Thursday, September 02, 2004
Kerry Was Framed (Alternet)
Wednesday's Republican convention speeches framed John Kerry using deceptive and dishonest language.
Last night was red-meat night. Tear up the opposition and throw them to the dogs. This is traditionally a vice-presidential task so that the president can keep his hands clean. But this time Vice President Dick Cheney had the help of Zell Miller, a nominal Democrat who almost always votes with Republicans.
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Flogging the flag (Guardian)
The delegates wear designer chinos and yellow baseball caps and the talk is all about patriotism and duty - just don't mention the deficit, welfare meltdown or what's really in the manifesto. Welcome to the Jekyll-and-Hyde world of the Republican convention, says Simon Schama in his second G2 dispatch on the race for the White House
The banana-yellow baseball caps, the Republican Convention's signature fashion statement, single "W" sewn at the front, worn with suit and tie, or glittery top, were a dead giveaway. This is not the kind of baseball cap pulled on backwards at the ballpark or at greasy spoon truckstops where Yew-Ess-Ay rules, and Real Men take pulls straight from the necks of their Buds before wiping the foam with the backs of their hairy wrists. No sirree, this cute banana item verges on the metro- sexual. The Texas delegation, Dubya's home state cheerleaders, all sport the expected cowboy uniforms but the 10-gallon hats of white straw are polished and glossy; the blue denim shirts as softly brushed and the chinos as high-fashioned as anything you'd find in a Dallas boutique. For this, My Friends (as the platform speakers like to call us,) is a smoother, silkier, creamier, richer Republican convention, the mailed fist of war so deeply clad in the velvet glove of patriotic bonding that you'd never feel the knuckles (not unless you read the hard right party platform, with its visceral hostility to embryonic stem cell research, gay marriage, and illegal immigrant amnesties, that is).
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Wednesday's Republican convention speeches framed John Kerry using deceptive and dishonest language.
Last night was red-meat night. Tear up the opposition and throw them to the dogs. This is traditionally a vice-presidential task so that the president can keep his hands clean. But this time Vice President Dick Cheney had the help of Zell Miller, a nominal Democrat who almost always votes with Republicans.
more
Flogging the flag (Guardian)
The delegates wear designer chinos and yellow baseball caps and the talk is all about patriotism and duty - just don't mention the deficit, welfare meltdown or what's really in the manifesto. Welcome to the Jekyll-and-Hyde world of the Republican convention, says Simon Schama in his second G2 dispatch on the race for the White House
The banana-yellow baseball caps, the Republican Convention's signature fashion statement, single "W" sewn at the front, worn with suit and tie, or glittery top, were a dead giveaway. This is not the kind of baseball cap pulled on backwards at the ballpark or at greasy spoon truckstops where Yew-Ess-Ay rules, and Real Men take pulls straight from the necks of their Buds before wiping the foam with the backs of their hairy wrists. No sirree, this cute banana item verges on the metro- sexual. The Texas delegation, Dubya's home state cheerleaders, all sport the expected cowboy uniforms but the 10-gallon hats of white straw are polished and glossy; the blue denim shirts as softly brushed and the chinos as high-fashioned as anything you'd find in a Dallas boutique. For this, My Friends (as the platform speakers like to call us,) is a smoother, silkier, creamier, richer Republican convention, the mailed fist of war so deeply clad in the velvet glove of patriotic bonding that you'd never feel the knuckles (not unless you read the hard right party platform, with its visceral hostility to embryonic stem cell research, gay marriage, and illegal immigrant amnesties, that is).
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