The Guild 7-22-2004 Revenge on the Chatty Cathy crowd

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[BigWaveBetty]

BestoftheWeb:

The 9/11 Commission Report" is available for $9 from Barnes & Noble's Web site, which informs us that "people who bought this book also bought" these titles:

"Dude, Where's My Country?" by Michael Moore

"Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush" by John Dean

"Perfectly Legal: The Secret Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and Cheat Everybody Else" by David Cay Johnston

"Thieves in High Places: They've Stolen Our Country and It's Time to Take It Back" by Jim Hightower

"Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years" by Rich Lowry

As reader Mark Mogle notes: "All but one are left-wing propaganda books! So what does this mean? Most shoppers at B&N are liberals? Mostly liberals are reading the 9/11 report? Or liberals are dumb enough to purchase a book that you can download free!"

Pizza Shop Refuses To Remove Pro-Bush Sign (in Boston)

Pentagon Finds Bush's Guard Records hehehe!

[BigWaveBetty]

Actual headline from AP:

Jenna Bush Cracks Up Media With Gesture
Tue Jul 20,10:33 PM ET

WASHINGTON - When first lady Laura Bush counseled her twin daughters on how to behave while campaigning with their father, she may have skipped the part about not sticking your tongue out at the media.

That's what Jenna Bush did Tuesday after President Bush (news - web sites) arrived at St. Louis' Lambert International Airport.

Jenna and sister Barbara, traveling together for the first time with their father, had traded Air Force One for the waiting presidential limousine as Bush talked to a group of people at the bottom of the plane's staircase.

After Bush got in the back seat beside Jenna, the 22-year-old graduate of the University of Texas at Austin started smiling through the window at about 10 to 12 news photographers and radio reporters stationed on a platform.

Then she stuck her tongue out and began to laugh.

As everyone on the platform started to laugh and snap photographs, Jenna Bush looked at them for a few more seconds, smiling and laughing.

The Bush twins recently joined their dad on the stump for his last political campaign.

Last week, Laura Bush told a television interviewer that she was delighted by her daughters' decision to campaign for the president and said she told them to "stand up straight and keep your hair out of your eyes." Link

[Iowa Granny]

I know what I am about to say is not going to be received very well here. But it must be said.

Last week, Laura Bush told a television interviewer that she was delighted by her daughters' decision to campaign for the president and said she told them to "stand up straight and keep your hair out of your eyes."

One of the worst nightmares an experienced political campaign manager can endure is 'the family'.

It doesn't matter how absolutely totally wrong she is, a candidate will ALWAYS follow his wife's advice (we lost a Governor's race here in Iowa 6 years ago because a candidate allowed his wife to run his campaign.... he could have won if he'd have stayed the course with the plan that was in place,, but she started toying with it because she thought she knew better than the experienced people working the campaign)

The Bush Daughters may very well be a case in point. There is absolutely NO CIRCUMSTANCE when it is appropriate for a 20 Something young woman to stick her tongue out in public. I hope her mother sat her down and lectured her on that one. (If not her mother,, I'll be her Grandmother is capable of dishing out a good butt chewing)

It appears the press took it good naturedly. But, quite frankly, the verdict is still out as to the shake out.

These girls are old enough to understand the importance of Dressing to be included at social events and maintaining their Company Behavior.

If one of my kids stuck his tongue out at ANYONE at a political event I'd smack him into the middle of next week,,, (and the smallest of my sons out weighs me by 75 pounds.

In all my years of Political Involvement, I've seen at least a half dozen campaigns lost to poor behavior and poor decisions on the part of the political family.

//End of Rant

[BigWaveBetty]

Instinct tells me Jenna got 'the look' at the very least. I can't help but chuckle at it but were she my daughter I'd be giving her the talk.

Jenna might try to blame her behavior on her Grandmother...

[BigWaveBetty]

John Kerry tours the room that was his nursery at Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colorado July 23, 2004

Isn't he just the cutest widdle thing? Oh yes, a widdle cutie patootie, dats our Effin'!

The long shot...

Who looks like a baseball mitt shaped like Frankenstein?

Liz is nearing Tipper territory.

What does Edwards, the man who never had that thingy removed from his upper lip, think when he's face to face with freak face Kerry?

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NYT's story on two documentaries out this weekend on Kerry (so we can get to know him) and the film bio that will play at the convention.

But not many viewers have seen — or remember — old film clips of his appearances at antiwar rallies, in the Senate and on television in 1971, from "The Dick Cavett Show" to a "`60 Minutes" interview in which Morley Safer ...

Hey RNC, set your tivos to record!

Democratic viewers, at least, will like what they see. President Bush's early years as a prodigal son and amiable slacker are more the exception than the rule for modern presidents. For most, opportunism and ambition are the minimum requirements for seeking the Oval Office. Link

I don't often see ambition used like a dirty word but when the NYT's groups it together with opportunism it indicates what liberal are. To the NYT being an opportunist is an admirable quality in a candidate for president (or other candidates), hence their love for clinton, clinton and Effin'.

[BigWaveBetty]

"Is this the real nuclear football? Here you take it I don't want it! Eewwwww, nuclear kooties!"

[BigWaveBetty]

Here's why The Manchurian Candidate's Streep is fingering Noonan and Hughes. (Frank Rich is a slug btw.) Dems resorting to pop culture to peddle fear to Americans about how evil republicans are.

I cannot recall when Hollywood last released a big-budget mainstream feature film as partisan as this one at the height of a presidential campaign. That it has slipped into action largely under the media's radar, as discreetly as the sleeper agents in its plot, is an achievement in itself. Freed from any obligations to fact, "The Manchurian Candidate" can play far dirtier than "Fahrenheit 9/11." Not being a documentary,... [F911 is not a documentary! See definition below]

The Manchurian Candidate" is a product of Paramount Pictures, whose chairwoman, Sherry Lansing, is a loyal Democratic contributor, according to public records. (So, for the most part, is her boss, the Viacom chairman, Sumner Redstone.) One of the film's stars, Meryl Streep, shared the stage with Whoopi Goldberg at the recent Kerry-Edwards fund-raiser. As Bill O'Reilly will be glad to hear, the cameo role of a cable-news reporter is played by Al Franken. [Viacom is part of CBS, you know that objective news organization that employs Stern, who calls GWB a liar everyday of the week and runs 60 Minutes, the mouth organ for anyone with a Bush bashing book or a clinton. Oh, don't forget the new book on how to kill the president, one of their tentacles published that trash.]

Perhaps to fake out the right, the villain played by Streep has been given the look, manner and senatorial rank of Hillary Clinton. (The character's invective, typified by her accusation that civil libertarians enable suicide bombers, is vintage Fox News Channel, blond auxiliary division.) She has programmed her son to be the "first privately owned and operated vice president of the United States" - in other words, the left's demonized image of the current vice president. Muwahaha!

Calling moore's film a documentary is really annoying and until now haven't looked at the dictionary definition. Call me crazy but this definition and moore's movie aren't even in the same cosmos.

1 : being or consisting of documents : contained or certified in writing
2 : of, relating to, or employing documentation in literature or art; broadly : FACTUAL, OBJECTIVE < a documentary film of the war> [it's like they saw moore coming!]

Now what is documentation?

1 : the act or an instance of furnishing or authenticating with documents
2 a : the provision of documents in substantiation; also : documentary evidence b (1) : the use of historical documents (2) : conformity to historical or objective facts
(3) : the provision of footnotes, appendices, or addenda referring to or containing documentary evidence
3 : INFORMATION SCIENCE
4 : the usually printed instructions, comments, and information for using a particular piece or system of computer software or hardware

A person recently told me, "Sure it can be a documentary without being based on facts." Didn't sound right to me but hey, I've been wrong before but seeing the term used by Rich finally sent me to the dictionary. Nonnie nonnie boo boo to Rich and his know-nothing cohorts.

[BigWaveBetty]

In this USA Today story this nugget is buried at the very end.

Comedians chide blacks to change

These comedians have zeroed in on the disappointment and disdain that decent, law-abiding blacks feel for the morally impaired among them. This frustration is causing a fair number to separate themselves. A Newsweek poll found that 66% of blacks prefer school vouchers, which often place black students in majority-white schools. A quarter of blacks see themselves as political independents, and the number of black Republicans has more than doubled since 2000.

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning. Interesting stuff.

[BigWaveBetty]

Good morning IG. Supposed to get some rain today after none for a week. Speaking of dried up, oh it's hillary that Ms. Streep based her senator-villain on.

Movie trailer

All clips of "hillary" are very short but there's no doubt in my mind who Streep is emulating.

[Timeout]

Re: sKerry's convention-kickoff in Aurora, Colorado

This is no big deal---and I'm no public relations guru---but who the heck is setting up Kerry's appearances? Yesterday was meant to be a BIG media day, the start of momentum-building excitement as Kerry rolls thru the heartland and eventually arrives in Boston. But the pictures on TV depict him in dark suit at a podium, people on risers behind him backed by a big flag---he could've been in Washington. Can you get more boring than that?? Deaver knew that viewers block out such drab scenes...give 'em GOOD VISUALS.

Reporters said the event would highlight his roots in the West, his Everyman side. So wouldn't it have made better copy if they'd had him in casual clothes? Maybe outside with a backdrop of Aurora---like this (preferably with a church in the scene)?

It seems to me all the botox in the world won't fix a bad media advance team. Maybe it was raining, but perhaps umbrellas would've been better than those dull images at the podium.

Did anyone else notice this? Does it point out a critical weakness in Kerry's team?

HLL: given your connection to the media-world, have you noticed this?

[Timeout]

You're right. She's the spittin' image of Hillary in a WHITE pantsuit. A trailer doesn't tell all, but how anyone could possible see Karen or Peggy is beyond me.

It does look good. I may have to check this one out.

[daisyscarlett]

The weather was bad in Colorado thus the move indoors. That does not explain all the dark suits etc though.

I think this whole thing is very bold of the campaign. How dumb do they think the voters are? Kerry lived in Colorado for four months!! (He served in Viet Nam for four months only also and they are trying to capitalize on that too). What about the years and years he spent in Europe going to boarding school and or "playing"? I just can't believe that the average American "undecided" voter will be impressed with his bio.

[daisyscarlett]

I can't imagine any good will come out of Jenna's sticking out her tongue episode, even though the press said it was all in good fun-she was laughing, they were laughing. That picture will live on for the whole campaign.

Do you remember five years ago during the JFK Jr. funeral and farewell? Caroline Kennedy's oldest daughter stuck her tongue out at the press-she was not laughing when she did it either.(She was 12 years old, not 22) I read after that Caroline was most upset and sat all of her children down and told them what a no-no that was. And since then, every photo I have seen of that child, she has had a pleasant look on her face.

[lodwick]

No Audrey Hepburn, but she's got neck.

[lodwick]

Mrs. Edwards, if you're reading this, I apologize for that "frumpy" remark.
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Funny stuff, M.

The adjective that came to mind here was "stumpy," bless her heart.

[lodwick]

Don't worry about Jenna: her kids will pay her back one day.

Saturday cheers, everyone.

[BigWaveBetty]

but who the heck is setting up Kerry's appearances?

Does it point out a critical weakness in Kerry's team?

I'm hearing too many cooks, there are hundreds of people on each of their committees, and some committees can't even come up with a name for their committees as they're still arguing over what the names should be.

Also heard Rush say that senators are a special lot. They like to oversee every little detail, they don't like to delegate. Oh man are they doomed. Doomed! I tell ya!

[lodwick]

MC is supposedly a very good flick, if you're a movie person.

[BigWaveBetty]

her kids will pay her back one day.

Yep, her time will come.