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| ARCHIVE | ARCHIVE | ARCHIVE |
| Sunday, April 27, 2003 |
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"The president has confidence in the senator and believes he's doing a good job as senator" and in his No. 3 Senate GOP leadership post, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Friday.In a recent interview with The Associated Press, Santorum compared homosexuality to bigamy, polygamy, incest and adultery. He also said the right to privacy does not exist in the Constitution.
"The president believes the senator is an inclusive man. And that's what he believes," Fleischer said.
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So just how did Ari Fleischer issue these widely quoted remarks? According to the White House web site, Fleischer published one statement Friday, and it made no mention of Santorum. His only interactive session with the press that day was a briefing, the transcript of which does not include the quotes at issue either, but does contain this exchange:
Q: Ari, both Senator Frist and Senator Specter have publicly supported Senator Santorum. And my question: Does the President believe they were wrong to do so, because while governor of Texas he ever tried to get that state's sodomy law repealed?Intriguingly, Mr. Fleischer referred to what he "said this morning". But what exactly did he say earlier Friday morning, and who did he say it to? All we have are a few context-free sentence fragments attributed to Fleischer, with no indication of the mechanism by which they came to be known to the media.MR. FLEISCHER: As I said this morning, Lester, the President has confidence in Senator Santorum, both as a senator, as a member of the Senate leadership.
The thing is, the administration hated the Santorum story and desperately wanted it to go away (see "GOP Gag Order" at Atrios), but the fundamentalist sponsors of the GOP were expressing displeasure with the Republican Party's lack of support for Santorum. To appease the base without drawing too much attention, the White Houses appears to have injected its wording of choice directly into the media mainline. Slick. However, some media entity must have carried the administration's water here, conveying Ari Fleischer's oddly truncated "inclusive man" quote set - exactly what the White House wanted published, and nothing more - to the rest of the media, without leaving a trace. It would be interesting to know how they pulled that off.
| Friday, April 25, 2003 |
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As the controversy surrounding Sen. Rick Santorum continues to rage, the leadership of the Republican Party is AWOL. Beyond a few tepid statements of personal support for Sen. Santorum, no prominent national GOP leader seems willing or able to mount a spirited, principled defense of marriage and family. The question naturally arises: Have Republican leaders been so intimidated by the smear tactics of the homosexual lobby and its Democratic attack dogs that they are cowering in silence? If Republican leaders cannot mount a vigorous defense of marriage, then pro-family voters perhaps should begin to reconsider their loyalty to the party.Is the Right finally showing some cleavage?
| Thursday, April 24, 2003 |
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| John Derbyshire |
Shorter John Derbyshire:
Pseudoscience vs. Snobbery
- I am unable to distinguish between Vladimir Lenin's communist dictatorship
and Bill Clinton's center-right liberalism.
- I detest snobbery, I mean, I really, viscerally, loathe it, and this leads me to
hold in utter contempt the vapid antisocial dimwits who hold views that are
clearly inferior to my own.
- I myself am a scientifically-educated person but I prefer to deal with people who believe
in mythology and pseudoscience, because that makes them more reliable.
- Given a choice between a president who believes that the universe is 6,000 years old and a president with some grasp of science, I prefer the one who opposes fornication and homosexuality.
| Wednesday, April 23, 2003 |
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Shorter Senator Rick Santorum:
I'm not against gay sex, I'm against all sex unless it's blessed by a priest,
or is with a priest.
| Tuesday, April 22, 2003 |
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Gingrich blasts 'political failure' at State Department
White House defends Powell
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| Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
illustrates the extent of Powell's effectiveness in the White House. |
Gingrich said that in the internal White House debate, the State Department had failed to convince the president that the U.N.-sanctioned inspections process was working and that there was no real evidence of Iraq possessing any weapons of mass destruction, and that a failure of this magnitude meant that it was time for "bold, dramatic change" at the department.
"The last seven months have involved six months of diplomatic and political failure and one month of military success," said Gingrich, a conservative intellectual and frequent Fox News contributor. "Unfortunately, these failures resulted in the initiation of an unprovoked war on pretexts that were flimsy to non-existent." Quoting from the Judgment of the Nuremburg Tribunal, Gingrich noted that "to initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime."
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| Secretary of State Colin Powell at
work in the White House. |
The White House, however, expressed its confidence in Powell.
"There was nothing Secretary Powell could have done to prevent this war, since the president absolutely wanted to do Iraq," White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer said Tuesday. "Secretary Powell did an excellent job as an usher in that process."
In his speech, Gingrich said he was not criticizing personalities, but "effectiveness." And he had some praise for Powell.
"I think Secretary Powell is very bright, very able in his own way, but I just think he is in over his head in this White House," Gingrich said. "The secretary of state should be a bold, dramatic, synthesizing thinker, a far-sighted visionary with a firm grasp of the future who has a plan to renew America."
| Monday, April 21, 2003 |
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- Military occupation = freedom.
- Screw France!
- Screw Russia!
- Follow the money, but never to Bechtel or Halliburton.
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