RESISTANCE
DISPATCHES
The BBBR Mailbag
Posted June 10, 2001
U.S. COMMISSION
ON CIVIL RIGHTS
DISCUSSES ITS FINDINGS ON C-SPAN
THE CHARMING BILL K REPORTS ON
From:
"William K"
To: < thediva@coup2k.com >
Sent: Sunday,
June 10, 2001 7:32 PM
Subject:
Finally, a richly deserved bitch slap.
I hoped you
were watching C-SPAN today, because the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
met to discuss the report that got released last week. Abigail Thernstrom, the mouthy
Republican witch on the commission, got SLAMMED. It was amazing how little
attention she paid to what was going on, how much she sniveled because, GOD
FORBID!!!, the commission didn't bend its rules and agreements over backwards
to accommodate the criminal Bush clan, and how unwilling she was to come up
with SPECIFIC ARGUMENTS in a public forum.
The last time
I'd seen so much whining was ... well ... last week when Trent Lott lost the
Senate. It was GREAT!!
But...but...but...
Couldn't
this be because of education levels?
(Yeah, and
wouldn't you take advantage of that if you were crooked and trying to cut off
the African-American vote considering Florida's Confederate history? Anyway,
Miami Cuban REPUBLICAN VOTERS, with equal education levels, got their votes
counted just fine. Allan Lichtman, whose statistical work formed the basis of
the report, checked that out just for you, sweetness :->)
Couldn't
this be because of new voters?
(Yeah, and wouldn't
you take advantage of that if you knew African-American voters increased their
numbers to a degree almost unequaled in our republic just to vote in this
election?)
Mary Frances Berry, the
(real) woman in charge of the committee, treated our precious little C.I.A.
plant with the appropriate contempt.
Lovely thing to
see: Lichtman worked for Republicans on his last two jobs. He's the history
department chair for American University. He went into this thing thinking it
was just a technological issue -- you know, it all boiled down to the voting
devices -- and was BLOWN AWAY by what he found.
The black ops
witch got cut off at the knees every time she opened her big mouth. Have the
long knives been broken out at last, my Diva?
[DIVA
NOTE: Dare I hope?]
ON THE JULY 7th BUSH BIRTHDAY
ACTION ALERT
SAMANTHA ON
"BANANAS FOR A
MONKEY"
From:
"Samantha L"
To: "The Diva
(Tammy)" < thediva@coup2k.com
>
Sent: Thursday,
June 07, 2001 3:52 PM
Subject: Re:
Action Alert of a different phylum...
RE the email below
on the banana graphics:
Dear
Samantha:
A banana
with a bow on it? Give me more than
that to go on!
LOL, been
pondering that myself... Bananas are inherently funny, but just try and *do*
anything with them, I guess. (That isn't obscene, anyway. <G>)
The other day I
saw a cartoon of a banana in sunglasses, maybe something along the lines of
"the future's so bright, I gotta wear shades"? <-- RE Cheney's
nuke policy maybe?
Or perhaps a foray
into Chiquita Banana/Carmen Miranda territory -- although the mental image I'm
suddenly getting of W with a basket of fruit on his head is QUITE disturbing,
letmetellyou. ;)
Or a parody of
cheap-appliance ads -- "you'll go BANANAS for our low, low prices"?
(Gotta be something in that somewhere, not necessarily for this project but
certainly in general)
The remake of
'planet of the apes' is coming out soon, isn't it? There MUST be something we
could do with talking monkeys and bananas and Charlton Heston imagery... (I
certainly THINK "get your stinking paws off me you
damn dirty
ape" every time I see W...)
BTW, RE an earlier
email: I haven't forgotten the "I'm Spartacus" T-shirt idea, it's
just I'm dreading sorting through the Big Box O' Fonts to find the
exactly-the-right-one-that-I-know-is-in-there-somewhere-but-I-can't-remember-the
-name-of-it. (Picture a box of about 100 3.5" floppies, labelled
"fonts A" , "fonts B"... <sigh>) Once (if) I can find
it, it shouldn't be very long... I'll try to get on that for next week.
ON THE DAVID VON DREHLE
SITUATION:
VON DREHLE'S DEFENSE, MY RESPONSE
LEAH FINDS A NUGGET IN THE VON DREHLE BOOK
From: "Leah F"
To: < BBBR@yahoogroups.com >
Sent: Sunday, June
10, 2001 9:29 PM
Subject: Re:
[BBBR] A Give-and-Take with David Von Drehle,
Washington Post
Reporter and Co-Author of
"Deadlock:
The Inside Story of America's Closest Election" (sic)
One important -
useful fact in this book:
According to
Drehle, Jebbie boasted to him that it was HIS advice to the Bush campaign to oppose any recount. (They were not sure in the beginning). Take the fact that Jebbie swore in front of
the Civil Right Commission that he stayed out of that part of the elections altogether,
and you have a nice little perjury on your hands...
PHILIP AT THE MOVIES
From: "Philip
B"
To: < thediva@coup2k.com >
Sent: Friday, June
08, 2001 6:47 PM
Subject: David Von Drehle
Just read your
response...
"I like the
way you talk" ( Billy Bob
Thornton in Slingblade)
THE DIVA NEVER PASSES UP A CHANCE
TO PLAY DUELING MOVIE QUOTES
From: "The
Diva (Tammy)"
To: "Philip
B"
Sent: Friday, June
08, 2001 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: David Von Drehle
Dear Philip:
Thanks!
My favorite BBT
quote is from "Primary Colors":
"I'm blacker
than you are. I've got some slave in
me. I can feel it." - Billy Bob
Thornton as Richard Jemmons
:)
Tammy
"The
Diva"
coup2k.com
CARL'S MAD AT THE MEDIA
From: "Carl
J"
To: "The Diva
(Tammy)" < thediva@coup2k.com
>
Sent: Friday, June
08, 2001 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: [BBBResistance] EQUAL TIME
(DIVA-STYLE)
Dear Diva:
They're all full
of sh**. The media is behind this takeover. I hope that if the Democrats regain
control of the Congress that they immediately initiate impeachment proceedings
against those five bastards. Don't let that German Fascist hard-on give you any
crap...
Our government is
a triangular system of checks and balances, and like a triangle, for it to ring
like a bell, at least one corner must never touch the rest of the triangle. The
triangle was closed and muffled this time. It has to be opened and let the
striking iron ring out in the name of freedom. Freedom isn't screwing me and
having me keep my mouth shut. This election should have gone to the United
States Congress, win lose or draw.
Carl
HUGH ON DR. DIVA
From: <Hugh
N>
To: < thediva@coup2k.com >
Sent: Friday, June
08, 2001 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [BBBResistance] EQUAL TIME
(DIVA-STYLE)
Dear Tammy,
What splendid
surgery, albeit without the benefit of anesthesia. (But since it was elective surgery he has only himself to
blame.) Really though, that was a
terrific letter responding to his lame explanation. I do find it curious, as do you, as to why he would even write
you. He must have been looking through
the wrong end of his binoculars with this one.
Thanks for holding
his feet to the fire for us out here who are just as angry, but a little less
informed and not as heavily armed.
Your voice gives us all strength.
I know it does me. You
know...I run with a very liberal crowd, but like most Americans they are
extremely intellectually lazy.
While they don't like Bush, and they do
think he probably stole a presidential election, they don't understand that he
pissed on our democracy in the process.
They don't, for some reason I can't figure, appreciate that that act is
second only to assassination in the damage it does to our freedom to choose our
leaders. They have moved on. They lack any passion for righting this
terrible wrong. And they don't much
care to talk about it (except my friend Scott, whose Grandmother shares a
property line with the idiot in Crawford).
So, that's a long way around saying that for many of us out here in the
world you are a lifeline.
Keep fighting. I will.
And thanks
again,
Hugh
HUGH'S LETTER TO DAVID VON DREHLE:
From: <Hugh
N>
To: < vondrehled@washpost.com >
Cc: < thediva@coup2k.com >
Sent: Saturday,
June 09, 2001 10:54 PM
Subject: The Closest Election?
Dear Sir,
How stupid do you
think we are? Actually, I know the answer
to that question, and you are on notice that myself and MILLIONS of other
Americans like me are insulted. You
have MISUNDERESTIMATED us. That you
would take a crisis of democracy, twist the facts, and then have the gall to
try to make a nickel off of it makes you something below a crooked used car
salesman. ANGRY???? You bet we are angry. And that is what your story SHOULD have been
about.
If you had been
around to report on the assassination of President Kennedy, you probably would
have written a book about it titled, "The Worst Presidential Car Ride
Ever."
The story was not
that the election was "close."
The story was that it was "STOLEN." If you really were a journalist and not just a media whore you
would get off your lazy bought-and-paid-for butt, investigate, and THEN
REPORT.
You will not get
by with this. People with brains are
watching you.
Remember...
Misunderestimate the President... not the people.
Hugh N
Dallas, Texas
AND NOW, A LETTER FROM A REAL DOCTOR
From: "Nancy
H"
To: < thediva@coup2k.com >
Sent: Monday, June
11, 2001 10:40 AM
Subject: Drehle's
response
Boy, what a
response from Drehle. About like the one I got from him, which was,
"Thanks for taking time to write".
Either he doesn't care what we think, or we all had him by the balls and
he knew it. I would like to think the latter. His nonresponse, none-the-less, makes
me want to scream.
Nancy
Nancy A. H., M.D.
SCOTT WRITES IN FROM THE ISLANDS
From: "Scott
F"
To: < thediva@coup2k.com >
Sent: Saturday,
June 09, 2001 12:16 AM
Subject: Dear
Diva...
"One of The Greatest Rants In
The History of The Web." Thank you Diva, where ever you are.
I too am a Diva -
albeit an aging Diva - living on the North Shore of O'ahu, Hawai'i (as you
know, Divas ain't stupid).
Regards
- Scott F
Dear Scott:
Thanks! It is a rare pleasure indeed to get to rant
directly at my target. Unfortunately,
my sortie was unsuccessful. Mr. Von
Drehle is still convinced that his book's title is accurate.
I really should
have known that talking "language" with a mainstream journalist would
get me nowhere.
I've found that
journalists are either ignorant of the language (giving them the benefit of the
doubt), or are subtly propagandizing the people, or are outright liars.
Take, for
instance, the
tardy reporting of the felon purge in The Los Angeles Times, my local
newspaper...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/updates2/lat_felon010521.htm
Your e-mail
inspired me to write the rant that article deserves.
I thank you for
that.
You can read it HERE:
http://www.coup2k.com/rant06102001.html
Keep writing, and keep
fighting...
Tammy
"The
Diva"
WebMistress of
BBBR
READ THE RANT SCOTT'S E-MAIL INSPIRED, HERE