Word: geraldoed
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...asking Mr. Mailer, who has been sentenced to five days in jail for a march on the Pentagon and is appealing on the grounds that he was sentenced because he is famous, to disclose whether he believes that artists should be immune from the harassments of the law." Geraldo couldn't even parse that sentence...
...Restaurants --Letting Oliver North Near a Shredder --Not Bombing the Fuel Tanks at Pearl Harbor --Hooked on Classics --Introducing Kudzu to the U.S. --Novelizations of Movies --The Ugandan Space Program --The Titanic --The Edsel --Rocky 5 --Aerosol Cheese --Flowbee --Attacking Israel on Yom Kippur --AfterMASH --Shoe-Store X Rays --Geraldo's Opening of Capone's Vault --The Independent-Counsel Statute --Psychic Hotlines --Cold Fusion --The Maginot Line --George Lazenby As James Bond --The Hitler Diaries
Perhaps instead of turning to Geraldo Rivera when tragedy strikes, we might consider turning to a Frenchman whose keen insights into America upon his visit in the mid-1800s still resonate today. Alexis de Tocqueville, in Volume Two of Democracy in America, writes of the exact instinct which stirs our love of instant explanation. Americans, he wrote, have "an unrestrained passion for generalizations," which is rooted in our democratic instincts. Believing that all humans are fundamentally alike, the democrat has "an ardent and often blind passion of the human spirit to discover common rules for everything" and seeks "to explain...
Instead, they can expect "sloppy clip jobs" from previously known scandals and " a handful of uncorroborated charges" made against Republicans. And this is only after leafing through a 16-page history of Flynt's media treatment, eight pages of responses from fans, and a note from Geraldo Rivera. It seems that though President Clinton unfortunately had plenty of skeletons in his closet to be unearthed, even Flynt's million-dollar enticement could not lure the snitchers to reveal enough about Republicans to fill an 84-page book...
NAME: Rush Limbaugh OCCUPATION: Radio talk-show blowhard BEST PUNCH: Read listener's e-mail on air that expressed the hope that Charles Grodin, Alan Dershowitz and Geraldo Rivera would have "simultaneous strokes" leaving them "without the gift of speech...