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'Mean Jean' Goes to Washington, and Invites a Firestorm
New York Times ^ | November 20, 2005 | JASON DePARLE

Posted on 11/19/2005 9:50:34 PM PST by OkeyDokeyOkie

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 - She grew up in the rough-and-tumble of a family auto racing business, went through concealed-weapons training, and bears a local nickname seldom applied to shrinking violets: "Mean Jean."

So when Representative Jean Schmidt, an Ohio Republican, created a furor on her 75th day in Congress by lobbing the word "coward" toward a Democratic war hero, those who know her best were anything but surprised.

Just this week, a profile in The Hill newspaper, which covers Congress, labeled her "gloriously uncensored." Back home in her suburban Cincinnati district, the Whistleblower, an online newsletter that tracks local politics, rushed out a special I-told-you-so issue calling the speech "vintage Jean Schmidt."

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: iraqwar; jackmurtha; jeanschmidt
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Rep. Jean Schmidt deserves praise, not condemnation. My only problem with Rep. Schmidt is that she allowed herself to be intimidated by the the verbal attacks of Democrats and the near physical attack by Rep. Harold Ford, who had to be restrained by other representatives. Rep. Schmidt did not call Rep. Murtha a coward, she simply quoted a Marine constituent who asked her to remind Rep. Murtha that cowards cut and run, Marines never do, a fact that the retired Marine, Rep. Murtha, had obviously forgotten.
1 posted on 11/19/2005 9:50:35 PM PST by OkeyDokeyOkie
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To: OkeyDokeyOkie

The long knives are out for her.

Tonight's Saturday Night Live--a show that has become the entertainment division of moveon.org--spent five excruciatingly unfunny minutes attacking Schmidt.


2 posted on 11/19/2005 9:53:18 PM PST by denydenydeny ("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
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To: OkeyDokeyOkie

BTTT


3 posted on 11/19/2005 9:53:49 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: All

murtha : Pay attention

You have been hanging around to long with cut and run hanoi kerry

The Brothers and Sisters on The Wall know what you have done.

And before you complain about me, I was there also.

DISMISSED!


4 posted on 11/19/2005 9:54:55 PM PST by 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub (Never Forget the traitors who sold out to the commies!)
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To: OkeyDokeyOkie
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Jean Schmidt
5 posted on 11/19/2005 9:55:12 PM PST by Old Seadog (Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
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To: OkeyDokeyOkie

The best way to respond to a NY Times character assassination is to send a check for her re-election campaign. Anyone have an address for that?


6 posted on 11/19/2005 9:55:17 PM PST by thoughtomator (Democrats think 1984 is an instruction manual)
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To: denydenydeny

Whoa... That show is still running new editions?
I don't think I've seen a fresh SNL in a decade....


7 posted on 11/19/2005 9:55:21 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: denydenydeny
Tonight's Saturday Night Live--a show that has become the entertainment division of moveon.org--spent five excruciatingly unfunny minutes attacking Schmidt.

SNL is always unfunny anymore, that's why I wasn't watching. What did they do?

8 posted on 11/19/2005 9:56:45 PM PST by Doctor Raoul (Raoul's First Law of Journalism: BIAS = LAYOFFS)
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To: OkeyDokeyOkie

And Harold Ford is a punk-a$$ b*tch.

9 posted on 11/19/2005 9:57:03 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: OkeyDokeyOkie
Murtha is a senile old coot.

The Democrats have been aiding the enemy since the Civil War.

Screw them and send them straight to hell.

10 posted on 11/19/2005 9:57:14 PM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: thoughtomator
Excellent idea. Some time ago I began, as I am able, to send checks to conservative causes whenever I find a particularly egregious leftist MSM article too frustrating. That helps me feel better! It's how I became a monthly contributor to FR too!
11 posted on 11/19/2005 9:57:16 PM PST by twntaipan (What did the comPost know? And when did they know it?)
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To: denydenydeny

Funny you mention MoveOn.org. It's sad that we would condemn MoveOn.org, the unpatriotic Daily "screw them" Kos, Michael Moore, and DU when they substitute cheap personal attacks for intellectual debate, yet applaud Schmidt when she does the same.

Murtha's proposal was irresponsible, disgusting, and easy to refute. Instead of doing that and making Murtha look like the bad guy, Schmidt's name-calling rant has made him look like the victim and the Republican Congress comes off looking petty and personal.


12 posted on 11/19/2005 9:58:28 PM PST by conservative_2001 (Defeat Jean Schmidt and Paul Hackett in 2006!)
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To: twntaipan

Whenever I see the Left take aim at one of ours I see a need for us to step up and give support to the person targeted.


13 posted on 11/19/2005 9:59:12 PM PST by thoughtomator (Democrats think 1984 is an instruction manual)
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To: OkeyDokeyOkie
THAT'S RIGHT, TELL 'EM "HOW YA FEEL"...show all the republicans how to handle the Rats...HIT 'EM WITH THE TRUTH!
14 posted on 11/19/2005 9:59:38 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you :^)
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To: OkeyDokeyOkie
Rep. Schmidt did not call Rep. Murtha a coward...

But, as the saying goes, "if it sounds like a duck, and looks like a duck..."

And let's not forget the "brave" Rep Harold "Smack my b***h up" Ford, who decided to show her who's the man...


15 posted on 11/19/2005 10:00:51 PM PST by JRios1968 ("Cogito, ergo FReep": I think, therefore I FReep.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

Since when are hero's popular with the SNL turds?


16 posted on 11/19/2005 10:01:15 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: OkeyDokeyOkie
Supposedly she broke one of the silly little "rules" of the House. It was funny how the Democrats had a hissy fit then they went on to make worse comments about the president.

The bottom line is that everyone knows what she said. And, the Democrats got slapped down by being forced to vote "for" something they did not want to.

17 posted on 11/19/2005 10:01:48 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Eternity? Smoking or nonsmoking?)
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To: martin_fierro
What was particulary insane is listening to the senile Murtha go on about how the crosses at Arlington don't say Democrat or Republican.

Thats true, but the democrats that died for this country in past wars got drafted. The overwhelming majority that have died fighting the Islamic subhumans are Republicans who vounteered.

Democrats are not supporting the troops by viciously and relentlessy attacking and telling huge lies about the Commander in Chief.

They are giving the enemy aid and comfort and should be run out of town on a rail.

18 posted on 11/19/2005 10:04:34 PM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: Doctor Raoul

On the Weekend Update, Tina Fey (who does most of the politically charged stuff) showed the clip of her speaking the "Only cowards cut and run" lines and the resulting booing. The alleged punch line was something like "While Murtha is a decorated war veteran, Schmidt is a veteran of a Seventies fashion time-warp." Ha ha.


19 posted on 11/19/2005 10:06:49 PM PST by denydenydeny ("As a Muslim of course I am a terrorist"--Sheikh Omar Brooks, quoted in the London Times 8/7/05)
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To: conservative_2001
Obviously, though you are a member of FR And therefore have the ability to know that facts, not Dem propaganda, you choose to not avail yourself of FR's threads. What's the matter...it's just easier to swallow and the regurgitate lies, than find out the facts?

Jean Schmit didn't call that traitor Murtha any names! The soldier, whose letter she read, called Murtha a coward and he is.

20 posted on 11/19/2005 10:07:39 PM PST by nopardons
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