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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH'S NEWS & VIEWS February 14, 2004 To view the HTML version of today's News & Views, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To subscribe, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ _____________________________________ CLARK'S CRYSTAL BALL "Kerry will implode over an intern issue." - Gen. Wesley Clark, just prior to dropping out of the Democrat presidential race and endorsing(?) Kerry, the Drudge Report, 2/12/04 MAINSTREAM MEDIA: MUM'S THE WORD "A report alleging a 'bimbo eruption' in the John F. Kerry campaign was Topic A on conservative talk radio programs Thursday, but the story was nowhere to be found in the mainstream press. The Drudge Report first reported that major media outlets were 'seriously investigating' rumors of a 'relationship' between Kerry and a young woman who supposedly fled the country at Kerry's urging. Several foreign newspapers picked up reports of the allegations, which were not even mentioned by most American news outlets." - CNS News, 2/13/04 KERRY: I DID NOT HAVE SEX WITH THAT WOMAN "In a television interview this morning, Sen. John Kerry dismissed allegations of infidelity published yesterday by the Drudge Report. MSNBC host Don Imus, who has endorsed Kerry for the Democratic presidential nomination, asked the Massachusetts senator if anything in the Drudge allegations should cause him to withdraw support. 'There's nothing to report, nothing to talk about . no,' said Kerry on the 'Imus in the Morning' show." - WorldNetDaily.com, 2/13/04 WHEN A DENIAL ISN'T A DENIAL "John Kerry has responded to rumors of an 'intern issue'--we noted them yesterday - in Clintonian fashion. 'Well there is nothing to report, so there is nothing to talk about,' the BBC quotes him as telling MSNBC. 'There's nothing there. There's no story.' If you read this carefully, you see that it's not actually a denial, and you have to wonder if Kerry didn't choose his words carefully for just that reason." - James Taranto, "Best of the Web," 2/13/04 SENATOR "SLEAZEBALL" "Presidential hopeful John Kerry was branded a 'sleazeball' last night by the parents of a young woman he allegedly tried to woo. Alex Polier, 24, was named as the woman at the centre of a scandal that threatens to damage Democrat Kerry's bid for the White House. Her mother Donna claims Kerry, 60 - dubbed the new JFK - once chased Alex to be on his campaign team and was 'after her.' There is no evidence the pair had an affair, but her father Terry, 56, said: 'I think he's a sleazeball. I did kind of wonder if my daughter didn't get that kind of feeling herself. He's not the sort of guy I would choose to be with my daughter.' " - The Sun (UK), 2/13/04 CLINTON CLONE "(T)his is not the first time Kerry has been accused of being engaged in an extramarital affair. While separated from his first wife, millionaire Julia Thorne, in the mid-1980s, Kerry was rumored to be linked to Morgan Fairchild, Cornelia Guest, and Patti Davis, the liberal daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Then, the Boston Globe reported last year that Kerry had an affair in the 1980s with a young British reporter while still married to Thorne." - Talon News, 2/13/04 REMEMBER THE MAIM "If you ever get something, I'll maim you. I won't kill you. I'll maim you." - Teresa Heinz-Kerry to her first husband on the subject of adultery in an Elle magazine interview BRING...IT...ON. "Let's take a look at the scandal meter now: a flimsy allegation about missing some National Guard service vs. cheating on your wife with someone 1/3 your age. I think the GOP will take that challenge." - Talk-show host Neal Boortz __________________________________________ SPECIAL CAMPAIGN "HOW TO" REPORTS Three "how to" reports for candidates who would rather pop a cork on election night than cry in their beer. "17 Secrets of Direct Mail Fundraising," "Dialing for Dollars" and "Campaign Gold Nuggets." Additional reports on additional subjects on the way, so check back often. Give yourself an "unfair advantage" over your opponent. Just $4.95 each. Order online with your major credit card. Just go to: http://chuckmuth.com/specialreports.htm __________________________________________ WAR ZERO "(John) Kerry has been rightly praised for his war service. Nevertheless, several of his congressional colleagues, veterans of Vietnam, have applauded with only one hand. They cannot forget that while American pilots (like, for example, their colleague John McCain) were hanging by their thumbs in a squalid North Vietnamese prison cell, John Kerry was disporting about the country with Jane Fonda, smoking pot, chasing broads and inventing atrocity stories. Some war hero." - Wesley Pruden, "Pruden On Politics," 2/13/04 KERRY'S REVENGE "We now know that sometime this fall Kerry campaign operatives intend to go into pro-life chat rooms on the Internet to spread a scurrilous story that President Bush drove a former girlfriend to an abortion clinic, and paid for her abortion, according to the New York Daily News." - Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie, Washington Times, 2/13/04 ROBIN JOINS ANTI-BUSH CHICKS "Another American entertainer decided to use his celebrity status to criticize President George W. Bush on foreign soil on Wednesday. . . . Speaking at the Berlin Film Festival before a group of international journalists and film critics, (actor Robin) Williams was harshly critical of Bush's handling of the war in Iraq and the search for weapons of mass destruction. 'Bush is complaining about a lack of intelligence, which seems sort of redundant,' Williams joked to Reuters. 'They say they don't know if Iraq had any WMDs - well, all they have to do is ask Cheney for the receipts.' " - Talon News, 2/13/04 THE MAN WITH THE PLAN "Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan yesterday said he supports renewing President Bush's tax cuts, but only if they are offset by spending cuts estimated at $1 trillion. . . . (C)ongress should consider cuts in all spending programs - including the politically sensitive entitlements Social Security and Medicare, he said." - Washington Times, 2/13/04 OINK, OINK...BURP "The Senate yesterday approved a $318 billion transportation bill, defying President Bush's threat that he will veto the measure unless its price tag is reduced." - Washington Times, 2/13/04 IT'S THE SPENDING, STUPID "When does [spending] stop? When does the Republican Party find its soul? The only good news is that President Bush is showing signs he may fight this election-year pork fest." - Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Senate passage of the transportation bill, 2/12/04 THOU SHALT NOT KILL...UNLESS THEY'RE GAY "Homosexuality is an act so heinous that it defies one's ability to describe it. The State carries the power of the sword, that is, the power to prohibit conduct with physical penalties, such as confinement and even execution." - Former Alabama Chief Justice Roy "Ten Commandments" Moore in a 2002 court ruling, Politics1.com, 2/13/04 __________________________________________ THE (CAMPAIGN) DOCTOR IS IN! You can't change public policy if you don't change public officials. So Citizen Outreach has established a separate website project dedicated to helping under-funded, underdog campaigns...especially at the state and local levels. Visit today...and make sure you sign up for FREE email "hot tips" on how to get more votes, more money and more volunteers for your campaign or grassroots organization. Go to: www.campaigndoctor.com __________________________________________ SPIES LIKE US The Democrats are now using the investigation of those leaked Judiciary Committee memos for fundraising. "As Senate Democrats continue to oppose President Bush's divisive court appointments," their recent sales pitch reads, "Republicans have become even more desperate. Now they're spying." Spying? We wish. That would show that GOP leaders had learned how to play political hardball. To the contrary, Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch adamantly believes it was "wrong" for Republicans to access the open Democrat files on a shared committee computer which weren't password protected. Wrong? As one News & Views reader notes, "Back when people like Allen Dulles were trying to develop a good intelligence network for this country, there was a strong contingent who tried to derail any effort at covert snooping because 'gentlemen do not read other people's mail.' Republicans who find it shocking - shocking, I say! - that someone should look into open, unprotected computer files overlook that the files contain evidence of fraud, corruption, duplicity and criminal, campaign hi-jinks. After all, we have to get along with the Democrats and can't afford to make them angry with us. I forget why we can't afford to make them angry, but we just can't. We must be gentlemen." A couple thousand years ago, an ancient Chinese general named Sun Tzu outlined the keys to victory in "The Art of War." In Chapter 13, "The Use of Spies," the general said, "(T)o remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition.is the height of inhumanity. One who acts thus is no leader of men, no present help to his sovereign, no master of victory." Sun Tzu seems to have had Sen. Hatch in mind. Join our online discussion of the Miranda Warning memos on our Discussion Board at: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ GRAHAM GOING CRACKERS Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was generally considered a darn good conservative during his years in the House. Indeed, I believe he had a 91 Lifetime Rating by the American Conservative Union. But something truly alarming has happened to Graham since being elected to the U.S. Senate. Maybe pod-people have taken over his body. Consider. Just this week, Graham said wonderful things about Hillary Clinton ("She has been great to work with"), referred to the pork-filled transportation bill as "an excellent opportunity for people to go to work," and berated judiciary committee staffers who discovered Democrat memos on an open computer server which showed public corruption by those same Democrats. Somebody pass me the Kool-Aid. __________________________________________ Chuck Muth's News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News & Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. 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