A Man of Science
Four out of five Nobel Laureates agree: John Fleck’s is an intellectual sea that raises all boats, even deep in the desert. And these aren’t just Literature and Peace prize winners.
At the Awards Banquet, Lionel Ritchie sang, “He’s Fleck — FLECK! — exciting! An inspiration to me.” And to us all, Lionel.
Off in the shadows, Fleck’s masters from Manipulative Media Corp (a subsidiary of GreedCo) were seen rubbing their hands together dramatically. “Excellent! They trust him. Now activate his chip. Just wait until they read Jesus rode a dinosaur and that learning math makes girls less attractive. Bwahahah!”
Brought to you by Truth Is Duller Than Fiction. Now, here’s Paul Harvey with the rest of the story.
Congrats, G-Fleck!
How Liberal is John Kerry?
A new RNC ad claims Kerry is “the most liberal man in the Senate.” Actually, his lifetime rating is 11th or lower, depending.
A Republican National Committee ad released Oct. 16 claims that Kerry is “the most liberal man in the Senate.” It’s true that vote rankings by the politically neutral magazine The National Journal rated Kerry “most liberal” in 2003 and in three earlier years during his first Senate term: 1986, 1988, and 1990. But over his entire career the Journal ranks Kerry the 11th most liberal Senator. And by other rankings he’s only a bit left of his party’s center.
Left and Right Agree the Media is One or the Other
FROM THE LEFT
By Todd Gitlin
The Times is not pro-Bush in the way that The Washington Times is pro-Bush, slamming John Kerry with Vietnam falsehoods week after week.
But The Times’s decorous approach to the news has often helped President Bush in three significant ways: by equating his gross deceptions with Mr. Kerry’s minor lapses; by omitting or burying news of administration activities and their consequences; and by missing the deep pattern of Mr. Bush’s prejudices and malfeasances. …
FROM THE RIGHT
By Bob Kohn
IS The New York Times systematically biased against President Bush? Of course it is.
I couldn’t quote more of the Right’s argument because it was ad hominem. mjh
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Candidate Responses to Young People’s Questions
The Candidates Respond – New Voters Project Presidential Youth Debate
Your Questions and the Candidate Responses
1. ISSUES OF MORALITY
2. SOCIAL SECURITY
3. FOREIGN POLICY
4. DRAFT
5. ELECTION/VOTING REFORM
6. DRUG POLICY
7. ENVIRONMENT
8. EDUCATION (SEX ED)
9. CIVIL RIGHTS
10. HEALTH INSURANCE
11. PERSONAL
12. TOLERANCE FOR THOSE WHO ARE DIFFERENT
Rate the responses as you read them and see how they measure up with other young people
Give ’em Hell, Kerry!
– Bush Adds Teeth to His Attacks on Kerry
Mr. Kerry did propose the reductions Mr. Bush cited. But in the mid-1990’s, members of both parties were seeking cuts in the intelligence budget. Porter J. Goss, then a Republican member of Congress from Florida and recently appointed director of central intelligence by Mr. Bush, co-sponsored legislation in 1995 that would have reduced intelligence spending by more than the cuts sought by Mr. Kerry.
Similarly, in citing Mr. Kerry’s support for cuts in weapons programs, Mr. Bush ignored the bipartisan effort in the 1990’s to scale back or end production of many planes, ships, missiles and other military hardware. The Kerry campaign on Monday detailed how Vice President Dick Cheney has spearheaded some of those moves. …
“Mr. President, you can choose to ignore the facts, but in the end you can’t hide the truth from the American people,” Mr. Kerry said. “The bottom line, Mr. President: your mismanagement of the war has made Iraq and America less safe and less secure than they could have and should have been today.”
‘brazen distortions, driven by desperation’
The New York Times – Bush Adds Teeth to His Attacks on Kerry By DAVID E. SANGER and JODI WILGOREN
Using phrases that appeared to reflect the language of one of his leading advisers, Karen Hughes, Mr. Bush accused Mr. Kerry of taking “the easy path of protest and defeatism,” a phrase that evoked Mr. Kerry’s statements about Vietnam 34 years ago. His use of terms like “a policy of weakness,” “giving up the fight” and “a strategy of retreat” appeared intended to paint Mr. Kerry as an appeaser at best and a coward at worst.
Mr. Kerry’s campaign, clearly outraged, described the statements as brazen distortions, driven by desperation as the casualties in Iraq mounted. Kerry aides promised an aggressive response in a new television advertisement to be broadcast on Tuesday and a speech in Iowa on Wednesday.
Mike McCurry, Mr. Kerry’s chief spokesman, called Mr. Bush’s remarks a “thoroughly dishonest speech” that deliberately twisted Mr. Kerry’s words.
For his part, Mr. Kerry seized on a new report in The Washington Post that Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez complained to the Pentagon last winter, when he was the top America commander on the ground in Iraq, that he lacked supplies vital to successful combat operations.
“Despite the president’s arrogant boasting that he’s done everything right in Iraq and that he’s made no mistakes, the truth is beginning to come out and it’s beginning to catch up with him,” Mr. Kerry told a crowd….
Anyone who has seen Kerry campaign in the primary or the general election has seen he is no quiter, no softie. We see with our own eyes Bush’s lies. mjh