Posted on 01/21/2009 6:46:30 AM PST by steve-b
It is the curse of the journalist always to be present, but never really There.
The job requires that we stand slightly apart, seeing but not believing; hearing without being seduced. We jot down the words, careful not to let them get under our skin. Like surgeons in the operating room, we can't afford to become emotionally involved lest we notice the blood and let the scalpel slip.
Then comes the rare instance that penetrates the armor, when something causes you to put down the pad, turn off the camera in your head, and become part of the moment. The short list in recent history includes the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the signal marches on Washington, the terrorist attacks of 9/11. To those we may now add Inauguration Day 2009....
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Nice but does it run on bio-fuels? What’s its carbon foot print? Will Obambi allow us to own/drive one? I suspect only the many in the private jets at the Ingrate-ual will be allowed.
If only she WOULD put down her pen...let a true conservative opine ...but that would only happen in a perfect world.
If you tried to put bio-fuel in that car, you’d be struck by lightning!
Kudos, I respect your choice. I’d like mine with Jason Isaacs at the wheel. :) Alan Rickman would also be good.
Two thumbs-up on those.
What, exactly, has been accomplished, except the election of the President farthest to the Left of all time?
GMTA!
Does this woman still have anything to do with National Review? If so, I’m not renewing it.
Yet another throne-sniffing Obama sycophant. It isn’t really like laying your pen down and joining the moment, Kathleen. It’s like losing your virginity. It isn’t coming back.
I had to google the names, which were familiar but didn’t immediately correlate with faces. Woof! Isaacs is hot in his HP role, but Rickman is much better in real life ;-).
In that case, the media FAILED miserably in this last election. They didn't seem the least bit curious about Obama's past for over 18 months, while they landed in Alaska in less than 48 hours, trying to dig up any dirt on her. Whey they couldn't do that, they simply made stuff up out of whole cloth.
Isaacs is easy on the eyes, but Rickman's voice just MELTS me! I tried reading "The Return of the Native" several years ago, and just couldn't get past the endless descriptions of the moors. I checked out the book on audiotape, read by Alan Rickman. Oh my! Needless to say, I enjoyed the book, immensely! ;o)
Do tell!
Done deal! I will look for the audio-book, and yes, to hear Alan Rickman’s rich voice with exquisite accentuations.
In pictures, I mean. I haven’t seen him in person. And I agree about his voice - not Ricardo Montalban, but certainly (ahem) inspiring.
There’s also a tv-movie of “Return of the Native” with Catherine Zeta-Jones and ... some guy. I think A&E produced it. It’s in the “Acorn” video catalog.
I actually read the book in high school.
I think I saw that TV version of the novel!
It was very scenic, and made the main characters more likeable than in the novel, I thought.
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