For sale: Items dear to Ann Landers (She was a RAT bootlicker and Grade A Bush Hater!)

Chicago Tribune ^ | November 22, 2002 | Karen Brandon, Tribune national correspondent and Tribune special correspondent Jane Meredith Adams

[Timesink]

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Days after the 1976 presidential election, Lederer dashed off a note dispensing -- what else? -- advice to the newly elected president, "Jimmy," as she addressed him, about who should be his secretary of state. "Cy Vance ... He is head and shoulders above anyone else whose name has been mentioned."

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"I'm nervous about the upcoming election," Lederer wrote to her sister on the eve of the 2000 election. "I can't bear the thought of looking at George Bush's smirk for the next four years--maybe eight. ... The next president will make three, maybe four appointments and I can see Roe vs. Wade and all the good stuff going down the tubes."

Months earlier, she had seen candidate Bush at a dinner gathering, and she told her sister then, "The guy is extremely good looking, but when he opens his mouth, you know that he is not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree."

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[Timesink]

The story is mainly about an auction of the dead witch's stuff; I only posted the relevant parts about her hate and blind worshipping of all RATS.

[APBaer]

"Cy Vance ... He is head and shoulders above anyone else"

There's a joke there.
Vance was at lease 6'3" tall

[xm177e2]

I can't bear the thought of looking at George Bush's smirk for the next four years--maybe eight

I guess she was right.

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Batteries included??

[Vidalia]

It seems that the similiar characters portrayed in sitcoms such as "Night Court" and "Saturday Night Live" weren't so far off...

[dead]

In a way, I almost feel for Democrats.

You sell your soul for checks from celebrities, and your hell-on-earth punishment is being inundated with political advice from braindead morons.

Dear Ann Landers,
I’m thinking of signing a nuclear arms reduction treaty with the Soviets. How many missles would I have to leave in Germany to maintain a credible defense against conventional incursion?
Signed, Clueless in DC
P.S. - Please enclose a check with your response.

Dear Clueless,
The Soviet ground threat has been seriously diminished through severe cutbacks in R&D, and morale problems stemming from pay cutbacks. My sources inside the Kremlin tell me...

[gatex]

Frank Rich wrote a long editorial in the NY Times several years ago describing, in admiring words, his very long iterview with Dear Ann, and said she had her fingers on the pulse of America. Apparently he and she felt the same pulse.

[cyncooper]

"I'm nervous about the upcoming election," Lederer wrote to her sister on the eve of the 2000 election. "I can't bear the thought of looking at George Bush's smirk for the next four years--maybe eight. ... The next president will make three, maybe four appointments and I can see Roe vs. Wade and all the good stuff going down the tubes."

Oh, Dear Ann...

[anniegetyourgun]

Perhaps she never listened to "advice" from God.....

[js1138]

Unlike Alec Baldwin, she kept her promise.

[vikingchick]

LOL!

[weegee]

Are they selling her lemon juicer? She used to drink fresh squeezed lemons every day to sweeten her disposition.

[weegee]

If Ann's advice was worth a Rat's... doesn't she think that these girls wouldn't be having unwanted pregnancies to begin with?

What a nosey old biddy (who fell for many an urban legend).

[RetiredArmy]

Who cares. She is gone. One less liberal to bother with. Wish a few more would join her . . . Algore, Klintons, Leaky, Dash-hole, McAuliffee, McCain, Jumping Jim, Kennedys, the list just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and . . . you get the drift.

[vikingchick]

[Margo] Howard, Lederer's daughter and an advice columnist for the Web publication Salon, said she and her family went through her mother's belongings but simply could not make room for all there was.

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Salon shares suffer another blow: Cash-poor online magazine delisted from small-cap market

"The San Francisco company has said it could run out of money by Dec. 1, barring an emergency infusion of cash."

[vikingchick]

Maybe they're auctioning off the stuff in an attempt to save Salon! :)

[weegee]

Oops: Should be Salon shares suffer another blow: Cash-poor online magazine delisted from small-cap market

[weegee]

Salon had $79million in debt at the end of September. "Ann Landers" was no JFK.

When does the Landers' garage sale begin? Saturday at 9am like most???