Quick Note to Mike Huckabee
Did you really say We’ve had Congress that’s spent money like Edwards at a beauty shop?
Wow. It’s too bad you forgot to mention that it was a Republican’t congress that’s been spending that money for the last six years.
The only other thing I can add is that, even though some think that we’ve had a Republican’t congress that’s spent money like Edwards at a beauty shop, it’s a good thing that the Republican’t congress hasn’t (quite) been spending like a Bush on a coke binge.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Yeah, as I am from Arkansas, I found his joke about spending money ironic. This was coming from a guy who gutted the disaster relief fund of Arkansas right before tornado season in order to replace computers he had destroyed for personal reasons when he was getting ready to leave office…
May 18th, 2007 at 7:49 am
How Much Is A Haircut?
What really troubles me about the media hype concerning JRE’s recent “barbergate” incident is where the focus of the reports are leading. The media is trying to marginalize him with charges of being a narcissistic hairball.
These charges would be laughable if they weren’t so diabolical. Let’s review the evidence shall we. Prior to this hoopla the media was reporting that all of the other candidates were trailing Senator Edwards in presenting real solutions and policies to confront the issues facing our country. The frontrunners were big on theory, but short on specifics. Senator Edwards was making real political hay by actually addressing issues. He has come out with specific plans on how to deal with Iraq, global warming, and poverty. So while the other candidates are dancing around the issues, Senator Edwards has been providing the American public with the facts to judge his candidacy.
What better way to derail this momentum than to present him as being a fluff candidate who is only concerned about appearance and without substance. I’m sorry to me we have bigger issues to deal with in this country besides how much Mr. Edwards pays for a haircut. Does he pay more than I do? Yes he does. But I am sure he pays more for other things than I do as well. It is his money; he can do with it what he chooses. He has earned the right to do so. Does anyone question how Mayor Bloomberg spends his billions? I could care less what he does with his money, what matters to me is what he does with the public money. There has never been any question concerning Senator Edwards and his fiduciary duties as a public servant or as an attorney. This is a smoke screen to try to cloud the issues of this campaign with day time talk television fodder. What I, you, or your father paid for a haircut is irrelevant, what is relevant is where does he stand on the killing field that Iraq has become.
This conversation would have merit were it not for who they are charging. No candidate has articulated the needs of the poor in this country better than John Edwards, not just during this buildup to the election, but throughout his public life. A fluff candidate; you have to be kidding me! Is there some rule against a candidate wanting to look his best? To show you the media is no longer reporting news, but trying to make news the haircut became a discussion of his “sexuality”. Is there no limit to where these people will stoop to sell newspapers or kitty litter?
I, for one, will not allow the media to define what the issues in this campaign will be. I think I know what is important and what is not. Please media stars, let’s go back to reporting the news and not trying to create it. I have got to believe that there are some really important issues and decisions this country has to make right now, besides where we will be getting our haircuts.
The Disputed Truth
May 18th, 2007 at 10:57 am
The media is trying to marginalize him with charges of being a narcissistic hairball.
Funny, how they simultaneously puff up multiple choice mitt romney and comment on his good looks at the same time…
What better way to derail this momentum than to present him as being a fluff candidate who is only concerned about appearance and without substance.
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Please media stars, let’s go back to reporting the news and not trying to create it.
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I would argue that the mainstream conservative media (but I repeat myself) tries to marginalize all of the Democratic candidates on a regular basis using any basis it can, and simultaneously quashes any marginalization of the Republican’ts with ruthless efficiency.
I would also argue that the media has not been concerned with reporting the news as it has with spinning the news a certain way, and only providing enough of the news to prevent the natives from becoming too restless.
And finally, I would strongly second your emotions. Hucksterbee has been spewing hatred of his fellow humans disguised as his interpretations of the Word of his Invisible Sky Fairy for some time, and would not be any sort of improvement, much less a viable alternative, to the current mess. Which, for the record, can be soundbitten much more accurately as a Republican’t* congress that has been spending money like a Bush on a drunken bender. Which, also for the record, is not (quite) spending money like a Bush on a coke binge.
[rimshot]
(Thanks! I’ll be here all week…)
May 18th, 2007 at 11:06 am
* - Republican’ts:
- can’t balance the budget;
- can’t tell the truth;
- can’t play by the rules;
- can’t play by their own rules;
- can’t stop killing our soldiers for their mad schemes;
- can’t keep on doing this - there’s a novel’s worth of things they’ve done in the last six years, much less the last eighteen, much lees the last twenty-six, much less the last thirty-eight (tricky Dick in Jan 69).
Republican’ts should be referred to in this manner in a direct ratio to how childishly they have tossed around Democrat since the time of Ray-Gun (ie Pigboy should hear it until his implants give out).