[DocFarmer]

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised at this. Angry and disappointed, yes, but not at all surprised...

[GaryMontana]

Yup Lott can make a remark (with no evil intent) to a 100 year old man at a Birthday party and he is evil. Patty Murray can adore an enemy of the USA with praise and it is ignored. THE MAIN STREAM PRESS SHOWS IT's true MARXIST ideology!

[Born on the Storm King]

I've read that Patty Murray is quite dimwitted and uneducated and when informed about various issues brought forth in Congress, she doesn't have the intellectual capacity to understand them.

I've also always had the notion some liberal bimbo would become infatuated with UBL but I am aghast that it is Patty Murray! Murray is an atrocity and should resign immediately!

[FairOpinion]

I don't know if it was posted, but there is a petition going around asking Patty Murray to resign.
It's a petition, where your name, etc. is kept private, not out there for everyone to check.

http://www.conservativealerts.com/122302.htm

I signed it.

[gop_gene]

I guess I shouldn't be too surprised at this. Angry and disappointed, yes, but not at all surprised...

Where are the web bloggers when we need them? They should do a Trent Lott with this story. Apparently it's perfectly okay to ooze admiration for an international terrorist who killed thousands of our people.

[driftless]

All anti-American remarks by leftist water-carriers are glossed over or ignored by the press. Basically many of these scribblers agree with Murray's stupid statements and certainly don't want to be guilty of impeding or jeopardizing the career of a fellow-traveler. Just another reason why libs are stinking hypocrites.

[Tripleplay]

But Matthew Felling, media director for the Center for Media and Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., thinks Murray's remarks are not getting attention because they largely were correct.

How do we know that's Lott's statements were not correct?

I am sure glad we have the NY times and the liberal media to determine what is the truth.

[The Wizard]

Democrats can do no wrong in the eyes of the criminal liberal media

[Stultis]

"As I write this, I am fighting back tears, recalling the friends and colleagues I've lost over the years to senseless acts of terrorism while they tried helping others," Jacobsen wrote.

I posted the letter here:

The ignorance of Mrs. Murray (aid worker slams witless Senator)

[Rocky]

"He said he was chagrined that [Murray] didn't know we were sending $3 billion a year to Egypt," recalled Carlson.

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"So I was especially appalled by Washington Senator Patty Murray's comments regarding Osama bin Laden," Jacobsen wrote. "Her statements were a slap in the face to countless Peace Corps volunteers, U.S. Embassy employees, and specialists within the U.S. Agency for International Development who have dedicated their lives to a cause President John F. Kennedy called 'the long twilight struggle for freedom.'"

Isn't it interesting that the Senator gives no credit to America for these things, but praises bin Laden for things he hasn't done?

[Bogie]

But wait! Saddam is a socialist too!

[zingzang]

I emailed a message to that idiot the day it was reported by The Columbian. All I got in response was a canned auto reply saying the senator "values my opinion" and would reply via US mail if my address and zip code were included in the body of the message. I guess she's too busy with Communist party meetings and working on her goose step to be bothered by such trivial things. Her and Jim McDermott should be tried for treason at most, run out of the senate at the least.

[Salvation]

Murray needs to resign.

[Toskrin]

Senator Murray,

You recent comments regarding Osama bin Laden and his support for the Afghani and Pakistani communities have stirred quite a controversy. Unlike many others, I do not consider your comments treasonous. However, I am dumbfounded by your suggestion that we take Osama bin Laden's example in humanitarian aid to foreign countries.

Osama bin Laden has built schools and roads in northwestern Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. The schools, which are for boys only, teach Sharia law. In Sharia law, women are afforded no rights, Christians and Jews are automatically second class citizens, and Hindus and Buddhists are to be treated as slaves. Death is the penalty for adultery or for converting to a non-Muslim religion. The roads bin Laden has built carried terrorists to and from his training camps. The terrorist training camps served as a base for thousands of would-be-jihadi thugs. Is is no wonder that the local economy benefitted? The cities of Medellin and Cali, Columbia have benefitted from the cocaine trade centered there. I understand John Gotti used to put on quite a Fourth-Of-July fireworks show in his New York neighborhood.

Stop worrying anout why they hate us. They hate us because they do not understand us. Citizens in Muslim countries are denied freedom of speech and freedom of the press. They are undereducated and, far too often, illiterate. Their understanding of America is limited to what they are told by men like Osama bin Laden.

I am glad you recognize that we are at war with terrorism. This war is a very real war being fought by real soldiers in Afghanistan and other countries. However, there are too many fronts in this war, too many places we are forbidden to go, too many hiding places for the enemy. Victory cannot be found purely through military means. Psychology is an important part of war - when the opponent becomes demoralized, he usually retreats, surrenders, or disbands. Victory will come only through a combination of military, diplomatic, and psychological tactics. Your statements have already been published in pro-al Qaeda press. They serve as a rallying point for the enemy. Terrorists will now fight a little longer and run a little farther.

It is every American's right to question the policies of their government. It is the duty of U.S. Senators to do so. And wartime is no exception. However, please remember that ill-meaning, ungrounded statements which offer even a bit of support for the enemy may have very real consequences on the battlefield and at the diplomacy table. And poorly prepared, illogical hyperbole serves no purpose in improving our nation.

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Emailed to senator_murray@murray.senate.gov

[Search4Truth]

Demand Resignation of Senator Praising Osama!

[t4texas]

If I only had a spare(camel hair) burka I would gift wrap it and send it in time for rama . . .

[TennTuxedo]

Think about how people like us have overcome the liberal media. We have used word of mouth and e-mails to overcome disinformation on their parts. Don't ever give up.

[dmeara]

If the democrats refused to censure Cynthia Mckinney who on the very day of the 911 terror attacks received donations from 'charities' now known to have funneled money to terrorist groups, why would anyone expect them to do or say anything about the outrageous and seditious comments of Senator Murray?

[solo gringo]

NBC the other day gave about five minutes to the lott afair.Not one word about murray and obl or byrd and the kkk.

[bert]

.....'Where was the outrage?'.....

Your fans are calling.

[beckett]

The day is fast approaching when we will not need to care whether ABC, NBC, CBS, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek and Time carry a story. The market is fracturing at a blistering pace. Alternative sources are already reaching millions of Americans, most especially the all important and influential top percentiles of news consumers.

Once "mainstream media" itself loses its cachet, which could happen much more easily than lots of people think, IMHO, what Dan Rather reports on a particular story will be mostly irrelevant. He'll be just one voice among many in the new world of Boutique Journalism.