[moonmonkey]

Just turned on Fox News, Greta Van Susteren is interviewing Chuck Norris and his wife and discussing their latest holiday.

It doesn't get much better than this!

[ironknee]

about time we get by Cheney 's woes and focus on important news!

[aberdeenwriter]

Originally Posted by ironknee

about time we get by Cheney 's woes and focus on important news!

Oh, ironknee! Face it. You are OBSESSED with Dick Cheney! Here's a little 'gift' post for you!

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Dick Cheney

AKA Richard Bruce Cheney

Born: 30-Jan-1941
Birthplace: Lincoln, NE

Gender: Male
Religion: Methodist
Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Dubya's VP, ex-CEO of Halliburton

Father: Richard Herbert Cheney (b. 26-Jan-1915)
Mother: Marjorie Lorraine Dickey (b. 8-Jan-1918)
Wife: Lynne Ann Vincent (b. 14-Aug-1941, m. 29-Aug-1964)
Daughter: Mary Cheney (lesbian activist, works for Coors, Conifer CO)
Daughter: Elizabeth Cheney

    High School: Natrona County High School, Casper, WY (1959)
    University: Yale University (1959, dropout)
    University: Casper Community College (1963)
    University: BA, University of Wyoming (1965)
    University: MA Political Science, University of Wyoming (1966)
    University: University of Wisconsin at Madison

    U.S. Vice President 2001-
    U.S. Secretary of Defense 1989-1993
    U.S. Congressman, Wyoming 1979-1989
    White House Chief of Staff 1975-77
    Halliburton
    Member of the Board of EDS
    Member of the Board of Procter & Gamble
    Member of the Board of Union Pacific
    Presidential Medal of Freedom 3-Jul-1991
    Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service (with Lynne Cheney)
    Alfalfa Club 1989
    Bohemian Grove
    Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs Advisory Board
    Jamestown Foundation Board of Directors (former)
    Project for the New American Century
    Drunk in Public Wyoming 19-Nov-1962
    Driving While Intoxicated Wyoming 19-Nov-1962
    Driving While Intoxicated Wyoming 1963
    Dubya Nickname Big Time
    Dubya Ranch Hand Jan-2001
    Heart Attack 3 (1978-84)
    Heart Bypass Operation quadruple (1988)
    Heart Attack (22-Nov-2000)
    Angioplasty (22-Nov-2000)
    Angioplasty (5-Mar-2001)
    Aneurysm behind right knee (Sep-2005)
    Risk Factors: Smoking

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Bowling for Columbine (15-May-2002) Himself

Rotten Library Page:
Dick Cheney

Appears on the cover of:
Newsweek, 17-Nov-2003, DETAILS: How Dick Cheney Sold the War -- The Inside Story -- How he fell for Bad Intelligence and pitched it to the President

Is the subject of books:
Dick Cheney: A Life in Public Service, 1-Sep-2001, BY: Elaine Andrews (48 pp.)
Dick: The Man Who is President, 2004, BY: John Nichols

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[ironknee]

[aberdeenwriter]

Originally Posted by ironknee

[The Godfather]

Originally Posted by moonmonkey

Just turned on Fox News, Greta Van Susteren is interviewing Chuck Norris and his wife and discussing their latest holiday.

It doesn't get much better than this!

Then you tuned to the Chinese programming. No problem. Why the gratuitous attack on U.S. stuff?

[ghporter]

I'm sad for Greta. Sure, she's getting something like two and a half big piles of money instead of the lousy two piles she got from CNN, but she has to risk her life interviewing Chuck? The horror! </sarcasm> I do remember when Greta seemed to be a real journalist...

[Spliffdaddy]

huh?

She started her career during the OJ Simpson trial.

I don't recall a time when she was a 'real' journalist.

[ghporter]

She started as a "big name" on CNN with the OJ trial. Before that she did some really good stuff, including covering the William Kennedy Smith trial in 1991. That particular work got her onto "Burden of Proof" from which she got to be more "household word" material through the OJ trial (which was about as truly reportable as an episode of "Baretta.")

[moonmonkey]

Originally Posted by The Godfather

Then you tuned to the Chinese programming. No problem. Why the gratuitous attack on U.S. stuff?

Just felt like it.

I get TV from all over the world:


Lots of US TV is great, its just that when it gets bad, it gets really really bad.

Chinese is all bad, imagine the worse budget cable channel you have ever seen and double it.

British TV is all good (the stuff that they show in Asia), they seem to have very high production values and high budgets, there's just not very much of it.

Australian TV is like a bunch of students with a video camera (a very cheap one with the color balance wrong) trying to copy all the other countries, its hilarious.

[Eug Wanker]

Heh. When I was in China I saw a movie about 1930s Chicago gangsters, made in Bollywood complete with cheezy musical dance routines, and translated into Chinese. It was friggin' hilarious.

[allblue]

I grew up watching just the BBC in the 60s and 70s and so naturally assumed that superb comedy, superb drama and superb documentaries uninterrupted by commercial breaks was the norm. I was shocked when I went to the US for the first time at just how bad the TV was there.Trite, predictable, reactionary, prissy and at times almost impossible to follow because of the incessant commercials. Of course, rising above the sea of dross there were some good to excellent programmes (not unlike Hollywood's output) - at the top end Star Trek and Sgt Bilko the two that immediately come to mind, and more recently the first two series of X Files and the extraordinarily consistently brilliant Simpsons. Against that some Discovery Channel documentaries (to stretch the term) were clearly written for morons.
Then along came HBO and a consistent level of quality to compare with the standards I had taken for granted from the BBC. The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Band of Brothers, Sex in the City and my current favourite Curb Your Enthusiasm (someone had been watching The Office I suspect!) were all brilliant in their own way. Very high production values, intelligent, adult entertainment. The recent series Rome was a HBO/BBC co-production, which I think is a very happy marriage indeed.

[allblue]

Originally Posted by moonmonkey

British TV is all good (the stuff that they show in Asia), they seem to have very high production values and high budgets, there's just not very much of it.

In television, and particularly in comedy, there is often a conflict between the commercial and the artistic. For example, the peerless Fawlty Towers ran for just twelve epsodes, The Office just fourteen. Their creators (Cleese; Gervais/Merchant) understood that to make more would mean either diluting, repeating or mutating the original. The publicly funded nature of the BBC allows for such artistic integrity. The US networks are always looking for a minimum of ninety-one episodes to allow for lucrative syndication, and although it is possible to maintain a high level for a long time (viz. The Simpsons) it is very difficult to do and such series are the exception.