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...sensation surrounding the elevation of Senator Joseph Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, to a national ticket lies less in the noun than in the adjective: Jews in American public life are old news; Orthodox Jews...
...will give the speech kicking off the roll-call vote that will formally nominate her father. The gauzy biographical film touting Gore as the man from Carthage will be vetted by her; her pen will edit the remarks of both the Vice President and Tipper Gore. And when Senator Joseph Lieberman, Gore's running mate, shows up to take his place, you can be certain that she weighed in on the decision to put him there...
...ironically fitting that Joseph Lieberman should make his convention acceptance speech after the penultimate episode of "Survivor" - exactly the sort of amoral pop-culture threat to public values that Lieberman has made a career in the Senate of attacking, and a show that, no doubt, whupped him in the ratings several times over. "Survivor" is a simulation of reality manipulated to produce conflict; a political convention is a simulation of reality manipulated to produce harmony. Guess which wins? If the Dems had a true media genius on the payroll, they'd have locked Joe in a Studio City bungalow with...
...what, three minutes he's been a journalist - notified us that the Gore camp is thrilled with the bump Lieberman has given the campaign, which evidently is noticeable everywhere but in the polls. Larry King gushingly congratulated Lieberman's mother, Marcia (who looks fantastic at 85) signing off, "Shalom." (Joseph Lieberman - here's an interesting bit of political trivia - is apparently of the Jewish faith...
...hope Joseph Lieberman packed plenty of air freshener, because this week the vice presidential nominee-to-be and guardian of America's morals is wading into the sewer. For years, the Connecticut senator and professional scold has given out "Silver Sewer Awards" to the Hollywood productions deemed most offensive, castigated smutty broadcasters like Howard Stern and Jerry Springer and generally impugned the moral responsibility of the same Hollywood bigs who will be feting and writing checks to the Democrats all week at the convention in Los Angeles. And Wednesday night, he'll exercise his right to free expression on television...