Posted on 02/22/2006 4:54:56 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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The Complete Democrats' Disgrace
In Minnesota we are in the middle of a story that has dropped from view in the media, but it is a story that should attain national prominence. The Democratic Party has undertaken a campaign to suppress two advertisements giving voice to the sentiments of Iraq war veterans and Gold Star Families who support the war.
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In Minnesota we are in the middle of a story that has dropped from view in the media, but it is a story that should attain national prominence. The Democratic Party has undertaken a campaign to suppress two advertisements giving voice to the sentiments of Iraq war veterans and Gold Star Families who support the war.
Brian Melendez is the chairman of the Minnesota Democratic Party. This past Thursday Melendez called a press conference and condemned the first of the two advertisements -- the one featuring the veterans -- as "un-American, untruthful and a lie."
The two advertisements can be viewed here. The first of the two ads is devoted to the Iraq war veterans; the second to the Gold Star Families, featuring Merrilee Carlson of St. Paul. Mrs. Carlson's son Michael was killed in Iraq last year; the Wall Street Journal published Michael's "credo" this past Memorial Day.
In Minnesota the mask has fallen from the Democratic Party. It has condemned the message of Lt. Col. Bob Stephenson and the other veterans supporting the mission in Iraq as "un-American." Yet it has gone beyond its outrageous condemnation of the ads. It has actually sought to suppress the message of the featured war veterans and Gold Star Families, emailing Party members and urging them to contact television stations demanding "the removal of the ads."
What do Democrats elsewhere think of their Party's campaign condemning the servicemen and Gold Star Families in the ads as "un-American"? Does Brian Melendez speak for them?
Minneapolis Star Tribune columnist Nick Coleman has now devoted two hysterical columns to condemnations of the advertisements. Coleman's first column made a basic error of fact as a result of its reliance on a far-left Web site and cited the testimony of a Kerry delegate to the 2004 Democratic convention as a "nonpartisan" source. (John fisked the column here.)
Coleman's second column fastened on "the Delores Kesterson issue" -- attacking the Gold Star Families ad for presenting the stepmother of Erik Kesterson in lieu of his mother. For this bizarre point Coleman relied without attribution on his friend "Hesiod"at Daily Kos. Coleman overlooked fellow St. Paulite Merilee Carlson -- the genuine biological mother of Michael Carlson -- in this rant.
Lt. Col. Stephenson is the co-chair of Minnesota Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission. Col. Stephenson is featured in the first of the two advertisements in issue. On Saturday John interviewed Col. Stephenson on the Northern Alliance Radio Network. You can listen to the interview here.
The Democratic Party has officially pronounced that Col. Stephenson and his ads are "un-American." That such a thing could happen is almost beyond belief -- a Marine officer with more than ten years of active duty labeled "un-American" for supporting America's foreign policy -- but it is nevertheless true. And attention must be paid.
JOHN adds: To my knowledge, not a single Democratic office-holder, in Minnesota or elsewhere, has disassociated himself from the Minnesota Democratic Party's position that it is "un-American" to support our government's policies in Iraq, and that expressions of such support should be banned from the airways.
Posted by Scott at 08:06 AM | Permalink
You know, when Kalifornia started to really suck - politically (mid 80's) - I moved to Texas. To my knowledge, there is NO LAW that keeps 'Scott' from getting the hell out of Minnesota.
Speechless.
I hope this story gets more attention on talk radio, Fox, etc.
We can't depend on the MSM, but we have our own outlets. Let's go!
Great ads.
How dare the Minnesota Democrat Party say anything. Don't they remember that Gold Star Families have absolute moral authority (or does that just apply to Gold Star Families who oppose the war).
That and Frickin KSTP refusing to run the ads as a matter of "freedom of speech" after being the hacks for Skippy and the DFL. Anybody who will not allow the words of an American soldier to be heard is in my opinion beyond contempt.
I think that Scott stays in Minnesota to fight the good fight. Some believe that Minnesota is getting redder.
UnREAL!!! I hope this gets major conservative media coverage. Maybe Rush will assail this today. I hope so anyway. These treasonous turds are pushing for an open civil war beyond just words.
The thing is once you get outside the 494/694 beltway the redder things become, the closer to downtown Mpls/St. Paul you get the bluer things become.
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