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An Activist Named Grover

4.11.08 @ 12:01AM

LET'S GO TO THE AUDIO TAPE
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Winning With Grover:

Apparently R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., wanted to write a column praising Grover Norquist's new book, which is fine. He then decided that the column needed a catchy opening, and so accused Linda Chavez of dissing Norquist on Fox News's "The Live Desk." This is not fine, because it's not true.

In the Fox News tradition, you judge whether Chavez refers with "condescension" to Norquist in "chill terms" as "an obscure" and "margin[al]" figure of whom she "does not approve." Here's a transcript of what she said:

"All of this [speculation about Condoleezza Rice as John McCain's running mate] started because she showed up at a meeting of Republican activists -- a meeting that is run by an activist named Grover Norquist -- and she's not the kind of person who normally comes to those meetings, and so people thought that, well, maybe she's doing that in order to shore up her base among conservatives."

Wow! How will Norquist ever recover from that! Oh, but you think that perhaps it was the way she said it? Fine, here's a link to the show itself (at about the 3-minute mark).

As I said: absurd. Mr. Tyrrell owes Ms. Chavez an apology.
-- Roger Clegg
President and General Counsel
Center for Equal Opportunity

What a great and uplifting article. I, too, am amused when I read or hear pundits trying to relegate Grover Norquist to the dust heap of political irrelevance. Republicans everywhere still remark with reverence on the Wednesday Meetings. We need Grover and Bob Tyrrell now more than ever especially as our more liberal brethren and the Democrats have just nominated a pseudo-conservative to run on the Republican ticket for President.
-- Judy Beumler
Louisville, Kentucky

From one of the many voices of the members of the Leave Us Alone Coalition, a card carrying Libertarian, to the current administration, including Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, and hopeful candidates, a simple message regarding expanding federal powers and enlarging bureaucracies, LEAVE US ALONE.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

SO MUCH FOR CONTEXT
Re: Jennifer Rubin's Obama is Lying:

I think YOU are lying about your Obama is lying headline. I heard McCain myself say we should stay in Iraq one hundred years if we have to.
-- John Scagliotti

Get a grip, lady! What rock did you just crawl from underneath? It's been televised a thousand times already, McBush said "100 Years." You have got to be either real bias, stupid, or blind to reality!
-- Donald Frey

So what else is new? Yes, Obama lied and continues to do so. He evaded and continues to do so. He deceived and continues to do so. He libeled and continues to do so. He's arrogant and will continue to be. He's been clueless and will continue to be.

But I suspect, at least until the fall, if he's the Democrat candidate, it just won't matter how much more any of us beat the dead horse whose body is his lies, evasion, deceit, etc. Given his arrogance, you know he's counting on this.

What I can't imagine is that he and his team are creative enough to imagine how much his prevarication, among many other things, will get center-stage treatment until Election Day, should he oppose Sen. McCain.

Then we'll see how well the public accepts candidate Obama bolting from a news conference, refusing to entertain questions, as he did recently when asked about his relationship with Tony Rezko.
-- C. Kenna Amos
Princeton, West Virginia

Letter to the Editor

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Education, Barack Obama, Hank Paulson, Religion, Books, Military, Iraq, Oil