In "His Girl Friday," Hildy Johnson thought that Walter Burns' extortion and bribery made him all the more lovable and by the film's end, she was back in love with Burns.
When Rupert Murdoch's choice for the Republican candidate in 2012 becomes known, the teabaggers may fall in love with Murdoch again, but the liberals might get a jolting dose of dà �j- vu that gives them a "Rick Santorum level of revulsion" reaction.
Have you noticed that the mainstream media seems to be in perfect harmony regarding the idea that Mitt Romney shouldn't be handed the Republican Presidential nomination? (The Stepford Pundits?) Have all the paid political pundits (both liberal and conservative) started to sing the same song? Where is the much vaunted "unique voice" that will point out the fact that all the calls for withholding the nomination seem to be written by the same author with little or no unique wording or phraseology inserted?
The Republicans started out with about a dozen potential candidates and now that Mitt is the frontrunner, he is being criticized for not getting a majority of the Republican primary votes. Are the mainstream media hacks too dumb to see the correlation to the arguments supporting the "instant runoff" concept or are they being forbidden to wander into that line of reasoning?
On Thursday, March 01, 2012, Andrew Breitbart died and Uncle Rushbo was effusive in his praise for the conservative spokesman. Limbaugh seemed on the verge of suggesting that Britebart be put on a catafalque and lay in state for a day or so in the rotunda of the Capital building in Washington D. C. Was Andrew Breitbart more like Walter Burns and Rupert Murdoch or was he the modern day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow? Which type of news reporter does
Is the tendency to make sure that conservative pundits are liberally remunerated for their work but that altruism is deemed sufficient reward for leftist, a stealth way to make sure that the pundits eventually suffer burnout? Isn't it conservatives who glibly spout the sentiment that "Virtue is its own punishment"?
[In 1940, when "His Girl Friday" was playing in movie theaters across the
The fact that photos of the Iowa visiting Richmond CA while slowly traveling to its new permanent home in the Los Angeles area will be used to illustrate this column rather than photos from various Occupy protest marches held on Thursday March 1, 2012 also illustrates how fatigue can inject a WTF factor into the contemporary online realm of column writing.]
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