Posted on 06/18/2004 5:23:02 AM PDT by McGruff
He said, "you can't trust these online polls, not with the way the Democrats are stuffing the votes. We've all thought this, and like me, I bet you've questioned why none of the cable networks discuss this, especially immediately after the debates, when Kerry is declared the winner by HUGE, unbelieveable numbers.
Everyone knows McAuliffe sent out emails instructing DNC/Kerry mailing lists to deluge the networks with "Kerry won" votes. I never heard Matthews, or Wolf Blitzer, Tim Russert, or anyone make mention of McAulifee queering the results. Did you?
Rush has been extra good today.
Good morning bump. Don't know if I can handle Maureen Dowd today, sick as a dog. However Fox and Friends had Hooter girls in the green room this morning.
Sorry to hear your not felling well. Rest up and watch FNC, the others will make you feel worse.
The very best part of FOX and Friends, they had on Ashley, the teenaged girl in the latest Bush ad. Ashley and her Dad were on. Her Dad is the one who took the picture of President Bush hugging Ashley so close to his heart when he visited Ohio, and was told Ashley had lost her Mom in 9-ll.
Fox showed the commercial, which I can hardly watch without tearing up. Then Steve Doucey interviewed Ashley and her Dad. Ashley's Dad explained that he had a new digital camera, wasn't even sure how to use it, and he really believes that the moving picture he captured, was "meant to be".
He said people had asked how come Bush was looking into the camera, and he said, Bush looked up just at the moment he was telling Ashley that she was lucky to have a Dad who loved her, and he said, that was the only moment Bush looked up.
Steve told Ashley the commercial was the biggest ad buy in the entire campaign, and would be played from now till the election. He asked how she felt about that. Ashley told Steve she was only 16 and couldn't vote, so she was really glad to help in this way, re-elect President Bush. Ashley's Mom had taken her to a Bush rally the year before she died.
the interview itself was almost as moving as the ad.
Thanks so much for reporting this...tears.
Rush is on fire today!!!!
POed at THK and Kerry. Wish I was taking notes.
Take care of yourself, Springman!!!! lots of fluids.
Missed it, hope to see it later.
I've got my Dad's chille(sp)? on the stove, the wife should be home today, I do miss her!!
BTW when Rush is on in Hawaii, you have to listen to it, OMG Rush has been on fire today!!!
What is Rush saying. We get Rush at 10am it is now 7:10am and I have a meeting from 9-12.
Just sent the on-going thread, have a good day at work.
I'm glad I didn't go to work today.
I'm taping this show, it'll be a good one!!
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/21/lad.02.html
CAROL LIN: Coming up on "AMERICAN MORNING."
Well, they used to be dinner conversation taboos, religion and politics, but this election year they're both often front and center. President Bush has always been very outspoken about his faith, and in 2000 he carried 62 percent of the regular churchgoing vote. And Senator John Kerry has been more outspoken about his beliefs in the last few weeks.
But what about politics in the pulpit and from the pulpit? Is there a place for political discussion on the pews? Our guests are the Reverend Billy McCormick with The Christian Coalition and Robert Boston, spokesman for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
Good to have you both very early this morning.
ROBERT BOSTON, AMERICANS UNITED: Thanks.
BILLY MCCORMICK, THE CHRISTIAN COALITION: Thank you.
LIN: Dr. McCormick, are you asking different congregants to vote one way or another when it comes to this election?
MCCORMICK: No, we are giving out voter guides, which will instruct the people as to the stands taken by the candidates. And then we insist that they make up their own minds as to who they will vote for.
LIN: Are there any specifics, though? I mean, when you talk about, for example, stem cell research or abortion, the candidates' views on that, how is it worded in these brochures?
MCCORMICK: Well, it's worded in such a way that it is as nonpartisan as we can make them. We are a nonpartisan organization, and the questions are phrased in such a manner as to be just that.
LIN: OK. Even though Pat Robertson, your partner, has been pretty vocal about his support for President Bush as well as his personal relationship? I mean, that's got to have an influence on congregants, too.
MCCORMICK: Well, actually as individuals, we can support whomever we wish. And Pat Robertson and I both support President Bush. But we don't recommend him from the pulpits.
LIN: All right.
MCCORMICK: When I was a young preacher, I could do this, but not in this day.
LIN: Well, separation of church and state has been around for a while.
Robert Boston, isn't it important, though -- it is important for many people that they judge a candidate based on their morals, their character, their values. So isn't religion just another facet of that? Isn't it important that people understand how their community feels about those things as well to vote on these important issues coming up?
BOSTON: Sure, sure. And a society as religious as ours is, no one would expect that there wouldn't be an influence from religion on politics. There's a right way and a wrong way to do that. The Christian Coalition voter guides are partisan. They're Bush re- election material and are not accurate.
LIN: What's partisan about them?
BOSTON: Well, if you look at them, there are 15 issues on that list. And on five of them, John Kerry is listed as giving no response, which would lead you to believe that he responded to the other 10. But, in fact, he didn't respond to any of them. The Christian Coalition made up those answers. They're not accurate. They are designed to put him in a negative light.
I've studied these guides extensively now since the Coalition was founded. I've written about them. They are partisan attack material. And that in 2000, The Christian Coalition actually put out a voter's guide during the primary campaign season that made John McCain look as liberal as Ted Kennedy, because they wanted to help George Bush.
This material has no business being in our houses of worship. In fact, I think puts a church's tax exemption at risk to even hand it out.
LIN: Well, Robert, the legalities of it aside, let me ask you this. I mean, polls show that the president is preferred by some 80 percent of white evangelical Christians. So aren't these pamphlets just preaching to the choir? What's the damage there?
BOSTON: Well, The Christian Coalition has been trying to get them more widely distributed. They want to get them out of the churches and into other areas. But I still think even if they're only preaching to the choir, there is a significant moral dimension here we need to look at. Should churches be involved in this sort of nasty partisan attack? Houses of worship are supposed to be a little bit better than just another unit out there doing partisan hackwork.
Aside from the legal issues, there is a moral issue that our religious leaders need to look at when they're being asked to handle this type of partisan material.
LIN: Dr. McCormick, partisan material. That's what Robert is calling it.
MCCORMICK: Well, Americans United...
LIN: And, you know, in violation, frankly, of federal law when it comes to IRS tax exemptions for your organization.
MCCORMICK: Well, we operate within the regulations of the IRS. We're just not going to operate within the regulations of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. I was a member of Americans United when it was Protestants and Other Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
LIN: Where does your literature draw the line, then? How is it that your literature...
MCCORMICK: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
LIN: How is it that your literature and your proselytizing when it comes to issues important to this election, how do you stay within the bounds of the IRS?
MCCORMICK: Well, we are in -- we're working with...
LIN: That you're not a partisan organization?
MCCORMICK: We're working with the IRS actually. And everything that we put out is such that we have worked it out. And so we stay in communication with the IRS actually.
And so this is just a scare tactic by Americans United. They want to be the official regulator of the church and the Christian religion. And when I knew it back in the early days when it first started, it was not an anti-Christ organization. But now it has assumed that kind of posture.
LIN: Dr. Billy McCormick, I didn't hear anything from Robert Boston that indicated he was anti-Christ. But more to come on this issue. Thank you very much, Robert Boston and Dr. Billy McCormick. I wish we had more time.
BOSTON: Thank you.
This is your daily ping for Friday October 22, 2004
National cook your goose day.
Friday on Imus:
6:29 - Stanley Bing
7:29 - Chris Matthews
8:29 - Sen. Rick Santorum,
8:50 - The loser of tonight's "The Apprentice"
Imus is disappointed that this O'Reilly suit may be settled (according to rumors).
Cheney annouces he will NOT run for office after this present election.
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1. Lawsuit filed against the showing of id
2. The right to vote in another voting place
3. To keep Nader off the ballot.
Another subject
No Child Left Behind
Fox interviewed a Kerry guy saying President Bush changed the rules on Kennedy re NCLB. I want to know why President Bush has not fully funded the NCLB. I know the schools have not followed the guidelines to receive moneys but I want details. -- And I wish Fox would always be fair and balanced.
My opinion of a minimum raise increase. And Washington is the winner!!
It raised the salary of McDonald workers which will raise the cost of that Full Meal Deal they flip. The worker is in a lose lose position.
It brings in more taxes - thru the wages of the McDonald worker - in the tax increase of the FMD (even one penny per order)
The winner is Washington DC - tax dollars in the DC coffer.
I would like to be told I'm not seeing the whole picture.
Washington and the labor unions are the winners.
The unions get raises because the floor has been moved, so Fed and States get more tax money.
BTW heard on Rush today your state my be in play for Bush, he's only down by 6 points, 42 Bush 48 for Kerry.
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