November 4, 2004
World Tribune.com--Front Page Arafat Dead
Can this be true that Arafat has stolen millions if not billions? I would not put it past him, terrorist that he is. The world is better off without him.
OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan
Contrast Peggy Noonan's article with that of Maureen Dowd in an earlier post to see pride and respect compared to flaming hatred.
And this laurel tossed to the bloggers and others who refused to abide the mainstream media's attempt to sway this election. CBS and the NY Times should be ashamed of themselves. Three cheers for the bloggers who did their homework and stepped on the media necks!
"Who was the biggest loser of the 2004 election? It is easy to say Mr. Kerry: he was a poor candidate with a poor campaign. But I do think the biggest loser was the mainstream media, the famous MSM, the initials that became popular in this election cycle. Every time the big networks and big broadsheet national newspapers tried to pull off a bit of pro-liberal mischief--CBS and the fabricated Bush National Guard documents, the New York Times and bombgate, CBS's "60 Minutes" attempting to coordinate the breaking of bombgate on the Sunday before the election--the yeomen of the blogosphere and AM radio and the Internet took them down. It was to me a great historical development in the history of politics in America. It was Agincourt. It was the yeomen of King Harry taking down the French aristocracy with new technology and rough guts. God bless the pajama-clad yeomen of America. Some day, when America is hit again, and lines go down, and media are hard to get, these bloggers and site runners and independent Internetters of all sorts will find a way to file, and get their word out, and it will be part of the saving of our country."
And this laurel tossed to the bloggers and others who refused to abide the mainstream media's attempt to sway this election. CBS and the NY Times should be ashamed of themselves. Three cheers for the bloggers who did their homework and stepped on the media necks!
"Who was the biggest loser of the 2004 election? It is easy to say Mr. Kerry: he was a poor candidate with a poor campaign. But I do think the biggest loser was the mainstream media, the famous MSM, the initials that became popular in this election cycle. Every time the big networks and big broadsheet national newspapers tried to pull off a bit of pro-liberal mischief--CBS and the fabricated Bush National Guard documents, the New York Times and bombgate, CBS's "60 Minutes" attempting to coordinate the breaking of bombgate on the Sunday before the election--the yeomen of the blogosphere and AM radio and the Internet took them down. It was to me a great historical development in the history of politics in America. It was Agincourt. It was the yeomen of King Harry taking down the French aristocracy with new technology and rough guts. God bless the pajama-clad yeomen of America. Some day, when America is hit again, and lines go down, and media are hard to get, these bloggers and site runners and independent Internetters of all sorts will find a way to file, and get their word out, and it will be part of the saving of our country."
The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Red Zone
The post-election vitriol doesn't get much more vehement than this. Dowd is really pissed. She is a obviously a far left wing crazy liberal. Very talented, but what a shame she is so filled with hate.
World faces a Mideast minus Arafat | csmonitor.com
Arafat's demise will first be the elimination of one more terrorist. Second, his demise hopefully will make way for more sensible Palestinian leadership that will have some control over the terrorist groups. That's doubtful and I am not optimistic that things will change much in the near term. Israel is right to continue targeting and eliminating terrorist leaders until and unless they renounce their intent to eliminate the Jewish state.
Where the Democrats go from here | csmonitor.com
A thoughtful piece without recriminations, crying or whining.
"But while the losses hold sharp implications for the future direction of the Democratic Party - and will probably shape which candidate it chooses for its next nominee - history shows that often a party's chance of recapturing the White House and rebounding in Congress is dictated less by what it does than by events and how the party in power handles them."
Another relevant quote:
"Significantly, one of the few demographics where Democrats seemed to expand their hold was among highly educated voters, even as Republicans gained ground among the less-educated."
"In the Southern states, there's a kind of antielitism which you would think, economically, would make these people pro-Democrat, but it's a cultural antielitism," says Andy Taylor, a political scientist at North Carolina State University. "Kerry personified the type of person that this philosophy does not like - an aristocratic, northeastern intellectual."
"But while the losses hold sharp implications for the future direction of the Democratic Party - and will probably shape which candidate it chooses for its next nominee - history shows that often a party's chance of recapturing the White House and rebounding in Congress is dictated less by what it does than by events and how the party in power handles them."
Another relevant quote:
"Significantly, one of the few demographics where Democrats seemed to expand their hold was among highly educated voters, even as Republicans gained ground among the less-educated."
"In the Southern states, there's a kind of antielitism which you would think, economically, would make these people pro-Democrat, but it's a cultural antielitism," says Andy Taylor, a political scientist at North Carolina State University. "Kerry personified the type of person that this philosophy does not like - an aristocratic, northeastern intellectual."
November 3, 2004
CBS News | Shortcomings Of Exit Polls | November 3, 2004?20:23:55
Maybe now the media will abandon exit polls and let the voters decide the race rather than use erroneous data in an attempt to sway voters who have not yet cast a ballot.
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