The Guild 5-5-2004 The Bold and The Irreverent

USA Today ^ | 5-5-2004 | Peter Johnson

[BigWaveBetty]

Former Vice President Al Gore plans to launch a cable news network for young adults that he says will be "irreverent and bold" but not liberal.

Gore said Tuesday that the as-yet-unnamed network will be "an independent voice in this industry" for people ages 18-34 "who want to learn about the world in a voice they recognize and a view they recognize as their own."

[BigWaveBetty]

ATOMIC BULLBLEEP ALERT!

Algore has joined MoveOn.org's PR blitz over an upcoming disaster flick, "The Day After Tomorrow," which depicts a heroic climatologist and the perils of global warming. Gore, who authored the cautionary enviro-primer "Earth in the Balance" in 1992, will hold a conference call with reporters today to talk about the issue, the progressive group said.

[BigWaveBetty]

(PageSix):

May 11, 2004 -- FORMER CNN hotshot Jim Miller - who was forced to resign as executive producer of "Anderson Cooper 360" and "Paula Zahn Now" in March - has been arrested for allegedly hitting his wife, Jaqueline.

Miller was hauled off in handcuffs from his home in Bucks County, Pa., after police responded to a report of a domestic dispute on April 30 and found Jaqueline "placing ice on a swollen, red bruise on her right wrist."

Friends of Miller say his wife had been trying to get him to move out for seven weeks and filed the assault charge as a cheap, legal ploy to seize possession of the house.

"I'm completely innocent," Miller told PAGE SIX. "I would never hurt her."

Miller, formerly a consultant to ABC's "Good Morning America" and executive vice president in charge of original programming at USA Networks, co-wrote "Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live" with Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales - his best friend and godfather of his three children with Jaqueline. Shales defended Miller: "She's been totally programmed by her divorce lawyer."

According to a criminal complaint affidavit obtained by PAGE SIX, Jaqueline "stated that during the argument, her husband James struck her in the arm while she was holding a telephone."

"After being struck, Mrs. Miller fled the house stating that she was in fear for her life and that her husband was after her. She left the house with her children, and retreated to a neighbor's house to await police. Mr. Miller chased after the family toward the neighbor's residence," the complaint said.

Upper Makefield, Pa., Police Chief Mark Schmidt said Miller, 46, was charged with simple assault, disorderly conduct and harassment, and sent to Bucks County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail. His wife was treated for "minor injuries" and released from a local hospital. Miller awaits a hearing at a district court in Newtown, Pa.

Back in March, we reported that Miller quit after CNN suspended him following an internal probe into "inappropriate comments" he made to female staffers. Sources said that numerous women who had worked with Miller were interviewed by CNN's human resources department before he was suspended.

Two days after Miller resigned, his deputy, senior broadcast producer Michael Rosen, followed him out the door.

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Mariah Carey has blossomed yet again...
http://www.nypost.com/gossip/elisa.htm

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Rest in Peace Alan King.

[mountaineer]

Well, we try to be diverse. Tonight we'll eat some of that Frenchy stuff, 'n'at.

[BigWaveBetty]

BREAKING News! Blubby has finished his tome according to AP. Break out the beer and pork rinds!

[daisyscarlett]

Here is the cover of the 900 page, $35 tome...

[daisyscarlett]

The black pantsuit and pepto pink blouse was back today at the Senate Hearings...

[Aggie Mama]

Russell Crowe in Gladiator......Yummy!.

[Timeout]

I've been gone for two days and haven't seen much news. I heard the top-of-the-hour reports of the revolting beheading of that poor Pennsylvania man.

Now I'm home and I checked the WashPost, NY Times and LA Times to see how they were handling it. I'm totally disgusted ... every single one has it in a small headline beneath the HUGE headline-du-jour on the prisoner abuse scandal. I cried at the thought that they can hate this country so much.

Let them accuse me of calling them "unpatriotic". If the shoe fits....

[daisyscarlett]

Compare this picture with the book cover in post 85...this is what Clinton really looks like..

[Aggie Mama]

It's terrible, isn't it? CNN hasn't addressed this at all. They can't control the internet, however. This has already made it around the world and will be discussed in everyone's email box.

[pubmom]

I'm utterly disgusted with how the so called "Iraqi Torture" issue is being handled by the press. Compared to Nick Berg's brutal execution, those offenses are nothing.

On this morning's news, they babbled on about more "Torture Photos." I had to turn it off, I just can't bear any more handwringing.

Just what the H#ll is wrong with these idiots? Will they never learn?

People better get some damn perspective. We are in a fight for our lives here!

[BigWaveBetty]

How this witch (hilllary) sits in judgment of others is astounding to me. But I guess if I had no soul and wanted to CYA so the unwashed masses might elect me to Queen of the World,,, which makes me think. Why do these elites so vehemently deny a Saddam and OBL connection, while most of America think it naive not to see the two connected? The public is not personally vested in the issues, the dem elites are. Up to their necks. Laurie Mylorie describes it this way:

America’s leading lights, including those in government responsible for dealing with terrorism and with Iraq, made a mammoth blunder. They failed to recognize that starting with the first assault on New York’s World Trade Center, Iraq was working with Islamic militants to attack the United States. This failure left the country vulnerable on September 11, 2001. Many of those who made this professional error cannot bring themselves to acknowledge it; perhaps, they cannot even recognize it. They mock whomever presents information tying Iraq to the 9/11 attacks; discredit that information; and assert there is “no evidence.” What they do not do is discuss in a rational way the significance of the information that is presented. I myself have experienced this many times, including in testimony before the 9/11 Commission, when as I responded to a Commissioner’s question, a fellow panelist repeatedly interrupted, screeching “That is not evidence,” even as C-SPAN broadcast the event to the entire country.

Let's see, who on that panel would 1)screech and 2) have the most to lose when proof comes to light that Saddam was involved with WTC '93 and 9/11?

Who could it be... who could it be?

JAMIE GORELICK???

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[BigWaveBetty]

Blubby discovered Botox during his weekly phone calls with Effin'.

[mountaineer]

Nauseating. That is, Blubba's excruciatingly self-congratulatory epic tome and the press coverage of the prisoner "scandal" - and ignoring the beheading of the American - both are nauseating. We watched CNNInternational yesterday - all prisoner hearings, all the time, and they kept mischaracterizing what the witnesses - the generals - really said. I loved Sen. Robert C. Kleagle Byrd's "monumental" demonstration of senile dimentia, however. Bleah.

We'll be home tomorrow. Until then, au revoir.

[daisyscarlett]

Looking forward to your return...Too bad you are not a Dem...they need someone to lighten up Johnny boy and put some humor in his speeches...Their efforts are failing so far, lol...

KERRY HAS TOO MUCH GRAVITAS

"Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry thinks he has a gravitas problem. "He thinks he has too much of it, and he thinks that's a problem," says a former campaign staffer.

To counteract his perceived perception that he is too serious and weighted down by the vagaries of intellectual and physical prowess, Kerry's staff has had him using humor in his stump speeches.

For example, over the weekend, while talking about health care reform, Kerry cracked that he would not delve into too much detail. No one in the audience appeared to see the humor.

Guess the beer and the Philly Cheese sandwich didn't work so the article describes his attempt at ribs in FL yesterday...

[daisyscarlett]

I can't believe 60Minutes2 is showing more photos tonight. What are they thinking...Oh wait, I know, I know...As their defenders put it, "They are just reporting the news, it is a democracy and we have the right to know".

Meanwhile, back in D.C., the Senators get to spend two hours this p.m. examining more photos. I saw a bunch of them on t.v. last night all saying how they were not sure they wanted to see them but felt it was their duty as a representative of the people...yada yada yada.

And John McCain is insane...I think he is nuttier than Wes Clarke....He (McCain)was on Larry King is Alive last night and when Larry finally asked him about Cindy, he barely answered him, saying "she's doing great" and then went on and on about how we must carry this up the chain. This was 20 minutes into the conversation before Larry even brought Cindy up. I can't believe that Bill Kristol thinks he should be Secy of Defense!!

Rant over, thanks for listening!!

[daisyscarlett]

I loved Sen. Robert C. Kleagle Byrd's "monumental" demonstration of senile dimentia, however.

Did you hear Byrd's statement that he never reads emails that are less than 500 words? He said this because he was alerted by email of prison abuse early in January but never responded. (I would bet that he is incapable of reading emails MORE THAN 500 words.)

[BigWaveBetty]

Good rant! Really, what is the purpose of showing more of those photos other than to embolden our enemies? Heard on Rush that dems have been all atwitter over this prisoner mistreatment, thinking it will be the end for GWB.

If congressmen feel like they need to see the evidence to do their job, fine but the rest of us adults get the picture, if you'll pardon the pun. CBS news producers are selfserving pond scum.

McCain has either completely lost his mind or he and Cindy are about to end their marriage. Uncaring like he exhibits is not normal.

And if I ever fall off the wagon and start to forgive Bill Kristol (again), please smack me upside my head.

[BigWaveBetty]

Robert C. Kleagle Byrd's "monumental" demonstration of senile dimentia

After even the most logical of persons in Europe witness Byrd, is it any wonder even they might think some American voters are looney?

I wonder if Blubby will remind us in his epic that it was he who said on that most important forum, 'Late Night with David Letterman' that he (Blubby) would be astonished if it took more than a week or two to take Iraq. Let's go to the transcript:

“There's no doubt we can do this. We're stronger; he's weaker. You're looking at a couple weeks of bombing and then I'd be astonished if this campaign took more than a week. Astonished.”

Gosh, it seems as though Blubby didn't have much of a clue about how things would go in Iraq. Countless times I've heard dems say, "Bush/Cheney told us it would be a cakewalk!" when neither one ever did. The ONLY person that did intimate it would be a cakewalk was Clinton.

I look forward to learning from bileboy's book exactly how the Bush Administration botched Iraq and just what plan clinton was imagining on that Sept. 12, 2002 appearance.

Please ignore my ranting.... you and Mr. M have a swift and safe trip back home. See you soon!

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

I am so sorry to do this, but this photo is one for the archives.