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...News continued its guerrilla war against its rivals and ended up beating the networks at G.O.P. Convention time. Jon Stewart's fake news show took on real news shows--and won. Richard Clarke waged a lone, self-righteous battle against his former bosses in the Bush Administration. The swift-boat vets launched a publicity-seeking missile at one of their own--John Kerry. On the other side, George Soros helped bankroll a million points of protest ads against the Bush Administration--and came up short in November. So did MoveOn.org which signally failed to move...
...best-selling book, TV ads, Op-Ed columns and guest slots on the news programs--the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth dominated the election dialogue, even though their attacks on John Kerry's war record were widely debunked. The Dems never knew what hit them...
...Indeed, one supple irony is that even those who liked ?Fahrenhype? and ?Celsius? were obliged to see Moore?s film in order to bury it. The Swift Boat commercials may have brought down John Kerry; the anti-Moore movies simply enriched Moore. As the director realized. The week ?Fahrenheit? opened, he was on Jon Stewart?s ?The Daily Show? and said, ?If there?s any right-wing groups listening tonight, please keep doing this...
...think perhaps a young artist might confuse gallery-saturated Paris' failure to get excited vapors over his work with the arthritis of art he speaks of . . . But if he is looking for a rich and rewarding atmosphere in which to work and grow, it is still worth the boat trip. I wouldn...
...about the coolest inventions of the year [Nov. 29]. With his innovative SpaceShipOne, Burt Rutan hit the ball not just out of the park but right out of the atmosphere. I was disappointed, however, that many of the creations you chose were impractical, half-baked ideas. Consider the Snow Boat, which, by means of an aluminum boat welded around a snowmobile, is supposed to solve the problem of the vehicle's falling through the ice. That's like making a safer motorcycle by carrying it in a U-Haul. Coolness is hard to define, but ridiculousness isn't part...