Inaugural Speech brought to you by Kristol and Krauthammer...

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Speechwriters connection to Fox:
See full article at:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200501240006

Kristol, Krauthammer lauded Bush inauguration speech without disclosing their role as consultants

Weekly Standard editor William Kristol lauded President George W. Bush's inauguration speech as "powerful," "impressive," and "historic," both in an article for the January 31 print edition of The Weekly Standard and as a FOX News political contributor during FOX's live coverage of Inauguration Day. Washington Post columnist and FOX News contributor Charles Krauthammer, also during FOX News' live Inauguration Day coverage, called Bush's speech "revolutionary" and compared it to former President John F. Kennedy's 1961 inaugural address. But Kristol and Krauthammer were consultants for Bush's speech -- a fact that neither disclosed.

The planning of Bush's second inaugural address began a few days after the Nov. 2 election with the president telling advisers he wanted a speech about "freedom" and "liberty." That led to the broadly ambitious speech that has ignited a vigorous debate. The process included consultation with a number of outside experts, Kristol among them.
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Also part of FOX News' January 20 inauguration coverage, Krauthammer praised Bush's speech. Like Kristol, Krauthammer neglected to disclose his involvement:

KRAUTHAMMER: It was a revolutionary speech in that sense and the closest echo is to, really, John Kennedy's speech, his inaugural address where he talked about -- in fact, there's a phrase in this inaugural which is an allusion to a famous phrase in Kennedy's. Kennedy spoke of bearing any burden to assure the survival and success of liberty, and President Bush said that in order to ensure the survival of liberty at home, we have to have the success of liberty abroad, which was an interesting allusion to that speech. The idea is the same. Kennedy spoke in the Cold War and said, only if we stand for the liberty that we have at home ... stand for that abroad, will we succeed against communism and secure our liberty at home. And the president is saying in this struggle against another existential enemy, which is radical Islam and terrorism, we have to spread the democracy as the only realistic way of the changing the culture out of which a 9-11 emerged. And that's a very strong theme -- of course it had a lot of opposition at home and abroad. But it is extremely revolutionary. To speak, essentially, about the abolition of tyranny, which has been a constant in human history for thousands of years, can only be spoken of as radical.

SEE TRANSCRIPT OF INAUGURAL SPEECH:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/20/bush.transcript/

[LiberalVoice]

1. Charles Krauthammer is a manipulative RW pieco of trash.

He wrote an "article" that tried to peg racist republicans as a myth. It was disgusting.

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2. Kristol and Kraut are human garbage

What did you expect from human garbage?

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4. right, not surprising

but just another clear example:-(

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5. thanks for posting.

I was thinking I saw another thread where Kristol was trying to claim he hasn't had any contact with the administration for months.

[Avalux]

3. PNAC becoming a reality

look out Iran, here we come - spreading Democracy one bomb at a time.