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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Ron Paul - Get Excited
Ron Paul - Get Excited - Amazing videos are here
Our entry into the 30-second YouTube competition for the CNN debates.
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If Only...
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Ted Kennedy's Autobiography: How Chappaquidick Will be Portrayed Waterloo or Water Under The Bridge?
"Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?"
~ Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, 1973
Senator Ted Kennedy earned an 8.5 million advance on his upcoming autobiography.
The book deal eclipses the $8 million Sen. Hillary Clinton was advanced for "Living History," but falls short of the $10 million former British Prime Minister Tony Blair commanded and the $12 million Bill Clinton snagged for his memoirs. [1]
Hachette Book Group USA won the bidding war held by DC attorney Bob Barnett.
Just what can readers expect from the upcoming Ted tome?
For $8 million, Hachette will expect more from Kennedy than he revealed in his last book. That one enticed readers with a story about a dog with the provocative name of Splash.
Published in 2006, Senator Kennedy's children's book, My Senator and Me, tells about Washington, DC through the eyes of Splash, the Portuguese Water Dog.
From School Library Journal
Starred Review. Grade 1-5–Kennedy's introduction to the political process is clear, informative, and loaded with child appeal, in part due to the choice of narrator: his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash. [3]
Kennedy said in a statement: "I've been fortunate in my life to grow up in an extraordinary family and to have a front-row seat at many key events in our nation's history." [1]Front row driver's seat.
"Teddy Kennedy was the weak kitten in the litter, never able to measure up to his brothers. The accident at Chappaquiddick displayed his chronic immaturity. One problem Teddy has always had was keeping it in his pants - even when other people are around."Chappaquidick
- Cleo O'Donnell - wife of former Kennedy campaign aide. [2]
The mysteries of the case (Chappaquidick) continue to haunt Ted Kennedy as well as the authorities who investigated them. Charges of ineptitude and lack of diligence abounded, as did insinuations that the machinery of justice crumbled beneath the power and prestige of the Kennedy family. George Killen, former State Police Detective-Lieutenant, and chief of a never-revealed investigation, lamented that the failure to bring the case to a satisfactory conclusion was "the biggest mistake" of a long and distinguished police career. Senator Kennedy, he said, "killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger."Pundits are weighing in:
~ Senatorial Privilege by Leo Damore [2]
Political pundit Dick Morris said, "I don't think they'll make their money back because he won't level about Chappaquiddick, or William Kennedy Smith. They might as well just title it, 'The Collected Speeches of Ted Kennedy.' "
Asked if Kennedy would come clean on what proved to be a political watershed for the Senator, conservative author Ann Coulter quipped: "He'll cross that bridge when he comes to it . . . If he does talk about Chappaquiddick, I believe he'll have to forfeit his advance under the Son of Sam laws." [1]
Chappaquidick was Kennedy's 'summer of 69.' It's also one of the dates inscribed on Mary Jo Kopechne's tombstone.
Some might feel it's time to move on, to forgive and forget. Forgiveness only applies to the Kopechne family. Forgetting only applies if Ted had chosen a private instead of public life.
Senators are supposed to ethical, moral, and law-abiding. Kennedy's behavior before, during and after Chappaquidick gave the public the information it needed in order to access Senator Kennedy's character.
Ethical, moral and law-abiding.
Thirty-eight years after Chappaquidick, Kennedy still remains, 0-3.
Source - 1 - NYPost
Source - 2 - YTedK
Source - 3- Amazon
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One More Glenn Greenwald Joke
When a litigator pretends he's a journalist pretending to be a press nanny, the result is usually another Glenn Greenwald joke pretending to be a column.
Only a former litigator could manage to make the claims that Glenn Greenwald does without his body twisting into spasmodic fits of laughter.
In "Bad Stenographers", Greenwald reaches the correct conclusion that most mainstream hacks are little better than stenographers.
If only.
Greenwald proceeds to tell us what he thinks a journalist should do, ought to do, doesn't do, whatever.
One example:
I worked for years with highly professional stenographers in hundreds of depositions and court proceedings. Their defining trait is that they have a fierce devotion to transcribing accurately everything that is said and doing nothing else. It's not uncommon for lawyers, in the heat of some dispute, to attempt to recruit the stenographer into the controversy in order to say who is right.Say, sounds like what reporters used to do.
Back in the day--before journalists got the bright idea that someone elected them to make policy--reporters/journalists used to record the facts and what was said: without trying to resolve the "good guy" or "bad guy" issue for the reader.
Greenwald then takes the press to task the few times they slip up.
Stenographers will never do that [say who is right]. They will emphasize that they are only there to write down what is said, not to resolve disputes or say what actually happened -- exactly like Time Magazine and most of our press corps. If someone in a court proceeding voices even the most blatantly false accusations, stenographers will faithfully write it down and publish it without comment -- exactly like Time Magazine and most of our press corps, at least when it comes to claims from the government and its GOP operatives.
So the Washington press is nothing more than a herd of Bush poodles.
Journalist n. A person who collects and edits news for the public.
Sound familiar?
I didn't think so.
It doesn't sound familiar to Greenwald either.
After wading through the rest of the piece (with a short nap in the middle), the former litigator has completely convinced the reader of his case for liberal media bias--all the while swearing it doesn't exist.
Not content with completely disgusting anyone who believed the Journalism 101 teacher about a "disinterested press", he inserts this howler. Probably to check to see if anyone was still awake.
As Eric Alterman documented before most people were pointing it out, the greatest myth in our political culture is the Rush-Limbaugh-generated complaint about the "liberal media."Greenwald even writes the phrase "liberal media myth".
Long before Limbaugh settled into his popular show, complaints of bias on the network newscasts began, people switched off their sets and network ratings began their slide down. Greenwald argues that Limbaugh manages some kind of mass hypnosis/mind control to plant this outrageous voo-doo idea of "liberal media bias" in the public's imagination.
Limbaugh is an evil genius. With the powers he possesses, he should quit his radio show and take over the world.
Then maybe he'd use his power to save us from former litigators masquerading as journalists masquerading as concerned press nannies.
by Mondoreb
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Bad Stenographers
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Financial Crime Career Cut Short: Man Busted Trying to Open Bank Account with $1 Million Dollar Bill
Maybe he should have read the Wall Street Journal first.
A man was arrested trying to pass a million dollar bill at a bank.
Police say a man tried to open an account with a $1 million bill, which does not exist. The teller refused and called police while the man started to curse at bank workers, said Aiken County Sheriff's spokesman Lt. Michael Frank.Further proof that what seemed to be a perfectly good idea--after a night of drinking with your crew down at the Jerry Springer Bar & Grill--might be lacking upon further thought.
Alexander D. Smith, 31, of Augusta, Ga., was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery, Frank said.
The second forgery charge came after investigators learned Smith bought several cartons of cigarettes from a nearby grocery store with a stolen check, Frank said.
The sad end of an obviously promising financial crime career.
Man Busted with $1 Million Bill at Bank
by Mondoreb
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