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Herbert Kuhner

On October 14, 2009 Anita Dunn, White House communications director, called Fox News “a wing of the Republican Party and stated that “Fox exists simply to further the agenda of the GOP.”

Fox is not the only news organization that is biased. NPR, CNN and CNBC present liberal points of view. However, they let conservatives have their say and they present the news in a more or less objective manner.

The wing that Fox represents is the Far Right and the Fox line is blatant propaganda. Fox-men and -women engage in outright demagoguery and often conduct interviews in an insulting and badgering fashion.

The new crop of  “conservatives” are crude demagogues, primitive rabble-rousers and born-again jingoist cruds who lash out at random. And the low-brow proles lap up all the balderdash. These individuals have catapulted themselves beyond the realm of civilized discourse, and have been ushered into the inner sanctum of the Republican Party. It is self-evident that and any kind of consensus with them is out of the question.

The Rightmost Wing of the Republican Party is now in the process of purging Republican moderates, and they have declared war on Liberals.

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Blair Down - Schüssel and Gusenbauer Up in the EU

Opposition to Blair (as President of the E.U.) centers on his support for the war in Iraq. The war was mishandled and misbegotten - but if Blair had abandoned the United States, there would be little left of the Trans-Atlantic Alliance that was the rock on which the E.U. was built.
- Roger Cohen, “Giving Europe a Voice,” New York Times, Oct. 19, 2009

Bush, Cheney and Blair liberated Iraq and tens of thousands of Iraqis from life, as well as thousands of American and British soldiers. They invaded a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, thus removing the buffer to Iran and made the United States and Israel more vulnerable. After pushing the Taliban back in Afghanistan, Bush & Co. let the country go to pot, increasing the danger to the Western World.

Blair did not simply go along with the invasion of Iraq. He passionately and eloquently made the case for it. He claimed that secular Saddam Hussein was in a tandem with sectarian Osama bin Laden, which was pure and unadulterated mendacity.

Those responsible for the senseless deaths of thousands belong in the dock in the Hague.

Wolfgang Schüssel, Former Austrian (Conservative) Chancellor, Candidate for EU President

Austria: Victim not Perpetrator

Question: Does Austria consider itself as a perpetrator or victim 60 years after the war?

Wolfgang Schüssel: I believe that this question has been decided. The country (Austria) was a victim of aggression, specifically a military aggression. That was proven in the night after the occupation when thousands were arrested. If the Nazi leadership thought that all of Austria was cheering, these arrests would not have been carried out. The entire political elite was de facto cancelled out. There was resistance in all political groups. The allies recognized this… I will never permit Austria not be viewed as a victim. Our country was the first military victim of the Nazis in its identity. But I do not want to create the impression that we intend to minimize or erase the individual guilt of perpetrators in any sense.

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No fool can be as much of a fool
as the wise man off keel

“On the last day of his presidency, I want to say why I still do not wish that Al Gore had beaten George W. Bush in 2000 or that John Kerry had emerged the victor in 2004….

I think it’s a certainty that historians will not conclude that the removal of Saddam Hussein was something that the international community ought to have postponed any further. (Indeed, if there is a disgrace, it is that previous administrations left the responsibility undischarged.)”
- “No Regrets: Why I’m not sorry that George W. Bush beat Al Gore and John Kerry,”  Christopher Hitchens, Jan. 19, 2009

“Opposition to Blair (as President of the E.U.) centers on his support for the war in Iraq. The war was mishandled and misbegotten - but if Blair had abandoned the United States, there would be little left of the Trans-Atlantic Alliance that was the rock on which the E.U. was built.
- Roger Cohen, “Giving Europe a Voice,” New York Times, Oct. 19, 2009

Bush, Cheney and Blair liberated Iraq and tens of thousands of Iraqis from life, as well as thousands of our soldiers. They invaded a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, thus removing the buffer to Iran and made the United States and Israel more vulnerable. After pushing the Taliban back in Afghanistan, Bush let the country go to pot, increasing the danger to the United States.

Blair did not go along with the invasion of Iraq. He passionately and eloquently made the case for it.

Those responsible for the senseless deaths of thousands belong in the dock!

Rape in the Hallowed Halls of Halliburton

Ladies and Gents we have brought democracy to Iraq and a great cost in lives to Iraquis and to our troops. But oh, how these medieval backward ones still treat women! We must enlighten them concerning the fair sex. In our civilized society, women are our partners and we treat them accordingly. But we’re anything but straeight laced. When we’re doing business, we don’t let business get in the way of pleasure, and we indulge in harmless fun like gang-rape.

Let us not let such peccadillos disrupt the good things we’re doing! You don’t have to shout it out from the rooftops, nor should we have to pay the piper.

In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped by her co-workers while she was working for Halliburton/KBR in Baghdad. She was detained in a shipping container for at least 24 hours without food, water, or a bed, and “warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she’d be out of a job.” (Jones was not an isolated case.) Jones was prevented from bringing charges in court against KBR because her employment contract stipulated that sexual assault allegations would only be heard in private arbitration.

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Mary Matalin, Republican strategist:  “I don’t just respect Rush. I revere Rush.”
- Anderson Cooper, 360, CNN, October 5, 2009

(Mary’s married to Democratic strategist James Carville. God would I love to eavesdrop!)

Jim on Sarah Palin, former Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska:
“I mean she was touted experience as mayor of this town in Alaska. This is a picture of the city hall. It looks like a bait shop in South Louisiana.”

Dick Cheney reveres Rush too: “If I had to choose in terms of being a Republican, I’d go with Rush Limbaugh.”
- Face the Nation, CBS, May 10, 2009

Yes, Dick, Rush is your man. You’re both gung-ho, and you were both stay at home soldiers during Vietnam.  You got five deferments and he had a pustule on his posterior.

Rush, the expert on race: “He’s not black. Do you know he has not one shred of African-American blood?  He doesn’t have any African….He’s Arab. You know, he’s from Africa. He’s from Arab parts of Africa…he’s not African-American. The last thing that he is is African-American. I guess that’s splitting hairs, I don’t - it’s just all these little things, everything seems upside-down today in this country.”
- The Rush Limbaugh Show, Sept. 22, 2008

Rush concerning Obama:
“I Hope Obama Fails. I hope liberalism fails?
I’m happy to be the last man standing.
I’m honored to be the last man standing.
Yeah, I’m the true maverick.
If I wanted Obama to succeed, I’d be happy the Republicans have laid down….   Democrats own the country. There’s nothing anybody can do to stop it.  I hope Obama Fails. Somebody’s gotta say it.”
- The Rush Limbaugh Show, Jan. 16, 2009

Yes, Rush, the country should go down the drain in order to prove you right!

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 ”Herr Strudl”:  “Anders als viele ihrer politischen korrekten Kollegen ham Österreichs UNO-Delegierten während der Rede vom Ahmedi-Nejad net den Saal verlassen. Recht hams. Weil diesmal war fast olles, was er gsagt hat, völlig richtig” .

- Kronen-Zeitung, 25. September 2009

The Austrian “Kronen-Zeitung” and Ahmadinejad

Here’s “Herr Strudl”, who gives streetwise comments in the largest-selling Austrian tabloid:

“Unlike their politically correct colleagues, Austria’s UNO delegates did not leave the hall during Ahmadinejad’s speech. Right they were! This time almost everything he said hit the mark.”
- Kronen-Zeitung, September 25, 2009

English translation: Herbert Kuhner

Herbert Kuhner

As August fades into September, Vorarlberg Freedom Party Chief Dieter Egger has labeled Hanno Loewy, Director of the Jewish Museum in Hohenems, Voralberg, an “Exil Jew from America”. Herr Loewy had criticized the political posters of the Freedom Party.

“There is absolutely no reason to apologize”, stated Herbert Kickl, Austrian Freedom Party Secretary General.

Herr Egger, the courageous patriot: “We will not let the courage of our patriotic commitment for our homeland be diminished.”
- News, August 26, 2009, p. 9

On August 24th, Heinz-Christian Strache, Freedom Party Chief, declared in Austrian TV, that labeling someone as an “exile Jew” posed no insult and that the Freedom Party would not tolerate foreign criticism.

Hanno Loewy is not American, nor is he an “exile Jew”. He is a German citizen who is a resident of Austria, and he is a Jew.

Does the Austrian Freedom Party refuse to “tolerate” criticism from a German citizen? Does the Freedom Party refuse to “tolerate” criticism from a Jew?

I happen to “fit” the Freedom Party bill. During the Third Reich period, family properties were pillaged and family members were murdered in Austria, or “Ostmark”, if you will. Others, including me, emigrated to England and the United States.

I returned to Austria decades ago. Would Herr Strache deny me the right to speak freely on any subject concerning Austria?

Yes, the song is “Happy Days Are Here Again!”