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Keynote Speaker Slurs African Americans, Southerners – Seems the Democrats have found a keynote speaker for their Extreme Makeover in Boston whose background includes slamming the speech of African Americans, southerners and folks from New Jersey. The Boston Herald has unearthed a bunch of columns written by Democrat convention keynoter Christie Vilsack – wife of the Iowa governor. “I am fascinated at the way some African-Americans speak to each other in an English I struggle to understand,” wrote Mrs. Vilsack, who represents John Kerry and her party on the convention podium Tuesday night. Mass Dems Weigh in On Home Grown...

Dem’s Extreme Makeover Call at 10:00 a.m. EDT – Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie and Bush-Cheney Campaign Manager Ken Mehlman are joining forces at 10:00 a.m. EDT Wednesday in a conference call to lay out plans for our coverage of the Dem’s Extreme Makeover in Boston next week, including the full slate of guests available for your show through our Radio Free Boston operation. The call-in number for the event is 1-800-236-9788 and the pass code to join the call is ‘Convention’. And ya, it’s cool to roll tape.RNC Hits the Road For Boston – With the Radio...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vowing to answer "every misstatement" Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry and his allies make at next week's Democratic National Convention in Boston, Republicans will set up a "war room" nearby and launch a new Web site devoted to debunking Democrats."We're going to set the record straight as Democrats try to sell a story to the American people that's completely disconnected from the reality," said Steve Schmidt, a spokesman for President Bush's re-election campaign. The rapid response operation is a joint effort by the Bush campaign and the Republican National Committee, and will be in full swing next...

The Democrats’ Extreme Makeover – Can John Kerry and John Edwards do anything to shake their extreme liberal record? That’s what they’re trying to do in Boston next week but it’s a big job considering those pesky National Journal ratings that list Kerry as the most liberal member of the Senate in 2003 and Edwards as the 4th most liberal member that year. The Problem With the Democrat Platform – Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie began setting the stage for the RNC’s response to the Dems Extreme Makeover in Boston, telling journalists in a conference call Monday, “John Kerry...

Something to Yak About – Calling Joe WilsonAnd no, we’re not talking about the Gentleman from South Carolina here, we’re talking about disgraced Kerry henchman Joe Wilson, whose mug was virtually ubiquitous on the talking head circuit when he was accusing the president and most of his administration of all kinds of malfeasance regarding pre-war Iraq intelligence. But now that Joe’s been exposed as a liar, he’s somewhere deep in the tall grass. Try this on for size – Google ‘Joe Wilson’ and ‘Niger,’ and see how many current news items return. It’s fun for the entire family! When a...