MOTHER OF GOD!
Did you catch Zell’s speech at the RNC?
All I can say is, “Mother of God!”
Actually I can say a lot more. Zell sure didn’t let me down, not for a second! Karl Rove and Company obviously wound his spring so tight backstage at Madison Square Garden that once ole “give’um hell-Zell” lock-stepped up to the GOP podium there was absolutely no stopping him once the two-stroke cyclotron inside his angry little gray head started to whip into action. Zell swung his rusty slingblade far and wide, in the hopes of actually decapitating his former “friend” John Kerry and the rest of his former friends, the Democrats, who are, according to Zell, “out of touch” with the right-wing-neocon-evangelical-war-freaks that make up his current “A” party list.
So, a group of us gathered the other night at a friends house to watch our current senator’s turncoat speech at the Republican National Convention and we invited the media to join us. WTOC Channel 11 sent out a camera crew and reporter and we made the 11 o’clock news directly after Zell and Cheney’s speech, countering his swill and reminding local voters how Zell, so lonely up there in Washington where he is a JUNIOR senator – whereas in Georgia he was the big fish in the pond – found it easier to turn on a party that had been so good to him than to work with it. The question these Republican’s should be asking old Zell is, “If you HATE the Democrats so much, why haven’t you joined us officially?”
You don’t suit up for one team and then carry the water for the other team and expect to be allowed back in the locker room. Here is a speech Zell gave in 2001 here in Georgia introducing John Kerry. Google his speech for the 1992 Democratic Convention, where he introduced Bill Clinton for another example of a mind that has gone way off the rails – in order to sell books. Zell will be a perennial favorite on the Jackboot speaker’s circuit where an hour of his head-spinning and ears belching hot steam will earn him an easy 5 to 10 grand or more a pop.
Introduction of John Kerry by Zell Miller, 2001 (text of speech)
Democratic Party of Georgia's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner
Thursday 01 March 2001
It is good to be back in Georgia and to be with you. I have been coming to these dinners since the 1950s, and have missed very few.
I'm proud to be Georgia's junior senator and I'm honored to serve with Max Cleland, who is as loved and respected as anyone in that body. One of our very highest priorities must be to make sure this man is re-elected in 2002 so he can continue to serve this state and nation.
I continue to be impressed with all that Governor Barnes and Lieutenant Governor Taylor and the Speaker and the General Assembly are getting done over at the Gold Dome. Georgia is fortunate to have this kind of leadership.
My job tonight is an easy one: to present to you one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders - and a good friend.
He was once a lieutenant governor - but he didn't stay in that office 16 years, like someone else I know. It just took two years before the people of Massachusetts moved him into the United States Senate in 1984.
In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington.
Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so.
John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment. Business Week magazine named him one of the top pro-technology legislators and made him a member of its "Digital Dozen."
John was re-elected in 1990 and again in 1996 - when he defeated popular Republican Governor William Weld in the most closely watched Senate race in the country.
John is a graduate of Yale University and was a gunboat officer in the Navy. He received a Silver Star, Bronze Star and three awards of the Purple Heart for combat duty in Vietnam. He later co-founded the Vietnam Veterans of America.
He is married to Teresa Heinz and they have two daughters.
As many of you know, I have great affection - some might say an obsession - for my two Labrador retrievers, Gus and Woodrow. It turns out John is a fellow dog lover, too, and he better be. His German Shepherd, Kim, is about to have puppies. And I just want him to know ... Gus and Woodrow had nothing to do with that.
Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Senator John Kerry.
All I can say is, “Mother of God!”
Actually I can say a lot more. Zell sure didn’t let me down, not for a second! Karl Rove and Company obviously wound his spring so tight backstage at Madison Square Garden that once ole “give’um hell-Zell” lock-stepped up to the GOP podium there was absolutely no stopping him once the two-stroke cyclotron inside his angry little gray head started to whip into action. Zell swung his rusty slingblade far and wide, in the hopes of actually decapitating his former “friend” John Kerry and the rest of his former friends, the Democrats, who are, according to Zell, “out of touch” with the right-wing-neocon-evangelical-war-freaks that make up his current “A” party list.
So, a group of us gathered the other night at a friends house to watch our current senator’s turncoat speech at the Republican National Convention and we invited the media to join us. WTOC Channel 11 sent out a camera crew and reporter and we made the 11 o’clock news directly after Zell and Cheney’s speech, countering his swill and reminding local voters how Zell, so lonely up there in Washington where he is a JUNIOR senator – whereas in Georgia he was the big fish in the pond – found it easier to turn on a party that had been so good to him than to work with it. The question these Republican’s should be asking old Zell is, “If you HATE the Democrats so much, why haven’t you joined us officially?”
You don’t suit up for one team and then carry the water for the other team and expect to be allowed back in the locker room. Here is a speech Zell gave in 2001 here in Georgia introducing John Kerry. Google his speech for the 1992 Democratic Convention, where he introduced Bill Clinton for another example of a mind that has gone way off the rails – in order to sell books. Zell will be a perennial favorite on the Jackboot speaker’s circuit where an hour of his head-spinning and ears belching hot steam will earn him an easy 5 to 10 grand or more a pop.
Introduction of John Kerry by Zell Miller, 2001 (text of speech)
Democratic Party of Georgia's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner
Thursday 01 March 2001
It is good to be back in Georgia and to be with you. I have been coming to these dinners since the 1950s, and have missed very few.
I'm proud to be Georgia's junior senator and I'm honored to serve with Max Cleland, who is as loved and respected as anyone in that body. One of our very highest priorities must be to make sure this man is re-elected in 2002 so he can continue to serve this state and nation.
I continue to be impressed with all that Governor Barnes and Lieutenant Governor Taylor and the Speaker and the General Assembly are getting done over at the Gold Dome. Georgia is fortunate to have this kind of leadership.
My job tonight is an easy one: to present to you one of this nation's authentic heroes, one of this party's best-known and greatest leaders - and a good friend.
He was once a lieutenant governor - but he didn't stay in that office 16 years, like someone else I know. It just took two years before the people of Massachusetts moved him into the United States Senate in 1984.
In his 16 years in the Senate, John Kerry has fought against government waste and worked hard to bring some accountability to Washington.
Early in his Senate career in 1986, John signed on to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Deficit Reduction Bill, and he fought for balanced budgets before it was considered politically correct for Democrats to do so.
John has worked to strengthen our military, reform public education, boost the economy and protect the environment. Business Week magazine named him one of the top pro-technology legislators and made him a member of its "Digital Dozen."
John was re-elected in 1990 and again in 1996 - when he defeated popular Republican Governor William Weld in the most closely watched Senate race in the country.
John is a graduate of Yale University and was a gunboat officer in the Navy. He received a Silver Star, Bronze Star and three awards of the Purple Heart for combat duty in Vietnam. He later co-founded the Vietnam Veterans of America.
He is married to Teresa Heinz and they have two daughters.
As many of you know, I have great affection - some might say an obsession - for my two Labrador retrievers, Gus and Woodrow. It turns out John is a fellow dog lover, too, and he better be. His German Shepherd, Kim, is about to have puppies. And I just want him to know ... Gus and Woodrow had nothing to do with that.
Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Senator John Kerry.
posted by Unknown at 9/03/2004 04:29:00 PM
1 Comments:
What about Zell's explosion with Chris Matthews on Hardball? Zell wants to duel Chris? I think Miller is one scary dude. His wrathful expression, those sunken, glowering eyes... very menacing. I do not mean to offend any of our Southern breathern or anyone else for that matter, but were I making a made-for-TV anti-racism film, I'd cast him as a supposedly benevolent town leader whom we unexpectedly discovered was a murderous grand wizard in the KKK when the heroine jerked of his hood in the climactic scene.
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