Eric Florack on August 17th, 2004

Yes, dear readers, in answer to all your e-mails… I have indeed made note of a Reuters News Article on Walter Cronkite yesterday. I hadn’t blogged it as yet because I hadn’t stopped laughing, yet.

Most of you noted where

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Eric Florack on August 17th, 2004

Nice to see someone with the stature of a Dennis Prager agreeing with my call of yesterday on this sham that New Jersey Governor James McGreevey’s shoved down our throats.

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Eric Florack on August 17th, 2004

NewsMax is running an interesting story this morning. It appears that they’re not happy about the US pullout of Germany.

“Base closures would hit us very hard,” fretted Ole Kruse, spokesman for the Bavarian city of Wuerzburg, home of the

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Eric Florack on August 16th, 2004

DRUDGE says:

Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry flew his Washington, DC hairdresser to Portland, OR last week for a touch-up.

Ah, yes.
Almost Clintonesque, isn’t it?
This is, after all, everyman.. and a tough military type at that, huh?

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Eric Florack on August 16th, 2004

Or.. is there a rather strange resemblence…

….between All-Around Idiot Al Franken and Steve Martin in the latest Looney Tunes Movie?

OK, I guess to be fair… one really IS looney tunes… and Martin just plays one in movies. (shrug)

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Eric Florack on August 16th, 2004

No longer America’s sport wails ESPN. Trouble is, anyone with brains larger than the average doorknob could have seen the writing on the wall well prior to the recent defeat of the US team by PuertoRico. All they had to

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Eric Florack on August 16th, 2004

Because of the way this conversation developed, this is going to be a hard discussional thread to follow for some.

James Joyner makes note this morning, of what he calls a “rather startling” claim from Kevin Jennings, the “founder

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Eric Florack on August 16th, 2004

New England Republican this morning has a great post pointing up some of the differences between how the press handles President Bush, and how it hand;es his liberal challangers, entitled ” Media Hypocrisy – How the Media Handled the Bush

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Eric Florack on August 15th, 2004

OK, Show-off time.
Long time readers of this blog will recall I had a 95 Astro for a few years… and around 150,000 miles. Nothing wrong with it really, but I did want to upgrade some. So, I got this

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Eric Florack on August 15th, 2004

Program ID 183091: “This week’s special 2-hour Road to the White House will feature:
A repeat of ABC’s June 30, 1971, ‘The Dick Cavett Show.’ This show featured a debate between John Kerry and John O’Neill on U.S. involvement

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Eric Florack on August 15th, 2004

Captain’s Quarters notes:

The utter media blackout on John Kerry’s Christmas in Cambodia
myth appears to be lifting, and in one of the least predictable
markets. Scott Canon writes a Knight-Ridder wire article that at least covers the outlines of

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Eric Florack on August 15th, 2004

Reuters says:

“ATHENS (Reuters) – Iran’s world judo champion Arash Miresmaeili refused to compete against an Israeli Sunday, triggering a fresh crisis at the Olympic Games where race, creed or color are barred from interfering in sport.

The International

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Eric Florack on August 14th, 2004

Ap news has Edwards going to bat for his boss… without effect:

The Democarts still haven’t figured it out. Edwards whined:

“‘He took that word (Sensitive) and distorted and tried to use it to argue John Kerry will not

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Eric Florack on August 14th, 2004

Bump and addition 0814042219-

LILEKS day before yesterday…(I got behind there for a bit) asks what seems to me a central question surrounding the Cambodian Christmas claim:

” What sort of man bedecked with genuine decorations feels compelled to manufacture

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Eric Florack on August 14th, 2004

For several days, now, we’ve been hearing about the content of Unfit For Command… Which is on Bits Boks section this week…

(Update… OOOOPS… I just noticed that BitsBooks section didn’t make the transition to the new look, yet… sorry…

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