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ddeubel

Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 3:14 am Post subject: MIke Wallace --- The Real Deal |
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While I am at it and up and posting and full of consciousness......
I just finished watching 60 minutes, the good - bye to Mike Wallace.
Thank God for him and let America follow him as an icon and model. One more Jew to the pantheon. Tell it like it is, inquiry, criticism and THE TRUTH as what is important. A vibrant, active, truth seeking, shit detecting mind.....be it America, Israel, Russia, China or Nowhere, Idaho..... Took the death of his son to make him tell it like it is and hopefully through his example, we can follow without so much pain pushing.....
He is all America should be and which I know is latent therein and under the frozen crust of the present America. To say what the common person wants to ask, to say it without pretense and to be proud of being 'with the truth...in search of the truth...". I hope America wakes up its proud journalistic tradition and which has kept it on an even keel, I hope Mike Wallace is passing the torch to those who will run. I believe so....
And then there is that other Jew, Rooney....My only regret is that Saul Bellow or Norman Mailer weren't here to celebrate and shed the gift of gab and truth on Wallace's legacy.....
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:06 am Post subject: |
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And then there is that other Jew, Rooney |
What evidence do you have that Andy Rooney is Jewish? Wikipedia lists him as an Irish-American. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:19 am Post subject: Re: MIke Wallace --- The Real Deal |
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ddeubel wrote: |
While I am at it and up and posting and full of consciousness......
I just finished watching 60 minutes, the good - bye to Mike Wallace.
Thank God for him and let America follow him as an icon and model. One more Jew to the pantheon. Tell it like it is, inquiry, criticism and THE TRUTH as what is important. A vibrant, active, truth seeking, *beep* detecting mind.....be it America, Israel, Russia, China or Nowhere, Idaho..... Took the death of his son to make him tell it like it is and hopefully through his example, we can follow without so much pain pushing.....
He is all America should be and which I know is latent therein and under the frozen crust of the present America. To say what the common person wants to ask, to say it without pretense and to be proud of being 'with the truth...in search of the truth...". I hope America wakes up its proud journalistic tradition and which has kept it on an even keel, I hope Mike Wallace is passing the torch to those who will run. I believe so....
And then there is that other Jew, Rooney....My only regret is that Saul Bellow or Norman Mailer weren't here to celebrate and shed the gift of gab and truth on Wallace's legacy.....
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You are a (wannabe) condescending, race-bating clown. That "other Jew". Really? Twwatt.
How about I say "that other black"? I bet your pink Euro-trash panties (do they have a pic of Che on the front or the back?) would get in a bunch about that, no?
Here is a big hint for you. You have nothing original to say about America. You simply repeat the latest catch-phrases as read in the pages of the Guardian or Z-Net. Simply respect that fact and go back to your oh-so-insightful anti-Yank tome of the month. Or, I don't know, get a life! You seem rather obsessed with something you simply don't understand. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:26 am Post subject: |
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I hope America wakes up its proud journalistic tradition and which has kept it on an even keel, I hope Mike Wallace is passing the torch to those who will run. I believe so.... |
I think MAD Magazine had the best comment about Mike Wallace...
"The only guy in New York City who's fighting mad about crooked bingo games in Wyoming." |
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ddeubel

Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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What evidence do you have that Andy Rooney is Jewish? Wikipedia lists him as an Irish-American. |
No proof. I was being poetic.................and metaphorical. Of course he isn't Jewish but of the same spirit, mindset -- cutting, to the point, incisive.
DD
My apologizes to Andy (if he's reading this) though I am sure in some way, he'd take it as a compliment. |
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hogwonguy1979

Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: the racoon den
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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like your comments except for the jewish references, why do you have to bring up that, it has no relevance
wallace is the best at what he did and there is nobody who is even close to his level today
i hope i'm that active at 88 |
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Bulsajo

Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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ddeubel wrote: |
cutting, to the point, incisive.
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Andy Rooney?
Are you serious?!?
AHAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!
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Gopher

Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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I think Ddeubel is probably unbalanced, and it will simply not be productive to continue to attempt to exchange views with him on current events. |
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Bulsajo

Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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Understatement of the week, methinks. |
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ddeubel

Joined: 20 Jul 2005
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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Very balanced..................you guys just don't get erudition or the sublime...............
I was talking up the Jewish part because of our cultural trait of not putting up with B.S. and having the wit, to wit.......
I agree, maybe given some sensitivities I shouldn't have said anything about the "Jewishness" but it was something Wallace agreed with and mentioned often, the Jewish American sensibility. Plus, I am a member of the club......but if I had to do it again, I'd leave out the reference given the reading level of "some' posters....
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Bulsajo

Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Posted: Mon May 22, 2006 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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ddeubel wrote: |
you guys just don't get erudition or the sublime...............
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Pearls before swine, eh ddeubel?
Maybe you need to try 'talking down to us' and reaching us at our level; Some of us just can't soar among the intelligentsia- and intellectual giants like Andy Rooney- the way you do...
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Plus, I am a member of the club |
Can't you be a little more circumspect? How about just saying "I've met with the moyel"?
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