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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (711243)	11/5/2005 1:23:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

"It may seem unfathomable that W. has kept Brownie, one of the biggest boobs in U.S. history, on the federal payroll as a $148,000-a-year consultant." Dierks, where is your outrage???? Brownie was paid six figures so he could preen in an email about his dresswear on tv while New Orleans burned. Why do you continue to defend these people??? There are many more Brownies working in the gov't; their salaries burning thru your tax dollars and mine. What is wrong with you? This is not business as usual. Their corruption and incompetence is staring you straight in your face. You are pathetic......beyond hope. Worse.......you are not a good American.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (711243)	11/5/2005 1:27:40 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Spending Inquiry for Top Official on Broadcasting By STEPHEN LABATON Published: November 5, 2005 WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 - Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, the head of the federal agency that oversees most government broadcasts to foreign countries, including the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, is the subject of an inquiry into accusations of misuse of federal money and the use of phantom or unqualified employees, officials involved in that examination said on Friday. Mr. Tomlinson was ousted from the board of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on Thursday after its inspector general concluded an investigation that was critical of him. That examination looked at his efforts as chairman of the corporation to seek more conservative programs on public radio and television. But Mr. Tomlinson remains an important official as the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. The board, whose members include the secretary of state, plays a central role in public diplomacy. It supervises the government's foreign broadcasting operations, including Radio Martí, Radio Sawa and al-Hurra; transmits programs in 61 languages; and says it has more than 100 million listeners each week. The board has been troubled lately over deep internal divisions and criticism of its Middle East broadcasts. Members of the Arab news media have said its broadcasts are American propaganda. People involved in the inquiry said that investigators had already interviewed a significant number of officials at the agency and that, if the accusations were substantiated, they could involve criminal violations. Last July, the inspector general at the State Department opened an inquiry into Mr. Tomlinson's work at the board of governors after Representative Howard L. Berman, Democrat of California, and Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, forwarded accusations of misuse of money. The lawmakers requested the inquiry after Mr. Berman received complaints about Mr. Tomlinson from at least one employee at the board, officials said. People involved in the inquiry said it involved accusations that Mr. Tomlinson was spending federal money for personal purposes, using board money for corporation activities, using board employees to do corporation work and hiring ghost employees or improperly qualified employees. Through an aide at the broadcasting board, Mr. Tomlinson declined to comment Friday about the State Department inquiry. In recent weeks, State Department investigators have seized records and e-mail from the Broadcasting Board of Governors, officials said. They have shared some material with the inspector general at the corporation, including e-mail traffic between Mr. Tomlinson and White House officials including Karl Rove, a senior adviser to President Bush and a close friend of Mr. Tomlinson. Mr. Rove and Mr. Tomlinson became friends in the 1990's when they served on the Board for International Broadcasting, the predecessor agency to the board of governors. Mr. Rove played an important role in Mr. Tomlinson's appointment as chairman of the broadcasting board. continued........................... nytimes.com

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (711243)	11/5/2005 2:12:18 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 769670

Black On Black: Democrat Racist Tactics Hit Fever Pitch Post Chronicle ^ \| Nov 5, 2005 \| Sher Zieve The liberal Democrat's bigotry, even hatred, of those holding different ideologies to theirs is becoming increasingly palpable. In fact, it has become just downright vicious. Black Americans who have left the Democrat plantation are no longer "black" according to Democrats. Yuck! I can almost taste the bile. In a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Op/Ed piece, Justice Clarence Thomas was said to be black but 'with an asterisk' ..meaning he's only a pretender and not really black. Justice Thomas, a conservative, has had to weather racial slurs from Democrat black Americans and Democrats in general for years. Democrats consider it bad enough to be white and conservative. But, if one is intelligent, black and conservative, they consider it a personal attack. Now that Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, a conservative Republican black American, has decided to run for the U.S. Senate, Democrats have become spitting mad! Liberal Democrats hated it enough when Steele was the running mate of Maryland Republican Governor Robert L. Ehrlich. Democrat Maryland State Senate President Mike Miller Jr. even called him "an Uncle Tom". Then, the liberal and most-intolerant Baltimore Sun gleefully joined Miller's racism when it wrote that Steele "brings little to the team but the color of his skin." How's that for liberal "broadmindedness"? The usual and to-be-expected Democrat tactic of "if you can't destroy the message, ruin the messenger" was in full play. Note: Unfortunately for the Democrats, the Lt. Governor has proven his intellect, courage and mettle. One of the things Democrats hate more than conservative Republican black Americans are conservative black Americans who are extremely capable. They patently detest these people! Liberal and leftist demonstrators against Steele's Senate run are again pelting him with Oreo cookies, an unmistakable inference that Steel is "black on the outside and white on the inside". Frankly, black Americans are only "tolerated" by the Democrat Party even if they are Democrats, and then just barely. Even black Democrat Maryland Delegate Salina Siler joined the fray, when she said of Steele: "Because he is a conservative, he is different than most public blacks, and he is different than most people in our community. His politics are not in the best interest of the masses of black people." She also called him an "Oreo cookie". Nice mouth, Ms. Siler. Question: Have you ever noticed it's the Left that regularly uses the phrase "the masses"? There is no room for individuals or creative thought in the Democrat Party. In order to attempt to block (if not stop) Steele's run for the Senate, liberal and leftist blogs are now providing a litany of slurs against Steele on a regular basis. These include (as was recently used by the liberal 'mainstream press' against Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice) pictures that are doctored to make Steele appear demonic. And of course, the liberals' ever popular throwing-of-Oreo-cookies attack-mode tactics continue. Question: Don't you find it of interest that the Republican Party supports and promotes able people, regardless of their race, and that the Democrat Party doesn't? I do. The ongoing fear of the Democrat Party is that the majority of its black constituency may one day actually wake up from its leftist, Kool-Aid induced stupor and become sober again. If that happens, the current Democrat Party is finished. With nothing more than "we hate Bush" as its mantra (they still don't seem to realize President Bush isn't running for a 3rd term), and no policies for the country, the Democrats are devolving into a whining, racist, anarchist group of petulant children, demanding that we listen to them even though they have nothing viable to say. The "terrible twos" virus is still running rampant throughout the Democrat Party. Most of them seem to be infected, and it seems most of them don't want to get well. So, as always, one age-old question remains: "Do we want adults or mean-spirited childish bullies as our leaders?" I know my answer.