http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/villagevoice/ en-us Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:59:49 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929598/posts Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was said to have a lesbian relationship with her aide, Huma Abedin....... Experts say that the current campaign promises to become the dirtiest one in the history of the United States..... The best thing to do here is to ignore all the rumors. "People say a lot of things about me, so I really don’t pay any attention to it. It’s not true, but it is something that I have no control over. People will say what they want to say,” Hillary Clinton says. The rumor of Hillary Clinton’s lesbian love affairs started in August of... Pravda http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1929598/posts#comment Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:59:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004784/posts Speaking at an April 4 awards banquet, Village Voice editor Mike Lacey let slip the N-word. The fact that his remark was uttered exactly 40 years after the assassination of Martin Luther King didn't help matters. Lacey didn't mean any harm, of course, and he issued the required apology. This wasn't the first time Mr. Lacey has crossed the boundaries of good taste - a few years ago he publicly defended Jesse Jackson when he referred to New York City as "Hymietown."But Lacey stands in good company.The discovery of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's expletive-laced sermons and anti-Semitic rants plunged the Obama... Intellectual Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004784/posts#comment Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:57:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001342/posts Arizona will never shake its reputation as a backwards, redneck state with vestiges of racism as long as incidents like this are just swept under the rug. A week ago, the most powerful owner/publisher/editor of left wing newsweeklies in the country, Michael Lacey, made a racist remark, "my n****" at an awards dinner in Phoenix on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination. The mainstream media ignored it. Contrast this with talk show host Don Imus's racist remarks. Imus was admonished by every major network for days, until he was eventually fired.The difference is that Lacey champions far... GOPUSA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001342/posts#comment Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:38:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000395/posts Liberal fish rot from the head. ... it brought me back to our guest speaker who was speaking about Tom Fitzpatrick, who, if you don't mind the expression, was my nigger. – Michael Lacey, co-owner of Village Voice Media, while accepting an award from the local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Friday, referencing the late Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Bob Parks: Outside The Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000395/posts#comment Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:19:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000086/posts Where is the outrage over the racist use of the word n**** at an awards ceremony by powerful editor and owner Michael Lacey of the Phoenix New Times, who also owns at least half a dozen other weeklies across the country, including Village Voice weeklies? Other prominent persons of influence have been forced to step down for similar remarks, including Senator Trent Lott, talkshow host Don Imus, and Gov. George Allen of Virginia had to drop his presidential bid. Arguably Lacey’s remark was even more derogatory than Lott’s or Allen’s.In his acceptance speech at the Society of Professional Journalists... Sonoran Alliance http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000086/posts#comment Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:47:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984213/posts John Maynard Keynes was twitted with changing his mind. He replied, "When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do, sir?" . . . And I realized that the time had come for me to avow my participation in that America in which I chose to live, and that that country was not a schoolroom teaching values, but a marketplace. . . . Aha," you will say, and you are right. I began reading not only the economics of Thomas Sowell (our greatest contemporary philosopher) but Milton Friedman, Paul Johnson, and Shelby Steele, and a host of... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984213/posts#comment Wed, 12 Mar 2008 03:30:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983608/posts Will Eliot Spitzer resign in time for this evening's network newscasts? I wouldn't if I were him. I'd wait until right afterwards, so that my smiling face wouldn't appear simultaneously on every TV set in the Western world. This is not New York provincialism. Spitzer is practically the most prominent and powerful Democrat in a huge state — Hillary Clinton's state, Wall Street's state, the state of millions of Democrats. Spitzer's boner really sticks out, even in this day and age. He didn't just get some on the side. He violated the law, if the federal complaint and published reports... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983608/posts#comment Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:03:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962867/posts A Play in One Act* "Just promise me one thing John, you will always take my calls?" "Are you kidding? Anytime Rudy!" "And Tony Carbonetti's too?" "Err, ok.." "And can Judi please have something, a beautification commission maybe?" "Uh, I did sort of tell Cindy she could have that..." "Well, forget beautification. Judi would be great for any kind of health thing. You know she's a nurth! You could put her on your health insurance commission, not as chairman obviously, but vice chair I think would be perfect." "Rudy, here's my hand on it. I don't know what the... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962867/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:25:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959908/posts GIULIANI PARTNERS LLC 5 Times Square Confidential memo to file From R. Giuliani July 15, 2002 In one week I bought a new 3100-square-foot Central Park apartment for $5.25 million and dumped Donna for $6.8 million, plus the old apartment, child support, taxes, and legal fees. Not bad for a guy who made a measly $294,000 in 1992—my last year of private employment before becoming mayor. I'll make $8 million this year just for delivering my already oldie but goodie, the stock September 11 speech. Without 9-11, I'd be lucky to get a date at the Guy Molinari Republican Club... The Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959908/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:53:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946524/posts [snip] New York congresswoman Nita Lowey secured $10 million for the ongoing rehab of Fort Slocum, a defunct military garrison that, according to a Voice review of an atlas, is a long way from the combat zone. [snip] Other Congress members snagged more dreamy projects. Fellow Democrat Eliot Engel got $4 million for Verdant Power, which uses "underwater windmills" to generate electricity. Who at the DOD is going to say no to Engel's shoehorning of this vital project into the Defense bill? He's the vice chair of the Democratic Task Force on Homeland Security. Meanwhile, Democrat José Serrano got $2... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946524/posts#comment Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:56:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942105/posts Several members of anti-immigrant groups like NY I.C.E., New Yorkers for Immigration Control and Enforcement, arrived to counter the candlelight vigil, saying they represent the "silent majority" of Americans who want illegal immigrants to go home. A group of six men and one woman—some in camouflage ponchos— gathered Thursday night outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center on Varick Street. Despite the freezing rain, they smiled as they carried several American flags and got their whistles ready for action. They are among the city's few but vocal anti-immigration activists, and they were giddy at the opportunity to disrupt a... The Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1942105/posts#comment Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:21:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931412/posts Giuliani's business contracts tie him to the man who let 9/11's mastermind escape the FBI Three weeks after 9/11, when the roar of fighter jets still haunted the city's skyline, the emir of gas-rich Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah al-Thani, toured Ground Zero. Although a member of the emir's own royal family had harbored the man who would later be identified as the mastermind of the attack—a man named Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, often referred to in intelligence circles by his initials, KSM—al-Thani rushed to New York in its aftermath, offering to make a $3 million donation, principally to the families... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931412/posts#comment Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:53:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917583/posts Runnin' ScaredRudy's Pants On FireSecret testimony shows that Rudy's stump speech is inflated, at bestby Wayne BarrettOctober 23rd, 2007 9:25 PM In a recent broadside deriding the Clinton administration's response to Al Qaeda, Rudy Giuliani told an audience at Pat Robertson's Regent University: "Bin Laden declared war on us. We didn't hear it. I thought it was pretty clear at the time, but a lot of people didn't see it, couldn't see it." Other tenets of his standard stump speech include the assertion that he's been "studying terrorism" for more than 30 years, and that "the thing that distinguishes me... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917583/posts#comment Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:40:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885985/posts A couple of weeks ago, Wayne Barrett did the political world a great service with a devastating piece in the Village Voice on Rudy Giuliani and the “five big lies” surrounding the former mayor’s claim to fame: his 9/11performance. The entire piece, if read, should effectively end Giuliani’s presidential ambitions. NRO’s Ramesh Ponnuru got around to the article this week and agreed that the revelations “are, if true, pretty devastating.” Of course, this only matters if the information reaches a large audience. Will the rest of the media scrutinize Giuliani’s record on terrorism as closely as Barrett did? If this... Carpetbagger Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885985/posts#comment Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:53:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884786/posts Candidate whisperer: The ex-bartender who's got the ear of the GOP's top contender The most enduring lesson that Karl Rove taught the American people during his term as George W. Bush's top adviser was to always find out who the candidate's brain is before you elect him or her. For instance, if voters had fully understood that the swaggering, brush-cutting cowboy they elected was under the total sway of a dumpy balding guy with glasses who dropped out of college and believed William McKinley was America's greatest president, they might have thought twice. Had voters been more attentive, they'd have... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884786/posts#comment Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:02:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879568/posts When the heat got to be too much on Friday, Rudy Giuliani backpedaled from the claim that he was at Ground Zero as much, if not more, than the 9/11 rescue and recovery workers. "I think I could have said it better," he told nationally syndicated radio host Mike Gallagher, the Associated Press reported on Friday. "You know, what I was saying was, 'I'm there with you.'" This is what Rudy in to trouble on the campaign trail in Cincinnati in the first place: "This is not a mayor or a governor or a president who's sitting in an ivory... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879568/posts#comment Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:51:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879456/posts A former columnist and self-described Asian supremacist who applauded the Virginia Tech slayings has been sentenced to a year of mental health treatment for waving a hammer at a neighbor's face and threatening to kill her and her family. ---SNIP--- Last February, Eng was fired from the San Francisco-based weekly newspaper AsianWeek for writing a column titled "Why I Hate Blacks." Three months later, in a Village Voice interview, Eng gloried in the slayings of 32 students and teachers at Virginia Tech and fancifully speculated that his own writings might have inspired the killer, Seung-Hui Cho. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879456/posts#comment Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:09:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875107/posts By all rights, battered Joe Bruno should have been waiting in line at the state Crime Victims Assistance Board last Wednesday, seeking the redress that is rightfully his. The governor's men had tried to get him, hadn't they? Set him up, put the state police on his trail, concocted phony reports, leaked them to friendly reporters? It was all right there in a report put together by novice prober Andrew Cuomo, an investigation compiled in record time. It should have been called "Joe Bruno: Wronged." But the wily old Republican, savvy leader of the state senate, knew luck when he... The Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875107/posts#comment Thu, 2 Aug 2007 05:40:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874235/posts Doesn't this seem more like something a Yankee fan would do? Or a Red Sox fan? Mets fans always appeared more suicidal than homicidal. In any event, it's awfully tragic. Michael Anthony—no relation to the former bassist of Van Halen—stabbed his mother in the head and beat her to death with a twenty-pound barbell on Saturday night after she tried to break up a fight between him and his father during a Mets game, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said Monday. Anthony, 25, of Fresh Meadows, started pounding on the walls while watching the Mets play the Nationals, Brown said.... The Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874235/posts#comment Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:04:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857251/posts When Pope Benedict XVI attacked Catholic politicians in Mexico who supported abortion rights last month, Rudy Giuliani was asked for his opinion. The presidential candidate replied in the language of the church: "Issues like that are for me and my confessor. I'm a Catholic, and that's the way I resolve those issues, personally and privately." Giuliani has invoked his Catholic heritage on Larry King; he's been described by The Washington Post as a "devout Catholic"; he's appeared on Fox News with the label "Catholic" floating on-screen; and he's handled a CNN debate question about a bishop who denounced him with... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857251/posts#comment Wed, 27 Jun 2007 19:52:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1857322/posts When Pope Benedict XVI attacked Catholic politicians in Mexico who supported abortion rights last month, Rudy Giuliani was asked for his opinion. The presidential candidate replied in the language of the church: "Issues like that are for me and my confessor. I'm a Catholic... Married three times, Giuliani simply isn't the Catholic candidate he claims to be. He can't have a confessor. He can't receive the sacraments of penance, the Eucharist, or marriage. While bishops disagree about whether or not a Catholic politician who supports abortion rights can receive the sacraments, there is no disagreement about the consequences of divorcing... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1857322/posts#comment Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:51:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1831151/posts The greatest love affair of Rudy Giuliani's life has become a sordid scandal. His monogamous embrace of the Yankees as mayor was so fervent that when he tried to deliver a West Side stadium to them early in his administration, or approved a last-minute $400 million subsidy for their new Bronx stadium, New Yorkers blithely ascribed the bad deals to a heaving heart. It turns out he also had an outstretched hand. Sports fans grew accustomed to seeing Giuliani, in Yankee jacket and cap, within camera view of the team's dugout at every one of the 40 postseason home games... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1831151/posts#comment Thu, 10 May 2007 05:14:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681166/posts by Mark Finkelstein August 10, 2006 - 10:47 Keith Olbermann's regular media critic guest, Michael Musto of the Village Voice, called Ann Coulter a 'bastard' on last night's Countdown. The topic was the news that Vanity Fair has picked celeb photographer Annie Liebovitz to snap the first pics of Suri, newborn daughter of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. There is controversy as to whether Suri actually exists, given that, months after her announced birth, there have been no photos or viewings of the child. Musto is clearly a skeptic on the subject. When Olbermann asked him what we should expect... Countdown with Keith Olbermann/NewsBastards http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1681166/posts#comment Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:08:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1586469/posts The Seekers The birth and life of the '9-11 Truth movement' by Jarrett Murphy February 21st, 2006 11:48 AM Essentially, it's all about physics and common sense. Cut steel, and buildings fall. Crash a plane, and the Earth gets scarred. Fire a missile; see a hole. What's up must come down, cause makes effect, and for the truth to set you free, it must be freed itself. It's dark in the basement of St. Mark's Church and dark outside on a mid-December Sunday night, but inside they have seen the light. Among the 100 or so people in the room,... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1586469/posts#comment Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:52:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576763/posts Watching the detestable scenes of thousands of pissed-off Muslims destroying lives and property over a mere cartoon, it's tempting for 'Mericans to saddle-up the high horse, what with our Western values of tolerance and all. Indeed, if there's anything worth fighting over, the freedom of expression is probably it. The only thing to keep in mind is that while the West largely avoids the Molotov cocktail parties, that same fight—between tolerance and intolerance—has broken out on this side of the Bosporus, too: There was Mayor Rudy Giuliani's famous war against the Brooklyn Museum over a painting of the Blessed Virgin,... Village Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576763/posts#comment Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:11:35 GMT