For those of you unfamiliar with the 60s in France, Brigitte Bardot was a HUGE movie star and singer. She became a sex symbol especially through Roger Vadim’s film And God Created Woman (am I showing my age??) and the best songwriters composed for her. After the “refrigerator stars” of the 40s and 50s in French cinema (gorgeous women with no sensuality), Brigitte Bardot was obviously sexual and the directors of the French New Wave welcome the liberation from...
Daily Archives: June 3, 2008 11:25 pm
The Fate of Uncontacted Tribes
Via Le Monde, a new society has been discovered in the Brazilian rainforest close to the Peruvian border, largely hunters and gatherers, obviously, by the looks of it, but not nomadic with some horticulture, according to Le Nouvel Observateur. They seem to have never been exposed to the larger world. According to Survival International, there is about a hundred such uncontacted tribes around the world today, mostly located between Brazil and Peru. More photos were published by Fundação Nacional...
Hillary’s Speech on the Final Primary Night
Despite all the headlines and breaking news alerts today, Hillary Clinton did not concede. Here’s part 1 of Hillary’s speech tonight via Taylor Marsh: Clinton told supporters in New York tonight after winning the South Dakota primary : Sphere: Related Content
Clinton Open to VP Slot
I’ve been out for a couple of hours and there’s other big news heating up with the tallies coming in from the last two primaries. However before getting to that news, among the headlines today was this one: “Clinton says she’s open to being Obama’s VP.” Hillary Rodham Clinton told colleagues Tuesday she would consider joining Barack Obama as his running mate, and advisers said she was withholding a formal departure from the race partly to use her remaining...
Despite Divide Between Liberal Bloggers, Bloggers Agree on Importance of Supporting the Nominee
I just finished watching the video below from MSNBC with Taylor Marsh and Matthew Slutsky (DoubleSpeak). Both Taylor and Matthew agreed that despite the divide between bloggers over the two candidates, Obama and Clinton, bloggers will come together to support the nominee. Watch it here: I’ve been saying here for some time that I’ll be supporting the nominee and urging readers to do the same. It’s time to put aside our personal preferences and work like hell to make...
A Bad Day For Democracy
No matter how you feel about the eventual Democratic nominee (Hillary or Obama), today was a bad day for democracy. Not once, but twice (at least, the day is still young) AP tried to call this race before the voters had a chance to get to the polls. The media shamelessly tried to influence the results of today’s election. Even if the stories are true is there a good reason that they came out before polls closed in SD and...
AP Does It Again
AP News is all about jumping the gun today. First they broke with a story that Hillary would concede tonight (see below), and that was wrong. Now they are claiming that by their tally, “Obama effectively clinches nomination.” The AP tally was based on public commitments from delegates as well as more than a dozen private commitments. It also included a minimum number of delegates Obama was guaranteed even if he lost the final two primaries in South Dakota...
Stop The Presses: Clinton Campaign Says She’s Not Conceding
Here we go again… Yesterday the media was abuzz that Hillary was set to concede but, as I reported here, her campaign denied the rumors. So again, this morning AP News broke a story that Clinton was “set to concede delegate race to Obama” tonight. I emailed Clinton’s Internet Communications Director for clarification. Not so, I was told — “the campaign’s official response: “The AP story is incorrect. Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination this evening.”” CNN adds: Terry McAuliffe...
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