River ,'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
We had the phone bomb during the primaries. There was some fairly vocal bellyaching in the press and letters to the editor, so maybe that got through. They haven't started back up. I hope they don't.
Ads started quirkily enough with the republican senatorial candidate running one that said his opponent would accuse him of hating/kicking puppies and that he likes puppies (complete with a dog-cuddle.) I give the campaign points for creativity, if not content. It rapidly devolved from there.
Good luck, Shrift!
OMG so much work to do.
It's ridiculous that liberal has somehow become an invective. (And I realize it's been this way since the 2004 presidential campaign, at least.
I think that started in the '88 presidential campaign.
Lee Atwater - the proto-Rove....
I think that started in the '88 presidential campaign.
It solidified in '88, but I'd say it started with the Reagan campaigns.
My public defender friend just sent me a picture of her desk and office. It involves a phone covered in postit debris, no computer (!) piles and piles in disarray of case files, an exploding bulletin board,rolodex, a plaque proclaiming "Suck it up", a lovely photo she took when interning at Ketchikan, Alaska and... a taxidermied 2 point buck head. Named Floyd. Wearing a bow tie. On loan from a friend who shares an office with someone opposed to "anti-preserved American."
Maybe you have to know her, but I spent 5 minutes laughing hysterically.
It solidified in '88, but I'd say it started with the Reagan campaigns.
Maybe what I'm thinking is that Dukakis denied the acusation of being a liberal - which also was a turning point....
Oh, I thought possibly that AS wrote that stuff too because then I would say that somebody who can write witty banter might not write good sketches...different skill and all that. But I can't comment on the actual sketches...haven't seen the latest yet. Lee Atwater...died screaming of bone cancer...couldn't happen to a nicer fella. What? When I hold a grudge it stays held. What can I say?
Maybe what I'm thinking is that Dukakis denied the acusation of being a liberal - which also was a turning point....
Nah, you're right that the word itself got to be almost an expletive with the Dukakis campaign -- I was just thinking of the way it was prefigured by the attack on what had been widely assumed-to-be-good social goods and social programs in both Reagan/Carter and then Reagan/Mondale and... god I'm dating myself, aren't I?
WTF? Check out this ad on the "Answers in Genesis" webpage:
So... if you don't believe in God, you'll get shot? The theory of evolution makes people shoot people?
Dude, did you see the thing from the CBS News? The father of a kid who got killed in Columbine, talking about how the shooting yesterday was because of evolution being taught, and abortion, and godlessness in general. Yeah, in Amish country.