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Bush Critic Kuo Goes Up in Flames: Claims Matthews 'Conflagrating' Issues
Hardball/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 10/17/2006 2:47:59 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

There's nothing the MSM loves more than a renegade Republican. The GOP maverick-of-the-MSM-week is David Kuo. He is the former #2 man in the Bush administration's Office of Faith-Based Initiatives, and has written a book, Tempting Faith, claiming that the operation was a cynical attempt to woo faith-based voters who top aides including Karl Rove looked on contemptuously.

Chris Matthews predictably had Kuo on this afternoon's Hardball. At one point, Matthews asked whether President Bush has "used faith to get votes" and then "how about the issues like stem cell - do you think he's using them politically?"

Replied Kuo:

"I think you're conflagrating a couple of different things here."

I had to laugh. "Conflating" is one of those 50-cent words that every DC pundit seemingly works into his lexicon, and here Kuo - trying a bit too hard for erudition - had mangled it.

You might say Kuo was . . . en fuego!


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: davidkuo; religiousright
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1 posted on 10/17/2006 2:48:01 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Hardball/NewsBusters up-in-flames ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 10/17/2006 2:48:38 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

How many TV's do you break in a year after watching this sort of nonsense like Matthews, et.al? Do LCD or Plasma displays take shots from shoes better?


3 posted on 10/17/2006 2:50:13 PM PDT by The South Texan (The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Conflate: To bring together; meld or fuse

Conflagrate: To bring together; meld or fuse; THEN set ablaze...


4 posted on 10/17/2006 2:52:21 PM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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To: The South Texan

As I've explained in the past, to protect my TV from myself, I have placed it behind a chicken wire fence like the one the Blues Brothers played behind in the country music road house ;-)


5 posted on 10/17/2006 2:52:37 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Watching the Today Show since 2002 so you don't have to.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Oops, LOL. He was on with Laura Ingraham too. He's a weasel, won't answer a direct questions. Mostly I think he just wants to sell his dumb book

Oh, and he says that he is completely innocent in the timing of the book's release. He says that his contract required its release in early 2007. It must be a very poorly written contract.


6 posted on 10/17/2006 2:53:09 PM PDT by Bahbah (Shalit, Goldwasser and Regev, we are praying for you)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

My question for David Kuo is, why release this book right before a hotly contested election when you know if it is believed it will suppress GOP turnout and help Democrats who any REAL Christian Conservative would agree will be horrible on the issues Christians hold deer?? Why David if your motives are so pure and you're so free of any agenda or guile??

We know why David. You're a Pat Buchanan type out to punish the "neo-cons" as you see it and to bring down the GOP for its lack of ideological purity. But I think it won't impact a damned thing. You mention a couple unnamed people at the White House as making disparaging remarks at Christians, yet the president himself is a conservative Christian and isn't named, nor his inner circle, of being contemptous of Christians.

So you got nothing David. Slither away back into blissful obscurity to slip your nose back up Buchanan's rectum or whatever Bush hating demagogue whose interests you're serving. You're barely even a blip on anyone's radar screen and you won't even have so much as 15 minutes of fame son.

And if your agendized, Democratic-assisting rag isn't on the 99 cent table at the local bookstore and car wash by Christmas, I'll eat my hat.

And by the way, when would Pissy Matthews EVER deign to have a Christian conservative on his show if they espoused conservative views and the Bush presidency. That should tell you where Kou is coming from and the kind of people he's being used by. I might add, Buchanan and Pissy are ideological soulmates these days and can't get enough of one another. I'm sure he's the one fronting Kou.



7 posted on 10/17/2006 2:57:52 PM PDT by MikeA (Foley has resigned. Bin Laden has not. That's what's at stake in this election, not some pervert.)
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To: The South Texan
How many TV's do you break in a year after watching this sort of nonsense like Matthews, et.al?

Thank God I don't watch these morons. My TV replacement rate would go waaaay up.

8 posted on 10/17/2006 2:58:38 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Kill 'em til they're dead! Then, kill 'em again!)
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To: Bahbah

You should see the DUmmies urging each one of us to go out and read this book and fall for the garbage. Hell, I'm half convinced that they'll have a fundraiser over there so they can buy every one of us that book before the month is out.


9 posted on 10/17/2006 3:00:09 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (Sometimes those who scream loudest for "justice" are the ones that want real justice the least.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

David Kuo is making the rounds, was on Laura Ingraham's show this morning. He was interviewed by Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes, and I've seen him on several other shows.

He says, "George Bush is a good man, he never mocked evangelical Christians. Kuo also says he never saw or heard Karl Rove disrespect evangelicals. But his interviewers don't want to hear any of that.




On Foley:
Matthews tells David Shuster another name is going to drop in the next few days, I'm sure he means another congressman. This comes because of MSNBC "BREAKING NEWS", Foley tells Ddiocese the name of the priest who molested him as a teenager. (cringing here)


10 posted on 10/17/2006 3:00:41 PM PDT by YaYa123
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To: The South Texan

none....I like 99% of the world would never watch this a-hole and the shi-ite he has on his lib/dem programs...when you search out clymer...chrissy mathews is front & center!!!


11 posted on 10/17/2006 3:05:01 PM PDT by hnj_00
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
As I've explained in the past, to protect my TV from myself, I have placed it behind a chicken wire fence like the one the Blues Brothers played behind in the country music road house ;-)

LOL! I'm only allowed to watch certain programs while in restraints.
12 posted on 10/17/2006 3:24:12 PM PDT by Jaysun (Idiot Muslims. They're just dying to have sex orgies.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Dear Mr. Kuo,

Don't conflate "conflagration" with "whoops, my brain just went up in flames!"


13 posted on 10/17/2006 3:28:30 PM PDT by Enchante (There are 3 kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and the Drive-By Media)
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To: Petronski

"Conflate: To bring together; meld or fuse

Conflagrate: To bring together; meld or fuse; THEN set ablaze..."

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14 posted on 10/17/2006 4:19:19 PM PDT by billhilly
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To: MikeA

Some poster on a previous story sad Kuo is working as an "intern" for Teddy Kennedy. I have not been able to confirm that.


15 posted on 10/17/2006 4:20:20 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

Interesting if true. Let me know if you dig anything up on that. My sense is more that he's part of that right wing Bush hate cabal lead by the likes of Pat Buchanan, Mike Savage and those others from the far right, Jew hating Star Wars bar scene.


16 posted on 10/17/2006 4:30:43 PM PDT by MikeA (Foley has resigned. Bin Laden has not. That's what's at stake in this election, not some pervert.)
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To: Wuli

If you Google Kuo and Teddy Kennedy the first entry that comes up says he worked for Kennedy before going to work in the Bush White House. A Dem plant?


17 posted on 10/17/2006 4:41:22 PM PDT by LadyNavyVet
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To: LadyNavyVet

Also his bio on Beliefnet.com where he's a columnist says he worked for a lot of Republicans but also Kennedy and Gary Hart.


18 posted on 10/17/2006 4:44:27 PM PDT by LadyNavyVet
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To: MikeA
My question for David Kuo is, why release this book right before a hotly contested election

....because he wouldn't have gotten a fat advance otherwise? By the way, did we hear what his advance was? The left probably doesn't care if he sells a single book. They have had their week of bashing the White House right before the election.

19 posted on 10/17/2006 5:18:42 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Book Says White House Abuses Evangelicals

Former senior presidential aide David Kuo has written a book accusing the Bush administration of privately ridiculing evangelicals. The book is “Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction.” Kuo portrays the Bush White House's commitment to evangelical causes as little more than a cynical facade designed to win votes.

“Bush is in league with the devil,” Kuo said. “Secret satanic rites were held in the White House basement during every full moon. Children would be roasted and eaten. I saw it all with my x-ray vision.”

The events were often accompanied by cruel humor according to Kuo. “One time, Bush cracked ‘I will eat no child’s left behind,’” Kuo said. “This set off gales of laughter. These are sick, sadistic bastards.” According to Kuo, the children sacrificed were all obtained from orphanages run by evangelicals.

Additional accusations include the charge that Vice-president Chenney is a werewolf and Condolezza Rice a vampire. “I have seen Chenney savagely mutilate staffers,” said Kuo. “One time a bat flew at me. I knew it was Condi.”

Kuo says that a super sunscreen formula developed by the military-industrial complex was what enabled Secretary of State Rice to appear during daylight hours. “You know sun light is fatal to vampires,” Kuo explained. “But Condi has a special cream that blocks its harmful rays. That’s how she can go out in the daytime.”

Kuo said that he didn’t come forward with this information earlier because his agent advised him that it would be more profitable to expose these horrors by writing a book.

read more...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm


20 posted on 10/17/2006 5:19:30 PM PDT by John Semmens
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