Ed Gillespie is on Hardball responding to last night’s ridiculous interview with Kerry, and Gillespie started with this quip:
“Hi Chris, I saw your job interview, I mean interview with Kerry last night.”
Heh.
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Try Not To Laugh
This is so absurd it hurt my sides when I read it:
The upcoming SF disaster film The Day After Tomorrow, which deals in part with the consequences of global warming, has become a political football in recent days, as environmentalists embrace it as a warning about the perils of greenhouse-gas emissions and the Bush administration looks to avoid being tagged with accusations about its ecological policies, Variety reported. A rally featuring former vice president and environmental advocate Al Gore will take place a couple of blocks away from the film’s May 24 premiere in New York, hosted by MoveOn.org, the trade paper reported.
If you remember, Gore’s last speech on Global Warming was held on the coldest day in NY history.
Tone In Comments
In your comments, be polite. Some of you are close to passing the line into overt hostility towards some of the more liberal commenters, and I won’t accept that. I am the only one who is allowed to be a bombastic jerk flying off the handle and frothing at the mouth.
Thank you,
The MGMT
FlagGate Update
The Iraqi Governing Council has changed the interim flag:
Iraqi leaders presented a new national flag Wednesday after protests that a version unveiled earlier this week resembled the flag of Israel.
The new design was more or less the same as the one announced earlier this week: two blue stripes along the bottom with a yellow stripe between them, and a crescent above them in a white field.
But the stripes and crescent were a considerably darker shade of blue than the original version published in an Iraqi newspaper, which showed the stripes as being light blue.
Many said the light blue stripes were reminiscent of the light blue bands on the Israeli flag. Hundreds of university students in Mosul demonstrated against that version Wednesday.
Those rascally Jews- not only do they own all the money, but they own colors, too!.
That Liberal Media
It seems that Kerry’s Softball appearance last night on MSNBC’s Hardball has had the desired effect in the media establishment.
The following stories all quote liberally (pun intended) from the sycophantic embarassment of an interview last night, failing to note the inadequacy of the questioning:
Kerry blasts Bush, Cheney over war criticism – CNN.COM
Kerry: Bush intentionally exaggerated case – MSNBC.COM
Kerry Turns Tables on Bush and Cheney Over War Records – NYTIMES.COM
Kerry seizes offensive in battle of words of war records – The SUNHERALD.COM
And so on…
That liberal media, btw…
How Do You Say “Flip-Flop” in Spanish?
I don’t know how, but some Cubans in Florida sure do:
John Kerry looks terrified when he talks about Florida-and not without cause. The state remains firmly in the hands of a Republican governor who happens to be the president’s brother, an autocratic Republican legislature, and a new secretary of state who may prove more partisan than Katharine Harris.
But what Kerry should be most worried about is the Cuban vote. If he handles his Florida campaign right, Kerry could win a much larger share of this exile constituency than the paltry 18 percent Gore won in 2000 and do as well as Clinton’s 39 percent, which would make victory in the state likely. But if he keeps going the way he has been, Kerry will get fewer Cuban votes even than Gore did and in all likelihood lose the state.
Kerry’s approach so far has been pandering to hard-line Cuban exiles-ineptly. In March, Kerry told a Miami TV reporter that he had voted for Helms-Burton, the 1996 legislation that further tightened the U.S. embargo on Cuba. In fact, he had voted against it. True, as he would later point out, he voted for its conference version, but that’s not the same thing. In fact, Kerry had excellent reasons for not voting for the final version-it slapped on the controversial provision allowing for lawsuits against Cuba to proceed in U.S. courts, which puts the United States at odds with the world and, in fact, has never been enforced by George Bush. But instead of arguing his position, Kerry dissembled and created a video loop that has run continuously on Miami television.
Some people just can’t handle all this ‘nuance.’
In his fevered pursuit of Cuban-American votes, Kerry again sought to disavow his record. “All through the years I’ve been in the Senate, for 20 years, Tim, I have never suggested lifting the embargo,” he told Russert. “I don’t suggest you just lift the embargo. That’s not what I’m talking about.” God forbid!
Maybe it is because ‘nuance’ sounds so close to ‘NONSENSE.’
Taking Chance Home
Go read this heart-wrenching story about a Marine escort moving the remains of Marine hero to his hometown for burial. A snippet:
It turned out that I was the last escort to leave on Thursday. This meant that I repeatedly got to participate in the small ceremonies that mark all departures from the Dover AFB mortuary.
Most of the remains are taken from Dover AFB by hearse to the airport in Philadelphia for air transport to their final destination. When the remains of a service member are loaded onto a hearse and ready to leave the Dover mortuary, there is an announcement made over the building