ANOTHER MEDIA WHORE FOR BUSHCO... DEM CONGRESSMAN'S FUNNY STAND-UP...

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Didn't we KNOW there would be more "journalists" outed as media whores for BUSHCO, Inc.?

ANOTHER COLUMNIST WAS PAID TO PROMOTE A BUSH PROPOSAL!
DRUDGE REPORTS - Jan 25 2005:
In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative encouraging marriage as a way of strengthening families.

But Gallagher failed to mention that she had a $21,500 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services to help promote the president's proposal, reveals Howard Kurtz in Wednesday runs of the WASHINGTON POST.

"The Bush marriage initiative would emphasize the importance of marriage to poor couples" and "educate teens on the value of delaying childbearing until marriage," she wrote in National Review Online, for example, adding that this could "carry big payoffs down the road for taxpayers and children."

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ARCH-PROCREATIONIST MAGGIE GALLAGHER weaseled:

"But the real truth is that it never occurred to me. On reflection, I think Howard (Kurtz) is right. I should have disclosed a government contract, when I later wrote about the Bush marriage initiative ... Did I violate journalistic ethics by not disclosing it? I don't know. You tell me."

She said she would have "been happy to tell anyone who called me" about the contract but that "frankly, it never occurred to me" to disclose it. Smarmy National Review Editor Rich Lowry said of the HHS contract: "We would have preferred that she told us, and we would have disclosed it in her bio."

(Silly Rev. - he remembers an unsolicited check for 50 buck$ from a born-again friend during a period of unemployment. He remembers buying groceries for the family - and this was back in 1972! )

So - what did da gummint get for OUR tax money? Here's a sample: "Polygamy is not worse than gay marriage, it is better. At least polygamy, for all its ugly defects, is an attempt to secure stable mother-father families for children ..." [Maggie Gallagher - the "UN-Feminist]

(Is the "Conservative Cycle" winding down (as I've predicted) because it's 37 years old - or because right-wingers like Maggie and others who make up DUBYA's base and/or pander to it - have been seriously (and arrogantly) overreaching?)

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DEM CONGRESSMAN JOKES THAT DUBYA'S LOOKING INTO THE SUN ...

Richard Leiby reports in today's WaPo that DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSMAN BRIAN BAIRD of Washington State "had the crowd in stitches with his President Bush imitation at the Hotline's post-inaugural comedy review Friday night at the Warner Theatre - a taped performance now available for wider public consumption at C-SPAN.org.

"You folks in the liberal media will print anything if we call it 'Operation,' " the blue-tied Baird riffed. "Operation Iraqi Freedom is going to now be known as Operation Shia Theocracy. We're very proud of our successes there . . ."

"On the education front, we're going to launch Operation Easier Grammar. You see, there is way too many rules in grammar . . . This will help my daughters pass the No Child Left Behind test."

He closed to guffaws by announcing Operation Solar Landing: "It's gonna put a man on the sun. Now, I know, I know, you pointy-headed academics and you liberal judges, you don't think we can do that. [Pause.] Heh. We're going at night!"

Next up for Congressman Baird the mimic? "I've got a pretty good Charlie Rangel," he said, then launched into an uncanny imitation of the gravel-voiced fellow Democrat.

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Back in the fall - COLUMNIST JAN GLIDEWELL wrote in the St. Pete Times (EXCERPT): " ... I heard the folk singer talking about an e-mail concerning an upcoming festival in which entertainers were being asked to please refrain from singing "political" songs.

Hmm ... a folk concert without political songs. That tickled the last few vestiges of the humorist deep in my soul.

So, what were people going to sing?

Blowing In The Wind: But Only in the Correct Direction as Decided and Announced by the Government?

We Shall Not Exactly Overcome, But Learn to Live With, Never Question and Never Challenge?

Give War A Chance?

Would all the love songs be about lifelong commitments between one man and one woman, all of the songs about our nation's scenic beauty be sure to incorporate references to the aesthetic appeal of pipelines and offshore drilling rigs?

Would we sing Florida's state song in the original (and still official by state law) offensive minstrel-show blackface parody of African-American dialect in which it was written by a man who never saw the Suwannee River? ... "

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Also in the St. Pete Times this week -

ROBYN BLUMNER, Times Perspective Columnist, writes "Free speech is bad words, too."

(EXCERPT) : "Nowhere in the Constitution is there a guaranteed freedom from being offended. It is not a right that comes with American citizenship, like the right to vote. Just the opposite. If the Constitution had a warning label, it would read: Caution, your right to freedom of speech means others have a parallel right, which is highly likely to occasionally provoke anger, annoyance, disgust and offense.

This is a very small price to pay for the ability to speak our minds. But apparently it is too high for some. These people are the overly sensitive, easily wounded, walking eggshells among us who equate being offended with being a victim - a status from which they firmly believe the government should protect them. They want the state to determine taste and propriety (as long as it comports perfectly with their own) and enforce those standards in law. Pandering politicians are more than happy to oblige.

The danger is that their demand for the cleansing of public discourse gives the government the power to shut down some speakers and strip the emotive force from others, transforming "freedom of speech" into "speech at the government's leave."

Government-approved fare tends toward mush ...

Elected officials generally stand with clamoring constituents against the free speech rights of the profane or unpopular. Only the First Amendment acts as a bulwark against this censorious reflex, and courts must be counted on to man the ramparts.

... in protecting the crassest amongst us, we uphold the highest values of a free society. So the next time you're deeply offended, whether it is by a musician cursing at a neighboring outdoor concert or, as I am, by the inane rantings of Ann Coulter, smile - that just means you live in freedom."

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SHE'S THE FORMER SWEET POTATO QUEEN!

Country Singer-Songwriter KACEY JONES

Her hit singles/videos include - *But I'm Not Bitter / *1-900-Bubba / *You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly ... and her latest esca, uh, release -

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What's this?

An all-chick rockabilly band? Rockabilly burlesque?

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