Perhaps Joe’s civility was rooted in cluelessness; when I was announced on the set as “the YouTube Michael Moore,” Scarborough excitedly asked a producer if I was “the ACORN guy,” referring to James O’Keefe, the young right-wing activist whose hidden cameras prompted a congressional investigation into the Obama-linked community- organizing group.That's not all. Find out about Joe & Mika.
Further from the web log bog: Just Above Sunset does a fine job of recapping, linking & typing about it. (Better than we do. More time on his/her hands than ours? Not possible. Hmmm ...) We especially enjoyed today's: The decline of "White Culture," Limbaugh & the Rams, a link to a book review in the LAT we wouldn't have read in the off-line edition for a wk. or two,
WASP culture – with its dogs, shingled houses at the shore, pearls and sweating silver cocktail shakers – survives today as a kind of marketing tool, a commercially viable stylish nostalgia. Amusingly, its leading practitioners are a Polish Catholic woman, Martha Stewart — who evokes the relaxed but well-groomed domestic style of the Hamptons and Nantucket — and Ralph Lauren, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants named Lifshitz.and more.
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As Friend’s hockey player cousin Donny – who “shockingly” failed to gain admission to Yale – once said as they strolled by the Ralph Lauren window on Madison Avenue: “If Ralph really wants to get to the heart of Waspdom, he should do a whole window full of beakers of lithium and patients in white gowns.”
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