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Posted at 4:16pm on Jan. 9, 2008 Re: Huckabee a liberal?
By Neil Stevens
Personally, I don't see how it defends Mike Huckabee to attack the records of others. If he were my guy, I'd want to lift him up. Surely if he's actually a right-winger it's possible to show it that instead of just dragging the other guys down to lift Huckabee by comparison?
Posted at 11:15am on Nov. 19, 2007 Radio News Director starts tossing the ad-hominems... but only at conservatives?
By RightMichigan.com
Cross-posted on Right Michigan at www.RightMichigan.com.
WKZO News Director John McNeill thinks anyone questioning Jon Stryker's connection with medicare fraud is "dumb." Libs questioning conservatives over flimsier claims? Well, apparently they're libs, no big deal. But the MSM isn't biased.
And they wonder why we accuse them of having a liberal bias? I've been itching to share this one with everyone for a few days now but I decided to have patience. Sadly, it's starting to look like no amount of waiting will make a difference.
Last week Right Michigan detailed the United States Justice Department's settlement with the Stryker Corporation, the family business and cash cow of radical-lib money man and gay-special-rights vigilante Jon Stryker. Turned out his company had stolen tens of millions of dollars from American seniors at the same time Styker's profits were shooting through the roof and the man was personally purchasing the Michigan House of Representatives with unprecedented amounts of campaign cash.
Lets review the facts, shall we? For instance:
Stryker's cash is dirty. Filthy. Saul at MRP has called on House Democrats, Jennifer Granholm and others to return the illegal cash and to separate themselves from the criminal actions that led to it's donation. But they're not going to. And that's not a surprise. The Dems talk a good game on ethics and accountability but when push comes to shove they've got Norman Hsu's, Chinese bus boys without citizenship and Jon Stryker's hiding in their closets. Especially here in Michigan.
Nothing new for Granholm, Stabenow, Levin and Dillon. They're used to taking tainted money. They just brush off complaints about it and hope their Dem constituency is still wearing their blue sunglasses. But our friends in the MSM? Well, one of them didn't very much like me going after his BFF Jon Stryker.
What follows is an email exchange between myself and John McNeill, the news director at Kalamazoo's AM radio leader, WKZO.
I love KZO. I seriously do. For the longest time you couldn't hear a Tigers game on the radio in Grand Rapids. If the Tigers weren't going to the playoffs the local sports radio station couldn't be bothered with their broadcasts. KZO never waivered in their support for the Tigers. And I will always love and appreciate them for it.
Even today when I listen to a game (and I listen to a lot of them) I put my "money" where my mouth is... or my ear at least... and put up with a bit of a fainter signal, always tuning into 590 instead of 1340.
But their News Director? He could probably take a cue from the class that's been illustrated by the sports department.
From: John McNeill john@wkzo.com,
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Posted at 10:21pm on Nov. 12, 2007 Mike Huckabee and his campaign lying about his record [UPDATED]
By Neil Stevens
Mike Huckabee and his campaign are lying about his record in order to attempt to discredit the Club for Growth's revelations about his history of raising taxes in Arkansas.
Chip Saltsman, Mike Huckabee's campaign manager, says this on the candidate's web page:
More than 80% of the voters supported a 4-cent tax on diesel fuel to fix the roads. Similarly, the voters approved a 1/8 cent increase in the sales tax to preserve their natural and cultural heritage. The Governor would have violated his oath of office if he did not go with the will of these voters. He did not raise taxes -- the people did.
The candidate himself said the same thing on Meet the Press:
Did we raise taxes on fuel? Yes, but 80 percent of the people voted on it because it was on the ballot. So it wasn’t that I raised it. I joined with 80 percent of the people in my state to improve what was the worst road system in the country.
The problem is, it's just not true.
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Posted at 2:13pm on Oct. 29, 2007 Rudy Right Enough
By California Yankee
In the Washington Post, David Greenberg writes that Rudy is a confirmed right-winger:
On issues such as free speech and religion, secrecy and due process, civil rights and civil liberties, pornography and democracy, this moralist and self-styled lawman has exhibited all the key hallmarks of Bush-era conservatism.[. . .]
The case for Giuliani's moderation rests mainly on three overblown issues -- guns, gay rights and abortion -- and even in those cases, his deviation from conservative orthodoxy is far milder than is usually suggested.
The "social" and "cultural" issues that divide Americans encompass much more than guns, gay rights and abortion. They include state support of religion; the legitimacy of dissenting speech; the president's right to keep information secret; the place of fair procedures in dispensing justice. The Bush administration's hard-line stands on these matters have polarized the nation as much as the Iraq war has. And on these issues, Giuliani is just as hard-line as the man he'd like to succeed.
Greenberg relies upon Rudy's attempt to censor an art exhibit featuring a painting of the Virgin Mary that used clumps of elephant dung; his plan to fund parochial schools with city money; His directive that police confiscate the cars of people charged with drunken driving; and his efforts to remain mayor beyond his term.
Read on.
Posted in 2008 | 2008 Presidential Campaign | Howard Dean | Liberal | Mainstream | Moderate | Right-Winger | Rudy Giuliani — Comments (117)/ Email this page » / Read More »
