Offered up at yesterday’s Rock the Vote event in Boston: Jerry Springer, Biz Markie, Natalie Portman, Lauryn Hill, Al Sharpton, Howard Dean, and creative usages of an upside-down letter M.
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We rewrite, you decide, Vol. 5
From the Remarks by the President at the 2004 President’s Dinner at the Washington Convention Center, July 21, 2004:
It’s now been three and a half years since the Vice President and I took office. We’ve faced significant challenges. We have met them head-on. I believe it’s the President’s job to confront problems, not to pass them on to future Presidents and future generations. (Applause.)
From the President’s State of the Union Address, January 20, 2004:
In two weeks, I will send you a budget that funds the war, protects the homeland, and meets important domestic needs, while limiting the growth in discretionary spending to less than 4 percent. (Applause.) This will require that Congress focus on priorities, cut wasteful spending, and be wise with the people’s money. By doing so, we can cut the deficit in half over the next five years. (Applause.)
According to the Congressional Budget Office, by way of Calpundit, this still means a deficit of anywhere from $240 to $500 billion in 2009.
2009? That means that this deficit is a “problem” that President Bush (regardless of the outcome of this year’s election) will certainly not be around to confront.
Applause, please.
Hilary Duff stars in A Cinderella Story, 2004
Scarlett Johansson promoting Lost in Translation at the Venice Film Festival, 2004
(With thanks to Kristina Dalberg.)
This image was taken from the focal point of the Washington Post‘s most important news story EVER (eclipsing coverage of Samuel Berger’s resignation from the Kerry campaign, tomorrow’s report by the 9/11 commission, and the Palestinian leadership’s current disarray):
“Jenna Bush Sticks Tongue Out at News Photographers”
Following in the wake of the “controversy” surrounding Jadakiss’ provocative lyrics (“Why did Bush knock down the towers?”) in his hit single, “Why?”, Fox News’ irascible hip-hop maestro Bill O’Reilly invited Forbes Magazine‘s senior reporter Victoria Murphy on to his Monday, July 19, 2004 edition of the O’Reilly Factor to discuss a tangentially-related matter, Microsoft’s usage of the rapper in an X-Box promotion.
But when you’re a 23-year-old reporter, why confine yourself to talking about boring, adult-oriented things like “marketing initiatives” and “public relations controversies” when you can wax rhapsodic on pop music and its performers?
MURPHY: This rapper’s probably a one-hit wonder anyway, and it turns out it probably wasn’t such a smart decision, but Microsoft is a smart company and what they want to do is sell more software, not promote some rapper’s political ideas…
O’REILLY: Yeah, I mean we understand what their marketing is, to get kids to play this X-Box with Jadakiss, but you know, July 5th, Jadakiss is arrested in Fayetteville, North Carolina, for, uh…
MURPHY: Right, but that’s what rappers do right, they get arrested?
O’REILLY: Yeah, I guess that’s what they do…
RELATED: One random fan’s Amazon selection of Jadakiss and the LOX’s various platinum- and gold-selling records.
July 15, 2004: Karl Rove “gestures with his hand during a speech saying that Sen. John Kerry thumbed his nose to U.S. troops in Iraq”.
July 16, 2004: Op-Ed cartoon by Stuart Carlson
(This remarkable confluence via Dan Froomkin’s White House Briefing, the Washington Post, July 20, 2004)
(With thanks to Chris M.)
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(Gotta Get) Back in Time
TIME Magazine‘s July 26, 2004 issue, Vol. 164, Number 4
…in which the cover-story editors draw from the ten-year-old script for Jon Favreau and Doug Liman’s Swingers, liberally quoting Vince Vaughn’s Trent character.
…in which the “The Arts” section profiles Clara Peller, noted for her catchy quip, “Where’s the beef?”
…in which we learn about Ms. Pac-Man, the surprisingly successful spinoff to everyone’s favorite coin-operated arcade game
…in which the movement to impeach the President for his knowledge of an illegal break-in at the Watergate Hotel is examined
…in which the “Nation” section document’s the cultural obsession with the Lindbergh baby trial
NEXT WEEK’S ISSUE:
…in which the “Science” section profiles Gumma, the universe’s very first single-celled organism, and noted neurotic, in an article headlined “Mitochondriac”
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Karl Rove for the Day, Vol. 6
Hey, he’s totally grounding the rhetoric! (Ba-dum.) Four (more years) on the floor! This guy is totally trampling over American values! Talk about carpet bombing!