The Tentacle Who is Max Cleland? Kevin E. Dayhoff December 21, 2005
The Maryland Democratic Party’s election campaign website, otherwise known as Baltimore’s Sun (BS), ran a “news story” December 10 on Bo Harmon, Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich’s selection to be his campaign manager.
In an attack ad that was offered as news, the BS cherry-picked convenient quotes to bestow partisan opinions upon unwitting readers – and to trash Governor Ehrlich. It is an old and tired trick in what the BS would like to pass as journalism.
The BS quickly promulgated the moon bat logic that Mr. Harmon is a craven campaign manager who ran “one of the most despicable campaigns in the history of Georgia, if not the nation," according to Georgia Democratic Party Chairman Bobby Kahn – “in the successful attempt to unseat Democrat Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia in 2002.”
Sounds like sour grapes more suitable for the National Enquirer or a partisan political newsletter, but hardly a news story.
Indeed, the article makes for an interesting study in the practice of political rhetoric. It has all the ingredients of a coherent political campaign. But, wait – isn’t the BS a newspaper that represents itself as adhering to the high journalistic standards of an impartial purveyor of the news?
[…]
Meanwhile, another coordinated attack by Michael Olesker was then conveniently published at the end of the first news cycle to reiterate the BS campaign platform planks promoted December 10.
The column reiterated what Rich Lowry referred to in a February 20, 2004, National Review article; as the “trumped-up mythology based on the idea that Republicans ‘questioned Cleland's patriotism’ in 2002.”
It all has to do with rehashing the 2002 senatorial election in conservative Georgia in which incumbent political moderate Senator Cleland, a disabled Vietnam veteran, lost to conservative U. S. Rep. Saxby Chambliss. Desperate Democrats claim Senator Cleland lost because Senator Chambliss’ campaign manager, Mr. Harmon, questioned Senator Cleland’s patriotism by lumping him together in an attack ad with the likes of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
Mr. Olesker continued: “We already knew Ehrlich gave us the Prince of Darkness, Joe Steffen, and we already knew Ehrlich's attacks on hate radio, and we already knew the history of dirty tricks secretly orchestrated against Ehrlich opponents in a series of political campaigns. But we didn't suspect the smiling governor of Maryland would bring in the likes of Harmon, who gave new meaning to the term ‘gutter politics’ when he went after Cleland…”
Ya da ya da ya da.
Then there is the matter of a few curious sentences – that looked familiar. Mr. Olesker wrote that Senator Cleland: “On one of his first trips out, an old girlfriend pushed his wheelchair around Washington. Near the White House, the wheelchair hit a curb. Cleland pitched forward and fell out, flopping around in dirt and cigarette butts in a gutter.”
Compare this to the following written by Peter Carlson in The Washington Post, on Thursday, July 3, 2003, on page C01: “On one of his first trips out, an old girlfriend pushed his wheelchair around Washington. Near the White House, the wheelchair hit a curb. Cleland pitched forward and fell out, flopping around in dirt and cigarette butts in a gutter.”
Hmmm. Okay. Who among us has not missed a proper citation?
Then Mr. Olesker wrote, after he forgot to properly cite words that were not his own: “It took Harmon to put him back in the gutter, three years ago.”
Oh! Pleeeze!
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20051214 McDaniel students tackle bioterrorism scenario by Heidi Schroeder for The Westminster Eagle
20051214 McDaniel students tackle bioterrorism scenario by Heidi Schroeder for The Westminster Eagle
McDaniel students tackle bioterrorism scenario
12/14/05, By Heidi Schroeder
Members of the Carroll County emergency response team gathered at McDaniel College last week to discuss the release of an aerosol of plague at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore.
But not to worry - there were no patients flooding area hospitals, nor emergency notices being released to the public.
Instead, experts gathered at McDaniel for a bioterrorism exercise in a class, "National Security in a Changing World," hosted by Dr. Volker Franke.
The exercise is a cumulative project for the 14 upperclassmen enrolled in Franke's class this semester. In the scenario, each student is assigned the role of a member of the county's emergency response team.
Members of the Carroll County emergency response team, including emergency management coordinator Bill Martin, health officer Larry Leitch, HAZMAT team chair Jeff Kreimer, hospital infection control coordinator Brenda Kitchen, and Westminster police chief Jeff Spaulding and public works assistant director Jeff Glass, also took part in the project, as students took those roles in the class.
Each student was assigned a role on the response team, and interviewed their corresponding official in preparation for the Dec. 7 exercise.
For the drill, students were broken into two teams of seven and asked to prepare for a briefing to the mayor of Westminster. Former mayor Kevin Dayhoff reprised his role for the exercise - becoming mayor again for the night.
After an initial briefing, each team was given two updates on the scenario and five minutes to strategize solutions to each.
Over the course of two presentations, each team created a response to the possible spread of the plague.
In the mock scenario, nearly 3,000 guests of the Meyerhoff are "exposed" to the aerosol during a sold-out performance.
Students proposed everything from road blocks and quarantines to hiding emergency responders in an underground bunker to avoid media scrutiny.
At the end of the evening, the officials in attendance credited the student for their research and solutions.
"I truly believe that scenarios are more difficult to deal with than the real thing," Spaulding said, explaining that there are hard facts in a real incident - which are not always evident in an exercise.
Senior Alicia Feuillet played the role of Carroll County Hospital Center's infection control coordinator. She complimented the members of the county's emergency response team on hand - including Martin, Leitch, Spaulding, Kreimer and Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association liaison Leon Fleming - on the challenges of their jobs.
"We definitely learned to respect what you guys do," Feuillet said after her team's presentation.
Class after Sept. 11
After teaching national security classes at George Washington University and having prepared national security case exercises for Syracuse University for years, Franke first offered his national security course at McDaniel in the fall semester of 2001.
But before the semester was a month under way, four planes were hijacked in real life, and Franke's class changed - along with the rest of the world.
"Sept. 11 made me change the class and focus on terrorism," he said.
With this new focus, Franke contacted Westminster's then-mayor Dayhoff about participating in and helping to prepare an emergency response exercise at a local level.
"I wanted to show (the students) that terrorism is not just important when you live in New York City or Washington, D.C.," Franke said.
Franke credited Dayhoff with sharing information about who would be involved in an emergency response and for his continued participation in the class each year.
"Now, we actually have a following," Franke said.
One of those participants is Spaulding, who said afterward that he was impressed with students' responses, given that they had only their research to rely on.
"I think that they did their homework and they were very analytical in their approach," Spaulding said. "It's always good to hear other people's ideas.
This was the first year for Martin to fully participate in the exercise - in the past he had only participated in interviews, not in the actual briefings - but said he is already looking forward to next year.
"Exercise is becoming the norm," Martin said of the county's own attempts at emergency preparedness.
He said the students performed well both in research and under pressure.
"You're taking a bunch of young adults who have more than likely not been exposed to problems of that nature, particularly to that depth," Martin said. "I thought they did very well."
E-mail Heidi Schroeder at Heidi Schroeder@patuxent.com
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McDaniel students tackle bioterrorism scenario
12/14/05, By Heidi Schroeder
Members of the Carroll County emergency response team gathered at McDaniel College last week to discuss the release of an aerosol of plague at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore.
But not to worry - there were no patients flooding area hospitals, nor emergency notices being released to the public.
Instead, experts gathered at McDaniel for a bioterrorism exercise in a class, "National Security in a Changing World," hosted by Dr. Volker Franke.
The exercise is a cumulative project for the 14 upperclassmen enrolled in Franke's class this semester. In the scenario, each student is assigned the role of a member of the county's emergency response team.
Members of the Carroll County emergency response team, including emergency management coordinator Bill Martin, health officer Larry Leitch, HAZMAT team chair Jeff Kreimer, hospital infection control coordinator Brenda Kitchen, and Westminster police chief Jeff Spaulding and public works assistant director Jeff Glass, also took part in the project, as students took those roles in the class.
Each student was assigned a role on the response team, and interviewed their corresponding official in preparation for the Dec. 7 exercise.
For the drill, students were broken into two teams of seven and asked to prepare for a briefing to the mayor of Westminster. Former mayor Kevin Dayhoff reprised his role for the exercise - becoming mayor again for the night.
After an initial briefing, each team was given two updates on the scenario and five minutes to strategize solutions to each.
Over the course of two presentations, each team created a response to the possible spread of the plague.
In the mock scenario, nearly 3,000 guests of the Meyerhoff are "exposed" to the aerosol during a sold-out performance.
Students proposed everything from road blocks and quarantines to hiding emergency responders in an underground bunker to avoid media scrutiny.
At the end of the evening, the officials in attendance credited the student for their research and solutions.
"I truly believe that scenarios are more difficult to deal with than the real thing," Spaulding said, explaining that there are hard facts in a real incident - which are not always evident in an exercise.
Senior Alicia Feuillet played the role of Carroll County Hospital Center's infection control coordinator. She complimented the members of the county's emergency response team on hand - including Martin, Leitch, Spaulding, Kreimer and Carroll County Volunteer Emergency Services Association liaison Leon Fleming - on the challenges of their jobs.
"We definitely learned to respect what you guys do," Feuillet said after her team's presentation.
Class after Sept. 11
After teaching national security classes at George Washington University and having prepared national security case exercises for Syracuse University for years, Franke first offered his national security course at McDaniel in the fall semester of 2001.
But before the semester was a month under way, four planes were hijacked in real life, and Franke's class changed - along with the rest of the world.
"Sept. 11 made me change the class and focus on terrorism," he said.
With this new focus, Franke contacted Westminster's then-mayor Dayhoff about participating in and helping to prepare an emergency response exercise at a local level.
"I wanted to show (the students) that terrorism is not just important when you live in New York City or Washington, D.C.," Franke said.
Franke credited Dayhoff with sharing information about who would be involved in an emergency response and for his continued participation in the class each year.
"Now, we actually have a following," Franke said.
One of those participants is Spaulding, who said afterward that he was impressed with students' responses, given that they had only their research to rely on.
"I think that they did their homework and they were very analytical in their approach," Spaulding said. "It's always good to hear other people's ideas.
This was the first year for Martin to fully participate in the exercise - in the past he had only participated in interviews, not in the actual briefings - but said he is already looking forward to next year.
"Exercise is becoming the norm," Martin said of the county's own attempts at emergency preparedness.
He said the students performed well both in research and under pressure.
"You're taking a bunch of young adults who have more than likely not been exposed to problems of that nature, particularly to that depth," Martin said. "I thought they did very well."
E-mail Heidi Schroeder at Heidi Schroeder@patuxent.com
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Class projects puts McDaniel students on the front lines of a biological attack
http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/51418.html
20031208 McDaniel College web site: Local leaders, political science students talk bioterrorism
http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/51508.html
20051211 McDaniel students are tested on their studies by responding to a mock biological attack by Gina Davis for the Baltimore Sun
http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/51845.html
mcdaniel college franke fall biot sim ex
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