The Death of Spin
Everywhere you look this fall the left's spinning is coming undone.
by Hugh Hewitt
11/06/2003 12:00:00 AM
Hugh Hewitt, contributing writer
THE VERY BEST ASPECT of the decision by CBS to cancel its network showing of the Reagan miniseries was the first paragraph of CBS's statement explaining its decision:
CBS will not broadcast "The Reagans" on November 16 and 18. This decision is based solely on our reaction to the final film, not the controversy that erupted around a draft of the script.Sure. And New Coke really did taste great. And Michael Dukakis is glad he rode in that tank. You can hear Jon Lovitz in the background going, "Yeah, yeah. That's the ticket. Nothing at all to do with the controversy."
The New York Times dutifully reported Barbra Streisand's angst--"today marks a sad day for artistic freedom"--and managed to find the nearly invisible Bill Maher, who intoned, "It looks so bad." The Times then solemnly editorialized that "CBS was wrong to yield to conservative pressure and yank it."
Everyone on the left seems to know that CBS crumbled under pressure, but CBS boldly asserts that it didn't. This stubborn refusal to cop to the facts is more significant than the movie itself. A network that just trotted out Uncle Walter to help celebrate its 75th birthday should be more circumspect in its lying...
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You can hear Jon Lovitz in the background going, "Yeah, yeah. That's the ticket. Nothing at all to do with the controversy."See also, from snltranscripts.jt.org:
Pathological Liars Anonymous
Tommy Flanagan.....Jon Lovitz
Announcer: And now, a message from Pathological Liars Anonymous.
Tommy Flanagan: Hello, my name is Tommy Flanagan, and I'm a member of Pathological Liars Anonymous. In fact.. I'm the president of the organization! I didn't always lie. No, when I was a kid, I told the truth. But then one day, I got caught stealing money out of my mother's purse. I lied. I told her it was homework -that my teacher told me to do it. And she got fired! Yeah, that's what happened! After that, lying was easy for me.
I lied about my age and joined the army. I was thirteen at the time. Yeah.. I went to Vietnam, and I was injured catching a mortar shell in my teeth. And they made me a three-star general! And then I got a job in journalism, writing for the National Enquire.. er, Geographic! Yeah.. I was making twenty thousand a ye.. month! In fact, I won the Pulitzer Prize that year! Yeah, that's the ticket.
And then my cousin died - Joe Louis - and I took it hard. Maybe too hard - I tried to kill myself. Yeahh.. I did kill myself! Sure! I was medically dead for a week and a half! It was a woman that brought me out of it - Indira Gandhi! Yeah, right.. And she told me about Pathological Liars Anonymous. Oh, you'd be surprised how many famous people belong. In fact.. at one of the meetings I met my wife - Morgan Fairchild! Yes, I'm a change man now, and all because of Pathological Liars Anonymous. Why, I - I even have my picture on the cover of Newsweek magazine. Yeah. Every day! Yeah.. that's the ticket! Yeah, you betcha!
SNL Transcripts
Everywhere you look this fall the left's spinning is coming undone. ha !! Just wait until NEXT November !! ...Are the Dirty RATS shakin' in their boots? Anticipating the next 16 words November 2004??
The GOP gained seats in the House and the Senate.
Meantime, President Bush wins in landslide !
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