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Scrapbook The Gore-Broaddrick Transcript The most devastatingly probing question of the presidential campaign thus far was asked not by a reporter but by New Hampshire voter Katherine Prudhomme...
...All right," said Robertson, his face a wreath of satisfaction...
...Quick: Someone give this woman a microphone and a job in the White House press corps...
...On Oct...
...This has got nothing to do with any religion because the Falun Gong is not a religion...
...Pretending to "question" Li about religious freedom, Robertson volunteered that Li Hongzhi, founder of the outlawed Falun Gong meditation sect, "was lying to the people...
...For constitutionalists, McCain's sin is even worse: Like all those who would restrict political donations, he fails to understand that money is hard to disentangle from speech, and that his pet reform amounts to an assault on the First Amendment...
...I certainly felt what most Americans did...
...Three observations: 1) Despite this exchange's being televised locally, with lots of national reporters present...
...We do nothing about saying to the labor, you can't take a laboring man's money and spend it the way you see fit...
...And I think that, in judging his performance as a president, I think that most people are anxious to stop talking about all the personal attacks against him...
...On every substantive point—the dis-agreeability of money in politics, the willingness to throw the First Amendment overboard—Bush turns out to be a McCain clone...
...There's a lot of laboring people who are Republicans and conservatives...
...So George W. Bush is the answer, right...
...10 edition of his Christian Broadcasting Network show the 700 Club, Pat Robertson played a particularly craven game of flatter-the-tyrant with his guest Li Zhaoxing, China's ambassador to the United States...
...Flatter-the-Tyrant A few weeks ago THE SCRAPBOOK reported how, during the Nov...
...And I think that's unilateral disarmament...
...Q: ABC, I believe [actually NBC...
...I agree with you, we ought not to have corporate soft money and labor soft money...
...I think that whatever mistakes [Bill Clinton] made in his personal life are in the minds of most Americans balanced against what he has done in his public life as president...
...And my worry is that you do nothing about what's called paycheck protection...
...I'd like to look you in the eye...
...My philosophy, since you asked about my religious faith, I'm taught in my religious tradition to hate the sin and love the sinner...
...But consider what Bush said: "Here's my worry with [McCain's] plan: It's going to hurt the Republican party, John, and I'm worried for this reason...
...The Media Research Center has made the clip available on its website, media-research.org) 2) Gore has now very usefully pledged not to violate his family's privacy: Does this mean no more lachrymose tales about his dying relatives...
...With a vengeance...
...I want to take my own values of faith and family to the presidency, and I want you to evaluate me on the basis of who I am and what you believe I can do for this country as president...
...Wrong...
...I said I don't know how to evaluate that, and I didn't see the interview...
...And lots more will surely follow...
...But I must say something else to you about this...
...Oh, no, replied Li, "not at all...
...I'm taught that all of us are heir to the mistakes that—are prone to the mistakes that flesh is heir to...
...Secondly, I felt the same disappointment and anger at him during the period when all this was going on that most people did...
...Q: Did you see the interview...
...Here's the transcript (minus Gore's plentiful ums and ahs, for readability): Q: When Juanita Broaddrick made the claim, which I found to be quite credible, that she was raped by Bill Clinton, did that change your opinion about him being one of the best presidents in history...
...30, China's Communist "legislature" tightened its prohibition against "cults" and "evil religions" and officially attached those designations to 10 so-called "home churches": independent rural Christian congregations, some loosely affiliated with evangelical Protestant movements overseas...
...You might call Pat Robertson and ask him to pray for these people...
...But there better be paycheck protection...
...And do you believe Juanita Broaddrick's claim...
...He just seems to think McCain was inept in drafting campaign-finance legislation...
...For partisan Republicans, it's enough that Democrats agree with McCain...
...Q: I'm very surprised that you didn't watch the interview...
...and despite the mesmerizing watchability of the video, the network news shows have never mentioned this exchange...
...But, Q: So you didn't believe Juanita Broad-drick's claim...
...3) What's Katherine Prud-homme doing enjoying life in Derry...
...For small-government conservatives, the anti-money bias that McCain shares with every newspaper editorialist in the country betrays both a willingness to increase the power of the liberal media (since conservative advocacy groups would be muffled by campaign finance restrictions), and a woeful misunderstanding of Washington (it's only because government is so big and bloated that people must spend so much money, soft and hard, on politics...
...Third, I have been involved in a lot of battles where he and I have fought together on behalf of the American people, and I think we've made a good, positive difference for this country...
...Otherwise our Republican Party and our conservative values don't have a shot...
...I don't think it's fair...
...GORE: I didn't see it...
...I do not know how to evaluate each one of these individual stories...
...Scrapbook The Gore-Broaddrick Transcript The most devastatingly probing question of the presidential campaign thus far was asked not by a reporter but by New Hampshire voter Katherine Prudhomme (formerly a Democrat, now a McCain supporter), at Al Gore's Dec...
...You may have felt a different kind of emotion, I don't know...
...Thank you...
...Yeah, well...
...Here's what's striking about Bush's answer: It's pure partisanship (by gum, we gotta stop that "Democrat party...
...I just don't know...
...GORE: (nervous chuckle) Well, I don't know what to make of her claim, because I don't know how to evaluate that story, I really don't...
...Now, I'll say this to you, he is my friend, and that friendship is important, and if you've ever had a friend who made a serious mistake and then you repaired the friendship and moved on, then you know what that relationship has been like for me...
...And trying to sort out all of the allegations, and want to, instead, move on and focus on the future...
...At least 103 members of the newly-proscribed home churches were arrested in the crackdown's first four days...
...I sense that maybe you did...
...And what did you tell your son about this...
...Barely a week after Li Zhaoxing's appearance on the 700 Club, China began vigorously enforcing this anti-Christian edict...
...George W Bush on Campaign Finance Why do so many conservatives have so little use for John McCain...
...Now comes word, from the respected Hong Kong-based Information Center of Human Rights and Democratic Movement in China, that —shortly before Robertson's witless broadcast—Beijing's ban on Falun Gong had already been applied to Chinese Christians...
...It is nothing but a cult...
...To listen to some GOP loyalists, you might think Bush really zinged McCain on campaign finance at the Iowa debate last week...
...Why don't you just stand back up...
...Uh-Uh...
...GORE: No, I didn't see the interview...
...14 town meeting in Derry, N.H...
...No wonder Bush got good press for this exchange: He was the perfect caricature of a money-hungry Republican...
...There have been so many personal allegations and such a non-stop series of attacks, I guess I'm like a lot of people in that I think that enough is enough...
...They find his unceasing agitation for more restrictions on campaign finance grating...
...I would never violate the privacy of my communication with one of my children, a member of my family, as for that part of your question...
...And yet under the vision you've got or—I guess you've got—or people in Washington have, it's okay that they just take their money and spend it the way they want to spend it...
...GORE: Well, which show was it on...
...Number four, I'm running for president on my own...
...It's the least he can do...
...GORE: No, I didn't say that...
...The Democrat party is really the Democrat party and the labor unions in America...
...Then he asked whether Beijing's ban on Falun Gong might "ever be applied to Christianity or Buddhism or some other religion...
...The total membership of all ten sects now on Beijing's list of "evil" Christian "cults" is three million...
Vol. 5 • December 1999 • No. 15
