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O'Reilly "goes O'Reilly" on Al Sharpton

Talking about Mr. Bill O'Reilly spinning the brilliant reception of President Obama in South Africa at the ceremonies for Nelson Mandela.

He was received as a world leader--black citizens of all countries are part of the world--that is where you are making your miscalculation--who are the citizens of the world--not just the "folks" of Mr. O'Reilly. One must take their head out of the sand at these times.

Unfortunately Bill shows his colors in a strange and weird way once in a great while.  During the 50th of the JFK assassination Bill said on on more than one occasion that the sentiment of the nation towards Barack Obama was the same as it was right before Kennedy was killed.  He said it twice and when a listener wrote in to complain he said it again more adamantly defending his position.

What exactly was he trying to say.  It was reported in The Ronnie Republic but not noticed in the major networks or publications.  Bill very much wanted to talk about some people's dissatisfaction with our President but he did  not mention the great praise he received just this week at the stadium  for Nelson Mandela.  It was strange when all of  the networks were showing  the adulation for our first black President and commenting on this great  accomplishment that Bill had to take this opportunity to say Nelson Mandela was a communist.  Instead of reporting on the grand reception of President  Obama, like all of the other news outlets Mr O'Reilly went on a hate filled rant against the Reverend Al Sharpton.

Bill can't say the hate he feels to President Obama or he would be in big trouble.  No, he rails on Al Sharpton endlessly.  It is quite ugly at this time.

Not to mention he claims he has the no spin zone and the news is fair and balanced  on his show and  truthful.

His reporting is the biggest example of "spin" out there.  Nice try, Bill, but you were caught on this one.

Bill O'Reilly's Unending Hatred Rant on Al Sharpton: You're Just Making Your Self Ugly Now

Bill's unending hatred rant on Al Sharpton

I'm afraid you have your story backwards.  It was amazing when everyone else was talking about the wonderful things Nelson Mandela had accomplished when Bill O'Reilly just had to jump in with the fact that he was a communist.  It was out of line, Bill did say Mandela was a great man that evening but it was totally out of context and out of line with every other network when he just could not help himself from blurting out he was a communist.  As if he was going to rain on the parade with "the truth."  As if his statement was going to stop people from loving Nelson Mandela,

Bill needs to check his hatred for Reverend Sharpton--he is really becoming quite ugly about the whole thing.  Bill can't handle the fact that we have a black President and that Al Sharpton is happy about the situation.  Bill can't handle the fact that there have many many injustices done in this country in the not so distant past and still occurring.  

Last evening, Bill failed to mention the giant applause our President received at the stadium--applause from the world for his accomplishments.  No, Bill had to go again into a hatred rant on Al Sharpton.  Al Sharpton is genuinely happy about President Obama and the accomplishments that have happened in our country and Bill just can't take it.  

Bill, check your hate at the door the next time before you go on national television, as my grandma said, you're just making yourself ugly now.

here we go with Newsbusters:

Bill O'Reilly Catches Sharpton In Another Deceptive Video Edit: 'They Don't Come Lower'

By Noel Sheppard | December 10, 2013 | 21:01  348  143 Reddit0  1

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Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly on Tuesday again exposed MSNBC’s Al Sharpton for deceptively editing a video, this time to make it appear the Factor host was disparaging Nelson Mandela within hours of his death.

“Sharpton uses the occasion of Nelson Mandela's death to dishonestly attack people he doesn't like,” said O’Reilly. “They don't come lower” (video follows with transcript and commentary):

BILL O’REILLY: Now, as a young man, Nelson Mandela had Marxist leanings and dealt closely with communists. Check out a recent article in The Economist magazine if you want specifics on that. Anyone who knows anything about South Africa understands Mr. Mandela's philosophy.

Enter the far left MSNBC network and Al Sharpton. As we have demonstrated in the past, Sharpton is a dishonest purveyor of information, a man who could not care less about reporting what's true. Last Friday, using Nelson Mandela as cover, Sharpton attacked me.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

AL SHARPTON: He said about Nelson Mandela last night on Fox:

O’REILLY: 95 years old. Nelson Mandela, I spent some time in South Africa, he was a communist, this man. He was a communist, all right?

SHARPTON: [Unintelligible]

KAREN FINNEY: But don't you wonder where in South Africa? It wasn't like he was hanging out in Soweto that Bill O'Reilly I'm quite certain.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O’REILLY: Well, here I am in Soweto where I did spend some time. That woman Karen Finney, a former spokesperson for the DNC, obviously made a mistake. So I am expecting a letter of apology from Ms. Finney by tomorrow. If she is honest she'll send it over. If she is like Sharpton and not honest, she will not and I will let you know what happens tomorrow evening.

As for Sharpton, he is a flat out deceiver. Here is what I actually said about Mr. Mandela.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

O’REILLY: 95 years old. Nelson Mandela, I have spent some time in South Africa, he was a communist, this man. He was a communist, all right? But he was a great man. What he did for his people was stunning. The sacrifices that he made. He could have repudiated and got out of that prison. He wouldn't do it.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O’REILLY: So you can see that Sharpton cut out all of the context as he has done many times before. Now, any other commentator on national TV would have been fired for doing that, but MSNBC seems to be afraid of Sharpton. The thing is, Sharpton uses the occasion of Nelson Mandela's death to dishonestly attack people he doesn't like. They don't come lower.

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O'Reilly exposed Sharpton in August for similar deceptive editing.

But this is clearly acceptable at MSNBC; people there do it all the time to trash their political opponents.

At this point, one has to assume that the executives at MSNBC - and conceivably NBC as well as Comcast - are aware of what Sharpton and others do with video clips, and mustn't be concerned by the dishonestly or the lack of journalistic integrity.

And why should they?

MSNBC isn't journalism, and everyone knows it.

Which forces me to once again ask: When will cable and satellite providers move this farce of a network away from the legitimate cable news channels on their program guides?

If MSNBC is going to make up news rather than report it, it shouldn't be in any way associated with real news organizations.

About the Author

Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Click here to follow Noel Sheppard on Twitter.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/12/10/foxs-bill-o-reilly-slams-msnbc-s-al-sharpton-they-don-t-come-lower#ixzz2nBWkvPUf

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Geraldo Radio--Letting New Yorkers Talk

Geraldo Radio--Letting New Yorkers Talk

To put it plain and simple--everyone calls in and says "Hey, Geraldo, I like your show because you let everyone say both sides of the issue."

Then they proceed to tell their side of the issue

One guy even said--More shows should be like yours.

In short--Geraldo lets people talk and everyone wants to call in and say what's on their mind--right, many people congratulated him on this issue today.

Can you imagine a radio show where people get to talk--usually it's the other way around.  The host says he is anxious to hear what the listeners think but in reality only the host says his or her views and then hangs-up when a caller disagrees.

Talking about minimum wage today--here in San Diego--school nurse time in Bario Logan.  Many of the parents worked at two taco shops in order to support their family.  They were afraid to call in sick as the benefits were at a minimum and often sent their kids to school sick.  They could not take off work to take care of the kids.

Making the point--parents are supporting their families with these fast food jobs today.

Thanks Geraldo, for taking time to listen.




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Call me John Edwards, but I Think There Might Be Two Americas: David Simon Talks about the Divide Between Rich and Poor

copied from the guardian:

David Simon: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show'

The creator of The Wire, David Simon, delivered an impromptu speech about the divide between rich and poor in America at theFestival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, and how capitalism has lost sight of its social compact. This is an edited extract

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/08/david-simon-capitalism-marx-two-americas-wire

From The Guardian: Kermode Talks Saving Mr. Banks and my girl, Emma Thompson

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• • Mark Kermode
  • The Observer, Saturday 30 November 2013
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Saving Mr Banks – review

Emma Thompson is superb as Mary Poppins author PL Travers as she tries to resist Walt Disney's transformation of her famous creation

Link to video: Saving Mr Banks - watch Tom Hanks in the trailer for a film about the making of Mary Poppins

Anyone who has seen and loved Mary Poppins as much as I have knows one thing for certain: it's not about the kids. For all its riotous scenes of young Jane and Michael having tea parties on the ceiling and jumping through chalk pavement pictures, it's the uptight Mr Banks who is the real target of Poppins's attentions, as she seeks to break him out of his "bank-shaped cage" and reconnect him with what really matters – his family. No wonder the enduring Disney classic ends with Mr Banks himself leading everyone in a tear-jerking chorus of Let's Go Fly a Kite; after all, it was his story all along.

1. Saving Mr Banks
2. Production year: 2013
3. Countries: Rest of the world, USA
4. Cert (UK): PG
5. Runtime: 126 mins
6. Directors: John Lee Hancock
7. Cast: Bradley Whitford, Colin Farrell, Emma Thompson, Jason Schwartzman, Paul Giamatti, Tom Hanks
8. More on this film

This is the central thrust of Saving Mr Banks, a lovely, sentimental and quietly insightful account of the making of Mary Poppins that traces the roots of PL Travers's most famous creation to the author's personal paternal past. Flitting between her childhood in Australia and her later life in London, we see the young Helen Lyndon Goff being both enchanted and traumatised by her banker father Travers (Colin Farrell), an alcoholic dreamer with an ebulliently infantile streak whose first name she significantly adopts as a nom de plume. Positing Rachel Griffiths's sternly haired, pointy-toed Aunt Ellie as a potential role model for Poppins herself, the film paints its inspirational back story with broad pop-psychology strokes, drifting between credible biography (Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith's screenplay clearly draws upon Valerie Lawson's book Mary Poppins, She Wrote) and fanciful invention with the dexterity of revellers on a Jolly 'Oliday cheerfully dancing with animated penguins.

The meat of this tale takes place in California, where Tom Hanks's tough but avuncular Walt Disney is attempting to convince Emma Thompson's brilliantly snippy "Mrs Travers" ("It is so discomforting to hear a perfect stranger use my first name") to sign over the rights to her most treasured creation. Having promised his children that he would bring "our beloved Mary" to the screen, Walt finds himself being snubbed, scolded and generally sniped at by the author who repeatedly says that "Mary Poppins – never just 'Mary' – is not for sale!".

Yet for all her objections to his "silly cartoons", Travers needs Walt's "cold heartless money" (as Bert would say), and thus the two are locked together amid the fairy castles of Disneyland to resolve their differences, with the help of the Sherman brothers, whose gorgeous songs get an equally tough time from the tight-lipped tyrant.

Cue a succession of hilariously exasperating "creative" meetings in which Travers airily dismisses some of the most sublimely inspired sequences of musical-fantasy cinema with the air of a stern school ma'am striking a red pen through the homework of an irksome pupil. (A real-life audio recording of one of those meetings played during the end credits reveals that Thompson isn't over-egging the snippiness in the slightest.)

Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) and PL Travers (Emma Thompson) in Saving Mr Banks. Photograph: Fran Ois Duhamel

That Travers never actually reconciled herself with the Disneyfication of Poppins (she vetoed any further films) doesn't matter; Saving Mr Bankswants us to take the truth with a spoonful of sugar, and The Blind Sidedirector John Lee Hancock juggles the affectionate and the abrasive with ease, creating a scrumptious confection with a soft heart, a tart edge and just the right amount of reality. This being a Disney production, one might assume that history had been duly whitewashed, but the original screenplay (which was on the 2011 "black list" of hottest scripts) was written without House of Mouse involvement, and once on board their only major stipulation was to insist that Walt did not smoke on screen. He does however drink and drive a hard bargain, with Hanks confidently portraying the steely resolve behind the twinkling smile and welcoming arms, reminding us that Disney's passion for a Poppins movie was underwritten by the power to make it happen, to get his own way in the end, whether Travers liked it or not.

As for Thompson, who did such a great Scary Mary turn in the Nanny McPhee films, she is sheer perfection in the complex role of "Mrs PL", never allowing the author to descend into crotchety caricature, constantly suggesting a strain of melancholia behind the biting, control-freaky hautiness. As always, her comic timing is impeccable (she plays the script like Paganini played the violin), but what makes her performance soar is the precisely choreographed physicality; the tiniest stretch of the lip, an arch angling of the head, the folding of her arms – somewhere between aggressive and defensive. For all the terse quips and personal reserve, Thompson dances her way through Travers's conflicting emotions, giving us a fully rounded portrait of a person who is hard to like but impossible not to love (although the Shermans may have begged to differ).

Travers actively disliked Disney's movie, but no matter; ultimately, they didn't make it for her. On the other hand, as a diehard Thompsonite who considers Mary Poppins one of the 10 best movies ever made, they appear to have made Saving Mr Banks for me. And I loved it.

copied from the Guardian

here is a link to the page to see the video and very interesting comments

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/dec/01/saving-mr-banks-review

Sundays in South Park San Diego: The Big Kitchen's Judy the Beauty and Santa

Sunday in the Park

That would be South Park San Diego

Judy the Beauty--loves being Jewish and love latkas--now we are talking about the best latkas in San Diego and that is The Big Kitchen, yes, she is the very famous owner of this well known and delicious San Diego eatery

Judy the Beauty from The Big Kitchen in South Park San Diego

and while we are eating under the trees served by none other than Judy herself



we can turn our list into Santa



South Park San Diego--it's a preety good place to be.