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Friday, February 20, 2004 Has He No Shame?Ralph Nader is jumping into the Presidential race, according to this Fox News article. He's to make the formal announcement on this Sunday's MTP. Unlike the 2000 presidential race when he ran under the Green Party mantle, this time he'll be running as an independent. Shame on Ralph Nader. Judging from the results so far in the last 18 Democratic primaries and caucus contests, Democratic voters appear to be united in their desire to get rid of Bush and have made "electability" their prime objective. However, it's the Deaniacs, those Democrats who have either felt disenfranchised or new voters who have never before participated in the process and were inspired to do so because of Howard Dean who are potentially up for grabs and currently "electorally homeless" if not already feeling displaced after Dean's withdrawal from the presidential race. Assuming that Dean was true to his word when he said that "the most important goal remains defeating George W. Bush in November, and I hope that you will join me in doing everything we can to support the Democrats this fall", alot of the heavy lifting will be up to Dean to undertake the task of hammering home the message to his "followers" that there is more to lose by not sublimating their emotional connection and ideological purity and subsequently migrating on over to Nader, rather than aggregate their collective energies to instead focus on the greater imperative and common good: uniting. President Clinton recently said that when it comes to casting their vote, the difference between Democrats and Republicans is that: "Democrats always want to fall in love with a candidate, and Republicans just want to fall in line. We've got to fall in line with whoever our nominee is."There has never been a more compelling reason and consequential time as right here and now for progressives and Democrats to fall in line. Somehow, i have a strong gut feeling that this time around, America's Democrats are keenly aware of this. posted by voxpopgirl | 2/20/2004 Tuesday, February 17, 2004 Killing the Music?Tell me this is not a dead-on take of the White Stripes: WHITE STRIPES (The Greek Theatre): After watching this show, I was a bit confused! The two of them are at such different musical levels, they sometimes seem like they're in two separate groups. For instance, the girl seems like she's doing perfectly fine drumming in her Half-Retarded Make-Believe Band. And then he has to spoil it all by playing loud, proficient rock and roll over it!But that's the point: it's undressed down to the bare bones of what matters most: the song and the authenticity of an unvarnished performance. Jack and his songs rock in all their gutteral rawness. In other music-related news, taking direct aim at the FCC's attempt to loosen media ownership rules and articulating how media conglomeration has adversely affected music and the music business for both artists and consumers, Recording Artists' Coalition founder Don Henley tells it like it is in today's Washington Post. posted by voxpopgirl | 2/17/2004 Monday, February 16, 2004 "Nobody died when Bill Clinton lied."The slogan featured in the title of this post first began appearing in the offworld a.k.a. the internet on blogs throughout 2003, then became the name of a blog which featured photos of various signs found along roadsides across the States displaying similar sentiments. Last Sunday, the line finally made it into the mainstream media uttered by a newspaper journalist on NBC tv's sunday morning political show Meet The Press. Here's the excerpt of U.S. News and World Report's Roger Simon's reply to Russert from this past Sunday's MTP "Political Roundtable": MR. RUSSERT: Dwight Eisenhower had this to say: "The greatest asset any occupant of the White House has is the trust of the American people and total credibility. If the president loses this, he has lost his greatest strength." Roger Simon, as Gwen mentioned, the documents were released on terms of the president's National Guard service. He also agreed to sit with the chairman and co-chairman of the 9/11 Commission...which was a change. This statement survived having not one proclamation of skepticism from it's host during the actual interview nor any attempt at protest by any Republican pundit or operative thereafter -- which tells me that the Repubs know their FlyBoy has a growing credibilty problem with the American people. posted by voxpopgirl | 2/16/2004 The Old Bait and SwitchJosh Marshall's latest post expresses his incredulity at Bush's brazen claim to a crowd in Florida today that "Democrats would endanger America's fiscal health by raising taxes." Marshall takes to task the Bush bullshit by pointing out the facts:: When the president came into office the budget surplus was over $200 billion. Now the deficit is over $500 billion. Marshall deftly analogizes that: This is the arsonist in your house telling you that stranger outside with the hose can't be trusted.[emphasis added] Thank-you. posted by voxpopgirl | 2/16/2004 Friday, February 13, 2004 Let the Smears BeginThe GOP has officially descended to that which requires the least amount of work for an already derelict press and to that which is most appealing to those aiming for the "journalistic" path of least resistance : Dirt. On the crest of the latest Washington/ABC News poll which reports that "a majority of Americans believe President Bush either lied or deliberately exaggerated evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify war", GOP waterboy, Matt Drudge, online gossipmonger and proliferator of other newspapers' headlines, has "made news" by putting innuendo into circulation. The Drudge Report headline read: CAMPAIGN DRAMA ROCKS DEMOCRATS: KERRY FIGHTS OFF MEDIA PROBE OF RECENT ALLEGED INFIDELITY, RIVALS PREDICT RUIN, followed by an amatuerish caveat reminiscent of an old highschool newspaper: **World Exclusive** **Must Credit the DRUDGE REPORT**. Republican pundit and blogger Andrew Sullivan whose support for Bush has been wearing thin for some time posted yesterday: On the alleged Kerry scandal... I guess I should say two things: I do not give a damn about Kerry's private life and do not believe that it should be a part of this campaign. But the deeper point is that the internet has ended any semblance of a barrier between respectable news and gossip. Once Drudge has posted, the story is public. This is an awful development, but it is real. I should also say: I know of no hard evidence that this rumor is even faintly true. But true or not, if the Republicans planted it, they should be excoriated. If a rival Democratic candidate did, ditto. It's a little after 7am, and in less than 20 minutes from now, John Kerry, who had already been scheduled to appear on Imus before the Drudge innuendo surfaced, will be speaking with Don Imus, who voted for Bush in 2000 and had generally supported him over the past 3 years until 5 days ago, when he announced his full fledged support and endorsement for John Kerry. The current Drudge piece headlined at this mornings' Drudge Report backs away from any claims of being able to "prove" the rumour Drudge has now put into public circulation. Unlike the Monica Lewinsky drama, which first played out publicly in this space, with audio tapes, cigar and a dress, the Kerry situation has posed a challenge to reporters investigating the claims. "There is no lawsuit testimony this time [like Clinton with Paula Jones]," a top source said Thursday night. "It is hard to prove." [emphasis added by voxpopgirl] The point about a rumour being "hard to prove" is of no bearing to the GOP, whose primary aim has already been accomplished: to plant the seeds of innuendo about their rival in order to change the subject away from the current quagmire in Iraq, the absence of WMD, Bush's declining poll numbers and the current headlines about questions on Bush's on the record statements about his National Guard duty, all of which point to questions about Bush's credibility when it comes to the very thing he and his minions have continually flaunted as being the sole copyright ownership of GW Bush: honour and integrity, trust and leadership. As of this time, no major American media outlet has made any reference to this Drudge "news". This mornings' Imus interview will be the first media interview Kerry will be making since the Drudge online rumour appeared. Of course, all the major media outlets will then have permission to "report" on the interview about Kerry's response to the allegation, thereby making it legitimate "news" by bringing it into the mainstream media, which is exactly where the GOP wanted it. posted by voxpopgirl | 2/13/2004 |
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