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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tucker on October 05, 2012, 07:33:36 PM
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Steve Martin endorses Bob Kerrey (D-NE) for Senate
Source: Omaha World Herald
By Robynn Tysver
Are you tired of cookie-cutter political endorsements? Do you have trouble properly crumbling paper into a ball?
If so, comic Steve Martin has the ad for you.
Martin shot a short web video on behalf of his friend Bob Kerrey, in which the funnyman delivers a less-than-subtle endorsement of the Democrat's U.S. Senate candidate in Nebraska. Martin makes his political pitch, while gently skewering do-it-yourself videos.
The video will not air on television, said Chris Triebsch, Kerrey's spokesman. It will run only on Kerrey's social media sites*.
FULL story at link.
Read more: http://www.omaha.com/article/20121005/NEWS/710069995/1685#
Vid at link
Doomed to be another short OS campfire.
*I don't think he wanted you to put it out for public viewing. Lawsuit time.
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properly crumbling paper
The word is "crumpling", DUmbass.
I thought the Omaha World Herald was a legitimate paper.
It reads like that Seattle rag that wrote about the dead sodomite.
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The property caretaker, who doesn't do the internet (his wife however uses e-mail), has of late become mighty curious about the big guy and his doings, ever since a cop from Omaha told the county sheriff up here about the big guy.
Every time he comes out here, he inquires.
"You know, that big dolt's going to open his big mouth one day, and swallow his whole self."
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I don't know, the very last card makes me think it is a very back-handed endorsement. It pretty much negates everything the cards said prior.
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The word is "crumpling", DUmbass.
I thought the Omaha World Herald was a legitimate paper.
It reads like that Seattle rag that wrote about the dead sodomite.
On par with Nadins rag.
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The word is "crumpling", DUmbass.
I thought the Omaha World Herald was a legitimate paper.
It reads like that Seattle rag that wrote about the dead sodomite.
Over the years, the newspaper's hired a bunch of lame-brained writers.
They suck.
It's hard to believe that the late Robert McMorris and the late Wally Provost ever wrote for it.
If they saw all this stupid shallow giddy stuff--Rainbow Rowell's the worst--they'd spin in their graves.
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On par with Nadins rag.
It's pathetic, but unfortunately it's all we got.
For more than 100 years, there were two institutions that unified Nebraskans--the college football team and the Omaha World-Herald, which until recently circulated (home-delivery) in seven states.
Now it's down to just the eastern third of Nebraska, and the western fourth of Iowa.
Its demise started about the same time the newspaper announced it was going to become "more moderate"--this, when it'd several years before already gone slightly left-of-center. Squishy writers, "nice" news, the whole bit.
It's so "moderate" that the last time he was up for re-election, the Omaha World-Herald endorsed the ultra-liberal U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa).
It's a far cry from the days when the newspaper stood firm and had courage, being one of only four major newspapers in the United States (the others being the Oakland Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Cincinnati Enquirer) to endorse Barry Goldwater for president in 1964.
It's pathetic that the Lincoln Journal-Star, a much much smaller newspaper--but the second-largest in Nebraska--with fewer resources, does a better job, its columnists and editors pretty much top-notch and its news coverage less biased, despite it being somewhat Democrat.
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Coach, when they publish "crumbling" paper into a ball, they've confirmed everything you wrote.
Maybe you can give them the benefit of the doubt and say their print edition wouldn't contain such an iilliterate, egregious error, but I don't think so.
This is pure nadinese in a newspaper of the heartland.