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Monday, May 7, 2007 04:41 PM
Original article: Rosie's view

I ONLY watched the view with Rosie

One of the columnists on the Huffington Post mentioned that Joy Behar looks like she is about to cough up something green and bilelike, she is so desperately jealous of Rosie and just so PISSED she can hardly get through a show anymore.

I think the reader who suggested a whole NEW view has it right!

Get rid of annoying obsequious Barbara Walters, who lives in fear that one of her rich powerful friends (Can you say Donald Trump?) will become annoyed with her.

Get rid of angry festering boil Joy Behar---whom I used to LOVE, because she WAS the liberal voice of reason before she apparently lost her ability to dismiss idiots like the hasselbeck twit and Star Jones. Now, she's just angry and festering.

Get rid of Hasseltwit. She is so appalling stupid, I cannot even believe it! That Rosie o'Donnell hasn't KILLED her is a testament to her self-control.

Replace them with Rosie o'Donnel in charge. Add Randi Rhodes. Whoever suggested that was BRILLIANT. Wanda Sykes? Perfect.

For that fourth spot. Not Bill Maher---I love the man except he is clearly a misogynist and it comes out more and more frequently. So WHO? WHO? I think it would have to be Patricia Heaton! It has to be someone right wing, but mystifyingly so. People like Hasseltwit are obviously right wing because they are too lazy to read a book, too stupid to think a thought reasonably through. So much easier to have knee jerk reactions. She and Britney Spears would obviously have a lovely life at the mall, drifting from one candle/cookie/shoe store to the next, nodding in agreement that we just should support our president in everything he says and does.

But Patricia Heaton seems to be the rare conservative who seems to think her conservatism is actually tough love. She seems to think she has "the way" and it is up to her to make people toe the line. She is a right to lifer. I think they need someone smart and misguided.

Not just misguided. it woudl show the country there is some hope.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 04:42 PM
Original article: The stone is cast

Jerry Falwell's coming scandals

I remember when John Cardinal Cody died in Chicago, and it was revealed that he had fathered a child with his cousin and had embezzled tons of money from the catholic church. There have been so many cases of celebrity clergy-men who, when their private lives are examined after they are no longer able to keep them secret, turn out to be the ultimate hypocrites. The mayor of Spokane, the televangelists caught in motel rooms with hookers, or with online sex habits, or with drug addictions.

The thing all of these people rail against is the inability to overcome our human frailties; they exhort us to deny who we are, to deny understanding and compassion and empathy to others different from ourselves. In the end, it turns out they themselves most of all required the very thing they felt no one deserved.

I'll wait patiently for Kitty Kelly's book about Jerry Falwell to come out in which she will no doubt reveal he had sick sexual predilections and hated all of his fellow man. How else could he have come up with the drivel he did? Sometimes cynicism is a reasonable response.

Monday, June 4, 2007 08:38 AM

there's going to be the movie!

I thought that several media outlets had already confirmed that David Chase is going to make a feature film after the series is done. Was it the Vanity Fair article? At any rate, there is going to be the movie.

Tony can't die, and I don't think Sil or Carmela can die. AJ? maybe.

But the point is, next Sunday's episode can be life-altering, but not life-ending, at least not for Tony.

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