Posted on 09/04/2004 2:53:42 PM PDT by Mia T
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER
"Zell Miller's speech was a speech of hate, it was a speech of venom. This is a man who started his political career with Lester Maddox and last night he imitated Lester Maddox. Lester Maddox, as we all know, was a segregationist but he was a man of hate. Zell Miller is not a segregationist, not that at all....
There are lines in politics and that speech went over the line. It's one thing as Dick Cheney did, I thought, well within the bounds of political discourse to go after John Kerry on his Senate record. It is quite another thing, in my judgment, to in effect come, he came very close to saying the Democrats were a treasonous party..."
David Gergen Now, while young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrat's manic obsession to bring down our Commander in Chief.
What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in?
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny....
Time after time in our history, in the face of great danger, Democrats and Republicans worked together to ensure that freedom would not falter. But not today.
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator....
No one should dare to even think about being the Commander in Chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.
But don't waste your breath telling that to the leaders of my party today. In their warped way of thinking America is the problem, not the solution.
They don't believe there is any real danger in the world except that which America brings upon itself through our clumsy and misguided foreign policy.
It is not their patriotism - it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking.
They were wrong.
They claimed Reagan's defense buildup would lead to war.
They were wrong.
And, no pair has been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry.
Zell Miller
here is a difference between hate speech and the awful truth, between irrational anger and righteous indignation, between a Ted Kennedy or a Howard Dean or an Al Gore or a Nancy Pelosi or a John Kerry or a clinton (either, one for the price of two, I say)... and a Zell Miller. But listening to the Kerry-DNC talking points today, one would never know it.
In his keynote address to the Republican National Convention last night, a righteously indignant Zell Miller told the awful truth.
He told the awful truth about his party, the Democratic Party.
He told the awful truth about his party's presidential candidate, John Kerry.
He told the awful truth that goes to the core of John Kerry's and the Democratic Party's utter unfitness to lead America, especially now, in these perilous and determinative times.
And he backed up the awful truth with reams of facts and rational argument.
ZELL'S ZUGZWANG
John Kerry and the Left responded not with facts and rational argument, but with the only move they know, the only move left to them. Character assassination. They had to discredit Zell Miller... and fast.
Media lackeys from Pinch to Chris big-mouthed the following Kerry-DNC talking points before the Kerry corpse was even coifed. (Strike that metaphor. The problem, as we now, (post-Cristophe, post-botox, post-eyework) see, was never "haggard." "Haggard" is electable. (See LBJ.) "Cadaveric" is not, at least not outside of Hawaii. And Kerry's dissonant new "do," like the mortician's careful coif, only enhanced the funereal gloom. One has to wonder if Shrum was brought in (dispatched?) to praise Kerry... or to bury him....)
Anyway, back to the matter at hand, the Kerry-DNC talking points. They are listed below in ascending order of rectitude of intention. (Et tu, Brute?)
NOTE TO EVERYONE ELSE:
By conflating the two charges--judgment and patriotism-- John Kerry and the Left expose their guilty knowledge of same. And it doesn't matter whether it was done with Machiavellian calculation or out of simple naiveté.
Seditious rhetoric and expressions of legitimate differences of opinion are not mutually exclusive constructs, David Gergen notwithstanding. But because the Left's wartime rhetoric about Bush is abusive, undermining, irrational, and ultimately empty, it can only be sedition.
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 1:
KERRY, THE Ds + SEDITION (IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK...)
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 2
KERRY, THE Ds + THE AMERICAN SOLDIER
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DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 3
KERRY + Ds: NATIONAL-SECURITY CLUELESSNESS
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DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 4
KERRY, THE Ds + WEAPONS
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DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 5
KERRY, THE Ds + SPITBALLS
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DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 6
KERRY, THE Ds: MORE WEAK, MORE WRONG + MORE WOBBLY
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DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 7
KERRY, THE Ds + OUR SURVIVAL
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johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com
Hardball with Chris Matthews
September 2, 2004
aiding + abetting the terrorists + imperiling all Americans
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
They claimed Carter's pacifism would lead to peace.
a lethally anachronistic, post-Vietnam, pre-9/11 liberal conceit
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE)
Keynote Address, 2004 Republican National Convention
September 1, 2004
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004
...and if I may add, it was admirable, Knute & Ironclad, how you two seen your
error here, (an error anyone could've easily made) and made it right with Mia.
And kudos to you, T, for being the young lady you always are.
Excellent point, Knute! I talk up Dubya to every man & woman I meet.
"The first thing that caught my eye was a comparison of Zell Miller to Lester Maddox. If I'm misinterpreting something, I stand corrected..."
Yes, well, It might have caught some of us off guard. - Mia was spoofing the Democrats' reaction to Zell Mille and their talking points.
uh.. Miller
bump to read later. Looks very interesting! and Zell hit this one out of the ballpark!
Zell's speech was courageous and historic.
I believe it is one of the best political speeches EVER. That goes for its content, its style, its delivery, its importance and its power.
no problem. :)
Help me; re: around posts 9-12 references to Knute's post and
and tang-soo posts to tang-soo and I can't find the original tang-soo post much less Knute's post: is there a parallel universe I'm missing? Remember, I'm from a red (wink wink nod nod) state.
Susan Estrich and David Gergen must be on the same talking points email list. Or what do I know? Maybe they created this talking point.
It was an obvious down and dirty, mean, nasty attack, I have to think it will offend the intelligence of all but the most demented voter.
Gergen's discordant politics is captured perfectly by his incongruous and constant look of pained smugness. It's unclear which came first.
Zell Miller hit it right on the money. You know the speech was very effective by seeing the hysteric reactions from the media. He gave a powerful, in-your-face speech that drove liberals mad from coast to coast. He only said what many non-liberal Democrats have been feeling for years about the disturbing leftist tilt of that party, and the media knows it.
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER Now, while young Americans are dying in the sands of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan, our nation is being torn apart and made weaker because of the Democrat's manic obsession to bring down our Commander in Chief. What has happened to the party I've spent my life working in? I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.... Time after time in our history, in the face of great danger, Democrats and Republicans worked together to ensure that freedom would not falter. But not today. Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator.... No one should dare to even think about being the Commander in Chief of this country if he doesn't believe with all his heart that our soldiers are liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home. But don't waste your breath telling that to the leaders of my party today. In their warped way of thinking America is the problem, not the solution. They don't believe there is any real danger in the world except that which America brings upon itself through our clumsy and misguided foreign policy. It is not their patriotism - it is their judgment that has been so sorely lacking. They were wrong. They claimed Reagan's defense buildup would lead to war. They were wrong. And, no pair has been more wrong, more loudly, more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry. Zell Miller "Zell Miller's speech was a speech of hate, it was a speech of venom. This is a man who started his political career with Lester Maddox and last night he imitated Lester Maddox. Lester Maddox, as we all know, was a segregationist but he was a man of hate. Zell Miller is not a segregationist, not that at all.... There are lines in politics and that speech went over the line. It's one thing as Dick Cheney did, I thought, well within the bounds of political discourse to go after John Kerry on his Senate record. It is quite another thing, in my judgment, to in effect come, he came very close to saying the Democrats were a treasonous party..." David Gergen here is a difference between hate speech and the awful truth, between irrational anger and righteous indignation, between a Ted Kennedy or a Howard Dean or an Al Gore or a Nancy Pelosi or a John Kerry or a clinton (either, one for the price of two, I say)... and a Zell Miller. But listening to the Kerry-DNC talking points today, one would never know it. In his keynote address to the Republican National Convention last night, a righteously indignant Zell Miller told the awful truth. He told the awful truth about his party, the Democratic Party. He told the awful truth about his party's presidential candidate, John Kerry. He told the awful truth that goes to the core of John Kerry's and the Democratic Party's utter unfitness to lead America, especially now, in these perilous and determinative times. And he backed up the awful truth with reams of facts and rational argument. ZELL'S ZUGZWANG John Kerry and the Left responded not with facts and rational argument, but with the only move they know, the only move left to them. Character assassination. They had to discredit Zell Miller... and fast. Media lackeys from Pinch to Chris big-mouthed the following Kerry-DNC talking points before the Kerry corpse was even coifed. (Strike that metaphor. The problem, as we now, (post-Cristophe, post-botox, post-eyework) see, was never "haggard." "Haggard" is electable. (See LBJ.) "Cadaveric" is not, at least not outside of Hawaii. And Kerry's dissonant new "do," like the mortician's careful coif, only enhanced the funereal gloom. One has to wonder if Shrum was brought in (dispatched?) to praise Kerry... or to bury him....) Anyway, back to the matter at hand, the Kerry-DNC talking points. They are listed below in ascending order of rectitude of intention. (Et tu, Brute?) NOTE TO EVERYONE ELSE: By conflating the two charges--judgment and patriotism-- John Kerry and the Left expose their guilty knowledge of same. And it doesn't matter whether it was done with Machiavellian calculation or out of simple naiveté. Seditious rhetoric and expressions of legitimate differences of opinion are not mutually exclusive constructs, David Gergen notwithstanding. But because the Left's wartime rhetoric about Bush is abusive, undermining, irrational, and ultimately empty, it can only be sedition.
WHY JOHN KERRY IS DANGEROUS FOR AMERICA
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 1:
KERRY, THE Ds + SEDITION (IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK...)
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 2
KERRY, THE Ds + THE AMERICAN SOLDIER
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 3
KERRY + Ds: NATIONAL-SECURITY CLUELESSNESS
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 4
KERRY, THE Ds + WEAPONS
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 5
KERRY, THE Ds + SPITBALLS
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 6
KERRY, THE Ds: MORE WEAK, MORE WRONG + MORE WOBBLY
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
DECONSTRUCTING ZELL MILLER-PART 7
KERRY, THE Ds + OUR SURVIVAL
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
johnkerryisdangerousforamerica.blogspot.com
aiding + abetting the terrorists + imperiling all Americans
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
(Why America Must NEVER AGAIN Elect a Democrat President)
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)
They claimed Carter's pacifism would lead to peace.
a lethally anachronistic, post-Vietnam, pre-9/11 liberal conceit
(viewing movie requires Flash Player 6, available HERE)
Keynote Address, 2004 Republican National Convention
September 1, 2004
Hardball with Chris Matthews
September 2, 2004
Lester Maddox was a segregationist
Therefore, Zell Miller is a segregationist.
COPYRIGHT MIA T 2004
i've changed the format to make my point of view clearer. Putting gergen's quote after Zell's is key, I think....
thx for your constructive criticism.
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