Sunday, August 20, 2000 -- With Bill Clinton "officially" in the background (but still figuring heavily in the upcoming presidential election -- and far more to Al Gore's advantage than the Sunday political opinion makers would have you believe) -- you would expect Gore to have become target one of the pundit elite.

Well, yes, the torch may have been passed to Gore, but the media couldn't seem to let go of attacking Clinton -- this time rising to the "bait" of a leaked report that Independent Counsel Bob Ray has impaneled a new grand jury.

Federal Judge Richard Cudahy "admitted" Friday that he was the "inadvertent" source of the "leak" -- but we wonder if at least one member of the press may not have been tipped off by an inside source before they called Cudahy, a member of the "Special Division" three-judge panel that oversees the Offices of the Independent Counsel.

Face it -- the timing reeks, and the story looked not only designed to draw attention from Gore's acceptance speech but to tie into the issue of the politicized disbarment hearings concerning President Clinton in Arkansas.

Anyway, here's what we caught this Sunday:

Fox Schmooze Sunday
Still trying to bash Clinton!

Tony's lead-in lines: what's next for Gore- Lieberman, and Bush "brands" Gore (like he did as a frat boy at Yale, Tony?) with the class warfare label!

Guests one and two: Sens. Mitch McConnell and Rep. David Bonior.  And Tony couldn't resist: he asked McConnell about... BILL CLINTON as a factor in the election.

You've gotta love it -- these guys can't resist asking about Clinton as if he were some sort of poison.  He is -- to the loony right.

McConnell said the Administration refuses to negotiate with him about pending legislation.

Well, tough, McConnell -- you've shown bad faith time after time with the Clinton Administration, including many of your previous bad-mouthing appearances on pundit TV.  We're surprised Republicans even trust you anymore.  You are neither trustworthy nor compromising.  Blame yourself and your hard-right brethren, not Bill.

Bonior said that the Dems are sticking up for the working man and cited the GOP's stand on medicine for the elderly.  This position practically invites the GOP to scream "class warfare" -- which may not be a bad idea, especially when Tony said that stories that the elderly cannot afford both their food and medicine are "overdramatized."

Bad news, Tony -- they're true -- and your characterization that these tales are "overdramatized" practically invites Dems to run commercials with real people telling their real stories.

Tony asked a question that was a cover for dismissing Gore's position on tax cuts, and McConnell parroted the "it's not the government's money, it's the people's money."

Right, Mitch -- and the people want to pay off the Reagan deficits that were run up on the people's backs, onerous debts that sleazebags like YOU levied on the working man.

Bonior said that the GOP is offering massive tax cuts that are irresponsible, and targeted cuts make sense.

Tony said that Gore wants increased spending, based on a slanted reading of a New York Times piece.  Bonior swung back, saying that the Dems are the party that cut the debt and deficit.  Tony asked about a couple making $70,000 -- would they get a marriage penalty cut?  Bonior said they're middle income, so yes.  Tony looked none too happy with that answer and said that the marriage relief provisions only would hit lower income people -- and Bonior said that Tony was wrong.

Them McConnell was asked about the estate tax -- he called it a century-old relic and implied that it hurt average people.

What a laugh -- according to one government source, 80% of the GOP estate givebacks would go to the top 12% rich.  We were surprised that McConnell didn't start blathering about saving small businesses and family farms.

Tony then brought up David Schippers' laughable new book Sellout, which is an apt description of "Democrat" Schippers himself (not to mention a hypocrite who invited both his wife and mistress to be in the audience as he spun and lied to the House Judiciary Committee). In his laughable new tome, Schippers accuses Republicans in the Senate of having caved in on convicting the President  -- and McConnell said it was true, that Dem senators had "made up their minds."

McConnell is, as usual, an imbecile -- if that's true, and one assumes that ALL the Dems who voted against conviction, then it follows that ALL the GOPers who voted for conviction had made up their minds too.  That means that the remaining GOPers who voted to acquit voted their conscience.  And that, therefore, is not a GOP sellout -- in fact, one could take the point a step further and argue that Schippers, a political hack lawyer from Chicago, did such an incompetent job in his prosecutorial capacity and gave such a poor-quality presentation in person that he must be in denial or delusional.  This writer has seen first-year prosecutors in the courtroom that outclass and outshine the obnoxious, blustering "Schleppers."

Following the break, Tony welcomed Bush spokesperson Karen Hughes, who had had too much coffee, talked too fast, and sounded too cheerful.  In response to Tony's comment that Gore is now ahead in the polls and question about what Bush's polling says, Hughes, detailed Bush's appearances this month.  She didn't answer Tony's question because, in fact, Bush has NOT been polling anywhere near as well as the "publicized" polls say.  Hughes spent most of her time parroting Bush's vague platitudes -- such as "no American should spend more than a third of their income in taxes."

Hughes then lied -- saying she had not heard many specifics in Gore's speech!  We rolled on the floor -- is she deaf or just dumb?  She rattled off a string of "Bush was the first to propose..." spin points, and Juan Williams came back with headlines concerning Gore firing back strongly with specific criticisms of Bush's positions.  Hughes, completely ignoring Juan,  gushed about Bush having signed into law a Texas Patients' Bill of Rights in Texas -- but said nothing about the fact that insurance and pharma lobbyists essentially wrote the "No Rights" bill.

She also said that there's been gridlock in the Beltway and that people "don't want any more fighting."

Right -- "the people" will be happy with George the Idiot Boy rubber-stamping right-wing legislation that benefits big oil and destroys the economic boom -- NOT!

Catch this -- Fred "The Weasel" Barnes asked if "Governor Bush" would restrict big industries (he emphasized oil and pharma).  Hughes then LIED, saying that the air in Texas is improving.

Karen, by a number of measures, the air in Texas is NOT improving, because Bush helped "grandfather" some of the biggest polluters in Texas.

Juan Williams asked about Dick Cheney's golden Halliburton parachute -- about the only talk this weekend of this issue.  Hughes said that America would benefit from leaders with experience in the private sector.

Ha, ha, ha -- right, CORPORATE citizens who don't give a damn about people -- only about profits at any cost.

Tony asked about the grand jury empanelment -- would Bush pardon Clinton?  Ha, ha, ha -- yeah, Tony, guilty until proven innocent.  Hughes said Clinton would not seek a pardon -- and that is true, not only because he has said so, but because there are rumbling that Clinton may be planning a legal offensive of his own, and has far more than a circumstantial case against certain parties who have abused the impeachment process.

Tony's next guest -- yeah, baby!  Donna Brazile, Gore's campaign director and hippest advisor.  Tony said he's "trying to look at price tags" and again quoted the New York Times's faulty numbers.  Donna said that the debt would be paid down, it's time for Medicare to cover prescriptions, and helping middle-class families pay for college tuition is an idea whose time has come.

Tony said that $42 billion would pay for a years' health care for kids.  Isn't that a bit too pricey?  Donna said no -- but she should have said that that high number is because the US is subsidizing other nations' socialized medicine.  That is what Gore should do -- turn it into a trade issue.  Pharma prices are strongly affected by price controls in the global market -- and making other nations pay their fair share would drop drug prices in the US.

Mara Liasson asked a few weak questions about helping working families but underlined the words "Partisan" and "Rhetoric" -- essentially the latest label applied to Gore's initiatives by the Bush camp.  Mara then said that Jews are upset that anti-Jewish comments re. Joe Lieberman are coming from African-American newspapers.  Donna said that black delegates at the convention were pumped about Joe.  Tony then quoted the editorial from the notoriously racist, Harlem-based Amsterdam News characterizing Jews as moneygrubbers.

First, someone should remind Tony that the Amsterdam News is an extremist, race-baiting rag that nobody in the real world -- including the vast majority of blacks -- takes seriously.  Amsterdam News hates Rudy Giuliani, George Pataki and The New York Post even more than Lieberman!  Second, Donna should have pointed out that most of the Jew bashing in the wake of the Lieberman veep nomination has been on the Internet, coming from conservative, anti-Semitic and white supremacist sites and chat rooms.

Panel time!  Fred said Gore sounded like an old Democrat "veering to the left," and that the one issue was "bigger government."  ha, ha, ha -- Fred must be deaf too!  Do he and Hughes see the same ear doctor?  Mara said that Gore has sped up the debate by putting forward his issues.  Juan said that Gore's acceptance speech was powerful -- and made much of the "biiig smooch" with Tipper.  Juan added that Gore is going to push the "social safety net."  Mara said that Bush "has calculated" that people don't want to hear arguments or partisan fighting.  Of course, one look at Bush's Yale transcript shows that he didn't do too well at math.

Barnes began shouting about Gore "attacking corporations as evil, a dark force."  Mara said you could feel good about your portfolio but also feel that your HMO was treating you wrong.  Barnes began shouting about Gore accusing "corporations being a, a, a DARK FORCE!" again.  Whudda maroon.  Mara said that Bush runs a big risk of going after Gore for big government because Bush is for an "activist government."

Right -- active for oil companies and members of Skull & Bones.

Tony made much of the "grand jury leak" -- and dismissively said that it came from Carter appointee Richard Cudahy!  Juan said the White House looked kind of silly pointing at Robert Ray and they overreacted.  Barnes was even more dismissive and angry, saying the White House should apologize -- and it should make people question every accusation by the White House of partisan leaking and assume the White House was behind all leaks.

What a complete liar.  Now Barnes is trying to cover for Jackie Bennett and Hickman Ewing.  So let us repeat: Cudahy may have admitted inadvertently "leaking" the story, but it is amazing that people who know how the press works are not asking about who may have "tipped off" the reporter in question who broke the story about the grand jury, and whether Cudahy is being used as an unwitting "beard" by someone allied with Ray and the right.

Tony's parting thoughts were on that big, passionate kiss between Al and Tipper.  Even Tony had to concede "it looks like they've done it A LOT!"  But he added that it sends a message: "I'm not Clinton."

The McLaugh-In Group
Still not live from LA

John opened in a taped segment from LA, spinning and blathering about how awful things were for the Gore campaign.

It was a riot -- vintage McLaugh-In Group rhetoric espousing the world filtered through the paleocon/General Electric version of reality.

Issue one: the acceptance speech. Did he achieve what he needed?  Mike Barone called it a good speech in the service of a losing strategy, and that the people vs. the powerful resonated in 1938 but not now.  Did he look presidential?  Barone had to admit it -- yes!

Eleanor said that Gore has a complicated task, and she's not sure the speech did it.  Tony said that both speeches -- Bush and Gore -- shifted to the left.

John said, "Did you see how many points the Dems dropped after Jesse Jackson spoke?"  Hahahahaha -- more flash polls had the Dems UP than down after Jackson.

Larry O'Donnell said that Gore's claim the Medicare and Social Security is (and he practically shouted this) A LIE!  Eleanor jumped down his throat.  John tried to call Gore's run a "Clinton third term without the sex" (John just can't let go of Clinton's privates).  Barone, John, and Eleanor screamed for awhile about the strong economy.

Of course, John made a big issue of Gore's "having" to separate himself from Clinton but is being "crushed" by distancing himself.  Tony said that the big kiss was to prove he's a family man.  Barone thought that the "portrait" of Gore painted by his family and Tommy Lee Jones was "attractive" and accurate.  What's with Barone?  He seems to like Big Al!

John asked the panel to grade the Gore speech.
Barone: B (wow -- he does like Gore)
Eleanor: B+
Tony: A- for delivery, but adjusted for content, C+ (this from someone who advised Newt on how to lie)
Larry: the "untruths" (oh, please, Larry) give him a C
John: C -- it was robotized and a laundry list

Issue two: Lieber-mensch!  John ran some vid clips from Lieberman's acceptance speech.  Tony called the Lieberman choice a mistake; he'll be ineffective in the south, Michigan, New Jersey -- but he liked the mother-in-law joke.  Eleanor said that the real diversity of the Gore-Lieberman ticket... and could not finish because the rest of the panel started shouting.  Tony said the union/affirmative action base was rebelling and Gore did not have control of the convention -- a total lie.  John talked about Lieberman having to "retrench" on some issues -- but in truth, the differences were minor.  Barone played up the consensus-minded as opposed to confrontation-minded voters -- but the truth is that there is in fact little evidence to support this trend, and people interested in the issues are by nature confrontational.

How does Lieberman rate as an asset to the ticket?
Michael: 7
Eleanor: 8
Tony: -3 -- a negative to the ticket
Larry: 9
John: 5 -- authentic but unknown

John then ran some clips from Clinton's speech -- and said that Gore had none of Clinton's plusses.  Bad timing.  Rushed through the speech.  Barone called Clinton's a "me me me" speech.  Eleanor said it was like watching Babe Ruth hit a home run.  Tony thought it was self-serving; Larry said the surplus was created by Republicans -- yeah, right.

Predictions on where the polls will stand on Labor Day (yawn):
Michael: +6
Eleanor: +3
Tony: +4
Larry: +3
John: +5

Face the Nation
Schieffer grills Rove and Brazile

We caught the first segment of FTN.

Bob Schieffer had Bush campaign boss Karl Rove as his first guest.  He spent the first part of his appearance accusing the White House of causing divisiveness and saying that America needs Bush to go in and unite people.  

Behind what -- more pollution, colonias dumbing-down and deficits?

He cited the "failure" of all sorts of Administration initiatives -- as if those were the Administration's fault!  Bob said that Clinton asked the favorite GOP question: are you better off than you were eight years ago?  Rove said it was hard-working Americans who did it, not Bill Clinton, and that good times should be used for great purposes, like building up the military for peace.

What a tool -- a buildup would yield potential global destabilization.

Rove kept talking about "missed opportunities" and "partisanship" -- and Bob let Rove have it, saying that the GOP Congress stopped those proposals.  Rove gave a few half-facts to "prove" the Administration blew a prescription drug deal with the GOP.  H then said -- stupidly -- that there was plenty of blame on both sides of the political aisle (true) but the buck stops on Clinton's desk (a lie -- he forgot about the desks of obstructionists Lott and DeLay).

Donna Brazile was the second guest. Schieffer said Gore got a poll bounce -- was it the issues or do they just like Gore now?  Donna said both.  There were sound problems throughout Donna's appearance, especially as Donna outlined the Gore agenda.  Bob asked about Gore "moving back to the left to reassure the core of the Democratic party."  Donna said that the Dems are the mainstream party, and this will impact on the vote in November.  Bob then asked about friction between Lieberman and blacks, and his appearance before the black caucus; Donna pointed out that Lieberman got a warm reception from the caucus and the black delegates, and that he has tremendous support in the African-American community.

Finally, Bob Schieffer mentioned a column by the insufferable Maureen Dowd and asked if both conventions were trying to send a message that their candidates were not Bill Clinton.  Donna said no -- but this is not completely true.  Dems played up Clinton's political achievements -- and Gore's achievements and values.

Defeat the (Vice-)Prezz
Fat Tim softballs Karl Rove

Russert's first victim: Bill Daley, the Chairman of the Gore Campaign. Russert was happy to report that although Gore is ahead of Bush this week, the race is "dead even." Russert brought up debates -- there will be debates. Bush wants three, plus two Vice Presidential debates. Daley said forget the commercials (which he will pay $200 million for, by the way) and listen to the debates. Gore is up for other debates above and beyond the three rubber-stamped by a phony "Commission." Who are these men and women? Cronies who carry the passports of their parties.

Russert showed a clip of Gore talking about NOT raising the retirement age to 70 -- then he showed a list of prominent Democrats who all voted to raise the retirement age to 70 by the year 2040. Will the VP listen to them, asked the porcine pundit, or -- catch this -- "will he stick with the OLD DEMOCRATIC line?" Lieberman was one of those, sneered Russert -- but Daley whipped him into line, reminding him that "it is Gore that is running for President, not Lieberman" and that Lieberman has stated it is Gore that will set the policy for this campaign.

Russert called this, using as his source The New York Post -- a ridiculous rag with little credibility among serious readers -- Gore's Trillion Dollar Plans!! Russert seemed upset that Gore will not privatize part of Social Security. Who is giving Russert his marching orders on this one? Why would a multimillionaire like Fat Tim care about privatization of social security? He spends more than he would collect on his maid! No, he is again carrying the portfolio of General Electric, who want a lot of NEW cash chasing a lot of NO value to drive the markets higher.

Then Russert begins his weekly "slaughter" of Clinton, talking about how "his Democrat enemies" want him to leave the spotlight.

Have we ever heard a lot made of this in the real world?

No. This is just another Russert deception to make Clinton look bad, using the false assertion that he is somehow hurting Gore. And Russert's assertion only serves to make him more of a laughingstock. The American people, by a vast majority, love Clinton -- and they DO NOT hate him as a person. They just answer pollsters' often skewed questions on virtue, godliness and mother's milk in the way THEY THINK they should -- not as they actually believe.

Russert showed a moronic-sounding Bush smirking and talking about Gore supposedly dividing the nation, pitting people against each other.

Hey, Tim: IS NOT THIS WHAT THE GOP HAS STOOD FOR FOR THE LAST 54 YEARS?

Russert said he wants to know how Gore can possibly "work with Congress." Huh? Russert is so imbecilic he believes that Congress really hates Clinton, and that they will take it out on Gore. Of course, no politician will talk to Russert except to get on television. They don't trust him.

Neofascist Karl "UberDubyaFuhrer" Rove was next, to rebut and rebuff Daley. Russert treated this hateful little dweeb with total respect -- the exact opposite if the smarmy attitude he assumed with Daley. Rove said Bush "was ahead with independents." That was an OUTRIGHT LIE.

Rove then said he thinks that Al could be slightly ahead or slightly behind. Boy, that sounds very UNLIKE what he was saying last week -- acting as if the Bush Baby had won the White House already. Tim wanted to know if BushBrat will consider other debates outside of the Commission-approved series.

Russert then played a clip of Clinton Monday night talking about the standard the GOP USED to use: "Are we better off today than we were eight years ago?" He asked Rove what Bush will do to challenge this record. Rove said, who better to understand how to continue this wonderful economy than Bush? We laughed and laughed loud -- right, Bush is really smart, an economist, a financier using Daddy's credit cards to finance his life.

Rove said, of course, that this isn't ALL the election is about. Rove then said something strange: he criticized HMOs -- but then again, he and the BushBaby are well known to be whores to the HMOs. Rove lied again and said that Texas has the best HMO patients rights. Yeah, sure, but in Texas you cannot sue the HMO when it kills your children.

Rove, sounding awfully stupid, said he relies on the "non-partisan" congressional budget office. Sure, it's non-partisan. Bush of course is going to give the rich a 1.3 trillion tax cut. Rove said that Gore's jokes about the Bush tax cut is a joke. But we'll tell you that Gore is right. Rove answers Tim's questions by saying that if you are at the bottom of the ladder and paying 15% today, you will pay only 10% under the "Bush Plan." Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha -- wow! Why should the poor pay any taxes? Russert, bless the little weasel, pointed out that for every dollar the rich get under this plan, the poor get 1 penny.

When are you going to find this money, asks Russert? Rove said that he is going to take half the money that Clinton-Gore have saved in the Treasury for education, drugs, and Social Security and give it BACK -- half of it -- to the people who own it. What a riot! If it's ours, why not give us all the money back?

Rove called Jesse Jackson's "Stay out of the Bushes" line "despicable." He said that Jesse was an attack dog unleashed by Gore. Again we were laughing. Stay out of the Bushes? Rove said that Gore is returning to CLASS WARFARE -- ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Sure. How about warfare against the pigs that Bush represents? He does not represent the average Republican -- although the average Republican is stupid enough to support him, not because they like him, but because his Daddy can raise money, and his name is Bush.

Privately, most Republicans are ashamed of Bush, ashamed of the people around him, ashamed of running a person who amounts to nothing more than a little punk, an F student, a leech, a drunk, an abuser of his family -- a man now magically Born Again, so everything's okay.

Oh, Puh-leeeeze.

Rove, a nothing in his own right, argued with Secretary Daley (like the sniveling little runt Rove is), making snide comments and asking robotic questions, including one about bringing "dignity back to the White House."

Yes -- it was over, Rove was gone. But... oh, no! William Safire was back! Thank God Jack "Fat Man in the Middle" Germond was also on the "Fatter Than Ever" Tim panel -- to chide Safire, the bitter, aging Nixon whore.

Safire said that Clinton's speech was "You're gonna miss me" -- it helped Al Gore not a bit, claimed Safire. Jack Germond also thought the speech was narcissistic -- and that he thought that Clinton going out to get money for his library was hateful. Joe Klein just said, "He's so good, he's just so much better than either of the two out there now." Bob "Novakula" Novak, bloodsucking undead pundit extraordinaire, was on too -- and he thought that Clinton was self-involved... no one cares.. no one heard the speech... anyway, less than 3 percent even heard it... you get the idea.

Bill Safire thinks that Clinton WILL be indicted. He said that Robert Ray signaled to HIM that he will consider a potential indictment. Get those words: "consider" and "potential." This is the Weasel Safire at work.

He wanted to know if Bush or Gore would pardon Clinton. Safire thinks that a Republican would pardon him first.

Germond will not speculate. He was impressed that the Bush people said that they too were upset at this.

Klein said, "Can't we just end this thing already?" Novak said he feels the same way, but then he said that it is proper to at least consider indicting him.

Novak then pretended that he knows that Clinton was on the phone to Gore suggesting what he should say. So what? Let us ask you this -- if your best and closet Friend was running for President, and you had a good idea, wouldn't you call your friend and make suggestions? So what is this bullshit from Novak and the rest of these cows? Novak had to say something else about Clinton -- that he wanted to make certain that the people remember that every GOP administration brings with it a RECESSION. Well, this is true! Do you know why, Novakula? Because during a recession, the rich get much much richer! They can buy anything cheap and hold it to sell in better times. This doesn't mean furniture either -- this means stock, oil, minerals, leases, buildings, etc. That is what happens -- and that is why the rich are screaming for Bush, a moron who won't even notice the nation plummeting into a huge recession in 2001 under his BabyBush Administration.

Russert then showed clips of Lieberman talking about the GOP trying to walk and talk like Democrats -- the now-famous "Not since Tom Hanks won an Oscar has there been that much acting in Philadelphia" line.

Jack Germond mumbled something about the issues. Novak -- thinking Bush is more attractive than Gore -- said that Bush will win. What Novak was pointing out -- and this is something to pay great attention to -- is not that the GOP means anything it said, but it is neutralizing all the Democrat ideas, so that the oh-so-attractive Bush will win.

Ha, ha, ha, ha! Bush? The sneering brat? King of the smirk?

Safire said that when Gore told the convention "You can rely on me to never let you down," that he was implying some subtext that meant "not like bill Clinton that DID let you down." That was Safire's third "laugh line" in a row -- he's funnier than Seinfeld! Have you ever heard anything so stupid, so mean, so ridiculous?

Jack Germond was laughing at the hot "tongue-in-the-mouth" kiss between you know who and his wife. Novak thinks it was either charming or disgusting -- he goes for disgusting.

That was it for Defeat the Prez. Fat Tim had little mean to say today.

It's all over for you, Tim! No Clinton to bash anymore. You are on your way out.

And not a moment too soon.

This Weak
Guest pundit Michelle Martin impresses -- but she won't last

One of our chief people was looking for a new home in Washington this week. He looked in Georgetown, smack-dab and in Cocky's neighborhood: the co-ops lining Connecticut Avenue. He recalled to us that Cocky's mom had a three-million-dollar condo in 1992, which might now be worth eight million. He recalled how Cocky and Mom plotted against Jesse Jackson in '92 to make certain he wouldn't "Black Up" the DNC Convention.

"That, my friends, is American Politics," he explained.

ABC decided, thankfully, to add Michelle Martin, an ABC correspondent and a black woman, to the Weak roundtable. We hope it is a permanent addition.

Cocky thought it important to interview some Commodore from Britain to get the scoop about the British rescue team going to help the Norwegian team attempt recovery of the crew of a Russian sub. Reports are that the LR5 rescue sub cannot connect to the hatch since it is damaged. Experts think the entire sub is filled with water, or that there is no air in the sub at all. Why don't we know the truth? Is everything some strung-out delay?

Sometimes we wonder if ABC and the other news channels simply delay asking questions until they have milked the saddest stories as fully as possible.

The EVIL Karen Hughes, our nominee for Conservative Man of the Year, was up against Bob Shrum, the brain behind the Gore Campaign -- and the brain behind several losing campaigns for Michael Coles, who has run unsuccessfully against Newt Gingrich and the late Senator Paul Coverdell (who everyone called "Coverdale in error"). If the Coles campaigns are any example of Shrum's work, Gore is in trouble.

Debates are discussed -- boring. Spam and Cocky will now fight it out with Fat Tim to see on whose show the two might debate.

Our guess: neither of them.

Karen Hughes, the moron, said that Shrum is engaging in partisan politics! Well, isn't that what an election is about? Karen also quickly said she will not commit to Cocky to debate on her show. Ha, ha, ha -- of course not.

Shrum call Karen a liar when she said the Bush campaign has not talked about adding others to the debate like Pukeanan and Nader. Who needs them? The Shrub wants everyone -- including your mother -- in the debate to conceal his idiocy.

Shrum exposed Hughes as the lying little pig she is when he asked her since Bush wants to give seniors pharmaceuticals, why hasn't he called Trent Lott and said "Give it to me now to help me win" already?

The real answer is that Bush does not want to suffer the wrath of the Pharma companies.

Then Cocky showed a clip of BushBaby talking about the Texas educational experience (leaving school in the sixth grade). Why is there no early childhood schooling in Texas? Why are the schools decaying in Texas? Idiot Hughes, instead of blaming it on prior Democrat administrations, said it's because Bush relies on the local morons to make educational policy.

GREAT! Then we will be sure to have the worst schools in the country. We'll bet that anti-Education Department types must have had a stroke hearing Hughes say that local authorities are a failure!

Hughes then said for about the third time this Sunday that Al Gore is engaging in CLASS WARFARE! Isn't that just like the BushBrat? Hughes said that the reason there is money in the Treasury is that "taxes are too high!!!" This is a new one.

Cocky said that the GOP "IS" interested in a tax cut "UNLIKE" the Democrats -- which is a lie, since Gore is looking at targeted tax cuts. Shrum said that 50% of the tax cuts go to people with incomes over $250,000 a year in income. If you make $60,000 a year with family of four, you are killed under the Bush plan. If you make a million dollars a year, you are dancing in the aisles.

Then "Eva Braun" Hughes said, "THERE WE GO AGAIN -- CLASS WARFARE!!!!!" You've just gotta laugh! Money has nothing to do with class -- but we suppose in Texas it does. The only thing denoting "class" in Texas is a Cadillac convertible with steer horns on the hood, a pair of $6,000 alligator boots, a handmade shotgun and a noose in the trunk just in case there's a cool lynching about.

Sorry old Ralph Nader was next --- under the gun from George Will. Will said that Nader is trying to get matching fund money for the Green Party, as the Reform Party got by getting 5% of the vote in the last election. He said the other goal is to deny Al Gore the Oval Office to make certain the nutballs like Nader have a say in Democratic politics. Nader went with his sorry line: only Al Gore can defeat Al Gore. He then attacked Bush severely as a "corporate conglomerate" running on his history of disease, no education for poor Hispanics, pollution, corporate profits, and breaks for big oil. Will said why not concentrate in one of two states that would kill Gore's chances to win -- like in California? Nader denied this was his strategy -- but the little millionaire hypocrite is trying to just this. Will said that Gephardt is glad that Nader is there. Nader said that Gephardt knows that he will win the House -- because the Green Party will bring out Democrats that want to vote for HIM!

Maybe, but what can 100 votes mean in a Congressional District of nearly 560,000?

Nader then attacked Joe Lieberman as a "Corporate Democrat." Lieberman has consistently protected corporate interests, said Nader. This is not true -- but has some truth in it. Don't count on Lieberman to protect the poor. It won't happen.

Nader is trying to cut corporate funding of the presidential debates so he and the Pukeanan can appear. Rots of ruck, Ralphie! Again, Nader is helping Bush here. The more people in the debate, the more that BushBaby can hide behind Daddy's name -- and Daddy's money. He's no Jack Kennedy.

Barney Frank said that Nader has ignored gay rights for his entire career -- and well as ignoring other important issues to progressives. Most people think Nader is gay, although we do not. He is not married, but has shacked up with his head honchess in Colebrook, Connecticut for years. The fact that she looks and talks like a man ( a sort of Green Karen Hughes) is nothing, really.

Nader is worried about children working in factories abroad for nothing. Yet we never see Nader in China, Indonesia and South America trying to protect them. The place to change things is IN THOSE COUNTRIES -- but to lazy-ass Nader, that's too much trouble.

The arrogant Nader thinks that the Green Party will be the WATCHDOG over the Reeps and the Dems. Well, he also thinks that he is well-spoken, handsome, and a hunk.

When them time comes for progressives to go to the polls, they are not going to risk voting for Nader and handing George Bush the Oval Office. They are going to vote for Gore. If Nader gets more than 1.5% of the vote, said our own Mac MacArthur, Mac promise to eat crow on national television.

ABCs tag line for tomorrow (anti-Gore of Course) is "Al Gore said he is own man -- but do we believe him? Find out tomorrow on the Good Boring America."

Should ABC be sued for violating the equal time provisions of the election laws?

Next, George Staphylococcus watched monitor Jeff Pollack of the "Global Strategy Group" -- some phony polling company that works cheap for ABC -- with a group of losers from Missouri in a focus group (the worst way to measure public opinion on issues or people). They all say good things about Gore -- but did not like his attack on Bush's tax cut plans. "A dime is a dime." These people don't want to stick it to the rich guy. Oh, brother. Well, maybe we should stick it to the Mexicans? After all that -- the people who came in for Bush and Gore left with the same commitments.

Michelle Martin, a reporter for ABC, was next. She was nervous and talked too fast. She called the conventions a cartoon show. She said that every time she drove to the conventions she saw people living in cardboard boxes and these conventions cost up to $20 million each.

Will defends the conventions, but admitting they are scripted. Yes, and that is what is terrible about them -- because politics today is exactly how it is handled in Russia and was in Germany earlier in this century.

Cocky said that she felt the first three days of the convention, she had a sense that everyone thought that THIS GUY (Gore) CANNOT WIN. But that is the way that all conventions work. The people on the floor -- the meanest and most invested pols in the nation -- are always worried about their candidate until he gets up and wows them with a speech. Both Lieberman and Gore did this. With the GOP convention, these people never had a choice -- and they are the meanest, my vitriolic Clinton haters in the country, and really believe that because he got a blow job in the Oval Office that Gore can't possibly beat Prince BushBaby.

FLASH: George Will himself said "ENOUGH ON CLINTON'" about the latest grand jury. He knows it's a losing proposition!

Ms. Martin continues to talk faster than even Chris Matthews -- although we are sure the producer spoke to her in the commercial break. Hey Michelle: don't worry , these people are NOTHINGS, so you don't have to live up to a thing. Being like them or liked by them is not important. Don't lower yourself to please them. Take them on. They are a bunch of crackers -- and you have the smarts to make them look like the fools regular viewers know them to be.

George Will said that Al Gore LOST the debate with Dan PohtaytoHed Quayle -- hahahaha -- and the little puke Staph agrees. We saw that debate -- and Quayle in no way won it.

Cocky said that Putin has totally mishandled the downed Submarine situation. Will thinks this will bring Putin down. Who cares? Putin is just another in a long line of temporary leaders in Russia until someone, a leader, is brought to the attention of the Russian People.

Hmmm..... how about Newt Gingrich?

That was it for This Weak, getting weaker all the time. By the way, we predict Michelle Martin won't make it. She's not cute enough for the nutballs that produce this hour-long stiff hour. We did miss Scam, who must be on vacation, or at a dry-out clinic.

The Amazing Disappearing Story

Okay, all right, it was a convention issue -- but why did every pundit show raise questions about a new grand jury impaneled to look into Clinton's conduct during the Lewinsky flap, and the only person to ask questions about Dick Cheney's smelly eight-figure platinum parachute, including lucrative stock options, was Juan Williams on FOX News Sunday?  Surely, the clear evidence of an arguable bribe offered to the GOP veep wannabe is a far more troubling development that Robert Ray fishing around in Bill Clinton's trousers.