May 18, 2006

Donuts with Diana Irey

This past Saturday graduates from Seton Hill University listened to a commencement address by Congressman John Murtha (D). Murtha is up for re-election this year, and his challenger, Diana Irey (R), is not one to let an opportunity pass her by.

Irey spoke at a breakfast held in downtown Greensburg. The breakfast was a social event in honor of the recent graduates, and to offer a different viewpoint than the one that Murtha would be presenting at commencement later that Saturday.

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I was asked to introduce Diana, as the representative of the CRs. In addition to providing a little bit of biographical background on the candidate, I was to provide my explanation of why we were having Diana give us her take on things. I said something to the effect of needing an alternative viewpoint to the biased, negative perspective for which Murtha is known.

Irey had many positive things to say. She wasn't there to merely oppose Murtha, but to promote the good that she represents. Yes, Irey brought to the table a number of things that Murtha has said or done, many of which should be considered detriment to his position; however, Irey never stooped to a simple "bashing" of her opponent. Bringing to light what is considered public record of a politician is no crime, and Irey used this to move her own ideas forward with passion.

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Above all, Irey brought with her the passion that I feel is necessary to take out this incumbent. Those that attended the breakfast welcomed Irey and her energy with enthusiasm of their own.

Posted by KarissaKilgore at May 18, 2006 2:27 AM

Comments

Bill Pascoe and Kelli Phiel are quite expensive. It takes a nation of dittoheads to cover their "consulting fees" which range in the thousands of dollars per day.

Let me know when the Pascoe/Phiel GOP Traveling Road Show (he's from New Jersey, she's from Illinios) that has swooped into the 12th decide it's OK for Diana Irey to say something about what she wants do for the constituents of the 12th district. I've written her for months asking, but Bill Pascoe keeps intercepting my email.

You're going to be waiting a long time for Irey to say something about her plans for the 12th. You see, all Pascoe & Phiel are interested in is propping her up and pushing her out the door with lies they write about John Murtha.

THAT's how you get a nation of dittoheads to pay for Pascoe & Phiel's white-collar lifestyle, and you know how important their white collar lifestyle are to folks in the 12th.

What the hay, there's big bucks in parting fools and their money.

God bless America. Thank God the people of the 12th District ain't as dumb as others. Irey's never had a chance and will loose for real reasons: the issues affecting the 12th.

Murtha's done more for the 12 District than any representative in US History. John Murtha was supporting most Reagan policies at the time when Irey's most controversial decisions involved skirt lengths.

God bless America and the good people of the 12th District. It's not like Pascoe & Phiel care one stitch about them. The last time those two worked together in 2004 they defended Jack Ryan's insistence his wife attended sex clubs with him. When voters rejected Pascoe/Phiel's justifications, Pascoe/Phiel wrangled Alan Keyes to move to Illinois to replace Ryan.

Don't even get me started on Larry Bailey and these other pissant little "truth" men. If any of them gave a damn about our troops at war they would have yelled at the top of their lungs at our Commander in Chief's incompetence in war. I guess you don't remember Al Qaqaa. That's where the hundreds of tons of high explosives being used to blow our guys into too many pieces to count every day comes from. Our troops had captured these explosives in the first days of the invasion of Iraq, but our guys had to abandon them.

When Larry Bailey swoops into the 12th district on October 1st, stick this pasty butt coward EX-Navy Seal with a few tough questions about his decision to remain silent on our president's stupidity in war that has armed our enemies with these explosives. I assume you give a hoot that the explosives stolen from Al Qaqaa were enough to blow up the entirety of the 12th District of Pennsylvania and kill everyone in it.

Tell me another Clinton story. I find them amusing by comparison.

Google these names.

Education. It's a good thing.

Cliff Hancuff
The World of Journalism Is Flat, Too

Posted by: chancuff at August 19, 2006 10:20 PM

It will be interesting to see if your group of Republicans have the honor and integrity to post my previous comment.

Time will tell.

You're either part of the problem that plagues today's Republican Party, or part of the cure.

Happy deciding.

Cliff Hancuff
The World of Journalism Is Flat, Too

Posted by: chancuff at August 19, 2006 10:22 PM

I think it's funny that you are passing judgement on the Seton Hill CR's depending on whether or not we'll approve of your comment bashing the candidate we've chosen to support.

Well we've posted your comment because that's how blogs work, and if we didn't want to hear any opposing thought we wouldn't have enabled comments. So I guess this means we've now secured our "honor and integrity"

Posted by: Mike at August 21, 2006 8:10 PM

Hi Mike,

This may help you understand my contempt for today's Republican Party. This is the origination of this Lincoln "quote":

http://www.arthuravenuebronx.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1472

that ran in INSIGHT magazine

http://www.insightmag.com/

which is part of News World Communications (see bottom of page in link above) own political mouthpiece of the Unification Church, the "Moonies".

http://www.mediaowners.com/company/newsworld.html

I wrote Diana Irey offering her documented proof of what Lincoln never said, CCing all her campaign staff on, first on July 14th, and again on August 4th.

I wrote her, and her staff repeatedly warning them of the consequences of their inaction. If you'd like verification, write her campaign manager of record (Bill Pascoe, former Press Secretary of the RNC is calling the shots behind the scenes) at jason@irey.com and ask him about my repeated warnings.

If you choose to write, use this as the Subject Line "It's showtime.". He'll know exactly what that means.

When all these efforts failed, I contacted factcheck.org with this very same evidence. Brooks Jackson was able to see what Ms. Irey, and her entire campaign staff refused to, more times than I can count.

He published this, last Friday:

http://factcheck.org/article415.html
(note the video clip in the top right corner)

I would like to tell you there's some honor to Bill Pascoe's "within hours" response here:

http://www.irey.com/news/contentview.asp?c=35681

In conclusion, it warrants mentioning how this "Moonie" Lincoln quote came into common use, without any questions to its authenticity.

Use Google to do a search for this quote. Go back 10-15 pages and you'll find the older dates of its use. You'll discover it was the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth who brought this fiction to life within weeks of Dr. Waller's article.

You will find Larry Bailey of bootmurtha.com has dusted this Moonie quote off and is using it for his "gimme' your money" scheme, all over the net, including this gem written the chairman of Bailey's PAC, in which it is used twice, for emphasis:

http://www.thereaganwing.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=PagEd&file=index&page_id=538

It's no accident that Diana Irey was boons-swaggled into using it.

Bill Pascoe and Kelli Phiel, the folks Robert Novak refers to as her "handlers" in this article:

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15820&o=ENPR003

"Irey, who looks quite young, is a bit green, but her handlers see her as great raw material."

I'll give a dollar to anyone who can decipher the grammar, syntax, period occurring in the middle of the sentence, and random capitalization that occurs in the last sentence of this article.

If you are unfamiliar with who Pascoe and Phiel are, let me introduce you.

Pascoe is the gent who hung tough with Jack Ryan, even after Dennis Hastert rightfully withdrew all GOP support for him in 2004, when Ryan was exposed for insisting his wife go to sex clubs with him and have sex in public.

"Jack Ryan is in the race to stay," said Bill Pascoe, Ryan's spokesman."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0406250361jun25,1,933334.story

Pascoe also the one who called Alan Keyes and convinced him to move from Maryland to Illinois, to replace Ryan. I'll let you Google that and for Kelli Phiel's history working with Pascoe in the 2004 election.

I wish I could tell you that I've not written Diana Irey repeatedly about her "handlers" past, but I cannot make that claim.

Least you wonder about my interest in all this ...

My family settled in what is now the 12th District of Pennsylvania in 1820, and have lived there ever since.

My great, great grandfather, after whom I am named in honor of, served in Lincoln’s Union Army. He made the supreme sacrifice for our country on March 23, 1862, serving Stonewall Jackson he only defeat in the Civil war.
Lincoln was, to borrow a title, “A Uniter”

When some goofball Republican operative abuses the reputation of our greatest Republican president, in a Moonie publication no less, for the expressed purpose of political gain for today’s Republican Party … it troubles me.

I suspect it will trouble you, too.

Cliff Hancuff

The World of Journalism Is Flat, Too


Posted by: chancuff at August 28, 2006 10:56 PM

Not that I would group a Seton Hall blog with other "conservative" blogs, but I did a screen capture of the preview of my previous post, before I sent it for your approval.

It's been an interesting side note to the journalism project I began on June 25th of this year in response to the Sun-Sentinel "shot heard around the world" first paragraph:

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/135159

You wrote about this yourself on one of your other threads.

Cliff Hancuff
The World of Journalism Is Flat, Too

Posted by: chancuff at August 28, 2006 11:02 PM