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___________________________________ EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT... So...exactly how many calories of Mickey D�s food did �Super Size Me� propagandist Morgan Spurlock actually stuff into his big mouth during his 30-day stunt? No one knows. Why not? Because Lord of the Fries refuses to release his actual diet diary showing exactly what he consumed and how much of it. Anyone want to guess what it is he�s trying to hide? Get an update on Morgan Spurlock vs. Ronald McDonald in today�s News & Views �Food Fight� EXTRA at: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm _____________________________________ NEWS YOU WON�T FIND IN THE �OLD MEDIA� ��(I)t will not surprise you to find out that things are better in Iraq - for IRAQIs - than the popular press generally portrays. (For example), there are 26 million Iraqis. Most of them do not live in Fallujah or Najaf or Karbalah. Most of them are sending their kids to school, going to work, starting or operating businesses and generally doing what civilized people do everywhere in the civilized world.� - Rich Galen, �Mullings,� 5/26/04 YES, FOLKS...THIS IS UN-PATRIOTIC �George W. Bush promised us a foreign policy with humility. Instead, he has brought us humiliation in the eyes of the world. He promised to �restore honor and integrity to the White House.� Instead, he has brought deep dishonor to our country and built a durable reputation as the most dishonest President since Richard Nixon. Honor? He decided not to honor the Geneva Convention. Just as he would not honor the United Nations� . . . And now he will not honor our fallen dead by attending any funerals or even by permitting photos of their flag-draped coffins. �The unpleasant truth is that President Bush's utter incompetence has made the world a far more dangerous place and dramatically increased the threat of terrorist attacks against the United States. . . . And now the corrupt tree of a war waged on false premises has brought us the evil fruit of Americans torturing and sexually humiliating prisoners who are helpless in their care." - Comrade Al Gore ranting at a MoveOn.org rally in New York on Wednesday IT�S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD PARTY �There is no longer a distinction between the rhetoric used by people on the left fringe of the Democratic Party and the rhetoric used by the leaders of the Democratic Party. This is the same vitriolic stream of political hate speech we've seen since the Democrat primary began. Anger is not an agenda, but anger is the only thing Democrats have been offering the American people. And it's going to backfire.� - Christine Iverson of the Republican National Committee, Washington Times, 5/26/04 NOW, READ ABOUT A TRUE PATRIOT & HERO You�ve now read Al Gore foaming at the mouth about the �deep dishonor� the liberation of Iraq and Afghanistan has brought to this country. Now do yourself a favor and read this story from the Wall Street Journal about Cpl. Jason Dunham. Do it now before reading the rest of this issue of News & Views. And when you�re finished, just remember that Gore still enjoys Secret Service protection, so restrain yourself from the urge to sock him right in the kisser. http://tinyurl.com/22zdg WAKE-UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE �Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller will hold a news conference today to announce that there is intelligence indicating a major terror attack could take place this summer. . . . Are you listening?� Is this enough to shock some of you out of your complacency?�. . . There are people out there who want you dead.� They may have the weapons to make sure that happens. �You are going to chose a commander in chief of the U.S. Military in about six months.� On the one hand you have a man who has earned the respect of our men and women in uniform by showing them the respect they have earned and by leading them with resolve and boldness.� On the other hand you have a man who took the quick and easy way out of Vietnam, and who's been called unfit to serve as commander in chief by virtually all of the people who commanded him in Vietnam. �...Who do you want in the Oval Office making decisions?� Someone who has pledged to take the battle to the terrorists with the full backing of the U.S. military, or someone who wants to turn our security over to the United Nations? You have a little over 5 months to decide.� Your life could depend on it.� - Talk show host Neal Boortz WHO�S TO BLAME FOR GAS PRICES? �People are screaming about the high cost of gasoline. Two dollars a gallon for gas is common. Why is the cost of gasoline so high? . . . A little research shows one primary reason for the high cost of gasoline: There has not been a new oil refinery built in the United States since 1979. . . . Why have there been no new oil refineries built? The �not in my back yard� mentality and the litigious tree-hugging environmental wackos are the answer. How much higher do prices need to go before people demand more production and refining capacity here at home instead of depending on Middle Eastern potentates and ancient refineries?� � - George Pulliam, Austin American-Statesman, 5/25/04 OFF THE RESERVATION �Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican, wants the United States to apologize to the Indians for being mean to them. I have two thoughts about the proposal: 1. We�ll apologize to them if they�ll apologize for scalping all those white people, and 2. It�s okay to apologize, just don�t offer to give them back their land unless they return the beads and trinkets.� - Lyn Nofziger�s �Musings,� 5/26/04 OUR KIDS ISN�T LEARNING �Need more evidence that students entering the nation's colleges have been badly educated at the grade-school level? The latest study by the National Center for Education Statistics shows that remedial education -- coursework designed to help incoming college students catch up with their grade level -- is a fixture at more campuses than ever. The NCES found that 53% of students at public community colleges are now taking at least one year of remedial coursework, up from 44% in 1995. . . . It means that taxpayers are pouring more money into schools that aren't delivering basic skills.� - John Fund, Political Diary, 5/26/04 UNION DINOSAURS �(T)he problem with unions recently has been that they simply have not changed the way every other institution in the country has. They continue to try to deal with issues like globalization in the political arena rather than in the economic arena. That�s a prescription for declining influence�just what�s happened to them. Their market share has gone down from about 35 percent right after World War II to 12 or 13 percent of the workforce today. And if you take out government, it�s down to about 8 percent. If you were managing a company that had that kind of decline, you�d have to ask yourself if perhaps your product isn�t what the market wants.� - FedEx Chairman Fred Smith in an interview with the American Enterprise Online DAY AFTER DISASTER STINKER �The press was banned from the after-party for Roland Emmerich's �The Day After Tomorrow� last night - a bad sign, and a sure sign that the movie was no good. . . . A publicist for Fox - who bragged about my expulsion later to paparazzi - actually said to me, �It sounds like you're going to blackmail us. If you don't get into the party, you'll say the movie was bad.� � �Ah, well: No amount of edible swag could save �The Day After Tomorrow,� a $200 million disaster film that is quite the disaster, indeed. Hilariously awful in most places, with an incoherent script and questionable acting, �Day After� will come on Friday and the question will be: Can innumerable, mind-numbing special effects, nearly all of them created on a computer and placed in what can only be called a random order, overcome sheer inanity?� - Roger Friedman, FoxNews.com, 5/25/04 LIES CLOAKED AS SCIENCE �As a scientist, I bristle when lies dressed up as �science� are used to influence political discourse. The latest example is the global-warming disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow. This film is propaganda designed to shift the policy of this nation on climate change. �...This isn't Hollywood's first attempt to scare people into its way of thinking. How about Jane Fonda in the 1979 anti-nuclear-power flick, The China Syndrome? . . . Or how about the 1983 movie The Day After, whose purpose was to strengthen the nuclear-freeze movement. It failed. The Day After Tomorrow is only one more day than The Day After, and it deserves the same fate. Lies cloaked as science should never determine how we live our lives.� � - Patrick J. Michaels, senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute MORE GORE �Poor Al Gore. First, he blows an election, failing to carry his home state. Then he backs Howard Dean. Next, he goes to New York to promote the Kyoto global warming treaty, and it turns out to be the coldest day in decades. And now this! Gore has become the pitchman for a dimwitted, scientifically clueless movie about climate change that Gregg Easterbrook, the environmentally concerned senior editor of the New Republic, says is �beyond laughable.� �...Still, backers of Kyoto - and haters of President Bush - are using �The Day After Tomorrow� as a fund-raising tool. MoveOn.org, the leftist organization, recruited Gore, who appeared at a press conference two weeks ago to say that Bush is the real purveyor of fiction on climate change. . . . �The Day After Tomorrow� would be so-so as a summer disaster flick, but (director Roland) Emmerich, Gore and their ilk want you to take it seriously. In fact, it merely shows, once more, the desperation of the movement to shove the Kyoto Protocol down the throats of Americans.� - Columnist James Glassman IDIOT ALERT Stupid is as stupid does. Political pimp Tony Dane got himself arrested in Las Vegas recently for telling cops to stick it in their ear when they told him to clear an area for security reasons at UNLV during a visit by First Lady Laura Bush. Well, in a rambling, nonsensical email to us yesterday, Bozo the Clod writes, �I do know more about the law on that subject than the police!� He goes on to say, �...which is why the Police is being sued by the ACLU� (his grammar, not mine). Dane also boasts of getting his arrest photo published on the front page of the local paper (Al Sharpton must be so proud) and advises that - like all good liberals, loafers and leeches - he�s now suing the university for cash. Like I�ve said before, at least this moron is consistent. Can�t wait to see what he screws up next. SLUT ALERT Yes, there�s a new Washington sex scandal. But I�m saving the raunchy details for this weekend�s �DC Confidential,� our private weekly (usually) e-newsletter for financial contributors to Citizen Outreach. Get on the list and in the loop by making a donation of just $5 or more online by going to www.citizenoutreach.com Not that any of you would be interested in a juicy Washington, DC, sex scandal. No. Of course not. Yes, I�ll give the website address out, Tony. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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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