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Democrats Peddle Their Own Unique Truth (Steyn On Kerry, McGreevey and Dem Fondness For Lying)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | 8/15/04 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 08/14/2004 6:06:18 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Democrats Peddle Their Own Unique Truth Trash

Actually, this is my summary of Democratic Standard Operating Procedure.
61 posted on 08/14/2004 9:52:03 AM PDT by VOA
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To: vet in action

Ya know, I haven't heard any of those things about Bush in a really long time. Could it be that since they are not in the news as often, that you decided to spread the rumors disguised as Bush "support"?Hmmm?

I think I smell a RAT....


62 posted on 08/14/2004 10:00:06 AM PDT by tuckrdout (I am here because abortion use to be illegal.)
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To: BartMan1; Nailbiter

steyn ping


64 posted on 08/14/2004 10:09:03 AM PDT by IncPen (Quality, not Quantity.)
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65 posted on 08/14/2004 10:17:10 AM PDT by bootyist-monk (<--------------------- Republican Attack Machine)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
I personally believe Kerry is psychotic. He actually believes in his delusions that he is Martin Sheen being sent on a secret mission to Cambodia in his own Apocalypse Now.

Disagree with my delusions? I'll sue you for slander!!!

66 posted on 08/14/2004 10:53:25 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: metesky

Maybe he just like really tight bicycle pants and form fitting wetsuits. And maybe a red ball, leather domination mask....


67 posted on 08/14/2004 11:21:48 AM PDT by Leisler (Kerry, release your Department of Defense SF 180)
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To: FormerACLUmember
I have been on vacation and don't know if anyone has posted the following apropos lyrics, "Holiday in Cambodia", by the Dead Kennedys [dead JFKs?]

Holiday In Cambodia

So you been to school for a year or two

And you know you've seen it all

In daddy's car thinkin' you'll go far

Back east your type don't crawl

Play ethnicky jazz to parade your snazz

On your five grand stereo

Braggin that you know how the ni**ers feel cold

And the slums got so much soul

It's time to taste what you most fear

Right Guard will not help you here

Brace yourself, my dear

It's a holiday in Cambodia

It's tough kid, but it's life

It's a holiday in Cambodia

Don't forget to pack a wife

Your a star-belly sneech you suck like a leech

You want everyone to act like you

Kiss ass while you bitch so you can get rich

But your boss gets richer on you

Well you'll work harder with a gun in your back

For a bowl of rice a day

Slave for soldiers til you starve

Then your head skewered on a stake

Now you can go where people are one

Now you can go where they get things done

What you need my son:

Is a holiday in Cambodia

Where people dress in black

A holiday in Cambodia

Where you'll kiss ass or crack

Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot [etc.]

And it's a holiday in Cambodia

Where you'll do what you're told

A holiday in Cambodia

Where the slums got so much soul

68 posted on 08/14/2004 1:04:25 PM PDT by hadrian
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Social Darwinism.

The "left" is unfamiliar with the entire concept of social Darwinism. They don't know it. They can't apply it.

In contrast, the "right" is under such constant media assault that we've culled our own herd. The left has made us stronger by attacking us from every angle. Our weaker candidates are killed off early on, and only our strongest have survived.

The biased news media hurts us in the short term, of course (I'd guess 10 to 15% in the polls), but over the long term it has made us stronger. Vas mich nicht umbrincht, mass mich starker, and all of that. Our weaker politicians like Newt Gingrinch, who had far more vulnerabilities than strengths, are drummed out. Our Packwoods are gone. Our Lott's are no longer in charge of the Senate (for giving a compliment at a freakin' birthday party!).

What remains in our Party are the strongest. President Bush and VP Cheney are so strong that the left has to now manufacture from whole cloth entire "scandals" such as NY Times' columnist Maureen Dowd deliberately misquoting the President in order to smear him.

Quote Senator Kerry verbatim on his "I voted for the $87 Billion before I voted against it," however, and we get tagged as being "mean-spirited," "negative," etc.

So the same process that makes our side stronger (we've now taken the House, the Senate, the Presidency, most state governorships including all of the large states, most state legislatures, etc.) makes our opponent weaker.

Because the news media protects instead of culls its own liberal herd, that herd has grown progressively (heh, or regressively if you must) weaker. An Arkansas governor with a long track record of failing his own state's schools, womanizing, and questionable (that's being charitable) business deals gets such sweet press that he wins the Presidency, only to be so out of his league in the White House that he fails to enact any of his ideological legislation, for instance. A corrupt California governor is so protected by his liberal news media that citizens have to recall him to stop his statewide fiscal disaster, instead of being compelled to resign by non-stop news attacks. The LA Times put 27 more reporters covering allege "groping" claims from unemployed actresses against Davis' Republican challenger than they sent to uncover Bustamante's questionable La Raza affiliations, or on various scandals involving state "grants" to liberal "charities," much less to cover such news as the bribes taken by a French President that could explain his ardent opposition to a war on Iraq.

A Democrat can sexually harass a staffer in New Jersey and be called "noble" for admitting that he's gay instead of a cad for hitting on his staff, betraying his wife, or even called a crook for misusing state funds to entice new lovers. But let a Republican Senator kiss a staffer on the lips, or a conservative Supreme Court nominee give a staffer a can of Coke, and suddenly they are misogynistic sexual harassers in the eyes of the news media.

Can you imagine the news media's collective reaction if a Republican had instead made Senator Kerry's comments about Britain, Italy, Japan, Spain, and Poland being a "coalition of the bribed"?!

It is beyond question that there is a double standard in the media. In the short term, this double standard does indeed work against us by giving several percentage points of popular support over to the Democrats.

In the long term, however, Social Darwinism kicks in. Our leaders are stronger, have better political armor, and maintain more easily defensible political positions. Our weaker politicians are gone. Their weaker politicians, however, are cultivated.

This is epitomized in their selection of Senator Kerry, the most liberal voter in the entire Senate, whose most significant acts of his life were made in the four months that he served in his first job out of college some 3+ decades ago...a man who has taken either both sides of every issue or the most liberal side of every issue, bar none.

Senator Kerry can get away, at least in the press of course, with voting for the Iraq War but then against its funding, but can you imagine what the press would have done if President Bush had been for our National Missile Defense but against its funding?!

So at every turn, the Left gets a free pass for its waffling inconsistency, whereas the Right has to get it correct the first time and stick with that view no matter what.

But Social Darwinism has caused unintended consequences. By coddling the Left via forgiving most every gaffe, the press has cultivated a weaker liberal side. And by attacking the Right from every possible angle at all possible times, the liberal press has made the Right stronger.

It's Social Darwinism. The herd that has been more pampered has grown soft. The herd that has had to fight has grown stronger.

The left is now stuck with mediocre candidates. The right, however, is finally raising up a crop of Titans.


69 posted on 08/14/2004 1:07:21 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

That would be the upside to the media bias.

Now I am not sure which article is more thought provoking Steyn's, or or the one you wrote.


70 posted on 08/14/2004 2:26:35 PM PDT by KTpig
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To: blanknoone; Howlin; riley1992; Miss Marple; deport; Dane; sinkspur; steve; kattracks; JohnHuang2; ..
Thanks for the ping!


71 posted on 08/14/2004 2:27:48 PM PDT by Pokey78
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To: 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub
Here's the real reason Lt. Kerry wasn't spending Dec. 24, 1968, on a secret mission in Cambodia: On the previous day, Dec. 23, the U.S. government finally secured the release, after a five-month diplomatic stand-off, of 11 Americans whose U.S. Army utility landing craft had made a navigational error and strayed into Cambodian waters. Prince Sihanouk had rejected U.S. apologies and threatened to try the men under Cambodian law. It's unlikely, 24 hours after their release, anyone in Washington was thinking, ''Hey, we need to send that hotshot Kerry in there.''

PING! I just love Mark Steyn

73 posted on 08/14/2004 2:37:53 PM PDT by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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To: Pokey78

A great one. Thanks Pokey!


74 posted on 08/14/2004 2:42:48 PM PDT by secret garden (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Pokey78

The analogy to Halliburton was brilliant.


75 posted on 08/14/2004 2:43:00 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
How is Kerry going to get us out of Iraq. He doesn't even have an exit strategy for Cambodia. And how is he going to fend off Al Qaida if he can't even fend off a few hundred former co workers.

Sen. Kerry - 0
Quagmire - 1

76 posted on 08/14/2004 2:53:29 PM PDT by Steel Wolf (Don't make me roll initiative...!)
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To: mylife
Here's the real reason Lt. Kerry wasn't spending Dec. 24, 1968, on a secret mission in Cambodia: On the previous day, Dec. 23, the U.S. government finally secured the release, after a five-month diplomatic stand-off, of 11 Americans whose U.S. Army utility landing craft had made a navigational error and strayed into Cambodian waters...

Did the landing craft use the same waterway that Kerry alleges to have used?

Did the reported blocking of Kerry's supposed route into Cambodia happen as a result of the prior landing craft error, to prevent recurrence of similar navigational errors?

77 posted on 08/14/2004 4:19:54 PM PDT by secretagent
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To: anniegetyourgun; tkathy; Pokey78

<< Clinton's "truth" is that he's a [Treasonous] philandering [Gangster.]
Condit's truth is that he's [Also a serial sexual offender.]

Kennedy's "truth" is that he's a [Murderer, a liar, and a tongue-chewing babbling drunken fool.]

Rostenkowski's "truth" is that he's a [Thief.]

McGreevey's REAL "truth" is that he's [Abjectly] corrupt.

Trafficant's "truth" is that he's [An imprisoned felon.] .... >>

And our problem is that every one of these is un-and-anti-American.

And that all that is necessary to their success is that Good Men do nothing.

That evil is automatic -- and Good must be earned!

[Thanks for the ping, Pokes]


78 posted on 08/14/2004 5:50:08 PM PDT by Brian Allen (I am, thank God, a hyphenated American -- An AMERICAN-American -- and A Dollar-a-Day FReeper!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

In Vietnam the only thing that seared Kerry was a piece of rice he got in his arse, and he got a purple heart for that.


79 posted on 08/14/2004 6:47:24 PM PDT by Flashman_at_the_charge (A proud member of the self-preservation society)
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To: KTpig

Thank you for the whole Steyn and nothing but the Steyn.


80 posted on 08/14/2004 8:33:24 PM PDT by Ruth A.
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