Tim Robbins Apologizes To Right-Wing Radio (VIDEO Update)
Tue Apr 15, 2008 at 10:07:56 AM PDT
The National Association of Broadcasters may regret asking Tim Robbins to give the keynote address at its annual gathering in Las Vegas yesterday. In a calling to account matched only by Stephen Colbert’s White House Correspondents Dinner speech in satire and sarcasm, the actor took it to the NAB for obsessing over the latest celebrity sex scandal, subscribing to narrow viewpoints and, in the case of radio broadcasters, adhering to a "national playlist" of music.
I wish I had been there. Since I wasn’t, Daily Variety gives it good coverage under the headline "Robbins Rocks Boat" (print edition). See below the fold for what had to have been a highlight...
How was your "Enough!" rally?
Sun Aug 12, 2007 at 02:03:04 PM PDT
So I got a wild hair yesterday, after reading WesClarkJr's "Enough" diary (apparently the latest in a series that I had thus far missed). I went to the DFALink page and saw there was only the original LA Westside rally scheduled in this city, so I posted one of my own - on the eastside of Los Angeles, in my neighborhood of Los Feliz.
Then I sent out an invite to my local peeps... so having committed myself thusly, I bought supplies to make some signs, knowing that I, at least, would have to be there.
Here's my experience as a party of one:
LA Times: "Hillary, don't run" x 2
Sun May 28, 2006 at 10:45:06 AM PDT
Today's Los Angeles Times' op-ed page contains an editorial AND an op-ed column arguing (for different reasons) for Hillary to stand down, come the 2008 presidential race.
First, the editorial:
The best thing Hillary Rodham Clinton could do for humanity is not run for president. Nothing against her personally, mind you; it's just that her aspirations could get in the way of her husband's worthier ones.
Followed by my favorite snip:
In our continuing quest to find an appropriate job for our favorite ex-president - a year and a half ago we suggested he become chairman of the Democratic Party - we now offer an even better suggestion. This time, it's a post he has coveted. Not long after leaving office in 2001, Clinton reportedly told an aide that his dream job would be secretary-general of the United Nations. That's our dream, too.
More below...
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Part II
Mon Jun 20, 2005 at 05:09:42 PM PDT
Or, "Swift Boat Veterans Waste Another Grove of Trees"
In the same spirit as the pre-election attacks on John Kerry, looks like the Republicans are getting an early start on Sen. Clinton:
Conservatives Tout Anti-Hillary Book
ALBANY, N.Y. - Conservative groups are promoting a Hillary Rodham Clinton biography that hits bookstores Tuesday as a work so damning it could destroy any possible bid for the presidency in 2008.
Well now.
Howard Dean: "Tilting At Windbags"
Sun Feb 20, 2005 at 11:34:27 AM PDT
Joel Pett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist from the Lexington Herald-Leader and USA Today, wrote a pithy accompaniment to a sampling of political cartoons in today's
Los Angeles Times. The cartoons all depict Howard Dean offing himself by various methods and, presumably, taking the Democratic Party along with him:
Cartoonists from across the political spectrum greeted the new Democratic Party chairman as if he were Dr. Kevorkian, not Dr. Dean. They showed the former Vermont governor assisting Democrats in jumping off bridges and buildings, driving off cliffs, committing hara-kiri - and digging their own graves. He was even depicted serving his own head on a platter, a trick Dr. Death never mastered.
(There's more...)
