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...practices apartheid, Jimmy Carter; he's seen presiding over a Surrender Ceremony with China. To prove it's fair and balanced, the film - which was not screened in advance for the press but was shown to 2,500 delegates during the Republican National Convention - also has a Larry Craig joke. Malone asks, "You heard the rumors about Lincoln being gay?" Patton replies, "Maybe he just had a wide stance...
Almost everyone mentions his generosity, particularly bottomless when it came to The Paris Review, which he ran out of his home for decades. But what radiates is a person of massive charm, entirely at ease with his own unease. Muhammad Ali, sensing someone who got the joke about himself, called Plimpton "Kennedy," while the actual Kennedys welcomed him into their lives as a confidant. It was Plimpton, at Bobby's side, who wrestled the gun away from Sirhan Sirhan, a rare example of sadness that he did not mine for storytelling...
...years, millions of American children have had to sit through what once was viewed as sentimental propaganda and therefore good for them. Many impressionable young people have even been forced to say the line about spreading money around in student productions of The Matchmaker, taking innocent pleasure in the joke about manure while their little minds were being polluted with redistributionist propaganda. While I remember Wilder's plays as being flag-draped, I read in Wikipedia that his major theme was "the universality of the simple yet meaningful lives of all people in the world." Also...
West, Barbara •Biden is asked, "How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around" by •Biden responds incredulously - "Are you joking? Is this a joke...
...What we’re witnessing in the media is a tragic study in what women are up against running for office in this country. Either they are seen as competent and threatening or as a joke worthy of ridicule,” Steinberg said, speaking about the coverage of Hillary Clinton as well...