MoveOn, nothing to see here September 23, 2007
Posted by dave128 in Politics.Tags: General Betray US, MoveOn.org, US Senate
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Firstly, how ridiculous that the US Senate voted on condemning an advertisement in a newspaper. What next? US Senate vote: How cool is the iPhone television commercial?!!? What is your favourite colour? Who cares about Iraq or health care or impeaching a criminal President*; the major issue of the day: Boxers or Briefs??!
Secondly, I saw Eli Pariser from MoveOn.org on Friday’s NBC Today show and I thought he was really cute. 
I’m badass September 20, 2007
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This rating was determined based on the presence of the following words:
- fuck (12x)
- fucking (4x)
- sex (2x)
- crap (1x)
Ha, ha! I’ve sed “crap” once. Cool.
Classic Aussie award show moments September 17, 2007
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So “goddamn” and a message of peace is enough to make FOX go into meltdown. Which got me fondly remembering some pieces of Australian award shows:
Joan Rivers goes wild at the 2006 Logies:
Rove’s “fucking awesome” speech at the 2005 Logies:
A drunk Glenn Milne pushes Stephen Mayne off the stage at the 2006 Walkley Awards:
And while I’m at it, here is a short clip of excerpts taken from Summer Heights High, a fantastic new Australian school satire:
Goddamn FOX September 17, 2007
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Fox censors Sally Field in US telecast of Emmys
Fox US producers of Sunday’s Emmy telecast censored best drama actress winner Sally Field Sunday evening after she veered off into a remark criticizing the US invasion of Iraq.
Welcome to bizarro land again. Yes, it’s FOX standing up for family values and liberty and all that stuff by putting the kibosh on an act of free speech. And let’s put things into perspective. It’s not as if she said anything remotely controversial. Her comments held a simple anti-war message.
It’s always amusing when things like this occur. By their over the top reaction FOX has given more publicity to Field’s speech than it probably would have received.
Sally Field’s entire speech ran uninterrupted in Canada and Australia, and I would assume all other democracies where the Emmy’s were televised.
