Lies & the Lying Liars Who Tell Them_ A Fair & Balanced Look at the Right - Al Franken [143]
Fred Kaplan’s Boston Globe article appeared on December 9, 2001, under the headline, “Fighting Terror; High-Tech US Arsenal Proves Its Worth.”
Captain O’Brien’s comments, along with Condoleezza Rice’s comments downplaying the worth of peacekeeping, appeared in the International Herald-Tribune on April 19–20, 2003, under the headline “From Fighting a War to Keeping the Peace.”
Lawrence J. Korb’s op-ed appeared under the headline “Thank Clinton for a Speedy Victory in Iraq,” in the May 13, 2003, Boston Globe.
29—Operation Chickenhawk: Episode One
Ari Fleischer made the claim that the USS Abraham Lincoln would be “hundreds of miles from shore” in comments printed, among other places, in the May 1, 2003, New York Post. The actual story was told in the May 8, 2003, Washington Post, under the headline “Ship Carrying Bush Delayed Return.”
There are many websites devoted to exposing the chickenhawks. One of the best is http://www.nhgazette.com/chickenhawks.html. Another is http://awol-bush.com/whoserved.html.
Tom DeLay’s bizarre explanation for his failure to serve in Vietnam is detailed in a January 7, 1999, Houston Press article entitled “Which Bug Gets the Gas?”
30—Fun with Racism
NPR’s Weekend Edition “coverage” of Senator Lott’s speech aired on December 8, 2002. Big props to Sidney Blumenthal, ABC’s The Note, Atrios, Josh Marshall, Tim Noah, Andrew Sullivan, Instapundit, and the rest of the bloggers who broke the “segregationist-sympathizing” angle.
Sean Hannity commented on Fox that “segregation is the legacy of the Democratic Party” on December 10, 2002. Then he did it again on December 18, 2002. Also, he’s said it on his radio show.
Shannon Reeves made his comments regarding African-Americans and the Republican Party in the January 8, 2003, Contra Costa Times, under the headline “State GOP Leader Blasts Party Racism.”
Several blogs reported on voter suppression in the 2002 campaign in great detail, as well as Slate on November 4, 2002 (see it online at http://slate.msn.com/id/2073522/). If you’d like to see a copy of the Maryland flier, check out the Talking Points Memo. Here’s the address: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/balt.vote.suppress.html.
Condoleezza Rice was referred to as one of the “prime movers” in the Bush decision in a January 17, 2003, Washington Post article, “Rice Helped Shape Bush Decision on Admissions.” And she contradicted that characterization in a January 18, 2003, New York Times article, “Bush Adviser Backs Use of Race in College Admissions.”
The M.I. T./University of Chicago study was reported on in The New York Times on December 12, 2002, under the headline “Sticks and Stones Can Break Bones; But the Wrong Name Can Make a Job Hard to Find.”
The statistic on African-American youth poverty comes from “16% of Children Live in Extreme Poverty,” in the May 1, 2003, issue of the Los Angeles Times. There are almost one million black youths living in poverty.
Gene Weingarten reported on the African-American Republican Leadership Council in his Below the Beltway column in the Washington Post on February 2, 2003.
32—Thank God for Jerry Falwell
Joycelyn Elders made her comments at the National Press Club luncheon on December 7, 1993. Her exact words were “I do feel that we need to do some studies.”
33—Abstinence Heroes I
The Guttmacher Institute attributed one-fourth of the decline to increased abstinence and three-quarters to decreased pregnancy among sexually active teenagers as a result of improved patterns of contraception use. It also reported that condoms were the most commonly used contraceptive.
The Northern Kentucky University study was detailed in a Reuters report on June 23, 2003.
35—“By Far the Vast Majority of My Tax Cuts Go to Those at the Bottom”
During a February 15, 2000 debate with John McCain before the South Carolina Republican primary that aired on Larry King Live, Bush said that “by far, the vast majority of my tax cuts go to those at the