Tuesday, January 8, 2002
Quote of The Day
"In all modesty, this project constitutes a watershed moment in musical history."
-Note on Professor Cornel West's website regarding his new CD rap album.
W gets Spot to show Barney how it's done
Oh, Well: For those of you still grumbling over "The Torch" Torricelli
beating the rap, here is a New York Times backgrounder on how it all
happened. On Imus this morning the Senator said he didn't take any "illegal"
gifts and that
The New York Times told lies about him.
He said David Chang,
his accuser is a convicted felon. The lesson here is that when caught, parse
your words Clinton-style and only take gifts and cash from someone who is
skeazier than you are.
Keeping Hope Alive: To make up for the Torricelli disappointment, here's
cheering news.
The departing U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White has left you a present.
Seems the investigation of two of Clinton's smellier pardons has
been moved to the front burner. Her former office will be looking into the
Marc Rich scam and Hillary's infamous "pardons for dough" charges. Spring may
truly get here.
Save My Shoes! They're Jimmy Choos! Poor Paula Zahn. All that long legs,
za-za clothes, shiny lips and big buttery chunks of hair presentation that
went over so well at Fox has gotten her called merely "a little bit sexy" by
CNN's promo department and the ad has angered the front office. Seems she
wants to be thought of as smart.
Read the Fox send up of the whole situation
and say this for Fox. They have fun.
A-Team, Yea Team! The London Telegraph has one terrific story on some very
special Green Beret behavior in Afghanistan.
Read it and give thanks
that we
still produce men like these.
Too Much Help From His Friends? Historian Stephen Ambrose can't catch a
break. No sooner has he apologized for overuse of someone else's work then
Forbes finds some more lifted lines
in his book on Custer. Could it be that
someone who churns out so much work has to rely on others to get the job
done? One of publishing dirty little secrets is that it happens all the time.
Keyes' Kingdom: Finally, some TV suits have seen the light and given the
brilliant Dr. Alan Keyes a nice big 10:00 p.m. spot.
MSNBC is lucky. They can
just drop Keyes into place opposite Fox's new "get" Greta Van Susteren, no
serious intellectual or cosmetic repaving will be required.
-Your Repaving Resistant LComStaff
-- Anonymous, January 08, 2002