Fox's 2010 interview of Obama interrupted alot, presumably in order to deal with his devious long answers to questions. Dembomedia, e.g., MS-NBC, were more upset over etiquette than lies. But jaws must've his the floor across the journalistic world when talkshowdom's ultimo rudus-interruptus offender, CHRIS MATTHEWS, unself-consciously led Demedia's coordinated 2010/3/18 charge AGAINST THE SIN OF INTERRUPTING GUESTS. MS-NBC was partially redeemed by Dylan Radigan (its prime remaining rational light), who tempered his criticism by empathetically noting his own (mostly justified) interruptions of guests. Dembo-hack Ed Schultz creditably invited in a dissenter — but then discreditably tried to stifle her dissent by repeated interruptions.
MS-NBC's Lisa Daniels 2005/4/29 10:34 receiving field-reporter K's
story on a multiple-stabbing murder of two children:
This is the kind of story you don't want to hear about.
Thanks, K, for those details….
Mary Kay LeTourneau,
poster-girl for
rape-is-pro-Life,
who evidently hopes to turn child-molester-notoriety into a
celebrity-profession,
was asked for her reaction to critics
(Entertainment Tonight 2005/4/28).
With the same obliviousness that has characterized her life, she replied:
Where Was This Guy on 1962 April 5th-7th?:
New York Times music critic Bernard Holland
(who is so uninterested in the post-classical tradition that
he once confused Rachmaninov's 2nd & 3rd piano concertos),
commenting on Glenn Gould
(International Herald Tribune 2007/11/28 p.9):
“he played … Brahms with docile acceptance of tradition.”
Fox News on the death of Michael Jackson (FNC 2009/6/25 19:44 EDT):
“He touched alot of people in alot of ways.”
But Will Such Courage Help Pius' Chances in His Next Election?
Baltimore News-American 1945/12/24 p.1 headline:
“Pope Pius XII asks end of totalitarians.”
How Big Can Ideas Get?
Donny Deutsch (The Big Idea CNBC 2006/8/24 22:44 EDT):
“I respect anyone that believes in their beliefs.”
CNN 2009/3/3 TV 'snews-show (20:07EST): “Campbell Brown No Bias, No Bull, brought to you by Exxon….”
James Martin, S.J., on the op-ed page of the
Int Herald Trib (aptly 2006/4/1), straight-facedly listed
one of the essentials (besides proof of a heroically virtuous life)
for a saint's canonization (emph added):
“hard-nosed proof of two miracles.”
[I couldn't deliberately make up such satire.]
MS-NBC's Mike Viqueira, post-election (2008/11/5 11:21 EST): it's “probably not likely” that the Dembos will reach the height of control of Congress the Dumbos feared.
Turkey-p.r. lady, recently hired
to soften
EU minds to believe that, e.g., part of Asia is part of Europe:
“Turks have made huge contributions in Germany, and we need to show this
to help German people overcome their fears.
Turks are also a growing electoral force there,
and we need to exploit this.”
(Int Herald Trib 2005/10/8-9 [pp.15-16] p.16, emph added.
Believe it or not, no ellipsis was required to pair her messages.)
[Speaking of embarrassingly transparent Turkey-p.r.-ploys to con the EU:
Has it been much noted that Turkey in 2005 re-adjusted
the definition of its currency
(the Turkish “lire”) by a factor of merely a million
— to paper (if you will) over the fact that its gift for
inflation is not restricted to
(increasingly fundamentalist
Moslem population-growth?]
On 2004/2/19, University of Colorado head football coach Gary Barnett
defended his team against UC kicker Katie Hnida's report
that she'd been raped by a male teammate.
“It's a guy's sport. And they felt like Katie was
forced on her — you know, on them.”
CNN on 2004/1/6 reported that a chap named Singleton was
scheduled to be executed — for unempathetically stabbing a lady to death
(eons of lawyer-fees ago) —
“even
though” he's [allegedly] insane.
[A comic has suggested that if a murderer is nuts enough
to inspire this kind of reasoning, then he's not even going to know
if you're taking him to execution: send him to the electric chair
and tell him it's a Ferris-Wheel.]
On 2005/11/26, one of the “news” channels covering
Iraq-occupation US soldiers' travails spoke of their battling
“back”
against the “insurgents”.
Is Orwell's shade smiling? Probably not.
Daleyspeak Lives:
Live-TV speeches you'll never hear entirely replayed on the PC media:
On 2003/12/18, sentencing the Green River killer to life for 48 murders,
the black judge condemned him for his
“lack of disregard for human life”.
The Leonard Maltin 2009 film Guide p.98 typically prefers the 1926 silent Ronald Colman rendition of Beau Geste to the famous 1939 talkie. Yet this page reviews only the 1939 & 1966 versions, not the 1926 one — which is not even included in the Guide's p.1593 list of Colman's films.
Pascal Huynh (notes for Erato CD recording [©1999] of Ferruccio Busino's Doktor Faust): to oppose the “cult” of Wagner, “Busoni proposed a fusion between the past (he suggested … Bach & Mozart as an antidote to Wagner) and the present (as represented by futurism and the avante-garde)”. The admission that “futurism” is often merely present passing fashion, is a gem. (See also: DIO 1.1 [1991] ‡3 §B1 [p.18], DIO 4.2 [1994] ‡9 §D3 [p.77].)
Ian Kershaw Hitler 1936-1945 p.612 (emph added): “the increased number of pills and injections provided every day by Dr. Morell — ninety varieties in all during the war and twenty-eight pills … could not prevent [Hitler's] physical deterioration.”
Hitler on Heinie Himmler: the trouble with Himmler is, he's not an artist.
[Other than that, no-prob. Himmler was the youngest, daffiest,
and least scientifically balanced of the top four Nazis.
(Three of whom were cafeteria-Roman Catholic, Goebbels
nearly becoming a Jesuit. The only Protestant of the four,
Göring,
was the most practical, un-idealistic, crooked, and hands-on brutal.
He and banker Schacht topped the IQ tests of Nazis at Nürnberg jail.)
A more idealistic pagan-Catholic-mix
than Hitler or Goebbels, Heinie Himmler
embodied
the ideal of systematic-mass-murderer-as-mystic-race-nut.
(He nimbly celebrated the 1940 anti-Comintern pact by
trying to prove that
Japanese were Aryan and — golly — almost as superior as Germans.)
A combination of soldier-philosopher and chinless-chicken-former-farmer (PETA
might note the career-dry-run: chicken-farms are bloody killing prisons),
ReichsführerSS Himmler's heroic-aspiration self-image
is transparently (if slightly effeminately) displayed in
Triumph of the Will,
where one can see the pride he took in being able to
(as Mel Brooks' Kenneth Mars might say) goose-step
the pants off Göring, whose feeble gut-strut on the same 1934 occasion
easily wins the comic-high-point-of-the-film award. Given that Göring
was then fresh off shooting-to-death the former SA chief E.Röhm
(his main competitor in the non-lean super-aryan category),
one is impressed that Leni Riefenstahl didn't edit-out this embarrassment.
But perhaps she simply hadn't heard of the incident in which
Göring was post-boarhunt-boasting to a Brit diplomat
of a “good morning of shooting”, to which
the Brit deftly inquired: “Animals, I presume?”
Note: the army-placating 1934/6/30 murders of
Röhm
(among others) betrayed
[a] the young SA men whose marching and gooning had put Hitler in power,
and [b] those who'd ever taken the “Socialism” part of
“National Socialism” seriously. (Italy's history of similar buying
off & filtering socialist leaders as they approached power
culminated in Mussolini. See Peter Neville Mussolini
Routledge, London 2004, pp.7, 32-33, 43-44, 46, 67.
Mussolini originated from a family so egalitarian-socialist that he was named
for anti-Maxico
hero Benito Juarez.) A typical bait&switch rulership-swindle.
(H.Dean take Newt: Akin to the systematic neutering of Newt Gingrich,
starting as soon as NG got the GOP back into power in 1994.)]
Lesson: those who believe in the dream of US justice
and equal rights via republican elections nearly always experience
the eternal frustration that the goal is a just-around-the-corner
but ever-out-of-reach chimera — because those in power
will
only obey popular elections so long as the public votes
for candidates within the vanishingly-tiny-spectrum
Dumbo-“versus”-Dembo slate which the elite's media tell them
to vote for, while the same slut-media ignore or smear
(most recently: R.Nader or R.Paul, respectively)
any candidate who won't play ball with said elite.
MS-NBC topic-headline 00/11/14 14hEST “The Florida Recount”. (What yukkable singular “the” could've one-upped that beaut? THE Gore-camp lawyer?)
MS-NBC 2000/11/8 (on Florida absentee ballots): so for us “to presume that this is necessarily going to go the Republicans' way would be — would be presumptuous.”
History Channel (2000/2/17, 23:29EST): in the period before the Battle of the Bulge, “The Allied commanders did not expect von Rundstedt to do anything unexpected.”
Adman
Ethics Course:
Avon television ad (2000/10/29-30 1:02EST): “It's OK to lie.”
Retardation as Superiority:
G.Alperovitz' review (Wash Post National Weekly Edition
2000/9/18 p.35) of H.Bix's book on the #2 war-criminal of all time,
Japanese Emperor Hirohito, stumbles upon a contradiction in
racist dictatorship which seems always equally to elude rulers & rulees:
Hirohito thought “of his people as mere children
and … as a spiritually superior race.”