HALPERINGATE = RATHERGATE = WATERGATE: The Nexus

FreeRepublic ^ | 10.9.04 | Mia T

[Mia T]

A suggested mass E-mailing---just copy and paste:

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OUR CHILDREN AND THE KERRY PERIL:
in Kerry's own words

YOO-HOO! SECURITY MOMS:
THE TERRORISTS ARE TARGETING YOUR KIDS! (ABC report)

• GEORGE BUSH WILL ACT PREEMPTIVELY TO PROTECT YOUR CHILDREN
  
• AS HIS 34-YEAR RECORD PROVES . . . JOHN KERRY WILL NOT
  

     discussion, analysis

"It's absolutely essential that eight weeks from today on November 2^nd , we make the right choice because if we make the wrong choice, the danger is that we'll get hit again, that we'll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States and then we'll fall back into the pre-9/11 mindset , if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts and that we're not really at war."

Dick Cheney

 

"We were not at war in the 1990s."

John Kerry
(missing the point entirely that the War on Terror began in earnest with the bombing of the WTC in 1993 and bin Laden's subsequent repeated (and unanswered) declarations and acts of war against America).

 

 

"I think there's been an exaggeration; [President Bush] has exaggerated the threat of terrorism. There needs to be a refocusing. They are really misleading all of America... in a profound way."

John Kerry
Democratic presidential debate, January 29, 2004, Greenville, S.C.

 

"The War on Terror is less... is occasionally military but it's primarily an intelligence and law enforcement operation.

John Kerry

 

"The Bush Administration is so entralled by the idea of preemption and American military might. This is the consequence of the policy that regards legitimacy as largely a product of force and victory as primarily a triump of arms."

John Kerry
COUNCIL FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS , 3 December 2003

 

"A threat that is real and imminent. That is the only justificatiion for going to war."

John Kerry
acceptance speech, July 29, 2004

 

"Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike? If this threat is permitted to fully and suddenly emerge, all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late. Trusting in [their] sanity and restraint... is not a strategy, and it is not an option."

George Bush
State of the Union Address, The U.S. Capitol, January 28, 2003

 

"I listened to what Senator Kerry had to say in Boston [Kerry acceptance speech], and, with all due respect to the Senator, he views the world as if we had never been attacked on September 11th. The job of the Commander-in-Chief, as he sees it, is to use America's military strength to respond to attacks. But September 11th showed us, as surely as anything can, that we must act against gathering dangers - not wait for to be attacked. That awful day left some 3,000 of our fellow citizens dead, and everything we have learned since tells us the terrorists would do worse if they could, and that they will even use chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons against us if they can. In the world we live in now, responding to attacks is not enough. We must do everything in our power to prevent attacks -- and that includes using military force." 

Dick Cheney

 

PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE ONE:

LEHRER: New question. Two minutes, Senator Kerry.
What is your position on the whole concept of preemptive war?

KERRY: The president always has the right, and always has had the right, for preemptive strike. That was a great doctrine throughout the Cold War. And it was always one of the things we argued about with respect to arms control.... But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons....

LEHRER: Ninety seconds.

BUSH: Let me -- I'm not exactly sure what you mean, "passes the global test," you take preemptive action if you pass a global test.
My attitude is you take preemptive action in order to protect the American people, that you act in order to make this country secure.





Good Morning America
September 29, 2004

JOHN KERRY:
"We should not have gone to war, knowing the information we know today....


DIANE SAWYER:
"So, it was not worth it."


JOHN KERRY:
"You should not -- eh -- it depends on the outcome, ultimately, and that depends on the leadership. And we need better leadership to get the job done successfully. I would not have gone to war knowing there was no imminent threat, weapons of mass destruction, there was no connection with al Qaeda and to Saddam Hussein. The president -- eh -- misled the American people. Plain and simple. Bottom line."


DIANE SAWYER:
"So, if it turns out okay, it was worth it? -- "


JOHN KERRY (interrupts) :
"No."


DIANE SAWYER:
"...but now it wasn -- ?"


JOHN KERRY (interrupts again) :
"It was a mistake to do what he did but we have to succeed now that we've done it.

Good Morning America
September 29, 2004
for discussion, goto:
Diane Sawyer Nails Kerry Peril (PREEMPTION + KERRY'S EX POST FACTO REASONING)




Larry King Live
July 8, 2004

"Well, I haven't been briefed [about the new al Qaeda plans of a large-scale attack on the United States] yet, Larry. They have offered to brief me; I just haven't had time."

John Kerry
Larry King Live, July 8, 2004
(NB: Radio City, July 8, 2004, Nantucket, July 17, 2004)

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[Tom D.]

What in the hell is up with Mark Halperin? Ten years ago, I enjoyed his columns on the editorial page of the Wall St. Journal and other places. He had a unique style and used it often to curse the Clintons for their weaselness. I cannot imagine him pulling for the likes of John Kerry.

[RAY]

What is all of the above about? It is very difficult to follow such a garbled presentation.

[martian_22]

How do you keep so clean examining such filthy thought? Keep up the good work.

BTTT!

[Mia T]

The difference is in the "i." You are referring to Mark Halpern.

[Mia T]

thx. ;)

[Mia T]

ping

[beyond the sea]

The people's responsibility has "become quite grave."

What people?

These media freaks clearly see themselves as the arrangers and facilitators of the people who will take the reigns of government, and I for one, am really getting extremely tired of it - to the point of my entrance to the nut house.

I feel that I have to withdraw from it (the news) because I feel powerless to alter it, and watching this evil day in and day out just makes me physically ill!

[Innisfree]

No wonder we can't get anything remotely intelligent from the MSM. This man's a political director? If the memo is re-printed accurately, he can't even form complete sentences. He ought to be fired for incompetence, never mind bias. Maybe he drinks.

[mrsmel]

Same here,complete frustration coupled with hopes that if I can see it,then surely my fellow citizens(other than the Kool aid drinkers) can.

[CalmCorrectConservPatriotCCCP]

The most amusing part of Mark's memo, is that he has no earthly idea why Kerry should win. I would wager a years salary on that bet.

Have you ever asked a liberal why they are voting for Kerry? Enjoy the stammer and sweat, it's truly cathartic, try it.

[Wolverine]

Another great one, added to your series!

[TASMANIANRED]

MSM steps in it again. The FCC needs to shut the big 3's news departments down completely.

Has anybody filed a FCC complaint yet?

[orangelobster]

"What in the hell is up with Mark Halperin? Ten years ago, I enjoyed his columns on the editorial page of the Wall St. Journal"

This ABC Mark Halperin is a different guy than the Wall Street Journal's Mark Helprin. Helprin is a smart guy and shouldn't be confused with this ABC hack. Here is info. on Helprin.

http://www.claremont.org/about/staff/helprin.html#articles

[Mia T]

yes, you are correct. Mark Helprin.

[Tom D.]

Thanks guys. I was afraid that a good guy had gone over to the dark side.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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Long time Los Angeles Times Media Critic...

DAVID SHAW: RATHER's work 'Shoddy' Slipshod' not LIBERAL..?

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1227809/posts

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[Fedora]

On another similar name, speaking of Watergate: is Mark Halperin related to Morton Halperin?

[Gail Wynand]

Thanks for focusing on yet another vivid demonstration of the media's ignorance, bias and sedition. One of the best pieces of news of this political season was the recent order by US Dist. Judge Hogan, ordering one of these media scum jailed for contempt in the Novak Plame Wilson investigation. The reporter and her management at the NYT are similarly showing their disdain for this country by arrogantly asserting the right not to be bound by its laws or by the order of our courts. Its almost funny that these unqualified, abysmally myopic, self appointed "elites", believe their position in the media exempts them from both legal duty and from scrutiny of the accuracy of and motives behind their work. One hopes Ms. Millers time in stir, is cold, wet, ugly and demeaning. If God is fair she will soon be joined by Rather, Halperin, Leherer, and the rest of the rotten preening hysterical mob of media elites. Even Rykers Island is to good, however, for the seditious traitors that are being exposed by the internet. In historical terms only the guillotine seems sufficient to satisfy justice required and deserved for the anti social crimes of the MSM.