The Chicken Whisperer

THERE WILL BE NO DRAFT

CBS does another hit piece for the anti-war left. This time they are pushing the draft whose only potential of a return comes in the form of internet chain letters and 2 bills sponsored by LIBERAL DEMOCRATS. Barrring a war with China, it ain't gonna happen. But, simple facts, or the partisan nature of those pushing the rumor aren't important enough to mention in the CBS hit piece on the subject. This is truly disgusting and anyone who thinks CBS doesn't have a bias is delusional.

Kerry Gives Allies the Finger

Kerry, the man who supposedly will make our allies like us again, is seemingly incapable of being nice to, you know, our allies. He's already called Britain, Austrailia, Japan, Polan, Italy, et al "bribed and coerced" and members of a "fraudulent" coalition. Now, he basically calls the man currently heading up the free Iraq project a liar. This would be the man he'd be dealing directly with in the number one foreign policy priority should he get elected. So, what happens after he's innaugurated? Kerry says to his aid after he settles into the White House "Get me our man in Iraq on the phone. I need to explain to him exactly what is going on in Iraq. He clearly can't tell, looking out his window there in that Baghdad fantasyland." And, you'd think a sitting Senator, whose part of the Intellegence committee, might make it a priority to be in Washington when a joint session of Congress is meeting to hear Prime Minister Allawi speak. I bet he would have gotten a chance to meet with Allawi. It's standard protocol for foreign dignitaries to meet with members of Congress, particularly those in the loyal opposition in an election year. Oh well, Kerry's got an election to win, and why do anything that looks presidential and might actually be related to the single biggest issue in this election? I mean, he's got a photo op with out of work assembly line workers to attend to. Priorities, ya know?

Mark Steyn points out Kerry's rudeness and the media's parochialism.

Kerry didn't show up for Allawi's visit to Washington -- he was in Ohio again, which is evidently becoming the proverbial Vietnam-type quagmire for him. Nonetheless, barely had the prime minister finished than the absentee senator did a daytime version of his midnight ramble and barged his way onto the air to insist that he knew better than Iraq's head of government what was going on in the country. One question from his accompanying press corps was especially choice:

''Prime Minister Allawi told Congress today that democracy was taking hold in Iraq and that the terrorists there were on the defensive. Is he living in the same fantasyland as the president?''

Read the whole thing. It gets better.

Jimmy Carter loves Dictators

As many people have noted before, Carter seems to have a particular fondness for dictatorships. Oh, I'm sure he doesn't actually WANT dictatorships, but when it gets right down to it, when you deal with dictators, you know that you are dealing with the one calling the shots. That's something I guess. Carter's latest pro-tyranny outrage is his slam of the Florida election process. While I don't think we can say that Florida elections are perfect (duh!) I'll still take the decentralized partisan mess that can, in the end, still be audited and challenged by the free press, the courts, and politicians over any 3rd world "election" like what Carter just signed off on in Venezuala, land of Hugo Chavez, Castro wannabe whose "party activists" act an awful lot like mafia loan sharks. Anyway, Stephen Green at Vodkapundit notes that Carter's gripes wiith Florida seem to be ignorant of a little thing called the U.S. Constiution.

What He Said

Goldberg nails it. He succinctly sums up the problems in Iraq, the legitimate gripes about Iraq and Bush in particular. And then he reminds us that the choice isn't between Bush and a perfect commander-in-chief. The choice is between Bush and John Kerry.

It Practically Writes Itself

The latest from Drudge shows that CBS's ratings have plunged and execs are concerned that Dan Rather's forged memos may be a reason. But, here's the funny part:

NIELSEN numbers released this week show Rather fading and trailing his rivals in every Top 10 city, other than San Francisco, with audience margins in some cities running more than 6 to 1 against CBS!

"...other than San Francisco." The only thing less surprising is if they said Dan Rather was going to be given an award by Jaques Chirac. The article notes that CBS is perceived as anti-Bush though the CBS execs think that is not a fair perception. Well, they might not want to tell that to San Fran because then they might lose the one market they are popular in.

Did CBS's National Guard Hit Piece have Forged Documents?

In case you haven't been following this scandal which was buzzing on the internet yesterday, there are an awful lot of experts who are swearing that these documents coudn't have been produced in 1973 (and more likely were produced in the last few years with Microsoft Word). This is the website that really got the ball rolling. It followed with more at the National Review. Just keep scrolling. More than a few websites have reproduced one of the documents in MS Word with the default settings and it has appeared to be an EXACT duplicate (as in you can lay one on top of the other). I'm pretty sure modern printer drivers do not mimic old typewriters. The producer on Fox's Brit Hume show did the same exercise with the same result. CBS stands by it's sources, this potential scandal (the forgery, not the original National Guard scandal) was covered on ABC news' Nightline and is front page news in the Washington Post today. Both of those outfits have forensic experts who say they have to be forgeries. As usual, Instapundit has a roundup. Instapunditalso notes that CBS insiders believe these docs originated from the Kerry campaign (I'm shocked!). Drugde says their is an internal investigation afoot at CBS. Expect this not to get resolved but watch the Natiional Guard story fade from the headlines very soon as people will want to just sweep it under the rug with mere "questions raised" news stories.

File this under BOTH media incompetence and media bias. In fact, the latter probably led to the former.

UPDATE: The New York Post weighs in with comments about the internet news revolution and notes why the guy that CBS interviewed on 60 minutes should have no credibility, on top of the problems with these forged documents.

Give Florida a Break, Will Ya?!?!

Florida really pissed off somebody. Ivan, which is currently catagory FIVE looks to be heading straight up the Florida penninsula. This is insane.

The Deficit isn't THAT bad

Honestly, it's not.

Also, if we look at deficits as a percentage of GDP this current deficit is even "smaller" in that it comes in as the 17th highest deficit. The years 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1976, 1982, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993 are all higher as a percentage of GDP.

There's more where this came from.

How do spell "Gaffe?"

Drudge gives us an idea:

Was Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry seen this weekend waving a gun which would have been banned if legislation he co-sponsored became law?

I'm thinking of a word

What word am I thinking? I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe Time magazine can help.

For the first time since the Presidential race became a two person contest last spring, there is a clear leader, the latest TIME poll shows. If the 2004 election for President were held today, 52% of likely voters surveyed would vote for President George W. Bush, 41% would vote for Democratic nominee John Kerry, and 3% would vote for Ralph Nader, according to a new TIME poll conducted from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. Poll results are available on TIME.com and will appear in the upcoming issue of TIME magazine, on newsstands Monday, Sept. 6.

Oh, yeah! I think "bounce" is the word. As in post-convention "bounce." As in what the laptops of the editorial staff of the New York Times will NOT do when they toss them out their office windows in frustration.

Yeah, yeah, to early to gloat. Still, kinda cool.