Now comes Tony Blankley's excellent op-ed in the Washington Times:
...my first question is whether Mr. Kerry is telling the truth. When, exactly, did he meet with these foreign leaders? Note that he doesn't merely say he talked with them (by telephone). He claims that he "met" them and "they looked at" him while they were saying these things.Do you think Tony's holding his breath?Sen. Kerry has been on public view almost every day since he started running for president last year (except for the period of his hospitalization, when he obviously could not have been traveling around the world). I don't recall seeing him on European, Middle East or other foreign travel during that period. (His campaign office wouldn't respond to my inquiry for a record of his foreign travel in the last year.) Nor do I recall seeing or reading about foreign heads of state meeting with Mr. Kerry when they visited Washington during the last many months.
In the absence of any public evidence that he has met with several foreign leaders recently, the burden of proof should be on Mr. Kerry to prove that he didn't just make up this little story that he told a small group of Florida contributors with one telltale reporter present. George W. Bush was pressured to provide his dental records to prove he had attended the Alabama National Guard in 1973. (He provided them, and he did attend.) It only seems fair to pressure Mr. Kerry to provide his passport or other documents for 2003 to prove he really met with these "foreign leaders," either here or abroad.
OH MY:
Lynne Cheney's still-remembered 1981 lesbian romance novel, "Sisters," was feted Monday night in a special performance by the "Lynne Cheney Players" - to the delight of an audience of liberal East Village types. The performance at the New York Theatre Workshop was part of a celebration of left-leaning radio personality Laura Flanders' new book, "Bushwomen: Tale of a Cynical Species."
Yesterday, Flanders told Lowdown that Cheney's novel "is a breathy, gothic romance, horribly written. It's celebrating lesbian love and promotes the value of preventative devices, condoms, to women who want to remain free. It features a woman who has unmarried sex with the widow of her sister - all this by Lynne Cheney, the culture warrior of the right." Monday's crowd of 200 - which included actress Janeane Garofalo - laughed throughout the satirical staging. full story.
More news of the vacuous:
Recovering Republican Arianna Huffington has launched a scathing attack on the President in her new book, "Fanatics and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America."
"Since George W. Bush ran as a compassionate conservative, Bush Republicans have become the transvestites of the political world," she writes.
"They can put a dress and makeup on, make themselves all pretty, and promise to care about the poor and schoolteachers, and quality health care, but behind the mascara, cheap perfume, and come-hither looks, they're still the same guys who march us into war, plunge us into huge deficits, and rail against gay marriage and taxes," says the one-time California gubernatorial candidate.
As would be expected, the book has drawn praise from liberals Al Franken, Larry David and "West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin, who says: "Huffington continues to be one of our most striking, original, intelligent, witty and passionate voices. And the legs, my God, the legs." source
Poor Squid, apparently Wal-mart wasn't hiring:
Salon.com founder Dave Talbot has named former Bill Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal the online magazine's D.C. bureau chief. The move into cyberspace puts Blumenthal in the element of his conservative nemesis, cyber-gossip Matt Drudge. "Salon," said Blumenthal, "intends to be fearless" ...