Posted on 07/20/2004 10:06:51 AM PDT by walford
The article skips over the critical part. The part that really probably got her fired.
People were demanding their money back.
Real americans do not want to pay to see anti-american blaber.
Even worse, Medicare has reclassified obesity as a disease. Fat headed democrats and in particular fat democrat pigs like Teddy Kennedy and Jerome Nadler can collect yet another government check.
The point of this tirade was to get the word out about writing protest emails from the dumies.
This action would make me WANT to visit the Aladin.
It's also the part with the brains :)
As God is my witness, when I read that the president of Aladdin had Miss Ronstadt tossed out of a performance, I wondered what she was doing singing at a kerosene lamp convention.
"Do you feel that the way Bush speaks is an indication of stupidity?"
Well, he certainly SOUNDS stupid. Why? We're just guessing. But at least we agree that there's, at a minimum, some sort of problem with ... motor skills(?).
"If so how do you reconcile that with his college degrees, or do you feel that two colleges gave him passes on degrees and grades because of who his daddy was? Do you really think that all the professors he had with tenure never required him to perform in their classes?"
I think (and this is just a guess ... I hope I can't get sued!) that he was a perfectly bright guy with an MBA from Harvard and that the substance abuse that no one denies took a toll. Have you heard Glenn Campbell speak recently? If you're old enough to remember his TV days, it's alarming. And very like Bush. Then there's Gary Busey and Steve Stills (OK, they're worse and Stills is almost deaf). Since the Douglass Ginsburg (sp?) fiasco in the 80's, there's been a political ceasefire on drug use, so the Dems won't talk about it, much less the fact that they had a cokehead in the WH for 8 years.
But maybe you're right. I remember Gail Sheehy (or some other obnoxious lefty) wrote in 2000 that he was dyslexic, which explained his Mom's work with childhood reading programs. I thought it was a mean and stupid thing to write, but maybe she was onto something.
Yes, I do believe that George Bush has a learning disability and that is the source of this motor problems and his speach pattern difficulty.
There are lots of folks out there with learning disabilities and it has nothing to do with mental retrardation, low IQ or drug induced brain cell death. It just means that folks process information differently.
For folks to ridicule someone on the basis genetic differences that are not based on the quality of their work or thoughts is something I find disturbing. Actually it is something that the Hollywood left would be up in arms over, if the object of the "hate speech" were not G. W. Bush.
Go figure!
"Did Elvis ever record that song? I've only heard Orbison's and Ronstadt's versions of it."
My first wife was a total Elvis fan, once while riding and listening to "Crying" on the radio she remarked during the song that Elvis was such a great singer, I of course informed her that she was listening to Orbison. She insisted that it was Elvis singing until the end of the song when the disc jockey named the song and the singer. She was mortified, I made it worse by telling her that Elvis couldn't sing that song because it was too difficult for him.
"Or how 'bout Bostonians who don't know where the 'r' is or isn't supposed to go..."
Why is it that so many people from the North cannot pronounce the word "saw"? It comes out as saur as in the last syllable of dinosaur. "I saur your brother at the grocery store yesterday."
RE: Bush's lack of spoken talent.
Look, some people are not gifted with the spoken word. I am a stutterer, who must be very careful when speaking in public. People who don't know me sometimes treat me like I'm stupid. You can judge my stupidity for yourself by browsing my website [see tagline].
If I were tested on my math skills, I would likely be considered retarded.
Give the President a break. He is smart enough to have [mostly] the right ideas, surround himself with people who can help him formulate policy and carry it out effectively.
I personally don't trust people who are glib. They strike me as pushy salesmen, sleazy lawyers and/or cult leaders.
Why are people in Hollywood so stupid that they can't seem to grasp that their JOB is to ENTERTAIN. They are supposed to take you out of this world for a couple of hours and put you into theirs. I'm to distracted by the fact that Julia Roberts thinks I'm a reptile to enjoy her movies - so now I just don't pay to see them.
Or the Baltimore dialect...
FANE: an electronic communication device patented by A. G. Bell
Example: winner ya gonna cwull me onnah fane, hwon?
Is there a "T" in Balamore?
Just love the Balamore Oreo's.
Chevy Chase has used the 'egg timer' comment before--twice, as I recall, in referring to Howard Stern. I guess that you could say that Chase is as reliable as an egg timer with his egg timer references.
ronstadt should consider herself lucky. All she suffered was a firing and an eviction. Not too long ago, if you pissed off the boss of a Vegas resort, you ended up in a shallow grave in the desert.
Has this panty-waist forgotten Rush Limbaugh and Florida Orange Juice and ESPN?
Dr. Laura's TV show?
Mel Gibson while "The Passion of the Christ" was being framed as anti-semetic?
The fact that Conservatives in HollyWierd have to maintain a low profile in order to keep working...unless they break the hold these leftists have, a la Bruce Willis and Tom Selleck?
Cry me a river, you gutless traitors! "Freedom of Speech" does NOT belong to leftists exclusively, NOR does it mean that the public MUST subsidize your wretched, excess-laden lives whenever you decide to blovate on a subject you have NO F*ing CLUE ABOUT!
Look, I have no problem or prejudice about people with speech impediments or learning disabilities. Or brain damage. I'm sure most are very smart.
I also don't have anything against fat midgets. But, they don't belong in the NBA. Oratory is job #1 in politics. I get a little queasy watching the POTUS smirk after sucessfully delivering a cheap applause line to grade schoolers. Maybe I'm old school, but I expect more.
Oh, and don't give me that Texas macho stuff. Phil Gramm talked like a hick, and he was the most brilliant man in the Senate. Not that today's GOP had any use for him.
Thanks
Then I gratefully stand corrected.
If you think it's so important, the Framers of the Constitution must be less enlightened than you are, because nowhere in the Constitution does it mandate that the top priority for our politicians is to speak well.
Maybe you should propose a constitutional ammendment for it.
A tad pompous from someone calling himself "zeugma".
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