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CONTENTS: SLEAZE FACTOR- INSIDE TRADES, NADERTRADER EXISTS HERE, BUSH SCANDALS reach
CRITICAL MASS, RUSSIA/US IRAN
DEAL, BUSH ABORTION?, THE
CLOTHLESS KING, HOW BUSH LIES, DAN ROSENBERG, RALPH’s QUEST, BEATING a DEAD HORSE, COULD WINNER LOSE?, MOSES GOES MAD, NYHANS’s
COLUMN on us, CONFEDERACY of the DUNCES WANTED: Videotape
of Bush/Letterman Interview - Nov 4,2000
- Previous Newsletters see MENU; See UPDATED NEWS Links on P 2 of Site;
SLEAZE FACTOR NARROWLY EXPOSED - The Guardian (UK) blasted Bush for his record of sleaze on 11/6, exposing his SEC INSIDER TRADING (see SLEAZE link on home). Yet all the scandals remained unplumbed, the spoiled frat boy cruising unmolested to the door of the Presidsency.
FROM GUARDIAN: [[[[The drunken driving arrest is not the only character evidence from Bush's past that has been suppressed or glossed over. On October 2, the Center for Public Integrity in Washington and Bill Muntaglio and Nancy Beiles in Talk magazine revealed that Bush not once but repeatedly missed the legal deadlines for reporting his insider stock trades when he was a director and member of the audit committee of a ropey Texas oil company, Harken Energy. In 1991, three years before he ran for governor, the Wall Street Journal headlined one instance when Bush sold near the top of the market before the stock plunged, pocketing nearly $850,000. He was eight months late in reporting this coup. He claimed he had but that the SEC had "lost the paperwork". But neither the Journal, or anyone else, has asked Bush if the SEC "lost the paperwork" when he was derelict on three other newly-documented insider trades he did not report in the way required by the anti-corruption laws.
----The 1991 SEC investigation, criticised for being run by friends of then President Bush, ended inconclusively. Bush, it was said, could not have known of the magnitude of Harken's impending loss when he sold out. But the SEC never interviewed Bush and documents obtained last month under the Freedom of Information Act clearly show that Bush had more knowledge than he admitted. At least twice during the month he cashed out, he received memos showing the company was in financial peril.
----The man who claims the presidency on the grounds of probity has asserted: "I believe in individual accountability and individual responsibility." But the credulous press and the cerebrally challenged television talk shows have been too busy pillorying Gore to ask Bush to reconcile rhetoric and action. "I will do everything I can," he has said, "to defend the power of private property and private property rights." But he has failed to reconcile that public testament with his enrichment from the seizure of private land for his Texas Rangers baseball stadium. Though then a private citizen, he contrived to use the power of the state to claim eminent domain over 270 acres - most of which was not needed for the stadium. Families who lost their land so that Bush and his partners could profit from the development potential are still mad at him for the land-grab and the ordeal of court hearings they had to initiate before getting a fair price.]]]]]
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DRUNK but not forgotten: What's amazing is that Dubbaya didn't manage to wipe this off the record like he apparently did his cocaine conviction- he did community service with an inner city Houston "PUSH"-like org. (can you see Shrub doing THAT without coercion). He lied to a TV reporter about his conviction, didn't put it on a jury pool form, and switched his (+ wifes) TX driver license number in a highly unusual move in '96? (only used for identity theft). Hopefully the investigative pressure may make some editor allow the SEC or abortion or esp. AWOL story (esp after Sen Bob Kerrey blasted Bush publicly for it) to break. NYT + WP have picked up the AWOL story + Kerrey appeared on a Sun morn news show. Deadline for nitronews is Sun night- convention states they don't break blockbuster revelations the last day. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4291-2000Nov2.html IRAN
CONTRA PAYBACK
- (or you hurt my daddy): Suddenly Bush's inaccurate attack on Russian PM
Chernomyrdin for pocketing IMF money, (when he only pocketed Sov. Gas/Oil money
as Gasprom head) becomes clear, with the revelation of a supposedly
secret 1995 US/Russian deal to limit Russian arms sales to Iran between Gore +
Chernomyrdin (whom I questioned in Mockba). The Repubs hope that this will be a biblical reprise of the
humiliating Iran/Contra affair, carefully hoarded for the final 2 weeks, but
the analogy isn't apt. Russia was in the process of selling advanced weapons to
Iran: cruise missiles, submarines, air-to-air missiles and horrifyingly uranium
separation gear (the hardest part of getting fissionable material). This
agreement, which was duly reported to the House Committee, succeeded in
preventing cruise and other missile transfers and nuclear weapons technology to
Iran, and ended all arms sales in 1999. At the time, Russia was economically
devastated by the break-up and 2000% total inflation since the freeing of fixed
prices in '92, 55% of their industrial capacity was military and was paralyzed
by collapse- they considered these sales a matter of Nat. Security; publicity
about American bribes (or threats) to cancel them would have caused a firestorm
in the nationalistic Duma. I actually tried to persuade Russian
leaders of their folly in an article about the Armenia/Azerbaijan (+4 other
southern) wars that converted into a warning about these reckless arms sales to
Iran, in a Russian English- language paper, as a correspondent in Moscow in
'93. It was, I believe, the only article of dozens they wouldn't run. The
Soviet Union had killed tens of thousands of Moslems in the heinous Afghani
War- they were more at risk of terrorism (+ far closer) than the US; a year
later they reduced Islamic Grozny to rubble in a WW2 artillery barrage- the
current Chechen War was due to apartment-destroying terrorist bombings (they
think by the Chechens). Expected
this "scandal" to be kept boiling in Cong. hearings for the next 2
weeks, although Joseph de Thomas, Dep. Assis Sec. State for Non-Proliferation,
who has "served 20 years under both parties" swears that this was a
righteous and necessary agreement for American security; but there has been
little interest. Did anyone think Bush wouldn't play dirty?
Although Bush retains a 1-4 point lead in most polls, they are deceptive: Bush's massive lead in TX (60-70%) + other western states are skewing the result- until Al is more than 2-3 points behind in popular vote, HE IS AHEAD in electoral votes. Al is ahead + surging in FL (big), PA, MI, IL, WA- if he wins these, he WINS. Many Nader voters, contemplating the grave implications of their vote, will switch to Gore, which has happened in WA: once holding 11%, the highest in co., Nader's support is down to 3-5%.
BUSH SCANDALS
ERUPTING?: If the major press finally do their job, the incredible Bush
record of sleaze and malfeasance will come to forefront in the closing days: the
BUSH PERJURY in the FUNERAL HOME
Scandal, where a big Bush donor and family friend prevailed on the Gov.
to crush and disband the TX regulatory agency that was trying to rein in his
co. outrageous practices (unlicensed embalmers where the corpse leaked fluid
out of every orifice); Bush’s going
AWOL for over a year from his Nat. Guard duties because he was
afraid of taking the new drug test;
Georgie's conviction for INSIDER TRADING when he dumped millions of Harken stock a few days before it crashed (family pal SEC director only slapped him on the wrist), Larry Flynt’s charge that Bush got a girlfriend an abortion in
1970, which has been carefully suppressed (Flynt was right about Livingston,
right about Newt, and I believe had the goods on Trent Lott- is he right about
this?); Bush’s callous disregard of the
rank inequities in the TX justice system, as he fries people at a rate
as fast as the entire country put together (up to 4/week). Huge compendium of TX executions: http://members.nbci.com/ccadp/serialpresident.htm
War
hero Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey blasts
Bush on his evasion of service:
In
an e-mail to Bush Watch, KGO-AM talk show host Bernie Ward summarized his
Tuesday half-hour on-air phone discussion with Larry Flynt about Flynt's
accusations that George W. Bush was "involved in" an abortion in 1970
as follows: Flynt "says that in 1970 Bush's father was running for the
Senate against Lloyd Bentsen....that younger Bush was working for daddy...that
Bush got a woman pregnant and that she got an abortion in a Houston hospital I
believe ...it could have been in Dallas...Flynt says he knows the name of the woman
and his investigators have spoken to her...she would not say anything bad about
George Bush but Flynt definitively said that she didn't deny having the
abortion...Flynt says that he has affidavits from four of her friends
confirming that she had the abortion....he says he has another affidavit from
the girl friend of daddy Bush's campaign manager...and that she accompanied the
woman to the hospital to have the abortion....he says that he knows the name of
the doctor who performed the abortion...I asked Flynt if he had evidence that
Bush knew that she was going to have an abortion or that he was the father and
Flynt said no he didn't have that evidence." 10/26/00
FLYNT-BUSH
ABORTION STORY HAS LEGS, MORE DETAILS GIVEN
Larry Flynt appeared on a talk show in San Francisco last
night and was very specific about the proof that he claims he has that George
W. Bush "was involved" in an early 1970's abortion. Appearing on
Bernie Ward's KGO-AM 810 talk show last night between 10 and midnight, Flynt
said the abortion took place in Houston in 1970 during the elder Bush's
campaign for a seat in Washington. At that time, the younger Bush was working
in the campaign. According to a Bush watcher who heard the show in Bakersfield,
California, Flynt claimed he had affidavits from four witnesses, contradicting
an earlier report from the BBC that Flynt was basing his story on the word of
one person. In fact, according to our Bush watcher, Flynt said the BBC is now
considering going with his story, along with the London Times. During the
course of the two hour show, Flynt also described the consternation at CNN when
he broke the story on Friday night, and discussed the ability of the Bush spin
machine to smother information.
THE
CLOTHLESS KING:
The
press, with a few exceptions, continues to gloss over GB2’s consummate
mediocrity, his mindless soundbites repeated like a mantra on the trail,
“u-NIT-er, not a di-VID-der. Na-shhhun BILD-ing” Trail reporters must be
apoplectic at this dribble, but they’ve been walled off- they aren’t allowed
any access to the Shrub. Now that he can almost taste the steaming plates of
pork he will get to ladle out to his cronies, he isn’t going to let the whining
jackals of the press close enough to rip any chunks out of him; to hear some nugget
of imbecility that would, of itself, be so stunning in it’s ignorance, that
it would end Bush’s candidacy. We believe we found such a nugget: in
Letterman’s interview, Bush thought the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was near
Alaska, when it’s in Texas + Louisiana, where he was an
oilman for 16 years. (SEE Sept 24 issue).
Vanity
Fair writer Christopher Hitchens said on MSNBC's "Hardball" Monday
night that Bush is "unusually incurious, abnormally unintelligent,
amazingly inarticulate, fantastically uncultured, extraordinarily uneducated,
and apparently quite proud of all these things." See “It’s the stupidity, stupid” on News links, the best
examination of the psychology of ignorance.
How
the press has ignored Bush lies:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/483554.asp
Georgy strutted on Leno Mon (30th) night like a conquering hero, trying to create in imagery ("there's a bear in the woods") what he hopes will become reality in people's mind and later in election, to the raucous cheers of his packed crowd (I think the SS is packing these venues- not a single person booed). Again, Leno was very deferential, doing a big anti-Gore setup and Bushy was folksy, self depreciating; but that ugly 7th grade smug smirk kept creeping across his face, and his deep-seated arrogance may have turned people off. The next day AG was more subdued, but still solid, workmanlike in his performing skill, and pretty likeable. Leno didn't do any anti-Bush jokes.
HOW
BUSH LIES: Virtually everything out of Bush’s mouth is
a lie. Building on the nonsense “Gore exaggerates” truism, Bush has been
viciously attacking Gore on the trail and in his latest “Really” ad, while he
amazingly attacks Gore for not solving Medicare problems that Bush couldn’t
care less about- if he had his way he would cut Medicare in half. His
“uniter” rhetoric is nonsense- he would preside over savage partisan warfare,
if the Repubs retain Congress or not, and by his second press conference, the
press will be openly howling at his inadequacies and idiocies. After THAT there
won’t be a 3rd. His
corporate sponsors would prevail on him to gut EPA, OSHA, FDA, AFDC- so much
for his compassionate conservatism. He’s going to build Star Wars, build up the
military, give back a massive tax cut, save Medicare + SS, protect health care AND balance the
budget. Liar, fool, imposter!! We DID this- it cost us $5 trillion of
deficits. The spectacular cynicism of Bush running pro-Nader spots just to
bleed Big Al, when they are actually diametrically opposed, is only matched by
Nader in allowing him to.
“Some
time ago, the Washington Post reported on the rigorous screening process Bush
"tax families" now have to go through before they can be paraded on
the stump. The Gore campaign was showing that many Bush families would actually
save more money with the vice president's targeted tax cuts than they would
under the Texas governor's plan. Now, in order to avoid such potential
embarrassments, Bush tax families can't have any children under the age of 1,
or any kids in day care or college. No one can attend night school. The family
must also have an annual income somewhere between $35,000 and $70,000. And it
must have "no substantial savings outside of 401(k)," according to a
GOP memo in search of a New Mexico tax family. The Bush "tax family"
requirements, the Post pointed out, eliminate 85 percent of the families in
that income bracket.” Funny Bush Songs: http://www.georgybush.com/georgybush.html
SUPREME? NOMINATION: If you want a quick and deep chill about what GB2's brain powerpower would accomplish, one of his faves for a Supreme Ct. nominee is TX judge
Edith Jones, a fool who ruled in a death penalty case that, although the defense lawyer was sleeping for extended periods, that didn't constitute an unfair trial, because they couldn't be sure he slept during crucial periods. This wizard was GB1's next choice after the abysmal Clarance Thomas: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/02/opinion/02HERB.html
DAN
ROSENBERG: If you want to do some good
where it might have an effect, send some bucks to Dan Rosenberg, running
against the Pres. of the Gingrich Class of ’94 in CA in a district that spans
from the Fresno barrios to Yosemite + Kings Canyon splendors to biggest agricultural district in the US.
Even $5-10 from each of you could run some good closing ads (the cookie jar is
empty). He’s a good multitalented guy
and had the extraordinary good sense to consider us for his campaign manager. http://danrosenberg2000.com
RALPH’s
QUEST: Watched Ralph's rally DC MCI Center rally Sun and he really is VERY GOOD. Eloquently, he spoke of issues that the majors didn't: the insane futile war on drugs, the battle to give DC a vote in Congress (new license plates say "Taxation Without Representation"), the danger of massive media monopolies. He finally admitted that "Yes, there was a difference between the 2 parties." Some aren't impressed at his inflexibility - Village Voice- Goldstein “You'd think that, after 20 years in exile,
the left would have reconsidered its aversion to power. But this reflex
persists. We still glorify rebellion and demonize compromise. We still think
the purpose of politics is to manifest dreams rather than distribute wealth.
And we are still masters of culture, where the imagination rules. The left
makes art, while the right makes policy.”
From the beginning the unspoken
issue of this campaign is the block of Moslems (2-4 mil), who can’t stomach voting for a Jew, helped
along by Lieberman’s initial impolitic flouting of his holier-than-thou faith
(still fighting the last war- “we’re better than Billy”). We can’t think of a
more unexciting choice for VEEP when Al was so in need of glamour and
excitement. There is also a block of anti-Semites for whom Lieberman is
anathema under any conditions.
In
Michigan, carefully stroked by GB2, Arabs may be the deciding factor, even as
Gore takes Repub FL with Jewish support.
GOLEM
GORE: Watched Al greet Dem leaders at a Philly
rally, awkwardly wrapping them in big hugs, jockeying his huge head wildly
around… each time almost smashing it into their head. Leaders cringed but held
their ground for their close encounter. Al needs to do a sport. He is genuinely
funny, though, had a link from a prof. comedy site testifying to Gore’s subtle
witticisms and practical jokes.
BEATING A DEAD HORSE: Incredibly, the widow of deceased MO Gov. Mel Carnahan is on track to beat ultra-right religiously pure Sen John Ashcroft, who has entertained delusions of the Presidency. This is a tremendously hopeful sign, the loss of Mel was a body blow in the solar plexus (about where Mo is) for Nat Dems - though it remains somehow unbelievable and the sympathy vote seems to be fading (Mel was behind until he took the radical campaign ploy of dying). Imus did a hilarious parody of it "how can you throw mud on someone who's had dirt thrown on him".
COULD
THE WINNER LOSE????: MOSES GOES MAD:
Chuck Heston, in his most contemptible comment to date directly threatened the VEEP in an NRA rally,
Balancing this is the anticipated devastating loss of anti-abortion Robt Weygand to hereditary iconoclastic Repub Lincoln Chafee, who is leading by a staggering 20-25% points in the solidly Democratic RI. Hell, I could do better. Ashcroft did have the best e-mail operation in Congress, picking up our address from the anti-impeachment faxes and dutifully sending out his well-done issues + accomplishments newsletters for a year, though we did explain our revulsion at his beliefs. Meanwhile, backup Joe has ensured that, if Joe-al wins, Conn. will lose a Senate seat, because the GOP Gov will appoint one of his ilk. Hillary is well ahead, supposedly 7 points against punk pugilist Lazio. From all that I read, the Congress looks very good for the Democrats.
[Mr. Heston is not always so droll. At one recent rally in Michigan, he said the vice president "is now saying, `I'm with you guys on guns.'
In any other time or place you'd be looking for a lynching mob."
The audience roared its approval, shouting, "Let's do it," and "I've got a rope.'
Asked about the lynching comment, he says, "I was talking about in hard times when wrong is done, lynching is sometimes an option..."]
Lynching is sometimes an option?????? Wonder what blacks think about THAT. Heston should have been arrested by the Secret Service and charged- nobody should be above the law in something as sick and malignant.
DAVID
NYHAN WRITES
COLUMN ABOUT OURS: Our intention to go
to Europe if the mutantly swelling Shrub wins was picked up by Boston Globe’s
Nyhan. The BG is the only real paper left in America, consistently puncturing
Bush’s falsehoods and inanities, rather than matching an anti-Bush article with
an anti-Gore article in a perverted notion of equivalence… ignoring truth,
hypocrisy, stupidity; as most majors do
now. Once all papers were like that, taking sides (sometimes unfairly), rather
than mushing everything into a bland porridge. The superb SALON is doing the
same on the Web. We repeat our eloquent closing after link.
http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/306/oped/An_election_lament_You_can_vote_but_you_can_t_hide+.shtml
CONFEDERACY
of the DUNCES: What is clear is that Bush is, more than
anyone since Harding: a lightweight
inarticulate anti-intellectual creation and agent of big business, who will, if
he’s elected, own this country. His compassionate conservatism is a
fraud, his morality reconstituted, his international isolationism insipid and
dangerous; his abortion stance, prison policies + Supreme Court intentions
chilling; his economic policy + tax rebates reckless + foolish, his commitment
to health care a sham, his work ethic shabby, and his intelligence limited and
sporadic. All the dopes who vote for
him because he’s a good guy to have a beer with will have plenty opportunity to
drink when $500 billion deficits stifle the economy and Georgie run a razor
through the remaining social net. If he
wins, I’ll leave America for Europe- I won’t see the damage he does (for a
couple of years) to my country. I’m not
sure what I’d return to. Please GET OUT THE GORE VOTE. – Mike Snow
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