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John Kerry stooped to the lowest of the low with the shameless, invasive line that will be played over and over again on the news in the next 24 hours: And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney’s daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she’s being who she [...]

Here is the opening paragraph of the AP post-debate propaganda masquerading as analysis: With cold efficiency, Vice President Dick Cheney sought to eviscerate the credibility of the Democratic presidential ticket Tuesday night.. Can you imagine an AP report focusing on Edwards’ performance that began “With gooey unctuousness, Sen. John Edwards etc…” The wire service’s anti-Bush/Cheney [...]

That’s how Morton Kondracke described John Edwards’ performance against Vice President Cheney tonight. I concur. Cheney raises Sen. Edwards’ lousy record on defense and intelligence matters, and Edwards yaps pointlessly about…”Meals on Wheels.” Edwards’ cloying closing statement was stunningly weak compared to Cheney’s stalwart, policy-packed summation. Three quick media notes: 1) Gwen Ifill deserves strong [...]

The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill has protested the NY Times crossword puzzle, Fox News, and the Crazy Eddie advertising campaign for discriminating against mentally ill patients. We’ll be checking in to see if NAMI condemns Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards’ latest remarks about crazy people. Update: A reader steams… Ok, Edwards has [...]

CBS News isn’t the only one failing to disclose the political activism of purportedly ordinary Americans fearful of the return of a draft. NBC News has its own Beverly Cocco. His name is Jeremy Tor. Here’s the full transcript of the draft-mongering segment that ran on NBC Nightly News last night: TOM BROKAW, anchor: One [...]

Hey, everyone’s talking about Security Moms again. There’s this article in the San Francisco Chronicle (reprinted in today’s Manchester Union Leader and elsewhere). There’s this Associated Press report on John Edwards’ efforts to woo women voters by promising “We will do absolutely everything that needs to be done to keep this country safe.” And this [...]

The New York Times headline this morning reads: “Bush Cites Doubt America Can Win War on Terror.” John Edwards (who?) yapped: “This is no time to declare defeat.” Bush did not “declare defeat.” John Kerry’s desperate spinners are selectively seizing on the second sentence in Bush’s answer to NBC Today Show co-host Matt Lauer about [...]

I’ve written a piece for USA Today that was posted online tonight and will appear in the print edition tomorrow: Candidates ignore security moms at their peril. A few excerpts: I am what this year’s election pollsters call a “security mom.” I’m married with two young children. I own a gun. And I vote. Nothing [...]

Over and over again, we are reminded that the intelligence on WMDs in Iraq was flawed. Over and over again, we are informed that there was no collaborative relationship between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. The strong implication is not just that the case for war was built on “lies” and “hype” but that [...]

The folks at Townhall.com’s C-Log are debating whether John Edwards is hot or not. Carolyn Davids likes the Southern accent; Emily Shaheen says he’s “prissy.” Meanwhile, the voters at Am I Annoying? give the Golden Boy a 57.04% annoying approval rate in 2003. (Your humble correspondent, by comparison, scored a 42.35% annoying approval rate. But [...]

Congratulations to the New York Post for breaking the news that John Kerry has picked Dick Gephardt to be his VP candidate. An inspired choice. Consider Gephardt’s many positions on: – abortion, defense – confederate flag – gay marriage Flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop. Update: Props to ArchPundit, who saw the Gephardt pick coming two days ago. [...]