The Democrats' Plan
Posted on 05/04/2007 11:12:31 AM PDT by jazusamo
May 4, 2007 - Texas Republican Louie Gohmert is famous on the Internet for saying we’d all be speaking Japanese or German if an anti-war Democrat like John Murtha had been in Congress during World War II. Murtha, a gruff ex-Marine who served in Korea and Vietnam, was on the House floor when Gohmert made his remark. Was the gentleman from Texas at Normandy, Vietnam, Murtha jabbed. The answer was no. What about Iraq? “I’ve been over there,” Gohmert replied, “but I wasn’t fighting.”
“Suits on the ground,” Murtha harrumphed.
The video clip of this exchange got a hundred thousand hits on YouTube at a time last year when the Republicans were calling Democrats terrorist-coddlers and defeatists. A more recent video of Pennsylvania Rep. Patrick Murphy calling for a moment of silence to mark the fourth anniversary of the Iraq War—and to honor the 19 members of the 82nd Airborne unit he served in who didn’t make it home—has gotten 13,000 hits.
Thanks to technology, what goes on in the confines of Congress doesn’t have to stay in the chambers’ corridors. “There’s no more transparent moment than putting something on the Internet,” says Karina Newton, director of new media for Speaker Pelosi. It’s her job to glean the moments and put them out on YouTube, and what breaks through is sometimes a surprise. Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank being heckled by Republicans and asking, “Does whining come out of my time,” drew nearly 50,000 hits. A 10-minute clip of bureaucratic jousting about what constitutes a power-point presentation attracted almost 100,000 viewers. “It’s where the message and the medium come together,” says Newton, echoing Marshall McLuhan, whose “the medium is the message” defined the television age.
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Mike Castle (DE) Howard Coble (NC) Tom Davis (VA) John Duncan (TN) Phil English (PA) Wayne Gilchrest (MA) Bob Inglis (SC) Tim Johnson (IL) Walter Jones (NC) Ric Keller (FL) Mark Kirk (IL) Steven LaTourette (OH) Ron Paul (TX) Thomas Petri (WI) Jim Ramstad (MN) Fred Upton (MI) Jim Walsh (NY)
“a gruff ex-Marine who served in Korea and Vietnam, “
Whoa, Murtha was in Korea? When?
I didn’t know that! I think he was still in boot camp when the war ended?
Newsweek didn’t fact check or am I wrong?
Clift is her usual self, didn’t check the facts. Murtha never served in Korea and in Vietnam he was an intel officer in the rear.
Murtha was never in Korea. Newsweek as always is making stuff up.
That's Wayne Gilchrest of the People's Republic of Maryland.
To my everlasting shame.
Gilchrest ain’t from MA. We don’t have a Republican ANYTHING up here.
I thought maybe I was losing it!
Murtha’s own bio says nothing about a stint in Korea.
Newsweek, when you need news, just invent it!
Creative copy at its finest.
You're correct, he's from Maryland.
Murtha is not a Marine. He is a slug.
The Democrats' Plan
Retreat and Surrender? Or dressing up as German Soldiers and marching down a road with a white flag?
LOL!
“Murtha’s own bio says nothing about a stint in Korea.”
Seeing that this article was written by Clift put it all in perspective. She’s one of the most shameless Marxist hacks in an industry full of them, and even more so than others, she can’t be bothered with facts.
Eleanor Clift wasn’t in Korea, Vietnam, or Iraq. Which is why she so readily worships, and is so easily seduced by the type of phony war hero we have in Murtha. It doesn’t take a veteran of any service at all, much less combat, to spot a modern day Benedict Arnold, who, by the way, Eleanor, was a combat veteran and war hero.
Uh.. BTW. Did you know that Benedict Arnold was a hero to both sides? In the same war even, can you believe it?! That's John Kerry territory.
EX-Marine Murtha was POGUE REMF Colonel in the rear with the gear in Vietnam.
And then clamored for PH. I know guys that got whacked really bad, and didn’t care if they got one. Murtha is a bum. And he's sounding like he's going senile too.
ROFLMFAO
Haven't heard that in years!
Pop quiz, who knows what a REMF is?
rear echelon murtha (mutha) f**ker
A Cybercast News Service investigation also reveals that one of Murtha's former Democratic congressional colleagues and a fellow decorated Vietnam veteran, Don Bailey of Pennsylvania, alleges that Murtha admitted during an emotional conversation on the floor of the U.S. House in the early 1980s that he did not deserve his Purple Hearts.
Newton screened the video clips for an audience of political operatives on Capitol Hill Wednesday, as Congress moves into the next round of the war-funding standoff. The Democrats want the country to know they’re pushing back against a president who appears to be stubborn enough to stick with a failed policy in Iraq even if it means taking down his party with him.
(the lefty’s wish-me)
The ability to form a message out of the raw material of speeches and spin will ultimately determine the course of the war and who pays the price for whatever follows.
(’Bush of course’-me)
Republican presidential candidates by and large are sticking with President Bush. They’re courting GOP primary voters, and two thirds of the base still backs Bush’s war plan—even though two thirds of the country now opposes the president on the war. “We look at this politically as a branding moment,” says Tom Matzzie, political director for MoveOn. “The Republicans are bleeding. The more the president opens his mouth, the worse it gets.”
If only the left would get on board with their propaganda prowess against the ISLAMOFACISTS.
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