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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
SPOILER! SPOILER!! SPOILER!!!
Who else was stunned by the ending of HTE BOURNE LEGACY? I was shocked that apparently the studio and filmmakers are so confidnet they have a hit that they didn’t feel compelled to give us any sense of closure. What made the previous BOURNE movies so good was you got both a conclusion and a hint of what might be ahead for the characters. This movie is all set-up and intrigue. Also, the best action scene isn’t the climatic chase scene, but the attack on Dr. Shearing’s home.
Finally, was anyone else feel a tad queasy during the medical lab shoot-out? For all the bullshit column inches wated on trying to make some kind of connection between THE DARK KNIGHT RISES and the acutal Aurora shooting, I’m surprised no one has said anythign about this seuqence. It’s the only sequence that has a life of its own.
Bonus points for Edward Norton as the movie’s required white goveernment antagonist. He’s like his FIGHT CLUB character, but with a promotion.
Oh, so they pulled a SWatH and just left the ending hanging, so certain were they that the story would continue in a sequel? And so certain that no one would complain? It’s like you can clearly see hubris and cynicism copulating onscreen, but can’t tell who is pitching and who is catching.
Onward….
“A. O. SCOTT It may be a grim commentary on the state of our society that we have started to grow accustomed to rampage shootings in schools and workplaces, which are often zones of alienation and frustration in any case. The special shock of the Aurora tragedy was that it violated our sense of the movie theater as a place of safety and escape, where we can be thrilled by all kinds of wonderful and terrible things secure in the knowledge that none of it is real.”
Yep, school shootings have become boring, and if a workplace gets shot up it’s now their own damn fault because they didn’t screen everyone properly.
When did this acceptation of rampage shootings start? Just now? How does he know? I live in Milwaukee and I know that nobody here is shrugging off what happened.
Seeing The Odd Life of Timothy Green tonight. I’m not sure that I’ve ever known less about a movie before seeing it. I have not seen a single TV spot or trailer or advertisement or anything at all, and I figure that at this point I might as well go in completely blind.
I’m also having trouble with his next paragraph: “…but maybe movies like “The Dark Knight Rises” and “The Avengers” (and non-comic-book-based offerings like “Brave” and “The Hunger Games” and the Harry Potter series) represent the last outpost of cultural consensus in a bitterly divided country.”
Can you really imagine Neo-Nazis like our recent shooter sitting down with their kids to watch Harry Potter when the people who hate mixed-bloods in that movie are the bad guys? Or can you see Muslims and Babtists enjoying female-dominant movies like THG or Brave, especially since the latter’s protagonist may even be lesbian? It’s just like talk radio–everyone sticks to their own echo chamber to hear the message they want to hear.
But everyone imagines they’re Batman. If you’re a leftie you get to save the downtrodden from evil predatory corporations like, um, Wayne Enterprises, and if you’re a rightie you get to beat up minorities and homosexuals and Muslims and drug dealers before you rob them and take all their money and drugs and shit because…uh, that’s what Batman does, right?
I wonder if the timing of critics’ screenings played a part in the “Bourne” shootout not getting mentioned much. I assume lots of folks saw it around when I did — July 23, just a few days after Aurora. I wrote a note about it but then, a couple weeks later, it seemed forced to revisit in a review a connection that did feel quite vivid when I saw it.
HFR – HIGH FRAME RATE BROUHAHA SIMPLIFIED
— Good rich lighting and good filmmaking + HFR = good
— Bad flat lighting and bad filmmaking + HFR = bad.
I will bet that when THE HOBBIT comes out it will look
quite good in all frame rates . . . .
I would also bet that Peter Jackson’s only misstep thus
far was perhaps to enthusiastically share his HFR material a bit early in the learning curve before it is was refined.
. . . . and, as always, none of this makes much difference if the
exhibitors are not “encouraged” to project at higher light levels.
. . . . and again, as always, seems to me that the single most
effective and COST EFFECTIVE thing that can be done to
improve image quality in theatres is BRIGHTER PROJECTORS.
Ironic, that many theatres will pay tens of thousands of dollars to show 3D and soon HFR but won’t spend significantly less to
simply turn up the projector brightness.
I would guess there is some financial tax loop hole-ish advantage
to BUYING equipment and amortizing it than to bulb and electricity
costs categorized as operating expenses.
I would also guess that there are some hidden reasons why directors and studios don’t just tell the theatres to run at higher light levels or they simply won’t get the films.
Hey, that’s what Kubrick used to do.
Anyway,
IT’s THE SCREEN BRIGHTNESS, STUPID
-30-
@chris: I saw THE BOURNE LEGACY on Tuesday and you could sense the audience go a little quite during that scene. The scene is quite effective, but the Aurora and church shooting gave it a little extra power.
I’ve seen like 10 movies with nonstop gunfire since Aurora and have NEVER ONCE thought about it even for a nanosecond. Like when you guys watch a movie where somebody steps into a car, do you GASP because there was a pileup on the 110 a couple months ago?
If my ACTUAL RELATIVES died in a freak PLANE ENGINE FALLS OUT OF THE SKY AND CRUSHES A CAR accident, and like THE NEXT DAY I went to see a movie called ENGINE CRUSHES CAR, I WOULDN’T CARE, it wouldn’t affect me a BIT. If like my CLOSEST FAMILY MEMBER got SHOT IN A THEATER, I would STILL BE STOKED to watch a hardcore violent gunfire movie like three hours later.
MOVIES FIRST.
Lex, whenever you say something like this, it just makes me wonder if the worst thing that’s ever happened to you is not getting laid for a long-time or almost-not-really getting fired. I’m sure that if you had ever been the victim of a violent crime or know someone close to you who has, you’d be reacting differently. And if you have been, well then your comments strike me as sociopathic (and not in an entertaining, look-at-me-cutting-myself kind of way like you’re usual disturbing comments).
I get the sentiment, but if you position yourself constantly as this holier-than-thou outlier who loves movies in the purest sense (implying that this is what makes you unlike the rest of us) then you’re opinion is not necessary, as it not only is irrelevant to the conversation, but can be assumed.
I did take a peek around the theater in TDKR when Bane and co. shot up the Stock Exchange, but after that I didn’t even think twice.
I’m with Lex. I dont’ think about that stuff. NO ONE would watch violent movies if they did, because violent shit happens all the time on the news. Some white girl in Utah getting kidnapped, is not going to temper my enjoyment of Man on Fire.
Or maybe I’ve experienced enough real life to not fold like a whimpering widow over a fucking BATMAN movie or gasp at pearls and fanning myself over a BOURNE *MOVIE.*
If anyone’s that rattled over some fake movie gunfire they have a weaker constitution than anyone I can take seriously. And since I’m guessing the above commenters here are NOT related to anyone in the Aurora tragedy, I’m again asking why some isolated incident with some crazy motherfucker in a state YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER VISITED makes you any more “rattled” than the gunfire probably going on five miles away in Van Nuys?
They got white girls in Utah?
I should move there.
Your points are pretty fair when stated that way. And inevitably someone falls into that bait-and-switch. But to be fair…
“If my ACTUAL RELATIVES died in a freak PLANE ENGINE FALLS OUT OF THE SKY AND CRUSHES A CAR accident, and like THE NEXT DAY I went to see a movie called ENGINE CRUSHES CAR, I WOULDN’T CARE, it wouldn’t affect me a BIT. If like my CLOSEST FAMILY MEMBER got SHOT IN A THEATER, I would STILL BE STOKED to watch a hardcore violent gunfire movie like three hours later.”
is a very different point than
“I’m again asking why some isolated incident with some crazy motherfucker in a state YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER VISITED makes you any more “rattled” than the gunfire probably going on five miles away in Van Nuys?”
Anyway, it doesn’t matter — how hard is it to believe that this happens to people? that some people fall into the pseudo-mourning zeitgeist? I would understand if you were talking about people who were against movies with violence screening in light of these tragedies, but you blast people for silently choosing not to attend a movie. These people are not co-opting others grief for social, political or other reasons — these are people who have passively decided that the succession of violent images on the television screen would bleed into their movie going experience.
Either way, you self-exceptionalize all the time, so wouldn’t that preclude you from knowing what popular opinion is or what most people think? Or even caring about it?
Rant over.
i noticed community – the nbc show is going on fridays … that can’t be good ..it’ll probably get cancelled for low ratings .
it doesn’t have to be like this ….there is lots of room on comedy central where they could show it daily if the wanted and try to show it internationally a lot more if they wanted.
so which journalist or tv site is going to break the news of the cancelled series first ? does it matter ?
i’d like to see Alison Brie back for a dp/30 24 hours right after it cancelled…
do you guys have any strong feelings on which one of your favorite tv shows will get cancelled ? and can you actually stop it . futurama and family guy came back but those are animated … real people not involved.
I was only ‘bothered’ by the scene in question purely because the scene as shot somehow made it by the MPAA with a PG-13. I’ve whined about this a lot, but the FCC crackdown on marketing R-rated films for kids back in 2001 has done little more than jam more and more overtly R-rated content into movies under the guise of ‘not too much blood, not too much gore’. 15 years ago, all four Bourne films (to say nothing of Angels and Demons, Vantage Point, Columbiana, or Lockout among others) would have been R-rated and proud of it. All four are clearly adult thrillers with adult sensibilities, dealing with adult content and arguably adult ideas.
SPOILER… Here we have a protracted scene of a man gunning down innocent people. The gunshots are loud, there is plenty of blood, the victims die slowly and/or are shot repeatedly as they fearfully beg for their lives. The idea that such a scene could be considered appropriate for kids 9-and-up (the general starting audience for a PG-13 movie, give or take) purely because there aren’t head shots or extreme close-ups on the gore is embarrassing.
SPOILER END… I had no problem with the scene in the context of the picture (it’s one of the better sequences of a film I didn’t care for at all), but it’s a latest/greatest example of how far down the rabbit hole we’ve gone in terms of ‘PG-13 at all costs!’. Thanks, Joe Lieberman.
Paul D/Stella, you’re kidding about not seeing TV ads for The Odd Life of Timothy Green, right?
They’ve all but blanketed the channels I watch, to the point that I am tired of the film before even seeing it.
Seriously: Just last night on Dallas, I think there was a very long preview spot.
enough about Dallas … for the sake of mankind give it up … I never want to hear ‘nother thing ’bout Dallas …. the last good television series was in 1975 (Ellery Queen) … anything after that doesn’t count …. The Wire is like 10 years old … there is no television unless we’re talking Land of the Giants … there are only movies
Obviously you’ve never watched Breaking Bad.
And count me in as one who hasn’t seen at add for Timothy Green either.
I’m not kidding. But then again I haven’t been watching much Nick Jr. or Disney Channel lately. Haven’t seen a thing.
watched the lorax – its pretty good – nice animation – maybe 1 too many musical numbers …
this Dr. Seuss guy needs a dp/30 .
oh yeah – don’t cut down trees.
There’s lot of good television if you know where to look for it: Justified, Hell on Wheels, Longmire. Hell, I was sorry to see Luck go just when it was getting really interesting.
There’s more than enough good television. I have a hard time watching all the shows I want to. White people problems.
So according to the MPAA, seeing a gunman violently kill men and women while they beg for their lives is okay, and would have less impact on the impressionable than say watching Steve Martin and Meryl Streep light up a doobie.
America is a funny place
Nardwuar interviews musicians … lots of fun short interviews . watch a few.
Concerning Beasts:
“Viewers are asked to interpret a lack of work discipline, schooling, or steady institution building of any kind — the primary building blocks of any civilization — as the height of liberation. ‘Choice,’ even the choice to live in squalor, is raised to the level of a categorical imperative…We are left with a libertarian sandbox, with a rights-based life philosophy gone rancid.”
I, too, have wondered why so many critics have fallen in love with a movie about a child trying to survive a 24/7 toga party. Are we sure this isn’t propaganda for forced sterilization?
Gee, I wonder what’ll happen when Finke’s boss gets put on a sex offender registry?
What blows my mind is most of the gals in the group didn’t realize Penske had his dong out until they were close enough to get whizzed on. So does he have the projecting force of Aquaman or were they blind drunk?
I generally have sort of a disconnect or separation in action movie shootouts. The scene in question from the new Bourne movie was unsettling though. For whatever reason, if it were like an alien monster or undead slasher going around and literally tearing people limb from limb, I would not have felt as bad.
theres a lot of tv promos for comedy central roasts… this week they are roasting Roseanne Barr and Charlie Sheen …
i must have seen the ads more than a dozen times .
based on the history of these things – they pick the people easiest to roast like Trump – Larry the Cable Guy and Jeff Foxworthy ..
DP should get roasted on comedy central – people from deadline – the wrap and bunch of actors and directors could make fun of DP for an hour … comedy central should
get on this .
“For whatever reason, if it were like an alien monster or undead slasher going around and literally tearing people limb from limb, I would not have felt as bad.”
FWIW, the MPAA tends to treat fantasy violence (death by aliens, monsters, falling anvils) a little less harshly than realistic violence, the concern being that killing people with a gun or knife or scissors or whatever is “imitable,” whereas decapitation by an alien is not.
Maybe it’s time for all violent movies to be released with intros like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3vI9iAiDtc
Oh, and we have article written by an idiot on the front page: The Dark Knight’s Mushroom Cloud
Maybe if the writer read up a little on nuclear weapons instead of merely spouting political cant he might’ve realized that you can incinerate a city with a nuke without creating much fallout at all, as long as you set it off high enough. He thinks that merely detonating a nuke anywhere will poisonously destroy the vicinity, if not the world, for time immemorial.
Er, Sam: Please don’t give the NRA any ideas, OK?
“the last good television series was in 1975 ”
You’re either a brilliant satirist – or a really slow and very old man.
“I’m not kidding. But then again I haven’t been watching much Nick Jr. or Disney Channel lately. Haven’t seen a thing.”
Ive seen a few spots – but only when Im at a certain friends house. She watches E! and TBS – neither of which ever graces my TV screen – E! especially, which Ive blocked on pure principle.
Weird – I tried that truthout link, and it set me to a page saying their site finds ME suspicious, and that I need to register with them in order to visit the page. Screw that.
“So according to the MPAA, seeing a gunman violently kill men and women while they beg for their lives is okay, and would have less impact on the impressionable than say watching Steve Martin and Meryl Streep light up a doobie.
America is a funny place”
this.
(i’ve never ever heard of ‘the odd life of timothy green’ so there you go)
there are a shitload of really good american TV shows/series at the moment – weird comedies, dramas, dramedies, i actually wonder if with hindsight and historical perspective this will be looked upon as (one of) the golden ages of american broadcasting.
That is strange, storymark. I just tried it again and didn’t get any sort of popup or overlay. And I’m not a regular visitor/linker of the site, either.
David Duchovny finally got a dp/30 . i’m guessing a lot of people won’t care about the movie goats but will be like … Mulder rules!!! .. so expect 1000 of those comments.
watched Go On with Matthew Perry – nbc show ..
An irreverent yet charming sportscaster who, after a loss, finds solace from members of his mandatory group therapy sessions.
overall – this comedy has a lot of new actors but the comedy part falls real flat.
they keep giving Matthew Perry sitcoms that don’t last as long as Friends did.
meanwhile the other friend – David Schwimmer sells Los Angeles home for $8.865 million
so it’ll take another 2 years before Perry gets a dp/30.
did i mention how much Mulder rules . everybody go watch xfiles again.
Sam-
I think the idea that “The Bathtub” and it’s “politics” being that of a bunch of lousy drunks and borderline child abusers if not outright neglecters is valid but then again, well, 2 things…
1. I think Zeitlin is making a modern day fable or fairy tale. I mean, look at the Shire for instance. A bunch of layabout shorties get high or drunk all day, sit around and sing and it’s o.k. because it’s a fantasy. But since BEASTS is set in “our world,” everyone gets all butt hurt that poor Hushpuppy is being neglected. I just think people are reading too far into it.
2. I agree with, what I think, are Zeitlin’s politics or at least his POV about freedom. We are not free to do what we want. We cannot ride a motorcycle without a helmet because the law is TRYING TO HELP US. We cannot ride without a seat belt or in the back of a truck because they want to HELP US. What if someone doesn’t want the help and safety of a helmet? Or a seatbelt? That’s just my personal point of view, but again, how free are we allowed to be these days?
What if someones perfectly content to get by off the grid, not using what the government has provided them and not asking for anything in return? The citizens of the bathtub (and see my point in #1, it’s a fable) live how they want to live. Or, have adapted to what life has given them. I also think it’s asinine to pretend there aren’t thousands of children living in squalor who will never have anything and don’t expect it so they fend for themselves.
I feel these type of attacks on BEASTS are valid by a bit snooty and closed minded. Plus, I think it’s a fable so we shouldn’t even really concern ourselves with it. It’s like if people started bitching that hobbits are lazy stoners who live life how they want but shouldn’t raise a kid in that environment.
I mean, what’s next? Everyone griping because Bruce Wayne’s parents untimely death left him a billionaire and he decides to use that money to fight evil? Oh..wait…
that whole “this is a free country and freedom means personal choice and individuality – we should be free to decide if we wear a helmet/seat belt” argument is amusing, because are those same people so adamant about personal choice and freedom then willing to accept the consequences, meaning they forgo medical care from emergency services and the health system required to patch up their broken bodies due to their abject stupidity, or do they then hypocritically fall back on the ‘rights’ of the citizenry within the construct of accepted social norms subject to laws and regulations to receive the care required to save their lives?
people who think freedom means not wearing helmets and seat-belts should be required to wear anti-medic alert bracelets that declare to emergency services when they crack their head open: i’m an asshole who choose not to wear a helmet/seat belt, it was my personal choice because it’s a free country and I therefore accept the consequences of my choice/actions meaning i realise i could die as a result and will not require medical care, which is a function and extension of social norms subject to regulations and laws which are counter to my abject personal freedom.”
Which segues into the party who demand government get out of their lives are having one of the most spectacular political meltdowns in recent history:
“I can assure you, our campaign would be helped immensely if we had an agreement between both campaigns that we were only going to talk about issues. And that attacks based upon business or family, or taxes, or things of that nature, that this is just, this is…a diversion.” – Mitt Romney, today
Speechless.
Don, the difference between the Shire and the Bathtub is visible–just look at them. The Bathtub is what you wind up with if you do nothing but get wasted all day, while work is obviously getting done in the Shire. You think a bunch of bleary-eyed stoners could’ve built all those elaborately-constructed homes and maintained all those well-manicured gardens?
The problem with libertarianism is that its advocates either want to get trashed whenever they want or dump their trash wherever they want.
I’m no libertarian, I just think the citizenry of The Bathtub wanted to be left alone. And the only way to be that meticulous with a mushroom house is to be helllla high. Plus, the other thing I don’t get about BEASTS criticism of late is: no one I know including myself would want to live in the bathtub. I might like to visit once and the food looks good (and that floating brothel was incredible) but many are saying Zeitlin fetishises that depraved environment. I guess he does a little but to be successful wouldn’t you have to snow the audience into wanting to live there? I never felt like that was a place I’d want to live and aside from the empathy I felt when they were taken to the hospital, I never felt a particular affinity with those folks. And if anything, I wanted Hushpuppy to grow up to have a better life.
There does seem to be an extreme edge in their desire for laissez faire, as Leah pointed out, extreme to the tinfoil hat degree in that it appears they’d rather die from, say, appendicitis than visit a hospital?
It gets back to my comment about sterilization–if you want to erect such a community in the middle of nowhere you probably won’t see much opposition until children enter the mix (would we have heard of the Davidians or the Eldorado polygamists if kids hadn’t been involved?). An enclave of homeless people has been rumored to exist along the river not that far away and nobody gives a crap–“At least they’re not here!” many might say–but if anyone tried to raise a child like Hushpuppy out there it would be invaded, torn down and investigated until we were tired of hearing about it.
Also, Miller’s hysterical rant about Batman’s nuke is reminiscent of Voldemort–whisper his name and you might as well be electing him Chancellor. It brings to mind Paul Fussell’s observation that opposition to the bombing of Hiroshima correlated directly to how far away you were from the Pacific frontline: soldiers who were preparing for the invasion of Japan literally thanked God for the atomic bomb, while the ivory-tower elitists who had somehow managed to duck the draft felt horrified and disgusted by the mere existence of nuclear weapons. The former residents of Dresden, if they could still speak, would’ve said “Ash is ash.”
Paul Ryan! Nearly as extreme a VP choice as Palin in 2008. Ryan’s plan for Medicare usually polls with around 75% opposition.
Good luck Mitt.
i mentioned a few weeks back that i’d be too stupid
to understand the new bourne movie so i wouldn’t go ..
and the first review i checked out pretty much said
the plot was very confusing.
shouldn’t DP have a review of this by now ..
The GOP: determined to go down in flames. Hallelujah!
Ryan supports more, more war and a bigger Police State. Not a dime’s worth of difference between Romney/Ryan and Obama/Biden.
when this music video first came out – i said i liked the editing … very fast and now it has 100 million views …
so can a music video director with 100 million views get a dp/30 ? i hope he qualifies.
Flo Rida – Good Feeling [Official Video]
i have heard a lot of people saying if you haven’t watched The Bourne Ultimatum recently the first hour of the movie is not exactly the easiest thing to comprehend.
Saw the Campaign. Really funny until the third act turns it into a message movie with an ‘everyone wins in the end’ kind of bow.
LEGACY is the first “WTF just happened” action movie I’ve seen in a good while…unless you count TINKER TAILOR in the same vein. How strange is it that Jeremy Renner has played major roles in 3 of the biggest action movies of the last 8 months, and I bet the vast majority of Americans couldn’t pick him out of a lineup.
It is funny etguild. Everyone’s talking about Channing Tatums big year with Magic Mike, 21 Jump Street, and The Vow.
Since December he’s had Mission Impossible 4, Avengers, and now Bourne Legacy. I think Legacy was a big test because Avengers and MI4 were not sold on Renner. He was the supporting player with industry cred. Now that he has a solid hit on his hands as the headliner, he might soon become a household name.
tlc tv is at it again – these twins are getting a reality show.
5 minutes – either you care or you don’t ..
Conjoined Twins, Abby & Brittany Hensel
cnn the world leader in news … and this is pretty big news.
CNN Reports Paul Ryan Didn’t Wear A Tie To VP Announcement
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-reports-paul-ryan-didnt-wear-a-tie-to-vp-announcement/
If you read one article on Ryan, make it Ryan Lizza’s lengthy New Yorker piece published a few days ago.
Three takeaways: Ryan loves Ayn Rand, has no problem undermining John Boehner to suit his own goals, and had no problem exploding the size of government under Bush.
“Not a dime’s worth of difference between Romney/Ryan and Obama/Biden.”
I notice that it’s white men who say this 99 percent of the time.
“Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) cosponsored a bill that would give fetuses full personhood rights from the moment of fertilization, which was even rejected by voters in the socially conservative state of Mississippi. He voted to defund federal family planning programs, authored a budget that dismantles Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, all of which disproportionately aid and employ women, and voted multiple times to prevent women in the military from using their own money to pay for abortions at military hospitals.
Ryan also supported a highly controversial bill that Democrats nicknamed the “Let Women Die Act,” which would have allowed hospitals to refuse to provide a woman emergency abortion care, even if her life is on the line.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund said in a statement on Saturday morning that Ryan has earned zero percent on its women’s health voting scorecard, and other women’s rights group expressed similar alarm.”
tough issues to deal with … pretty sure that Jennifer Lawrence and K-Stew are still more popular than this Paul Ryan dude …what does DP think of this guy ? what does DP think of Biden ?
if Romney and Ryan lose are they going to get a dp/30 ? cause that would be a cool story to tell how they raised
millions of bucks and couldn’t get into one giant whitehouse.
or wait till Oliver Stone makes a movie about them ..
my issue with Mitt is that he’s not good with speeches with you know real people …like if he had to give one
by himself without anything written for him ..
pretty sure Obama is good at that.
being the president means doing a lot of speeches to a lot of different people every day …
one of the super rich guys that might make for good president – Richard Branson …. he just doesn’t qualify.
And yet millions, perhaps tens of millions, of women will vote for Romney/Ryan. America is not a funny place; it’s a sad place.
I know a father-in-law like that; every penny he earned came from union work, yet he’ll very likely be knocking on doors to get out the vote for Romney.
I suspect it’s impossible to figure out such a person.