Friday, November 14, 2003
Outrageous indeed.
Revenge of Wal-Mart 9: "'Like most Americans, I have a sense of outrage that people who violate our laws are then using our laws to get money or reward themselves for their illegal behavior,' said Craig Nelsen, director of Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement. 'On the other hand, the conditions under which these people worked were truly outrageous.' No employer has a right to break labor laws. "
Revenge of Wal-Mart 9: "'Like most Americans, I have a sense of outrage that people who violate our laws are then using our laws to get money or reward themselves for their illegal behavior,' said Craig Nelsen, director of Friends of Immigration Law Enforcement. 'On the other hand, the conditions under which these people worked were truly outrageous.' No employer has a right to break labor laws. "
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Tuesday, November 11, 2003
This is absolutely horrible. This is a job for boy scouts. Girls should not be put in the position of taking the lives of cute little beavers. After all, if you allow them to kill beavers, soon they will probably want to kill their babies. I say, get the girls out of the dams and back into the kitchen where they can bake cookies to sell in front of Safeway stores.
newsobserver.com - Activists upset by Girl Scouts in Alaska who trap, skin beavers: "Let other Girl Scouts make bird feeders out of Clorox bottles and glue together little birch-bark canoes - Troop 34 in Alaska is learning to trap and skin beavers. In a practice that has angered animal rights activists, the girls are killing the beavers as part of a state flood-management program."
newsobserver.com - Activists upset by Girl Scouts in Alaska who trap, skin beavers: "Let other Girl Scouts make bird feeders out of Clorox bottles and glue together little birch-bark canoes - Troop 34 in Alaska is learning to trap and skin beavers. In a practice that has angered animal rights activists, the girls are killing the beavers as part of a state flood-management program."
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Hmmmm. Isn't this the same Larry Flynt who ran for governor of California, never met a liberal he didn't like, and used blackmail to save his buddy Bill Clinton from impeachment? A real fine chap.
New York Daily News - Home - Jessica's Hustled: "'Leave it to [Hustler publisher] Larry Flynt to do something like this,' said Paul Bogaards of Alfred Knopf, publisher of 'I Am A Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story,' which is being released today."
New York Daily News - Home - Jessica's Hustled: "'Leave it to [Hustler publisher] Larry Flynt to do something like this,' said Paul Bogaards of Alfred Knopf, publisher of 'I Am A Soldier, Too: The Jessica Lynch Story,' which is being released today."
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Sunday, November 09, 2003
Are these people getting an education in college? Why do people send their children to such snakepits?
OpinionJournal - Taste: "HEIL, DUBYA: A recent Harvard poll found that today's college students are more likely to register as Republicans and support President Bush than even the general public, but apparently there are those who disagree. As a recent column in the Massachusetts Daily Collegian puts it: 'Dubya is one of the single most evil men roaming free right now, a man whose deviousness and maliciousness is equaled by only a few. Bush is a creature on the same level as bin Laden or, more appropriately, Hitler. . . . This man and his cronies--his 21st century version of the Third Reich--should be held accountable for the atrocities that they have inflicted.' A budding Michael Moore"
OpinionJournal - Taste: "HEIL, DUBYA: A recent Harvard poll found that today's college students are more likely to register as Republicans and support President Bush than even the general public, but apparently there are those who disagree. As a recent column in the Massachusetts Daily Collegian puts it: 'Dubya is one of the single most evil men roaming free right now, a man whose deviousness and maliciousness is equaled by only a few. Bush is a creature on the same level as bin Laden or, more appropriately, Hitler. . . . This man and his cronies--his 21st century version of the Third Reich--should be held accountable for the atrocities that they have inflicted.' A budding Michael Moore"
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1. Why Hollywood Poisoned 'The Reagans' From Newsmax.com
Amid all the hullabaloo about CBS's decision to demote "The Reagans" to the cable channel Showtime, a lot of people didn't notice the fascinating reason the miniseries evolved into such a venomous hatchet job: Tinseltown's abhorrence of the decent and the normal.
Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron initially brought the project to ABC, which enjoyed hits with their musical version of "Cinderella" and their movie about Judy Garland.
But ABC rejected "The Reagans" because an early version "was very soft; it was not controversial in the least," one network executive was quoted as saying.
Yes, the media bigwigs couldn't stand to run anything positive or even neutral about the Republican icon. Time to bring out the arsenic.
CBS bought the $16 million production only after the filmmakers made it nasty enough.
When the network announced it would air "The Reagans," it deliberately lied in describing the program as a love story between Ronald and Nancy.
NewsMax was the first to point out, many months ago, that the film was set to be a hatchet job on Reagan. We knew that when the producers openly talked that the movie would delve into the Reagans' "troubled" relations with their children.
Those of us who eventually saw the promotional video and read the leaked excerpts of the script know that the schlockumentary is the opposite of a love story. It's all about La-La Land's hatred of anyone with a differing viewpoint.
According to the New York Times, "one executive involved in the production said the producers had made it clear in several meetings they were aiming to produce a highly controversial film. That was also the message they conveyed in an article in The New York Times on Oct. 21, that for the first time provided details about the portrayal of the Reagans, and that alerted conservative backers of the former president that the film was not going to be entirely sympathetic."
Note to the Times: If you want to be accurate, try changing "entirely sympathetic" to "at all sympathetic."
We have to give the Times' critic Alessandra Stanley credit, though, for noting that the "producers appear to have sacrificed showmanship to self-righteousness, adopting a preachy, liberal agenda.... Rather than treading lightly, the stars gloated about how controversial their film would be. James Brolin said his portrayal of Mr. Reagan was partly inspired by the Reagan puppet on the British satirical show 'Spitting Image.' Judy Davis, who plays Nancy Reagan, pompously said she hoped the film would teach Americans to scrutinize their elected leaders more carefully."
"Handled more delicately, the series could have been shown on CBS," Stanley wrote. "The eight-minute trailer that CBS sent out ... suggests that the movie is bad history and good television."
In particular she faulted the partisan but usually talented Davis for abandoning all nuance and portraying Mrs. Reagan as a monster.
As for Malibu Barbi Streisand, Little Tommy Daschle and the other Democrats crying foul about CBS's decision, let's see if they would object to a pseudo-biopic in which Bill Clinton is falsely quoted as calling himself "the Antichrist" and saying that AIDS patients deserve to "die in sin."
That we'll never know, because Democrat-run Hollywood, of course, would never invent such lies about its fallen idol.
Plenty of NewsMax readers wrote in to put the issue in perspective. Rich Engle of Elk Grove, California put it best: "The liberals who are crying foul on cancellation of CBS's hack job of President Ronald Reagan are truly out in left field. The U.S. Constitution's First Amendment right of free speech has no bearing on this case. No government agency demanded the cancellation of the program, popular opinion did. The fact is that the producers made a poor quality product, and consumers rejected it. Citizens of the United States of America have conducted business in this manner for well over two hundred years with unequaled success."
Amid all the hullabaloo about CBS's decision to demote "The Reagans" to the cable channel Showtime, a lot of people didn't notice the fascinating reason the miniseries evolved into such a venomous hatchet job: Tinseltown's abhorrence of the decent and the normal.
Producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron initially brought the project to ABC, which enjoyed hits with their musical version of "Cinderella" and their movie about Judy Garland.
But ABC rejected "The Reagans" because an early version "was very soft; it was not controversial in the least," one network executive was quoted as saying.
Yes, the media bigwigs couldn't stand to run anything positive or even neutral about the Republican icon. Time to bring out the arsenic.
CBS bought the $16 million production only after the filmmakers made it nasty enough.
When the network announced it would air "The Reagans," it deliberately lied in describing the program as a love story between Ronald and Nancy.
NewsMax was the first to point out, many months ago, that the film was set to be a hatchet job on Reagan. We knew that when the producers openly talked that the movie would delve into the Reagans' "troubled" relations with their children.
Those of us who eventually saw the promotional video and read the leaked excerpts of the script know that the schlockumentary is the opposite of a love story. It's all about La-La Land's hatred of anyone with a differing viewpoint.
According to the New York Times, "one executive involved in the production said the producers had made it clear in several meetings they were aiming to produce a highly controversial film. That was also the message they conveyed in an article in The New York Times on Oct. 21, that for the first time provided details about the portrayal of the Reagans, and that alerted conservative backers of the former president that the film was not going to be entirely sympathetic."
Note to the Times: If you want to be accurate, try changing "entirely sympathetic" to "at all sympathetic."
We have to give the Times' critic Alessandra Stanley credit, though, for noting that the "producers appear to have sacrificed showmanship to self-righteousness, adopting a preachy, liberal agenda.... Rather than treading lightly, the stars gloated about how controversial their film would be. James Brolin said his portrayal of Mr. Reagan was partly inspired by the Reagan puppet on the British satirical show 'Spitting Image.' Judy Davis, who plays Nancy Reagan, pompously said she hoped the film would teach Americans to scrutinize their elected leaders more carefully."
"Handled more delicately, the series could have been shown on CBS," Stanley wrote. "The eight-minute trailer that CBS sent out ... suggests that the movie is bad history and good television."
In particular she faulted the partisan but usually talented Davis for abandoning all nuance and portraying Mrs. Reagan as a monster.
As for Malibu Barbi Streisand, Little Tommy Daschle and the other Democrats crying foul about CBS's decision, let's see if they would object to a pseudo-biopic in which Bill Clinton is falsely quoted as calling himself "the Antichrist" and saying that AIDS patients deserve to "die in sin."
That we'll never know, because Democrat-run Hollywood, of course, would never invent such lies about its fallen idol.
Plenty of NewsMax readers wrote in to put the issue in perspective. Rich Engle of Elk Grove, California put it best: "The liberals who are crying foul on cancellation of CBS's hack job of President Ronald Reagan are truly out in left field. The U.S. Constitution's First Amendment right of free speech has no bearing on this case. No government agency demanded the cancellation of the program, popular opinion did. The fact is that the producers made a poor quality product, and consumers rejected it. Citizens of the United States of America have conducted business in this manner for well over two hundred years with unequaled success."
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