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...Moore?s Oscar-winning ?Bowling for Columbine? established the agit-doc tone, which mixes sober condemnation with japish wit. The approach was part ?Democracy Now? (Amy Goodman?s low-rent, high-IQ newscast on radio and TV), part ?The Daily Show,? which since 9/11 has become the Left?s CNN. Jon Stewart has made the President is an easy figure of fun. But the agit-docs aimed to nail Dubya for crimes graver than speaking English as a second language. They viewed Bush and his closest advisors as Pirates of the Constitution, exploiting the national trauma over 9/11 to pursue...
...happens, the tone and content of these films neatly bisected the mood of this year?s electorate. Moore?s documentary was angry, skeptical, wide-ranging, skipping from topic to topic, using comedy and sarcasm to convey moral rage; its hero was a grungy fat guy who ambushed his adversaries. Mel Gibson?s docudrama was stolid, bloody, humorless, remorseless, sticking to its micro-subject with macro implications, staying obsessively on point; its hero was a stern thin man who endured scourging and calumny in order to fulfill His mission. In other words, Moore embodied what the Right saw as Kerry...
Like trucker caps and Uggs, custom ring tones are so ubiquitous, they're practically passé. If you really want to impress, get a ring-back tone. When someone calls you, the ringing sound the caller hears is replaced by a tune from Alicia Keys, Santana or another artist. TMobile launched the first nationwide service Dec. 8 with about 400 $1.99 music clips. You must be a TMobile customer to buy the tunes, but anyone who calls you will hear them. --By Anita Hamilton
According to the HUPD report for the library arrest, Strahan was found sleeping at a library computer terminal, and, after having been woken up, “become visibly agitated and spoke in an unusually loud tone of voice” while responding to questions about his identification. Asked to put down a pen he was holding, Strahan refused, at which point the HUPD officer removed the pen from his hand. According to the arrest report, Strahan began moving his hand toward his backpack, so the officer helped him to his feet and handcuffed...
George’s crowning accomplishment is that he forces his American viewers to finally confront the Rwandan reality. He gives his audience a bit of a free pass by choosing to tone down the most jarring imagery. “You couldn’t replicate what took place in this particular slaughter, because most of it was by machete and was brutal, primitive killing,” he says...