An Open Letter to Rush, Laura I., Michelle M., Mike Gallagher, Glenn Beck, and friends...

PA Times | 10/3/08 | Pissant

[pissant]

FWIW

[icwhatudo]

Well done!

[pissant]

Had to get it off my chest PING

[Terpfen]

Hunter flopped because he ran a poor campaign. Bush gets bashed for being a poor communicator, but that didn’t stop him from winning two elections; Hunter needs to take some notes.

And I say this as someone who would have voted for him in the primaries were he still on the ticket when it was Florida’s turn to vote.

[unspun]

Dear all of the above:

Cloward-Piven Strategy

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=cloward-piven+strategy&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

[pissant]

Re-red it and learn.

[peggybac]

Very good! Coulter was on fire tonight on H&C - she wouldn’t let Alan say a word. I notice you mentioned NR - I finally got fed up after years of subscribing and did not renew about a year ago. Someone called me a few days asking me to start up my subscription again and I told him no. I also told him the magazine had become too liberal. Such a shame. I love Rob Long and his Larry King scenarios.

[chemicalman]

I sure hope he trys again.

[Kevmo]

Might I add that we Hunter supporters were lambasted due to his low name recognition, by the same people who now fawn over Sarah Palin because of her name recognition. But most of them had never heard of her, and it proves our contention that it is the process that brings name recognition. I know that’s true because I had not heard of Obama before this campaign.

Second, note how the MSM has jumped the shark in its frenzied treatment of Palin. It has gotten to the point that articles that are obvious hit pieces are generating more followers for her because Middle America knows that what is written simply ain’t so, and by such elitist based criticism the MSM criticizes Middle America. We Hunter supporters knew that this media frenzy would ensue the moment a republican was nominated, with the media turning on whomever the GOP candidate would be. This frenzy seemed to catch McCain off guard, suggesting that it was not a part of his campaign strategy. Hunter supporters KNEW it would happen and sought to INDUCE this frenzy.

Third, recall that Hunter was the only candidate in US History to ever get NOT Invited to a series of debates when he had delegates (voters actually voted for him) to his name whereas several of the ones who were invited had no delegates to their name. The GOP allowed POLLS conducted by the MSM to determine the process rather than ACTUAL VOTES.

[grey_whiskers]

Consider yourself highly commended, sir!

Besides, "Palin-Hunter 2012" has such a nice ring to it!

Cheers!

[Darkwolf377]

I can’t help but think that Hunter would have been razor-sharp in his attacks on Obama in the first debate.

[Yosemitest]

Question:

Is this what we get when Democrats play war?
"Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs In Vietnam" by Monika Jensen-Stevenson & William Stevenson

This book is about a devastating American scandal. In Kiss the Boys Goodbye, two award-winning journalists provide startling evidence that the American government, right up to its highest echelons, knows, and has always known, that American POWs were left behind at the end of the war. More amazingly, it has regularly obstructed the efforts of private citizens to discover the truth.

Monika Jensen-Stevenson, Emmy award-winning producer of CBS-TV's 60 Minutes, and her husband, William Stevenson, author of the best-selling A Man Called Intrepid, have written a heartbreaking account of men sacrificed to American foreign policy and to clandestine operations—some of them highly questionable—concealed from the American public and its elected representatives.

The story began in 1985, when Jensen-Stevenson was developing a segment for 60 Minutes on ex-marine Bobby Garwood, who escaped from Vietnam in 1979 and claimed to have seen countless Americans still in captivity. He claimed, also, to have been a prisoner of war, but the government disagreed and convicted him—with surprising haste—of collaboration with the enemy, burying his story of prisoners along with his reputation. As she examined Garwood's case more closely, Jensen-Stevenson found herself drawn into a world of secret information, anonymous sources, official obstruction, missing files, censored testimony, and thinly veiled threats from highly placed government officials. She met with veterans, families of missing men, disillusioned and outraged government officers—who shared with her the information and documents they had gathered painstakingly over the years. Thus began a five-year investigation that produced some eye-opening revelations about the government's abuse of power and secrecy.

Not only does Kiss the Boys Goodbye reveal evidence of men abandoned and families torn apart, but it raises larger questions that strike at the very heart of democracy. When honorable men and women who ask questions are ignored, ridiculed, or persecuted by their own government, whom is that government serving? When a government uses the cry of "national security" to conceal facts from the public, how can the actions of that government be assessed, and to whom is it answerable? Is there, in fact, a "secret government" of intelligence bureaucrats running the country? Reading this explosive book will forever change the way you view the Vietnam War, the Americans who fought in it, and the government that betrayed them.

MONIKA JENSEN-STEVENSON is a former magazine editor who started her career in TV journalism in Canada as a reporter and producer for CTV. In 1981, she moved to CBS-TV's 60 Minutes as a staff producer, and worked there for six years. She won a Gold medal for Best TV Documentary at the New York International Film and TV Festival for one of her CTV productions and an Emmy for her mini-documentary "In the Belly of the Beast." She writes regularly for the Toronto Star.

WILLIAM STEVENSON first encountered the Far East as a Royal Navy fighter pilot and re-turned to Asia at the outbreak of the Korean War as a correspondent for the Toronto Star, later traveling for the Star in China and South-east Asia and covering the final French defeat in Vietnam. He is the author of A Man Called Intrepid and Ninety Minutes at Entebbe, and his television credits include a period as staff producer and co-host with Alistair Burnett of Dateline, ITV's nightly news program from London, and one as correspondent and producer for CBC-TV.

[RBMP85]

I'm actually hoping for a Pence/Palin ticket in 2012. I know it would be way to conservative to win, but one can dream.

[SoConPubbie]

The Fred Barneses, Hewitts, Medveds, and the National Review ladies

Those aren't conservatives my friend.

They just play conservatives in whatever media they are involved with.

[SoConPubbie]

Why?

Reagan won. If they can communicate, they can win too!

That being said, Hunter would be a good choice too!

But if he is going to do this again, he needs to start now and start a grass-roots effort.

[SoConPubbie]

I'm actually hoping for a Pence/Palin ticket in 2012. I know it would be way to conservative to win, but one can dream.

Why?

Reagan won. If they can communicate, they can win too!

That being said, Hunter would be a good choice too!

But if he is going to do this again, he needs to start now and start a grass-roots effort.

[Terpfen]

I did read it.

Hunter sank himself. I know this because I watched it slowly unfold.

[Terpfen]

I did read it.

Hunter sank himself. I know this because I watched it slowly unfold.

[pissant]

You are up to your eyeballs with it.

[pissant]

Well put Kevmo.