width=”100″ height=”100″ border=”0″ title=”Donkeys_2″ alt=”Donkeys_2″ src=”http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/files/images/donkeys_2.jpg” /> Check out a National Review columnist’s riff on the Kansas elections. Sort of. It takes some doing, but under the headline "The Red-State Freak Show," Denis Broyles manages to mention the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Dr. George Tiller’s wealth, the European Union, French men and Nazis. A sample: Democrat Paul Morrison and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius "are both staunch advocates of unrestricted abortions and unrestricted embryonic stem cell research, positions the local press describes as ‘moderate.’ Their rivals, such as Jim Barnett, the mild-mannered Emporia physician and GOP gubernatorial candidate, are often portrayed as conservative flakes. But if Kansas were in Europe, it would be a rogue state, isolated from others by the weirdness of its social policies."
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Wasn’t prollie Paul F Roshill extolling the journalistic credibility of the National Review on another thread? I’d say this demonstration of that conservative rant fest puts the stake in the heart of poor Paul!
This just shows National Review’s inability to understand European politics. George Bush is despised by the majority of people in Europe, yet somehow a Democratic party in Kansas, which is more like a conservative party in Europe, is an extremist liberal viewpoint. Hmmm, National Review is, as usual, light on the facts, heavy on the emotional rhetoric.
The author’s point is that Kansas “moderates” are sometimes more liberal than Europe.
Kansas has more liberal abortion policies than France for example.
The fact that the editors of The Eagle seem to hang on every word of The National Review speaks volumes.
Any posts from The Nation, from The American Prospect, from Media Matters, hell, even from Editor and Publisher.
No, no, no, and that would be no.
Gee, what’s Rush Limbaugh-humbug saying these days?
We’re all dying to know . . . NOT.
I’m confused.
It is about time Kansas wakes up and starts to think. The republican party has left its citizens!
Capn mentions Editor and Publisher. I discovered something very interesting in E&P a few years ago down at the downtown library. Wichita had a very low newspaper circulation, ca. 95,000 on weekdays, for a paper that should reach a large section of Kansas, and perhaps parts of northern Oklahoma.
You can’t get home delivery of the NYT in Wichita, although you can in Johnson County, Tulsa, OKC, Albuquerque and Colorado Springs (the last being about the same size city as Wichita, and pretty much a Republican stronghold). You can’t subscribe to the KC Star here, nor buy it off the rack, except on Sundays (NYT is also available here.) I noticed at the airport that you couldn’t buy the NYT, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Star, or Dallas Morning News.
The Internet has changed things, but it was really an eye-opener to see how information-disinterested and self-isolating Kansans were. You can get the San Francisco Chronicle throughout Northern California, and the LA Times throughout Southern California, and BOTH in the southern-central region of the state. Heck, in Honolulu, Hawaii you can get the SF Chronicle and LA Times at Safeway, along with the NYT. You can get the Boston Globe throughout New England. The Arizona Republic is sold throughout that state, and the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News are trucked to all four corners of Colorado. Same for the Des Moines Register and Iowa.
The best newspaper in our region is the KC Star, but apparently Wichita is “blacked out” on weekdays because former owner Knight Ridder apparently didn’t want to cannabalize Eagle sales, and/or decided that Wichitans weren’t really all that interested in, or didn’t really need to know what was going on in the Kansas state capitol, which the Star extensively covered.
It’s kind of pathetic, really. I mean, I think isolationism is fine, if you can develop an independent-from-the-outside-world economy, but if your survival depends on external trade, you better learn what’s happening in the external world. Unless you want to return to serfdom.
I meant to say “Sunday NYT is available here at Borders and Starbucks).”
Wow! A literary oasis in a death valley of redness!
I don’t recognize the Kansas this National Review contributor is describing. I’ll bet he’s never been here. The point of the piece seemed to be a hit on this rich contributor, Stower, whom I’ve never heard of, either.
Another thing that may account for this piece is that in the close senate race in Missouri stem cell research is a big issue in the campaign.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15249993/site/newsweek/
heh, Steven
Wouldn’t be the first time Nat Review wrote about what they knew nothing about . . .
Stewart was convicted in 2005 of providing material support to terrorists. She had released a statement issused by one of her clients, Omar Abdel-Rahman, a blind sheik sentenced to life in prison for plotting to blow up five New York landmarks and assassinate Egypt’s president.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061016/ap_on_re_us/terror_trial;_ylt=AkBKDz4z7jNSiuNagDLBzhfZa7gF;_ylu=X3oDMTA4dW1uZXIwBHNlYwMyNzQ3
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS PARTY OF TRAITORS
So we all have a choice between pedophile perverts and terrorist sympathizing traitors this November?
What a choice.
Thank god someone noticed there are moderates in Kansas.
Steven,
You are exposing your ignorance.
The authos’s done several pieces on Kansas politics and has spent a lot of time here, most recently living in Concordia.
Have you ever been in Concordia?
I love it how not one single piece of fact has been disputed by the fine bloggers found here.
Ed,
I just emailed the link to this blog to both Denis Boyles and to a friend employed by the Stowers Institute. Maybe one or both of them will drop in to prove that they truly are “real.” :)
Never been to Concordia, Ed Smiley. Will look into what you claim. Not expecting to find much truth, however.
Judging from Ed’s comments on the issue so far, I would have to agree with “two cents”. Maybe we should look elsewhere for truth. That includes you, Mr. Smiley:)
Kline trailing by 15 %, maybe the moderates have finally found their voice!
Well, well… Ed Smiley is right, google Dennis Boyles (not Broyles as Rhonda says above) & Kansas and this is what you get:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Dennis+Boyles%2C+Kansas&btnG=Search
Hmmm… mad dog social conservatives in Kansas… That is breaking news, isn’t it?
I hope people like Dennis Boyles (a boil on the ass of progress) keep writing and publishing. His efforts help bring on the forces of moderation and reason — even in Kansas.
I say “Bring it On” Dennis Boyles and Ed Smiley. You’re doing your part for the progressive revolution.
traer en la revolución progresiva
Here is a link to the home page of the Stowers Institute:http://www.stowers-institute.org/
Here is a link to their help-wanted page:http://www.stowers-institute.org/ScientistsSought/ScientistsSought.aspTake a gander at the benefits they offer.
This business is definitely the type we don’t want in, or anywhere near, Kansas! Those wealthy, progressive, & subversive cancer survivors are always looking for ways to subvert the good life we have here in the Sunflower state.[/sarcasm]
This link provides the Stowers Institute story:http://www.stowers-institute.org/Public/Mission.asp
They have assests of $2 Billion.
But, of course, they are using their resources so as to promote an “anti-life culture”. [/sarcasm]
Yeah, that’s right, Will.
A lawyer reading a statement by her client is the same thing as TREASON! TREASON!
You people need to grow up.
One way to destroy this country is to blow it up. The other way is pass laws that make people afraid to talk.
I lived in Communist China where people are afraid to talk.
Didn’t like it . . .
Will,
You’re calling me a traitor? Fuck you.
It wasn’t MY party that gutted the Constitution and Habeus Corpus, and it isn’t MY party that’s destroying the separation of powers by asserting that the Executive has ‘final authority’ to interpret the Constitution.
The Republican Party: traitors to America, committing treason against their oaths to the Constitution.
And once more, fuck you, Will.
Hold on, give Will a break. When he meant terrorist sympathizer he probably meant George Bush. It was Bush who gave millions to the Taliban so they could buy weapons to kill Americans. He’s the one who said nuclear inspectors didn’t have to be in North Korea so North Korea could develop a nuclear weapon to use against America. And it was Bush who sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers to Iraq to be killed so companies could make billions.
Isn’t the right Will? Or are you more sympathetic with pedophiles and the Republicans who protect them?
By eliminating pesky things like fair and open trials and legal representation will definitely streamline our “justice” (sic) system.
My son, born and raised right here in Wichita, is a Stowers investigator. His research lab is in Boston.http://www.massgeneral.org/news/releases/062306stowers.html
Linda, did you get my email?
Glad to see you post something!
“Their rivals, such as Jim Barnett, the mild-mannered Emporia physician and GOP gubernatorial candidate, are often portrayed as conservative flakes.”
Well, uh DUH!!!
Maybe they get portrayed as conservative flakes because, well, they ARE conservative flakes.
Pass the milk and sugar please.
Can we work to insure Tanker Todd is not re-elected? Will we vote for Garth McGuinn? I hope so.
I think Garth, as unknown as he is, can be a new fresh voice for moderates and independents in district 4. In reviewing todd’s record I can’t see much of anything he has actually accomplished for the district / Kansas in 12 years. He voted 4 times against a Congressional Investigation into the Halliburton, Caci et al contracts in Iraq that have squandered billions and adversely affected our soldiers ability to fight the best fight. He purports to supporting our troops yet has voted for legislation / appropriations that have REMOVED 2 billion dollars from the Military Personnel budget. I cannot find any legislation, supporting the military that todd has sponsored or co-sponsored in the last 4 years. He recently voted for a meager 2.2% pay raise for the military, even though DOD and the Senate had approved a 2.7% pay raise. Todd has also been a close ally of Tom Delay, the Texas rep that resigned when he was indicted for campaign fund raising irregularities in Texas and money laundering. Todd gave and received money from delays various shadowy PACs.
Garth McGuinn, although new, can and will be part of the new Democratic Congress that will take aggressive steps in Ethics reform, Immigration reform. and tax reform. I believe he can be instrumental in bringing / advocating for the alternative fuels industry in Kansas, creating thousands of jobs, and providing new revenue sources for kansas farmers — he deserves our support.
Tell our friends — tell your neighbors — think of the positive headlines it will bring to the nation when the unknown Democrat, Garth McGuinn, from Kansas defeats an entrenched conservative republican lackey without the benefit of much if any help from the DNC.
Stealing from IAN :
Viva McGuinn
Vote McGuinn IN !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kansas is liberal??? An example of the leftist extreme? Give me a huge break folks. I grew up in Central Texas where you often (and still hear) “I’m not a racist but …”. Anyway, long since then, I’ve lived elsewhere. I was a free-market Republican before I moved here to Kansas. Now, since moving here to Kansas, I’m now an (extreme) independent, since being pro-business now means you’re a moderate. Go figure.
KLANsas is liberal? Yeah right.
Maybe the Heartland will vote the real issues this time around:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061018/pl_nm/economy_dc_2
I am embarrassed — in my previous blog I misspelled GARTH McGINN’s name — it is
M c G I N N
I am obviously overenthusiastic supporter — you can learn more about GARTH McGINN at
http://www.gogarth.org
Missed this one when it first came out, but Kansas does have one of the most liberal aborton laws on the entire planet.It is true that Sebelius and Morrison are the true radicals, they want to protect Kansas abortion laws that are more liberal than New York or Main.