Subject:  RIGHT-WING-WATCH: Through the Right's Eyes

Hi, bc;

Regarding your upcoming retirement to whoredom (on $60,000 per annum) - it's not enough.
You need a staff of 7 to 10 to do it right, and they will all need shoes, lunches out, computers, pensions.

Your unique viewpoint on Rush, the Lying Nazi Whore, is that he is just that
- a whore - because his only political principle is mo' money.

You sometimes stress that the whole Far Right media is just that as well, though seldom as
thoroughly as the PFAW newsletter hereunder does. It lists virtually all the media and Internet Nazi
pundits who make their living the same way - by attacking the Left for profit and fame.

BC, you'd do well to study their sites, sir, and consider just how they whip up their income
by whipping up the Clinton-feeding frenzy. They've created a self-perpetuating industry.
The only thing lacking is a perpetual gadfly to call them on their nakedness and naked lies
and get paid handsomely for doing so.

Can you be trusted not to copy their ethical style?
I think so.
Can you make use of their very own comments to skewer them?
Daily?
So they think before they speak next time?
Yes - if your aforementioned well-shod staff is in place.
And when you're as rich as Timmy Russert you can go on talk shows, too.

Look, you've created an absolutely unique presence on the Web - and its either your insane genius
or obsessive drive that's the whole value in it. You are wasted playing with 3 by 5 cards and surfing cats.
Get over yourself, start treating yourself as the genius. Start everything rolling by getting yourself a publicist.
Then get some really cute research assistants, all hand-picked by Mrs. Bartcop for their obvious
decency and honor. Their good looks will surely prove an inspiration to you.

BC, we don't read you cuz you're poor, or honest, or simple-minded. We read you cuz you so beautifully
state the obvious - the Emperor is Naked. Stick to that, expand on that, and the money will follow.
Plan for and around the money, and you're whoring.

But, in our iconic world, you haven't even bothered to wrap yourself in the flag, or motherhood,
or Liberty, or Faith or Family. Instead, you come across as wholeheartedly Atheist and Liberal.
That's like appearing in public dressed in a dirty brown blanket passing out condoms and
hand-printed leaflets saying Your Dog Is Definitely Dead. It lacks, umm, commercial appeal.

What doesn't lack commercial appeal is being The Gadfly, the Itch In Their Nazi Shorts.
Shall we design you a super-hero costume for your website?

And quite seriously, where's your face on your website?
How can you become a Rich Media Personality without a face?
It doesn't matter about the eye patch, the hook nose and beady eyes - the public will get over it.
Hell, they want you to look like you've been somewhere. And its just your head - your talking head
- that will become famous. No body shots needed. I've never once read your stuff and asked myself,
"I wonder what he's wearing right now?"

Anyway, got your PO box, and I'll send money regularly. Hell, scratch that
-- I'm coming over there to work for you. I'm so-o-o tired of investing all day.

See ya on Tuesday,

Selva Tinnan
 

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Subject:        RIGHT-WING-WATCH: Through the Right's Eyes

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RIGHT WING WATCH ONLINE  --  People For the American Way Foundation
November 16, 2000

        The latest from the Right Wing's mail, television, radio and web
        activity, courtesy of People For the American Way Foundation's
        research and monitoring operation.  PLEASE FORWARD!
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______________________________________________________________________

CONTENTS:
(1)     Introduction
(2)     The Right-wing Ghosts of Impeachment Past
(3)     "Democrats Like to Steal Elections"
(4)     Like Malignant Cancer Cells
______________________________________________________________________

THROUGH THE RIGHT'S EYES

(1)     Introduction:

        For the first few days following the Nov. 7 election, the entire
nation watched the election results closely, and for the most part,
silently.  But by the weekend the right-wing media machine began to escalate
their rhetoric.  While most of the country has watched the election recounts
in Florida with intense fascination, but no real fear for the welfare of the
country, it is becoming apparent that - for some on the Right - it is merely
a continuation of a battle they began in 1992.   Polls consistently show
that Americans don't regard the lack of finality in the election as a
constitutional crisis.  Most feel that the process will, however slowly,
work its way to an end and the country will accept the next president,
whoever he may be.  But in the Right's rhetoric, it's impeachment all over
again.
        Major pro-impeachment figures are picking up right where they left
off in 1998.  Only a few years ago Rev. Jerry Falwell was hawking The
Clinton Chronicles, a videotape purporting to expose presidential crimes and
misdeeds.  Ann Coulter made her career as a telegenic right-wing pundit by
bashing the Clinton Administration and even published a book on the matter,
High Crimes and Misdemeanors.  Christopher Ruddy and Joseph Farah were the
major recipients of the Scaife money intended to bring down the President.
They have since created sophisticated Internet sites that allow them to
continue their work with a wider audience.
        In fact, the entire impeachment media machine is revving up its
engines once again and the conspiracy theories are already flowing.  The
same right-wing pundits and media figures who drove anti-Clinton mania into
the frenzy of 1998's impeachment are revving their engines.  As before, the
first signs are evident on the Internet.  Sites like Conservative News
Service, WorldNetDaily, TownHall.com and ConservativeHQ.com are flinging
charges once again.  Charges of "coup d'etat," "subverting the
Constitution," and "stealing the election," are commonplace.

(2)     The Right-wing Ghosts of Impeachment Past

        Rush Limbaugh, the dean of anti-Clinton media stars, summed up the
phenomenon: "This is the impeachment process being played out all over
again, with the same partisans on loan from Clinton."  Carrying the metaphor
through to its logical conclusion, Limbaugh even anointed Florida Secretary
of State Katherine Harris as the Ken Starr of Florida.
        Never one to be outdone, pundit Ann Coulter penned a scathing rant
on the Right's most prominent portal, TownHall.com. "It's like impeachment
all over again.  But this time it's about the results of a presidential
election.  Like President Clinton, Al Gore is willing to precipitate a
constitutional crisis to hold on to power."
        Coulter derided the Palm Beach County citizens who filed suit to
object to the illegal and misleading ballot that caused thousands of votes
to be miscast as, "[n]ostalgic Stalinists from Brooklyn, N.Y., now
transplanted to Florida in their dotage."  She urged Bush to cast aside any
worries about dignity "and start being a Texan," and bemoaned "the two
blackguards in the White House now dragging the country into yet another
constitutional crisis."   "It will never end until these people are gone,"
wrote Coulter.

(3)     "Democrats Like to Steal Elections"

        American Conservative Union board member Craig Shirley was perfectly
blunt in a column in the Washington Times. "Democrats like to steal
elections.  In fact, they're very good at it," he wrote on Nov. 10.
The Rev. Jerry Falwell invoked a similar argument in his Nov. 11 "Listen
America" column on WorldNetDaily.com: "Mr. Daley's daddy wrote the book on
voter fraud and I'm pretty sure that the son is well versed in the modern
applications of his father's dirty work.  He and the rest of the Gore team
will continue to sniff and lurk for any loopholes or legal ambiguities that
enable them to project a victory."   Falwell was not content to let it rest
there, "The current proceedings are indeed the actions of desperate and
devious men who are working to reverse history prior to next Friday's
deadline for absentee ballots.  But this is to be expected.  Prior to the
election, Al Gore showed us of what he is capable."

Falwell's column was characteristic of the coverage on WorldNetDaily, a
website started by Joseph Farah of the Western Journalism Center (WJC).  The
WJC funded anti-Clinton investigative journalism throughout the '90s and was
especially involved in promoting conspiracy theories about the suicide of
Clinton associate Vincent Foster.  Turning his fortunes to the Internet,
Farah continues to nurture overtly partisan journalism.  One of the lead
stories on Nov. 13 was titled, "How Democrats steal elections," and it
claimed to detail techniques of hand counting ballots that "have been used
for over 20 years to steal elections from Republicans."

Right-wing columnist Paul Craig Roberts, whose column frequently appears in
the  Washington Times, accuses the Democrats of "stealing" the election in
his  Nov. 15 column.  "[T]here is no doubt that the presidency is being
stolen," writes Roberts, but more than that, "our country is being stolen."
Roberts argues that Gore did not carry the country "geographically" because
of his high support in urban areas, versus Bush's wins in large, lightly
populated states.  He then segues into a rant about affirmative action and
immigration.  "White people, in general" have been declared racist says
Roberts and he accuses Democrats of favoring open borders "because the
millions of Third World immigrants pouring into the United States have no
tradition of constitutional government and a rule of law."  "The longer the
borders stay open, the sooner the country will be lost," concludes Roberts.

NewsMax.com, an Internet news site run by anti-Clinton journalist
Christopher Ruddy, is planning an ad campaign to "expose the outrageous
actions by the media to cover up for Gore and the Democratic Party."  They
want to place ads in national newspapers and buy time on television if they
receive enough support.  In an open letter at the top of their site, Ruddy
and other NewsMax.com writers appeal for contributions to an "emergency
fund" for their ad campaign.  "We are writing you as the country, our
country, teeters on the edge of a Constitutional crisis the likes of which
we have never witnessed.  The Wall  Street Journal put it well last week
when it said Al Gore was engineering nothing short of a coup d'etat - a
takeover of our government.  We have been warning our readers for  some time
that the Clinton-Gore crowd will do anything to win."

Ruddy made his name in right-wing circles as the central journalist
propagating  conspiracy theories about Vincent Foster's death, work largely
funded by Richard Scaife through Joseph Farah's Western Journalism Center.

Another Clinton antagonist, Judicial Watch has marshalled an "army of
volunteers" to inspect ballots in Florida. Claiming to provide an
independent inspection, a Judicial Watch press release said without that the
"next President will lack any real legitimacy to lead this nation."
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton claimed, "What we are witnessing now in
Florida is a national disgrace."
 

(4)     Like Malignant Cancer Cells

        Right-wing firebrand David Horowitz regularly attacks civil rights
leaders in his column on Salon.com.  His Nov. 10 column says, "[Gore]
unleashed the dogs of political war on Palm Beach County.  He allowed the
Jackson arsonists to rush in to inflame the passions of social hysteria, to
recklessly sow bitter doubts about the process itself that no one can now
allay."
        L. Jean Lewis, a former investigator for Resolution Trust Corp who
was credited with  doing the initial investigative work to break the
Whitewater scandal, came close to accusing Jackson and the Democrats of
sedition in a Nov. 14 column on  WorldNetDaily.com.  Wrote Lewis, "Jesse
Jackson and his minions have now arrived on the scene like malignant cancer
cells attracted to a growing tumor. The fact that the Democrats have turned
a blind eye to his unruly activities is upsetting; that they would
discreetly condone and nurture such behavior is appalling.  To have them
openly  encourage rumors of civil rights violations and propagate deliberate
unrest is bordering on sedition."
        Ann Coulter saved some of her choicest words for Jackson as well:
"Jesse Jackson is presiding over rioting in the streets.  There is a
movement afoot to call in Janet Reno.  Maybe she could send in a SWAT team
to gun down President-Elect George W. Bush.  All we need now are chickens in
the street and beggars with leprosy to complete the picture."
        Whether or not they can maintain the same level of intensity that
drove the impeachment battle or not is yet to be determined.  However, it is
clear that the Right's pundits are sharpening their talking points ready and
laying the foundation for a long drawn-out fight as all eyes are on Florida.
        Attached are some longer excerpts from the columns and broadcasts
referenced above:
        "The current proceedings are indeed the actions of desperate and
devious men who are working to reverse history prior to next Friday's
deadline for absentee ballots.  But this is to be expected.  Prior to the
election, Al Gore showed us of what he is capable.  He illegally used
African-American churches as a major part of his get-out-the-vote effort.
Mr. Gore's colleagues totally ignored the law and urged church parishioners
to vote for him.  Subsequently, the black turnout surpassed all records.
Mr. Gore also utilized deplorable scare tactics to recruit senior citizens.
Further, Mr. Gore co-opted the union bosses to illegally utilize millions of
dollars in tax-exempt union dues - without union members' permission - to
promote his candidacy.  In Michigan, the unions actually shut down the
plants and factories on Election Day to ensure their monolithic vote for
Gore.  I point out these consistently unscrupulous actions by the Gore team
to reveal how recklessly frantic these people are to remain in power."
[Rev. Jerry Falwell in his weekly Listen America column for WorldNetDaily,
11/11/00]
        "It's like impeachment all over again.  But this time it's about the
results of a presidential election.  Like President Clinton, Al Gore is
willing to precipitate a constitutional crisis to hold on to power." [Ann
Coulter, "Elections in Clintonville," 11/13/00 column at Townhall.com]
        "Al Gore's endgame is to delay confirmation of the Florida vote for
as long as possible - just like his role model of a boss would do under the
circumstances....Gore has a number of strategems for throwing roadblocks in
the way of Florida's appointing electors,  including time-consuming legal
challenges.  Nostalgic Stalinists from Brooklyn, N.Y., now transplanted to
Florida in their dotage, have already trotted out lawsuits demanding a
second chance to vote they were confused by the ballot."  [Ann Coulter,
"Elections in Clintonville," 11/13/00 column at Townhall.com]
        "Jesse Jackson is presiding over rioting in the streets.  There is a
movement afoot to call in Janet Reno.  Maybe she could send in a SWAT team
to gun down President-elect George W. Bush.  All we need now are chickens in
the street and beggars with leprosy to complete the picture.    This is no
time for dignity.  President Bush had dignity.  Sen. Bob Dole had dignity.
They lost.  In particular, they lost to the two blackguards in the White
House now dragging the country into yet another constitutional crisis.  It
will never end until these people are gone.  It's time for Bush to stop
acting like a lockjaw Connecticut WASP and start being a Texan."  [Ann
Coulter, "Elections in Clintonville," 11/13/00 column at Townhall.com]
        "This is the impeachment process being played out all over again,
with the same partisans on loan from Clinton.  Ken Starr simply applied the
law, and he was the devil.  He was a  vicious, mean, rotten man from Mars!
He wanted to get all your kids addicted to cigarettes, in addition to
destroying the presidency.  That's the image they wanted to create, and now
they're trying to do the same thing to Katherine Harris....All Katherine
Harris is doing is upholding the law of Florida - and for this, the Gore
campaign considers her a threat to be discredited and destroyed."
[RushLimbaugh.com, 11/14/00]
        "Democrats like to steal elections.  In fact, they're very good at
it."
        "Democrats are about anything but fairness in this election; they
are about power, pure and simple.  Democrats must destroy the election
process and anyone who gets in their way regardless of party.  The stakes
are too high to be concerned with individual reputations or careers."
American Conservative Union board member, Craig Shirley [Washington Times,
11/10/00]
        "Jesse Jackson and his minions have now arrived on the scene like
malignant cancer cells attracted to a growing tumor.  His appetite for
inciting political frenzy through race-baiting, and pitting rights of
special interest and minority groups against those of the general populace
is startling odds with his clerical title.  His current efforts have
successfully produced a breath-taking deterioration within an already
untenable situation.  The fact that the Democrats have turned a blind eye to
his unruly activities is upsetting; that they would discreetly condone and
nurture such behavior is appalling. To have them openly encourage rumors of
civil rights violations and propagate deliberate unrest is bordering on
sedition"  [L. Jean Lewis, former senior criminal investigator for
Resolution Trust Corp. and Whitewater figure, WorldNetDaily, 11/14/00]
        "Elections have been stolen in America before, but never so
publicly.  This election is being stolen right in front of our eyes.  The
Party of No Shame (aka The Democratic Party), firm in its conviction that
its ends justify the means, is making a blatant grab for powerà.But more
than an election is being stolen.  Our country is being stolen.
Geographically speaking, Gore carried only one-sixth of the country.
Five-sixths of the United States rejected him and his corrupt party.
Because of the population density of urban areas, maps showing election
results by state greatly exaggerate Gore's geographical support.  A map
(obtained from geocities.com) of the vote by county shows a tiny Gore
presence.  Gore's vote is confined to Hispanic counties in the Southwest,
the California coastal counties, Portland Oregon counties, the counties
bordering Puget Sound in Washington, Minnesota and urban areas of Great
Lakes states, Jewish counties in Florida, heavily black counties in the
Southeast and heavily urbanized areas of the Northeast (Philadelphia, New
York City, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island), Vermont and parts of
Maine.  Geographically, the map shows a country controlled by a few
high-density urban counties where new immigrants and racial minorities
constitute a high percentage of the population.  Gore's half of the vote is
concentrated in 580,000 square miles.  Bush's half is spread over 2,427,000
square miles.  The Democratic Party is a party of well-to-do white liberals,
university faculties and the media, single women and racial minorities.  It
is a revolutionary party, committed to overthrowing the  "hegemonic power"
of traditional American morality, principles, institutions and people. Merit
and the First Amendment, along with the Constitution, the Founding Fathers
and white people in general, have been declared "racist."  Merit is no
longer the basis for university admissions, employment or promotion, as
"preferred minorities" (an official designation) have been given privileged
legal standing that
        borders because the millions of Third World immigrants pouring into
the United States have no tradition of constitutional government and a rule
of law. They come from lands where control over government means enrichment
and privilege, and that is what the Democrats offer them.  Republicans will
never get this hardened bloc vote.  Blacks voted 90 to 93 percent for Gore,
and Hispanics gave Gore between two-thirds and three-fourths of their vote.
The longer the borders stay open, the sooner the country will be lost."
[Paul Craig Roberts column, 11/15/00]