Heard on WLS as "Teri's Soapbox," August 25, 2004
“Bush is, in fact, a thrice-cursed fascist tyrant and man-killer as he revifed the fascist war doctrine which had been judged by humankind long ago and is now bringing dark clouds of a new Cold War to hang over our planet and indiscriminately massacring innocent civilians after igniting the Afghan and Iraqi wars,” the statement said. It added: “It is the greatest tragedy for the U.S. that Bush, a political idiot and human trash, still remains in the presidential office of the world’s only ‘superpower,’ styling himself “an emperor of the world.”
Glenn Kessler, “N. Korea Continues Criticism of Bush,” Washington Post, 8/25/04
Which member of the chorus of carping chronics and malcontents who constitute the ABB, as in “Anybody But Bush” crowd said that? Who could it be? The folks at Moveon.org and the Left’s Leading Lying Lardsack, Michael Moore perhaps?
No, it was none other than the government of North Korea. As we discussed yesterday, apparently the Stalinist dictatorship has borrowed the script that has become the stock-in-trade of those stellar lights and has taken to reciting the litany of clichéd insults that would be more appropriate on a pre-PC, pre-anti-bully, retro school playground than in the realm of public discourse. Yesterday’s tantrum referred to the president as a “political imbecile bereft of morality,” and—here’s a shocker—compared him to Adolph Hitler. Anytime you can be compared to Hitler by a guy whose political mentor was Stalin, you must be doing something right, in my book.
Perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, last night the History Channel aired a documentary entitled “The Real Dr. Evil,” the subject of which was not that guy in LA injecting everyone with Botox at the behest of his pharmaceutical company pals, but North Korea’s own “Dear Leader,” Kim Jung Il. The program described several terrorist acts committed by the regime back in the 1980’s, which it explained were considered justifiable to further the “revolution,” and also touched on the 1994 episode involving the Korean nukes. President Clinton was quite concerned that the North Koreans were developing nuclear weapons, they explained, and dispatched Jimmy Carter to save the day by negotiating with the current dictator’s old man, Kim Il Sung. As a result, as the film’s voice over put it, “War was avoided.” Technically correct, perhaps, but that’s not exactly how I remember it. I recall that Jimmy, who had been sucking up to the North Koreans since the disco era, and who couldn’t resist another chance to appease an anti-American thug regime, insinuated himself in the process and gave away the store. When Kim Il Sung bought the farm shortly after this deal was sealed, a popular joke suggested that he had died of laughter from negotiating with Jimmy Carter.
Back to current events. The North Koreans are furious and here’s why:
“North Korea’s ire was raised when Bush, campaigning last week in Wisconsin, called North Korean leader Kim Jong Il a “tyrant” when he alluded to the administration’s effort to enlist other countries to restrain North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. “I felt it was important to bring other countries into the mix, like China, Japan and South Korea and Russia, so there’s now five countries saying to the tyrant in North Korea, ‘Disarm, disarm,’” Bush said at a campaign event.
Then further on in the article:
“But some administration officials believe that Pyongyang is seeking to scuttle the talks in order to deprive Bush of any political advantage from movement on the Korean issue. Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry has criticized Bush for not negotiating directly with North Korea, a long-sought goal of North Koreans in more than a year of talks.”
MMM. . . Let’s connect some dots. The King of Useful Idiots, Jimmy Carter, shares a skybox with the Pathological Pinko Pantload, Michael Moore at the Dem convention where they nominate the guy that the North Koreans hope becomes president. Coincidence? I think not. Anti-American symmetry----CATCH IT!!
(Teri's Soapbox, Heard on the air on WLS, 8/23/04)
It's amazing to watch the mainstream media's renewed enthusiasm for investigative journalism, beginning with the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon-style article in the Liberal Death Star aka the New York Times (8/20/04), purporting to demonstrate the many sinister connections between Swift Boat Veterans for Truth (SVFT) and President Bush's re-election campaign. A major contributor to SVFT from--where else?--GASP!---Texas!--knows none other than President Bush's evil puppet master Karl Rove! A publicist for SVFT once walked past the White House and actually helped President George H.W. Bush (41) prepare for his Vice Presidential debate. What was that--1988? What collusion! What shadowy underworld connections! Are you horrified yet?
Meanwhile, the Bloated, Bloviating Blowhole of BS, that endless font of lies and distortion, Michael Moore, attends the Democrat convention and shares a skybox with Mr. Malaise, the appeaser of anti-American dictators from Kim IL Sung to Castro to Hugo Chavez, the King of the Useful Idiots, Jimmy Carter. Is it just me or was it more than a tad ironic that in her statement last week denouncing the SVFT ads, a Kerry campaign flak made reference to one of Michael Moore's many scurrilous lies?
If that's not enough of a connection between the Dems and the Kerry campaign for you, how about Zack Exley? Don't know who he is? He is the former internet director of a little group called Moveon.org, famous for its President-Bush-morphing-into-Hitler ads. I said "former" because now he is the internet director for the Kerry-Edwards campaign. Jim Jordan, Kerry's former campaign manager, is now a spokesman for the Media Fund, the biggest democrat 527. There's more, but maybe I should wait for the New York Times article on these connections, complete with flowchart.
Speaking of the 4th Estate--or should I say the 5th column--what do you make of their failure to note the most significant aspect of the many changing versions of the incident that is "SEARED--SEARED" into Sen. Kerry's brain, the "Apocalypse Now"-inspired tale, "Christmas in Cambodia." It's not the obvious fact that this lie says something about the senator's character. What matters about this story is that Sen. Kerry invoked this lie on the Senate floor in 1986 to support his opposition to President Reagan's efforts to keep the Soviets from establishing another repressive satellite in our hemisphere. In other words, John Kerry lied in support of the communist enemies of America. And it wasn't the first time.
(“Teri’s Soapbox," on-air 8/10/04)
We were privileged to have Alan Keyes in studio with us on Monday, August 9, 2004, and I for one am delighted that the free ride that Illinois’ own Manchurian Candidate, Barack Obama, has been enjoying is over. While I don’t doubt that Mr. Obama may be the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being anyone could ever meet, I have issues with his voting record. How much do we know about that? Has our ever-vigilant media told us that he voted “present” both on parental notification for a minor’s abortion and on a bill requiring adult prosecution for students who fire guns on school grounds? Or that he was the only state senator to vote against a bill prohibiting early prison release for criminal sexual abusers? Or my personal favorite, that he is responsible for the asinine racial-profile-every-traffic-stop law that burdens law enforcement?
That brilliant idea and his great pride in it and in his opposition to the Patriot Act, expressed of course only when he is safely ensconced behind closed doors with his left-wing supporters, as well as his invocation of a mythical Arab-American family “rounded up” and persecuted for no reasons tell us everything we need to know about his view of the war on terror. That’s right: John Aschcroft is more dangerous to Americans than Osama bin Laden.
I can’t wait to see Barack Obama exposed as the personification, not only of the “American story,” or the “audacity of hope,” but also of the stealth and deceit that is essential for liberals to succeed in imposing their agenda on the rest of us and forcing us to pay for it. The democrats hope that Illinois voters will pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, but now we have any unlikely Toto, who I hope will act more like a pit bull and rip off the mask.
As I have said before, not only is it unfair to call John Francois “Scary” Kerry a “flip-flopper,” it does not begin to explain the real problem with him as a president in the age of Islamic terrorism. The real problem is precisely the opposite. He is not a flip-flopper. Throughout his senate career, he has been consistently on the wrong side of every important national security issue affecting the United States. No wonder that his ‘speech of a lifetime,’ accepting the democrat nomination focused on irrelevant foolishness like riding his bike into the East Berlin and getting grounded. (Granted, not as lame as that story his daughter told about his giving CPR to a hamster. There’s a credential that inspires confidence, but I digress.) Perhaps he hoped that that charming childhood story would help us forget that when Ronald Reagan was fighting the Soviet Union and winning the Cold War, Kerry called for cancellation of at least 27 weapon systems and proposed massive defense cuts. He opposed the MX missile, B-1 bomber and a missile defense system, or that he naively supported that inane nuclear freeze.
So he extols the virtues of freedom in the West and contrasts it with the depotism of the Soviet system, yet if he had had his way, the Kremlin would still be operating all around the world, and exporting totalitarianism to satellites around the world. Not that that troubled John Kerry either. He opposed assistance to the freedom-fighting Nicaraguan contras, and sucked up to commie glamour boy aka Castro, Jr., Daniel Ortega. Remember that embarrassing episode in April, 1985, when he and his crypto-socialist fellow democrat Sen. Tom Harkin did their Neville Chamberlain impression? They decided that foreign policy was too important to be left to the executive branch as the Founding Fathers had ordained, so they decided it was time for a road trip to Managua for a meeting with their “dear commandante.” The trip occurred just days before a vote on $14 million appropriation for the contras. The Reagan administration had a deal on a table: limiting aid to the Nicaraguan resistance to humanitarian aid, if the Soviet-backed, Marxist-Leninist Sandanistas would agree to free elections. Harkin and Kerry returned with a meaningless “peace in our time” document that was effectively a contra surrender with nothing in exchange from the enemy. I should say the enemies of freedom, the Reagan administration and those who opposed Soviet expansionism. I’m not sure that Senators Harkin and Kerry saw it that way. No wait—I am sure. They didn’t. They were on the other side. You know, the Soviet side.
One thing Dumb and Dumber hadn’t counted on, but any six year old probably could have told them, is that you can’t trust communists. It turned out that just as they were proudly announcing the terrific job they had done negotiating with Ortega for the security of our hemisphere, the commie darling of the American Left, was on his way to Moscow to ask his Soviet masters for $200 million more in aid.
When he got back from Managua, Kerry delivered a nauseating speech on the floor of the Senate, that concluded "My generation, and a lot of us grew up with the phrase 'Give peace a chance,' a part of a song that captured a lot of people's imagination [sic]. I hope that the president of the United States will give peace a chance." I am not making this up.
Let’s not forget what Senator Kerry saw when he looked at Nicaragua. “Look at it,” the Washington Post reported that he said as his plane touched down there. “It reminds me so much of Vietnam.” Hey, what doesn’t? His morning cup of coffee, his dirty socks on the floor and Teresa’s Gulfstream jet remind him of Vietnam. His shrink reports that when he identified every inkblot as reminding him of Vietnam, and the doctor suggested he was a tad obsessed, Kerry replied “But you’re the one with all the pictures of Vietnam.” OK, I made that up, but you get the idea. John Kerry viewed Ronald Reagan’s view of Nicaragua as the same sort ‘mistake’ as Vietnam. But just who was mistaken?
Let’s recall also what Secretary of State George Schultz said in response to Senator Kerry’s plea that the Reagan Administration not overeact to the Soviets’ attempt to set up another fiefdom in our hemisphere. “Those who assure us that these dire consequences are not in prospect [in Central America] are some of those who assured us of the same in Indochina before 1975. The litany of apology for communists and condemnation for America and our friends, is beginning again.” Indeed. Recall that John Kerry told the Senate in 1971 that if South Vietnam fell to the communists, “2000-3000” might face recrimination. In reality, tens of thousands of Vietnamese were summarily executed and over a million were forced into concentration, or as those Kerry and his anti-war buds enabled would say “re-education,” camps.
He was wrong then, and he’s wrong now on the Soviet’s successor in threatening America, Islamic terrorism. He has characterized the war on terror as “a great big manhunt,” indicating that he still believes that fighting terrorism is about law enforcement and intelligence and not war. When you consider that “[I]f you look at the people around Kerry, what you see is the Clinton national security team” (defense analyst Loren Thompson from the Lexington Institute quoted in the Chicago Tribune, 7/22/04), that’s no surprise.
If you want to really get scared, consider this quote from the Houston Chronicle (7/31/04):
“Kerry, whose convention speech emphasized national security and foreign policy, said in an interview the Associated Press that he would put Osama bin Laden on trial in U.S. courts.
That would ensure the “fastest, surest route” to a murder conviction if the terrorist mastermind is captured while he is president, Kerry said.
“I want him tried for murder in New York City, and in Virginia and in Pennsylvania,” where planes hijacked by al-Qaida operatives crashed Sept. 11, 2001, he said.”
OK, let’s add this up: a man who has been consistently wrong about national security and threats to world peace and American freedom who surrounds himself with foreign policy advisers from the previous administration whose failures in the war on terror were horrifically and vividly apparent as smoldering towers, and murdered innocents, who chooses as his running mate a trial lawyer with zero experience in international affairs and who wants a replay of the O.J. trial for Osama bin Laden. And his mentor Ted Kennedy says the only thing we have to fear is four more years with President Bush in office? I don’t think so, September 10th boy. Not if John Kerry becomes commander-in-chief.