09.08.06
Posted in Politics, Unhinged, Democrats at 10:24 pm by JB
More Berger-mania:
The Democratic National Committee said it delivered a petition with nearly 200,000 signatures to ABC’s Washington office urging the network drop its “right-wing factually inaccurate mocudrama.”
Former national security adviser Samuel R. Berger and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, whose depictions are at the center of the controversy, asked Thomas Kean, the Republican ex-governor of New Jersey who led the commission looking into the attacks, to use his influence with filmmakers to pull it.
“You can’t fix it,” Berger said on CNN. “You gotta yank it.”
To me that last part translates as “Oh please please please don’t make us look bad.” And people take this guy seriously !!! This idiot is Rose Mary Woods times 10 ! He was caught stealing classified documents from a public building by stuffing them in his underwear, for God’s sake. This is the best the Democrats can come up with ?!
Sandy Berger and Maddy Albright whining to the heavens… is this little film getting a little too close to the truth ?
I don’t recall hearing similar banshee-like wailing when Michael Moore releases one of his hit-jobs. Why should ABC be any less restrained in their new-found GOP partisanship (that doesn’t exist) ?
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Posted in Politics, Television, Unhinged, 9/11, 2006 Races, Democrats at 4:42 pm by JB
The Dem leadership in the Senate is threatening the broadcast license of ABC if they air that movie…
September 7, 2006
Mr. Robert A. Iger
President and CEO
The Walt Disney Company
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank CA 91521
Dear Mr. Iger,
We write with serious concerns about the planned upcoming broadcast of The Path to 9/11 mini-series on September 10 and 11. Countless reports from experts on 9/11 who have viewed the program indicate numerous and serious inaccuracies that will undoubtedly serve to misinform the American people about the tragic events surrounding the terrible attacks of that day. Furthermore, the manner in which this program has been developed, funded, and advertised suggests a partisan bent unbecoming of a major company like Disney and a major and well respected news organization like ABC. We therefore urge you to cancel this broadcast to cease Disney’s plans to use it as a teaching tool in schools across America through Scholastic. Presenting such deeply flawed and factually inaccurate misinformation to the American public and to children would be a gross miscarriage of your corporate and civic responsibility to the law, to your shareholders, and to the nation.
The Communications Act of 1934 provides your network with a free broadcast license predicated on the fundamental understanding of your principle obligation to act as a trustee of the public airwaves in serving the public interest. Nowhere is this public interest obligation more apparent than in the duty of broadcasters to serve the civic needs of a democracy by promoting an open and accurate discussion of political ideas and events.
Disney and ABC claim this program to be based on the 9/11 Commission Report and are using that assertion as part of the promotional campaign for it. The 9/11 Commission is the most respected American authority on the 9/11 attacks, and association with it carries a special responsibility. Indeed, the very events themselves on 9/11, so tragic as they were, demand extreme care by any who attempt to use those events as part of an entertainment or educational program. To quote Steve McPhereson, president of ABC Entertainment, “When you take on the responsibility of telling the story behind such an important event, it is absolutely critical that you get it right.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!
This is ridiculous, and the almost reflexive action to protect the legacy of Clinton, and to protect their own electoral potential, is hilarious. I think the boy-who-cried-wolf routine has been played enough by these idiots.
Frankly, that ABC and Disney would consider airing a program that could be construed as right-wing political propaganda on such a grave and important event involving the security of our nation is a discredit both to the Disney brand and to the legacy of honesty built at ABC by honorable individuals from David Brinkley to Peter Jennings. Furthermore, that Disney would seek to use Scholastic to promote this misguided programming to American children as a substitute for factual information is a disgrace.
Could be constued…. I could construe everything Jennings every did as left-wing, and quite a bit of Disney/ABC policy is left-wing…
Sincerely,
Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid
Assistant Democratic Leader Dick Durbin
Senator Debbie Stabenow
Senator Charles Schumer
Senator Byron Dorgan
Yeah…. those are some reasonable people. Surprised Durbin didn’t equate the Disney and ABC executives to Pol Pot.
This is getting funnier by the day.
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Posted in Politics, 9/11, Democrats, Media Morons at 12:32 pm by JB
Just occured to me… Disney/ABC is notoriously liberal, and yet they are putting this movie out…. Now, follow me here….
Most objective observers have said that the Clinton and Bush administrations both are hit pretty hard in this thing. (As well they should be- both could have done better to prevent terrorism.)
However, only the Democrats are raising holy-hell about it…. or at least they are the only ones getting media attention. Republicans are responding to the silliness of it all, at times to the point of pettiness.
Is it possible, could it be, that this is just a huge setup to:
- entice the GOP and it’s defenders into looking a little childish
- let the DNC get out their talking points CONSTANTLY
When the entire plan all along was to:
- drum up interest in the film
- remove the parts critical of the Clintonites leaving only the anti-Bush parts
- producing the near-guarantee that everyone will want to watch it to see how it turns out
Hence, leaving them with 6 hrs of Bush-bashing ? Just a potential theory.
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Posted in Politics, 9/11, Democrats at 10:13 am by JB
I don’t want to get too deep in the weeds on this ABC 9/11 movie, The Path to 9/11, but I have to giggle everytime I read stuff like this:
At a question-and-answer session following a screening last month in Washington, D.C., Richard Ben-Veniste, a Democratic member of the 9/11 Commission, challenged the film’s authenticity. “There was no incident like the one portrayed,” he said of the scene in which Berger vetoes the bin Laden operation. He also objected to the negative portrayal of Albright: “I was disturbed by that aspect of it.”
First, Ben-Veniste is hardly an objective player. Second, I love it when these Clintonites go bonkers, and then pin their hopes on what Sandy Berger told the 9/11 commission. This is, once again, the same Berger who removed unknown documents from the National Archives and stored them in his drawers (not the kind in a desk, the kind in your pants).
Isn’t that a bit like trying to clear Nixon by relying on the 18-1/2 minutes of missing tape ?
UPDATE: Morgan Freeberg has a good solid analysis.
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09.05.06
Posted in Politics, Unhinged, 2006 Races, Democrats at 12:50 pm by JB
The wacky left is in a tizzy….
A string of anti-Semitic rants about Sen. Joe Lieberman have popped up on the liberal MoveOn.org’s open forum Web site, drawing criticism from the Anti-Defamation League.
It’s the latest flap in the contentious race between Lieberman, who is running as an independent to keep his seat in Connecticut, and upstart Ned Lamont, the Democratic nominee.
The guy agrees with 95% of everything the Dems do, and also happens to believe that we shouldn’t bow at the feet of Muslim terror-masters.
I’m telling ya, the Democratic party is in shambles. They have hit rock bottom, and started to dig.
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09.03.06
Posted in Politics, Democrats, Prez '08 at 11:09 am by JB
From a paper across the pond:
FRIENDS of Hillary Clinton have been whispering the unthinkable. Despite her status as the runaway frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president, some of her closest advisers say she might opt out of the White House race and seek to lead her party in the Senate.
She is a shoe-in for the nomination, but she’d never win the general election. She is, however, a somewhat honest broker on some issues that really matter. She’d be great as head of the Dems in the Senate, if she can keep that attitude and not fall into the DailyKos/MoveOn/Wayne Madsen-conspiracy kookiness that Harry Reid has embraced with the zeal of an ass-kissing jailhouse Mary.
She can’t win the presidency. She probably can beat Reid in a challenge for the MINORITY leader. I’m all for it.
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Posted in Politics, Democrats at 10:58 am by JB
Watching the morning shows, it seems that the new Dem strategy is “more special forces”. Obviously these clowns don’t know what special forces do, or they wouldn’t propose it.
We do need more special forces. But that means more Green Berets, more SEAL’s, more Delta Force, more Airborne. And also more of some groups we don’t even know the names of. More special forces means more covert military men and women who do things that- if the Dems knew about it- would scream to the heavens about “abuse” and lack of oversight.
Another reason the Dems will lose in ‘06….. they can’t pick a strategy on anything, or a slogan to explain it.
I wish they would go back to “A New Direction”…. always reminds me of this asshole:
“A Nude Erection” indeed. (by the way, he did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky)
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09.02.06
Posted in Politics, 2006 Races, Howard Dean, Democrats at 9:47 am by JB
This isn’t good news for the DNC. It IS good news for the country. (via Bob Novak….. I wonder if Richard Armitage gave him the information)
Lifetime Democratic contributors have made good on their threat to stop giving money to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) so long as Howard Dean is its chairman.
Some of the party’s longtime money men warned that would happen when Dean took over the DNC following the 2004 elections. Lower contributions, combined with Dean’s heavy spending, have resulted in the most recent cash-on-hand report by the DNC of $11.3 million, compared with $43.6 million at the Republican National Committee.
Disaffected Democrats keep giving to congressional committees. Current cash figures are $33 million at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and $35.1 million at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
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08.31.06
Posted in Politics, Unhinged, 2006 Races, Democrats at 6:35 am by JB
Run for the hills, kids, if the Dems take the House (which won’t happen, as I have said SO many times). The WSJ has a brief synopsis of what we are in store for should such a catastrophe occur.
Consider the man likely to run the Judiciary Committee, Michigan’s John Conyers, from the Congressional class of 1964. He recently made his plans clear in a 370-page report, “The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution and Coverup in the Iraq War, and Illegal Domestic Surveillance.” The report accuses the Administration of violating no fewer than 26 laws and regulations, and is a road map of Mr. Conyers’s explicit intention to investigate grounds for impeaching President Bush.
If you think Republicans have been spendthrift, don’t expect much change from Wisconsin’s David Obey (class of 1969) at Appropriations. Mr. Obey was one of those Democrats who ripped Mr. Clinton for endorsing a balanced budget in 1995. Rather than cut spending, his goal would be to spend less on defense and more on domestic programs and entitlements.
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We also can’t forget California’s Henry Waxman (1974), among the most partisan liberals and who at Government Reform would compete with Mr. Conyers to see who could issue the most subpoenas to the Bush Administration. And then there’s Alcee Hastings, who, should Ms. Pelosi succeed in pushing aside current ranking Member Jane Harman, would take over the House Intelligence Committee. Before he won his Florida seat in 1992, Mr. Hastings had been a federal judge who was impeached and convicted by a Democratic Congress for lying to beat a bribery rap. He would handle America’s most vital national secrets.
There’s more, so read the whole thing….. but…. isn’t it just a little interesting that all of the people who would take over these committees have no particular legislative agenda ? They want to have the power, they want to beat up on the GWB administration…. but they have no real plan to do anything of any value.
It’s a good thing they won’t take the House.
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08.29.06
Posted in Politics, Unhinged, 2006 Races, Democrats at 2:49 am by JB
This clown just will NOT get over it…. ever:
Sen. John Kerry didn’t contest the results at the time, but now that he’s considering another run for the White House, he’s alleging election improprieties by the Ohio Republican who oversaw the deciding vote in 2004.
An e-mail will be sent to 100,000 Democratic donors Tuesday asking them to support U.S. Rep. Ted Strickland for governor of Ohio. The bulk of the e-mail criticizes Strickland’s opponent, GOP Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, for his dual role in 2004 as President Bush’s honorary Ohio campaign co-chairman and the state’s top election official.
“He used the power of his state office to try to intimidate Ohioans and suppress the Democratic vote,” said Kerry’s e-mail.
And just what the hell does this mean ?
Multiple lawsuits by outside groups were unsuccessful in challenging Ohio’s 2004 election. One case filed by the League of Women Voters is still in U.S. District Court in Toledo. It claims Ohio’s election system discriminates against minority voters.
You show up, prove you are who you say you are, and vote. Your vote counts in Ohio just as much as mine does in VA. Damn, people get over yourselves.
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08.25.06
Posted in Politics, 2006 Races, Democrats at 11:27 am by JB
(Little Frenchie-appeasement language to flavor what’s below)
Crazy Howard has seen the writing on the wall, and has decided “OF COURSE !!!! We’d LOVE to have Joe back when he spanks the little cry-baby Ned Lamont.” Anything to give us one more member to vote for Harry Reid as Majority Leader.
I hope Joe wins, and after the millions that the DNC and related PACs pours in to defeat him, tells them to kiss his ENTIRE ass.
Democratic chief Howard Dean was asked whether he would welcome Sen. Joe Lieberman back to the party if he wins the election: “… If he were to win, we would welcome him back in the Democratic Caucus. We’re a big tent party, and we accept all kinds of folks, and we’re happy to have them.”
They welcome “all kinds of folks”. Except pro-life, pro-gun, pro-defense, pro-intelligence, pro-voucher, pro-business, pro-…..
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Posted in Politics, Unhinged, 2006 Races, Democrats at 11:11 am by JB
Doesn’t matter that you’ve known someone for decades, what’s important is that they have that D next to their name.
These people are beyond the pale sometimes.
New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton says she’s meeting Friday with Connecticut Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont.
They plan to discuss how Clinton can help Lamont’s campaign against Senator Joe Lieberman, who’s now an independent candidate, and Republican Alan Schlesinger.
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Clinton, who’s considered a likely 2008 Democratic candidate for president, has called Lieberman a friend for years, but also pledged to support whoever won this month’s primary.
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Posted in Politics, Democrats at 10:28 am by JB
I’ve thought about commenting on this little kerfuffel:
Confronted by accusations that he’s taking too long to clean up his city after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin defended himself by remarking on New York City’s failure to rebuild Ground Zero.
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On a tour of the decimated Ninth Ward, Nagin tells Pitts the city has removed most of the debris from public property and it’s mainly private land that’s still affected – areas that can’t be cleaned without the owners’ permission. But when Pitts points to flood-damaged cars in the street and a house washed partially into the street, the mayor shoots back. “That’s alright. You guys in New York can’t get a hole in the ground fixed and it’s five years later. So let’s be fair.”
I tend to, however, agree with Ace over at his joint….
I just file this in the you-know-what-he-meant folder. But others seem to think it’s evidence that Nagin is an idiot.
As if that case still needed to be proven.
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