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Ted Kennedy

From FOXNews:

"On March 19, 2004, President Bush asked, 'Who would prefer that Saddam's torture chambers still be open?'" said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. "Shamefully, we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management: U.S. management."

Another hate Amercia comment from a far-left liberal.

Tony Dean’s obvious liberalism

This is way too much! Tony Dean posted an email he got from someone who heard him on liberal talk show Ed Schultz. Here’s the entire post, including Tony Dean’s response:

Heard you on KFGO, and have to say, you are so out of touch, it is scary. It is the whole liberal left agenda, everything and anything have more rights than the human elemant, and have more rights than we do. And yes, your party will take away our guns if ever in control again, God help us if this happens.

bggrandforks

Dear BGrandforks:

Do you mean the Republican party will take away our guns? Gimme a break. I'm a lifelong Republican and if that plan was advanced, I'd have heard about it by now.

Still, I'm not sure what it is that makes me out of touch.

Is it because I oppose wetland drainage? Because I oppose plowing what little native prairie remains? That I am in favor of wildlife? That I believe the Dakota prairies would be a lot poorer without it? This is essentially what I talked about today on Ed Schultz's News and Views show on KFGO today.

Since you believe I'm out of touch, then it must mean you're in favor of drainage, plowing prairies, and opposed to wildlife. You must then also think we'd be better off without wildlife in the Dakotas.

Know what, pal?

I think YOU'RE out of touch.

Tony

Where do I start on this one? First, this was a liberal talk show. The listener obviously spotted the liberal environmental extremism of Tony Dean and concluded Tony was a liberal Democrat.

Tony Dean tries to cover his liberalism by calling himself a Republican. In fact, I have posted evidence that Tony Dean is promoting socialism, and is best described as a far-left liberal. Tony Dean, Tom Dashcle, and Stephanie Herseth all know that far-left liberal won't play well in conservative South Dakota. So they have no choice but to mislead.

Tony Dean’s con game was proven in the 2002 Senate race as he promoted Tim Johnson as a strong Second Amendment supporter. As I am about to prove…those Tony Dean commercials were the most negative of the campaign because they were meant to mislead South Dakota about Johnson’s true position.

Remember my earlier post regarding yesterday’s Million Mom March. I also mentioned the Daschle Amendment that honored the 2000 Million Mom March. Tim Johnson also voted yeah on that one. A found this National Review Online column by Daniel J. Flynn that quote some of this year's participants:

"I don't think guns should be legal," declared Joan Davis, who traveled to the Capitol from Manhattan. "I don't think the average person should have a gun."

"Ideally, I guess I would like to see a total ban on guns," held Bonnie Rock of suburban D.C. "But in reality, I would be satisfied with getting rid of the assault weapons and having some real bite to the laws in terms of people getting guns." Rock, who carried a sign reading "Bush: Whore of the NRA," believes the president is "destroying America." Rock explains: "He hasn't done anything right since he was selected to be president. So, there's nothing the man has done for the common good." She adds that she has already given serious thought to moving to Canada if George W. Bush wins reelection.

"If we had our druthers, [America] would be like England or Australia or other civilized countries," admits Dick Berman from Rockville, Maryland. "I think we should target getting guns out of the hands of civilians, period." Handgun murders, Berman believes, contribute to an "annual 9/11." His goal is "to get weapons off our streets, out of the hands of civilians. Only the police should have weapons."

Lisa Toomey, who flew all the way to Washington from the other Washington, explained: "I'd be happy with stricter guns laws." Ideally, Toomey admits, "I would just say no guns. That's where I'm at." She adds that Bush "is a terrorist."

As Tony Dean told South Dakota sportsmen that Tim Johnson would never take our guns away…Tim Johnson voted in support of the people who would do so in a heart beat.

Flynn’s column ended with this comment about banning guns:

Lost on the organizers, as well as the marchers, is the irony of holding a gun-control rally in Washington, D.C. More than a quarter century after the nation's capital banned nearly all private firearms, the city's gun-violence problem has not gotten any better. The latest statistics show that Washington is once again murder capital of the United States. For cities of greater than 500,000 people, the district's 262 killings in 2002 made its murder rate higher than Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, and other dangerous cities.

Perhaps this helps explain the sparse attendance at the Mother's Day rally — even in the midst of a national debate on renewing the assault-weapons ban.

Like a march that promises a million moms but delivers much less, gun control is an idea that sounds better in theory than it works in practice.

We all should be aware that the far-left liberals couldn’t mislead about what goes on in Washington DC unless they get cooperation from the media. SDP’s has a post regarding a far-left liberal who happens to be an editor at South Dakota’s largest newspaper…the Gannett owned Argus Leader. Tony Dean would have had a difficult time pulling off his 2002 con game without the help of David Kranz.

UPDATE: Thanks to Glenn Reynolds of InstaPundit, I found this link that analyses the media coverage of this year's Million Mom March.

David Kranz & Herseth campaign

Remember the David Kranz column when he used a Stuart Rothenberg quote. SDP has found a Rothenberg column regarding Stephanie Herseth hypocritically using the negative card:

In turn, Herseth responded as if Diedrich just accused her of strangling kittens. She badly overreacted, making herself the one guilty of directing a “negative attack.” In her response spot, Herseth asserts that the Republican “tries to mislead you about my position on taxes,” a far more loaded phrase than any her opponent used. Then, she lowers the boom on him, closing her ad with, “I approved this message because I’m committed to a truthful campaign. It’s clear that Larry Diedrich is not.”

I spotted this myself and posted on how David Kranz helped the Herseth campaign with this propaganda. I also provided evidence that Herseth is against making tax cuts permanent. Again, this is a consistent ploy by liberals. Use the “negative card” as a sword to attack the opponent as they use the “negative card” as a shield to prevent discussion on issues that do not favor them. They can only be successful with the cooperation of the liberal media. Don't expect David Kranz to be quoting Rothenberg on this one.

Liberals continue deception

As usual, liberals use deception to mislead Americans. This time it the anti-gun movement. It’s Million Mom March organization managed only 2,000 participants yesterday:

It wasn't a "Million Mom March" -- it was a "thousand gang limp," said one Second Amendment supporter, describing Sunday's anti-gun march in Washington.

The Washington Post, which ran the story on page B-1, said "thousands" of people, mostly women, marched to "end gun violence" on Sunday.

The newspaper described the rally as "the largest gun-control demonstration in four years," then went on to say, "The rally lacked star power, and certainly the numbers, of the first Million Mom March in 2000, when hundreds of thousands of women flooded the Mall on Mother's Day."

The Washington Post said organizers of this year's event estimated the number of attendees "at close to 3,000." The Associated Press put the number at 2,000, according to John Michael Snyder, public affairs director of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA).

Snyder said the rally shows "the good citizens of the United States of America would rather spend Mother's Day enjoying their time with the mothers of America than wasting it on Brady bunch nonsense."

Tom Daschle honored this anti-gun group for it's 2000 March on the floor of the Senate with the Daschle Amendment No. 3148. Here’s an excerpt from that legislation:

Determined, That it is the sense of the Senate that—

(1) the organizers, sponsors, and participants of the Million Mom March should be commended for rallying to demand sensible gun safety legislation; and

(2) Congress should immediately pass a conference report to accompany H.R. 1501, the Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability and Rehabilitation Act, before the Memorial Day Recess, and include the Lautenberg-Kerrey gun show loophole amendment and the other Senate-passed provisions designed to limit access to firearms by juveniles, convicted felons, and other persons prohibited by law from purchasing or possessing firearms.

Earlier this year Daschle voted in support of the 2004 cause for the movement’s ban on semi-automatic rifles…what the politically correct crowd refer to as assault weapons. Watch to see if Tony Dean voices his support for Daschle in the 2004 South Dakota Senate race.

Sibby Online Googled

This web site has been linked to by the Google search engine frequently over that last couple of days. Many have been due to searches on words like “unedited iraqi prisoner abuse photos”. Here is the link to the post that has attracted all the buzz.

As I have been arguing, people have been coming to the Internet to obtain information not covered by the mainstream media.

DVT has a brilliant post to illustrate the few times when the media provides to South Dakota the ugly truth about Tom Daschle.

Kerry campaign recent email

Check out this Washington Times report on a recent Kerry campaign email regarding the prison abuse in Iraq:

As Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld answered questions yesterday about abuse in an Iraqi prison run by the U.S. military, John Kerry's presidential campaign sent out a mass e-mail calling for Mr. Rumsfeld's resignation and asking for donations.

"Keep the ball rolling," wrote campaign manager Mary Beth Cahill. "Donate now!"

"Over the past week we have all been shocked by the pictures from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq," wrote Ms. Cahill. "John Kerry has called on Donald Rumsfeld to resign, and today we're asking you to support him by adding your name to the call for Rumsfeld to resign."

In addition to allowing recipients to sign a petition demanding that Mr. Rumsfeld resign, the e-mail also permitted recipients to donate cash online.

Asked if the campaign was concerned about linking fund raising to the prisoner-abuse scandal, spokesman Chad Clanton initially said there was no mention of raising money in the e-mail.

After he was sent a copy of the e-mail with the fund-raising pitch, Mr. Clanton replied: "John Kerry has made it clear that our men and women in uniform deserve a Commander in Chief that takes responsibility for the bad as well as the good. The bottom line is: We need more than just a new Secretary of Defense. We need a new president."

Mr. Kerry also spoke about the abuse case in a speech yesterday before the Democratic Leadership Council.

"The chain of command goes all the way to the Oval Office," said Mr. Kerry. "America does not merely need a new secretary of defense. We need a new president."

In his speech in Arizona, Mr. Kerry also used the Iraqi prisoner-abuse scandal to harken to another common theme in his presidential campaign: As president, he would be a better ambassador to the world's foreign leaders.

"When I am president, I will demand accountability from those who serve, and I will take responsibility for their actions," Mr. Kerry said.

So as the Republican administration condemns the abuses and apologizes to the world, Kerry goes on the attack to raise money. Looks like forgiveness is another Catholic principle that Kerry has rejected.

As far as Kerry’s ability to “demand accountability”, lets not forget his defense and support of a commander in chief who lied under oath and obstructed justice. Should we take a look at his statements before and during the Clinton impeachment? I would be willing to bet that the normal Democratic two-step would disclose another flip-flop.