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Wink Donating Member (497 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 08:51 AM
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Falwell says Bush "conclusively" completed guard duty
One of my asshole conservative pals put me on Falwell's mailing list. Now I get gems like this all the time. And I can't get off the mailing list either. Sometimes it's worth it though when the jag sends me one as funny as this one.



Falwell Confidential

Date: September 9, 2004
From: Jerry Falwell

HERE COME THE ATTACK DOGS

You knew they were coming. You could almost hear the attack dogs howling on the horizon as the Republican National Convention wrapped up. And after President Bush received a substantial bump in the polls following the convention, the packs of relentless political assailants came charging from the shadows to hit the airwaves, embarking on their rabid campaign to destroy the president.

These vicious political hacks are now seeking to drudge up old allegations about President Bush. They are recklessly charging (once again) that Mr. Bush did not fulfill his National Guard service even though his military records conclusively show that he did indeed complete his required drills and did receive an honorable discharge from the Texas Air National Guard in 1973. Remember that those slinging this mud are the same people who go into fits of hysterics when the Swift Boat Veterans Against Kerry get some media attention.

A new face on the horizon is Former Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes, who is garnering headlines by saying he helped Mr. Bush avoid service in Vietnam. But Mr. Barnes in 1999 said that no one from the Bush family asked for such assistance; he testified to the same fact under oath. Barnes, a Democrat, was defeated in Texas after he was implicated in a quick-profit stock scheme that was allegedly designed to win the passage of two banking bills. He is also a Kerry campaign vice chair.

CBS’ Dan Rather thinks Mr. Barnes is worthy of lots of TV airtime, even though the network’s “60 Minutes” has never featured the Swift Boat Veterans.

This desperate action is just another attempt by the Kerry campaign to change the subject from issues to insults, and from policy to the politics of personal destruction.

It’s really quite pitiful.

The president’s adversaries are also attempting to attack his character. This is being primarily through a new book by Kitty Kelley, who has made a lucrative career by assailing public figures. This cash-for-trash book, titled “The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty,” is full of Ms. Kelley’s typical deceit. Remember that she wrote that Ronald Reagan was guilty of date rape and of attending marijuana parties during his tenure as governor of California.

This new book is so flawed that neither Time nor Newsweek magazine would serialize it. The book is coming out now because President Bush is leading John Kerry — it’s that simple. I have been told that it accuses President Bush of paying for an abortion in his younger days in Houston and actually accuses Laura Bush of selling marijuana in her college days.

Ms. Kelley must have gone to the Jerry Springer School of Journalism. The tragedy is that many in the media will treat this rag as if it is the most important work since The Bible.

We can also expect the usual suspects to join in the no-holds-barred attacks against the president. They will come from the seamy sectors of Hollywood, the so-called mainstream media and the Kerry/Edwards camp that learned political protocol at the Carville-Begala School of Scorched Earth Politics.

The left will ride the above dead horses right up until November 2. Until then, their candidate will continue to routinely change his political mind on virtually every pertinent issue facing our nation — at least once — while simultaneously casting himself as a bold political leader. With Mr. Kerry the very picture of confusion and uncertainty, it’s actually small wonder his handlers have chosen such a diabolical campaign agenda to get him elected.

The left realizes that George W. Bush is a man of character who continues to uniquely connect with growing numbers of Americans. I am praying that the more the left attempts to destroy him the more people will see through the lies and distortions and realize what a good man sits in the Oval Office.

I think of Proverbs 28:2 when I think of Mr. Bush: “When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but when the ruler is a man of discernment, understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.”

I believe President Bush is such a man. And this man continues to need the prayers of all people of faith. I am appealing to all believers to fervently pray for President Bush in the weeks to come, because no political leader has ever been under such fierce attack as he is about to experience. It’s going to get ugly and those of us who love and appreciate him must stand with him with our prayers and support in these days to come.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 08:52 AM
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1. FINALLY the compelling authority on this speaks up
I actually will be in Lynchburg tomorrow.
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Walt Starr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 08:53 AM
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2. Why did you post this pile of shit here?
Edited on Fri Sep-10-04 08:54 AM by Walt Starr
Seriously, why would any DUer in good standing post this sort of shit here?
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Wink Donating Member (497 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 08:56 AM
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6. Because of it's pure hypocrisy (sp)
Are you challenging my "good standing"? Go look up my articles printed here at du. Look under Paul Winkelmann.
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murielm99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:01 AM
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10. Because it is funny, Walt.
C'mon! I called my husband in to the room to read it, and we are both laughing, with tears rolling down our faces.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:20 AM
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16. C'mon man
This is a riot! I can't get enough of these Bush-worshipping fundie nutcases.
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russian33 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 08:53 AM
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3. Well, that settles it!
So, they wrote about Bush in Proverbs? Huh, guess that's why God talks to him?
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shaolinmonkey Donating Member (812 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 08:54 AM
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4. Thank God, Jerry's here to clarify for us.
I mean, who better knows the history of the National Guard than Jerry fucking Fallwell?

Check please.
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 08:56 AM
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5. ... and Tinky Winky "conclusively" bats for the Other Team.
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Wink Donating Member (497 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:01 AM
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9. See above:
I've been posting and writing for DU since it's conception. And there is no one here, who has read my numerous articles and LTTE, that can doubt my allegiance.
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 08:58 AM
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7. Was Jerry there? why can't Bush come up with one person who
remembers him? Kerry has tons.
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:00 AM
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8. It's crap like this...
"The left realizes that George W. Bush is a man of character who continues to uniquely connect with growing numbers of Americans. I am praying that the more the left attempts to destroy him the more people will see through the lies and distortions and realize what a good man sits in the Oval Office."

that makes me want to advocate forced sterilization. I don't care if Hilter did gets his ideas from the Eugenics Movement in America, I don't want these psycho people to procreate.

Oh, and that unique connection with the growing number of Americans is the realization that this one man, George W. Bush, sent their son or daughter off to die for a lie. Despicable bastard!

There's no sense laughing crap like this off. These people are dangerous in their stupidity. And that stupidity will destroy this country.
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:23 AM
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17. The money and power these fundie groups have accumulated
and are using to brainwash young people and senior citizens is a very scary issue. These fundies have a lot of power, and they use it to trick the young and old alike by playing on their fears and their faith into voting against their best interests
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Texas_Dem Donating Member (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:01 AM
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11. Charles Manson says Jack the Ripper didn't do it
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:03 AM
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12. And send me money, good Christians. It costs to constantly pray
for this "good" man.
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Papa Donating Member (505 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:07 AM
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13. Fuck you Fallwell. Lying hypocritical bastard. Go straight to hell.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:13 AM
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14. I notice ol' Jer
Doesn't go so far as to commit to an actual denial of the charges against Bush, and simply engages in some delicate character assassination by rumor, innuendo, false comparisons and gossip.

I thought one of the Big Ten was not to bear false witness against your neighbor. That one's apparently not in the Falwell Revised Version of the Bible.
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:15 AM
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15. Conclusively? is that like Catastrophic Success?
I take nothing from the mouth of Falwell to be truth.
Nothing
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Zuni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:26 AM
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18. Seems Falwell has forgotten the 'Clinton Chronicles'
videos.

He did some of the sleaziest and most underhanded moves during the 1990s to destroy and defame Clinton. The lies, unsubstantiated rumors, myths, half truths and others contained in those videos makes Kitty kelley's book look respectable. Now he whines when the GOP gets a taste of their own medicine.
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GOPAgainstGW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 09:30 AM
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19. THANKS FOR JESUS FALCRACK EMAIL POSTS!!
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