MILLER TIME
Did anyone else hear Sen. Miller on “Imus in the Morning”
(Wednesday, May 14th)? Man, was he great! He is a real
Conservative Democrat. He said he’s disgusted with the Democratic
Party’s refusal to allow an up-or-down vote on the nominated
judges; he’s all for the President’s tax cut; he is a full
supporter of the war on terror; and he even called those who
complained about Dubya’s Aircraft Carrier landing “small and
petty.” Geeze, I wish either one of my two “Republican” Senators
from Maine were even half as conservative as Sen. Miller!
— Scott Wright
Poland Spring, ME
TAKE ME HOME
Re: “Mr. Knick” in Wlady’s
Corner:
Brings back memories of my senior year at West Virginia
University: As a transplanted New Yorker (as many WVU graduates
are) studying for finals — readying physically for the Officer’s
Basic course at Ft. Benning (3.2% beer couldn’t hurt you, right?)
watching that game, cheering for Jerry West (WVU’s finest),
cheering for my “home team,” the Knicks, drawing the ire of
everyone at the bar in Morgantown, West Virginia (no
“Sports Bars” in those days — just an off campus dive called
“Sleepy’s” owned by Don Knott’s sister Mildred).
Many fans will miss Dave DeBusschere — those too young will
have missed an era, a basketball game that no longer exists and a
true gentleman of the sport.
Great tribute.
Thanks, “Wlady.”
— Mike Horn
CASINO ROYALE
Re: “One Last Haymaker” in Wlady’s
Corner:
Gossip column
material, but I just can’t help but wonder if Bennett was outed
by the “Washington neocondom” after fellow Empower American Jack
Kemp fired off a column
denouncing Newt Gingrich’s attack on
Powell and the State Department. Certainly, that quote by David
Brooks is rather harsh. I think Bennett is a phony because he
passes of the work off ghostwriters as his own, but I never
mentioned anything about Satan.
— C. Bowen
SPICK AND SPAM
Re: Jeremy Lott’s Green
Eggs and Spam:
If Jeremy thinks that email is getting cumbersome now, wait
until the government comes along to help him out with it. :)
BTW — there are some very simple tricks to dramatically improve
filtering of publicly-displayed email addresses: talk to your
webmaster about it (if they don’t know, replace ‘em).
— Tom Frost
WALK ON THE SUPPLY SIDE
Re: Chris Edwards’ Small
But Potent:
Chris Edwards missed the biggest reason that the tax cut will
not “blow a hole” in the budget. Big tax cuts increase government
revenues.
— Don Lyle
STAR POWER
Re: Jed Babbin’s May
SGO:
Looking for a one-star to be the new Chief of Staff? Try a guy
who isn’t even in the Army anymore: LTC Douglas Macgregor, author
of Breaking the Phalanx.
You rock, dude!
—SGT Richard Lee Johnson, USA
AMONG THE FUNNY DUDDIES
Re: Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder’s Democratic
Duds:
I always love to read Jackie Mason and Raoul Felder….
So, yes, the Duds are making the same mistake with Bush that
they made with Reagan. Maybe it’d be good to look at it all as a
simple game between fans of Leviathan and fans of Minimal
government, and transcend the specific individuals playing the
major parts, presently, on each of these teams. For Libertarians,
such as I, a “Bush” only matters to the extent he holds back the
Extreme-Left-Wingers and mostly to be rooted for, actually rolls
them up, and smokes them! In a football analogy, keep developing
the skills and power of the actual players, the coach, and the
owners (the American people, for now — all of humanity, ASAP).
Then, in the ever-happening game, at least keep the
Extreme-Left-Wingers from scoring, and work hard on scoring as much
as you can, on them. After over seventy years of the
roll-on, since FDR started his Mega-State (didn’t Communism only
last about seventy years in the USSR?), like a pendulum
that reached the end of its left-ward cycle, and has started to
come back toward the center, on the way to the right side, in this
game the goal is to not just keep the leftists from scoring, but to
actually push them back, on each play.
So, let’s welcome the challenge, in the form of the Nine
Nitwits, as they line up for each day’s play, and use all our
righteous power to plug the gaps, and pile on the ain’t-got-a-clue
mouthpieces, while the piling on is so propitious! Make hay while
the sunlight of truth shines on these losers!
— unsigned
The so-called Democratic presidential candidates are such low shelf
weenies that Jacques Chirac would poll better against them.
John Kerry is a liar, period.
Joe Lieberman is following in Walter Mondale’s footsteps as the
losing VP that will lose as the top of the ticket.
Bob Graham is so far behind he’s about to commit treason and
should be immediately removed from any list giving him intelligence
access.
John Edwards is more like a badly written character in all the
badly written John Grisham novels. I expect to see either Susan
Sarandon or Sandra Bullock next to him at any moment.
Dick Gephardt does so many 180’s every election cycle he should
be used to generate electricity for homes in St. Louis. Everything
he was “for” in his 1988 run he is now “against.” I wonder if he
changes his mind on the shape of the Earth every two years.
Howard Dean is, well, Howard Dean. So he’ll get the left-wing,
earthy lesbian vote. Big deal. At least now there will never be a
need to do a sequel to Howard the Duck.
Dennis Kucinich makes Lyndon LaRouche look electable. At least
in 1984 LaRouche, on a 30-minute paid spot on CBS called
Mondale/Ferraro, “that neo-Nazi and his slum lord running mate”.
Kucinich looks more like an “after” picture for Hair Club For
Men.
Al Sharpton and Carol ‘Mostly a crook” Braun should both be in
prison. The only good thing about Sharpton is that he’s a thorn in
everyone else’s side.
And there is always Fern Penna (Who? D-NY) who bravely states on
his website, “I have a
vision to make America a safe and peaceful place to live. That’s
why I am running for the U.S. PRESIDENCY in 2004.” Yeah, it’s an
Afghanistan out there. He also states he will “secure Social
Security for good.” I’m not sure if that’s a policy or he’s
fighting the Dark Side of the Force.
And George W. Bush is going to spend $200 million to beat one of
these guys? I think he can do it for 20…cents!
— Greg Barnard
Franklin, TN
KING CONG
Re: Joe Flower’s letter in Reader Mail’s Federal
Cases:
I wonder where Mr. Flower gets his information on journalists?
Probably from CNN since he feels that it’s OK to sit at a table
with a Viet Cong leader in order to get a story, but not at a table
with the President Of The United States. Wasn’t it CNN who
swallowed their ethics — such as they were — in order to get
stories from Saddam and his family?
— Bob Johnson
Bedford, TX
TRUTH AND CONSEQUENCES
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s The
Liars’ Club:
Well, this article was certainly honest, and appreciated for it
being so. It’s getting harder to find honesty nowadays, but not as
badly as in the past.
I have only been immersed in American Politics for about two
years, but in that time I have seen changes in the behavior of the
conservatives. It is definitely for the good, good for them and for
the voters.
When I first began searching for answers regarding how the
American political system works, I was quite astounded at the
liberal bias in the media. I quite quickly learned that they were
the top guns, the ones who set the standards, the ones who would
show bias at the drop of a hat, the ones who would simply omit any
news that might hurt the liberals in any way. I remember thinking,
“How could a conservative ever win with this type of situation in
the media?”
The changes have not been a gigantic sweep of the liberal media
changing, in fact the opposite is occurring in that area. They will
grab any small item to bash the president with, as the flying the
plane to the troops and manufacturing a fantastic photo-op. It does
not occur to them it could just be a president who is proud of his
troops and wanted to say it so the whole world would know how proud
all Americans should be over the Iraqi war. They seem to be
desperate to find anything that would hurt the president.
However, when Fox, the Internet and the ever there giving their
views Rush and Bill came together to bring the truth of what was
being said and done, being positive about the war, the troops and
even, gasp! the president they brought some balance, somewhere to
go to know the reality of what really happened and not the liberal
message alone shown by the liberals.
It is wonderful to see them fighting back, fighting to send out
the truth as best they can, supporting the president, not with
exaggerations or bluff, simply the facts. It is really all that is
needed for them to show, the facts speak for themselves, there is
no need to speak while carrying a big stick, or to lie, exaggerate,
omit or twist their words as they do not need to do this.
That is the fantastic part of all this, they can simply tell the
truth and let the voters be aware of the truth.
The Internet brings us many conservative websites with articles
that show the conservative part of an issue. If people continue to
read these articles and learn it really is quite simple to make
decisions on the different issues that are being played out in
Congress.
The only thing left is for the conservatives to continue to
spread the facts, the real facts to the voters; they will be
rewarded for it on election day.
Now if I could only vote!
— Carole
Alberta, Canada
The lies may have been exposed, however they will remain in print
in perpetuity, there for unsuspecting school children and
journalists to reference as fact.
— Kitty Myers
Painted Post, NY
Unbelievable!!! That is the only word that could describe the
incredible sanctimony coming from the likes of R. Emmett Tyrrell,
Jr. regarding media fabrications.
Do you have no shame? Do the terms, “Arkansas Project,”
“Troopergate,” or “The Real Anita Hill,” ring any bells?
You, Mr. Tyrrell, clearly are a delusional fruitcake. You have
the gall to actually write an article about media fabrications from
within the confines of a publication that elevated lies and
fabrications to an artform during the Clinton Presidency, a
presidency which, I might remind you, was determined, not by the
Supreme Court, but by America’s voters (more of whom also voted for
Al Gore than “Governor” Bush).
Speaking of Clinton. Why don’t you just give it up? How much
more capital (and I say that in both senses of the word) do you
expect to wring out of rehashing old, tired, worn-out and
discredited Clinton “scandal” stories?
It is time to move on. You’ve been discredited a long, long time
ago. Most intelligent folks have little use for the bloviating,
sanctimonious windbags that constitute this country’s so-called
moral arbiters — the conservative right.
Peace out,
— Anthony Barnes
Roxbury, MA
How come Clinton’s lying about his sex-life makes him a “recognized
liar, ” but Reagan’s lying about Iran-Contra doesn’t get the same
treatment? Seems to me the “politics of personal destruction” have
up on both sides of the center in the last couple of decades.
— Robert Enders
Lexington, MA
That the N.Y. Times promoted Jayson Blair after
his factually challenged work was apparent makes the Times
complicit in Blair’s betrayal of readers.
— Dick Melville
Ozone Park, NY
