Talking points part deux: Hit Hillary, Pelosi over DeLay tee

[Roland99]

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Talking_points_part_deux_Hit_Hillary_Pelosi_over_De_05_30_2005_0925pm.html

"The fallout from NBC’s “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” episode featuring the Tom DeLay T-shirt continued over the Memorial Day break," Roll Call's Mary Ann Akers will dish Tuesday. "House Republican message makers, back in their districts and vacation destinations, are armed with talking points on what to say about the episode that so riled their fearless Majority Leader."

Roll Call obtained a set of talking points issued by House GOP Conference Vice Chairman Jack Kingston (Ga.). In response to a Law and Order episode featuring a police officer who declared “Maybe we should put out an APB for somebody in a Tom DeLay T-shirt,” the House GOP aimed at House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

Kingston, Akers reveals, "has been out on the TV circuit blaring outrage. Kingston instructed members who serve on the House GOP message team to “repeat that this was a PERSONAL swipe at Tom DeLay during sweeps week.” In a memo to his message folks, Kingston gave four talking points, telling Members to stay on message that “L&O” finished “dead last” in sweeps week, is biased and liberal, and, in what he called 'outrageous and over-the-top,' associated DeLay with a 'racist, anti-semitic judge killer.'"

"Then he suggested some “zingers” for GOP Members to use on the subject," Akers adds. "Criticize NBC’s Katie Couric for one. And secondly and most importantly, he said, “Turn the tables for a minute: You never see TV shows depicting a 15-year-old teenage girl driving across the state border to get an abortion with a Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton T-shirt on.”

Criticize Katie Couric? WTF?

Damn these RePUKES are DISGUSTING!!


ARGH!!!

[BattyDem]

1. Um ... excuse me ...

how many times have Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Ted Kennedy been ridiculed on television programs? I don't ever recall any of them going ballistic over it! :eyes:

[Barak And Roll]

2. No, the sick part is

that the Republican’s band of willfully ignorant followers will accept such a glaringly illogical jump (using a joke from Law and Order to criticize Katie Curick, Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi is about as logical as using the Downing Street Memo to criticize the Chicago Cubs). But that’s what you get in a society where Republicans have taught their voter base to operate without reason. They’ve convinced their followers to believe that facts and reason are liberal propaganda and are unnecessary. It’s easy to believe the filibustering of judicial nominees is “unprecedented” if you never look at the actual facts. There’s the danger posed by Bush and Co. But it’s great for people who don’t want to commit any time to educating themselves about the issues of a democracy and would rather be ruled by a dictatorship.

[Roland99]

3. Well, it's obvious they're trying to set the early tone for the '06 races.

[SpiralHawk]

4. The RepubliWeenies doth protest too much

They can dish it out, but they can't take it (at all).

[Stand and Fight]

5. And that is why they are winning.

They are ruthless and they rightly see politics as war.

Democrats want it to be civilized debate. The gloves have got to come off or we will continue to lose.