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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 24 days ago
Of course, the Wall Street swoon is bigger news. But bigger news as well were the somewhat newsworthy revelations in Bob Woodward's book -- bigger because Woodward is a journalistic celeb who gets to flack his wares on 60 Minutes . His WashPost colleague Barton Gellman, though, scored the bigger news story , even though his own newspaper didn't seem to think so -- relegating the story to page A19. In his new book on Vice President Cheney, Angler , Gellman reports a new twist on the old story of administration officials trying to tie Saddam Hussein to 9/11, and the most newsworthy thing about the report is the source: former Republican House Majority Leader (and onetime Newt Gingrich ally) Dick Armey: The threat Cheney described went far beyond public statements that have been criticized for relying on "cherry-picked" intelligence of unknown reliability. There was no intelligence to support the vice president's private assertions, Gellman reports, and they "crossed so far beyond the known universe of fact that they were simply without foundation." Maybe that's Cheney's new charity, the Without Foundation. But the kicker is Armey's quote: "Did Dick Cheney . . . purposely tell me things he knew to be untrue?" Armey said. "I seriously feel that may be the case. . . . Had I known or believed then what I believe now, I would have publicly opposed [the war] resolution right to the bitter end, and I believe I might have stopped it from happen ... Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 22 days ago
As horrible as Hurricane Ike was to Texas, and it was, one can't help noticing the disparity in death tolls between Ike and Katrina. It is dispositive, I think, as to the difference between even the nastiest of hurricanes (the Ike event) and the breaching in more than fifty places of federally-built levees (the Katrina event). Louisiana's Republican Governor Bobby Jindal has noticed another disparity , that between the federal government's willingness to lift a recovery burden off the state of Texas and its refusal to do the same for Louisiana. Bush decided Tuesday to have FEMA pick up 100 percent of the costs for debris removal and emergency measures that Texas governments incurred when Hurricane Ike blasted ashore at Galveston last week. When Jindal saw that, he decided to renew his call for eliminating the 25 percent share Louisiana must pay for the public costs from both Ike and Hurricane Gustav, which hit the state 12 days earlier. "Singularly, each was a major disaster; combined, these storms amount to a catastrophic event for the state," Jindal wrote . Even electing a Republican Governor can't help Louisiana keep this President's thumb off the scale. More on Bobby Jindal ... Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 11 days ago
LONDON--Over dinner last night, i was trying to explain to a British friend why the majority of House Republicans fled the bailout bill compromise. Reading the polls, it's easy to understand why those with the most hotly contested elections this November were the least eager to sign up for the bill. But, in surveying the wreckage, one fact became clear: the credit crisis was exacerbated by a credibility crisis. It's easy for Americans to look at President Bush--he of the 935 lies in the Iraq war runup--and Henry Paulson, the Goldman Sachs-bred Treasury Secretary--and say, "prove it" regarding the dire predictions of doom if a bailout doesn't occur. As an American typically ignorant of the arcane ways of the financial wizards, what was missing for me in the scare talk last week was somebody who could put the danger in concrete terms: a businessman, say (as opposed to a financier), who could tell me how lack of credit would prevent him from stocking up on new inventory or meeting payrolls. An Administration marked by profound arrogance (hello, Mr. Cheney) sent a financier to Congress to demand unprecedented power for a financier, and the scare talk sounded familiar and empty. It's the boy who cried Wolfowitz. Somehow, if the danger is that real and that near, somebody with a shred of credibility and some real skin in the game has to stand up and tell us exactly what's in the alleged abyss. The Administration's failure to understand ... Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 35 days ago
Gustav, as far as New Orleans was concerned, was not "the mother of all storms," in the latest immortal words of Mayor Ray Nagin, and as my friends and neighbors (the ones who didn't stay) make their way back into town, they're greeted today by another shoe dropping: the Times Picayune reports that the American Society of Civil Engineers has finally gotten around to critiquing the Army Corps' massive mea kinda culpa regarding the Katrina flooding. I say "finally" because the Army Corps' report, still incomplete, was first released in June 2006. But, hey, what's the big urgency? Well, according to the ASCE response, plenty. For instance, the civil engineers said the corps did not go far enough in addressing the inadequate design of floodwalls along the 17th Street and London Avenue canals. The corps had blamed the failure of those floodwalls partly on the "complex and challenging" geological conditions in which they were built. "While a massive hurricane does create a 'complex and challenging environment,' engineers routinely are expected to design for such conditions," they said, and such an environment "in no way mitigates the inadequacy of the design." The engineers also criticized the report for soft-pedaling the role of surge overtopping and the use of erosion-prone fill from nearby swamps in the failure of earthen levees. And while the report concludes the levees did not perform as a system, "it does not speak to the fact tha ...
Source: blogs.kansascity.com --- 37 days ago
Still more drama from MSNBC -- this time from two guests who think they're off mic! The YouTube video was uploaded from the account of Harry Shearer, and while he wouldn't confirm it was his handiwork ("Pure coincidence," he wrote... ... Source: www.topix.com --- 31 days ago
You may know him from such films as This Is Spinal Tap and Waiting for Guffman . ... Source: www.RadioBarking.com --- 8 days ago
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Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 7 days ago
She may violently oppose abortion, and have made the women of Wasilla pay for their own rape kits, but Sarah Palin has been great for women in another way: Suddenly, there's this great new on-screen role for women! If you're a brunette all you need to do is throw on some glasses, pile your hair up in a beehive, don a red jacket and voila — you've tapped into the Zeitgeist. The best known of these, of course, is Tina Fey, who comes by her Palin impression honestly (it really is amazing how alike those two look). But even so, there have been plenty of other noteworthy efforts. Here are a few: (1) Obama Girl: Barely Political scores another hit with this latest in the series, this time with Obama Girl (Amber Lee Ettinger) playing a pretty doggone funny Palin. Love the part where she takes the pic in the racy tee, and when she gives birth during a phone call: (2) Judith Owen: Some nice synergies here for My Damn Channel in this video starring Harry Shearer's wife as a feisty Palin singing "Bridge To Nowhere" (written by Shearer: (3) Liz Cackowski: The former SNL writer and current writer-star of the online web series, "The Jeannie Tate Show" (with writer-director Maggie Carey) stars in College Humor's "Head of Skate," the trailer for the imaginary Palin-inspired Disney movie that Matt Damon shudderingly evoked. It's great. Amazing production values: See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. (4) Sara Benincasa: This red-h ... Source: www.bbc.co.uk --- 6 days ago
25 years ago, the BBC drafted a statement to be broadcast in the event of nuclear attack. We asked Harry Shearer , the voice of The Simpsons' newsreader Kent Brockman, to offer us his interpretation of the statement. So he did it in the style of seminal 1970s newscaster Walter Cronkite ... and here's the result. ...
Source: www.highdefdigest.com --- 9 days ago
MGM has set a late-January Blu-ray release for the classic rock mockumentary 'This is Spinal Tap.' Starring Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer as aging metalheads who embark on a disastrous... ... Source: news.toonzone.net --- 29 days ago
* John Cafiero, manager of the punk bands the Ramones and the Misfits, is suing Doug Custer of Osterburg, PA, contending that Custer illegally distributed an animated music video on YouTube and MySpace. [ The Tribute Democrat ] * In an interview with the New York Times Magazine , Harry Shearer briefly notes how The Simpsons ' Mr. Burns sometimes speeds his way through immigration . * A Florida man and his autistic... [read more] ... Source: wonkette.com --- 7 days ago
We will miss this clown, Sarah Palin, when she’s sent back to Alaska. Ha, not really. Oh, and after the jump, this discombobulating thing from Harry Shearer. Uhhh: If you’re familiar with Shearer’s Le Show, you won’t be too horrified by this TERRIBLE CREEPY MUSIC. In fact, you may find it “soothing.” Ha, that is Mrs. Shearer, [...] ... Source: www.washingtonindependent.com --- 21 days ago
Harry Shearer plans to buy up all the comedic talent in the world, one jokester at a time. ... Source: www.mondaq.com --- 21 days ago
Harry Shearer, the actor and radio host, has a regular feature on LeShow, his weekly radio program. With deadpan voice, and music and lyrics in the background ("I'm sorry; so sorry"), Shearer reads a slew of recent public apologies from the famous and infamous, including a number of government officials. ...
Source: www.observer.com --- 3 days ago
Judith Owen, the Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and wife of comic actor Harry Shearer, was waiting for me inside the Paramount Hotel on a recent dreary Saturday afternoon. She was on her second coffee and I was running late. My bad! Had I been meeting, say, Natalie Merchant, I would have been there five minutes early, but I hadn’t seen Ms. Owen perform yet; I didn’t know how talented and funny she was. I’d met her twice before. The first time was by chance outside Barneys back in 1993. I was with a female mentor, she was with Mr. Shearer, and the four of us were staring at Mr. read more » ... Find more results for Harry Shearer on RSSMicro.com |
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Comedy goddess Tina Fey isn't the only funnylady who can pull off a mean Sarah Palin imitation. Harry Shearer—of The Simpsons , This is Spinal Tap , SNL's male synchronized swimming movie, and just about every other funny thing in the last 30 years—has just written and posted this fun song, "Bridge to Nowhere." It stars his wife, actress Judith Owen, whose Palin is spot-on and will make you eat the nearest hunk of rusted iron when you reflect that they are singing about a real candidate for a real fucking office. And try not to remember that John McCain will probably die in office when you watch this, coz that lessens the funny. Update : God you guys are hard to please! Now there's video of drunk-ass monkeys after the jump!! ...
On tomorrow's show - the political interview of the weekend - the new Business Secretary, Peter Mandelson . He'll be telling me why the Prime Minister was right to stake his premiership on his return and about his plans to act in the best interests of British business in tough economic times. Watching that interview with interest, no doubt, will be his opposite number on the Conservative benches, Alan Duncan MP . He'll be talking to me just after 11. Gordon's other big idea when he took over from Tony Blair was to lead a 'Government Of All The Talents', quickly christened 'GOATS' by the media. But rather like the real-life creatures, they had a habit of coming untethered and speaking off-message. The best known GOAT was perhaps the former Director General of the CBI, Digby Jones . He lost his job in this week's reshuffle and he'll be joining me at quarter-past eleven. Harry Shearer , comedian, Spinal Tap star and voice-actor on The Simpsons will be talking about his new CD of satirical songs inspired by President Bush's administration. The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams will be discussing money, greed and a giant of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky. And PR supremo (Lord) Tim Bell and the Labour MP for Hackney, Diane Abbott are reviewing the Sunday newspapers. ...
Officially, Texas singer/pianist Marcia Ball is non-partisan -- she played both the Democratic and Republican conventions, after all. But ask which convention was a better party, and it's no contest. "The Democrats, hands down," she said in a recent interview. "The Democrats really knew how to party, and there was quite a guest list at the thing we played: James Carville, Kathleen Sebelius, Harry Shearer. It was cool and fun and the music was amazing. I could hardly believe I was there. It was a little bit of heaven. By the Republican convention, it was less of a party. Plus Hurricane Gustav was bearing down, and some of the Louisiana people had to go back. It didn't seem to be as much of an event to the Republicans, totally under the radar. I don't know if we made an impression in Minneapolis at all." But Ball will probably make an impression tonight in Durham, at the Bull Durham Blues Festival. Check here for more on that and a variety of weighty topics, including barbecue. ...
Get ready for a pitch battle... Soccer Aid 2008, showing Sunday September 7th on ITV1 London at 6:00pm Ant and Dec (pictured) present this year's Soccer Aid match live from the Wembley Stadium, as England's celebrities and World Cup legends play the rest of the world in aid of Unicef. Portsmouth boss Harry Redknapp leads the England squad, which includes David Seaman, Alan Shearer, Kyran Bracken, Ben Shephard, Gareth Gates and Jamie Theakston ; while Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish leads an international team including Romario, Peter Schmeichel, rugby star Brian Lara, former spin doctor Alastair Campbell, Westlife's Nicky Byrne and Gordon Ramsay . Each squad comprises 11 celebrities and five World Cup greats. With less than a week for the players to train and bond before the big game, the pressure is on to get match-fit and performance ready. While Gordon Ramsay returns to captain Rest of the World, team England have a new skipper. Robbie Williams is passing on his captain's armband, and the responsibility of deciding who will take his place is in the capable hands of manager Harry Redknapp. Tim Lovejoy and Louise Redknapp will bring all the action from the sidelines while pundits and special studio guests will deliver their live analysis of the beautiful game. View the full review Get a reminder when Soccer Aid 2008 starts... ...