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____________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS April 17, 2004 ____________________________ SURPRISE! OK, I decided to put �Atlas Shrugged� down (a MUCH-appreciated gift recently from a News & Views reader) and wrote this edition of the newsletter on the plane instead. And stay tuned: There�s new developments coming on Tabor Tales, a new Muth�s Truths, a new DC Confidential, a new Campaign Hot Tips and a killer job opportunity for someone who likes survey research, margaritas and the beach! Lots of time to do a lot of writing when you�re trapped in the air for six hours with a pilot who isn�t allowed to carry a gun. And now, back to our regular programming... FOOLED �EM AGAIN, JOSIE �Mr. Bush added a new wrinkle to the act of holding presidential press conferences. He spoke for the first 17 minutes (viewers typically start to tune out after about eight to 10 minutes), giving him the ability to get his point across to the largest possible audience. It was also quite enjoyable for supporters of the president to watch the press being forced to cool their Gucci heels for nearly 20 minutes while waiting for the president to finish before being permitted to pose their contemptuous and largely pointless gotcha questions.� - Washington Times editorial, 4/15/04 TYPICAL LIBERALS �It�s non-payment. That�s why we pulled them off the air. According to our agreement, they have to pay, and they failed to pay.� - Tony Wong, regional vice president for Multicultural Radio Broadcasting, on the reason why the 2-week-old liberal talk radio network, Air America, was shut down this week in Chicago and Los Angeles WHO DIDN�T SEE THIS COMING? �The number of illegal aliens being apprehended on the southwestern border has jumped 25 percent in the first three months of 2004 compared with last year, and some are blaming President Bush�s immigration proposal in January for enticing immigrants across the border. �It doesn�t take a rocket scientist to tell you the president�s speech was the catalyst for lots of folks to make their way north and try to get into this country in order to get what they accurately believe to be amnesty,� said Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado Republican and Chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus.� - Washington Times, 4/16/04 ACCEPTABLE PRICE �A flat tax wouldn�t be good for everybody. Many IRS agents and tax lawyers would have to find new jobs. But that seems an acceptable price to free America of a broken tax system.� - Dan Mitchell of the Heritage Foundation FORGET THE ALAMO �Even with my strong background in covering Hollywood�s moral and political abuses for years, I never expected �The Alamo� would go this far. I never expected Disney would lie. I never expected the filmmakers would just make it up as they went along. . . . It�s a shame. This film needs to die a quick and unmerciful death at the box office. Don�t go see this movie. Don�t let your kids see it. Don�t rent it. Don�t buy the DVD of the video.� - Columnist Joseph Farah ROY STICKS �BAMANS WITH HEFTY TAB Former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore�s Ten Commandments courthouse stunt last year didn�t just distract the state from more important business, it also cost them a whole lot more than 30 pieces of silver. Moore used his government position to install a 2.5 ton granite shrine to the Ten Commandments in the state courthouse rotunda. Some folks sued to have it removed. They won. The monument was removed. So was Judge Moore...for refusing to move it after the court order. And now, adding insult to injury, U.S. District Court Judge Myron Thompson has ordered Alabama to pay $549,430 in fees and expenses to the attorneys who brought the suit. That�s a heck of a price to pay for one man�s ego. SPANISH WEDDING RICE �Spain will legalize homosexual �marriages� and grant equal rights to same-sex couples, incoming Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said yesterday. The move is likely to stir debate in one of Europe�s most heavily Catholic countries as the Vatican condemns same-sex unions. Homosexuality was banned under Spanish dictator Francisco Franco.� - �World Scene,� Washington Times, 4/16/04 GROSS MISCALCULATION �(A)long comes a real and comprehensive poll of over 1,600 evangelicals that finds a majority opposed to amending the Constitution to ban civil marriage for gays. . . . So the president�s endorsement of this extreme measure has succeeded in alienating large sections of moderate opinion and failing to sway even a majority of the evangelical base.� - Columnist Andrew Sullivan COWBOYS & IDIOTS �One thing I never understand is why calling President Bush a Texas cowboy is supposed to be a compelling argument AGAINST him. You hear this all the time...from the anti-Bush crowd here in Hollywood. But while I�ve never met a cowboy I didn�t like, I can�t say the same about Hollywood types�� - Columnist Catherine Seipp in National Review Online DEMOCRAT MIA�S �Some of the Senate�s most vehement Democratic critics of President Bush�s policies in Iraq have never gone there during the war. . . . Missing from the traveling senators are Sens. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the presumptive party presidential nominee; Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts; Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia; Richard Durbin of Illinois; and Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota.� - �Inside the Ring,� 4/16/04 PSSST...SOMEBODY TELL BROTHER TED �We dare not tempt them with weakness.� - President John F. Kennedy KERRY�S BASE �Indeed, nobody enjoys taking pleasure in the misfortune of others with greater relish than the ragged remnants of the counterculture, who never found their way home from the 60s and who sit now in the shade of their own impotence, simmering with bitter frustration.� - Wesley Pruden, �Pruden On Politics,� 4/16/04 SNIVELING CHILDREN �Like the boy who cried �wolf,� liberals who cry the Bush administration �didn�t do enough� to fight terrorism should be dismissed as sniveling children stuck in an indulgent world of make-believe.� - Columnist Michelle Malkin GORELICK�S WALL �(9/11 commissioner Jamie) Gorelick, who served in the No. 2 position in the Clinton Justice Department under Attorney General Janet Reno, was the author of a 1995 directive to the FBI, which repeatedly has been cited in testimony as a major hindrance to anti-terrorism efforts prior to the 2001 attacks.� - Washington Times, 4/15/04 HOPELESSLY CONFLICTED �(9/11 commissioner Jamie Gorelick) is hopelessly conflicted. The fact that she�s a commissioner insulates her from scrutiny, and that�s the problem. She should not be a commission member, she should be a star witness.� - Mark Levin of the Landmark Legal Foundation calling on Gorelick to resign from the commission DO YOU SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH� �Ms. Gorelick should not be cross-examining witnesses; instead, she should be required to testify about her own behavior under oath.� - Washington Times editorial, 4/16/04 FATALLY DAMAGED �The (9/11) commission�s work and independence will be fatally damaged by the continued participation of Ms. Gorelick as a commissioner.� - House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrunner DONKEYS CIRCLING THE WAGONS �Congressional Democrats yesterday defended Jamie S. Gorelick�s position on the September 11 commission, one day after a leading House Republican (Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr.) called for her resignation.� - Washington Times, 4/16/04 YET ANOTHER BOOBY HATCH �Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican, who is (House Judiciary Chairman James) Sensenbrenner�s counterpart in the Senate, defended Ms. Gorelick.� - Washington Times, 4/16/04 FIRE SEASON "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Founding Father Samuel Adams *************************************** Published by Citizen Outreach Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher 611 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, #439 Washington, DC 20003-4303 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. To be REMOVED, go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/remove/default.cfm and complete the removal request instructions you'll find there. # # #
