Reprise from 14 June 2008: When Tim russert passed away during the height of the campaign, this was our tribute.
“I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – you know that only the good die young.” – Billy Joel.
As I sat for hours searching for yet more words to express the magnitude [...]
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Crying with the Saints (Reprise)
Posted on 18 July 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 2008 election, Big Russ, CNN, Deepak Chopra, FOX News, Keith Olbermann, Luke, Meet the Press, Morning Joe, MSNBC< The Today Show, NBC News, quo vadimus, Tim Russert, TJR
Keith Olbermann The Left’s Rottweiler
Posted on 21 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (12) | Tags: $400 million dollar bonus baby, 1994, 22 minutes of news, Air America radio, average age of 61, Bill Moyers, Bill O’Reilly FOX News, brilliant people, bring a big one, Clear Channel, completely unmanageable, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, creative, Dan Patrick, election night coverage, ESPN sports roots, Gingrich Revolution, Hancock, Hardball, if in a gunfight, Keith Olbermann, kind hearted, Left’s Rottweiler, Meet the Press, Michelle Obama, Morning Joe, MSNBC.com, mugged, NBC News, never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the bar, Nightly News, physically imposing, Race to the White House, reporters and pundits, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, says what he feels in the moment, sharing anchors, Tim Russert, to beat a bully you stand and go toe-to-toe, Today, too nice, Verdict with Dan Abrams, wears his outrage on his sleeve
Reprise: On 8 July we published an homage to the Left’s Rottweiller Keith Olbermann, the right went apoplectic as the article had 300,000 hits in 4 hours.
Keith is my kind of guy. Creative, completely unmanageable, he says what he feels in the moment and wears his outrage like his very large heart on his 6’ [...]
Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove
Posted on 07 December 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 seniors applied last year for 500 placements, 000 teachers in twenty states over 10-years, 18, 3rd Presidential debate, Adrian Malik Fenty, American Federation of Teachers, arriving unannounced and unsupported to inspect schools, bloated administrations, Chancellor of the Washington DC Public School system, closed 21-schools, Columbia University, created by Wendy Kopp, Denis Campbell, District’s youthful new mayor, fired 11% of the bureaucrats, hates waste, high-powered fans, in 1997 she founded the New Teacher Project, inefficiency, Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove, knows how badly the system was broken, Masters in Public Policy from Harvard’s prestigious Ken, McCain, Michelle Rhee, Ms Rhee’s parents emigrated to the US from Korea in 196, nation’s most promising future leaders commit to teach, NBC News, no-nonsense administrator bringing controversial method, obama, parents and the community have “been cut out of DC Scho, Parents United for DC Schools, quite scared, raised in a DC rowhouse, recruiting 10, sacked 270-teachers she deemed under-performers, scorched earth, shaking up the HQ culture, tipped public education on its end, wants DC public schools to raise expectation levels, Washington DC, £36, “has her back”, “Teach for America”
By Denis Campbell
As Chancellor of the Washington DC Public School system, Michelle Rhee, 38, has tipped public education on its end in Washington, DC gaining a lot of high-powered fans and a few enemies. She was an unwitting reference during the 3rd Presidential debate as John McCain and Barack Obama disagreed on whether or not [...]
Maddow Head-to-Head with The King, Winning Hearts and Minds
Posted on 21 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill O’Reilly, Chris Matthews, CNN, Harball, Keith Olbermann, labelled sexist, Larry King, Maddow's a big fish in the pond, MSNBC, NBC, NBC News, Palin, Palin interview, Rachel Maddow, Rachel’s got cool and game, Republican SPIN machine, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, solid 1-2 punch, too controversial for the MSM, winning hearts and minds
Rachel Maddow in her second week is winning hearts and minds away from the King and even beat her buddy Keith Olbermann in the ratings giving MSNBC a solid 1-2 punch. MSNBC continues to grow viewers and present NBC with headaches because the right wing attack dogs succeeded in banning their hosts Olbermann and Harball’s [...]
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