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The Weekly Standard ^ | 7/10/2004 | Matt Labash

[NYS_Eric]

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[Admin Moderator]

Fixed. Thanks.

[eyespysomething]

That was about the best coverage of "The Johnny Concert" I've read. Thanks.

[since1868]

ping

[Freebird Forever]

Later, a Kerry spokesman told the New York Times that the candidates didn't necessarily agree with everything that was said tonight, but that performers have the right to speak their minds, since "that's the freedom John Kerry put his life on the line to defend."

It shouldn't be too long before some sly Freeper is able to illustrate the hypocrisy of that statement.

[Paradox]

LOL! Great article. Quite damning in that understated, almost British way.

[Watery Tart]

GREAT BIG MATT LABASH BUMP!

This man has once again gone where not many of us has the stomach to go. And no one writes about these unsavory trips like he does

THANKS, MATT, FOR ANOTHER GREAT COLUMN!
Now we don't HAVE to watch the steenkin' videotape.

[Casloy]

Damn, I'd love to write half as good as he does.

This article could have been written in he 1980's. Substitute Reagan for Bush and it's the same type of Hollywood elitists looking their nose down at a conservative and accusing him of being dumb. Someone once listed the educational background of the people at one of these benefits for a liberal and came up with an average educational level of 10th grade.

[Defender2]

Here's some of these 'RATS friends:

http://www.cpusa.org/

http://www.dsausa.org/

DSA's "Progressive Caucus" Links below:

http://bernie.house.gov/pc/

http://bernie.house.gov/pc/members.asp

They are the Enemy Within!!!!

[Stallone]

Excellent writing!

This Democrats are unwittingly the pawns of Al Qaeda.

In fact,

Al Qaeda's Fifth Column in America is the Democrat party.

[mabelkitty]

I saw him play - he has no shoulders.
This is the first I heard of Meryl Streep and her snide condescending nastiness toward Christians.
What else was said that they don't want us to know about?

[Solamente]

Anyone know of a verbatim transcript of these has-beens, as it looks like we will be denied the video?

[flashbunny]

I figured out why Chevy Chase likes John Kerry.

Seems as though Chevy's parents divorced when he was young. When his father married, he married into the family that owned folger's coffee.

So kerry is like a father figure to him. A gold digger just like daddy...

[JustaCowgirl]

"that's the freedom John Kerry put his life on the line to defend."

Or didn't.

[alwaysconservative]

Many organizers would've opted to hire someone who was, say, funny. Kerry organizers thought it would be better to go with Chevy Chase and Whoopi Goldberg. Chase came out with an empty handcuff link, asking if anyone had seen Ken Lay. He then grew serious--or maybe he was still being funny, who could tell?--offering four-alarm groaners such as "Clinton [plays] sax, John plays the guitar, Bush, the lyre." Demonstrating the rapier wit that has earned him recent star turns in films like Bad Meat and The Karate Dog, Chase opined that Bush thinks "DNA" means "Daddy knows alright," and that he is "as bright as an egg timer."

Ouch, that had to hurt. It is pure GOLD to have Matt LaBash be the eyes and ears of the public at this event! And he knocks another one out of the park! It is a joy to read someone who knows what he is talking about (especially musically), recognizes the fundamentally unserious nature of the Dem candidates, and writes about them and their debauched supporters with such style and sharpness.

[don-o]

bump

[sirchtruth]

I'm going to write something here that might sound funny but bare with me.

What Bill Clinton did when he came on the national scene is recognize what people needed to hear and how they needed to hear it...no matter what a deceiver he is, this is what he was able to do. He charmed the electorate into thinking HE was middle of the road...and let's face it, he was damned good at it. Everyone in their right mind knew he was a flandering womanizer, but his ability to calmly react and communicate won him the WH twice.

The only way for liberals to get a majority of people to vote for them is to portray themselves as moderates...but once they give themselves away, it's all over for them. That Wellstone funeral is going to have such a lasting effect on them that it might be decades before they will ever win anything again. Right now, they are showing us who they really are with their spew. They are letting their LIBERAL side fly and America is going to reject that heartly!

I am all for JK saying the things he is because that shows what a loser this guy has been and will continue to be...The best thing that can happen to Bush is what is happening right now...It's like a perpetual ad that just keeps running.

Believe me, JK is only being nominated by his party because he is the one that will say the less looney stuff about Bush, but he is failing miserably at it...and the dems are destroying themselves with their rhetoric and letting the HATE MONGERS out infront.

I don't think the dems can totally destroy themselves, but they are sure giving it a nice try.

[AmericanChef]

Cash-and-Kerry is uncomfortable in most situations because he has so much to hide.

Can't let these poseurs in the White House!!

[Brett66]

Streep wondered what bomb, during shock-and-awe night, "Jesus, our president's personal Savior, would have personally dropped on the sleeping families of Baghdad."

They blather on about the "religious right", the "religious left" sounds far more insane.