Vincent Fiore: A Message From the Mob
August 08, 2009
Though Congress has recessed for the month of August, the rhetoric and demagoguery has not. Witness the main topic of discussion among the political class and the masses: President Obama’s health care ...
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Vincent Fiore: A President for all of America?
July 28, 2009
Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile recently said regarding President Obama: “Obama is the president for all Americans, not just black Americans.” Further, Brazile, who is black, also stated that ...
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Vincent Fiore: Time for Some Political Knee-Capping
July 16, 2009
At times, there is a real need to step outside of one’s box and do something totally foreign in regard to that person’s natural inclination. This applies to political parties as well.
At last ...
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Vincent Fiore: Time for Some Political Knee-Capping
July 15, 2009
At times, there is a real need to step outside of one’s box and do something totally foreign in regard to that person’s natural inclination. This applies to political parties as well.
At last ...
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Vincent Fiore: Twenty-Four Years Later, It’s “Star Wars” to the Rescue
February 08, 2007
To some, 1983 may as well have been the dark ages in the United States.
At that time, America had a conservative president in the White House, who, in addition to being responsible for the ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Media’s Stunted Perspective
January 24, 2007
As happens with most anything even remotely political these days, the mainstream media gets it and decides to present a picture that does not represent the actual importance--meaning news--of the event. In ...
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Vincent Fiore: Barack Obama and the Making of a Vice President
January 07, 2007
You would almost have to be of Helen Keller stock not to have noticed the oohs and aahs regarding the freshman senator from Illinois, Barack Obama.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama)
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Vincent Fiore: Dirty Harry
October 17, 2006
While the political power brokers “ooh and aah” over the damage “Foleygate” has done to the GOP’s chances of retaining control of Congress this election, hardly a glance is spared for the Senate minority ...
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Vincent Fiore: Vote GOP Because…
October 03, 2006
While most of us who call ourselves conservatives struggle for an answer to that question, a look back as to why the question is posed at all might be helpful.
In 1994, the electorate sees a ...
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Vincent Fiore: You Didn’t Know? Like Breathing, Blaming Bush is Automatic
September 07, 2006
Among the left, there seems to be a great deal of consternation when discussing the current situation of the world and the issues that populate it. Much of the discussion centers on two-term president George ...
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Vincent Fiore: Amid the Bombs, Flowers Bloom in Iraq
August 17, 2006
Shouting atop the rooftops of news-drunk America, the liberal press has done a sensational job of bamboozling Mr. and Mrs. headline-scanner with the most fictitious and leading above-the-fold “news” stories. ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Liberal Strategy for Israel: Hunker Down and Die
July 24, 2006
As the war progresses in the Middle East and wave upon wave of rockets fired by Hezbollah kill Israeli civilians and military personal, the world hears from one of liberalism’s premiere statesmen, opinion ...
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Vincent Fiore: President Giuliani? It’s a Good Bet
July 11, 2006
By now, most people around politics know that former New York Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani would be seeking the nomination for president of the United States.
A recent column by Washington’s ...
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Vincent Fiore: Again, American Muslims are MIA
June 28, 2006
It seems like only yesterday when Americans were hearing how the obvious coexistence of terrorism and Islam is only the chosen coexistence of a very few. After all, one gazes about the world and sees the ...
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Vincent Fiore: Finally, Something to Write Home About
June 22, 2006
Dear Mom and Dad:
What a difference a few weeks make! If someone had said to me last month that we would have bagged Zarqawi in Iraq, I would have replied that there was a better chance of me ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Winter of GOP Discontent?
June 14, 2006
Today, many GOP supporters talk of the 1994 sweep by Republicans as a moment in time. The newly elected Republican majority has sealed its “Contract with America” by the very votes it received from the ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Nation’s Mothers
May 15, 2006
From out the mouths of babes, it is said, come the most wondrous things. But from the mouth of Blue Star Mother Debbie Katsounakis, the word “wondrous” need not apply.
If one were to ask ...
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Vincent Fiore: May 1: Illegal Immigration Day
April 30, 2006
On May 1, immigrants, both legal and illegal, will purportedly take to the streets to:
*Call for--which is just the politically correct way of saying “demand”--amnesty for the unknown millions ...
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Vincent Fiore: America, While You Were Sleeping…
April 19, 2006
The setting is a common room in Maspeth, Queens, an old and history-laden area within the sprawling metropolis that is New York. In the common room, about 15 to 20 tradesmen await the time-clock’s imminent ...
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Vincent Fiore: Turning Immigration Into a GOP Winner
April 12, 2006
Unquestionably, the Republican Party as a whole has grown over the last twenty-five years. Along with the self-proclaimed “independent” or “moderate” voter, the GOP has seen its rolls swell at the expense of ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Realpolitik of Immigration
April 03, 2006
One has only to reference the showing by some 500,000-plus legal and illegal Mexican aliens in Los Angeles last weekend to realize that the discussion regarding Immigration and its legality and security ...
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Vincent Fiore: They Shoot Old Reporters, Don’t They?
March 27, 2006
You have to laugh when you see once-upon-a-time UPI reporter Helen Thomas. A creviced stump of a woman, she nevertheless goes toe to toe with anyone in the White House that happens to bare the initials ...
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Vincent Fiore: Of Elections, Ports, and Political Posturing
March 16, 2006
Regarding the recent misadventures of the Bush administration in relation to the running of several U.S. ports by a United Arab Emirates (UAE) company, here is a scenario that some on the left have ...
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Vincent Fiore: A Media Culture of Corruption
March 06, 2006
It is almost impossible these days to open a newspaper or watch any of the alphabet-media empires without hearing President Bush or his administration cast in negative terms.
On the cable ...
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Vincent Fiore: A Day With the White House “Gaggle”
February 20, 2006
Lately, a typical day in the life of the mainstream media sounds something like your average trial-by-mob assemblage.
For our purposes here, the setting will be the White House press room. On ...
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Vincent Fiore: Jimmy Carter: An American Disgrace
February 13, 2006
It isn’t too often that one who pens opinion articles will fully allow himself to “let it all out,” and quite possibly say more than ever intended.
Here then, is one of those rare times--a time ...
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Vincent Fiore: Uselessness, and the NAACP
February 07, 2006
Civil Rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was know to have said: “Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
Certainly, Dr. King, and his ...
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Vincent Fiore: Fathers, Sons, and Senators
January 23, 2006
One of the great hopes of the Democratic Party in this year’s election cycle is to win back the Senate. The last time Democrats held the upper hand in the upper house of Congress, was when former Majority ...
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Vincent Fiore: In Alito v. Democrats, a Trial of a Different Sort
January 16, 2006
As of this writing, Samuel Alito, President Bush’s nominee for the Supreme Court, has little to fear concerning his confirmation.
In fact, the judge for the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ...
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Vincent Fiore: Getting It Right in 2006, and Beyond
January 01, 2006
If President Bush is to have a legislatively meaningful remaining term in office, he must know the difference between the people, and the press.
In the eighties, when diplomat Clark Clifford ...
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Vincent Fiore: Months after Hurricane Katrina, a Media “Whitewash”
December 20, 2005
Lately, those sounds emitting from your television set these days is the constant “siss, boom, bah!” of the Democratic Party as they demonstrate why it is that they are not to be trusted with this nation’s ...
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Vincent Fiore: Politics, 2005: Observations From the Cheap Seats
December 07, 2005
Once again, one of my editors asked if I would write a piece that essentially scores and scorns through a series of observations, various political figures and the arena in which they perform. Last year’s ...
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Vincent Fiore: Cindy Who?
November 29, 2005
Okay, so I’m not referring to “little Cindy Lou-Who,” the beloved character from Dr. Seuss’ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
Rather, I mean that other Cindy, who did indeed reach star-like status ...
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Vincent Fiore: War, War, Everywhere
November 22, 2005
Theatrics were the norm last week before Congress headed home for its Thanksgiving break. In the Senate, Democrats offered a resolution that demanded a timetable for troop withdrawal in Iraq.
Even ...
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Vincent Fiore: Is the Conservative Movement Dead?
October 27, 2005
The question these days around Washington is: How can the Bush Administration recover from such a multitudinous barrage of so much bad news, compounded by even worse coverage of these troubles by an old and ...
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Vincent Fiore: The “Politics as Usual” Crowd and Terrorism
October 17, 2005
Many throughout the country have clearly forgotten the events that happened on September 11, 2001.
Now that the site of the world trade center resembles nothing more than an urbanized tract of ...
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Vincent Fiore: Did Bush Blink on Supreme Court Pick?
October 05, 2005
A year into his second term, President Bush may be feeling the effects of political shell shock. Even putting aside the first four years of his presidency, Bush has had a dubious, if not distressful beginning to ...
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Vincent Fiore: Replacing O’Connor Will Get Ugly
September 29, 2005
Now that the John Roberts nomination is a virtual lock, Senate Democrats can get down to the real business at hand. That “real” business I speak of would be the destruction of nearly anyone President Bush ...
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Vincent Fiore: Finally, a Democrat Comes out of the Wilderness
September 19, 2005
A friend of mine is forever reminding me to give credit where credit is due. Specifically, he is referring to the infrequent impulses among those that populate the left side of the political spectrum who actually ...
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Vincent Fiore: Ho Hum; Four Years After 9/11
September 10, 2005
While the flood waters are pumped out of the condemned city of New Orleans, lost to the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina is the upcoming anniversary of an event which was wholly man-made, and of singular ...
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Vincent Fiore: Katrina Brings Death, and More Liberal Idiocy
September 03, 2005
Hurricane Katrina will probably go down in our nation’s history as the greatest economic disaster to date and the country’s worst natural catastrophe in decades. Surely, the number of dead that lie beneath the ...
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Vincent Fiore: “Bushstock 2005”
August 26, 2005
Joan Baez, last seen at Yasgur’s farm in 1969 in Sullivan County, New York, serenaded the assembled protesters down at “Camp Casey, Texas,” in what has become the modern-day left’s version of ...
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Vincent Fiore: Cindy Sheehan, Go Home
August 14, 2005
Momentous days are upon the nation, and the world. In Iraq, a constitution is being hammered out, as U.S. troops and Iraqis are being killed in the name of democracy. Israel is days away from pulling out of Gaza ...
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Vincent Fiore: Sweet R&B at the White House
August 08, 2005
A few weeks ago, there was a bit of a stir over what President Bush listened to over his iPOD while at his ranch in Texas. Artist like Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and John Fogerty were some of the president’s ...
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Vincent Fiore: Spoiling for a Fight: Senate Democrats and the Media
July 31, 2005
It is all but certain that President Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court, John Roberts, will be confirmed as the 109th jurist of the highest of court in the land. Or is it?
By leaving behind a scant paper ...
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Vincent Fiore: Lest we Forget the “Confusion” of Joseph Wilson
July 18, 2005
The bombing in London by terrorist and the continuation of the war in Iraq were of secondary importance to official Washington and the mainstream media this week. Even the prospect of the president having to ...
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Vincent Fiore: HARMAN-izing With the Left on Terrorism
July 11, 2005
As the sun was setting upon Britain after a day that saw some 50 dead and 700-plus wounded from a terrorist attack, those all-too familiar voices of liberal dissidence welled up to be heard.
California ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Media Canonizing of Sandra Day O’Connor
July 05, 2005
Usually, any serious push toward making one a saint, or canonization, happens when that person is deceased. After a five-year waiting period--and the proof of a miracle or two--the candidate for sainthood is ...
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Vincent Fiore: Eminent Domain, and the Making of a Citizen Politician
June 29, 2005
Over the weekend, a good friend of mine left a message on my answering machine, which at first I didn’t recognize, because his voice was so shaken with rage and desperation. But after a brief moment, I realized ...
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Vincent Fiore: Losing Our will, and Our Minds
June 21, 2005
The memory of New York's Twin Towers crashing to the ground on September 11, 2001, seems far removed from the minds of a sizable portion of the American public. Because we live in a country that permits the lives ...
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Vincent Fiore: On the “To Do” List for Democrats: Impeach Bush
June 10, 2005
Having lost badly in this new century’s elections, Democrats are now sounding the alarm for impeachment proceedings against President Bush. If the word “impeachment” were not so serious in its intent, one is ...
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Vincent Fiore: GOP Warning Falls on Deaf Ears
May 31, 2005
Several weeks ago, I wrote a commentary that stressed to the Republican-controlled Congress--and President Bush--the perils of not following through on the conservative platform that the GOP stressed during the ...
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Vincent Fiore: A Majority Ruled by the Minority
May 25, 2005
I don’t know who originally coined the phrase, “can’t we all just get along,” (though many believe it was Los Angeles police victim Rodney King) but I think it’s a good bet that he or she was a Republican ...
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Vincent Fiore: In the Senate, “DefCon 1” Nears
May 17, 2005
In the Senate this week, what promises to be a contentious culmination to what Republican Senator Trent Lott originally coined as the “nuclear option” will almost certainly take place. Majority leader Bill Frist ...
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Vincent Fiore: The “Racist” in All of Us
May 11, 2005
From a personal standpoint, the most frustrating and misunderstood aspect of racism is the usage of the word. There is no doubt that throughout these United States, racism, as practiced by actual racist, is a ...
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Vincent Fiore: Bush Gets Real on Social Security Reform
May 05, 2005
When President Bush hit the podium on Thursday night for this, his fourth-ever prime-time news conference, the long-knives of the establishment press and the Democratic Party were lying-in-wait for his plans for ...
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Vincent Fiore: For the GOP, a Warning
April 26, 2005
These days, it’s hard to tell just who the majority party in Washington really is. But according to the last several national elections, Republicans have won the House, the Senate, and the presidency. As Bush ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Media’s Kindred Spirits
April 19, 2005
On April 10, Republican Congressman Chris Shays of Connecticut stated to the Associated press that embattled House majority leader Tom Delay should step down from the leadership. Shays, who feels that “Tom's ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Bitter Wilderness of Jim Jeffords
April 13, 2005
Does anyone out there remember Piels beer? Bob McAllister’s Wonderama or Quisp cereal? How about Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom” nature show and K-Tel records? Surely, a few of you remember some, if not all, of ...
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Vincent Fiore: America’s Tyrannical Judiciary
April 04, 2005
Not since the death of Princess Diana in 1997 can I remember such a passionate interest and empathy displayed by so many over the death of a single human being. These same feelings are on display again by tens of ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Secular Media and Death
March 29, 2005
Terri Schiavo’s life and death struggle is nearly over. For 15 years, Terri has lived in a world that only she was privy to, while her consciousness, reality, and reason were debated around her and across the ...
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Vincent Fiore: Will Bush Go “Nuclear” on Democrats?
March 21, 2005
Sometime in January, 2006, you may turn on your TV and see this:
(Fade in) A white-haired, grandmotherly woman walks laboriously up to her mailbox, where upon she reaches in and pulls out the usual utility ...
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Vincent Fiore: Remembering Dan Rather
March 14, 2005
"How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set?"
-Vice President George H.W. Bush, 1988-
Some may say it’s karma, but the above comes to my mind when ...
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Vincent Fiore: That’s “Mr. Learned Liberal” to You
March 02, 2005
There’s no denying the ideological direction of the New York Times editorial pages. To a large extent, one sees it above the page-one fold as well, where actual news should be and opinion should not. If the Times ...
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Vincent Fiore: Call It Socialism Security
February 22, 2005
In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Congress passed the Social Security Act, part of a system envisioned by FDR to provide a secure retirement for Americans. Social Security benefits were never ...
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Vincent Fiore: Time to Educate on Social Security Reform
February 09, 2005
What used to be commonly referred to as the “third rail” of politics is now the main domestic priority of the Bush administration. Social Security figured prominently in the president’s State of the Union ...
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Vincent Fiore: In Iraq, the Color of the Day Is Purple
February 02, 2005
Proudly holding aloft his index finger brandishing the color purple, a goldsmith from the town of Najaf, Muhammad Abdul-Ridha said “We feel now that we are human beings living in this country. Now I feel I have a ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Speech Heard 'Round the World
January 25, 2005
One of the more obvious idiosyncrasies concerning President Bush, one can always tell when his heart fully believes what his mouth is saying. Contrast the inauguration speech given on Thursday against his ...
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Vincent Fiore: Democratic Hostility as a Platform
January 18, 2005
“The purpose of the Blue Bracelet Project is to reverse the current climate of fear and negativity in America, and to challenge the divisive ideology of George Bush and the extremist neoconservative wing of the ...
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Vincent Fiore: Newt Gingrich in 2008?
January 11, 2005
In 1994, an event took place that was considered at the time a near impossibility when one looks at the political boundaries that had been established post World War II in Washington.
For the first time in ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Tsunami and George W. Bush
January 03, 2005
Have you heard the news? America, under the leadership of George W. Bush, has managed to raise the very oceans against humanity--unintended of course--as a direct result of Americas’ failure to recognize the ...
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Vincent Fiore: As Democrats Go, So Goes the Old Media
December 29, 2004
In a few weeks, George W. Bush will be sworn into office, thereby acknowledging the will of 61 million voters who opted to see Bush finish what Al-Qaeda started. What the next four years will be like for Bush is ...
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Vincent Fiore: About Rumsfeld and the Military
December 20, 2004
For all those folks demanding the head of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on the hood of an unarmored Humvee, you may want to take a step back and look at recent history.
The troubles that beset the ...
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Vincent Fiore: Politics in 2004: Observations From the Cheap Seats
December 13, 2004
One of my editors asked if I would write a piece that essentially scores and scorns through a series of questions, various political figures and the arena in which they perform. This, thinks I, will be fun, and a ...
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Vincent Fiore: Anchors Away: Brokaw, Rather, and Jennings
December 06, 2004
The changing political landscape has brought with it a changing of the Old guard media as well. For nearly four decades, Americans have in one capacity or another received the country's news through the eyes of ...
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Vincent Fiore: Paper Bag Politics
November 22, 2004
Back in 1991, Republican freshman Jim Nussle made national news by appearing on the floor of the House of Representatives donning a paper bag over his head. Representative Nussle went on to criticize the then ...
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Vincent Fiore: A Party Completely at Sea
November 14, 2004
The election of 2004 will be remembered for many things, some of which may play out for years to come. The GOP has broadened its base among minorities and women, and has strengthened its ties to Catholic and ...
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Vincent Fiore: Winners and Losers of Election 2004
November 08, 2004
The election of 2004 has finally, and mercifully, come to a close. So what do millions of voters, the most ever for a presidential election, (though not in overall percentage) do now that the frantic pace of the ...
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Vincent Fiore: Time to Choose Between Bush and Kerry
November 02, 2004
Put aside all of the labels that you have heard in the past year regarding the presidential candidates. Be it John Kerry—the “perennial liberal of our time,” or George W. Bush, an “ultra-right wing ideologue,” ...
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Vincent Fiore: Will “Broken Glass Democrats” Be Enough?
October 27, 2004
It seems like only yesterday that Saddam Hussein was roused out of his spider hole in Iraq, and George W. Bush seemed near impervious to any challenge mounted by anyone seeking the White House.
But it is ...
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Vincent Fiore: Something About Mary…
October 19, 2004
Wednesday's third and final presidential debate was in most aspects reminiscent of the first two. Aside from President Bush managing to keep his Texas poker face, and with smiles aplenty from both candidates, it ...
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Vincent Fiore: Of Democrats and Voter Fraud
October 12, 2004
The country is gearing up for the very real possibility of the 2000 election fiasco replaying itself, but even worse. In that election between than-Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore, what followed ...
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Vincent Fiore: Debating the Debate
October 05, 2004
It will take a few days before we know if the first presidential debate in Florida will have any lasting effect on the race itself, but from my point of view, it won’t.
Senator Kerry acquitted himself ...
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Vincent Fiore: For Kerry, It Is Now Debate or Die
September 28, 2004
For John Kerry, the University of Miami in the battleground state of Florida might as well be the Coliseum of Rome killing floor. On September 30, Kerry will either conquer or be conquered in what will be the ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Red and Blue Media
September 21, 2004
Eight years ago, an obscure little cable outlet debuted by the name of Fox News. Shows like the O’Reilly Factor and Hannity and Colmes were not to be confused with anything on the then-present day alphabet media ...
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Vincent Fiore: When C.redibility is B.asically S.uperficial
September 13, 2004
Since 1962, Dan Rather and CBS News have been an American institution. CBS, one of the big three alphabet media empires, has had one of the most successful news programs on television in “Sixty Minutes,” of which ...
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Vincent Fiore: Bush Shows the Right Stuff to the Nation
September 07, 2004
Walking the streets outside of Madison Square Garden on Thursday night, one saw the forces of democracy in play. Outside the great arena, thousands chanted themselves silly over the perceived evils of a second ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Demise of Responsible Political Journalism
August 31, 2004
You do not need to be especially engrossed in politics to know that this year’s presidential election offers little in the way of fair-minded journalism. Just scanning the front page of the New York Times daily ...
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Vincent Fiore: The GOP Convention Could Seal Kerry’s Fate
August 23, 2004
President George W. Bush and his Republican Party have been given a golden opportunity to possibly clinch the sale of a second Bush term.
The Democratic convention was a success as far as party ...
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Vincent Fiore: Mr. Kerry, You Asked for This
August 10, 2004
Vietnam veteran John O’Neil, spokesman of the organization calling itself “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth,” released a devastating ad condemning Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry as being unable to ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Democrats in Boston: A Convention of Invention
August 03, 2004
A funny thing happened at the Democratic convention this year: Democrats were exposed as closet Republicans.
Abandoning traditional liberal meat and potato issues, Democrats presented a convention ...
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Vincent Fiore: The “Confusion” of Joseph Wilson
July 21, 2004
Memo to the masses: When you see the words “misspoken,” “erred,” and “confused,” in relation to former ambassador Joseph Wilson, know this: These words are typical beltway qualifiers that seek to say in essence ...
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Vincent Fiore: Kerry’s Eye-Candy Selection
July 11, 2004
Senator John Kerry has finally ended much hyperventilated speculation on who his choice for vice president will be to complete his quest for the White House against George W. Bush. To almost no one’s surprise, ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Democrats and Straightjacket Politics
July 06, 2004
Imagine being driven by the very opposite of emotions you once supposed most prevalent in an enlightened society; that answering the call to a civic responsibility is not heeded out of duty and necessity, but out ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Candidates’ Moment of Truth
June 27, 2004
The 9/11 commission is wrapping up its investigations into the events leading up to that fateful September day in 2001. In late July, around the time of the Democratic national convention, the commission will issue ...
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Vincent Fiore: Reagan’s Death Has Panicked the Democrats
June 17, 2004
Even with the death of Ronald Reagan, the country's mainstream media and by extension the liberal establishment, cannot help themselves. Ronald Reagan has been deceased all of one week come Saturday, but the muted ...
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Vincent Fiore: Ronald Reagan: The Enduring Presidency
June 09, 2004
In 1993, one-time Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan wrote a letter to the former president. Having become frustrated with the revisionist history that swirled around the president’s historical standing, Noonan ...
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Vincent Fiore: “Mississippi Is Not a State, It’s a Club”
June 05, 2004
My adventure in radio started about two weeks ago, when upon reading a commentary written by yours truly over the air on WJNT 1180 AM, Central Mississippi’s largest talk radio station, host’s Ben Allen and Larry ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Visionary Versus the Reactionary
May 30, 2004
President Bush is very vulnerable to the challenge of the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, John Kerry. At this time, the polls show the damaging effects of nearly three months of negative news for Bush ...
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Vincent Fiore: Desperately Seeking McCain
May 19, 2004
The nation is not only in the grips of war, it is also in the grip of an election. It is only the middle of May, yet so many of the chattering class treat each day preceding the November 2 showdown as a ...
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Vincent Fiore: Restless in America
May 12, 2004
Rarely, if ever, has this space devoted any time to gratuitous name-calling and cavalier demonstrations against anyone or anything. But today will be different. Today, "I settle all family business," as matter of ...
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Vincent Fiore: Leaving Behind the New York Times
May 07, 2004
If you live in New York, as I do, you cannot help but be conspicuously aware of the nation’s most “respected” journal, The New York Times.
Not just for political purists, the Times offers excellent ...
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Vincent Fiore: Throughout History, America’s Many Pat Tillmans
April 29, 2004
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
--Bertrand Russell—
The above words of deceased English mathematician and noted pacifist ...
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Vincent Fiore: Rising Above Ceaseless Liberalism
April 24, 2004
For most of us, a typical day in America starts with just thumbing through the local paper.
If you’re a typical reader, the headlines are the first thing that will catch your attention. Often incomplete and ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Old Liberal Lion’s Wretched Tales
April 15, 2004
Part two of the war in Iraq has begun, with American forces experiencing as some think, heavy casualties, meaning death. Former Baathist “deadenders,” Islamic terrorist from the region, and the sizable force of the ...
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Vincent Fiore: Condi’s Day at Court.
April 06, 2004
Thursday, April 8, is the scheduled day for National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to sit before the 9/11 Commission for what some feel will be an interesting and enlightening chat.
Waving the ...
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Vincent Fiore: Quitting the Battlefield
March 24, 2004
"Maybe the socialist will get our troops out of Iraq and Al-Qaida will forget about Spain so we will be less frightened." This from a citizen of Spain who switched his vote from the center-right government of Jose ...
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Vincent Fiore: Did the media give us John Kerry?
March 16, 2004
It was not all that long ago that Gallup had Senator John Kerry polling at an abysmal 9% nationwide, in the single digit cellar with the likes of Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Carol Moseley Braun, and the Rev. Al Sharpton. ...
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Vincent Fiore: “Bringing it on”
March 08, 2004
Senator Kerry has lately taken to using a line that President Bush had used in early July of 2003 while taking questions from the White House press pool in the Roosevelt room. Mr. Bush's declaration of "bring it ...
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Vincent Fiore: The man and his Message
March 02, 2004
Barely a fortnight ago, the leading Democratic candidate looking to cinch up the nomination to face President Bush in November fired off an “official” letter to The White House, excoriating him for dredging up ...
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Vincent Fiore: Ohh, those "feel good" polls
February 22, 2004
The Democratic field of contenders are a gloomy bunch. Aside from berating Mr. Bush to the point of near imbecility, their overall outlook of America is one of near cataclysmic failure. Whether you’re listening to ...
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Vincent Fiore: Questions and answers.
February 16, 2004
It has been a rather busy campaign season these last two weeks, and it is only the middle of February. News items swirl around the economy, the federal deficit, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and other items ...
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Vincent Fiore: Observations in Hate Speech.
February 11, 2004
“One of the prerogatives of American citizenship is the right to criticize public men and measures-and that means not only informed and responsible criticism but the freedom to speak foolishly and without ...
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Vincent Fiore: Where Have You Gone, Al Gore?
January 29, 2004
Losing Iowa as he did and what he did in the aftermath severely hurt any chance of Howard Dean partaking in a particular swearing-in ceremony on January 20, 2005.
Losing New Hampshire Tuesday night to John ...
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Vincent Fiore: Clark's soft parade.
January 19, 2004
Caught up in the frenzy of the Hawkeye cauci, it's easy to forget about next week's New Hampshire primary. With the race in Iowa a statistical dead heat, it is now a jump ball for the victory and the momentum going ...
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Vincent Fiore: The Big "O"
January 13, 2004
This week, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill will debut his new book titled, “The Price of Loyalty”. So on Sunday night, O'Neill began his promotion with “60 minutes” Lesley Stahl conducting the interview. ...
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Vincent Fiore: Mad cows and Democrats
January 05, 2004
With much hand wringing and the dark scenario’s that were voiced with it, the media establishment has yet to come to the conclusion that the dire health consequences of one mad cow found in a Holstein dairy farm in ...
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Vincent Fiore: Rehabilitating Howard Dean
December 24, 2003
In September of this year, the elite media breathlessly cooed over the emergence of General Wesley Clark as the savior of the Democratic Party. Clark was seen as someone with Clinton-like centrist leanings but ...
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Vincent Fiore: January 21st, 2005
December 17, 2003
Setting: The White House press room.
Q-“Mr. President, Mr. President, do you have any plans for your first 100 days in office?”
“Well, in fact I do. The first item of business is to remove our ...
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Vincent Fiore: Tapping into hate
December 15, 2003
“We have been too nice. We have been too polite”. So says long time DNC strategist Ann Lewis in talking about the lack of a coherent message to run against the Democrats personal devil, George W. Bush. Lewis and ...
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Vincent Fiore: My countrymen, my enemy
November 20, 2003
Recently, a Western Washington University student by the name of Paul Douglas Revak pleaded guilty to the charge of trying to obtain explosives. {See: ...
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Vincent Fiore: The anti-Bush
October 06, 2003
On the pages of the New York Times, July 6th, former ambassador Joe Wilson started the latest Bush bash with these self inflated remarks: "I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related ...
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Vincent Fiore: The "New" Democrat
October 01, 2003
Barely a week into the campaign, retired NATO Commander General Wesley Clark rests atop a Newsweek National poll at a commanding 14\\%. Trailing within the margin of error is fire breather Howard Dean and the ...
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