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Orson Welles roasts James Stewart (the greatest Roast of all time) Posted on Jimmy, to use a metaphor, the movie industry is a well it s sometimes called a jungle, but I think it s a forest, a forest made up of a million different plants and trees and shrubs. And some of these plants have a brief day in the sun they flower quickly, but they can t seem to sustain, so they wither away. Hollywood has seen a lot of these. But a career like yours, Jimmy, is an evergreen. Rain or shine it keeps growing. Because is had a kind of beauty and purpose it will never die. That s what we ve always seen in you, something that will be here when all the fads and fancies are long gone. ....
The permanent representatives of the united states to the u.n. since the end of world war ii were politicians. people like henry cabot lodge, george bush, daniel moynahan, william scranton, andrew young, phil richardson, and now of course nikki haley, and cabot lodge stayed for eight years. but practically all of the others stayed for relatively short periods of time, sometimes even less time than nikki haley did. moynahan famously stayed for seven months and then used his performance at the united nations to get himself elected senator. so you know, who knows what motivates all this, but again, i would emphasize, i think she did a very good job and she was kind of a breath of fresh air. of course, you say you don t know, but what do you think do you think this could have anything to do with, even though there was only effusive ....
The house and senate harry byrd jr. was content to retire in 1982. he never joined the republican party in all those years, you can still say he played an enormous role with white southerners away from the democratic party in the wake of the civil rights act. these days going to be hard to believe that there was ever room for harry byrd in the democratic party or bill scranton in the republican party. their passing is a reminder that it really wasn t that long ago when the two parties in american politics were very different. rush limbaugh stokes a heated battle. that s next. three weekends. asthma doesn t affect my job. you missed the meeting again last week! it doesn t affect my family. your coughing woke me up again. i wish you d take me to the park. i don t use my rescue inhaler a lot. depends on what you mean by a lot. coping with asthma isn t controlling it. test your level of control at asthma.com, then talk to your doctor. ....
Had still been alive. i had that thought twice this week william scranton and harry bird jr. had died. one was 96 years old and one was 98. both absent from the political stage for decades. played no role in the current one. except well, they kind of did, not directly, but their stories loom over american politics today. they illustrate the roots of the deep and intense regional, racial and cultural divisions that define the two parties today. they result in the maddening gridlock that no one seems happy about at all. if you want to know how the american political system came to this, you can do a lot worse than know the stories of bill scranton and harry bird jr. scranton an old school republican. the son of the northeast, the town in pennsylvania he came from scranton was named after his ancestors and he embodied a strain that mixed with robust ....
We talk a lot about the civil war within the republican party between the establishment and the far right, and 50 years that was much the same. that s when william scranton, the pennsylvania governor rose to national prominence as a kennedy republican. he supported civil rights, invested in education, even raised taxes in pennsylvania. in 1964 he took on barry goldwater for the republican presidential nomination. he only won one state, his home state of pennsylvania and goldwater went on to lose the general election in a landslide. scranton later served as u.n. ambassador under president ford. today we learned that governor scranton died in california at the age of 96. a great, great republican. we ll be right back. ....