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Did anyone else read prostitution ring and conjure up one image and then read high-priced call girl and bring up another?
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Did anyone else read prostitution ring and conjure up one image and then read high-priced call girl and bring up another?
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I"m glad to see, Mr. Robinson, that maybe, perhaps, you're finally beginning to see how a reporter's chosen words create an image in the reader's mind, and that those words can be used to sway public opinion on a subject in a very subtle manner.
If a reporter with a liberal bent reports on, oh, maybe a police chief in a racially charged city, and the reporter uses buzzwords and code words in a way to make that chief sound like a racist without coming out and saying it directly even though the chief is nothing of the sort, then that is an abuse of power knowingly perpetrated by the newspaper.
Posted on March 11, 2008 10:48 AM
I think the main differences are;
1) Julia Roberts
2) Julia Roberts
3) Julia Roberts
4) Richard Gere in the film is a bachelor
5) Richard Gere in the film is a venture capitalist so therefore already a suspect scum bucket, rather than a politician grandstanding in the name of decency.
Of greater potential concern, I think, to all Amercans not just traveling businessmen, is the wiretap issue.
Posted on March 11, 2008 11:07 AM
I didn't think Julia Roberts or "Pretty Woman". I thought - here's another scumbag politician at his best.
When I saw the photo linked above, I thought - boy, he sure looks more mad than remorseful - probably peeved because he got caught, not because he cheated on his wife.
Why these wives stand by their "man" in cases like this just baffles me.
Posted on March 11, 2008 11:20 AM
Could be so they can later run for president...
Zing!
Posted on March 11, 2008 12:31 PM
...on the Democratic ticket.
Posted on March 11, 2008 1:15 PM
Yes.
Thanks for attempting to make something political by sucking the humor out of a simple zinger, Tony.
Also: of course the chicken's trying to get to the other side, grasshoppers can't talk (even to bartenders) and yes, I'm glad you didn't say banana.
Posted on March 11, 2008 3:36 PM
The last time I bought ice cream - it was full of bones.
Posted on March 12, 2008 5:07 PM