Grace Marzioli’s Converative & Right blog has just celebrated its first anniversary. Congratulations.
We have had Grace in our blogroll for a long time, she has an interesting take on the issues we all care about and she is doing some incredible things with her life that are truly inspirational. Check her out.
DRUDGE FLASH: BILL RAPED HILLARY
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton turned furious and considered legal
action after learning bestselling author Ed Klein would allege in a new book:
Bill Clinton raped her — resulting in the conception of daughter Chelsea
Clinton!”[Author] Klein is going to rot in hell for this,” a well-placed source
close to Hillary said over the weekend.
1. You don’t have to drive around with a Hillary 08′ bumper sticker to see that this is over the line, disgusting garbage.
2. This crushes everything else in this book, true or not. It doesn’t matter now.
3. MSM will say her critics are crazy people. Substantive Hillary critics are hurt by association. This is bad news.
4. This is net positive for Hillary the Prez candidate.
This Sunday evening at 9pm EST our guest will be Hugh Hewitt. We will be speaking with Hugh about his great new book Blog and other issues involving the rise of the new media.
You can listen to the show live online at WRKO. You can call in with questions for Hugh toll free at 877-469-4322.
This will be Hugh Hewittt’s second appearence on Pundit Review. To listen to our previous interview with him, click here.
June 19th: Dan Kennedy
We are also pleased to announce that on June 19, our guest will be Dan Kennedy, media writer for the Boston Phoenix. Dan is one of the most influencial and widely read liberal media writers around and we will get his take on the rise of the blogs and their impact on the media. Is the media as overwhelmingly biased as we say?
After 10 years, Dan is leaving the Phoenix at the end of the month to teach journalism at Northeastern Univ. We also want to hear how he thinks blogs will impact the next generation of reporters.
It should be an interesting discussion.
from Andrew Sullivan’s blog,
“Does anyone in America doubt that Kerry has a higher IQ than Bush? I’m sure the candidates’ SATs and college transcripts would put Kerry far ahead.” – Howell Raines, former executive editor of the New York Times, last August. Heh.
Yale grades portray Kerry as a lackluster student
By Michael Kranish, Globe Staff June 7, 2005
WASHINGTON — During last year’s presidential campaign, John F. Kerry was the candidate often portrayed as intellectual and complex, while George W. Bush was the populist who mangled his sentences.
But newly released records show that Bush and Kerry had a virtually identical grade average at Yale University four decades ago.
In 1999, The New Yorker published a transcript indicating that Bush had received a cumulative score of 77 for his first three years at Yale and a roughly similar average under a non-numerical rating system during his senior year.
Kerry, who graduated two years before Bush, got a cumulative 76 for his four years, according to a transcript that Kerry sent to the Navy when he was applying for officer training school. He received four D’s in his freshman year out of 10 courses, but improved his average in later years.
The grade transcript, which Kerry has always declined to release, was included in his Navy record. During the campaign the Globe sought Kerry’s naval records, but he refused to waive privacy restrictions for the full file. Late last month, Kerry gave the Navy permission to send the documents to the Globe.
Two terror suspects arrested in California
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI has arrested two California men after one of
them admitted he attended an al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan, Justice
Department officials said on Wednesday.Hamid Hayat, 23, and his father, Umer, of Lodi, California, east of San
Francisco, were taken into custody over the weekend. Both men are being held on
charges of lying to federal authorities.Two other men were arrested in Lodi for violating terms of their visas,
said Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Dean Boyd.
Bush urges Congress to renew Patriot Act
WASHINGTON – President Bush is pressuring Congress to renew the Patriot Act
by highlighting the arrest of a man accused of plotting attacks on the Brooklyn
Bridge and an Ohio shopping mall.Portions of the Patriot Act – signed into law six weeks after the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks to catch other terrorists – are set to expire at the end of
the year. The law bolstered FBI surveillance and law-enforcement powers in
terror cases, increased use of material witness warrants to hold suspects
incommunicado for months and allowed secret proceedings in immigration
cases.Civil liberties groups and privacy advocates say the law undermines
freedom. But Bush calls the act vital to tracking terrorists and disrupting
their plans.
From Art Chernkoff,
Top House Democrat Charles Rangel complained on Monday that the Bush administration’s decision to concoct a “fraudulent” war in Iraq was as bad as “the Holocaust.”
“It’s the biggest fraud ever committed on the people of this country,”
Rangel told WWRL Radio’s Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter. “This is just as bad
as six million Jews being killed. The whole world knew it and they were quiet
about it, because it wasn’t their ox that was being gored.”It’s not actually
quite as bad as it seems:Asked to clarify his Holocaust comparison, Rangel told Malzberg: “I am
saying that people’s silence when they know terrible things are happening is the
same thing as the Holocaust, where everyone would have me believe that no one
knew those Jews were killed over there.”
Initially I though, this is not as bad as it seems; Rangel is not making a grossly offensive comparison of the liberation of 26 million people from tyranny with the killing of 6 million Jews. What a relief. He’s merely making a stupid, inaccurate, and hysterical comparison of the public reactions to both events. Stupid, inaccurate, and hysterical, because after all, Iraq, in all its aspects and from all the perspectives, is the most talked about issue in the world today.
The Howard Dean Gift That Keeps On Giving,
“the GOP is a “white Christian party”
“A lot of them never made an honest living in their lives,” said Howard
Dean on June 2 at a conference hosted by Take Back America.“I think Tom Delay ought to go back to Houston, where he can serve his jail
sentence!”“Thanks to their pale skin, round eyes and khaki trousers, Republicans just blend in,” said Mr. Dean. “So they vote, get in the back of the line and vote again. And because they’ve never made an honest living in their lives, they could do that all day long.”
“The Republicans are not very friendly to different kinds of people. Weâ??re more welcoming to different folks, because thatâ??s the kind of people we are.”
Don’t miss Scott Johnson from Powerline this Sunday evening, June 5th at 9pm EST on
Pundit Review Radio, heard exclusively on Boston’s talk leader WRKO.
You can stream the show live at WRKO.
We are looking forward to talking with Scott, one of the true leaders in the new media. He will be giving us his unique perspective on this week’s revelation of Deep Throat, how he feels about Mark Felt: is he a hero or villian, how Watergate changed the establishment media and how it has led to many of their problems today.
If you have a question for Scott, give us a call Sunday evening at 877-469-4322.
If you can’t listen, you can email a question to us at punditreview @ hotmail.com
Pundit Review Radio Flashback…
To listen to Scott’s previous appearence on Pundit Review Radio, click here. Scott gave us a detailed breakdown of how the Dan Rather phony document story unfolded. This interview was conducted in October, 2004.