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Numbers: 1857, 2000, 2222, 749269
"Hello. 1857 artists. Is it any wonder that the compatibility is super?" She said.
I never realized the magnitude of the accumulated scrobbled artists in my library until phynaz mentioned it on the shoutbox.
Scrobbling since 26 Oct 2005 doesn't that make such a wander.
Music community on the internet help much in sampling the ever eclectic taste of music genre.
Much thanks to leesunlay for his manic library of post-rock at:
'This Post Will DESTROY Your Hardisk' indeed true to its title. I got a dedicated external HD for iTunes after much sampling from his LJ.
ColonelTheSlav, the insane Burek. This guy is one crazy Croatian. Diverse collection of music, from bebop & jazz to grindcore & harsh noise. Word of caution, his blog is NSFW:
I'm currently following the duo who make the monthly Music Alliance Pact at:
Each sampling comes with a thorough comment. Take for example, the 2222th scrobbled artists in my library: trinkets – What Letters Failed To Achieve.
in an accelerated era of instant music floating about on countless electronic press kits, it feels so comfortable receiving something on the recommendation of a friend, and listening to it without having to deal with "recommended if you like" comparisons. all tom told me about trinkets when he passed me the old museum last night was that it was a band from brisbane and the music was "nice and mellow", which sums up this album rather neatly. the band's simple combination of guitars, violins, bass and drums is emotionally engaging with its keen sense of pace and space – crucial for an album recorded live, in this case at the old queensland museum. the last track of their set before their improvisational pieces, "what letters failed to achieve" seems to validate with both its title and content the role of instrumental music in stirring you in ways where words fall short. when things recede into an aching emptiness in the middle of the song, i hold my breath with the rest of the audience, urging the band on for that final flourish. – dan.
The instrumental is as dreamy as the explanatory note.
For the 2000th artists is a bit of unexpected. The girl who make me realised that the statistics of my populated artists embraced her music compatibility — also sang.
Elementary of statistics breeds Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious compatibility. Or in this case, SupercalifragilisticExplosionsInTheSky. If you love EitS, you'll love God Is an Astronaut, The Album Leaf and Deepset (M'sian post-rock group)
I know, I don't have to wonder why my music compatibility with indie and post-rock population on last.fm is SUPER.
There's a slew of indie artist that I found through AMP Channel V.
Izzy Mohamed – Folk / Acoustic
Aiqa Halim – Alternative / R&B
Nadhirah Rashid – Acoustic / Other
I just found out that Aiqa Halim is related with the latter. She's Nadhirah Rashid's mum's cousin. You can see where the music gene flows in the family.
So, here's another indie artist in my list, an amused muse: Safinaz Yazed – Ego.
An apt song for the 100th score (2000th) as I finally conscious with the number. Bloated or deflated, that comes with ego.
That's Mrs. Trent Reznor (NIN) promotional picture for How to Destroy Angels. With jet black long hair, Phynaz do resembles the West Indian Girl — Mariqueen Maandig.


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IWRG (SUN) 04/28/2013 Arena Naucalpan [Black Terry Jr. (flickr), Estrellas del Ring, The Gladiatores]
1) Cósmico & Mini Multifacetico b Oficialito 911 & Oficialito Fierro
Cosmico replaced Mini Canis Lupus & Mini Cobra, while AK47 did not appear for the rudos.
2) Alan Extreme, El Sable, Niko b Freelance, Saruman, Serpiente de Oro
Sable's debut here – he's from Hidalgo.
3) Canis Lupus, Carta Brava Jr., Scorpio b Chico Che, Dinamic Black, Golden Magic
Carta Brava and Dinamic Black feuded heavily.
4) Cien Caras Jr., Heavy Metal, Hijo de Máscara Año 2000 b Negro Navarro, Pantera, Veneno
Heavy's teammates didn't trust him, especially since Heavy was screwing around before match, but it was revealed to be a way to mess with Negro Navarro. Team Metal took falls 1/3, Heavy using the ropes to beat Negro in the third.
5) Eterno b Danny Casas [IWRG IC MIDDLE]
Eterno won the first with a Style Clash. Danny Casas took a quick second fall with a casita. Danny kicked out of the Super Styles Clash but Eterno put him down with a superplex for the win. First defense for Eterno.
It'd be funny if Heavy Metal was turning rudo here while being a big time tecnico for TripleMania. Crowd did support Eterno over Danny Casas in the main event, so it'd probably work if they were a rudo team.
Kaiser Sports has some post show quotes from Hijo del Santo. He confirmed LA Park and Dr. Wagner Jr. will meet on their next show (May 11), but Santo feels Gimnasio Juan de la Barrera is too small for a mask match between the two and will only run it in Plaza de Toros Mexico (41,000 seats) if the two agree to it. If I stop to take this serious, that seems at least two times to large, though it's all dependent on how cheap the tickets are. Santo thinks La Migra will be back, but with a slightly different trio because one of them has signed with WWE. (Not mentioned which one, but there are a couple twitter messages which seem to give it away.) As for his own trio, Santo says teaming up with Solitario & Wagner is dependent on his partners willingness to do so, but he appreciated them working together and not teasing a betray at any moment of their match.
If TxT stays with their current schedule, they'll either be running their June show on the 8th or the 15th (the night before TripleMania, which would make for a busy weekend.)
CMLL Gaceta has an interview with Atlantis, talking about wrestling for thirty years. Atlantis notes he's frequently challenged for mask matches – "even people from other companies" – but in his view, the mask match with Ultimo Guerrero should just be a one on one battle and no one else should be involved. Atlantis is willing to talk about other matches after he gets thru that one. Atlantis says the biggest moment of his career was his first mask win over Talisman, because he didn't know if he'd win or if his career would just end right there. Atlantis has no idea what he'd do if he lost his mask, saying he may just run out of the ring, but he can't imagine the situation.
CMLL announced Tuesday and Friday Arena Mexico shows will have children's tickets marked down to 1 peso. It only applies to children under 10, and from row 11 and back. CMLL also mentioned the May 1oth (Friday) show will be their Mother's Day show.
- A five way match with Belial, Astro Rey, Relampago, Aero Boy and Canelo Casas will be the opener of the ChilangaMask show.
- LEGEND Promotions will be running a Lucha Fan Fest on 06/01 at Arena Lopez Mateos, with
- Eric R @ Segunda Caida watched CMLL FOX 03/01/2013, including Volador vs Sombra
- Drastick Boy talks about winning the DTU Alto Impacto championship last weekend in Madero
- Hijo del Solitario won the vacant WWA Junior Heavyweight championship last weekend in Guadalajara
- Estrellita & Lady Jaguar beat Tiffany & Lady Flammer in LLF Monterrey.
- Video of Drago wrestling on an indy show.
Lucha Libre in Japan
04/29 Stardom: Dark Angel beat [ref stoppage] Act Yasukawa in 10:42 to win the vacant Wonder of Stardom Championship (2nd champion.) Hooray!
IWRG (THU) 05/02/2013 Arena Naucalpan
1) Seiya vs Dragón Celestial
2) Mr. Leo & Saruman vs Fulgor & Picudo Jr.
3) Chico Che, Freyser, Golden Magic vs Factor, Rayan, Spartan
4) Centvrión, Hijo de Pirata Morgan, Veneno vs Pasion Kristal, Polvo de Estrellas, Yuriko
5) Danny Casas, Pantera, Pirata Morgan vs Eterno, Máscara Año 2000 Jr., X-Fly
Eterno & Danny Casas, still fighting. A lot of exotico matches here of late. Comando Elite hasn't been together as a unit in a while.
CMLL (SUN) 05/05/2013 Arena Coliseo
1) Bengala & Robin vs Guerrero Negro Jr. & Herodes Jr.
2) Acero, Fantasy, Pequeño Halcón vs Mercurio, Pequeño Olímpico, Pequeño Universo 2000
3) Pegasso, Sagrado, Tritón vs Morphosis, Sangre Azteca, Vangelis
4) Ángel de Oro vs Felino [lightning]
5) Diamante Azul, Máximo, Rush vs Ephesto, Mephisto, Volador Jr.
6) Dragón Rojo Jr., Pólvora, Rey Escorpión vs Máscara Dorada, Mistico, Valiente
Main event could be fun.
CMLL (SUN) 05/05/2013 Arena Coliseo Guadalajara
1) Índigo & Javier Cruz Jr. vs El Piraña & Thunder Boy
2) El Divino & El Ídolo vs Demonio Maya & Évola
3) Black Metal, Metatrón, Smaker vs Acertijo, Espectrum, Magnum
4) Diamante, Gallo, Stuka Jr. vs Maléfico, Namajague, Ráfaga
5) Atlantis & Thunder vs Mr. Niebla & Rey Bucanero
Acertijo's first match unmasked.

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In a physical game that included 35 combined fouls, the Dynamo were once again held to a tie at home on a first-half goal from an Eastern Conference team, this time an Eddie Johnson strike. Dwayne De Rosario produced the tying goal in the second half when he made a long run, then fed Joseph Ngwenya for a game-tying finish.
Kansas City Wizards (9-9-6) vs. Houston Dynamo (11-7-6)
September 1, 2007 -- Robertson Stadium, Houston TX
Scoring Summary:
KC -- Eddie Johnson 14 (Scott Sealy 2, Michael Harrington 4) 46+
HOU -- Joseph Ngwenya 7 (Dwayne De Rosario 3) 69
Kansas City Wizards -- Kevin Hartman, Jimmy Conrad, Nick Garcia, Michael Harrington, Jack Jewsbury (Ryan Raybould 74), Davy Arnaud, Kurt Morsink, Sasha Victorine (Eloy Colombano 72), Kerry Zavagnin, Eddie Johnson, Scott Sealy (Carlos Marinelli 66).
Substitutes Not Used: Jose Burciaga Jr., Chris Konopka, Yura Movsisyan, Tyson Wahl.
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Ryan Cochrane, Patrick Ianni, Eddie Robinson, Corey Ashe, Wade Barrett, Ricardo Clark, Brian Mullan, Richard Mulrooney, Dwayne De Rosario, Joseph Ngwenya (Chris Wondolowski 88).
Substitutes Not Used: Zach Wells, Mike Chabala, Eric Ebert, Nick Hatzke, John Michael Hayden, Craig Waibel.
Misconduct Summary:
HOU -- Joseph Ngwenya (caution; Dissent) 27
KC -- Jimmy Conrad (caution; Pushing) 29
HOU -- Richard Mulrooney (caution; Tackle from behind) 32
KC -- Eddie Johnson (caution; Game disrepute) 47
KC -- Kurt Morsink (caution; Game disrepute) 47
HOU -- Patrick Ianni (caution; Pushing) 51
HOU -- Dwayne De Rosario (caution; Pushing) 61
Referee: Ramon Hernandez
Referee's Assistants: Bill Dittmar, Frank Anderson
4th official: Colin Tait
Attendance: 13,530
Weather: Cloudy-and-90-degrees
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"It is a delight to come home to Wartburg. Wartburg has strengthened me and formed me in who I am today."
Dr. Winston Persaud introduced her Excellency Marie Jilo Barnett to the Wartburg community at a dinner given in her honor this Spring. Appointed in 2008, she is Sierra Leone's first female ambassador to Liberia, as well as to Core d'Ivoire. Marie studied at Wartburg from 1990 to 1994, when she received her M.Div. degree.
Reverend Barnett was passionate and invoked hope with each word that she spoke about teaching men and women to co-exist in the Image of God. "It is possible," she said.
Ambassador Barnett is zealous about negotiating peace and promoting women. She was the first Lutheran woman to be ordained in Western Africa. Her position as Ambassador is about building bridges between Liberia and Sierra Leone; this, she said, is the essence of her appointment.
She encourages women to take action. "Do what you can. Avoid Chaos. Pray with one another, do not pray alone. Get everyone of all races and religions involved. Say 'NO' to injustice."
Ambassador Barnett is called to serve. She did not campaign, nor did she join a political party. She is doing what she believes is hers to do. She depends on her faith and is strong in prayer. "Seek the kingdom and all will be given to you." Her faith gives her the strength to sit on parliament and represent women and their rights. She believes strength comes when women come together and support one another. She said, "We do not do it on our own." She is involved with a network of women: women lawyers, women doctors, and women from the market. "Together we make a difference. In the nothingness that we have, we share, and we have much."
Marie has seen a lot of hardship and constantly worked in ministries of reconciliation. She sees the need to build bridges of peace. In her role now as Ambassador and also through Lutheran World Federation she has had many opportunities to serve. "God has been with me everywhere I have been all over the world."
Ambassador Barnett had worked with Laymeh Gbowoee, well-known Lutheran laywoman who led the peace-movement in Liberia. She said to Gbowe, "Don't sit alone." Barnett and other women supported the women from Liberia in the peace talks. Ambassador Barnett now works with Liberian President Serlief. Gbowe and Serlief both became Nobel Peace Prize recipients.
When asked what is most important for her theologically, Ambassador Barnett said, "Justification by grace through faith. If we have faith, the Holy Spirit will guide us." She told of times when she needed to speak publicly in crucial diplomatic situations. "The Holy Spirit would guide my words. Be strong in prayer."
Marie's husband, Tom, also received his M.Div from Wartburg in 1994 and now serves as the bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sierre Leone. Dr. Dan Olson, WTS professor emeritus, preached at their ordination in Sierre Leone. In a church of lay leadership, the Barnetts were the first to be ordained. Marie served as pastor of Faith Community Lutheran Church, Freetown.
While at Wartburg Marie said that she and Tom were welcomed and supported as international students. She said, "The international students saw some American students for whom ends did not meet." Together with others started the food pantry for students , which continues to this day.
When asked about the demands of her busy life, Marie responded, "When I'm helping people, I'm revived." She concluded with Christ's mandate: "Go and baptize all nations. Do not be afraid. I will be with you to the end of the age."
From 1996 – 2002 Marie was a member of Parliament in Sierre Leonne, serving on various Committees asfollows:
1. Foreign Affairs and International
Cooperation Founded the Network of Women Ministers and Parliamentarians and served as Vice President.
2. Health and Environment Pioneered the settingup of the National AIDS Secretariate.
3. Education – Participated in the oversight that saw the University of Sierra Leone
locate campuses in the different Geographical Regions.
4. Defence – The only female member of the drafting committee of the much celebrated
"Lome Peace Accord" that brought lasting peace to Sierra Leone in 2002.
5. Works and Infrastructure – Pioneered the setting up of the Social Action for Poverty
Alleviation under the National Commission for Re-integration, Repatriation and Resettlement.
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BERLIN – For Americans planning a vacation abroad, the weak dollar may be a good reason to rethink their plans and travel closer to home. For investors, however, the weakening U.S. dollar is a call to action. Although the earnings of many companies around the world take a hit when the dollar drops, that tendency is by no means universal. For instance, U.S. companies that export abroad generally do better, because their products are less expensive to foreign buyers. Likewise, foreign importers can buy American goods with their stronger currencies and reap the cost savings.
For investors, the key is to determine which investments actually benefit from a wilting dollar. Richard Bernstein, Chief Investment Strategist for Merrill Lynch, expects three categories to outperform during this prolonged period of weakness in the dollar: large-cap U.S. growth stocks, dividend-paying foreign shares and gold stocks.
1. Buy large-cap stocks to reap returns from abroad.
On average these companies earn fully one-third of their sales abroad, while the businesses behind value stocks average 23 percent from exports. Because of their overseas exposure, large-cap growth companies in the exporting category may see the greatest returns. These firms benefit from favorable exchange rates on payments from foreign customers. What's more, these global suppliers typically have solid exporting infrastructures poised to grow as the dollar slides. As they expand, U.S. goods become less expensive and more attractive in foreign markets.
2. Make the dollar work for you with foreign stocks.
Another potentially fruitful strategy during a U.S. dollar slump is to invest in dividend-paying non-U.S. stocks, according to Bernstein. In this case, investors benefit directly from global exchange-rate variations when cashing in their foreign-currency dividend checks. The November RIC Report lists 20 stocks with a Standard & Poor's rating of Grade A- or higher for stability and growth in earnings and dividends; these stocks also offer dividend yields of 1.9% or more.
Persimmon, one of Britain's largest house-building companies, tops this list. It's earned an A+ rating from S&P and produces an attractive 4.4% dividend. Because the dollar lost more than 10% against the pound over the past year, U.S. investors who owned Persimmon shares effectively took in a 5% dividend yield—among the highest for corporations globally, and comparable to that of a certificate of deposit (CD).
3. Use gold to hedge the greenback
Buying into gold stocks, funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can be an effective weak-dollar leveraging strategy. Gold prices have a negative correlation with the dollar, Bernstein notes. Since 2001, the spot price of gold has risen to around $750 an ounce from less than $300, while the dollar has fallen sharply over the same period.
Gold producers see strategic acquisitions as "key planks for future growth," says Michael Jalonen, the gold and precious metals analyst for Merrill Lynch. However, Bernstein does not recommend that investors take a large position in gold, because gold is a commodity—a rare one at that—and subject to speculation. "We continue to think that a small allocation to gold and gold shares is appropriate," he says.
Each one of these investment strategies bears risk, especially if the value of the dollar rises. But Bernstein says the U.S. government has shown little interest in helping to revive its currency.
"Much of the world increasingly views dollar assets as unattractive," he adds. That may not be good news for the greenback, but the dollar's losses could be investors' gain — with the right strategy.
(The writer is a Merrill Lynch Senior Financial Advisor. She can be reached at 410-213-9084.)


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5 Things You Didn't Know About Watermelon
No other produce screams summer quite like watermelon. Thing is, there's more to watermelon than just its flavor: It boasts some powerful health benefits, too.
No other produce screams summer quite like watermelon. It could be its refreshing sweetness or even the burst of color that adds a bit of brightness to your plate.
Thing is, there's more to watermelon than just its flavor: It boasts some powerful health benefits, too. At 46 calories per cup, watermelon offers 20% of your daily intake of vitamin C and 17% vitamin A, according to the USDA. That's not all.
"Watermelon contains dietary fiber for digestive health as well as potassium, a mineral that helps keep blood pressure capped," says Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD, Health's contributing nutrition editor.
No wonder there's a month-long holiday dedicated to it—July is National Watermelon Month. Here are some other fun facts to celebrate watermelon's big month:
It has more lycopene than raw tomatoes
In just one cup, watermelon has 1.5 times the stuff than a large fresh tomato, 6 milligrams compared to 4 milligrams, according to the USDA. That matters because lycopene is thought to act as a super antioxidant, stopping free radicals from damaging your cells and messing with your immune system. Some research even suggests that lycopene, typically found in red fruits and vegetables, may help fight heart disease and several types of cancer. Pro tip: "To retain the most antioxidants in this delicious superfood, store your watermelon at room temperature before slicing," Sass says.
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The juice may relieve muscle soreness
A Spanish study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry found that drinking watermelon juice can actually be quite soothing after a grueling workout. Athletes who consumed a little more than 16 ounces an hour before exercise had less muscle soreness and a lower heart rate within a day.
That may be because watermelon contains a natural substance called citrulline that's been tied to improved artery function and lower blood pressure. In fact, its ability to relax the blood vessels led Texas A&M University researchers to say watermelon has Viagra-like effects. But you'll need to look beyond the pink flesh if you really want to load up on citrulline—it's concentrated most in the rind. If that's not your thing, you can always save it for pickling or preserving later, Sass says.
It's a fruit AND a vegetable
Talk about an overachiever. Like most fruits, watermelon is the product of a seed-producing plant and has a signature sweet taste. But it can be traced back to the squash, pumpkin, and cucumber family known as Cucurbitaceae. Remember how you can eat the rind? The dual nature of watermelon makes it all edible, so there's no excuse to leave any part behind.
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It's packed with, well, water
Now this is a food with some serious hydration power. Watermelon is 91.5% water, according to the USDA. That's a big deal seeing as how being dehydrated is bad for your health. A study published in The Journal of Nutrition found that women with even mild dehydration experienced headaches, poor concentration, fatigue, and worse moods. More reason to whip up some watermelon recipes, stat.
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There's a yellow variety
It's hard to believe there's a watermelon that's NOT pink on the inside, but there's another variety, known as Yellow Crimson, has a sunny interior and the flesh has a sweeter, honey-like taste. Thing is, the two are nearly identical on the outside, so unless you're reading the signs at your grocery store or farmers' market, it can be hard to tell which is which. If you want the regular pink watermelon, ask for a Crimson Sweet.
Just keep in mind that no one really knows what, if any, nutritional value the yellow variety offers. Most research has been done on the pink kind, Sass says, so best to stick with that or round up a good mix of both.


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DEARBORN, MI – Create an interior for a fuel-efficient family sedan that will go on sale in 2025.
That is the assignment given 17 talented transportation-design students at the College for Creative Studies in a competition sponsored by WardsAuto and interior suppliers Lear and International Automotive Components.
The three best answers to this challenge, chosen by a jury of top auto industry designers, were given the spotlight during a special ceremony at the WardsAuto Interiors Conference here.
Merrill Mathew is the grand award winner, with a finely crafted concept that captures Toyota's design language and evolves it forward a dozen years.
Mathew's family-focused sedan is loaded with innovative features including a built-in child seat that can be turned into a backpack for hiking with an infant. There also is a dashboard display that allows a front-seat passenger to monitor the baby in a rear-facing back seat, and a vacuum that is integrated into the floor to keep the interior neat and clean.
Kirill Ponomarenko wins the Lear Design Innovation Award for his Subaru Legacy XT concept. The Lear award is given to the student whose work includes a specific design or technological innovation the judges deem particularly inspired and forward-thinking. Judges applaud Ponomarenko's work overall, but single out the design of the center stack for special recognition. It features a large 3-D screen built into the cover of the center console that displays a topographic map with tactile feedback.
Johad Ellis wins the IAC EcoBlend Award, which goes to the student design that best embraces green mobility or uses lightweight, renewable/recyclable materials and other Earth-friendly innovations.
Ellis created a graceful Mazda-branded design with flowing lines and a center console that can be detached and used as personal luggage. In a whimsical touch, a motorized camera circumnavigates the vehicle roof, capturing panoramic images of every road trip. However, Ellis' extensive focus on environmentally friendly materials such as soy based seating foam and advanced nano-yarn fabrics won him special recognition.
The winners were selected by four of the auto industry's leading designers: Scott Strong, director-design at Ford; Klaus Busse, head of interior design at Chrysler; Ariel Choi, lead designer at Toyota; and Eric Clough, director-Cadillac interior design at General Motors.
WardsAuto asked the four judges to evaluate the student designs on these criteria:
- Realistic usage of technologies and materials.
- Unique ambient lighting concepts.
- Innovative ideas for driver interaction (while minimizing driver distraction).
- Safety features for 2025 that meet consumer demands and government regulations.
- Overall design. How does it all come together?
Instructor Joann Jung, manager-global interior design strategy at Ford, guided the students and helped them keep their projects within agreed-upon boundaries.
The design brief called on students to base their projects on a model from WardsAuto's Upper Middle Car segment, evolved forward to 2025. This category is defined as having four or five doors, measuring 185 ins. to 200 ins. (4,699 mm to 5,080 mm) long, with a base price of $21,501 to $32,000 in 2012 dollars.
The cars currently in this segment include the Ford Fusion, Toyota Camry and 14 other models.
The projects of all 17 students were on display at the WardsAuto Interiors Conference as well as the SAE World Congress in April. Videos of each student's presentation to the judges can be viewed on wardsauto.com.


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You are missing out if you're not reading the comments on the Project Verse entries.
Contestant Martin Ott has recently raised questions from his fellow Project Verse contestants when he posted this comment:
My Dolly poem was accepted for the November issue of Two Review the first time I sent it out (and they get 7000 submissions per issue). Kind of takes the sting out of being on the bottom twice last week.
Contestants want to know if Martin has violated any rules.
When each contestant applied to Project Verse, he/she agreed to the Rules/Regulations/All That Jazz. Two of those items are:
By participating in Project Verse, you agree to acknowledge Project Verse as first publisher in future reprints of books, anthologies, website publications, podcasts, radio, etc. Copyright reverts back to authors upon appearance in the Project Verse competition, which takes place on the I Was Born Doing Reference Work in Sin site.
While the copyright reverts back to the author upon appearance in the Project Verse competition, Dustin Brookshire in combination with Project Verse and I Was Born Doing Reference Work in Sin, reserve the right to use any poems from the competition to create an anthology in the future.
If Martin acknowledged Project Verse as the first publisher to the Two Review editors, he didn't break any rules.
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Canon Vixia HF M32 First Look
July 14th was an awful day to launch a digital camcorder. Just ask Canon. It announced the Vixia HF M32 on the same day Sony rocked the imaging world with the NEX-VG10, the first consumer-class interchangeable lens camcorder.
While Canon reps won't admit this is the case, I'm sure had they known what Sony was planning, they would have pushed the Vixia unveiling up a couple days.
For Canon, it's a shame, too. Reviewers and consumers have been very warm to the Vixia line because it offers great picture quality and simple operation at a reasonable price. In fact, the TechnologyGuide sites have two Vixia units in house for on-the-fly shooting at tradeshows and events.
Since July, the VG10 smoke has cleared and the HF M32 was on proud display at Canon Expo 2010, allowing DCR to get a chance to try out the latest addition to the Vixia line.
A Modest Update
As the Canon reps explained to me, the HF M32 is a mid-range model that is a straight addition to the Vixia line; and a modest update too, adding SDXC card compatibility. It includes 64GB built-in Flash memory, a 2.7-inch touch screen, "Touch and Track" focus tracking, and "Powered IS" optical image stabilization.
There is nothing particularly exciting about the updates, as similar features have been available on other competing devices. But Canon is known for performance and video quality, not features. Besides, I'm sure Canon is saving their big Vixia line refresh for CES, where last year they unveiled nine new models.
On the design side, Canon didn't deviate much from the standard Vixia look and feel. The HF M32 is compact and extremely light. Canon swapped the silver metallic body of the previous models for a sleeker black plastic and rounded a few of the edges to boot.
Testing the Focus and Stabilizer
Canon provided an array of shooting situations for attendees to test the new Vixia model. In a New York-themed area, Canon set up an ice-skating rink patterned after the famed rink at 30 Rockefeller Center. Users were encouraged to try focus tracking by following the figure skaters hired for the event.
The feature is activated with a simple tap of the subject on the screen. However, 2.7 inches is a bit cramped for a display (something I've complained about in past reviews), and the Canon touch screens require a hardy press. It took a few tries, but eventually I got it right and had "Touch and Track" maintaining focus on a particular figure skater. And even when she briefly skated out of frame, the feature picked her back up when she came back into the shot.
More impressive than the Touch and Track focus was the Power IS image stabilization system. To demonstrate, Canon set up multilevel platforms atop hydraulics in the form of a boat. A living statue portraying the Lady Liberty stood off in on corner of the room and attendees were encouraged to film the model at full zoom while the platforms shifted up and down.
Without image stabilization, the situation would create earthquake footage at best, but the Powered IS did a phenomenal job at keeping the shot smooth and steady, despite the floor's movement. I'm tempted to say it's the best image stabilizer I've seen on a consumer level camcorder, but I'll wait until I have more time with the Vixia line before making any bold claims.
Less Expensive Options
With an MSRP hovering close to $1000, the HF M32 is an expensive mid-range camcorder. Ultimately, the consumer is paying for the 64GB of internal storage. I'm a big believer in spending less and getting less memory as I have countless SD cards lying around. Besides, it's never a good idea to keep all your footage on one drive. Should you ever lose the camera of the drive fail, you are out of luck.
With that in mind, Canon also offers the 32GB HF M31 for $800, HF M30 with 8GB of memory, priced $700, and the SD-only HF M300 for $680. Unlike the HF M32, these units are not SDXC compatible, but they should all output the same video quality as Canon's newest model.


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Friday, 15 July 2016
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Up Close & Raw: Whore Films
Charlatan clinic are proudly showcasing the first public screening of Whore Films at Capitol Cinema in Balmoral for two nights only, 20th and 21st July. All six short films: 'Underage Sex Worker', 'Married Woman', 'Illegal Migrant', 'Rent Boy', 'Transgender' and 'Refugee run in succession for one hour and delivers a snapshot of each street sex worker based on true life experiences in Karangahape Road, Auckland.
The 'Whore' project was initially a theatre work performed nationally throughout 2014. All six monologues were then adapted to screen by Melissa Fergusson and mentored by writer, Donna Banicevich-Gera. Whore Films were produced on lo-to-no budget filmmaking in 2015 and were made for 'social change' and to challenge public stigma.
Charlatan clinic is supported by LYC (Love Your Condom), Four Eyes Media NZ, Roccabella Jewellery, Clash Boutique, Paper Bag Princess, Splice & iTICKET.
Tickets available from https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2016/jul/whore-films
Limited Door Sales $15 Student/Equity, $20 Adult
Review: Whore Films by Donna Banicevich Gera
Review – Whore Films
The challenge in scriptwriting is saying as much as possible in the least amount of words and letting the visual images tell the story. Writer/director Melissa Fergusson definitely achieves this goal with her 6 short films: Married Woman, Transgender, Illegal Immigrant, Refugee, Underage, and Rent Boy.
Based on true stories, developed from interviewing sex workers from the streets of Karangahape Road in Auckland, these pieces provide insight into a sombre dark place. Painful episodes from the workers pasts play out with subtle characterization and haunting music in bleak settings. The characters struggles create the drama.
The world of each individual film is disturbing but is successful in taking the audience on a journey into situations of conflict and constant tension. The narratives are jarring because they force us to think outside of the imagination and make us focus on the reality of each workers personal position.
This collection of films raises many issues exposing complex scenarios about sex and relationships. They all work as stand-alone pieces but are also connected thematically. What emerges in my mind is that the films have been made to 'educate' and 'question' rather than to entertain. The audience is being asked to think.
On that note, you would have to be brain dead not to develop a real sense of empathy for these people. Thought provoking from beginning to end Whore Films equals job well done.
Donna Banicevich Gera
Behind The Scenes (Day 2): 'Transgender'
Director: Melissa Fergusson
DOP: Tim Butler-Jones
1st AD/Sound Tech: Rob Ipsen
Art Department: Lina M Cruz
Makeup Artist: Christina Matthews
Transgender: Lee ah yen Faatoia
Queen 1: Dominique De Coco
Queen 2: Lilly Henry
Beautician: Rebecca Parr
Barman: Baz Te Hira
Bar patrons: Laura Ehlen-Wilson, Alfred Henry, Rebecca Parr, Lina M Cruz, Melissa Fergusson, John Blackman, Christina Matthews, Brendan Appleby


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mikey287 wrote:One thing I'll say and this could be a good barometer of how this team feels and how focused they are...it can be tough to motivate a team after a big win or a big loss in a playoff series...Penguins coming off of a big win, I'm really hoping we come out guns ablazin' in the first 10 minutes at home in game 2. That sounds obvious and all, but that would make me feel really good about this team.
I almost expect a letdown in the opening minutes of game two. The key will be holding the game scoreless until both teams have their rythem, then letting the talent difference take over.


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I also enjoyed the numerous live performances by the team of talented resort staff. We were treated to dances like Rasa Sayang and Kadazan Magunatip Dance. It was really interesting as we get to see how diverse Malaysia culture is with a variety of performances.
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Thursday, October 25, 2007
Y&R Star Releases Debut Album!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Happier Days for Hunter
One of the most funny scenes to film were the Big Bear cabin scenes with Ian Buchanan (who played James Warwick). Our cabin had caved in during a blizzard. We were covered in fake ice and snow, they whitened our skin, we had gelatin crystals added with water that they put in our hair, eyebrows and eyelashes to look like ice.
Bob Barker was in the studio next door and he had received a bomb threat (because of his work with PETA and other animal services. I guess that brings out the crazies! -- Cindy's note, not Hunter's). So we all evacuated to the Farmer's Market at the back of the building. So Ian and I are walking around, forgetting what we look like, and people are looking at us. The tourists are wondering what the heck we're doing. We just laughed when we realized what we looked like. Ian and I still laugh about that.
Days/GH Vet to Join ATWT
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
SPOILERS for B&B, Days, Guiding Light, Passions and Y&R!
* Ridge learns about the truth about Taylor's baby.
* Brooke gets a visit from an uninvited enemy.
* Katie and Thorne's relationship blossoms.
* Stephanie struggles to plead her case.
* An unlikely character aids Nick and Chelsea.
* Steve makes plans for his daughter's happiness.
* Marlena confesses her thoughts for revenge.
* EJ confronts Steve and Kayla.
* Lucas worries about changing family dynamics.
Thursday - Kate learns the truth about Sami's twins.
Friday - Stephanie exposes Ford and his dirty deeds.
* Gwen and Ethan rush the baby to the hospital.
* Vincent continues to torment Eve.
* Tabitha makes it look like Kay committed murder!
Tuesday, October 30
* Fancy and Esme make a shocking discovery.
* Kay thinks Ivy has killed Tabitha.
* Gwen and Ethan's baby could die!
Wednesday, October 31
* Theresa stands up to Rebecca.
* Vincent pushes Eve to the brink.
* Tabitha returns as Kay is about to be arrested.
Thursday, November 1
* Gwen refuses treatment for her dying baby.
* A guilty Eve takes drastic action.
* Tabitha forces Kay into a deal.
Dawson's Creek Star to Join Grey's Anatomy
According to Variety, Joshua Jackson is set to appear in several episodes of the medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Best known as my fave Dawson's Creek alumnus -- cutie-patootie Pacey Witter -- Joshua's first appearance is scheduled for the 11th episode.
Monday, October 22, 2007
OLTL Actor Arrested!
According to The New York Daily News, Nathaniel Marston (Dr. Michael McBain, One Live to Live) has been arrested for allegedly attacking three innocent bystanders early Sunday morning in New York City. According to the article: "Police said the 6-foot-3 actor appeared to be under the influence of narcotics, possibly cocaine, when they were called to the scene. Marston, a former amateur boxer, began flailing his arms and kicking at officers as they went to arrest him, officials said."
The article continues: "Marston was charged with two counts each of felony assault, reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon as well as one count of resisting arrest. He was taken to Bellevue, where he was labeled an emotionally disturbed person, police said."
According to Salvatore Cabibbo, one of the people Marston allegedly assaulted: "He was crazed - I don't know the guy from a hole in the wall. I've never seen anything like that."
A source close to Marston and OLTL said that he has been an emotional wreck in recent days, and last week his behavior led to a blowup on the set of OLTL.
Interview With Hunter Tylo
Below are excerpts from my interview with Hunter Tylo, as she discusses the revelation that Brooke's donor egg was used with Nick's to impregnate Taylor:
Hunter also feels that Taylor not only worries about Brooke, but about the health of her baby throughout all this. "As a medical doctor, Taylor knows that this is the most crucial time in an infant's life. They need to resolve this quickly. Taylor needs this time to bond with the child. If she is emotional and not happy, this could have lasting, long-term effects on the baby. She needs to get this cleared up with Brooke right away."
When Hunter first learned of the way this story line was heading for her character, she reveals: "I was very happy. We've seen just about every other paternal problem there is — not knowing who the mother is, now that is a new one."
Hunter is looking forward to Taylor getting down and dirty if she needs to, too — for the sake of her baby. "If Taylor begins to see that Brooke is using her biological child to get to Nick, you can bet it won't be pretty. Taylor is getting to the end of her rope (when it comes to Brooke)."
The entire Hunter Tylo interview will be available on Friday, Oct. 26. If you paper does not publish the Daytime Dial interview column, request that they do. In the meantime, you can use a little Google magic and find the interview online, beginning this weekend.
SPOILERS! Week of Oct. 22nd
AMC: Tad and Hannah strike up a flirtation at the Comeback.
ATWT: The awesome foursome is breaking up: First Casey, now Maggie. Maggie leaves Oakdale for college while Gwen and Will receive some bad news.
B&B: Stephanie finds out who's been keeping Eric company while she's been away - and it's not who she thinks!
Days: Belle makes a confession to Hope, who says she'll keep her secret under one condition.
GH: Carly receives another creepy text message after she accepts her invitation to the ball.
GL: Someone from Cassie's past agrees to help her get custody of Will.
OLTL: A charmed Renee invites Jared to live at the mansion.
Passions: Someone keeps trying to murder Esme's lovers. Will Jake get picked off too?
Y&R: Victor and Nikki await news on their children who were caught in the building collapse.


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Nov 26, 2011
What Do YOU Say?
Lisa Alexander - Hello, everyone. Lisa the Intern here. Yes, I still exist, I'm still alive, and I still hold the unpaid position of "intern" even though I've graduated college and could certainly use a solid income... but that's another topic for another day.
Today's topic, ever so predictably, is the new movie. I would guess that you've seen it by now, unless you have the misfortune of living someplace where it isn't showing yet. So what do you do when someone asks you about it?
It came up multiple times during my Thanksgiving holiday. Family members would specifically ask me about it, or just pose a question when I happened to be in hearing range, and I had a hard time balancing my answer. I think my sister got the (incorrect) impression that as a Muppet fan I was disappointed, although she did relay to a cousin that I gave the movie a "thumbs up" (which is an understatement). Meanwhile, my aunt and two other cousins attentively sat for what could have easily become an hour-long lecture if my mom hadn't been dragging me out the door.
So what do YOU say when The Muppets comes up in conversation?
Do you stem your fandom and leave it with a simple, "That's a great movie! You should really see it."
Or do you get up on your soapbox and launch into a speech about how you've been tracking this movie's existence for the past four years, and how it was made by a bunch of hard-core Muppet fans out to prove that comedy doesn't have to be rude and puppets can appeal to adults, and how anyone can enjoy this movie, but the more you know about Muppets the more you'll get it, and how incredible it is that characters we haven't seen since the '70s are suddenly major players... And if you DO get on that soapbox, how long is it before your audience--I mean, family--loses interest?
Or do you try to show your folks that, although you're an Obsessed Muppet Fan, you do not blindly love and adore every single thing the Muppets ever do? This is the tactic I took with my sister, with the mixed results I mentioned before. I could have launched into a speech, of course: how there were some minor things I would have done differently, but that could be said about pretty much any Muppet movie ever made. (Case in point: Miss Piggy's hairstyle in Muppets Take Manhattan. I realize the afro was "in" at the time, but... seriously?) But then I would've ended up with a very bored listener. So instead all I said was, "There were some things I would have changed... but overall I enjoyed it." Which made for a painfully short conversation.
Ultimately, how much you profess your love of the new movie depends on your audience. (Note that I presume all of you love the new movie. It's hard not to.) How much you say depends on how much they know about the Muppets, and how much they already love the Muppets. Someone who can barely tell the difference between Rowlf and Fozzie won't appreciate how awesome it is that Thog has returned and Uncle Deadly is Tex Richman's henchman (hench-phantom?), but you can say, "This movie has characters we haven't seen since the '70s, and it's awesome."
The most important thing now is to recommend it. If someone asks, say yes, they should see this movie, because it is worth their time and money. Disney can do all the advertising in the world, and every possible source can give The Muppets great reviews, but nothing is more powerful than word of mouth. Tell your friends and family to tell THEIR friends and family to tell THEIR friends and family to see this movie so that it can be as big of a hit as it deserves to be. And that will send a very clear message, to Disney and to the entire world, that we want more Muppets.
Oh, and while you're out there promoting the movie, you might also want to advise people to bring tissues.
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Let's be honest about the movie. I won't lie to friends and family...or strangers for that matter. Let's not encourage anyone to say anything about the movie that is not truly heartfelt. For me...it really didn't have it. Sorry to be a Simon Cowell or John Simon sourpuss. I like the Muppets, I did not like this movie. Also, what was up with Fozzie's fur? The dye looked like it bled pinkish beneath his nose. The seams on certain Antron fleece characters looked as if the pill had not been properly napped. I think this film was completely in the hands of well meaning but overly confident amatures.ReplyDelete
I for one really liked it. Liked it almost to the point of love. Almost. But not all the way. Just short.ReplyDelete
It had things in it I loved...certain songs, special attention to often forgotten or underused classic characters, explosions...but there were also odd elements that seemed a tad off...some of the timing on the jokes, the color , design and appearance of some characters, the ending...all in I really enjoyed this movie. I'd see it again in the theater. But it's not 'The Muppet Movie' or 'The Great Muppet Caper'. Those remain the best of the best.
If it results in a new Muppet Show however, it will always hold a special place of reverence in my heart.
I just yell very very loudly, straight into his er hers face. "I LOVED IT!" and then continue as if nothing happened.ReplyDelete
It's the most efficient way of just getting the message across and make people watch the thing for themselves. That is after all what I want :D
I went with 11 other people (kids and adults). That's how you do it! We saw it on Black Friday. The theatre was completely packed.ReplyDelete
I loved the movie. I put it just behind The Muppet Movie and Muppets Take Manhattan, but above The Great Muppet Caper, etc.
I to am holding out hope for a new Muppet Show.
I loved this movie, and I tell everyone to see it and tell them how great it is. The only issue I had was that Fozzie sounded really, really off in one scene. Any other sound issues were resolved by seeing it in a quieter theater.ReplyDelete
It might very well be my new second favorite Muppet movie!
I loved this film!ReplyDelete
I don't care what the nit-pickers and haters say, this was an awesome movie, and most people seem to agree.


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Executive Summary
The so-called "news" media have spent much of the past two decades
demonizing the rhetoric of conservative radio talk show hosts as
mean-spirited, divisive or a menace to civil discourse. But these same
journalists — who gleefully castigate Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark
Levin and other conservatives — are silent about the vile and vicious
rhetoric that spews from the Left's leading radio talk show hosts.
Since late 2007, the Media Research Center has collected numerous examples of the outrageousness of left-wing radio hosts. And, unlike the Left — which attempted to smear Rush Limbaugh with phony quotes — readers can find an audio or video of every one of these quotes posted at our Web site: www.MRC.org.
This report includes examples of over-the-top rhetoric from left-wing hosts Mike Malloy, Stephanie Miller, Randi Rhodes, Ron Reagan, Jr., Ed Schultz and Montel Williams, all of whom currently or at one time broadcast to a national audience on either the Air America network or via XM and/or Sirius satellite radio. Among the lowlights:
Conservatives Want to Kill Barack Obama: "I really think there are conservative broadcasters in this country who would love to see Obama taken out." (Ed Schultz)
Conservatives Are Terrorists: "Do you not understand that the people you hold up as heroes bombed your goddamn country? Do you not understand that Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly are as complicit of the September 11, 2001 terror attack as any one of the dumbass 15 who came from Saudi Arabia?" (Mike Malloy)
Conservatives Want You to Die: "If, in fact, the GOP doesn't like any form of health care reform, what do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured?...When they show up in the emergency room, just shoot 'em! Kill them!...Do we have enough body bags? I don't know." (Montel Williams)
Conservative Congresswoman Would Have Liked the Holocaust: "[Representative Michele Bachmann is] a hatemonger. She's the type of person that would have gladly rounded up the Jews in Germany and shipped them off to death camps....This is an evil bitch from Hell." (Mike Malloy)
Dick Cheney Eats Babies: "Cheney, by the way, looks very ruddy. I couldn't get over that. Like, he must have feasted on a Jewish baby, or a Muslim baby. He must have sent his people out to get one and bring it back so he could drink its blood." (Mike Malloy)
Dick Cheney Should Die: "He is an enemy of the country, in my opinion. Dick Cheney is an enemy of the country....Lord, take him to the Promised Land, will you? See, I don't even wish the guy goes to Hell, I just want to get him the hell out of here." (Ed Schultz)
Rush Limbaugh Should Die: "I'm waiting for the day when I pick up the newspaper or click on the Internet and find that he's choked to death on his own throat fat, or a great big wad of saliva or something, whatever. Go away, Limbaugh, you make me sick." (Mike Malloy)
Michele Bachmann Should Die: "So, Michele, slit your wrist! Go ahead! I mean, you know, why not? I mean, if you want to — or, you know, do us all a better thing. Move that knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the collarbone." (Montel Williams)
If the establishment media were really interested in cleansing the airwaves of hateful rhetoric, they would not confine their criticism to conservative hosts. Instead, they would — and they must — make an equal effort to expose the nastiness that runs rampant on left-wing talk radio. Unless and until they do, they are participating in an act of journalistic hypocrisy.
When liberals are out of power, their slogan is: "Dissent is
patriotic." But when liberals are in charge, they do not seem
especially inhibited about discrediting and demonizing conservative
critics, especially when conservatives are winning the battle of public
opinion. With the Obama administration and big government liberals now
facing potentially devastating midterm elections, conservative talk
radio once again finds itself alongside the Tea Party at the top of
liberals' 2010 hit list.
This is nothing new. For two decades, conservative radio hosts have been under assault from the establishment media as mean-spirited, divisive and a menace to civil discourse. After the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, Bryant Gumbel smarmily insinuated that conservative broadcasters were the real villains: "Never do most of the radio hosts encourage outright violence, but the extent to which their attitudes may embolden and encourage some extremists has clearly become an issue." Then-CBS anchor Dan Rather smeared: "You can turn on your radio in any city and still dial up hate talk: extremist, racist and violent rhetoric, from the hosts and those who call in."
A dozen years later, ex-NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw was still hammering away: "The problem with talk radio is they mock anyone else's point of view, and they do it often in a mindless fashion....We've lost the ability to have civil discourse in America, and it's a big cancer on our political system as well."
When conservative hosts say something that liberals want to paint as out of bounds — or when the Left falsifies quotes to impugn them — the news media seize the opportunity to stoke the fires of outrage. Journalists also have no problem heaping epithets on individual hosts. Sean Hannity is a "conservative junkyard dog," according to CBS's Morley Safer. Mark Levin is an "angry voice" speaking to "the wingnuts," MSNBC's Chris Matthews claimed. Time's Joe Klein blasted both Hannity and Glenn Beck as "poisonous helium balloons" who peddle "hateful crap." When radio host Bill Cunningham dared call then-presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama by his full name in 2008, CNN's Anderson Cooper branded it "sleazy campaigning" from "a two-bit radio host."
The fiercest attacks have been aimed at the leader of the pack, Rush Limbaugh. CNN's Jack Cafferty took to the airwaves to slam Limbaugh as "that corpulent Oxycontin aficionado of right-wing talk radio," while MSNBC's Matthews disparaged him as a "human vat of vitriol." New York Times online columnist Judith Warner indicted the supposedly intemperate language of conservative hosts for the Holocaust museum shooting: "You can't accuse Beck or Limbaugh of inciting violence. But they almost certainly do stoke the flames." In October 2009, both CNN and MSNBC jumped to attack Limbaugh as a racist after the Left circulated a made-up quote of the host supposedly praising the merits of slavery.
The impression left by such "reporting" is that conservatives are befouling the nation's airwaves while liberals seek only to enlighten. This spring, longtime CNN and MSNBC political commentator Bill Press (who now hosts his own morning radio show) detailed the critique of conservative radio in his book, Toxic Talk: How the Radical Right Has Poisoned America's Airwaves. Press charged that conservative radio has "an extremely corrosive impact on our public discourse: engaging in personal attacks, spreading lies, fanning the flames of bigotry, and slamming the door on legitimate differences of opinion....The genie of right-wing talk, unleashed by Limbaugh and his compatriots, is destroying our democratic process."
Instead of talk radio dominated by "ugly name-calling" from "today's ministers of hate on the right," Press suggested an uplifting liberal version: "I believe talk radio should inform, not inflame. I think it should entertain, not demean. I think it should elevate political discourse, not debase it." The thought echoed Mario Cuomo, who attempted a radio show of his own after losing the New York governorship in 1994: "We [liberals] believe in subtlety. We believe in telling the whole truth. We don't want to exaggerate. They [conservatives] write their message with crayons. We use fine-point quills."
So liberal talk radio elevates discourse, using fine-point quills? The Media Research Center has recorded and tracked the radio shows of several top national liberals since late 2007. In that time, left-wing hosts have: wished for the death of top conservatives; called Republicans and conservatives "terrorists" responsible for the 9/11 attacks; and charged that conservatives want to kill President Obama.
Host Mike Malloy — a onetime CNN news writer and producer — has "joked" that conservatives feast on the blood of children, and wished for Rush Limbaugh to "choke to death on his own throat fat." Ed Schultz called Dick Cheney "an enemy of the country" and hoped he would die: "Lord, take him to the Promised Land, will you?" Randi Rhodes accused Republicans of "acts of treason" and of wanting to "let people drown in hurricanes." Montel Williams (whose program ceased in early 2010 with the bankruptcy of the Air America network) invited Republican Representative Michele Bachmann to slit her own throat: "Start right at the collarbone."
Yet the "news" media that have gone out of their way to demonize conservative hosts have had virtually nothing to say about the vile and vicious rhetoric that spills forth from the Left's leading radio talk show hosts. MSNBC even gave Ed Schultz his own program in 2009, bringing his extremist rhetoric to an even wider audience.
And liberals like Bill Press don't seem at all bothered by the vitriol emanating from his side of the airwaves. In the acknowledgments of Toxic Talk, Press went out of his way to praise his liberal comrades: "There may not be many national progressive talk show hosts, but the few who do broadcast every day are world-class. I'm proud to be in the company of Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Randi Rhodes, Ron Reagan, and Mike Malloy — and I'm in awe of their strong voices on the air."
It's hypocritical for liberals like Press to attack conservatives for supposed poor behavior on the airwaves while applauding "progressive" hosts who act far worse. And it's journalistic malpractice for news reporters to tout the virtues of civility on the airwaves and say nothing about the vicious rhetoric spewing from left-wing media.
What follows is a listing of some of the most outrageous quotes from radio hosts that the MRC has collected since late 2007. And, unlike the Left's concocted smears against Rush Limbaugh, every single one of these quotes have been documented: The report that follows includes an audio clip (or, in a few cases, a video clip) of each quote cited.
Conservatives are Anti-American Terrorists
Conservatives Want Terrorists to Succeed
Host Joe Scarborough: "Do you agree with the CIA Director that it's almost as if Dick Cheney hopes Americans die so he gains a political advantage?"
Ed Schultz: "Absolutely. Absolutely."
Scarborough: "So you believe Dick Cheney wants Americans to die?...You believe the former Vice President wants Americans to die in a terrorist attack so he can gain a political advantage?"
Schultz: "You got it, Joe. You got it. I think Dick Cheney's all about power. I think Dick Cheney is all about seeing this country go conservative on a hard right-wing and I think he'll do anything to get it there...."
Mike Barnicle: "I certainly don't believe that the former Vice President of the United States is sitting there in McLean, Virginia saying, 'You know, I hope today's the day.' Do you believe that?"
Schultz: "I really do, Mike, I do. I really believe, because I think it's all about the conservatives grabbing the power and keeping it. These folks hate. Just my opinion. I mean, I don't want to offend anybody."
— Exchange on MSNBC's Morning Joe, June 16, 2009.
"Cheney is nothing but a selfish pig. And for him to do what he's doing to the elected President of the United States goes 'beyond the pale,' to use one of his favorite sayings. It is official — Dick Cheney wants this country to get hit. He wants another terrorist attack for political gain. They want to bury liberals the same way they want to bury the terrorists. They want complete global control, is what they want. Control of oil, control of resources, control of the economy — the list goes on and on — the control of the school systems, everything! That's what they want. And the only way that you can get any of that is if you have conflict. And since we're not in a war, we have to set the table for a war."
— Ed Schultz, The Ed Schultz Show, April 21, 2009. [MP3 audio]
Conservatives Actually Are Terrorists
"You crazy sons of bitches, you right-wingers. Do you not understand
that the people you hold up as heroes bombed your goddamn country? Do
you not understand that Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh
and Bill O'Reilly are as complicit of the September 11, 2001 terror
attack as any one of those dumbass 15 who came from Saudi Arabia? Don't
you get that?"
— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, January 19, 2010. [MP3 audio]
"Republicans, whose — who have had straws stuffed up their noses by Rush Limbaugh and their brains sucked out, replaced by 'Excellence in Broadcasting,' don't have a clue as to what is going on, because this is where they get their information....They [working class Americans] think they are Republican, and the Republican Party, a terrorist organization, loves that. Just like the jihadists love the fact that brain-dead uneducated Muslim boys in the Middle East are willing to give themselves over to suicide bombing. Why? Because there are 700 virgins — or is it 70? — waiting for you in paradise! Well, Republican voters are just the same, the same! Limbaugh and the Mannity [Sean Hannity] and the rest of these pigs get on the air and say to their brain-dead listeners, 'Well, we have 70 virgins waiting for you — only it's in the form of tax cuts!'...I say let the sons of bitches drown. Let them drown! This is what they want! They are suicidal! Republicans are jihadists. They want to blow themselves up! They are a terrorist organization, the Republican Party. It needs to be killed before it does more damage to our country!"
— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, February 13, 2009. [MP3 audio]
"They're worse than useless. These are terrorists. These are domestic terrorists. They want the country to fail, for God's sake. They want exactly what anyone who attacked this country on September 11, 2001 wanted. The real internal terrorists are the Republicans. I mean, isn't that clear? Rush Limbaugh is a bigger threat to this country than Osama bin Laden. He's a bigger threat than anybody that the CIA can invent. He's a bigger threat than any terrorist that ever leveled its sights against the United States, Limbaugh is. So why isn't he arrested and sentenced for treason?"
— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, on February 10, 2009. [MP3 audio]
Republicans Orchestrated Christmas Jet Bombing
"There are forces at work in this country — and I believe this as surely as I believe I put on my right shoe before I put on my left — there are forces alive in this country, who are very active in this country, very wealthy in this country, who want to see Obama fail no matter what, and the idea of killing two or three hundred people on board a jetliner in order to make the point is nothing. It means nothing. We kill that many in a week in our adventures around the world, in places where we're bombing where we shouldn't even be....My gut feeling is that this was deliberate. This was deliberately done in order to put the Obama administration in such a vise grip, that it's impossible to get anything done. To raise so much fear. This is what Republicans do, this is what they do."
— Mike Malloy on the January 4, 2010 Mike Malloy Show, talking about al-Qaeda's attempted Christmas Day bombing of a passenger jet. [MP3 audio]
Tea Party: "The Sickest Movement I've Ever Seen"
"They just come town to town, and they stand there with their stupid
signs screaming and yelling about corporations need to be protected.
It's the sickest movement I've ever seen in my life!"
— Randi Rhodes talking about the Tea Party on The Randi Rhodes Show, April 15, 2010. [MP3 audio]
Clarence Thomas = Supreme Court's "House Negro"
"The latest from the crazy people in the tea bag movement is a story
about Virginia Thomas. She is the wife of Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas, and she's setting up a tea bagger nonprofit group. Now
this will be interesting, because the tea baggers are essentially
racist, and how are they're going to deal with a very dark Clarence
Thomas and a very white Virginia Thomas setting up a subdivision of
their crazed tea bagger party — how they're going to deal with that
will be great fun to watch.
"Now Clarence Thomas has always, kind of, adopted the attitude of the House Negro, so perhaps he'll do it this time also. Clarence Thomas, in all the years he's been on the United States Supreme Court, I don't think has ever, ever written an opinion that became the rule of the Court; he has never been the lead author. He has — I don't think he's even spoken for the past six years. He just looks at fat Tony Scalia; and if Fat Tony farts, Uncle Clarence farts. If Fat Tony burps, Uncle Clarence burps. This is the guy that George Herbert Walker Bush said was the most qualified man in America to be on the Supreme Court."
— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, March 15, 2010. [MP3 audio]
Criticism of ObamaCare = Incitement of Terrorism
"You rat bastards are going to cause another Murrah federal
building explosion. You are. And then what is Beck — maybe at that
point Beck will do the honorable thing and blow his brains out. Maybe
at that point, Limbaugh will do the honorable thing and just gobble up
enough Viagra that he becomes absolutely rigid and keels over dead.
Maybe then O'Reilly will just drink a vat of that poison he spews out
on America every night and choke to death! Because that's what's gonna
to happen. That's what they are pushing these right-wing, nut case,
fringe, militia jerk-wads to doing!"
— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, March 26, 2010, complaining about conservative hosts criticism of the newly-passed health care law. [MP3 audio]
Conservatives are Killers
Conservatives Hope You Die
"If in fact the GOP doesn't like any form of, of health care reform,
what do we do with those 40 to 60 million uninsured? So, from this
point on, I'm telling ya, when they show up at the emergency room, just
shoot 'em! Kill them! Drag them off and throw them in a — what are we
doing? I saw that in Kenya. I see people dying in the Kibera slums, and
every morning somebody goes through and just retrieves the bodies.
Now, if we really say, 'We have nothing to do, we can't help those 40
million people,' do we have enough body bags? I don't know."
— Montel Williams on Montel Across America, July 21, 2009. [MP3 audio]
"The Republicans lie! They want to see you dead! They'd rather make
money off your dead corpse! They kind of like it when that woman has
cancer and they don't have anything for her. That's how the insurance
companies make money: by denying the coverage. My God, Democrats! What's
wrong with you?! You can't deal with these people! At all!"
— Ed Schultz on MSNBC's The Ed Show, September 23, 2009.
Conservatives Incite Murder "For Sport"
"This is what they do. [Bill] O'Reilly inspires people to go kill doctors who provide private abortion services, legal services to his patients, and then O'Reilly stands there with that dung-eating look on his face — what a son of a bitch he is! — 'Oh, it wasn't me, blah, blah.' Of course it was you, you thug! And then the suicide-prone Glenn Beck rails against Census workers, and inspires his people to go out and kill one for sport. And I will guarantee you that O'Reilly and Beck and the rest of these monsters on the neo-fascist right in this country love this stuff. It gives them something else to talk about. It's sport."
— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, September 23, 2009. [MP3 audio]
"A security guard [at Washington, D.C.'s Holocaust Museum] tonight, Stephen T. Johns, is dead, because Rush Limbaugh and Neal Boortz and Sean Hannity and Matt Drudge and Michael Savage and all the rest, Glenn Beck, all the rest of these people pump daily, hourly, minute by minute, into public discourse: hatred, fear, contempt. They do it every day. They do it without letup; they are not self-censoring. It's a constant deluge in this country, of this poison from these right-wingers. Poison."
— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, June 10, 2009. [MP3 audio]
Conservatives Want Endless Repeats of Oklahoma City Bombing
"Today, I think Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh want today to be declared, uh, a national holiday. I suggest it be called Beck Memorial Day. This is the kind of day 15 years ago when Beck was still working, uh, in a bath house as a towel boy. This is the kind of day that, 15 years ago that Beck, when he woke up and heard about the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, he applauded. He clapped. He danced. He jumped around like a drop of water on a hot pancake griddle! He was just as happy as could be! This is what Beck and Limbaugh and the rest of these right wing freaks want to see happen again. And again. And again. Endlessly."
— Mike Malloy talking about the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, Mike Malloy Show, April 19, 2010. [MP3 audio]
No More "Acts of Treason" or "Letting People Drown"
"[Snorts] I hope he [Sean Hannity] enjoyed his little rant, because
he is going to have to make it every day for the next eight years.
Every day for the next eight years, this is what he is gonna say on his
radio show. Anybody who would try that hard to make you afraid — which
is what they've been doing for eight years — has to be scared out of
their mind that they are about to get their fingernails pried off the
levers of power, that they are not going to be able to steal anymore,
that they are not going to be able to commit acts of treason anymore.
They are not going to be able to out CIA undercover operatives. They're
not going to be able to ignore terrorist warnings, or disappear people
anymore. They're not going to be able to let people drown in
hurricanes anymore. They're not going to be able to get their mitts on
the Treasury, or hire cronies, or pack the Justice Department with Karl
Rove protégés without Senate confirmation."
— Randi Rhodes on The Randi Rhodes Show, October 29, 2008. [MP3 audio]
Conservatives Want to Kill Barack Obama
"Sometimes I think they want Obama to get shot. I do. I really
think that there are conservative broadcasters in this country who
would love to see Obama taken out. They fear socialism. They fear
Marxism. They fear that the United States of America won't be the
United States of America anymore."
— Ed Schultz, The Ed Schultz Show, August 11, 2009. [MP3 audio]
"Right Wing" Killed the Kennedy Brothers
"You know as well as I know that the death of Senator Ted
Kennedy is the death of a man, absolutely, and everything he was to the
people in his extended family, but we also understand it's the death
of an era. One of the remaining — if not the remaining — lynchpin of
liberalism in this country is gone. And you know what the term
'lynchpin' means. So, with the death of Ted Kennedy last night,
liberalism in this country has, has lost its champion, the person who,
in the modern era, personified liberalism to a greater degree than
anyone in Congress. I think his death heralds the beginning of a very,
very, very dark period in this country. I remember feeling that way in
1963 and again in 1968, when his two brothers were murdered by the
right wing in this country."
— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, August 26, 2009. [MP3 audio]
U.S. Government Killed Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The argument has been made that one of the reasons that the
U.S. government assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr. was because of his
speech at Riverside Church in New York — I think it was Riverside
Church — where he came out fully against the war in southeast Asia and
fully against the policies that were being perpetrated against the
American people in general. He left his little safe niche of, 'Oh,
well, he's the spokesman for the Negroes,' and stepped outside that and
started taking on greater issues, and so the United States government
said, 'Well, time to get rid of this guy.'"
— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, January 14, 2008. [MP3 audio]
Blaming Fort Hood Murders on George W. Bush
"I think in his [Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan's] particular case,
it's that he's counseling these guys, hearing about the horrors of
these wars that he's now going to be sent into, you know. You add to it
obviously the fact that he appeared to be — and again, we don't have
all the details yet — but appeared to be getting more radicalized, you
know. But you know, and also add in that, look, George Bush made many
people around the world feel like this was a war against Islam by using
words like 'crusade' and all of that. So, and then you add to that the
fact that he apparently was taunted for being Muslim because of the
attitudes that had, that developed here. So — and that's not to excuse
him in any way. That's what I keep hearing on the Right is, 'Oh, you
people on the Left are trying to excuse him. Oh, its politically
correct,' or whatever. No, nobody is saying that this is any kind of
excuse at all. But, I mean, it's just, I think you've got to get to the
real reasons if you want to stop this from happening again."
— Stephanie Miller on The Stephanie Miller Show, November 10, 2009. [MP3 audio]
Conservatives Are Baby-Eating Nazis
Republican Congresswoman Would Have Enjoyed the Holocaust
"I sometimes wonder what people think in this country, when they
send someone like, oh, for example, Michele Bachmann to Congress. She
represents a district in Minnesota, she's a Republican of course, and
she's a hatemonger. She's the type of person that would have gladly
rounded up the Jews in Germany and shipped them off to death camps.
She's the type of person who would have had no problem sending
typhoid-smeared blankets to Native American families awaiting
deportation to reservations. She's the type of person that I'm sure
believes that the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam was good, and the use
of depleted uranium in Iraq served a purpose. This is an evil bitch from
Hell. I mean, just an absolute evil woman."
— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, October 17, 2008. [MP3 audio]
Dick Cheney Eats Babies
"[Former Vice President Dick] Cheney, by the way looks very ruddy; I couldn't get over that, like, he must have feasted on a Jewish baby, or a Muslim baby. He must have sent his people out to get one and bring it back so he could drink its blood, because that's, you know, that's what somebody like Cheney does to get that ruddy look....The weird part — there were no dribbles of blood down his tux, but it was very clear that he had been eating the blood of either a Jewish or a Muslim baby; he wouldn't eat a Christian baby. If he ate the blood of a Christian baby, I — there's something in the old writings that said that instantly the trap door to Hell opens and you disappear into the smoke."
— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, October 22, 2009. [MP3 audio]
"Cheney has had five heart attacks, and history of heart trouble — well, I guess they're one and the same. The cause of his latest health problem is not clear. I think I know. (long pause) He's done too much cannibalism, drunk too many cups of blood! Cheney's in the hospital. Ah, the first good news all day....I'm not going to feel anything but intense gratitude that this miserable bastard has finally stepped off this earthly coil! Really!...Cheney is a murderer. He's a killer. He's a torturer. He is evil personified! He is a walking mass of horror and when he's gone, this planet will be cleaner!"
— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, June 25, 2010. [MP3 audio]
Fred Barnes Eats Babies
"[The Weekly Standard's] Fred Barnes — this guy is beyond crazy. I'm sure he eats children's arms and legs for afternoon snacks. This guy is insane."
— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, January 30, 2008. [MP3 audio]
Wanting Fox Hosts Beaten With Baseball Bats
Host Ed Schultz: "Speaking of sports, [Fox News hosts
Bill] O'Reilly, [Glenn] Beck and Geraldo [Rivera] go to a Yankees game
this weekend and somehow they ended up in the front row. How in the
heck did they ever manage that, Steph?"
Radio host Stephanie Miller: "Ah, Ed. You know if ever there was a time I wish the Yankees would bring back Bat Day, and give a bunch of drunken New Yorkers bats, that would have been the day."
— Exchange on MSNBC's The Ed Show, July 23, 2010.
Conservative Republicans = Mass Suicide Cult
Announcer: "The following is a paid advertisement from Republicans for Mitt Romney, or mass suicide. If John McCain is the Republican Presidential nominee, it will destroy the Republican Party. We're Romney supporters and we know. Because, if you vote for John McCain, we're going to go on a killing rampage. Hey, better dead than moderate."
Republican Character Voice: "Look, I for one don't want to die in a hail of gunfire from crazed Mitt Romney supporters, but it's better than nominating a man who opposed the Bush tax cuts. Hell, John McCain spent years in a North Vietnamese prison. A prison! That doesn't make him a hero. That makes him an ex-con."
Announcer: "Exactly, and um, you know what men do in prison. You see, if John McCain is President, he'll make sodomy mandatory. Now, Mitt Romney, well, he believes all sex should be outlawed."
Second Republican Character: "As a true Republican, I'm prepared to poison my own children if John McCain is the nominee, but I do wish there was another way."
Announcer: "There is. If Mitt Romney is the nominee, he'll give everyone a free new car, made by people in Michigan, with company-paid health care and pensions just like 1955. If John McCain is the nominee, well, we are going to kill everybody, then turn the guns on ourselves. So choose wisely this election day. This has been a paid ad from Republicans for Mitt Romney, or [sound of gun being cocked] mass suicide."
— Parody commercial aired on Air America's Randi Rhodes Show, February 5, 2008. [MP3 audio]
"Pig" Limbaugh Would Like It If All Children Starved
"If Limbaugh had his way, hungry kids would remain hungry kids, period. They can starve to death. Limbaugh is a filthy, disgusting personification of predatory capitalism at its worst. He's just a filthy beast. I don't understand how this woman who married him, how does she get in bed with this slob? I mean, how do you do that? How does she sit across a dinner table from him? Uhhh — never mind!...Can you believe that this society produced a filthy human being like that? A society that has in its element, corporate America that determines this pig — this pig is worth $50 million a year. That's 1 million a week! This filthy dehumanized pig is worth that? I get him when the lights are out, he's mine, there's no question about that! None!"
— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, June 17, 2010. [MP3 audio]
Rush Limbaugh, Wife Beater?
"I'm guessing that the White House advisor on domestic violence will
never say that beating your wife is OK, which may be a disappointment
to Rush Limbaugh. And you wonder why this guy can't stay married..."
— Ron Reagan, Jr. on The Ron Reagan Show, June 29, 2009. [MP3 audio]
Rush Limbaugh Serves Satan
"That Rush Limbaugh, that guy, I have to say — there's another fat
bastard that I opened up the door for, huh? It really, it really makes
me mad because, um, he, he goes and — like, I opened up the channel for
fat funny guys, I really did, that were blue collar and populist or
whatever. He took the blue collar and, like, totally went the wrong way
with it. So, he is taking my mojo and, like, using it for satanic
forces, and I just don't like it when people are working for Satan
instead of God. I don't like that."
— Roseanne Barr guest hosting Air America's American Afternoon, May 1, 2008. [MP3 audio]
Rush Limbaugh = Hitler
Host Ed Schultz: "It's kind of like the way Rush brought it to CPAC over the weekend, about how, you know, how interesting he was."
Clip of Rush Limbaugh at CPAC, accompanied by audio of Adolf Hitler and cheering Nazis: "I want Barack Obama to fail if his mission is to restructure and reform this country so that capitalism and individual liberty are not its foundation. Why would I want that to succeed?"...
Schultz: "Now if you watch Limbaugh with the sound down, the drugster, he looks like Adolf Hitler! His animation is amazing! It's, the parallel is so striking. And then, of course, Rush is now the angry American. The angry American. And that's where they are. They are so out of touch, just like Hitler was out of touch. But he was mesmerizing. So, I think it was comical. I think there are parallels drawn by some of the things Hitler was saying and some of the things that were at the CPAC convention. They are not Americans. They don't care about the greater good of society."
— Ed Schultz, The Ed Schultz Show, March 2, 2009. [MP3 audio]
Dick Cheney Is a Nazi
"You know, I listen to this monster, and all I see is underneath his suit, I see the SS uniform. And if he were to open up his collar, there would be the death's head."
— Mike Malloy referring to Dick Cheney on the January 7, 2009 Mike Malloy Show. [MP3 audio]
Wishing Conservatives Would Die
Let's Hang Matt Drudge with a Republican's Intestines
"Drudge? Aw, Drudge, somebody ought to wrap a strong Republican entrail around his neck and hoist him up about six feet in the air and watch him bounce."
— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, December 19, 2007.[MP3 audio]
Republicans: A "Nest of Rats" that Must Be "Murdered"
"Republicans are evil sons-of-bitches. The Republican Party needs to
be murdered. It needs to — it's like if you had a nest of rats in your
house, or a hornets nest under the eaves at your barn or your house,
and you knew they were going to do harm to you, your family, your kid —
if you live on the farm, your livestock, whatever. What would you do?
Of course — you'd get an exterminator and you would murder the nest and
get rid of it. Just get rid of it. This is what America needs right
now; they need to have the Republican Party eliminated, totally,
completely. It is destructive, it is negative, it is sick. [laughs] A
mercy killing is what's needed here."
— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, February 4, 2009. [MP3 audio]
"For the people who give a damn about what I say about the Republican Party being murdered, of course it needs to be murdered. It needs to be ended. It is a force for destruction in this country unlike anything that's ever been domestic. It really is. The commies, the spies sent by the Germans, the freaks, even [Rush] Limbaugh — the head of the Republican Party — is not as damaging as these Republican officeholders....The Republican Party needs to be executed. Rush Limbaugh needs to choke to death on his own fat....The Republican Party needs to be beheaded. It needs to be taken out on some dark moonless night in the middle of a corn field and decapitated."
— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, February 18, 2009. [MP3 audio]
Wishing Conservatives Would Die
"He is an enemy of the country, in my opinion, Dick Cheney is, he is
an enemy of the country. He's making it harder for those who are in
power right now to protect the country. He's about the political
divide. It just, I just think the guy's such a freakin' loser. You
know, Lord, take him to the Promised Land, will you? See, I don't even
wish the guy goes to Hell, I just want to get him the hell out of
— Ed Schultz, The Ed Schultz Show, May 11, 2009. [MP3 audio]
"So, Michele, slit your wrist! Go ahead! [chuckles] I mean, you know, why not? I mean, if you want to — or, you know, do us all a better thing. Move that knife up about two feet. I mean, start right at the collarbone."
— Montel Williams talking about Representative Michele Bachmann on Air America's Montel Across America, September 2, 2009. [MP3 audio]
"I have a good news to report: Glenn Beck appears ever closer to suicide. I'm hoping that he does it on camera. Suicide is rampant in his family, and given his alcoholism and his tendencies towards self-destruction, I am only hoping that when Glenn Beck does put a gun to his head and pulls the trigger, that it's on television, because somebody will capture it on YouTube and it will be the most popular little piece of video for months."
— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, August 4, 2009. [MP3 audio]
Hoping Rush Limbaugh Dies
"I've spent way too much time in the past 20 years paying
attention to what this slobbery bastard had to say. I told [my wife]
Kathy the other day, I just — I've never said this before, but I hope
I'm alive when this, when this guy dies. I really do. He is so morbidly
overweight. He smokes. He eats his Viagra and goes down to the
Dominican Republic to bugger little boys. I just hope that I'm around
when he croaks. I don't know why, but I do."
— Mike Malloy talking about Rush Limbaugh on the January 23, 2009 Mike Malloy Show. [MP3 audio]
"Some horrifyingly intense America-hater like Rush Limbaugh, who appears to be morphing into, seriously, he is morphing into Jabba the Hutt — I've seen some recent video, this guy is enormous, he just keeps bloating up. It's, it's just — I hope he keeps going, because that means he will soon croak. You know, like I've said, he will eventually choke to death on his own throat fat."
— Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show, on January 28, 2009.[MP3 audio]
"The Limbaugh story — I got my hopes up, I really did....What's the matter, Rush — a little too much Viagra? Those 14-year olds really wear you down, won't they? Oh, my God, what a joke that was! If Limbaugh would have died, I would have demanded to see the death certificate because, after all, it is Hawaii....I'm waiting for the day when I pick it up, pick up a newspaper or click on the Internet and find out he's choked to death on his own throat fat or a great big wad of saliva or something, you know, whatever. Go away, Rush, you make me sick!"
— Mike Malloy on the January 4, 2010 Mike Malloy Show, talking about Rush Limbaugh going to the hospital after suffering chest pains. [MP3 audio]
We Should "Rip Out" and "Kick Around" Cheney's Heart
"You're damn right, Dick Cheney's heart's a political football.
We ought to rip it out and kick it around and stuff it back in him. I'm
glad he didn't tip over....How come Dick Cheney's health care isn't
being dropped? Do you realize that if you had five heart attacks —
hell, you wouldn't get past two heart attacks and they'd dump you. But,
because you're a war criminal, and because you are on the take from
Haliburton and you had these executive meetings in 2001 back in the,
you know, the days of the rolling blackouts and executive privilege on
how we're going to develop energy policy in this country, you do stuff
like that — hell, you can get the best health care on the face of the
— Ed Schultz on The Ed Schultz Show, February 24, 2010. [MP3 audio]
More Left-Wing Lunacy
Better to Cheat than Let Republican "Bastards" Win
"I, I, I tell you what. If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote
10 times. I don't know if they'd let me or not, but I'd try to. Yeah,
that's right. I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. 'Cause
that's exactly what they are."
— Ed Schultz, The Ed Schultz Show, January 15, 2010. [MP3 audio]
Time to Shove GOP "Bastards Right Into the Dirthole!"
"To hell with the Republicans! They're anti-American! They're
psycho talkers! They don't care!...Harry [Reid], you are ball-less! You
won't do the nuke option for the American people and shove the
Republicans into the ditch! Shove those bastards right into the
dirthole! This is about power! It's about winning!"
— Ed Schultz on The Ed Schultz Show, July 14, 2010. [MP3 audio]
What Passes for Humor on Lib Radio
"He's a fat conservative butthead/Sick Republican
sleazeball/Fearmongering scumbag/ Egotistical asswipe/Mean-spirited,
hog-wallowing, fat conservative putz/With the face of a horse's
ass/Mega dildos, Rush!"
— From a Randi Rhodes Show parody song attacking Rush Limbaugh, May 18, 2010. [MP3 audio]
Sarah Palin: A Threat to Teenage Boys
"That's who she is. She's friends with all the teenage boys. You
have to say no when your kids go, 'Can we sleep over the Palin's?' No!
— Randi Rhodes talking about Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, September 12, 2008 Randi Rhodes Show. [MP3 audio]
Hoping Sarah Palin Goes Insane
"Now, you don't believe, gentle listener, that these Free Republic, Limbaugh, Drudge Report suck-heads are not completely mad? They're completely insane? And you know who is the perfect personification of this madness, is their new darling, Sarah Palin....I can look at Sarah Palin and look at her eyes and see a total collapse of anything that even resembles reality. This is a woman who is absorbing more and more and more of her own life force, if you know what I mean by that. She is eating herself alive. She honestly is starting to believe what the brain-dead teabaggers and birthers and, and — 'Obama's health care plan is to murder old people' — what — the adulation and the praise and the cheering that they heap on this crazy psychopath, when she makes a public speech. And I'm hoping, I'm praying, while I — I don't pray — while I hope that Rush Limbaugh will choke to death on his own throat fat, I also hope that Sarah Palin will drive herself completely, completely into madness, and I think the possibility truly exists."
— Mike Malloy, The Mike Malloy Show, July 28, 2009. [MP3 audio]
Going After Democrats Who Stand In Obama's Way
Ferraro turned out to be the David Duke in drag. Who knew? She's like,
'Why am I the bad guy here? I just don't want an anti-Semite racist in
the White House.' Like Nixon, or Ronald Reagan, or Dick Cheney — who
moved to Wyoming so he would never have to see a black guy or a Jew
ever, and still run for Vice President of the United States. I mean,
it's like, unbelievable to me. I can't believe it — what a whore
Geraldine Ferraro is. She's such a f***ing whore. [loud cheers] ...
"Hillary is a big f***ing whore, too, okay. [applause]...She is a big f***ing whore, and do you know why she's a big f***ing whore? Because her deal is always, 'Read the fine print, asshole.' You know, like, 'I said I'd pull you, but I didn't say I'd f*** you,' you know. She's like, 'The super delegates,' — no, never mind, the super — 'The pledged delegates aren't legally obligated to do anything.' Oh, f*** you. You know? Just f*** you! They aren't legally bound to do anything, she said. And if that doesn't work, you know she's going all Lieberman on you, right? [more cheers]"
— Then-Air America host Randi Rhodes, in a March 22, 2008 appearance sponsored by the network's San Francisco affiliate KKGN, video of which was posted on YouTube on April 4, 2008. Rhodes was suspended, and later left the network; her show was subsequently syndicated by Nova M radio.