Posted on 01/08/2006 3:37:14 PM PST by new yorker 77
The New York Times today gives credit where credit is due.
Following yesterday’s disclosure by an aide to Sen. John Cornyn (R.-Tex.) about an op-ed written by Stephen Dujack that compared farm animals to Holocaust victims, Democrats pulled Dujack as a witness for Samuel Alito's confirmation hearings. Dujack was scheduled to testify against Alito for his association with Concerned Alumni of Princeton.
Here's an excerpt from the Times' article:
“Also on Friday, Democrats canceled one of their witnesses, Stephen R. Dujack, a journalist who has criticized a conservative Princeton alumni group to which Judge Alito once belonged. The cancellation came after members of the staff of Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, distributed a Dujack column that compared eating meat to the Holocaust.”
Although Judiciary Committee Democrats would never admit the Cornyn communiqué had anything to do with Dujack’s cancellation, the New York Times is correct in giving credit to Cornyn's staff.
UPDATE -- 12:35 p.m.: Another good read today is Stephen Dinan’s article in the Washington Times about the Democrats' decision to pull Stephen Dujack as a witness opposed to Alito.
According to Dinan's article, a spokesman for Sen. Patrick Leahy (Vt.), ranking member on the Judiciary Committee, wouldn't comment about Dujack's cancellation.
However, in a written statement to the Washington Times, Dujack offers his take:
"I hope to bring to the attention of the Judiciary Committee the disturbing conclusions we can draw about Judge Alito's character by his association with Concerned Alumni of Princeton in written testimony, which I will still submit," he said.
Dinan quotes from the Los Angeles Times op-ed, which in all likelihood resulted in the Democrats' decision to pull him as a witness.
Here's an excerpt of that piece:
"To those who defend the modern-day holocaust of animals by saying that animals are slaughtered for food, and give us sustenance, I remind them, the Nazis used slave labor and made 'useful products' of their victims," he wrote in the Los Angeles Times on April 16, 2003.
"There is only one little step from killing animals to creating gas chambers a la Hitler and concentration camps a la Stalin," he wrote.
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Too bad he did that. A greater ambush was never made.
I agree. This is just another sad example of how Republicans can't keep their mouths shut. They should have let this guy testify and then demonstrated to the country the type of nut cases that the Dems are aligned with.
The guy is exposed as a kook.
He will be referenced from the get go now.
"Let us remember that the man who was scheduled too testify to this has been removed because of outrageous statements."
"Dujack compared killing chickens to the Holocaust. Mr. Alito have you ever compared killing chickens to the Holocaust?"
"No. Then that makes you normal."
Stupid Republicans. You wait until AFTER he testifies.
Dammit. I want a refund.
> Too bad he did that. A greater ambush was never made.
You can blame Rush, too.
He quoted some Dujack on friday, and it was clear that
some polite cross-examination would nuke the guy.
The bloggosphere cuts both ways. Even had key GOP figures
kept quiet about what was easily found in this dude's
closet, some blogger(s) would not have.
It is nice, however, to see the dems having to deal with
the environment they've created - having to have
boyscout-clean candidates and witnesses - something they
arguably find more difficult to accomplish that for the GOP.
You expose the key witness before any lib gets to comment.
You give it to Rush and Hannity and Levin to broadcast and echo.
You render the libs weaponless from day one.
First impressions are key.
The libs have been rendered impotent.
The only linkage I have between a so-called "feckless public" falling for Democrats are in the fake polls to back up the fake news template.
The most useless MSM news items begin with the phrase "According to the polls".
No, wrong. You don't take chances.
Yes, it is possible that the guy would have just exploded. But one things for sure: We've got this one won if we don't screw it up. When you are up by 7 and you have 30 seconds left, you don't go for flashy plays, you run out the clock.
Broadcast to whom, the choir?
The more the Independents and M.O.R.'s learn about how far the left has gone, the better for our side.
Hey Libs. We got Dujack(ass) canned before the ink was dry on your press release.
NEXT!
We shot a hole in their gas tank and their main engine has stalled.
They're going down with a parachute backpack loaded with forks and spoons.
Wait a minute you have to look at this from the perspective of a chicken.
If chickens could talk I am sure they would say that Col. Sanders was worse than Mengele.
And how about McDonalds shredding them and making Nuggets.
I guess what I'm most surprised about is that the LA Times would have run such a wacky column. I mean, not that the argument deserves refutation, but what the heck, people ate meat for millenia before the Nazi's genocide of HUMANS, and we have continued to eat meat for generations after. And for all the bad I've heard about the Nazis, canabalism is not a charge I've seen leveled against them.
Try pigeon and old sneakers.
Hmm...but, The National/Liberal DemocRATic Party worships "Uncle Joe" Stalin.
Gray Elephants never learned.."Don't shoot until you see the white's of their eyes"
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