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, October 21, 2006
I have had it with blogging -- and Blogger.com. On a day I couldn't get through for hours while the damfools Larry and Sergey wallowed in a thirty-point stock jump, and further being blocked off from the permanently-Beta version, I've decided I'm switching blog services, but it doesn't help that there is no decent alternative, and that I don't know what I'm doing.
I'm also cutting down on my posting. I'm tired of electronically banging my head, and of issuing smart one-liners that nobody reads. I can't entirely give up on it -- blogging is my tenuous connection to the world -- but I am tired of the lack of attention too.
P. S. This article documents a numbing repeat of what happened LAST YEAR. Happily Larry and Sergey have lots of money. They needn't do a thing.
I'm also cutting down on my posting. I'm tired of electronically banging my head, and of issuing smart one-liners that nobody reads. I can't entirely give up on it -- blogging is my tenuous connection to the world -- but I am tired of the lack of attention too.
P. S. This article documents a numbing repeat of what happened LAST YEAR. Happily Larry and Sergey have lots of money. They needn't do a thing.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Here's another reason people have turned away from the networks, and it has nothing to do with branding. Whether they'll be pleased the same corporate behemoths control every alternative remains to be seen.
Of course con-SER-va-tives and Republicans wouldn't attend these hearings. They don't want six big media tyrannies. They want three. Or maybe two. Or one.
(Via ArtsJournal)
Of course con-SER-va-tives and Republicans wouldn't attend these hearings. They don't want six big media tyrannies. They want three. Or maybe two. Or one.
(Via ArtsJournal)
This story further reminds us of our impatience with show-biz news coverage. All these two hacks can talk about is "branding." They quote from some Home Depot marketing honcho who can't wait to shred his customers' money on whatever "critically-praised" dreck he can. They bring in Fred Silverman, who thinks GOODTHINGS is doing a GREAT thing, the scribblers oblivious to the fact that he lost his final chief programming job at the old NBC precisely for his brilliant ideas. (Remember Supertrain?) In typical show-biz news-hack fashion they say people are watching less network television because of all the choice, neglecting to think (as is such hacks' wont) why people may have wanted more choice in the first place. And their editors sweeten the deal with this chart:
Notice something peculiar? This is a trick with an asterisk. Plus Brooks spends 1,306 words in another story about the GOODTHINGS' Network's alleged self-deprecation, the sign of a writer who watches too much TV. We'll have such stories until hell freezes over -- and that's when TV will improve.
P. S. RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! calls GOODTHINGS' moves "draconian." He never had a job. He also says this involves a menage a trois. Just remember guys, you hate the public, and then you'll love one another.
(Both also via MediaBistro. If Philips can, for the time being, make the Journals available on Fridays, why not have other sponsors do the same thing Mondays through Thursdays? Why do they insist on walling themselves off?)
Notice something peculiar? This is a trick with an asterisk. Plus Brooks spends 1,306 words in another story about the GOODTHINGS' Network's alleged self-deprecation, the sign of a writer who watches too much TV. We'll have such stories until hell freezes over -- and that's when TV will improve.
P. S. RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! calls GOODTHINGS' moves "draconian." He never had a job. He also says this involves a menage a trois. Just remember guys, you hate the public, and then you'll love one another.
(Both also via MediaBistro. If Philips can, for the time being, make the Journals available on Fridays, why not have other sponsors do the same thing Mondays through Thursdays? Why do they insist on walling themselves off?)
And of course all the thousands of would-be Bob Novaks and Paul Begalas have hardly a memorable word to say amongst them, and when they are memorable it's for screaming or playing the jester. And if spending half my time to cultivate silly producers is what it takes to be heard, I'll gladly take silence.
The irony is these clowns claim to want someone who breaks the partisan mold, and then they take the same old plastic mouths from the same old molds. This is why getting eight hits a day is so frustrating; I'd like to think I'm better than all these yaps, but I must not be to be getting eight hits a day.
(And why did this have to appear in the Wall Street Journals?)
(Via MediaBistro)
The irony is these clowns claim to want someone who breaks the partisan mold, and then they take the same old plastic mouths from the same old molds. This is why getting eight hits a day is so frustrating; I'd like to think I'm better than all these yaps, but I must not be to be getting eight hits a day.
(And why did this have to appear in the Wall Street Journals?)
(Via MediaBistro)
Thursday, October 19, 2006
This TWXSTER who works for a "news" outfit that all but paid for access in Saddam's Iraq, that issued the most groveling disclaimer during the cartoon riots, that has employed professional asses like Larry King and Lou Dobbs and Eason Jordan, that has never stopped doing stupid things from the day the Mouth from the South had to found it, has the gall to say his outfit can tell the "unvarnished truth"?
And he works for Anderson Cooper, a pretty face with pretensions.
And he works for Anderson Cooper, a pretty face with pretensions.
If it is any consolation the Fort Knox of Mountain View's market cap is no higher than Yahoo!'s was in its prime, and unless you work for the BIG C or are a sales -- ANALYST there is no reason to believe these clowns can't hit their glass ceiling too, someday. Every other Web company has hit one. So long as Wall Street is in a fairyland embrace with these clowns, it won't happen.
Suprise! Surprise! Surprise!
FBI Says Threat to NFL Games Was Hoax
FBI Says Threat Made Against NFL Stadiums This Weekend is a Hoax
MILWAUKEE Oct 19, 2006 (AP)— The FBI says the threat made against NFL stadiums this weekend is a hoax. [SIC!] [SIC!] [SIC!]
FBI Says Threat to NFL Games Was Hoax
FBI Says Threat Made Against NFL Stadiums This Weekend is a Hoax
MILWAUKEE Oct 19, 2006 (AP)— The FBI says the threat made against NFL stadiums this weekend is a hoax. [SIC!] [SIC!] [SIC!]
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL: "The religious right" will kill off YouTube!!!!! It will make it -- un-COOL!!!!!
And of course it will have nothing to do with the grainy video, or the download troubles (I couldn't see your snoozing cat -- thanks, Citizen Hearsties!), or G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE's incompetence, or rooting out COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS, or the inevitable boredom factor, or the fact that people can even more easily run out of things to say on video than in blogs, the rotting hulks of millions accreting on the Web.
Sometimes this Frisco paper is edited as though William Randolph came back to life intending to have even less sense than RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
And of course it will have nothing to do with the grainy video, or the download troubles (I couldn't see your snoozing cat -- thanks, Citizen Hearsties!), or G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE's incompetence, or rooting out COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENTS, or the inevitable boredom factor, or the fact that people can even more easily run out of things to say on video than in blogs, the rotting hulks of millions accreting on the Web.
Sometimes this Frisco paper is edited as though William Randolph came back to life intending to have even less sense than RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
The Goldmans just got $3.5 million richer -- IF this is true.
Simpson can never be retried for the murders because of double jeopardy laws, according to the Enquirer, which also claims that Simpson aims to keep any book money instead of paying it out in a civil suit judgment against him by spending it all quickly.
They'll still get $3.5 million richer because they can sue the PUBLISHER.
And who would that be? How about a toss-up between RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and SUMNER?
Simpson can never be retried for the murders because of double jeopardy laws, according to the Enquirer, which also claims that Simpson aims to keep any book money instead of paying it out in a civil suit judgment against him by spending it all quickly.
They'll still get $3.5 million richer because they can sue the PUBLISHER.
And who would that be? How about a toss-up between RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and SUMNER?
Remnick's advice for aspiring journalists: "Goldman Sachs"
Because every overrated magazine editor needs his money managed.
Because every overrated magazine editor needs his money managed.
So let's get this straight: Horny Mark has an excuse, and now Horny Mark's supposed molester has an excuse:
"I have to confess, I was going through a nervous breakdown," he said. "I was taking pills -- tranquilizers. I used to take them all the time. They affected my mind a little bit."
Is there anyone in this story who doesn't have an excuse?
"I have to confess, I was going through a nervous breakdown," he said. "I was taking pills -- tranquilizers. I used to take them all the time. They affected my mind a little bit."
Is there anyone in this story who doesn't have an excuse?
So let's root, root root for HANK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-RON....
If we root for baszzzzzzzzzzzzzzeball at all, that is.
And Seligism isn't coming back to the GE BANCORP GAMES anytime soon, thanks in no small part to the man people aren't rooting for.
If we root for baszzzzzzzzzzzzzzeball at all, that is.
And Seligism isn't coming back to the GE BANCORP GAMES anytime soon, thanks in no small part to the man people aren't rooting for.
America's HYER EHDYUKAYTERS have their undergarments in a wad because Nike dared to say what THEY know to be the truth: "FOOTBALL IS EVERYTHING."
And Nike sort-of apologized; it knows which side football factories butter their toast.
And Nike sort-of apologized; it knows which side football factories butter their toast.
Nielsen ratings are coming to VIDEO GAMES!
Hey Reverse Robin Hoods of MadAve! Do I hear you firing up ANOTHER money shredder?
(Also via MediaBistro)
Hey Reverse Robin Hoods of MadAve! Do I hear you firing up ANOTHER money shredder?
(Also via MediaBistro)
How many Six-Sigmaed jobs could Mr. MTV finance with his severance package?
And he'd probably have enough leftover to buy them all a few beers!
(Via MediaBistro)
And he'd probably have enough leftover to buy them all a few beers!
(Via MediaBistro)
RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'s invention is used by sex offenders.
Who'da thought?
(Via Yahoo! News/AFP via IWantMedia)
Who'da thought?
(Via Yahoo! News/AFP via IWantMedia)
Elsewhere in the world of shredding OUR money on junk television, SUMNER has canceled a series before it could even broadcast!
How much did You waste on this show for Your sugar daddies' vanity, SUM?
Enough to give the TWXSTERS a "black eye", evidently.
How much did You waste on this show for Your sugar daddies' vanity, SUM?
Enough to give the TWXSTERS a "black eye", evidently.
Also via Ahts Journal, a Tate Britain Lecturer (whatever that is) expels at least 2,005 words trying to explain why the EDWARD R. MURROWS OF COMEDY (they apparently have a version in merrie olde England, too) are popular, and can only lecture a very wordy blank.
Maybe the reason we have the new EDS is because the news stinks, the news biz stinks, and someone wants to make money off it. Could that be?
Maybe the reason we have the new EDS is because the news stinks, the news biz stinks, and someone wants to make money off it. Could that be?
Now we're enterting a SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGALATINUM AGE in PUBLISHING!!!!!
Mr. Rosenthal said the fierce competition in the fall can be traced to the high level of store traffic that is irresistible to publishers. “It is Darwinian,” Mr. Rosenthal said. “Some books will live, and some books will die.”
That's okay, Darwin; in thirty years you couldn't remainder your best-sellers.
(Via the annoying ArtsJournal)
Mr. Rosenthal said the fierce competition in the fall can be traced to the high level of store traffic that is irresistible to publishers. “It is Darwinian,” Mr. Rosenthal said. “Some books will live, and some books will die.”
That's okay, Darwin; in thirty years you couldn't remainder your best-sellers.
(Via the annoying ArtsJournal)
I really do think, RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, You oughtn't to call Your girlfriend a "CELEBUTARD."
"The movie is horrific," said our source. "It is a limited release that will likely go straight to video. Paris doesn't really want to be associated with it. Her movie career is not exactly booming, and she needs to not be seen as a flop. Also, the movie has a lot of topless women in it, and she is trying to distance herself from the whole porn thing."
This looks like a job for:
By the way....
"The movie is horrific," said our source. "It is a limited release that will likely go straight to video. Paris doesn't really want to be associated with it. Her movie career is not exactly booming, and she needs to not be seen as a flop. Also, the movie has a lot of topless women in it, and she is trying to distance herself from the whole porn thing."
This looks like a job for:
By the way....
GOODTHINGS ENTERTAINMENT is about to SIX-SIGMA its STAFF!
We do think the Hollywood Stenographer is wrong when it says Six Sigma is about layoffs, however. Six Sigma is about pretending you can measure quality in an operation like Goodthings Entertainment. Firings are more about LEGENDARY WELCH.
P. S. WHEW! Goodthings may switch the two loudmouths Chris and HHHWWWALTER to the BIG C, where their "talents" would be highly complementary. For now, THE TRUTH IS SAFE. (Via ROMY, who's also highly relieved)
P. P. S. NBC Universal said it will stop scheduling high-priced dramas and comedies during the 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. slot.
You scheduling dead air?
P. P. P. S. at 12:10 p.m.: Alas, Goodthings is NOT turning the MESS into a tape machine, meaning the two loudmouths are stuck where they are.
P. P. P. P. S. at 2:40 p.m.: A MEDIA BUYER eructs:
Steve Sternberg, exec VP-audience analysis, Magna Global thinks concentrating on game shows and reality shows in that hour could work for NBC. "Here is why that could be positive. We've done research with Nielsen data and 80% of homes have one set during prime time. Families want to watch TV together and too often they can't because there's a lot of kids around. Reality shows have become the new family programming." He cited research that shows 10 of the top 15 shows popular with children, teens and adults are reality series.
They can't watch together because you REVERSE ROBIN HOODS are busy robbing us to finance EDGY programming -- when you aren't financing the CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED programming YOU and NO ONE ELSE WATCH.
AND:
[T]here are plans to convert CNBC.com to a paid subscription service, which could be unveiled by the end of the year.
Penny stocks, here we come!
We do think the Hollywood Stenographer is wrong when it says Six Sigma is about layoffs, however. Six Sigma is about pretending you can measure quality in an operation like Goodthings Entertainment. Firings are more about LEGENDARY WELCH.
P. S. WHEW! Goodthings may switch the two loudmouths Chris and HHHWWWALTER to the BIG C, where their "talents" would be highly complementary. For now, THE TRUTH IS SAFE. (Via ROMY, who's also highly relieved)
P. P. S. NBC Universal said it will stop scheduling high-priced dramas and comedies during the 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. slot.
You scheduling dead air?
P. P. P. S. at 12:10 p.m.: Alas, Goodthings is NOT turning the MESS into a tape machine, meaning the two loudmouths are stuck where they are.
P. P. P. P. S. at 2:40 p.m.: A MEDIA BUYER eructs:
Steve Sternberg, exec VP-audience analysis, Magna Global thinks concentrating on game shows and reality shows in that hour could work for NBC. "Here is why that could be positive. We've done research with Nielsen data and 80% of homes have one set during prime time. Families want to watch TV together and too often they can't because there's a lot of kids around. Reality shows have become the new family programming." He cited research that shows 10 of the top 15 shows popular with children, teens and adults are reality series.
They can't watch together because you REVERSE ROBIN HOODS are busy robbing us to finance EDGY programming -- when you aren't financing the CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED programming YOU and NO ONE ELSE WATCH.
AND:
[T]here are plans to convert CNBC.com to a paid subscription service, which could be unveiled by the end of the year.
Penny stocks, here we come!
Perhaps one reason the newspaper biz is in a funk is that we've learned to skim stories so fast we don't even read them. When The Paper of Re-CORD does a story on scanty Halloween costumes and "post-post-post feminism" we KNOW (or at least we think we know) what it will say -- mostly eyeball-rolling sugary whimsical BLAH (which would curdle into the essence of sulfur at the thought of any Nazi Christian Republican) -- and it isn't worth the trouble of getting yourself riled up just to further confirm your hunches, and to wonder if you'll someday have the whole news biz so well memorized you'll stop consuming its product altogether.
At least PINCH had the temerity to print include few good pictures, however.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Jo-NAH and Ms. Travers find a new way to goose hits at The Corner:
TODAY'S MOST FREQUENTLY RECEIVED E-MAIL: [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Thanks for the Cromwell debate on The Corner today. I'm certain there must be seven, even eight people mildly interested.
I'm getting a lot of other work done.
Posted at 5:30 PM
Jo-NAH and Ms. Travers may think they're cute, but how often do they and their fellow keyboard bangers tie down their "blog" with Star Trek and "conservative" songs? We cite The Corner a bit too frequently as it's often the most risible thing of its kind.
TODAY'S MOST FREQUENTLY RECEIVED E-MAIL: [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
Thanks for the Cromwell debate on The Corner today. I'm certain there must be seven, even eight people mildly interested.
I'm getting a lot of other work done.
Posted at 5:30 PM
Jo-NAH and Ms. Travers may think they're cute, but how often do they and their fellow keyboard bangers tie down their "blog" with Star Trek and "conservative" songs? We cite The Corner a bit too frequently as it's often the most risible thing of its kind.
The ASSociated Press assumes the Thinker's pose again as it ponders where TV theme songs went.
We remember TV shows for their theme songs -- including lots of BAD ones. They were often the only good things in the shows. If we have no theme songs to remember, how will we remember the shows -- even from this SUPERMEGAPLATINUM AGE OF GENIUS?
The banishment of these songs (and of underscoring, it having been replaced with LICENSING) and the further disappearance of the Broadway overture points to a SUPERPLATINUM AGE OF GENIUS in commercial music too!
We remember TV shows for their theme songs -- including lots of BAD ones. They were often the only good things in the shows. If we have no theme songs to remember, how will we remember the shows -- even from this SUPERMEGAPLATINUM AGE OF GENIUS?
The banishment of these songs (and of underscoring, it having been replaced with LICENSING) and the further disappearance of the Broadway overture points to a SUPERPLATINUM AGE OF GENIUS in commercial music too!
RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is giving His bad, bad announcer SENSITIVITY TRAINING.
You con-SER-va-tives STILL think He's one of YOURS?
"There isn't a racist bone in his body, not one," Piniella said of Lyons. "I know the guy personally. He was kidding with me. It was an unfortunate thing. None of it was intended, believe me.
"He's talented at what he does," Piniella said. "I recognize that after being in the booth with him."
Having not watched any SELIGISM for awhile we can't vouch for that, but we will say this: we think Lou's a good guy.
You con-SER-va-tives STILL think He's one of YOURS?
"There isn't a racist bone in his body, not one," Piniella said of Lyons. "I know the guy personally. He was kidding with me. It was an unfortunate thing. None of it was intended, believe me.
"He's talented at what he does," Piniella said. "I recognize that after being in the booth with him."
Having not watched any SELIGISM for awhile we can't vouch for that, but we will say this: we think Lou's a good guy.
A WOULD-BE ROCK-MUSIC AD BLURBIST WHINES:
I recall your INFAMOUS advertising campaign from the GREEEEEED-IS-GOOD epoch; the REAGAN ERA that we still endure with BLOOD ON OUR HANDS AND A HOLE WHERE OUR HEARTS SHOULD BE!!!!! PERCEPTION VS. REALITY, YOUR AD CAMPAIGN SCREAMED!!!!! PERCEPTION was a depiction of a HIPPIE, REALITY a YUPPIE!!!!! THAT'S when you clearly JUMPED SHIP, JANN, and defected to THE DARKNESS AND THE DUMB!!!!!!!!!! [Huff'n'Puff overpuffing added]
We would say someone who places so much faith in Jann and is angry enough to feel double-crossed by him already inhabits his own personal darkness. As to dumb, the dictionary defines it as "Unwilling to speak; taciturn", so on that score we would only be MOSTLY right.
(Via Romy. We can hear you shaking your head again!)
I recall your INFAMOUS advertising campaign from the GREEEEEED-IS-GOOD epoch; the REAGAN ERA that we still endure with BLOOD ON OUR HANDS AND A HOLE WHERE OUR HEARTS SHOULD BE!!!!! PERCEPTION VS. REALITY, YOUR AD CAMPAIGN SCREAMED!!!!! PERCEPTION was a depiction of a HIPPIE, REALITY a YUPPIE!!!!! THAT'S when you clearly JUMPED SHIP, JANN, and defected to THE DARKNESS AND THE DUMB!!!!!!!!!! [Huff'n'Puff overpuffing added]
We would say someone who places so much faith in Jann and is angry enough to feel double-crossed by him already inhabits his own personal darkness. As to dumb, the dictionary defines it as "Unwilling to speak; taciturn", so on that score we would only be MOSTLY right.
(Via Romy. We can hear you shaking your head again!)
We wonder how much crime goes on in the world of media buying. God knows how much of OUR money gets wasted on egos and their upkeep. And the extra nice thing about the story is that this fraud nearly succeeded in getting CONGRESSPOOPS like Max Baucus and Ed Royce to let him off the hook, meaning definitively those clowns are for sale to the highest bidder.
Of course hardly anybody's paid attention to this story because it's BIGMEDIA's dirty laundry.
Of course hardly anybody's paid attention to this story because it's BIGMEDIA's dirty laundry.
What's the difference between the WaPost campaigning for Democrats and the WaTimes campaigning for Republicans?
For one thing, they'd both deny it.
For one thing, they'd both deny it.
The STONE FACE of ANNOYING TV ADS is ANGRY:
Movies in large part are about teenage sex. Whole TV networks -- I am not going to mention any names -- are largely about teenagers and sex. Music, if you can call it music, is very, very largely about teenagers and sex, and teenagers listen to it incessantly. (I am the father of a teenager, and I promise you, it's true.)
And how many of the ADS you've starred in with that nebbishy face and whiny voice helped pay for all the teenage sex in movies, in TV, and in music?
Don't answer; you wouldn't anyway.
Movies in large part are about teenage sex. Whole TV networks -- I am not going to mention any names -- are largely about teenagers and sex. Music, if you can call it music, is very, very largely about teenagers and sex, and teenagers listen to it incessantly. (I am the father of a teenager, and I promise you, it's true.)
And how many of the ADS you've starred in with that nebbishy face and whiny voice helped pay for all the teenage sex in movies, in TV, and in music?
Don't answer; you wouldn't anyway.
Speaking of Little Gussie, here's something to burn money by: the TWXSTERS are spending between $40 million and $45 million a year on a league championship series. A. If they're lucky they could spend over $11 million a GAME -- meaning either Gussie can waste millions more moving another beer, or KING RICHARD can run for mayor of NOO YAWK after all.
We are sorry to hear the CBS radio newsman Christopher Glenn has died. He had the perfect speaking voice for the news: low-key, cultivated, a nice deep pipe-smoky baritone, which conveyed the essence of a man who did his job simply, and well.
(Via Romy)
(Via Romy)
Little Gussie, he who supposedly drank a thimbleful of Busch beer when he was a day old, is trying to pay to get one of his beers mentioned in [C]RAPS, which means the guy's a regular square as MICKEY D's tried (and failed at) the same thing.
According to San Francisco consulting firm Agenda, which tracks brand mentions in song lyrics for its annual "American Brandstand" survey, no beer brands were mentioned in hip-hop lyrics during 2005, although import brand Corona did land three mentions during 2004.
And Little Gussie spent $84 million "launching" the brand. What's [C]RAPPISH for someone who's totally, like, oblivious?
According to San Francisco consulting firm Agenda, which tracks brand mentions in song lyrics for its annual "American Brandstand" survey, no beer brands were mentioned in hip-hop lyrics during 2005, although import brand Corona did land three mentions during 2004.
And Little Gussie spent $84 million "launching" the brand. What's [C]RAPPISH for someone who's totally, like, oblivious?
Some "widely read" blogger who's also a PR guy (and who posts about once a week) apologizes for his part in Wal-Mart's fake blog.
Hey I'd fake blogs too if it could get ME widely read.
Hey I'd fake blogs too if it could get ME widely read.
The bigwig Babbitts of the Big Apple are not going to turn that big apartment complex into CONDOLAND, which pretty well indicates THE BOOM is over.
I guess building on New York's biggest artificial tar pit didn't help either.
I guess building on New York's biggest artificial tar pit didn't help either.
THE WORLD'S LEADING FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY unleashes MONSTERS on KIDS in BRANSON EAST!
Temper, TEMPER, Lord Schlockintosh!
Temper, TEMPER, Lord Schlockintosh!
Ah, the "lifestyles" of the rich and -- fraudulent:
The indictment details Snipes' involvement over the last six years with Eddie Ray Kahn, who founded American Rights Litigators and its successor Guiding Light of God Ministries. Kahn espouses the belief that U.S. citizens do not have to pay federal income tax. The "861 argument," referring to a section of the IRS code, is considered by experts to be a fringe interpretation....
Snipes joined the movement in 2000 and, according to the indictment, began pursuing dubious tax refunds, including a $7.4-million claim for the 1997 tax year. Snipes originally claimed an income of $19.2 million that year, authorities alleged, but in an amended return said his income was zero.
We look at it this way: thus are the chances of his ci-ne-ma vehicles earning immortality.
The indictment details Snipes' involvement over the last six years with Eddie Ray Kahn, who founded American Rights Litigators and its successor Guiding Light of God Ministries. Kahn espouses the belief that U.S. citizens do not have to pay federal income tax. The "861 argument," referring to a section of the IRS code, is considered by experts to be a fringe interpretation....
Snipes joined the movement in 2000 and, according to the indictment, began pursuing dubious tax refunds, including a $7.4-million claim for the 1997 tax year. Snipes originally claimed an income of $19.2 million that year, authorities alleged, but in an amended return said his income was zero.
We look at it this way: thus are the chances of his ci-ne-ma vehicles earning immortality.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Who'da thought? St. K lost his virginity to a bunch of businessmen.
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD to JOEDY! [SIC!]
A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD to JOEDY! [SIC!]
Gasp! The INVENTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! of MySpace loses His magic touch?!?!?!?!?
Mr. Cook defended the content, saying the network wasn't any racier than anything on a daytime soap. But media buyers had cited content issues as a reason they hadn't committed more dollars to the News Corp. property.
Gasp! MEDIA BUYERS refuse to BURN OUR MONEY?!?!?!?!?
Mr. Cook defended the content, saying the network wasn't any racier than anything on a daytime soap. But media buyers had cited content issues as a reason they hadn't committed more dollars to the News Corp. property.
Gasp! MEDIA BUYERS refuse to BURN OUR MONEY?!?!?!?!?
Violence in Iraq could end "within months" if Iran and Syria joined efforts to stabilise the country, says Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
Drool! Drool!
Hear THAT, Fixer?
Drool! Drool!
Hear THAT, Fixer?
We ruefully recall how television was sold as an educational miracle -- just like movies in schools. A dwindling band of morons, like the author of The Worse It Gets, the Better It Is: Why Show-Biz is Good for You and many TV ad-blurbists, still believes it. Linking autism to TV may be another form of social-science quackery, but then autism in children may be another form of TV ruining the people.
Juxtaposition of the day from ROMY:
Keller: News media failed to do its job before Iraq invasion
Newspaper circulation continues to fall, says FAS-FAX report
Which came shortly after:
Great newspaper columnists think alike? You decide.
Kansas City Star New York Times
Two columns on the Amish school shootings:
Mike Hendricks in the Kansas City Star, October 6: "The shooter wanted to harm only the girls. Does it strike you as curious -- the way it did me -- that more wasn’t made of that?"
Bob Herbert in the New York Times, October 16: "In the widespread coverage that followed these crimes, very little was made of the fact that only girls were targeted."
Hendricks: "Had he singled out and shot 10 black men or 10 Jews or 10 gays or 10 of almost any other group, we’d be calling it a hate crime -- whether it fit the legal definition or not."
Herbert: "Imagine if a gunman had gone into a school, separated the kids up on the basis of race or religion, and then shot only the black kids. Or only the white kids. Or only the Jews. There would have been thunderous outrage. ...And the attack would have been seen for what it really was: a hate crime."
(I've sent Herbert an e-mail, asking if he had seen Hendricks' column.)
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Is -- a PUZZLEMENT!
Keller: News media failed to do its job before Iraq invasion
Newspaper circulation continues to fall, says FAS-FAX report
Which came shortly after:
Great newspaper columnists think alike? You decide.
Kansas City Star New York Times
Two columns on the Amish school shootings:
Mike Hendricks in the Kansas City Star, October 6: "The shooter wanted to harm only the girls. Does it strike you as curious -- the way it did me -- that more wasn’t made of that?"
Bob Herbert in the New York Times, October 16: "In the widespread coverage that followed these crimes, very little was made of the fact that only girls were targeted."
Hendricks: "Had he singled out and shot 10 black men or 10 Jews or 10 gays or 10 of almost any other group, we’d be calling it a hate crime -- whether it fit the legal definition or not."
Herbert: "Imagine if a gunman had gone into a school, separated the kids up on the basis of race or religion, and then shot only the black kids. Or only the white kids. Or only the Jews. There would have been thunderous outrage. ...And the attack would have been seen for what it really was: a hate crime."
(I've sent Herbert an e-mail, asking if he had seen Hendricks' column.)
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Is -- a PUZZLEMENT!
Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has been using campaign donations instead of his personal money to pay Christmas bonuses for the support staff at the Ritz-Carlton where he lives in an upscale condominium. Federal election law bars candidates from converting political donations for personal use.
At this point I'd like to throw every last politician out the window.
At this point I'd like to throw every last politician out the window.
The Paper of Re-CORD gives us eyeball-rolling proof that Hollywood shall lead us into the PROMISED LAND! Forget those murderous Nazi cowboys: America is producing GREAT AHT!!!!!
If PINCH ran our foreign policy we'd have a caliphate.
(Thanks AGAIN, AhtsJournal)
If PINCH ran our foreign policy we'd have a caliphate.
(Thanks AGAIN, AhtsJournal)
The Man who Saved ESPNCORP is up to something:
A nutritional analysis by a Bloomberg-hired lab found that Disney's Magic Kingdom near Orlando, Florida, serves food with more fat, salt and calories than McDonald's Corp., the usual target for criticism about making kids fat. A smoked turkey leg at Disney, for example, has almost a day's worth of fat and 1,092.5 calories.
Give me that leg!
The Los Angeles Times reported on May 8 that ``multiple high-ranking sources'' at Disney said the McDonald's film deal was ending partly because the studio wanted to distance itself from fast food and its links to childhood obesity. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg Disney liked the story because it put a positive light on the demise of a valuable agreement.
The ESPNCORP PR BRIGADE does it again!
A nutritional analysis by a Bloomberg-hired lab found that Disney's Magic Kingdom near Orlando, Florida, serves food with more fat, salt and calories than McDonald's Corp., the usual target for criticism about making kids fat. A smoked turkey leg at Disney, for example, has almost a day's worth of fat and 1,092.5 calories.
Give me that leg!
The Los Angeles Times reported on May 8 that ``multiple high-ranking sources'' at Disney said the McDonald's film deal was ending partly because the studio wanted to distance itself from fast food and its links to childhood obesity. People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg Disney liked the story because it put a positive light on the demise of a valuable agreement.
The ESPNCORP PR BRIGADE does it again!
City may banish TV dishes from view
I was about to say "cell-phone repeaters," but I think the old-fashioned TV aerials looked far worse.
I was about to say "cell-phone repeaters," but I think the old-fashioned TV aerials looked far worse.
A busy day at MediaBistro:
1. Google Inc. is on track in 2006 to become the first company ever to pocket 25% of all U.S. online ad spending in a calendar year, according to a new report from eMarketer, an online ad tracker.
For 2006, Google's expected to report U.S. advertising revenues of $4 billion of the $16 billion expected to be spent in 2006 this year in this regard.
$4 billion in ad sales = $1 KAZILLION in market cap!!!!!
2. The Pentagon has brushed off a request from a journalist organization seeking more information and a decision on Bilal Hussein, an Associated Press photographer held for six months in Iraq without formal charges.
Meaning the hacks will mount a CAMPAIGN, which should convince most readers of Bilal's guilt.
3. YouTube represents the triumph of bottom-up culture and another sign that old media businesses, from record companies and TV networks to newspapers like The Times, are going to see more of their audience migrating to the Internet.
Okay, MOGUL'S FRIEND, why are so many of your RICHIE-RICH TOP-DOWN FRIENDS rushing to get in?
For now, YouTube is an unruly swap meet. But it's also the kind of level playing field where some noisy kid dancing in his underwear has just as much star power as a pampered celebrity. Is this a democracy or what?
I'd say it's blogging redux, where SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGERS have 50 billion times more power than I, and I'd also say it's a columnist with too much time on his hands.
1. Google Inc. is on track in 2006 to become the first company ever to pocket 25% of all U.S. online ad spending in a calendar year, according to a new report from eMarketer, an online ad tracker.
For 2006, Google's expected to report U.S. advertising revenues of $4 billion of the $16 billion expected to be spent in 2006 this year in this regard.
$4 billion in ad sales = $1 KAZILLION in market cap!!!!!
2. The Pentagon has brushed off a request from a journalist organization seeking more information and a decision on Bilal Hussein, an Associated Press photographer held for six months in Iraq without formal charges.
Meaning the hacks will mount a CAMPAIGN, which should convince most readers of Bilal's guilt.
3. YouTube represents the triumph of bottom-up culture and another sign that old media businesses, from record companies and TV networks to newspapers like The Times, are going to see more of their audience migrating to the Internet.
Okay, MOGUL'S FRIEND, why are so many of your RICHIE-RICH TOP-DOWN FRIENDS rushing to get in?
For now, YouTube is an unruly swap meet. But it's also the kind of level playing field where some noisy kid dancing in his underwear has just as much star power as a pampered celebrity. Is this a democracy or what?
I'd say it's blogging redux, where SUPERDUPERMEGAGIGABLOGGERS have 50 billion times more power than I, and I'd also say it's a columnist with too much time on his hands.
Fool con-SER-va-tives had Rummy; fool liberals have Sen. Fatso Glub-Glub.
Why must so much of our politics be SIX OF ONE?
Redstone: FCC's indecency rules creating fear
You're no slouch yourself, SUM.
"Give the government the tools to punish those it doesn't like or silence what it doesn't want to hear, and you undermine democracy," he said. "Give people the tools to choose what they see and hear, and you enhance democracy."
Give SUM zillions and you have the next best thing to the Soviet Union.
You're no slouch yourself, SUM.
"Give the government the tools to punish those it doesn't like or silence what it doesn't want to hear, and you undermine democracy," he said. "Give people the tools to choose what they see and hear, and you enhance democracy."
Give SUM zillions and you have the next best thing to the Soviet Union.
Can anyone doubt in the smiley-faced world of Wal-Mart workers are gears to be replaced at will?
Yes: the con-SER-va-tives who always scream that the Wal's the embodiment of FREE EN-TER-PRISE.
If this is FREE EN-TER-PRISE it doesn't sound so free.
Yes: the con-SER-va-tives who always scream that the Wal's the embodiment of FREE EN-TER-PRISE.
If this is FREE EN-TER-PRISE it doesn't sound so free.
Monday, October 16, 2006
"Now, that's what I'm talking about," Thomas said as the brawl raged out of control. "You come into our house, you should get your behind kicked. You don't come into the OB playing that stuff. You're across the ocean over there. You're across the city. You can't come over to our place talking noise like that. You'll get your butt beat. I was about to go down the elevator to get in that thing."
He got FIRED?
He got FIRED?
This story makes us wince too. We must confess Neil Simon is a glorified joke writer; that said he could write jokes, and hits. But the dubious honor of the Feds giving Mr. Simon this taxpayer-supported "Mark Twain" prize (we wonder what Samuel Langhorne would think) is an admission no one could do it better than Neil Simon (which does not sound so peachy as it seems), and there's no one down the pike who'll come close. In short, it's an admission our culture's running on fumes.
And to those who, like the clueless social climbers who organized this ceremony, think Mark Twain is FUNNY (well, he must be funny; he was a great writer -- wasn't he?), I say, read Volume 1 of the Library of America's anthology. Read "Concerning Gen. Grant's Intentions", or read "My Watch", or read "Political Economy" (the hilarious account of the fellow who installed hundreds of lightning rods on his house), or read "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once", or read "1601", and tell me if you still think he's funny. These are the sorts of morons who could be prompted to call Huck Finn racist -- and that is a masterpiece. Thankfully, by writing so many awful "humorous" pieces he acquired the reputation to do America proud.
For a man who gleefully named characters Spinal Meningitis, Snodgrass, or Huckleberry....
Yep, I believe we can definitively say, they don't GET IT.
And to those who, like the clueless social climbers who organized this ceremony, think Mark Twain is FUNNY (well, he must be funny; he was a great writer -- wasn't he?), I say, read Volume 1 of the Library of America's anthology. Read "Concerning Gen. Grant's Intentions", or read "My Watch", or read "Political Economy" (the hilarious account of the fellow who installed hundreds of lightning rods on his house), or read "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once", or read "1601", and tell me if you still think he's funny. These are the sorts of morons who could be prompted to call Huck Finn racist -- and that is a masterpiece. Thankfully, by writing so many awful "humorous" pieces he acquired the reputation to do America proud.
For a man who gleefully named characters Spinal Meningitis, Snodgrass, or Huckleberry....
Yep, I believe we can definitively say, they don't GET IT.
We're of three minds about the Lynne Stewart story: on the one hand, she was uber-PC, and she got a SLICK judge. On the other hand, was essential life imprisonment a reasonable sentence for her crime? On the third hand, lots of Democrats and news hacks are smiling too.
Be afraid...be very afraid...
Vatican officially confirms Pope trip to Turkey
...if you're a news hack, that is.
Vatican officially confirms Pope trip to Turkey
...if you're a news hack, that is.
Who wants to bet one of the first orders of biz after the Dems take over Congress is some sort of secret Trentlottian favor -- like a permanent copyright for their chief fundraisers and propagandists?
Want to see them try to get away with it?
Want to see them try to get away with it?
We can believe DVRs boost viewing -- slightly; DVR owners are apt to be the most obsessive of the GOTTA-WATCH-THIS-CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED-SHOW crowd. The question is, DO THEY WATCH THE ADS? If they don't, no amount of alleged audience boosting will help.
We are not surprised the idiotic DVD format war is hurting HD sales; it exposes high-def as just a fancy new pipe for the same old sewage. And people don't want to pay again for product already in their homes. What's more Consumer Reports's ratings of flat-screen sets showed most delivered about the same picture quality in HD and DVD (though much improved from standard-def). This is exactly like the format war in high-def audio, fought to huge public indifference and tiny sales. HD audio is about improving quality on the margins, and so is HDTV, and very few people are audiophiles, video or otherwise.
Whatever you think of Antonin Scalia, it's better to have a Supreme Court justice defend his beliefs in the open rather than hide under his robe in his chambers. The sooner we realize the Nine Fingers are about politics, the better we can see their purpose, and their limits.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
The last clause of THE RESOLUTION:
17. DECIDES to remain actively seized of the matter.
Seized -- or seized up?
17. DECIDES to remain actively seized of the matter.
Seized -- or seized up?
There is one (and only one) good thing about the dying newspaper tabloid Life's Web site: the cover search. It's a pity that the really remarkable part of the rag is off limits -- the insides; for the old Life (that is, its first inception, as a slick weekly, from 1936 to 1972) perhaps captured the spirit of the news more than any other magazine, at least during its first twenty years, until the pictures became bigger and the layout dumber. But its covers, let there be no doubt, were often outstanding. We looked up some names (we don't count the imposters from after '72 here), and as soon becomes quite obvious the cover subjects were, at best, a quirky choice: FDR made it only five times (six counting Mrs. R., seven counting Ralph Bellamy); Truman seven times, Ike eighteen; the Kennedys forty-six times (including Lee Harvey Oswald); LBJ thirteen, Nixon twelve. Churchill made it ten times (eleven counting a non-photo cover selling his memoirs); Hitler NEVER. Mussolini once. Khrushchev five times, three more than Stalin. Castro three times in four years. Mao once, in '72, a year after Zhou Enlai. Charles de Gaulle, three times. George C. Marshall and Dean Acheson each made it once. (Surprisingly, Lucian favorite John Foster Dulles never did; maybe he was too scary.) Lots of generals, mostly during WWII; Gen. MacArthur made it six times. Mrs. King made it twice, or once more than her slain husband (and that posthumously). Spiro Agnew made it three times(!), George McGovern twice in three weeks before his campaign broke down. Einstein, Sam Rayburn, Lindbergh -- none made the cover of Life. Not photogenic enough? (Nelson Rockefeller did -- four times.)
Of course Life's chief fame was as a show-biz publicity rag, in the days that wasn't objectionable; and never was it better than with the femmes. (We must not forget cheesecake was surely behind much of Life's popularity, and Henry Luce served it straight.) So we get Audrey Hepburn five times (Kate three), Sophia Loren seven times, MM nine times, Liz Taylor twelve times (the cover plugging Giant called her "lovely", and lovely she was, and a little more -- as in this sensational cover by Roddy McDowall). Bogie -- NEVER. (Well, once -- in a cover plug for Woodster the Perv.) Elvis -- NEVER. (Well, Ricky Nelson made it once.) With both, four times less than Bob Hope -- and two less than Gary Crosby?!?!? (His dad only made it thrice, usually in someone's company -- as did Ol' Blue Eyes, past his prime.) Quite a few baseball and football covers too, in the days before SI. Hemingway was in three times. And, it goes without saying, thirty-two covers of astronauts.
Television, the Web, economics -- they all made Life expendable. They could never make it forgettable.
P. S. on 6/29/2008 at 8:25 p. m.: The TWXSTERS had said they were going to open a NEW! IMPROVED! Life Web site after shutting down the supplement, but so far it's merely a placeholder. (All the links above are thus no good.) There is too much superb photography, and too much of a promise of unfettered access, for that.
Today I found this in a footnote from a Commentary article on 9/11 by Michael J. Lewis, from September 2002:
The reluctance on the part of artists to do anything smacking of patriotism, let alone jingoism, is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the past, such varied names as Winslow Homer, Frederick Church, Thomas Hart Benton, and Norman Rockwell happily worked to mobilize the public in times of war. But for at least a generation, explicit political activism among artists has been the province of the Left, and the task of rallying national resolve has fallen by default to those stalwart reflectors of populist sentiment, country music and tabloid cartoons. See, for example, the songs of Charlie Daniels ("The Last Fallen Hero") and Toby Keith ("Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue") and the wickedly inventive cartoons of Sean Delonas of the New York Post.
So: the left greets us with the upraised fist and the upraised leg; the right greets us with country music, cartoons and treacle. What a galling age.
The reluctance on the part of artists to do anything smacking of patriotism, let alone jingoism, is a relatively recent phenomenon. In the past, such varied names as Winslow Homer, Frederick Church, Thomas Hart Benton, and Norman Rockwell happily worked to mobilize the public in times of war. But for at least a generation, explicit political activism among artists has been the province of the Left, and the task of rallying national resolve has fallen by default to those stalwart reflectors of populist sentiment, country music and tabloid cartoons. See, for example, the songs of Charlie Daniels ("The Last Fallen Hero") and Toby Keith ("Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue") and the wickedly inventive cartoons of Sean Delonas of the New York Post.
So: the left greets us with the upraised fist and the upraised leg; the right greets us with country music, cartoons and treacle. What a galling age.
PINCH, AGAIN:
Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of American households, have finally slipped into a MINORITY, according to an analysis of new census figures by The New York Times. [PINCHIAN overemphasis added]
Without picking apart PINCH's use of the word (doesn't minority mean we get special privileges in PINCHDOM? With married couples, no) here's how the dictionary defines it: "The smaller in number of two groups forming a whole." As we're also talking singles and unmarried couples the married are still a PLURALITY. Now we don't want to get into dueling spins, but dammit, as EM demonstrates with his egregious use of "Democrat" as an ADJECTIVE, as USAOKAY!!!!! demonstrated by using "actor" for "actress", as the WaPost demonstrated by using "disinterested" for "uninterested," and as thousands in Iraq demonstrate by getting themselves blown up by a mysterious, anonymous force that always materializes in the passive voice (sorry for the NRO), the hacks do NOT like clear, accurate writing, for obfuscation and irritation help them get their way.
And NewsMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, which no longer seems to do any original reporting (except in a narrow and risible sense), swallowed PINCH's "MINORITY" line whole.
Married couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of American households, have finally slipped into a MINORITY, according to an analysis of new census figures by The New York Times. [PINCHIAN overemphasis added]
Without picking apart PINCH's use of the word (doesn't minority mean we get special privileges in PINCHDOM? With married couples, no) here's how the dictionary defines it: "The smaller in number of two groups forming a whole." As we're also talking singles and unmarried couples the married are still a PLURALITY. Now we don't want to get into dueling spins, but dammit, as EM demonstrates with his egregious use of "Democrat" as an ADJECTIVE, as USAOKAY!!!!! demonstrated by using "actor" for "actress", as the WaPost demonstrated by using "disinterested" for "uninterested," and as thousands in Iraq demonstrate by getting themselves blown up by a mysterious, anonymous force that always materializes in the passive voice (sorry for the NRO), the hacks do NOT like clear, accurate writing, for obfuscation and irritation help them get their way.
And NewsMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, which no longer seems to do any original reporting (except in a narrow and risible sense), swallowed PINCH's "MINORITY" line whole.
"You think every time you hear a black guy's voice it's automatically going to be something bad. Are you against hip-hop?"
An inscription for [C]RAP's tombstone.
By the way, I'm linking to WaPost articles to see if I can get TECHNORATI to work. (Pffh-hh-hh!) Besides the PAPER of RE-CORD doesn't run op-ed pieces anymore. (Pffh-hh-hh!)
An inscription for [C]RAP's tombstone.
By the way, I'm linking to WaPost articles to see if I can get TECHNORATI to work. (Pffh-hh-hh!) Besides the PAPER of RE-CORD doesn't run op-ed pieces anymore. (Pffh-hh-hh!)
Hey SKNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNX, isn't one Year of the Woman enough? Or do you have your taps on for Election Night already with Lenny and the rest of the gang?
Which raises the question: if the WaPost's op-ed columnists actually had to write could they turn anything out?
Which raises the question: if the WaPost's op-ed columnists actually had to write could they turn anything out?
And speaking of belch, Mr. My Business is My Business gasses another one about how this is baseball's GOLDEN AGE (the third or fourth in the last three or four years by my count), which certainly explains why so many people are positively GLUED to their TVs watching the sport this year.
Is My Business to baseball what the ad-blurbists are to movies?
Hey Business! If baseball's doing so FANTASTICALLY WELL why's Zelig Selig proposing a World Series DAY GAME someday?
Is My Business to baseball what the ad-blurbists are to movies?
Hey Business! If baseball's doing so FANTASTICALLY WELL why's Zelig Selig proposing a World Series DAY GAME someday?
Now Fred "McLaughlin" Barnes, who no doubt just a month ago predicted a Republican landslide, is girding for a rout of Progressive Conservative proportions.
Have you been on TV too much lately? Or don't Google and Nexus/Lexus apply to you?
Have you been on TV too much lately? Or don't Google and Nexus/Lexus apply to you?
The future House Majority Leader says he's not a "defeatocrat" and has his staffers write an op-ed saying we've got to get outoutOUT of Iraq yesterday!!!!!
Oh, nice touch, whoever the op-ed editor is, of making Cong. Defeatocrat's bio two grafs -- as in:
Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) is the ranking member on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.
He served 37 years in the Marine Corps.
Why didn't you put the second graf in large boldface caps -- as in:
HE SERVED 37 YEARS IN THE MARINE CORPS!
You may as well have.
Oh, nice touch, whoever the op-ed editor is, of making Cong. Defeatocrat's bio two grafs -- as in:
Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) is the ranking member on the House Appropriations defense subcommittee.
He served 37 years in the Marine Corps.
Why didn't you put the second graf in large boldface caps -- as in:
HE SERVED 37 YEARS IN THE MARINE CORPS!
You may as well have.
I really truly thought the newsrags were going to sell a movie on their covers this week. Never underestimate their perfidy. Well, at least America's No. 2 Newsrag was able to put the same story on all its covers. As for the TWXSTERS, they're selling President Obama -- but Joe "Anonymous" Klein says he isn't quite ready yet, which we'll take as gospel from a columnist who was never quite ready to tell the whole truth about his novel.