6/18/08 at 2:03pm
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A dysfunctional family heading home for the Christmas holidays is a familiar cinematic theme (think The Family Stone as a recent American example), and this scenario forms the basis of Arnaud...
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Studio: Acorn Media Group Rated: NR Film Length: app. 468 minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (enhanced for 16:9) Audio: English DD 2.0, English DD 5.1 Subtitles: English SDH MSRP: $59.99 Package: Box with...
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Toshiba enters the Blu ray world with their first player. Toshiba with universal had gone with HDDVD a few years back and lost. now they are here with the first blu ray player. I had a Toshiba HD-a2...
Tim Russert died
6/18/08 at 2:54pm
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Re: Tim Russert died
CNN just ran a bit of Bruce Springsteen's tribute (live via satellite) at the Kennedy Center. He did Thunder Road, which he has been dedicating to Russert in concert. The song was done solo acoustic, and had to be from Europe, where Bruce and the band are performing.Very cool that CNN cut away from the blowhard Bill Bennett to cover this.
6/18/08 at 4:19pm
- Joined: November 1998
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Re: Tim Russert died
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| I was never a big Tim Russert fan |
You're not alone. I've always enjoyed MTP, but I've run across people that looked down on the show and the host as an example of "gotcha" journalism. I never really felt that way about the way Russert would throw back old quotes at politicians. If there was an inconsistency or misunderstanding, I always just expected the politicians to explain.
I generally don't like to bemoan the loss of people I don't even know, and who certainly don't know me, but I have to say... I really do feel a loss over Mr. Russert's death. I pretty much trusted him to ask good questions, and I enjoyed the back and forth exchanges he had with those who appeared on MTP.
Studios, caption your internet streams.
6/18/08 at 4:49pm
Re: Tim Russert died
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Originally Posted by Karl_Luph
Ok, I'm putting on my flame retardant suit because I know I'm going to be catching some flames. I was never a big Tim Russert fan and it seems like the media is covering his passing as if it was the Pope who died. For the past number of days it seems like everytime I turned on the tv there was more coverage about Tim Russert,God love him ,but geez.... Ok,climbing down off of my soap box and going to the corner.
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6/18/08 at 5:36pm
- Joined: November 1998
- Post Count: 2,014
Re: Tim Russert died
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| I was never a big Tim Russert fan |
You're not alone. I've always enjoyed MTP, but I've run across people that looked down on the show and the host as an example of "gotcha" journalism. I never really felt that way about the way Russert would throw back old quotes at politicians. If there was an inconsistency or misunderstanding, I always just expected the politicians to explain.
I generally don't like to bemoan the loss of people I don't even know, and who certainly don't know me, but I have to say... I really do feel a loss over Mr. Russert's death. I pretty much trusted him to ask good questions, and I enjoyed the back and forth exchanges he had with those who appeared on MTP. I also enjoyed the way he carried himself. It gives me a headache to think that Chris Matthews is one of the people being discussed for his chair on MTP. The fact that I can't think of anyone to replace him is a credit to his impact.
Studios, caption your internet streams.
