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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Posted
5:57 PM
by Gene
I feel that louse and a flea line coming on. Why must Viacon Network News be in the bug-breeding biz?
Posted
5:36 PM
by Gene
Ted Koppel to Leave ABC News [heded, by the way, as an "ENTERTAINMENT" story]
Studies Show Rats Enjoy Tickling
Posted
5:34 PM
by Gene
One good bloviation deserves another!
Posted
5:07 PM
by Gene
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5:06 PM
by Gene
TRANSLATION: The movie BOMBED so we'll just stuff the video with all the outtakes.
Posted
5:01 PM
by Gene
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2:32 PM
by Gene
Nilchii writes "The Guardian has an article about implanting electrodes in the brain, allowing paralyzed people to control various software-integrated devices, such as the cursor on a computer and the channel and volume of his television. From the article: 'The experiment took place a few months ago as part of a broader trial into what are known in the business as brain-computer interfaces. Although it is early days, aficionados of the technology see a world where brain implants return ability to those with disability, allowing them to control all manner of devices by thought alone.'" The BBC has coverage of this as well, and we've mentioned this research before.
I'm not crazy about the Frankensteining of humans, but I'm not crazy about judges, people whose job titles include the word ethics, and NEWS HACKS playing God either.
Posted
1:14 PM
by Gene
Honest, Romy, that you've inspired four posts today does not mean you're scintillating, it means you have an uncanny way of seeking out what's risible in the news biz, and that your brain has the consistency and pliability of reinforced concrete.
Posted
1:09 PM
by Gene
P. S. He's not retiring, actually -- he's just quitting ESPNCorp. One guesses in time he and his NIGHTSHIFT partner Tom will acquire a few foundation (and TAX) dollars and do what GOD did, build an Everest he can scale regularly to hector the CONSERVATIVES, whom he'll feel less of a compunction not to anger, if he ever had one.
Posted
11:12 AM
by Gene
Better spin off that printer biz FAST.
Posted
10:52 AM
by Gene
Thankfully your link says nothing of suicide. CW LIVES!
Posted
10:31 AM
by Gene
"Journalism is an attempt by people who are independent of other institutions to understand and explain the world to people."
This from an ULTRA-PC JERNALISM PROF who thinks BUSH=HIT...oh never mind.
Of course nobody in this biz is "independent." Bob has his ideological crutches like NOAM, RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!S have their ideological crutches like SNIDELY WHIPLASH, and Bob and RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! are agreed on the essential: THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED. WE'D RATHER DEMAGOGUE.
Posted
10:11 AM
by Gene
Yep, some people wither and die when subjected to PLAIN SPEAKING.
Arthur A. Hartman, ambassador to France and the Soviet Union under Presidents Carter and Reagan and assistant secretary of state for European affairs under President Nixon...James F. Leonard, deputy ambassador to the U.N. in the Ford and Carter administrations; Princeton [!] N. Lyman, ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria under Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton; Monteagle [!!] Stearns, ambassador to Greece and Ivory Coast in the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations; and Spurgeon M. Keeny Jr. [!!!], deputy director of the Arms Control Agency in the Carter administration....
All say ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-ka-CHING!
Posted
10:00 AM
by Gene
Okay BUB, you got the MONEY, but one thing we hope you may have trouble finding is PEACE OF MIND.
Waiting for that AUTOPSY of yours, BUB.
One good thing: we won't have to hear this story any more -- at least until the AUTOPSY.
Posted
9:48 AM
by Gene
I SAY IT'S SPINACH, AND I SAY THE HELL WITH IT.
Hey why don't you start that A&E TAB in PHILLY, KNIGHT? If it'll put a paper or two of yours OUT OF BIZ.
Posted
9:00 AM
by Gene
Well ROCK CONCERTS give a city ELAN. And ELAN is what you need to attract TOURISTS. AND TOURISTS are what you need to hire all the MAIDS and JANITORS and BELLHOPS and DISHWASHERS you need to bring a city into da 21ST-CENTURY ECONOMY.
Posted
8:47 AM
by Gene
Board consultants contend CEO pay would have been even higher if not for more diligence. "Directors are giving a lot more consideration to what they're handing out," says Blair Jones of Sibson Consulting.
Veteran board consultant Ira Kay of Watson Wyatt agrees. "Keep in mind that what executives are asking for is quite a bit more than what compensation committees are giving. So it could have been worse."
In other words, instead of getting $50 mill, they could have gotten $200 mill. I'm impressed.
Where's CALPERS when you need it?
Posted
8:41 AM
by Gene
A PLAGUE O' BOTH YOUR PAPERS.
Posted
6:43 AM
by Gene
The state plans to investigate billions worth of school building construction across the state for budgets far beyond the amounts the state originally approved and extravagant spending on routine items.
Oh, you were expecting things on BUDGET in EDYUKAYSHUN?
Posted
6:29 AM
by Gene
There is only one answer, OMERTA: SLANT MORE!
Posted
6:25 AM
by Gene
A certain kind of knee-jerk liberal will NEVER find THIS type of prejudice objectionable.
Posted
3:20 PM
by Gene
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3:10 PM
by Gene
Shucks, the WHOLE WORLD was rooting for you, Pat -- and I was hoping for a good laugh.
Posted
2:58 PM
by Gene
Student hits Weekly Standard's Kristol with pie during talk [Romy's hed]
UNFORTUNATELY:
Most in audience embarrassed by student's action
Naz -- REACTIONARY RIGHT-WING RED STATERS!
(I see someone from this college has briefly glanced at my blog. I don't want you folks to think I think anything bad of you for being embarrassed -- I have a way with heavy-handed irony -- but certain PUNDITS have this habit of cogitating with their KNEES, and said pie-thrower may be immortalized tomorrow by THE GLIBERAL, or JOE CON-ASON, or someone else of that extremely enlightened ILK.)
Posted
2:54 PM
by Gene
Posted
2:51 PM
by Gene
David Lieberman, AL NEUHARTH $ALUTE$ YOU!!!!!
Posted
2:44 PM
by Gene
TRANSLATION: C-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-c-count me in!
Which is worse: a LAW-SKIRTING SLEAZEBALL like SNIDELY WHIPLASH, or a PREENING CHICKEN like CHRIS SHAYS?
Posted
2:28 PM
by Gene
Posted
8:58 AM
by Gene
But for ST. WARREN's sake don't EVER STOP TELLING THE TRUTH!!!!!
Posted
8:45 AM
by Gene
Which brings up an idea: if the NHL ever gets started it should have a new name -- the National Lockout League.
If this were the NFL this would be an extra $200 billion.
Posted
8:42 AM
by Gene
We should have staged a quiet war.
Posted
8:37 AM
by Gene
Pfffffffffffffffffffffffft!!!!!
Posted
8:35 AM
by Gene
I'm STILL leaving.
Posted
8:34 AM
by Gene
For starters, buy insurance from someone else.
Posted
8:30 AM
by Gene
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12:18 PM
by Gene
Or worse -- it's a TV SHOW.
OR MAYBE A PIECE OF [C]RAP.
Posted
11:42 AM
by Gene
What hath ADMEN wrought!
Posted
11:16 AM
by Gene
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11:01 AM
by Gene
Posted
9:28 AM
by Gene
Thanks for what it's WORTH, Wall Street JOURNALS.
Posted
8:47 AM
by Gene
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8:43 AM
by Gene
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8:27 AM
by Gene
And a big fat DEMERIT to the drone who wrote that misleading hed; we thought for once we might get something different. Something DIFFERENT from ST. WARREN?
Posted
9:56 PM
by Gene
@#$%*& KADIDDLEBLOG!!!!!
Posted
9:29 PM
by Gene
I know he merely acts as a platform for Blogads, but is it so wise for a law professor to be endorsing what after all is trademark infringement? This isn't an obvious parody of a trademark that one might excuse on satiric grounds, this is a flat out expropriation of someone's intellectual property. I have no brief for PepsiCo (with its PROUD MEMBERSHIP in the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF WILLFULLY IGNORANT ADVERTISERS and once-financing of HEZBOLLAH TV I've heaped it with SCORN) nor animus for the GOP, but if stealing music is a crime so is stealing a trademark. And this, sad to say, IS stealing, and what's more, stealing for PROFIT.
Posted
5:12 PM
by Gene
I will say nothing about this hed other than that it's rich in irony.
Posted
5:01 PM
by Gene
And as for clout, can Senators with such frumpy faces REALLY have any?
Posted
1:24 PM
by Gene
In other news of bloated corporate bureaucracies that finance JUNK TELEVISION, JUNK SURVEY SAID --
46% OF POLL RESPONDENTS SAY GENERAL MOTORS CAN'T BE FIXED
But these are ad-agency types, and they should know. THEY HELPED BREAK IT.
Posted
12:26 PM
by Gene
In a sense, Allen's Manhattan has become a cultural prison-island, where you can check in but never leave and where the collective guilt isn't criminal behavior, it's self-absorption and haute pretentiousness. The morality is relative: Extramarital affairs and hypocrisy, for instance, are punch lines and realistic quandaries rather than sins.
This climate is as rarefied and anemic as the way these New Yorkers most likely consider Appalachian life: an inbred inflexibility to outside ideas, a feeling of insular sanctimoniousness. Allen's New Yorkers may not twang tinny guitars in the mountains, but they clamor to watch Bartok string quartets with similarly reflexive reverence. There, I've said it: Woody Allen's people have become urbane rednecks.
Would this also apply to OUTER NEW YORKS as well?
Posted
12:10 PM
by Gene
From the ancient Greeks up through opera, folk songs, detective novels and television, entertainment media have focused on excess, that is, behavior beyond normal standards, as a way of making a point.
Audiences get this. Rap audiences get this. If violent lyrics really had the direct impact its critics warn about, America's streets would be knee-deep in dead rap fans - just as movie theaters would have been knee-deep in corpses after "Beverly Hills Cop" and living rooms every Sunday night after "Deadwood."
So! [C]RAP is as good as "the ancient Greeks, opera, folk songs, and detective novels" at the very LEAST. And Dave, that knee-deep gag is NOT original. Just because you and your fellow hermetically-sealed adjective spewers like [C]RAP for reasons largely PC and reverse-snobbish doesn't mean I have to like it. And YES potential AARP member, I know ALL ABOUT REV, and to me he's STILL a DEMAGOGUE, but even DEMAGOGUES CAN OCCASIONALLY BE RIGHT.
Posted
10:35 AM
by Gene
...[N]o one disagrees that Grokster is bad.
Q. What makes it so bad?
A. Their business is based on stealing....
You stand corrected. Their business is based on stealing ILLEGALLY. YOUR business is based on stealing LEGALLY.
Posted
9:43 AM
by Gene
BLOGGERS require no journalistic experience. All they need is computer access and the desire to blog. There are other, even important differences between bloggers and mainstream journalists, perhaps the most significant being that bloggers pride themselves on being part of an unmediated medium, giving their readers unfiltered information. And therein lies the problem.
When I or virtually any other mainstream journalist writes something, it goes through several filters before the reader sees it. At least four experienced Times editors will have examined this column, for example. They will have checked it for accuracy, fairness, grammar, taste and libel, among other things.
Which explains why every America's news organizations make untold errors and slant endless slants EVERY SINGLE DAY -- to audiences vastly larger than even KOS'S.
If I'm careless — if I am guilty of what the courts call a "reckless disregard for the truth" — The Times could be sued for libel … and could lose a lot of money.
Or we could be careless for a HIGHER TRUTH -- your boss is OMERTA -- and merely annoy our readers into canceling their subscriptions (fat chance). Besides for every libel suit are hundreds of advertisers willing to finance your rag's fearsome BIASES and PREJUDICES.
Blogging won't cure cancer. But the way it's practiced these days NEITHER WILL JERNALISM.
Posted
9:26 AM
by Gene
Oooooooooooh, WALTER "SPYWARE" WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!!, THEY DON'T LIKE YOU!
Posted
8:16 AM
by Gene
FIRE THE WHOLE STAFF OF BLUNDER!!!!!
Posted
8:07 AM
by Gene
(IF you can believe EMMETT.)
Posted
5:06 PM
by Gene
Why not? This has transcended the personal into cheap, sleazy politics. We ceased long ago talking about a frail human being and started talking into our belly buttons. As I've said, this is a typical story for our time -- no heroes, and one all-purpose victim.
Posted
12:36 PM
by Gene
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them."
--Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.
"From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice."
--Jefferson to James Monroe, 1816.
"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure."
--Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823.
"I deplore...the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief....This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit."
--Jefferson to Walter Jones, 1814.
"The press [is] the only tocsin of a nation. [When it] is completely silenced... all means of a general effort [are] taken away."
--Jefferson to Thomas Cooper, Nov 29, 1802.
"The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false."
--Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807.
"To preserve the freedom of the human mind... and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement."
--Jefferson to William Green Munford, 1799.
"Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."
--Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1819.
"Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it."
--Jefferson to John Jay, 1786.
"As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers."
--Jefferson to Barnabas Bidwell, 1806.
We should note that most of his huzzahs to the press date from before, and most of his boos date from after, a Jefferson flack named Callender, feeling slighted, "reported" that Jeff had had relations with a slave. One of the great Jefferson's unfortunate flaws was his ability to take multiple positions on any topic, and for that reason it is surprising the NEWS HACKS don't cite him more often. With L'Affaire Hemings he'd be the perfect spokesman.
P. S. Oh well, he DID say this:
"Weighing all probabilities of expense as well as of income, there is reasonable ground of confidence that we may now safely dispense with...the postage on newspapers...to facilitate the progress of information."
--Jefferson, First Annual Message, 1801.
Hear THAT, Wall Street Journals? Hear THAT, PINCH?
(A thank you to Eyler Robert Coates Sr. for having compiled this.)
Posted
12:02 PM
by Gene
Journalists must avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety as well as any conflict of interest or the appearance of conflict. They should neither accept anything nor pursue any activity that might compromise or seem to compromise their integrity.
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To be impartial does not require the press to be unquestioning or to refrain from editorial expression. Sound practice, however, demands a clear distinction for the reader between news reports and opinion. Articles that contain opinion or personal interpretation should be clearly identified.
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The newspaper should guard against inaccuracies, carelessness, bias or distortion through emphasis, omission or technological manipulation.
It should acknowledge substantive errors and correct them promptly and prominently.
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The newspaper should strive for impartial treatment of issues and dispassionate handling of controversial subjects. It should provide a forum for the exchange of comment and criticism, especially when such comment is opposed to its editorial positions. Editorials and expressions of personal opinion by reporters and editors should be clearly labeled. Advertising should be differentiated from news.
The newspaper should report the news without regard for its own interests, mindful of the need to disclose potential conflicts. It should not give favored news treatment to advertisers or special-interest groups.
It should report matters regarding itself or its personnel with the same vigor and candor as it would other institutions or individuals. Concern for community, business or personal interests should not cause the newspaper to distort or misrepresent the facts.
The newspaper should deal honestly with readers and newsmakers. It should keep its promises.
The newspaper should not plagiarize words or images.
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Professional electronic journalists should pursue truth aggressively and present the news accurately, in context, and as completely as possible.
Professional electronic journalists should:
Continuously seek the truth.
Resist distortions that obscure the importance of events.
Clearly disclose the origin of information and label all material provided by outsiders.
Professional electronic journalists should not:
Report anything known to be false.
Manipulate images or sounds in any way that is misleading.
Plagiarize.
Present images or sounds that are reenacted without informing the public.
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Professional electronic journalists should present the news fairly and impartially, placing primary value on significance and relevance.
Professional electronic journalists should:
Treat all subjects of news coverage with respect and dignity, showing particular compassion to victims of crime or tragedy.
Exercise special care when children are involved in a story and give children greater privacy protection than adults.
Seek to understand the diversity of their community and inform the public without bias or stereotype.
Present a diversity of expressions, opinions, and ideas in context.
Present analytical reporting based on professional perspective, not personal bias.
Respect the right to a fair trial.
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Professional electronic journalists should present the news with integrity and decency, avoiding real or perceived conflicts of interest, and respect the dignity and intelligence of the audience as well as the subjects of news.
Professional electronic journalists should:
Identify sources whenever possible. Confidential sources should be used only when it is clearly in the public interest to gather or convey important information or when a person providing information might be harmed. Journalists should keep all commitments to protect a confidential source.
Clearly label opinion and commentary.
Guard against extended coverage of events or individuals that fails to significantly advance a story, place the event in context, or add to the public knowledge.
Refrain from contacting participants in violent situations while the situation is in progress.
Use technological tools with skill and thoughtfulness, avoiding techniques that skew facts, distort reality, or sensationalize events.
Use surreptitious newsgathering techniques, including hidden cameras or microphones, only if there is no other way to obtain stories of significant public importance and only if the technique is explained to the audience.
Disseminate the private transmissions of other news organizations only with permission.
Professional electronic journalists should not:
Pay news sources who have a vested interest in a story.
Accept gifts, favors, or compensation from those who might seek to influence coverage.
Engage in activities that may compromise their integrity or independence.
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ENOUGH. But let us remember these BASE, MEANINGLESS PLATITUDES the NEXT time PINCH wants to SPIN something, or MR. MARK wants to SELL something, or the THREE STOOGES and their fellow DO's want to SPIN AND SELL something.
Posted
11:07 AM
by Gene
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10:51 AM
by Gene
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10:41 AM
by Gene
Of course OMERTA being SUPERHUMAN (or rather, EXTRAHUMAN) he may not realize that we all have a self-interested motive in us, and that on occasion we may all be slightly LESS than moral. But then the HACKS successfully toppled the Bible years ago, being the first race born WITHOUT SIN.
Posted
10:20 AM
by Gene
OR
"Thousands of ethicists and bioethicists, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on its way to becoming the justifiable, until it is finally established as the unexceptional."
Posted
10:02 AM
by Gene
Still we can GUESS its politics, even WITHOUT a subscription. We can delude ourselves that NEWS HACKS have entered into their French royal family end time phase, serving generous quantities of CAKE, with the people as the rabble demanding revolution.
But then we all know what France got: the Reign of Terror -- and a shrimp-sized dictator who hid his hand in his coat.
Posted
9:55 AM
by Gene
BLUNDER may make DEATH and TAXES into an unholy TRIUMVIRATE.
Posted
9:50 AM
by Gene
Again, the story behind the story is far more interesting, but news hacks being news hacks we'll never learn it, for it centers on their ability to take a bribe without any money passing. Still, we are heartened (ahem!) that's it's again possible to speak of LEGENDARY WELCH without shame, and we can only assume Danny Boy has bigger and better things on his mind, much like his comrade in withered arms JOHN BYRNE JR.
TRANSLATION: This is straight out of the wrong end of the BLUNDER'S alimentary canal.
Posted
4:15 PM
by Gene
Posted
1:00 PM
by Gene
Unfortunately we know the answer -- FOREVER.
Posted
12:52 PM
by Gene
Henning was born on a farm in Missouri on Sept. 16, 1911 and grew up in Independence. As a teenager, he worked behind the soda fountain at Brown's Drugstore, where he met Harry Truman, who advised the young boy to become a lawyer, his daughter said.
We are tempted to say something but will merely hold our peace.
Posted
12:35 PM
by Gene
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In a major policy shift, the United States announced Friday it would sell F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan, rewarding an ally but angering its neighbor and rival, India.
Citing their gratitude for Pakistan's help against Islamic militants, U.S. officials said they would authorize the sale of at least 24 of the fighters in a package of aircraft and maintenance services worth about $1.5 billion.
Hey CONDI! You trying out for GENERAL II?
Posted
12:24 PM
by Gene
And the public's reaction to terrorist attacks stood in contrast to REUTERS calling them the work of "militants," "guerillas," "insurgents," and "another man's freedom fighters."
REPEAT AFTER ME: COMPUTER -- C-O-M-P-U-T-E-R....
Posted
12:14 PM
by Gene
TE-le-VI-SION, TE-le-VI-SION!
(I'm sick of it!)
TE-le-VI-SION, TE-le-VI-SION!
To be sung at maximum loudness, with a maximum of MELISMA.
(Apologies to Stan Freberg.)
Posted
10:10 AM
by Gene
Months after he endorsed Democrat John Kerry for president, the mayor of the tiny town made famous by President Bush's ranch has decided not to seek re-election.
Shucks, sometimes heroism DON'T pay.
Campbell's endorsement of Kerry attracted little attention outside Crawford, while a similar move by the local Lone Star Iconoclast made headlines around the world.
Maybe the PAPER ought to resign TOO.
Posted
9:54 AM
by Gene
"We think about me being 80 and she's 55 and, you know, will I be a bumbling idiot someday?" Welch said.
But that's what you were, LEGENDARY -- a GENIUS!
OR (NEXT line):
Some, like ex-wife Jane Beasley, might agree.
P. S. OL' LEGENDARY was interviewed by DANNO, who ALSO knows something about EXCELLENCE in REPUTATIONS.
Posted
9:44 AM
by Gene
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Apache Tomcat/4.1.24
AND NOT THE FIRST TIME.
WE'RE TIRED OF YOUR INTERNAL SERVER ERRORS, CLEM KADIDDLEHOPPERS.
Posted
9:39 AM
by Gene
Many Germans Want Berlin Wall Back, Study Finds
Survey SAID:
Nearly a quarter of western Germans and 12 percent of easterners want the Berlin Wall back -- more than 15 years after the fall of the barrier that split Germany during the Cold War, according to a new survey.
The results of the poll, published Saturday, reflected die-hard animosities over high reunification costs lowering western standards of living and economic turmoil in the east.
I suspect some people would like their respective security blankets back. For decades Southerners wanted slavery back. Lately Russians have wanted Stalin back. More than a few Germans may want Hitler back. What do such Family Feud-style surveys prove except that people like security blankets?
Posted
9:32 AM
by Gene
A week after their unprecedented intervention in the Terri Schiavo case, Republican congressional leaders find themselves in a moral and political thicket, having advanced the cause as a right-to-life issue -- only to confront polls showing that the public does not see it that way.
"How deep is this Congress going to reach into the personal lives of each and every one of us?" asked Rep. Christopher Shays (Conn.), one of only five Republicans in the House to vote against the Schiavo bill.
This is a declaration of war on the reader. The HACKS are willing to declare their bias in the first two paragraphs. There is no need to read further, as there often isn't. This is also proof that NEWS HACKS can do what they please, THE CIRCULATION BE DAMNED -- although I suspect there may be a few MILD oaths at THE HOLY CHURCH in Omaha, Nebraska. But JUST mild. Truth is ALWAYS mightier than the CIRCULATION.
Repeat after me, Shailagh and Mike. COMPUTER. C-O-M-P-U-T-E-R. INTERNET. I-N-T-E-R-N-E-T.
Posted
9:26 AM
by Gene
One could be uncharitable and say, Tweedledum vs. Tweedledee. Of course one could be a SIX-DIGIT TYPIST in a LUXURY NEWS SUITE and pine, if only ALL elections were like THIS.
We may have to add REVERED to the NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY.
Posted
9:46 PM
by Gene
This will happen when you drop product quality like a lead weight, then fight a frantic rear-guard action to promote it, then spend zillions of dollars on rebates to inflate your sales because people don't trust your quality, and zillions of dollars in CRAPPY TELEVISION to convince people no you're not putting out junky cars and you're not using rebates to promote the notion that you're building junky cars.
What's good for GM....
Posted
8:55 PM
by Gene
Sales have dropped sharply at Wendy's fast food restaurants in the area of northern California where a woman claimed she found part of a finger in a bowl of chili, but analysts say....
God there's nothing NEWS HACKS like better than creating a PANIC!
Posted
7:32 PM
by Gene
The second is BAND ON THE RUN: THE PAUL McCARTNEY AND WINGS MUSICAL! As those who've been in a supermarket lately know the poet laureate of rock wrote more KEE-YUTE songs in the mid-seventies than just about anyone, all with irritating hooks and self-parodying effects that have made them a favorite of retailers who LOVE to SMIRK. Combine that with a "storyline" out of THE MONTY PYTHON HIGH-SCHOOL REVUE -- maybe about all those people "knockin' at the doh-oh," can't you hear the LAUGHS when MARTIN LUTHER comes in STONED? -- and you have another SMASH, a SMASH that'll leave 'em SINGING ALONG when they're not ROLLING IN THE AISLES!
And if THOSE don't work out -- well, why not a musical based on PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE?
Think we can meet sometime?
(Sorry Jerry and Ockie, sorry Dick and Larry, didn't mean to make you roll over in your graves.)
Posted
5:04 PM
by Gene
SNAIL-CRAWL is more like it.
Posted
4:54 PM
by Gene
TRANSLATION: BAD EQUALS GOOD!
Posted
4:38 PM
by Gene
Daddy needs a vacation.
Posted
4:29 PM
by Gene
But -- there's a "GROWING TRICKLE" of such NOBLE servicemen, which, in good course, could become an even...GREATER trickle!
Hey LENNY! Why wasn't this on A-1?
Posted
3:08 PM
by Gene
Richard COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISS!!!!!
Grant said he himself was taking 20 milligrams a day of Zoloft, another antidepressant, and the boys talked in detail about their medication. He said Weise told him he was taking 40 milligrams a day of Prozac: 20 in the morning, 20 at night.
"Everybody changes when they start taking antidepressants," Grant said. "He was a lot more quiet. I wouldn't say any better."
LAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWYERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRS!!!!!!!!!!
Posted
2:43 PM
by Gene
Ooooooooooh, does that mean we HACKS can start a RIOT now?
Law enforcement authorities say it's unfair to characterize the region of more than 3 million people in Riverside and San Bernardino counties as a racist bastion. But....
BIAS? WHAT BIAS?
Posted
1:29 PM
by Gene
NEW YORK (AP) -- City officials recalled preparation material for math tests that had been sent to teachers after discovering they were filled with math and spelling mistakes.
Posted
1:19 PM
by Gene
Posted
1:03 PM
by Gene
Little Jeffrey reading this would say, "Good! One less expense."
Posted
10:10 AM
by Gene
"I worry about all the digital delivery," says Ms. Moore. Once movies can be delivered directly into the home, she adds, all the cheap popcorn and clean floors in the world won't matter. "How long is it before they just won't need us at all?"
I'd say that'll happen thirty years ago.
Posted
10:03 AM
by Gene
You think there's a moral here? IN VITALEDOM? Never.
Posted
9:35 AM
by Gene
By that standard no CEO would be safe.
Posted
9:29 AM
by Gene
Posted
9:27 AM
by Gene
OR:
"Tora Bora was teeming with Taliban and Qaeda operatives ... but Mr. bin Laden was never within our grasp," wrote Franks, who retired in 2003 and backed Bush in the election.
BIAS? WHAT BIAS?
Posted
8:28 PM
by Gene
$.
OR:
At Texas A&M, he noticed white squares of paper in the student section.
"At first I thought they said something like, 'Beat Oklahoma State,'" Curry said. "It was a picture of me, like 'Wanted by the Oklahoma Police Department.'"
We can forgive, but we must realize some other may not be able to forgive, especially with athlete-students selling POT, and we must further realize this IS VITALEDOM, where the only thing that matters is
$.
Posted
8:07 PM
by Gene
THE REUT DOES IT AGAIN: it's PROUD of a GRAFFITI...ARTISTE who smuggled "ART" into four museums -- and it took months for the nose-in-the-airs to notice. Of course one reason THE REUT's so PROUD of this stunt is the "ART." The PC politics aside (that didn't have anything to do with our reporting this, RIGHT REUT? NOOOOOOOOO.), we may liken this to Daffy Duck drawing moustaches on posters -- and he did it better.
Posted
5:07 PM
by Gene
Uber-Review writes "If you ever aspired to be the next Jerry Seinfeld instead of the next American Idol. Maybe the product featured by Wired is just right for you. Joke-e-oke, basically a karaoke with stand-up comedy material. Joke-e-oke is a laptop rigged to a video projector allows you to choose from a list of stand-up comedy icons to perform. A built in laugh track is added, timed perfectly to accent punch lines. Obstacles are programmed in so participants onstage get a taste of what real comedians go through by firing off heckle lines for the bar crowd to yell in unison at the Joke-e-oke participant."
GET A LIFE!!!!!
Posted
4:51 PM
by Gene
You make Philadelphia sound good.
Posted
4:23 PM
by Gene
And to hell with the GHETTOES too, another tenet of RENDELLISM.
Posted
1:36 PM
by Gene
I will not link the PSYCHO to Richard "GUNS CAUSED COLUMBINE" Corliss or THE GLIBERAL, yet judging from this writhing-in-Hell shootist's remarks the resemblances of thought are not entirely coincidental.
Posted
1:28 PM
by Gene
Posted
12:22 PM
by Gene
A charismatic stranger brings music into a drab town and people's lives are changed forever in a Broadway musical that might have been called The Music Man had that title not already been taken and if the songs weren't ones made famous by Elvis Presley.
Posted
12:19 PM
by Gene
Another testimony to the POWER of ADVERTISING.
Posted
12:05 PM
by Gene
Schiavo Case Highlights Catholic-Evangelical Alliance
Who says NEWS HACKS can't have it both ways?
Posted
10:41 AM
by Gene
Millions Keep Downloading Free Music
Radio Giant Attuned to Web for Ads Boost
Is there a DISCONNECT here?
Posted
10:37 AM
by Gene
PA Governor Rendell Announces Funding to Rejuvenate Philadelphia Neighborhoods
If his talk were money our city would be paved with gold -- and then we wouldn't need GAMING.
Posted
10:25 AM
by Gene
Let's see how long it takes before the Grand Street Person of Chess complains about the WEATHER.
OR:
"THE UNITED STATES IS AN ILLEGITIMATE COUNTRY ... JUST LIKE THE BANDIT STATE OF ISRAEL - THE JEWS HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE THERE, IT BELONGS TO THE PALESTINIANS!!!!!" said Fischer, whose mother was Jewish. "THAT COUNTRY, THE UNITED STATES, BELONGS TO THE RED MAN, THE AMERICAN INDIAN....IT'S ACTUALLY A SHAME TO BE A SO-CALLED AMERICAN BECAUSE EVERYBODY LIVING THERE IS ... AN INVADER!!!!!"
We'll cut the Grand Street Person of Chess a break; he should know something about invaders -- being a space alien.
But we won't cut the ICELANDERS a break; their IQs may not be much higher than the temperature.
Posted
10:15 AM
by Gene
Shooter Described As Deeply Disturbed
This looks like a hed for Woodstein!
Posted
5:33 PM
by Gene
Who writes these squibs? Someone from the TRIB?
Posted
5:30 PM
by Gene
It can even be a complicated call for trained eyes.
That's why we have JUDGES.
Posted
5:19 PM
by Gene
Posted
5:17 PM
by Gene
Posted
5:10 PM
by Gene
Somehow though it doesn't sound as sexy as carbon dioxide.
Posted
5:06 PM
by Gene
Posted
3:19 PM
by Gene
Before long we'll have 500 Tea-Time Clubs!
Posted
12:25 PM
by Gene
Does the man who got the job file a lawsuit?
Posted
12:20 PM
by Gene
Whine and pout and look for a few anonymous sources who'll insist we've got fresh QUAGMIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted
8:57 AM
by Gene
TRANSLATION: They're buying those annoying SELIG SIGNS behind home plate -- AND they get LUXURY BOXES ON STERRRRRRRRRRR...!
Posted
8:34 AM
by Gene
Trustees are attorneys Hal Haddon of Denver and George Tobia of Boston, and historian Douglas Brinkley of New Orleans.
Shucks, it isn't Uncle Duke and two drug dealers.
Posted
8:30 AM
by Gene
"I'm a fan of zombie films, have been for years, as well as fan of horror movies in general. I like to write horror stories, read about Nazi Germany and history, and someday plan on moving out of the US."
The kid also liked metal. There's plenty of the MOLTEN stuff where HE is.
Posted
8:16 AM
by Gene
As of March 15, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences officially lacked confidence in president Lawrence H. Summers. Fortunately or unfortunately for Mr. Summers, the president has ample private reserves.
You'd think a cute little pink paper that put Mademoiselle Sex-on-the-Brain in the spotlight and curse words on its front page would stand for more then "fortunately or unfortunately."
Posted
7:02 AM
by Gene
TV Chief at Fox Going to Paramount
No slighting anyone, but as THE MASTER would say, she won't find any difference in the climate.
Posted
6:55 AM
by Gene
Of course GOODTHINGS ENTERTAINMENT doesn't talk on personnel matters, not when we may give a big raise to somebody who'd be fired anywhere else in LITTLE JEFFREY'S KINGDOM, and especially a self-admitted ALCOHOLIC.
Posted
6:53 AM
by Gene
We may point out that the Roman Empire lasted for a good many decades longer than the rot should have permitted it. We may also point out that cockroaches have survived for millions of years despite no useful purpose.
Posted
7:38 PM
by Gene
Always look for the union label...then buy something without it.
Unfortunately, ANOTHER FREEPER COGITATED:
You prefer "MADE IN CHINA"?
Posted
7:34 PM
by Gene
Hmmmmmmmm, maybe we aren't holding just low-level drones in GITMO after all.
Posted
7:17 PM
by Gene
Posted
7:16 PM
by Gene
Or 1. As much as her lawyers allow her to, OR 2. Mary WHO?
Posted
5:12 PM
by Gene
Posted
4:49 PM
by Gene
And a police holster. Psycho doesn't do this new-minted resident of Hell justice.
P. S. I had to check in on STERNO to see if he's had something to say on this story -- an act I try doing as seldom as possible now, as his blog has become an unsavory stew of self-righteousness and table-pounding. Fortunately he hasn't. We all know what he would synergize if he could.
Posted
1:36 PM
by Gene
LISBON, Conn. (AP) -- A state trooper was suspended for 15 days without pay after he was recorded on a 911 tape saying "too bad" to a caller seeking help for a man injured in a motorcycle accident.
Posted
1:17 PM
by Gene
This has to be one of the dumbest corporate logos there is. Can you imagine anything less environmentally friendly than a gasoline company? Or ExxonMobilChevronTexaco using a flower symbol? But one guesses its prime purpose is not to serve as a corporate logo but to communicate a PC ethos, like most good businesses. I happened to ponder this today from my local MICKEY D'S, another PC paragon.
Posted
10:59 AM
by Gene
Posted
10:31 AM
by Gene
PINCH! This may be your GREATEST J'ACCUSE since -- AUGUSTA!
Posted
9:21 AM
by Gene
That's okay; they'll just come up with a new status quo.
Posted
9:01 AM
by Gene
Didn't the CONGRESSPOOPS realize Federal judges know everything too?
Posted
8:46 AM
by Gene
Since when is he running for office?
Posted
8:37 AM
by Gene
RENDELLISM No. 2: This is just another attempt to start another money-hogging bureaucrat-employing program.
As to RENDELLISM No. 1, only the HOUSE WINS; and as to RENDELLISM No. 2, the whole point of GAMING as a PANACEA was to FINANCE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS.
Posted
8:31 AM
by Gene
Posted
6:52 AM
by Gene
The closest the film gets to making [a joke] is when Hobie is moved by his luck in going home with the nymphomaniac to direct his eyes heavenwards and mutter: "I'll never vote against school prayer again." Though nearer the mark than most of the film's attempts at humor, even this is slightly off target. No one will ever again vote against school prayer -- or for it either -- since no one is given the chance to vote on what some judge has decided is unconstitutional.
If this incompetent gag made it here, and how many likewise incompetent gags have made into the MASTER's other works of art? As THE HIGH-SCHOOL REVUE proves, comedy is NOT funny.
This will be the last I mention the WOODSTER for three months, when his next movie comes out.
Posted
6:34 AM
by Gene
Posted
6:28 AM
by Gene
We will still not forget the posts you've torn up, CLEM, nor the long delays, nor not being able to post for hours the day after Election Day -- and we know from impatient experience you'll be back to your old FREDDIE THE FREELOADER ways soon enough. Although never in history was any freeloader worth YOUR zillions.
Posted
6:27 AM
by Gene
We should never, however, mistake anything the Europeans do for principle.
Posted
6:22 AM
by Gene
MORE speechmaking!
Posted
6:52 PM
by Gene
ANOTHER CO-NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD -- to SCOTT!!!!!
[Reconstructed from a post deleted unilaterally by KADIDDLEBLOG.]
Posted
6:42 PM
by Gene
[This is a reconstruction of another post deleted unilaterally by KADIDDLEBLOG. While it may be vanity to repost something like this, I did post it last night when this story broke, and I want the record to show that.]
P. S. CLEM HID MY ORIGINAL POST. HERE it is -- and here's the proof I posted it when I said I did.
Posted
6:25 PM
by Gene
Why bother with them? We all know who wins.
[Reconstructed from a post deleted unilaterally by KADIDDLEBLOG.]
Posted
6:12 PM
by Gene
Haven't you scalded enough folks, BUGMEISTER?
Posted
6:01 PM
by Gene
Posted
5:35 PM
by Gene
I'm disturbed by Dubya's secrecy obsession too -- but here's the problem, CURLEY (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!): You once loudly belched that the news biz is run by CONSERVATIVES. What's more, CURLEY (Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk!), two of your biz' great CRUSADES against government secrecy -- the Pentagon Papers and Woodstein's Watergate probe -- were politically LIBERAL. We know instinctively when you take on our government's secrecy you'll weight it down with that HEAVY IDEOLOGICAL BAGGAGE. So we can't trust you to go after government secrecy because it's bad, we can only assume you go after it because it's CONSERVATIVE. THAT'S the pretty pickle your lockstep ideological conformity has put us in, STOOGE.
P. S. I would have linked to my own post but I've discovered KADIDDLEBLOG'S PERFORMED ANOTHER IMPROVEMENT TO ITS SERVICE -- YOU CAN'T ACCESS OLD POSTS ON "EDIT POSTS."
Posted
5:33 PM
by Gene
Sure we should call it "Zero" after what happened with New Coke?
Posted
5:29 PM
by Gene
AND THANK YOU FOR LOSING TWO MORE OF MY POSTS.
Posted
5:27 PM
by Gene
I guess there was nothing better to do on those long winter nights.
SIEG HEIL BOBBY!!
Posted
11:33 AM
by Gene
Whatever happened to NAFTA? Whatever happened to border patrols?
Posted
9:09 AM
by Gene
[C]huckle at Radio Days and he’ll slap you upside the head with the dead fish of September.
But then what did I say the other day about mackerel?
Posted
8:30 AM
by Gene
Now, if ever, is time to conclude with a lament for the current state of the Broadway musical. Where once there was true originality that takes chances, now we have nothing but previously tested stuff, as if success in another, earlier form, guaranteed safe transport. There are to my knowledge highly promising musicals by old, expert hands languishing in drawers, because the new, corporate producers will only sponsor supposedly surefire, farcical, or sentimental recyclings. Unfortunately, what may or may not be financially safe is artistically almost always a surefire disaster.
Posted
8:26 AM
by Gene
Posted
8:23 AM
by Gene
I'm Sorry, No Results Were Found.
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A business of corruption without precedent the lawsuit of the public markets of Island-of-France opens today in Paris. 47 prevented will have to be explained on the drifts on a large scale of the financing of the political formations - of right-hand side like left in the Nineties...
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With Barry buying the worthless Ask.com for $2 billion and G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000gle worth $50 billion, I don't think the dot.com boom has died out yet.
