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28
Feb
Who dat? T.O. mutha f@cka…dat who!
This guy is a cancer to any NFL team he’s on and most recently a reality retard. Maybe its just me but the guy rubs me the wrong way. I can’t seem to find value in him as a player even though he has some impressive stats. I can’t be [...]
28
Feb
According to Paramount Pictures, Scorsese’s suspense thriller Shutter Island has earned $75.1 million in 10 days. It has been #1 for consecutive weekends beating out “Cop Out” and “The Crazies” this weekend.
Leonardo DiCaprio, who has collaborated previously with Scorsese, stars in the picture as a federal marshal stranded at a prison hospital for the criminally [...]
28
Feb
Cast member Eric Dane and his wife Rebecca Gayheart pose at the premiere of “Valentine#39;s Day” at the Grauman#39;s Chinese theatre in Hollywood, California February 8, 2010. The movie opens in the U.S. on February 12.
A very pregnant Rebecca Gayheart heads out in West Hollywood with her pet pooches in tow on Friday. The actress and husband Eric Dane are expecting a baby girl this winter.
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Feb
Tennis star Maria Sharapova, raised in the Russian city of Sochi, poses with a t-shirt she received as the ambassador for Sochi 2014.
Sochi 2014 chief Dmitry Chernyshenko has promised all venues will be built on time by 2012 to allow for test events.
The sub-tropical climate means Sochi should be warmer than Vancouver, already considered hot by winter Games standards, but the melting snow which plagued some events should not be a problem as the Alpine skiing races start 400 meters above those
28
Feb
Members of the Russian delegation, hosts of the next Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia in 2014, celebrate near the Olympic flames during closing ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, February 28, 2010.
From the Pacific coast to the shores of the Black Sea. From the peaks of western Canada to the Caucasus mountains of southern Russia. From gleaming North American skyline to palm-fringed resort in the former Soviet Union.
Do svidanya (goodbye) Vancouver. Do vstretchi (see you) in Sochi
28
Feb
How often does a network interviewer declare to the interviewee that he loves him and "would take a bullet" for him? On his self-titled PBS show on Thursday night, Tavis Smiley declared his love for radical 9-11 truther/Obama adviser Van Jones: "I believe in supporting friends and you know I love you, would do anything - would take a bullet for Van Jones." He concluded the interview by oozing "Van Jones is among the best our community has ever produced."
Worse yet, Smiley attacked the Obama White House for not fighting the "absolute lies" that sunk Jones – without ever bringing specifics. Smiley raised "this notion of if what was said about you was an absolute lie, it was untrue and it was manufactured and it was just a bunch of - it was a gotcha game, to use your word from earlier, why not defend Van Jones?"
PBS is taking our tax dollars to provide a completely sympathetic platform for a radical-left scandal figure, a place where he can seek to rehabilitate his image with the kindest of collaborators. Smiley offered no skepticism whatsoever to the strange claims of Jones that he never signed the petition demanding an investigation into charges the Bush administration "deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur."
SMILEY: Let me just throw a few things at you. These 9/11 truthers - what did you make of that story that started this ruckus about Van Jones in the White House?
JONES: Yes, yes. Well, I learned a tough lesson on that. First of all, let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy by al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, and nobody else, trying to hurt America.
What happened to me on that, a tough lesson learned for me, six years ago I was at a conference. Some people came up to me. They said, "Hey, we represent 9/11 families. I’m like, "Oh, okay, good to meet you." They said, "We need your help. Will you help us?" I said, "Sure, whatever you want.
Then these people - I didn’t know what their agenda was - they went and put my name on some abhorrent, crazy language they never showed me, I never saw, and it just sat there on this website for years.
Somebody discovered it, and then boom. So people actually believe that I actually signed on to something I never saw, never signed on to, and that became a part of this whole firestorm.
I decided at that point that I needed to resign, because I was becoming a distraction. From my point of view, the president of the United States deserved to be able to talk not about my past and everything I either did or didn’t do, but about America’s future. So I chose to step down.
Instead of questioning which claims about Jones were untrue, Smiley put all his weight on how Obama’s people shouldn’t have backed down from a fight where Jones was being unfairly and dishonestly maligned:
SMILEY: But it does raise this question, though. When you said to the powers that be that I am going to step aside because I don’t want to become a distraction, did anybody in the president’s circle say, "Van, let’s rethink this, we don’t want you do this, let’s fight this?" Did anybody say that?
JONES: Of course. It was heartbreaking inside the building because everybody knew that this stuff, a lot of it was just manufactured. At the same time, these are serious times and the president’s staff is there to protect and defend him, not the other way around. I don’t think people understand that….
SMILEY: I only raise that because as you well know, we’re big boys, we can handle this - I only raise that, Van, because as you know, there have been some questions, legitimate, illegitimate, we can agree or disagree, but questions about what this president and his staff truly believe in, what their principles are, what they are really willing to stand up and fight for.
That’s the reason why I ask that question, because it’s connected to this notion of if what was said about you was an absolute lie, it was untrue and it was manufactured and it was just a bunch of - it was a gotcha game, to use your word from earlier, why not defend Van Jones?
Jones discussed how the White House was a "dream job" and how Obama signed on to be "captain of the Titanic," and it would be rude to expect a fight. Smiley continued:
SMILEY: One other question about this, and this really isn’t about your time in the White House, it is prior to that - your decision to go inside the White House. When you told me that you were going to do this - I can say this now.
JONES: Yes, sir.
SMILEY: My friend Geraldo Rivera used to host a show that said, "Now it can be told." (Laughter) I can now tell you this, since you’re out of the White House.
JONES: Exactly, it’s all right.
SMILEY: When you told me that you were going to go inside the White House, I didn’t want you to - I believe in supporting friends and you know I love you, would do anything - would take a bullet for Van Jones.
JONES: Yes, sir, yes, sir, yeah.
SMILEY: But I’m thinking this Negro has lost his mind. (Laughter) I’m like, I know what it means to have the freedom as an advocate on the outside - I’ve been on the inside and on the outside - the freedom that you have on the outside to tell the truth, to speak truth to power, to side with truth over power.
That freedom - and this is not about Obama, it’s just the whole political infrastructure. You know where I’m going with this.
JONES: Yes, I do.
SMILEY: When you go on the inside, your wings get clipped a little bit. You can’t speak truth the way that you’ve been speaking it for all these years on the outside. So I’m thinking Van is one of the freest Negroes I know. (Laughter) Why does he want to bind himself up to some degree and go on the inside?
Jones talked about all the good green things he could do on the inside. Smiley then tried to spur Jones to attack Fox News and Glenn Beck for ruining him:
SMILEY : But that’s my point, though. When you see what you saw on the inside that you’re now describing for us so beautifully, it must really anger you, then, that the Glenn Becks of the world on the outside –
JONES: Here’s the thing - I have one thousand defeats from last year, and one victory. I don’t have any hatred in my heart for anybody, I’m not mad at anybody. I understand the pain of Glenn Beck’s listeners; people who are wondering where are we going as a country? How am I going to get a job? All these different people are coming here, am I going to be respected?
I understand that, and I feel like what we’ve got to do is to answer to the pain, not respond hatred to hatred or bitterness to bitterness or add to the divisiveness, because that actually will keep us where we are.
Jones returned to more gooey statements about the wonderful Barack Obama.
Other media outlets are helping on the rehab tour. At TimesWatch, I reported on how John Broder of the New York Times announced his new job by referring to his charisma, and not his ideology:
"Van Jones, the charismatic advocate for environmental jobs who resigned from a White House post last September over a number of controversial past statements, has found a new job with the Center for American Progress in Washington."
He added that NAACP leader Benjamin Todd Jealous is on the Tavis Smiley wavelength, calling Jones an "American treasure."
28
Feb
New York Times columnist Frank Rich isn’t just convinced suicide pilot Joe Stack shared many views with the Tea Partiers.
He also believes some of the movement’s members are basically domestic terrorists whose leaders include Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin.
"What made that kamikaze mission eventful was less the deranged act itself than the curious reaction of politicians on the right who gave it a pass — or, worse, flirted with condoning it."
Yes, Rich’s "The Axis of the Obsessed and Deranged" was the kind of column we see too often from his ilk these days basically blaming all that’s wrong in the nation — even a disgruntled man flying his plane into an IRS building — on regular Americans concerned about the direction of the country:
It is not glib or inaccurate to invoke Oklahoma City in this context, because the acrid stench of 1995 is back in the air. Two days before Stack’s suicide mission, The Times published David Barstow’s chilling, months-long investigation of the Tea Party movement. Anyone who was cognizant during the McVeigh firestorm would recognize the old warning signs re-emerging from the mists of history. [...]
Barstow confirmed what the Southern Poverty Law Center had found in its report last year: the unhinged and sometimes armed anti-government right that was thought to have vaporized after its Oklahoma apotheosis is making a comeback. And now it is finding common cause with some elements of the diverse, far-flung and still inchoate Tea Party movement. All it takes is a few self-styled "patriots" to sow havoc.
So, a Times reporter confirmed what a far-left leaning legal organization wrote last year, and this mean’s he’s right?
What would REALLY be shocking is if Barstow AND Rich DIDN’T agree with SPLC’s views.
But this is common for liberal shills like Rich: reference articles published by your own newspaper to prove your point. This allows you to completely misrepresent the truth with impunity:
Equally significant is Barstow’s finding that most Tea Party groups have no affiliation with the G.O.P. despite the party’s ham-handed efforts to co-opt them. The more we learn about the Tea Partiers, the more we can see why. They loathe John McCain and the free-spending, TARP-tainted presidency of George W. Bush. They really do hate all of Washington, and if they hate Obama more than the Republican establishment, it’s only by a hair or two.
Nonsense. Tea Partiers certainly didn’t agree with Bush’s policies, and likely were not McCain supporters in 2008. But their hatred for Obama is far greater than for the Republican establishment.
Rich knows this, for this is what he wrote last May:
At those tax-protesting "tea parties" on April 15, signs and speakers portrayed Obama as a "fascist," a "socialist," a terrorist and Hitler.
A month earlier, Rich wrote, "Even the anti-Obama ‘tea parties’ flogged by Fox News last week had wider genuine grass-roots support than this so-called national organization."
So, less than a year ago, Rich saw this movement as clearly anti-Obama. But now that the Tea Parties have indeed become a powerful force, the Times columnist views them as being almost equally opposed to Republicans as they are the current White House resident.
As anyone that has attended a Tea Party knows, nothing could be further from the truth. But facts weren’t getting in Rich’s way, for he was clearly on a conservative-bashing roll:
The passion on the right has migrated almost entirely to the Tea Party’s counterconservatism.
The leaders embraced by the new grass roots right are a different slate entirely: Glenn Beck, Ron Paul and Sarah Palin…But these leaders do have a consistent ideology, and that ideology plays to the lock-and-load nutcases out there, not just to the peaceable (if riled up) populist conservatives also attracted to Tea Partyism. This ideology is far more troubling than the boilerplate corporate conservatism and knee-jerk obstructionism of the anti-Obama G.O.P. Congressional minority.
Wow. So some Tea Partiers are "lock-and-load nutcases." This image allowed Rich to crescendo towards a truly disgusting conclusion:
In his Times article on the Tea Party right, Barstow profiled Pam Stout, a once apolitical Idaho retiree who cast her lot with a Tea Party group allied with Beck’s 9/12 Project, the Birch Society and the Oath Keepers, a rising militia group of veterans and former law enforcement officers who champion disregarding laws they oppose. She frets that "another civil war" may be in the offing. "I don’t see us being the ones to start it," she told Barstow, "but I would give up my life for my country."
Whether consciously or coincidentally, Stout was echoing Palin’s memorable final declaration during her appearance at the National Tea Party Convention earlier this month: "I will live, I will die for the people of America, whatever I can do to help." It’s enough to make you wonder who is palling around with terrorists now.
So, some Tea Partiers are domestic terrorists, and Beck and Palin are their leaders.
And this guy writes a regular column for the New York Times.
Of course, like so many things, Rich is quite clueless about the Tea Parties, for here’s what he wrote almost exactly one year ago today:
G.O.P. pseudopopulism ran riot last week as right-wing troops rallied around their latest Joe the Plumber: Rick Santelli, the ranting CNBC foe of Obama’s mortgage rescue program. Ann Coulter proposed a Santelli run for president, and Twitterers organized national "tea parties" to fuel his taxpayers’ revolt. Even with a boost from NBC, whose networks seized a promotional opening by incessantly recycling the Santelli "controversy," the bonfire fizzled. It did so because - as last week’s polls also revealed - the mortgage bailout, with a 60-plus percent approval rating, is nearly as popular as Obama.
The Santelli revolution’s flameout was just another confirmation that hard-core Republican radicals are now the G.O.P.’s problem, not the president’s.
So, on March 1, 2009, Rich declared the Tea Party movement dead.
Should anyone care what he has to say about it or any of its members now?
28
Feb
Aaron Quinton says whenever fans of the film recognize him in his everyday life, Bullock#39;s usually the first topic of conversation. “When people see me they#39;re like, #39;Oh my god, It#39;s you, from The Blind Side! I love you, we loved your movie – Oh my god, how was it working with Sandra?#39; That#39;s what I get the most.
“And I#39;m like, #39;Sandra? Don#39;t even get me started …#39; ” he said laughing, rolling his eyes and pretending he#39;s had his fill of the Best Actress conten