I can hardly wait...
1 posted on
03/15/2006 12:37:27 PM PST by
abb
To: abb
SURREAL. I am projectile vomiting already!! This is yet more confirmation that people like Raines do have a "mental disease"........
" Long before his ouster, Raines had been coming to grips with his disappointment with his beloved Times, a paper some of the staff thought was not as good as it could be, hidebound by tradition and by defenders who took refuge in the truism that it's hard to turn a battleship. "With extraordinary grace, Raines explores some missteps that have haunted him so long 'as to become icons of instruction about the importance of avoiding avoidable mistakes.' Although he directly addresses 'brothers and sisters of the angle,' Raines' writing is poetry to all of us." E&P Staff
2 posted on
03/15/2006 12:44:33 PM PST by
Enchante
(Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")
To: abb
"...extraordinary grace." Must've been something picked up on the job, eh ?
To: abb
It should be a classic fishing story, and Raines can give expert advice on fishwrap.
4 posted on
03/15/2006 12:45:37 PM PST by
xJones
To: =Intervention=; adam_az; an amused spectator; bert; BlessedBeGod; BlessedByLiberty; Blurblogger; ...
To: abb
The cover, in fact, shows Raines in the water holding a whopper. The fish metaphor applies so aptly here that it is hard to believe that a dunce like Raines came up with it.
"Holding a whopper"??? Why not? His newspaper has become famous for publishing whoppers!
"The one that got away"??? You mean, like the formerly respectable empire that WAS the New York Times? Or do you mean The Truth?
Fish and the New York Times are both reputed to be good for the mind, but both are slimy, smelly, and stupid.
Finally, the New York Times is the perfect companion for wrapping fish guts once you've finally caught one of the slippery buggers.
7 posted on
03/15/2006 12:50:09 PM PST by
IronJack
To: abb
no matter how skewed they are, i'm sure his fish tales have more credibility than any of his editorials ever had.
To: abb
Long-awaited huh! Not by anyone on Freerepublic I bet.
To: abb
Another thousand-copy mega-blockbuster for Scribner's.
11 posted on
03/15/2006 12:59:17 PM PST by
JennysCool
(Liberals don't care what you do, as long as it's mandatory.)
To: abb
The long-awaited memoir by Howell Raines..Long-awaited by whom? Nobody I know...
To: abb
This on a day when NYT's stock hits another 5-year low.
13 posted on
03/15/2006 1:01:53 PM PST by
Crawdad
(So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
To: abb
I'm sorry, is there some reason I should care?
14 posted on
03/15/2006 1:03:02 PM PST by
Netheron
To: abb
It will go straight to the dollar bin along with Mary Mapes' book!
15 posted on
03/15/2006 1:47:07 PM PST by
Rummyfan
To: abb
The One that Got Away : A Memoir (Hardcover)
by Howell Raines
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #271,923 in Books
16 posted on
03/15/2006 1:55:12 PM PST by
jimbo123
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