Saturday,
October 28, 2006
Sen. Kean: "Have You No Sense of
Decency, Sir"
The
ANNOTICO Report
In
the New Jersey US Senate Race, Tom Kean Jr. has Not Yet Instructed his
"Friends" to pull a Anti Italian Bigoted TV Ad,
Nor has he Disavowed it !!!!
It
appears to be part of Campaign Acts of Desperation by Conservatives who are
going "Dirty", as they have against:
Georgia
Senator Max Cleland, a war hero and triple amputee, claiming he was less
patriotic than his draft-dodging opponent.
Tammy
Duckworth of
Tennessee Harold Ford with jungle drums being played every time his name
is mentioned in a radio ad.
And
defy logic just as slandering Italian Americans
when the Republican's opponent is a Cuban American, Bob Menendez.
The
Sherry
Greenberg
October
27, 2006
Back
in the 1950s, the red-baiting, right-wing wacko Senator Joseph McCarthy was
finally exposed as a misanthropic opportunist by attorney Joseph Welch who
memorably said to McCarthy: "Until this moment, Senator, I think I never
gauged your cruelty or your recklessness[...] Let us not assassinate this
lad further, Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long
last, have you left no sense of decency?"
McCarthy's lists and Senate hearings on supposed communists were the final acts
of a devious political career. In his first successful election to the
Senate, McCarthy exaggerated his own military career, accused his opponent,
Senator Robert La Follette, of not enlisting during
World War Two and implied that LaFollette had been a
war profiteer. The fact that LaFollette was 49
when
In 2002, Republicans employed McCarthyesque tactics
to unseat Georgia Senator Max Cleland. Cleland left three limbs on a
Vietnamese battlefield. Yet, remarkably, he was assaulted by
advertisements that linked him to terrorists and claimed that he was less
patriotic than his draft-dodging opponent. When it was
pointed out that Cleland was a war hero and triple amputee, right-wing talking
heads, such as Ann Coulter, set forth even more audacious claims that Cleland's
wounds were self-inflicted and not really combat related. Remarkably,
the ads and ! Coulterisms
worked. Cleland was defeated.
The success of the anti-Cleland ads gave rise to the Swiftboating
of John Kerry.
This campaign season, we have a plethora of McCarthyesque
ads and invectives that appeal to the deep seated fears and prejudices of voters
and that are just downright mean. In
In
Illinois Republican Peter Roskam claimed during a
debate that his opponent would cut and run from
Indiana Republican Hostetter is running a radio ad
that claims Nancy Pelosi will advance a homosexual agenda if she becomes
Speaker. Every time Republican talking heads discuss who will lead a
Democratic Congress, they talk about Nancy Pelosi, Charlie Rangel, Alcee
Hastings, John Conyers and Barney Frank -- a woman, three African Americans and
a gay male. I wonder why they don't discuss an Agriculture Committee
headed by Colin Peterson or an Appropriations Committee chaired by David Obey.
Could it be that they are left off the list ! because they are straight white men?
And, now, we have Rush Limbaugh physically and verbally mocking Michael J. Fox
and questioning the veracity of Fox's Parkinson's symptoms displayed in ads for
Clare McCaskill and Ben Cardin. I suppose that
Limbaugh's own pharmacological experience provides him with a special level of
expertise to determine from a video tape whether Fox is taking his medication.
If Fox is such a phony, why didn't Limbaugh call him out when Fox appeared in a
similar ad for Republican Arlen Spector in 2004?
Welch's comments marked the beginning of the end of McCarthy's reign of terror.
We need someone like Welch to call out McCarthy's modern day fellow travelers.
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