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FEBRUARY
23, 2004 --
Federalist 57 Department Howard Kurtz, Washington Post, Feb. 23, quoted Philadelphia Inquirer’s Dick Polman’s recommendation to make media political predictions more accurate: “We need to get away from the traditional indicators and talk to people more.” Instruction from the Federalist Papers, to be applied in reading media descriptions of Democratic presidential candidates as “populist.” A populist is a politician who stands among the people. (See Federalist 57.) A demagogue is a politician who courts the people to rule them. (See Federalist No.1)
Why not call them Democrats, Bill? William Safire, in his Feb. 23 New York Times column said that we have two Americas, pessimists and optimists. “Pessimistic America,” he wrote, “is pandered to by politicians demanding tariff walls and costly entitlements, preaching resentment, envy, anger, class war.
Q and A "What is Vietnam doing in this campaign?" was the question for a Washington Post "Outlook" Feb. 22 electronic round table of five Vietnam vets. James L. Longton thought that the Kerry campaign raised the issue and then predicted: "If by some miracle John Edwards is the Dems’ choice this whole thing will go away…" If by some miracle, Sen. Hillary Rodham-Clinton? On ABC’s "This Week," Feb. 22, George Stephanopoulos wondered if the Kerry-Edwards race would be so close as to lead to a brokered Democratic presidential nomination at the national convention in Boston, this July. Mr. Stephanopoulos did not mention the possibility that such brokering might result in the nomination of Senator Hillary Rodham-Clinton to be the next President of the United States.
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FEBRUARY 23, 2004 --
An interesting comparison …
Images From The Campaign …
FEBRUARY 13, 2004 -- Truth in TV Labeling Department If the FCC required truth in TV labeling, “Meet the Press,” which once had guests face a panel of newspersons, would have been renamed, “Meet Tim Russert.”
Query for Kerry Considering that your political war cry -- “Bring It On” -- is the title of a book, last year, by Pat Robertson, a Christian conservative, are you, in fact, part of the “vast right-wing conspiracy”?
LPR Predicts If President Bush defeats Senator Kerry and gets re-elected, but loses the Republican majority in the House of Representatives, articles of impeachment will appear from a Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee faster than you can type Richard M. Nixon. Congratulations To the Waterbury Republican-American for getting a photo credit in The New York Times on February 3 for a picture accompanying a Times article on Gov. Rowland’s ties to his hometown. The article, focusing on the negative, did not mention the name of Waterbury’s current mayor. Times Metro Desk-- the Waterbury Mayor is Michael Jarjura. So far as LPR knows, Mayor Jarjura does not think of ways to emulate Mayor Bloomberg and impose onerous fines to fill the Waterbury treasury. |
FEBRUARY 13, 2004 -- LPR Poll Results By a margin of 3 to 1, LPR readers thought that New York City’s Parking Violations Bureau went against the opposition in our Declaration of Independence to swarms of officials harassing the people and consuming their substance. By the same margins, readers opposed senior citizen PVB discounts and favored PVB mercy for out-of-state motorists. (For the first LPR poll, these margins were absolute numbers, not percentages!). C'mon people-- get clicking!
FEBRUARY 6, 2004 QueryizingPrompted by David Brooks’ February 10 New York Times, Suggesting that expanding government rings his chimes, Isn’t this the impact on individual exertion, The more government we get, also the more coercion? Kerryizing From the Mailbox… Dear Friend, Thanks very much for sending a response to my column, positive or negative. I’m afraid I can’t respond to each message. My editors would wonder why I have no time to write for the paper. But I do read every e-mail, and I frequently learn from them. So,
again, thanks, Just a Thought… Rename the team the New England Red Sox -- and end the Bambino’s curse? Take-us-out-to-the-ball-game-in-a-couple-of-months department…
Good Job Clicksters! LPR passed 600 visitors on February 6. FEBRUARY 2, 2004 -- Question for Main-media You have forgotten Noriega. You have forgotten Milosevic. Have you also forgotten Saddam? Advice for Senator Kerry You seem to be talking,
lately, as if you have just about finished drafting your inaugural
address. As Samuel Goldwyn might have said it: Don't count your Holy Moley Department With 50 visits, January 31, Lonely Pamphleteer Review went beyond the 400 mark to 425. You guys are terrific. Take THAT Michael Moore! |
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