Monthly Archives: October 2003 - Page 2

Babs to Receive Honor

Posted by on 10/15/2003 Comments Off

Barbra Streisand will receive a Human Rights Campaign award for her support of gay and lesbian issues, religious freedom, and racial and gender equality. The group said Streisand, 61, took a stand against an anti-gay-rights proposal in Colorado in 1992 …

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You’ve all gone mental

Posted by on 10/14/2003 Comments Off

Dennis Miller Irks Elton John While performing at a benefit concert in Las Vegas, Elton John let loose with an Al Franken-like attack against Dennis Miller. Prior to John’s performance, Miller served the crowd a special heaping of his ultra-hip …

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Kicking Rush

Posted by on 10/14/2003 Comments Off

Don Imus showed Rush Limbaugh no mercy yesterday, even though Imus himself was off the air several times during the 1970s and ’80s because of cocaine and alcohol addiction. “Rush is a fat, pill-popping loser and an undisciplined slob who …

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Operation Give

Posted by on 10/14/2003 Comments Off

Operation Give was founded as a not-for-profit corporation in answer to a call from a soldier stationed in Iraq, known affectionately as Chief Wiggles. His request? To send toys and other goods to help the children he encountered every day …

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Hannity is next?

Posted by on 10/12/2003 1 comment

Ed Asner: ‘Hannity’s next … just like we went after Limbaugh’ In the news this week are several reports of an exchange between syndicated talk-show host Mike Gallagher and actor-turned-leftist-poster-child Edward Asner. The account goes like this: Mike Gallagher approached …

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The People of California Have Spoken

Posted by on 10/8/2003 Comments Off

Schwarzenegger Celebrates, Davis Concedes Californians banished Gov. Gray Davis just 11 months into his second term and overwhelmingly elected action hero Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him Tuesday – a Hollywood ending to one of the most extraordinary political melodramas in …

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Dude, Where’s My Country

Posted by on 10/7/2003 1 comment

Dude, Where’s My Country? When the powers-that-be succeeded in ignoring—and then silencing—the nation’s widespread dissent over war, one man stood on an Oscar stage and, in front of a billion people, outed the commander in chief for his fictitious presidency …

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Franken shows true colors

Posted by on 10/3/2003 Comments Off

Franken: I’d run to see perp walk Conservative-baiting comedian Al Franken says he hopes the drug allegation against Rush Limbaugh isn’t true, “but if it is, I’m looking forward to the perp walk.” The author of “Rush Limbaugh is a …

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Limbaugh resigns from NFL show

Posted by on 10/2/2003 Comments Off

From ESPN News: In the wake of his controversial statements regarding Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, Rush Limbaugh has resigned from his position on ESPN’s NFL pregame show. ESPN has accepted the resignation. Limbaugh issued a statement late Wednesday night in …

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