Word: picketer
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...www.somanintheknow.com... The sequel to Meet the Parents will be called Meet the Fockers. Tee hee hee.... Anne Heche is dating a man now. Soooo predictable... Last week, we reported that Liz Hurley was playing dumb in her attempt to avoid being expelled by the Screen Actors Guild for crossing picket lines. This week, she admitted her error and tried to buy peace with a hefty contribution to the strike fund. SAG took the money and then said, "Burn in Hell!" Which is ironic, of course, since Hurley stars in Bedazzled opening today... I find it slightly disturbing that the London...
...last five minutes, as Bush finishes his answer to the "why should we trust that you guys will do what you promise after elected," the spinners and their sign holders come walking in, looking like some sort of federally funded picket line. Time to cross...
...embryo even resembles a fetus, much less a child. It would change medicine by offering a less invasive procedure; change politics by moving abortion earlier in pregnancy, when fewer people have moral qualms; change, above all, the access, since protesters wouldn't know where to set up a picket line if abortion became part of mainstream family practice...
They walked the picket line for four months, and little attention was paid. Recognizable but anonymous, they are actors in commercials. They are cast for their generic perkiness or their unthreatening ethnicity. They have the faces and voices, and the skills, that advertisers need to seduce you into buying Tide...
...That's the rhetoric of the past. That's...class warfare." For that matter, why was the whole Democratic spectacle so, well, democratic? Every interest group got its five minutes in the spotlight: the Clinton family on Monday, the Kennedy family on Tuesday and then, the next night, a picket line: speakers from the teachers union, the AFL-CIO and the N.A.A.C.P. Four years ago, Bill Clinton won a landslide by serenading independent voters with themes like welfare reform, crime fighting, deficit reduction. Last week Gore sang that refrain too, but you had to listen carefully...