THE FOUNDATION: TRUTH

“Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.”—Thomas Paine

VILLAGE IDIOTS

From the global warmism department: “In the scientific community, there was literally zero dissent [on global warming]. But at the same time…[there is] a massive propaganda campaign by the Exxon corporation and by others… that has been very, very successful at persuading the media not to cover this issue seriously and reporters simply don’t go read the science.”—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.++ “Al Gore has been able to put in plain language what scientists have been saying for decades.”—Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University ++ “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. We have to go far quickly.”—populist potentate of eco-theology Al Gore with a little “plain language”

Socialism 101: “I strongly support universal single-payer government-provided or government-funded healthcare.”—Algore

Jimmy on Al: “I think he’s the best qualified person to be president.”—Jimmy Carter

Jimmy on Jimmy: “I have a specific regret [from my presidency] in not having one more helicopter when I wanted to rescue our hostages [in Iran]. If I had had one more helicopter, they would have been rescued. I might have been reelected president.”—Jimmy Carter

Non Compos Mentis: “I’m much more worried about our nuclear arsenal than theirs. Iran, at best, can get a few nuclear weapons. We have tens of thousands. We have to get rid of them.”—Ted Turner

DEZINFORMATSIA

From the Gore media cheerleaders: “Former Vice President Al Gore wins the Nobel Peace Prize for helping awaken the world to global warming. Now is it time to run for president again?”—ABC’s Diane Sawyer ++ “[Al Gore] became a prophet on an issue that is crucially important to the world.”—Bloomberg columnist Margaret Carlson ++ “Yes, the prize is rightly his. No one has devoted himself with such dedication and intellectual probity to a cause as important as this one. No one. So he deserves the Nobel. And the country deserves Al Gore to make another run at the presidency, he having lost his last try through chicanery and the arrogance of a party for which lying is second nature. Or maybe first.”—Marty Peretz, The New Republic ++ “The worst thing about Mr. Gore, from the conservative point of view, is that he keeps being right.”—former Enron advisor Paul Krugman in The New York Times ++ “Even the Nobel Prize is not going to be enough to silence the naysayers, some of whom still believe that man is not responsible for global warming.”—ABC’s David Wright ++ “[T]he fact is that there are very few scientists that are saying [that there is no link between manmade emissions of fossil fuels and climate change]. And if you look at the small handful that are still saying this, in many cases, they’re funded by the fossil fuel industry… So there really isn’t a scientific debate anymore on this.”—CNN’s Miles O’Brien

Aiding and abetting: “I believe that these newscasts in 2005 and 2006 played the biggest single role in helping to turn public opinion against the war.”—media critic Howard Kurtz, seemingly proud to say this ++ “We’re doing extremely badly [in Iraq], from my point of view.”—CBS’s Lara Logan

This week’s “Leftmedia Busters” Award: “What is clear to me, is that [the media is] perpetuating the corrosive partisan politics that’s destroying our country and killing our service members who are at war.”—retired Lt. General Ricardo Sanchez

Newspulper Headlines: Headlines We’d Like to See: “The Clinton Indictment”—New York Sun

As Long as He Isn’t Driving: “Kennedy ‘Eating Ice Cream’ After Surgery on Artery”—WBZ-TV Web site (Boston)

Gov. Schwarzenegger, Call Your Office: “Gurley Man Sues City Club for Rough Toss”—Huntsville (AL) Times

Recipe for Trouble: “Rice Appeals to Turkey for Restraint Against Kurdish Rebels”—FoxNews.com ++ “Turkey & Wild Rice Skillet Cakes”—Toronto Star

‘None of Your Business What’s Under This Robe!’: “Judge: No Reason to Tell Jurors About Cross-Dressing”—Newsday (Long Island, NY)

The World’s Shortest Report: “Report Details Progress in Battle Against Corruption at UN Office”—FoxNews.com (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

THE DEMO-GOGUES

Taking on the “deniers”: “Washington’s failure is the failure of a president who has spent most of his time in office denying the very existence of global warming, suggesting that it might be a hoax.”—Barack Obama

Cat’s out of the bag: “I have a million ideas. The country can’t afford them all.”—Karl, er, Hillary Clinton ++ Ignorance is bliss: “I reject the conventional wisdom and the Republican talking points that Social Security is in a crisis. I do not agree with that.”—Hillary

That’s the spirit!: “We will continue to pass legislation to make that point [that the war should end], and we happen to be blocked by a 60-vote hurdle in the Senate, but the public doesn’t want—care about that. They just want us to end the war.”—Nancy Pelosi ++ “I respect the, uh, dissatisfaction, uh, with the war and myself would not give Congress high marks on ending the war. Uh, we don’t have the veto—the pen to sign or [nervous laugh] not to veto.”—Nancy Pelosi

This week’s “Quid Pro Homo” Award: “I am convinced that we have the votes to pass in this House a bill that has been the number one goal of the gay and lesbian and bisexual community and our allies for many years, a bill to ban discrimination based on employment.”—Rep. Barney Frank (D-GLBT)

From the left-field bleachers: “To think that… the world can survive without some form of global governance… is bad thinking… The problem is that the world is not mature enough to handle a world government today, and that’s the direction we need to go in rather than going back in the other direction which is the direction of anarchy.”—presidential candidate Mike Gravel

INSIGHT

“There are no hopeless situations; There are only men who have grown hopeless about them.”—Clare Boothe Luce

“There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.”—Edmund Burke

“The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth.”—Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson

“Education never helped morals. The smarter the guy, the bigger the rascal.”—Will Rogers

UPRIGHT

“The pitter-patter you hear, behind the earnest applause for Gore’s Nobel Prize, is the sound of Democrats in flight, running from such ideas as fast as their feet can carry them. A radical shift to clean energy is on the agenda of no mainstream politician, least of all those now on the stump in Iowa and New Hampshire.”—James Taranto ++ “We’re brainwashing our children. They’re going to the Gore movie [’An Inconvenient Truth’] and being fed all this. It’s ridiculous.”—Dr. William Gray, a pioneer in the science of seasonal hurricane forecasts at Colorado State University

“Do not think for one second that the Clinton campaign hasn’t hired someone to sit at the Secretary of State’s office in New Hampshire to make certain no papers are submitted on Gore’s behalf prior to the November 2 filing deadline which would make him eligible for the first-in-the-nation primary there in early January.”—Rich Galen

“[T]he better description of Clintonism is slipperiness. Adaptability. Cynicism, if you like… [Hillary] has no principles. Her liberalism is redeemed by her ambition; her ideology subordinate to her political needs.”—Charles Krauthammer

“If the Turks cut off our ability to use Incirlik [Air Base], there’s no question that this could jeopardize our troops on the ground in Iraq. And frankly, if this is just the latest in the Democrats’ string of back-door attempts to force a retreat from the war against al Qaeda, it’s certainly the most dangerous.”—House Minority Leader John Boehner

“Some think the way to beat the Democrats in November is to be more like them. I could not disagree more. I believe that conservatives beat liberals only when we challenge their outdated positions, not embrace them. This is not a time for philosophical flexibility, it is a time to stand up for what we believe in.”—presidential candidate Fred Thompson

EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“If Sen. Hillary Clinton is to chart her own course independent of her husband, why did she choose Sandy Berger to give her advice on foreign policy? This suggests reunion time for cronies. In 2003, Mr. Berger took several highly classified documents about the Clinton-era Millennium terror plot from the National Archives while ‘aiding’ the September 11 commission. Mr. Berger successfully negotiated a plea bargain and received only two years probation, along with a security-clearance suspension and a $50,000 fine. Were he anything less than a member of the permanent Clinton establishment, he would be in sitting in a prison cell, with few prospects. But no sooner was his probation time over—it ended last month—than Mrs. Clinton put him back in the game, presumably with a new pair of pants big enough to accommodate purloined documents. This issue is a larger subset of the looming ‘first laddy’ question. In a Hillary Clinton administration, first husband Bill Clinton would inevitably loom large. The Berger news suggests that his old friends and cronies would, too… This could of course be merely a symbolic appointment, with no future for [Berger] at the National Security Council or anywhere else in government. The episode reeks nonetheless… Mrs. Clinton is of course free to fill her foreign-policy ranks with such people, and she is free to open herself to charges of cronyism. She is free to dismiss the fact that Sandy Berger violated the government’s most stringent security rules. But she can’t escape responsibility for it. If the Clintons spend whatever capital they have to help old friends find work, they tell us loud and clear what we’re dealing with.”—The Washington Times

SHORT CUTS

“Meanwhile, Gore is now being urged to jump into the presidential race and save Democrats from the allegedly too-hawkish Hillary Clinton. I doubt he will. But you’ll know he’s considering it if he starts slimming down faster than the Antarctic shelf. When Al Gore starts getting carb-neutral, we’re really in trouble.”—Mark Steyn ++ “Why is it that liberals seem to believe that recycling cans is an important issue, but defeating terrorism isn’t? Why do they put so much stock in the blathering of Al Gore and Michael Moore?… What is wrong with these people?”—Burt Prelutsky

“I mean, if we do Hillary-care and socialized medicine in this country, where are the Canadians going to go for health care?”—Rudy Giuliani

“Hillary Clinton took a tour of Iowa on a bus she named the ‘Middle Class Express.’ She had to be talked into it. Her aides convinced her it looked a lot more humble than touring the state in a Gulfstream jet called the ‘Air of Inevitability’.”—Argus Hamilton

David Letterman: “Top Messages on Al Gore’s Answering Machine”: Hi, Mandy from The Cheesecake Factory. You left your credit card; George W. Bush here. Congratulations on your Latin Grammy; It’s Larry from Toyota. This global warming paranoia is great for business; Put on Letterman. Some idiot is going to jump over interns; This is Hillary. If you run for President, I’ll snap your neck; I’m calling from the EPA. Turns out there is no global warming; You’re just sweating because you’re getting fat; This is Jimmy Carter. Want to use our medals to score some babes?

“Top Questions President Bush Asked the Dalai Lama”: What is that, some kind of Halloween get up?; I got one for you—why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?; Where’s Mrs. Lama?; Are you that Japanese guy my dad threw up on?; How’s business in Dollywood?; I know your cousin Barack O’Lama.

Jay Leno: Congratulations to former Vice President Al Gore. He won the Nobel Peace Prize. How about that? And he did it without a single vote from Florida. … Now that he’s won the Nobel Prize, Al Gore has a huge, international platform to fight global warming. Kind of sad—today he stepped onto that platform and it collapsed. … A lot of people are wondering now if Al Gore will run for president. Which would make it a Gore vs. Hillary Democratic primary. Kind of a global warming vs. global cooling. … Barack Obama is attacking some of Hillary Clinton’s comments on torture. At one point, Hillary had said that “in some narrow cases torture could be acceptable.” Like, for example, if your husband is sneaking in at 2:30 in the morning. … The Taco Bell restaurant chain is about to open in Mexico City. Today, the government of Mexico called it a hate crime. … China is outraged that we would honor the Dalai Lama at the White House. I hope they don’t try to get back at us—you know, maybe put lead in our toys or antifreeze in our toothpaste.

Veritas vos Liberabit—Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus, et Fidelis! Mark Alexander, Publisher, for The Patriot’s editors and staff. (Please pray for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm’s way around the world, and for their families—especially families of those fallen Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen, who granted their lives in defense of American liberty.)