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David Letterman's Limp Dick
2008-06-05 00:20:00 David Letterman's new "comedy" crack at Dick Cheney falls flat. "Dick Cheney. Comedy Genius" Huff Post vid Grade D. For Dick-Less. The best crack I've ever heard about a Dick was Nixon during the 1972 presidential election: "You don't change dicks in the middle of a screw. Vote for Nixon in '72."
By: Chickaboomer
Mr. Hankey And Richard Nixon Are Teaming Up For Your Benefit!
2008-04-26 01:09:00 In recent posts like THIS, you might’ve noticed some small cartoons featured on several stock charts—namely Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo, of South Park fame and Richard Nixon, of “I am not a crook” fame, exemplifying the kind of crappy and crooked companies out there. visit site to read more]
By: TimothySykes.com
Mr. Hankey And Richard Nixon Are Teaming Up For Your Benefit!
2008-04-26 01:09:00 In recent posts like THIS, you might???ve noticed some small cartoons featured on several stock charts???namely Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo, of South Park fame and Richard Nixon, of ???I am not a crook??? fame, exemplifying the kind of crappy and crooked companies out there. Like my blogging adventure, these cartoons are just starting to help make this stuff more understandable / visually stimulating. So, I need your help in finding small pictures of cartoons and pictures that represent common themes such as: so hot right now, too popular, indecisive, volatile, about to take a dive, full of fluff, heavily gossiped, solid company (yeah right, when are we ever gonna find a volatile stock with that quality!), poor management, cool products, bright future etc. So, let???s see what you guys got, please help this overworked blogger out and link away!
By: TimothySykes.com
Buchanan, Kristol, Hannity and those ungrateful negroes: a banner month in
2008-03-25 16:50:00 I guess there’s probably nothing Earth-shattering about revelations that FOX News “journalist” Sean Hannity was BFFs with a white supremacist. I mean, even if you don’t expect it, it’s not the sort of information that’s going to turn your whole worldview upside-down, you know? But the latest screed from Pat Buchanan almost buckles the knees. We don’t exactly look to Pat for enlightened thinking on race or, well, on anything. But even by his standards these March 21 comments are barely to be believed. Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to. This time, the Silent Majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these: First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships...
Rigged?
2008-02-17 15:17:00 Something is rotten in carpetbagger Hillary's "home" state where Obama's primary election count in some NYC congressional districts was ZERO. NYPRichard Nixon's "enemies' list" is vanilla compared with the illegal, threatening, harassing torture tactics of Hillary and Bill's "Shadow Team" of sleazy private investigators Terry Lenzner, Jack Palladino and Anthony Pellicano (convicted felon). Human Events These thugs have been paid to do the Clintons' dirty work for more than 20 years. Hillary bills herself as the candidate of "solutions." As evidenced by Hillary's unsavory method of dealing with opponents, the Clintons have been in the "solutions" business all along.
By: Chickaboomer
Free Admission to the Richard Nixon Presidential Library
2008-02-13 08:10:00 The Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace will celebrate Presidents' Day by offering free admission. The library will be open on Presidents' Day from 10am to 5pm. There will be live music, free cherry pie to the first 100 guests and much more. It's a perfect place to visit with school age children. I've actually visited the library with my two toddlers and they loved touring the helicopter exhibit and the grounds. It's only one of two Presidential Libraries in the state and I'm very lucky to live in the same city as this gem. This would be a great opportunity if you've yet to visit this Southern California treasure.Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace18001 Yorba Linda BlvdYorba Linda, CA 92886For additional information click here
By: Daytrippingmom
Declaration of Conservative Independence
2008-02-13 01:06:00 Inspirational conservative speaker, and leader of the famous 1994 Republican Revolution, Newt Gingrich, gave a speech that will forever change the Conservative Movement. While conservative progress was formerly made from within the Republican party, Gingrich advocated a Declaration of Independence for the Conservative Movement. Below is a transcript of his speech. 35th Annual Conservative Political Action ...
By: Tundra Politics
Quotabull
2008-01-17 21:08:00 You know, America is probably wondering why, why do you care? And one of the reasons we care about the suffering in Sudan is because we care about the human condition all across the face of the earth. And we fully understand that when people suffer, it is in our interest to help. And we also understand that when people suffer it makes it more likely that some may turn to the ideology of those who use murder as a weapon. So it’s in our national security interest and it’s in our ? in the interest of our conscience to confront this, what we have called a genocide. ? President Bush at a Jan. 17 press briefing after meeting with Rich Williamson, U.S. special envoy to Sudan. In light of today?s results, which were released nearly two years after the Enhance trial ended, it is easy to conclude that Merck and Schering-Plough intentionally sought to delay the release of this data. ? Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., a nember of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, charging that ne...
If they're good enough for Richard Nixon they're good enough for me!
2008-01-16 00:24:00 Did you know that one of the most beloved well-liked merely misunderstood pardoned Presidents in our nation's great history was a fan of Your Washington Redskins? (Sporting) News to me: "The President is calling . . ." announced the voice on the other end of the line, bringing [Don] Shula to quick attention. Relating the conversation later, Shula noted, "The President wanted to talk about our Super Bowl game with Dallas. He said that he's a Washington Redskins fan, but that he also has an interest in the Dolphins as a part-time resident of Florida (Key Biscayne). "Mr. Nixon alerted me that the Cowboys are a real strong team, but he told me, 'I still think you can hit (Paul) Warfield on that down-and-in pattern.'" More explicitly: President Richard M. Nixon's affection for football was well known and deep-rooted, stemming from his days as an enthusiastic bench-warmer at Whittier College. As a Redskins fan, he had appeared at a practice session before a playoff game to deliver a ...
By: Hogs Haven
TV and the presidency: Roger Ailes and Richard Nixon
2008-01-08 16:45:00 From Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President 1968 - a young Roger Ailes, formerly exec producer of the Mike Douglas Show, has been hired to produce ten live one-hour programmes featuring Richard Nixon. Nixon met the 28-year old Ailes before he appeared on the Douglas show.“It’s a shame a man has to use gimmicks like this to get elected,” Nixon said.“Television is not a gimmick,” Ailes said.(BTW Nixon beat Mitt Romney’s dad to the Republican nomination) As he prepares for the last two shows of the 1968 campaign, Ailes reflects:“This is the beginning of a whole new concept,” Ailes said. “This is it. This is the way they’ll be elected forevermore. The next guys up will have to be performers.”Nixon wound up his last broadcast like this: “I’m not a showman,” Richard Nixon was telling America. “I’m not a television personality.”And Ailes’s assessment?“Tonight,” he said, “this was the Nixon I met on the Douglas show. This was the Nixon I wante...
Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton - Joke of the Day
2007-12-14 19:56:00 Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton are on the titanic. When it starts to sink Carter yells, “Quick, save the women and children!” Nixon: “Screw the women and children” Clinton: “Do we have time?”
Dems Debate on New Fangled National Public Radio
2007-12-04 20:46:00 I'm listening to the Democratic Presidential contenders debate on National Public Radio right now, and I gotta say that, although there is nothing new being offered in the positions, there is something refreshing and civilized in hearing a debate via this new-fangled radio.Well ... radio is of course older than television, but prior to the outset of televised debates with Kennedy-Nixon in 1960, there were but three primary debates on radio, Stevenson-Kefauver in 1956, Stassen-Dewey in 1948, and a radio broadcast of Democratic and Republican hopefuls answering two questions each at a League of Women Voters Convention. FDR, a master of radio with his fireside chats, ignored Wilkie's challenge to radio debate in 1940. (See CNN's Presidential Debates in the Broadcast Era before 1960.)The Kennedy-Nixon debates were broadcast on both television and radio. Those who saw the saw debates on TV thought JFK won; those who heard the debates on radio though Nixon was the victor. Many more...
By: Infinite Regress
Book Review: Historic Photos of the Opry: Ryman Auditorium 1974
2007-11-18 07:01:00 ?The Opry left [the Ryman] in 1974 for the suburbs but music fans kept coming to commune with the ghosts. They wanted to come inside and look around, though the building had been left to moulder, with big holes in the roof, and to be torn down, but the persistent curiosity of ordinary people persuaded ...
First Look At Frank Langella As Richard Nixon In Nixon/Frost
2007-11-01 12:35:00 The first photo of Frank Langella playing Richard Nixon while filming Ron Howard?s adaptation of the Peter Morgan play Frost/Nixon. During the New York City run of the production, Langella won Best Actor. The photo shows Langella in the famous Nixon pose. It?s surprising how much he looks like Richard Nixon. On the stage, looks don?t ...
By: Product Reviews
Fred Thompson: Lies & Disorder
2007-10-09 18:05:00 Tricky Dick Nixon sticks it to Fred from Beyond The Grave. Let's go to the audiotape. When Nixon finds out young Fred (the "kid" dubs Nixon dismissively) is the Watergate hearing's Repub lawyer, Dick mutters "shit" and disses him as "dumb as hell." But then the lightbulb goes on in Dick's left brain and he realizes Fred is Silly Putty in his corrupt, manipulating hands. [ABC News Blotter]The timing couldn't be worse for virgin debater Freddy's deflowering at the hands of Chris Matthews at tonight's Repub debate.
By: Chickaboomer
Mad Men 10: Life, Death, and Politics
2007-09-29 20:06:00 Well, the next Mad Men was well worth waiting two weeks for - Episode 10 was the most powerful story so far, and had a superb piece on Eisenhower and Nixon.I'll get right to it. Roger has a heart attack after going for a second round in the office with one of a pair of twins being hired for an ad campaign. Don's on hand, with the other twin - not doing anything, because Don wants to get back to Betty and his family, who are in a beach house for the Labor Day Weekend with Betty's father and mother-in-law and the kids (or maybe Don's not interested in the twin because Don's thinking about Rachel). But Don gets Roger to the hospital. The heart attack is serious, and Don is all shook up.This sets the stage for three of the most important developments in Mad Men thus far:1. Don comes face to face with his own mortality. We, the viewers, already know this. Every time we hear someone cough in this literally smoking world, we think lung cancer. The other health hazard of smokin...
By: Infinite Regress
David Sington 002, "In the Shadow of the Moon" director: Mr. Media Intervie
2007-09-28 02:01:00 (Return to Part 1)BOB ANDELMAN: Were you surprised at how poor the film quality was from Apollo 11 compared to what there was later? I mean, it?s not like better equipment wasn?t available by 1969.DAVID SINGTON: The TV footage is very poor quality, but some of the film footage is fine. Our shots of Neil Armstrong stepping on the moon are not the ones that we are used to seeing, which is the TV downlink which is very, very fuzzy, but it?s a shot on film from inside the LEM, and you can see the reflection of Buzz Aldrin, the reflection in the window of Neil Armstrong taking that first step, so there is some pretty decent 16mm film footage, but there isn?t very much of it. There is a very small quantity. It?s interesting how the TV footage, though, improves between Apollo 11 and Apollo 17. By the time you get to Apollo 17, the color pictures coming back from the moon are getting reasonable quality, though they?re never as good as the actual film footage shot on the moon, which we sort ...
By: Mr. Media
David Sington 001, "In the Shadow of the Moon" director: Mr. Media Intervie
2007-09-28 01:57:00 In the Shadow of the Moon, the new documentary directed by David Sington, captures all the emotion and enthusiasm about space travel that once transfixed the American public and seems strangely absent from today?s world of technology.I was eight years old when the Eagle landed on the Moon in July 1969. I haven?t been the same since. I anticipated a lifetime ahead of flying around the neighborhood with jet packs, manned missions to Mars, and all kinds of things that, before that July day, were science fiction and after, well, they seemed just around the corner.Now I?m approaching my 47th birthday, and none of my expectations of a space age came to pass. None. Zero. Zip.Watching In the Shadow of the Moon, I remembered that lost feeling. It?s a wonderful experience, which is why I looked forward to talking with director David Sington.DOWNLOAD THE MP3; LISTEN HERE.ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST ON iTUNES.Subscribe to Mr. Media's RSS Feed.BOB ANDELMAN: I loved the movie. It really did take...
By: Mr. Media
Michael Vick Is Like Richard Nixon, But Leona Helmsley Is No George Bush
2007-08-25 15:08:00 In this interesting analysis, Legal Times senior editor Douglas McCollam explains that Atlanta Falcons QB Michael Vick got caught in the legal version of an illegal shift ? an act that is technically illegal, but rarely enforced, unexpectedly becomes the focus of a media feeding frenzy that inflames public opinion and compels aggressive prosecutorial action ...
ABC Mark Levin's Campaign of Disinformation Against Ron Paul
2007-08-19 01:15:00 The latest in the mainstream media's bizarre and destructive campaign against Ron Paul and his supporters - actually, more ABC's than any other medium - comes from the WABC New York and nationally syndicated ABC radio talk host, Mark Levin.As you can see on his web page, he's urging his listeners and web-page readers to "Call Ron Paul's office and tell him he can't win."What kind of ham-handed campaign of disinformation is that?Levin describes himself as "one of America's preeminent conservative commentators and constitutional lawyers."I would describe Levin as a Nixonian dirty trickster, in the Donald Segretti and Watergate scandal tradition.Ron Paul and his supporters should actually wear Levin's sleazy tactics as a badge of honor. They should be proud that someone who lists Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity among his favorite links, and who supports the Bush administration as if it were Abraham Lincoln's, has seen fit to try to undermine Ron Paul's campaign in this underhan...
By: Infinite Regress
Conrad Black has written biography of Richard Nixon
2007-08-14 09:20:00 The scandalous American media baron Conrad Black, acknowledged earlier convicted of fraud and is currently awaiting sentencing on bail of $ 21 million, has written biographies of more scandalous American President Richard Nixon. According to Black, the court-imposed restrictions on his movements to the United States, hampered campaign 1200-page book “Richard M. Nixon : Full life.” ...
YouTube-CNN Democratic Presidential Debate Tomorrow Night
2007-07-22 10:21:00 Today - July 22 - is the last day you can submit your videotaped questions to YouTube for the Democratic Presidential debate which will take place on CNN tomorrow - Monday. I'm about 2/3rds finished with the 7th and final Harry Potter novel, but I wanted to take a few minutes away from the wizards and witches to comment on this media milestone.I've been thinking a lot about this debate. It's an imperfect step forward in the democratization of Presidential debates, to be sure - no reporters, no buffers between the people and their questions for the candidates, but CNN will still have to choose which videos make the light of airtime on Monday evening.But a half or whatever percentage of a loaf of new democracy this is, it is surely better than none.In contrast to the traditional Presidential debate format, where we have to hope that the reporters at the table think enough along the same lines as you and I that they ask questions of real interest to you - in contrast to that profo...
By: Infinite Regress
Twilight Of Bush's Presidency
2007-07-10 18:36:00 Other than "cognitive dissonance," what else explains George Bush's behavior? He's digging in his heels. Hiding behind Executive Privilege. And sunglasses. There's no Colgate Gardol Shield from the Iraq war. Americans are done with it. The phony terror alerts timed to deflect WH political scandals. Despise Bush. Republicans, fearful of Bush's taint, are jumping ship. Latest poll numbers are dismal. 29% approve. [USA Today] The finest book on presidential isolation is George Reedy's "Twilight Of The Presidency." (1971) I still have my copy. [Amazon] Nixon honcho John Dean concurs. [Find Law] Previously: [George Bush: Solitary Man]
By: Chickaboomer
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