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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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?
