The Guild 9-24-2002 Day TWO -- Emmy Thread Held Hostage

[BigWaveBetty]

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[gcruse]

We don't think it's asking too much.

We do. :)

[Iowa Granny]

Thanx for the new thread.

[BigWaveBetty]

We do. :)

We who?! ;-)

[BigWaveBetty]

Saw this at Drudge:

FORMER DNC CHAIR: Gore may not be best Democrat to beat Bush...

Clicked on it and got this.

Interesting.

[pubmom]

I wonder who received the orders from headquarters to pull the story?

FREE THE EMMYS!

[Timeout]

Hey, Betty! Are y'all battening down the hatches over there? Looks like Izzy's headed for N.O. I don't know exactly where you are, but imagine you'll get outer bands like we will. Just hope it doesn't knock Rush off the air.

I don't think Gore's running. Why do I say that? Because Tipper's tipping the scales at about 200. I believe she would've lost some of it by now if she thought there was a campaign in her future.

[BigWaveBetty]

I give up trying to figure these fools out. As a matter of fact I got so bored today I turned the channel to soap operas during the commericial breaks for Rush.

And look here comes another one!

Izzy:

Yes, we'll probably get lots of rain, like we need more...

[Timeout]

It looks like it's moving out way....landfall at Biloxi now projected. Eeeeek....go the other way!

[NYpeanut]

Tipper needs about two months of my 48-hour diet. What do you suppose she's sublimating?

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning. It seems my life has become consumed with this Ganske/Harkin saga. Why is it that a campaign becomes more interesting when skull duggery is involved? Even the DM Register, lover of all things liberal, is calling for Harkin to expose the staffer responsible for obtaining and distributing the tape.

[Pippin]

GOOD MORNING EVERYBODY!

[Iowa Granny]

Good Morning, Pippin. How are things with you today?

[Pippin]

I'm doing just fine today.

I hope they can get this Ganske/Harkin business fixed up. Those Dem's are desperate, I think!

[Iowa Granny]

No need to get it fixed up just yet. The longer it drags on the more free press the Ganske camp gets.

[mountaineer]

CALL it "The Three Amigos' Most Excellent African Adventure."

Former President Bill Clinton is on a trip through Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa with Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker, the star of "Rush Hour" and its sequel.

The three are being flown around Africa on the private plane of financial wizard Jeffrey Epstein. The secretive Epstein handles the billions of Leslie Wexner, head of the retail empire that includes The Limited, Victoria's Secret and Express.

How Clinton, who took off on Saturday, hooked up with his traveling companions is a mystery - as is his relationship to Epstein. Little is known about Epstein except that his offices are in the landmarked Villard House across from Le Cirque, and he once employed Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late British press lord Robert Maxwell, in an unspecified capacity.

But Tucker is playing America's first black president in "Mr. President," a movie he's been working on since 1999. Tucker has already shot footage of Clinton, Nelson Mandela, and Bahrain's crown prince endorsing his candidacy, and the comic accompanied U2 frontman Bono and Treasury Secrtary Paul O'Neill on their debt-relief tour of Africa this summer.

At the Congressional Black Caucus' annual awards dinner earlier this month, Clinton mentioned that Tucker had asked to visit him in the Oval Office to prepare for playing the first black president.

"I didn't have the heart to tell him that I've already taken the position," Clinton joked. In an October 1998 essay in The New Yorker, author Toni Morrison argued that Clinton, "white skin notwithstanding, [is] our first black president."

Kevin Spacey has no presidential aspirations we know of. Last we heard, he wanted to portray Bobby Darin. He might be bored during some parts of the trip.

In Ghana, Clinton will launch a new initiative with Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto to give deeds and land titles to poor people who now have no legal status and are considered squatters.

In South Africa, Clinton will deliver a speech and join Mandela in promoting prevention of AIDS. Clinton will also meet in that country with the first class of Clinton Democracy Fellows - 11 young South African men and women who just completed three months in the U.S.

Clinton will also meet with the presidents of the other nations on his itinerary.

http://www.nypost.com/gossip/pagesix.htm

[mountaineer]

I seem to recall that Ghislaine Maxwell once was "linked" to Clintoon. What can we dig up on Epstein?

Here's a little something to make you sick, as posted in Page Six:

ABERCROMBIE & Fitch has outdone itself. The store chain's new "magalog," a catalog disguised as a magazine, is even more salacious than past efforts, with a naked Heidi Klum on the cover - one hand hiding her nipples, the other holding a Santa hat over a naked man's crotch. The tag line reads: "180 pages of sex and Xmas fun! Heidi Klum adds inches, Spike Lee catches it on tape, Larry Flynt breaks tapes, Heidi Fleiss gets what she wants, street corner Santa brawls and more!" One spy said: "There is a ton of bums and breasts inside. Everyone is naked." The quarterly, targeted at teens and college students, will be featured on "Entertainment Tonight" later this week.

As if "teens and college students" needed any encouragement to set their hormones to raging.

[mountaineer]

Wow, Page Six is just full of gagworthy news today:

IS Sen. John McCain going to quit the Republican Party and become the running mate of Sen. John Kerry in the 2004 presidential race? McCain's chief political adviser, John Weaver, has become a Democrat and is now working for Dick Gephardt. McCain's new legislative director, Christine Dodd, last worked for a liberal congressman - a Democrat.

Now Kerry of Massachusetts, who has made clear his plans to run in 2004, is making overtures towards McCain. A rumored head-to-head between Kerry and McCain is said to be scheduled at McCain's cabin in Sedona, Ariz., next month. And for "Man of the People," the new McCain biography by Paul Alexander, Kerry provided a blurb that reads more like a love letter.

After noting that McCain's 2000 presidential campaign "set the standard for honor, dignity, courage, and truth," Kerry declares: "I have had no greater privilege in all my life than finding and then standing on common ground with John McCain, and I look forward to fighting side by side with him on yet another day to make our country stronger."

[BigWaveBetty]

Good Morning!

Ahhhhh, nothing like a little skull duggery to spice up an election. People just love dirt.

Here's good story on the bore.

A despicable speech from a contemptible man

Distasteful as it may be, some notice should be paid to the speech that the formerly important Al Gore delivered Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

This speech, an attack on the Bush policy on Iraq, was Gore's big effort to distinguish himself from the Democratic pack in advance of another possible presidential run. It served: It distinguished Gore, now and forever, as someone who cannot be considered a responsible aspirant to power. Politics are allowed in politics, but there are limits, and there is a pale, and Gore has now shown himself to be ignorant of those limits, and he has now placed himself beyond that pale. [snip]

It gets even better from there, a must read! Who is Micheal Kelly? I'm not familiar with him.