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Something to Yak About – Kerry To Highlight Iraq Flip-Flop The Gang That Couldn’t Spin Straight at the John Kerry campaign is apparently counseling the Gentleman from Massachusetts to pick-up the issue of removing Saddam Hussein from power, drawing yet more attention to his incessant flippage and floppage on the Iraq war. The New York Times reports Kerry is scheduled to deliver a speech today at a Cincinnati train station, “where Bush laid out his own argument, nearly two years ago, that Saddam Hussein was amassing large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and might soon be able to...

Something to Yak About – Kerry To Highlight Iraq Flip-FlopThe Gang That Couldn’t Spin Straight at the John Kerry campaign is apparently counseling the Gentleman from Massachusetts to pick-up the issue of removing Saddam Hussein from power, drawing yet more attention to his incessant flippage and floppage on the Iraq war. The New York Times reports Kerry is scheduled to deliver a speech today at a Cincinnati train station, “where Bush laid out his own argument, nearly two years ago, that Saddam Hussein was amassing large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and might soon be able to strike the...

Something to Yak About – Kelly Continues Legacy of Bogus Muckraking Hey – everyone’s entitled to a mistake now and again, right? But what’s up with perennially discredited muckraker Kitty Kelly? Her latest diatribe, a smear job on the President, the First Lady and just about anyone named Bush, is even less credible than some her more notorious failures. In some of her screeds masquerading as biography, Kelly has tried to advance more than a few certifiable Tin Foil Hat theories including the one about Jackie Kennedy undergoing electro-shock and another accusing President Reagan of rape. Next thing you know,...

Something to Yak About – Major Kerry Donor Behind Upcoming 527 Attack on President With all these left-wing 527 groups popping up – you know, the ones that can receive and spend tens of millions of dollars on partisan campaign politics with virtually no accountability – it’s getting just a little redundant, dontchathink? Nevertheless, one of the newest such groups helping John Kerry’s efforts calls itself the Environmental Accountability Fund, which is now readying itself to bash away on President Bush over bogus enviro-beefs. Turns out this newly hatched 527 received seed money from billionaire liberal John Sperling, who’s...

Something to Yak About – Kerry Supporters Begin Protest PilgrimagePolice estimate that hundreds of thousands of protesters supporting John Kerry will materialize in New York City next week for the Republican National Convention. Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie told CNN Tuesday, “They're free to express their first amendment rights,” but made no bones about the allegiance of these protesters. “The fact is that the National Organization for Women and the labor unions and the anti-war activists are Kerry supporters. They will be protesting.” No foolin’ – the fringe element at NOW has decided to call their NYC protest a...

Something to Yak About – Billionaires for Kerry: Birds of a Feather Flock Together John Kerry, the richest man to ever seek the presidency, is receiving plenty of help from his fellow billionaires in his quest for power. His latest ally is billionaire entrepreneur and erstwhile dog-cloner John Sperling, who’s spending millions to divide the nation into two camps. According to Kerry’s billionaire buddy, the ‘Metro’ camp is cool and hip and chic and backs John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, et al. Sperling’s ‘Retro’ camp is un-cool and square and supports George Bush. After all of John Kerry’s talk about...

Something to Yak About – Kerry Flip-Flops on Korea Troops While chatting up the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Cincinnati Wednesday, John Kerry managed to do it again, flipping and flopping all over the issue of US troops levels in Korea. Can somebody please call the Guinness Book to see what the world record is on flip-flops? Thank you. Now read on. Kerry In Favor of Reducing Troops in Korea Before He Was Against It John Kerry used his Wednesday VFW speech to blast the president’s plan to redeploy US troops abroad to better fight the war on terrorism....

Something to Yak About – Kerry Campaign Pads Candidate’s Intelligence Resume This is amazing for a couple of reasons, neither of which is made up. The John Kerry campaign, in an effort to burnish the nominee’s image on intelligence matters and spin their way out of his lousy committee attendance record, claimed on its website Monday, “John Kerry served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence for 8 years and is the former Vice Chairman of the Committee.” Fact is John Kerry has never – ever! – served as vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Turns out,...

Something to Yak About – New Documentary, Website To Be AnnouncedYou’ve been hearing a lot this summer about ‘documentaries’ on the Silver Screen and the industrious folks at your friendly neighborhood Republican National Committee now have their own entry. The documentary includes tons of TV footage of John Kerry espousing just about every possible position on Iraq, Saddam Hussein and WMDs. The new Kerry documentary and accompanying website are scheduled to be announced at a Thursday news conference in Your Nation’s Capital, so this is a total heads-up. Wide Praise for Kerry Documentary More than 1,500,000 people have seen the...

Keynote Speaker Slurs African Americans, Southerners – Seems the Democrats have found a keynote speaker for their Extreme Makeover in Boston whose background includes slamming the speech of African Americans, southerners and folks from New Jersey. The Boston Herald has unearthed a bunch of columns written by Democrat convention keynoter Christie Vilsack – wife of the Iowa governor. “I am fascinated at the way some African-Americans speak to each other in an English I struggle to understand,” wrote Mrs. Vilsack, who represents John Kerry and her party on the convention podium Tuesday night. Mass Dems Weigh in On Home Grown...

Dem’s Extreme Makeover Call at 10:00 a.m. EDT – Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie and Bush-Cheney Campaign Manager Ken Mehlman are joining forces at 10:00 a.m. EDT Wednesday in a conference call to lay out plans for our coverage of the Dem’s Extreme Makeover in Boston next week, including the full slate of guests available for your show through our Radio Free Boston operation. The call-in number for the event is 1-800-236-9788 and the pass code to join the call is ‘Convention’. And ya, it’s cool to roll tape.RNC Hits the Road For Boston – With the Radio...

The Democrats’ Extreme Makeover – Can John Kerry and John Edwards do anything to shake their extreme liberal record? That’s what they’re trying to do in Boston next week but it’s a big job considering those pesky National Journal ratings that list Kerry as the most liberal member of the Senate in 2003 and Edwards as the 4th most liberal member that year. The Problem With the Democrat Platform – Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie began setting the stage for the RNC’s response to the Dems Extreme Makeover in Boston, telling journalists in a conference call Monday, “John Kerry...

Something to Yak About – Calling Joe WilsonAnd no, we’re not talking about the Gentleman from South Carolina here, we’re talking about disgraced Kerry henchman Joe Wilson, whose mug was virtually ubiquitous on the talking head circuit when he was accusing the president and most of his administration of all kinds of malfeasance regarding pre-war Iraq intelligence. But now that Joe’s been exposed as a liar, he’s somewhere deep in the tall grass. Try this on for size – Google ‘Joe Wilson’ and ‘Niger,’ and see how many current news items return. It’s fun for the entire family! When a...

Something to Yak About – Kerry-Edwards NYC ‘Star Studded Hate Fest’ Draws Bad Reviews, Insults Venerable Venue How can a presidential campaign insult a building? The Kerry-Edwards campaign has found a way, hosting a celebrity hate fest last week in New York City with John Kerry and John Edwards actually applauding the performers who turned the venerable Radio City Music Hall into, “a launching pad for crass, vulgar and personal insults.” Smooth move, John-John. The ‘Heart and Soul’ of Kohn Kerry?Political debate is one thing, but when it comes down to vulgar name-calling and obscenity-laced diatribes, that’s just a bit...

Something to Yak About – Obscenity Laced Celebrity Hate Fest Reflects Kerry-Edwards Values A lot of papers carried an item Friday about the star-studded fundraiser in New York City, fawning over the Hollywood Big Shots who helped John Kerry raise $7.5 million. What many of those reports glossed over was the “X-rated rant,” of Whoopi Goldberg while Kerry could be seen, “laughing uproariously during part of Goldberg's tirade.” John Kerry’s response to the invective laden hate mongering? "Every performer tonight ... conveyed to you the heart and soul of our country.” John-John Shows Less Sense Than Dean We’ve already seen...

Something to Yak About – John-John Opposed Tax Relief Before They Supported It In the words of Gomer Pyle, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!” John Kerry and John Edwards are stumping the battlegrounds in tandem with promises of not raising taxes on Middle America. So how is it these two ‘better hair’ guys came to now support the tax relief they both voted against while in the Senate? A Road to Damascus conversion? Political expediency? Just another flip-flop? The Damascus theory is a bit thin, folks. This just doesn’t pass the smell test. Veep Choice Reflects on Kerry’s Judgment John Kerry told...

Something to Yak About – Yeah, That’s the Ticket: Kerry-Edwards More Liberal Than Mondale-Ferraro With his selection of John Edwards as his running mate, John Kerry has managed to construct a Democrat ticket that’s even more liberal than… (drum roll, please…) Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro! That’s right, folks, the Kerry-Edwards ticket has amassed a documented record of liberalism that exceeds even that of the utterly failed Mondale-Ferraro ticket of 20 years ago, according to the Lefties at Americans for Democratic Action. Hard to believe, but the numbers don’t lie. It’s The Record, Stupid! Just when we thought John...

Something to Yak About – Edwards is Kerry’s 2nd Choice for VPThere’s a certain poetry about being the 2nd choice for the 2nd spot on a ticket and that’s what we’ve got from John Kerry. North Carolina Freshman Senator John Edwards apparently polled better than any other vice presidential prospect and will now join Kerry on the – what, the John-John ticket? Kerry Was Against John Edwards, Before He Supported HimJohn Kerry minced few words while pummeling John Edwards during the Democrat primary season, at one point even speculating for a New York Times reporter, “When I came back from...

Something to Yak About – The John Kerry Campaign, Home of the Whopper John Kerry’s new TV ad talks about himself, and that’s cool. It describes him as, among other things, a father, husband, pilot and having spent 19 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, all of which is absolutely true. But they wheel out the whopper when the spot claims he’s the “author of a strategy to win the war on terror.” Really? John Kerry’s book The New War, published in 1997, earned a scathing review in The New Republic, which stated, “if the future Kerry predicted...

Something to Yak About – More Backbiting in Kerry CampJohn Kerry wails and gnashes his teeth over partisan politics, but he can’t even get along with a lot of his fellow Democrats. The latest twist involves the Gentleman from Massachusetts and Tom Menino, mayor of Boston, the host city of the Democrat convention next month. After Kerry blew-off the U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting in Boston earlier this week, Menino was quoted as saying of Kerry’s refusal to appear and subsequent actions, ”This is typical of small-minded individuals who have to create controversy.” Ouch! John Kerry’s Party Readying to ‘Take...