Daschle Backs Down, No Evidence of Threats

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November 21, 2002

We're going to have to start calling this The Daschle Effect. The Senator from South Dakota has once again tried out a bitter political strategy, seen it fall flat on its face, and quickly backed off. Even the liberal media sees that this attack has failed, which is why they haven't picked it up.

CNN gave Daschle a chance to retract or restate his smear. He remarked that he'd said what he had to say, and that he's "not accusing Rush Limbaugh specifically." Oh, now he didn't mean that I was inciting acts of violence! He just said my name about half a dozen times because he didn't mean me specifically. I see.

Someone asked him to give examples of these threats, and surprise, surprise! Daschle has no examples of threats! Yet he still had the nerve to demand that I "exercise responsibility and understand my words have consequences." What a thing to say! You know, CNN came by my studio with a camera crew on Thursday afternoon, and I gave them my response to all this: I know my words have consequences, Senator Daschle. After all, we won and you lost on Election Day in large part because my words do have consequences!

-- Anonymous, November 21, 2002


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