Posted on 09/05/2004 4:09:57 AM PDT by Mia T
DECONSTRUCTING 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.
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I have DVR (digital Video recorder) service from Cox Cable. On the Video On Demand service they have every speech from the Conventions and you can view them for free any time you want! Isn't that cool? This morning as I was drinking my coffee and reading the Sunday Paper I listened to Zell twice!!!!! It was a great antedote to the editorial pages I was reading!
thx for the link.
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And by the way, Hildy, allow me to thank you, and all the good and decent folks out in the California, in advance, for delivering that state's 55 EC votes to President Bush.
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jla, listening to Zell's speech again and can't thank you enough for the link.
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If you click on the graphics of zell, above, you can listen to specific sections of the speech (with additions).
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David Gergen is freaking POS...what a Communist DemocRATic tool.
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<< .... it's undestandable that you would prefer to demagogue phantom charges of sedition rather than defend real charges of cluelessness. >>
Why -- there's even a perverse kinda anti-logic to it.
You are after all, Mr Kerry, clueless.
Kerry the Clueless.
And to think we once thought Al-Fredo Gore-leone the world's most dangerous dullard. After the Hillary Blythes.
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Best line in Millers speech: I put my family's safety before my party's interest everytime!
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