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FEATURED ARTICLES
- Robert Novak Believes in Revealing Confidential Sources, After All, Editor & Publisher
- Protect the Vote, NY Times,
- W For War But Eager To Avoid It, Prof Recalls, NY Daily News,
- President Bush: Flip Flopper In Chief, Center for American Progress,
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QUOTE OF THE DAY
"I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got these documents from. They didn't get them from a CIA agent. I don't believe there was any laws involved. I don't think we'll have a special prosecutor, if they tell. I think they should say where they got these documents."
- - Robert Novak
KNOW YOUR HISTORY - September 15th
1970 -- Republican US Vice-President Spiro Agnew says the youth of America are being "brainwashed into a drug culture" by rock music, movies, books & underground newspapers. A man of strong convictions, he gets convicted later on criminal charges.
Same Day in 1970 -- Republican US President Tricky Dick Nixon orders the CIA to prevent the inauguration of Salvador Allende, the democratically elected president of Chile (which they fail to accomplish). The Trickster further authorizes $250,000 to bribe Chilean congressmen. Later, the CIA is instrumental in Allende's murder.
1981 -- A blockade begins at the nuclear power plant construction site of Diablo (Devil's) Canyon, California. In over two weeks, 1,901 are arrested in the largest occupation of a nuclear power site in U.S. history.
1996 -- In rural Carlotta, California, 6,000 environmental activists rally & 1,033 are arrested near the Headwaters Grove protest against the logging of one of the last unlogged virgin redwood stands in the world.
RHINO HERE:
Today theme is "Hypocrites Of The Grand Old Party." Let's begin with Robert Novak, the man The Daily Show's John Stewart calls, "The Douchebag For Liberty," who Rhino believes should be sitting behind bars until he tells who outed CIA Agent Valarie Plame. And let's face it, we all know it was Karl Rove, just like we knew the shrub gang was lying about the WMD's to justify their Iraqi war for oil.
Robert Novak Believes in Revealing Confidential Sources, After All
By Greg Mitchell, Editor & Publisher, September 13, 2004
Syndicated columnist Robert Novak apparently believes that the principle of not revealing confidential sources is rather flexible. The man who has stood on this principle for months, in deflecting calls for him to identify who in the Bush administration "outed" CIA operative Valerie Plame, said this weekend on national television that CBS should release the name of its source for the documents at the center of the dispute over its recent program on President Bush's National Guard service. On the CNN panel show, "Capital Gang," Novak expressed grave doubts about the CBS documents, then said: "I'd like CBS, at this point, to say where they got these documents from. They didn't get them from a CIA agent. I don't believe there was any laws involved. I don't think we'll have a special prosecutor, if they tell. I think they should say where they got these documents because I thought it was a very poor job of reporting by CBS ...." Fellow panelist, Al Hunt, from the Wall Street Journal, then replied: "Robert Novak, you're saying CBS should reveal its source?" The transcript continues:...
MORE: http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000628458
Next we consider John Pappageorge, a Republican state legislator from Michigan who was forthright (read stupid) enough to say what so many Republicans believe, but wouldn't ever say, (in public, that is) that any methods possible to stop minority Americans from voting, should be used. After he realized his blunder (or after he was lambasted by his GOP cohorts) he flipped by saying, "I certainly never meant to suggest that anything racist or illegal take place. " Yeah right! Nice play, Dufus!
Protect the Vote
By Bob Herbert, NY Times, September 13, 2004
More than 80 percent of the population of Detroit is black. This is very well understood by John Pappageorge, who is white and a Republican state legislator in Michigan. "If we do not suppress the Detroit vote," said Mr. Pappageorge, "we're going to have a tough time in this election." Oops! Republicans aren't supposed to actually say they want to suppress black votes. That's so retro. It's so Jim Crow. This is the 21st century, and the thing now is to do the dastardly deed, but never ever acknowledge it. That's where our friend Pappageorge went wrong. After his startling quote was published several weeks ago in The Detroit Free Press, Mr. Pappageorge, who is 73, apologized and said he certainly never meant to suggest that anything racist or illegal take place. But he reiterated to me in a phone conversation last Friday that he did indeed mean that the vote in Detroit needed to be kept down. A lot of other Republicans have similar views about the vote in areas with large African-American populations. Most blacks vote Democratic. If those votes can be suppressed, Republicans benefit. And there is increasing evidence that a big effort to suppress the vote among blacks and some other heavily Democratic voting groups is under way, which is why it is important to keep the following phone number handy: 1-866-OUR VOTE. That's a hot line set up by the Election Protection Coalition...
MORE: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/opinion/13herbert.html?th
And last but certainly not least, is the shrub. First is a story demonstrating that he's been a hypocrite since way before he ran for any office. This story also begs the question that The Rhino wants to amplify, "Why isn't Yoshi Tsurumi being interviewed on all the cable TV news networks?
W For War But Eager To Avoid It, Prof Recalls
by Corky Siemaszko, NY Daily News, 9/10/2004
President Bush' former Harvard Business School prof says his ex-student supported the Vietnam War but wanted somebody else to fight it. Yoshi Tsurumi said yesterday that Bush told him his father's connections got him into the Texas Air National Guard. "But what really disturbed me is that he said he was for the Vietnam War," said Tsurumi, who has also taught at Baruch College and the City University of New York. "I said, 'George, that's hypocrisy. You won't fight a war that you support but you expect other people to fight it for you.' He just smirked."
Tsurumi, who crossed paths with Bush in the early 1970s when the future President was studying for his MBA, previously has criticized Bush's economic policies and described him as a mediocre student who "believed people were poor because they were lazy." But Tsurumi's new volley comes as Bush has been battling allegations he got preferential treatment at the height of the divisive Vietnam War. Bush, according to Tsurumi, "had no sense of guilt" about getting into the Guard while others wound up fighting in Vietnam. "He was very casual about it," the professor said. "I said, 'Lucky you, how did you manage it?' He said, 'My dad had a good friend who put me at the head of the waiting list.'" The White House declined to comment on Tsurumi's recollections, but Bush has denied that his father, who was a congressman at the time, pulled strings to get him a much-sought-after berth in the Guard...
MORE: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/story/230745p-198181c.html
And bringing the president select's hypocrisies up to date, today's RHINO'S BOTTOM LINE is a list of issues on which he has spoken with the proverbial forked tongue, including North Korea, Abortion, OPEC, Iraq Funding, Condoleeza Rice Testimony, Science, Ahmed Chalabi, Department of Homeland Security, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Free Trade, Osama Bin Laden, The Environment, WMD Commission, Creation of the 9/11 Commission, Time Extension for 9/11 Commission, One Hour Limit for 9/11 Commission Testimony, Gay Marriage, Nation Building, Saddam/al Qaeda Link, U.N. Resolution, Involvement in the Palestinian Conflict, Campaign Finance, 527s, Medical Records, Timelines For Dictators, The Great Lakes, Winning The War On Terror. Where are the old time journalists who feel a responsibility to expose hypocrisy in our government representatives?
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