Accordingly, there are two that get my vote, both of whom starred in Westerns, among other things:
THIS...is FREE REPUBLIC!
This here is FREE Republic, Pilgrim....
Posted on 10/29/2002 10:56:59 AM PST by icwhatudo
Listening to WBAL Baltimore yesterday-Ron Smith Show 1090 AM
As his guest he has Frank DeFilippo, the liberal political analyst for WBAL who represents the left in the Left/right crossfire style debates Ron has with him.
Frank DeFilippo, press secretary to former (D) Gov. Marvin Mandel, stated that "Its was pure politics-a democrat media show" refering to the sniper press conference that featured MD and VA Democrat leaders. "And poor Connie who represents the area didn't even get invited".
Anyone in Maryland who knows DeFilippo, knows this would be like carville admitting clinton lied.
Except for a mention on Rush, I hadn't seen this in the Baltimore Sun or Washington Post- LOL, so I checked it out myself like a good freeper.
A call to her press office was returned and the person asked me where I was from. I said I was a reporter for FreeRepublic and was checking into the story mentioned on WBAL about it being political and no invite for Morella.
The person did not want to be quoted by name but confirmed there was no invite with a slight sarcastic laugh. I asked if she would have attended if invited and he confirmed she would have.
What makes this so hilarious is that Connie Morrella is one of the most liberal Republicans in all of Congress. She has to be or she'd never get elected in that district. Even the Washington Post gives her its endorsement.
The hatred of Republicans by the Democratic party borders on the pathological.
And her challengers never attack her record in TV ads, its always just "She is a Republican, and Republicans are bad."
I keep telling everyone - we are the network of record. (and yes, I've stolen that unashamedly from Bernie Shaw, who used to describe CNN that way)
We chronicle the world from multiple viewpoints, and analyze with multiple pundits and experts from all fields of endeavor and all walks of life.
Now if we can only get James Earl Jones' voice, we'd be all set...[g]
"This...is Free Republic."
Moses over Darth Vader? Works for me...[g]
Although is there anyone with an even deeper voice?
But when it was impeachment time, Connie Morrella got every invitation to the White House, and every Black-Church Quasi-Political prayer service in the area... What were they really praying for at those prayer services, the ascension of Bill Clinton?
And my working outfit looked just like the GI chocolate-chip camoflage, except for being plain khaki. The nametapes were no problem, nor were some leftover WWII Correspondent's shoulder flashes; but *HIATT NEWSPAPERS* wouldn't quite fit on a single-line tag above a pocket. Even *KNOX CO DAILY NEWS* was a bit too long....
Happily, *KC DAILY NEWS* fit just fine. And if those being interviewed thought that I was from a Kansas City newsrag with a larger supporting population and circulation, that was their problem. But many of the best writeups I got were not of troops from Indiana or the Midwest in any event. They were all Americans, and a pretty swell bunch of kids- even the old ones. I think a lot of that would have been ground out of them in two months, or six, or eight of a war in the sandbox, but happily, it didn't come to that.
So if I get back to my Indiana haunts, I'd be glad to drag you to an Indiana press club dinner, if you'd like. You can be the FR reporter, if you want [trained as a news photog, I hate being thought of as *just* a reporter*] but you've got to TRY at least not to take yourself too seriously.
But some of the best I've known in the racket began as teachers....
-archy-/-
Accordingly, there are two that get my vote, both of whom starred in Westerns, among other things:
THIS...is FREE REPUBLIC!
This here is FREE Republic, Pilgrim....
Sorry, Ace. You're on obits this month.
[I hate assignment editors, too.]
As I remember he has trouble articulating anything more than what he has memorized like, "This is CNN"
Didn't CNN give him his own show for 2 or 3 episodes till they too realized, the guy was tongue tied unless he had memorized his lines? Wasn't that how Jesse Jackson got his show, as a replacement for Jones? Not that Jesse was any icon of articulation.
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