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Uh-oh! Washington Post Ombudsman cries 'Shame on Us' for reporting Sarah Palin would join al-Jazeera -it's actually the liberal hyperbole-prone author of "Vagina: A Biography," Naomi Wolf, who's thinking of hectoring unsuspecting al-Jazeera viewers until they turn the channel to get away from her shrillness
Coals to Newcastle, Mainstream Media to Tampa's strip clubs!
But when it's damn cute 36DD porn actress and Sarah Palin lookalike Lisa Ann, they can't help themselves. It's a perfect MSM narrative for the Dems.
But what will be its counterpoint in Charlotte next week?; @thereallisaann
The Washington Post
Lisa Ann, Sarah Palin impersonator, brings political message to Tampa strip club
By The Reliable Source
Posted at 05:00 AM ET, 08/27/2012
TAMPA — Lisa Ann is pro-guns, but anti-hunting. She’s all in favor of gay marriage and wants to save Obamacare. But don’t ask her about the economy; it’s not really her issue. Her business is porn, and that, she says, is “a pretty recession-proof industry.”
"How dare you impugn the Mainstream Media's seriousness of purpose in doing these sorts of in-depth investigative stories," he thundered indignantly! I went to Journalism School, I'm a professional! I know what sorts of questions to ask her... ---------- @thereallisaann http://twitter.com/thereallisaann
Newt Gingrich campaign video: Newt Gingrich discusses "the Facts and Florida" on his campaign bus with Greta Van Sustern of Fox News. January 28, 2012. http://youtu.be/mpOg027vWp4
National and Florida Mainstream Media reach unanimity: Undecided voters, Early voters, Hispanic voters, Anglo voters, I-4 voters and Older voters "may hold key" to 2012 Florida GOP Presidential Primary."
Gee, thanks for clearing that up!
Who did they leave out, left-handed blue-eyed Veterans?
Last weekend I watched Meet the Press for the first time in a long time when it first airs instead of the early morning encore on MSNBC.
It was an embarrassing spectacle that I think would've made the late Tim Russert fume, since more than anything, he liked genuine competition! That alone separates him from what seems to be the majority of the American MSM in the year 2012.
Meet the Press played the role of elite Beltway MSM and Obama-backer to the nth degree, had guests struggle to out-do one another in their predictions of their dread of Newt Gingrich as nominee -less-than-24 hours after he won the South Carolina primary.
The Republican National Convention in Tampa isn't until the end of August, so how about taking a chill pill on the forecasting and simply let the process play itself out instead of constantly gazing into your crystal ball?
But in the year 2012, the MSM don't want to leave the elections results up to mere voters.
(And really, despite all the undue attention he's received of late because he used to be a member, the last time I checked, nobody in Florida was saying how much they missed seeing smarmy Joe Scarborough in Congress.
And honestly, for what it's worth, I don't know a single person who watches his MSNBC show due to its smug shallowness, even fair-minded liberals I know.
They're either watching C-SPAN or driving to work or on a train to work somewhere.
MSNBC's programming is like a well-appointed tree-house, except the kids that nobody on the block likes have it in their backyard, so nobody wants to be in it save the unpopular kids who are eager to be there under any circumstances, and who thus try to make it seem more important than it is It's actually pretty funny, but unintentionally so.)
And did I mention yet that the MTP telecast, airing the day after South Carolina's primary and in advance of the Florida primary, had ZERO guests on from South Carolina or Florida?
Really.
The roles that once upon a time under Tim Russert might've seen then-Miami Herald political editor Tom Fiedler or someone from The State newspaper on, dispensing some carefully-rehearsed nugget of insight for the rest of the country to make sense of, instead had dopey Katy Kay of BBC America on as a guest, a past target of much-deserved criticism here on the blog.
Kay, who from what I have seen and heard of her in the many, many years since she was first stationed over here -and used to be on The Diane Rehm Show on WAMU a little too much when I listened to her show everyday at work in Washington- has seemingly NOT challenged the Conventional Wisdom since she took her A-Levels.
She hardly ever says anything that is not entirely predictable based upon her past.
If you can believe this, after only two states had participated, and with more absentee ballot requests from Florida than all the cast votes in Iowa and New Hampshire combined, David Gregory and his guests actually raised the issue of "favorite son" candidates and "brokered conventions."
Talk about putting the cart before the horse... Jesus, it's not even the end of January!
You can just imagine what they would say as football analysts at halftime.
Yes, that the team leading by a field goal at the half is the "inevitable" winner.
But there's a reason we play four quarters in a game not two, especially for the Super Bowl of U.S. politics.
Not surprisingly, the assembled geniuses on the set could NEVER quite explain why GOP voters in upcoming states, especially those who are unhappy with the establishment of both parties, would find voting for an establishment favorite son candidate a better alternative than voting for someone who is, you know, ACTUALLY running for President.
It seems counter-intuitive, right, but they never explained.
And that's what passes for news analysis these days!
The track record of the Beltway-based GOP Establishment that Mitt Romney is joined-to-the hip to -or alternatively, has made a blood pact with- especially when it comes to picking congressional candidates the last few years when personal or health matters have led to 'special elections,' is NOT an encouraging sign.
But for Beltway media elites, the non-candidate is preferable to an energized and emboldened Newt Gingrich who consistently articulates why he believes fundamental social and fiscal changes will be necessary to get this country moving again, and out of its deep psychological funk.
Newt Gingrich campaign video: Sarah Palin: Newt Best Candidate to Articulate Ideas and Solutions for GOP. January 28, 2012. http://youtu.be/FTRqc9Sq-vs
Remember when one of the cherished-if-cliched notions of American journalism was the news media challenging the establishment and the-haves?
I know, I know -it's a case of collective hysterical amnesia.
Today, if David met Goliath, the MSM would not only be picking Goliath, they'd be openly rooting for him and tut-tutting David's "incivility." Then, they'd tell David that Goliath's victory was, yes, "inevitable" and he ought to just give-up. This sycophantic mentality of the news media rooting for the establishment and the-haves instead of the upstart, has been rapidly making its way into the sporting press for the past 20 years.
As I've stated here previously, you see it clearly when nationally-known TV and print sportscasters, reporters and columnists all claim they want to see some upsets before the NCAA basketball tourney actually starts, but once they have to reveal who they select to make it to the Final Four, far too many pick 'all chalk' because what they really want is the status quo to reign. Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, Ohio State... so very predictable. Like their political brethren, they can't think outside-the-box, just ask Virginia Commonwealth University.
If everything goes as expected, I'll likely have some photos and maybe even some video here on the blog tomorrow of election activities taking place here in Broward County, and maybe some other places, too.
Weather forecast hereabouts is mostly sunny with a 100% chance of the MSM raining on Newt and being eager to count him out if he doesn't win Florida tomorrow.
But if he loses, and were foolish enough to listen to the news media experts who say he should then drop out, what do we need THEM for until after the end of August? Exactly.
A version of this blog post below was sent out as an email on Thursday to the Usual Trusted Sources in the Sunshine State and from Coast-to-Coast. ----- Up in the Northeast corridor, the Washington Post and the New York Times among other MSM -along with ProPublica- are sounding the dinner bell for Sarah Palin-haters by asking their readers for help in analyzing Palin's emails as governor of Alaska, a place that 99.99% of them have never been, which you'd think would naturally make a difference in analyzing information and giving others some proper context. (One of my maternal uncles, now living back in Texas, was a teacher in Nome in the '70's.)
----- New York Times
Caucus blog
Help Us Investigate the Sarah Palin E-Mail Records
By Derek WillisJune 9, 2011, 1:36 PM-
On Friday, the State of Alaska will release more than 24,000 of Sarah Palin’s e-mails covering much of her tenure as governor of Alaska. Times reporters will be in Juneau, the state capital, to begin the process of reviewing the e-mails, which we will be posting on nytimes.com starting on Friday afternoon E.D.T.
Over 24,000 e-mail messages to and from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin during her tenure as Alaska's governor will be released Friday. That's a lot of e-mail for us to review so we're looking for some help from Fix readers to analyze, contextualize, and research those e-mails right alongside Post reporters over the days following the release.
On the chance that you haven't been following things this weekend, above, the Palin email fishing expedition has largely backfired and The Politico is even saying so publicly.
Meanwhile, closer to home, in case you forgot, thanks to Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) head Nicki Grossman's sister, Broward Circuit Judge Patti Henning, HallandaleBeach residents STILL can't see the govt.-related emails to and from MayorJoy Cooper'sAOL email account that she has intentionally used for YEARS to shield them from public view, despite the fact that it was known years ago that all government-related emails are supposed to go thru the city's email system.
As South Florida Sun-Sentinel columnist Michael Mayo accurately noted two years ago, when he was the only journalist in all of South Florida asking reasonable questions about what on the face of it seemed like an open-and-shut case involving the clear provisions of the Florida Constitution and the Sunshine Laws, HB taxpayers even got the privilege of paying for the mayor's mendacious lawsuit, to boot, which makes a mockery of the spirit and letter of the law.
That Oct. 29, 2009 story titled, Why are taxpayers footing Mayor Joy Cooper's lawsuit bill?, included these two gems of clarity:
If the Feb. 17 e-mail sent from Mayor Joy Cooper's personal America Online account was private and not subject to the state's public records law, as Cooper and the city maintain, then why did the city hire an outside law firm at $185 an hour to initiate a lawsuit? If you accept the premise that her e-mail, which had the subject line "Mayor Cooper's Update," was not connected with city business, shouldn't Cooper have hired her own attorney to go to court to clarify the issue?
Mayor Cooper didn't (and still doesn't) care about appearances, which is why, then-as-now, she does what she does and dares someone to stop her, which has been her standard M.O. the entire seven-plus years I've lived here, all of which has been with her as mayor.
My friend Michael Butler, creator of the fact and financial-based website Change Hallandale, http://www.changehallandale.com/, stood-up to challenge her efforts and all he got for his concern for the larger community was hassled -and a legal bill that HE had to pay for. Here's a partial list of who foolishly ignored what Michael did to hold public officials accountable and force them to do the right thing: The Miami Herald, Channel 4 News, Channel 6 News, Channel 7 News and Channel 10 News, The Daily Business Review, et al... You know, the thing they always say everyone needs to do?
(Cooper's now doing the same thing with the Golden Isles overlay proposal that will clearly violate homeowners rights as spelled out in their deeds. She just doesn't care. She wants everyone to do what SHE wants. Period.)
Now that she is the elected head of the Florida League of Cities, if you want me to believe that all the email she receives from her out-of-town colleagues or special interest groups in Tallahassee urging her to pass resolutions of support for one thing or another at HB City Hall, supporting League (or parochial pet projects) as a template for others to emulate, is the official one that ends @hallandalebeachfl.gov, you are going to have a very, very difficult time convincing me, because I'm sure she's still using that AOL account for such purposes so we will never know.
Why would Joy Cooper change her spots NOW?
My favorite response about this biased effort regarding Sarah Palin came from someone who wanted to know why the MSM didn't ask their readers to do this for the minutiae of Obamacare when it would've mattered, since it was clear that many congressmen were going to vote for it without ever reading it, which I'm sure includes Kendrick Meek, whom nobody misses and who has largely disappeared from the scene.
I'll bet he still hasn't read it. Not that South Florida's lapdog news media ever asked him, on-camera. That's the sort of journalism usually practiced in South Florida now -strangely incurious and content to let questions go unasked.
I must admit that I make a mistake in responsing to this post in such haste, as I was wrong about there being only one person quoted, as I forgot about Laurence Barton's comments and...
Then again, I also neglected to attack the asinine 'remain a punching-bag' remarks by John Feehery
“She should let others defend her and keep quiet for a while,” John Feehery, a Republican political consultant and the president of Quinn Gillespie Communications, wrote in an email message to TheWrap.
His comments may be the single dumbest thing I read all year.
Consider this:
In the 2008 Democratic primary -you know, the one that the MSM said was already Hillary's in 2007- if Obama's media acolytes and union pals at SEIU kept attacking Hillary with untrue info and she let it stand for nearly a week, the media would've said that she showed weakness, correct? Yes, he said in answering his own rhetorical question.
Palin waits five days after being hammered for something she didn't do and is promptly attacked for "inserting" herself into the situation by ABC News. http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/01/the-note-obama-palin-and-arizona-a-tale-of-two-speeches.html?cid=6a00d8341c4df253ef0148c78e402e970c
You don't have to want Sarah Palin to be either the face of the GOP or president -and I don't- to know that this was a 'high-tech lynching.' and a probable preview of what the MSM has in store for the GOP this year. Go ahead, explain the difference in media sentiment. Welcome to the American mainstream media's 2011 version of civility: They'll attack you and say things that are clearly absurd, then attack you for defending yourself, and when you finally respond, they'll selectively run stories featuring people who never liked you, who then further attack you. Afterwards, they'll attack you for needlessly "inserting" yourself.
And after it's all over, and the lack of evidence is even more stark, and there are recriminations for the lynch mob, they'll say, "Well, even if it's not true this time..."
My favorite version of Ol' Man River, from the 1936 film starring the amazing Irene Dunne,http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028249/
Paul Robeson - Ol' Man River (Showboat - 1936) J.Kern O. Hammerstein II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh9WayN7R-s
Part 1: Palin for President?Sarah Palin on future and possibly entering the 2012 race.12/17/2010 http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/part-palin-president-12428592
Part 2: Palin on MotherhoodFormer VP candidate on marriage and raising five kids.12/17/2010 http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/part-palin-motherhood-12428604
In 2006 Sarah Palin defeated an incumbent governor of her own party in order to get the Alaska GOP gubernatorial nomination. After winning that nomination battle against longtime GOP U.S. Senator and sitting governor -and pork-loving blow-hard- Frank Murkowski, father of recently-re-elected U.S. Senator -and permanent sour face- Lisa Murkowski, Palin then got to run against the Democrat, another recent former Alaska governor, Tony Knowles. And won. As of two years ago, there was not a single LIVING Democratic politician in the entire United States who had ever run that sort of gantlet to get elected governor of their respective state.Just saying...
While it's easy for people to throw stones at Palin, especially from a distance, doing what she did, as mayor of a small and otherwise obscure city in Alaska that even most well-informed people in the Lower 48 had NEVER heard of, was and is pretty amazing. That no LIVING Democrat has done anything like that is the proof. I've always liked women with moxie, and Sarah Palin has that in abundance. As far as I'm concerned, whatever else she may lack, that particular quality will always help compensate for an awful lot, and endear her with average American voters, who quickly tire of pretentious, self-promoting phonies like John Kerry or John Edwards, whose innate shallowness, self-deception and disconnectedness to most of the country's genuine concerns eventually shines thru, no matter how talented or skillful their speechwriters.
The Washington Post'sChris Cillizza chimed in on Sarah Palin's political future on Friday from his WaPo blog, The Fix, pondering aloud, "Why Sarah Palin could struggle in 2012."
Transcripts of his Friday morning "Live Fix" online and video chats are at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2009/08/19/LI2009081903062.html
Here's the interactive schedule for the Washington Post's reporters, columnists and bloggers http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/liveonline/
Yes, you're right, South Florida, in the year 2010, soon to be 2011, the Miami Herald and South Florida Sun-Sentinel have nothing even close to this in terms of breadth of quality or quantity.Why? Now, that's a good question. Why don't the publishers of these two newspapers want to address those issues with concerned readers in South Florida?
Sarah Palin's Alaska:http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/sarah-palin-alaska/
America by Heart -Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag by Sarah Palin http://www.harpercollins.com/books/America-Heart-Sarah-Palin/?isbn=9780062010964 http://files.harpercollins.com/AudioFile/9780062026910.mp3
YouTube videos mentioning Sarah Palin are added daily, almost hourly, regardless of whether they are pro or con.This chron link should provide you a way of seeing the most recent additions. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_filter=1&search_query=%22Sarah+Palin%22&search_type=videos&suggested_categories=25%2C43%2C23&uni=3&search_sort=video_date_uploaded
See also: http://abcnews.go.com/nightline http://abcnews.go.com/gma http://www.youtube.com/user/ABCNews
C-SPAN to air Glenn Beck's 'Restoring Honor' Rally LIVE on Saturday morning on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Beck will be joined by Sarah Palin, Jo Dee Messina, Alveda King (niece of Martin Luther King, Jr.) and many more in a non-political event paying tribute to America's service personnel and other citizens who embody the spirit of our nation's founding principles. Net proceeds raised by the event will benefit the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization that provides scholarship grants and educational and family counseling to the children of special operations personnel who lose their lives and immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations personnel and their families.
Washington Post Beck rally will be a measure of 'tea party' strength Beck's decision to speak on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech leads to criticism by social activists and civil rights leaders. By Amy Gardner Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 26, 2010
When Fox News and talk radio host Glenn Beck comes to Washington this weekend to headline a rally intended to "restore honor" to America, he will test the strength - and potentially expose the weaknesses - of a conservative grass-roots movement that remains an unpredictable force in the country's politics.
Beck, who is both admired and assailed for his faith-based patriotism and his brash criticism of President Obama, plans in part to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. as an American hero.
He will speak on the anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech, from the spot where King delivered it Read the rest of the article at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/25/AR2010082507203.html
I am by no means the first person to say this, but however large or small the attendance at a three-hour rally in sweltering Washington at the end of August is, will neither prove nor disproves how fundamentally strong the Tea Party is in its various incarnations in all 50 states. Very strong in some regions of the U.S. for reasons both geographic and cultural, while only so-so in other places where strong party politics are a foreign concept because political independence was already prized long before there was a Tea Party Movement -like Maine. That's why we have elections, instead of political rallies at football stadiums.
And yet the MSM just can't accept this explanation. They keep wanting this event on Saturday to stand for something else, something many of them clearly don't personally like -as if that wasn't noticeable at all in all of the media coverage.
It's a rally for people with some common goals and desires to come together and get enthused about the hard work that lays ahead. That's it. I especially encourage my friends overseas to watch for yourself and see how the U.S. media's depiction of this has, again, been much less than truthful.To see the live stream of the rally on Saturday, go to http://newsforamericans.blogspot.com/2010/08/glenn-beck-restoring-honor-rally-stream.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMGpBCllHWs
Since I've never mentioned it here before, I listen every day to Glenn Beck's daily morning nationally-syndicated radio show and religiously watch or tape his weekday 5 p.m TV show on Fox News Channel -or the encore broadcast at 2 a.m.- just about every day, having given NPR the boot in the morning quite some time ago as I've previously commented here, since if Diane Rehm has a guest or topic I'm interested in, I know that I can always go to the website and listen to it again over the weekend. http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/44014/
But just like Rush Limbaugh's nationally-syndicated afternoon radio show, if you don't listen to Beck's show when it's on, you completely lose the immediacy of what's on his mind and his listeners across the country. To imagine, as some do, that these two men don't really have a great influence on what the MSM deigns to discuss on other TV chat programs or what will appear in elite newspapers or news magazines, is to harbor a delusion of America that's simply at odds with reality. Nobody 'accidentally' listens to the show every day. Speaking of numbers and their portent, it's a good thing for Katie Couric that eyeballs alone don't tell the tale of someone's fundamental fitness the way the WaPo seems to want to judge this weekend's rally, or else she'd be out on her butt after CBS Evening News just received it's lowest weekly ratings EVER. http://spectator.org/blog/2010/08/25/katie-couric-and-rush-ratings
If her name wasn't Katie Couric, she's already have been shown the door, like Campbell Brown at CNN. Not that you would know any of that if you depended on the Miami Herald to make sense of the current media world, as her stewardship there atCBS is never mentioned.
If there's a major newspaper in the country that's more unsophisticated and behind-the-ball than the Herald in its coverage of media in its various guises, considering the people who live here, I don't what paper that could be. It's truly abysmal with a capital "A."
See also: Brian Williams: Katie Couric 'Always Welcome' at NBC http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/generalities/brian_williams_katie_couric_always_welcome_at_nbc_171045.asp
See details on Saturday's rally at: http://www.glennbeck.com/828/
See the Washington Post's online chat with Brendan Steinhauser, Director, Federal and State Campaigns, FreedomWorks, from yesterday at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2010/08/26/DI2010082603846.html
Taken directly from Washington Post's website at 2:40 a.m. Thursday morning, directly belowSarah Palin photo ---------------------------- http://www.washingtonpost.com/?nav=globaltop&reload=true Palin Takes Swipes at Obama and Critics (photo shows of Sarah Palin kissing daughter Piper, while husband Todd applauds with crowd) Palin says it is Obama's experience, not hers, that is lacking, as she embraces role of attacking Democrats. (Toni L. Sandys/Post)
In Diverse Nation, a White Convention Republicans have worked to improve their minority outreach, but setbacks have negated their efforts. Eli Saslow and Robert Barnes
Just a reminder. Complete list of elected Black governors in U.S. history: 1.) Doug Wilder, Virginia, 1989 (whom I voted for in Arlington) 2.) Deval Patrick, Massacusetts, 2006.
As Tony Kornheiser would say, "That's it! That's the whole list." Still not on list: California, New York, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey.
Hmmm... I thought they were supposed to be soprogressive there? I guess the White folks there must all be racists, too, huh?
In case the story link above doesn't work, Gov. Sarah Palin Comes Out Fighting, is at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/03/AR2008090303221.html?hpid=artslot Also definitely worth checking out is Tom Shales review in The Washington Post of the Palin speech: She Shoots! She Scores! A Hockey Mom's Moment If the Republicans win the presidential election in November, it may well be said that they won it last night -- the night that John McCain's brilliantly screwy choice for a running mate changed from laughingstock to national star.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's acceptance speech wasn't brilliant rhetoric, and she's not entirely accomplished as a public speaker, but she put herself over with slick, self-assured skill. To those in the hall and probably to millions watching at home, she came across as genuine and down-to-earth, a self-described "hockey mom" whose confidence and bravado were not exactly ingratiating but were somehow persuasive. Read the rest of the column at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090400111.html
What makes for amusing commentary is the legion of flummoxed Obama supporters among the Air America Crowd ignoring Shales specific points, and resorting to their usual spewing of nonsense about John McCain and her at Reader Comments http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090400111_Comments.html They lost their mojo and they don't know where to find it. ----------------------------- John Dickerson of SLATE has been writing some of THE best campaign pieces of the entire campaign, and this new piece shows why. http://www.slate.com/id/2199250/ A Pit Bull With Lipstick Why the smiling, sudden, relentless Sarah Palin should scare Democrats. By John Dickerson, Posted Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, at 1:21 AM ET --------------------------- Washington PostPolitics web page at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/politics/ ------------------- Upcoming post to look for here at HBB and South Beach Hoosier, as I change the layout a bit this weekend: NBC'sAndrea Mitchell isn't alone among Beltway media in not knowing anyone in Washington who knows Palin, which Palin could care less about, as she mentioned with relish in her comments Wednesday night. I look forward to reading the inevitable upcoming Tom Friedman column on nobody within the Davos Crowd not knowing Palin either. But I'll bet Bono knows by now that one of her baby son Trig Paxson Van Palin's names, Van, is an homage to Van Halen.
Hate to say I told you so, but I told ya Palin would be catnip!
Wait 'till she starts spending some quality time bouncing back-and-forth like a ping-pong ball b/w Ohio, PA and West Virginia, the wacky area where my paternal ancestors settled, even before Ohio was a state. One of those ancestors was a Virginia Congressman in the 1820's who has a county in West Virginia named after him.
Trust me, the very first time SarahPalin puts on a miner's helmet at some function in West Virginia and flashes her confident smile, that photo will be on the Drudge Report in a nano-second, not to mention, on the front page of newspapers everywhere in the country the following day. And Obama HQ in Chicago will not be able to rely on their media allies to kill it.
I can already picture it in my head, right below the masthead on the front page of USA Today next week, when I buy it next Friday for the great sports section, as I always do during the NFL season due to their amazing stories, stats and Michael Hiestand's sports media columns.
You can always tape SarahPalin's speechlater on C-SPAN, which'll repeat it a few times overnight.
One things about The Candidate always struck me as curious. Even as a kid when I first saw it at the theater in North Miami Beach, and still later while in Bloomington at IU, I always wondered why people thought Redford's enigmatic character of Bill Mackay was appealing, since he often seems like the sort of person who, in a real-life city, would always be THE last neighborhood activist holdout in getting an agreement done, because he'd always insist that others make compromises before he'd consider it, and then would raise the posssibility of just walking away from a deal, on principle.
In other words, he has a very high opinion of himself and thinks you should as well.
The Last Hurrahwas said to be based on the popular persona of former Boston mayor James Michael Curley,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Michael_Curley ____________________________ 8:00pm The Last Hurrah (1958) A political boss faces changing times as he runs for re-election.Cast: Spencer Tracy, Jeffrey Hunter, Pat O'Brien. Dir: John Ford. BW-121 mins, TV-PG
10:15 pm The Candidate(1972) A senate candidate's ideals weaken as his position in the polls gets stronger.Cast: Robert Redford, Peter Boyle, Melvyn Douglas. Dir: Michael Ritchie. C-110 mins, TV-14 (Original Trailer)http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?cid=210004&eref=newsletter
12:15 am The Best Man(1964) Two presidential hopefuls get caught up in the dirty side of politics. Cast: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Lee Tracy. Dir: Franklin J. Schaffner. BW-102 mins, TV-PG (Original Trailer)http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/index/?cid=207801&eref=newsletter
