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...or evaluated another way.....with other reporting, "the Examiner" article in the OP is a BS "hit piece" by partisan "hack", Charles Hurt....<a href="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?p=2180067&highlight=chARLES+HURT#post2180067">last noted</a> as he performed as a partisan "hack", for washingtontimes . com .....
Can we all make a "pact" here....not to post articles by media outlets with owners who are Brett Bozell, Rev. Moon, or.....CNP - Council for National Policy Members? Unfortunately, this makes the following ineligible:
washingtontimes.com - Rev. Moon
newsmax.com - Brett Bozell
mrc.org - Brett Bozell
cnsnews - Brett Bozell
townhall.com - CNP via Salem Communications <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=cnp+Edward+G.+Atsinger&btnG=Search">CEO Edward G Atsinger III</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cnp+Stuart+W.+Epperson&btnG=Google+Search">chairman Stuart W. Epperson</a>
SNR (Salem News Radio) - http://www.salem.cc/peopleKeyEmployees.htm
<b>examiner.com</b> - see bottom of this post for details.....
Does the list above, give you any inkling that, even in the age of "the internet", the flow of information that reaches you (not specifically directed at you, dksuddeth....) is originating from a remarkably narrow range of sources?
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Veteran Hill reporter joins The Examiner
16 days ago Veteran Hill reporter joins The Examiner
Feb 24, 2007 7:21 AM (16 days ago)
by News Desk
WASHINGTON - Charles Hurt, Capitol Hill bureau chief of The Washington Times and former Washington correspondent for the Charlotte Observer, is joining The Washington Examiner as chief congressional correspondent.
“Charlie is a first-class journalist who consistently breaks big stories and comes up with angles that other papers miss,” said Stephen G. Smith, Examiner executive editor. “He knows the Hill inside and out, and covers it with extraordinary energy and enterprise.”
Hurt joins recent additions Bill Sammon, senior White House correspondent; Rowan Scarborough, national security correspondent; and Micah Morrison, national investigative reporter......
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Charles Hurt quotes Rep. Jerry Lewis with "the christmas ornaments" reference, and to me....Lewis seems as "traitorous", in "a time of war", as his "buddy", Duke Cunningham was:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...051101881.html
House Appropriations Chairman Is Facing Federal Investigation
By Charles R. Babcock
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 12, 2006; Page A03
The Justice Department has begun investigating the activities of Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, focusing in part on his dealings with a lobbying firm that hired some of his former staff members, sources familiar with the inquiry said......
.......The Lewis inquiry is at least tangentially connected to an ongoing congressional bribery case centered in San Diego and Washington, one source said. In that case, former representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-Calif.) admitted he had accepted $2.4 million in bribes. Brent Wilkes, a San Diego defense contractor, is under investigation for allegedly bribing Cunningham.
Cunningham, a longtime colleague of Lewis's and, like him, a member of the Appropriations Committee, pleaded guilty and resigned in November. He was sentenced to more than eight years in prison. Wilkes has been identified as a co-conspirator in that case but has not been charged. Another contractor, Mitchell J. Wade, of Washington, pleaded guilty early this year for his role in bribing Cunningham........
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...060702275.html
Stepdaughter Of Lawmaker Got Money From PAC
By Charles R. Babcock and Alice Crites
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, June 8, 2006; Page A04
A stepdaughter of Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has been paid more than $40,000 since early last year by a political action committee funded substantially by donations from a lobbyist close to the congressman and from her firm's clients.
Lewis's stepdaughter, Julia Willis-Leon of Las Vegas, is listed as director of the Small Biz Tech PAC. She received $44,474 of the approximately $115,000 the committee has collected since it was set up in February 2005, federal election records show.
Rep. Jerry Lewis's stepdaughter received $44,474 from a PAC.
The lobbyist, Letitia White -- a former longtime Lewis aide -- is the largest donor to Small Biz Tech. She is also part owner of the $1 million Capitol Hill house that initially served as PAC headquarters.
Her firm -- Copeland Lowery Jacquez Denton & White -- has come under scrutiny for its relationship with Lewis, according to sources close to the investigation. The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles has been sending subpoenas to some of the firm's clients......
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Some "examples" of Charles Hurt "prose":
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http://www.washtimes.com/national/20...3023-8677r.htm
....That approval has fallen considerably in the year and a half since he first took the helm of <b>the Democrat Party</b> in the Senate. When he last faced re-election, in 2004, Mr. Reid trounced his opponent with 61 percent of the vote in a state also won by Mr. Bush. ....
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Democrat in 'Gang of 14' raises doubts about Alito - Nation ...
By Charles Hurt THE WASHINGTON TIMES November 18, 2005 ... war over the nomination escalates and warnings from <b>Democrat leaders</b> that Judge Alito still faces ...
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Alito confirmation may be tight - Nation/Politics - The Washington ...
By Charles Hurt THE WASHINGTON TIMES January 23, 2006 ... Still, <b>Democrat leaders</b> insist, that option remains a possibility. ...
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Only rabidly partisan republicans....like...uhhh George W. Bush, obsessively drop the "ic" from the opposition party name, "democratic".....and...white house PR "shills"....like....uhhh Brit Hume and the rest of the "gang" at foxnews.....
....and, when the RNC needed to discredit Harry Reid in the senate, what "reporting" did they choose to "feature" on their website?:
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http://rnc.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=5650
....Senate Democrat Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) On Senate Floor Referred To Judicial Nominee's FBI File:
"Minority Leader Harry Reid Strayed From His Prepared Remarks On The Senate Floor Yesterday And Promised To Continue Opposing One Of President Bush's Judicial Nominees Based On 'A Problem' He Said Is In The Nominee's 'Confidential Report From The FBI.'" (Charles Hurt, "Reid Cites FBI File On Judicial Pick," The Washington Times, 5/13/05)
* "Those Highly Confidential Reports Are Filed On All Judicial Nominees, And Severe Sanctions Apply To Anyone Who Discloses Their Contents. Less Clear Is Whether A Senator Could Face Sanctions For Characterizing The Content Of Such Files." (Charles Hurt, "Reid Cites FBI File On Judicial Pick," The Washington Times, 5/13/05)
Reid: "Henry Saad Would Have Been Filibustered Anyway ... All You Need To Do Is Have A Member Go Upstairs And Look At His Confidential Report From The FBI, And I Think We Would All Agree That There Is A Problem There." (Charles Hurt, "Reid Cites FBI File On Judicial Pick," The Washington Times, 5/13/05)...
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Doesn't it look kinda pathetic, that the best the RNC.org could do to reinforce it's "message", were quotes from Charles Hurt at Rev. Moon's Washington Times?
The following were first published in the "Congressional Daily" described here as:
First reported in http://nationaljournal.com/about/congressdaily/
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http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0307/031307cdam1.htm
March 13, 2007
RELATED STORIES
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<a href="http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0307/031307cdam1.htm">* Bill to boost war spending has something for everyone (03/09/07)</a>
By Peter Cohn, CongressDaily
There is a lot of good news for "red" districts in the supplemental war spending bill Democrats unveiled Thursday, not to mention billions in added funding for politically sacrosanct veterans' health programs, military readiness and housing for troops returning from overseas.
Democrats nearly doubled Bush's request for Gulf Coast reconstruction aid to $6.3 billion, including extra money to build tougher levees in and around New Orleans, and added $400 million for low-income heating assistance that could make it tough for Republicans like Rep. Charles Boustany of Louisiana to oppose.
States like Georgia, Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri that otherwise would have to cut off health insurance for low-income children would benefit from a $735 million cash infusion.
Midwest Republicans like Rep. Jerry Moran of Kansas, who lobbied hard for agriculture disaster aid, applauded the inclusion of $4.3 billion to help farmers and ranchers cope with drought, frost and floods. Blue Dog Democrats such as Rep. Earl Pomeroy of North Dakota also worked to secure the funding.
Democrats extended a program for one year that provides payments to rural counties, largely in Oregon, that have suffered declining timber sales as a result of changes in federal forest policy during the 1990s.
About $400 million is included in the bill to help rural counties pay for road repairs, education and police after the program expired last year. "This truly is an emergency," said Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., who worked closely with Oregon Democrats to obtain the funding.
Other additions like $2.5 billion for homeland security, including money to screen cargo at the nation's 361 seaports and being transported on airplanes, have broad appeal across the aisle as well. All told, Democrats added around $21 billion to Bush's $103 billion request, considerably fattening what was already the largest supplemental in history.
"The same people who came here promising fiscal responsibility and a balanced budget now want to spend money as badly as drunken sailors, with apologies to drunken sailors," said Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee. "Once again from the Democrat leadership, it will be all-you-can-eat at the all-pork buffet in their supplemental."
Republicans repeatedly said they would support only a "clean" supplemental, one without domestic add-ons and without the restrictions on troop deployments in Iraq that Democrats have included. Aides to Bush Thursday said he would veto the bill over the troop guidelines alone.
"What's going to happen is the president will veto this bill and we'll have to come back with a clean supplemental that funds the troops," said Rep. Ray LaHood, R-Ill.
That the bill funds the troops is not in question. The measure includes $95.5 billion for military operations, including $2.3 billion to cover the cost of fielding an additional 36,000 Army troops and 9,000 Marines. Democrats included the president's request for $2.4 billion to combat improvised explosive devices, and another $1.4 billion is included for new mine-resistant vehicles.
Defense and veterans' health is a major theme of the bill, with $3.5 billion above the request, and Democrats are taking steps toward rebuilding military readiness they say is at its lowest since Vietnam, with an added $2.5 billion to train and equip units not yet deployed overseas.
<h3>Hensarling acknowledged Democrats constructed the bill in a fashion that makes it difficult for Republicans to oppose.</h3>
"I didn't say they were foolish; I just said they were spendthrifts," he said. "What people try to do is hide their pork in the reinforcements and the equipment that our brave men and women need to fight for our freedom. It's not the first time that pork has been wrapped in Old Glory."
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Dems remove Iran language from bill to boost war funding
By Christian Bourge and Peter Cohn, CongressDaily
House Democratic
........... Republicans have pledged to oppose the supplemental over war proposals they say would tie Bush's hands and over the additional spending.
"This bill micromanages military operations and telegraphs a timeline for withdrawal to an enemy that hides and waits," said a spokesman for Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. "It isn't a funding bill; it's an ambush."
The 172-page bill contains plenty to entice wavering lawmakers to support the bill, however. At $21.1 billion above the White House request overall, numerous domestic programs would benefit, as well as more generous military and homeland security spending. Add-ons range from aid to salmon fishermen and spinach handlers to $1 billion extra to purchase explosives detection equipment at airports.
The Gulf Coast is a major beneficiary of the Democrats' largesse, including $1.3 billion extra to strengthen levees in and around New Orleans and another $910 million to cover the cost of waiving state and local matching requirements for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster aid program.
Livestock owners, citrus growers and other crop owners affected by the 2005 hurricanes benefit from $140 million, while another $120 million is provided for the shrimp and menhaden fishing industries. Another $60 million is included for education, while $80 million would go toward eliminating housing voucher shortfalls in hurricane-impacted areas.
Non-Gulf agriculture is also a winner in the bill, with $3.7 billion to compensate farmers, ranchers and growers for losses suffered during the last three crop years. The committee makes clear that it "does not intend for this to be an ongoing program" and requires all payments to cease no later than Sept. 30, 2008.
Livestock assistance would be available to compensate for losses due to wildfires in Texas and other states, and blizzards in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico and Oklahoma. Democrats also included $25 million for payments to spinach growers and handlers impacted by last year's health advisory that resulted in a recall of some supermarket spinach.
Dairy subsidies for small farmers benefit from an extension of the Milk Income Loss Contract program, at a $283 million cost, a program important to House Appropriations Chairman David Obey's home state of Wisconsin. Another $74 million is included to extend a peanut-storage program important to growers in the home state of House Agriculture Appropriations ranking member Jack Kingston, R-Ga.
Another $60.4 million in aid would go to communities, Indian tribes, fishermen and others affected by declining salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest.
Members of the Oregon and California delegations lobbied hard for the aid, and Oregon in particular benefits from $400 million included to renew a county payments program for rural communities that have suffered from declining timber sales since the mid-1990s.
The Capitol itself would benefit from some add-ons. Appropriators included $50 million to continue asbestos abatement efforts at the Capitol Power Plant, while $16 million is included for security improvements at House office buildings.
There also is the customary payment to the spouse of a deceased lawmaker, in this case the wife of the late Rep. Charlie Norwood, R-Ga.
And as so often happens with major spending bills, House leaders also included authorizing measures that fail to move through the process on their own.
In addition to the House-passed minimum wage and small business tax-break bills, Democrats included a major government-contracting oversight measure by Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif. They also revised language of chemical security legislation included in last year's Homeland Security appropriations bill, which Democrats criticized at the time as too weak and industry-friendly.
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The reports above are backed by these references to republican rep. Jack Kingston of GA, attemptiing an "add-on" to the supplemental defense appropriations bill that would rescue his state's "Peach Care" health insurance coverage for children, suspended to new enrollment this month, due to cuts in federal funding that his state was economically hard pressed to make up for.
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Out of Iraq Caucus starts to split
The Hill, DC - Mar 14, 2007
<b>Jack Kingston (R-Ga.) said he will offer an amendment</b> to strike the “mandatory rate” provision in the State Children’s Healthcare Insurance Program (SCHIP), ...
Peanut farmers need storage and handling fees paid for the 2007 crop
BladePlus, GA - Mar 2, 2007
... the storage and handling issue to their congressmen in Washington, DC The group met with US Congressmen Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., <b>Jack Kingston, R-Ga., ...</b>
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Jack Kingston was also lobbied by his state's peanut farmers, along with GA democrat, Sanford Bishop.
I'm not saying that spending "add-ons" in supplemental appropriations "for the war" are a "good thing". I'm saying that the thread OP was rendered irrelevant because it was premised on "reporting" of a discredited partisan hack, Charles Hurt, to the point that the article is unreliable, making the point of the thread nearly meaningless.
There have been numerous published protests against the Bush admin. "supplementals", "for the war", because the "war" was 3-1/2 years old at the beginning of the 2007 fiscal year, last Oct. 1. There was no need, at least two budgets ago, not to anticipate most war related expenditures and include them in the budget. That would not serve to "hide" the extent of the budget deficit. By placing the war expenditures and the add-ons that were "left out" in order to make the deficit look better, republicans were able to run on a "record" of measurably lower deficits. If all of these expenses were budgeted, the deficit would be near what the total treasury deficit ended up being last year....$574 billion. The figure was just $18 billion in fiscal year 2000.
<b>I put the time and effort into replying to threads like this....threads "premised" with "news" articles that are not "news". I'm going to continue to point out that some of us get our "news" from "traditional" outlets....NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, BBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, NPR, PBS.....and none of them feature reporters who reliably use the "democrat party" or "democrat leader", "give away"....that their reporter is a partisan hack....and none of them are financed by Rev. Moon, or by a CNP member, as in the case of the owner of "the Examiner", new employer of Charles Hurt....and, you would think.....that since this is not the first time, or the second, that I have "pulled the pants down" of an "alternative news" source....of an OP....that this "shit" would stop.....but it doesn't. </b>
The owner of "the Examiner", and examiner.com <a href="http://mediamatters.org/items/200502030002?offset=20&show=1">Philip F. Anschutz</a>:
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Council for National Policy (CNP) -A- Member Biographies
Philip F. Anschutz - CNP 1984; founder and president oil company, The Anschutz Corporation. Hon. Richard K. Armey - CNP Member 1984-85, 1988, 1996, 1998; ...
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Seek God - Council For National Policy (CNP)
CNP Name List By Alphabetical Listing (By Page-click Letter), Jun 1, 2001 ... Senator John K. Andrews, Jr., Dr. John F. Ankerberg, Philip F. Anschutz, , Hon ...
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Media Matters - Right-wing slant for free in DC's new daily paper ...
The new paper is owned by Denver billionaire Philip F. Anschutz, an Evangelical ... Who else is on the CNP? James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Alan Keyes, ...
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