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.
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Thursday, September 30, 2004
I ceased trusting The Wall Street Journals long ago; it's the only papers [sic] that editorializes out of both sides of two mouths. If the cretins of the CONSERVATIVE EDITION can speak of the triumph of democracy in Iraq, why if the LIBERAL EDITION can't go it one better and say we've lost the war. A PAPER WITH TWO EDITORIAL PAGES IS A DOUBLE-DOSE OF RATHERING.
Critic: Novak expects journos to admire him for not talking
What? The zillionaire heavy who singlehandedly brought the shouting match to cable news?
What? The zillionaire heavy who singlehandedly brought the shouting match to cable news?
NIKKI FINKE IS MAAAAAAAAAAD BECAUSE THE NETWORKS WON'T TAKE ADS FOR P. R. MIKE'S MASTERPIECE BECAUSE THEY'RE RUN BY A VAST RIGHT-WING REPUBLICAN CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!!
This is the printed equivalent of being handcuffed to a bagman parading up and down the street, covered head-to-toe with handwritten signs and yelling at passersby.
This is the printed equivalent of being handcuffed to a bagman parading up and down the street, covered head-to-toe with handwritten signs and yelling at passersby.
Aaron "The Voice of Dilbert" Brown complains in "obnoxious detail" that FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!News roots for the "home" team.
AND YOU CW HACKS ROOT FOR THE VISITORS.
AND YOU CW HACKS ROOT FOR THE VISITORS.
OH oh, when a few of the SUPERMEGABLOGGERS get up they won't like what they see from Lawrence Henry, especially THIS paragraph:
[D]rop the obsessive honk of blog prose, the self-regard as blatant as the note of a trombone. Ever try scanning back through a blog to find a reference to a story even a few weeks old? There is nothing drearier, more neurotic, than an old blog. Start writing to the short, punchy values of traditional news or to the traditional values of a good essay. Nobody cares about your damn diary.
Amen, BROTHER!
[D]rop the obsessive honk of blog prose, the self-regard as blatant as the note of a trombone. Ever try scanning back through a blog to find a reference to a story even a few weeks old? There is nothing drearier, more neurotic, than an old blog. Start writing to the short, punchy values of traditional news or to the traditional values of a good essay. Nobody cares about your damn diary.
Amen, BROTHER!
Oooh, RATHERGATE goes to the TEXAS RANGERS!
Let's see the Little Timmy Noahs CWY. Hacks, YOU HAD WATERGATE.
(Sorry for the NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Let's see the Little Timmy Noahs CWY. Hacks, YOU HAD WATERGATE.
(Sorry for the NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Somethin's hittin' the fan:
Republicans have one message for followers of many faiths: Sen. John Kerry is wrong. [Add sound effect here: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!]
Wrong for Catholics, Mormons and Evangelicals say a number of Web sites that the Republican National Committee has created. Each Web site compiles excerpts of Kerry's comments and Senate voting record on social issues such as abortion, civil unions for same sex couples and school choice. [More sound effects: BOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!]
Some headlines on the Web site for Catholics say, ``Kerry Said Vatican Should Not Instruct Catholic Politicians, Calling It 'Inappropriate''' and ``Kerry Expressed 'Moral Outrage' With Vatican's Statement On Gay Marriage.'' Kerry is -- Catholic. [BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!] [Special CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES OVEREMPHASIS added.]
Kerry campaign spokesman Phil Singer said the tactic is ``premised on the tactics of division, smear and insult. It's unfortunate, it's un-American and John Kerry is going to continue to make his case and make sure his record is not twisted by the Bush attack machine.''
At least one religious coalition, the left-leaning Interfaith Alliance, has called the Web sites insensitive, saying the GOP is trying to interpret religious beliefs for political advantage. Interfaith Alliance president Rev. C. Weldon Gaddy called the tactic ``abhorrent.''
TRANSLATION: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! A WEPUBWICAN'S wunning for PWESIDENT!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!
Republicans have one message for followers of many faiths: Sen. John Kerry is wrong. [Add sound effect here: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!]
Wrong for Catholics, Mormons and Evangelicals say a number of Web sites that the Republican National Committee has created. Each Web site compiles excerpts of Kerry's comments and Senate voting record on social issues such as abortion, civil unions for same sex couples and school choice. [More sound effects: BOOOOOOOOOOOOO! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!]
Some headlines on the Web site for Catholics say, ``Kerry Said Vatican Should Not Instruct Catholic Politicians, Calling It 'Inappropriate''' and ``Kerry Expressed 'Moral Outrage' With Vatican's Statement On Gay Marriage.'' Kerry is -- Catholic. [BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!] [Special CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES OVEREMPHASIS added.]
Kerry campaign spokesman Phil Singer said the tactic is ``premised on the tactics of division, smear and insult. It's unfortunate, it's un-American and John Kerry is going to continue to make his case and make sure his record is not twisted by the Bush attack machine.''
At least one religious coalition, the left-leaning Interfaith Alliance, has called the Web sites insensitive, saying the GOP is trying to interpret religious beliefs for political advantage. Interfaith Alliance president Rev. C. Weldon Gaddy called the tactic ``abhorrent.''
TRANSLATION: WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! A WEPUBWICAN'S wunning for PWESIDENT!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!
THE PORNO PEOPLE'S CHOICE OPENS HIS MOUTH -- ALBEIT NOT OBSCENELY:
“IT WAS JUST A VERY INARTICULATE WAY OF SAYING SOMETHING AND I HAD ONE OF THOSE INARTICULATE MOMENTS. BUT IT REFLECTS THE TRUTH OF THE POSITION!”
He was better off saying "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."
“IT WAS JUST A VERY INARTICULATE WAY OF SAYING SOMETHING AND I HAD ONE OF THOSE INARTICULATE MOMENTS. BUT IT REFLECTS THE TRUTH OF THE POSITION!”
He was better off saying "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it."
Iran has been on the verge before, especially in NRO. We hope and pray for the nation's liberation, but we must remember -- the MAD MULLAHS HAVE THE NUKES.
Little Timmy Noah throws a tantrum because the FEDS built that AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM to exhibit the JEWELRY of BEN NIGHTHORSE CAMPBELL.
Go back into your cubicle, Little Timmy, and dream of our defeat in IRAQ. I can see him in a left-wing NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!
Go back into your cubicle, Little Timmy, and dream of our defeat in IRAQ. I can see him in a left-wing NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!
Hey GLIB! GLIBERAL!!!!!!!!!!!
Doesn't it make you RED-WHITE-AND-BLUE PROUD to BE AN AMERI...to support a GREAT CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT?????
Doesn't it make you RED-WHITE-AND-BLUE PROUD to BE AN AMERI...to support a GREAT CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT?????
G000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE'S IDIOT SPECULATORS DO NOT USE BLOGGER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll bet at CREDEEEEEEEEEEE SUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSE the sales -- ANALYSTS are kicking themselves for not having posted a price target of $220.
I'll bet at CREDEEEEEEEEEEE SUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSE the sales -- ANALYSTS are kicking themselves for not having posted a price target of $220.
Scott Adams has "designed" a virtual home for Dilbert with a "urinal in [his] master bathroom" and an "observatory shaped like Dilbert's head."
GET A LIFE!!!!!
GET A LIFE!!!!!
There are too many reports of potential vote fraud to be circumstantial. It appears the crowd that yelled "FAKE BUT ACCURATE" is now working overtime on the FAKE.
I think we (and especially we MEN) are all mightily upset that Dolly's going to have surgery -- especially when we consider that she's owned two of the Seven Wonders of the World. (And no, they don't include Dollywood.) This is like sandblasting the face off the Sphinx.
I found that out through STERNO, who most certainly found it out from YAHWEH, who found out from ANANOVA.
Remember that all-too-clever zero-sum-accounting stunt the TWXSTERS pulled with the Four Horseyfaces of the Metropolis? The one that involved a "REBRANDING"? It didn't work:
The week “SATC” launched on TBS, four episodes ranked in the top 10 for the week, each episode averaging around 3 million households. Last week no episode of “SATC” finished in the top 50 in household delivery.
1. The hard-core fans have already forgotten it -- if they didn't resent it being bowdlerized (not that we're talking Balzac -- and not that the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WILLFULLY IGNORANT ADVERTISERS would have minded); and 2. Who needs comedy when you have the Braves' announcers? (Sorry, we like them.)
Unfortunately a lot more politically "astute" stoned slackers are watching VIACON's Comedy Central.
The week “SATC” launched on TBS, four episodes ranked in the top 10 for the week, each episode averaging around 3 million households. Last week no episode of “SATC” finished in the top 50 in household delivery.
1. The hard-core fans have already forgotten it -- if they didn't resent it being bowdlerized (not that we're talking Balzac -- and not that the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WILLFULLY IGNORANT ADVERTISERS would have minded); and 2. Who needs comedy when you have the Braves' announcers? (Sorry, we like them.)
Unfortunately a lot more politically "astute" stoned slackers are watching VIACON's Comedy Central.
Ransom Concern Clouds Return of Italian Hostages
How do you say CLUCKCLUCKCLUCKCLUCKCLUCKCLUCKCLUCKCLUUUUUUUUCK!!!!! in Italian?
How do you say CLUCKCLUCKCLUCKCLUCKCLUCKCLUCKCLUCKCLUUUUUUUUCK!!!!! in Italian?
TRANSLATION: GENERAL does a SEN. McPAIN to please the HACKS, which then inspires that RATHERING lot to seek out SOURCES who agree with THEM.
I'm not sure I put much stock in those who say things are hunky-dory in Iraq, but let's repeat this: THE HACKS WANT US TO LOSE SO THEY CAN PUT PERPETUAL DEMOCRATS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
I'm not sure I put much stock in those who say things are hunky-dory in Iraq, but let's repeat this: THE HACKS WANT US TO LOSE SO THEY CAN PUT PERPETUAL DEMOCRATS IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
It wasn't supposed to be like this: Canada, the world's most PC nation, was supposed to tell EVERYBODY how to think! It had the best of everything -- health care, hockey, John Candy! And now John Candy's gone, and so is hockey, and the health care may follow, and the populace is slumped over its Molson's wondering...WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? EH?!?!?
There is, of course, only one solution: a merger of this historical irrelevance with us, and independence for the Quebecois, who can then nag us just as heartily as the FRENCH.
There is, of course, only one solution: a merger of this historical irrelevance with us, and independence for the Quebecois, who can then nag us just as heartily as the FRENCH.
Hey, paying hush money SHOULD be part of the NBA's business -- the ATTITUDE GUYS have enough to keep hush about.
On the other hand, given that Shaq is one of America's leading VOCALISTS (pffh-hh-hh) I'd say Kobe has bequeathed him a BRILLIANT CAREER MOVE.
On the other hand, given that Shaq is one of America's leading VOCALISTS (pffh-hh-hh) I'd say Kobe has bequeathed him a BRILLIANT CAREER MOVE.
DIPPITY-DO!!!!! admits the FLIP-FLOP charges stick as well as the GEL -- or that ORANGE STUFF he's been putting on his face lately.
Hey DIP, when you decided to campaign on your WAR RECORD you committed the ULTIMATE flip-flop.
Hey DIP, when you decided to campaign on your WAR RECORD you committed the ULTIMATE flip-flop.
A 32-page agreement for what one writer has called "joint press conferences," dictating "details such as the temperature of the hall, what kind of paper can be used to take notes and who can stand in the wings," and still the press conferences may not go on.
That wouldn't bother me; these conferences are becoming as irrelevant as the quadrennial infomercials.
That wouldn't bother me; these conferences are becoming as irrelevant as the quadrennial infomercials.
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
And speaking of taxpayer-financed boondoggles:
Expos' move to D.C. nearly a done deal
Ka-CHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!
Expos' move to D.C. nearly a done deal
Ka-CHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!
CURLEY's (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES -- whose new motto is "HALF TRUTHS, ALL THE TIME" -- distribute a press release saying KERNGERSHWIN HAMMERSTEIN took a TAX SUBSIDY to get THE GREATEST MUSICAL OF ALL TIME FILMED IN BROOKLYN!
Once a schmuck, always a schmuck.
P. S. Bet HARVEY WHINER (ditto) fast-tracked THIS BREAK to MICKEYMOUSE NIXON. Well, they STILL see eye-to-eye on SOME things.
More on this TAXPAYER HANDOUT from BloomyLite.
Once a schmuck, always a schmuck.
P. S. Bet HARVEY WHINER (ditto) fast-tracked THIS BREAK to MICKEYMOUSE NIXON. Well, they STILL see eye-to-eye on SOME things.
More on this TAXPAYER HANDOUT from BloomyLite.
Timmy thrusts out his left hand -- er, his RIGHT hand:
Aren't there any conservative professors at Harvard who commit plagiarism? (Over to you, Weekly Standard.)
You don't suppose Timmy's one of those DEMO HACKS who -- naaaaaaaaaaaah.
Aren't there any conservative professors at Harvard who commit plagiarism? (Over to you, Weekly Standard.)
You don't suppose Timmy's one of those DEMO HACKS who -- naaaaaaaaaaaah.
In a move likely to call up memories of exuberant Internet stock analysts, analysts at Credit Suisse First Boston on Tuesday set a $145 price target on Google stock.
G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER'S going to get SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWER!!!!!
P. S.
The analysts acknowledged the inexact science behind Wall Street price targets for stocks. They came up with range from $82 to $220 for the shares, telling clients they "triangulated" to reach the 12-month target price using their own discount cash flow model.
I like sales -- ANALYSTS, don't YOU?
G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER'S going to get SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWER!!!!!
P. S.
The analysts acknowledged the inexact science behind Wall Street price targets for stocks. They came up with range from $82 to $220 for the shares, telling clients they "triangulated" to reach the 12-month target price using their own discount cash flow model.
I like sales -- ANALYSTS, don't YOU?
Monday, September 27, 2004
Flirting With Disaster
The vile spectacle of Democrats rooting for bad news in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Does that include...nah, didn't think so.
The vile spectacle of Democrats rooting for bad news in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Does that include...nah, didn't think so.
And in more news that network television's malady is incurable:
Tony Award winner and current Here Lies Jenny star Bebe Neuwirth joins the cast of the upcoming "Law & Order" spinoff "Trial by Jury," joining fellow stage stalwart Jerry Orbach.
How many times can GE Bancorp Network spin it off before there's nothing left?
I DON'T CARE IF THEY'VE GOT SIX SIGMA. (Laura does -- she's looking for a JOB.)
Tony Award winner and current Here Lies Jenny star Bebe Neuwirth joins the cast of the upcoming "Law & Order" spinoff "Trial by Jury," joining fellow stage stalwart Jerry Orbach.
How many times can GE Bancorp Network spin it off before there's nothing left?
I DON'T CARE IF THEY'VE GOT SIX SIGMA. (Laura does -- she's looking for a JOB.)
Now we learn that godforsaken treatise about SUPERMEGABLOGGERS was a "BRUTAL EVISCERATION."
David Frum calls it one thing, little another. Can we put this matter to bed already?
David Frum calls it one thing, little another. Can we put this matter to bed already?
"Would you trust Kerry against these fanatic killers?"
Ex-Sen. Self-Pity and Ex-Sen. Movie-Star Dater go WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
Listen buddies, you had YOUR chance -- with DAN BLATHER.
If Iraq became an American democracy with one of the world's largest economies OMERTA would still scream QUAGMIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's YOUR salary, MERT? Enough to make the pressmen and delivery people mad, we suspect.
What's YOUR salary, MERT? Enough to make the pressmen and delivery people mad, we suspect.
Sunday, September 26, 2004
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
(The New York Times Company owns four CBS affiliates.)
Pffh-hh-hh hh hh hh hh ha ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
(The New York Times Company owns four CBS affiliates.)
Pffh-hh-hh hh hh hh hh ha ha ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
WALTER WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! says DANNO will be shown the door next spring. Let's see if this one pans out like so many of THE HAT's exclusives.
After BLATHERGATE no one can doubt NEWS HACKS have it in for Dubya. But conservatives do not grant themselves favors by splitting hairs. Face it, maybe Dubya didn't use the words "mission accomplished" in his speech, but there they were, plastered on an aircraft carrier as if for a Republican rally. The Professor and Andy S. were quite critical of this stunt, as they should have been. But then little has this habit of throwing mighty tantrums.
I didn't see the complaints that that puff piece in THE PAPER OF RECORD concentrated on loony-left bloggers; but if I posted cursorily it's because I wasn't ready to surf through ten pages, and more to the point, I wasn't ready to snooze through yet another flack's kissing the feet of SUPERMEGABLOGGERS.
Given that it was a soaring tribute for lefty SUPERMEGABLOGGERS, my original point STANDS.
My only solace is that if no one reads most blogs, no one will read the SUPERMEGABLOGGERS after they've finished being the NEXT BIG THING.
Given that it was a soaring tribute for lefty SUPERMEGABLOGGERS, my original point STANDS.
My only solace is that if no one reads most blogs, no one will read the SUPERMEGABLOGGERS after they've finished being the NEXT BIG THING.
Speaking of Danno, John Leo sings this little ditty:
[T]he goal should be to make CBS more honest, not to delegitimize it or drive it out of business. Already there are calls for congressional hearings--a bad idea. Do we want an all-out vengeful assault on CBS, or do we simply want the network to come to its senses and play stories straight?
It should not be impossible to do good news. But it may be impossible to stop vengeance, what with a long and partisan CBS history stretching back to The Selling of the Pentagon, and beyond. And given my preceding post, there's another rub: with media as mere playthings for corporations and GENIUSES, and with men like THE MOONER rubbing his attitude in our faces, why should we expect, or even hope for, improvement? Government hearings, though, ARE a BAD idea.
[T]he goal should be to make CBS more honest, not to delegitimize it or drive it out of business. Already there are calls for congressional hearings--a bad idea. Do we want an all-out vengeful assault on CBS, or do we simply want the network to come to its senses and play stories straight?
It should not be impossible to do good news. But it may be impossible to stop vengeance, what with a long and partisan CBS history stretching back to The Selling of the Pentagon, and beyond. And given my preceding post, there's another rub: with media as mere playthings for corporations and GENIUSES, and with men like THE MOONER rubbing his attitude in our faces, why should we expect, or even hope for, improvement? Government hearings, though, ARE a BAD idea.
One reason the media-industrial complex is in a bind is because of GENIUSES like Marvin Davis, who bought and sold and bought and sold and didn't know or care a damn what they were buying and selling; Fox made the legendary Porky's on his watch. No doubt there will be more Marvin Davises -- and more Porky's -- and more BLATHERGATES.
I guess being ZONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!! THE SECOND is not the great triumph it used to be.
Ten years ago Mr. Mark would have called The Mooner a GENIUS. This must count as PROGRESS.
Ten years ago Mr. Mark would have called The Mooner a GENIUS. This must count as PROGRESS.
Outside of my family, nothing held any real interest for me and I was seeing everything through different glasses....
I'd left my hometown only ten years earlier, wasn't vociferating the opinions of anybody. My destiny lay down the road with whatever life invited, had nothing to do with representing any kind of civilization....
I really was never any more than what I was—a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze. Now it had blown up in my face and was hanging over me. I wasn't a preacher performing miracles. It would have driven anybody mad.
THE SECOND COMING OF SHAKESPEARE!!!!!!!!!!
P. S. Lest we forget, the greatest composer-lyricist-singer-guitarist-playwright-filmmaker-conscience of all time came out of CBS, the same company that gave us another great writer and conscience, DAN BLATHER.
I'd left my hometown only ten years earlier, wasn't vociferating the opinions of anybody. My destiny lay down the road with whatever life invited, had nothing to do with representing any kind of civilization....
I really was never any more than what I was—a folk musician who gazed into the gray mist with tear-blinded eyes and made up songs that floated in a luminous haze. Now it had blown up in my face and was hanging over me. I wasn't a preacher performing miracles. It would have driven anybody mad.
THE SECOND COMING OF SHAKESPEARE!!!!!!!!!!
P. S. Lest we forget, the greatest composer-lyricist-singer-guitarist-playwright-filmmaker-conscience of all time came out of CBS, the same company that gave us another great writer and conscience, DAN BLATHER.
In Magazine Interview, Kerry Says He Owns Assault Rifle
OOOOOH, Popeye's started eating SPINACH! See the MUSCLES in his HEAD!!!!!
OOOOOH, Popeye's started eating SPINACH! See the MUSCLES in his HEAD!!!!!
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It used to be that male actors had sex appeal. (DON'T GET ME STARTED ABOUT THE FEMALES.) Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Errol Flynn, Cary Grant, Gary Cooper, Robert Taylor -- all were strikingly handsome men with a surfeit of, to use that overworked word, CHARISMA. Now any slob can get into the movies and have an army of PRESS AGENTS (many of whom work for newspapers) call him "SEXY." Sorry, this is just the umpteenth variant of BLATHERGATE, of news hacks refusing to tell the truth, or worse, trying to SELL SOMETHING.
Saturday, September 25, 2004
G000,000,000,000,000GLE NEWS DOES IT AGAIN!
BS News said yesterday that it had postponed a "60 Minutes" segment that questioned Bush administration rationales for going to war in Iraq.
[SIC]
BS News said yesterday that it had postponed a "60 Minutes" segment that questioned Bush administration rationales for going to war in Iraq.
[SIC]
Are SUPERMEGABLOGGERS trying to co-opt the press, or is it the other way around?
This much, however, IS true:
In a recent national survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that more than two million Americans have their own blog. Most of them, nobody reads.
This much, however, IS true:
In a recent national survey, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that more than two million Americans have their own blog. Most of them, nobody reads.
CONGRATULATIONS, JENNY -- YOU'VE COLLECTED AT LEAST 1,295 LINKS IN GOOGLE NEWS!!!!!!!!!!
Only -- there seems to be a slight problem with many of them, as in:
404 - File Not Found!
Only -- there seems to be a slight problem with many of them, as in:
404 - File Not Found!
Men, Women More Different Than Thought
SHUCKS PINCH, there's ANOTHER CRUSADE that'll have to wait for ANOTHER DAY.
SHUCKS PINCH, there's ANOTHER CRUSADE that'll have to wait for ANOTHER DAY.
Hey BERNIE, people ran SCREAMING from the EMMYS this year because of THE GREATEST NETWORK IN THE HISTORY OF ALL THE UNIVERSES -- and you want TV to be MORE LIKE IT?
Another case of six- and seven-digit NEWS HACKS hugging themselves.
Another case of six- and seven-digit NEWS HACKS hugging themselves.
And in other political laughter, VIACON NETWORK NEWS has decided NOT to go ahead with that 60 Minutes piece because one story with bogus memos was enough.
Meantime DANNO stays on through the three presidential debates, meaning VIACON may soon have a corner on lousy employee morale.
Meantime DANNO stays on through the three presidential debates, meaning VIACON may soon have a corner on lousy employee morale.
Obama would consider missile strikes on Iran
Obama opposes gay marriage
Oh well, there goes another hero.
Obama opposes gay marriage
Oh well, there goes another hero.
I wish I had found this RATHERING first and not a Freeper:
BUSH TWISTS KERRY'S WORDS ON IRAQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
PRESIDENT BUSH OPENED SEVERAL NEW SCATHING LINES OF ATTACK AGAINST DEMOCRAT JOHN KERRY, CHARGES THAT TWISTED HIS RIVAL'S WORDS ON IRAQ AND MADE KERRY SEEM SUPPORTIVE OF DEPOSED DICTATOR SADDAM HUSSEIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OR:
In Georgetown's East Village, Roger Ballentine and his wife Jennifer Loven have sold their quaint two bedroom semi- detached Federal house at 1346 29th Street, N.W. The buyers who were represented by Trudi Musson, an agent with Sarah Gorman Real Estate, paid $501,000 for the cozy, freshly painted home featuring hardwood floors, a wood burning stove, an updated kitchen, and a quaint stone-walled garden with flowering shrubs and a fountain. The Ballentines were assisted in their sale by Coldwell Banker/Pardoe realtor Nancy Taylor Bubes, who was recently recognized as number two among 4400 agents in Coldwell Banker's Mid-Atlantic Brokerage as well as number two individual agent by the Greater Capitol Association of Realtors (GCAAR). Roger Ballentine is president of Green Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in energy and environmental issues, and was previously deputy assistant to President Clinton for environmental initiatives and chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force. He also sits on the board of directors of Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF)along with actors Ed Begley, Jr. and Larry Hagman. Jennifer Loven is a reporter for the Associated Press.
FURTHER OR:
Roger previously was a senior member of the White House staff, serving President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives. In these capacities, he directed the administration's efforts on climate change, represented the President in numerous international meetings and negotiations, participated at the highest levels in the development and implementation of energy, clean air and other environmental policy, and advised the President on federal lands and coastal protection policies. Prior to being named Deputy Assistant to the President, Mr. Ballentine was Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, where he focused on energy and environment issues.
Prior to serving in the White House, Roger was a partner at the Washington law firm of Patton, Boggs L.L.P., where he specialized in public policy, judicial reform and election law matters. Mr. Ballentine also was Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught in the area of electoral and political law. He has also served as Special Counsel to the Democratic Leadership in the House of Representatives for the handling of election challenges, and has been a frequent television and radio commentator on various matters of public interest.
LET THEM EAT TWISTED WORDS!!!!!
BUSH TWISTS KERRY'S WORDS ON IRAQ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By JENNIFER LOVEN, Associated Press Writer
PRESIDENT BUSH OPENED SEVERAL NEW SCATHING LINES OF ATTACK AGAINST DEMOCRAT JOHN KERRY, CHARGES THAT TWISTED HIS RIVAL'S WORDS ON IRAQ AND MADE KERRY SEEM SUPPORTIVE OF DEPOSED DICTATOR SADDAM HUSSEIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OR:
In Georgetown's East Village, Roger Ballentine and his wife Jennifer Loven have sold their quaint two bedroom semi- detached Federal house at 1346 29th Street, N.W. The buyers who were represented by Trudi Musson, an agent with Sarah Gorman Real Estate, paid $501,000 for the cozy, freshly painted home featuring hardwood floors, a wood burning stove, an updated kitchen, and a quaint stone-walled garden with flowering shrubs and a fountain. The Ballentines were assisted in their sale by Coldwell Banker/Pardoe realtor Nancy Taylor Bubes, who was recently recognized as number two among 4400 agents in Coldwell Banker's Mid-Atlantic Brokerage as well as number two individual agent by the Greater Capitol Association of Realtors (GCAAR). Roger Ballentine is president of Green Strategies, a consulting firm specializing in energy and environmental issues, and was previously deputy assistant to President Clinton for environmental initiatives and chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force. He also sits on the board of directors of Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF)along with actors Ed Begley, Jr. and Larry Hagman. Jennifer Loven is a reporter for the Associated Press.
FURTHER OR:
Roger previously was a senior member of the White House staff, serving President Bill Clinton as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force and Deputy Assistant to the President for Environmental Initiatives. In these capacities, he directed the administration's efforts on climate change, represented the President in numerous international meetings and negotiations, participated at the highest levels in the development and implementation of energy, clean air and other environmental policy, and advised the President on federal lands and coastal protection policies. Prior to being named Deputy Assistant to the President, Mr. Ballentine was Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, where he focused on energy and environment issues.
Prior to serving in the White House, Roger was a partner at the Washington law firm of Patton, Boggs L.L.P., where he specialized in public policy, judicial reform and election law matters. Mr. Ballentine also was Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught in the area of electoral and political law. He has also served as Special Counsel to the Democratic Leadership in the House of Representatives for the handling of election challenges, and has been a frequent television and radio commentator on various matters of public interest.
LET THEM EAT TWISTED WORDS!!!!!
Friday, September 24, 2004
Great job, MERT! You give big publicity to a most-interesting-sounding Web site that isn't available to the public. THE FIRST AMENDMENT DEFENDERS STRIKE AGAIN!
That's another problem with the Web -- the needles of wisdom sit in a CONagra-sized haystack of dross.
That's another problem with the Web -- the needles of wisdom sit in a CONagra-sized haystack of dross.
I am not surprised to hear that Laurence Tribe might be guilty of following some of his sources too freely. The word "glib" sticks to him like flypaper that sticks to everything but flies, and a glib superscholar has to get his inspiration from somewhere, so why not other people's flypaper?
And in more GET A LIFE!!!!! news:
Fans of John Williams are up in arms over an apparent glitch in the new Star Wars DVD set in which the left and right channels fed to the rear speakers in surround sound are reversed in the original Star Wars movie (Episode 4). John Takis, who frequently analyzes film scores for Internet groups, points out that the violins can be heard coming from the left surround-sound speakers and the cellos from the left. "It is essentially a 124-minute audio glitch," Takis writes on the John Williams fansite, www.JW-Music.net. "The sound effects are correctly positioned in the surround channels. It's just the music that's backwards." Takis also takes issue with other aspects of the sound mix for the original movie. "Remember the awesome fanfare version of the Force theme that kicks off the Death Star battle?" he writes "Good luck hearing it this time around -- it's virtually inaudible."
I'll echo their response: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!
Fans of John Williams are up in arms over an apparent glitch in the new Star Wars DVD set in which the left and right channels fed to the rear speakers in surround sound are reversed in the original Star Wars movie (Episode 4). John Takis, who frequently analyzes film scores for Internet groups, points out that the violins can be heard coming from the left surround-sound speakers and the cellos from the left. "It is essentially a 124-minute audio glitch," Takis writes on the John Williams fansite, www.JW-Music.net. "The sound effects are correctly positioned in the surround channels. It's just the music that's backwards." Takis also takes issue with other aspects of the sound mix for the original movie. "Remember the awesome fanfare version of the Force theme that kicks off the Death Star battle?" he writes "Good luck hearing it this time around -- it's virtually inaudible."
I'll echo their response: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!
Departed Williams owes Miami $8.6 million
Duhh, I don't have the money. I smoked it, duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Duhh, I don't have the money. I smoked it, duhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
THE LATEST, GREATEST PRESS RELEASES ARE FROM USAOKAY!!!!! (except when the New York Daily NOOZ runs 'em):
"I've had a lot less enjoyment from my gold medal because of this," Hamm says. "I had one day of pure jubilation, the day after the all-around, and then my world fell apart."....
He already has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The View, Today, Good Morning America, the CBS Early Show and CNN.
Still waiting in line to get him: Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Last Call with Carson Daly, Saturday Night Live, Mad TV and ABC's 20/20....
He's accepting motivational speaking engagements at $15,000 a pop.
He's OK'ing a walk-on role with Morgan on the new FOX series "Quintuplets."
He's getting ready to audition for a Calvin Klein underwear ad.
He's on tap with Morgan to meet the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara.
He's mulling book deals — the working title is "My Greek Week."
TRANSLATION: WHINY CRYBABY, SHUT UP.
"I've had a lot less enjoyment from my gold medal because of this," Hamm says. "I had one day of pure jubilation, the day after the all-around, and then my world fell apart."....
He already has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The View, Today, Good Morning America, the CBS Early Show and CNN.
Still waiting in line to get him: Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Last Call with Carson Daly, Saturday Night Live, Mad TV and ABC's 20/20....
He's accepting motivational speaking engagements at $15,000 a pop.
He's OK'ing a walk-on role with Morgan on the new FOX series "Quintuplets."
He's getting ready to audition for a Calvin Klein underwear ad.
He's on tap with Morgan to meet the Bush twins, Jenna and Barbara.
He's mulling book deals — the working title is "My Greek Week."
TRANSLATION: WHINY CRYBABY, SHUT UP.
Whatever his faults, as president and as a man, Dubya is a nice guy.
DIPPITY-DO!!!!! is not a nice guy.
Neither is his wife.
DIPPITY-DO!!!!! is not a nice guy.
Neither is his wife.
RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "supports" Petrified Gore, SUMNER "supports" DUBYA.
This is known as SPREADING THE WEALTH.
This is known as SPREADING THE WEALTH.
A LUNKHEADED PAPER OF RECORD SIX-DIGIT SPORTS HACK WHO HELPED HOWELL TURN THE MASTERS INTO A J'ACCUSE ADMITS HE ORIGINATED THE STORY THAT IN 1919 THE RED SOX OWNER HARRY FRAZEE SOLD THE BABE'S CONTRACT TO FINANCE THE MUSICAL NO! NO!! NANETTE!!! -- A SHOW THAT OPENED IN 1925.
Well, as the PULITZER PRIZE-WINNER WALTER DURANTY would say, NOT THE FIRST TIME.
P. S. That punctuation is according to the great theatrical historian Gerald Bordman, who is definitive on such things.
Well, as the PULITZER PRIZE-WINNER WALTER DURANTY would say, NOT THE FIRST TIME.
P. S. That punctuation is according to the great theatrical historian Gerald Bordman, who is definitive on such things.
When will the FAKE BUT ACCURATE CROWD say it: A STRONG PRESS DOES NOT NEED TRUST?
Thursday, September 23, 2004
If Mr. Ashcroft is willing to take Yusuf Islam off that plane, then next time he'd better be willing to take me off as well.
Gladly -- if you ever agree with a fatwa against a novelist.
WHOM YOU DON'T MENTION.
P. S. (or rather, P. S.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!):
Mansoor Ijaz is a FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News Channel foreign affairs and terrorism analyst. He joined FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in December 2001 and contributes to FNC’s prime time and weekend news analysis programs on matters related to terrorism, foreign policy and national security. (RUPERTIAN!!!!!!!!!! overemphasis added.)
OH-oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gladly -- if you ever agree with a fatwa against a novelist.
WHOM YOU DON'T MENTION.
P. S. (or rather, P. S.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!):
Mansoor Ijaz is a FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News Channel foreign affairs and terrorism analyst. He joined FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in December 2001 and contributes to FNC’s prime time and weekend news analysis programs on matters related to terrorism, foreign policy and national security. (RUPERTIAN!!!!!!!!!! overemphasis added.)
OH-oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Christian comedy," aside from sounding like an oxymoron, is a clear descendant of The Cosbyan creed of buttless jokes. You can't have laughter without a banana peel. And no doubt with these clean jokes the clean comes at the expense of the joke; humor palatable to a pastor is most likely to be unpalatable to everyone else. Indeed this sounds like just another extension of the dogma that has ruined our culture: that there is a unscalable wall between adult topics and good taste.
It helps too that we get no examples of Christian jokes here, which says in itself this comedy's NOT FUNNY.
It helps too that we get no examples of Christian jokes here, which says in itself this comedy's NOT FUNNY.
LAST GRAF in a story in THE OMERTA TIMES:
Kerry was asked about his favorite sports Wednesday by a student reporter for an elementary school in West Palm Beach, Fla. Spencer Snitil, 11, who interviewed the candidate for the school's television station, said Kerry named bicycling, hiking and soccer. Apparently, there was no mention of windsurfing.
Kerry was asked about his favorite sports Wednesday by a student reporter for an elementary school in West Palm Beach, Fla. Spencer Snitil, 11, who interviewed the candidate for the school's television station, said Kerry named bicycling, hiking and soccer. Apparently, there was no mention of windsurfing.
Denying he has painted too rosy a picture about Iraq, President Bush said Thursday that terrorists [SIC!] could "plot and plan attacks elsewhere, in America and other free nations" if U.S. forces were withdrawn.
DIP has an answer for that, too: LAW ENFORCEMENT.
DIP has an answer for that, too: LAW ENFORCEMENT.
I got an idea, DIP -- let THE FRENCH appoint the next prime minister of IRAQ! That way you'll have something -- IN COMMON.
Besides your contempt for the Iraqis.
Besides your contempt for the Iraqis.
JUNIOR POUNDS THE TABLE!!!!!
Some people can't give up their dreams of univers -- er, WORLD domination, can they.
Some people can't give up their dreams of univers -- er, WORLD domination, can they.
LA TINA emotes:
Are the media having a nervous breakdown?
Never mind that I used the term before she did, so it can't be that original. She continues:
[C]yberspace is populated by a coalition of political obsessives and pundits on speed who get it wrong as much as they get it right. It's just that they type so much they are bound to nail a story from time to time.
The rapturing about the bloggers is the journalistic equivalent of the stock market's Internet bubble.
That second point we'll concede, even though the Internet's still here; but we can't tell the diff between the Web's "political obsessives and pundits on speed" and the pros except the pros obfuscate their shtick with terms like "fairness" and "objectivity." By every conceivable measure DANNO and MARY flunked on both accounts, and a few more besides, and they make more money than an office-building FULL of political obsessives and pundits on speed. And we'll submit DANNO did more drugs for his reporting than have most of the obsessives.
Are the media having a nervous breakdown?
Never mind that I used the term before she did, so it can't be that original. She continues:
[C]yberspace is populated by a coalition of political obsessives and pundits on speed who get it wrong as much as they get it right. It's just that they type so much they are bound to nail a story from time to time.
The rapturing about the bloggers is the journalistic equivalent of the stock market's Internet bubble.
That second point we'll concede, even though the Internet's still here; but we can't tell the diff between the Web's "political obsessives and pundits on speed" and the pros except the pros obfuscate their shtick with terms like "fairness" and "objectivity." By every conceivable measure DANNO and MARY flunked on both accounts, and a few more besides, and they make more money than an office-building FULL of political obsessives and pundits on speed. And we'll submit DANNO did more drugs for his reporting than have most of the obsessives.
Who wants to wager that, having been THOROUGHLY ABSOLVED by their MEDIA FRIENDS and their own UNIVERSE-SIZED EGOS, DANNO and MARY are working on another PARTISAN HIT -- ANOTHER INVESTIGATIVE REPORT?!?!?
Okay, it's RAY CHARLES. But the first time I saw it I thought his nostrils were his eyebrows, his mouth his eyes and his chin his nose. Only when I saw it a second time did I see who it was. Really, the G000,000,000,000,000GLIANS should stick to getting their stock to $10,000 a share, and slowing down BLOGGER.
"Can a fire ever be funny? Only if all the overpriced, over-discussed trash that we have had rammed down our throats in recent years by these ageing enfant terribles is consumed by the fire. Then the fire is not merely funny ... it is bloody hilarious."
The art world is merely a division of the whole bigmedia-PC-industrial complex, and given such this INFAMOUS fire should be laughed at, the louder and longer the better.
The art world is merely a division of the whole bigmedia-PC-industrial complex, and given such this INFAMOUS fire should be laughed at, the louder and longer the better.
Who is G000,000,000,000,000GLE's -- MYSTERY FACE?
Bob Dylan? Charles Aznavour? WHO?
THE QUEEN OF MAUDLIN SLEAZE SMIRKS.
This may be the first remotely negative story on this contemptible stunt, further proof in the post-BLATHERGATE era news hacks are a negative force.
This may be the first remotely negative story on this contemptible stunt, further proof in the post-BLATHERGATE era news hacks are a negative force.
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Several hours later:
The page you have tried to reach, /content/news/photos/04/09/17/brainwashedchild.jpg, doesn't exist.
MORONS.
The page you have tried to reach, /content/news/photos/04/09/17/brainwashedchild.jpg, doesn't exist.
MORONS.
FREEPERS DO IT AGAIN!!!!!
Not the picture -- THE URL.
And hold your cursor over the picture and you get the word "shooting" in a box.
IDIOTS.
Not the picture -- THE URL.
And hold your cursor over the picture and you get the word "shooting" in a box.
IDIOTS.
And lest I forget -- a musical about JOHNNY CASH!!!!!
OR:
Richard Maltby, Jr. is a noted director and lyricist, who co-conceived and directed the Tony-winning revues Ain't Misbehavin' and Fosse. He wrote the lyrics for and also directed the musical Baby. Maltby also penned the lyrics for Broadway's Big, Nick & Nora and Miss Saigon and helped rewrite the lyrics for the American bow of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance.
There's a heckuva lotta mediocrity on that resume if y'ask me.
P. S. His father arranged for A-Lawrence A-Welk.
OR:
Richard Maltby, Jr. is a noted director and lyricist, who co-conceived and directed the Tony-winning revues Ain't Misbehavin' and Fosse. He wrote the lyrics for and also directed the musical Baby. Maltby also penned the lyrics for Broadway's Big, Nick & Nora and Miss Saigon and helped rewrite the lyrics for the American bow of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance.
There's a heckuva lotta mediocrity on that resume if y'ask me.
P. S. His father arranged for A-Lawrence A-Welk.
Another Short Essay on the Uselessness of Blogging: I figured out with definitude why I got a spike yesterday: seems a lot of typists with too much time on their hands and not enough brains in their skulls got led by G000,000,000,000,000GLE or something to a post of November 18 where I mentioned Marian ANDERSON, and they conflated it with that beheading. Honestly, some people can't read, or THINK.
And I can't link to it because apparently when it changed the post URLs from number-based to word-based G000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER didn't assign one.
(On a more positive note, Buckhead also has something to do with it. Go Buckhead!)
And I can't link to it because apparently when it changed the post URLs from number-based to word-based G000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER didn't assign one.
(On a more positive note, Buckhead also has something to do with it. Go Buckhead!)
'Evangelist' Swaggart: Just joking about killing gay men
Yeah, just like you were joking about blackmailing Jim Bakker, consorting with prosties, etc., etc., ETC.
P. S. Those quote marks were the NY Nooz' idea, and they shouldn't have done it, but they're right -- he is an "evangelist."
Yeah, just like you were joking about blackmailing Jim Bakker, consorting with prosties, etc., etc., ETC.
P. S. Those quote marks were the NY Nooz' idea, and they shouldn't have done it, but they're right -- he is an "evangelist."
One wonders: would DAN BLATHER and his GANG of FIBBERS have stonewalled, the corporate dons of VIACON ready to back them come Hell or THE LORD GOD SUMNER, if they didn't receive a regular stipend from their sugar daddies at THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WILLFULLY IGNORANT ADVERTISERS?
OH oh, DIP's in trouble: the wife of the Hollywood mogul and table-pounding foot-stomping Democratic fundraiser Mike Medavoy is suing a doctor over her BOTOX TREATMENTS!!!!!
Look at yourself in the mirror lately, DIP?
Look at yourself in the mirror lately, DIP?
Ah, the glory of art:
"Who else is going to work in an art supply store?" asked Steven Steinberg, the 68-year-old owner. (He, however, is not an artist, he specified: "God, no!") His grandfather, Benjamin Steinberg, an immigrant from Russia, opened the store in 1905, selling secondhand goods, including artists' materials. Mr. Steinberg grew up making bicycle deliveries to steady customers like Franz Kline and de Kooning.
"When I was a kid, people actually made careers out of working," he said. "Today, everyone is working hoping to make it big in something else."
One suspects today's Rembrandts would be better off working.
"Who else is going to work in an art supply store?" asked Steven Steinberg, the 68-year-old owner. (He, however, is not an artist, he specified: "God, no!") His grandfather, Benjamin Steinberg, an immigrant from Russia, opened the store in 1905, selling secondhand goods, including artists' materials. Mr. Steinberg grew up making bicycle deliveries to steady customers like Franz Kline and de Kooning.
"When I was a kid, people actually made careers out of working," he said. "Today, everyone is working hoping to make it big in something else."
One suspects today's Rembrandts would be better off working.
Rotten apples display "core values" and show their party's worms.
Let's see, core values: unlimited abortion, beat Bush, PC, beat Bush, beat Bush, beat Bush. I think we've got it!
I stand corrected: "Gun control, gay marriage and abortion are conspicuously missing." Translation: Unlimited abortion, beat Bush, PC, beat Bush, beat Bush, beat Bush -- in PRIVATE. Sorry MSSSSSSSS. Pelosi, we've still got it.
Of course this will happen when you campaign on a RATHER platform.
P. S. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, didn't see this:
But some promises, such as to "guarantee a prescription drug benefit under Medicare" and to "enact middle-class tax relief," may open Democrats to charges that Republicans already have acted.
Translation: Anything you can do we can do better. Further translation: Ka-CHINNNNNNNNNG!!!!!
Let's see, core values: unlimited abortion, beat Bush, PC, beat Bush, beat Bush, beat Bush. I think we've got it!
I stand corrected: "Gun control, gay marriage and abortion are conspicuously missing." Translation: Unlimited abortion, beat Bush, PC, beat Bush, beat Bush, beat Bush -- in PRIVATE. Sorry MSSSSSSSS. Pelosi, we've still got it.
Of course this will happen when you campaign on a RATHER platform.
P. S. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, didn't see this:
But some promises, such as to "guarantee a prescription drug benefit under Medicare" and to "enact middle-class tax relief," may open Democrats to charges that Republicans already have acted.
Translation: Anything you can do we can do better. Further translation: Ka-CHINNNNNNNNNG!!!!!
I think we can guess what got THE FORMER CAT STEVENS on a list: say sieg heil to ayatollahs often enough and you'll BE on a list.
He SAYS he condemned 9/11 and the Beslan massacre. We'll take you at your word, FORMER CAT, but we wonder how far it goes.
He SAYS he condemned 9/11 and the Beslan massacre. We'll take you at your word, FORMER CAT, but we wonder how far it goes.
Tuesday, September 21, 2004
A question that requires no answer:
The media played up Richard Lugar's recent remarks about President Bush; will they do the same with his assessment of Senator Kerry?
The media played up Richard Lugar's recent remarks about President Bush; will they do the same with his assessment of Senator Kerry?
Some wonks estimate a fifth of advertising --$50 billion dollars worth -- is wasted.
Given the vast expanses of junk TV and third-rate papers we finance that is an incredible UNDERSTATEMENT.
Given the vast expanses of junk TV and third-rate papers we finance that is an incredible UNDERSTATEMENT.
I figured out why I've gotten my most hits since the InstaSpike -- people are looking for the video of the execution of Eugene Armstrong. Sorry, none here, nor would there ever be; leave the vermin to themselves. To say this as delicately as possible, putting a computer before some folks may not make them smarter.
If on the other hand you're all hitting me up because of my brilliant wisdom (pffh-hh-hh), more power to you!
P. S. One thing I'm proud of is that 80 percent of my hits come from people with XP and 2000, so I must have a technologically savvy crowd. (Or maybe Bill sold them a lot of computers.) But how to explain why a fifth of them come from Netscape browsers? Go figure.
If on the other hand you're all hitting me up because of my brilliant wisdom (pffh-hh-hh), more power to you!
P. S. One thing I'm proud of is that 80 percent of my hits come from people with XP and 2000, so I must have a technologically savvy crowd. (Or maybe Bill sold them a lot of computers.) But how to explain why a fifth of them come from Netscape browsers? Go figure.
RIP...er, ROMY'S WIDE AWAKE:
Righties will use Rather flap as excuse to boycott big media
So THAT'S the new spin, ROMY -- this is all about THE RIGHTIES!!!!!
Not about bigmedia telling a fib.
Righties will use Rather flap as excuse to boycott big media
So THAT'S the new spin, ROMY -- this is all about THE RIGHTIES!!!!!
Not about bigmedia telling a fib.
Madame Heintz was apparently quoted out of context, something we'd expect from NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, and possibly even The New Yorker.
Did you hear the latest debate news? Now there will be four. President Bush and John Kerry will debate each other three times, then Kerry will debate himself on Iraq.
He's been debating himself for MONTHS. All that Senate expe -- all that EXPERIENCE.
He's been debating himself for MONTHS. All that Senate expe -- all that EXPERIENCE.
And what happens if DIPPITY-DO's hair-gel-greasy fingers are caught in the cookie jar? We can guess: news hacks will excuse him because he BELIEVED IN THE RIGHT THINGS. We see some of this already from infernal hacks like THE WRECK.
Thirty years after Watergate and Tricky Dick's resignation, liberals stand ready to CONDONE CORRUPTION.
Thirty years after Watergate and Tricky Dick's resignation, liberals stand ready to CONDONE CORRUPTION.
Many of our traditional sources of FLACKERY seem to be playing down BLATHERGATE. Why not? He was an honest croo -- MAN with a little too much zeal, a zeal for ferreting out truth and justice. Right guys?
This industry will not learn from experience, and it is willing to put thousands of innocent employees out of work so it can do WHAT IT WANTS TO DO.
This industry will not learn from experience, and it is willing to put thousands of innocent employees out of work so it can do WHAT IT WANTS TO DO.
Monday, September 20, 2004
Here are some of the masterworks slated for THE THEATAH in the next few months: A musical based on ELVIS's tunes; a musical version of the film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels; a musical version of the film musical Mary Poppins; a musical version of the film musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; and finally -- a musical version of the film musical White Christmas!!!!!
Yessiree we're living in a PLATINUM AGE OF ENTERTAINMENT!!!!!!!!!!
Yessiree we're living in a PLATINUM AGE OF ENTERTAINMENT!!!!!!!!!!
Another HERO for news hacks disgusted with REPUBLICANS to the RIGHT of -- LINCOLN CHAFEE?
That has to be THE WHOLE PARTY.
Better ink him in as I-RI. As in IMBECILE.
That has to be THE WHOLE PARTY.
Better ink him in as I-RI. As in IMBECILE.
TYPO OF THE WEEK from CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES:
Rather this weekend interviewed Bill Burkett, a retired Texas National Guard officials....
Yeah. Him and Jerry Killian.
Rather this weekend interviewed Bill Burkett, a retired Texas National Guard officials....
Yeah. Him and Jerry Killian.
In a second statement elaborating on the first, VIACON NETWORK NEWS finally admits it's learned what most people have known for days.
SUMNER! I've got a GREAT slogan for you: "You're last to know with CBS NEWS!"
SUMNER! I've got a GREAT slogan for you: "You're last to know with CBS NEWS!"
Why is G000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER's clock AN HOUR FAST when I post between noon and 1 P. M.?
And WHY IS IT THE HIGHER G000,000,000,000,000GLE'S SHARES GO THE SLOWER G000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER GETS?!?!?
And WHY IS IT THE HIGHER G000,000,000,000,000GLE'S SHARES GO THE SLOWER G000,000,000,000,000GLEBLOGGER GETS?!?!?
Her Royal Highness Princess Te-RRRRAY-zzAA of HEINTZZZ uses a BAAAAAAAAAAAAD WORD!!!!!
Sorry for the NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry for the NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This ought to sound the TOCSIN from one end of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WILLFULLY IGNORANT ADVERTISERS to another: the NEW, IMPROVED MISS AMERICA PAGEANT BOMBED. (Ignore the hed; somebody at GanNETt was RATHERING today.) This show has been improved to oblivion, and advertisers can't play such tricks anymore, however good it feels to say HIP and DEMOGRAPHIC.
And the Emmys didn't do that well either, meaning there are limits to THE GLIBERAL's cheering section.
And the Emmys didn't do that well either, meaning there are limits to THE GLIBERAL's cheering section.
OooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooh:
True or false: Blogs always tell it straight
Sites reflect beliefs and biases of authors
And of course NEWS HACKS are NEVER EVER EVER EVER BIASED -- and THEY ALWAYS TELL IT STRAIGHT.
IDIOTS!!!!!
True or false: Blogs always tell it straight
Sites reflect beliefs and biases of authors
And of course NEWS HACKS are NEVER EVER EVER EVER BIASED -- and THEY ALWAYS TELL IT STRAIGHT.
IDIOTS!!!!!
And if THE PAPER OF RECORD says those memos were FAKE, why ROMY, THEY MUST BE FAKE!!!!!
You can go back to sleep now.
You can go back to sleep now.
CBS to Say It Was Misled on Bush Guard Memos
Let's not hold our breaths for true confession -- especially as LENNY put this on PAGE A14.
NEWS HACKS UBER ALLES!!!!!
Let's not hold our breaths for true confession -- especially as LENNY put this on PAGE A14.
NEWS HACKS UBER ALLES!!!!!
In applauding the greatest genius of the ages, news hacks join their show-biz brethren to applaud -- themselves.
If the Devil summoned every last of the hacks to Hell it would not dent the biz' self-esteem. They're used to dealing with him anyway.
If the Devil summoned every last of the hacks to Hell it would not dent the biz' self-esteem. They're used to dealing with him anyway.
Sunday, September 19, 2004
SYNERGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!: The other day the Philadelphia Daily Nooz ran a front-cover PRESS RELE, er, STORY about the exciting new film MR. 3000!!!!! Now you don't suppose THIS had something to do with it, do you?
[The director Charles] Stone [III], who grew up in Philadelphia and is the son of former Daily News columnist Chuck Stone....
Nah, I don't think this had ANYTHING to do with this MASTERWORK gracing the FRONT COVER. DO YOU?!?!?
Happily, the public has spoken with a long, loud --
STEEEEEEEEEEEERIKE THREE YERRRRRRRRRRRRRR OUT!!!!!
[The director Charles] Stone [III], who grew up in Philadelphia and is the son of former Daily News columnist Chuck Stone....
Nah, I don't think this had ANYTHING to do with this MASTERWORK gracing the FRONT COVER. DO YOU?!?!?
Happily, the public has spoken with a long, loud --
STEEEEEEEEEEEERIKE THREE YERRRRRRRRRRRRRR OUT!!!!!
Sorry to mention them once more, but before the Freepers gloat too much more about "bringing down" Danno -- and they do deserve much of the credit; still, to repeat, he hasn't come down yet -- we should note a lot of infants and children crawl through the site telling ka-ka jokes and wee-wee jokes, often of the visual kind. I encountered a violent one just now, and I was not pleased. (I will not link, but it was in a thread about some silly chef in New York.) It behooves these people to grow up a little, especially given the forum's well-earned rep for name calling (and I say this as a member and sometimes poster myself).
Part of what made HOWELL the perfect figure of fun was the way he disco-danced with the yung-uns in a polyester leisure suit and a most beautiful toupee.
Well, HOWELL may be gone, but he's still dancin' at THE PAPER OF RECORD.
Well, HOWELL may be gone, but he's still dancin' at THE PAPER OF RECORD.
One of the latest cliches in the public square is that MSM (as some bloggers must put it) is DEAD. The people saying it are the likes of Rush (who makes $500 quintazillion bloviating over four million radio stations) or the Wall Street Journals Conservative Edition (circulation two million, give or take the million who subscribe to the Liberal Edition). This clever irony aside, let's compare: how much did Buckhead make debunking Danno's truth? How much does the Decaying Triumvirate of Tom, Danno and Pee-TAH make? How many shares in VIACON does one suspect Buckhead owns? How many by THE LORD GOD SUMNER? No, David gave it his best shot, but for now, the Goliath still stands.
P. S. Speaking of shares, that the Freepers were gloating over THE GOD selling approximately .17 percent of His VIACON stock (and ZERO of His voting rights) shows they have an occasional tendency to self-delusion.
P. S. Speaking of shares, that the Freepers were gloating over THE GOD selling approximately .17 percent of His VIACON stock (and ZERO of His voting rights) shows they have an occasional tendency to self-delusion.
In more news from THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WILLFULLY IGNORANT ADVERTISERS (and in more proof ad boycotts DO NOT WORK), Tyson Foods, the big ARKANSAS meat maker with a history of corruption, plays pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey with a big media company with a present story thereof.
How fitting: a chicken company sponsoring chickens.
How fitting: a chicken company sponsoring chickens.
I am convinced now that G000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE is a public company it will neglect Blogger so it can spin it off or shut it down. Posting takes FOREVER, and I've a hunch the clowns for whatever reason are not keeping the technology up. Why bother supporting a loss leader? That's what BLOGGER IS.
I'm of two minds about this, and either one's enough to make me mad. On the one hand many televangelists are frauds -- the word televangelism is a synonym for fraud -- and they prey on the poor while living it up hypocritically. On the other hand, OMERTA would like to get at them because their flock tends to be REPUBLICAN AND CONSERVATIVE, and we MUST preserve our MEDIA POLICE STATE. Unfortunately for OMERTA he and the televangelists have something in common: they'd BOTH be out of work if they couldn't tell unthinking people what to think.
Hey MR. MARK! Suppose we'd be talking CARS without that LOATHSOME PUBLICITY STUNT? Nah, didn't think so.
Free Republic -- aren't those words from the NATIONAL ANTHEM?
Free Republic -- aren't those words from the NATIONAL ANTHEM?
Saturday, September 18, 2004
MARK STEYN DOES IT AGAIN:
A few weeks ago, Prof Bernard Lewis, the great historian of the Muslim world, told Die Welt that "Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century". That seems demographically unavoidable.
Given that much of what we now know as the civilised world will be Muslim, it seems prudent to ensure that what is already the Muslim world is civilised. And, for those who say that Islam is incompatible with democracy, we might as well try to buck that in Iraq today than in France, Scandinavia and Britain the day after tomorrow.
A few weeks ago, Prof Bernard Lewis, the great historian of the Muslim world, told Die Welt that "Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century". That seems demographically unavoidable.
Given that much of what we now know as the civilised world will be Muslim, it seems prudent to ensure that what is already the Muslim world is civilised. And, for those who say that Islam is incompatible with democracy, we might as well try to buck that in Iraq today than in France, Scandinavia and Britain the day after tomorrow.
The eagerness with which so much fiction is thrown about as fact these days is dismaying, even after 50 years of seeing it all. But then, this too will pass. It always has.
...to make room for new fiction genres.
...to make room for new fiction genres.
Mitsubishi pulling the plug on network TV (pun intended) means nothing; the company's in the doldrums. Besides, the CLUNKER BROTHERS and their friends from Europe and Japan and the whole rest of THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WILLFULLY IGNORANT ADVERTISERS will come to the rescue financing so much JUNK TELEVISION it'll come out of their EARS, and certain other orifices. But this action raises a question: how much longer will our Lords and Masters continue to spend OUR MONEY on a medium and on programs we DESPISE?
Somehow I am not sorry for all the gullible bikers whose "high-end tubular cylinder locks" can be picked with a BIC.
Nor am I especially sorry for a ten-billion-dollar company with a Halliburton-type name that's HQ'd in Bermuda to escape taxes and that tries to hide its brand's provenance with an ugly Web site.
Nor am I especially sorry for a ten-billion-dollar company with a Halliburton-type name that's HQ'd in Bermuda to escape taxes and that tries to hide its brand's provenance with an ugly Web site.
An industry trembles! Broadcasters may be held accountable for disgorging tons of raw sewage into viewers' living rooms!
This is a disgrace. Don't people realize CAPITAL has RIGHTS?
Should have thought about this when you folks hired DAN BLATHER.
This is a disgrace. Don't people realize CAPITAL has RIGHTS?
Should have thought about this when you folks hired DAN BLATHER.
Now THE PAPER OF RECORD all but admits BILL DID IT!
As DAN BLATHER's arch-nemesis GEORGE I would say, we're in deep doo-doo.
As DAN BLATHER's arch-nemesis GEORGE I would say, we're in deep doo-doo.
Friday, September 17, 2004
Poor Sen. Mitchell doesn't want to run ESPNCorp's board. He wants to run STATE.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.
OMERTA whispers:
WE'RE GONNA SEND THIS @#$%&* INTO INTERNAL EXILE IF IT'S THE LAST @#$%&* THING WE DO!!!!!!!!!!
Alas, Mr. Code, it's getting tougher to believe your non-partisan gag. YOUR FRIENDS AT THE TRIB SAID IT.
WE'RE GONNA SEND THIS @#$%&* INTO INTERNAL EXILE IF IT'S THE LAST @#$%&* THING WE DO!!!!!!!!!!
Alas, Mr. Code, it's getting tougher to believe your non-partisan gag. YOUR FRIENDS AT THE TRIB SAID IT.
Shucks, the GENIUS'S masterwork, the GREATEST ARCHITECTURAL ACHIEVEMENT SINCE THE PYRAMIDS, is DEAD.
THE SHARD IS NEXT!
Elsewhere deep within the VIACON empire, someone admires MODO'S WRITING!
This is the CBS Evening News -- with JON FRIEDMAN!!!!!
This is the CBS Evening News -- with JON FRIEDMAN!!!!!
ANDY ROONEY SAYS THEY'RE FAKE!
I'd mimic Andy but it's too early in the morning. (I'd say the same thing in the afternoon or evening.)
I'd mimic Andy but it's too early in the morning. (I'd say the same thing in the afternoon or evening.)
Dubya leads by thirteen points -- and he's TIED.
Don't you just LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUVE public-opinion polls?
Don't you just LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUVE public-opinion polls?
Thursday, September 16, 2004
One reason the Miss America Pageant was ruined: it was RETOOLED.
TV critic [Bill] Goodykoontz is not a fan of the retooling, saying that tweaks this year in particular smack of desperation. The pageant has an old-timey, variety-show feel to it, he argues, and it should just be allowed to be what it is.
"It's hard to make the claim for its relevance, but I don't think that means it doesn't belong on TV," he says. "If there's room for 'Fear Factor' and 27 variations of 'The Bachelor,' and 'American Idol' ... it seems to me that once a year there is room for this."
But then THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WILLFULLY IGNORANT ADVERTISERS couldn't use words like "HIP" and "DEMOGRAPHIC."
P. S. More excellence in hackery -- practically every news organization is using heds that make it sound as if the Pageant is fifty years old. And they wonder why they face BLATHERGATES?
And speaking of heds, here's an actual one from a political par -- news organization that did almost as much to promote BLATHERGATE as DAN BLATHER:
Miss USA celebrates 50 years on TV
TV critic [Bill] Goodykoontz is not a fan of the retooling, saying that tweaks this year in particular smack of desperation. The pageant has an old-timey, variety-show feel to it, he argues, and it should just be allowed to be what it is.
"It's hard to make the claim for its relevance, but I don't think that means it doesn't belong on TV," he says. "If there's room for 'Fear Factor' and 27 variations of 'The Bachelor,' and 'American Idol' ... it seems to me that once a year there is room for this."
But then THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WILLFULLY IGNORANT ADVERTISERS couldn't use words like "HIP" and "DEMOGRAPHIC."
P. S. More excellence in hackery -- practically every news organization is using heds that make it sound as if the Pageant is fifty years old. And they wonder why they face BLATHERGATES?
And speaking of heds, here's an actual one from a political par -- news organization that did almost as much to promote BLATHERGATE as DAN BLATHER:
Miss USA celebrates 50 years on TV
[H]is strategy in the meantime is based less on building himself up than on tearing down the president.
Don't CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES get FIRED for typing things like that?
Don't CURLEY'S (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!) STOOGES get FIRED for typing things like that?
ROMY, still in a fearsome daze after the attacks on THE GREATEST, NOBLEST TRUTH-TELLER SINCE TOM PAINE, and his compatriot in agony THE OMBUDSPOOP of the TRIB, are HORRIFIED that PEOPLE MADE FUN of the DEATH OF A GREAT ARTISTE. To which I say, perhaps people wouldn't laugh at this SENSELESS DEATH if he hadn't made so much SENSELESS ART -- and if such eulogies didn't go HAND IN HAND with BLATHERGATE.
DIPPITY-DO!!!!! reportedly BOMBED before the Guardsmen, thanks in no small part to those rapes, cut-off ears, cut-off heads, etc., etc., ETC., but also because if DIP wasn't behind BLATHERGATE, he was beneath it.
A man who helped turned movies into live-action Road Runner cartoons blames -- MIDDLE MANAGERS.
HE READ YOUR DAMNED BOOK, PETER BISKIND!!!!!
HE READ YOUR DAMNED BOOK, PETER BISKIND!!!!!
Our government is intent on uglifying every last bit of our currency, as if it doesn't look fake enough already.
Oh well, I do most of my shopping with credit cards, and the nickel is following the penny down the road to uselessness.
Hand-Wringing at MGM as Sony Takeover Nears
It might have helped, folks, if your "LEGENDARY" studio really WERE MGM -- and if it had not made such enduring works of art as DE-LOVELY.
It might have helped, folks, if your "LEGENDARY" studio really WERE MGM -- and if it had not made such enduring works of art as DE-LOVELY.
Oooh, now THE PAPER OF RECORD concedes they could be possibly might be FAKE!
We're in trouuuuuuuu-BLE!
We're in trouuuuuuuu-BLE!
Wednesday, September 15, 2004
OH oh, the REBELLION has begun:
Just announced on the Chris Baker talk show:
Ken Charles, the Station Manager for 950KPRC in Houston (the largest talk station in Houston) just sent the CBS News VP all his nasty e-mails and told them that CBS will either fire Dan Rather by Monday and come completely clean on the matter or he will take CBS News off the air of his radio stations (he manages two of the largest in Houston).
He took Dan Rather's 4pm top of the hour brodcast off effective immediately and replaced it with Fox news.
He said he will find a way to cancel the CBS contract if they do not resolve this in a manner that retains their credibility as a news source.
Just one big problem: KPRC is a CHEAP CHANNEL, and this IS Texas (and SR.'s hometown), and we all know what the NEWS HACKS did about SINCLAIR when it took LORD KOPPEL OF ESPNDOM off its stations one night. Expect HEAVY POLITICKING from our FIRST AMENDMENT DEFENDERS.
Just announced on the Chris Baker talk show:
Ken Charles, the Station Manager for 950KPRC in Houston (the largest talk station in Houston) just sent the CBS News VP all his nasty e-mails and told them that CBS will either fire Dan Rather by Monday and come completely clean on the matter or he will take CBS News off the air of his radio stations (he manages two of the largest in Houston).
He took Dan Rather's 4pm top of the hour brodcast off effective immediately and replaced it with Fox news.
He said he will find a way to cancel the CBS contract if they do not resolve this in a manner that retains their credibility as a news source.
Just one big problem: KPRC is a CHEAP CHANNEL, and this IS Texas (and SR.'s hometown), and we all know what the NEWS HACKS did about SINCLAIR when it took LORD KOPPEL OF ESPNDOM off its stations one night. Expect HEAVY POLITICKING from our FIRST AMENDMENT DEFENDERS.
I should have known: just another statement.
I think the ZONNNNNNNNNNNNN, YAHWEH and O&A are in on this; it has their grimy fingerprints. AND SUMNER OKAYED THE STATEMENT.
I think the ZONNNNNNNNNNNNN, YAHWEH and O&A are in on this; it has their grimy fingerprints. AND SUMNER OKAYED THE STATEMENT.
Hmmm, P. R. MIKE'S MASTERPIECE is showing in IRAN -- and it's not having quite the effect he probably hoped for:
On Tuesday night the film was sold out and the theatre packed with close to 380 people, most of them young. Many admitted they were just out to watch an American film, and not that one in particular.
"I love to see foreign films on the big screen, and I never miss Farhang cinema shows no matter what is on," said Sima Gharavi, a 24-year-old dressed in a short bright blue coat rather than the more conservative all-black attire.
But she hastened to complain that "out of all the films people would love to see, the authorities had to go for this one -- just because this film is in line with the view of the Islamic regime."
And despite sporadic laughs here and there, most of Moore's sardonic humour appeared to fall flat. The end of the film was also greeted with some half-hearted clapping.
"The problem is the subtitles," said Sogol Zand, an English teacher. "The jokes are not as funny."
Others, obviously out for a rare taste of Hollywood entertainment, disagreed.
"It was just too political. I was bored from the middle, and I wished we had gone to see "Kill Bill" instead," said one young man, referring to the trendy Quentin Tarantino flick also being shown.
But those of the older generation appeared to relate well to the film, which succeeded in sparking some vigorous after-show chatter.
"I saw it as an Iranian who has also lived in America," said Kourosh Amini, a man in his 50s.
"It perfectly depicted the realities of American life, and they have to learn what war really looks like."
And even though his twenty-something son quipped in to say he was "disappointed" by the film and asserted "politics is not as important" for Iran's younger generation, he did envy Moore's position.
"It sure is a great country, where someone like Moore trashes the president and gets away with it -- and makes so much money!" he laughed.
And someday your country will be great again -- WITHOUT AYATOLLAHS.
On Tuesday night the film was sold out and the theatre packed with close to 380 people, most of them young. Many admitted they were just out to watch an American film, and not that one in particular.
"I love to see foreign films on the big screen, and I never miss Farhang cinema shows no matter what is on," said Sima Gharavi, a 24-year-old dressed in a short bright blue coat rather than the more conservative all-black attire.
But she hastened to complain that "out of all the films people would love to see, the authorities had to go for this one -- just because this film is in line with the view of the Islamic regime."
And despite sporadic laughs here and there, most of Moore's sardonic humour appeared to fall flat. The end of the film was also greeted with some half-hearted clapping.
"The problem is the subtitles," said Sogol Zand, an English teacher. "The jokes are not as funny."
Others, obviously out for a rare taste of Hollywood entertainment, disagreed.
"It was just too political. I was bored from the middle, and I wished we had gone to see "Kill Bill" instead," said one young man, referring to the trendy Quentin Tarantino flick also being shown.
But those of the older generation appeared to relate well to the film, which succeeded in sparking some vigorous after-show chatter.
"I saw it as an Iranian who has also lived in America," said Kourosh Amini, a man in his 50s.
"It perfectly depicted the realities of American life, and they have to learn what war really looks like."
And even though his twenty-something son quipped in to say he was "disappointed" by the film and asserted "politics is not as important" for Iran's younger generation, he did envy Moore's position.
"It sure is a great country, where someone like Moore trashes the president and gets away with it -- and makes so much money!" he laughed.
And someday your country will be great again -- WITHOUT AYATOLLAHS.
A thought: what if this goes against the grain of thinking and proves a GOP dirty trick? If there's one thing to the post 9-11 world it's that anything can happen, the screwier the more likely. And enough people (especially in the pajama party) are so thoroughly convinced it was a liberal or Democrat, just as Danno is so thoroughly convinced the documents are real, that they're setting themselves up for a big gotcha. News hacks would be dancing on air for months. Such a possibility seems unlikely given the evidence to date (mostly from MS Word and Photoshop) and Danno's blazing liberal partisanship, but consider the old saying, I don't care if he's an SOB so long as he's my SOB. On the other hand, I must bring up Don Keough's line about New Coke; whoever did this is not that dumb and not that smart.
Well, not that smart, anyway.
I think I can see why STERNO's mad. But he ditched his boat when he pledged his allegiance to YAHWEH -- the man who created SIXTY MINUTES THE SECOND.
Well, not that smart, anyway.
I think I can see why STERNO's mad. But he ditched his boat when he pledged his allegiance to YAHWEH -- the man who created SIXTY MINUTES THE SECOND.
Headline of the Day from grammatically-challenged (among other things) REUTERS:
Israel Kills 10 People, Says Not Following Roadmap
Israel Kills 10 People, Says Not Following Roadmap
NHL will lock out players beginning Thursday
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
VIACON NETWORK NEWS was supposed to issue "a statement" at noon. It's now going to issue "a statement" at 3:30. I wouldn't be surprised if the higher-ups (THE LORD GOD SUMNER, perhaps?) are demanding a retraction, and KENNETH's standing his ever-shakier ground. Thus I wouldn't be surprised if the day ends with DAN BLATHER relinquishing his throne as our modern-day MURROW and handing the crown to Girly-Man Roberts.
Then again, it might just issue "a statement."
Then again, it might just issue "a statement."
I'm sure we are pleased to know that Jessica Simpson has landed a role in the movie version of The Dukes of Hazzard.
Humorous though this is, I must repeat, in a different way: Comic book movies and Dan Blather's lies come from THE SAME FOUL MEDIA WELL.
And a big fat demerit to whatever this site is for inflicting THREE POP-UPS on me.
Humorous though this is, I must repeat, in a different way: Comic book movies and Dan Blather's lies come from THE SAME FOUL MEDIA WELL.
And a big fat demerit to whatever this site is for inflicting THREE POP-UPS on me.
"YOU CAN HAVE INFORMATION ANARCHY! YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE!!! WE HAVE TO PUT SOME SCRUTINY ON THE BLOGGERS!!!!!"
Hhmph. RIFF-RAFF!
Hhmph. RIFF-RAFF!
An amanuensis of SHAKESPEARE is DEAD!
Can you imagine the screaming and wailing from NEWSHACKDOM when the BARD GOES?
Almost as loud as the teeth gnashing over DAN BLATHER.
Can you imagine the screaming and wailing from NEWSHACKDOM when the BARD GOES?
Almost as loud as the teeth gnashing over DAN BLATHER.
I believe we have officially reached the point where we can trust nothing DAN BLATHER says -- including A and THE.
I am not surprised Tom Shallows, er, SHALES raved this.
I am not surprised Tom Shallows, er, SHALES raved this.
Absolutely NOTHING to do with OMERTA's love of DIPPITY-DO!!!!! and GRAFFITI, or a certain groveling OMBUDSPOOP saying let's not call terrorists terrorists:
Tribune Warns 3Q Income Will Fall Short
Tribune Warns 3Q Income Will Fall Short
"I don't want this to be seen as a gimmick movie."
Sorry, an animated "GRAPHICAL NOVEL" sounds like a gimmick to me.
Sorry, an animated "GRAPHICAL NOVEL" sounds like a gimmick to me.
OMERTA calls graffiti an art form, and a particularly sacred place where the art is painted a "shrine."
I wonder when we'll find out you folks have cooked your circulation, MERT?
I wonder when we'll find out you folks have cooked your circulation, MERT?
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreak out the bubblehhhhhhhh: HAHVAHD MUTUAL FUND is BIGGER and RICHER than EVER!
Though not necessarily its INVESTORS.
Though not necessarily its INVESTORS.
"IT'S THE WRONG WAR IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME!!!!!!!!!!"
I've a hunch DIPPITY-DO!!!!! is pretty WRONG himself -- especially for one who once believed the war was RIGHT.
I've a hunch DIPPITY-DO!!!!! is pretty WRONG himself -- especially for one who once believed the war was RIGHT.
NBC Nightly News Anchor Tom Brokaw To Deliver Keynote Address at RTNDA Awards Dinner
WASHINGTON--NBC’s Tom Brokaw will deliver the keynote address at the Radio-Television News Directors Association’s Awards Dinner next month in New York. RTNDA will honor winners of the Edward R. Murrow Awards and the RTNDA/UNITY Awards on October 4 at the Grand Hyatt New York.
Brokaw, who is stepping down later this year from his post on the NBC Nightly News, has had a distinguished 38-year career at NBC, including more than 20 years as the anchor and managing editor of the evening newscast.
NBC will pick up three awards at the dinner, including one for David Bloom’s coverage of the war in Iraq. Melanie Bloom will accept the award for her late husband.
Also making remarks at the dinner are these award recipients:
The RTNDA/UNITY Awards honor news organizations for their commitment to covering diversity. Visit www.rtnda.org/news/2004/070804.shtml for the five winners. For more information on the RTNDA Awards Dinner, visit www.rtnda.org/asfi/awards/dinner.shtml.
RTNDA is the world’s largest professional organization devoted exclusively to electronic journalism. RTNDA represents local and network news executives in broadcasting, cable and other electronic media in more than 30 countries.
WHAT? WE WORRY?
WASHINGTON--NBC’s Tom Brokaw will deliver the keynote address at the Radio-Television News Directors Association’s Awards Dinner next month in New York. RTNDA will honor winners of the Edward R. Murrow Awards and the RTNDA/UNITY Awards on October 4 at the Grand Hyatt New York.
Brokaw, who is stepping down later this year from his post on the NBC Nightly News, has had a distinguished 38-year career at NBC, including more than 20 years as the anchor and managing editor of the evening newscast.
NBC will pick up three awards at the dinner, including one for David Bloom’s coverage of the war in Iraq. Melanie Bloom will accept the award for her late husband.
Also making remarks at the dinner are these award recipients:
- Peter Jennings, anchor and senior editor, ABC World News Tonight, who won two awards, one for Newscast and one for News Documentary for The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy.
- Dan Rather, anchor and managing editor, CBS Evening News, whose network won the award for Overall Excellence.
RTNDA’s Edward R. Murrow Awards, now in their 34th year, honor excellence in electronic journalism. This year, 53 news organizations won 74 awards out of an initial pool of 3,182 entries from 552 news organizations. Visit www.rtnda.org/asfi/awards/murrowshow2004.asp for winners.
The RTNDA/UNITY Awards honor news organizations for their commitment to covering diversity. Visit www.rtnda.org/news/2004/070804.shtml for the five winners. For more information on the RTNDA Awards Dinner, visit www.rtnda.org/asfi/awards/dinner.shtml.
RTNDA is the world’s largest professional organization devoted exclusively to electronic journalism. RTNDA represents local and network news executives in broadcasting, cable and other electronic media in more than 30 countries.
WHAT? WE WORRY?
TRANSLATION: WE NEWS HACKS ONLY DO FAVORS FOR OUR KIND.
FURTHER TRANSLATION: If the Swifties did it there wouldn't be an INQUIRING HACK nor a CAMERA or MICROPHONE in the ROOM. This is why DANNO was in trouble as much as MS WORD.
FURTHER TRANSLATION: If the Swifties did it there wouldn't be an INQUIRING HACK nor a CAMERA or MICROPHONE in the ROOM. This is why DANNO was in trouble as much as MS WORD.
I HATE THIS STORY. It's all "WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME" -- what's in it for the "lucky" new-car owners, what's in it for the SENIOR CLUNKER BROTHER, what's in it for the TV news do's flogging the story for the ratings, what's in it for VIACON, and especially, what's in it for THE QUEEN OF MAUDLIN SLEAZE.
After helping to destroy untold downtown business districts with its cookie-cutter shopping-mall stores, one of our biggest retailers is putting cookie-cutter names on the cookie-cutter stores.
FREE ENTERPRISE AT WORK!
FREE ENTERPRISE AT WORK!
"THE APPRENTICE" CAST TO APPEAR ON TRUMP WORLD COVER!!!!!!!!!!
Romy falls back into his deep, deep, DEEP SLEEP.
Romy falls back into his deep, deep, DEEP SLEEP.
Another UNBIASED NEWS SOURCE goes BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!!!!!:
Florida neurologist Marc Swerdloff was taken aback when one of his patients with advanced dementia voted in the 2000 presidential election. The man thought it was 1942 and Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. The patient's wife revealed that she had escorted her husband into the booth.
"I said 'Did he pick?' and she said 'No, I picked for him,' " Swerdloff said. "I felt bad. She essentially voted twice" in the Florida election, which gave George W. Bush a 537-vote victory and the White House. [Optional sound effect here: BOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!]
SO THAT'S IT! DEMENTED GEEZERS VOTED FRANKLIN W. BUSH INTO THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!
(Oh well, the unbiased source did admit Danno was caught with faked memos, so we'll give them half a BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!)
Florida neurologist Marc Swerdloff was taken aback when one of his patients with advanced dementia voted in the 2000 presidential election. The man thought it was 1942 and Franklin D. Roosevelt was president. The patient's wife revealed that she had escorted her husband into the booth.
"I said 'Did he pick?' and she said 'No, I picked for him,' " Swerdloff said. "I felt bad. She essentially voted twice" in the Florida election, which gave George W. Bush a 537-vote victory and the White House. [Optional sound effect here: BOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!]
SO THAT'S IT! DEMENTED GEEZERS VOTED FRANKLIN W. BUSH INTO THE WHITE HOUSE!!!!!
(Oh well, the unbiased source did admit Danno was caught with faked memos, so we'll give them half a BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!)
Sorry, the sun will never set on media empires; it will only slightly shift its position in the sky.
TRANSLATION: Now movies WILL be indistinguishable from video games.
Repeat: WHAT NEWS HACKS DON'T SPIN, THEY SELL.
Repeat: WHAT NEWS HACKS DON'T SPIN, THEY SELL.
LAUGH OF THE DAY:
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STORIES YOU CAN STOP READING AFTER THE THIRD PARAGRAPH:
When President Bush arrives in Las Vegas today to address a convention of National Guardsmen, a group of families will be there as well, intent on protesting the Iraq war and a president who they say used his Guard service to avoid combat....
The demonstrators said they were not supporters of Sen. John F. Kerry....
Oh I'm absolutely SURE they aren't. Right DIP? Right DANNO? RIGHT, OMERTA?
Wanna bet this is the LEAD on the VIACON NETWORK EVENING FIBS?
When President Bush arrives in Las Vegas today to address a convention of National Guardsmen, a group of families will be there as well, intent on protesting the Iraq war and a president who they say used his Guard service to avoid combat....
The demonstrators said they were not supporters of Sen. John F. Kerry....
Oh I'm absolutely SURE they aren't. Right DIP? Right DANNO? RIGHT, OMERTA?
Wanna bet this is the LEAD on the VIACON NETWORK EVENING FIBS?
Monday, September 13, 2004
I must confess of all the oddball phenomena to come out of Japan I find Hello Kitty quite endearing. We may call this the Beanie Baby craze of the east, but unlike the shapeless, formless, charmless Babies the Kitty is, shall I say, awwww-inspiring (although some may call it a feline smiley face without the smile -- true enough, but somehow it's still cute), and if it is the thing of little girls (and big girls who must act little, like BRITNEY), it is playful and affectionate, the stuff that (until recently) distinguished them from dirty little boys.
One should have KNOWN L'AFFAIRE BLATHER would come to nothing when BLOGGERS started obsessing over TYPEWRITERS.
Then again, MAYBE NOT.
Then again, MAYBE NOT.
The words "journalism code of ethics" in a Google search (no quotation marks): 96,000 hits.
Pages to THE PAPER OF RECORD's Code of Ethics: 57.
Meaningless codes produce partisan news.
Pages to THE PAPER OF RECORD's Code of Ethics: 57.
Meaningless codes produce partisan news.
Kerry: I'll 'Take on the Terrorists' with Gun Control
GET 'EM DIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Sorry for the NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
GET 'EM DIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Sorry for the NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
One wonders when the HACKS will do with TATTOOS what they've done with GRAFFITI -- an ART form, FREEDOM of EXPRESSION, INDIVIDUALITY, blahblahblah.
Evidently they're NOT buying that BUNCOMBE in the OFFICE.
P. S. How many of the LUXURY NEWS SUITES have DRESS CODES?
Evidently they're NOT buying that BUNCOMBE in the OFFICE.
P. S. How many of the LUXURY NEWS SUITES have DRESS CODES?
MmmmmmhmhmmhmhmhmmhmhmYAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWN...oh. What time is it? What's today's date? September 13, 1984?!?!? Hmmm, I'd better to do some work, hmhmhmhmmm...oh, here it is:
CBS still insists Bush military record memos are authentic
See? Ol' Rip Romenesko REMEMBERS! He he he!
CBS still insists Bush military record memos are authentic
See? Ol' Rip Romenesko REMEMBERS! He he he!
Shucks, maybe the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL KARL ROVE WAS behind it:
No matter how it turns out, for now the controversy over the documents has blunted criticism of Bush's Guard record, which has been a persistent irritant for Bush since he first campaigned for the White House. It has sapped the power from an issue that had appeared to be a weapon for the Democrats against Bush.
Esepcially since we hacks did everything in our power to ignore the SWIFT BOATERS.
No matter how it turns out, for now the controversy over the documents has blunted criticism of Bush's Guard record, which has been a persistent irritant for Bush since he first campaigned for the White House. It has sapped the power from an issue that had appeared to be a weapon for the Democrats against Bush.
Esepcially since we hacks did everything in our power to ignore the SWIFT BOATERS.
Sunday, September 12, 2004
How often since L'Affaire BLATHER hit the fan have Freepers posted a version of this:
(VIACON, please note, has since spun off Blockbuster and changed TNN to Spike TV.)
When the LORD GOD SUMNERS tried to sell the world on SYNERGY one of the tricks they had was to convince easily gullible news hacks and their separated-at-birth twins the sales -- ANALYSTS that the idea of one big company owning so many media outlets was a kind of in-joke; you know who owns what, and we know who owns what, but by obscuring the corporate identity of all our outlets THE PUBLIC wouldn't know -- all the better to play a great big PRACTICAL JOKE on them.
That won't work any more. When one media outlet in a SUPERTOWER OF BABBLE does wrong, the whole company is besmirched, as it should be. Thus when a VIACON stages sex in a Catholic church, or exposes Ms. Boob, or tells lies to elect DIPPITY-DO, every finger points straight to the top, and to the WHOLE. Corporate responsibility is nothing when no one is accountable, and part of the trick of SYNERGY was to see to precisely that. (That also holds true, sorry to say FREEPERS, for RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, who owns The Weekly Standard and FX. He's played tricks even longer than the LORD GOD SUMNER, and he's not as old.) Unfortunately, GOD, thanks to your never-ending ANTICS we ceased being that gullible a long time ago.
P. S. I got this version of VIACON'S boast off an Indymedia affiliate -- from a screed demanding a boycott of the company for CENSORING THE REAGANS. And as Internet denizens know too well, six of one is not half a dozen of the other when your enemy does it.
(VIACON, please note, has since spun off Blockbuster and changed TNN to Spike TV.)
When the LORD GOD SUMNERS tried to sell the world on SYNERGY one of the tricks they had was to convince easily gullible news hacks and their separated-at-birth twins the sales -- ANALYSTS that the idea of one big company owning so many media outlets was a kind of in-joke; you know who owns what, and we know who owns what, but by obscuring the corporate identity of all our outlets THE PUBLIC wouldn't know -- all the better to play a great big PRACTICAL JOKE on them.
That won't work any more. When one media outlet in a SUPERTOWER OF BABBLE does wrong, the whole company is besmirched, as it should be. Thus when a VIACON stages sex in a Catholic church, or exposes Ms. Boob, or tells lies to elect DIPPITY-DO, every finger points straight to the top, and to the WHOLE. Corporate responsibility is nothing when no one is accountable, and part of the trick of SYNERGY was to see to precisely that. (That also holds true, sorry to say FREEPERS, for RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, who owns The Weekly Standard and FX. He's played tricks even longer than the LORD GOD SUMNER, and he's not as old.) Unfortunately, GOD, thanks to your never-ending ANTICS we ceased being that gullible a long time ago.
P. S. I got this version of VIACON'S boast off an Indymedia affiliate -- from a screed demanding a boycott of the company for CENSORING THE REAGANS. And as Internet denizens know too well, six of one is not half a dozen of the other when your enemy does it.
Someone should tell these young beauties: that blotch of blue just above your behind may not look so sexy to your doctor when you're 50.
How many of the homemade banners at today's VIACON NETWORK-broadcast NFL games will make fun of DAN BLATHER?
Slime Time Live
In your face: Fueled by shadowy cash, the attacks get uglier and uglier.
Wait a second -- didn't ST. WARREN anoint CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM a HOLY PANACEA?
In your face: Fueled by shadowy cash, the attacks get uglier and uglier.
Wait a second -- didn't ST. WARREN anoint CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM a HOLY PANACEA?
The North Koreans are up to no good. Get your geiger counters out.
What would YOU do about it, RICHIE RICH?!?!?
What would YOU do about it, RICHIE RICH?!?!?