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James Webb Watch: Nancy Reagan Demands Webb PULL Fraudulent Campaign Ad Featuring Ronald Reagan
Democrat Jim Webb’s first TV ad shows President Ronald Reagan speaking at the Naval Academy.
AP: Nancy Reagan objects to campaign ad
Democratic Senate candidate Jim Webb has a television ad ready to air featuring praise from his late boss Ronald Reagan — and Nancy Reagan called on him Friday to cancel it.
Webb, who was Reagan’s Navy secretary before Webb switched to the Democratic Party, uses the ultimate GOP icon to send a sentimental message to conservatives and moderates courted by his opponent, Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record). The ad is scheduled to begin airing next week.
But a three-paragraph letter from the former first lady’s office said the use of footage of Reagan, who died in 2004, is “neither authorized nor appropriate.”
In a telephone interview, Edwin Meese, attorney general under Reagan, called use of the footage “improper, unethical and very possibly illegal. … For him to use video of Ronald Reagan to appear in a campaign ad to favor him is fraud.”James Web is having his own Virginia MACACA moment.
What a DUMBASS in not asking permission from President Reagan’s family.
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The Ryskind Sketchbook: Editor in Chief
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Senator Joe Lieberman Watch: “Hey Ned, it’s 2006”
Sen. Joe Lieberman sits with Jack Stoeber, 88, of Milford, Conn., while campaigning at the Blue Sky Dinner in Stratford, Conn., Friday, Sept. 8, 2006.
AP: Lieberman Defends 1998 Rebuke of Clinton
Democrat Challenge Ned lamont reveals his true negative and weak POS character.
Is there any wonder that Lieberman leads in all of the polls?
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Iran Watch: Will CAIR Cancel Khatami Reception?
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Iran Nuclear Watch:United States Treasury Department Targets Hezbollah’s and Iran’s Financial Institutions
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana (L) gives a press conference next to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen in Marienborg, Denmark. Solana has said that no UN sanctions would be imposed on Iran as long as talks continued on Tehran’s controversial nuclear program.
Treasury Department Targets Hezbollah’s and Iran’s Financial Institutions
In actions announced yesterday and today, the Treasury Department makes it clear that the U.S. will pursue the financial institutions which assist Hezbollah and the Iranian regime. Today, Treasury cut off access to the U.S. financial system by Iran’s Bank Saderat, one of Iranian-owned banks, by making it impossible to conduct “U-turn transactions,” which allow U.S. banks to process payments involving Iran that begin and end with a non-Iranian foreign bank. The Treasury statement asserts, “The bank is used by the Government of Iran to transfer money to terrorist organizations, including Hizballah, Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. A notable example of this is a Hizballah-controlled organization that has received $50 million directly from Iran through Bank Saderat since 2001.” Stuart Levey, the senior Treasury anti-terrorist financing official, said, “Bank Saderat facilitates Iran’s transfer of hundreds of millions of dollars to Hizballah and other terrorist organizations each year.”
The United States is not going to wait for the United Nations to MEANINGLESSLY SANCTION Iran.
In other feckless action: Talks on Iran nuclear crisis to resume Monday by phone: US
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Watch: Arnold Apologizes over “HOT” FLAP
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger listens while California Assemblywoman Bonnie Garcia, R-Palm Springs, left, talks about tape-recorded comments the governor made about her at a news conference in Santa Monica, Calif., Friday, Sept. 8, 2006. Schwarzenegger apologized Friday for saying during a closed-door meeting that Cubans and Puerto Ricans are naturally feisty and temperamental because of their combination of ‘black blood’ and ‘Latino blood.’ Garcia said she was not offended by the governor’s comments. Garcia earlier told the Los Angeles Times that she often calls herself a ‘hot-blooded Latina.’
AP: Schwarzenegger Apologizes Over Remark
The Audio is here and The Quote:
On the recording, Schwarzenegger describes Republican legislators as the “wild bunch” and, referring to Garcia, casually says that “black blood” mixed with “Latino blood” equals “hot.”
“I mean, they are all very hot,” the governor says on the audio recording. “They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it.”
A Schwarzenegger Macaca moment?
Doubtful……
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The Path to 9/11 Watch: ABC About to Cancel?
“The Path to 9/11” is looking a lot like “The Reagans, Part II.”
Bill Clinton loyalists are demanding wholesale changes to the upcoming miniseries — and while ABC is making some snips, the alterations, insiders say, may not please the Dems.
But a bombshell decision may happen anyway: Sources close to the project say the network, which has been in a media maelstrom over the pic, is mulling the idea of yanking the mini altogether.
Well, there is precedence……
Update:
Redstate (via Allah) says that ABC is canceling ads.
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CIA Leak Case Watch: Richard Armitage Comes “CLEAN”
Washington Post: Armitage Says He Was Source of CIA Leak
Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage said yesterday that he believes he was the initial source for a 2003 newspaper column by Robert D. Novak that disclosed the CIA’s previously secret employment of Valerie Plame, the wife of a prominent critic of the U.S. war in Iraq.
Armitage said that he learned about Plame’s employment from a State Department memo that did not mention her covert status, and that he had no knowledge of it at the time. In 40 years of reading classified materials, Armitage said in a telephone interview, “I have never seen in a memo . . . a covert agent’s name.”
Novak’s disclosure of Plame’s CIA employment ultimately led to the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the leak. In October of last year, a grand jury indicted vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on charges of lying to investigators about his conversations with reporters about Plame, forcing his resignation and embarrassing the White House.
Richard Armitage is a SELF-SERVING DUMBASS.
Patrick Fitzgerald should end the prosecution of Scooter Libby and/or the President should pardon him.
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Plamegate Watch: Valerie Plame Cashes IN
CIA Leak Case Watch: Bob Novak – “President Knows Leak Sourceâ€
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Iran Watch: Mohammad Khatami – Time is Not Yet Right for Direct Dialogue Between the United States and Iran
Former President of Iran Mohammad Khatami (bottom L) speaks at the National Cathedral in Washington September 7, 2006. Listening are Reverend Samuel Lloyd (top R), Dean of the National Cathedral, and an unidentified interpreter (top L).
Washington Post: At Cathedral, Iran’s Khatami Urges Dialogue
Amid noisy protests and tight security, former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami issued a call at the Washington National Cathedral yesterday for leaders in both the West and the Islamic world to launch a historic dialogue to “rescue life from the claws of the warmongers and violence-seekers and ostentatious leaders.”
But Khatami, who served as president between 1997 and 2005, signaled that the time is not yet right for direct dialogue between the United States and Iran. He warned that the language of threats needs to end for any negotiation to have a chance — an indirect reference to U.S. and U.N. pressure to impose new sanctions on Iran because of disputes over its nuclear program.
The time is not yet right for direct talks between the United States and Iran because Iran does not yet possess nuclear weapons. Who is this TERRORIST THUG attempting to fool?
It is outrageous that the United States government allows one of Iran’s THEOCRATS and a senior propagandist to come to the National Cathedral and spue forth his BULL. Again, let’s look at who this TERRORIST is:
When he became president in 1997, Khatami was reputed to be a moderate democratic reformer. If he had lived up to that reputation, his arrival in America might well be worth celebrating. True, his style was not as incendiary as that of his successor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. But he was just as committed to Khomeini’s radical revolution and its goal of worldwide Islamist rule. If there is one thing Khatami’s presidency made clear, it is that the man was no moderate.
His election came only after religious authorities disqualified 234 potential competitors they considered too liberal. In his own writings, Khatami has insisted that “only those who have attended religious seminaries should have a voice in government.”
He is no more opposed to terrorism than he is to theocracy. As minister of culture and Islamic guidance in the 1980s, he oversaw the creation of Hezbollah, the terrorist group that would kill more Americans prior to 9/11 than any other terrorist organization. During the recent war in Lebanon, he hailed Hezbollah as “a shining sun that illuminates and warms the hearts of all Muslims.” Throughout Khatami’s term of office, the US State Department identified Iran as the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism. It was on his watch that Bush named Iran a part of the “Axis of Evil.”
In 1998, Khatami’s intelligence agents brutally murdered Darioush and Parvaneh Forouhar, two well-known leaders of Iran’s liberal opposition. The following year, government thugs attacked student dissidents at Tehran University. Several students were killed. Hundreds were arrested and tortured.
Many Iranians had hoped that Khatami’s accession to office would mean more freedom of speech and of the press. But he presided over the shutting down of at least 85 newspapers and the prosecution of numerous journalists. Reporters Without Borders called Iran under Khatami “the biggest prison for journalists in the Middle East.” It was a prison as well for Iran’s religious minorities, all of which were severely persecuted.
But, he dresses in nice robes and talks in a soft deprecating manner, how can this mid-level Shiite cleric be such a SCUMBAG?
Well, despotic terrorist actions speak louder than soft-spoken requests for dialogue and speeches at cathedrals.
Folks, Khamai is a RADICAL ISLAMOFASCIST who wants world Islamic domination.
Former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami speaks at a news conference at the National Cathedral in Washington, September 7, 2006. Khatami on Thursday said Iran could discuss suspending its nuclear program once talks with the West had begun.
After the cathedral soft shoe, Khatami held a news conference.
The video is here at C-Span (Via Allah).
And there were protests.
A group of Iranians hold up pictures in protest of the visit to the United States from Iranian Mullah Mohammad Khatami, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006, during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington.
On the other side of Wisconsin Avenue, a crowd of about 200 shouted, “Shame on you,” as invitees waited to pass through security and enter the cathedral gates. Khatami spoke before an audience of 1,300.
Many of the protesters waved photographs of victims of Iranian government torture and pictures of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the last shah, toppled in the 1979 revolution. Banners urged, “No dialogue, no war, only regime change,” and “Free all political prisoners in Iran.”
So, now, onto Harvard for Khatami as the Iran Mullah Propaganda Show continues.
Just think, after Khatami finishes we have Iran President Ahmadinejad speaking (and wishing to debate President Bush) in New York at the United Nations.
Oh the Dialogue…..But Oh the ISLAMOFASCISM…….
Nasrein Mohamad, sister of Iranian political prisoner Akbar Mohamad, speaks at the news conference at the National Press Club in Washington September 7, 2006 to protest the U.S. visit of former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami .
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Day By Day by Chris Muir September 8, 2006