AP: Kerry Fund-Raisers Met With S. Korean Intelligence Agent
In keeping with the Democratic leadership's bizarre history of holding high-level meetings with groups tied to terrorists, undermining our anti-terror Allies, taking both sides on the Palestinian question, taking both sides on the Patriot Act, as well as its poll-driven attitudes towards the Iraq war... well, this is pretty much par for the course:
| ...[A] South Korean man who met with John Kerry's fund-raisers to discuss creating a new political group for Korean-Americans was an intelligence agent for his country, raising
concerns among some U.S. officials that either he or his government may have tried to influence this fall's election... |
AP: Kerry Fund-Raisers Met With S. Korean Intelligence Agent
Rather: the Anchor as Madman
This troubling history of Dan Rather at CBS News was recently published by Slate. And Slate, my friends, is not what you would term the mouthpiece of the Right. In fact, about the only thing better would be a Kerry hit-piece in Vanity Fair.
| ...The CBS cocoons engender a kind of madness. Rather is paid an outsized salary-he makes $7 million per year-that is in no way commensurate with the number of viewers he delivers. Where most prime-time shows have a few weeks to prove their viability, newscasts often are given years and decades. The network's former glory allows Rather to shroud himself in the aura of Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow. "I'm confident we worked longer, dug deeper, and worked harder than almost anybody in American journalism does," Rather told the Washington Post Sunday, when in fact CBS spent less time verifying the Guard documents than most bloggers... |
Dan Rather - The anchor as madman
Terrorism: The Price of Victory
Israel's experience fighting terror (hat tip: Powerline):
| ...[T]he Israeli army destroyed most of what remained of Hamas's organization in the West Bank and a substantial part of its infrastructure in Gaza. Just last week, Israeli gunships rocketed a Hamas training camp in Gaza, killing 15 operatives. Hamas leaders, who once routinely led rallies and gave interviews to the media, don't dare show their faces in public anymore. Even their names are kept secret. Hardly a night passes without the arrest of a wanted terrorist. Hamas's ranks have become so depleted that the organization is now recruiting teenagers: At the Gaza border, Israeli forces recently broke up a Hamas cell made up of 16-year-olds. Meanwhile, life inside Israel has returned to near normalcy... |
The price of victory
Death Blow for the Kerry Campaign
Imus was on this morning with Howard Fineman, commiserating with him about the fact that the campaign is "over". According to Imus, many media insiders (staunch Democracts) have conceded that the election is a foregone conclusion. Fineman tended to agree, although he felt that a solid debate performance could pull Kerry's butt out of the fire.
The problem, according to Fineman, is that Kerry leaves a terrible impression in public appearances. The bollixed "Lambert Field" reference in Lambeau-crazy Wisconsin, getting the Red Sox standings wrong, screwing up Letterman's Top Ten list... all were mentioned as evidence Kerry is simply an out-of-touch elitist.
Despite what Imus and the polls say, keep the foot on the accelerator until election day. This election is simply too important for our children and the entire civilized world to slack off in the last handful of days. Keep the pressure on, my brothers and sisters!
| I think that many people who have seen the sixth ad being put out by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth will agree with me when say that the ad, entitled “Friends” had the potential to do as much damage to the Kerry campaign as the entire Rathergate/Danron fiasco...
The beauty of this ad is that it is simple, verifiably true, and utterly devastating. We know that John Kerry met with the Vietnamese Communists because he admitted it to us. We know that, as American boys fought and died in the muck of Vietnam, John Kerry sat with their perfumed diplomats in Europe and conspired to hand victory in the war to the Communists. We know this to be true. We know it because John Kerry told it to us. ...Does any sane person really believe that whether or not George W. Bush showed up for a week’s worth of drills in Alabama thirty-three years ago is somehow more consequential than the admitted fact that Senator Kerry, as a nearly thirty year-old politician, travelled to a foreign nation to meet with the enemies of this country while the nation was at war and then returned in order to advocate that the United States accept peace on the terms of the communist Vietnamese (or, in other words, surrender)? ...[The Kerry campaign] can ignore the accusations altogether, but I don’t think they’ll try that one again, seeing as it worked so well with the first Swift Vet assault. ...The most obvious point that must be taken from his claims as to Vietnamese intentions at the time is that either Kerry is a liar or he is an extremely gullible man (or perhaps both). ...Even worse, this wasn’t the only time that Senator Kerry allowed himself to be deceived by foreign enemies of the United States, nor was it the only time that Kerry was used to deliver the demands of an enemy of the United States to the American government and people. In... 1985, the newly-elected Senator Kerry took a trip to Nicaragua, where he met with the communist dictator of that country. When he returned to the United States from that trip, the Senator had brought something with him: the Sandinistas’ offer for peace with the United States. Once more John Forbes Kerry voluntarily conveyed the demands of a hostile foreign power to his own government. Yet again John Kerry called upon the President of the United States to accept, in whole, the terms offered by an enemy of the Republic. Once the American people know this history, once they’ve taken it all in, they’ll be left with the same frightful question that I’ve carried with me for nine months: what happens if the person receiving that offer is no longer Lieutenant Kerry or Senator Kerry, but President Kerry? |
Adam Yoshida: Ad #7: A death blow for the Kerry Campaign
Michael Moore Hates America - The Movie
Finally... an honest recap of CelluliteBoy's propaganda. Filmmaker Michael Wilson visits Mikhail Moore's F911 subjects and records the true story that Tubby was too dishonest to tell (hat tip: PrestoPundit):
| ...But easily the most powerful sequence is a visit with Peter Damon, a soldier who lost both arms in the Iraq war. In a transparent attempt to elicit pity, Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11 included footage (taken from an NBC News report about a new painkiller) of Damon in the hospital while he was recuperating from his grievous wounds.
In MMHA we see a recovered Damon at home with his family, enjoying life, proud of his service. Damon has no patience for those who feel sorry for him. The only anger he feels is at Moore for exploiting him. Asked by Wilson what he would like to say to Moore, Damon addresses the camera: "I don't want any part of your propaganda. I don't agree with what you're doing." At the movie's recent premiere at the American Film Renaissance in Dallas, Wilson said, the audience grew really quiet during this scene: "You could hear a pin drop." But that changed when Wilson asks Damon if Moore had the right to make his movie. Despite his obvious distaste for Moore's film, Damon says without hesitation, "That's the reason we go off to fight - to defend his right to make a movie." At that, Wilson said, the audience erupted into the loudest cheers of the evening... |
Michael Moore Hates America - The Movie
Kerry Campaign Touted Forged Doc Info... in April!
From Newsmax... can you spell C-O-L-L-U-S-I-O-N ?
| The Kerry campaign made an explicit reference to information in at least one of four forged military documents broadcast 14 days ago by CBS's "60 Minutes" - in a detailed campaign press release attacking President Bush's National Guard service dated months before the Sept. 8 "60 Minutes" broadcast... |
Kerry Campaign Touted Forged Doc Info in April
CBS: another Bush conspiracy
| ...CBS News has obtained exclusive documents asserting that George W. Bush was in Dallas on Friday 22 November 1963, the day of the Kennedy assassination.
* Lt. Bush's e-mail records for that week in 1963 show several contacts with someone known as desperatelybehindthepolls@DNC.com. * T-Mobile cell phone records also show that Lt. Bush made several cell phone calls from behind the Grassy Knoll five minutes before President Kennedy's motorcade was due to pass by... |
CBS: another Bush conspiracy
Links o' the day
Jonah Goldberg: Ten criticisms I'm willing to concede are valid about Iraq
Wienerlog: Sticking it to CBS and Kerry - a debate strategy
Nazi or Blogger: a fun multiple choice game
Heinz-Kerry watch: "You have to treat stepchildren like pets."

A knock-down, drag-out fight




Here are the highlights of a great speech.




The widely repeated myth of "John Kerry, the Vietnam Navy Hero" is one of the most dishonorable and dangerous deceptions ever perpetrated upon the American public.
This is a graphic, disturbing trailer for the new film Celsius 41.11. If you're a mature audience member, it's a must-see.
The inimitable Don Imus is caught banging his head on the desk in frustration.

Despite his best efforts at winning over the Jewish vote, Kerry is rapidly losing momentum because of flip-flopping on major Israeli issues. Kerry stands on both sides of major issues such as the security fence, Yasser Arafat, etc.

Now, buried in some of the United Nation's own confidential documents, clues can be seen that underscore the possibility of just such a Saddam-Al Qaeda link — clues leading to a locked door in this Swiss lakeside resort...
How quickly is Europe being Islamized? So quickly that even historian Bernard Lewis, who has continued throughout his honor-laden career to be strangely disingenuous about certain realities of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, told the German newspaper Die Welt forthrightly that “Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century.”
Hmmm. So, the Kerry campaign may have been directly involved with Rathergate, Danron, or whatever the blogosphere is calling it these days...
Just when a woozy CBS was trying to teeter back up during an eight-count, ABC News comes along and rabbit-punches Dan Rather. The last remaining tendril, the last tiny shred, the final thread in the cord... has snapped. CBS is toast.
The real situation in Iraq, as described by a Major in Operational Headquarters in Baghdad, courtesy of
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I strongly agree with this Polipundit poster (MJ), who believes the Bush campaign must fight for a level playing field with respect to the debates.
Interested in learning about CBS' egregious and biased tactics? While CBS News hit new lows with its forgery scandal, the folks at Black Rock have a long history of outrageously biased behavior. This, the final chapter in their story, is the culminating one... that of total destruction of brand equity. The "CBS News" name is now synonymous with "Pravda", only with less credibility.
It turns out that banning firearms based upon their appearance (thanks, Barbara Boxer and Bill Clinton!) had no noticable effect on violence. Who'da thunk it? Most folks aren't aware that the ban outlawed guns based upon cosmetic featuers (e.g., pistol grips, flash suppressors, and other gun components that look scary in the movies). Well, the CDC 's latest report indicates that the ban had...

This morning I awoke to see a story on Fox News that Kofi Annan had declared the U.S. action in Iraq an "illegal" war. So what would he call the U.N. Oil for Food program? Or the U.N. inaction in the Sudan? I wonder how he would describe his buddy, Saddam's, human rights record before he ended up in a spider hole? I suspect he is doing what he can to brace himself and the U.N. for the coming revelations about the corrupt U.N. program in Iraq. (I was unable to find a link to the story at the Fox News website or any other news site before needing to leave for work. I will update with one later.)...
The inimitable
Polipundit posted an extremely newsworthy analysis of President Bush's ANG service records. Poster "Oak Leaf" "is an active reservist with over twenty years of service that includes both the National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve [and] has extensive experience in personnel programs management". His conclusion:
The educational system at work in the Palestinian territories.



Dan Rather was complicit in defrauding the American public in an attempt to defeat a sitting President. Rather must be fired now. Congress should subpoena CBS News' lawyers and all documentation of their advice.

T has an idea for ridding the US of Islamofascists. His plan involves sensitive monitoring equipment in Mosques (listening for sedition), an "apprehension" team, an AC-130H Spectre, and plenty of pigs' blood. Suffice it to say that T won't be nominated for a post with the diplomatic corps any time soon.


I saw Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News tonight and all I can say is what an arrogant jerk! They covered Bush's appearance before the National Guard convention and had the cajones to jab the President for not answering the latest questions about his national guard service.