The Michael J Fox Campaign Ads I believe are a disgrace and are intended to decieve the greater voting public purely for political reasons. Political pandering pure and simple.
As Ann Coulter explained on our show when we discussed her best selling book “Godless:The Church of Liberalsim:”
“…(T)he Democrats hit on an ingenious strategy: They would choose only messengers whom we’re not allowed to reply to. That’s why Democratic spokesmen these days are sobbing, hysterical women. You can’t respond to them because that would be questioning the authenticity of their suffering.”
She refers to this in her book as the “doctrine of infalliability.”
Our friends at Right Wing News Blog has this to say:
…the amount of misinformation on embryonic stem cells out there is absolutely staggering. Basically, you have desperate people like Fox and Nancy Reagan out there pushing embryonic stem cells because they’ve been told that it may be a miracle cure for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. But, the hard, cold reality is that embryonic stem cells have never cured anything in a human and it’s entirely possible that they never will. In fact, the reason why embryonic stem cells need federal funding in the first place is because private industry doesn’t think ESC’s are worth sinking money into. So, we’re really getting to the point where the push for embryonic stem cells is not just wasted money, it’s turning into a cruel method of offering false hope to people like Michael J. Fox for political purposes.
Last but not least, the one thing I dislike the most about this sort of commercial is that there is a very obvious response to it: you go get someone else with Parkinson’s and you put them on TV talking about how great Jim Talent or Michael Steele is and why embryonic stem cell research is a farce. Is that what politics should really be all about? Dueling sick people trying to draw in “pity votes?” Apparently, a lot of Democrats, including Claire McCaskill and Ben Cardin think so — and that’s too bad.
Can’t help but thinking back to the “breck girl” John Edwards who proclaimed that “when John Kerry is elected president people are going to get up and walk out of their wheel chairs.” Nothing is out of bounds for these people.
Regarding Nancy Pelosi’s determination to remove moderate Democrat Jane Harmon as would-be chair the Intel Committee IF the Dems win the House, the best in the blogging business, Captain Ed, had this to say,
The New York Times has this wrong. Just considering Alcee Hastings, who got impeached by a Democratic Congress for bribery and malfeasance, to lead a key national-security committee will confirm Republican charges that Democrats don’t take national security seriously. It also highlights the hypocrisy of their “culture of corruption” theme from earlier this year. They still talk about cleaning corruption out of Congress — and they propose to elevate a judge impeached for bribery to be part of the leadership that will accomplish that.
This shows that the Democrats put petty politics above national security. The only reason Harman has gotten the ouster is because she didn’t participate enthusiastically enough in Bush Derangement Syndrome. Never mind that she focused on her national-security assignment ahead of partisan sniping, and never mind that she still criticized the Bush administration on a number of issues. She didn’t get strident enough for Nancy Pelosi — and so she needs to go.
One of the best columnists in America, Jules Crittenden of the Boston Herald,
NYT-ea culpa: Times mouthpiece acknowledges error
What do you call it when the ombudsman of the New York Times admits he made a mistake?
A good start.
New York Times ombudsman Byron Calame has initiated what we can only hope will be a trend in Americaâ??s holier-than-thou media — that overwhelming and influential part of our nationâ??s news business that feigns objectivity, fairness and interest in our national well-being while relentlessly pursuing partisan and destructively anti-American agendas.
Calame, in the throes of some inexplicable crisis of conscience, has admitted his newspaper was wrong to reveal a secret U.S. government program to monitor bank transactions of terrorists, and that he was not only wrong but hypocritical to defend it. He did not mention hopelessly lacking in perspective, but Iâ??ll get to that.
John Podhoretz, in his NY Post column today titled Battling Predictions had this to say,
FOR those who follow political news, there are now two kinds of time: Mainstream Media Time and Blog Time.
I had the distinct honor and privledge of speaking with James Glazov, Managing Editor of Frontpage Magazine about my book “Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies.”
You can read it here.
It was our pleasure to welcome back to the show retired Special Operations Master Sergeant James Hanson to Pundit Review Radio. James, who blogs at Blackfive under the name Uncle Jimbo, is focused on writing about the military, politics, intelligence operations and foreign policy.
Tonight we discussed CNN’s decision to air terrorist propaganda that showed snipers killing US soldiers. We got Uncle Jimbo’s thoughts on CNN and we discussed a column in today’s Boston Globe in which John Kerry agreed with CNN’s decision,
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, a strong critic of President Bush’s Iraq war policy, believes Americans should see more truth, not less: “Snipers are a reality. People being blown up is a reality.” Yet, in this war, Kerry argues, “People see almost nothing at all. We see only the aftermath of explosions and bombs. As painful as the images of war are, it’s important to understand what soldiers go through.”
Does footage such as the CNN sniper video help the enemy? “I don’t think you help the enemy to have the truth known,” says Kerry.
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Co-founder Tom Bevan joined us tonight on Pundit Review Radio to discuss numerous races around the country.
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Pundit Review Radio is where the old media meets the new. Each week Kevin & Gregg give voice to the work of the most influential leaders in the new media/citizen journalist revolution. Called “Groundbreaking” by Talkers Magazine, this unique show brings the best of the blogs to your radio every Sunday evening from 7-10pm EST on AM680 WRKO, Boston’s Talk Station.
Barrons Online offers this perspective on the upcoming election.
Our analysis — based on a race-by-race examination of campaign-finance data — suggests that the GOP will hang on to both chambers, at least nominally. We expect the Republican majority in the House to fall by eight seats, to 224 of the chamber’s 435. At the very worst, our analysis suggests, the party’s loss could be as large as 14 seats, leaving a one-seat majority. But that is still a far cry from the 20-seat loss some are predicting. In the Senate, with 100 seats, we see the GOP winding up with 52, down three
We studied every single race — all 435 House seats and 33 in the Senate — and based our predictions about the outcome in almost every race on which candidate had the largest campaign war chest, a sign of superior grass-roots support. We ignore the polls. Thus, our conclusions about individual races often differ from the conventional wisdom. Pollsters, for instance, have upstate New York Republican Rep. Tom Reynolds trailing Democratic challenger Jack Davis, who owns a manufacturing plant. But Reynolds raised $3.3 million in campaign contributions versus $1.6 million for Davis, so we score him the winner.
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I agree with John from Powerline Blog that this ad is one that every Republican should be airing. The Healy campaign should take note.