Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Keith Olbermann - A True American Patriot
Keith Olbermann has done it again. He's managed to skewer the President and his administration in a Special Comment that appeared tonight on his MSNBC Countdown show. He called for the President to have the modicum of decency that Nixon had and resign from his position and take Dick Cheney with him. Do it for the good of the country, rather than the good of your party, Sir. This Special Comment follows President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence, which, in effect gives him no sentence at all for lying under oath and obstructing justice. You see, that little $250,000 fine Scooter's supposed to pay? The one that Bush feels is punishment enough for poor Scooter? Well, Scooter's got enough financial backing that he won't have to pay that fine. Our daughter said that Scooter's expression always appears to be on the verge of a sneer - very sly, that one. Of course, you, too, would be grinning like a Cheshire cat if you knew that those you were playing patsy for were going to bail you out at the last minute as a condition of keeping mum.
Bravo to Keith for saying what I'm thinking and for saying it with such force and deserved venom toward the intended target that I'm spellbound. This makes Keith a True American Patriot and the Best Person in the World today.
Bravo to Keith for saying what I'm thinking and for saying it with such force and deserved venom toward the intended target that I'm spellbound. This makes Keith a True American Patriot and the Best Person in the World today.
Labels: daughter, dick cheney, george w. bush, keith olbermann, nixon, scooter libby, special comment, travesty of justice
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Tricky Dick
What would happen if Deep Throat, the Watergate informant, was actually two fifteen-year-old girls? The movie Dick deals with just that premise. I've caught it a couple of times on Comedy Central. It's brilliant. The teenage girls, Betsy and Arlene, are played by Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams. They spend gobs of time squealing and their wardrobe is to die for. Deborah Everton, the costume designer for the movie, should've won an award.
Betsy and Arlene unwittingly find themselves at the center of Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal. They manage to become the President's dog walkers and get themselves in deeper. Arlene eventually falls for Dick, plastering her bedroom walls with his photos as though he's a rock star. Supremely cute.
The movie was released in 1999, but I don't remember seeing any previews for it. It pays to revisit our culture's past creative products. We can't catch them all the first time around.
By the way, according to the Washington Post, the real Deep Throat wasn't two teenage girls. It was W. Mark Felt, the number 2 man in the FBI. I bet he never walked the President's dog.
Betsy and Arlene unwittingly find themselves at the center of Richard Nixon's Watergate scandal. They manage to become the President's dog walkers and get themselves in deeper. Arlene eventually falls for Dick, plastering her bedroom walls with his photos as though he's a rock star. Supremely cute.
The movie was released in 1999, but I don't remember seeing any previews for it. It pays to revisit our culture's past creative products. We can't catch them all the first time around.
By the way, according to the Washington Post, the real Deep Throat wasn't two teenage girls. It was W. Mark Felt, the number 2 man in the FBI. I bet he never walked the President's dog.
Labels: creative, dick, movie, nixon, watergate
