the Sun reported. In addition to the “Sister Act” movies, Goldberg is known for such films as Rat Race, Monkeybone and Theodore Rex. She also starred in the short-lived NBC series “Whoopi.”