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To: Sabertooth
If the elite media attempts to make a big deal out of this, they will again confirm that they are hypocritical Democrat toadies.

They didn't seem to care a whit who Clinton had in the WH for for what reasons. Their newly discovered moral compass rings very hollow.
23 posted on 02/23/2003 10:24:18 AM PST by randita
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To: randita; Jhoffa_
which is why this needs and needed weeks ago to be dealt with. Instead there is silence.......

.....Grover Norquist is the problem and has been for a long long time....
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If the administration was caught unaware, it may be because they placed their trust in one of the right's most influential activists: Grover Norquist. As president of Americans for Tax Reform, Norquist is best known for his tireless crusades against big government. But one of Norquist's lesser-known projects over the last few years has been bringing American Muslims into the Republican Party. And, as he usually does, Norquist has succeeded. According to several sources, Norquist helped orchestrate various post-September 11 events that brought together Muslim leaders and administration officials. "He worked with Muslim leaders to engineer [Bush]'s prominent visit to the Mosque," says the Arab-American pollster John Zogby, referring to the president's September 17 trip to the Islamic Center of Washington. Says Zogby, who counts Norquist among his clients, "Absolutely, he's central to the White House outreach." Indeed, when Jewish activists and terrorism experts complained about the Muslim invitees to Adam Goldman, who works in the White House public liaison's office, Goldman replied that Norquist had vouched for them. (Goldman denies this, but two separate sources say they heard him say it.) "Just like [administration officials] ask my advice on inviting religious figures to the White House," says Paul Weyrich, another top conservative activist, "they rely on Grover's help [with Muslims]."

Norquist denies being involved in "micromanaging the specifics" of White House meetings, but admits "I have been a long time advocate of outreach to the Muslim community." In fact, the record suggests that he has spent quite a lot of time promoting people openly sympathetic to Islamist terrorists. And it's starting to cause him problems. Weyrich, echoing other movement conservatives, says he is "not pleased" with Norquist's activity. According to one intelligence official who recently left the government, a number of counterterrorism agents at the FBI and CIA are "pissed as hell about the situation [in the White House] and pissed as hell about Grover." They should be. While nobody suggests that Norquist himself is soft on terrorism, his lobbying has helped provide radical Islamic groups--and their causes--a degree of legitimacy and access they assuredly do not deserve.

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24 posted on 02/23/2003 10:31:11 AM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: randita
If the elite media attempts to make a big deal out of this, they will again confirm that they are hypocritical Democrat toadies. They didn't seem to care a whit who Clinton had in the WH for for what reasons. Their newly discovered moral compass rings very hollow.

You point to a lack of objectivity by the elite media and I think most here would agree with that...which raises the question why would anybody draw any conclusions from such a long chain of unnamed sources, as told by Newsweek.

That said, we do need some answers from the WH on how this guy could be a WH invite.

25 posted on 02/23/2003 10:32:47 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: randita
They didn't seem to care a whit who Clinton had in the WH for for what reasons. Their newly discovered moral compass rings very hollow.

Especially when one even casually evaluates, in context, the visits of certain types to the two different administrations' White House.

54 posted on 02/23/2003 1:41:43 PM PST by cyncooper (God Be With President Bush)
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