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   Yo Alvin....   
      
   Annie' "I Got A Slam For You' only problem is....Clarke Is REPUBLICAN!   
      
   "Dr. Alvin Valkenheiser"  wrote in message   
   news:1ef60066.0404012157.6b8506b@posting.google.com...   
   > Ann NAILS The LIAR Clarke!   
   >   
   >   
   > Chair-Warmer On The Hot Seat   
   > The BEAUTIFUL & Brilliant ANN COULTER!   
   > March 24, 2004   
   >   
   >   
   > (Attention Liberal bigots, racists & hate-mongers... Insert your usual   
   > hate-filled personal attacks HERE if unable to refute the article...   
   > as usual!)   
   >   
   > ARE YOU sitting down? Another ex-government official who was fired or   
   > demoted by Bush has written a book that ... is critical of Bush!   
   > Eureka! The latest offering is Richard Clarke's new CBS-Viacom book,   
   > "Against All Enemies," which gets only a 35 on "rate a record" because   
   > the words don't make sense and you can't dance to it.   
   >   
   > As long as we're investigating everything, how about investigating why   
   > some loser no one has ever heard of is getting so much press coverage   
   > for yet another "tell-all" book attacking the Bush administration?   
   >   
   > When an FBI agent with close, regular contact with President Clinton   
   > wrote his book, he was virtually blacklisted from the mainstream   
   > media. Upon the release of Gary Aldrich's book "Unlimited Access" in   
   > 1996, White House adviser George Stephanopoulos immediately called TV   
   > producers demanding that   
   > they give Aldrich no airtime. In terms of TV exposure, Aldrich's book   
   > might well have been titled "No Access Whatsoever."   
   >   
   > "Larry King Live" and NBC's "Dateline" abruptly canceled their   
   > scheduled interviews with Aldrich. Aldrich was mentioned on fewer than   
   > a dozen TV shows during the entire year of his book's release -- many   
   > with headlines like this one on CNN: "Even Conservatives Back Away   
   > From Aldrich's Book."   
   > That's almost as much TV as Lewinsky mouthpiece William Ginsburg did   
   > before breakfast on an average day. (Let's take a moment here to   
   > imagine the indignity of being known as "Monica Lewinsky's   
   > mouthpiece.")   
   >   
   > But a "tell-all" book that attacks the Bush administration gets the   
   > author interviewed on CBS' "60 Minutes" (two segments), CNN's   
   > "American Morning" and ABC's "Good Morning America" -- with an   
   > "analysis" by George Stephanopoulos, no less. In the first few days of   
   > its release, Clarke's book was hyped on more than 200 TV shows.   
   >   
   > In contrast to Aldrich's book, which was vindicated with a whoop just   
   > a few years later when the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, many of   
   > Clarke's allegations were disproved within days of the book's release.   
   > Clarke claims, for example, that in early 2001, when he told President   
   > Bush's National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice about al-Qaida, her   
   > "facial expression gave me the impression that she had never heard the   
   > term before." (If only she used botox like Sen. Kerry!)   
   >   
   > Sean Hannity has been playing a radio interview that Dr. Rice gave to   
   > David Newman on WJR in Detroit back in October 2000, in which she   
   > discusses al-Qaida in great detail. This was months before   
   > chair-warmer Clarke claims her "facial expression" indicated she had   
   > never heard of the terrorist organization.   
   >   
   > But in deference to our liberal friends, let's leave aside the facts   
   > for now. A few months before Clarke was interpreting Dr. Rice's   
   > "facial expression," al-Qaida had bombed the USS Cole. Two years   
   > before that,   
   > al-Qaida bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. In fact,   
   > al-Qaida or their allies had been responsible for a half dozen attacks   
   > on U.S. interests since Clinton had become president. (Paper-pusher   
   > Clarke was doing one heck of a job, wasn't he?) In the year 2000   
   > alone, Lexis-Nexis lists 280 items   
   > mentioning al-Qaida.   
   >   
   > By the end of 2000, anyone who read the paper had heard of al-Qaida.   
   > It is literally insane to imagine that Condoleezza Rice had not. For   
   > Pete's sake, even The New York Times knew about al-Qaida.   
   >   
   > Rice had been a political science professor at Stanford University, a   
   > member of the Center for International Security and Arms Control, and   
   > a senior fellow of the Institute for International Studies. She had   
   > written three books and numerous articles on foreign policy. She   
   > worked for the first Bush administration in a variety of national   
   > security positions.   
   >   
   > All this was while Clarke was presiding over six unanswered al-Qaida   
   > attacks on American interests and fretting about the looming Y2K   
   > emergency. But chair-warmer Clarke claims that on the basis of Rice's   
   > "facial expression" he could tell she was not familiar with the term   
   > "al-Qaida."   
   >   
   > Isn't that just like a liberal? The chair-warmer describes Bush as a   
   > cowboy and Rumsfeld as his gunslinger -- but the black chick is a   
   > dummy. Maybe even as dumb as Clarence Thomas! Perhaps someday liberals   
   > could map out the relative intelligence of various black government   
   > officials for us.   
   >   
   > Did Clarke have the vaguest notion of Rice's background and education?   
   > Or did he think Dr. Rice was cleaning the Old Executive Office   
   > Building at night before the president chose her -- not him -- to be   
   > national security adviser? If a Republican ever claimed the "facial   
   > expression" on Maxine Waters -- a woman whose face is no stranger to   
   > confusion or befuddlement --  left the "impression" that she didn't   
   > understand quantum physics, he'd be in prison for committing a hate   
   > crime.   
   >   
   > As we know from Dr. Rice's radio interview describing the threat of   
   > al-Qaida back in October 2000, she certainly didn't need to be told   
   > about al-Qaida by a government time-server. No doubt Dr. Rice was   
   > staring at Clarke in astonishment as he imparted this great insight:   
   > Keep an eye on al-Qaida! We've done nothing, but you should do   
   > something about it. Tag -- you're it. That look of perplexity Clarke   
   > saw was Condi thinking to herself: "Hmmm, did I demote this guy far   
   > enough?"   
   >   
   >   
   > --   
   > Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being. They   
   > are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,   
   > selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.   
   >   
   > Liberals HATE America!   
      
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