tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16659846394032573422012-02-16T17:47:06.812-08:00I demand a better future. - D. BowieThe Red Carpet Baggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04832414378514713123noreply@blogger.comBlogger1111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1665984639403257342.post-37757025608790578542008-09-04T14:27:00.000-07:002008-09-04T14:31:12.690-07:00

Check out my new spot - www.theredcarpetbagger.com with my new blog.

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Is it just me, or did Hillary keep a bargaining chip for herself in her speech? For all the positive coverage, what she didnt say tells me so much more than what she did.She DID talk about herself, using the first person 64 times. She DID endorse Sen Obama, though only mentioning him 2 times. How many times did she mention Sen McCain? 0. Nada. Not once.This from the woman who can turn a phrase

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Sen McCain is currently holding what I consider a very disingenuous VP vetting process. Its just for the cameras and show the complete racism and pandering the right will gladly undertake, if it helps.The 3 candidates for VP are Mitt (nee Willard Romney), Gov. Charlie Crist and Gov. Bobby Jindal. Of course Willard is going to be the candiadate, as McCain needs to sell his soul to the radical

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Oh, Kevin James. I love you, you know. But now you know why all press isn't good press.I will say thank you, though. You showed the absolute core of the rights strategy - conflation fueled by ignorance of those who listen to it. Dana Parino and he should start a School House Rock history course for the right. Watch as she admits to not knowing anything about it, but only days after having shot

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Last December I went out on a limb and endorsed Sen. Obama and predicted Sen. McCain as the Republican candidate. Its time to look again and read the tea leaves.Who are the VP candidates going to be?Sen. McCain needs money, youth and religious right appeal. Enter Mitt Romney.Romney has the connections to the financial establishment (who are going to panic at the prospect of having to stop raping

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Consider this exchange from the end of Primary Colors. Couldnt this be the transcript between Sen Clinton and the electorate? Its been 16 years. We need to move on. This game has corrupted.Clinton: This is it, Henry. This is the price you pay to lead. You don't think Lincoln was a whore before he was president? He had to tell his stories and smile his back-country grin. He did that so one day

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Don't think the media has a bias towards ridiculous issues? Watch John Edwards connect with the audience on ISSUES like healthcare, poverty and Jet Skis. If only the media covered issues the 2 man race might be a two man race for the Dems, with Hillary and her tactics long left behind.And, he's funny! Wish he had stronger foreign policy experience cause he and Sen Obama would be an amazing,

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Last nights ABC debate? Shameful and the perfect metaphor for this election. I am dying to see the new polls and ultimately results in Pennsylvania. As we have seen in the last few days, Hillary's numbers drop (while her negatives grow) the more negative she becomes and thats all she has left in her bag of tricks. So ABC might have done Sen Obama a favor, ultimately. How long before the Chris

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to SNL for finally finding some comedic fault with Hillary. They even swiped at McCain.

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My original headline was going to be: Hillary, You Digust Me. In response to the Obama Bitter non-troversy, she said the following while also winking at the on-going religion smear - a mud-slinging 2-fer:I grew up in a church-going family, a family that believed in the importance of living out and expressing our faith (dry heave here). The people I know don't 'cling to' religion because they're

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This non-story on Obama gaff reminds me of a scene in Mississippi Burning. Obama's one line from a thoughtful answer that has everyone going nuts: And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." And Willam Defoe and Gene Hackman in

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Gee, who do the writers and producers of SNL support? Well, once again last night they lead off with an apologist spot for Hillary. This time brushing off the media reporting on their taxes, though they held them for years in some cases and released them without the Clinton Library supporter lists, which is where the real potential for hard news lurks. Since Hillary has been running for President

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I dont like to just quote, but this piece from Salon needs to be read by everyone I know...The U.S. establishment media in a nutshellThe U.S. government suspended the Fourth Amendment and expressly authorized torture. The attorney general lied about how the 9/11 attack happened. Barack Obama can't bowl well. Which revelations did the media cover?Glenn GreenwaldApr. 05, 2008 | (updated below -

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TRCB is meant to give context to news and know what you're talking about on the carpet. Today Hillary Clinton showed why people don't like or trust them. After months of stalling, the Clinton campaign released their tax returns, but not the donor list of the Clinton Library.Why is this an example? Because they employed a strategy they created called Taking out the Garbage - dump your unpleasant

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Like anybodyI would like to live a long lifeLongevity has its placeBut I'm not concerned about that nowI just want to do God's willAnd he has allowed me to go up to the mountianAnd I've looked overAnd I've seen the promise landI may not get there with youBut I want you to know tonightThat we as a peopleWill get to the promise landSo I'm happy tonight, I'm not worried about anythingI'm not fearing

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From today's NY Times:81% in Poll Say Nation Is on the Wrong TrackAmericans are more dissatisfied with the country’s direction than at any time since the New York Times/CBS News poll began asking about the subject in the early 1990s, according to the latest poll. In the poll, 81 percent of respondents said they believed “things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track,” up from 69

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Well, more like got busy working and felt a bit overwhelmed by the sheer volume of things to be annoyed with, versus things to get excited by. Thought Moby's new CD would help. Not so much. Election coverage is doing more harm than good. New study on high school graduations is mind-bogglingly depressing.Reading Christopher Rice's new book. Maybe that will make me more chatty this week.

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Could SNL be anymore in favor of Sen Clinton? Last week we got an opening sketch based solely on the idea that Sen Obama gets softball questions or out right favoritism. OK. It was mildly amusing until Tina Fey went off and endorsed Sen Clinton during Weekend Update.Fast forward to last night (or rewind - Im a little lost on this one). Once again same set up and premise - media favoritism to Sen

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Some Oscar thoughts.First from the E! coverage:Miley Cyrus sounds like total traaaaaash – just missing some gum to chew on. When will the public learn that the dumber the celeb, the easier it is to get them to work?Gary Bussey is full on nuts.Jennifer Garner and Laura Linney were so cute! I adore LL and she made me like Garner for the first time. She looked less Praying Mantis than usual.Ryan

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OK, I am late getting my picks on here, but want to go on the record before the show starts.Supporting Actress: I have to admit, I just dont care about the actresses this year. But, only because I dont think the film business does. But buzz for Cate Blanchett, so ok.Best Actress: Just for my friend John I see at Starbucks, whose wife won an Oscar for animated short, Marion Cotilliard for La Vie

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Just started on the debate recording and Im worried. Sen Obama is not wearing his trademark blue tie.Im a true believer in branding, as cliche as it sounds. Those intangibles like the familiarity of a tie color helps to make the Senator seem more accepted, instead of having to re-introduce himself each time, especially when he is running against such a well known brand to the Latin community who

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Ok, we get it Maureen Dowd, you’re a cynic. Check. You’re not on anyone’s side. What you and the rest of the for-profit media seem to miss is that the rest of us are ready for answers, not just to complain about the problems, anymore. Standing on the sidelines lobbing one liners doesn’t do anything productive.You and the Matt Taibbis of the world need to move on to other professions now. You can

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A friend asked today to be sold on which candidate to support (forgetting that his primary has passed already) based on their legislative accomplishments.My response and yes, its a bit long. But Ive taken a bit of time off, perhaps youve noticed:I don’t want my silence to be equated with being stumped for an answer to your question. I don’t accept the premise of the question.If legislative

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I didn’t say it very effectively, but what I was trying to say is, start with the proper question: What kind of government do you want? We are not hiring a CEO and checking results quarterly while we go on vacation and spend our $600, nor hiring a caretaker and hoping they don’t have parties in our place for their friends while we’re gone. We are electing a team captain to lead us in our shared

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Dissing the deadPosted Wed. Jan. 30, 2008 7:02amby Page SixFRIENDS of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, who died in a car crash in Honduras in 2002, are fuming that the "Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency" reality show featured a photo shoot last week for Dragonfly clothing that used models dressed as dead rock stars — including Elvis, Kurt Cobain and Lopes, who was part of the TLC trio. "Imagine her family's

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for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security.Benjamin FranklinThe AG just made the argument that the law is relative to the outcome and that since the admin isn’t breaking the law anymore or the law has been changed, it never really did. Good time to be reminded that Mukasey has 2 photos up in his office, GWB and George Orwell - and I am not making that up.If I am tortured, its is

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...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.The Declaration of IndependenceJuly 4, 1776Keep this in mind in the weeks ahead. Pres. Bush wants immunity for Telecos so he will have

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Might just end up being Democratic blue after all. 55% in South Carolina! He garnered more total votes than Sen. McCain and Gov. Hickabee combined.

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Double check your facts.This from, thecarpetbaggerreport.com (hmm, has a ring to it) describing then Gov Bush's emotional connection to a painting he kept in his office entitled, A Charge To Keep: In 1995, he issued a memo to his Texas staff, describing the painting, by W.H.D. Koerner in 1916, which he kept on his office wall. Bush told his aides:The reason I bring this up is that the painting is

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Get the facts straight.This from Starpulse.com: The family and friends of tragic TLC star Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes have threatened a trendy Los Angeles clothing company with legal action after learning bosses have used the late hip-hop star as an inspiration for new designs without permission.Dragonfly designers staged a photo shoot with models posing as dead stars as part of reality show Janice

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AP reports that the signs point to an accidental death for Heath Ledger. Even the White House cancelled a prescription drug abuse ad campaign kick off today for the President, not wanting to seem 'opportunistic'. Not so for the lunatic right. Apparently, you can be a drug addict (Rush Limbaugh) if you are also a lunatic. I'm too disgusted to write about it, so Think Progress can say it:John

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So sad to see such a young talent gone. His performance in Brokeback Mountain was a masterpiece in minimalism.Worse, SURPRISE, the tabloids in their rush to be first to tell it, In Touch reports: "His mother and father heard of his death on the news. We are all devastated. The whole family is devastated over his death, and more so over having to learn of his death from the media." Why doesn't

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The List (here). Yawn.Who called Elah? Tommy Lee Jones for Elah, along with his work in No Country, could be the surprise winner, there.Best Supporting actor race between Hal Holbrook and Philip Seymour Hoffman is the only race I'm interested in. Both stole their films. Into the Wild is one of my favorite books and Sean Penn made an amazing film that every teenager should see. Its a modern Wizard

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When I called her Amy Crackhouse. Now its officially sad, UK's The Sun reports: WILD AMY WINEHOUSE was filmed blitzed out of her skull and struggling to talk after sucking in crack fumes from a glass pipe. The tormented singing sensation took hit after hit of the deadly drug after a 19-minute binge in which she snorted powdered ECSTASY and COCAINE. And she admitted she had just popped six VALIUM

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Like anybodyI would like to live a long lifeLongevity has its placeBut I'm not concerned about that nowI just want to do God's willAnd he has allowed me to go up to the mountianAnd I've looked overAnd I've seen the promise landI may not get there with youBut I want you to know tonightThat we as a peopleWill get to the promise landSo I'm happy tonight, I'm not worried about anythingI'm not fearing

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Im against term limits, I think its a silly idea. Vote out who needs to be voted out. But this guy might change my mind. I dont know what he wants me to do, but Im ready to do it.

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What an where is America? America is a dream unfilled. A dream of opportunity of privilege and property widely distributed, a dream of a place where class is abolished and where a man is a man, a place where race, birth and color are transcended by the fact of a common brotherhood, a place where humanity as humanity can begin a fresh experiment in human brotherhood that will be a new beginning

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Jan 28, Blender cover on Britney hits the stands by the amazing Michael Joseph Gross. You dont want to miss it. Also, check out MJG's book, Starstruck: When A Fan Gets Close to Fame and his current story in Vanity Fair.TRCB is a tough customer to most media, but MJG is one of the good guys. Tells it for real. You can be open and let him experience the story himself, without concern. His seeming

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With Kang and Kodos winning in NV (but a very high uncommitted number), here is my own cobbled together news items on my favorite candidate (pending his social agenda):Last week Gerald Rafshoon, a former media adviser to President Carter, and Doug Bailey, a former consultant to moderate Republicans, quit Unity08, a group dedicated to electing an independent presidential candidate. The move came

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From the WSJ blogs:Why Gay Couples Might Be More Likely to SplitPosted By topeditor On January 18, 2008Researchers have found that gay and lesbian couples split up more often than straight pairs, a tendency that Time’s John Cloud suggests has roots partly in the unique struggles gay people face in childhood.Though studies have long been conducted on heterosexual couples, psychologists only

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Paul Rieckhoff, executive director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, speaking about homeless veterans:"...the VA [U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs] says that there are approximately 200,000 of all generations. We know that there are at least 1,500 that have served in Iraq and Afghanistan."Cost of caring for them? Say, the cost for each vet

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Brilliant!

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Amy Crackhouse shows up in court yesterday and seems to be taking career advice from Britney and fashion tips from Alexis Arquette. Thats Lex on the right in case you were confused. How did following the mentally ill and drug addicts become sport?

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Cheney has a tendancy to have anyone who confronts him detained and arrested, because he believes in democracy enough to start a war over it, but don't expect him to practice it at home. NYTimes reports:The arrest of a man named Steven Howards in June 2006 after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney at a Colorado ski resort and denounced the war in Iraq might have seemed, at the time, no more

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If Kodos (Romney) gets elected, I have to assume that AP reporter Glen Johnson's reaction will be how we all feel. Mr. Jonson has been on the Romney trail for a while and just had enough of his lies!Best part is when he blows a gasket trying to make Mr. Johnson accept his lying and playing with words (running a campaign versus senior advisers who debate prep, travel with the candidate and raise

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From the network that brought us Mad Men (and this years fashion look for men - Grey suit, white shirt, tie, tie bar), Breaking Bad: Break Bad (v.) 1. To challenge convention 2. To defy authority 3. To raise hellChemistry: the study of change. Apply heat and, boom, no going back. Meet Walter White, high school chemistry teacher. Sleepwalking through life when, boom, a terminal diagnosis changes

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Female Suicide Bomber Kills 9 Shiite Worshippers in Iraq's Diyala Province - Canadian PressWhite House Tape Recycling May Have Erased Controversial E-Mails - Washington PostRomney Wins Michigan Primary - ReutersFDA OKs Food Sales from Animal Clones - Chicago TribuneInflation Continues to Edge Up - NY TimesAmerican Idol is Back - Ugh"Just how do you do it, Pooh?""Do what?" asked Pooh."Become so

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Love that the Italians even protest in style and over Malaise. PR lesson? Hey, Im writing about it after reading about it on the AP and 55 other stories an hour after it was published. Colored Balls Tumble Down Spanish StepsROME (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of brightly colored balls went cascading down Rome's famed Spanish Steps on Wednesday in the latest stunt orchestrated by the man who dyed

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NY Times Reports:Nearly 12 Years Old, ‘Rent’ Is to CloseBy CAMPBELL ROBERTSONNine hundred thirty thousand, one hundred eighty minutes. That’s how you measure the total running time “Rent” will have played on Broadway when, as the producers said on Tuesday, it closes after its evening performance on June 1, making it the seventh-longest-running Broadway show in history.But the length of its run is

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Looks like Obama brand blue is going strong.MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, or Mrs Alan Greenspan as she is known, always reminds me of F. Murray Abraham in Star Trek: Insurrection. Anyone?

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Apparently, Page 6 isnt happy that News Corp has lowered the standards for anything close to reporting or journalism on everything it owns, now it is castigating real news organizations for not being sleazy repeaters of gossip.ABC suits were red-faced yesterday after Katie Holmes was interviewed on "Good Morning America" without being asked about claims that her baby, Suri, was created with the

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TRCB doesnt sleep so well. I like the reporting of MSNBC and the format of the show. But now that the election is on, Joe Scarborough is not a journalist and his slant is just too much. Gov Romney was just on. He was asked a question about the auto industry and he spoke in generalizations. No follow up even though he said a private industry should be relieved of its healthcare and legacy burdens?

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I'm discovering shows that aren't so bad (big bang theory) and watching shows that usually act as a talking lamp (How I Met Your Mother). When out of no where, Enrique Igelsias in a recurring role on Mother?TRCB likes a lot of talent. But very few people have made me stop dead, unable to speak. Takes lust or awe. The combination will actually cause me to lose consciousness. Top of mind, Jodie

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Exciting new mini-series from HBO:Starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, executive produced by Playtone's Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and directed by Emmy®-winner Tom Hooper, JOHN ADAMS is a seven-part epic miniseries event that explores American history through the eyes of one of its greatest founding fathers, John Adams (Giamatti), a fiercely independent spirit whose unwavering vision

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Im watching this Nature special on Dogs and finally felt like I could say something about No Country for Old Men.This special featured a theory that Dogs may have evolved from Wolves in a few generations, not whole millennia. They think this happened in one human life span. A researcher in Russia bred and raised foxes, chosen only for their tameness by offering his hand to them in cages. 10

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Lesley Stahl (1941) needs to really limit herself to subjects that she understands. First there was her big wet kiss to Justice Thomas (PT1, PT2). Then her outright attack on Intel for daring to compete against Prof Negropontes inferior $100 laptop.* Then her embarrassing interview with French Pres Sarkosy, in which he walked out moments after sitting down.Tonight, however, she epitomized the

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I cant believe I am about to praise Clay Aiken, but he stood his ground and refused to answer questions just because they were asked in Newsweek this week. What is with our media? 60 Mins goes to France and Pres. Sarkozy walks out when the first question for this maverick new leader is about his marriage? Good for him. News Corp wants us to be dumb. Not everyone has to play along. Media and the

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75*, top down... in January. And, Real Time with Bill Maher starts again tonight.I live about 3mins from the hospital set for Scrubs. So this was what I was looking at today (very end and well worth it on a Friday). Besides the fact that this is an amazing directorial feat, the coloring is gorgeous. Just one of those details in a Wizard of Oz homage that balances the hilarious physical comedy,

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Things sounds kind of quiet at Rudy HQ. Seems the more the public knows about Rudy, the less they like him and his puppy killer wife. Top Giuliani staffers are going without a salary in January, CNN has learned.Posted: 09:34 AM ET MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (CNN) — CNN has learned that top staff members of Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign were asked to work without pay for the month of

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My friend Stace asks this provocative question. Now that the late night talk shows have to rely on people who can converse and aren't just there to sell something, seems like they are a lot more interesting. The pace is slower, for sure. But the discussions seem more relatable, since they have to take the time to tell a story or give us background. When the writers come back, lets hope the

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I don’t think that the right stands a chance of nationally turning back the clock, just enough to make things difficult and hateful, again. To me, sex life and reproductive lives have nothing to do with govt, so I shouldn’t have to choose to give them up so I can battle Iran or Russia successfully. Obama might be light on government foreign policy experience, but I think the President brings his

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Why I am so obsessed with politics, considering the the title of the blog, IMHO, politics will be pop culture for the foreseeable future. Entertainment and politics are converging more and more, for the good (young voters engaged) and bad (News Corp).A carpet bagger, after all, is nothing if not opportunistic. At the same time, with the strike on, little to no business is being done (save

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I wrote this yesterday under the headline, Is HuffPo becoming the New Drudge? Then decided it was too soon to be so harsh. But the point remained that the media are just swirling around themselves trying to fill air and space. And while their intentions may be good in some cases, their tactics are not. Now Paul Bagala in HuffPo makes a great point about HOW reporters are doing their jobs and

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Me: I love this big bang theory show. The one guy is sooo familiar.* Tonight, offended at the mess at his neighbors, "Explain to me an organizational system in which a tray of flat wear on the couch is valid? That's assuming this is a couch. The evidence suggests that the coffee table is having a tiny garage sale."   (*Cross between me and Christopher Rice)TTT: Which one guy? the tall skinny one

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IMPATIENCE FOR JAN 2009 BUILDINGAP REPORTS: NH RUNNING LOW ON BALLOTS, PRIMARY TURN OUT IS SO HIGH.500,000 VOTERS.150,000 INDEPENDENTS90,000 EXPECTED TO VOTE DEMUPDATE: CNN Reports up to 85% voter turn out in some districts in NH (weather is particularly good).CNN's Tom Forman: Its like a carnival outside. People usually tell me what they are voting against. Today they are telling me how excited

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How does that hardcore posturing hold up when the President of the United States is part of the solution and the entertainment industry is part of the problem? And when that same man has also, in ways, been through the immigrant experience as well as the Black experience, who can you blame for not being involved, anymore? Even if he doesn't win past Iowa, Sen. Obama has clearly shown that we have

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To give you an idea of how crazy the paparazzi thing is here, I am told that Starbucks has hired a private security firm. Certain outlets have a special number to call when the swarm attacks. This, in a nutshell is my take on the Britney thing, perfectly. From the Canadian Press (sorry for the double quote):  Elaine Lui, a correspondent for CTV's "ETalk," wrote on her blog, Lainey's Entertainment

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WGA is not listening. Get me hooked on Pushing Daisies, then cut me off. You took away my Soup, man! Then try to substitute Dance War: Bruno vs Carrie Ann and American Gladiator?(by the hammer of Thor) Now you're taking my Globes? Take the Super Bowl instead!! Reuters reports: With most nominees and presenters expected to boycott the Globes on Jan. 13 rather than cross writers' picket lines,

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GWB dumbed down politics - on purpose. He ridiculed intelligence. He bullied his opponents. He has no ethics. He has no problem denying reality. His aim was to divide the nation in order to exploit it. His only guiding principals are to money and power.Add Christina Applegate and a laugh track and it could be Fox (Fox New-ish, Fox Business, NYPost, Page 6, etc.).I have faith in the American

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All of this Britney stuff made me think about one day when I was with Ozzy and Sharon in New York. We were staying at the Peninsula Hotel in a series of beautiful rooms and suites. There were trays with teas and fruits. The smell of Ozzys cologne, the strong bergamot of Czech & Speake's #88, mixed with the pale yellow walls and little dogs running about, the scene was nearly regal. Jimmy Page had

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and celebrity news was news:This bizarre kidnaping of Frank Jr. resulted in Frank carrying a roll of dimes around with him for the rest his life, after he was forced to use a series of pay phones in order to secure the release of his son. When he died, he was buried with a roll of dimes, a flask of Jack Daniels, a Zippo and a pack of Camels. - From TSGTVI just like that dramatic music. I think we

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I guess the ideal (Buddhist?) solution is to be political without attachment to the outcome. To act with integrity to my beliefs even as I forthrightly acknowledge the limits of my power to effect change--which would result, hopefully, in the desired equanimity. This is easier said than done, of course. The sense of powerlessness in the face of the world's problems and the inadequacy of our

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Note to the WGA: If you cancel the Globes and the Oscars, the tide will turn against you in a major way. Now that the holidays are over, the general public is going to start to notice that there is nothing to watch. Since the studios are happy to clean house, especially now that their cash cow late night shows are back on, they can wait you out.Its all about timing here, and the actors don't want

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That the Huckabees look A LOT alike? I mean, I heart Huckabees, but maybe you get a little more genetic distance next time, huh?

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Or else this might be unethical. ETOnline is reporting that Dr. Phil walked Britney to her car. What a scoop. Even he admits she was packing to leave when he arrived. But this didn't stop him from stepping up and taking credit: "My meeting with Britney and some of her family members this morning in her room at Cedars leaves me convinced more than ever that she is in dire need of both medical and

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There is a major celebrity reporting backlash brewing. Major. The Britney overkill by the swarm has been noticed by everyone. And all this while Mayor Villa (what's his new name going to be?) was busy trying to further his career in Iowa on stage next to the junior senator from New York (who is likely to stay that way)...Things will only get worse. Monday, Access Hollywood will join the ranks of

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Maybe freedom is on the march. TPM is reporting that the NH GOP is pulling out of the Fox News sponsored debate because they refuse to allow Ron Paul to participate. Seems Mr. Paul doesnt fit the Fox News narrative and is creaming their candidate, Rudy Giuliani.Bear in mind that Fox News is excluding Paul from the debate, despite the absence of any objective criteria that would shut out Paul and

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Looks like brilliant branding to me by the Obama camp. Take note that this is true PR. Create a personal link between the consumer and the product that doesn't involve selling them anything. Part of the New Year round-ups was a typical story about hot colors for 08:Cerulean Blue: Chosen for the millennium for its calming zen state of mind.It goes on:In a statement, Leatrice Eiseman, the executive

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I have long contended that the modern conservative Republican movement was hinged on a cynical deal between the rich Republicans and what GHW Bush called the extra chromosome Christians - but the Christians dont know that they have been duped.The crickets Mike Huckabee is hearing from the far right leaders might just be a wake-up call.Its easy to give the far right the social issues to fight (

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When will the pundits learn? So many talking heads trying to tell us what we know and why we know it. This country is terribly racist, but Sen. Obama isn't running as a Black candidate, he is running as a candidate who is black. Gov. Huckabee is not running as the Christian candidate, but as a candidate that is Christian.We have spent a generation now slicing and dicing the electorate to exploit

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LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!Now that it seems official that there are bigger issues at play here, will the tabloids, paparazzi, news helicopters, broadcast media and online sites share in the blame? This woman has been chased around the world for most of her life, knowing nothing like privacy or support.But there is blood in the water and God knows these sharks aren't about navel gazing. Bonnie Fuller

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This is what a statesman, patriot and public servant sounds like. Working without notes, here is the tail end of the speech he just gave. Wow. Hope is the bedrock of this nation, the belief that our destiny will not be written for us but by us. By all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, but have the courage to remake the world as it should be.That’s what we

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Now comes New Hampshire. Huckabee scares me as a politician, but he seems like a good guy and the Republicans can learn a lot from him in their message delivery. Jimmy Stewart did it better, but he had a better chance of being president. From the Des Moines Register:Democrats1,688 of 1,781 precincts - 97 percentBarack Obama - 38 percentJohn Edwards - 30 percentHillary Clinton - 29 percentBill

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This is just embarrassing for ANYONE who reads it.Brit Shows for Depo -- Then SplitsPosted Jan 3rd 2008 3:05PM by TMZ StaffBritney Spears showed up for her deposition for a grand total of about 45 minutes. The popwreck, who wore a hot fuchsia dress with Christian Louboutin shoes, clearly did not sit for all the questions Mark Vincent Kaplan wanted to throw at her.For some reason, Britney left --

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Here we go again with the great hypocrisy of the tabloids over Misha Barton's DUI and Lindsay's champagne. Fine. They have money to grub. Just like all the finger pointing at Lynne Spears, though, the general public seems to enjoy a bit of hypocrisy themselves. TRCB Thinks:How responsible were you at 16-25?Hw many parties, bars, clubs, after-parties and hook-ups did a really good night involve?No

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Quick predictions, in order:Dems - Obama, Hillary, EdwardsReps - Huckabee, McCain, RomneyI love Edwards, I just think that he lacks the charisma of Obama, and we need that right now. Obama/Edwards with Sen. Edwards playing the part of domestic dick (cheney), sign me up.But the party, the money, the election system all have to change.Looking for Bloomberg, Nunn, Hagel et al to save the world in

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This is the first, Don't Lie. Stunning report from the UK.Footage of Bhutto's deathLast Modified: 30 Dec 2007By: Jonathan RugmanChannel 4 News has exclusively obtained dramatic new footage which shows in clear detail the moment of Benazir Bhutto's death.Three bullets are heard being fired before a suicide bomber then detonates his device.A firearms expert has told this programme that the video

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but Im a Republican. Thats right, I said it. Or, I should be a Republican.Well, to be accurate, Im a fierce Independent who most closely identifies with the most far right fringes of CLASSIC Republicanism, NOT its demon step-child this most recent awakening has produced.I mean the classic, as Thomas Paine said, 'that government is best which governs least' type. Mostly because I have tremendous

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before the death of Benazir Bhutto is used as an argument for keeping troops in Iraq longer?Yes, there's a PR analysis here, too. Interestingly, no one has taken credit for killing Mrs. Bhutto. Seems to me al-Qaeda would. She was western educated and, well, a woman.Since the responsibility for this will likely rip this (dangerously unstable, deeply divided, Machiavellian and, of course, nuclear)

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I write about politics a lot, obviously. But today I have to ask myself, who among the field loves this country, its traditions and its potential enough to put their life on the line in a very real way?Benazir Bhutto1953 - 2007Mother of 3Oxford and Harvard educatedWe have spent over $5 billion to Pakistan since 2001. While the 6th most populace country, this is barely a country at all. 1/4 of it

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I had to take time to write about this film. I didn't want my knee jerk anti-Jack / pro-Rob Reiner feelings color me. Well, first, I saw The Bucket List as a counter to Elah. Something lighter since Reiner said he wanted to really go for the comedy in this and not the sentimentality - and that's tough.It short, it was a fun 97mins that could have been longer or shorter and better. It was

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Interesting situation brewing that shows the racism present in the celebrity gossip world. From the AP:In a story published Saturday in the Daily Record, Smith was quoted saying: "Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'"The quote was

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In anticipation of the awards season starting, I decided to see one film each day this week to prepare.In the Valley of Elah.Wow, did I pick the wrong one for Christmas. But am I glad I did.Totally amazing cast and direction. If Lions for Lambs was a lecture, this unfolded like an experience, with the taste of a crime drama. Its politics you don't have to fear!I expected a very different film

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happy christmas (WAR IS OVER)(for full effect, go full screen and imagine that this was written 30 years ago about a different war by a man that was gunned down on the street and is remembered in a peace park. then ask yourself, what are you doing for peace?)

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about his intent to lie and mislead. From today's NYTimes article about Rudy's doctors clearing up his mystery headaches:Asked if he would disclose all his health records after Christmas, Mr. Giuliani said, “He’s going to put out everything that’s appropriate to show that I’m in good health.”Nice. No need for the facts. Facts are partisan, as we all know. Just some nice managed truth.But did he

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David Bowies voice voice is just amazing here. He once wrote to me in an email that he thought that children's songs were not really for the children, but rather a re-imaginging of childhood by the adults. Indeed.

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Looks like Rudy might be setting the stage (see: Between the Lines #1). The NYTimes reports:Rudolph W. Giuliani scaled back his weekend schedule in New Hampshire on Friday as he recovered from the illness that led him to be hospitalized overnight this week for what his aides called “flulike symptoms.”His campaign lightened Mr. Giuliani’s weekend schedule by canceling some of the events it had

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So excited to read that The Daily Show and Colbert will return along with Leno, Letterman, et al in January. GOOD PR FOR THE WRITERS.The writers union has made interim deals with certain production companies that allow them to produce new episodes of their talk shows and some awards shows, even though the strike continues. It is very smart to give the waiver for the Oscars (but not Globes), late

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One of the things TRCB hopes to do is read between the lines for the real stories. I have been talking to friends about this one for a few days, then Rudy helped move my theory along.Rudy Giuliani will drop out of the race sighting health issues before he can be branded a loser. Why? He makes too much money from being perceived as a dragon slayer (see: I wasn’t fired, or the Henry defense, as it

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In response to questions about what happens next:Jaime Lynn has to leave the show. Nick wont let her be a pregnant 16yo on air. There are certainly morals clauses in her talent contract that allow Nick an easy out. But the network has to appear to be 100% behind the talent (it has ramifications for other talent), but also fear any backlash, Christian boycotts and bad press.Besides, it's always

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