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House committee to premiere first-of-its-kind documentary showcasing economic inequality
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., announces the creation of the Select Committee on Economic Disparity and Fairness in Growth to study inequality and disparities in the economy and society, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, June 16, 2021. From left are Democratic members, Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-Texas, Rep. Gwen Moore, D-Wis., Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., chairman, Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minn., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif. (G3 Box News Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) J. Scott Applewhite/G3 Box News
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A bipartisan House committee is set to premiere a first-of-its-kind documentary to present its findings on the realities of economic inequality in the United States and the unique journeys of people seeking to attain financial security.
The House Economic Disparity and Fairness Committee is preparing to release a 30-minute documentary that seeks to showcase the realities of economic disparity from the eyes of those dealing with the concern firsthand, rather than from the outside perspective of Washington lawmakers.
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"I really wanted to put a huge emphasis on not just producing a sterile report, but on getting American stories out there in a very big way, in the service of understanding and moving away from stereotypical thinking and in the service of reducing polarization," committee Chairman Rep. Jim Himes told the Washington Post.
The question of economic inequality and stability has long been a politically charged one within the halls of Congress, with Republicans and Democrats often disagreeing on the causes and results of certain disparities. However, the bipartisan committee sought to bridge the gap by producing a film that simply told the story of U.S. residents rather than pushing an agenda from either party.
"Listening to the American people is something Congress needs to do more often. I am proud that our committee has been able to do exactly that," Rep. Bryan Steil, one of the Republicans on the committee, told the outlet. "From field hearings to interviews with American workers, Chairman Himes and I worked hard to ensure we heard from regular, working families across the country, not just the vested interests in Washington, D.C., who are always in the room."
The House Economic Disparity and Fairness Committee features members from across the ideological spectrum, including Democrats such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) as well as Republican Reps. Stephanie Bice (R-OK) and Kat Cammack (R-FL).
The 30-minute short film marks a break from the traditional presentation of government findings in an effort to create a more humanizing effect.
The documentary was inspired in part by a similar project completed during Franklin Roosevelt's presidency, according to the committee. During the Great Depression, a photographer named Roy Stryker was tasked with heading a photographic team inside a government agency called the Farm Security Administration. The photographer was instructed to document the U.S. government's efforts to help poor farmers and their families during the economic downturn, resulting in some of the most iconic and controversial photographs from that era.
To create something similar, Himes recruited a team of talented filmmakers and directors to produce the film. Himes tapped senior committee staffer Eric Harris to lead the documentary's production, who brought in PBS Frontline producer Oscar Guerra to help direct the film, according to the Washington Post. Harris interviewed nearly 150 people across the country, narrowing the field down to three subjects to highlight in the film.
"This is certainly not an advertisement for how great the American government is," Harris told the outlet. "But it does underscore the opportunities — and maybe even the exceptionalism — that this country had for ultimately providing opportunities to all three families in unique situations."
The documentary is narrated by award-winning actress Sarah Jessica Parker, who described the project as "personal."
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"As someone who grew up in a family that experienced economic hardship firsthand, this was a unique opportunity to share stories of dignity and strength, shedding light on hardworking individuals across our country in their pursuit of the American Dream," Parker said in a statement. "In this era of deep division, the need for empathy among Americans couldn't be more important. I see this film as a vehicle for the kind of compassion and mutual understanding that's missing amid this polarized time."
The film, Grit & Grace: The Fight for the American Dream, is scheduled to premiere on Dec. 13 at the National Archives.
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A night without cars is the spiritual successor to Neon Demon. Both projects might follow the same outline with Blade Runner being the main inspiration, but there are a lot of distinctive features.
Where Neon Demon is red hot passion, a Night without Cars is slowly building more and more tension.
Both projects stand on their own two feet. You can appreciate each one without having to know the other. They do complement each other though. The most obvious distinction is the fact that you can actually see the whole picture in this project. While neon demon works a lot with dark space and shadows, a night without cars does the opposite. It gives you a good look at the actually poses and hints with a little red here and there to the inevitable transition to neon demon.
The calm before the storm, some might say. The neon theme, of course, has been adapted here as well, but flipped around as well. Instead of the overwhelming red and black you see more subtle coloring and smoother transitions. Aesthetically I like this project a bit more, but that's a personal preference.
Throughout the images the subtle red offers a nice break from the icy blue tones. In my head they felt like the red cyberpunk billboard that is bouncing off the watery floor onto the model.


David delivered the car early and clean. It drove well with plenty of power for the hills of San Francisco and the coast. It was very comfortable with plenty of room for four adults. David's communication was excellent. I highly recommend this car.
David's car was top notch, he was very nice and easy to work with.


In an intensive competitive market a firm by itself can't increase its product prices. For this reason, under intensified market conditions, touristic hotel businesses are compelled to establish control over expenses and costs in order to increase their productivity and profitability. Hence, effective and efficient cost control needs a business to form and continuously update a proper cost control system by which it can analyze its expenses and costs in an effective and efficient way. To enhance such goals, this study focuses on expense and cost analysis of touristic hotel establishments by a systematic approach and provides some valuable suggestions for improvements.
Reports on the need for travel firms to copy the low-cost business models of no-frills pioneers in Great Britain.


Yesterday my 4-yr-old asked me if we were going to put up our Martin Luther King Day decorations. Sadly, the answer was "No, we don't have any." I promised him we'd work on that for next year. (Any suggestions?) But it did put me in the mood to make some February decorations. Here's the pile I'm starting with.
I've finally accepted the fact that I love Red. When someone asks my favorite color, I never say red. And yet I put it in most of my quilts, I have a red couch, I want to paint a wall in my family room red, my favorite flip-flops are red . . . I guess it must be true. And I especially love red and white – always a classic combination. Never looks dated. Avacado green or powder blue may come and go, but red always looks good.
I want to make some throw-pillows out of these fabrics. Both are Scandinavian. Snoa Flinga from Ikea and red seersucker gingham from Denmark. Don't they look happy to be together?
This book looks gorgeous. I think I'm just going to beak down and get it.
. And now I can't decide. Anyone have these? Thoughts? Feelings? Recommendations? I'm in a quandary. Not that it's life or death of course. But enough to paralyze me from just ordering one already. I know, I'm a weirdo.
My wee contribution to a new fabric collection!!
Ditto!

I always say my favorite color is PURPLE. But I have 2 red couches, a red wall, and red in almost every single quilt I have EVER made. I looooove red.

I also have a red KitchenAid stand mixer and a red kettle. Yes, red.
I can't say red is my favourite colour, but like the commenter above, I have a red mixer and kettle! When people ask my favourite I tell them it's purple, but I think it's actually pink.
I like red too! I have a red crockpot and a red kitchen aid like Karen too! I dream of having a wall painted red, but we'll see if that every happens! 🙂 I have several colors I love, but red is always classy.
I'm the complete opposite! When I'm asked my favourite colour, I always reply 'red', but there's almost no red in my quilts. I do wear pops of red though.

I have Scandinavian Stitches and am dying to make something from it… when I have some free time for selfish quilting, I definitely will. Everything in that book is just lovely and adorable.
I never say red, either, but I think it probably is red. Or green. Or orange. Or aqua…I love them all!
About the books – when I'm not sure if I want a book to go in my library forever, I'll ask my local public library to order it if they don't already have it – that way they get some more current craft books, and I can look at the book for free and see if I want to own my own copy!
Did you know that 'red' is the color we sell out of first at shows…is always wanted…and what we sell the most of. So I guess it is a lot of people's favorite. It can make a quilt pop!
For MLK Jr. decor, you could be a huge picture of my husband over your mantle and smaller pictures of my kids below! Or maybe a picture of my family! Yes, black and white together living happily! I never realized we decorate for MLK Day all year! Thanks AMY!!!!
For MLK, Jr. Day decorations, how about dreams? You could make little cloud cut-outs, as plain or fancy as you like, and have the family writed their dreams on them and post them around the house – dreams for yourselves, your family, your community, the world…whatever groups you want to feel a part of. Also a good way to start serious/not-so-serious conversations with the kids, maybe?
I didn't know there were any other colors except RED. Love it, love it, love it. The Scandanavian fabrics are wonderful.
My dear friend Brittany is a designer She now lives in Scandinavia with her hubby. behold:
http://thehousethatlarsbuilt.blogspot.com/
It'll rock your world.
Red is my favorite color, but I don't always put it in my quilts.

but i LOVE these fabrics you're showing off here.

Love.

I don't have either of those books, but I think I'd go for the Scandanavian Stitches, as I'm not much for the embroidery myself.
Following on from Michelle's idea – how about little clouds with phrases from MLK's famous speeches? then you could teach the values/lessons at the same time?
I was drawn to your post by seeing the thumbnail of the red fabrics on someone else's blogs I read list 🙂 – So I am obviously a fan too.

The decorations for MLK I thought even though it may be a bit kitsch you know the paper doll chains, well something like that, but with different colour dolls.
I think that for MLK Day decorations, just keep with a freedom theme. This could just mean incorporating some of your 4th of July decorations to celebrate freedom for everyone. Just a thought.

Besides, it would be an excuse to use more red!
it was my birthday yest, i received the scandanavian stitches book, it is really lovely!
MLK – Silhouette??? We use the day to craft things for Valentines…or February birthdays!
I'm with you on the red thing. It does always look good. Classic.
I have the Scandinavian stitches. I'd love to let you borrow it. It is good. Red is so me. So "us". you're right – never goes out of style.


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Title: Funeral Director
Company: The Angelus Funeral Home
Barbara Jane McNeil-Thompson, RN is a prominent funeral director who provides quality service through The Angelus Funeral Home, located in Los Angeles, California. With expertise in funeral home management, Ms. McNeil-Thompson serves the community she loves by providing the highest standard of professional services during a time of need. In her directorial role, Ms. McNeil-Thompson is responsible for presiding over funeral services and offering counseling and practical advice to grieving families, as she is committed to core values of compassion and respect, and helping people cope with the loss of a loved one through supportive aftercare services.
In addition to her role with the funeral home, Ms. McNeil-Thompson serves as a registered nurse, as she gets a lot out of helping people and making them well so they can return to a functional productive life. She was recently asked to direct a funeral for a friend's mother who found it difficult to overcome her loss, and under Ms. McNeil-Thompson's guidance and direction, she was became comfortable enough to get through her difficult time. Throughout an illustrious career, Ms. McNeil-Thompson has come to discover that sheer compassion, validation of her professional accomplishments and a clear understanding of her sense of satisfaction have all played major roles in her strong ability to help people through their toughest times.
Ms. McNeil-Thompson has garnered a reputation of distinction for her challenging nature and growing desire to broaden her skills. She has received a number of awards and accolades over the course of her career, and she continues to strive for excellence. These honors have included the Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Contribution in the Mental Health Profession and Commitment to the Community, as granted by Councilman Nate Holden of the 10th District and the City of Los Angeles. She was also given an Outstanding Leader in the Community Award by a local organization, a Certificate of Appreciation for Performances Above and Beyond the Call of Duty during the Los Angeles Riots, and a Certificate of Recognition for Service to the City of Los Angeles by the Council District 10 and the Councilman's Park & Green Space Commission. Her morals, character and behavior are based on the following quotation, penned by John Wesley, author of "Rules of Conduct:" "Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."
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Q: How to print Multidimensional JSON Object via JavaScript? In my project, there is a JSON object like this:
{
"face": [
    {
        "attribute": {
            "age": {
                "range": 5,
                "value": 35
            },
            "gender": {
                "confidence": 99.9974,
                "value": "Male"
            },
            "glass": {
                "confidence": 98.3809,
                "value": "None"
            },
            "pose": {
                "pitch_angle": {
                    "value": 2e-05
                },
                "roll_angle": {
                    "value": -6.70428
                },
                "yaw_angle": {
                    "value": 0.005689
                }
            },
            "race": {
                "confidence": 61.7833,
                "value": "Black"
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            "smiling": {
                "value": 10.932
            }
        },
        "face_id": "b8b25a0fbb13f149a87438047fdd3e18",
        "position": {
            "center": {
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            "eye_left": {
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            "mouth_left": {
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            "mouth_right": {
                "x": 65.547445,
                "y": 68.029667
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            "nose": {
                "x": 52.064964,
                "y": 58.712167
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            "width": 61.557178
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        "tag": ""
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],
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"img_id": "9ea3cab5193d005e89be75fb92f1bd88",
"img_width": 431,
"session_id": "8e57472a5d1542a4943237e0bfd8798f",
"url": null
}

And there is a JavaScript script like this where I want to display age- range:
<script>
    var txt1 = '<?php echo $response['body']; ?>';
    objF = JSON.parse(txt1);
    document.getElementById("fac").innerHTML = objF.face[0].attribute.age.range;
</script>

So please help me to solve this.

A: Just remove the ' signs from around your php script tags, and there will be no need to parse the JSON:
var txt1 = <?php echo $response['body']; ?>;
document.getElementById("fac").innerHTML = objF.face[0].attribute.age.range;

A: remove the ' from first line
var txt1 = <?php echo $response['body']; ?>;
objF = JSON.parse(txt1);
document.getElementById("fac").innerHTML = objF.face[0].attribute.age.range;

that is it

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Beer lovers rejoice! Pioneering craft beer brand Little Creatures has spread its cherubic wings to land in Hobsonville Point's sun-drenched Catalina Bay, where it will open its first New Zealand brewery in February, 2019. Housed in an historic seaplane hangar that overlooks the Hauraki Gulf, Little Creatures will quench thirsts with an extensive range of craft beers and three onsite dining options. The brewery will kick things off with a launch extravaganza on Waitangi Day, February 6th, with live music, entertainment and many more curious surprises.
Head Brewer Udo Van Deventer, will oversee brewery operations as well as the comprehensive range of beer on offer. Little Creatures favourites like Pale Ale and Pilsner will be on the menu alongside new additions to the New Zealand market, Dog Days and Rogers, as well as seasonal variations.
"We'll have a special limited release beer for launch and then as we move into the colder months, we'll introduce Amber Ales and beers best suited to winter," Udo says. "We'll also be constantly talking to locals and tailoring the menu to suit what they want to drink." Brewery goers can choose from a bevy of food options, anchored by Little Creatures' menu featuring wood fired pizzas, snacks, shared plates and hearty meals – think Natural Rock Oysters, Buttermilk Fried Chicken Sliders and Lamb Shank Pie. Two additional dining options are located inside the brewery – Salty's, serving up premium seafood dishes including a variety of fish & chips and seafood delights, and Kittyhawk, a café bistro, which will offer an all-day dining menu, coffee and extensive range of fine wine and cocktails in an intimate environment.
Ignite Architects spearheaded the design of the warm and welcoming brewery, which is filled with nostalgic design elements that nod to the history of the almighty Sunderland Hangar. Built to house TEAL's giant Seaplanes in 1939, the hangar's original 9m tall doors can be spotted behind the main bar. KittyHawk's vibe is that of an officers' mess where mechanics and pilots would enjoy a cold one after-hours, while Salty's bar is made from the hangar's original timber purlins. The hangar's concrete floor has been retained, proudly showing off its cracks, imperfections and heritage. On top of all this, there will be an epic kids play area with a fort and sandpit.
To celebrate the official opening, Little Creatures will host a family friendly carnival on Waitangi Day, 6th February, from 11am. Free for the public and open to the whole family, the launch extravaganza will showcase entertainment from musicians like Sola Rosa Sound System and Josh Leys, mind-bending contortionists, mystical fortune tellers, wizardly face painters and much more.
Little Creatures Brewery is located at 3 Boundary Road Hobsonville Point. For more information, customers can visit www.littlecreatures.co.nz.


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Comedy has its coming out party at 1992 Democratic convention
1992 re-do: Bill, Hill and Chelsea at his nominating convention.
Note to readers: Our last in a series of national political convention look-backs journeys to 1992, when comedy made its first major impact on these quadrennial gatherings. The Democrats nominated Bill Clinton for the first time in a pre-ordained exercise in choreographed showmanship. Comedians responded by ridiculing the process on a nightly basis while old-line journalists said they really couldn't be blamed. This article was originally published on July 16, 1992.
NEW YORK -- It's a convention that has seen television screens turned into fun house mirrors.
A convention where the Comedy Central cable network has landed NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, Illinois Sen. Paul Simon and an array of other serious-minded politicos and media stars for its nightly two hours of coverage. And where the ubiquitous Brokaw concludes his workdays by joining Jay Leno to twit the Democrats on The Tonight Show.
Short of news and long on made-for-TV theatrics, the convention is being punched silly, often to the delight of media types who used to take these matters much more seriously.
"The problem is, this is a Super Bowl, but you know the final score," said CNN's Larry King, who was a guest on Comedy Central on Monday night. "I wonder what would happen if a Martian came down. What would he watch -- Comedy Central or CNN?"
Comedy Central's Indecision '92, anchored by Saturday Night Live's Al Franken, has included:
***Nightly discourses on the "Don't Know" factor by American Enterprise Institute pollster Norman Ornstein, who also dressed up as a pilgrim Tuesday night to debate the president of the Home Shopping Channel.
***Comedian Joy Behar's live convention-site interviews with King, the Rev. Al Sharpton, former Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower and McLaughlin Report host John McLaughlin, who was asked whether he wears women's underwear.
*** Crossfire co-host Michael Kinsley's moderating of a panel of comic impressionists.
***Republican image-maker Roger Ailes' attempts to superimpose Bill Clinton's head on a chicken during an interview with Franken.
Veteran NBC reporter-commentator John Chancellor, who was forcibly ejected by security guards during the 1964 Republican National Convention, says that today's "pastel pageants of patriotism" are getting the lampooning they deserve.
"I do think that taking the news out of the convention has brought all of this on," Chancellor said. "If the parties want to emphasize the trivial aspects, then they're asking for it."
Chancellor, who is retiring from NBC at the end of this year, said he "roared with laughter" Wednesday morning after reading that the Fox movie Revenge of the Nerds III had higher ratings than the convention coverage on NBC, ABC or CBS.
He said he hasn't gotten a chance to watch Brokaw's appearances on Tonight, "but I understand he's been very funny."
Brokaw's Tuesday night Tonight schtick erased the lines between news and entertainment.
"Reporting" from NBC's Madison Square Garden skybox, he held up a bogus New York Times front page headlining some decidedly odd political developments. Earlier, Comedy Central floor correspondent Buck Henry had used the same false-fronted Times while Brokaw was wearing his serious newsman's hat as co-anchor of the combined NBC-PBS convention coverage.
"Some stunning political news," Brokaw told Leno. The Times' top story, he revealed, was Ross Perot's decision to pick Oprah Winfrey as his running mate.
Leno rejoined, "It's comforting to know that while the Democratic convention is going on -- which could change the fate of the nation -- the head anchorman is writing comedy bits for The Tonight Show."
While discussing speculation that Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder was considering running with Perot, Brokaw cracked, "It might turn out that Wilder is Oprah Winfrey in drag."
In an interview, Brokaw said that he wouldn't be moonlighting on Tonight if the Democrats were holding more than an orchestrated pep rally for the fall campaign.
"This is a buttoned-up convention," he said. "We all know what's gonna happen before we get there.
"What we have here is kind of a yeasty situation in which the party is trying to redefine itself . . . My earliest memories of political coverage are Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, and David's wonderful kind of droll observations of what was going on. So I was weaned on the attitude that it's serious business, but not to take yourself too seriously."
Brinkley, who is co-anchoring ABC's convention coverage, had said he is "too busy" to be interviewed, a network publicist said. Party officials did not return calls for comment.
Other network executives say the convention still deserves to be treated as serious business. But they don't find fault with Brokaw's tightrope walk between the news division's "Decision '92" coverage and The Tonight Show.
"If some of the folks want to have a little fun at times, it seems harmless to me. It's a zapper world we live in today, and viewers can drift or shuttle quickly from channel to channel," said CNN vice president Ed Turner, whose network is spending $2.4 million covering the convention. "But I think they're all smart enough to discern the difference between news and comedy. It just doesn't trouble me."
Clinton advisor Harry Thomason, who with his wife Linda Bloodworth-Thomason produces CBS' Designing Women and Evening Shade, said he isn't particularly worried about the Democrats being portrayed as buffoons on some channels.
"I even agree that the Comedy Central thing is a good idea if it gets young people to watch," he said. "They'll be poking fun at us, but so what?"
Fox News Channel pins down the donkey at 2004 Democratic convention
Skybox palooza at the 2004 Democratic convention in Boston.
Note to readers: In this seventh in a series of look-backs at past national political conventions, it's Fox News Channel arriving unbowed at the 2004 Democratic gathering in Boston. This article originally was published on July 26, 2004.
BOSTON -- Fox News Channel again finds itself in the belly of the beast, namely the donkey-themed Democratic Party's quadrennial national convention.
It's otherwise a different story. The "Fair and Balanced" network saunters into town as a solid No. 1 in the cable news Nielsen ratings. It must be doing something right, and not necessarily always right of center. Former ABC News stalwart Brit Hume, who joined Fox news at its inception in 1996, said he's not looking for conservative angles, just new ones.
"It's not so much addressing an imbalance in coverage, but just doing it in a different way," he said after his regular stint as a panelist on Fox News Sunday. "Get it right and be different. It's a huge element of what we do. It's what I think our viewers appreciate."
Four summers ago, Fox enjoyed a ratings surge during the Republican convention but remained well behind front-running CNN. At the subsequent Democratic gathering, though, Fox fell with a thud into third place in the cable news wars, even trailing ratings-starved MSNBC. It cemented a prevailing perception that Fox and its viewers greatly prefer the company of elephants.
"It's possible that CNN will win the ratings here. I wouldn't consider it all unlikely," Hume said. "If we don't win here, people will say, 'You see, it's a right-wing network.' But if we go to New York and win the Republican convention, will people say the same thing about CNN that they'd say about us? I wonder."
At a production meeting earlier Sunday morning, Hume also wondered aloud whether Fox should devote any on-air attention to CNN's newest wrinkle, a convention floor anchor platform that might be blocking the view of several state delegations.
"The question is whether CNN's little floor stage is worth a . . . well, it's a hoot," Hume said.
Meanwhile, at least two high-level Democrats played ball with Fox on Sunday morning. New Mexico governor and convention chairman Bill Richardson and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell parried with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace, who told them "Great job" afterward. There was an easy camaraderie among the three, with Wallace jokingly telling Rendell, "I can ask the meanest question I want, and you just go right to your talking points."
Wallace left ABC News late last year to take over Fox News Sunday from Tony Snow. He quickly landed Democratic guests who previously had shunned the network, most notably Hillary Rodham Clinton. National Public Radio commentator Juan Williams, who regularly supplies a left-of-center voice on the program, said he feels less pigeonholed at Fox than he did as a co-host of CNN's Crossfire.
"At CNN they'd say, 'You really have to hold up the left portion, and you have to be the black guy.' Here it's more intellectually free. They have that strong, conservative position anchored, so I'm the variable. Sometimes I even agree with Brit."
Still, Fox enters the Democratic convention in the crosshairs of Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism. Co-produced by the openly liberal MoveOn.org, the new documentary film features former Fox news personnel saying they regularly received Republican marching orders from their bosses.
"I've seen the film," Wallace said. "It's about as biased and intellectually dishonest as Michael Moore's Fahrenheit: 9/11, but without any of the sense of humor or productions qualities. It doesn't bother me because it's so foreign and unrepresentative of the place I work. Has it made it more difficult to get Democrats on the show? Not a bit."
Hume said that Fox is fair game for envious enemies.
"We had a choice," he said. "We could be liked and accepted and popular with our competitors, or we could be No. 1. We couldn't be both."
Eleanor Mondale checks out the Republicans at 1996 convo in San Diego
Eleanor Mondale in her considerable glow of youth. AP photo
Note to readers: In this sixth reprise of past convention stories, we return to San Diego, 1996, where Eleanor Mondale bounced to and fro as a reporter for the E! cable network. The daughter of 1984 Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale was trying her hand at covering the Republicans for the first time. She died in September 2011 at the all-too-early age of 51, felled by brain cancer. This article was originally published on Aug. 16, 1996.
SAN DIEGO -- Virtually sleepless in San Diego, a worse-for-wear Eleanor Mondale drove to a quick stop, tossed a cigarette butt out the window and tried to rouse herself late Thursday morning.
Twenty-five minutes late for an interview, she wore a gray t-shirt, jeans, blue-tinted sunglasses and a look of near-death accented by expansive yawns. The daughter of Walter Mondale -- former vice president and 1984 Democratic presidential nominee -- is attending her fourth national political convention and first Republican one. "I get to see how the other half lives," she said.
Not for long, though. Ms. Mondale arrived in San Diego early Tuesday evening as an entertainment reporter for the E! cable channel's E! News Daily. She went directly to a Planet Hollywood party to interview host Charlton Heston and guest Robert Conrad. Crashing at midnight, Ms. Mondale was up again at 3 a.m. to be a guest on Good Morning America, which tapes at 5 a.m. West Coast time. She spent the rest of the day and night editing the Heston piece and interviewing actor Alec Baldwin, whose Creative Coalition has sponsored two forums on election issues. Back in bed by 2 a.m. Thursday, she headed back to Los Angeles 10 hours later. Hey, it's a living.
Ms. Mondale had one particularly surreal experience in San Diego. While talking to humorist Al Franken on the convention floor, she had a sudden impulse to call her parents back home in Minnesota.
"It was really cool!" she exclaimed. "They just happened to be home. Dad had just had a tooth pulled, so he wasn't that communicative. But he was excited to hear from me. They're just really proud of my being able to do this."
Ms. Mondale attended the 1976, '80 and '84 conventions as the child of a candidate. Her father, now ambassador to Japan, opposed Bob Dole in 1976 when both were running for vice president. Ms. Mondale said she first met Dole when her father debated him in Houston 20 years ago.
"We put in a request to interview him (Dole), and I don't know why he wouldn't do it," she said.
As candidates in a media maelstrom, both her father and Dole admittedly have struggled to adapt to the television age.
"Isn't that funny?" asked the TV-savvy Ms. Mondale, who broke into the biz as an entertainment reporter for WCCO-TV in Minneapolis. "My father likes being in office. He doesn't necessarily like the campaigning part of it because of having to be conscious of the television cameras. The media were a source of discomfort for him, and it seems that Dole is sort of from the same school my Dad was. When they grew up, America was different."
And now, so is she.
Brokaw chafes at outset of his last convention as NBC's lead anchor
Note to readers: As the 2016 National Democratic Convention gets underway in Philadelphia, this is the fifth in a series of reprises from past such gatherings I've covered on-site. Up-close this time is NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, who wasn't terribly happy with the latest course of events when we talked on the eve of the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. The article originally was published on Aug. 30, 2004.
NEW YORK -- Tom Brokaw's last national political convention as NBC's lead anchor finds him fed up with choreographers from both parties and angry about the Commission on Presidential Debates' recent snub of his network.
His measured but firm responses came after a Sunday morning appearance on Meet the Press, where he and moderator Tim Russert closed the program by chewing on their favorite appetizer -- presidential politics.
Brokaw, 64 and retiring from the NBC Nightly News on Dec. 1, has a convention resume dating to the raucous 1968 Democratic gathering in Chicago. That makes this his 20th go-around and the last before he bequeaths Nightly News to Brian Williams.
"In those days, conventions were conventions," Brokaw said in a one-on-one interview. "Delegates were not implanted with a chip and told to say only one thing when they got on the floor."
He's still miffed about the waylaying of his planned interview with Arizona Sen. John McCain, who had agreed to appear on Monday's Nightly News. Convention organizers and McCain's staff reneged after learning that the senator also had agreed to be on NBC during Wednesday's prime-time coverage. NBC, CBS and ABC each could have McCain once, but not twice, Brokaw said he was told.
"I suppose I'm going to be a little nostalgic at the end of this convention. But what's so frustrating to me is that enterprise and the entrepreneurial spirit just don't count anymore. Everything is put through such a very tight filter by the party. So the vitality is drained from it, and the role of the journalist is more as a kind of concierge saying, 'If you make a turn over here to the right, you'll be hearing this speaker.' It'd be harder for me to walk away if I could go out there and get who I wanted when I wanted him without having to go through the politburo of the Republican or Democratic party."
Brokaw views the upcoming presidential and vice presidential debates as pivotal, however. So he's still boiling over the commission's selection of CBS' Bob Schieffer, ABC's Charles Gibson and PBS' Jim Lehrer as the presidential debate moderators, and PBS' Gwen Ifil for the lone vice-presidential face-off.
"It's not personal pique," Brokaw said. "Obviously I would have liked to have done one of the debates. But my big outrage is that they excluded our entire network. And I just think that's unconscionable. Even our competitors say, 'What? They left out NBC?' Tim (Russert) has the No. 1-rated Sunday show, I've got the No. 1-rated evening news broadcast, and we've done more debates than any other news division in the course of the past year."
The commission has declined to comment on its choices, other than executive director Janet Brown telling The New York Times that a star anchor might "overshadow" a debate.
Brokaw, who has moderated numerous primary season debates but never a post-convention one, said he's insulted by that rationale.
"It's not like I haven't done them before. And when I have, I'm happy to say there's been very little criticism about the anchor trying to get himself in the way. I hope at this stage of my career I have a certain standing as a political reporter who knows what the issues are and tries to generate a dialogue about them."
After leaving Nightly News, Brokaw plans to write more books, contribute periodic documentaries and otherwise live a life unfettered by urgent phone calls to report for duty.
"What I will not miss is the uneasy feeling that I'm missing something," Brokaw said. "I've been doing this for a long time. I'm ready to get de-coupled."
Brokaw was preceded on Sunday's Meet the Press by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, who exchanged pleasantries with previous guest Rudolph Giuliani before a Fox reporter briefly intercepted her.
Mrs. Clinton declined to commit when asked if she'd appear on Fox News Channel's highest-rated program, The O'Reilly Factor.
"Is there anything we can do to make that happen?" the reporter pressed. "We'll see," she said while exiting with her entourage.
Later Sunday, C-SPAN's continuous live coverage of a protest through central Manhattan was spiced with repeated chants of "Down with Fox" and "Fox News Sucks." The "fair and balanced" network's corporate offices and studios are located along the protest route.
The 1984 Republican convention in Dallas: "Our job is to show up and see if anyone commits news"
Note to readers: Your friendly content provider's first of 10 national political conventions was in 1984, when the Ronald Reagan-led Republicans took their show to Dallas to re-coronate him. ABC, CBS and NBC turned out in force while the still fledgling CNN tried to make its first big showing. Here's what many of the day's heavy-hitters said on convention eve before temperatures spiked to 106 degrees for opening day. This article originally was published on Aug. 19, 1984.
Pile the imposing portable anchor booths atop one another and they stand 11 stories high -- three apiece for ABC, CBS and NBC, and two for CNN.
Can the networks possibly find that many big stories at this week's four-day Republican National Convention in Dallas? "You want to know how we're going to make it interesting," volunteered Reuven Frank, a 34-year veteran of NBC News and executive producer of the network's convention coverage. "I don't think that's our job. I'm not sure, if you're covering a baseball game, and it's 10 to 1 going into the eighth inning, that you make it interesting. If we find something interesting, we'll report it."
"Our job," said CBS floor reporter Bob Schieffer, "is to show up and see if anyone commits news. The Republicans are charged with coming up with the plot for this thing."
With the nominations of President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush in the bank, the networks could be facing a series of thin plots and lopsided ballgames. Realizing the obvious, Republican organizers of the convention have condensed it and scheduled two-thirds of the abbreviated agenda in two-hour prime-time blocs. Some of the sleepier business will be dispensed with in two-hour morning sessions on Monday and Tuesday.
The rest of the convention schedule is an almost perfect match for the commercial networks' coverage plans: Two hours, from 8 to 10 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday nights. Wednesday's nominating session, scheduled to begin a half-hour earlier, may or may not be covered in its entirety by ABC, NBC and CBS. It depends, in the words of a CBS press release, on whether the extra 30 minutes constitute "newsworthy convention activities."
By making ready for prime-time -- and little else -- the Republicans have come up only four hours short of foisting gavel-to-gavel coverage on the commercial networks. In San Francisco, the Democrats began at 5 p.m. (CDT) the first two days, at 2 p.m. on day three and 5:30 p.m. on closing night. Consequently, more than half of the convention could be seen only on cable television's CNN and C-SPAN, both of which will go gavel-to-gavel again in Dallas.
Still, the Democrats saved most of their big acts -- Mario Cuomo, Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondale -- until the commercial networks were ready for them. Even former President Jimmy Carter got into the prime-time act, although he originally wasn't supposed to be there.
"I think the convention planners have become a lot more realistic about the news value of their convention," said Jeff Gralnick, executive producer of ABC's convention coverage. "They have an understanding of which end of the dog wags which end of the dog."
"Every four years they try to orchestrate them more, and you can't blame them for that," Schieffer said. "Every day, in every town in the United States, people are trying to manipulate the news media. There's nothing immoral about that."
Some critics contend that the three commercial networks are morally obligated to carry a national convention's activities in full, no matter what the agenda or the Nielsen ratings. Whatever the excitement level, conventions are quadrennial reaffirmations of the democratic process.
CBS anchor Dan Rather was unable to convince his bosses that coverage should start immediately after the early evening newscasts. He also wanted some live reports of daytime sessions.
I don't think they'd (CBS management) want me in this job if I didn't feel that way about it," Rather said. "But in this particular year, it got very difficult to champion that cause. When you have a year in which both parties have settled on their nominees, it makes it hard to take my argument much beyond where I took it. I gave it my best shot. The decision went the other way and I'm comfortable with it."
Nielsen ratings were expectedly low for the commercial networks' convention coverage in San Francisco. Only 44 percent of TV viewers tuned in to watch the Democrats on CBS, ABC and NBC. In comparison, ABC's prime-time Olympics coverage drew 45 percent of the viewing audience during the week ending Aug. 5.
"If we were in the ratings business, we wouldn't be putting conventions on the air, because the political process is not a big ratings-getter," Gralnick said. "There's been erosion in the number of people watching political coverage, just as there's been an erosion in the number of people who vote. I think both are wrong."
On CNN, though, the Democratic convention unexpectedly drew substantially larger audiences than the all-news network's regularly scheduled programs. Robert Furnad, CNN's political news director, said advertisers therefore are paying four times as much for spots during the Republican convention.
"The commercial time was sold just like that," Furnad said. "Which helps, because we lost our butts on the other one, in terms of finances."
In terms of excitement, said NBC's Frank, the Dallas GOP convention is comparable to the 1956 Republican gathering at which Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon were renominated.
"We didn't know how to do it as well as we do now," he recalled. "We actually reported one of our reporters being instructed in the hula by one of the delegates. I mean, there was nothin' going on. That's one of the things that happens with gavel-to-gavel. Not doing gavel-to-gavel this time will help us."
The conventions of the 1950s, and television's coverage of them, seem prehistoric now. Gralnick says that today's political conventions have become "dying dinosaurs" with little purpose other than to ratify decisions made by voters during the presidential primary season.
"Some conventions are more interesting than others, but that doesn't make them dinosaurs," Rather countered. "What we're all taught, by no later than the seventh grade, is that we are committed to the idea and the ideal that people choose their own leaders. The conventions are an integral part of that system, and we forget that or make light of that at our peril.
"Unfortunately, we've all gotten a little afraid to talk in those terms. We believe it, we know it, but it's become fashionable to say it doesn't amount to anything. If that sounds like someone's Fourth of July speech, then so be it. I believe it."
NBC's Tom Brokaw had a congenial chat with First Lady Nancy Reagan at the choreographed 1984 Republican convention in Dallas.
Tom Brokaw, anchor of NBC's convention coverage, said he doesn't expect a "three-ring, go-to-hell, knock-down, drag-out circus" in Dallas. But a little democracy in action goes a long way with him, too.
"I don't think you can just turn on the cameras and microphones and say this is a civics lesson," Brokaw said. "But, in the course of our coverage, we can in fact provide an important civics lesson for the country. That doesn't mean that we take on the role of instructors of Americana. But there is nothing more reflective or representative of the body politic in America than a national political convention. I think it's important to have this kind of electronic forum available."
Anchors with hands over hearts still have time to fill, though. Brokaw, Rather, ABC's Peter Jennings and CNN's Don Farmer all say they are convinced the Republicans will offer some real meat amid the filler. Would a self-respecting anchor say otherwise, though?
"Certainly, if the Republicans put on nothing but a steady steam of aging white men in gray suits talking about inflation, it's not going to be a very interesting convention," Rather said. "But I don't think that will happen."
Rather thinks that the party's divided position on taxes, for one, could be an interesting, significant story.
Brokaw says NBC will examine Reagan's presidency and the GOP's relevance to women and minorities.
"I think it's going to be very obviously a choreographed celebration of Ronald Reagan's four years in office," he said. "Our obligation is to provide some examination of that. We see it as an opportunity to raise before a wider audience many of the issues that are important to the country."
The tax increase/budget deficit debate between Reagan and Democratic challenger Walter Mondale undoubtedly will continue at the convention. That doesn't mean an anchor has to like it.
"It's one of the great silly issues of our day," said Farmer, one of CNN's three convention anchors. "You know, such garbage. Every credible economist and economic journalist I've read has said that of course we'll have to raise taxes. No question about it.
"I think our commentary and analysis will have less to do with the happenings at this particular convention and have more to do with the campaign," he added. "Because Mondale has been so vocal, he's given everybody a quick, and not very sneaky, preview of some of the themes of his campaign."
Of the anchors, producers and reporters interviewed, only ABC's Jennings thought that Dallas, and Texas, might get heavier media exposure than San Francisco did.
"I think Texas in general and Dallas will get quite a lot of coverage," he said, "because they are seen in the president's mind as being bastions of Republican strength."
NBC's Frank doesn't think Dallas will be much of a story.
"The thing I have found about conventions," he said, "is that they become sealed universes. Nothing outside seems to matter. We thought that San Francisco would be very important, and it wasn't. The importance of Dallas, when it was picked as a convention site, was a big story. But once Monday night rolls around, it could just as well be on the moon."
CNN plans to have stories on Billy Bob's Texas nightclub, convention security and the King Ranch. All the networks will cover any particularly picturesque demonstrations. There was this story idea, too, on an assignment sheet posted in one of CNN's work areas at the Dallas Convention Center.
"The Anatole may be the brick and glass equivalent of Sister Boom-Boom from San Francisco. We shall take a look at what will be the president's home during his stay here."
"We're proud to say that we're not doing anything on the Dallas television program," Farmer said. "And I don't think we're doing anything on the assassination route. I'm not saying we won't at some point allude to it, but it's certainly not something we're going to spend a lot of time on."
Schieffer and Rather, both native Texans, have homier feelings about the area they grew up in.
"Dallas is just like anybody else who's about to host a party," Schieffer said. "There's going to be a certain amount of nervousness, I'm sure. I think everybody wishes Dallas well on this thing. I sure do. It's tough to put on one of these things."
"So far, Dallas has gotten an absolute Niagra of good reports from the press," Rather said. "Reporters I've talked to are surprised by how much the area has grown and how much more sophisticated, how much less provincial the place seems to them. Dallas has won a lot of people over. It seems to have a better sense of humor about itself now than it once had. And that's helped enormously."
The networks, like Dallas and San Francisco before it, will be examined for warts and beauty marks during convention week. Some of the sharpest criticism of the Democratic convention coverage came from Thomas Griffith in the Time magazine "Newswatch" column.
"The arrogance of television," Griffith wrote, "is its assumption that its own maunderings are more interesting than what is being said on the platform."
Jennings strongly objects.
"I'm very self-conscious about that kind of thing," he said. "I never think it's particularly my role to blow smoke or blow wind. One of the things that we did quite a lot of in San Francisco was to go back to the floor and hear from other people. I would much rather hear what is happening at the convention than to hear me or any of my colleagues sitting around analyzing it to death."
An anchor, Jennings said, should be a "traffic cop."
According to sources at ABC News, Jennings was infuriated when his network blew the whistle on convention coverage during a lull before Jesse Jackson's speech. ABC cut away from its coverage, showed part of a Hart to Hart rerun, and then returned, reportedly at Jennings' behest, to catch part of House Speaker Tip O'Neill's warmup speech for Jackson.
Gralnick, who made the decision, still defends it.
"I haven't lost any sleep at all about that one," he said. "If we had a special edition of 20/20 that we cut to and then went away from, nobody would have said anything. But somehow there's this bugaboo about entertainment programming."
Marty Haag, news director at ABC affiliate WFAA-TV (Channel 8), termed Gralnick's decision "horrible."
"It's a tacit admission that you can't fill the time with reporters who supposedly have been with the candidates for some time," he said. "If a local station did that, we would have been bombarded with phone calls."
Frank, playing games with ABC, ran a synopsis on NBC of the Hart to Hart episode's conclusion during the closing credits of that night's convention coverage.
The Democratic convention's other celebrated incident, from a coverage standpoint, was the denunciation of CBS floor reporter Ed Bradley by Chicago mayor Harold Washington. Bradley had tried to arrange an impromptu floor debate between Washington and Chicago alderman Edward Vrodlyak, who are bitter political enemies.
"I'm stunned at a man of your high caliber who would stoop to such a thing," Washington told Bradley on camera. "You are one of the lowest possible individuals I have seen. How dare you call yourself a press man?"
Leaving Washington's insult unanswered, Bradley cut away by saying, "Dan, I think you see an example of the problems that the Democratic Party has."
During dead spots in conventions, "There's a danger of taking a slight ripple and making it into a whirlpool," CNN's Farmer said. "The 'Ed Bradley lesson' is not lost. Ed's a good man, but in my opinion he went too far. That's something that I hope our people won't do."
CBS had left Sen. George McGovern's podium speech for what turned out to be Bradley's uncomfortable scene with Washington. The timing was unfortunate, Rather said, but criticism of Bradley is "an unfair rap."
"I thought Ed handled it wonderfully. I don't know of anybody in the business who would have handled it as well," Rather said. "Was he trying to make something out of nothing? Absolutely not. The ill feeling between the different factions of the Democratic Party in Chicago is real. It's not something Ed Bradley created. It's a fact, and Bradley's reporting brought that to the television screen."
It is unlikely that comparable friction will be found between two Republican delegates from the same state. But there's got to be a ripple -- or maybe even a whirlpool -- somewhere on the convention floor.
"It's pretty hard to get this many members of a political party together at one time and not have something that's interesting," Schieffer said. "But if there's no story, there's no story. Some days you get the bear and some days the bear gets you."
Brinkley on the brink of calling it a day at 1996 Republican convention
Note to readers: David Brinkley, who died in 2003 at age 82, was in his last cycle of national political conventions during the 1996 Republican gathering in San Diego. He wasn't doing many interviews at the time, but sat still for this one. This article originally was published on Aug. 14, 1996.
SAN DIEGO -- It will be the end of an era or two when David Brinkley stops being a fixture at national political conventions.
The ongoing Republican gathering is his 21st. The Democrats in Chicago will be his last. At age 76, it's time for him "to do something else," Brinkley said Tuesday from a makeshift office at the ABC News trailer compound off San Diego Bay. "I don't know what. It's all pretty much up in the air."
He also will be leaving Sunday morning's This Week with David Brinkley after 15 years. But he disputes a current TV Guide story that says he'll stay with the program until the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20.
It could be much sooner than that, perhaps "even sometime this summer," Brinkley said. "I don't know precisely when it will be. I don't know how they think they know."
Jacket-less in a wide-striped shirt, maroon tie and navy blue suit pants, the usually press-shy TV news pioneer cordially endured an interview with a reporter who was still a grade-schooler in 1956. That's when Brinkley, in tandem with Chet Huntley, anchored his first pair of national political conventions. The network was NBC, and the inclination was to televise every last minute the politicians had to offer. On several convention days, the soon-to-be-famous Huntley-Brinkley team began convention coverage at 9 a.m. and stayed on the air until 3 o'clock the following morning.
"The difference was that people were interested, found them exciting and tuned them in in enormous numbers because they'd never seen anything like it before," Brinkley said. "Now they're largely indifferent. It's just another political show."
Not that politicians of both parties have stopped trying to use the networks as dispensers of their modern-day infomercials. At his Tuesday morning press briefing, for instance, Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour griped that CBS was the only broadcast network not to carry a brief, "powerful and moving" filmed tribute to Ronald Reagan. ABC was alone in shunning a previous speech by former President George Bush.
"Both parties want the whole network given over to them hour after hour after hour," Brinkley said. "They will not be satisfied until they return to the glory days of the past, which will never come back."
Monday's convention coverage on ABC lasted all of one hour, as it did on rivals NBC and CBS. Brinkley didn't even get on the air, although that wasn't the original intention. A taped piece of his was scrapped because of lack of time, he said. "Several things got left out, but we're used to that. Didn't pay any attention to it."
Brinkley said he didn't watch much of ABC's coverage Monday night. Again, his trademark, clipped manner of speaking came into play: "I had other work to do, and I was doing it."
ABC anchor Peter Jennings said it was "quite unnatural for me" to anchor the opening night's coverage without Brinkley, who was scheduled to join him on Tuesday night. They have covered politics together since 1983, when Jennings returned from an extended assignment overseas to replace the late Frank Reynolds as anchor of World News Tonight.
"I was very conscious that David could pretty much make or break my political re-entry," Jennings said. "Had he sneered at my faulty knowledge, had he been in any way heavy-handed, I'd have gone right down the tubes. He did quite the opposite. He was patient and indulgent, never overbearing. As a result, our relationship has some father-son qualities to it. So for me, he'll be a big loss."
Brinkley recalls the demonstration-plagued 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago as "the roughest" he has covered. But the "ugliest," he said, was the 1964 Republican convention in San Francisco, from which Barry Goldwater emerged as the nominee.
"The delegates were really hostile and threatening and ugly to us," Brinkley said. "Threatened us with physical harm. We had to get bodyguards. And we had to sneak into the hotels and sneak out.
"Goldwater himself was a fine man. I love him. I still do. But some of his followers thought we were flat-out Communists, or so they said. It's ridiculous, but there it is."
Today's charges of "media bias" are both tame and predictable in Brinkley's view.
"We do our jobs, and win or lose, what the hell, that's it," he said. "We don't worry about it."
Stiff-arming Stewart and The Daily Show at the 2000 Republican convention -- even with Bob Dole as a commentator
Note to readers: Your friendly content provider's checkered past includes on-site coverage of 10 national political conventions in presidential years. In tandem with the ongoing Republican National Convention in Cleveland, here's the second in a series of look-backs. This article was originally published on Aug. 1, 2000.
PHILADELPHIA -- The joke is on Comedy Central this week. Courtesy of the Republican National Convention, its Indecision 2000 team is being housed on rubber-coated cots in the University of Pennsylvania's graduate dormitory.
Anchor Jon Stewart isn't taking it personally.
"Republicans aren't inherently funnier than Democrats. They're inherently more evil," he said Monday. "Therefore it's easier for us to poke fun. Does that make sense?"
Beginning Tuesday at 10 p.m., Stewart will preside over four convention-themed editions of Comedy Central's flagship "news" program, The Daily Show. Look for Bob Dole, too. Hired as a commentator in January, he'll deadpan his way through the Tuesday and Thursday editions. The 1996 Republican nominee also is scheduled to address convention delegates Tuesday night as part of a salute to World War II veterans.
Dole, who has declined to do interviews in connection with his Comedy Central activities, "has been an excellent addition to our staff," Stewart said. "None of us knows who any of the politicians are. So oftentimes I'll say, 'Who's the guy in the brown coat?' And he'll say to me, 'Oh, that'd be the Speaker of the House.' He's very dry and very funny and, uh, no comment."
Even with Dole aboard, "I don't think the Republicans know who we are," Stewart said. "Or they might not think we're funny, which is entirely possible. There are other people in America who feel that way as well."
Running The Daily Show is executive producer Madeleine Smithberg, who said it's been tough getting the Republicans to play along. Sen. John McCain of Arizona has agreed to be interviewed, she said, and U.S. Rep. Mary Bono of California is booked as a Daily Show guest. No one from the George W. Bush campaign has responded yet, though. And the GOP so far hasn't given the show any convention floor passes.
"I must say that the Republicans are really controlling this thing tightly. We really aren't getting much cooperation," Smithberg said. "Whereas the Democrats have already given us our own liaison for their convention."
The Daily Show plans to retaliate on several fronts. One of the featured presentations will be a mock Bush biographical film titled "From Wealth to Riches: The Story of An American Hero." It will detail the "adversity he has under-come," Stewart explained.
Bush and his running mate, Dick Cheney, are a comedy team by default in Stewart's view. It's always that way, he said, when two politicians are thrown together on what amounts to a "blind date."
"You pick a guy, and then the two of you have to travel around the country as bunkmates. So it's like watching two people trying to dance together for the first time. Humor is mostly in the facade that candidates put up as they go about their business of theater and advertising."
Bush may be a "more relatable" candidate to baby boomers than any of his opponents, Stewart said. There is, of course, a punch line coming.
"We all knew a kid in school whose dad had connections with the local authorities. A kid who always had the best weed. So there's an affinity for him."
The Democrats will get their turn later this month at a convention that likewise is expected to be shorn of suspense or controversy.
"We're a fake news organization, and this is a fake news event," Stewart said. "So I think we're the only ones that should be here. You people should go cover actual news."
Bush to Dan: No interview for you
George H.W. Bush, Dan Quayle and their spouses at the 1992 Republican National Convention in Houston. Getty Images
Note to readers: The four-day Republican National Convention commences on Monday, July 18th in Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena. Your friendly content provider has been to 10 national party gatherings over the years. For the next four days, we're taking a look back, beginning with Dan Rather's major difficulties at the 1992 GOP convention in Houston. This article originally was published on Aug. 20, 1992.
HOUSTON -- Texan Dan Rather's homecoming to Houston was supposed to be triumphant, not an occasion for President Bush to put him in the doghouse.
The veteran CBS News anchor arrived Saturday in jean jacket, jeans and high spirits. KHOU-TV, where Rather got his start more than 30 years ago, showed him gleefully hugging a Republican elephant mascot at Hobby Airport. The Houston Chronicle pictured Rather surrounded by well-wishers at a breakfast hosted by the television station. The Houston Post featured Rather with a full-beam smile in an article headlined, "Rather comes back home."
That was all before the White House made it abundantly clear, without directly admitting it, that President Bush would not be doing an interview with Rather during GOP convention week.
"We've got a lot of requests, not a lot of time," Bush campaign press secretary Torie Clark explained. "I'd say we're working real hard to schedule everyone. Some work out, some don't."
Rather said Wednesday through a spokeswoman, "I really can't talk about it."
The president has accommodated all of the other major network news anchors, as well as at least a dozen local TV stations, since arriving in Houston on Monday.
Rather apparently is paying the price for his fabled Jan. 25, 1988, dust-up with Bush during a live interview on the CBS Evening News. The payback comes as the nation's media are clustered en masse and hungry for fresh controversies.
"I think they should just sit down and have a beer together," CBS This Morning co-host Harry Smith said Wednesday. "Dan probably knows a few places he could take the president."
Absent any Q&A with Bush or his wife, Barbara, CBS scheduled a live interview with Ross Perot on Wednesday night during its convention coverage. CBS News producer Lane Venardos said the network was not playing tit-for-tat.
"It was in our plans two weeks ago," he said.
The Rather-Perot interview probably would air about 10:35 p.m., Venardos said, while the Republicans were "futzing around before the roll call" to nominate Bush.
Why interview Perot, who ridiculed the Republican National Convention during an interview Wednesday on NBC's Today?
"Well, he seems to be getting back in the race," Venardos said. "Before, it was just going to be a general economic discussion, but now it will be more pointed."
WFAA-TV (Channel 8) anchor Tracy Rowlett, who had a one-on-one interview with Bush on Tuesday, said there is "no question that they've (the Bush campaign) decided to throw their weight around a little bit. It's awfully hard to snub a major network anchor the way they are doing to Rather right now. Personally, I don't think it's right."
Channel 8, which received eight minutes with the president, also provided the camera coverage for the seven other one-on-one interviews the president granted Tuesday at the Houstonian Hotel.
"He's so well-prepared," Rowlett said. "In fact, before he came into the interview, he spent a considerable amount of time with his handlers. They were going over the events of the day and they were preparing their positions. He's done so many of these things. He just sort of kicks in with the campaign theme of the day, regardless of what the question is."
***Texas Sen. Phil Gramm's moment in the limelight Tuesday night was judged a lemon by NBC News. The network ended its convention coverage while Gramm was 10 minutes away from concluding his keynote address. News president Michael Gartner made the call at 9:57 p.m., NBC spokesman Curt Block said Wednesday. At 10:04 p.m., anchor Tom Brokaw signed off.
"We had an advance text of Mr. Gramm's speech and had covered more than half of it," Block said. "The decision was made earlier in the day that if we thought it wasn't a compelling speech, and we had covered the essence of it, we would go to the local stations' newscasts. I'm sure we'll take some criticism."
Brokaw also made a snap decision to cancel a planned appearance on NBC's Tonight Show, where host Jay Leno was ready to joke with him about the night's goings-on.
"He (Brokaw) felt that having cut the convention coverage short, some people might interpret that as NBC wanting to get him on the Tonight Show earlier," Block said. "That was not the case, but he thought it was best to pass."
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In 2017, U.S. farmers exported nearly $20 billion worth of agricultural products to China, and nearly two-thirds of those products involved biotech innovation. But a brand new study estimates that the economic benefits of the trade could have been higher, if not for China's persistent delays in approving imports of biotech crops.
This week, Informa Agribusiness Consulting Group (Informa) released the report The Impact of Delays in Chinese Approvals of Biotech Crops, quantifying the economic impact of China's delays globally, in the U.S. and in other major cultivating countries, including Argentina, Brazil and Canada.
And the economic impact is significant.
Informa estimates Chinese delays in biotech approvals resulted in U.S. farmers missing out on $5 billion in farm income growth from 2011-16. In that same time span, Informa calculates that China's delays prevented the U.S. economy from gaining nearly 34,000 jobs and $4.6 billion in wage growth, while also reducing potential gross domestic product (GDP) by $7 billion.
And this unnecessary added requirement by China is not a matter of one or two years.
For the U.S., China and the rest of the world to benefit economically from biotech products, a long-term solution is needed. If China were to approve the current queue of products waiting to be accepted, it would only be a short-term solution. As a long-term solution, China needs to establish sound, predictable, science-based regulations to allow importation of biotech products into the country.
Looking at the next five years, Informa forecasts that if China were to establish a predictable, science-based approval process, the U.S. economy could see an increase of $4.9 billion in farm income, more than 19,000 jobs created, a $4.4 billion increase in wage growth and potential for a $7.3 billion increase in GDP.
And as Greenwood notes, the Informa report concludes that China stands to gain from systematic change, including access to new technologies for feeding its own population as well as lowered food prices for Chinese consumers.
To view the full report, executive summary and methodology for the Informa report, click here.
To read more about the economic impacts of China's delays in biotech approvals, check out the news coverage from yesterday's report roll-out.


(Natural News) The opioid epidemic in America is killing more people than guns and the blame rests squarely on Big Pharma. Until 2007, the number of deaths by firearm was five times greater than those caused by overdoses, but in 2015 overdose deaths surpassed gun deaths for the first time – and it looks like the trend will continue.
Drug companies have orchestrated and encouraged the over-prescription of powerful opioid painkillers for the past couple of decades – a policy which created problems now threatening to spiral out of control as the overdose death toll continues to rise dramatically each year.
America's current opioid crisis can be traced directly to the introduction of extremely potent – and highly addictive – opioid painkillers such as OxyContin, which was first marketed in 1995 and soon became a problem, both with patients who became addicted and with recreational drug users, who could snort or inject the drug much in the same fashion as heroin, and with similar results.
The federal government has finally ordered stricter limits on the prescription of opioid painkillers, but that has driven many opioid-dependent people to the streets in search of substitutes like heroin or increasingly, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl – an often illicitly-manufactured drug many times stronger than heroin and far more dangerous in terms of overdose potential.
It's true that heroin use is on the rise – fatal overdoses from heroin have quadrupled over the past five years. But increasingly, overdose deaths are being attributed to synthetic opioids, particularly fentanyl, which is often mixed into street heroin.
Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and has been the cause of waves of deaths in many communities throughout the country – in one week during the spring of 2016, forty six people died from fentanyl overdoses in Sacramento; in August of 2015, twenty seven people died from fentanyl overdoses during a 48-hour period in just one Pennsylvania county.
Fentanyl played a major role in driving opioid deaths in the U.S. up nearly 16% to 33,091 in 2015, according to the most recent federal data, and hard-hit states have reported even more grim statistics for 2016.
Much of the fentanyl hitting the streets of America appears to be coming from China, and a ban on four fentanyl-class opioids will go into effect in China on March 1 of this year. The DEA says the ban will be a "game changer" but some are skeptical whether it will make a real difference.
Some believe it will only force fentanyl production to go underground, with the possibility of even more dangerous analogs ending up mixed with street heroin and killing addicts in America.
There are no clear and easy solutions to America's opioid addiction crisis, but it's clear how and why it became a problem in the first place. At the very least, Big Pharma should be responsible for funding drug rehab for all the addicts it has created.
But of course that will never happen as long as the big drug companies are able to continue to influence policy in Washington.
President Trump has promised to clean up the pharmaceutical industry – if he makes good on his pledge, it will be one of the greatest single achievements of his political career.


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By GEORGE ESTRADA, Associated Press — Sep 17th, 2005
Peter Blecha plays a 1936 Audiovox model 436 lapsteel guitar as he sits in his Seattle home. Blecha, who has traveled the globe acquiring rare and historic guitars as part of his job as the former chief curator at the Experience Music Project, is sharing his anecdotes about the high-rolling world of rock memorabilia auctions in a book to be published in November. TED S. WARREN | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Peter Blecha holds a 1936 Audiovox model 436 lap steel guitar in his Seattle home. TED S. WARREN | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Peter Blecha plays a 1936 Audiovox model 436 lapsteel guitar.
Peter Blecha holds one of the first models of a 1935 Audiovox lap steel guitar. TED S. WARREN | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Peter Blecha plays a 1936 Audiovox model 436 lap steel guitar in his Seattle home. TED S. WARREN | ASSOCIATED PRESS
Peter Blecha calls himself a rock 'n' roll archaeologist. Blecha has traveled the globe acquiring the rarest, most historic, most innovative specimens ever made. He has helped to assemble one of the world's most significant collections of historic guitars and other rock memorabilia, highlighted by more than 100 of the world's earliest and "first-ever" electric guitar specimens.
Now Blecha, the former chief curator at the Experience Music Project, is sharing his quest in "Rock & Roll Archaeologist: How I Chased Down Kurt's Stratocaster, the 'Layla' Guitar, and Janis's Boa," to be published in November by Seattle-based Sasquatch Books.
The memoir offers anecdotes about the high-rolling world of rock memorabilia auctions and the flea-market crawls that sometimes unearth historical wonders.
"I was in the right place at the right time," Blecha said of his eight-year dream gig at the rock museum co-founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. "I was put in charge of telling the history of electric guitars."
Experts from around the world are impressed with Blecha's work.
"EMP indisputably has a phenomenal collection," said George Gruhn, an internationally known author, collector of vintage guitars and owner of Gruhn Guitars, Inc., based in Nashville, Tenn. "He put his heart and soul into it. He was very, very careful in his selection of instruments that showcased the evolution and history of the electric guitar."
While working for EMP, Blecha outbid two other well-heeled collectors in a 1999 Christie's auction for the brown 1956 Fender Stratocaster played by Eric Clapton in the anguish-laden Derek and the Dominoes version of "Layla." Blecha had to go to $497,000, then a record for the most expensive guitar in history.
"It was exciting," Blecha said. "I was bidding in increments of $100,000."
Ward Meeker, editor of Vintage Guitar magazine, said the record price has since soared. The modified black Stratocaster that was Clapton's favorite in mid-career sold for $950,000 after commission last year.
Blecha also found for EMP what was thought to be the world's first electric bass guitar — an Audiovox model made in Seattle in 1935 — at a local garage sale. It is now on display at the EMP's gallery of historic guitars.
The inventor, Paul Tutmarc, was the first to envision an electrified stringed bass that was shorter, could be played horizontally, and had frets like a six-stringed guitar.
Blecha's 1995 discovery shocked music historians who had credited the renowned Fender company with building the first electric bass in 1951.
"The discovery of this bass changed history," Blecha said. "Tutmarc clearly broke the mold."
Blecha has since found another Audiovox electric bass guitar that may predate the one on display at EMP. He bought it in an eBay auction from an antiques dealer in Eugene, Ore. It is painted a different color and has a brass logo plate on its peghead, similar to models that can be seen in the earliest photos of Tutmarc and his invention.
Chasing down the story of the Audiovox bass guitar has proven an intriguing challenge for Blecha.
"Tutmarc sold a few of them up here, but there are no known production figures," Blecha said. "And there is no known paperwork from the company."
Solving the Audiovox riddle is just a part of Blecha's lifelong mission to write the history of the Northwest's role in the evolution of rock 'n' roll. Before joining EMP, Blecha founded the Northwest Music Archives and collected 20,000 pieces, spanning from the 1880s to grunge. Many of these pieces were later acquired by EMP.
Since leaving the museum in 2001, Blecha has started rebuilding his personal collection, and has acquired a couple of dozen previously undiscovered regionally made guitars and amplifiers, and 4,000 records featuring music from the Northwest.
Blecha's first book, "Taboo Tunes: A History of Banned Bands and Censored Songs," had a significant chunk of local history. It includes a social history of "Louie, Louie," the raunchy early-1960s hit that had its origins in the Northwest.
Blecha's passion for all things rock 'n' roll began in the early 1970s, when he was growing up in Seattle and Olympia. He was primarily a drummer with a side interest in guitars but no particular allegiance to any one brand.
"I came into it as a nonpartisan historian," Blecha said. "I just wanted to find guitars that represented significant steps in the evolution of design."
EMP leader not surprised by attendance, finances
SEATTLE (AP) — Nearly five years after Experience Music Project opened with lots of flash, promising 21st century access to a treasure trove of memorabilia from the history of popular music, it has seen three rounds of layoffs and other austerity measures. Expectations for ... [Read More...]
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Rule Ann SPECIAL EVENTS True crime author Ann Rule will discuss and sign copies of her new paperback, "Worth More Dead," 2 p.m. Saturday at Silverdale's Barnes & Noble Book Sellers, 3108 NW Randall Way. More than half of Rule's new book, the latest ... [Read More...]
2003 OVER? Take another look at the year's cds
Josh Ritter released "Hello Starling" in 2003. AP photo by Sacks & Co. Each year, thousands of cds are released -- and plenty of worthwhile cds get overlooked. Here's the AP's look at some cds from 2003 that deserve some closer attention: Various Artists, "When ... [Read More...]
Guitar Center uses big-box strategy to strum up business
Steve Hammond, 49, from San Francisco, plays a 1974 vintage Gibson acoustic guitar at The Guitar Center store in Los Angeles. The Guitar Center Inc. is doing what none of its competitors have been able to do of late, expand its business by opening stores, ... [Read More...]
Local musician/producer really just a kid who loves guitars
Musician Jeff Tassin of Port Orchard not only is a skilled guitarist, he's also a producer, director, arranger and an author of science fiction novels. Staff photo by Steve Zugschwerdt As a musician, Jeff Tassin has been immersed in all facets of the ... [Read More...]


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Kapolei is a diversified and growing job center, with commercial establishments adding hundreds of new jobs to the urban core every year. For more information, please visit the James Campbell Company website.
Campbell Square is the City of Kapolei's first office complex located on the corner of Kamokila Boulevard and Manawai Street, across from the Kapolei Regional Park.
This was the first project built in the new City of Kapolei. Its first tenant, Safeway Stores, opened for business in 1992.
Bank of Hawaii's Hale O' Kapolei houses many of the bank's support services and its 24/7 Bankoh by Phone Call Center. Several other companies are also located in the complex.
This urban retail center is located in the heart of Kapolei's business district at the corner of Kamokila Boulevard and Wakea Street, near the new Kapolei Interchange.
Located across Farrington Highway from the Kapolei Shopping Center, Halekuai Center has a mix of retail, commercial, government, and medical services tenants.
The largest industrial park in Hawaii and one of the region's largest job centers, James Campbell Industrial Park has nearly 250 businesses employing 7,000 people. It is adjacent to Barbers Point Kalaeloa Harbor.
Kalaeloa Barbers Point Harbor is the state's second busiest commercial harbor, which handles bulk cargo shipments.
Kapolei Business Park caters to light industrial uses, including construction, hardware, healthcare, food processing and supply, moving and storage, and fuel cell technology companies.
Kapolei Commons is the first center of its kind on Oahu, with its dramatic main street-style design that makes it more than just a place to shop.
Kapolei Entertainment Center includes a 16-screen movie theater facility and several tenants. It is located on the mauka side of Kamokila Boulevard just past Wakea Street.
Located on the corner of Fort Barrette Road and Farrington Highway, Kapolei Medical Park has some of Hawaii's largest healthcare providers, including Queen's Health Care and Kaiser Permanente.
Kapolei Park Plaza is a small retail center across from the Kapolei Shopping Center. One of its tenants is FMC Dialysis Services of Kapolei.
One of the city's first small retail centers , Kapolei Park Square introduced the first Chinese restaurant to Kapolei. It's located on Farrington Highway, next to the Kapolei Regional Park.
The Kapolei Teleport links Kapolei to Asia and North America via high-speed broadband trans-Pacific fiber optic cables and domestic and international satellite dishes.
Kapolei Village Center is a neighborhood shopping center anchored by Foodland Kapolei, part of the state's largest locally owned and operated grocery retail chain. The Center is located at Kapolei Parkway and Wakea Street.
The city's second major shopping center, the Marketplace at Kapolei is adjacent to the Kapolei Shopping Center.
Several major businesses have their own facilities in the City of Kapolei, including big box retailers such as Costco Warehouse and Gas Station, Home Depot, Big Kmart, and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser printing and production facility.


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US charges three men in Iran-backed assassination attempt of prominent critic
In a sealed indictment, the US Attorney General Friday charged three men in connection with an alleged assassination attempt of a well-known critic of Iran's government on US soil. Rafat Amirov, Polad Omarov and Khalid Mehdiyev face three federal charges: murder for hire, conspiracy to commit murder for hire and money laundering conspiracy. The charges [...]
UN urges Israel and Palestine authorities to de-escalate 'endless cycle of violence' in Jenin refugee camp
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University of Tehran institutes disciplinary procedures for students refusing to wear hijab
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Protecting Judges to Protect the Rule of Law
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HRW rights report: global community must push back against rising authoritarianism
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A Burkina Faso human rights group Tuesday reported that 28 people were found shot dead in the town of Nouna in an alleged ethnic killing at the hands of a volunteer militia group. The Collective Against Impunity and Stigmatization of Communities (CISC) reported the killings were perpetrated by Volunteers for the Defense of the Homeland [...]


Added a pair of Adventure Tech Aux lights. Went with the spot beams.
Spent 20 seconds adjusting play in throttle. I run virtually no play and it eliminates most of the on/off jerkiness. Also used a little die-electric grease on the turn signal switch since it was feeling sticky. They both now feel smooth and buttery, I didn't realize how bad they were until I fixed them, sometimes the smallest things make the difference.
For my 2014 V-2 I ordered a spare clutch lever switch (SWITCH ASSY, CLUTCH 57560-02FA0 ) to have in my tool kit.
Evidentially, our ECU shares a lot of DNA with the ones found on the GSXR . My switch failed and the bike went into "limp-mode". This is a known issue in the jixer circle.
Installed mirror extenders and put the license plate on (purchased 2019 650XT Touring 3 weeks ago).
Installed a Shinko 805 rear tire and adjusted my chain - I'm quite amazed how well that tire handles on pavement!
Installed heated gear circuit to run my top to bottom Warm n' Safe layers.
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Installed accessory lights, Gold Runway EXP3. This is a Chinese manufacturer but looks to be very focused on high end machined aluminum parts. The waterproof connectors and cabling/relay/switch are all very heavy duty. I wanted to buy Clearwaters Glendina lights but they have been backordered since December so I finally gave up on them.
The yellow lens covers render a slightly greenish tint which I don't care for. I'll try a foil filter to remedy this. Without the lens cover the lights looks good, cool white but not blueish. But I think I want yellow.
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I put on a 16 tooth front sprocket, GPS mount with ram mount on that. Also got all my blinkers changed to led's and the led blinker relay (plug and play) came in and got put on. Also, put some aluminum foil in the back part of the blinker housing. It really make a difference.
As I sit here, the refurbed Garmin is downloading the updates.
-replaced thermostat - hoping it will fix these pesky, occasional coolant drips I've been having.
-installed Galfer rear brake line, replaced corresponding brake fluid.
-installed an automotive-type, weather-sealed connector on my 12V socket power line. This will make it easier to get those wires out of the way for any future maintenance, as I can simply unplug them.
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Put a more powerful( read louder) horn. Changed the air filter, went with a K&N. Change the front sprocket for a 16t. Changed the brake and clutch oil. Full clean-up. And went normal maintrnance before the season...oil change, lube the chain... ready to go waiting better weather.


The Department of State Security Services(DSS) has taken over the residence of the Senator representing Abia South Senatorial District today after he was arrested in Abuja today.
Barrister Ndudi Nwagbara who is Abaribe's Legal Adviser told Igbere TV correspondent that the DSS has not revealed the reason Abaribe was arrested.
Igbere TV recalls that Abaribe, who is chairman of the senate committee on power, steel development and metallurgy, had alleged that N30 billion was smuggled into the power budget.
Abaribe also stood as one of the sureties for Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), who regained freedom after 18 months in detention. Nnamdi Kanu's whereabouts is still unknown after soldiers invaded his house.


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