Two white directors have been trying to get a new biopic made, showing what MLK was "really like" but - along with King's family standing in the way - there still seems to be some disagreement, amongst his two closest associates, on the issue of Martin's fooling around:
So, looking at the news, if anyone else wants to try and suggest I'm wrong in seeing what I see out there, I say they're welcome to come hang around awhile and it'll be they who will be proven wrong:
Somewhere in the recent past (say, about the time "Dreams From My Father" was published), liberals decided reality wasn't really their thing."
No, what's been happening may not be immediately apparent to the multitudes of less observant types, but eventually, everybody's going to catch up with the Crackster - it just takes 'em a while:
In ‘The Amateur’ Mr Klein claims that relations between Miss Winfrey and Mrs Obama took a nosedive over the chat show host’s close relationship with Mr Obama.
The book claims that in the weeks after the 2008 U.S. election victory Mr Obama gave Miss Winfrey’s advice ‘priority over Michelle’s’
Mr Klein writes: ‘When she (Winfrey) phoned, he dropped everything and took her call. They huddled over strategy. Of all of Obama’s unofficial White House advisers, Oprah had unparalleled access, input, influence, and power.’
Mr Klein quotes a White House insider who says that Mrs Obama was ‘furious’ about her husband’s late night phone calls to Miss Winfrey and that he should be turning to her for advice instead.
What can bother me is how they also miss the connections - the all-important connections - so I usually have to go through a few years of Hell, of being denounced, of being called obsessed, merely because I see patterns around us that are pretty obvious if more people would bother to really look:
The centre began to crumble as the sexual revolution, globalization and increased wealth led to the decline of the mainstream churches. In its place emerged a nation that turned to the extremes: from Glenn Beck to Oprah Winfrey. Yes, that Oprah. The queen of self-actualization, says Mr. Douthat, preaches a brand of spirituality that is self-centred, destructive and parasitic.
Mind you - I get it - it's hard to see the machinations of the "spirit" world. It's like trying to catch smoke in a jar because, let's face it, "occult" means "hidden" and these occultists don't want you to see any more than they allow. But when someone is as focussed as I am, I can't help but wonder why anyone doubts me. I'm on our side, and how NewAge works is going to come out anyway:
[Rielle] Hunter went on the run with [John Edwards' aide, Andrew Young] and his wife. Edwards' campaign finance chairman let them stay at his vacation mansion in Aspen, Colo., and paid for them to live in a $20,000-a-month manor in Santa Barbara, Calif. Hunter chose the location because it was close to her New Age spiritual adviser, Bob McGovern.
Hunter so relied on McGovern that when an Aspen restaurant served her a Reuben sandwich with the wrong sauce on it, she made an angry call to him to ask him to fix it, according to testimony at Edwards' trial.
It's like society is infested with gremlins, practicing the dark arts behind the scenes, disrupting lives and causing chaos, while flipping bad intentions (and behaviors) into "moral issues" on a whim:
Obama: Yeah, we’ve been fibbing about my position on same-sex marriage for a while now,…
The NewAge is driving us to avoiding the truth, and making us think attacking truth-tellers - and creating a nation of liars - is the height of "enlightenment," when it's (honestly) not working at all:
What HRC and other gay rights groups would like to sell the straight public is that gay couples are just like straight married couples. In many cases, they are. They are monogamous and have been together forever and raise their kids behind white picket fences. What they don't want you to know is that many gay couples, though married, civilly unionized, or otherwise commonlaw are inviting guys over for threeways, playing around with other guys on the side, or engaged in all other sorts of sexual hijinks. Yes, straight people have "swingers" but it seems like there is a stronger bent of "non-traditional arrangements" among the gays. It might be because gay men are horny bastards and because we didn't have your fiendish and chaste preset relationship constructs until recently when straight people decided it was time to stop treating us like second class citizens. Yeah, we may be married, but that doesn't mean we're dead or conforming to your rules.
I may not be the most successful blogger out there, but I know why, as others line up against me, time and again, to "do the right thing" without knowing where they got "the right thing" from. They call me a "bigot" because I claim I understand, and I do, but only because it's the same as it ever was:
As early as 1820, [Mormon leader, Joseph] Smith, at the age of about 19 years, began to assume the gift of supernatural endowments, and became the leader of a small party of shiftless men and boys like himself who engaged in nocturnal money-digging operations upon the hills in and about Palmyra.... Numbers of men and women, as was understood, were found credulous enough to believe "there might be something in it," who were induced by their confidence and cupidity to contribute privately towards the cost of carrying on the imposture, under the promise of sharing in the expected gains; and in this way the loaferly but cunning Smith, who was too lazy to work for his living, (his deluded followers did all the digging,) was enabled to obtain a scanty subsistence for himself without pursuing any useful employment. (Pomeroy Tucker Wayne Democratic Press, May 26, 1858)
So I leave you today with a warning, Ladies and Gents, as you line up on "the right side of history" (that's the area marked, "Suckers") and if you're smart, it's a warning you'll not soon forget:
Except for the cars - which were pretty ugly, and lousy, too - all gremlins are fictional creatures,…
Oh, man, how messed up can a life get after hooking up with a NewAger? Read it and weep - or laugh, your choice:
Attorneys for a former aide to John Edwards today sought a court order to compel the two-time presidential candidate to provide additional information in a dispute over ownership of a sex tape he allegedly made with his mistress.
Edwards gave a sworn deposition in the case last month.
The details of the court filing are shielded from public view because of a broad protective order sought by Edwards' attorneys in advance of the deposition and issued last year by the judge. But if the court were to grant a hearing on the motion, it is possible that a transcript of Edwards' deposition, or portions of it, could be entered into the public record.
Edwards' testimony was taken in Chapel Hill last month in connection with the civil suit filed by his mistress, Rielle Hunter, against Andrew Young and his wife, Cheri.
Andrew Young, a former close aide to Edwards, claimed in 2007 that he was the father of Hunter's child, but retracted that assertion last year and published a tell-all book, writing that he took the fall for Edwards as part of an elaborate and expensive cover-up of the affair designed to protect Edwards' political aspirations.
Hunter brought the suit in January 2010, days before the publication date of Young's book, "The Politician." At the center of the suit is Hunter's allegation that Young took from her a "personal and private" videotape that depicts Edwards and Hunter in a sexual encounter, as well as a series of photographs that include images of Edwards with his daughter, Quinn, who turned 3 last week.
Attorneys for Hunter and Edwards, who is not a party in the lawsuit, have pointedly accused Young of trying to sell the sex tape and of using it to promote his book and a forthcoming film adaptation by Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin.
"Finally, half-way through the book come 'the good parts.'
Young starts to notice the Senator flirting with waitresses, but thinks nothing of it.
He is a little quizzical, though, when a woman who picks up Edwards at the Regency is given a $100,000 contract to do video work.
This would be Rielle Hunter, née Lisa Druck.
Young decides she looks practiced at 'identifying rich men, married or not, and connecting with them—at least temporarily.'
Young writes that, when arriving in New York in her early twenties, she briefly dated Jay McInerney and wound up in Story of My Life as 'the repulsive character Alison Poole.'
Oh, and her father participated in a horse-killing insurance scam.
Young then goes on to paint her as a forty-one year-old round-heeled fruitcake who 'when she first saw John Edwards she noticed "an aura" of energy floating over him. When she made eye contact with the senator, she knew their destinies were intertwined, and that she had been sent to Earth to serve him.'
And of course everyone knows the rest.
Boy runs for president, meets trollop, knocks her up, can’t afford the scandal, arranges a financial cushion (see FBI agents, IRS agents, and the officers of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina) and all hell breaks loose.
Or rather, the National Enquirer is on to him. (It has just been nominated for a Pulitzer for its coverage of this nationally repercussive sordidness.)
Of course Young, the good shnook, is recruited to be the admitted father of Rielle’s baby bump.
And did I mention that Rielle and Edwards agreed on an 'open' relationship?
With time, Edwards started to complain that Rielle was crazy, just as he had complained about his wife.
By now Young had become the beard in order to keep Rielle around.
It was decided that Elizabeth’s recurrence of cancer would be useful to the campaign. Ick.
When Rielle reveals she is with child, Edwards elevates her title to 'crazy slut.'
As some mistresses are wont to do, Rielle became jealous of the real wife.
She was infuriated when there was a lot of publicity about the Edwardses renewing their vows on their thirtieth anniversary and then celebrating at Wendy’s. (Wendy’s?!)
The running and hiding and supporting Rielle and the Youngs on the run was financed by (metaphorically) poor, trusting, Democratic, aged Bunny Mellon—to the tune of six million dollars.
Another rich supporter, a Texan lawyer named Fred Baron (since deceased), also paid for the care and upkeep of Rielle, then the baby—but he, at least, knew where the money was going.
The lesson, if that is the word, of this sad and tawdry book is that Young was being played by John Edwards, and that a stiff whaddya-call-it has no conscience and no brains, either.
When I read Young’s account of Edwards saying, essentially, that if the truth did come out, it would be a one day story because 'everyone knows' that politicians fool around, I felt that Edwards and Hunter deserved each other.
Oh yes, and it’s possible that Rielle herself tipped off the Enquirer."
-- Margo Howard, reminding TMR of all the hurtful nonsense NewAge stupidity sets in motion - her review of Andrew Young's book is called "The Losers" - when no one's trying to get Rielle, but working towards The New Republic.
"John Edwards's ex-mistress is seeking to suppress what appears to be a sex tape featuring her and the disgraced politician, according to court records. Rielle Hunter yesterday secured a restraining order against a former Edwards aide in connection with 'a personal video recording that depicted matters of a very private and personal nature.' Andrew Young, the ex-Edwards assistant, has said he is in possession of a tape showing Edwards having sex with a woman he believes to be Hunter, who gave birth to Edwards's daughter Frances Quinn in February 2008. According to an affidavit filed yesterday in North Carolina Superior Court, Hunter reported that she was having an 'intimate relationship' with Edwards in 2006, and that the video was made around September of that year."
I ask you: can this story get any more "spiritual"? (Jesus, how dumb can this man be? Oh yea.) And isn't this a great statement on how much "joy" NewAgers bring into the world? Their compassion for others - especially those with cancer (they're always really concerned about cancer) and their abundant respect for the concepts of right and wrong? I think it does. The whole thing is like a political fairy tale come true.
The only thing that ruined it is Edwards didn't win.
"Mr. Young says that he assisted the affair by setting up private meetings between Mr. Edwards and Ms. Hunter. He wrote that Mr. Edwards once calmed an anxious Ms. Hunter by promising her that after his wife died, he would marry her in a rooftop ceremony in New York with an appearance by the Dave Matthews Band."
-- Mickey Kaus, further informing us about A) what an unsurprising sleaze John Edwards is, B) the content of Edwards's assistant, Andrew Young's new book, and C) Rielle Hunter, and what kind of "ghoulish slapstick" makes a NewAger's heart sing - let's see: just add hefty doses of secrecy, sex, delusional thinking, lying, adultery, cancer, and death, along with the wayward warbling and wanking of Dave Matthews - because NewAgers are sure (once everything they desire is attained) it's all supposed to ultimately result in the rest of us admiring them so much that, once all the mayhem they cause for others is over, we'll gladly give them a clean Slate.
C'mon kids: Put this shit with the ACORN scandal, etc., and a pretty accurate picture of this NewAge Democratic Party should be starting to emerge. It's wonderful these things are being exposed because, by having them revealed in this manner, no one can say anyone forced these folks into doing these things - this is just who they are - finally standing naked before us, for all to see.
"Former [John] Edwards aide Andrew Young says the ex-senator and his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, once made a sex tape, according to someone who has seen Young’s book proposal.
St. Martin’s Press just inked a deal with Young, who also says in his proposal that, contrary to his public statement last year, he is not the father of Hunter’s infant daughter — Edwards is. Edwards has denied that.
Young says that his belief in Edwards ran so deep that he agreed to take the fall for the candidate, inviting the pregnant Hunter to live with him, his wife, Cheri, and their three children. Later, after Hunter delivered the baby, Young and his family moved to a different home in California.
While he was unpacking, Young discovered a videocassette, according to the book pitch. Hunter had been hired by the Edwards campaign to videotape the candidate’s movements, but this one is said to have shown him taking positions that weren’t on his official platform.
The purported sex tape confirmed to Hunter that Edwards was even more reckless than he thought."
-- Rush & Molloy, stopping the Democrat's laughter and finger-pointing about Mark Sanford's adultery - cold - in The New York Daily News.
"It was very New Age-y. It had something to do with altars and temples and crystals. She definitely had some connection to the Dalai Lama and Richard Gere, and there was an offer to meet the Dalai Lama."
-- George Mooradian, Emmy-nominated cinematographer, commenting on Rielle Hunter's film "Billy Bob and Them," to FOX News
"I'm trying to save the planet! I'm trying to save the planet!" -- Nancy Pelosi, leader of the worst congress in U.S. history
"John really picked up the doozy of a floozy when he met Rielle Hunter, formerly Lisa Druck, and yes, I can guess why she changed her name, can’t you? Rielle, who is 42, likes to tell gullible guys she has had “many lives.” In one that she definitely did live, she was a girlfriend of novelist Jay McInerney. He based a character in his novel The Story of My Life on her because, he told the New York Post, her behavior “intrigued and appalled me.” The character is described as “cocaine-addled” and “sexually voracious.” Not exactly the perfect characteristics for the discreet mistress of a man running for president who wants to lecture the country on moral issues.
Jonathan Darman of Newsweek also got to know Rielle, when she was chasing and being chased by Edwards. On the campaign trail, she told Darman she was an actress and a spiritual adviser, devoted to astrology, and thought Edwards had the “power to change the world.” Uh-huh. She also confided to Darman that Elizabeth Edwards, the smart, gracious, cancer- stricken wife, did not have “good energy.” And after Elizabeth, who is obviously also smart, got Rielle fired from her “who-are-you-kidding” job filming Webisodes of John, she hissed to Darman, “Someday the truth about her is going to come out.” By the way, Darman, Newsweek’s senior writer and political correspondent, confesses that he “liked” Rielle and let her do his astrological chart. Gee, what sign are you, Jonathan? Can I guess?"
-- Myrna Blyth , looking at NewAge and "blythely" doing what everyone should be, on the National Review Online.
1) Rielle Hunter will dance around our questions as long as possible:
2) Which will be until this guy cracks.
This is Andrew Young, apparently John Edwards's personal butt boy. Young's got a wife and kids, too, so it's just a matter of time. Ladies, ask yourself:
Would YOU let your husband go along with this charade?
