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Re: Conservatives Blame McCain As Obama Landslide Approaches
Maybe they're hoping they can lure a few more liberals to stay home by believing it's a done deal already. Or, since most of them never liked McCain anyway, maybe they want to load the failures of the neo-conservative movement on his shoulders and wipe their record of failure along with the man's career. Who knows? But Obama and McCain aren't that far apart in the polls and it is very strange that they appear to be throwing in the towel.
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Re: Obama Knew It Was Coming All along
Obviously you're trolling. Time to go back under your bridge and eat mice.
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Re: McCain Tries to Tame Flames He Earlier Fanned
Maybe McCain's begun to realize that if he inspires so much hate that a tragedy occurs he would be the most reviled man in America. What must trouble him are boos he gets when he tries to correct the hate he's already helped to create. Some base he's got there.
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Re: John Cleese: Could Care Less
I'm a John Cleese fan, but pretty bold criticism for a guy who comes from a country that coined the phrase "big girl's blouse" as a very imprecise way to describe a guy who's wimpy - talk about talking around the point. Besides I think the actual phrase is "couldn't care less" - meaning someone who has the least amount of interest possible.
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Re: Daily Show: Ricky Gervais
I've never seen a comedian that didn't recycle his old stuff when he hit the talk show circuit. It made me laugh.
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Re: Sarah Palin: Unedited Interview Feed
Agree. Fortunately, it's short because it is a waste of time. There are real and substantial reasons not to approve of Palin as VP - nothing needs to be invented.
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Re: Bill Maher: New Rules (September 5, 2008)
On the same topic, I just read in a letter to the editor someone from Alaska wrote, that Track, the son Palin was so proud of because he made the decision to join the National Guard and is soon on his way to Iraq, actually joined the National Guard to stay out of jail. It seems that, while still in high school, he and some friends stole booze, got smashed and vandalized his school's bus fleet. For that he spent his senior year in Michigan, and when he came back to Alaska got into drugs - getting in trouble with the law for that is what sent him into the National Guard. I guess he preferred that uniform to an orange jump suit.
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Re: Daily Show: Annihilating Sarah Palin's Media Surrogates
There are times when the Daily Show just outclasses any real news broadcast. Without the jokes that could have been played by any legitimate news organization as a perspective piece - if any legitimate news service did that kind of quality analysis these days.
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Re: Kate Winslet on Extras
Hilarious. I love the casual, matter-of-fact way that Winslet says her lines - somehow I think it would be harder for an American actress to pull that off.
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Re: Johnny Cash: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
It's such a great song with dead on historical details - I wish he'd sung the whole thing. Nobody coulld put over a song like this and make you feel like he was actually singing from personal experience like Cash.
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Re: Sam Cooke-Basin Street Blues
Oops. I thought I'd watched the previous clip of Cooke singing You Send Me on M&C but it was actually on Youtube, so this clip stands alone. Still a wonderful performance from a great too-soon-gone talent.
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Re: Sam Cooke-Basin Street Blues
Another wonderful entry just before this had Sam Cooke lip-syncing to his great You Send Me. I'm adding this clip right after as an example of how well Cooke could do it outside the recording studio - all style, grace, and talent. This is Cooke singing live at the end of an old Mike Douglas show. The guy leaning against Cooke making the comments is Howard Keel, and though you almost wish he'd just shut up and let Cooke sing, apparently Douglas's show ended with a sing-along join-in format so the comments weren't out of place, and Cooke does seem to be thoroughly enjoying himself.
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Re: George Carlin: Kids
I concede our differences and don't disagree with a lot of what you say. This will be my last comment because I'm starting to feel like I'm ragging on Carlin, who was actually one of my favorite comedians, and, I think one of the best - but maybe not at his best in his last year. If you comment after this post you definitely get the last word. Listening to someone as smart as Carlin express such anger over such a banal topic is like watching someone "put on a suit of armor to attack a hot fudge sundae" -- something Kurt Vonnegut (like Carlin, another great wordsmith) said about something totally unrelated to our discussion, but totally on the mark in my opinion.
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Re: George Carlin: Kids
Obviously, humor is personal so you can't tell somebody else that what they're laughing at isn't funny, but so much of what I've heard from Carlin over the years was just so funny and so smart and, to me, this just isn't. Maybe the reason I really don't care for it is because Carlin usually picked targets worthy of attack - authority, government, religion - he was brilliant on those subjects and his anger justified. But a little girl's crooked teeth? In his best stuff his defiance of authority always seemed to come from a deep sense of moral outrage at blind conformity, but this bit seems really mean spirited to no purpose. That's just how I feel about this mediocre rant, though - nobody else comes close to Carlin's best stuff.
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