Steve Young

"Senator Kerry, We Apologize"
George W. Bush, Sean Hannity and the RNC Realize Law Enforcement Does Work
by Steve Young

August 15, 2006 -- Hollywood (apj.us) -- Okay, the headline above is part of a fiction I'm working on. It's called "When Are We Going To Use An Election To Hold The Truth-Perverters's Feet To The Fire By Voting Them Out Of Office?"

Rolls off the tongue, eh?

My editor's not thrilled with the title. She can't find "Perverter" in the "The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual."

Still, it seems that John Kerry's statements (that were parsed unmercifully through Republican talking points and Bush campaign commercials) were taken a wee bit out of context, and what he actually contended was that the war on terror requires a multi-pronged approach, including "law-enforcement" and "intelligence-gathering."

Details, details...

At the time, Republican Party Chairman Ed Gillespie said, "Terrorism is not a law enforcement matter, as John Kerry repeatedly says...and this demonstrates a disconcerting pre-September 11 mindset that will not make our country safer."

A Bush commercial script used the "law-enforcement" comments to ask, "How can Kerry protect us when he doesn't understand the threat?"

Bush told Sean Hannity: "What I say is that his point of view is dangerous because it's very limited in nature. He says this is primarily a law enforcement and intelligence-gathering operation...in my judgment, is a strategy that would not enable us to win."

In effect, what Kerry said did work and -- other than the dog that refuses to hunt over here so he won't have to hunt over there, that the U.S. hasn't suffered another terrorist attack -- there is only holy failure and innocent blood spread over Bush and talk radio's policies.

But let's not muddy the campaign with the seemy facts.

This all reminds me when Hannity, O'Reilly and Limbaugh came on after we spent three years NOT finding WMD in Iraq, and heaped apologies on Hans Blix and Scott Ritter for demonizing them and their admonitions that there was no evidence of WMD in Iraq.

That was from a new children's picture book I'm putting together.

In actuality, with British "law enforcement," "intelligence-gathering" and zero evidence to support that President Bush's illegal bypass of the FICA court judges and the questionable sections of the Patriot Act, talk radio has spent much of the week crowing over how the Administration's highly debatable activities had probably helped corner the British-citizen terror suspects.

And now, they're taking Ned Lamont's comments on Bush's failed strategy and twisting it into "another Democratic Party friend of al Quaeda" talking point.

Of course, things change and one day Sean and the other Lords of Loud will realize that innocent lives are more important that ratings and will apologize to Kerry, Blix, and the families of the hundreds of thousand of soldiers and Iraqi citizens who have lost their lives in Bush and talk radio's answer to terrorism.

Then again, we could just vote the perverters out of office.

Or is that another fiction I'll have to write?

Steve Young is a Senior Fellow at the Extreme Far Centrist Foundation' Political Husbandry Conservation Centre and Stereo Repair. In his spare time, he is also an author, comedy writer, columnist, LA talk show host and author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful."(What? You STILL haven't bought it? Then visit http://www.greatfailure.com/) and the forthcoming "15 Minutes". You can also check out the satirical side of Steve every Sunday in the LA Daily News.

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