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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS March 23, 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/ To reach our 7-day News & Views archive, go to www.citizenoutreach.com _____________________________________ HASTA LA VISTA, BABY �Sheik Ahmed Yassin, good riddance. No R.I.P. for this gravestone. The ghosts of hundreds of Jews would tell you that he lived only too long. This is what nearly everyone is thinking this morning, but few want to say so.� - Wesley Pruden, �Pruden On Politics,� 3/23/04 PRE-EMPTION WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE "This was a hit against a terrorist leader. It is part of the obligation and right of the state of Israel to protect its citizens. Ahmed Yassin is a terrorist leader who sent terrorist and suicide bombers by the hundreds to kill civilians. He was the Palestinian [Osama] bin Laden, whose hands were stained with the blood of Israeli children." - Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz BUSH�S TERRORIST DOUBLE STANDARD �Just when you thought the Bush administration might grow a pair and praise Israel for doing what needed to be done and killing Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, they don't.� . . . The White House said �we are deeply troubled by this morning's incident in Gaza.� Why? If the United States' official position is that Hamas is a terrorist organization, then why would we be upset about Israel killing the leader of that organization? �...By the way, did anyone else notice that the media is constantly calling this an �assassination,� instead of what it is, which is a terrorist killing?� Would killing Bin Laden be called an �assassination?� After all, he's also the leader of a terrorist organization.� - Talk-show host Neal Boortz, 3/23/04 A TERRORIST IS A TERRORIST �(I)f Israel is entitled to defend itself against the lawless killing of civilians who have never offended even a single Palestinian, why is Israel not entitled to dispatch the lawless killer? 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PURELY PARTISAN �It was always a terrible idea for the September 11 commission to drop its report in the middle of a presidential election campaign, and we are now seeing why. That body is turning into a fiasco of partisanship and political score-settling. To be precise, Democrats are using the commission as a platform to assail the Bush administration for fumbling the war on terror, implicitly blaming it even for 9/11. That's the clear message of the testimony to be offered this week to the commission by former Clinton officials, who conveniently leaked their opinions to the New York Times in advance.� - Wall Street Journal editorial EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT DICK �Richard A. Clarke is a disgruntled former employee with close ties to the Kerry campaign who penned a book critical of President Bush after failing to secure a top position within the Homeland Security Department,� reports the Washington Times on the butt-covering former Clintonite boob who aired his sour grapes on �60 Minutes� Sunday night - a network owned by the same company which owns Clarke�s publishing firm. Go figure. POP QUIZ #1 �Hundreds of thousands of murdered Iraqis, including women holding their children with bullet holes, lie in at least 270 mass grave sites around the country," reminds Rep. Joe Wilson, South Carolina Republican. "Saddam's mass graves represent a crime against humanity surpassed in scope only by the World War II Nazi Holocaust, Pol Pot's Cambodian communist killing fields in the 1970s, and the Rwandan genocide in 1994.� For 10 points: Who was President of the United States in 1994? POP QUIZ #2 Q: How many John Kerrys does it take to change a lightbulb? A: At least four. One to unscrew the old light bulb. One to simultaneously announce his courageous commitment to replacing the old bulb. One to vote against funding the new light bulb. And one to denounce George W Bush and America's Benedict Arnold CEOs for leaving everyone in the dark. - Columnist Mark Steyn DISCUSSION BOARD It seems a lot of people think the drug companies spend way too much money advertising their products and some members of Congress think maybe the government should do something about it. Do you think it�s the proper role of government to determine or regulate private industry advertising? Or do you think government should stay out of the free market? Or do you think that normally the feds should butt out but that an exception should be made when it comes to prescription drugs? Then share your opinion on our Discussion Board at: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ UNCLE WALTER URGES KERRY OUT OF THE CLOSET �Dear Sen. Kerry. . . . When the National Journal said your Senate record makes you one of the most liberal members of the Senate, you called that 'a laughable characterization' and 'the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life.' Wow! . . . It isn't just the National Journal that has branded you as a liberal. So has the liberal lobbying group Americans for Democratic Action. ... What are you ashamed of?" - Former CBS anchor and card-carrying liberal Walter Cronkite BIG TALKER CRYING �UNCLE� �For months, (John Kerry) has been droning in his stump speech that, if George W Bush wants to fight this election on national security, Mr. Kerry has three words for him: �Bring it on.� So Mr. Bush brought it on - with a 30-second ad arguing that the senator is weak on defense. And suddenly the campaign is curled up on the floor in a fetal position whimpering it's just totally unfair making such a horrible personal attack.� - Columnist Mark Steyn THE PERFECT KERRYISM �I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." - Sen. John Kerry TORTURED RATIONALITY "(John Kerry�s) vote against the first Gulf war was, he says, a sign of his support for the first Gulf war. Whereas his vote in favor of the Iraq war was a sign of his opposition to the Iraq war. And his vote against funding America's troops in Iraq is a sign of his support for America's men and women in uniform. On the same principle, I think the best way voters this November can demonstrate their support for John Kerry is by voting against him." - Columnist Mark Steyn �WHOPPER� GORE�S MINI-ME �It's always been Kerry's tendency [to exaggerate], but he has become expert at it because the Massachusetts electorate has indulged his missteps over the years. And now he can't help himself. It's become a bad habit. . . . I think the bottom line for Kerry � he has held elected office in a state that's overwhelmingly Democratic and friendly to his politics. So he has gotten away with fibbing and getting caught trying to have it both ways because he runs for re-election in Massachusetts. The rest of the country is quite different.� - Boston GOP media strategist Robert Gray, Washington Times, 3/22/04 TURNING SOUTH FLORIDA INTO NORTHERN IRELAND �For Democrats, (the 2000 Florida presidential election challenge) remains the fire that can never be extinguished. They are set against the Bush presidency in its totality � its policies, its personalities, its existence. Like Irish nationalists, Democrats harbor Florida as the event they will never forgive, and it has had the effect of turning American politics into a kind of Northern Ireland.� - Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger SURVEY SAYS! This week�s online poll: Do you think it's OK for a state to raise taxes on tobacco products as long as it lowers the taxes on something else, making the net result revenue neutral? * Yes, tobacco products are bad for you * No, a tax hike is a tax hike * I'm a Kerry Democrat: Yes AND No Cast your vote by clicking the �Survey Says!� tab at www.citizenoutreach.com ASSIMILATION PROGRESS Uh-oh. It appears illegal aliens are becoming more like regular Americans after all. Illegal aliens who have been working as janitors in California grocery stores are being urged to do the American thing: file a class-action lawsuit over wages and discrimination. And here�s a real shocker: a union is behind the effort, as well a California pack of ambulance chasing vultures. Makes you proud to be an American, huh? U...S...A!!! U...S...A!!! DEFIES CREDIBILITY �To suggest the U.S., the world�s only remaining super-power - with our global satellite communications and surveillance systems, ultra-modern military forces, $10 trillion GDP, vast technological superiority and armed populace - cannot substantially impact the current level of illegal immigration shows an incredible level of ignorance.� - Columnist Jon Dougherty, WorldNetDaily.com WE�RE SHOCKED! �The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported yesterday that a study on the �Political Diversity of University of Nevada at Las Vegas Faculty� discovered that out of 125 faculty members in seven departments, 91 percent were liberals � either Democratic or Green Party voters.� - Greg Pierce�s �Inside Politics,� 3/23/04 WHAT�S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? Public school teachers in Chicago are reporting a surge in the number or verbal and physical assaults by students against said teachers. Two questions: (1) Why is it that a students are kicked out of school for possession of an aspirin or a toy G.I. Joe gun, but aren�t being kicked out for kicking a teacher? (2) Why don�t you ever hear about all the verbal and physical assaults being perpetrated by home school students? MARRIAGE IN BLACK & WHITE �Younger voters are more tolerant of gay lifestyles... In a USA TODAY Poll March 5-7, about half the 18- to 29-year-olds said they support legal recognition of same-sex marriage, compared with 19% of those over 65. Attitudes about race and marriage track similarly. In 1958, nine years before the Supreme Court struck down bans on interracial marriage, a Gallup Poll found that more than nine in 10 Americans objected to black-white unions. By 2002, just one in 10 thought they should be prohibited. . . . Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., a pillar of the civil rights movement, says excluding gays from marriage �degrades them and their families.� Reasons for opposing same-sex marriage, Lewis wrote in The Boston Globe, �stink of the same fear, hatred and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry.� " - USA Today, 3/21/04 __________________________________________ 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 __________________________________________ Chuck Muth�s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. 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