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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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Seriously, humans?
1 posted on 08/26/2018 5:25:44 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TBP

How is the shameless virtue-signalling coming?


2 posted on 08/26/2018 5:28:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" height=200><p> zXSEP5Z, xnKL3lW, RZ9yuyQ. XywCCJd,)
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I don’t know who Neil Simon is. Never heard of him till just now.


3 posted on 08/26/2018 5:28:59 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

I think he played 2nd base for the Yankees.


4 posted on 08/26/2018 5:30:48 PM PDT by 50mm (-.. .-. .. -. -.- / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. . /)
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To: TBP

RIP. Thanks for The Odd Couple.


5 posted on 08/26/2018 5:30:58 PM PDT by mindburglar (I like spelling it Lazers. It looks cooler.)
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To: TBP

I live in Jacksonville, so the shooting is taking up all the TV around here.


6 posted on 08/26/2018 5:31:32 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice)
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To: Redcitizen
Great American playwright. The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, much more. Wrote for Sid Caesar. Many movies, such an icon on Broadway that the Alvin Theater was renamed the Neil Simon. You may not know who he is, but you've probably seen his work.
7 posted on 08/26/2018 5:31:55 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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If we ignore Simon, we lose a bit of laughter, if we ignore McCain and the Gulag he promulgated, well, there is the rub.


8 posted on 08/26/2018 5:32:17 PM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: TBP

Two threads have been posted.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3682381/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3682342/posts


9 posted on 08/26/2018 5:32:23 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have You Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: Redcitizen

>>I don’t know who Neil Simon is. Never heard of him till just now.

He sang with Art Garfunkel, right?


10 posted on 08/26/2018 5:32:30 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice)
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To: Redcitizen

Statistically being that he’s a major player in Theater I am going to safely assume that at more than one point in his life he’s been naked, passed out on another man in a pile of cocaine and dildos.

I like Neil Simon, I’ve seen all of his works - But his profession and art are at the core of an underbelly of society that somehow leaks beyond it’s own leaching field to come and attack us for being the ones that pay their bills.

Tim Conway is on his way out too. Keep that in mind.


11 posted on 08/26/2018 5:32:39 PM PDT by Celerity
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How is Art Garfunkle doing?


12 posted on 08/26/2018 5:32:41 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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McShamey was not tortured. His injuries cam from his plain crash and maybe being beaten by villagers who found him. He perpetrated that lie. He was held in relatively nice surroundings and gave info to the North


13 posted on 08/26/2018 5:33:06 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Bryanw92
I live in Jacksonville, so the shooting is taking up all the TV around here.

Could you punch Hogg in the face for me when he shows up? Thanks.

14 posted on 08/26/2018 5:33:06 PM PDT by 50mm (-.. .-. .. -. -.- / --- ...- .- .-.. - .. -. . /)
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To: mindburglar

Thanks for Barefoot in the Park. I think of the play everytime I have to climb a long flight of stairs.


15 posted on 08/26/2018 5:33:13 PM PDT by freepertoo
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To: King Moonracer

A minute or two? We can all use some levity right now.


16 posted on 08/26/2018 5:33:31 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Redcitizen

A playwrite of great talent


17 posted on 08/26/2018 5:33:35 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: TBP

I’ll just note that Juan was seriesly wrapped up in Politics, to the end, and beyond.


18 posted on 08/26/2018 5:35:17 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Redcitizen

Man you must be young...or living under a rock. Probably the best comedic playwright of the last 100 years.

The Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues, Barefoot in the Park, The Sunshine Boys, Lost in Yonkers; the list is endless.

He was an unbelievable talent.


19 posted on 08/26/2018 5:35:21 PM PDT by traderrob6
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There is already an FR Neil Simon obituary thread.


20 posted on 08/26/2018 5:35:30 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
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