Roger L. Simon

October 20th, 2004 5:19 pm

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any uglier…

throat1.jpg The Village Voice goes for the throat on its website. Does it remind you of something? Shame on them.

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1. gb_in_ga:

Well, we’ve heard the Bush=Hitler thing, so why am I not at all surprised about a Bush=Dracula thing?

Oct 20, 2004 - 5:29 pm 2. gb_in_ga:

And my wife chimed in with: Just in time for Halloween!

Oct 20, 2004 - 5:31 pm 3. richard mcenroe:

Wasn’t there a famous magazine cover back during Watergate of Nixon with his hand up the Statue of Liberty’s skirt? It’s bad enough the left has to recycle 30-year old ideas, but graphics?

Oct 20, 2004 - 5:32 pm 4. Dishman:

I seem to remember a song from the Democratic Convention…

but if you want money

for people with minds that hate

all I can tell you is

brother you have to wait.

Oct 20, 2004 - 5:39 pm 5. Skookumchuk:

Interesting though how Bush is portrayed. Not the little 80-IQ chimp of most lefty editorial cartoons. Here he is demonic and intelligent too. Amazing. Maybe they feel the heat of a race that is too close to call?

All lefty graphics look frozen in about 1935.

Oct 20, 2004 - 5:39 pm 6. lindenen:

Man. Lady Liberty’s either a fat chick or she has a severe case of the mumps.

Oct 20, 2004 - 5:49 pm 7. Terrye:

Arguing with people who think shit like this is funny is just a waste of time.

Oct 20, 2004 - 5:52 pm 8. Frank Martin:

How can you tell when your opponents are losing? when they go hysterical. This is pretty amazing.

Can you imagine the screams of horror if National Review had done such a thing in reverse?

Oct 20, 2004 - 5:56 pm 9. Terrye:

Frank:

How would that work?

Kerry wearing a French Foreign Legion uniform and driving a stake through the heart of Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial?

Why the Kerry people would say that was tacky.

Oct 20, 2004 - 6:07 pm 10. Frederick:

Terrye:

People in Indiana just don’t recognize elite humor. The picture illustrates a piece by someone called Rick Perlstein. He writes that, “Accusations of a president draining the lifeblood from democracy just won’t play in Peoria. ‘It’s what the folks in this business, we call an “elite argument,”‘ says Jeff Shesol, who was a speechwriter for President Clinton and whose firm, West Wing Writers, develops messages for some of the most prominent Democratic campaigns. ‘It pitches too high to reach the mass electorate.’”

Oct 20, 2004 - 6:10 pm 11. Terrye:

pitches to high my ass.

Oct 20, 2004 - 6:31 pm 12. Rick Ballard:

Skookumchuk,

To get the full flavor you have to imagine 10,000 posters like this in the hands of empty eyed Kerryjugend flanked by an equal number of AFL Sturmabteilung “protectors” with direction by Michael “Leni” Moore. All dressed in appropriate fall colors with the bill for the production paid by Soros/Bing/Lewis Enterprises.

The Progressives have finally made it to 1927. I wonder if Perlstein and Shesol channel Julius Streicher?

Oct 20, 2004 - 6:37 pm 13. ras:

So that’s the Dems’ October Surprise: Bush is a vampire! Very effective.

BTW, Atrios & Kos are up to worse than this. See here for details.

Oct 20, 2004 - 6:42 pm 14. Sally-O:

This cartoon isn’t just on the Village Voice website–it’s on the cover of the paper and distributed free on street corners throughout the city.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, actually, when it comes to Village Voice cover art. For the last six months, there’s been something similair ALMOST EVERY WEEK on their cover.

When I first saw this cover (somebody reading it on the subway) I wasn’t surprised in the least–but I am surprised it’s taken this long for somebody to say something about it.

But that’s just New York City for you today. They’d never run a similar cover about even Osama Bin Laden.

Honestly, I feel that it would be safer–I mean physically safer–to be revealed as a member of Al Qaida around here than revealed as a supporter of George Bush.

Oct 20, 2004 - 6:46 pm 15. Skookumchuk:

Rick Ballard:

Actually, they’ll be more up to date than that. I see Democratic Kim Jong Il style stadium displays by about 2006.

Oct 20, 2004 - 7:02 pm 16. PeterUK:

Whilst it is offensive, there is something pathetic and juvenile about it,certainly it insults the intelligence of the reader.

It is also contradictory,a cartoon of this nature can only appear in a democracy,anywhere else and the artist,publisher and readers would be in the gulag.

The only reason these idiots can say Bush=Hitler is because he isn’t,will these cretins ever grow up?

Oct 20, 2004 - 7:06 pm 17. TmjUtah:

Edwards says “Kill the terrorists” every speech.

Kerry seems to have adopted a Missourah speech pattern.

Bill Clinton is going to campaign for Kerry. In a blue state.

Terry McAullife has either gone off his meds or has gotten himself tied up with a bad run of meth; when was the last time he slept, I wonder?

Michael Moore came to my town today. I ended up not going because I had intended to be hunting. I didn’t miss anything; one heckler was ejected and the rest of the crowd seemed to enjoy a Wednesday afternoon out of class. According to an attendee there were empty seats. The scalpers may have taken a hit. Good.

I’ve heard John Kerry’s ‘94 quote about six times today. Never on MSM, of course…

Why should we try to take these people seriously if they keep on defining absurdity further and further down?

No liberal democrat in forty years has demonstrated any competence in recognising the necessity to project power OR in the face of deadly foreign threats.

They are too busy apologizing for being American to worry about that military stuff, aren’t they?

Gad. How many more days? Be still, my thudding heart.

Oct 20, 2004 - 7:27 pm 18. richard mcenroe:

Hey. don’t be dissin’ the Voice, man. Many’s the wino who’s spent a warm night sleeping over the steam grate with a copy of the Voice stuffed under his clothes for insulation.

And it’s great for stuffing packages, too. Just make sure you don’t use the pages with the titty-bar and outcall hooker ads, because like most free lefty papers of the LA Weekly/Village Voice ilk, it’s largely financed by the sexual exploitation of women…

Oct 20, 2004 - 7:29 pm 19. marek:

It it so offensive and moronic that I don’t know how to respond without resorting to cussing.

God help us all if these morons ever get the taste of power. Substitute Bush with a Jew stereotype and this fits perfectly in Der Sturmer circa 1936. Trully hideous.

Oct 20, 2004 - 7:31 pm 20. jerry:

These cartoons and images used by the ABB crowd are reminiscent of the kinds of hate-images used in totalitarian states. To the extent that they are encouraged by the Democratic Party should pause one to enquire at the commitment of the 21st Century Democratic party to constitutional government. It is pretty clear that the Party and many of their supporters constantly project their own ugly behavior on their Republican opponents. If cartoons like the one on display are a mirror on their own perverted values then the Republic faces a threat that in the long term is greater the that posed by Al Qaeda. We will eventually defeat the threat posed by Radical Islam. However, the Democrats will some day return to power. If they have not purged this ugliness from their ranks by the time that day comes then I fear that Constitutional government will have reached an end.

Oct 20, 2004 - 7:32 pm 21. Terrye:

Sally:

You might think it is safer in NYC to claim to be a supporter of AlQaida, but I don’t think you would want to be making that claim around any firehouses.

I keep hearing how they hate Bush and they got the loud mouth cab drivers to back it up, but the RNC went off without any carnage and they keep voting Republicans into the Mayor’s office and the state house. They seem kinda half hearted and pitiful to me.

But this kind of thing just makes them look stupid. Like Peter said if the man was Hitler their sad little paper would be a dim memory.

They just make displaced Democrats like me feel more like a Republican. Way to go…

Oct 20, 2004 - 7:49 pm 22. OldManRick:

The left didn’t read 1984 as a warning.

They read 1984 as an instruction manual.

Oct 20, 2004 - 7:58 pm 23. Jonathan:

Would love to substitute that with this thing I Photoshopped…

Global Test

Oct 20, 2004 - 8:02 pm 24. A. Baldwin:

Does anyone remember the memo sent out by the Republicans in the early 90’s which listed the words their candidates were supposed to use to describe their Democratic opponents? Words like “sick, pathetic, traitors.” And didn’t Bush attack John McCain by having telephone callers tell people that McCain had a black baby out of wedlock? I read later that McCain and his wife had adopted a brown skinned orphan from Bangladesh who may have been born out of wedlock, so that might have been technically true. But doesn’t that kind of campaign disgust you?

I guess what goes around comes around, and it’s a shame. It only works if people fall for the hate messages, and both sides do it. If people stopped paying attention to the hate messages, or voted against the ones using them, they’d quit in a New York minute. Then we wouldn’t feel like we had to take a shower after watching a campaign commercial.

Oct 20, 2004 - 8:37 pm 25. lindenen:

You are worthless, Alec Baldwin! Sorry. I got carried away.

Anyway, the difference is that we were not in the middle of a war then.

Oct 20, 2004 - 8:43 pm 26. Rick Ballard:

Anyway, the difference is that we were not in the middle of a war then.

No, the difference is that the memo cited never existed whereas this cover does – and in myriad forms.

If you’re going to use tu quoque as your basis of argument, then you better, at minimum, bring some proof with you. It doesn’t make the argument less stupid but it would make Alec look less stupid.

As if that were possible.

Oct 20, 2004 - 8:50 pm 27. A. Baldwin:

Mr. Lindenen, are you saying that it was ok for George Bush to have his people say those things about John McCain because you don’t think we were in the middle of a war in 2000? Have you already forgetten the first WTC bombing, the 1995 bombing of our soldiers, the 1998 bombings of our embassies, and the Cole?

Anyway, there’s no excuse for that kind of language or hate from either side, whether or not a war is going on.

Oct 20, 2004 - 8:53 pm 28. A. Baldwin:

Mr. Ballard, I wasn’t using an ad hominem tu quoque argument. That’s a Republican thing when they take two positions or statements of Kerry on voting for funds for the war and call him a flip flopper, or Democrats when they show Bush saying he’s going to get Osama Ben Laden dead or alive and then later when he says he isn’t that concerned about where Ben Laden is.

I was pointing out that it’s a bad thing for both sides in politics to say hateful things about the other side, and that there’s no excuse for either one. But those ads wouldn’t run on tv if they didn’t work and win elections. And that’s our fault.

Oct 20, 2004 - 9:08 pm 29. lindenen:

No, I don’t think it was ok for them to attempt to smear McCain like that; however, I’m not naive and know that that’s politics. Once again though the key difference between then and now is several thousand dead Americans. The stakes are now life and death. And not just American lives but Iraqi and Afghani lives as well. You don’t see the “Gush and Bore are the same” argument used anymore re: Kerry and Bush. Why? Because they’re not, and for once it matters. It matters a lot.

It is pretty amazing what Kerry has managed to pull off. I can’t figure out where he stands on any issue. This allows people like Andrew Sullivan to project their hopes and fears and desires onto him. Quite ingenious. They know what Bush stands for and if they’re iffy about Bush, they can always pretend they know what Kerry stands for to make them feel better.

Oct 20, 2004 - 9:12 pm 30. lindenen:

Does anyone know where Samuel is? Is he in hiding? Is he now a covert Bush operative? Oh Samuel, Samuel, Wherefore art thou, Samuel?

Thanx for the heads up on the “memo”, Rick. I was scratching my head about that one. I’d never heard of it.

Oct 20, 2004 - 9:17 pm 31. A. Baldwin:

Mr. Ballard: The words, including traitor, came from the 1990 GOPAC memo by Newt Gingrich. Recently Republican Ann Coulter wrote a book called Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism.

John Ashcroft used a phrase which defines treason, giving aid and comfort to the enemy, when he referred to United States senators who are Democrats because they questioned him about actions he took. President Bush said that Democrat senators didn’t care about America’s security because they didn’t agree with his taking civil service protections from Homeland Security employees. Instead of accusing them of being unpatriotic, he could have had a valid political debate, with good points on both sides, for and against stripping civil service protection from employees transferred to that department from other agencies where they had rights to fair treatment.

My point is that name calling comes from both sides, and I think it stinks no matter who is doing it.

Oct 20, 2004 - 9:25 pm 32. richard mcenroe:

Does anybody remember in the early 90’s when Alec Baldwin called for the murder of US Congressmen and their families on the Conan O’Brien show?

Oct 20, 2004 - 9:26 pm 33. Rick Ballard:

Shoot, I better stop thinking that meeting with representatives of the enemy during a time of war while still holding a commission isn’t sedition bordering on treason. Or maybe I won’t.

Produce the actual documents in full so that everyone can see how far out of context you’ve pulled the quotes, Mr. Baldwin, or just go away.

We’ve had much better Moby’s than you here.

Oct 20, 2004 - 9:31 pm 34. David Thomson:

ìI wonder if Perlstein and Shesol channel Julius Streicher?î

David Duke has also come out against George W. Bush:

ìAnybody But Bush

New Broadcast of Oct. 7

MP3 stream Download File

Listen to Duke’s latest radio show Read the text of this radio showî

http://davidduke.org/

Oct 20, 2004 - 9:49 pm 35. Sally-O:

What we’re seeing here from A Balwin nicely demonstrates the kind of self-reinforcing rhetorical feedback loop that gives rise to expressions of hate such as the one on Village Voice.

Question: “Didn’t Bush attack John McCain by having telephone callers tell people that McCain had a black baby out of wedlock?”

Answer: No, unless you’re getting all your news from places like The Village Voice or the Democratic Underground. Even if such telephone calls occurred, there’s absolutely no reason to suggest that Bush “told” anyone to make them.

If every deranged partisan acts on orders from the candidate he supports, you might as well ask why John Kerry “told” people to shoot at Republican campaign offices or why John Kerry “told” people to register voters in exchange for crack cocaine.

He didn’t, of course, but why not say so to justify the excesses of those who also don’t like John Kerry? I’m not taking that road. I couldn’t (and it wouldn’t be prudent, in the words of Bush the elder, not at this juncture–or ever).

But just go ahead and state as a matter of fact that Bush ordered these phone calls, that Bush “lied” about WMD for the sake of the Jews, that Bush is “questioning the patriotism” of his political opponents, and so on ad infinitum–then behold, digusting political rhetoric like that VV cover, voter fraud, and perhaps even shooting out windows and registering voters in exchange for crack cocaine becomes not a sign of a dangerous meltdown in our civic life but of supreme intellectual virtue.

God help us.

Oct 20, 2004 - 9:50 pm 36. mshyde:

It should be seen that this cartoon be used as the epitat on the guys tombstone.

Through the looking glass we arrive in 1933.

Oct 20, 2004 - 10:10 pm 37. David Thomson:

Everyone should take the time to listen to David Duke’s radio address:

http://www.davidduke.com/mp3/anybodybutBush.mp3

Duke sounds just like a lot of John Kerry’s supporters. He always wants to see President Bush defeated.

Oct 20, 2004 - 10:16 pm 38. John-Paul Pagano:

I agree it’s ugly, and it’s not the first time we’ve seen this sort of thing, but I don’t think the comparison to the Dave Brown Sharon cartoon flies. There is no centuries-old tradition of blood-libeling patrician WASPs that culminated in genocide. I think the voice’s image, while startling, exists in a legitimate realm of metaphor, and really isn’t anywhere near as jarring as that awful Sharon cartoon — for which that bastard Brown won the UK’s Political Cartoon Society’s ‘Gilray Goblet’, presented by no less of a personage than career socialist hater Clare Brown.

Oct 20, 2004 - 10:48 pm 39. Syl:

Double ironic when it’s really Kerry who is tearing down America. Did you catch the little piece by James K. Glassman on Kerry’s gaffe in the third debate? The Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights. Kerry doesn’t understand any of it.

Bush is actually the quintessential American. To the core.

Oct 20, 2004 - 10:51 pm 40. fidelius:

Didn’t Alec Baldwin pledge to leave the US if Gore lost the election 4 years ago?

Is he still here?

If so, Why?

To the topic, it is a truly addled mind who creates a fiend out of this man:

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/05/06/loc_moment06.html

Oct 20, 2004 - 11:06 pm 41. David Thomson:

Here is the transcript of David Duke’s radio address:

ìDonít miss this chance to defeat George Bush on Election Day, November 2, 2004! Send a message that will be remembered for many years. Once our own ranks are cleared of craven betrayers like George Bush, we will be ready to stand united against another enemy of our heritage and freedom, John (Cohen) Kerry!

Remember, spread the word: Anybody but Bush!

For our peopleís heritage and freedom, this has been David Duke.î

http://www.davidduke.com/radio/transcripts/plagueonbothyourhouses.htm

Oct 20, 2004 - 11:25 pm 42. Buddy Larsen:

So, the Sharon cartoon won big awards from the cartoon-awards people? I’m sure they all knew about Goya’s ‘horrors-of-war’ series, including

http://lilt.ilstu.edu/bekurtz/goya/goya_saturn-son.jpg “Saturn Devouring his Children”. Hey, that look in Saturn’s eyes…I’ve seen it soo often in the Kerry audiences. Per the Nazi regalia jabs, really, can you imagine the DU/V.Voice/Deaniac types, if someone offered to dress them all up (for free, of course) in those really snappy black SS uniforms? They’d have to decline, of course, but, wouldn’t they be as wistful as old Saturn, there, knowing what he’s doing but unable to stop himself?

Greek tragedy, according to the folks who developed it: You’re going to hell, taking all you love with you, you hate yourself for it, but you can find no way to stop yourself. Character is Fate.

Lord, I miss the old ‘folkie’ left…where’d they go, what happened to ‘em?

(Flash) as I type this, watching Fox, Castro, walking away from a podium in front of a large audience, just collapsed and fell flat on his face. Knee gave out. Portent? Pray.

Oct 21, 2004 - 3:41 am 43. rastajenk:

Did anyone but Frederick actually read the VV piece? The writer couldn’t find anyone to agree with him, but still managed to come up with a story anyway….a deconstructivist argument of, well, since there’s no proof that Bush would “do anything,” that must be the proof that he would.

Oct 21, 2004 - 3:44 am 44. Terrye:

Mr. Baldwin:

If Bush wins the election please emigrate. You promised.

A couple of things; I have no proof that Bush did those things, after all McCain is supporting him and not Kerry in this election.

The other thing is that when you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas and people like Michael Moore and the idiot who did this cover belong in a kennel. You guys are driving people like me away from the party and you will find it difficult to win an election without us. And your childish ‘he started it crap’ are not helping your cause in the slightest.

We don’t just blow off and insult people and key cars and in general treat our fellow Americans with little or no respect we actually vote. And right now a lot of us Democrats pissed of at the rest of you Democrats are voting for Bush.

I am ashamed of what people like you have done to my party. I really am.

Oct 21, 2004 - 4:20 am 45. Matt Evans:

I note that in keeping with democratic tradition, A. Baldwin (F.A.G.) doesn’t address the actual issue- ie the cover of the VV- instead, he returns to the 2000 campaign and takes another shot at Bush. Can you cite anything more recent A. Baldwin ? Or perhaps you’d care to address Ms. Heinz-Kerry’s comments in re: Laura Bush. Was THAT appropriate? Do we hear Laura Bush on the stump calling Theresa a “money grubbing whore”?

The past two years, the far left have proven themselves to be unfit to hold a city council position, much less the presidency. The American people are not stupid, they smell rampant negativity a mile away and everytime Kerry and his entourage come to town, the air is ripe with the smell of negativity. McCauliffe and his little group are going to lose in November- lose the presidency and lose even more senate seats. Why ? A. Because McCauliffe thinks most americans are stupid and B. Because a majority of Americans recognize who is really responsible for sounding the death knell of civil discourse in this country- and it ain’t W.

Oct 21, 2004 - 5:04 am 46. syn:

This ugliness fits perfectly with the Village Voice article run a couple of months ago which called for the extermination of Republicans.

Supporters for Kerry are pushing a platform of Hate.

The Democrat Party has been hijacked by the Hate Party.

A vote for John Kerry means a vote for Hate.

Ignorance breeds Hate.

Oct 21, 2004 - 5:11 am 47. Buddy Larsen:

Hey, Matt, gooood post. I really don’t think anybody much cares that T.H.K grubs money, the problem with T.H.K. is that she gives it exclusively to a slew of groups that are as red as the sunset they fervently wish for democracy.

Oct 21, 2004 - 5:31 am 48. Peter Boston:

If Bush wins we’re going to see a flood of voter, anti-corporate, and gay agenda litigation on the margin and a massive MSM supported effort to impeach the President at the center.

If Kerry wins we’re going to see a loss of confidence in the federal government, a states rights movement we haven’t seen in 100 years, and a home grown Militia Movement to protect schools, hospitals and places that ordinary folks consider important and which John Kerry does not.

Either way the 2004 election isn’t ending anything.

Oct 21, 2004 - 5:36 am 49. Buddy Larsen:

This thread is about images, so let me blow this off my chest, too. The camera panned the audience yesterday at a Kerry rally. This was a sit-down, the audience was seated so thje camera could linger. It fell upon a little group of 30-ish fellows. These guys were listening intently to JfK-0. They had the pre-massive-LSD lennon facial stylings, the Lenin motif from glasses to moustache/goatee to just-so hairlength.

Atop their heads were the Greek fisherman caps. But these guys had a little dough, and had to let it show, so their Worker hats were done-out in the finest leather, tiny-stitched, kid-soft, and sheened. Had to cost a couple hundred bucks each.

And they all had them, in slightly different color or style. They had coordinated their hats with each other!

And though no pants or Beatle boots were in the frame, the worker jackets, mocked in the finest corinthian leathers, were there, too, accessorized with the hats.

Man, I nearly BLEW my lunch all over my ‘entertainment’ center.

Oct 21, 2004 - 5:47 am 50. Buddy Larsen:

“Workers of the World! Shop UPSCALE!”

Oct 21, 2004 - 5:51 am 51. chris_m:

I don’t know, don’t women find vampires sexy?

Maybe this will help Bush?

PS Jonathon, I like your Global Test image.

Oct 21, 2004 - 6:49 am 52. D Anghelone:

Bush? That looks like Paul Newman.

Oct 21, 2004 - 6:50 am 53. Buddy Larsen:

Syl, that Glassman essay is truly, truly, frisson-inducing.

Oct 21, 2004 - 6:59 am 54. Percy Dovetonsils:

Reading “A.Baldwin” makes me pine for the pithy simplicity of our departed joseph, who could utter the same boilerplate but in a much shorter manner.

“Either way the 2004 election isn’t ending anything.”

I’m afraid this is correct. I get the distinct feeling that the U.S. is in the midst of an intramural Cold War between two very different mindsets.

Oct 21, 2004 - 7:28 am 55. Howard:

To ascribe every picture or cartoon as anti-Semitic or a throwback to Nazi times is asinine. Nor is labeling this cartoon a part of either Kerry or the DNC campaign. It is just another far Left publication aimed at their far Left audience who want this stuff. I think we make our own commentary on this stuff by immediately linking it with Kerry and the Democrats. I think it’s what the public does too.

We’re all seeing too many conspiracy movies. I could add that the Right Wing pubs are just as bad, but I couldn’t find any. Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh is the best the Left can come up with.

Oct 21, 2004 - 7:39 am 56. Knucklehead:

Hey, man, like, yaknow, sorry to go all OT like this, but for those who might need an antidote or cathartic after seeing the sick trash that was the topic of this thread or after reading the yawn inducing “A Baldwin” above – or even just a change of pace – I highly recommend this article (and the links) at 2Blowhards. I also recommend Crowded With Genius (I haven’t read the other book they mention).

Oct 21, 2004 - 7:46 am 57. wxjames:

What we need in this democracy is a campaign reform bill. One that removes the excessive costs and negatives from political campaigns.

But first, we need a brain for Senator McCain’s head. Then he can denounce his campaign reform bill.

Oct 21, 2004 - 8:25 am 58. Buddy Larsen:

wxjames, if i can stop laughing long enough, I’m going to write you this post.

Oct 21, 2004 - 8:55 am 59. M E-L:

Comic book fans may be interested to know that the cover was done by Alex Ross.

Oct 21, 2004 - 11:11 am 60. Mark Poling:

The VV cover may backfire though, bringing out the Goth vote for Bush….

Oct 21, 2004 - 11:17 am 61. The Fop:

Terrye,

RIGHT ON!!

I’m another pissed off (ex-)Democrat. My gut feeling is that there is an army of us out there.

It’s not that the MSM is only upset about the influence of blogs, they’re upset because the blogosphere is PROOF THAT WE EXIST.

Roger Simon, Glenn Reynolds, Christopher Hitchens, Ed Koch, Dennis Miller, Zell Miller, Ron Silver……these are all social liberals who are either temporarily or permanantly defecting to the Republicans. Where are all the Republicans who are defecting to Kerry?? Brent Scowcroft??? Is that the best they can do?

I’m a rock musician, so is my best friend. My wife went to art school in NYC for 6 years. We’re all voting for Bush. The polls are not taking into consideration this new demographic. The MSM dare not mention our existence.

The blogs have done great work during this campaign, but it’s not so much about the effect they’ve had on Dan Rather, Kerry’s Vietnam myths, etc. What matters is that we’re out there, we’re making our voices heard and connecting with each other.

WE WILL BE THE DIFFERENCE IN THIS ELECTION.

Oct 21, 2004 - 12:23 pm 62. PeterUK:

It is interesting that A Baldwin manages to use his entire screed to smear the Republicans then disingenuously to disassociate himself from both sides.

An old trick but a goody,used by the yellow press to promulgate all kinds of filth under the guise of shock horrer revelations.

Oct 21, 2004 - 1:50 pm 63. Buddy Larsen:

Hey, Fop, you got any music for sale? I’ll go buy you if I can. Because you agree with my politics? YES! I’m through with the lefty entertainers. Not because they disagree with me, but because they are doing fashion turns with my kids’ future.

Oct 21, 2004 - 2:09 pm 64. richard mcenroe:

Uglier AND Dumber…

Oct 21, 2004 - 8:57 pm 65. jml_311:

I don’t know. I’m with chris_m. First thing I though was pretty colors and my isn’t Bush a hottie. I mean, who doesn’t love vampires. I’m thinking of making it my wall paper. It’s making me more likely to vote for Bush. Better than the fighter pilot pictures. The hands are especially nice.

Oct 22, 2004 - 6:27 am 66. Margaret:

I wondered where the old Pravda writers went when the Soviet Union imploded — they got jobs with the left-wing media in the West.

Oct 22, 2004 - 10:36 am 67. The Fop:

Buddy Larsen,

Check out “Tan Sleeve.com”

Oct 22, 2004 - 2:22 pm

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