Or “The Music of What Didn’t Happen”: narrazione, novella, racconto
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raccontare (v.)
↘ conversatore, conversatrice, narratore, narratrice ↗ narrazione, novella, racconto
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raccontare
contare, descrivere, dire, esporre, menzionare, ridire, riferire, riportare, ritrarre, rivelare, spifferare
raccontare (v.)
avvitarsi, contare, dire, narrare, nominare
Alas, poor York:
Last night I watched the new movie Recount, which premieres Sunday night on HBO. I think the plot might best be described this way:
Once upon a time there was an election. A very good man won the election, but it was really, really close, and a very bad man claimed that he had won the election. And a group of brave, strong people tried to recount the votes to prove that the very good man had won the election, but they were so high-minded and good that they just wouldn’t fight dirty, while a group of cruel, mean people would do anything to stop the counting so that the very bad man could win. When the counting got under way, the very bad man’s lead got smaller and smaller, and the very good man was about to win until a group of very, very, very bad people in Washington DC stopped it all, and the very bad man won. The end.
A few minutes ago, I talked to Ben Ginsberg, who consulted with the moviemakers and whose character has a key role in the picture. “My take is that we won the recount, and they won the movie,” Ginsberg told me. “I think they actually did a very good job of capturing the tension and the pace of what we were going through, but it’s clearly from the Democrats’ perspective. This is a fairy tale that didn’t come true for them.”
“I think there were some key things that were left out,” Ginsberg continued. “For example, there’s no mention at all of the first U.S. Supreme Court case, which overturned the first Florida Supreme Court case, and then the Florida Supreme Court completely ignored the U.S. Supreme Court….They also made of big deal of ‘We don’t know who won,’ but they didn’t mention the media recount, which concluded that if you followed what the Gore camp wanted or what the Florida Supreme Court ordered, then Bush won….And the notion that they were a bunch of boy scouts and we were the cutthroats is just nonsense. They didn’t want to count all the votes, they only wanted to count Gore votes.”
“This is a fairy tale that didn’t come true for them.â€Â
Considering liberals have been living a philosophy based on fairy tales for about 100 years now, this is hardly surprising.
Please, Dan.
Don’t even get mr going on this. I don’t want to go as nuts as I did last night, so I am trying to forget that the Democratic party is full of … Oh, never mind. We all know…
Ny mother (who died in 1980), told me for many years before she died that the Dems were well known for using anything they could think of to steal elections. She actually thought it was funny, and used to laugh about it. It was, and is, a well known fact to anyone who has a third grade education.
I should add, that both of my parents were Democrats for many years until the Dem’s became the stealth party of racial oppression. We laughed about it many times, along with discussions of why my mother and my father finally left the Democratic party to become Republicans.
I think it is hilarious that Bush out-Demed the Dems in 2000. For once, A Republican “out-waited” the Dems on their SOP – which has been for decades, to hold back one precinct until they know how mwny votes they need to win, and then magically come up with the winning numbers from the “late reporting” precinct.
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This has been going on for decades, but it tails right in with the ignorance of the voters who think that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are “compassionate”, instead of realizing that they are getting butt fucked by egomaniacs who think they are smarter than YOU AND ME – AND want to tell you when to breathe, what clothes you have to wear, when you are allowed to use the bathroom, and, yes, WHAT TO THINK!
The Republicans finally out “Dem-ed” the Dems in 2000, and, I, for one, couldn’t be more tickled to see peopke who can’t win ANYTHING at the ballot box get there heads soaked in the nasty stinking shit that thwy have been spreading for decades.
I don’t know if it was Rove who was behind it, but I love the pig like squealing of the Dems, who have been pulling this crap for decades, saying “How dare you?”, to a party who has been on the recieving end of the exact same bullshit for God knows how long.
Whoever was behind the Florida strategy in 2000 (and I suspect Rove) is my hero. Nothing like screwing your enemy with their own fouled unit, which they have regularly been sticking up Repub’s butts for countless years.
But the best part is all the piglike squealing that is STILL emmanating from the Dem’s who have been pulling off election fraud since the dim and distant past.
Those pricks KNOW that they can never win at the ballot box.
No question about it. But, MAN, do they get pissed when Republicans turn therir own tactics back on them, or what?
Happy Memorial Day, or whatever it is suppose to be. I am old enough to know that Memorial Day is May 31st. But, you know, that is just TOO inconvenient, ain;t it?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrLd78rwRT4
I’m eating leftover spaghetti with my fingers. Damn high-octane gin.
That Olbermann does love him some Olbermann, don’t he.
Holy Shit! How far off the rails has Olberman got to go before his fanboi’s start to notice? The dude is fucking manic during that bit. I was laughing at first, but then it started to creep me out, there is some weird shit going down in that boys head.
I just kept thinking of that Tide Stain Stick commercial where the dude’s shirt has a big stain on it that keeps talking gibberish.
“YOU CANNOT SAY THIS!”
I’m glad to see that someone appointed Keith Olbermann the arbiter of free speech. Things will be better now.
In “this America,” anyway. When we don’t ever, ever use he word “assassination” anymore. Because that’s not a nice word to use. Ever.
From Wikipedia —
[Kevin] Spacey is a friend of former President Bill Clinton, having met Clinton before his presidency began.[4] Spacey has described Clinton as “one of the shining lights” of the political process.[4] According to Federal Election Commission data, Spacey has contributed $42,000 to Democratic candidates and committees.[13] He additionally had a cameo appearance in President Clinton: Final Days, a light-hearted political satire produced by the Clinton administration for the White House Correspondents Dinner.[14]
In September 2006, Spacey announced his intention to stay on at the Old Vic for at least another nine years, and that due to his continuing UK residency he intends to take up British citizenship when it becomes available to him.[15]
There has been persistent speculation about Spacey’s sexual orientation, fueled by a 1997 Esquire article on the actor, which implied he was gay.[16] Spacey denied the allegation, telling Playboy magazine that the story “…was a setup.”[17] While Spacey is a bachelor and reticent about his personal life, he has consistently asserted that he is heterosexual.[18]
In September 2007, Spacey met Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. Neither of them spoke to the press about their encounter, but hours later the actor visited the publicly funded movie studio, Cinema Villa.[19] Later in December he was co-hosting the Nobel Peace Prize Concert together with Uma Thurman.[2
Jeez, Keith is losing his marbles.
But I don’t really believe that he believes the bullshit he barfs. It’s a shtick, I mean, the assholes at Kos write the same way, over-emoting run-on sentences filled with “big words” and jibberish.
Good for Keith to get someone to listen to him.
If you slow down the Olbermann tape and look at it frame-by-frame, when he loses it at :35 and at 1:34, you can see that he is banging on his desk with a prescription bottle. The letters “Proz–” are clearly legible.
Though it’s hard to see through the orange opaque bottle, it sure sounds empty to me.
Like it or not, Olbermann has become a master parody, and a self-fulfilling one, simultaneously. He is the face of the faux-outraged left, of the race baiters and the political opportunists who play with the heads of basically good-hearted Americans.
Behind every one of these diatribes is an implied threat: if you don’t vote for Obama, you are a racist — one whose hatred threatens to ruin the country, one who wishes a continuation of “This America” (which, in the context Olbermann uses that phrase, we know to be abysmal, teetering on the edge of public lynchings and a return of Jim Crow).
This is meant to bully those so softened up by PC nonsense and identity politics that they will actual shame themselves into voting for someone they know isn’t ready to be President — while simultaneously casting Obama supporters in the role of angry apostles who just want to make the world right.
It’s sickening egoism. And it’s the bed “liberals” made for themselves.
Unfortunately, the Republicans have chosen to run McCain — and they themselves, in an effort to beat back suggestions that conservatism is inherently racist and hateful, have been softened up by the same kind of racialist demagoguery.
Meaning is losing the war against will. And such a loss portends nothing so much as an age of soft tyranny.
The pictures are delightful!
#12: But Obama is really popular with white people. Apparently, they are not the “right” white people. I see an implication underneath the implication that you speak of: That there are white people and there are real white people. Well-educated and wealthy white people who support Obama don’t seem to count. The working class white people who have been called “Reagan Democrats” do count – because they are the salt of the earth and all that (though the demographics of who voted for whom don’t break down as cleanly as the MSM likes to bandy about anyway).
Though Obama never even came close to winning the big liberal states like California and New York, he has been branded the coastal elitist. Very odd little battle of the Inaccurate Memes going on here. No, you are not racist if you don’t vote for Obama. But you are not some elitist queer sipping Pinot Grigot in Sonoma if you do vote for Obama.
There are good white people and bad white people. There are those who will vote O! for change and hope. They are good.
There are those who will not vote O! because they are bitter. This is because of the stupid Bush economy. If only they had bread and circuses, they’d be able to join the one true family of enlightened America. Instead of being racists because they don’t know a better way to deal with their frustrations.
In fact, the whole voting thing should not matter. America needs O!, whether it knows it or not.
Well-educated and wealthy white people who support Obama don’t seem to count. The working class white people who have been called “Reagan Democrats†do count – because they are the salt of the earth and all that
It is funny when you think about the whole “voting against their own economic interests” bruhaha, though. The working class people are supposed to be the Dem base, aren’t they? Aren’t they the “hard working Americans” that are always going to put a Democrat back in the “People’s House”?
Dunno. Last time there was a triumph of will, the tyranny wasn’t exactly soft.
Obama’s no Hitler, sure. But his minions scare the shit out of me. Take their near-religious fervor and mix with the left’s belief that a lost election is a “stolen” election, and things could get quite ugly.
#15: They have been iffy since the 60s when the working class white people were shocked and appalled at the angry kids with jewfros clashing with police at conventions; various interest groups asserting that it was “their turn”; and general chaos and madness ruling the day during nominations – not much has changed (and the same people are still not so sure about voting Democratic).
and the same people are still not so sure about voting Democratic)
Yeah, but the 60s were 40 years ago. It’s more a matter of not bringing new, younger working class people on board.
Anyway, this Recount sounds dreadful and they were smart to make the Dems the heroes. They are the ones who will watch it, they are the ones still searching for answers.
#18: It’s more a matter of not bringing new, younger working class people on board.,/i>
You are right.
“jewfros” hmmm. always called them heb-ros myself.
If we could transport the country back to any random seven day period between 1977 and 1979, the current crop of candidates would be deported to Tierra del Fuego and the nation would go about recruiting somebody with a clue.
Just saying.
Tierra del Fuego wouldn’t take them, nor would either Argentina or Chile.
Cowboy wrote:
…and if you listen carefully, you can hear Emperor Palpatine exclaim: “Dude, that’s a little too much hatred…”
– The thing that amuses is that, almost without exception, everytime the Dems run this recount scam they end up losing by an even larger margin. They tried it again in Florida in 2004, and low and behold the counters found 500,000+ Bush votes that had been mysteriously “misplaced”. I remember something similar happened in Ohio, and in Washington in a state race. In the case of Ohio, the “widespread” voter fraud unearthed a pile of ballots signed by luminaries like “Donald Duck”, “Mickey Mouse”, and “Superman”. Apparently the DNC just doesn’t pay PEW well enough for the faux exit polls.
Did the movie mention how Gore’s camp wanted to prevent military ballots from being counted?
I think I grasped the central point from the previews: Kathleen Harris wears too much make-up, so Al Gore won.
Jeff:
I like McCain. I hope I can still say that in November. But I have to say I am tired of hearing people complain about the fact that he got the nomination. It seems a tad childish at this point.