Posted on 04/10/2003 5:08:21 AM PDT by Mia T
Is your problem insufficient homework -- (with a name like O"Reilly you don't watch Irish TV?) inadequate analysis or is this just another of your embarrassing attempts to lure this terminally reluctant interviewee onto your show?
All of the above notwithstanding, given the sorry clinton record on Iraq, on national security, on terrorism, on weapons proliferation, etc., given the nexus between the clinton administration and 911, there is no way in hell that either clinton can come out a "winner" in this war.
Play back the tape. The irony of Dick Morris' response to your simplistic analysis was lost in the puffery. There was a subtle, but substantive difference between your point and his.
Yours implies an intelligence; his, an absence thereof.
Your point is not supported by the evidence. His is.
And the evidence is right under your nose. To wit: hillary clinton will not come on your show precisely because her "infrastructure" knows what Dick Morris knows: hillary clinton avoids putting her foot in her mouth only when she keeps her mouth shut.
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THE award for the most indefinite position has to go to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. When her press secretary, Philippe Reines, was asked her position, he sent a transcript of Mrs. Clinton's remarks last Friday on CNN and a news account of her comments on Monday during a visit to Watervliet, N.Y. (It seems that the senator, still a bit first ladylike, is reluctant to pick up the phone.)
She said on CNN that the president "made the right decision to go back to the United Nations" and suggested that the country "take a deep breath, deal with Iraq if we have to, understand exactly what we've gotten ourselves into, because in the briefings I've received, there's a lot of unknowables."
In Watervliet, the senator said, "This is a very delicate balancing act." And, "I fully support the policy of disarming Saddam Hussein." She also urged the administration "to try to enlist more support."
A skeptic might conclude that Mrs. Clinton wants to appeal to her antiwar constituents in New York now, and to a broader base later -- if she runs for president. Or maybe she remains conflicted.
March 6, 2003, NYT, Hawks, Doves and a Flock on the Line, JOYCE PURNICK |
hillary clinton Covertly Hedges Her Bets on the War While Overtly Betting Everything on the Virtual Certainty--Another Terrorist Attack
by Mia T, 2.28.03
Just as it is not surprising that hillary clinton would covertly hedge her bets on the war, it is not surprising that she would bash Bush on homeland security openly, loudly and often.
Both logic and empirical evidence inform us that perfect homeland security is unattainable, especially post-9/11 in a country undermined by left-wing theater and a clintonized democratic party. The Bush Administration and terrorism experts tell us that another terrorist attack is a virtual certainty.
Thus, we have hillary clinton bashing Bush on homeland security openly, loudly and often. Vulnerability will always smoke out the opportunistic, cowardly thug.
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The Spoils Of War
By: Bill O'Reilly for BillOReilly.com
It should come as on surprise that the fall of Saddam Hussein is causing an avalanche of repercussions all over the world.
While no one can predict the future, the immediate past is fairly easy to catalog and Saddam has taken a lot of people down with him.
The following folks are, at this very moment, feeling Saddam's pain.
Vladimir Putin: Once a guy who roamed the range with President Bush, Mr. Putin should not be planning any visits to Texas soon. His government likely supplied the Iraqis with weapons outlawed by the U.N., and many texans might find that extremely offensive. You can be sure the powers that be in Washington have. Can it get any colder in Moscow? You bet.
Vicente Fox: Another former pal of George W.'s, the Mexican Presidente now finds himself so far outside the American power "loop" he might as well be the king of Tonga. Fox's decision not to support his close friend Mr. Bush in the United Nations security Council must be considered muy malo.
Jacques Chirac: Replaces Michael Jackson as the most detested man in America. Maybe he should visit one of Jackson's plastic surgeons as he faces persona non grata in the USA.
The Hollywood Left: Sheen, Clooney, Sarandon, et al. all failed auditions as serious thinkers. Only the French are still listening.
The Pope: Apparently, John Paul II is on a personal crusade to destroy the Roman Catholic Church in America. He's still allowing Cardinals like Mahoney in Los Angeles to stonewall priest sex abuse allegations. Then the Pontiff has the chutzpah to call the Iraq war "immoral." A miracle is needed.
John Kerry: A genuine American war hero, the Senator redefines the war "inappropriate" by calling for a "regime change" in the USA in the middle of a shooting war. Even democrats shuddered.
Network News People: Ratings for CBS News have declined 15% during the war! ABC News was down 6%, and NBC up only 3%. Meantime, Americans flocked to watch cable TV news. Talk about regime change!
Pinhead Professors: The reputations of fine colleges such as Columbia and Princeton have been tarnished by the insane rantings of some radical professors. Even some students are getting fed up with so-called "teachers" advocating the deaths of American troops. Would you pay $30,000 a year to hear a professor applaud Mogadishu?
The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times: The Times, they are changin', sang Bob Dylan. Well, yeah. These two powerful newspapers slanted hard news headlines to fit their editorial position early in the war. Plus, their editorial positions were flat and wrong. Who wants spin home delivered?
Senator Edward Kennedy: His appeasement of Saddam may mean the death of the liberal-wing of the democratic party. Moderates like Joseph Lieberman and John Edwards are rising, Ted and his committed Ideologues risk extinction. At this point Senator Kennedy makes George McGovern look like a navy SEAL.
And finally one big stealth winner in the Iraq war:
Senator Hillary Clinton.
She simply disappeared after voting for military action last fall, dodging all direct questions about the war but making it clear she did not side with the peace movement.
Say what you want about Hillary, she has no use for losers.
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Another mistaken 'conceptzia'
by Laurie Mylroie
Al-Qaida has struck again, or so it seems. "A virtual enemy," as a Clinton administration official describes it, al-Qaida is everywhere and anywhere. It is no less a threat than it was a year ago, according to CIA director George Tenet although the Taliban are defeated; al-Qaida's leadership is dead or on the run; and more than 3,000 others have been detained. "You see it in Bali. You see it in Kuwait," Tenet affirmed. And now, presumably, we saw it in Mombasa. |
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"Study of Revenge," the sequel to the New York Times best-seller "Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf," co-authored by Laurie Mylroie and Judith Miller, exposes the threat Saddam Hussein still poses to Americans.
The Gulf War never ended for Saddam Hussein. He had already recovered sufficiently by 1993 to undertake a campaign of terror, of which only the first two acts were planned in advance: the January shootings outside CIA headquarters in Virginia and the February bombing of one tower of the World Trade Center in New York, in an attempt to topple it against its twin.
"Study of Revenge" is, first of all, the story of the Trade Center bombing. Mylroie contends that the mastermind behind the bombing was an Iraqi intelligence agent, Ramzi Yousef, who escaped and left behind the Muslim fundamentalists who participated in the plot and were meant to be caught. She argues that the Clinton administration's mishandling of the event led to the emergence of a fraudulent and dangerous theory about Middle East terrorism--that it is no longer primarily state-sponsored but is carried out by individuals or "loose networks." The misunderstanding is particularly dangerous in light of the prospects for biological terrorism.
In addition to her account of events around the bombing, Mylroie describes how Saddam Hussein has steadily regained strength and eroded the system of postwar constraints that were supposed to hold him in check. She suggests that because of the proscribed unconventional-weapons capabilities Saddam retained in violation of the Gulf War cease-fire--and without the check of U.N. weapons inspectors--he is far more dangerous than is generally recognized.
Mylroie bases her case on a meticulous analysis of the government's evidence in the terrorism trials that followed the Trade Center bombing. Her book is written as a detective story, and the reader is invited to conduct the investigation into state sponsorship of the terrorism that the U.S. government failed to conduct. |
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Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense
The destruction of the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon -- all within one hour on September 11, 2001 -- demonstrated America's shocking vulnerability to terrorism.
Yet terror had already emerged on America's shores eight years earlier, when the mysterious terrorist mastermind, Ramzi Yousef (arrested after a botched attempt to down a dozen U.S. airlines) bombed the World Trade Center in an attempt to fell the buildings. His attacks were viewed as the harbinger of a new terrorism, carried out by an elusive enemy driven by religious fanaticism to unprecedented hatred of the United States.
But is that perception accurate? A real-life detective story, The War Against America engages the reader in a gripping examination of the evidence regarding Yousef and his terrorism. It reveals the split between New York and Washington that emerged during the investigation and tells a terrifying tale of America left exposed and vulnerable following the mishandling of what was once the most ambitious terrorist attack ever attempted on U.S. soil.
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THE award for the most indefinite position has to go to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. When her press secretary, Philippe Reines, was asked her position, he sent a transcript of Mrs. Clinton's remarks last Friday on CNN and a news account of her comments on Monday during a visit to Watervliet, N.Y. (It seems that the senator, still a bit first ladylike, is reluctant to pick up the phone.)
March 6, 2003, NYT, Hawks, Doves and a Flock on the Line, JOYCE PURNICK |
THE HILLARY, YOU KNOW, CLINTON TRANSCRIPT:
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE [YOU KNOW] 'UPDATED'
GREENFIELD: Tonight, a conversation with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on the nation and the world after September 11, on GREENFIELD AT LARGE.
THE COMPLETE ANNOTATED INTERVIEW (NB: a very long, you know, download because of the, you know, clinton criminal, you know, redundancy.)
PUFFY-faced polemicist Christopher "Hellbound" Hitchens claims Bill Clinton is a "lousy crook."
... He rips into jokes about President Bush's intellect as "another liberal snig that annoys me a lot these days," adding, "The fact has to be faced: the intellectual candlepower of this administration is a great deal brighter than the Clinton administration . . . [and] the level of professionalism is very much higher."
HALF A HOUSE, HALF A BRAIN: Why the clintons hit on Simon & Schuster
Mindless rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy
by Mia T
John Podhoretz recently asked, "Whence comes hillary clinton's reputation for brilliance?" For the answer, he intuitively, rather brilliantly in fact, looked to her anatomy and noted,"This isn't the first time she's shot herself in the foot."
Ian Hunter recently observed that our leaders are shrinking. "From a Churchill (or, for that matter, a Margaret Thatcher) to a Tony Blair; from Eisenhower to Clinton; from Diefenbaker to Joe Clark; from Trudeau to Chretien -- we seem destined to be governed by pygmies."
The pols understand their anatomical limitations well; they attempt to mitigate them with veneer. And so we suffer mindless alpha-beta-beelzebubba grotesquerie. . .
and rhinestone-studded-and-tented kleptocracy.
With all the media genuflecting before the press-conference podium of bill clinton, it bears remarking yet again that the clinton intellect (an oxymoron even more jarring than AlGoreRhythm and meant to encompass the cognitive ability of both clintons) is remarkable only for its utter ordinariness, its lack of creative spark, its lack of analytic precision, its lack of depth.
The clintons' fundamental error: They are too arrogant and dim-witted to understand that the demagogic process in this fiberoptic age isn't about counting spun heads; it's about not discounting circumambient brains.
Politicos and reporters are not rocket scientists . . .
Professions tend to be self-selected, intellectually homogeneous subgroups of Homo sapiens. Great intellects (especially these days) do not generally gravitate towards careers in the media or politics. Mediocre, power-obsessed types with poor self-images do.
Thus, clinton mediocrity goes undetected primarily because of media mediocrity. ("Mediocrity" and "media" don't come from the same Latin root (medius) for no reason.) Insofar as the clintons are concerned, the media confuse form with substance, smoothness with coherence, data-spewing with ratiocination, pre-programmed recitation with real-time analysis, an idiosyncratic degeneracy with creativity.
Jimmy Breslin agrees. In Hillary Is the 'Me-First' Lady, Breslin laments:
Listen carefully to the clintons. You will hear a shallow parody of the class president. Not only do they say nothing; they say nothing with superfluous ineloquence. Their speeches are sophomoric, shopworn, shallow, specious. Platitudinous pandering piled atop p.c. cliché
In seven years, they have, collectively, uttered not one memorable word save, "It was a vast right-wing conspiracy," "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky,"and, "It all depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
Even the clintons' attempts at alliteration fall flat. Compare Agnew's (Safire's) "nattering nabobs of negativism" with clinton's "preachers of pessimism," an impotent, one-dimensional, plagiaristic echo (its apt self-descriptiveness notwithstanding).
Before they destroy their backs along with their reputations, media gentry genuflecting at the altar of the clinton brain should consider Edith Efron's, Can the President Think?
A wasted brain is a terrible thing.
ALSO:
HILLARY CLINTON LACKS COGNITIVE CAPACITY TO LEAD
When will the 4th Estate finally VET this dangerous, repugnant fraud? |
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I doubt very seriously that the Clinton's have any use for him.
Notice the absolute absence of James Carville and the other Clinton cronies...
Man I hope a reporter gets to her soon.
I must NEVER be personally confronted by those who want or speak the truth.
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