Posted on 09/26/2002 12:23:13 PM PDT by repub32
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX THU SEPT 26, 2002 14:09:27 ET XXXXX
STREISAND MEMO TO GEPHARDT: 'TAKE THE OFFENSE!'
Barbra Streisand has reminded Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt in a blistering memo: "Sadam Hussein did not bomb the World Trade Center."
The Streisand memo, released by adviser Margery Tabankin, warns Democrats to "get off the defensive and go on the offensive."
The singeractressdirectorproducer took time out from rehearsals for a performance she's giving on Sunday for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee to remind Gephardt [spelled "Gebhardt" in a faxed memo obtained by DRUDGE] not to "ignore the obvious influence on the Bush Administration of such special interests as the oil industry, the chemical companies, the logging industry... just to name a few."
Streisand notes: "Many of these industries, run by big Republican donors and insiders, clearly have much to gain if we go to war against Iraq."
Streisand urges the Democrats to "publicly convey this message to the American people."
While there are serious problems with Iraq, Barbra feels that we can't let this issue become a distraction from the country's domestic problems and the President's inability to fully dismantle the al Qaeda [spelled "Al Queda" in the fax] network.
Afterall, Saddam [spelled Sadam in the fax] "Hussein did not bomb the World Trade Center."
Feel free to call Barbra or me at 310-395-3599 if you would like to discuss this further, Tabankin offers to Gephardt.
Capitol Hill's top reporter, Ed Henry at ROLL CALL, later confirmed Streisand penned the "confidential memo" urging Gephardt to take the offense against Bush.
Tabankin tells Henry she sent the memo after she had a phone conversation with Streisand. "We had just watched Tom Daschle's speech," said Tabankin. "We were both very emotional."
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No, stolen.
I'll have you know I speak "'Rat" fluently, buddy. ;^)
"You know, like when you just leave an important GOP strategy meeting with a sensitive computer disk and leave it on the ground in DuPont Circle. Yeah, it happens all the time."
Ohhhhh...
I seeeee.
... so you speak 'Rat fluently too, eh? {g}
She is definitely one of those.
SHHHHHH....loose lips sink ships...if our real motive gets uncovered, the envirowhackos will be sitting in the trees in protest...ummmm...never mind....carry on...
Another mecha-streisand attack!
I think we need to be very careful with this. Oh, Rush had a field day today with it. But, what if it is a trap? The Republicans and the right are going to be painted as idiots if this is a well-planned hoax to lure us in and get us to attack the Democrats over it. It would certainly be used by the typical liberal CNNMSNBCCBSABCNBC news centers to distract attention from Tiny Tommy Tyrant's Terrible Temper Tantrum yesterday and make it look like it is the Republicans are the bad guys.
Barbara Streisand... no logic, just 'Feelings... nothing more than feelings'.
Know Thine Enemy...MUD
Does this blistering memo (get some backbone you Democrats) come out every two years, or only when things start looking bad for democrats? When is Alec Balwin going to Threaten/Promise to leave the US if the Democrats lose the Senate, like they deserve?
Somewhere on Capitol Hill a group of long-faced Democrats are having an unhappy meeting about the cost of giving up huge soft money donations to the Democratic party. But there is a bright spot: A voice from the back of the room pipes up, "Well, at least this means I can finally ignore those damn fruitcake memos I keep getting from Barbra Streisand." Heads nod all round.STREISAND MEMO BLASTS DEMS: BUSH IS CREAMING YOU!Barbra is at it again. Last week the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call published a "memo" Ms. Streisand recently sent to every Democrat in Congress. It is an astonishing mix of New Age boosterism and Old Left knownothingism, blended into a flaky litany of insults directed at George W. Bush. Entitled "Nice Guys Finish Last"this is, after all, advice from HollywoodMs. Streisand's opus brings to light the dreariest side of Democratic soft money: the gruesome requirement to suffer rich fools, no matter how chowder-headed their opinions...."
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