Friday, October 24, 2008

REV. AL SHARPTON TAKES A WALK -- Just a Minute for 10-24-0

            Howdy everyone – it’s FRIDAY!   (sounds of cheering over the hill…)                

 

            The campaign just keeps ‘rolling along’. Hardly are we out of one issue before another descends and the gabble starts all over again.

 

            Do you notice increasingly – especially on FOX NEWS it seems – there will be a three shot with all the talking heads talking at once!  And nobody can hear what *anybody* is saying. One might as well be listening to the 8th Army Chorus singing the Caisson Song – In fact I think that would sound better. Bill O’Reilly’s show is about the worst offender – or maybe THE VIEW on which O’Reilly made a guest appearance this week to plug his latest book.

 

            I’ve about come to the conclusion you really can’t make a point in America – even if you’ve attained the rank of mega celebrity – unless you write a book. So we have the highways and bookstores criss-crossed by a traffic jam of busses or limos hauling authors around to book signings and events for this and that.

 

            C-Span and C-Span2 are quite educational at times and totally boring and repetitive at others. I’ve happened upon some interesting lectures… although I have to say I’ve never bought a book because of C-Span exposure. Probably I shouldn’t write that because the best book interviewer I’ve seen there was, fortuitously, Brian Lamb -- a press secretary to a Senator from Colorado whose name I have forgotten now. During that span of years I had worked for Senators Thurmond, Goldwater, Griffin and Beall. Brian is a fine guy, Paul Weyrich was also in that group and I’ve forgotten his Senator also.  

 

            Well.. off the track again. It’s nice to consider something other than the election or the economy for at least some kind of sanity-preserving parts of the day. I’m concluding this day by having watched the second game of the World Series. I had forgotten how I welcome watching baseball -- and it’s the end of the season.

 

            We are drawing nearer the end of this seemingly eternal election cycle – and unless we have whatever is the electronic equivalent of the Florida ‘hanging chad’ fiasco, we’ll be done with that and well into “Who gets what post in the new Cabinet?”  More grist for the mill.

 

            It will be devoutly wished that we pass on from these petty ‘issues’ about how much was spent on Ms. Palin’s wardrobe or how expensive are Senator O’s suits –or whether it will be OK for Mr. McCain to address his gathered victory clan on the lawn of the hotel where he plans to be on election night in Sedona (I think that’s what I glimpsed on the TV today.) I was involved in arranging that once (which was enough). I got to tell the network guys what they would NOT be getting  from Senator Goldwater on election night in Washington…  That was the saddest “victory” party ever. I hope I never to be near another one.

           

            Sorry for the rambling… I’ll sign off… it’s one A.M. and morning comes too soon.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

 

            JACK

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

REV. AL SHARPTON TAKES A WALK?

Just A Minute – John Fund, a writer who began his Washington career reporting for the Evans-Novak Report -- now continues flogging favorite issues like term limits and voter illegalities for the Wall St. Journal. So the burgeoning ACORN scandal that’s been going on for years even with tax money contributions, is familiar territory to him.

It strikes an extremely tender note with the very Reverend Al Sharpton who has a new skinny profile, and sees a runaway freight headed his way. Federal investigations are underway in a dozen states – and the Rev. Al timidly agreed with weekend TV host Rev. Mike Huckabee, who introduced two ACORN workers narrating how they had enticed folks with cigarettes and money into signing illegal multiple registrations. Sharpton said: (quote) "We have to make sure there is no voting fraud here … I think people across party lines should stand together for the integrity of voting."

          ACORN’s activities have cast a shadow over the whole process.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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