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[Vanity] Really? Are We That Wrapped Up in Politics?
Me | August 26, 2018 | TBP

Posted on 08/26/2018 5:25:44 PM PDT by TBP

I realize that John McCain was a long-time public servant who spent five years at the "Hanoi Hilton", was tortured, came back, was a longtime senator and two-time presidential candidate. And I realize that the shooting in Jacksonville at the gamer convention is an important story.

But we also lost one of the American cultural icons today when Neil Simon passed at 91. (See below.) Can we not find a minute or two for this major figure in contemporary American culture? Are we THAT wrapped up in politics?


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KEYWORDS: anotherstupidvanity; mccain; notnews; putdownthebottle; shooting; simon
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I was mostly talking about the media in general.


61 posted on 08/26/2018 9:31:36 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Vendome
Marsha Mason was Neil Simon's wife for a while. The Goodbye Girl is partly based on her.
62 posted on 08/26/2018 9:32:48 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: thoughtomator

“Politics is downstream from culture,” as Andrew Breitbart once said. The culture is one of the weapons they’re using to try to kill us.


63 posted on 08/26/2018 9:35:11 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: mindburglar

My favorite Neil Simon was After the Fox with Peter Sellers, Victor Mature and Bret Echlin.
Not well known, but my all-time favorite comedy.


64 posted on 08/26/2018 11:05:02 PM PDT by pjd
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To: pjd

Thanks. Will check it out.


65 posted on 08/26/2018 11:29:30 PM PDT by mindburglar (I like spelling it Lazers. It looks cooler.)
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To: TBP

The McCain virtue signaling is just too damn necessary.


66 posted on 08/26/2018 11:33:52 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: TBP

Neil Simon, poor guy, just got Fawcetted. You never want to die on the same day as someone more famous. Poor Farrah passed on the day Michael Jackson did.


67 posted on 08/26/2018 11:41:15 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Celerity

Tim Conway was NEVER FOUND passed out on a pile of dildoes, I will bet the farm on that!!!!!


68 posted on 08/26/2018 11:45:15 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: TBP
I saw an article on Simon's death....don't mistake a lack of equal coverage for one of your 'pet likes" for anything it isn't....he gave us great entertainment but dodn't have a lot to do with whether or not we maintain our FReedom - politics is where that battle is being fought.

I enjoyed being entertained by Simon....

69 posted on 08/27/2018 3:13:00 AM PDT by trebb (So many "experts" with so little experience in what they preach....even here...)
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