text: [i:Vibes] :: View topic - ProducerLoops.com Releases 'Future Bass Essentials Vol 3' Guidelines FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Bookmarks Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Main Menu Frontpage News Reviews Interviews Party Reports Artist Profiles Label profiles Diaries Tutorials What is... Links Radio-info Interactive Forum User Stats Info FAQ Crew-info i:Vibes Info Site Updates ProducerLoops.com Releases 'Future Bass Essentials Vol 3' [i:Vibes] Forum Index -> Artist and Label News View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message equinoxsoundsPart-Time DJVibes: 175.36Joined: 21 Feb 2008Member #: 12,591Posts: 701Location: Barcelona Post subject: ProducerLoops.com Releases 'Future Bass Essentials Vol 3' 'Future Bass Essentials Vol 3' by Producer Loops captures this breakout genre's signature drops, pulsating synth chords, exotic percussion and more. These five construction kits, inspired by pioneers such as Flume, Lido, and Cashmere Cat, provide all you need to create your next Future Bass banger. Inside you'll find five Kits brimming with synths, atmospheric FX, hypnotic pads, energetic chords, twinkly arps, vox drops, and more. MIDI Files Included: Like so many other Producer Loops products, 'Future Bass Essentials Vol 3' includes MIDI files for the majority of musical phrases heard in each Kit, allowing you to seamlessly mix your favourite synths and samplers with the sounds contained in the pack. Advantages of MIDI: While the supplied ACID/Apple Loops/REX files are extremely flexible and powerful, MIDI has the added benefit of allowing you to go to extremes of pitch and tempo beyond which the loops were originally recorded, with no time stretching or pitch shifting artefacts. Furthermore, you can make tweaks to the riffs so they fit perfectly into your existing mixes. Dry/Wet Loops: For users looking to simply drag and drop, the 'wet' files contain all of the effects processing heard in the audio demos. But for producers looking to create their own effects mix, 'dry' loops are also included. Don't like the wet loops? No problem; add your own effects. Unlooped Riffs/Tails: This sample library also comes with unlooped/tail versions allowing you to end a phrase with the decay of the reverb/delay applied to the loop, another "Producer Loops" exclusive product feature. Royalty-Free: All of the loops in this product are 100% Royalty-Free (including the vocal loops), so once purchased, you can use these loops in your commercial releases without having to pay any hidden costs. Specifications: 5 Construction Kits ACIDized WAV Files Apple Loops/AIFF Files REX2 Loops Reason ReFill Loops sync to BPM 44.1 kHz/24-Bit PC/Mac Compatible Royalty-Free (No Exceptions) Price and Availability: 'Future Bass Essentials Vol 3 is available for instant download exclusively at ProducerLoops.com for £24.95/27.58 Euros. More information is available at: https://www.producerloops.com Post rating: 0 Rate this post: Not logged in Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2020 8:50 am Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First [i:Vibes] Forum Index -> Artist and Label News All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Spam----------------Spam posts Music----------------Music discussion (trance, techno, progressive and other genres)EquipmentArtist and Label NewsRadio BroadcastsMusic Production and DJ Mix PromotionClub Listings Non-music related----------------Other discussionBuy & Sell [i:Vibes]----------------Site Feedback and Help Content Discussion----------------News DiscussionReview DiscussionInterview DiscussionTutorial DiscussionWhat is...Party ReportsArtist ProfilesLabel Profiles You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forumYou cannot attach files in this forumYou can download files in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group


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Tag: Buxom Full Bodied Lipsticks
Spring 2013 Lipsticks: YSL, Shiseido and Buxom
I have posted about some new lip products for Spring 2013 recently but there are even more launches.
YSL Rouge Volupté Shine, £24/$34
A new lipstick from YSL is enhanced with fruit extracts rich in vitamins and antioxidants that leave lips visibly softer and smoother. The texture is promised to be hydrating (up to 8 hours; it contains hyaluronic acid spheres) and lightweight.
There will be different shades for different countries. Here are just three shades to give you an idea:
4 Rouge Danger – deep strawberry red, 6 Pink in Devotion – bright hibiscus pink, 13 Pink in Paris – dried rose pink
There is a new lipstick range from Shiseido – Perfect Rouge Tender Sheer.
Although I am not a fan of the packaging , I like the idea of "moist, radiant finish that smoothes the lips with a dewy texture and even application to minimize the look of vertical lip lines".
There are six shades: BE302 TOPAZ, BR503 SOCIETY, PK301 PRETTY, RD205 FLORA, RD304 HIBISCUS and

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Newport Jazz Festival
Robert Glasper Experiment, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2013WBGO
Robert Glasper Experiment, Live In Concert: Newport Jazz 2013
One gets the sense that pianist Robert Glasper feels completely at ease with his Experiment band, running his right hand in circles, cracking jokes and switching directions on the fly. Along the way, he's cracked the mold of how jazz might approach the hip-hop and R&B of today. The breakout success of last year's album Black Radio, with its real-time boom-bap and myriad vocal cameos, has already led to a sequel, due out near Halloween. Here's a freewheeling set of vamps and vocoder from Glasper and company.
- Robert Glasper, piano/keyboard
- Casey Benjamin, alto saxophone/vocoder
- Derrick Hodge, electric bass
- Mark Colenburg, drums
Set List
- "Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box" (Radiohead)
- "Cherish the Day" (Sade)
- "Get Lucky" (Daft Punk)
- "Lift Off" (Glasper)
- "Fall/Speak No Evil" (Wayne Shorter)
- "All Matter" (Bilal)


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Jimmy Kimmel points to an enormous new treadmill in his office. The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host recently installed the contraption, which sports a large tabletop to conduct business while exercising, and has taken to walking on it while working. "I read somewhere that sitting all day can cut 15 or 20 years off your life," he explains. "It's worse than smoking. We weren't meant to sit this much."
Photo Gallery: Jimmy Kimmel channels the Emmy nominees for Best Drama Series
It's hard to believe that Kimmel has much time to sit down anyway — or eat or sleep, for that matter. The ABC late-night host is in the middle of the biggest year of his show, and, quite possibly, his life. So far in 2012, Kimmel has made nice (and become pals!) with Oprah Winfrey; hosted the White House Correspondents Dinner to great reviews (including high marks from the president); was tapped to host the 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards on Sept. 23; subsequently scored the show's first-ever Emmy nomination for variety series; and even got engaged to girlfriend Molly McNearney, the show's co-head writer, while on vacation in South Africa.
"And," he quips, "I'm pregnant."
Next month, Kimmel takes his show on the road to his native Brooklyn, where his guests will include Kimmel's teenage radio idol, Howard Stern. Then, just in time for JKL's 10th anniversary in January, Kimmel is getting a huge promotion — a move to 11:35 p.m. directly against late night staples The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Late Show with David Letterman. "The past 12 months have been a hurricane," says The Voice's Carson Daly, a close friend who calls Kimmel "the big brother I never had." "It's been really exciting to watch. It feels like fate. It's all been so natural for him with nothing but hard work."
ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live Gets a Time Slot UpgradeKimmel's come a long way from his early days at the network as ABC's unlikely late night savior. In 2002, ABC made a big play to steal David Letterman from CBS — but once that failed, the network set its eyes on Kimmel, then best known for his stints on The Man Show and Win Ben Stein's Money. After just one meeting with Kimmel, they offered him the job. "I was thoroughly confused," he recalls. "I didn't know what was happening, I didn't expect it. The next day we were trying to pick a name for the show and hiring people. It was crazy. I still look back on it and can't believe how little thought and research went into that decision. They invested millions of dollars on a hunch."That hunch worked out well for Kimmel, who calls the 2012 frenzy "rewarding and terrifying," but "fun, too." With his Emmy stint fast approaching, Kimmel took time out to chat with TV Guide Magazine about how he has become a contender for the late night crown.TV Guide Magazine: It took ABC 10 years to move you to 11:35. Is part of you wondering what took so long?
Kimmel: I have to say, that definitely has crossed my mind over the years. I felt like, I'm ready to do this. But looking back, I probably wasn't ready. And who knows, maybe I'll look back and realize that I'm not ready now. It's really a win either way for me. I don't expect that we're going to win out of the gate. But we're going to have a bigger audience. You put yourself in a position to be the next dynasty in late night.TV Guide Magazine: As the ratings climb, has that given you more leverage?
Kimmel: [ABC] was always pretty good in letting us do what we wanted to do. Once in a while, we'll have a fight over whether something is too obscene. One of the dumbest things ever happened about six months ago. There was a stick figure drawing of a naked woman, and there was a dot where each nipple would be, and they made us blur the dots out, which I figured was a little bit much for midnight.TV Guide Magazine: Four years ago, you were passed over to host the Emmys in favor of five reality hosts — who proceeded to bomb big time. How did that feel?
Kimmel: I didn't want to see those guys fail. The inherent problem was five people hosting an awards show is like five people hosting a talk show. Unless you're The View it isn't going to work. One person needs to be in charge.TV Guide Magazine: What are your goals for the Emmys?
Kimmel: I know it's a miserable show to sit through if you're in the audience and sometimes it can be a miserable show to sit through if you're at home. My goal is to make the show funny from beginning to end. I'm going to do as much as I can to make that happen.TV Guide Magazine: Is there only so much you can do though?
Kimmel: There is, because ultimately the awards have to be given out. But to me the Emmys are fun because people really do watch TV, as opposed to if you watch the Academy Awards and maybe you've seen a couple of the movies. There are so many shows that I love that are nominated that it's kind of exciting.TV Guide Magazine: Do you feel better prepared to host now that you've channeled characters from the six drama nominees at our photo shoot?
Kimmel: Well, a couple of things. Now I know why they need a butler to help them with their clothes in Downton Abbey. As for Khaleesi — I look more like a member of Poison than Khaleesi. I do feel like Walter White. I kinda look like him. It's amazing what a little glue and hair from some unidentified animal will do.TV Guide Magazine: And coincidentally, it's Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s first major nomination. What did it mean to the show?
Kimmel: It meant a lot to us because it can be disheartening after a while. You work so hard and people seem to like it, but year after year after year you don't make it into the top six. So everybody was really excited. As a matter of fact, people were more excited than I imagined that they would be. We don't expect to win, and I won't prepare any comments because I know we won't win. I know it's a cliché, but it's nice to have been nominated.TV Guide Magazine: Is this the first step to eventually host the Academy Awards?
Kimmel: I don't look at it like that at all. Yeah, I'd love to host the Oscars, if they wanted me to. But I also like doing our post-Oscar special. It's become a bit of an event on its own, and I don't think I could do both of those things. I was always more interested in television than movies [so] for me, the Emmys is a big deal.TV Guide Magazine: This year's Oscar special featured Oprah. How did you ever break the ice with her?
Kimmel: That was a big deal for me. We built The Man Show as the anti-Oprah show. I never thought she would do [JKL], and I certainly didn't think she would do it with so much enthusiasm. She's really just a person who lights the whole building up. It kind of amazes me. I was a disgruntled husband and I would come home from work and my wife had seen Oprah and she would yell at me for something I didn't even do, and I would go, 'Who is this Oprah and why is she ruining my marriage, why is she doing this to me?' I got it when she did that shoot with us. She made us feel really good about ourselves and that's not something I'm good at.TV Guide Magazine: What would circa-1999 Man Show Jimmy Kimmel think of 2012 "Friend of Oprah" Jimmy Kimmel?
Kimmel: I think he'd probably be very confused. That said, it was always my dream to go on The Oprah Winfrey Show. I wanted to walk into that enemy territory and win them over.TV Guide Magazine: Do you still keep in contact with her?
Kimmel: I do. I love her! I really do. I know I sound like Julia Roberts and John Travolta speaking on her birthday show. But I get it now. I used to think they were being phony, but I feel the same way now. It's hard to describe, and I know most people who were fans of The Man Show will probably be horrified to hear this, but honestly, Oprah is an inspiring person.TV Guide Magazine: Is it hard to make fun of celebrities once you get to know them?
Kimmel: No, it's easier actually. It's like the way you make fun of your friends as opposed to making fun of a stranger. Which will get you punched in the face.TV Guide Magazine: The White House Correspondents Dinner seems like the most thankless job. Was it?
Kimmel: I feel like I accomplished what I set to accomplish, which is I think both sides enjoyed it. The right-wingers really enjoyed the jokes I made at the president's expense, and the left-wingers enjoyed the jokes I made at Rush Limbaugh's — or whoever's — expense.TV Guide Magazine: How important is it to stay politically neutral?
Kimmel: I think for some performers it's important to stay in the middle, but for more of them nowadays it's important to be extremely on one side or the other. And I think that's unfortunately what people respond to. Reason doesn't seem to be an attribute that is admired in most cable and radio hosts. I try to leave my political opinions out of the show because I don't feel like I know enough to speak as an authority on those subjects and it just upsets people. There are certain issues that I think are important enough to pick a side, like same-sex marriage for instance. I think it's ridiculous that people aren't legally allowed to get married and I don't think it has anything to do with religion.TV Guide Magazine: What do the standards people think of your "This Week In Unnecessary Censorship" segment?
Kimmel: They had a real problem with it at the beginning and almost derailed it. It took a lot of fighting on my part. But I will go to my grave saying these words over and over again, "They are not cursing." Ultimately repeating that over and over again finally sunk in.TV Guide Magazine: How tough was it for you to do a tribute show to your Uncle Frank, who worked on JKL as a security guard and frequently appeared on camera?
Kimmel: It was hard, that's for sure. I'm getting choked up right now. [Starts to tear up.] It's hard enough to lose a relative. But to have it be somebody that everyone knows and loved so much, which is great, it magnifies the pain in a way. Almost every day somebody says, "Sorry about Uncle Frank." It's nice, but it's upsetting. More than anything, he would have loved that show. That's what was most important to me, which was giving him a fitting "hoology," as he called it. I think he thought it started with an H. I felt a big responsibility to do it properly.TV Guide Magazine: What does it mean to bring the show to Brooklyn?
Kimmel: It's great to be able to travel with the staff. And the funniest people in America live in Brooklyn. Almost every person I talk to on the street will be funnier than I am. It's just nice to have a homecoming. My family's really excited about it.TV Guide Magazine: And you also got engaged this year.
Kimmel: That's right, and to a woman this time. Last time it was Adam Carolla. Yes, to Molly, and we get along very well, she's very funny, and she seems to like me.TV Guide Magazine: What's that like, working on the show together?
Kimmel: We've worked together for a long time. It's great because we are totally immersed in this world, and you have someone to talk to about this stuff who really knows what you're talking about. We're on vacation at the same time, we ride to work, and it's nice. It just seems very normal. Plus, my brother works here, two of my cousins work here and my aunt. I have a lot of close members of my family here, so it's not really odd.TV Guide Magazine: Will you get married on the show?
Kimmel: No. But it is funny, now that I think about it — when Molly and I get married, we will tie the Bachelor and Bachelorette franchises for the most ABC weddings.TV Guide Magazine: Given this year, it's hard to remember the days when JKL struggled to stay on the air.
Kimmel: I was hoping that it would be canceled. Because if the network decided to cancel the show, I didn't have to do this anymore and my staff members wouldn't blame me for quitting on them. Believe me, if this show had been canceled, I would have been more relieved than disappointed during those first two years. But I think our big moment was the video that I did with Ben Affleck. And before that, the Matt Damon video. There were so many big celebrities that offered to be a part of a comedy bit that was on our show that I think it sent a strong message.TV Guide Magazine: Going back 10 years, how did you survive those first few weeks?
Kimmel: Week one was tough. I remember on Friday night being so exhausted, and just physically and emotionally spent, and wondering how I was going to do this 46 weeks a year. There are a lot of jobs in TV, and some of them are unbelievably easy. I'm sure Drew Carey breezes into The Price is Right, he's funny, he heads right home and goes to dinner. But hosting a late night talk show is not one of them. It's all encompassing. And the people who fail are in general the people who are not prepared for that.TV Guide Magazine: It seems like you almost have to be wired differently to be a late night host.
Kimmel: Every day I have to go on stage and if I'm not funny, it's a very unpleasant feeling. The bit we shot for the Oscars, "Movie: The Movie," was months of preparation, booking, writing and shooting and editing. I don't want to bomb when I get out there, so I spend pretty much every minute of the day trying to avoid that. I think our monologue is — well, at least it used to be — very different from all the other monologues, showing video clips and highly produced comedy bits. I think I got more comfortable with that every year. I never did standup comedy so I didn't have that seasoning as a performer. I was scared to stand up in front of people. I'd hide behind the desk with my security blanket. I've been able to grow in a lot of ways and hopefully that will continue, but at some point it stops. That's the point where you have to reevaluate whether you should be doing the job or not.TV Guide Magazine: It seems like the other shows eventually began peppering their monologues with the same kind of clips.
Kimmel: On the one hand it's a little bit annoying, but it's flattering I guess that people think enough of what you're doing to adopt it, some people more blatantly than others.TV Guide Magazine: You also decided not to be live anymore.
Kimmel: Well, the network decided that. I do miss being live. It was kind of scary, and I like being a little bit scared before the show starts, and now I'm not. The truth is, an actor came out and started cursing on the show and the network wasn't able to bleep it in time, and some of the affiliates got upset. But it is nicer. Doing a show at 9 at night made having any kind of a personal life almost impossible for every member of our staff.TV Guide Magazine: You've survived several ABC regime changes too.
Kimmel: For that I'm very grateful. It wasn't like they had a huge hit on their hands. They had a show that was shaky at best and causing problems here or there. It would have been easy to throw us off the air and put some syndicated programming on.TV Guide Magazine: During the writers strike, you and Jay Leno became chummy.
Kimmel: Yeah, we did. I don't think we were treated fairly during that writers strike. I think that exceptions were made for certain shows that weren't made for others, which left us in a very difficult spot. He called me, and we felt we had to present a unified front. Leno was very smart about that stuff. His advice was very good and he was absolutely right, and I was grateful to him for the advice that he gave me.TV Guide Magazine: But then things changed.
Kimmel: I foolishly thought that we had a real relationship, and to my surprise it turned out we did not. And it's one of those "fool me once, shame on you" type of things that I learned a lesson from.TV Guide Magazine: What exactly happened?
Kimmel: When there was a chance Jay would come to ABC, he called me all the time, because the truth is ABC would not have been able to hire him unless I agreed willingly to move to 12:30. So he needed me to give him the green light on that. And I realized afterward that he was just negotiating. He never really intended to come over here. He was using me, is what it felt like. Because I never heard from him again once he decided to stay at NBC.TV Guide Magazine: Would you have been willing to move to 12:30, behind Leno?
Kimmel: I think I would have, at that time. If that was the case now, no way.TV Guide Magazine: What do you think happens in late night once Leno and Letterman retire?
Kimmel: It mostly depends on who replaces them. It's so different already. People ask if I ever wanted to do a late night talk show and as a kid I never imagined that anyone other than David Letterman and Johnny Carson would do a late night talk show. At that time, Johnny Carson had 20 million people watching his show. That will never happen again. You could add all the shows up and you won't get that number anymore. And I think it's going to continue to fragment.TV Guide Magazine: Young guys are watching late-night animation on Adult Swim.
Kimmel: At ABC we have a female audience, so that's what we focus on. We don't focus on the young male audience. There's no point in it, they have the Internet. I love David Letterman, but when I was 19 years old if I had to choose between him and pornography, I'm afraid he would have lost that battle.TV Guide Magazine: Would you ever like to produce a companion show in ABC late night?
Kimmel: The affiliates have that timeslot so it would take a lot to make that happen. But it would be a lot of fun for me, I'd love to do that. I feel like I've learned so much that I would be good at it, and I like producing shows. The daily grind is not as much fun as that excitement of putting things together and hiring people. There are a lot of funny people and that's something I would definitely be interested in.TV Guide Magazine: As a kid who grew up idolizing Letterman, what's it like to realize you'll now be competing head-to-head?
Kimmel: I know this sounds like a cliché, but I'm honored to even be on against him. He's the greatest ever and my sense of humor wouldn't be what it is were it not for him and that show.TV Guide Magazine: Did you ever dream about a scenario where you were Letterman's successor on his show?
Kimmel: It wasn't a real possibility, but it's certainly something I fantasized about. It would have been thrilling for me personally. Only with Dave's full blessing. Fortunately I have a good situation at ABC and I've never been in any kind of position to have a real discussion about anything like that.TV Guide Magazine: Who are some of your favorite guests?
Kimmel: Don Rickles, Mike Tyson, Charles Barkley, Shaq. Dustin Hoffman was a fantastic guest. I didn't know what to expect from him but he was unbelievable. Then there are people like Kathy Griffin and Carolla, who always deliver and who are always there for us. As far as people I don't like or haven't had good experiences, there are some reality stars who sometimes I wonder, "Why are these people on? What am I doing here?" The worst you can get is boring. You want someone who's either really good or a disaster.TV Guide Magazine: How about some of your favorite moments over the past decade? Kimmel: I always loved when we would send my Aunt Chippy and Uncle Frank out to do things together because I've been watching and been amused by them my whole life. Sucking helium with Mike Tyson was a great moment for me. Oprah being on the show, of course. And we have this character on the show called Jake Byrd who infiltrated a group of Michael Jackson fans once and I don't think I ever laughed harder.TV Guide Magazine: Who do you hope to still eventually have on the show?
Kimmel: David Letterman probably first and foremost. Bill Murray, Jerry Seinfeld, these are guys that are my comedy idols. Woody Allen — I know that will never happen but would love have him on the show. Madonna actually helped me get through puberty and I'd love to have her on.TV Guide Magazine: Folks say you haven't changed a bit. Is that true?
Kimmel: I'm pretty much the same. I think a lot of times when people say you've changed, it's because their image of you has changed.TV Guide Magazine: So 10 years down, 10 more to go?
Kimmel: I would like to do another 10. And that seems like enough. Another 10 seems like plenty. More likely, we'll hit six and they'll say hit the road.TV Guide Magazine: You just extended your deal two more years, to 2015.
Kimmel: We're one-fifth of the way there.TV Guide Magazine: But ten years from now you'll only be 54.
Kimmel: Yeah, but probably looking like I'm 74. Talk -show hosts seem to age like presidents.


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Guests: Ed Rendell, Stephanie Gosk, David Corn, Julia Boorstin, Harold Schaitberger, Hisham Melhem, Cynthia Tucker, Jeff Wentworth, Colin Goddard
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: Workers unite.
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews down in Washington.
Leading off tonight: Going for broke. Don't think for a second that both sides in this fight don't think they're right. They do, and with a passion. The Republican governor of Wisconsin is absolutely convinced he's doing what needs to be done, break the backs of the unions when it comes to state budgeting. He wants them tamed to the point where the worst they can do, the unions, is to get a raise that keeps the workers up with the cost of living, and that's it.
And what happens in Wisconsin is darn well not going to stay in Wisconsin. Already, eight other states are considering either limiting or outright eliminating employee bargaining rights. The unions know this is their death knell. Lose their right to bargain, and why would anyone pay dues? Why would anyone pay union leaders who can't do anything for them?
Plus, Libya slips further into chaos. Moammar Gadhafi gave a rambling speech from the army barracks bombed by the U.S. back in '86 saying he would fight to the end. He ain't quitting. Meanwhile, much of eastern Libya is now in the hands of people calling themselves revolutionaries, and untold hundreds have died at the hands of pro-Gadhafi forces, which include mercenaries brought in from the rest of Africa to kill their own people. We're going to get an update from that region.
Plus, why would anyone allow college students—think about college students—to be carrying concealed weapons all over campus? Well, the Texas legislature thinks that's a dandy idea. The theory seems to be if everyone on campus has a gun, there will be no gun violence. I think that's the Dodge City theory. Anyway, let's see how far they're going with that.
And a new unpublished tell-all book by a former aide to Sarah Palin—
I think we call these people rats, but they're useful at times—paints her as a foul-mouthed celebrity obsessed with the press and petty feuds.
Also, we now have footage of JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy in Houston on November 21st, 1963. We know that day, the night before Dallas. This never before seen film has just surfaced, and we're going to show it to you. Boy, they look great tonight. What a sad story. Tragic.
Finally, if you missed by documentary last night on Bill Clinton, "President of the World," you can see it at your convenience at your home or anywhere on line. Just to go—get this straight now—
Hardball.MSNBC.com—Hardball.MSNBC.com. You'll have an hour of fun. I think it's without commercials, by the way.
Let's bring in Wisconsin, where the unions are fighting back against Republican governor Scott Walker in a battle to the death. An old friend of ours from the labor movement, Harold Schaitberger, is president of the International Association of Firefighters, and he's joining us right now.
Let's talk about this whole issue. I want to ask you about this thing about this pattern. We're looking at states that couldn't be more important politically, Harold. You know. You know the issues involved (INAUDIBLE) states. These are the Midwestern states. There's a whole bunch of them—Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin, of course. You see them all bunched there together, up around the lakes region there in the industrial Midwest. And then, of course, Florida thrown in there.
All of these states, you've got Republicans in the state legislature -
they did very well in November—out to kill the labor movement by going after public employees and saying you really don't have the right to negotiate anything but basic wages. And even in that case, you better keep them lower than the cost of living—in other words, don't get any real raises ever.
Where do you think this is going to end?
HAROLD SCHAITBERGER, PRES., INT'L ASSN. OF FIREFIGHTERS: Well, Chris, First of all, let me build on your point because it's much broader than this. This is an outright assault on worker rights and trying to silence the workers' voices. It's not just about the eight states—Ohio—by the way, add to that Iowa, Nebraska, the states that are trying to undercut, if not totally eliminate, the collective bargaining rights that these workers have enjoyed over many decades.
This is about right to work laws in a dozen states. This is about paycheck protection laws that they call protection, which as you well know, is really paycheck deception, which is trying to silence workers' voices in the political process -- 15 states. This is about dues deduction laws that have been passed in Alabama to eliminate the opportunity for workers to even have dues deductions for their unions. Now it's in Tennessee, Oklahoma, spreading into other states.
This is an absolute coordinated, organized attack in the 19 states whose legislatures flipped and those states whose governors became (INAUDIBLE) controlled (ph). And we have over 500 anti-worker pieces of legislation introduced in those states already in this session.
This is an absolute assault on workers' rights, and it's an assault on those of us that represent workers to be able to continue to do that and give them a voice and a place at the table where the decisions are made.
MATTHEWS: Let me bring in former governor Ed Rendell. He's an MSNBC
actually an NBC now political analyst. Governor Rendell, it's great to have you because you've been on both sides of this. You're a pro-labor Democrat. I think that's fair to say. You've also had to run state and keep a budget.
Look at this fact we got, a new number that just came out. I'm amazed at this number. It's in "The Washington Post" this morning. Only 14 percent—that's 1 in 7 -- of whites who don't have college degrees think Obama's done anything for them. In other words, this is almost 6 out of 7 white workers who don't have college degrees—you can call them working class, though that's kind of a British idea—who are really not happy with this president.
Now you go look at the people who are out there lobbying, who are fighting on the picket lines, mostly white people, Midwesterners, not East Coast liberals or elite. So how do you put this together? Look at these people. These are the people you would think would be one of those 14 percent that don't like Obama, yet they're there on the political activist side of this fight. How does it work?
ED RENDELL (D), FMR. PA GOV, NBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, I think, Chris, it's because they're under attack, and if your basic way of life and the things you hold dear are under attack, you'll step forward regardless of what your political leanings are.
And I think the governor here went too far. Let me just say this. Governor Walker is right to help balance the budget. In Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and states all across the country, there are going to have to be givebacks on the benefit side. Workers—government workers are going to have to contribute more to health care, contribute more to pensions. And the union, I think, has responsibly recognized that.
Where Governor Walker went too far is trying to get rid of collective bargaining. I heard him say on the air over the weekend that, Look, we won the election, and this is what people want. Well, people wanted a reduction in spending, but they didn't campaign—Governor Walker didn't campaign saying he was going get rid of collective bargaining. Had he done so, I'm not sure he would have won the election because it's not a popular idea with Wisconsinites.
Look, collective bargaining can work. You know, I took over Philadelphia at the time it was facing its worst financial crisis ever. I went to the table and said to the unions, You're going to have to give us back significant benefits and significant work rule changes.
MATTHEWS: Right.
RENDELL: They resisted. I went to the public. We won that battle. There was a short-lived strike, and we got the concessions we needed to put Philadelphia back on track. When I became governor, Pennsylvania state workers didn't contribute a dime to their health care. They're now paying 3 percent of their salaries toward health care.
That's the way you do it. Collective bargaining doesn't mean the workers always win. If you make your case to the people, it can be a very important function for balance.
MATTHEWS: Well said. OK, let me go—let me to back—Harold Schaitberger—
SCHAITBERGER: Yes, Chris—
MATTHEWS: -- of the firefighter—I want you to look at an ad that's put out—it's an ad by your overall organization, AFL-CIO, but in Wisconsin. It's a state operation, the state affiliates out there. Let's take a look at this, an ad from the Wisconsin AFL-CIO. I want you, as a labor leader, to respond to this and maybe back it up. Let's listen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Governor Walker, public employees have agreed to the cuts you asked for, and now they're simply asking that you not take away their rights. We stand together or we fall together, and we're asking the people of Wisconsin to stand with us.
MATTHEWS: What do you make of that? That is a pretty strong ad, and I want to ask you to think about it.
SCHAITBERGER: Well, Chris, let me tell you, I was at a disadvantage. I could hear the ad, I couldn't see it. But I thought that absolutely, it was right on point.
Let me—I'd like to make a—
MATTHEWS: It's basically what the governor was saying—
SCHAITBERGER: Let me make a comment about the governor's comment. I will say this. His point is in some ways well made. But let me make it clear. The workers out there—we have already made it clear. Governor Walker already knows that they are prepared to pay toward their pension, to pay toward their health care.
This is simply a cover. This is a dishonest attempt to simply silence the workers' rights—voices and take away their rights.
I'll say one thing about Governor Rendell. And we have had our disagreements. But he has always upheld the right that workers should be allowed to be represented by their unions at the bargaining table. This—
Governor Walker says that it's not political. Well, let me just say straightforward, then how does he carve out the cops, state troopers, including our firefighters, by the way, that we did not ask for, and try to pit labor amongst itself? This is an old—
MATTHEWS: Why'd he do it?
SCHAITBERGER: -- tactic—
MATTHEWS: Why'd he do it?
SCHAITBERGER: -- divide and conquer. Give a few something, take away from everyone else the same thing, allow the battle to take place within side the house, and you stand back and just watch them fight each other.
That's not what's happening in Wisconsin because firefighters were marching with, were fighting with, were standing on the front line with and we are staying united with all the workers in Wisconsin. This is simply a cheap trick by Walker, trying to eliminate the ability—
SCHAITBERGER: -- of those workers to be represented.
RENDELL: And Chris—
MATTHEWS: Well, here he is—let's let the governor speak for himself, Governor—Governor Rendell and Harold. Here's Governor Scott (SIC) making a point. I think you're going to disagree with this. I know you will. Let's listen. Here he is today, Governor Walker, saying what the fight's about.
GOV. SCOTT WALKER ®, WISCONSIN: But if I have to choose between the demands of a few union leaders, particularly those leaders from outside of Wisconsin, or staying with the hard-working taxpayers of Wisconsin, I'm going to stand with the taxpayers. Raising taxes is the last thing you want to do when you have a bad economy.
MATTHEWS: Well, there he is saying this fight over recognition—
SCHAITBERGER: Chris—
MATTHEWS: -- over—no, he says it's over taxes. Is it not a budget issue? If you've got the power of a union to negotiate higher wages or higher benefits down the road or work rules that are beneficial to the employees at the cost of the state, isn't it eventually always about the budget? That's what he's saying.
SCHAITBERGER: Well, let me—let me make a point about the budget. But I would first like to point out that the hundreds of thousands of public workers in Wisconsin are taxpayers and they pay their taxes toward their communities.
Second, let's talk about that budget. In 2009, the Wisconsin pension plan was 99 percent funded. The pension plan got into trouble during this crash of a market that went from 14,000 to 6,500. With that said, the reality is there's a shortfall. But these employees are willing to come to the table.
They've already indicated they understand that they have to put up—
SCHAITBERGER: -- and pay for their part, and they're willing to do that. He doesn't want—that's not what his—
SCHAITBERGER: -- game or goal is here. He wants to strip—
SCHAITBERGER: -- the workers of their rights—
SCHAITBERGER: -- and this is coordinated all across this country.
This is like PATCO in 1982. That's the kind of moment we're in right now.
MATTHEWS: Except that PATCO was an illegal strike. It was a wildcat.
RENDELL: Right. Chris, two points I want to make here—
MATTHEWS: Right? Right, Harold? Wasn't that a—just to get the facts straight here, wasn't it a wildcat strike by a union that had supported Ronald Reagan? Let's get the facts straight.
SCHAITBERGER: Well—
MATTHEWS: Isn't that right?
SCHAITBERGER: -- let me get the—
MATTHEWS: Didn't that union—
MATTHEWS: -- support Ronald Reagan in that campaign, and didn't they break the contract they were under?
SCHAITBERGER: When they locked those workers up in shackles was at the same time that they were celebrating solidarity and pulling for workers striking for their very same rights.
MATTHEWS: Well, help me with the facts here. Weren't they pro-Reagan, that union? I just want the facts straight on this show.
SCHAITBERGER: You know what? I can't tell you whether they were a pro-Reagan union.
MATTHEWS: Well, they endorsed Reagan. And by the way, they broke a contract. They were wildcatting. It's a different story here.
Let's go to Governor Rendell. I just want the facts here. Whatever side we take here, let's get the facts straight.
RENDELL: You're correct, Chris. You're correct about PATCO.
MATTHEWS: Let's go to the—governor, I want you to look at a couple numbers here. Everybody thinks that these guys have the hot hand, guys like Christie and Walker. I'm not so sure. Look at the numbers here. You follow this, I think. Governor, look at your fellow former governors. Here's Cuomo up at 57 to 33, and he's not pulling all these stunts -- 43 to 42 Brown, he's up ahead slightly. Then you've got Christie, who's ahead. And then you got Walker, who's behind, according to—according to the Greenberg-Quinlan poll.
Now, it seems to me that this isn't a guaranteed "dress for success" operation. Do you think Christie's going to be in great shape two years from now, three years from now, Walker's going to—once this thing's settled?
Governor Rendell, you've been through these fights. How do they work out politically?
RENDELL: It's hard to tell, Chris. It's hard to tell what the economy's going to look like and whether there'll be a recovery. But I do think Governor Walker is making a second big mistake. One mistake is that collective bargaining, the unions always win. That's not true. The public decides, and you can make your case to the public and win those battles. So you don't have to get rid of collective bargaining, you just have to do it right. It's called bargaining. Bargaining means both sides do it. And by the way, it's at the heart of what has made this country different than all other countries.
Secondly, Governor Walker is being unfair, and the public understands fairness. At the same time he's asking the workers to take these hits, and they're taking them, he's also cutting taxes for business. You know, when I became governor, I thought business taxes were too high, and for six straight years, I lowered business taxes, even though I had a deficit when I took over as governor. But in years seven and eight, the recession hit and I had to start laying off workers. I stopped cutting taxes for business—
MATTHEWS: I see.
RENDELL: -- because you can't lay workers off at the same time, cut taxes. Everybody's going to have to feel the pain fairly.
RENDELL: And Governor Walker's not doing that, and that's why I think public opinion's turning against him.
MATTHEWS: You know, I would have loved to have seen you and Gerry McEntee in the same room fighting with each other. That must have been quite a sight.
RENDELL: It was fun!
MATTHEWS: Mr. Schaitberger, thanks for joining us. I agree with your argument.
SCHAITBERGER: Thank you, Chris.
MATTHEWS: And I think you're wrong about PATCO. I think they were breaking the law and they were a pro-Reagan union. I just think we've got to keep these things straight, even though you got a good case this time. Thank you, Ed Rendell. Thank you, Harold Schaitberger.
RENDELL: Thank you, Chris.
MATTHEWS: Coming up: Libya's Moammar Gadhafi—boy, this guy is wacky and I think he's toast. He vows to fight to the end. I think that's coming within a day or two, the way it looks right now, although he's bringing in mercenaries. He's hiring people to kill Libyans. What a leader. I think he needs to go to trial, this guy, not leave the country. How long will he last? We'll get the report from the region with the experts next, coming up in a minute.
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Thune's the latest high-profile Republican to say he's not running.
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MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. A defiant Moammar Gadhafi ranted on Libyan state TV for more than an hour-and-a-half today. Speaking from his Tripoli residence, that was bombed during U.S. air strikes in the '80s, he urged his own supporters, such as they are, to hunt down the protesters. The man's deluded. He vowed to go down fighting to the last drop.
MOAMMAR GADHAFI, LIBYAN LEADER: (through translator) I will not leave the country, and I will die as a martyr. Again, I will fight until the last drop of my blood with the Libyan people behind me.
MATTHEWS: Wow. The rambling speech came as Libyan military units defected and joined forces with protesters to take control of the eastern part of the country. Hundreds have died at the hands of Gadhafi (INAUDIBLE) military militias. He's hired African mercenaries, as I said, from sub-Saharan Africa. Today Gadhafi's interior minister stepped down and urged the army to side with the people.
NBC's Stephanie Gosk joins us by phone from Cairo. Stephanie, this looks like one of the most bizarre endings to a bizarre man, 40 years of strangeness, of looking up at the sky when he talks, still doing that, a mystic, at least pretending to be a mystic. And now it looks like he is going to get killed.
STEPHANIE GOSK, NBC CORRESPONDENT (via telephone): Well, we don't know if he's going to get killed, Chris, but, you know, this was vintage Gadhafi today.
He went on and on and on, at times coming, it seemed, completely unhinged, and calling his supporters, you would say, as they are—it seems he thinks he has a lot of them. And not only is he calling them to go to the streets. He's calling them to join the fight and join the violence.
And even after what—the scenes we have heard about and had various reports of people, bodies in the streets, people afraid to leave their homes to collect those bodies, he's now inciting even more violence.
You know, we were on the border today with Libya. And we were talking to Egyptian workers that were fleeing Libya. They were inside working on construction projects and things. And they said almost across the board a couple of things.
One, they were shocked at how quickly the country fell apart. It really happened rapidly. And, two, they were talking about these mercenaries and how brutal they are. They mentioned mercenaries from Sudan, from Chad, that they are well-armed and that they are shooting people on site and indiscriminately. There's a group of men that said that they actually were taken captive by some mercenaries and held until they were able to come up with ransom and then released.
What they described really is a scene of complete anarchy, even though
there are protesters saying they have control of that part of the country -
MATTHEWS: Do you know of any alliance he has in the world today that would allow him refuge, asylum? Does he have any friend in the world that would receive him if he showed up on a plane with enough gas to get him there?
GOSK: Well, if he does, they're not stepping forward very quickly.
And what we're seeing is a leader that is digging his heels in, maybe
because he wants to, maybe because he just has to. He may not have any
other options. And he's going to stand there and be defiant and tell the -
the protesters and everyone that supports him that he's going to fight to the last drop. And you hear those words, and they're pretty chilling—
MATTHEWS: Well, take care of yourself. What a strange place to be at this time, Stephanie Gosk, great reporting. Thank you from the border.
She's in Cairo right now.
Let's bring in Hisham Melhem, who is with Al-Arabiya TV.
We were talking during the break. It seems like this man is a man without a country and a man without an ally.
Absolutely. He is delusional. He was contemptuous of his own people. He was defiant, but he was also afraid. You can tell that this man—
MATTHEWS: He looked spooked.
MELHEM: Exactly. He was spooked completely. He was standing on the ground that is shaking from under him and it is threatening to engulf him.
His back is to the wall and he's essentially declaring war on his own people.
MATTHEWS: Tell me about the clan he has behind him. People say he has a clan.
MELHEM: It's a small clan. It's a small tribe. This is a tribal society. Libya is a tribal society.
And he was right when he said that the tribes are armed and there are tribal loyalties. And that's why we're not sure about the army. The army may splinter, may go—may follow tribal loyalties.
His—his tribe is not that big. And according to the minister of the interior, our friends in the opposition, they're saying that most of the tribes now are turning against them. The more violence he commits against them—
MATTHEWS: OK. He doubled down, to use a crude expression, when he brought in mercenaries. It seems to me now, once you bring in a foreign mercenary to kill your own people, you will be hanged. You will be lucky to—you will not be alive. You may be tortured. But there's no way you can let someone leave a country who has hired foreigners to kill their own people.
MELHEM: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: He is a criminal in the eyes of the Libyan people now.
MELHEM: Absolutely. And I think the international community, including the United States—
MATTHEWS: He's not going to get the international community. Is this guy?
MELHEM: No, no, no. But I mean the international community, through the Security Council, should say there will be a trial. Him and his son—he should be treated the way Saddam and his sons were treated.
MATTHEWS: What about these mercenaries? How do they get clearance to get to a country like that? How do they get on to an airplane and leave a country and show up there?
MELHEM: He brought them. He brought them. He brought them from Africa.
MATTHEWS: He's just—
MATTHEWS: -- out of countries?
MELHEM: He's been involved in African affairs for a long time.
Remember, he had his own adventures in Chad and in Uganda.
MATTHEWS: Yes. The whites used to do that all over Africa, you know, the Wild Geese. They were all over the place.
MATTHEWS: And now that African—black Africans are now in that business. And they come out of—what, out of the blood diamond business. They come out of the tough traffic around Congo and places like that.
Where is he getting them?
MELHEM: There are a lot of child soldiers in Africa and young men who are --
MATTHEWS: With automatic, semiautomatic weapons.
MELHEM: Exactly, yes. And they are very experts at it.
MATTHEWS: They're ruthless.
MELHEM: And they don't care about their own people, let alone about a foreign people, like the Libyans.
MATTHEWS: So, to bring in people, kids or young adults, who are willing to come in with semiautomatic weapons and mow down people because you want to live a couple more weeks—he could have gotten out alive probably a couple weeks ago, right?
MELHEM: Not him. Where would he go? I mean, this guy is delusional.
He's been there since I was a teenager growing up --
MATTHEWS: Well, couldn't he always go to Saudi? They won't take them anymore?
MELHEM: They Saudis hate his guts. The people in the Gulf, they hate him. This guy is universally hated in the Arab world. He brought nothing but misery, not only to his own people, but—
MATTHEWS: But, you know, everybody is saying that now.
There's the guy in that ridiculous uniform doing this weird cartoonish behavior, comic book behavior. And everybody says that now, but he was getting away with that for—he went in when Nixon went in. The first year Nixon was elected president—
MELHEM: '69, 1969, exactly.
MATTHEWS: He went in with this guy.
MELHEM: Exactly.
MATTHEWS: He's putting on—look at him. The show he's been putting on—and everybody says now he's crazy. But, for 40 years, he was crazy like a fox. He had the oil. Is that it? He had the oil?
MELHEM: He had the oil.
He was—
MATTHEWS: We all put up with him. We treated him like a diplomat or a foreign leader. We negotiated with this guy.
MELHEM: But look at how the Europeans enabled him for decades, the Italian, the Brits and others, because they were thirsty for the best oil in the world, which is Libyan sweet crude—
MATTHEWS: That's right. That explains it.
MELHEM: -- which is the easiest to refine.
And, in fact, even in the—after 2004, when Libya was removed from the countries sponsoring terrorism—
MATTHEWS: Yes.
MELHEM: -- American oil companies began to go back to Libya.
And American oil companies and others in the Bush administration were pushing for normalizing relations, putting pressure on the Lockerbie—and the victims of Lockerbie bombing to accept compensation and open up the doors.
And there were people, including neocons who began to visit Libya in the last few years, including Richard Perle and others, to—to refurbish Libya's image and Moammar Gadhafi's image. So, there are a lot of enablers to this regime.
MATTHEWS: Yes, Curt Weldon, the former congressman, was telling me how his son was going to be a great new reform leader.
What happened to that?
MELHEM: You saw his son. His son was declaring war on his own people.
MATTHEWS: Yes, this dream we have—we have this dream that, if we educate people, we make them ophthalmologists or dentists or whatever, we teach this stuff, they're going to be somehow different. Look at Bashar. He hasn't changed much.
MELHEM: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: Bashar Assad is as bad as the old man almost.
MELHEM: He's probably one of the worst autocrats in the Arab world.
And the fact that you speak good English doesn't mean that you are a—
MELHEM: -- man.
MATTHEWS: Hisham, we fall for that every day of the week. You speak good English, you tell some American jokes, we fall for you.
MELHEM: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, Hisham, thank you, Hisham Melhem. It's great to have an expert here.
Up next: Establish a super state with militia? Imagine that, bring in a separate state militia to fight who? This is what some states are up to. There's some crazy people in state legislatures. They want to legalize—well, we're going to get all of it. They're going to allow people who have a store not to serve same-sex couples if they don't—we will be right back with some of the crazy stuff going on in the state legislatures.
We will be right back.
MATTHEWS: Back to HARDBALL. Now to the "Sideshow."
Coast to coast, the Tea Party parties on. Look at what they're doing in state legislatures across the country. We're talking some weird bills out there. Here's a sampler, courtesy of Salon.com.
Over in Iowa, a bill would make it legal for business owners to refuse services to people in a marriage that violates the owner of that establishment's religious beliefs. Translation: We reserve the right not to serve gay couples. It's apparently a direct response to Iowa's legalization of same-sex marriage.
In Georgia, a bill would require the use of gold or silver to pay money the state owes to someone. Arizona's considering a bill that gives citizenship to someone born here only if at least one parent is an American citizen or a legal resident.
In New Hampshire, the Tea Partiers introduced a bill that to establishes a permanent state force to defend from—quote—"invasion, rebellion or insurrection." The cost of this separate new militia, about a half-mil a year.
And over in Montana, a bill calls global warming—quote—"a natural occurrence which is beneficial to the welfare and business climate of Montana."
There—you just have to say it. That's all you have to do. Go away. Climate change goes away.
Unless I'm wrong, these are mostly the work of full-mooners out there and will not become law. Then again, you can't bet on it.
Next, an about-face in Mississippi. Governor Haley Barbour last week refused to denounce a state proposal that would honor Confederate General and KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest on a new state license plate. Well, Barbour now says he'd veto any such bill—quote—"The bureaucracy denied it, the legislature won't pass it. And if the legislature passes it, it won't become law because I won't sign it."
Governor Barbour may blow kisses at the old guard down there, but he's not getting in bed with them.
Up next: A tell-all book from a former aide to Sarah Palin—this is candy time—includes tons of e-mails from the former governor. Somebody has ratted her out. And it may give us some clues about Palin's future. That's ahead.
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A major sell-off as Middle East jitters take center stage, the Dow Jones industrials plunging 178 points, the S&P 500 falling 27, and the Nasdaq tumbling 77 points.
Investors focusing mostly on oil today after Libya halted exports, driving prices up 6 percent to 2.5-year highs. OPEC and the IEA say there's no need to panic; Saudi Arabia has more than enough excess capacity to meet demand. So, oil-producing energy companies like Chevron and ExxonMobil edged higher on those soaring prices, but refining-oriented companies took a hit on the possibility of higher input costs.
And airlines got about pounded on potentially higher fuel costs, big banks lower across the board on general jitters and a much larger-than-expected write-down from Bank of America on one of its credit card units.
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An unpublished manuscript by a former Sarah Palin top staffer, Frank Bailey, reveals his e-mails with the governor, and shed lights on her world, including her thoughts on other politicians and of course the media, as well as her fierce defense of her reputation, including, apparently, her writing letters to the editor under other people's names.
Isn't that for the people to do? No, she writes them on how great she was. So she would write letters to the editors saying how great Sarah Palin is as a candidate.
Anyway, for more on these e-mails and the unpublished memoir, I'm joined by "Atlanta-Journal Constitution" columnist Cynthia Tucker and MSNBC political analyst David Corn, who writes for Politics Daily and also "Mother Jones."
David, you had one to top this. When I told you we had the story that she's out there—and this is the kind of stuff that goes on in campaigns, but usually by the guys fighting for their fourth term.
DAVID CORN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Here she is running the first time writing letters.
"Isn't this Sarah Palin of Wasilla really great?" signed Joe Blow, and it's her.
CORN: Yes. I have a friend—
MATTHEWS: No, but she's actually claiming to be other people.
And what did you say?
CORN: Well, now it turns out—this is current, not back in the Wasilla days—that she has a fake Facebook page under the name Lou Sarah, her middle—her middle name is Louise—in which she likes what Sarah Palin says on Facebook and likes what Sarah Palin says on FOX News. So, she has a couple of friends—
MATTHEWS: How much time delay goes between the time Sarah Palin says something on FOX for big money and somebody writes on Facebook how great it was?
MATTHEWS: Here's another one. And I know how people get names wrong, because the names have—she was convinced and fought with her staff over the fact it wasn't Mitt Romney. His real name was Milton Romney.
CONSTITUTION": You know what?
MATTHEWS: I don't know. Just if you read the papers even a—this is where my argument is—if do any reading of the papers, you know the guy is Mitt.
TUCKER: She was clueless, but absolutely confident.
I love the fact that this woman is so confident in her ignorance --
MATTHEWS: Oh, yes.
TUCKER: -- insisting, arguing with her staff. And, no, she didn't know anything about the national political scene.
How about this one, where she gets picked by John McCain to be on the ticket? What he didn't know was she was out there rooting for Huck. Huckabee—Huckabee is my good friend.
CORN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: But here's my favorite one. "I hate this damn job." This is what she said when she wrote on—an e-mail when she's governor.
Now, she's talking about or somebody's talking about her running for president.
CORN: Yes. Yes.
MATTHEWS: I would guess that being president of the United States in these times is about, what, 30 times, 100 times as tough as being governor of Alaska?
CORN: One thousand, yes.
MATTHEWS: I mean, if you hate that kind of work, which is worrying about things, and some of it diddly, but some of it really, really important, would she want this other job?
CORN: Well, listen, when she—
MATTHEWS: Or just be a commentator?
CORN: When she left the job of Alaskan governor, she said—one reason she said she was leaving was, she couldn't take the bad media. It was just too much. Now—
MATTHEWS: In Alaska.
CORN: In Alaska.
MATTHEWS: Been to New York lately?
CORN: What are you going to do in the White House when the media comes after you? Just do FOX News, which she talks about in these e-mails as well? She doesn't seem to have—
MATTHEWS: Wait until she gets a load of us.
MATTHEWS: Anyway, the—the idea that that was too taxing a job for her, being governor.
CORN: Yes.
MATTHEWS: But here's the one that—I love this one that she was doing. Here's the one. She refers to Newt Gingrich, not that I'm going to carry any water for that character—she refers to him, "That good old rich white guy." That's her statement about that.
TUCKER: I loved that. That was my favorite thing.
Here's a woman, busy, making as much money—
MATTHEWS: Well, she's white, too, though. But why would she call a guy a white guy?
TUCKER: Well, you know, they're both white.
MATTHEWS: I mean, it just seems like an odd thing to single out.
MATTHEWS: You know? It's not like we have got a tribal war going here or something, you know?
TUCKER: And—and I'm not going to defend Newt either, but, you know, the fact—
TUCKER: -- that she—she sees enemies everywhere. Remember Richard Nixon's enemy's list?
MATTHEWS: Yes, put together by professionals. Well, Pat --
MATTHEWS: Let's take a look at this other one here. And this is kind of fun. It's obviously candy tonight. Here she is, she talks about Katie Couric. A year after Katie Couric interview—of course, it was the one that was the big downer for her, Palin still holding a grudge against Katie Couric. I mean, how can you hate Katie Couric?
Here it is, quote, "She sucked in ratings before she stumbled upon her little gig mocking me. She did almost lose her job before that V.P. interview." That V.P. interview—she makes it sound like there's some other person. It was interviewing a person who couldn't name a single thing that ever read.
CORN: Well, this just shows that in Sarah Palin's cosmos, the center of that universe is Sarah Palin.
MATTHEWS: Right.
CORN: All that mattered about Katie Couric is her interview with Sarah Palin. And, you know, that's what saved Katie Couric's job. I don't quite think so. But that's how she views the world, these enemies as you said, and with her in the middle with everything that—
MATTHEWS: That was a real curveball question, wasn't it?
CORN: What do you read?
MATTHEWS: What do you read—what a sneak.
CORN: Liberal media elite establishment type of question.
MATTHEWS: People have been asking that question of newcomer politicians since I remember, and the purpose of it was it's not to trick them, because—
TUCKER: It's a softball.
MATTHEWS: It was to say to find out where their head the coming from, what do you read every day to get your head around.
TUCKER: It's the softball question.
CORN: Well, it should be a softball question. It's not always.
MATTHEWS: OK. You know, I generally don't like rats, people that rat out their bosses. Generally, I don't. I worked at number of politicians. I observe the rule that you have a confidential relationship with him while you work for them. So, defend this guy.
CORN: Defend this guy?
MATTHEWS: Is it by your likes—you've always be a journalist.
You've never on the inside. It's easy for you, right?
CORN: Well, I'm for more information.
MATTHEWS: You're for more rats.
CORN: In fact, you know, I'm working with MSNBC.com with an open request to the state of Alaska for all Sarah Palin's e-mails. I'm trying to do this for a few years.
MATTHEWS: Have you got a FOIA on that?
CORN: We have FOIA. And it's supposed to come out in the spring.
Now, the interesting thing is, he says he has 60,000 e-mails back and forth with Sarah Palin. The state of Alaska tells us there are 26,000 pages that they're reviewing for us. So, I don't know. There seems to be discrepancy here. But I'm looking—
MATTHEWS: You mean they have more?
CORN: Well, they have less than what he has.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I know. And, by the way, what is he's—just to get this straight as journalist, this stuff he's offering up, his manuscript for the true Sarah Palin, do we know of—they keep saying in the news stories I read according to him, according to him.
TUCKER: We don't know for sure.
MATTHEWS: It's only on the manuscript.
TUCKER: That they are emails from Sarah Palin.
MATTHEWS: Now, the wrinkle in this is the competition between this guy, this character, and the great Joe McGinniss, who's up there living next door. And I cannot wait to get him on the show. Now, he apparently leaked this manuscript. So, it would screw the chance of this getting any sale. His book will get all the sales.
CORN: That seems to be what might have happened.
MATTHEWS: I'm for him. I'm for rooting for this guy. I want to hear what Joe McGinniss—
CORN: This is what I like Frank Bailey to do. If you want to do a public service, Frank, you should put all 60,000 e-mails on that little thing called the Internet and let's all look at them and see if what you say is true. It's a way to prove the veracity—
MATTHEWS: When the book comes out. He's got to sell the book.
CORN: Well, maybe, if he can sell the book at this point. I have a copyright here.
MATTHEWS: It's Sarah Palin story. I don't think she's running now, do you?
TUCKER: No.
MATTHEWS: Do you think she's running? I don't think (INAUDIBLE) going to sell.
MATTHEWS: Do you think she's running?
CORN: I thought she wouldn't, but then I—but every time I read about her, she seems so self-centered that I don't know how she could pass up this opportunity.
MATTHEWS: Is she's like Moammar Gadhafi, she just doesn't know the world around her?
CORN: That's some comparison.
MATTHEWS: If she shows with an umbrella, and start saying, I'm here, I'm not there.
Anyway, thank you. I thought—well, she's not—I don't think she's as bad as him.
MATTHEWS: I'm not going to go that far.
Anyway, thank you, Cynthia Tucker. Thank you, David Corn. We're going to give her a break this week.
Up next: Texas is on its way to allowing concealed handguns. You know you have problems with your kids on campus, you want to give them a gun? This guy does. We're going to talk to a state senator pushing the bill that college carry guns on campus no matter what the university says, and then we're going to have a survivor of the Virginia tech shooting to talk about the other point of view on this, about gun control.
This is HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Well, this cuts close. A never before seen home movie of President John F. Kennedy has surfaced. It shows scenes from a gala event in Houston, Texas, the night before he was assassinated. It looks like a million bucks.
The event was for the League of United Latin American Citizens at the Reich Hotel in Houston. You see the president there along with the first lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, as well as dozens of supporters. Later in the movie, the president addresses the crowd as does the first lady.
The next day would be in Dallas where, of course, President Kennedy was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald.
That same home movie was made by a San Antonio man who donated it to what's called the Sixth Floor Museum which collects artifacts from Kennedy's fateful Texas trip back in 1963. We'll never forget that day.
We'll be right back.
MATTHEWS: We're back.
Would having more guns on college campuses make them safer places to take—to study? A long list of lawmakers down in Texas say the answer is yes. And with the big Republican majority in the state capitol, it looks like it might just happen.
Republican State Senator Jeff Wentworth is the sponsor of a bill that would allow people with concealed handgun licenses to take handguns into college dorms and to other buildings, in the classrooms.
Colin Goddard, of course, is with Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. He's a survivor, by the way, of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. He was shot four times, in fact, in that horrible incident. He's featured a new documentary about the tragedy at Virginia Tech called "Living for 22."
Senator, thank you for joining us. Just make your case why do you think students—why colleges should be basically required to allow students to have concealed weapon carry with licenses?
STATE SEN. JEFF WENTWORTH ®, TEXAS: Well, in the first place, Chris, I'd like to change the characterization. It's not college kids carrying concealed weapons on campus. In Texas, the law requires you to be at least 21 years of age to have a license. So, if you're a traditional freshman, sophomore, junior, you're 17, 18, 19, 20 years old, so you're not eligible for a concealed carry license.
MATTHEWS: Right.
WENTWORTH: It's mainly members of the faculty, staff, graduate students and a few seniors. And it's purely for self defense—
MATTHEWS: Well, most seniors turn—most—I was the youngest kid in my class and I was 21 in my senior year.
WENTWORTH: Me, too. I was 21 in my senior years. So, but we're not talking about freshmen, sophomores and juniors, though.
MATTHEWS: We're talking about seniors carrying guns on campus. And my question to you is: tell me how that makes it safer for those students, or for anybody?
WENTWORTH: Well, if I'm—if I'm in a class and a deranged madman comes on campus in Texas, as he did at Virginia Tech, and starts shooting, and everybody is unarmed and defenseless and vulnerable, we're all dead.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WENTWORTH: If somebody in that class has a license and has been through a significant period—I mean, in order to get a license in Texas, you have to go through a 10-hour class, you have to pass a test, you have to go on a shooting range and pass, you pass a criminal background check, you give up your fingerprints, photographs, pay a not insignificant fee of over $100.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
WENTWORTH: It takes several weeks. It's not something you just go down and plank down a $10 bill and get card for.
MATTHEWS: You know, back in the old days, we all watched you—and I watched television, probably the same age, we watched old movies and we know what it was like in the old west. They apparently put their guns at the city limits. They couldn't carry them into saloons with them, and places like that.
Do you think it's OK for a 21-year-old kid, or 22-year-old grad student to be walking into a campus bar or something, and when you got alcohol involved, there are guys and girls together with the usual kind of competition that goes on there, social competition, with booze, and guns? Do you think that's a healthy combination?
WENTWORTH: Well, that hypothetical you gave doesn't happen—
MATTHEWS: It's not hypothetical at all, sir. You can walk into a bar with a gun under your law.
WENTWORTH: No, you cannot. That's a misrepresentation of a fact.
You cannot go in Texas legally with a concealed carry license with a gun. Now, people do it illegally all the time, but this bill would not allow that.
MATTHEWS: No, but a campus—but you said campuses would be allowed to have kids carrying guns. What about a bar on campus?
WENTWORTH: We don't have bars on campus in Texas.
MATTHEWS: You don't?
WENTWORTH: It's against—it's against the law in Texas. That's exactly right?
MATTHEWS: It is?
WENTWORTH: Yes, sir, no alcohol allowed—
MATTHEWS: You can't have a—on a private college campuses, you can't have a bar?
WENTWORTH: Now you flipped it. We're talking about public—
MATTHEWS: No, I didn't flip it.
WENTWORTH: We're talking about public universities. We're not talking about private universities.
MATTHEWS: OK. Where I went to college, and a lot of which colleges I know, they have campus bar. They have them right on campuses.
WENTWORTH: They don't in Texas. They don't in Texas. We're talking about Texas.
MATTHEWS: OK. So, but you would bring them—you would let them play—how about kids that want to play football? Would they be allowed to carry during a game or what? Not during the game.
WENTWORTH: No, actually, the law does not allow—and currently this law would not change it, for athletic contests, they're not permitted.
MATTHEWS: OK. But you would be allowed to take it to the contest or not?
WENTWORTH: No.
MATTHEWS: No. So, you can't take it to a contest, you can't take it to a—any kind of bar scene or anything like that? But you can walk around in campus.
WENTWORTH: That's right.
MATTHEWS: OK, now we've got this straight.
Let's go to Colin with the other point of view. What is your view about this, guns on campus?
COLIN GODDARD, VIRGINIA TECH SHOOTING SURVIVOR: Right. What the senator fails to mention also—in Texas public schools, there are hospitals, there are daycare centers. What about a judicial referral? What about a tenure hearing? These are all places that you're allowed to bring a gun.
You know, unfortunately, people who support this idea have a very narrow focus on the problem. It's multidimensional. They look at it as, hey, someone's about to shoot you, do you want a gun or not? When you look at it like that, you miss the ideas and concepts of the fact that 93 percent of student violence victimization happens off campus, concealed carry is already allowed. You miss the fact that police officers will no longer be able to respond effectively.
The cops that pulled me out of Norris Hall said that the first man they would have saw with a gun, they would have shot them. And they need to be able to respond that way. This would pull—it would change the dynamic. And also, the senator needs to know that there's currently a lawsuit that was filed in Lubbock that would dropped the minimum age of a concealed carry licensee in Texas from 21 to 18.
MATTHEWS: Senator, your response?
WENTWORTH: Well, there's no bill that I know of that's dropping the age and I would object to that and oppose it. I think 21 is the correct age.
As for law enforcement, law enforcement when they arrive on a scene like he's describing, they're instructed in their training before they're certified as peace officers, when they show up and they're not sure what's going on, they say everybody put their guns down, everybody put their I guns down. The good guys that are law abiding will. The only ones that won't are these mentally deranged people that are the lawbreakers in the first place.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
Do you think it's going to be weird for a student to get his grades from a professor while he's armed, Senator?
WENTWORTH: Well, they're posted usually on a bulletin board in the hall. I mean, you don't walk to your professor—
MATTHEWS: Well, an accident meeting between—it just seems odd if I were a professor and I had a student who was armed when we're having our tutorial. We're talking about the grades or anything, it just seems odd. You're looking into a classroom and you're seeing men and women with guns in the classroom. Doesn't that seem odd to you?
WENTWORTH: No, you're not. In Texas, you cannot display your weapon.
MATTHEWS: Doesn't it seem that a student comes to study philosophy, theology, English, whatever, and he's armed? Doesn't that seem odd to you?
WENTWORTH: Chris, right now in Texas, if you go shopping at a grocery store, a drugstore, go to a movie theater or a shopping mall, there are kids—you call them kids, 21 or 22, they're walking around with concealed carry weapons legally.
MATTHEWS: Yes, I don't know. It's a strange world you're getting us into, Senator. Maybe it's cultural. Maybe it's cowboys and Indians. I live in a city. I think it's strange.
Anyway, thank you, State Senator. I appreciate the way you have carried yourself, you made your points well tonight, Senator.
WENTWORTH: Thank you.
MATTHEWS: Senator Jeff Wentworth of Texas, thank you.
And, Colin Goddard, this is a fight that's going on. I think it's—
I know where I stand.
When we return, "Let Me Finish" with some rules for Americans when it comes to overseas rebellions and which side we should be on.
You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: "Let Me Finish" tonight with some handy American rules for dealing with overseas revolution.
Rule one: always side with nationalism—always, always back the people fighting against oppression by another country. In 1954, we got on the wrong side of nationalism in Indochina. That led to the Vietnam War.
However, in 1957, Senator Jack Kennedy spoke out in behalf of the Algerians fighting the French. It was a daring move that singled him out and our country out on the right side. In the 1960s, Kennedy again expressed his friendship with African countries recently free from colonialism.
In the 1980s, the United States rooted for the liberation of countries in Eastern Europe, from Soviet domination. That was a good move.
Rule two: always take the side of expanded popular rule. We backed Batista's dictatorial rule in Cuba and paid for it when Fidel Castro espoused his loyalty to the Soviet Union. We backed the shah in Iran and pay for that when the Iranian revolution came along in '79, we certainly paid for that one.
This month, we rooted for the people in Tahrir Square in Egypt, and that would hold us in good stead as the new government emerges. So, there is a way to do it, back the people, oppose colonialism, support popular rule.
That's HARDBALL for now. Thanks for being with us.
More politics ahead with Cenk Uygur.
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The line-drawn and watercolor illustrations created by Mu Pan demand careful study. The Brooklyn-based artist blends history, pop culture, and folk art into astonishingly detailed scenes that are grand when drunk in all at once, but contain little surprises on closer inspection.
Mu Pan describes himself as a bitter person, and views his paintings as a way to "find justice." Born in Taiwan to a military family, Mu Pan often focuses his work on grotesque, surrealist reinterpretations of famous battles and military figures, with a particular focus on America and East Asia. The image up top, 1894, places Godzilla and a Giant Squid in the midst of the First Sino-Japanese War, while 1943 puts Gamera in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It's well worth checking out the detailed crops of the paintings on Mu Pan's blog to see all of the small, careful touches he has inserted in the pieces and their brutal depictions of war.
These aren't the only kaiju pieces to spill from Mu Pan's pen and brush. The Loyal 47 Ronin juxtaposes Godzilla with the legendary Chūshingura, and Shinsengumi Blood and Wind makes Mothra the vehicle for the police force of the 19th-century shogunate. And he has plenty of other strange and disarming critiques of war on his website and blog.
1894 and 1943 [Mu Pan 1911 via Xombie Dirge]
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culture, in anthropology, the integrated system of socially acquired values, beliefs, and rules of conduct which delimit the range of accepted behaviors in any given society. Cultural differences distinguish societies from one another. Archaeology, a branch of the broader field of anthropology, studies material culture, the remains of extinct human cultures (e.g., pottery, weaponry) in order to decipher something of the way people lived. Such analysis is particularly useful where no written records exist. One of the first anthropological definitions of the term was given by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor in the late 19th cent. By 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn had cataloged over 100 different definitions of the word.
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ConocoPhillips, the nation's third-largest oil company, said Thursday that it will split itself into two separate publicly traded companies and its CEO and Chairman Jim Mulva plans to retire once the transaction is complete.
The breakup would create the largest independent refiner in the world, a prominent analyst said.
Its shares jumped $7.35, or almost 10 percent, to $81.75 in premarket trading.
"We have concluded that two independent companies focused on their respective industries will be better positioned to pursue their individually focused business strategies," Mulva said in a statement.
Conoco said its board has approved separating its refining and marketing and exploration and production businesses by spinning off the refining and marketing segment to shareholders in a tax-free transaction.
Conoco's refineries produced 2.3 billion barrels per day of gasoline, diesel and other petroleum products in the first three months of the year. As a stand-alone business, it will be the largest independent refiner in the world, Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Fadel Gheit said.
"This is so positive for them," Gheit said. "Everyone should stick to one business."
Instead of selling the refining assets, a spin-off creates a new business that will attract a different class of investors that will be better suited for the ups and downs that come with refining crude, Gheit said.
Refineries, which must buy oil to make gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, routinely struggle to pass on high crude costs to consumers. The industry was hammered by thin profit margins following record high oil prices in 2008, and many companies were forced to idle or sell underperforming refineries.
Conoco has said for the past few years that it plans to scale back its refining business, but until now it had balked at a spin off. Gheit said that company officials likely changed their mind after noticing how much a refinery spinoff was benefiting their Houston neighbor, Marathon Oil. Marathon's stock jumped 30 percent after it announced the split in January.
On July 1, Marathon Petroleum , the refining company, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the "MPC" ticker symbol. Marathon Oil kept its ticker symbol of "MRO."
The Conoco split, which is expected to be completed during the first half of next year, will leave Conoco as an exploration and production company.
Mulva, 64, will lead the separation efforts, but plans to retire once the split is complete.
Conoco said its separation plans do not require a shareholder vote. It expects to provide further details on the transaction "as they are determined over the next several months."
The Houston-based company has about 29,600 employees. Conoco had $160 billion of assets and $226 billion of annualized revenue as of March 31.


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she decided she better chill out a bit and act like a regular mom, lol, not many soccer moms skydive.
I am not a pilot, I just jump out of them.Sincerely,Brendhan
You jump out of Pilots? That's pretty messed up! Like one of those giant birthday cakes, but instead of a cake I imagine Brendhan bursting through the chest of a airline pilot like alien!!!
A dozen eggs?!?! Man, that's also hardcore!!! Hope you feel better.. HAHASean Kelly


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Luke 24:36-41, 44-49; John 20:21
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One of the best lines comes when Rubio related to the crowd in telling of how as a freshman in the Senate, he was initially floored by being in the presence of so many respected, prominent, national leaders and at times could not believe he was there, in the presence of all of these powerful people. He then recalled how six months later he couldn't help but wonder how those same people ever got there.
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Nah y'all nah y'all uh-uh
I ain't disrespectin' though
I'm just sayin' it happen to me
It can happen to him
How you doin'?
What's your name?
Uh, mmm, haha
Oh you're his girl
[Verse 1]
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I'm came to offer champagne
Later on maybe I'll tell you my real name
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And be a nice girl and save me a cherry
Me, I'll have a Kaluha and milk
Cause champagne always stains my silk
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He's smart enough to have ya, but dumb enough to let ya out
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Your hairstyle and your whole point of view
The way you lick your lips and stare
You tell me that's a habit hmmm yeah
Honey-coated legs with not one scar
The stylish wardrobe is up to par
Here's my number, call me in my car
You deserve a visit from Mr. Goodbar
So how long you been talkin' to him...word?
Nah he's cool with me, he's cool with me
Oh, he loves you?
[Verse 2]
Honey, open up a bottle of brandy
Better yet, have a piece of Cool J candy
And sweat the man with the master-disaster
Break-ya-like-plaster-plan and
The cards on the table and the deal is dealt
(Uh) I'm in the mood for a tuna melt
And I can't make you, I sure wouldn't rape you
Feelin' kinda mellow and I sure would hate to
Leave the job half-done (Nah!)
'Cause at a time like this you're the one that I'm lookin' for
Crawlin' on the floor
(WOOF!) I'm comin' back for more
If the Mona Lisa's name was Teresa
I'd get a piece o' the Mona Lisa, then smoke a cigar
You deserve a visit from Mr. Goodbar
Yeah, so you be callin' on the request line...hahahaha
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh he's my man, word, him too
Yeah I like Bobby Brown
Tellin' you he's cool but...
[Verse 3]
Don't be cruel 'cause you'll be on your own
It's my prerogative and my microphone
Come and get this ice-cream cone
Or I'll deliver it when your daddy ain't home
Grown and healthy, that's how I like 'em
Big juicy legs and a nice pair of kegs
Mmm, Mr. Goodbar style
You haven't met a guy like me in a while
I jump out a cake, dance, play, shake
I ain't got no Body by Jake
Smooth as White star Extra Dry Moët Chandon
And I'll slip it in your mouth like a Bon-Bon
I'm Mr. Goodbar (Goodbar) yeah
So you know next time, uh, your man is out
Check the lobby
Nah, nah he's cool
Who, my girl?
Oh I don't know your man might be with her (uh)
YaknowhatI'msayin'? But I'm with you
Yeah Mr. Goodbar baby, uh
May I say...may I say
That outfit you got on...is slammin'
Juicy lips, so honey coated hmmm
Yo he never says that to you?
He never gives you compliments?
Yo he be givin' you flowers baby
And tellin' you how much he cares for you?
Does he hold you and caress you and give you affection?
I didn't think so...
"Mr. Goodbar" features samples from the songs "Cramp Your Style" by All The People, "Get Up, Get Into It , Get Involved" by James Brown, and gets its background sound effects from "UFO" by ESG.
The title of the track comes from the Mr. Goodbar candy bar made by the Hershey Company, and its lyrics reference several sweet foods (and drinks).