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Daily Song:
Seal
"A Change Is Gonna Come"
From today's Listen Up! (New Release Tuesday)
Television:
The View discusses Prop 8. With all the shock surrounding the passing of Prop 8, watching the women of The View talk about this is like watching the entire country grapple with the consequences of bigotry. Black women discussing this issue brings to mind the emotional struggles that the dominant members of our society must have felt when they were granted the power to change and improve the lives of others. How did slave owners really feel about being slave owners after the Emancipation Proclamation? How did men really feel about giving the right to vote to women after keeping it from them for so long? How did white people feel about segregation? How do the people who oppose Prop 8 really feel about taking away the right for gays to get married?
They must struggle with themselves. They must. And it is our responsibility to show them that their struggle is worth resolving.
Politics:
Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" on Prop 8. I haven't been a big fan of Olbermann, but we owe him a big "thanks" for stepping up and saying this. With this "Special Comment" he has done something that not even Rachel Maddow has done.
Movies:
"Chris and Don: A Love Story"
The documentary about Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy was just nominated for best documentary in the Gotham Independent Film Awards. The legendary gay couple was born thirty years apart and stayed together thirty-three years.
Music Video:
Grace Jones "Corporate Cannibal"
From today's Listen Up! (New Release Tuesday)
Also from today's Listen Up! (New Release Tuesday)
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Daily Song:
Seal "A Change Is Gonna Come"
Television:
Prop 8 follow-up (11/10/08 - clip via Good As You.)
Politics:
Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" on Prop 8. I haven't been a big fan of Olbermann, but we owe him a big "thanks" for stepping up and saying this. With this "Special Comment" he has done something that not even Rachel Maddow has done.
Movies:
"Chris and Don: A Love Story"
The documentary about Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy was nominated for best documentary in the Gotham Independent Film Awards. The legendary gay couple was born thirty years apart and stayed together thirty-three years.
Music Video:
Grace Jones "Corporate Cannibal"
Interview: Securing gay rights in Jamaica vital to AIDS struggle
Scientists turn tequila into diamonds: "The key to the surprising discovery is tequila's ratio of hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, which lies within the 'diamond growth region.' The resulting diamond films could have inexpensive commercial applications as electrical insulators."
Is "Dollhouse" doomed before it even starts?
Glenn Close, the amazing star of the amazing "Damages," receives the THR Leadership Award, honoring women in entertainment
MoD "pleased" compensation claims from dismissed gays are settled
Video of Drew Barrymore at the LA Prop 8 protestKeith Olbermann may not vote, but he does care about us gays. Tonight he takes on Prop 8 in his "Special Comments." And he just renewed with MSNBC through 2011
Document Found Older Than Dead Sea Scrolls. With all the talk of Prop 8 and religion, this little bit of info seemed especially appropriate.
Interview with a bed-headed Robert Pattinson of "Twilight"
It's between 11 am and 12 pm, so I am, of course, listening to/watching The View. Keith Olbermann was on in the last segment, and I just learned that he does not vote. As a gesture to prove he's non-partisan and doesn't have "a horse in the race." (His words.)
Now, anyone who has heard Olbermann speak knows that he is profoundly partisan. Does he really think his audience isn't able to interpret his liberal-ness? Those who watch are liberal and they watch him because he is liberal. So who is he proving his point to? No one! He's trying to prove a point to a non-existent audience.
Yet another reason to watch Rachel Maddow instead.
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Daily Song:
Adele
"Make You Feel My Love"
Television:
"The Cho Show"
Margaret Cho goes back to SF and finds it's the straightest place on earth. (5:31)
Politics:
Ben Affleck does a terrible impersonation of Keith Olbermann, but chances are, right? (8:49)
Movies:
With an election season that owes so much to the fight for civil rights, I thought it'd do us gays some good to look at how far we've come -- with the preview for Milk. (2:29)
Music Video:
David Craig
"Insomnia"
Because ain't no one sleeping well until after tomorrow night. (3:26)
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Daily Song:
Adele "Make You Feel My Love"
Television:
"The Cho Show"
Margaret Cho goes back to SF and finds it's the straightest place on earth.
Politics:
Ben Affleck does a terrible impersonation of Keith Olbermann, but chances are, right?
Movies:
With an election season that owes so much to the fight for civil rights, I thought it'd do us gays some good to look at how far we've come -- with the preview for Milk.
Music Video:
David Craig
"Insomnia"
Because ain't no one sleeping well until after tomorrow night.
Keith Olbermann's attack of "Joe the Plumber" last night in his "Special Comment" was indefensible. What is he doing going so vehemently after an incidental celebrity like "Joe?" Telling Joe to keep his opinions to himself? Since when is that ever a good idea to tell someone? Don't speak your mind during a critical election?
I've mentioned before that I dislike Keith Olbermann as much as I love Rachel Maddow. Olbermann is so much a counterweight to Bill O'Reilly that he has become Bill O'Reilly. Olbermann is loud and obnxious, and he has become a bully. Joe has a publicist. Big deal. He is trying to capitalize on the fame that was created by people just like Olbermann. But Olbermann (who said, "I don't even have a publicist!") doesn't like a redneck acting above his station. And then Olbermann's list of other people on the the publicist's roster was reprehensible. It was demeaning to the working-class people, and it was demeaning to Democrats who are stuck with Keith Olbermann as a voice.
I never understood the characterization of Democrats as elitist. It always seemed silly to me when the Democratic party is populated by the working-class, people of color, gay people . . . the radical, intellectual elitist left has always seemed to be a boogeyman used to scare people. But when I heard Keith Olbermann last night, I thought, "Ooooh, this is the boogeyman I keep hearing about."
And I'm not the only one who is thinking this:
In a room full of television industry executives, no one seemed inclined to defend MSNBC on Monday for what some were calling its lopsidedly liberal coverage of the presidential election. The cable news channel is "completely out of control," said writer-producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat. She added that she would prefer a lunch date with right-leaning Fox News star Sean Hannity over left-leaning MSNBC star Keith Olbermann.All I can say is Rachel Maddow hasn't come a moment too soon.
The Rachel Maddow Show is starting to hit its stride. I really like Maddow. I want to love her, but there are times when she seems to be standing on Keith Olbermann's soap box (although anything that keeps him from using it is probably a good thing). I wish she would leave that thing behind completely and just do what she does best -- talk TO her guests and not AT her audience.
Last night was one of her best shows yet. She sat down and chatted with both John Kerry and Oliver Stone (not simultaneously). In her conversation with Oliver Stone, Maddow melded the roles of politics and the arts into a united goal with this beautiful sentence: "It's a fuzzy line between changing people's minds and changing the world." I don't know if it's entirely hers (I kind of hope it is), but even if it's not, she used it almost the way Obama would have. And that's saying something. (Incidentally, I am not the only one who was struck by this line.)
I think the level of these two Democratic guests appearing on her show is a testament to the promise she possesses as a credible source of news. Is there any doubt that in an overwhelmingly Democratic Washington she is going to become the go-to source? I have a feeling that as much as Olbermann sees himself as Bill O'Reilly's good twin brother, it might be Maddow who steps in and shows him how a sister does it better.