Saturday, September 14, 2024
And now it's Mark Penn
And now it's Mark Penn - American Thinker https://t.co/6LtKsJfQP2
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) September 14, 2024
The ABC ambush of Trump, originally called the Trump-Harris debate, keeps on keeping on. Enter Mark Penn:
Well, this is awkward for ABC.
Mark Penn, the former Clinton aide and current Chairman of the Harvard CAPS Harris Poll didn’t mince words, even though he thinks Harris has run a good campaign. But he thinks ABC did a horrible job and that it might have been planned.
This is big because Mr. Penn is a Democrat. But more important, he is a fair man.
My main issue for me is: was it a premeditated ambush. Who wrote the questions? No questions about China or hostages but lots of questions about 2020. Who decided to have all of those “fact checks” on cue? Were the moderators contacted during the debate with information about challenging Trump on this or that?
At some point, as they do with lawfare, good people have to look at the TV and ask if this weaponization of the media is good for the country. I have no problem with anti-Trump websites or news programs, such as the nightly programming at MSNBC. However, this was presented to the public as a debate, not another “get Trump” hour.
ABC has a quite a bit to explain on this story. In the meantime, no Republican should spend his Sunday morning with the fellow who worked in the Clinton war room targeting women.
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Septembers past, back to school and a great new song by The Rolling Stones!
A few days ago, I was driving around and heard "Dandelion" by The Rolling Stones.
It was one of my favorite songs from those "school days" when we collected 45s and kept an eye on the cute girl having lunch in the cafeteria. (There were lots of cute girls around!)
It seems like only yesterday but it was a lot of years ago.
Click here for the song. I always loved the ending of the song, specially Charlie Watts' drums.
1955: Another anniversary of "Tutti Frutti", one of the all time great dance hits!
He had a string of early rock hits, including "Lucille", "Long Tall Sally", "Good Golly Miss Molly" and a few others.
Little Richard's influence was broad and universal. One of his biggest fans was 15-year old Paul McCartney in Liverpool. Paul learned Little Richard's songs and played them with hometown pals John Lennon and George Harrison. Years later, The Beatles released "Long Tall Sally" in their second US album.
Little Richard recorded "Tutti Frutti" on September 14, 1955 or many years ago. It became one of the all-time greatest dance hits. I don't know about you but it makes me want to dance.
And the rest is history, rock history that is! You can get the song in this LP: Click!
Elvis also recorded "Tutti Frutti". It is one of the tracks on his first RCA album and the B-side of "Blue suede shoes".
Where were you September 1977? "Star Wars" at the movies and a disco version on the radio
By the fall of 1977, people were dancing to a disco version of the theme song by Meco!
Who would have believed any of this in 1977? I certainly didn't and most of you probably didn't either.
Remembering Jerry Coleman (1924-2014)
Coleman spent seven decades in baseball, as a player and then calling games on the radio. He won 4 rings with the New York Yankees and also served in World War II and the Korean War. He flew 120 missions in both wars.
He played for The NY Yankees (1949-57) and joined the Padres' radio booth in 1972. Great player, baseball announcer and thanks for your war service.
1968: Denny McLain won # 30
Detroit won that pennant in '68 and defeated St Louis in the World Series. However, it was Mickey Lolich who won 3 games, including game 7, to make the Tigers the champs.
Bob Welch of the Dodgers won 27 in 1988. No one has come close to 30 ever since.