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Saturday, September 4, 2004 New Media tail wags mainstream dog Posted: September 4, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Les Kinsolving © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com NEW YORK – Assorted pundits enjoy quadrennial denunciations of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions – because they no longer provide any suspense and extended balloting for who will be the nominee. But these are the only national gatherings of elected leaders and delegates of our two major political parties. And they are also the only times that all of our nation's media come together. For many of this country's left-wing-dominated Big Media, there is an acute and often apparent...

Saturday, August 21, 2004 Thousands contribute to swiftboat vets Posted: August 21, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Les Kinsolving © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Was former Navy Seal officer and Medal of Honor recipient Bob Kerrey, the former U.S. senator from Nebraska, ever anywhere as near to John Kerry in Vietnam as 257 of Kerry's fellow officers and crewman of the swiftboats? All these navy veterans have signed a statement that Kerry is unfit for command. And that is the title of a new book written and extensively documented by Naval Academy graduate John O'Neill. This officer took over Kerry's swiftboat when Kerry returned home...

Gettysburg College, in the center of that national military shrine of the Western Hemisphere's bloodiest battle, plans to allow a black militant artist named John Sims to "lynch" the Confederate Battle Flag from the top of a 13-foot gallows. "We have freedom of expression on this campus, of course. We are prepared for demonstration," said Kendra Branchick, media relations director for the 2,500 student school, affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. The event is scheduled for Sept. 3. When asked if such demonstrations were to include U.S. flag burners coming from New York protests against the Republican convention,...

"WHERE HAVE ALL THE READERS GONE?" headlined the August edition of Washingtonian magazine's Post-watch page, in reporting that the Washington Post's average daily circulation has – in just one year – dropped 23,814 – or 64 losses per day. "We can guess. We can speculate. We can estimate," said Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie, who did not deny circulation was dropping. Newspaper analyst John Morton noted: "Theoretically, this is the best newspaper market in the country. It's surprising that the Post is losing ground like this." The Post, now down to 772,553 daily, is this nation's fifth largest. Washingtonian magazine...

Dr. Robert Moore Strippy, age 70, is a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania who holds doctorates of music from the Universities of Paris and Rome, and is a former instructor at the University of Virginia. He is also a former speechwriter for President Eisenhower. He is now, despite his very serious health problems, prisoner number 332218 PMV at the State of Virginia's Powhatan Correctional Center in State Farm, Va. He is beginning a ten-year prison sentence. This is the result of a jury decision so absolutely incredible as to recall either France's Alfred Dreyfus or the first jury...

How is it possible for the Democratic National Committee to make such absolutely horrendous mistakes like a national Kerry-Edwards fund-raiser at the Whoopi Goldberg Filth Festival? Whoopi has been dropped from all ads for Slim-Fast. From Albany, N.Y., the Associated Press reports another major error, which had to be corrected by Sen. Kerry himself: The former chairwoman of the New York State Democratic Party on Wednesday called it "a total outrage" and "very stupid" that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has not been offered a prominent speaking role at the Democratic National Convention. "It's a slap in the face, not personally...

At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about Sen John Edwards' remark about the Confederate flag and Sen. John Kerry's recent comment about when life begins. WND: Scott, the RNC research has just quoted Sen. Edwards on MSNBC as saying, "I think it's an enormous mistake to fly the Confederate flag. It ought to be taken down" – which would ban the state flag of Mississippi and require removal of thousands of Confederate war memorials in front of courthouses all over the South. And my first question: Does the president believe that this should...

Will the Democratic National Convention in Boston have any prime-time speakers who are Republicans? You say: "Surely you jest" – and I so admit. But believe it or not, the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention of 1992 – the first one that nominated Bill Clinton – U.S. Sen. Zell Miller, Democrat of Georgia – will be prime-time addressing the Grand Old Party Convention in New York. Sen. Miller's address should not be at all dull. Since watching the actions of the nominee Clinton at that national convention he keynoted in 1992, Sen. Miller has noted the following: "Look,...

Page 1 of the Boston Herald had a headline that was politically explosive for the forthcoming Democratic National Convention: N.Y. SLAMS SOUTHIE "Southie" is South Boston. And in April, one of New York City's top political leaders, state Assemblyman Herman D. Farrell Jr., decided to demonstrate, once again, that black militant Democrat leaders can be one of that party's heaviest burdens. He wrote to Democratic National Convention officials objecting to a convention party being held in South Boston, contending that neighborhood had "a history of racial turmoil and tension … specifically I, along with many members of our very diverse...

On June 3, I asked Maryland's Gov. Robert Ehrlich about California's federal Judge Phyllis Hamilton's ruling that Congress' overwhelmingly passed law against partial-birth abortion is unconstitutional. And I also asked about what I thought was the ACLU – but later realized it was Americans United for Separation of Church and State (the Rev. Barry Lynn) who wrote the IRS to complain about alleged "electioneering" by the Colorado Springs Catholic Bishop Michael Sheridan's pastoral letter about Catholic politicians receiving Communion. QUESTION: Since there was no such objection to New Orleans Catholic Archbishop Joseph Rummel's excommunication of arch-segregationist Leander Perez in 1962,...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38714 Friday, May 28, 2004 WND AT THE WHITE HOUSEMcClellan queried on Gore's mental healthNew York Post columnist calls ex-vice president 'insane' Posted: May 28, 20048:45 p.m. Eastern Editor's note: Each week, WorldNetDaily White House correspondent Les Kinsolving asks the tough questions no one else will ask. And each week, WorldNetDaily brings you the transcripts of those dialogues with the president and his spokesman. By Les Kinsolving © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com At today's White House news briefing, WND asked presidential press secretary Scott McClellan about...

In Portland, Ore., two shock-jock disc jockeys, Marconi and Tiny, were fired by radio station KNRK. On their May 12 morning show, they played the audio portion of the beheading of American Nick Berg, laughing and joking after hearing Berg's screams, as these crazed Islamic terrorists threw him on the floor and one of them used a large knife to cut off his head. These two unbelievable creatures repeated the audio several times – as the station was flooded with phone calls and e-mails of understandable rage. At the end of the program, they were fired and apologized for, on...

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37671 Saturday, March 20, 2004 Insulting the memory of FDR Posted: March 20, 20041:00 a.m. Eastern By Les Kinsolving � 2004 WorldNetDaily.com The Associated Press reporter in the House of Representatives told me, "we didn't report the passage of the Honda resolution because it was done with a voice vote, with just a handful of members on the floor." But this resolution was introduced by Rep. Michael Honda, a Democrat of California, whose website advertises him as having "spent his early childhood with his...

In May of 1990, Newsday's syndicated columnist Jimmy Breslin received an e-mail criticizing one of his columns as "sexist." That so outraged Mr. Breslin that he denounced the sender, a female Korean-American reporter, as a yellow, slant-eyed cur. And he went on the Howard Stern filth show to further discuss his displeasure. Newsday, Long Island's daily newspaper, which at one time had a New York City edition, suspended Breslin for two weeks without pay, even though he apologized to the young reporter. They should have fired this New York thug who has now been charged with fabricating quotes in order...

Two days after President Bush sent "greetings to those observing Kwanzaa, celebrated by millions across the world, honoring history and heritage of Africa," the Washington Post's Phnuong Ly reported that Kwanzaa "was created by a California educator and activist in 1966, during the height of the 'black pride' movement." But neither the president nor the Post identified this "California educator and activist." WorldNetDaily, however, has identified him. CEO and broadcaster Joseph Farah has noted that Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 – by convicted felon Ron Karenga. Five years after he invented Kwanzaa, Karenga was sentenced to prison "for torturing two...

Tuesday, January 13, 2004, 12:00 a.m. Pacific Democrats try to forge a new moral majority CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa; Rep. Richard A. Gephardt is the bread-and-butter candidate who talks about lost jobs and trade. But in the middle of his stump speech at a packed rally in the public library here last Friday, a sermon broke out. Health coverage, he said, is not about economics. "It's a moral issue," he insisted. "It is immoral for people not to be covered by health insurance." And he closed by riffing with a preacher's rhythm on the refrain "We're all tied together" to evangelize...

G'day, I just managed to get onto Les Kinsolving's show (which you can hear at www.wcbm.com) and discussed Freerepublic.com and the Patriot's Rally we are going to have Saturday. Being the gentleman that he is, he repeated the information I gave him 3 times.