Typical Republican Hypocrisy

“I can't fault Ann Coulter at all on this. She is basically saying that she is really fond of Rush and can't be objective in the matter, using the analogy of her mother being charged for murder. She is saying that she believes what she believes, stands by her belief - but would still be sad to see Rush go to jail.

Cuttin off the mikes like that is a whole nother issue.”

“...is going on around here...like...who gives a darn about Ann whatever her name is...like ....take this nonsense elsewhere....please....and promptly may I add....

...now what was I doing?....right!...gotta setup the Betamax to record the next episode of Ultra Man...”

“OK... I admit I was wrong there. I explained why on the Ann Coulter thread. It comes down to her rejecting a question she couldn't answer by calling the question stupid, instead of either answering a very simple question - or honestly saying that she really couldn't be objective right then.”

“Reverend Stephen White, infamous for preaching against homosexuality and sexual promiscuity at Yale and other college campuses, now faces charges that he solicited sex from a teenage boy in a Philadelphia suburb.

In recent years, White -- known to students as "Brother Stephen" -- has made informal speeches on Cross Campus and Beinecke Plaza denouncing minorities, homosexuals, religious groups and aspects of popular culture.

White was arrested in June after he allegedly offered $20 to a 14-year-old boy in West Chester, Pa. for permission to perform oral sex on him.

www.yaledailynews.com”

“Apparently he thought the war in Iraq was wrong and became a Democrat in May.

The change in sexual preference came within the following month.

:-)”

“Haha! Busted! But why is this a republican issue?”

“How long before someone cites this as an example of the "liberal" media?”

“"Apparently he thought the war in Iraq was wrong and became a Democrat in May.

The change in sexual preference came within the following month.

:-)"


BURN!”

“Because, Nigal, Republicans hate everything fun!”

“Why don't Baptist republicans have sex standing up?


Their afraid someone will see them and think they're dancing.”

“HA!”

“That was funny”

“"But why is this a republican issue?"

You're welcome to try, but there's no way to distance yourself from Brother White. He's one of yours.”

“Haha!



















c o c k smoker...”

“You r we todd id!”

“i never heard of the guy.


i thought ya'll were supposed to be tolerant and inclusive.....”

“I don't get the Republican angle either. Is he a Republican?”

“On the other hand, two things in his defense:

1) Hasn't the gay community been arguing for years that pedophiles aren't homosexuals. You said he bashed gays, not pedophiles.

2) He speaks as someone who truly understands the wages of sin, because he's had to pay them.”

“as we know, I'm right of limbaugh.

I like bush, I'll vote bush, but if I was a dem, i'd vote sharpten. Hes the only one that knows what he wants. The only one with conviction and ditermanation. The hate I have for him is equal to the respect and aw I have for him. Hes brilliant.”

“I don't like sharptens views by any chance, but I think hell do what he says he will.

The other guys have no life in them..or backbone for that matter.

Good luck revend al”

“!Dog ym hO”

“Sharpton does provide entertainment value and he does have points to make, but definitely hold the Tawanna Brawley case against him. He has no credibility with me. I guess in that way he is kind of a left liberal Rush.”

“"as we know, I'm right of limbaugh."

WTF? How can ANYONE be right of Limdbaugh? There ain't enough room on the right side of him!

Sharpton would be a great one simply for the comedic value of that damn hair job!”

“I can’t believe no one has asked the obvious question on all our minds…Did ya take the $20 Violin?






























Of course not. You'd have done it for free! LOL!”

“I think Hitler and/or Mussolini may have been to the right of Limbaugh.

'The wages of sin,' indeed.”

“Nigal, ya knucklehead, the $20 was for permission to chomp on the kid!”

“Yeah, I know. Are you saying he wouldn't go for that?”

“Are Republicans really concerned about truth? You decide:

Last December, when President Bush named Tom Kean, the mild-mannered Republican former governor of New Jersey, to lead the commission investigating the September 11 attacks, critics scoffed that Kean would be an administration patsy. But the White House's resistance to releasing crucial information about the attacks has stirred him to anger. "I will not stand for it," Kean fumed last week. "Anything that has to do with 9/11, we have to see it -- anything." Kean has complained for several weeks about executive branch foot-dragging and has suggested the administration may be trying to run out the clock on the committee's mandate, which expires in May.

Kean's not the only one who's upset. Other Republican members of the committee, including former Sen. Slade Gorton, a stalwart conservative, have echoed his complaints. And, given that the commission's mandate is to determine how the attacks happened and to make recommendations about stopping another one, these complaints are serious business.

Any lack of cooperation from the White House is troubling, but one key point of contention is especially disturbing: whether the commission will have access to daily intelligence briefings given to the president in the weeks before September 11, 2001. Particularly in light of revelations that at least one of these reports indicated that al Qaeda was planning to hijack U.S. airliners, these briefings are clearly relevant. Studying them might help the commission recommend ways of prioritizing future briefings more effectively.

But the White House is blocking the commission from seeing the briefings. The administration claims they contain sensitive information that, if made public, could compromise national security. But so does limiting our understanding of the terrorist attacks. And there's little reason to think that a panel of seasoned statesmen like former Indiana Representative Lee Hamilton, the commission's co-chair, would expose classified intelligence. The same goes for their professional staff, overseen by Phillip Zelikow, a professor at the University of Virginia, who is chummy with the GOP national security establishment and who co-authored a book with national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. In fact, the 9/11 commission has vowed to take utmost care to protect the intelligence it receives.

The other key White House argument is that the release of past daily intelligence briefings will distort future ones. The White House argues that government officials might shape their advisories differently -- cover their asses, to put it bluntly -- if they have reason to think the briefings could become public someday. The Bush administration has repeatedly invoked this reasoning to defend "deliberative" internal documents on subjects as varied as Justice Department investigations, internal memos written by stymied judicial nominee Miguel Estrada, and Dick Cheney's secret energy policy sessions. While there may be theoretical merit to this argument, it is certainly less compelling than the need to fully account for a terrorist catastrophe and prevent another one. And it is badly undermined by the White House's tendency to invoke it only in cases when the administration may have something to hide. Consider, by contrast, the fact that Bob Woodward was readily shown hundreds of secret National Security Council documents revealing vast amounts of deliberative information for his hagiographic book, "Bush at War."

Another reason to distrust the White House's motives is its obvious, and loathsome, hostility to the commission itself. For months after September 11, the White House and its congressional allies blocked the creation of an independent panel. Last October, in fact, John McCain and Joe Lieberman complained to "The New York Times" that the Bush administration was "deliberately sabotaging their efforts to create an independent investigation of the Sept. 11 attacks." Even after Bush yielded to pressure from 9/11 survivors and allowed a commission, he failed to fund it in his budget request this year, forcing Congress to come to its rescue again. These crude White House tactics seem more than a little self-defeating. Because Congress can extend the commission's life, delays will only push any possibly embarrassing revelations closer to the 2004 election. Surely the White House realizes that the perception of a cover-up is more politically damaging than turning over a few intelligence reports. Unless, of course, it really does have something scandalous to hide.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Republican National Committee Friday asked CBS to allow a team of historians and friends of former President Ronald Reagan and his wife to review a miniseries about the couple before it airs.

Republicans have expressed concern that the miniseries, titled "The Reagans," may inaccurately portray the couple.

In a conference call with reporters, RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie said he sent the request to CBS Television President Leslie Moonves.

Gillespie said that if CBS denies the request, he will ask the network to run a note across the bottom of the screen every 10 minutes during the program's presentation informing viewers that the miniseries is not accurate.

Since when do Republicans care about the truth?”

“Where is the liberal media when you need it?”

“Radio Talk Show Host Indicted

HOUSTON - Radio talk show host Jon Matthews was indicted on one count of indecency with a child Wednesday, News2Houston reported.

*snip*

"Under the occasion contained in the indictment in early October, Mr. Matthews exposed his genitals to a child (a person under 17)," said John Healy, the Fort Bend County district attorney. "We have not alleged any contact."

*snip*

Matthews has been a staple of Houston radio as a conservative talk show host, most recently on the KSEV AM morning show. He handed in his resignation, which was accepted, Wednesday.”

“Hang 'em high I say!

Anyhoo, your desire to prove all conservatives are evil because of a few is typically retarded for you.”

“You sure jump to conclusions pretty easily Nigal.

Guilty conscience?”

“Jumping? No. In you post, OK, cut and paste you enlarged the "conservative talk show host". You show that that was the point of your post, that he was a conservative. Forget the child he was messing around with. It's all about his political affiliation.

Very myopic and self serving.”

“Given the bold caps, and the thread title - it sure does seem that Violin was hoping there would be some extra tar left over for some other conservatives. Nigal could have made that jump with a broken ankle.”

“Yeah, violin, you'll get fat from all the low-hanging fruit.”

“Rush Limbaugh is too liberal for KSEV.

Another of their hosts was convicted of bank fraud a few years ago.”

“How's about this hypocrite, then?

Confounding President Bush's pledges to rein in government growth, federal discretionary spending expanded by 12.5 percent in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, capping a two-year bulge that saw the government grow by more than 27 percent.

Da whole sad story.”

“A day late and a dollar short.

The story really does belong on this thread though.”

“Funny how you post your thread with an obvious dagger towards conservatives violin, then try to turn the table back on the conservative who responds (nigal) with the "feelin' guilty?" trip. Doesnt sound like Nigal has a guilty conscience, it sounds like you are just searching for a target. Doesnt that get tiring?”

“The GOP forfeited any claim it might have on gender sensitivity when George W. Bush signed the late-term abortion ban surrounded by 14 postmenopausal men. Whatever one’s position on legalizing abortion rights, the absence of even a single woman in the photo op was a huge blunder.
An audience picture that ran on the front page of The New York Times featured a smiling Jerry Falwell applauding Bush as he put pen to paper. Though the legislation will almost certainly be overturned when it reaches the Supreme Court, its passage scores points with Bush’s conservative base. And if Bush wins re-election, the betting could change on what the high court will do. It would only take the resignation of one or two aging justices for Bush to reconfigure the court on social issues like abortion.
Conservatives are angry about the wimpish leadership of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, an amiable fellow who shies away from confrontation. They think the Democrats have rolled Frist by mounting a 60-vote threshold for Bush’s most controversial nominees. Conservatives want to drop the bomb—legislative parlance for changing Senate rules to remove the right to filibuster over judges. That would violate years of tradition and obliterate what little goodwill remains between the parties.


Frist is relatively new to the Senate; he’s only in his second term, and he’s caught between tradition and a rapacious Republican right wing. This week’s 40-hour talkathon during the Senate’s debate on judicial nominations was a sop to the right, but it may backfire. To spend that many hours venting on the Democrats’ refusal to allow a vote for four judges after having confirmed 168 Bush appointees will spawn stories about how little this Congress has accomplished.
The Republican theme is “justice for the judges,” while Democrats broadened the debate to “justice for the jobless,” using their half of the allotted time to bash Bush and call for a vote on increasing the minimum wage.
There is no shortage of hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, but the Republicans outdo themselves when they play hurt. The GOP stalled 60 of President Clinton’s judicial nominees, bottling them up in committee and denying them even a hearing. Now it’s payback time, and Republicans are guilty of “selective outrage,” says congressional analyst Charles Cook, publisher of the highly regarded Cook Report”

“wonder if any liberals have ever commited a crime......hmmmm...lemme think.....”

“Pornography foe arrested on prostitution charge

A vice chairman of a Louisville anti-pornography group was arrested Saturday night on a prostitution charge.

Police took John W. Riddle, 65, into custody after seeing him in a car at 17th and Rowan streets with a "known prostitute," according to the arrest report.

Riddle, of Clay Avenue in Okolona, is a vice chairman of the anti-pornography organization COMPASS. The organization, whose full name is Citizens of Metro for Property and Safety and Security, has been trying to stop adult bookstores and sex shops from opening near residential neighborhoods.”

“He was obviously doing research.”

“By David Mattingly
CNN Washington Bureau
Monday, December 15, 2003 Posted: 4:27 PM EST (2127 GMT)



(CNN) -- An attorney for the family of former U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina on Monday confirmed that at the age of 22, Thurmond fathered a child with a teenaged African-American housekeeper in 1925.

Thurmond, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died in June at age 100. His illegitimate daughter's story was published Sunday by the Washington Post.

Essie Mae Washington-Williams, now 78 and a retired school teacher in Los Angeles, publicly revealed her relationship to the former segregationist after a lifetime of silence.”

“"I mean, he's a deceiver, he's a liar, he's a torturer, he's a murderer," Mr. Bush said.

He said Saddam had been willing "to destroy his country and to kill a lot of his fellow citizens" and used weapons of mass destruction against people in his own country. "He is the kind of person that is untrustworthy and I'd be very cautious about relying upon his word in any way, shape or form."






I mean, he's a deceiver, he's a liar, he's a murderer," Saddam said of Bush.

Saddam said Bush had been willing "to destroy his country and to kill a lot of his fellow citizens for oil" and used weapons of mass deception against people in his own country. "He is the kind of person that is untrustworthy and I'd be very cautious about relying upon his word in any way, shape or form."”

“Bush would do well to recall what LBJ said about Ferdinand Marcos...

"Sure he's a SOB, but he's our SOB!"

The current administration may wish Hussein's eventual trial to be lengthy enough to detail his atrocities, but certainly not quite so long as to allow for the detailing of the United States' role in his development.”

“Sorry... Bad Noriega flashback, LOL”

“

Imagining Saddam's trial The deposed dictator might call Donald Rumsfeld and a host of American leaders -- as defense witnesses.”

“Oh my!

This could be a real hoot!

Let the chips fall where they may!”