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THE NEWS HACK'S CREED: I know more than you. I make lots more money than you. I'm smarter than you. I'm sexier than you. I appear on TV all the time. I work ten minutes a day. I rule the universe. I'm going to live forever. You are an idiot. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2: A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3: I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity. --JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4: News isn't news when we don't report it. PERMALINKS: THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE! Blogroll Me! |
Saturday, July 31, 2004
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9:53 PM
by Gene
The League of Nations is BACK?!?!?
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9:39 PM
by Gene
Unfortunately for PINCH! and the artistes, Godzilla did strike. He wore a beard. And I don't think he can be fought with posters. P. S. Here is LE ART. No BUSH=HITLER -- yet. (Maybe PINCH! could have His scribblers praise THAT.) P. P. S. ![]() Thought I should bring this up now that PAPEROFRECORD.com is inflicting FULL-SCREEN POP-UPS on its surfers.
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9:33 PM
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9:31 PM
by Gene
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4:45 PM
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4:36 PM
by Gene
In 2004 the traditional chorus of complaints has swelled with a fresh set of high, piping voices. These were the bloggers, nearly a hundred of them, or so I heard, who were granted press credentials and workstations and who arrived in Boston and set to work with the earnest, insouciant enthusiasm of the hobbyist, which is their chief charm. From what I've gathered over the last few years, clicking randomly from one blog to another, it is the job of a blogger to record his every neural discharge, faithfully and minutely, leaving no thought unpublished, no matter how uninteresting. Bloggers think and think and think and scribble and scribble and scribble, and yet at the Democratic National Convention, perhaps for the first time in their lives, they found themselves in a situation where, by general acclamation, there was nothing to think about! They were not deterred for long, needless to say. They started to think about why there was nothing to think about, and that was all they needed. They were off. Graphomania reclaimed its throne.
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4:31 PM
by Gene
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4:26 PM
by Gene
Repeat after us, America: it's better than nothing, it's better than nothing, it's better than nothing.... The everlovin' BOUNCES are within what these cranks love to call THE MARGIN OF ERROR -- in short, we have yet another survey meant to FOOL PEOPLE.
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2:16 PM
by Gene
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1:53 PM
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1:43 PM
by Gene
If Sen. John F. Kerry gained ground among the uncommitted after four days of spectacle and urgent speeches at the Democratic convention in Boston, he had yet to seal the deal, a sample of undecided voters indicated Friday during interviews across the country. The forceful tone of Kerry's acceptance speech — on points such as involving foreign allies in Iraq and protecting American jobs from outsourcing — made a strong impression on eight randomly selected registered voters. Hey MERT! If you really want to decide the election you should quote ONE BLOGGER EXCLUSIVELY! I've an idea who you should start with.
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1:36 PM
by Gene
OR (NEXT-TO-LAST GRAF): Clay Richards, assistant director of the Polling Institute at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, says Kerry is getting about 11 or 12 percent of the Republican vote in Pennsylvania and New Jersey while Bush is drawing 9 or 10 percent of his support from Democrats, not a statistically significant crossover [!!!!!!!!!!!]. AND CURLEY'S STOOGES REPORTED ON DIP'S ACCEPTANCE SPEECH WITH ESP.
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8:31 AM
by Gene
STOP FLACKING FOR O-S-A-M-A!!!!!
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8:00 AM
by Gene
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7:55 AM
by Gene
PINCH! What are we going to DO about it? (I know: slant as usual.)
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7:51 AM
by Gene
With that TATTOO he may not want to. Friday, July 30, 2004
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5:19 PM
by Gene
Farmin' the land is the life for me It calls me and I cain't say no But I'd gladly forsake any shovel or rake I'm in love with a wonderful hoe! Oh, What [sic] beautiful corn! etc., etc., ETC. It's very keeyute -- the kind of stuff Comden and Green could wiz off in a flash at a party with Lenny Bernstein. (The resemblance to "I Said Good Morning" is palpable, though not especially palatable.) But the Golden Age songwriters didn't get by on being keeyute. While The Second Coming of Comden and Green have evidently spent much of their career writing catch-as-catch-can chuckle lyrics to (no doubt) pastiche melodies, those long-deceased deathless masters had already written trunks full of songs, memorable songs, enduring songs. There is a difference between having connections and being inspired. Leaving aside that (as the article notes) the very industry structure that nurtured the Golden Age artists was dismantled long ago, neither Comden II and Green II nor any other would-be Broadway songwriter of our time will ever get anywhere because none of them has the slightest INSPIRATION.
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5:17 PM
by Gene
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5:13 PM
by Gene
Rove's Blunder How Bush wrote Kerry's acceptance speech. The Composite Candidate Eight losers helped John Kerry write his acceptance speech. We may assume, therefore, that EVERYBODY wrote the DIP's speech EXCEPT DIP.
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11:36 AM
by Gene
Rockwell (on the phone with his agent): "We need an idea for a new show." Bogart (rummaging through old videos): "How about a musical of 'Citizen Kane'?" Rockwell: "I can hear the closing number — 'Everything's coming up Rosebuds.' " Bogart: "Maybe you need a better punch line." Rockwell: "Maybe you need a better idea!" As one who dreamed of writing his own Broadway show can say, NUF SAID.
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11:16 AM
by Gene
The results may prove more complex and even disappointing to these Europeans, analysts warn. Despite deep divisions over Iraq, counterterrorism cooperation is already at an all-time high, even with countries like France and Germany. The Kerry camp vows to "isolate extremists rather than isolating ourselves." But that may prove difficult with the Iraq and Palestinian questions still looming large over US relations with the wider world. Al Qaeda and its jihadists, meanwhile, are unlikely to give a new US president - dove or hawk - a honeymoon period, experts say. Not even wiz ze ACCENT?
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10:52 AM
by Gene
There is an obvious linkage between mass commercial art and politics, quite apart from individual actors and directors and pop musicians espousing a political view. -- would have been carved into PAPER OF RECORD stone as the Word of G - PINCH, no further debate required. Still when he goes on to write, But given the leftward tilt of Hollywood and our coastal cultural elites, the right has reason to complain that commercial television, films and music often advance a left-leaning political agenda. we must recognize it as progress, however small, a grudging recognition that some people are, yes, right of THE PAPER OF RECORD.
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10:00 AM
by Gene
TOM!!!!! Can't you go back to writing how FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is a threat to the republic with its steady stream of BRILLIANT NEW SERIES?
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9:37 AM
by Gene
Da-da-DUT! Da-da-daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa da DUT DUT!
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9:11 AM
by Gene
Last year, an all-time low 10.3 million viewers tuned in, marking a steady decline over the last few years. It's all the same; I haven't watched since they fired Bert Parks.
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8:56 AM
by Gene
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8:37 AM
by Gene
Whig candidates William Henry Harrison and John Tyler of Virginia were elected after a campaign in which Harrison was associated with humble life in a log cabin. Actually, Harrison, born at "Berkeley" plantation, and Tyler were originally Virginia patricians.
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8:06 AM
by Gene
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6:56 AM
by Gene
So how to explain another irrelevance of the speech: the red tie that looked pink?
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6:19 AM
by Gene
Other than that, of course, it was A BRILLIANT SPEECH. Thursday, July 29, 2004
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10:56 PM
by Gene
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8:36 PM
by Gene
![]() NYUK! NYUK! NYUK!
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7:46 PM
by Gene
YOU CERTAINLY DO SOUND IT. Under German law, anyone born before 1975 to a German father who was married at the time, is entitled to citizenship. And Germany's extradition treaties do not allow its citizens to be deported to face charges in other countries, German officials in Tokyo said. I SMELL AN INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT!
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5:37 PM
by Gene
They must have thought it was ART. Given its rep for PC I'm surprised the Whit had the two arrested.
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5:31 PM
by Gene
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5:20 PM
by Gene
EXCITEMENT! P. S. Typical wink-wink from RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: Kerry Stepson Axed
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5:16 PM
by Gene
They'll be cheering tonight. SHUT UP.
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4:53 PM
by Gene
"Strength is more than tough words," he was to say in a speech for the Democratic National Convention. "We need to be looked up to and not just feared," the Massachusetts senator was to say in excerpts of his address obtained in advance by The Associated Press. "The future doesn't belong to fear; it belongs to freedom." Hmmm, fear, future, freedom -- FRANCE!
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1:13 PM
by Gene
Hey DOPE, you have the same set of priorities as EAR-BITER.
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11:52 AM
by Gene
Bill! Bill KELLER!!!!! He has spent weeks drafting and rewriting his speech in a longhand few aides can decipher, and has turned for help to two of John F. Kennedy's best-known speechwriters - Theodore C. Sorensen and Richard N. Goodwin - while relying more heavily on his top consultant, Robert Shrum, the author of Senator Edward M. Kennedy's most celebrated oratory. Does that include, "IRAQ IS GEORGE BUSH'S VIETNAM, AND THIS COUNTRY NEEDS A NEW PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"? There have been plenty of unmemorable acceptance speeches, and some colossal duds - like George McGovern's 1972 "Come home, America" address, which came at 2 a.m., when most voters were asleep, and Walter F. Mondale's 1984 speech, in which he warned that both he and Ronald Reagan would raise taxes, saying: "He won't tell you. I just did." "Unfortunately," observed Adam Walinsky, who was Robert Kennedy's speechwriter and coached Mr. Kerry on his 1971 testimony, "the ones that stick in the mind are the disasters." Not to worry -- this should be A BRILLIANT SPEECH.
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11:37 AM
by Gene
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10:51 AM
by Gene
The platform handles divisive issues by simply ignoring them. It does not even mention partial-birth abortion, gay marriage, capital punishment, Alaska oil drilling or the Kyoto global warming treaty. It is hard to believe that such staples of liberal ideology could be kept out of a Democratic platform, but they were. TRUTH, JUSTICE, AND THE AMERICAN WAY! (Caveat: this IS Bob.)
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8:23 AM
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8:16 AM
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Well, we all start as infants. I wish I had the money he spent on his bathtub.
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6:52 AM
by Gene
NONETHELESS, George "MY BUSINESS IS MY BUSINESS" Will, YOU will hog ESPNCorp Network's air and eructate that HE DELIVERED A BRILLIANT SPEECH TOO.
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6:47 AM
by Gene
WILL YOU IDIOTS SHUT UP?!?!? You wouldn't know a brilliant speech if it hit you on the head with a metaphor.
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6:44 AM
by Gene
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6:28 AM
by Gene
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6:22 AM
by Gene
(And after an embarrassing shoving match between the two "partners" he WILL run it.) OR: However, [FTC commissioner Mozelle] Thompson said the commission's investigation did not unearth enough evidence to block the venture and pointed out that "the growing clout among retailers may be enough to undermine" a collective power play by the major labels on the marketplace. WISHFUL THINKING.
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6:19 AM
by Gene
DIP's boys have been at it for MONTHS. Don't worry DIP, YOU'LL BE BRILLIANT TOO.
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6:16 AM
by Gene
This is why he's in a dogfight. Wednesday, July 28, 2004
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7:30 PM
by Gene
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7:26 PM
by Gene
So much for Rendelling.
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5:17 PM
by Gene
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5:11 PM
by Gene
Mickey is reduced to quoting cab drivers. Jonah is writing about his hotel....[T]he notion that being there has any real journalistic merit is preposterous. Next time, the bloggers should save the money and switch to C-Span. Another example.
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5:02 PM
by Gene
An Islamic force or a TROJAN HORSE?
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4:49 PM
by Gene
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2:01 PM
by Gene
AS IF! The international furor over Darfur, where some 30,000 people have been killed in the last 18 months, has produced a backlash in the Arab world, where many suspect that the United States, Britain and their allies in Iraq have ulterior motives. Hey Nima! You ought to get together with Tim Curry!
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12:36 PM
by Gene
![]() And whatever NEWS HACKS may say, the stick-out-like-a-sore-thumb presence of DIP's ads in so many "mainstream" news Web sites (and especially in contentious stories like this) makes one question their impartiality -- as if their impartiality needed questioning.
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11:48 AM
by Gene
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11:33 AM
by Gene
We all have such dreams; alas, most of us aren't four years old. (At least physically.)
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10:48 AM
by Gene
BUKBUKBUKBUKBUKBUKBUKBUKBUKBUKBADOKBADOKKKKK!!!!!
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10:27 AM
by Gene
And NEWS HACKS love replaying QUAGMIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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10:09 AM
by Gene
Problem is Paul, script or no script, we get comedy.
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8:16 AM
by Gene
And a big fat smooch to THE PROFESSOR for finding this; he was probably looking for his name.
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8:13 AM
by Gene
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6:52 AM
by Gene
![]() Bloggers like PROF and STERNO and ANDY and BLEAT and the whole gang that thinks it'll LIVE FOREVER THROUGH TECHNOLOGY should consider the sad fate of so many CDs deteriorating in record collections everywhere. To be sure, it probably only affects a small fraction of all CDs ever sold, but by placing our cultural fate in something as impermanent as zeroes and ones we risk our culture vanishing without a trace. The Gutenberg Bible lives; Shakespeare's First Folio lives. They're on paper, a medium that can last for centuries and cannot be upgraded into oblivion. PROF and his stellar COMPANY can only live through upgrades, and eventually that white knight won't come to the rescue.
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6:49 AM
by Gene
Time Warner Posts Lower Quarterly Profit
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6:33 AM
by Gene
BAAAAAAAAAAAD NEWS: The buzz around Obama, who is favored to become the first black male Democratic senator, resembles that around another Illinois Senate candidate, Carol Mosely-[SIC]Braun.... PFFH-HH-HH!!!!!
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6:28 AM
by Gene
I'm shocked! SHOCKED that this should happen in so simon-pure a realm as professional college sport! Hey Dickie V! These athletes may be DUMB but they're not THAT dumb!
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6:25 AM
by Gene
Given the raging incompetence of so many K-12 teachers we may presume this is just another excuse to spread the wealth.
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6:20 AM
by Gene
Big difference between confirming or denying what everyone KNOWS you did. Tuesday, July 27, 2004
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6:25 PM
by Gene
Pffh-hh-hh!
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5:28 PM
by Gene
Three dozen Athens restaurants fined for price-gouging OR: Charge it to my expense account!
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5:19 PM
by Gene
OH WELL: I was all enthused by the smart tactics of the Democrats on opening night, and then I find out almost no one watched it. No one even watched the ten o'clock hour, let alone what went before. A pity. This is too important an election to switch off. "Almost no one watched it." I'll admit I've been guilty of that hyperbole myself; but judging as well as I can from Nielsen's statistical jibber jabber the three-network audience totaled 20 million, with addition millions doing the hip thing and watching on cable. Granted it's not 1952, and most of the people perhaps had their sets on for background noise, but this isn't chopped chicken liver (though Andy S.'s musings often are).
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5:17 PM
by Gene
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5:13 PM
by Gene
No thanks, I really don't want to see the WTC collapse ten million more times.
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5:08 PM
by Gene
Today's the day for my NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY! Closure is a figment of the news hack's imagination. For victims of violent crime, it's just another word. (But then for the NEWS HACK every entry in the Merriam-Webster's is just another word.)
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4:58 PM
by Gene
Mass transit might work better if it were privatized -- except that in the early 20th century it was, and then it was a sinkhole of corruption. Six of one....
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4:51 PM
by Gene
Louisiana...Texas...North Carolina...South Dakota. Yeah.
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4:49 PM
by Gene
(Sorry for the NewsMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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3:40 PM
by Gene
That's because, unlike at past conventions, outside booze -- or any bottled liquid for that matter -- is banned from the convention site, along with most food, hairspray, and even large umbrellas. "It was rejected," said John Files, assistant to the Times' Washington editor, who tried late last week to bring several cases of beer and a case of wine into the press room for the Times scribes. "The Secret Service is particularly concerned about liquids, fearing bio-hazards, regardless of whether they are open or closed." NO MORE INFOMERCIALS!
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1:58 PM
by Gene
Typical NEWS-HACK BRAINLESSNESS: Kennedy’s long record of liberal advocacy and his involvement in the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident that resulted in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, has [SIC] made him the villain of conservatives for four decades. Let's REWORD THAT: Kennedy’s involvement in the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident that resulted in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne has made him the villain of conservatives for four decades. OR, an innocent woman's death is POLITICS. Proof most newshackery undergoes VIRTUALLY NO EDITING. And these jackasses wonder why their reps are below the used car pusher's? P. S. DEFINITION ONE OF "LEGENDARY" IN THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY: Somebody who's been around a long time whom we like.
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1:39 PM
by Gene
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11:08 AM
by Gene
Not content for it to be fishwrapping, PINCH wants his paper to be THE SMELLIEST FISH.
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10:55 AM
by Gene
Hey Krug, that's why I don't read your column. P. S. You're not the only one.
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10:35 AM
by Gene
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6:32 AM
by Gene
Monday, July 26, 2004
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6:43 PM
by Gene
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6:27 PM
by Gene
Did they have sponsors and a GE Bancorp?
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5:55 PM
by Gene
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5:45 PM
by Gene
P. S. In counting ANDY's words I discovered you can paste his invisible sentences into Word and IT CAN STILL COUNT THE WORDS! NEATO, BUGGY BILL! (Even better are the red and green squiggles that appear all over the pages! This is ART!) P. P. S. I will not comment that in pasting ANDY's latest melodrama into Word only his headings and his admirer's comment are visible.
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5:27 PM
by Gene
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5:25 PM
by Gene
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5:10 PM
by Gene
Then again, given our increasingly high-tech life, maybe it isn't such a good thing.
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5:03 PM
by Gene
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4:58 PM
by Gene
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11:17 AM
by Gene
And the political parties waste zillions on infomercials! Hmmm.
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10:30 AM
by Gene
"GOOG" = $36.25 BILLION!!!!!!!!!!
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9:25 AM
by Gene
WHOOOOOOOOOOPS! Wrong URL. (Second time I've done that.)
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8:46 AM
by Gene
That's almost as bad as ours.
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8:24 AM
by Gene
It's gonna be a LONNNNNNNNNNG campaign.
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6:25 AM
by Gene
OR: "Sure, there's no real news at the convention,'' said John Fox Sullivan, the president and publisher of National Journal.... Yep, that's what they'll be covering.
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6:19 AM
by Gene
SANCTIONS AGAINST SUDAN -- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Isn't a benbot some sort of computer virus? Sunday, July 25, 2004
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5:33 PM
by Gene
Nuf said.
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5:28 PM
by Gene
Since late May, the cost of gasoline has fallen 15 cents, Lundberg said. There goes that strategy.
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5:17 PM
by Gene
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5:11 PM
by Gene
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2:06 PM
by Gene
P. S. I think Ross would be proud of the way Warner Music's marketed this album. Rhino sold this as a "limited edition" release for $19.98 -- and then Warner "LICENSED" it to Collectors' Choice Music, which sells it for $12.95. Is it any wonder people pirate CDs?
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9:39 AM
by Gene
There's no difference between the Jack the Wizened Prune's ratings system and the powerless, self-serving ombudsmen at most newspapers; both are intended...to appease, and to create a fiction of responsible behavior, not to serve the public. Anything ombudspoops say that might seem the slightest defensive should therefore be taken as mere spin. The Public 'Editor' has no power at THE PAPER OF RECORD. PINCH does, his real editors do, his reporters do. THE PAPER OF RECORD employs hundreds of them. The power still lies with THE INSTITUTION -- and with the HUNDREDS of OTHER INSTITUTIONS that repeat its word as GOSPEL. Moreover one of PINCH's top factotums says THE PAPER OF RECORD isn't liberal; whether she's lying or truly believes it doesn't matter; the whole press business shares her discomforting position. No, THE PAPER OF RECORD has changed precious none since L'Affaire Blair. We can hardly expect much more change even if the package reads "Guaranteed Liberal or Your Money Back."
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9:22 AM
by Gene
Will George "MY BUSINESS IS MY BUSINESS" Will bloviate on "the WISDOM of the Founders"?
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9:19 AM
by Gene
Just because you news hacks spend all your time with others screaming and cheering and stomping their feet for P. R. MIKE doesn't mean we're THAT angry.
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9:16 AM
by Gene
That's the problem with Lucas Spielberg: every time It makes a film It gets REVENGE.
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9:02 AM
by Gene
Or as DR. EVIL would say, any time we can make enemies we must be doing something right. Saturday, July 24, 2004
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8:39 PM
by Gene
Don't worry Mike, there's always the BA'ATH PARTY.
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6:06 PM
by Gene
It's enough to give menage à trois a bad name.
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1:07 PM
by Gene
Just like the home-shopping channels shut down for Christmas.
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1:03 PM
by Gene
How?
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12:51 PM
by Gene
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12:41 PM
by Gene
DNC Media Availability BOSTON, July 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Frank Szollosi, 32, a DNC Platform Committeeman & Toledo City Councilman arrived in Boston Friday for a week of baseball & politics surrounding the Democratic National Convention. Szollosi is available to provide on-site analysis on the battleground state of Ohio from Friday 7/23 through Friday 7/30 in Boston. As a member of the DNC Platform Committee, Szollosi successfully fought for platform language to address the theme of balancing rights and responsibilities as Americans, as well as language that expresses Democrats' commitment to eliminating hunger. He plans on lobbying Democratic leaders for additional Homeland Security money for cities -- to help prepare our local heroes: fire fighters, police and emergency responders. As a third generation Democratic politician, Szollosi brings Presidential campaign experience with him to Boston. In 2000 he served as the Gore/Lieberman -- Ohio Coordinated Campaign NW OH Field Director. In 1996 he served on the Clinton-Gore Media Team at Squier, Knapp, Ochs Communications on Capitol Hill. In 1992 he led George Washington University Students for Clinton to campaign during the fabled '92 NH primary. He also brings gov't experience from work in the Clinton White House, Ohio Statehouse, and as a Press Secretary for Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur. Leaving behind the world famous Toledo Mud Hens for a few days, Szollosi will be at Fenway Park for the Red Sox-Yankees series.
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12:34 PM
by Gene
The mother of all malpractice suits.
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12:24 PM
by Gene
Does anyone other than the news hacks who will plug THE GAMES to death believe they're about SPORT?
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11:57 AM
by Gene
(I hate that tune.)
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11:49 AM
by Gene
How on Earth gobbledygook-spouting SUPEREGGHEADS like Stephen Hawking can be taken seriously is one of the mysteries of the cosmos.
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11:43 AM
by Gene
This is why I don't trust FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News -- NOT because it's con-SER-va-tive. Errrrr, THIS TOO.
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11:26 AM
by Gene
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11:22 AM
by Gene
Really, they should use anti-shoplifting tags. (NOT KIDDING.)
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11:19 AM
by Gene
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11:15 AM
by Gene
I think it's been fined before.
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11:10 AM
by Gene
NO MORE INFOMERCIALS!!!!!
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7:23 AM
by Gene
And the lack thereof from MEDIA.
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7:00 AM
by Gene
A Republican poll. NewsMax!!!!!!!!!! should link to it. You must see the Boston.com slide show (I can't link to that) which so eloquently states why holding these quadrennial infomercials (conventions) makes no sense. Friday, July 23, 2004
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5:47 PM
by Gene
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5:44 PM
by Gene
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5:27 PM
by Gene
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5:24 PM
by Gene
That's a lot of entomologists! Take THAT, Kinsley.com!
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5:01 PM
by Gene
CONGRATULATIONS, ZONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN! Now can you just FADE AWAY? P. S. I learned by accident NOT EVERYONE'S FOND OF YOU, ZONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN.
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4:56 PM
by Gene
LET KINSLEY BE KINSLEY! WHOOOOOOOOOOO WILLLLLLLLLL BUYYYYYYYYYYYYY?????
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12:58 PM
by Gene
MOORE SPEECH AT DEM CONVENTION GETTING ALL THE ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He's not speaking AT the convention, he's speaking at a fringe event (although these being Dems, it isn't so fringe). Chalk another one up for CARL LIMBURGER and his DREAD TRUTH TELLERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! P.. S. In fairness, Son of Dean for President says he's speaking AT the convention also, but unless the ground under Cambridge mysteriously moves P. R. MIKE and his gang nearer the Fleet Center I don't think he'll actually speak there.
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12:08 PM
by Gene
Hmm, isn't that ENRON KEN's last name?
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11:48 AM
by Gene
“When it comes to town it doesn’t mesh well with the economic system you already have in place,” he said. He dismisses economic analyses generated by bid planners, saying the benefits inevitably are overstated and many costs are overlooked. Economic forecasts omit the impact of the many people who either leave town or avoid going out during large sporting events for fear of getting caught in traffic, he pointed out. Years of construction in Athens have been more than an inconvenience for shopkeepers, some of whom have reported losing 90 percent of their business. Yeah but if you're a CEO or a top exec at Olympics parent GE Bancorp or you own a press pass, you get a paid ten-week vacation! Isn't that what THE GAMES are about?
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11:36 AM
by Gene
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9:20 AM
by Gene
"It is a serious disappointment to us that the Philippine government felt that it had to take this action because, in effect, the kidnappers were rewarded for kidnapping. They were paid off." ...FLASHES BOTH SIDES... "The Philippine nation, the Philippine people, are allies of the United States, friends of United States. Friends can have disagreements and those disagreements have to be worked out eventually." ...OF HIS MOUTH.
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6:50 AM
by Gene
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6:42 AM
by Gene
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6:27 AM
by Gene
Hey Ben, don't you have a temple in your dwelling, like most theater ad-blurb copywriters? Best worship someone else after this masterwork.
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6:23 AM
by Gene
Thursday, July 22, 2004
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5:45 PM
by Gene
Mayor Richard Daley on Wednesday declined to answer questions about possible irregularities in a multimillion-dollar city garbage-cart contract detailed in a front-page Tribune report. TAILS: But Daley lashed out at the newspaper and another Tribune Co. subsidiary, the Chicago Cubs, for what he said was their failure to disclose a June 9 incident involving a falling piece of concrete at Wrigley Field.
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5:45 PM
by Gene
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5:41 PM
by Gene
Why not send some CHICKENS!!!!! Does WHORVIS COMMUNICATIONS run the SPANISH government TOO?
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5:26 PM
by Gene
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5:04 PM
by Gene
Relying on the cockpit recorder and flight data, the commission said terrorist-pilot Ziad Jarrah violently rocked the jet's wings and told another hijacker to block the door. With the sounds of fighting outside the cockpit, Jarrah asked, "Is that it? Shall we finish it off?" Another hijacker, who wasn't identified, replied, "No, not yet. When they all come, we finish it off." Jarrah then began pitching the nose of the plane up and down to throw passengers off balance. Seconds later, a passenger who wasn't identified yelled, "In the cockpit! If we don't, we die!" And 16 seconds afterward, another passenger yelled, "Roll it!" Investigators previously have said they believe passengers tried to use a food cart to break the cockpit door. Jarrah said, "Allah is the greatest! Allah is the greatest!", and he asked his fellow hijacker, "Is that it? I mean, shall we put it down?" The other hijacker answered, "Yes, put it in, and pull it down."Roughly 90 seconds later, the jet rolled onto its back and crashed into a Pennsylvania field at more than 580 mph, killing everyone aboard. The commission concluded that the hijackers remained at the controls of the plane, "but must have judged that the passengers were only seconds from overcoming them." The commission said the hijackers' destination was Washington. It praised the courage of the passengers and said their struggle "saved the lives of countless others, and may have saved either the Capitol or the White House from destruction." And one hopes where the hijackers are, there is no Allah.
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12:23 PM
by Gene
They're weirder.
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11:08 AM
by Gene
1. Try to paste something into an existing post and the cursor moves -- practically anywhere it wants to! 2. Post in E-Z-BLOGGER or HTML and you get more redundant links, hiccups and googaws than even the most EXPERIENCED blogger needs!
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11:04 AM
by Gene
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10:37 AM
by Gene
Jul 9, 2004 Will Lay Indictment Be a Drag on Bush Campaign? Lost Angeles Times Yep, I couldn't have put it better myself.
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10:11 AM
by Gene
"A lot of writers are to the left of the Democrats." You said it, Jonny. Edmund White, who's now head of Princeton University's creative writing program, was the only artist I contacted who expressed concern about the relative uniformity of political views in the American artistic community. "In France, there are many respected writers on the right," he noted when I tracked him down by e-mail. "In America or England, it would almost be impossible to be a writer on the right." OR: He loved Big Brother. P. S.: Arthur Goldberg (no relation to Whoopi), a retired New York money manager and prominent contemporary art collector, paraphrases Marshall McLuhan in explaining why artists may have some unique political insights to offer. "McLuhan said that the difference between artists and the rest of us is that we go through life looking in the rearview mirror and artists go through life looking through the windshield," Goldberg says. Most people usually clean their windshields.
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9:25 AM
by Gene
Him and who else?
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9:03 AM
by Gene
One more sign there's no substitute for an empire.
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7:01 AM
by Gene
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6:43 AM
by Gene
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6:30 AM
by Gene
Think you can lend me some of your 200 billion zillion quadrillion quintillion hits, SUPE?
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6:24 AM
by Gene
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6:19 AM
by Gene
Is this a practical joke? Wednesday, July 21, 2004
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5:45 PM
by Gene
Our two-inch-high corrupt chicken distant-cousin troublemaker.
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5:36 PM
by Gene
You gotta love those Wall Street sales -- analysts; here eBay's stock's gone down eighteen points in the last month and NOW they're worried it MAY have peaked. Send in the Alka-Seltzer. P. S. Make that twenty-two points.
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5:33 PM
by Gene
Just one thing: when DIPPITY-DO! wins the White House, doesn't Iraq become HIS problem?
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5:26 PM
by Gene
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4:58 PM
by Gene
If you want to jump up and down and stomp your feet and bare your pearly-white caps in anger and tell the world GEORGE W. BUSH IS A NAZI, fine with me. Remember this: every time you do so you flip the bird to those who may not agree with you. You think it won't hurt your careers? Whoopi would still be endorsing SlimFast if she'd just told a few mild jokes and ogled John Edwards's hair. And it may not just be yourselves you're hurting. The concert biz has seen better days; so everytime you call Michael Moore THE SAVIOR OF HUMANKIND you may well be providing fewer jobs for the roadies and ticket takers. Ah, but what are they? The scum of the earth! Well, what about the people who work for the companies responsible for your moribund recording careers? I don't mean the pimps in gold chains; they'll always have jobs. I mean the people in the replicating plants who stamp the CDs and insert the liner books and tray cards; the people in the distribution side who move your product in and out of the warehouses; the managers and clerks in the ever dwindling realm of the record stores; the conscientious newbies looking to produce great albums for the reissue labels. BMG and Sony Music say they'll fire 2,000 when they consummate their merger. Want to add to that head count? Keep talking! I really don't think you give two hoots about the lowlifes who support your mammoth egos; they're someone to scream at when they give you twenty bottles of Perrier backstage instead of the contractually-agreed-upon 32. But lowlifes have lives too -- not so gilded as yours, but they have families to support, and mortgages to pay off, and tuitions to finance, and you raging Marie Antoinettes don't help their cause one iota when you tell a vast chunk of your audience, STOP ATTENDING MY CONCERTS AND STOP BUYING MY RECORDS. They will do so -- and who knows, one day it may finally catch up to YOU.
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4:54 PM
by Gene
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11:11 AM
by Gene
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11:04 AM
by Gene
Officials raise estimate of death toll on lower WTC floors
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11:01 AM
by Gene
10:56 U.S. will consider quotas on sock imports from China
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10:54 AM
by Gene
He and the WHOOPSTER can't help.
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10:50 AM
by Gene
(Sorry for the NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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6:27 AM
by Gene
OR: [Knight] Commission chairman William Friday, president emeritus of the University of North Carolina, says the wall-to-wall TV proves "presidents haven't gotten ahold of the issue, which is driven by money and not academic concerns." "The question is, is this an academic enterprise or are you running an entertainment enterprise? In these manifestations, it looks like entertainment." Who said colleges were ever in the academic biz?
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6:27 AM
by Gene
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6:23 AM
by Gene
Be careful, OMERTA, a couple of your colleagues decided to retire over just such boasting. Tuesday, July 20, 2004
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6:16 PM
by Gene
1. She's over the hill too, Bob; and 2.
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5:44 PM
by Gene
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5:38 PM
by Gene
This means they put only ONE slice of meat in now?
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5:22 PM
by Gene
(Sorry for the NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) P. S. Favorite NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stupid Bias Moment: Berger, as is usual in such cases, claimed he was withdrawing voluntarily. How do you know? P. P. S. Hey GREAT AND NOBLE SUPERDUPERGIGAMEGABLOGGER! You helped dump Whata Berger and you aren't POSTING?!?!?!?!?
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5:21 PM
by Gene
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2:17 PM
by Gene
I'm SURE Israel=apartheid South Africa=NAZI has NOTHING to do with it.
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1:00 PM
by Gene
THE McDONALD'S® FUN TIMES ACTIVITY BOOK!!!!! DID YOU KNOW? The Olympic Games® started in Greece more than 2,500 years ago as a friendly competition and featured only one event -- a footrace. They may have to consider that again. My friends need to get to the park for their events. Can you help? Has it been built? Did you know? [SIC] The 5 rings symbolizing the Olympic Games® represent the 5 major parts of the world participating -- North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Golly gee! We thought they symbolized Coca-Cola®, John Hancock®, Kodak®, Panasonic® and MICKEY D'S®!!!!! -- the five partners of -- WHOOPS! We forgot Samsung®, Atos Origin®, Sports Illustrated®, Swatch®, Visa® and Xerox® -- the ELEVEN OFFICIAL PARTNERS OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT®! (Shouldn't there be ELEVEN RINGS?) In this summer's 28th Olympic Games® [shouldn't that be THE GAMES OF THE XXVIII OLYMPIAD®?!?!?!?], there will be 10,500 athletes from 200 countries, participating in 28 sporting events. And half-a-million security people, 100,000 executives, 200,000 broadcasters and news hacks -- and 30 spectators. What has 18 legs and catches flies? A McDonald's® at 11 p.m. Why are basketball players such messy eaters? Because on their salaries they can afford 30 maids. And this will pass without comment: Ronald McD.®: Say, I don't think that's the way our events were supposed to end. The Hamburglar®: Maybe not, but it sure was fun trying.
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11:53 AM
by Gene
Maybe he's not a crook, but given David Gergle's tastes, maybe he's not not a crook.
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11:44 AM
by Gene
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11:32 AM
by Gene
One Bombing, Many Versions Iraqis on the Street Quick to Blame U.S. Translation: Overpaid U.S. News Hacks Quick to Quote Iraqis on the Street Quick to Blame U. S. At least it was on page A12 this time.
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10:14 AM
by Gene
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10:09 AM
by Gene
Some observers said she was responding to protests in Manila calling for withdrawal of the troops. Also, questions have been raised about the legitimacy of her election as president in May. And an economic policy calling for higher taxes and reduced government spending made her vulnerable politically. Question: why hasn't THE GREATEST BLOGGER OF THEM ALL mentioned this? Why is he devoting millions of words to Sandy "Whata" Berger stuffing papers down his pants?
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9:43 AM
by Gene
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6:46 AM
by Gene
Is it me or is the Pali government all about nepotism?
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6:43 AM
by Gene
Quitting? Wouldn't he get better PR switching parties? To complete the deal: he's becoming A LOBBYIST. P. S. You can tell news hacks are happy when they start daydreaming of TAKING OVER THE HOUSE.
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6:23 AM
by Gene
Hate to say it, Dave, Ted has virtually nothing to do with "his" networks anymore.
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6:20 AM
by Gene
Monday, July 19, 2004
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5:50 PM
by Gene
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5:44 PM
by Gene
Where will we get the money?
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5:39 PM
by Gene
Disney executives have acknowledged they overpaid for [the ABC Family channel]. Critics, including former board vice chairman Roy E. Disney, say the deal shows Eisner's poor management skills. Roy Disney and another former board member, Stanley Gold, approved the deal, but said they did so based on optimistic growth estimates from management.
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