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I watch TV, and except for Fox, it's all-Al-all-the-time, so I have a few questions about the coverage of the media's monthlong telethon for the man who invented the Internet.
For instance, how come, when the Florida Legislature has 58 Democrats among its 160 members, it's always referred to as ``Republican-dominated,'' which it is, but the Florida Supreme Court, which includes zero Republicans, is never called ``Democrat-dominated''?
How come when the Republican Legislature says it will follow the Constitution as written it's a ``partisan political ploy,'' but when the Florida Supreme Court turns the law upside down to give Al Gore an extra 12 days to steal the election, it's an impartial judiciary just doing its job?
How come it's not ``hate speech'' when Bill Maher says on national TV Thursday night that as the country watched the Ryder van with the Palm Beach ballots moving up the Florida turnpike, ``For a few brief moments, America held the hope that O.J. Simpson had murdered Katherine Harris''?
And how come it isn't ``mean-spirited'' when Craig Kilborn freeze-frames a picture of George W. Bush with a caption that says ``Snipers Wanted''?
Probably for the same reason that it was permissible during impeachment for reputed actor Alec Baldwin to mention it might be a good idea to stone Rep. Henry Hyde and his family to death.
If you're a Beautiful Person from Hollywood and you suggest lynching Republicans, that's fair comment under the First Amendment. If you're a Republican and you live within 300 miles of a lynching, you may as well have personally knotted the rope.
How come looking into the sex life of Bill Clinton, when it involves perjury, obstruction of justice and sexual harassment, is ``the politics of personal destruction,'' but, as Laura Ingraham noted, trying to dig up dirt on Katherine Harris' sex life is investigative journalism?
How come when Bill Clinton gets 60 percent approval for anything it's a ``mandate'' but when 60 percent of the country wants Al Gore to throw in the towel the caption at the bottom of the screen is ``The Nation Divided''?
How come George Bush has an MBA from Harvard Biz and he's a moron and Al Gore ``dropped out'' of Vanderbilt Law School and he's a genius?
How come no one on TV can mention Katherine Harris without remarking on the fact that she worked in the Bush campaign, but outside a handful of newspapers, no one ever points out that Florida attorney general Bob Butterworth was chairman of Al Gore's campaign in the Sunshine State?
How come so few media outlets picked up the Miami Herald story that hundreds, probably thousands, of ex-cons illegally cast ballots in Florida?
How come, after the Republicans lost their bid to convict Bill Clinton of high crimes and misdemeanors in the Senate, the left wing Ivy League chattering skulls said as one that it was time for America to ``move on.''
But now, even after Al Gore has lost recount after recount, you could forfeit your invitation to Renaissance Weekend by suggesting that it's now time for America to ``move on.'' How come, on election night, Al Gore ``won'' states but they always ``fell'' to George Bush?
How come it's always germane to point out that seven of the nine members of the U.S. Supreme Court were appointed by Republican presidents (even though at least two of them have since flipped sides), but it's not even worth 10 seconds to say that basically all seven Florida jurists were appointed by Democrats?
Why does no one ever mention that one of the Florida justices is so ignorant that during one hearing he referred to the ``Electorial College''?
How come all the Gore rumpswabs in the press keep referring to the Seminole County case as involving ``ballot tampering,'' when actually it's applications for ballots? And why do you have to go to Florida newspapers to find out that the judge hearing the case had her campaign do exactly the same thing when she was running?
All in all, this campaign of disinformation is just what you'd expect from these sleazeballs, and it's only going to get worse before their hero Al gets the job he so richly deserves - ambassador to Chad.
Kewl...
And why do you have to go to Florida newspapers to find out that the judge hearing the case had her campaign do exactly the same thing when she was running?
Oops. Not the same judge, but it would be interesting to know what happened in that case.
Good.....
Howie Caaaaaahhhhhh got it right.
Voice of reason from Boston no less.
Why? Because they HAVE gotten away with it, they ARE getting away with it, and as long as the average Demoncrat voter has the IQ of a box of rocks . . . they will CONTINUE getting away with it!
How come when Bill Clinton gets 60 percent approval for anything it's a ``mandate''.....?
CLINTON POLLS HOLD STEADY IN WAKE OF CHINESE NUCLEAR ATTACK
Try to imagine, if you can, the howl from the jackals if the shoe was on the other foot.
Try to imagine, if you can, the howl from the jackals if the shoe was on the other foot.
Hannity and Colmes would have to stop airing commercials and go with a nine-hour format. LOL!!
The question that is begging to be answered is why won't anyone turn off the T.V. alltogether?
You're not being informed, you're being brainwashed.
So turn it off. Disconnect your cable, take down the antenna. That's what I did 5 years ago. I am more informed now than ever before. And I have alot more time to devote to important issues like, my family.
T.V. is not an accident. There are no redeeming qualities there. Zero.
Howie is "da man!" As a lifetime resident of Massachusetts (pity me), Howie is one of the jewels of the airwaves here. His website is on www.wrko.com, and he is becoming nationally syndicated. He is usually on 3-7pm EST. The first hour or two is usually devoted to politics or current events, but anything can happen on the other hours. Pretty hilarious most of the time. Generally hated by most of the Dem hacks in Boston (see his website for quotes from the likes of Dukakis etc.)
Where else are you going to pick up a word like "rumpswab"?!
Our exhalted life-long Premier, William Jefferson Clinton of the United Socialist States of America will now address the "will of the people", That all enemies of the unified state report to indoctrination centers for registration and questioning. Those listed as such will given 2 days to comply.......
Bumped everywhere
Our exhalted life-long Premier, William Jefferson Clinton of the United Socialist States of America will now address the "will of the people", That all enemies of the unified state report to indoctrination centers for registration and questioning. Those listed as such will be given 2 days to comply.......
Good post. Imagine this being printed in the Boston Herald, center of the leftist universe.
You may be thinkng of the Boston Globe. The Herald is a fairly conservative paper.
I didn't mean to say that the Herald was capital of the leftist universe (but I know that's how it came out). I meant that Boston itself is. I know the Herald isn't like the Globe. Still, it must take chutzpah to write like this in any Boston paper.
Outstanding! It's a good thing, though, that he didn't list everything or he might have reached that last page of the internet. LOL!
Is Howie Carr a libertarian talk show host? Name sounds familiar anyway. He's dead right, anyway.
btt
Carr is one of Beantown's leading voices of reason. He works for the 'Herald' and hosts a drive-time talk radio show.
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