Apologia
Have been busy working/researching a major piece on the (not so) Victorian Liberals. I’ll be back Thursday, possibly tomorrow. Insite, the Libs, etc must wait til then. Apologies, but unlike City Caucus Tower, I have no staff here. 
Will be back with you shortly. Thank you so very much for your loyalty, patience, and kind notes. Everything’s just great…just extremely busy doing some sleuthing…
It is your show. Sometimes good stuff takes time to put it all together. You don’t have to apologize to us.
Quality supercedes quantity every time, and if a specific subject takes longer than anticipated, then that’s the way it goes.
We’re not going anywhere.
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You’re good Crankmeister. Much appreciation.
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Solid ground work and fact finding begets solid reportage Alex.
At least Harvey Oberfeld is back and Keeping it Real…
It seems that after an extended, and well deserved vacation in Florida, H.O. has the same perception of Fox “News” (if you can call it that) and its right wing talking heads as I do, and previously commented on in your piece “Sarah Palin: From the Mouth of Babes”.
“Usually they are pretty good.” A.T. By “they” did you mean Oh Really and his crew or in more general terms Fox News? Either way I guess our taste in vulpine news differs.
Looking forward to the results of your sleuthing.
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Hi RS: Yes, I meant that Fox News, generally, is very good in the stories it gets and the reports presented. I do not put a whole lot of import into O’Reilly. He can be good. I enjoy Glenn Beck a great deal. But the network can be over-the-top, at times–although few, in the conservative bailiwick. For example, I find the hiring of Sarah Palin despicable. She is not a commentator. She cannot be insightful, as she has no knowledge to draw insight from. She is Mary Hart with a moderately better IQ.
And, yes, I’m working on confirming a piece of information handed to me be a BC Lib. It might not be that shocking, but the implications are breathtaking.
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Hi Alex, as stated above, no apology necessary despite missing your column, I sure the next one, will be as worth reading as the last one. FoxNews is now top on ratings, because is the only US TV news, which gives viewers ALL the news and opposing points of view, instead of the one sided biased news from the other networks.
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I agree. Look at today’s news with respect to the mammoth win for the Republican’s in Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat: CNN has it covered as a tertiary link. Fox–front page, AP–front page.
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I find it very fitting if not ironic, that this medicare bill in the US which was being called the Kennedy Bill, in honour of Ted’s decades long failed efforts on the file, would be defeated by the very person replacing him in the senate.
It would be grand if the American people would finally come to grips with the fact that the Kennedy’s were nothing more than suckers of the federal teat for their own gain, and nothing more.
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You said it Glen! Good to hear from you again.
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I was keenly interested in that race so I was anxious to see the results. I put on CNN. Was that funny. They were so morose that I was expecting the stage hands to start hanging crepe in the middle of the broadcast.
Coakly got stuffed big time and now the lame excuses are flying. But it’s the socialist Obama who’s really in trouble along with his legislation. He and his handlers have really misread their own countrymen.
It happens.
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I thought some of them were heading for the Hudson River. CNN has to be the most pathetic excuse for a station. They started out quite well but then soon became the propaganda arm for the Democrats. Mind, when Fox hires Ms. Palin…
But back to the win, it’s so very significant because no sooner had St. Barry won the election but there were people predicting a second term BEFORE HE’D DONE A GODAMNED THING! It was beyond the pale for certain.
Now St. Barry, a mere mortal after all, is scrambling to try and survive the mid-term elections. Because if those fail for him as well, and his performance continues to tank…he’ll be gone in the next election…and not a moment too soon.
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Never mind the early re-election predictions. How about the Nobel peace prize for doing screw all. Talk about depreciating what was once only given to the most deserving. Now if someone gets it you automaticaly think the guys a phony and a hack.
So it looks like Obama, given that the Republicans run a credible candidate, is going to be another one term wonder. Just hope he takes Pilosi and Wrangel with him.
Good riddance.
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I agree with you!
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Hi Alex, While disagreeing with you about Sarah Palin, I agree that it was a bad move for Fox as well for Palin. Fox doesn’t need any more commentators or attractive women, they have enough of both and Palin, should be aware how the opposition (I am being kind) tries to destroy Glenn Beck, with personal attacks, instead of attacking his “Chalk Board” strongly backed up “theories”.
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No argument from me on the Beck matter. But c’mon pal, Ms. Palin is painfully ill-informed. It’s obvious.
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