Eating Their Own
I’d make fun of Illinois Review more, but I’m quite happy watching them continue the Illinois Circular Firing Squad Team. This time it’s over which of two wingnuts is the wingnutiest
Archive for the ‘Keyes’ Company’
It Must Be the Water
Family Taxpayers Network has a hysterical rant up about Oberweis picking on their poor candidate:
Oberweis is running one of the filthiest campaigns we’ve ever seen. What’s really despicable about it is he’s running it against one of the few really decent public servants we have left in Illinois. Oberweis is willing to forget about all the truly bad players out there. He’s now instead using his milk money to smear one truly good man.Hastert, Topinka and all of their old pals are fine, let’s instead destroy Chris Lauzen, probably the best champion for conservative causes in Springfield. What Oberweis is doing is not only selfish and insane, it’s downright disgraceful.No, Lauzen isn’t perfect. No one is. But Chris is head and shoulders above nearly everyone else in Springfield. Chris is a man of integrity who has stood-up for Republican principles time and time again. Often he’s had to stand alone.Frankly, if Lauzen had run for Governor in 2006, he almost certainly would have been our man. But he didn’t. And it’s just as well. Chris is truly Congressional material. He deserves a promotion to Washington.Oberweis on the other hand still has no political accomplishments he can point to. His only strategy is to tear a good man down.Sure, we were tough on Topinka in 2006. But Topinka had a long history of nastiness, wackiness and dishonesty. She has always belonged in the Democratic Party and she was unworthy of Republican support. The bottom line is Chris Lauzen is not Judy Baar Topinka.Jim cried poor to us when he ran for Governor. But now he’s sparing no expense on mud and attack dogs. Oberweis is paying Alan Keyes’ former New Jersey hit-man at least $15,000 a month to trash Lauzen. But that’s just for starters. Oberweis is throwing plenty more cash at the former Hastert staffers he put on the campaign payroll. He’s also advertising on the sewer blogs.This is all happening with Hastert’s blessing of course. As recently as early December, Hastert was still pretending that he didn’t know who he would endorse – even though some of his former senior staff was already on the Oberweis campaign. It was all just more dishonesty and stonewalling from The Quitter.But Hastert did all he could to keep up the phony charade as long as possible, telling the Beacon News on December 1st that he would only support a “positive” candidate and not “somebody that’s going to do political trash talk all the time.”Well, obviously trash talk is all Oberweis has done this campaign. It’s another dishonest scam exposed, and it’s another filthy chapter added to Hastert’s shameful legacy.Jim Oberweis has finally found his true home. We can only hope that in eight days it will also be the final resting place for a failed political career that once had promise, but now ends with dishonor.
You see, he’s negative and that’s a horrible thing. Unlike FTN which is ….
Daily Dolt: Illinois Review
Earth to Ted, Caroline, Patrick and others who are marketing Sen. Barack Obama as the new JFK. Kennedy family, get over yourselves. If you really think Sen. Barack Obama is the new JFK, then maybe you didn’t know the record of the real JFK from 1947 to 1963. Let’s review the bidding.
If you live in Illinois and voted for JFK or Nixon in the 1960 election, I am sorry to be the one to do the math but even if that was your first vote you have at least passed your 68th birthday and are on your way to the “gettin up there” stage of life. So what? So that’s a very long time to hold on to a myth that was never real to start with and expect that it will impress people whose only knowledge of JFK comes from fawning historians and aging journalists.
During 1962, Jack Kennedy was alive and well. Everyone called him Jack. No one ever called him “John Fitzgerald” in that mournful patter until after he was murdered by a communist in 1963. If you still doubt that and are an honest person, read Gerald Posner’s book, Case Closed, and set aside your doubts for all time.
Yes, the Kennedy family doesn’t know anything about the history of their own family. But Illinois Review will correct that for them. And throw in a Assassination Conspiracy theory to boot.
Funny Thing About Validating Right Wing Loons
It comes to bite your candidate in the ass….
Taylor Marsh tries to use the Alan Keyes claim that Obama is for infanticide and that is why he needs to be vetted. This, of course, comes from Stanek who has misrepresented the differences between the federal and the state level on many occasions.
What was one of Stanek’s most recent pieces:
Hillary vs. Obama: Who’s the biggest baby killing champion?
They are going to lie about whomever the candidate is and they’ll do all the same things to Clinton. Trying to split Democrats by using right wing talking points only gives wingnuts some aura of respectability.
Congratulations on screwing your own candidate! Beautifully done.
Perhaps you’d like to discuss how Stanek’s defense of beating women to stop them from having an abortion is wonderful. From that column:
One of the best scenes in the Godfather movie trilogy was in “Godfather II,” when Kay Corleone (Diane Keaton) told her husband Michael (Al Pacino) she was taking their two children and leaving him. The dialogue:
Michael: Do you expect me to let you take my children from me?…. Don’t you know that’s an impossibility, that that could never happen, that I’d use all my power to keep something like that from ever happening?…. I know you blame me for losing the baby. Yes. I know what that meant to you. Kay. I swear I’ll make it up to you…. I’ll change. And you’ll forget about this miscarriage, and we’ll have another child, and we’ll go on, you and I, we’ll go on.
Kay: Oh – oh, Michael, Michael, you are blind. It wasn’t a miscarriage. It was an abortion, an abortion, Michael! Just like our marriage is an abortion, something that’s unholy and evil. I didn’t want your son, Michael! I wouldn’t bring another one of your sons into this world! It was an abortion, Michael. It was a son, a son, and I had it killed, because this must all end. I know now that it’s over. I knew it then. There would be no way, Michael, no way you could ever forgive me, not with this Sicilian thing that’s been going on for 2,000 years….
SLAP.
Michael: You won’t take my family!
And she doesn’t.
That spontaneous slap was the reaction of a real man who a woman had just told she aborted his baby. Compare that to the modern day cowardly male response, “It’s your choice. Whatever you decide, I’ll support you.” Or worse, his threat to abandon her if she does not abort.
It was this fierce devotion to family that strangely endeared us to the Corleone men despite their otherwise heinous behavior.
Or the more recent column:
In Mr. Brooks, the teenage daughter of serial killer Earl Brooks (Costner) turns up pregnant midway through her first semester of college. When Jane tells her parents, Earl emphatically states abortion is out of the question and offers to raise the baby. Jane is equally emphatically abortion minded until that moment, when she says she will reconsider. Typical. If a mother in a crisis pregnancy is offered love and support, she will most often choose life.
I won’t give away the end of Mr. Brooks except to say the prospect of his seeing future grandchild became Earl’s motivation for a life or death decision.
All of this is way twisted, I know. But similar to Godfather II, even a schizophrenic serial killer knows abortion is wrong, and similar to Godfather II, this became a redeeming quality of one who had no others.
Mr. Brooks’ pro-life stance was an obviously planned juxtaposition.
On one hand he was a serial killer no better than Dahmer and Gacy.
On the other, he was pro-life. Of of all possible character attributes, the writer and director chose this as Mr. Brooks’ one featured nobility, something they decided demonstrated the exact opposite of the schizophrenic killer mentality.
Why is that?
Stanek, Keyes, the entire wingnut crew over at Illinois Review are going to attack whomever our nominee is. Don’t help them by giving them some sort of relevance.
The Only Highlight Reel You Need
Keyes on Global Warming…Okay, Not Really
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Groundhog Day
Illinois Review pushes Chris McNeil for the 11th District–the guy who lost to Renee Kosel 58-42 percent.
Because starting with a candidate who has annoyed much of the Party Leadership in the area is always a pathway to success.
He’s Back
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Fine Moments in Obfuscation
Your many assertions about the Pro-Life Action League (“the League”) and Joseph Scheidler, its director, are red herrings as they have nothing to do with the Aurora protests. But they too are false and misleading.
It depends on your meaning of nothing to do with the protests. If one thinks financially supporting Fox Valley Families is having something to do with the protests, that would be inacurate.
The efforts of Families Against Planned Parenthood are underwritten by the Pro-Life Action League. Please consider making a donation to the League to help fund this campaign.
Joe Scheidler is the Executive of the non-profit 990 here. You can also see Eric Scheidler is counted as a key personnel and the Communication Director. IOW, Fox Valley Families or Families against Planned Parenthood are a project of Pro-Life Action.
Eric Scheidler, who resides with his family in Aurora and coordinates Fox Valley Families, has never been arrested let alone convicted of any criminal act in connection with pro-life or anti-abortion activity. He has never advocated violence against either persons or property. Nor has he engaged in any such violence in opposing abortion, or otherwise. Nor has any other coordinator or leader of Fox Valley Families. Nor to our knowledge has any violent act been committed, much less condoned, by any participant in the 40-day vigil in opposition to your new facility. Protest against your facility has been entirely peaceable and prayerful.
It’s important to dispel the myth that PLAN engaged in nothing but peaceful, First Amendment-protected activity. It did not. PLAN’s blockades, invasions and the other RICO violations that the jury found PLAN committed are acts of force and violence. The jury heard testimony from patients and clinic workers who were attacked during PLAN’s blockades, including blockades at which Joseph Scheidler and Randall Terry were personally on the scene. One doctor, Dr. Susan Wicklund, was grabbed and slammed against a car as she tried to get through the blockade and into her office. Patients were tripped and pushed to the ground. One clinic administrator was grabbed by her hair and thrown to the ground by an Operation Rescue leader. Another was viciously choked by Operation Rescue protesters, leaving serious bruises on her neck. One patient, who was trying to enter the clinic — not for an abortion but for post-operative care following cancer surgery — was beaten with an Operation Rescue protester’s sign. The protesters clawed at her and attacked her, causing her sutures to rupture, and she passed out. This is not speech or advocacy.
This case is not about First Amendment activity. My clients have never objected to peaceful picketing, leafletting, or even to hateful, ugly speech by abortion opponents. Calling our clients “murderers,” “whores” and “sluts” is not a RICO violation, and we have never claimed it is. The First Amendment protects speech, even ugly speech. But it does not protect the acts of force and violence on which our suit was based. Our case was not based on speech or advocacy, but on acts and threats of force and violence.
The letter isn’t a serious threat, it’s trying to change the subject. If Pro-Life Action League tried to make the argument that the Fox Valley Families group is independent and thus Joe Scheidler irrelevant, a judge would laugh them out of the courtroom. It’s a diversion, plain and simple to avoid talking about the curious incidents of violence wherever Joe Scheidler shows up.
The Call of the People
Or at least the call of people running your web site.
Alan Keyes reports a groundswell of support for him to run for President again. Strangely, this call coincides with a now 11 Part Series entitled the Crisis of the Republic. I don’t think draft means what Alan thinks it does.
I Can’t Improve Upon the Title
Petey LaBarbera is really going beyond parody
Satan’s Talking Points? Human Rights Campaign’s Harry Knox Promotes Ultimate ‘Big Lie’ in MSNBC Debate with CWA’s Matt Barber
Cross posted at Illinois Reason
Judge Roy Moore, Constitutional Scholar
One so amazingly conservative that the conservative Alabama Supreme Court (engineered by Rove) immediately removed the monument upon Moore’s suspension before he was removed from his position permanently. Bill Pryor, a controversial judicial nominee by the Bush administration, agreed Moore had to go because he was disobeying the rule of law.
Apparently the rule of law isn’t too important around the Illinois Review these days as they approvingly link to Roy Moore disagreeing with Obama’s criticism of Moore during the controversy over the monument.
They seem to think the state should be promoting a state religion and if you read Moore’s silly writings on the subject he argues that the founders disagreed because most of the states at the time of the adoption of the Constitution had state religions.
Which is great, but ignores the 14th Amendment which radically reshaped the Constitution to include the Bill of Rights protections against state government action as well as federal government action. The federal government was clearly prohibited from establishing a state religion in the 1st Amendment and as such, the 14th Amendment extended that prohibition to state governments. Arguing that the restrictions on state action are the same as prior to the passage of the 14th amendment is incredibly obtuse.
Equally silly is the argument that government sponsored faith displays aren’t establishing a religion. A very clear example is the monument Moore created which utilized the Protestant 10 Commandments instead of the Catholic 10 Commandments. It is endorsing a specific faith over others or a lack of faith through the state’s actions.
One might argue, as some of the commentors on Illinois Review did, that Obama’s explanation was incorrect. I am reliably informed his explanation in actual Constitutional Law classes goes into the details of the 14th Amendment, but on town hall meeting, one generally doesn’t put everyone to sleep with long explanation of how the 14th Amendment radically changed the Constitution.
It’s not his fault that high school government classes aren’t teaching such basic concepts very well.
What Fran left out was that Moore and her former employer Alan Keyes are close and Moore is just about as relevant as Keyes–the guy who showed a giant mock-up of the 10 Commandments around the state. Keyes, the Catholic, used the Protestant version as did Moore:
I always wanted someone to ask him why he was showing the Protestant version, but he was so busy exploding, no one got the chance.
Cross posted at Illinois Reason
Keyes’ Company: The Stupid Pool
It’s really hard to choose between all of the morons
David Smith, executive director of the Illinois Family Institute, disagreed.
“I don’t think it’s going to fly. I think the people of Illinois made it clear during the petition drive,” Smith said.
The Illinois Family Institute spearheaded an effort last year to place a referendum on the November ballot asking voters if they wanted the state Constitution amended to ban gay marriage. Although well over 300,000 signatures were gathered, state elections officials determined that not enough of them were valid to allow the measure on the ballot.
A poll last summer showed that 40 percent of Illinoisans supported the proposed constitutional amendment. The same poll indicated 51 percent were opposed to gay marriages.
“There’s enough interest in not having marriage devolve into something other than one man and one woman,” Smith said. “I don’t think there is that much interest in the gay community for marriage. They don’t want to be like everyone else.”
I’m glad David is so in touch with the GLBT community.