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THE BOSS: We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident
“Hello Philly, I am glad to be here today for this voter registration drive and for Barack Obama, the next President of the United States. “I’ve spent 35 years writing about America, its people, and the meaning of the American Promise. The Promise that was handed down to us, right here in this city from our founding fathers, with one instruction: Do your best to make these things real. Opportunity, equality, social and economic justice, a fair shake for all of our citizens, the American idea, as a positive influence, around the world for a more just and peaceful existence. […]
GUILTY: O.J. Simpson Convicted Of Armed Robbery
NEW YORK TIMES: LAS VEGAS — O. J. Simpson was found guilty late Friday on all 12 counts stemming from a confrontation in a hotel room last year, including armed robbery and kidnapping. The verdict, which comes 13 years to the day after Mr. Simpson was acquitted in the highly publicized murders of his ex-wife and her friend, concluded a four-week trial that many have seen as a proxy for those unsatisfied by that 1995 outcome. Mr. Simpson now faces 15 years to life for the kidnapping charge as well as a minimum of at least an additional 10 years […]
PALIN: Doesn’t Debating Make You Go Blind?
In that case, let’s just do it until I need glasses! Bada-bum!
EARLY WORD: Born In The USA
[Illustration by ALEX FINE] EDITOR’S NOTE: Steal this poster! Grab it, blog it, put in on your MySpace, Facebook it, email your friends, print it out and hang it up. If anyone wants to print this out poster-sized hit us back at feed@phawker.com and we will send you the hi-res version. RELATED: We Hold These Truths To Be Self-Evident RELATED: This Land Is Your Land MCCAIN CONCEDES MICHIGAN: John McCain is pulling out of Michigan, according to two Republicans, a stunning move a month away from Election Day that indicates the difficulty Republicans are having in finding blue states to […]
RUMBLINGS: Is McCain About To Pull Out Of PA?
HUFFPO: Democrats cheered on Wednesday when news broke that John McCain’s campaign was abandoning Michigan, pulling down its ads and sending staffers to other states. Almost immediately, an organization called Progress Michigan let loose with a taunt, demanding that McCain keep pouring resources into the state in order to explain to voters his “support for outsourcing” and the “failed economic policies” of the Bush administration. Many speculated that McCain would now turn his focus to Pennsylvania. But United Steelworkers International president Leo Gerard tells the Huffington Post that the state could soon go the way of Michigan. “We’re seeing — […]
SICKO: Sarah Palin’s Ronald Reagan Quote Is From The Gipper’s Days As An Anti-Medicare Propagandist
PAUL KRUGMAN: Unbelievable. Sarah Palin finished her closing remarks by quoting Ronald Reagan: It was Ronald Reagan who said that freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream; we have to fight for it and protect it, and then hand it to them so that they shall do the same, or we’re going to find ourselves spending our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children about a time in America, back in the day, when men and women were free. When did he say this? It was […]
SWIFT KIDS FOR TRUTH: Sarah Palin Is A Maverick?
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5 Reasons Fleet Foxes Was Better Than Whatever Weird Beard Hootenanny You Went To Last Night
SO HAPPY TOGETHER: The Fleet Foxes, Starlight Ballroom, Last Night Fleet Foxes endorse banjo virtuoso Frank Fairfield, and you probably should too. Foxes’ opener, armed with a banjo, a few guitars, a fiddle, and a rocking chair, mesmerized the crowd for thirty minutes with indecipherable lyrics and a deluge of either sweat or tears. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for tears, though, in the interest of sheer manliness. Fleet Foxes know how to captivate Philadelphia’s hipster/old people/lumberjack scene. Back to the 215 for the second time in just a few months, the Foxes packed the Starlight with more flannel than […]
CINEMA: The Naked Lead The Blind
BLINDNESS (2008, directed by Fernando Mierelles, 120 minutes, Canada/Brazil) APPALOOSA (2008, directed by Ed Harris, 114 minutes, U.S.) RELIGULOUS (2008, directed by Larry Charles, 101 minutes, U.S.) BY DAN BUSKIRK FILM CRITIC Despite Hollywood’s reputation as a Godless pit of sin, no film has ever picked a fight with The Big Man himself like Bill Maher’s documentary treatise Religulous. Disrespectful, unfair and unfortunately, frequently hilarious Maher uses a barrage of old movie clips, Daily Show-style interviews and his own biting wit to drag into the light the conflict the between our modern understanding of the world and the fantastical mythology […]
LIVE & DIRECT: Parsing The Veep Debate In IM
UPDATE: CNN/OPINION RESEARCH CORPORATION POLL Who Did the Best Job In the Debate? Biden 51% Palin 36% QUESTION Regardless of which candidate you happen to support, who do you think did the best job in the debate – Joe Biden or Sarah Palin? *** Our analysts tonight will be Citizen Mom and Jonathan Valania. Here we go… 8:57 PM Citizen: Wheeeee! I’m leaving CNN on because I am mesmerized by the neon spaghetti lines and the pie charts 8:59 PM me: so, any predictions? Citizen: Hmmmmm 9:00 PM I think they’ll both have a few carefully-placed zingers but neither […]
TONITE: The Audacity Of Dope
[Illustration by ALEX FINE] WASHINGTON POST: With the vice presidential candidates set to square off today in their only scheduled debate, public assessments of Sarah Palin’s readiness have plummeted, and she may now be a drag on the Republican ticket among key voter groups, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Tonight’s heavily anticipated debate comes just five weeks after the popular Alaska governor entered the national spotlight as Sen. John McCain’s surprise pick to be his running mate. Though she initially transformed the race with her energizing presence and a fiery convention speech, Palin is now a much […]
NPR FOR THE DEAF: We Hear It Even When You Can’t
FRESH AIR In his new book, The Devil We Know, former CIA operative Robert Baer argues that Iran is an up-and-coming — and often misunderstood — superpower, with strong influences throughout the Middle East. “The sooner we understand the Iranian paradox — who they are, what they want, how they want to both humble us and work with us — the sooner we’ll understand how to come to terms with the new Iranian superpower,” writes Baer. Baer’s previous book, See No Evil, was the basis for the George Clooney film Syriana. RADIO TIMES Hour 1 What’s your favorite song? Album? […]