This week on press pass, politics, of course, is full of some cringeworthy moments of late. Connecting the legs like craig, sanford and wiener. Mario carella turned those moments into a offbroadway play called tailspin whose text is actually made up of actual emails, quotes and Text Messages involved in those scandals. Mario, rachel, welcome. I have to start with, okay. The premise of the play, we named it, larry craig, infamous for wide stance. Mark foley, the page scandal that we had in 06. Mark sanford, mr. Appalachian trail. Then anthony weiner, the one with twitter. Give me whats the plot . Like whats the premise here . The premise is that youve got these four famous politic n politicians doing incredibly stupid things. Famous for the wrong reasons. We have politicians that do this kind of stuff all the time. All of us make mistakes but these guys made mistakes on an epic level. I wanted to show politicians who really blundered, using only the actual things they said. Thats your s
Troops on the ground. Of course, congress is still awol in all this. Out on break until midterm but a call is growing for further military authorization. House Speaker John Boehner fears Ground Forces might be inevitable. I think its going to take more than air strikes to drive them out of there. At some point somebodys boots have to be on the ground. These are barbarians. They intend to kill us. An overwhelming majority of americans agree with the speaker. More than 7 in 10 say despite obamas promises to avoid a ground assault, u. S. Troops will be used at some point. But u. S. Troops themselves, 70 of active duty troops, say the u. S. Should not send combat troops to back up iraqis in this fight. While our nations top Intelligence Officer says he overestimated the iraqi forces, our commander in chief refuses to discuss what will happen if those americantrained iraqi troops are not up to the fight. Were just getting started. Lets see how they do. I think that right now weve got a Camp
Just back from Gaza, emergency coordinator for Médecins Sans Frontières, Marie-Aure Perreaut Revial, condemns systematic attacks on humanitarian workers.
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Touché par l’histoire de Liam, Antony Trice a composé une chanson en son honneur, qui figurera dans son prochain album.
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«Liam a 8 ans et des rêves plein les yeux, un gamin pas comme les autres c’est vrai…»
Dans la cour du Collège de Corsy, les lunettes de soleil ne dissimulent pas les larmes qui embuent les regards. Ce vendredi matin, avant que sonnent les vacances d’été, près de 200 élèves de 4 à 10 ans ont entonné ces paroles, accompagnés à la guitare par Antony Trice, ancien candidat de «The Voice». Une chanson inédite, dédiée à un invité d’honneur: Liam, un garçon atteint d’une maladie rare. C’est la première fois, après plus d’un an, qu’il retrouve ses camarades de classe.