Bill Maher kills it with his last “rule”.
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Crappy news, Paul Newman has died from cancer at the age of 83. From CNN:
He stumped for liberal causes, including Eugene McCarthy’s 1968 presidential candidacy, and earned a spot on Richard Nixon’s enemies list — “the highest single honor I’ve ever received,” he said.
In 1982, Newman and his friend A.E. Hotchner founded Newman’s Own, a food company that produced food ranging from pasta sauces to salad dressing to chocolate chip cookies.
“The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films,” Newman once wryly noted.
To date, the company — which donates all profits to charities such as Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang camps — has given away more than $200 million. Newman established the camp to benefit gravely ill children.
Here’s one of the great scenes from my favorite Newman movie, Cool Hand Luke:
My Dad says the line “What we have here is a failure to communicate” all the time. You will be missed Mr. Newman.
Maybe the greatest cancer fundraising video ever made:
…Nirvana’s Nevermind was released. In tribute to my favorite album, here’s the video for my favorite song:
Michelle Malkin, you are a delight. You’ll recall that earlier, Paul Mirengoff of Powerline took Convention analysis to new heights with his genius evaluation of Senators Obama and McCain post-speech behavior. Malkin, not to be outdone, see’s Mirengoff’s analysis and raises: she see’s an important difference between the Senators based on…..how they laid their roses at a memorial at Ground Zero. Here’s Malkin:
It’s a small gesture, but gestures matter at the hallowed grave site of so many murdered innocent Americans.
Barack Obama flings a memorial rose at Ground Zero like he’s a kid tossing pennies into a fountain at the shopping mall — or a spectator tossing flowers at a bullfight.
He doesn’t know what he’s doing.
(Clueless NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg copies him.)
By contrast, John McCain and his wife kneel and gently, somberly, place their roses down at the foot of the 9/11 tribute.
Tons of you e-mailed me about this. Here’s the vid for the rest of you who didn’t see it. It’s a telling cultural and generational distinction between these two men vying to be commander-in-chief of our nation
She then goes on to provide, I kid you not, two, count’em, two different videos of this. Am I crazy or is this most definitely not “a telling cultural and generational distinction between these two men”? Not to mention, what does Malkin even mean by “cultural” in that sentence? I get generational because McCain’s really old.
Heaven forbid you should think I’m being unfair to Ms. Malkin so here’s the dramatic video evidence, provided by Malkin herself. Judge for yourself.
Might as well stop the campaign now.
For my money, last night Senator Kerry made the best speech of the convention so far. He absolutely nailed it. My favorite part was this:
I have known and been friends with John McCain for almost 22 years, but every day now I learn something new about Candidate McCain,” Kerry said. “To those who still believe in the myth of a ‘maverick,’ instead of the reality of a politician, I say, let’s compare Senator McCain to Candidate McCain. Candidate McCain now supports the very war-time tax cuts that Senator McCain once called ‘irresponsible.’ Candidate McCain criticizes Senator McCain’s own climate change bill. Candidate McCain says he would vote against the immigration bill that Senator McCain wrote. Are you kidding me, folks? Talk about being for it before you were against it. Let me tell you, before he ever debates Barack Obama, John McCain should finish the debate with himself.
If Senator Obama’s campaign is smart that juxtaposition of Candidate McCain and Senator McCain will be a frequent refrain all the way through election day.
Two of the better pieces of commentary on why Senator Kerry was so good, first Jason Zengerle:
So you have to believe that the last four years have been difficult ones for Kerry. Watching the horrors of Katrina on TV, he had to think, If only I were president. Attending the funeral of Massachusetts soldiers and marines killed in Iraq, he had to think, If only I were president. And when you consider that, four years ago, Kerry (according to some friends and advisers) evidently convinced himself that, by making McCain his running mate, he would be forming an unbeatable political ticket, you have to imagine that, in some way, he blames McCain for his defeat–and, as is the fate of all defeated presidential candidates, that he therefore blames McCain for all the problems of the world that he believes his presidency would have prevented or solved. If that isn’t enough to help someone find his voice, I don’t know what is.
Now Matt Yglesias:
One thing I don’t think people always understand about Kerry is that he was talked about as a likely presidential contender as far back as the early 1970s. Consequently, his entire political career in Massachusetts was understood as a precursor to a presidential run. This, in turn, led to a tendency among other Massachusetts Democrats to unfairly assume that each and every case of Kerry doing something they weren’t thrilled with reflected his opportunistic drive for the White House. For the past two years or so has been the first time in decades when it’s been clear that Kerry won’t ever be president, so his action can be — and be seen as — merely the actions of a United States Senator with a safe seat and a passionate concern for certain issues and causes. As with Al Gore’s somewhat similar liberation from Presidential ambitions, I think in part it’s about letting him find his own voice but also in large part about his voice finally being heard as his own rather than read through the lens of devious ambition.
Perhaps even more impressive? Reports are that Senator Kerry wrote the speech himself, no speechwriter necessary. Whats depressing is that if Senator Kerry had given speeches like this in 2004 he’d be running for reelection right now.