Posted on 09/03/2004 7:03:51 AM PDT by GETBUSHOUTNOW
AFTER ZEL MILLER'S SPEECH AT THE CONVENTION, HE HAD SEVERAL INTERVIEWS. ONE OF THESE WAS WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS HOST OF MSNBC'S "HARDBALL". MR. MILLER HAD STATED IN HIS SPEECH THAT JOHN KERRY WOULD USE "SPITBALLS" AS WEAPONS IN THE "WAR ON TERROR". MR. MATTHEWS QUESTIONED MILLER'S USE OF THE TERM AND ASKED MR. MILLER IF HE TRULY BELIEVED MR. KERRY WOULD USE "SPITBALLS" AS WEAPONS.
MR. MILLER INFORMED MR. MATTHEWS THAT HE WAS USING A METAPHOR. FURTHER QUESTIONING AND SOFT PROBING OF MR. MILLER'S SPEECH RESULTED IN AN UNBELIEVABLY ANGRY RANT BY MR. MILLER. MR. MILLER WENT TO THE POINT OF SAYING HE WISHED DUELLING WAS STILL LEGAL SO HE COULD CHALLENGE MR. MATTHEWS TO A DUEL AND - BY UINDENIABLE IMPLICATION - DO HIS BEST TO KILL MR. MATTHEWS.
IS THIS ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL FIBERS OF THE CORE OF THE CURRENT REPUBLICAN PARTY? WHEN PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BELIEVE THAT CHALLENGES THEY DO NOT LIKE CAN BE STOPPED BY KILLING THE CHALLENGERS? ZEL MILLER EXPRESSED WITH UNDENIABLE CLARITY THE PENALTY HE THOUGHT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR MR. MATTHEWS WHEN HE, IN EFFECT, SAID HE WISHED HE COULD SHOOT HIM.
SUCH SELF-RIGHTEOUS POMPOSITY IS ALWAYS ONE OF THE PRIMARY ARTERIES DRIVING THE HEART OF ALL DICTITORIAL REGIMES. NEVER OPEN TO REVIEW, CRITISM, OR QUESTIONING BY ANY - EVER; TO DO SO IS TO INVITE DEATH. WHAT HAPPENED HERE? ARE MR. MILLER'S VIEWS THE VIEWS OF THE MAJORITY OF ALL REPUBLICANS? IS MR. MILLER ON THE FRINGE? ARE THE CORE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAMMERING HOME A SENS OF "PATRIOTIC" NATIONALISM SO STRONG THAT IT CANNOT BEAR SCRUTINY OR REVIEW? THE DAY OUR GOVERNMENT AND POLITICAL PARTIES CANNOT AFFORD OPEN QUESTIONING BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY IS THE DAY DEMOCRACY DIES. IS THIS THE DIRECTION WE WANT TO GO? IS THIS THE DIRECTION THE CORE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ARE LEADING US? I WOULD THINK NOT; HOWEVER, AFTER LISTENING TO THE SEETHING ANGER AND BLATHERING RAGE OF MR. MILLER I MUST CONFESS I AM CONCERNED. CONCERNED NOT ONLY FOR MYSELF, BUT CONCERNED FOR AMERICANS, AMERICA, AND THE REST OF THE MEMBERS OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY.
; )
No need to shout.
Bush will win.
Kerry will loose.
'Nuf said - except 3.....2.....1..... ZOT!
Maybe you've noticed by now that MSNBC is using several quotes from the Mathblows/Miller interview to advertise Hardball. He DID say something to effect that he wished we lived in a time where you could challenge a person to a duel. Now whether Zell actually wanted him dead is doubtful. But I DO think if we follow Zell's reasoning we could interpret it this way: 1) If Chrissy persisted with such behavior he would have been challenged to many duels and long since been dead. 2) The most likely choice - He wouldn't continue such behavior as to prolong his life. Or 3) Doubtful - Would be one hell of a gun slinger.
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