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[BigWaveBetty]

Who Is Brad Owens?

"How Out of Touch Can This President Be?

The Richmond County Republican Party has cast out one of its candidates for the state House.

The party's executive committee voted to "disassociate itself" from House District 115 candidate Bradley Owens because of his 1992 association with then-presidential candidate David Duke, the former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

[BigWaveBetty]

Thanks for the Kerry classics and the links you sent me!

[BigWaveBetty]

One has to hand it to Kerry, he's an equal opportunity reprobate.

[mountaineer]

Speaking of reprobates and one the foreign leaders endorsing Kerry, from Page Six:

OLIVER Stone's flattering documentary on Fidel Castro will finally hit U.S. television on April 14, but "Looking for Fidel" is quite different from the first version he tried to foist on the American public last year, "Commandante."
That project was shelved by HBO after Castro executed three men who tried to hijack their way to freedom and jailed 75 others as political prisoners. Stone went back to Cuba and got more footage to try to balance the documentary. But he didn't succeed.

Stone, who directed the conspiracy-fantasy "JFK," swallows Castro's propaganda without protest, even when the tyrant repeatedly calls would-be emigrants "terrorists."

"If the situation arose again, I would do the same," Castro swears. "Until the very end they held guns to two tourists' heads . . . These people were marginal and [killing them] was the only way to deter them."

As for the quickie seven-day trial and execution without letting the men speak to their familes, Castro sneers, "How many visits have those people in Guantanamo Bay had? And they have been there two years."

Perhaps the most upsetting scene is when Stone "interviews" eight men - in front of Castro - who were charged with plotting a hijacking. All eight have the same answers to questions, noting their only reason for emigrating was "economic," they have all "been treated well in prison," and acknowledging the "seriousness" of their crimes. Castro is impressed and says he hopes the judges will give them lenient sentences.

Castro rants about President Bush, claiming he was "handed the [2000] election by Batista supporters in Florida." Finally, he hooks himself up to heart monitor to prove he is "as healthy as a 30-year-old."

Sadly, the best scenes from the original "Commandante" have been deleted from "Looking" - where Stone continually asks Castro if he has ever seen a psychiatrist, and Castro, to Stone's disbelief, repeatedly answers no. Also lost is a segment where Stone tries to get Castro talking about Viagra.

The film has not impressed many journalists so far. After a screening Monday night, former New York Times editor Abe Rosenthal told Variety the "documentary" was hardly a good piece of journalism and that nothing Castro said was to be believed.

[mountaineer]

No comment necessary.

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Do Democrats really have more fun?

Maybe that's why a team from ReDefeatBush.com, an online political action committee, was passing out free condoms at Tuesday night's launch party for Air America, the liberal talk-radio network headlined by Al Franken.

Among the partygoers at the Maritime Hotel who accepted matchbooks containing a Trojan or a LifeStyles condom (and graced with the slogan: "Don't Get Screwed Again!") were Oscar-winning actor Tim Robbins, former New York Public Advocate Mark Green, REM singer Michael Stipe and actor Paul Judd.

ReDefeatBush.com founder David Lytel, a former technology staffer in President Clinton's White House, told me yesterday that 500 of the latex marvels were distributed at the crowded celebration.

Lytel, who said Air America CEO Mark Walsh invited ReDefeatBush to the party to pass out political buttons and other paraphernalia, insisted that he's not worried that Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing radio jocks will use the condom giveaway to portray left-wingers as sex-crazed libertines.

"I think Rush Limbaugh has really ceased to be a meaningful commentator on America's social fabric," Lytel said. "But if Rush attacks us, that would make me very happy, and also help our fund-raising. I hope he does criticize us roundly, and enables us to reach a broader audience."

Air America's Walsh told me he was unaware, until I informed him, that his old friend Lytel was giving out condoms at the launch party. Apparently Walsh didn't want to touch the condom issue with a barge pole.

"What do you mean, 'condom issue'?" he told me. "This is really a sideshow to what was a very exciting launch party."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/179336p-155848c.html

[Timeout]

Chris never got tough with Clarke. The low point was when Chris referred to Clarke's being in charge of the Situation Room on 9/11..."You were Commander in Chief", he slobbered.

I couldn't watch after that.

[daisyscarlett]

"Daughters Liz and Mary drop everything to help their father campaign not just out of family loyalty but because they believe in the message....LINK

A very informative article on the Cheney daughters...The Dems worry about a Bush dynasty...they should wonder about a Cheney dynasty too, lol...

[BigWaveBetty]

No comment necessary.

Good, because at the end of that story my brain went kaput from disgust.

Listening to Franken via the net, so far it's awful. Hillary will be a guest later today. Gag.

Franken radio link at the bottom of the page.

[BigWaveBetty]

One other thing I noticed about Clarke on Hardball, was he's toned down his anger considerably.

[Endeavor]

Betty, thank you for that on Miniter. It is good to hear him speak out. I suspected Clarke had been the main source of his book after reading it. Clarke is quite the unscrupulous fellow.

[Iowa Granny]

howdy. Home for the weekend.

[Endeavor]

Howdy - how's the baby?

[Endeavor]

Howdy - how's the baby?

[Iowa Granny]

"He" is still where he belongs. According to Gabriel, age 5, ' he isn't out, yet'. LOL

[cyborg]

You didn't miss anything on Frankenfurter's show. You only missed the Rush gets raped by a big black prisoner jokes, the hairy testicle jokes, and the Strom Thurman small pox jokes. Oh yeah Ole Crusty sounded like she was getting it under the table. I won't be listened tomorrow. If Air America succeeds I will be surprised.

[pubmom]

I have friends from college who made similar goofy poses when they were loaded.:)

[Endeavor]

Good.

Don't you find it funny that the black congressional caucus members are falling all over themselves to escort Michael Jackson around the Hill? I guess they've finally found something to do.

[Iowa Granny]

I guess they've finally found something to do.

Anything to do is better than Nothing to do.

[mountaineer]

According to Jim Quinn, a caller to Air America on day one compared Condi Rice to the character portrayed by Kim Hunter in "Planet of the Apes." In other words, a leftwinger, a liberal, one of the truly enlightened, said black folks are apes. The host, not Franken but Randi Rhodes or some such person, supposedly admonished the caller, but then said that the comment was something you'd expect of Rush Limbaugh. Of course, the truth is that neither Rush nor any of us would say such a thing, but the whole episode certainly indicates to me just how despicable these people truly are.

[mountaineer]

Cindy Adams reports GWB may be off to Ireland, where he will stay in a castle:

BUSH to kiss the Blarney Stone? Bush & Co. to Ireland? State Visit? The soon future? Rallying the Irish vote? At this moment plans are planned. They so far extend to not bunking him in the U.S. Embassy, a mansion freshly redone for a couple of million of his own dollars by former ambassador and multimillionaire Richard Egan. As we speak arrangements are being arranged for the First Head to lay itself down in Dromoland.

[daisyscarlett]

I could not find any photos of Michael and Sheila Jackson Lee...but the African Ambassadors Spouses honored him last night...Sick, very sick...

Pop music superstar Michael Jackson holds his award and thanks those attending after receiving a humanitarian award from the African Ambassadors' Spouses Association(AFP/Paul J. Richards)