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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 27 |
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| Dave Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 27 |
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Ultimately, Quayle Realty doesn't send a plumber. It sends an eviction notice. You can just imagine the adrenaline rush this would give the national media. The family would be plastered across '60 Minutes' and '20/20' as if they'd had septuplets. Ted Koppel would begin 'Nightline' with a sermon about hypocrisy: 'As a senator, Mr. Quayle has claimed to serve the people, but clearly there are two kinds of people: those he plays golf with, and the kind to which he hands his coat and tells to go fight in Vietnam for him.'
"This scandal never happened with Quayle. But it has just happened with Al Gore. Why is this story important? If this had been a Quayle expose, it would have validated the media's conventional 'wisdom' that conservatives are haters who wake up in the morning looking for poor families to throw out on the streets. But Al Gore has made a career parading around as the defender of poor government dependents against the rapacious rich. Clearly, on the grounds of hypocrisy alone, he deserved the wrath of a media mudbath much more than any Republican
would."
--Media Research Center's Brent Bozell
Campaign officials thought the vice president would be a much bigger money draw in the "Chinese community" when they booked him to host the event in early 1996.
Harold Ickes, who essentially ran the '96 Clinton-Gore campaign from the White House, first put a $200,000 price tag on the Los Angeles fund-raiser, according to a Jan. 2, 1996, memo to Gore. He raised his projection to $250,000 in a Feb. 9, 1996, memo to the vice president. By April 25, just four days before the event, he upped the fund-raiser's "projected revenue" to $325,000 in another memo to Gore. (A Senate panel obtained the White House memos by subpoena in 1997.) But the actual haul fell a whopping $280,000 short of Ickes' final goal.
Gore fund-raisers John Huang, who organized the event, and Maria Hsia, who solicited the donations, managed to scare up a paltry $45,000 among the 150 or so guests. The take was so small that a "disappointed" Richard Sullivan, Democratic National Committee finance chief, ordered Huang to hit up guests for more money. He demanded at least $100,000 to take back to Washington. Huang, in turn, told Hsia to see what she could do.
That's when a crime -- raising political cash at a tax-exempt church -- clearly turned into a bigger crime -- a conspiracy to launder campaign cash through straw donors. Hsia shook down 11 Buddhist nuns and monks to make up the difference. Together, they wrote checks totaling $55,000. The temple reimbursed them, which is against the law.
Hsia was convicted for the scheme. Two nuns have been indicted. The Hsi Lai Temple has been named as an unindicted co-conspirator. No DNC or White House official has been charged. Gore wasn't even asked about his role in the fund-raiser until April 18 of this year. The lead prosecutor on the case has recommended Attorney General Janet Reno tap a special counsel to investigate Gore. She refuses.
"Truth in Love" was an ad campaign, sponsored by several Christian organizations, that proclaimed homosexuals can change.
"The dream that I thought could never happen -- having a wife and kids -- has finally come true," said one of the ads. "If you're hurting, lonely or confused, Jesus can set you free."
The city of San Francisco concluded the ads contributed to "horrible crimes committed against gays and lesbians," and city officials asked local TV stations not to run them.
In response, pro-family groups -- the American Family Association, the Family Research Council and Kerusso Ministries -- filed a lawsuit in October 1999 to stop the Board of Supervisors from issuing similar resolutions in the future.
Earlier this month, however, a federal judge ruled the city was only doing its "duty" to address concerns for "public safety."
"Nothing like this has ever happened in this country," said Brian Fahling, with the American Family Association's Center for Law and Policy. "This, really, is extraordinary and should give everybody great pause, because now we have a court decision -- a federal court decision -- that says governments can take official action condemning religious beliefs."
Added Yvette Schneider, with the Family Research Council: "There are people who are not happy with their homosexual lifestyles and need to hear that there is a way out."
Schneider called the San Francisco action symptomatic of a cultural shift in America that is "scary and threatening," especially, she said, "as Christians who believe what the Bible says -- that homosexuality is a sin . . . that people can leave any sinful lifestyle."
In the Times report, an attorney for the boy's family claims that members of a pedophile group are responsible for the rapes of thousands of small boys annually. In a wrongful-death lawsuit that is soon to be expanded into a class-action suit, Lawrence Frisoli says "...thousands of children ... are raped each year by NAMBLA members."
NAMBLA stands for North American Man Boy Love Association and has organizational headquarters in New York and San Francisco. Their motto is, "Sex before eight or it's too late." The group says it "speaks out against societal repression and celebrates the joys of men and boys in love."
For just a moment, imagine the reaction of the mainstream media if members of the Christian Coalition or National Rifle Association were accused of committing these horrible crimes. Without a doubt, the story would be front-page news in every paper in America as well as the lead story on every television and radio newscast for weeks! Investigative journalists from every national magazine in the country would be looking into the accusations. Attorney General Janet Reno and President Bill Clinton would be holding press conferences. Congressmen would immediately begin drafting federal legislation designed to curtail the problem.
As it is, the report suggests that a group of homosexuals may be responsible for the rapes; however, hardly anyone in the media or government even notices. The reason for this is obvious: homosexuals are part of a privileged, politically protected class in America today.
This same kind of political protection also extends to homosexuals in the military. Just recently, the Pentagon issued orders expanding Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy that allows homosexuals to serve in the armed forces. The new guidelines strictly forbid anyone from inquiring about a soldier's sexual preference "no matter what the circumstances."
Even when the crime is murder, media moguls spin their web of politically correct bias. When a couple of heterosexuals murdered a young homosexual in Wyoming, it became a national scandal. Yet, when a couple of homosexuals murdered a small boy in Arkansas it didn't even rate a mention from America's newspapers or television newscasts. Once again, homosexuals (even predatory ones) are granted politically correct status that exempts them from any unfavorable attention.
I said earlier that if America continues on its current path, pedophilia will soon enjoy the same social acceptance
and political correctness that homosexuality currently enjoys. It appears that with many of our nation's political
and media elite, this is already the case.
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