9/16/2024

hacktress candice bergen thinks we all have amnesia

 the emmys?


i'm just not in the mood for fake assery.  such as this:


That language is as intentional as the selection of Candice Bergen to present for best actress in a comedy. Bergen does not have a show to promote in this new season. Instead, the “Murphy Brown” star was there to remind us of when, in 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle criticized the show for featuring an arc when Murphy became pregnant and decided to raise the baby as a single mother.

“Oh, how far we’ve come. Today a Republican candidate for vice president would never attack a woman for having kids, so as they say, my work here is done,” she said wryly, adding, “Meow.”


am i supposed to applaud her for that?

i applauded diane english - creator of the series - in real time at the 1992 emmys.  only to then have candy bergs say dan was right.

do we not remember that?

i bet the fat ass wishes we didn't remember it, but i do.  it was a stab in the back to so many people. from wikipedia:


In the show's 1991–92 season, Murphy became pregnant. When her baby's father (ex-husband and current underground radical Jake Lowenstein) expressed his unwillingness to give up his own lifestyle to be a parent, Murphy chose to have the child and raise it alone. Another major fiction-reality blending came at Murphy's baby shower: the invited guests were journalists Katie Couric, Joan Lunden, Paula Zahn, Mary Alice Williams and Faith Daniels, who treated the fictional Murphy and Corky as friends and peers.


At the point where she was about to give birth, she had stated that "several people do not want me to have the baby. Pat Robertson; Phyllis Schlafly; half of Utah!" Right after giving birth to her son Avery, Murphy sang the song "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman". This storyline made the show a subject of political controversy during the 1992 American presidential campaign. On May 19, 1992, Vice President Dan Quayle spoke at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. During his speech,[22] he criticized the Murphy Brown character for "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone".[23][24][25][26]

Quayle's remarks caused a public discussion on family values, culminating in the 1992–93 season premiere, "You Say Potatoe, I Say Potato", where the television characters reacted to Quayle's comments and produced a special episode of FYI showcasing and celebrating the diversity of the modern American family. Because Quayle's actual speech made little reference to Murphy Brown's fictional nature (other than the use of the word character), the show was able to use actual footage from his speech to make it appear that, within the fictional world of the show, Quayle was referring to Murphy Brown personally, rather than to the fictional character. At the end, Brown helps organize a special edition of FYI focusing on different kinds of families, then arranges a retaliatory prank in which a truckload of potatoes is dumped in front of Quayle's residence while a disc jockey playfully commenting on the incident notes the Vice President should be glad people were not making fun of him for misspelling "fertilizer". This referenced how, on June 15, 1992, at a spelling bee in Trenton, New Jersey, Quayle had erroneously corrected an elementary-school student's spelling of "potato" to "potatoe". The cue card used by the teacher read "potatoe". When Candice Bergen won another Emmy that year, she thanked Dan Quayle. The feud was cited by E! as #81 on its list of "101 Reasons the '90s Ruled".[27]

In 2002, Bergen said in an interview that she personally agreed with much of Quayle's speech, calling it "a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable" and adding that "nobody agreed with that more than I did."[28]





In 1988, she created the CBS television series Murphy Brown, for which she won three Emmy Awards (one for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series and two for Outstanding Comedy Series).[10][11][12][13] The series ran from 1988 to 1998 for a total of 247 episodes. It garnered 18 Emmy wins from 62 nominations.[5] In 1992, English stirred up controversy when the title character decided to have a child out of wedlock. Vice president Dan Quayle gave a speech entitled "Reflections on Urban America to the Commonwealth Club of California" on the subject of the Los Angeles riots. In this speech, Quayle blamed the violence on a decay of moral values and family structure in American society. In an aside, he cited the title character in the television program Murphy Brown as an example of how popular culture contributes to this "poverty of values", saying, "It doesn't help matters when prime time TV has Murphy Brown – a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid, professional woman – mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another 'lifestyle choice'.[14]


English responded with a statement that read: "If the vice president thinks it's disgraceful for an unmarried woman to bear children (out of wedlock), and if he believes that a woman cannot adequately raise a child without a father, then he'd better make sure abortion remains safe and legal." In 2002, Candice Bergen, the actress who played Brown, said "I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless, but his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did." This controversy along with the shifting times of that decade touched off a debate over the meaning of "family values" of Americans during that election year in which Bill Clinton and Al Gore ran against George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle.[citation needed]


candice stabbed a lot of people in the back with her defense of dan quayle.  i'm not going to pretend it didn't happen or that candice is somehow brave.

stupid, stupid woman.  and a hack actress. 

let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'


Monday, September 16, 2024.  A 'left' group announces their intent to be a spoiler -- their actual intent to get Donald Trump back in the White House -- promoting us -- forcing us? -- to review basic first principles.


49 days until the US presidential election.  THE WASHINGTON POST has published an important tool that you can utilize to make sure you are still registered to vote.  Very important this year with a record number of people being purged from the rolls.  If that happened to you, you may or may  not know. 

Your vote is your vote.  No one owns it.  


If you choose not to vote, that's your choice.  


Jill Stein freaks are offended -- including one columnist who e-mailed to share that I've never been so harsh on third party candidates.


I'm not harsh on third party candidates.  I have not said a word against Cornel West, Chase Oliver or Claudia De La Cruz.  They're valid candidates.  


My problems with Jill Stein are not new.   November 7, 2012, in a piece here written with Ava, I made clear that I had bit my tongue for her and would, never ever do so again.  She's is not a real candidate.  She's a vanity candidate.   She's an idiot who is on her third run for president of the United States and, as we learned last week, doesn't even know how many people are in the House of Representatives (435 -- not over 600 as she answered).  She is an idiot.  And a third party does not grow by nominating the same person to run for president three times -- especially now that she's 74.  That's not how you grow a party.  

You vote for who you want has been the motto here.


"The Gaza Freaks." 


There are many Americans who support the rights of Palestinians -- that's more than a cease-fire, that's the right to co-exist, that's the right to self-rule -- concepts that The Gaza Freaks aren't up to popularizing because, honestly, they're too damn stupid.


The Gaza Freaks pick up Gaza for a moment or two, have a purity march or two and then go home for two or three years until Gaza's back in the news.  That's how, for example, you have Iraq as the focus with your organization fasting (or 'fasting') in DC and your fundraising for your trip to Iraq to meet with Iraqi leaders to talk peace only to immediately drop those actions because something else is in the news.


The Gaza Freaks are not going to save Palestinians and won't even be pushing on the issue when something else is in the news.  


But for now, they pretend to care passionately and pretend to be outraged over it.


If you really were outraged over it, you'd be doing whatever you can to try to end it.


Donald Trump is not going to end it.  Ted Glick (ZNET) notes:


What are the likely consequences for Palestinians of Donald Trump winning?

Trump is Netanyahu’s, guy, and the MAGA Republicans are his US party. It was the Republican controlled House leadership which invited this war criminal to speak to Congress in late July. There are no Republican Congresspeople who have come out in support of a ceasefire. It was during Trump’s Presidency that the US Embassy was moved to Jerusalem. In a Reuters article on August 15th Trump is quoted as saying, “From the start, Harris has worked to tie Israel’s hand behind its back, demanding an immediate ceasefire, always demanding ceasefire,” Trump said, adding it “would only give Hamas time to regroup and launch a new October 7 style attack.”

A Trump victory will strengthen the hand of Netanyahu and his now-unpopular government, give a green light to settler and IDF violence in the West Bank and advance their explicitly racist and colonialist agenda of extending the state of Israel “from the river to the sea,” as they say.

If Harris wins, there is a basis to continue to pressure her and Democrats to make real their explicit verbal support for a ceasefire and an end to the war on Gaza by cutting off military aid, if the on-going pressure from below doesn’t achieve a ceasefire before election day. A Harris victory would allow the Free Palestine movement to build upon the massive progressive and liberal energy unleashed by her campaign and enlist additional numbers behind the demands for not just a ceasefire, the release of Israel hostages and Palestinian prisoners and massive humanitarian aid to Gaza, but also for a serious commitment to moving the ball forward as far as Palestinian self-determination. Harris has spoken a number of times in support of “Palestinian self-determination.”

In my view, bringing that self-determination demand forward, and giving it real content, would mean that there must be a Palestine-wide election to choose government leaders, not the imposition of the corrupt and unpopular Palestine Authority or any other scheme where Palestinians are unable to vote for who they want. And it seems to me that relatively soon, there should be a Palestine-wide referendum on what kind of new arrangement they support, whether a two-state solution, and what that would mean, how that would be done in a way which empowers them, or something else.


That's reality.  


And if you can't tolerate voting for Kamala you might not be one of The Gaza Freaks.  There are people who ran for office that I did not vote for because of the Iraq War.  I could not vote for them.  If that's you, I understand.


But, please note, that's different than The Gaza Freaks.  


From Ava and my "Media: Hard Truths and Soft Media:"


On Saturday's KPFA EVENING NEWS, Jill Stein groupie Ann Garrison thought she'd woo and win voters over to Jill Stein and stupidity via an interview with Hassan Abdel Salam of the Abandon Harris Movement -- a group working "to defeat Kamala Harris in battleground states."  If you're wondering if the slow witted group grasps that this would mean electing Donald Trump, yes, they do grasp that.

 

Ann Garrison:  So you're looking to win a moral victory by costing the Democrats the election or helping to do so?

 

Hassan Abdel Salam:  Absolutely.

 

 He then offers delusions about how this is "the only way the political establishment, the Democratic Party, will listen to us is if they too encounter the very thing they fear the most a defeat on November 5th."

 

No, that's not what's going to happen.  If you nut jobs re-elect Donald Trump, you're going to find the majority of Americans no longer give a s**t about your cause.

 

You re-elect Donald Trump and you're going to find yourself on a no-man's island.  


We have spent years here talking about how your vote is your vote and how a third party vote is not a spoiler vote.  Yet there's the spokesperson for the Abandon Harris group stating that they will be voting as a spoiler -- they will be voting intentionally (for Jill Stein, they'll announce that this week) to put Donald Trump back into the White House.


They are now declared spoilers and should be treated accordingly. 


They are now the enemy of democracy.  They want to re-elect Donald Trump.  Four years of hell wasn't enough for them.


Donald Trump's attempted coup was not enough for them.


The death of ROE V WADE was not enough for them.


The corrupt Supreme Court turning back the clock on racial equality was not enough for them.


The Supreme Court creating a second-class citizenship for LGBTQ+ Americans was not enough for them.


Out continued presences on this earth is not enough for them -- make no mistake, climate change is going to get a lot worse if Donald Trump and JD Vance 'free up' corporations from basic safety rules that protect people and the planet.


Instead of realizing that reality and recognizing it, you want to use your minor foothold to encourage people to put Donald Trump back in the White House?


You're not our friend.  You are an enemy to democracy.


You might by having a hissy fit right now and be unable to process rationally.  Or this might be your suicide mission.  But grasp that no one else wants to go to Jonestown with you.


Ava and I end our piece with this:


Destruction can come from all over.  For example, the Jill Stein supporter who took pornographic photos of their own children?  We can help with the destruction of The Gaza Freaks by outing them on things like this.  Is that really what you want us to do?

 

Because we're trying to be kind.  And if we're struggling with kindness, you damn well better believe that a lot of other people are as well.  So think very clearly in this moment.  Your continued attacks on Kamala Harris are not going to help the Palestinian people.  But they do send a message to the rest of us about what freaks you are and how you don't care one bit about racial justice in the US, about climate change, about the kid who was raped by her father and will be forced to give birth, about anything.  Because, one more time, you don't even care about the Palestinians if you're working to put Donald Trump back into the White House.  


And that bothered a few e-mailers this morning too.  How cruel!  How libelous!  It's a libel if it's true?  And that actually, the tidbit about the Stein supporter engaged in pornographic photos of their own children was in several snapshots last week but pulled before posted.  Friday morning, while speaking to a group about the importance of this election, I thought it had gone up.  Usually, I say, "Push that all the way to the end."  Then before it posts, I say, "Go ahead and pull it." 


I hadn't said that.  The person I dictated it to knew to pull it.  But before I knew it was pulled, I just shrugged and said, "They brought it on themselves."


But in terms of libel?  No.  It's not libel.  We had a mutual friend.  The friend wrote about it, it's in a book.  I immediately called him and said, "You're talking about _______ and _____!"  And he was.  And if we need to go further, we can go further.  I'm not going to be sued for libel -- it's very obvious, based on what was written and who the author's friends were, who the not-so-blind item is about. 


My point here is The Gaza Freaks have a lot of secrets and there are a lot of us who are getting ticked off and might start exposing them -- will.  Will start exposing them if they put Trump back in the White House.  


The Gaza Freaks think that defeating Kamala Harris means the Democrats will listen to them in the next election cycle.  That presumes that we'll have more elections and that we'll survive a second term of Donald Trump.  Ken Paxton and Greg Asshole are invading the homes of Latino Americans for the 'crimes' of voter registration.  Ron DeSantis is sicking his goon squad on people in Florida who signed a petition.  


It also ignores history.  


Unlike Jill Stein, Ralph Nader was a real candidate.  In 2000, he got the most votes any Green Party candidate ever has.  That did not push the Democratic Party further to the left.  It did not change anything except Ralph's own standing.  He did a lot of great work over the years and started a lot of organizations.  That no longer mattered.  People were angry because Bully Boy Bush got in the White House and we had the Iraq War.  


The Greens realized that and disowned Ralph and implemented their 2004 safe state strategy in an attempt to turn the clock back.


Your little stunt to get Donald in the White House will not help you push the Democratic Party.  


Israel is apartheid.  Jimmy Carter said it years ago and he was right.  I'm someone who was an activist against apartheid.  Apartheid did not end in one year.  It took years and years to move the needle on it in the United States.  


There is no quick fix for the Palestinians.  If that's hard for you to hear it's only because the people you've been listening to have been lying.  With actual activism, you're either in it for the long haul or you're not doing activism.  


Jane Fonda's done a lifetime of activism.  




Let's wind down with this press release:


CIVIL RIGHTS LEGEND MYRLIE EVERS ENDORSES KAMALA HARRIS FOR PRESIDENT

 

“HARRIS EMBODIES WHAT MEDGAR EVERS FOUGHT AND DIED FOR”

 

Jackson, MS — Myrlie Evers, civil rights leader, first female chairman of the NAACP, author, activists and widow of civil rights icon Medgar Evertoday announced her endorsement of Kamala Harris for President in a new video, citing her commitment to justice, equality, and the ongoing fight for civil rights.

 

“Kamala Harris embodies the values that my husband Medgar Evers dedicated his life to—justice, equality, and the belief that America can and should be better,” says Myrlie Evers. “Her vision for this country aligns with the ideals Medgar fought for, and that’s why I am proud to endorse her for President. As a senator, she held the Trump administration accountable and will continue to fight those who attempt to undermine our Constitution and American values.”

 

Medgar Evers, a prominent civil rights activist and field secretary for the NAACP, was assassinated in 1963 for his tireless work to dismantle segregation and discrimination in the United States. His legacy continues to inspire generations of activists and leaders, and the Evers family believes Kamala Harris is the right leader to carry that legacy forward.

 

“In these times of both opportunity and adversity, it is vital to have leaders who are not only capable but also compassionate and courageous. Kamala Harris’s vision for a more fair and just society aligns with the values that my parents have long championed. Her dedication to improving the lives of all Americans and her ability to inspire positive change are testaments to her exceptional leadership. She does all this as a joyful warrior and a voice for courage and justice,” added Myrlie Evers.

 

Emphasizing Harris’s dedication to civil rights and her ability to lead with courage and compassion, Reena Evers-Everette, daughter of Medgar and Myrlie Evers said, “Kamala Harris continues in the footsteps of strong Black women, including her mentor Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, and my mother Myrlie Evers. These women committed themselves to helping their communities thrive and grow. Kamala Harris honors my parents’ lifelong dedication to justice and equality by fighting for all Americans to have affordable housing, fair wages, and the right to vote. Her vision for a more fair and just society aligns with the values that my parents have long championed.”

 

Earlier this year, Medgar Evers was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in recognition of his trailblazing contributions to the civil rights movement.

 

“At a time when hard-won rights are under siege, Kamala Harris is the leader we need to defend our progress and drive the fight for justice forward. We can’t go back,” added Reena Evers-Everette.


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