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Who is Harry Reid?

In his own words:

Reid Supported Strengthening Social Security In 1990s, Opposes Now:
In 1999, Reid Declared: “[M]ost Of Us Have No Problem With Taking A Small Amount Of The Social Security Proceeds And Putting It Into The Private Sector.” (Fox’s “Fox News Sunday,” 2/14/99)

In 1999, Reid Said: “I Think We Have To Take Care Of Social Security …” (Fox’s “Fox News Sunday,” 7/11/99)

In 1999, Reid Said: “[W]e’re Visiting Chile Because It Is Doing Interesting Things In Social Security And Other Parts Of Its Free Market System…” (Tony Batt, “Reid To Embark On South America Trip,” Las Vegas Review-Journal, 3/30/99)

Now, In 2005, Reid Is Blocking Personal Retirement Accounts. “For instance, [Reid] is against personal retirement accounts: ‘If someone wants to privatize Social Security, they are going to have to find someone else to get in bed with other than me,’ Reid told a television audience in Nevada recently.” (Terence Samuel, “A Leader From The Wilderness,” U.S. News & World Report, 11/29/04)

Damn, libs hate it when you use their own words and voting record against them. They call it “attacks” and “negativism.” They just don’t call it what it is…the truth.

February 14, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Ward Churchill not only imflammatory leftist, but also plagiarist?

Ward Churchill, the faux-Indian tenured professor at Colorado University who said that 9/11 was justified and its victims “Little Eichmanns” – a reference to notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann – is in hot water. Seems not only is he a liar about his Indian heritage, but he’s also a plagiarist, too. Full story here.

Here’s my prediction, and I’m not going out on much of a limb with this: CU will fire him, but only for the plagiarism. They’ve been toiling internally as to whether or not he should be fired for his inflammatory 9/11 rhetoric, and had thought about using “public safety concerns” as a reason to cut him loose. Well, since plagiarism is usually a quick one-way ticket out of a university, this gives the university a reason/excuse to dismiss him. That way, if Churchill makes good on his promise to sue CU for his dismissal, he’ll have no leg to stand on if they argue “plagiarism”, right?

Kind of a cowardly approach by CU, but it gives them the best of all worlds: he gets fired, they get to avoid losing a lawsuit, and they can tell other leftist intellectuals that CU is still committed to free speech and thought and will still welcome them…since, after all, WC wasn’t fired for his views, but for his big no-no copyjob!

February 14, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

The MSM’s take on Iraq’s "failure"

Joan Swirsky is a New York-based journalist and author who regularly contributes to NewsMax.com. She has a column entitled Death Throes of the Mainstream Media, which lays the case out that the MSM is in total denial about facts, and perversely so. The column is here.

Check out this excerpt, so next time some latte-sipping tree-hugging liberal asks you “What are doing RIGHT in Iraq?” (aside from that pesky and trivial election-democracy-thingee), you’ll have some facts:

Ray Reynolds (SFC Iowa Army National Guard, 234th Signal Battalion) wrote a letter home as he headed to Baghdad for the final weeks of his stay in Iraq. He wanted the recipients to know that he was thankful “to all of you who did not believe the media.” Here are the “noteworthy” events he listed:

Over 400,000 kids have had up-to-date immunizations.

School attendance is up 80 percent from levels before the war.

Over 1,500 schools have been renovated and rid of the weapons stored there so education can occur.

The port of Uhm Qasar was renovated so grain can be off-loaded from ships faster.

The country had its first $2 billion-barrel export of oil in August.

Over 4.5 million people have clean drinking water for the first time ever in Iraq.

The country now receives two times the electrical power it did before the war.

100 percent of the hospitals are open and fully staffed, compared to 35 percent before the war.

Elections are taking place in every major city, and city councils are in place.

Sewer and water lines are installed in every major city.

Over 60,000 police are patrolling the streets.

Over 100,000 Iraqi civil defense police are securing the country.

Over 80,000 Iraqi soldiers are patrolling the streets side by side with U.S. soldiers.

Over 400,000 people have telephones for the first time ever.

Students are taught field sanitation and hand-washing techniques to prevent the spread of germs.

An interim constitution has been signed.

Girls are allowed to attend school.

Textbooks that don’t mention Saddam are in the schools for the first time in 30 years.

Has any reader of this article ever – even once – heard this good news on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC or NPR, or read it in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times – to mention just a few left-wing media outlets that never tire of saturating their audiences with bad – and anti-Bush – news? I haven’t.

No better proof exists of the failure of the MSM to climb out of their biases and present the American public with “fair and balanced” news than that provided by a soldier in Iraq to federalistpatriot.com after the recent Iraqi election.

“The media have it bass-ackwards,” he said. “CBS, NBC, PBS and CNN just don’t get it – their reports completely failed to show the incredible energy and joy these voters exhibited. People everywhere wanted to talk to us and thank us. This is what it must have been like when the Allies liberated Paris.”

“The Iraqis’ statements to us were all the same: ‘Thank you for your sacrifices for the Iraqi people.’ ‘Thank you for making this day possible.’ ‘The United States is the true democracy in the world and is the country that makes freedom possible.’

“A homicide bomber drove up to a polling site, which was not too far from us, but he did not kill anybody but himself. After the bomb went off, the Iraqi voters calmly walked out of the polling site and spit on the remains of the suicide bomber. The polling site stayed open and the voting continued. That incident ran all day long on Iraqi TV – but not on U.S. TV.”

Read this anywhere in the MSM? I haven’t.

Nope…me neither.

February 14, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment