This last bit about a Mexican - Cuban alliance is truly worrisome. ---Lowell
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Oct. 26, 2003 Insider Report from NewsMax.com
Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. Why America Hates the Democrats
2. Media Distortions in Schiavo Case
3. P.C. Term for Partial-Birth Abortion?
4. Next for Castro�s Axis: Mexico
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1. Why America Hates the Democrats
What is with the Democrats lately? This past week they were nastier to each other than we could ever be.
Andrew Cuomo blasted his party as "soulless and clueless" and even praised President Bush.
Sen. Zell Miller renamed the White House wannabes and other leftists for pushing the "shrinking party" into a "breakdown." Howard Dean lashed back at Rep. Dick Gephardt and other rivals for "distorting his positions for months" when, "with a combined three-quarters of a century in Washington, D.C., they have delivered few real results."
New York Democrats such as Rep. Charlie Rangel lashed out at Wesley Clark for his doomed support of the military's crucial base on Vieques, Puerto Rico. (This just weeks after Rangel was lavishing praise on the retired general.)
Even the presidential contenders admit that Americans don't like the Democrat party. Their views on why this is so are fascinating.
David Brooks noted in the New York Times that the Dems campaigning in New Hampshire and Iowa have been trying to explain why Democrats have plunged from 49 percent of the electorate in the days of FDR to 32 percent today.
Dean says the party must return to its roots instead of compromising with Republicans.
Gephardt says free trade has betrayed workers. Lieberman notes that the party has gone too far left and too secular.
"John Edwards has the most persuasive theory," Brooks wrote. Voters "are really good at knowing who respects them and who doesn't. Edwards' theory is that the Democrats' besetting sin over the past few decades has been snobbery."
The senator, a multimillionaire trial lawyer whose father worked in a textile mill, said when announcing his candidacy, "Democrats too often act like rural America is just someplace to fly over between a fundraiser in Manhattan and a fundraiser in Beverly Hills."
Brooks wrote: "When I interviewed people during the 2000 campaign I found many voters preferred Democratic policies to Republican ones. But they didn't trust Al Gore because they thought he looked down on them. They felt Bush could come to their barbershop and fit right in.
"Except for Bill Clinton, Democrats have nominated presidential candidates who try to figure out Middle American values by reading the polls, instead of feeling them in their gut. If they do it again, the long, slow slide will continue."
There's just one problem with Edwards' analysis: As NewsMax.com reported way back in June, he himself has demonstrated a Gore-like contempt for the folks in North Carolina and the rest of flyover country by making a condescending remark about farmers and saying he no longer listened to country music, paid attention to NASCAR races, or even owned a gun.
And the "long, slow slide" continues.
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2. Media Distortions in Schiavo Case
Some of the most biased reporting we've ever seen came this past week with the coverage of Terri Schiavo and partial-birth abortion.
"Governor of Florida Orders Woman Fed In Right-to-Die Case" was the headline in the New York Times. Wire services and other media leaders also called the fight over Mrs. Schiavo's fate a "right-to-die" case.
To her husband and the euthanasia movement, yes, it is a right-to-die case. To her parents and the pro-life movement, it is a right-to-live case. Yet the mainstream media refuse to call it that.
We caught several newspapers, wire services and other members of Big Media falsely describing Mrs. Schiavo as "comatose." One wire service was good enough to stop this deceit after NewsMax.com wrote an article about the error.
"What's your position on the forced feeding of the Florida woman?" asked a poll we spotted on the legal Web site FindLaw, as if food were being stuffed down Mrs. Schiavo's throat against her will.
Notably absent was a poll asking "your position on the forced starvation" she was suffering before Florida's Legislature and governor intervened.
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3. P.C. Term for Partial-Birth Abortion?
Another case in point of biased media coverage: partial-birth abortion.
USA Today, the New York Times, the wire services and the other usual suspects routinely take pains to say "so-called partial-birth abortion" or "what critics call partial-birth abortion."
The phony implication is that it is a biased term or even that there isn't any such thing. But this time, unfortunately for them, there is no euphemism.
Of course, they never refer, for example, to racial quotas or racial set-asides as "what critics call affirmative action."
They merely call it affirmative action, because the elitists don't want to describe quotas as reverse discrimination against white people -- as long as they safely have jobs and it's someone else being discriminated against.
They never describe people who favor choice on schools, Social Security, economic matters, etc. as "pro-choice," yet they always describe people who support abortion as "pro-choice."
If supporters of partial-birth abortion don't like the term, what would they like to call the gruesome procedure? They've come up with zilch. There isn't any way to sugarcoat this one.
As the Associated Press noted, "a fetus is partly delivered before a doctor punctures the skull."
Puncturing the skull. And that's a human skull, by the way. It's certainly not the skull of a raccoon or a rattlesnake or a yellow-bellied sapsucker.
There just isn't much room for spin here, is there?
No doubt Teddy Kennedy or newly ousted YWCA boss Patricia Ireland will let us all know when they dream up a euphemism such as "extraneous tissue cleanup" or "cut those losses."
P.S. NewsMax has a fair approach to such labels. When we refer to groups against abortion, we call them "pro-life." When we refer to groups for abortion rights, we call them "pro-choice." This is the only fair and balanced way to do it.
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4. Next for Castro's Axis: Mexico
A lot of Americans don't like Mexican President Vicente Fox, what with his attempts to foist even more illegal aliens on us. But Mexico (and the U.S.) could do a lot, lot worse. And probably will.
Hardly anyone is paying attention to that nation's rising political star and likely next president, radical left-wing Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
His "approval ratings have steadily climbed to a remarkable 88%, and a recent poll put him as the clear front-runner for the 2006 presidential race. He is riding so high that last week he boasted he was 'indestructible,' prompting a leading radio station to play the 'Superman' theme any time the mayor's name is mentioned," the Wall Street Journal reported recently.
Critics liken him to an ally of Fidel Castro, embattled Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez. Supporters liken him to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ... who also happens to be an ally of Castro.
NewsMax has reported extensively about the rise of socialism in Latin America. Just last week, left-wing activists toppled Bolivia's pro-U.S. leader. If Mexico falls, the effects on the United States would be catastrophic.
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