Friday, June 18, 2004
Barry Bonds, ever the charmer.
"Boston is too racist for me,'' he said. "I couldn't play there.''
It is a judgment, he acknowledges, not derived of firsthand experience -- he missed the 1999 All-Star Game, played in Boston, because of an injury -- but on word-of-mouth.
"Only what guys have said," he said, "but that's been going on ever since my dad [Bobby] was playing baseball. I can't play like that. That's not for me, brother."
When it was suggested the racial climate has changed in Boston, Bonds demurred.
"It ain't changing," he said. "It ain't changing nowhere."
They built a tunnel to honor Ted Williams in Boston. What did he imagine would be built for him?
"Nothing, man," he said. "I'm black. They don't build stuff for blacks."
Thursday, June 17, 2004
Oliver North on The Ronald Reagan I knew
When my children's children ask me about Ronald Reagan, I will tell them that I was blessed to serve -- as they are to live -- in a country that can produce such a great leader at precisely the time when he is most needed.
Oliver North did not attend, and was not invited to the funeral. The reason is because of what Nancy Reagan thinks of him:
"Ollie North has a great deal of trouble separating fact from fantasy."
"he lied to my husband and lied about my husband kept things from him he should not have kept from him. And that's what I think of Ollie North."
So when Nancy Reagans grandchildren, and someday even my childrens children ask me about the Oliver North we knew. We'll tell them the same thing.
He was a lying sack of shit.
Donald Rumsfeld personally ordered an Iraqi prisoner to be hidden from the red cross and kept "off the books" violating itnernational law and the geneva conventions.
The Pentagons defense was pure Clintonian.
Pentagon officials still insist Rumsfeld acted legally, but admit it all depends on how you interpret the law.
It all depends on the meaning of "legal"....
Of course, back when the Iraqis were showing pictures of proisnoers, here was Rumsfeld:
"That's a violation of the Geneva Convention, those pictures you showed," Rumsfeld said of the international law on treatment of prisoners of war. He said the convention prohibits the photographing or interrogation by media of those captured in battle.
I now hate this adminstration more than Ashton Kutchner.
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Eric Alterman is threatening to sue Bill O’Reilly.
If he did actually go through with it and sue it would be a big waste of time. I do like that he is threatening to sue though (and I cannot wait for Mr. O’Lielly, the man behind the stupid Franken fair and balanced lawsuit, to complain about this one)
I get where Alterman is coming from. He, and many others on the left, are constantly and viciously smeared every day by the right and he’s trying to make a stand against the shitstorm of crap emanating from O’Lielly and others mouths. But when he was saying you were a “confidant of Castro” it wasn’t so much a lie, as a third grade insult. Third grade insults being the entire substance of Mr. O’Lielly’s career thus far (although to be fair, he IS looking out for me). Methinks Alterman is just calling mr “No Spin” out on his endless bullshit. And for that I say go for it.
On a related note, Stern was ripping O’Reilly yesterday and playing clips of him hocking his shitty merchandise on his show. The guy writes a book called “who’s looking out for you” and then urges you to hurry up and order his limited edition O’Reilly Factor paperweights at the low low price of 34.99!
Anyone who would buy that shit would also send money to Exiled Nigerians to help them launder their millions.
Morons.
