Say Goodbye to Moore, Franken, Networks

Say Goodbye to Moore, Franken, Networks

Mike Gallagher
Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2004

It's hard to keep from gloating.

As Republicans bask in the afterglow of an amazing election this week, it's difficult for us to keep from bragging and braying and cheering and jumping for joy.

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However, President Bush resumes his job for the next four years painfully aware of the divisive mood in America. No one is more aware of the challenges he faces than he is. And gloating isn't going to accomplish anything.

Having said that, it's time to prepare a "goodbye list." This is way overdue, but it seems to me that we need to wave farewell to a number of people and organizations who tried everything in their power to influence this election.

As you read this list, please have the little musical ditty "Na-Na Hey-Hey, Kiss Him Good-bye" by the group Steam in your head - in fact, you can hum along.

Na-na-na-na ... na-na-na-na ... hey-hey-hey ... goodbye ... to:

Michael Moore. An overrated, bloated filmmaker who filled his movie, "Fahrenheit 911" with enough lies and propaganda to sink a battleship. And it was a movie made with Hollywood's blessing with only one goal, to get President Bush defeated.

Moore has been touring American college campuses urging "slackers" to vote for Kerry-Edwards. The election of 2004 makes him irrelevant.

Al Franken and his motley cast of characters at Air America, the so-called "liberal talk radio network."

Never before has an entire radio network been created with the express purpose of defeating an American president.

Franken, the former Stuart Smalley of "Saturday Night Live," was once quoted as saying that if Bush wins, he'll quit his radio gig and move on. Time to do so, Al. And take your group of screaming, angry liberal radio hosts with you. The election of 2004 makes you irrelevant.

The miserable, slimy folks who vandalized cars, stole campaign signs, stormed various Republican campaign headquarters and confronted American voters who dared to express support for Bush-Cheney. You tried to intimidate and harass people who have different political views than you do, and you should be embarrassed and ashamed. The election of 2004 makes you irrelevant.

Pollster John Zogby. He has morphed from a supposedly objective polling expert to a guy who made the talk show rounds on the eve of the election, confidently telling Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" that John Kerry would win.

He did everything he could to throw this election by influencing people who hadn't even gone to the polls.

Zogby has zero credibility and shouldn't be allowed to conduct exit polls at the local hamburger stand. The election of 2004 makes him irrelevant.

The major television networks. Whether it's looking at the CBS news Web site, which continually listed John Kerry at the top of the presidential race column even when he was losing in every category, to NBC's David Gregory breathlessly reporting that "sources" told him that the White House was "discouraged" as the results kept pouring in, the networks proved their bias once again.

There's no mystery as to why places like Fox News Channel and talk radio are enjoying record ratings and revenues. The election of 2004 makes the political coverage and exit polling of the major networks irrelevant.

And, naturally, good-bye to John Kerry, who waged one of the nastiest, ugliest presidential campaigns in modern history, continually calling a good man like George W. Bush a liar and a man who disgraced his country by supposedly avoiding military service.

Kerry turned out to be a disgraceful Democratic candidate and the voters have rejected him.

Na-na-na-na...na-na-na-na...hey-hey-hey...good-bye.

Is that gloating?

Sorry. But boy, does it feel good.

Mike Gallagher's radio show is nationally syndicated by the Salem Radio Network and is now heard live in Dallas/Ft. Worth on NewsRadio 1080 KRLD.