Here's what the right-wing has remaining in their arsenal. It's not much.

I have recently expanded my email list to include at least one rabid (and I mean RABID) right-winger. I actually used to work and drink with the guy at one point. Politics never came up. But apparently he got fed up tonight after I sent him the UPI article http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040518-064124-9605r "Army, CIA want torture truths exposed". Over the next half-hour he sent to me links to, count-em, thirteen articles, including three from RW newsmax, three by Ann Coulter and two by RW columnist Mark Steyn of the Chicago Sun-Times. For your enjoyment, here is what he sent, along with some commentary from me. For many of the articles, I include only the link. Click on it only if you dare.

Note that of course I am NOT a repuke myself, and am often suspicious of those who post repuke links, as I am tonight. But this whole encounter with John has just been so sad. It really is a window into the rabid RW. He is otherwise a thoughtful, nice guy. I went to his wedding, for heaven's sake. I just really can't explain it.

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/5/18/115119.shtml

WSJ: Precursor WMDs Stockpiled in Iraq

Far from being an isolated incident, yesterday's discovery in Iraq of an artillery shell filled with sarin gas is just the tip of the iceberg of recently uncovered evidence that Saddam Hussein had a weapons of mass destruction program that was fully operational until the U.S. invaded in March 2003.

Tuesday's Wall Street Journal reports that U.S. inspectors have found within the last few months "warehouses full of commercial and agricultural chemicals," which, if mixed and packaged properly, "could quickly become chemical weapons."

U.S. forces in Karbala have also recently uncovered 55-gallon drums loaded with chemicals that were said to be "pesticide," some of which were stored in what military sources described as a "camouflaged bunker complex."

Apparently they were planning on blowing up some farms (fertilizer... pesticides... get it??) :)

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/5/17/233204.shtml

'Rewriting History' Hits N.Y. Times Best-Seller List

Just two weeks after its release, "Rewriting History" - Dick Morris' insider account refuting Hillary Clinton's autobiography, "Living History" - has hit the New York Times best-seller list, debuting next week at #7.

The success of "Rewriting History" defies conventional wisdom. It hasn't received the deluge of gushing press coverage that greeted, for instance, former Iraq ambassador Joe Wilson's book "The Politics of Truth," which has been touted in Big Media venues such as "Meet the Press" and "Dateline," as well as CNN's "Larry King Live" and Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."

Still, while publicity for Morris' book has been limited largely to cablecasts such as "Hannity & Colmes," "The O'Reilly Factor," Rush Limbaugh and G. Gordon Liddy's radio shows, as well as NewsMax.com, "Rewriting History" is outselling Wilson's screed, which debuts on the Times list next week four slots behind Morris.

More Clinton bashing. If you can't defend the chimp, point out the "popularity" of an attack on a Clinton. No bulk sales dagger, though. I checked.

http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/5/18/93610.shtml

McAuliffe Blames Bush for Kerry's Failed Tax Increase

Jet-setting Democrat limousine lefties and other self-styled "environmentalists" are always wanting to raise energy taxes to encourage poorer people to conserve ... except during an election year, when they'll try to blame others for their own Big Government greed.

Party boss Terry McAuliffe says in remarks prepared for delivery today to the Democratic National Committee: "The price of gas is up about 50 cents a gallon since George Bush took office. Already that translates to an extra $499 a year for the average American household."

Note to McAuliffe: Be sure to remind your fellow eco-elitists of fuel-guzzling Sen. John Kerry's failed effort to jack up the huge federal gasoline tax by 50 cents a gallon, along with his dozen other votes to make gasoline less affordable for the average American household.

Given the Republican party's regressive tax policy, they have no standing on this issue. If Kerry wants to raise gas taxes and reduce the tax burden on the poor by the same amount by some other means (rebates to the states, or national health care, for example) then I would support that. Tax policy as a social and environmental tool. Imagine that!

The next two are articles by (ewwwww) Ann the Man Coulter. To spare you, you'll have to click on the link to see any of her words.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ucac/20040507/cm_ucac/evenwithhindsightliberalscantseestraight
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/uclicktext/20040430/cm_ucac/arabhijackersnoweligibleforpreboarding

The next two articles are by (ewww eewww eeeeewww!) Sun-Times columnist and repuke lapdog Mark Steyn. Again, you have to click the link, but only if you dare:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn09.html
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn25.html

This next article is on that group of "220 Swift Boat Veterens" opposed to Kerry. Yet the article quotes just 3 veterans opposed to Kerry, lists none of the other 217 who are supposedly opposed, and interviews no veterans in support of Kerry. What is World Net Daily? Can we safely assume it is a RW rag?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38532

Next he sent me an article on the Kyoto agreement. I really don't know why. He didn't include a link.

Top scientists tell Putin to kill Kyoto
May 18, 2004 Posted: 10:12 Moscow time (06:12 GMT)

MOSCOW - The Kyoto Protocol to limit greenhouse gases has no scientific basis and puts the Russian economy at risk, Russia's leading scientists said in official advice to President Vladimir Putin. In the document, obtained by Reuters on Monday, the Russian Academy of Sciences said the global treaty would not stabilize greenhouse gases even if it came into force.

The Academy drew up the summary after a request from Putin, who has the power to kill off the treaty worldwide by refusing to pass it to parliament for ratification. Some diplomats hope for a decision on the matter by the end of the week. "The Kyoto Protocol has no scientific foundation," said the first of the Academy's conclusions, adopted in a closed session last Friday.

Debate has intensified over the treaty, which aims to slow global warming, in advance of a self-imposed May 20 deadline for state bodies to give Putin their advice. One Putin aide attacked the treaty as an "international Aushwitz" that will strangle Russia's recovering economy. Key economic ministries and top companies back it, saying it bears no threat to the Russian economy.

I suspect he included this next article because he perceives us "liberals" as being insufficiently horrified by the Berg murder.

http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/146622-5289-021.html

Horrific story of Nick Berg belonged on Page One
May 16, 2004

Readers who called or e-mailed me about the front page of last Wednesday's Star were right. We underplayed the story about the beheading of an American by people claiming to be al-Qaida operatives in Iraq.

All of us were horrified by the story when it was discussed during The Star's Tuesday afternoon news meeting, along with photos showing the dead man's father being comforted by a surviving son.

The pictures depicted a man's extraordinary grief. In judging where to play the photos and story, one of my thoughts was of the criticism we usually hear when grieving family members are pictured on Page One. Often, we are accused of sensationalizing grief just to sell newspapers.

We decided to present on Page One a rather small, two-column photo of the father and refer readers to an inside story about the beheading. Our lead story would focus on the congressional testimony of the general who first investigated abuses of Iraqi prisoners by American military police.

This next one could be interesting, though I only skimmed it. At the end the author says "That distinction may be enough to earn my vote in November...", I think meaning that he may vote D, but not sure, since I didn't read the article carefully enough.

http://www.reason.com/0405/cr.mw.temporary.shtml

Temporary Doves: Why are the architects of Kosovo so down on Gulf War II?
Matt Welch

Madam Secretary: A Memoir, by Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward, New York: Miramax Books, 562 pages

The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power, by George Soros, New York: Public Affairs, 207 pages

Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire, by Wesley K. Clark, New York: Public Affairs, 218 pages

Of all the historical precedents that paved the way for President George W. Bush?s war against Iraq, the most directly relevant was Bill Clinton?s 1999 bombing of the rump Yugoslavia.

Like Gulf War II, the 78-day NATO air campaign in Kosovo was waged without the explicit authorization of the United Nations. (Of the two, the Iraq war had much more of a U.N. mandate, through Resolution 1441, which gave Iraq a "final opportunity" -- one it did not take -- to comply fully with all previous Security Council resolutions or else face "serious consequences.") Like Iraq, Yugoslavia was a sovereign country that was bombed into submission for essentially internal infractions. Both wars were expressions of American exasperation at European impotence in the face of dictatorial slaughter. Slobodan Milosevic, like Saddam Hussein, was described as a modern-day Adolf Hitler, eager to practice genocide against minority tribes while scrambling for horrible weapons to menace peaceful neighbors. Supporters of both wars frequently invoked the Munich Agreement of 1938, in which the West appeased Hitler rather than defend allied Czechoslovakia. Opponents of both wars warned that the target countries were colonially conceived multi-ethnic basket cases not conducive to postwar democratization. And the United States led the fight against both dictators despite urgent warnings from antiwar activists and multilateralism enthusiasts that each new bomb would lower the threshold for waging modern war. Kosovo made Iraq possible.

lots more...

Next he sends a link to an article (by the master of logic Ann Coulter) which tries to spin its way out of the study which found that FOX news viewers were far more likely to think that WMDs had been found in Iraq, compared to PBS viewers. It's pretty funny.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ucac/20040514/cm_ucac/crazylikeafoxnewsviewers

CRAZY-LIKE-A-FOX NEWS VIEWERS
Thu May 13, 8:01 PM ET

By Ann Coulter

Last week, John S. Carroll, editor of the Los Angeles Times, delivered a lecture during "Ethics Week" of the Society of Professional Journalists. The speaker has not yet been announced for "Abstinence Week" of the Society of Professional Whores.

Showing the fierce independence of the mainstream media, Carroll's speech was yet another liberal rant about the threat to freedom and democracy posed by the Fox News Channel. Carroll cited the hoax poll liberals quote every 10 minutes that purports to show people who watch Fox News are ignorant retards.

The poll was taken by the "Program on International Policy Attitudes," which specializes in polling Americans about pointless little factoids loved by liberals. One PIPA poll, for example, asked whether "so far this year, more Israelis or more Palestinians have died in the conflict, or is the number roughly equal?" To the shock and dismay of the researchers, "only 32 percent of respondents were aware that more deaths have occurred on the Palestinian side than on the Israeli side."

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And finally (and, sadly) he includes an article critical of Kerry's purple hearts, as if Republican's for Bush have any standing in this matter.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2004/04/14/kerry_faces_questions_over_purple_heart/

You'll have to click the link if you want to read the slander.

That's pretty clear.

"warehouses full of commercial and agricultural chemicals," which, if mixed and packaged properly, "could quickly become chemical weapons."

These people will go to any lengths.

Any other country have "agricultural chemicals"?

You're right - he doesn't have much. The rest of them are equally pathetic. Lazy on sources too - Like a high school student who writes an entire term paper using Britanica. Ann Coulter and Newsmax? Send back some juicy Coulter quotes and see how he defends her.

grass seed, fire ant killer and special grass fertilizer.

ask him about this:

Fonda/Kerry pic.

It shut them up, for a while anyway.

That photo should be on billboards all across the country.

See Kerry's D-Bunker on this one:
http://blog.johnkerry.com/dbunker/archives/001741.html#more

Took a while to put together, but I am willing to let it die if I must. :cry:

Novak was using Nader to bash Kerry this afternoon. I guess he thought that was better than anything his own camp could offer. I thought that was kind of funny. The current anti-Kerry commercial I've been hearing is extremely weak. As a final damning statement they call him a liberal.

We, on the other hand, have stockpiles of ammunition which is growing by the day. Gives me hope that if Bush doesn't blow up the whole world first, we might get rid of him. Not counting on anything, though.