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No lie: Kerry's just a wannabe (Tomorrow's Steyn Today)
Chicago Sun-Times ^
| April 4, 2004
| Mark Steyn
Posted on 04/03/2004 1:15:22 PM PST by litany_of_lies
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Steyn at his most hilarious and pointed.
To get a Steyn SunTimes Sunday column before it's fully linked by the Sun-Times (probably available after 2 pm or so on Saturday), pull up a prior article and edit the web address so that the last two charcters before ".html" are the Sunday date coming up (04 in this case).
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posted on
04/03/2004 1:16:39 PM PST
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To: Pokey78
msping
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posted on
04/03/2004 1:23:34 PM PST
by
stands2reason
( During the cola wars, France was occupied by Pepsi for six months.)
To: litany_of_lies
You're America's first flip-flopper hip-hopper?Isnt it the truth?!! LOL What a Maroooon!
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posted on
04/03/2004 1:28:48 PM PST
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mylife
To: litany_of_lies
In other words, it's nice to have a grown-up in the WH.
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posted on
04/03/2004 1:32:45 PM PST
by
Ben Chad
To: stands2reason
Reading this column reminded me of a time my father told me about a date he had had. (My parents are divorced and have been for about 10 years.) He's a pretty ordinary guy, but his date was a local high-powered exec at the then-largest bank in the city, sat on the museum's board of trustees, etc. They saw a movie, or play or something, and at the end of it, she asked him what he thought. His reply was "it's got a good beat, you can dance to it, I'd give it a 75" straight from American Bandstand. She had no clue what he meant by that. Now, they were both the same age, both early Baby Boomers. Turns out, *she* never watched the show, because she was too busy doing other things, even then.
Ever since, I have not been surprised when business, political, community leaders have no clue what is going on in pop culture. In fact, I find it pretty strange when they DO know what's going on.
Kerry can keep pretending all he wants. Pretty soon, it will catch up with him.
Maybe he can quote some lyrics from that famous Half Dollar rapper during the debates.
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posted on
04/03/2004 1:34:05 PM PST
by
cincy29
To: litany_of_lies
Great find! I hope they don't take the link away now.
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posted on
04/03/2004 1:35:24 PM PST
by
aynrandfreak
(If 9/11 didn't change you, you're a bad human being)
To: litany_of_lies
"As wise old campaign consultants always say, the politician's First Rule of Holes is: When you're in one, stop digging. Al introduced us to a Second Rule: When you're with one, stop pretending to dig her." Now that got my Pepsi coughed up....
L
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posted on
04/03/2004 1:36:20 PM PST
by
Lurker
("Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite"-Robert Heinlein)
To: litany_of_lies
Anyway, as I said, I wouldn't call Sen. Kerry a liar. But I did get the vague feeling in the following exchange that, if it had gone on a minute or two longer, the candidate's nose would have cracked my TV screen, extended across the coffee table and pinned me to the wall.Ear to ear grin!
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04/03/2004 1:37:21 PM PST
by
auboy
To: litany_of_lies
The difference is that President Bush doesn't feel the need to pretend.I remember when the media proclaimed Dubya was out of touch because he'd never heard of Leonardo DiCaprio, and Rummy out of touch because he doesn't watch TV. Gotta have your priorities straight.
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04/03/2004 1:42:29 PM PST
by
FlyVet
To: litany_of_lies
What comes to mind, David France wanted to know, when you think of Madonna? ''I'm not into pop music,'' replied Bush.
Actually this shows Bush's diplomacy at work. What he really wanted to say was, "You know what comes to mind, David? A cheap whore doing a good impression of a well-paid skank. That's what comes to mind."
In politics I guess being a square is better than being a "prude".
To: mylife; IncPen
The best riposte to Kerry came from an encounter a few years ago between his predecessor Al Gore and Courtney Love, lead singer of the popular beat combo Hole, when they chanced to run into each other at a Democratic party night in Hollywood. ''I'm a really big fan,'' gushed the vice president.
''Yeah, right. Name a song,'' scoffed Courtney. The panicked vice panderer floundered helplessly.
Fortunately, his Secret Service guys moved in before he wound up completely riddled by Hole.
As wise old campaign consultants always say, the politician's First Rule of Holes is: When you're in one, stop digging. Al introduced us to a Second Rule: When you're with one, stop pretending to dig her.
This stuff is out there from the last election , and yet these Democrats never tire of pandering -- that Courtney Love comeback ought to be on every candidate's radar screen, but these stupid SOB's continue with this crap, and the press never calls them on it.
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04/03/2004 1:48:06 PM PST
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BartMan1
To: *Mark Steyn list; Pokey78
Ping to the Steyn List, and to your list.
bfalr
To: litany_of_lies
Botoxicated Bump.
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04/03/2004 9:44:55 PM PST
by
bootyist-monk
(<--------------------- Republican Attack Machine)
To: Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2; ...
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posted on
04/03/2004 9:56:00 PM PST
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Pokey78
(Steyn: Leftists demonize Wolfowitz because his name begins with a big scary animal and ends Jewishly)
To: mylife
To have 1/10th of that man's talent!
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posted on
04/03/2004 10:02:59 PM PST
by
IGOTMINE
(We are being incrementally criminalized by a government that does not trust us with firearms.)
To: litany_of_lies
The title of ''How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?'' is the very definition of compassionate conservatism -- the vocalist's compassion for the confined puppy shrewdly tempered by cost-benefit analysis. From how many rooftops can I say that I love this man?
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posted on
04/03/2004 10:10:23 PM PST
by
Ruth A.
To: litany_of_lies
But you have to admit, since he started hanging with his trick, he got ends, bling, and hunnies down.
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04/03/2004 10:12:12 PM PST
by
A.J.Armitage
(http://calvinist-libertarians.blogspot.com/)
To: litany_of_lies
Welcome to John Kerry's hip-hop foreign policy: Ask the multilateral gang what's hip, and hop to it. I am trying to get across to my children what "cool" really means. They think "cool" is something to aspire to. Most of what is considered cool, though, is affected, disinterested, and nihilistic. I wish we could retrain our kids to only think achievement or innocent fun were cool (skateboard tricks, winning spelling bees, fishing, etc.).
Kerry is definitely pandering to the loudest negative foreign buzz, and the countries liberals think are "cool" want to be left alone when they are doing well and bailed the heck out when in trouble.
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04/03/2004 10:23:26 PM PST
by
Yaelle
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