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This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral-Plus, Plenty of Valet Parking!-in America’s Gilded Capital
Tim Russert is dead.
But the room was alive.
Big Ticket Washington Funerals can make such great networking opportunities. Power mourners keep stampeding down the red carpets of the Kennedy Center, handing out business cards, touching base. And there is no time to waste in a gold rush, even (or especially) at a solemn tribal event like this.
Washington—This Town—might be loathed from every corner of the nation, yet these are fun and busy days at this nexus of big politics, big money, big media, and big vanity. There are no Democrats and Republicans anymore in the nation’s capital, just millionaires. That is the grubby secret of the place in the twenty-first century. You will always have lunch in This Town again. No matter how many elections you lose, apologies you make, or scandals you endure.
In This Town, Mark Leibovich, chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine, presents a blistering, stunning—and often hysterically funny—examination of our ruling class’s incestuous “media industrial complex.” Through his eyes, we discover how the funeral for a beloved newsman becomes the social event of the year. How political reporters are fetishized for their ability to get their names into the predawn e-mail sent out by the city’s most powerful and puzzled-over journalist. How a disgraced Hill aide can overcome ignominy and maybe emerge with a more potent “brand” than many elected members of Congress. And how an administration bent on “changing Washington” can be sucked into the ways of This Town with the same ease with which Tea Party insurgents can, once elected, settle into it like a warm bath.
Outrageous, fascinating, and destined to win Leibovich a whole host of, er, new friends, This Town is must reading, whether you’re inside the Beltway—or just trying to get there.
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While it is usually more persuasive to be diplomatic rather than offensive, I tend not to care very much if the truth offends people either. Because ignorance is a choice, discerning fact from the false is also a choice, we need to value truth and fact, more than what people like or dislike.
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… “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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the world … FSU News – Coverage of rape evidence a problem — Poppy Harlow waxed on (6:46 PM, Mar. 20, 2013) …item 2a / 2b.. Anonymous 2013 Steubenville Rape Case — What if this was your daughter? (Published on Jan 6, 2013) …
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"just fine" (August 14, 2012) … Steubenville teens describing how they did NOTHING — Silence: (23 March 2013) …
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Guerrilla Marketing … Letters to the editor (Apr 1, 2013) …item 2.. Former Shelter director Mel Eby felt forced into retirment — Eby, however, feels like a castaway. (Mar 30, 2013) …
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Decatur, Illinois .. Beloved psychology professor outed as killer who murdered his family as a teen — ‘I feel comfortable with him,’ Grader said. (3 August 2013)
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Big Red Football … Who’s in Trouble Next in Steubenville? — The grand jury will convene around April 15. (MAR 18, 2013) …item 2.. Florida State groups bring attention to rape culture (Apr. 10, 2013) …
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While it is usually more persuasive to be diplomatic rather than offensive, I tend not to care very much if the truth offends people either. Because ignorance is a choice, discerning fact from the false is also a choice, we need to value truth and fact, more than what people like or dislike.
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…..item 2)…. youtube video … Lenny Bruce – The Life and Crimes of … … No Minors Adults Only …
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Published on Sep 18, 2012
A radio documentary made back in 1997. Produced by Steve Shepherd & presented by Charles Shaar Murray. I spent two weeks in San Francisco and New York interviewing Lenny’s friends, lawyers and collaborators, then edited 25 hours of tape (and it was tape) down to around an hour of material and refined it with Charles (who delivered a great script as always). It was well received at the time but had a limited audience with just two airings on Radio 3. Enjoy. Steve Shepherd,
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Lenny Bruce died on August 3, 1966.
Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up comedian, social critic and satirist.
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Poster for Lenny Bruce’s last series performances, which took place at The Fillmore in San Francisco on June 24 and 25, 1966.
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