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Remember when Sarah Palin told us she was quitting as governor of Alaska because she's not a quitter, and she explained what her mission would be in the weeks and months to come? "I'm gonna do some huntin' and some fishin' for sure, but I'm also gonna make me a boatload of dough," Palin said. "What with the book sellin' and the public speakin' and whatnot, I'll be making way more money than any of your losers in the lamestream media!" Oh wait. She didn't say that. What Palin said in part was: "I choose, for my state and my...

'There's nothing good about drug use. We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. ... And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up." -- Rush Limbaugh, Oct. 5, 1995, on the Excellence In Broadcasting network. Rush Limbaugh's fans often tell me I don't have the right to criticize "El Rushbo" because I don't regularly tune in his program. Granted, I often go weeks without listening to Limbaugh, but I do check out his show from time to time,...

George Carlin delivered a monologue titled, "I Am a Bad American." The essay includes these statements: "I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some mid-level governmental functionary who wants to give it away to crack addicts squirting out babies.... I believe it's called the Boy Scouts for a reason.... I believe that if you're selling me a Big Mac, you'd better be doing it in English." George Carlin?! Sounds more like something Rush Limbaugh would say, but the actual author appears to be a guy calling himself "bootyist-monk" on FreeRepublic.com, a conservative Web site....

"Ebert & Roeper" to air early-bird preview of "Passion" posted by tvbarn on February 18, 2004 04:03 PM FILM CRITICS ROGER EBERT AND RICHARD ROEPER TO AIR EXCLUSIVE EARLY REVIEW OF THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST ON “EBERT & ROEPER,” FEBRUARY 21-22, 2004 After months of intense controversy that reached all the way to the Vatican, this weekend America’s most prominent film critics, Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper, are set to air an exclusive early review of the completed version of Mel Gibson's new film The Passion of the Christ. This special edition of "Ebert & Roeper" will air in...

You'd think the political media as well as operatives for the Democratic and Republican parties would have learned two valuable lessons from Bill Clinton's election victories: 1. Sexual high jinks, real or alleged, do not necessarily doom a candidate. In 1992 and in 1996, tens of millions of Americans probably agreed with the GOP assessment of Clinton as a horny, rutting pig -- and yet they voted for him anyway, because they didn't think his sexual habits had that much relevance to his strengths as a world leader. 2. Military history (or the lack thereof) probably won't be the determining...