Funniest picture from the Oscars?

Apparently Louis Gossett Jr. was so bored at the Oscar Awards, that he took a little nap!

Check out Jeff Gannon's hit counter: 230,012 already.

He started his blog on Feb 16th. Do the math. My question is did he start from "0, or are liberals looking for a few laughs and driving the traffic to his site?

Almost all his entries are links to articles about himself. Reminds me of his great reporting skills. Cut and paste. This really had me rolling:

"In regard to the allegations about my personal life, I have been advised by my attorneys not to comment on any of the details pending the outcome of any possible legal action I might pursue. Therefore, I won't be discussing any of that stuff here."a

The All Spin Zone has mored to the allegations about my personal life, I have been advised by my attorneys not to comment on any of the details pending the outcome of any possible legal action I might pursue. Therefore, I won't be

On MTP Sens. Rick Santorum, R-PA, & Joseph Biden, D-DE discussed Social Security

MTP transcripts

Video

via TPM

He hits all the key points. Like: "No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security."

Yes, just so.

Or this: "And the presumption that Social Security can't meet its obligations rests on the notion that the federal government will default, something it's never done in 220 years, on an obligation, on Treasury notes, IOUs, just like the IOUs Japan has and other countries have in terms of buying our Treasury bonds. And so I don't think we'll default."

So true!

It was a minor masterpiece of counter-bamboozlism

Full transcript

Dowd: ...The administration is trying to throw journalists in jail and basically trying to replace the whole press crew with ringers, including male escorts. I mean, even Nixon hated the press, but he never tried to actually do an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" thing with them.

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RUSSERT: But in hindsight would you say that perhaps the war was the appropriate course?

DOWD: Well, I am old-fashioned. I think you actually have to tell the American people the truth before you go to war.

C&L Oscar prediction for best movie MDB. Hilary Swank for best actress.

Review
This movie is like a classic 40's picture that could have easily have been filmed in black and white while remaining just as powerful. A three character drama, with relationships woven together by love, pain, ambition and desperation. I feel this movie is all about love. The love between a pseudo father-daughter relationship and the relationship between two old friends bound together by pain, remorse, and friendship.

An old boxing trainer/cut man (Clint Eastwood) who has lost his own daughter (we never know the real cause), and a hungry, semi-old amateur fighter (Hilary Swank) trying to climb out from the depths and who has lost her family due to their self obsessed ignorance. Morgan Freeman plays the conduit that allows their relationship to take hold and flourish.

By the third act that love is tested like no other can. Some people are trying to make the case that the movie's only purpose is to shine a favorable light on euthanasia. This is not the case because the movie gives a balanced treatment of the dilemma, questions, and consequences that might be faced in the wake of a disastrous experience. (See the film)

Hilary Swank's heartfelt performance is the driving force behind Million Dollar Baby that helped transcend this movie past the usual cliches of the boxing genre. Combining the perfect roll for Clint Eastwood’s "curmudgeon", and Morgan Freeman’s sobering narration, Million Dollar Baby is worthy to be an Oscar winner.

Did anybody watch them?

We'll make some video clips later

02/06/03

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Hunter: ...I don't think it's our war. I think it's Mr. Bush's war....

Here's a man who has taken the country in two years from a prosperous nation of peace, to a broken nation and a war, so...

via Talk Left : Hunter Thompson: Weekend Update

(Unofficial transcript-missing parts of dialogue)

Imus: What is your personal relationship with Jeff Gannon?

Santorum" Jeff Gannon?...ok I give up.

Bernard: The gay hooker.

Imus: He's the guy who managed to get a press pass....

Some more dialogue about Jeff Gannon being in the White House

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Santorum: Someone blew it.

Imus: I don't know if I'd use that phrase or not...You're just another one of those right wing guys with a dirty mind.

Listen to Santorum fumble around while answering the questions about Gannon. You can tell he doesn't want any part of that story. No matter how you feel about Imus and they are pretty much just ribbing Rick; he has been relentless in his questioning of politicians about Jimmy/Jeff.

(Imus throws a dig about the Iraq war at the end.)

"Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president."

-Ann Coulter, February 23, 2005

Note: The syndicator, Universal Press Syndicate (UExpress), cleaned up that racist remark instead of exposing Ann Coulter's racism here

Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that dyspeptic, old Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president."

via Moveleft

(Update) Paul says that Ann sent the edited version to Universal herself.

The following is part one of her opening statements from the hearings before the Committee
on the Judiciary, United States Senate on the nomination of Clarence
Thomas to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Audio-it's a pretty big file 11 mg's

"One of the oddest episodes I remember was an occasion in which Thomas
was drinking a Coke in his office. He got up from the table at which we
were working, went over to his desk to get the Coke, looked at the can, and
said, "Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?"