It's the Forgery, Terry

Kay Daly

Keeping up with John Kerry’s universe of conflicting opinions on virtually any subject requires a flow chart, a crystal ball and a lifetime membership in the Psychic Friends Network. But Terry McAuliffe is no slouch in this arena either. McAuliffe, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, seems to have a remarkably convenient set of rules concerning the disclosure of information.

To adequately follow along, I suggest several sheets of paper (for the flow charts) and a heavy dose of Tylenol (so your head won’t explode).

Go back with me in time – just to last summer – those idyllic days when the stench of political tomfoolery had not yet overwhelmed our senses and triggered our gag reflexes.

Then the so-called “intelligence memos” appeared on the radio talk show scene. A memorandum written by a Democrat Senate Intelligence Committee staffer detailed a strategy to painstakingly undermine the President’s policies in Iraq and the War on Terror.

National security be damned, so long as a Democrat was put into the White House.

Fast forward to a year ago last fall. A series of memos from Democrat staffers at the Senate Judiciary Committee were released which outlined the efforts of left-wing organizations and their willing cohorts in the Senate to stall, slime and even subvert the judicial nominations process.

In one memo of note, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund president Elaine Jones placed a phone call to Senator Ted Kennedy’s office to request a delay in hearings for Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals nominees until after a legal case on affirmative action was decided. Heaven forbid someone actually apply the law as it is written.

Elaine Jones was not an uninterested bystander, she was a party to the case. But it didn’t matter to Mary Beth Cahill, then-Chief-of-Staff-to-Senator-Kennedy-now-Campaign-Manager-to-Senator-Kerry, who apparently couldn’t overlook that clear conflict and change the hearing dates fast enough.

Judicial independence be damned, so long as liberal activist judges are put in the courts to apply the latest leftist social theory.

Call me closed-minded, but it concerns me that the very tactics outlined in the “intelligence memos” are presently being implemented. And excuse me if I can’t go along with the notion that a phone call is allowed to determine the outcome of landmark litigation in this country.

In both cases, however, I can find no evidence that Terry McAuliffe was remotely interested in discussing the content of those illustrious memos. No, McAuliffe was too busy screeching about leaks and sending out hysterical fundraising missives to be distracted by little things like the security of our nation and the integrity of the judicial nominations process.

A third set of memos has emerged. With these memos, Terry is all about the content. Apparently, these memos -- allegedly written by a now-deceased Lt. Col. on his Magic Typewriter From The Future – are the perfect missing puzzle pieces that definitively “prove” that 1st Lt. Bush went AWOL during his service in the National Guard during the Vietnam War.

The story is sinking faster than a submarine with a screen door because nearly every typewriter expert in the Western Hemisphere confirm the memos are not-so-clever forgeries. All experts EXCEPT for one who apparently also authenticated Vince Foster’s suicide note. You can’t make this up, folks.

But pay no attention to that forgery thing, says Terry. Instead, let’s talk about the content.

Good luck with that, Terry. Good friends of yours in the media like oh, say, Dan Rather, have little interest in discussing content of memos. Right?

Guess again. Dan “What’s the Font Size, Kenneth?” Rather suppressed whatever microscopic shred of journalistic integrity he had left to tout forged memos to smear the reputation of the President of the United States. A forgery that was easily detected by ordinary Americans blogging away on their home computers within hours of the release of that fateful “60 Minutes” broadcast.

Best as I can determine, these are Terry McAuliffe’s rules on information dissemination:

1) If the information contained within a memo is damaging to any or all Democrats, content is null and void because clearly, they were leaked and leaking the truth cannot be tolerated.

2) Content of a memo documenting a strategy to politicize national security issues cannot be discussed, particularly by Sean Hannity because he has the best hair on television. And we know from our Johnny Edwards Veep Selection focus groups that having the best hair matters.

3) It is immaterial how many memos document undeniable interference with landmark court cases or outline fundraising quid-pro-quo’s for blocking judicial nominees because President Bush’s nominees are “Nazi’s” and “neanderthal’s” who don’t agree with Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.


4) It doesn’t matter if a memo was forged, so long as the information contained therein can put a Democrat into the White House.

Unfortunately for McAuliffe and his buddies in the mainstream media, the explosion of information available and readily exchanged on thousands of websites across cyberspace means that a virtual “Fifth Estate” has sprung forth to keep tabs on the “Fourth Estate.” Nuggets of truth from these cyber-renegades now make their way into the “established media” with great frequency.

Americans are no longer content to be spoon-fed their news. Instead, they surf the Internet with abandon, gather news and information from a wide variety of sources and compare notes in chat rooms and weblogs. It is what freedom-hating, totalitarian regimes across the globe universally despise – unfettered access to information though the heavens, and the powerful, may fall.

The stranglehold of the big three media networks on the flow of information has all but collapsed. Average Americans looked at the whopper being foisted upon them last week by a powerful media franchise and had the wonderful audacity to say, “Enough.”

It’s the forgery, Terry.

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Kay Daly is president of the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary and a recipient of the prestigious Ronald Reagan Award from American Conservative Union. She has over fifteen years of experience in corporate, political, grassroots and crisis communications, marketing and policy research, and issues management. She is a published columnist having appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Investors Business Daily, National Review Online, Worldnetdaily.com, Opeds.com, Townhall.com, and many others.

KRdaly@aol.com