tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42397321063684611582024-03-12T17:05:34.309-07:00Bucky FoxAuthor * Editor * Real Estate AgentAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-83237245182501474832016-10-06T16:58:00.001-07:002016-10-06T16:58:56.269-07:00Phil Knight Sprints To The Fore With Nike<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Phil Knight just does it.</div>
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He turns Nike into a champion.</div>
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He makes icons out of the Swoosh and the athletes who wear it, from track king Carl Lewis to tennis queen Serena Williams.</div>
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He has $24 billion, ranking 17th among America's wealthiest, reports Forbes.</div>
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As CEO for four decades and now chairman, he's overseen<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Nike</span> stock sprints of 9,000% (1984-97) and 613% (2009-15).</div>
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He's out with a book, "Shoe Dog," a tale of his long slog in the footwear industry.</div>
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By next year, the Nike co-founder will wear a new title: former executive. He'll be leaving the world's No. 1 sports merchandising company, with 63,000 employees and $31 billion in annual sales.</div>
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"Pretty good when you consider that in 1964 we had $8,000 in sales and $234 in profit," said Knight, 78. "We had to run a tight ship."</div>
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And what waves he's created.</div>
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"He built an empire on a vision of shoes," said H.W. Brands, author of "Masters of Enterprise<span style="color: black;">."</span><span style="color: black;"> </span>"He made lots of money, employed lots of people and gave great satisfaction to his customers. He could have done a lot worse."</div>
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Knight also has made lots of impressions with Nike's advertising, especially with the "Just Do It" campaign<span style="color: black;">.</span></div>
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"When the Bulls won their third straight National Basketball Association title in June 1993," Donald Katz wrote in his book, "Just Do It," on the Knight endeavor, "the most popular line imprinted on caps and sweatshirts was a play on Nike's famous call to arms of the reinvention years: 'Just Did It,' went the variant apothegm. 'Again And Again And Again.' "</div>
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Instant Replay</h3>
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That repeat success has led to Swoosh equipment all over the field. They're all so colorful these days, with Olympic track shoes and college football helmets especially going Nike neon and glossy.</div>
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The college football uniforms "have all sorts of fingerprints," said Knight, lauding Todd Van Horn and Tinker Hatfield in the Nike design department.</div>
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As for what gets the chairman going, "I'm still a good shoe guy. New shoes light me up."</div>
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Which brings up the Olympicsrunning Aug. 5 to 21 in Rio de Janeiro.</div>
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"I always get pumped up for the Olympics," said Knight. "I'm a running guy, and I like that this is really the chance for track and field to shine.</div>
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"We get to display our product. If this were a fashion show, that would be our runway.</div>
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"The Olympics always bring back memories, especially with Tiger shoes at our first Games, the 1968 Olympics."</div>
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By that two-week extravaganza in Mexico City, Knight's dream was still fresh. As he noted in "Shoe Dog," the sneaker idea germinated during a 1962 run in his native Portland, Ore., not long after graduating from the University of Oregon, Stanford's business school and the Army.</div>
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He thought of one of his teacher's points: "The cowards never started, and the weak died along the way -- that leaves us."</div>
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He also thought of what inspired him: "The secret of happiness ... lay somewhere in that moment when the ball is in midair, when both boxers sense the approach of the bell, when the runners near the finish line and the crowd rises as one. ... I wanted that, whatever that was, to be my life, my daily life. ... So that morning in 1962 I told myself: Let everyone else call your idea crazy ... just keep going. Don't stop."</div>
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He didn't. Soon he was off to Japan to land a deal selling sneakers in America. He went on to travel more of Asia and beyond, finally settling home in early 1963 and seeing that first box arrive: "12 pairs of shoes, creamy white, with blue stripes down the sides. God, they were beautiful. ... I'd seen nothing in Florence or Paris that surpassed them."</div>
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Knight was infatuated, something crucial in what drives him: "Your business has to be something you really love. Remember that there will be a lot of dark moments. You never make it overnight. You have to be prepared for the tough times. As my Stanford Small Business Management professor Frank Shallenberger liked to say, 'The only time you must not fail is the last time you try.' "</div>
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Knight simply kept trying. He asked for shoe input from his Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman, and over lunch in January 1964 he told him "about my trip around the world. Kobe, Jordan, the Temple of Nike."</div>
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Bowerman was hooked: "Those Japanese shoes. They're pretty good. How about letting me in on the deal?"</div>
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Knight: "When the waitress dropped off the check for the two hamburgers, we split that too. Fifty-fifty."</div>
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Just Do It Duo</h3>
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The Knight-Bowerman team became Blue Ribbon Sports, distributing Japanese-made shoes in the American West.</div>
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"I quit my job at the accounting firm," wrote Knight, "and all that spring I did nothing but sell shoes out of the trunk of my Valiant."</div>
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By July, he had sold out his first shipment. He ordered 900 more and got a bank loan to back him. It was part of a hot 1964, with every Japanese runner at the Tokyo Olympics wearing the same Tigers that Knight was selling.</div>
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The next year, Knight made his first hire, Jeff Johnson, who would brainstorm the firm's new name: Nike, for the Greek goddess of victory.</div>
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Knight cheers such wisdom: "Underlining all the hurdles are people. We've hired a lot of creative people, whether they're the lawyers to think or the accountants to count. The people are the life and death of our company."</div>
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Then there was Carolyn Davidson. Knight met her in a college hallway and asked her to design print ads. She created the Swoosh that ran as hard as any company's logo, including the McDonald's arches.</div>
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Johnson put it this way: "It was a holy mission, you know, to Swoosh the world, to get Swooshes on everybody's feet. We were Knight's crusaders. We would have died on the cross."</div>
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Knight's company was alive and kicking in the late 1960s, doubling sales yearly to today's equivalent of $2 million. Still, he taught accounting at Portland State University for needed cash. And while there he met a student, Penelope Parks, who became his wife and mother of their two sons.</div>
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The next decade brought Knight his first big-name endorsement athlete, Romanian tennis star Ilie Nastase, and college basketball coach Dick Harter of Oregon. Such recognition helped Nike ignite sales from $8 million in 1974 (worth $38 million today) to $140 million in 1979 (or $457 million now).</div>
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The 1980s saw Nike factories humming in Taiwan, Korea, England and Ireland, and Knight's fortune multiplying to the $200 million range.</div>
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The CEO was sitting pretty at Nike's Beaverton, Ore., headquarters, which expanded to 200 acres with buildings named after endorsement stars: Joan Benoit, Ken Griffey Jr., Mia Hamm, Tiger Woods, Dan Fouts, Jerry Rice, Steve Prefontaine.</div>
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The biggest Nike get was Michael Jordan, fresh out of college in 1984. Knight saw him as an NBA giant before many others did and signed him to beat sneaker rival Reebok.</div>
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"I just don't want to be like my competitors," noted Knight, who also says: "We take a lot of our culture off the athletic field. Just like with tackles and running backs, we have to have better people than the competition."</div>
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He recalled a remark by Bowerman, who died in 1999: "Play by the rules, but be ferocious."</div>
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As Jordan soared, so did the firm he sported. "Air Jordan proved to be a very good thing for Nike," wrote Brands. "The line sold more than $100 million in its first year, the largest figure for any endorsement in history until then."</div>
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From 1985 to 1993, wrote Katz, "Nike's ad budget swelled from under $20 million to well over $150 million -- new Nike commercials projected billions of Michael Jordan impressions with each new selling season."</div>
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Knight, the former middle-distance runner, was on another lap toward becoming "the most powerful man in sports," as the Sporting News dubbed him.</div>
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Now in his last leg as Nike's chairman, Knight spends half his time on projects at the Beaverton office a half-hour from his home, in what he calls a good relationship with CEO Mark Parker.</div>
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Knight doesn't run anymore, no thanks to his age. Instead, he walks for exercise and stays atop his old sport.</div>
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Watching a race once, he said: "There was much to be learned from such a display of passion, whether you were running a mile or a company."</div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">Here's wishing righty wakes up in time to win with Donald Trump.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">1. Recognize their sabotage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">2. Go all in with Donald.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">3. Cash in with victory on Nov. 8.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">In my mystic musing, an October Surprise has:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">Mitt Romney lauding Trump's tax cuts, with businesses' burden dropping to 15% from 35% so they won't leave heavy-handed America for open arms overseas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">Ted Cruz applauding Trump's gun grip, knowing full well the Second Amendment will stay loaded.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">Ben Sasse cheering Trump's Supreme Court calls, seeing that top talents Diane Sykes and William Pryor are on the New Yorker's justice list.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">Jeb Bush extolling Trump's terror battle, outlined by the 45th president: "My administration will aggressively pursue joint and coalition military operations to crush and destroy ISIS, international cooperation to cut off their funding, expanded intelligence sharing, and cyberwarfare to disrupt and disable their propaganda and recruiting." </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">Bill Kristol hailing Trump's Israel loyalty, a lock after the tycoon's recent ISIS speech: "We will work side by side with our friends in the Middle East, including our greatest ally, Israel."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">Maybe this is all a pipe dream. Could be the anti-Trump crowd will cut off its nose to spite its smug face no matter how ugly a Hillary presidency looks. No matter how her high court picks and mass-Muslim migration will ruin America.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">I hold out hope for an Autumn Awakening. Just as Ben Carson and Chris Christie – unlike Killjoy Kasich – shook off the primary bloodletting to rally around Trump.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">In the 1957 flick "The Bridge on the River Kwai," Alec Guinness realizes his treachery in time to blow up the Japanese prize.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">"What have I done?" he says before falling on the plunger.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;">There's time for Romney & Co. to do the same: Stand for what's right, derail Hillary and ride the Trump Train to triumph.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Bucky Fox is an author and editor in Southern California.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">There's her motherly acumen, on display at Trump's economic presentation this week in Detroit.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"She is, without question, one of her father's most trusted advisers," says Roger Stone, a Nixon hard charger who has Trump's ear.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ivanka told Time magazine that her father "raised me to be opinionated. When he asks my opinion, I give it."</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ivanka is 34 and the mother of three. She's married to Jared Kushner, who like Trump turned his dad's real estate firm into a colossus. With Ivanka joining Jared's religion, the White House will finally star a Jewish family. Which makes libs' labeling of Trump a Nazi laughable.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ivanka was already ahead of the game before her dad ran for president and even before she shone as a Trump Organization exec. Her fashion line clicked with masses of women.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">So did her introduction of Trump at the GOP convention. That Cleveland coronation elevated the New York Princess to American Queen.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Regal and projecting, Ivanka hailed Donald for the titan he is: boffo builder, august altruist, phenomenal father.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">But anyone plugged in knows that.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Here's where Ivanka hoisted the next president in a light that blinds liberals:</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"</span>My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job. Period."</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"Gender is no longer the factor creating the greatest wage discrepancy. Motherhood is."</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"As president, my father will change the labor laws that were put in place during a time in which women were not a significant part of the workforce and will focus on making quality childcare affordable and accessible for all." </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"American families need relief. Policies that allow women with children to thrive should not be novelties; they should be the norm. Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this too, right alongside of him."</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ivanka delivered with such towering conviction and diction, my wife raved. And she's a Bubba-loving Democrat.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SZPapZM7uwA/V65H5ozr0gI/AAAAAAAAATA/b8C2NSoHMn8S4GKZmPOmJnSHys3i8vBMwCLcB/s1600/14011787_10210656647518148_1211532444_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SZPapZM7uwA/V65H5ozr0gI/AAAAAAAAATA/b8C2NSoHMn8S4GKZmPOmJnSHys3i8vBMwCLcB/s320/14011787_10210656647518148_1211532444_n.jpg" width="256" /></a></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Christine Holly Ngo, like Ivanka dressed to win. </span></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Then there's Christine Holly Ngo, a pal of mine whose glam rivals Ivanka's. Now Christine is hardly conservative. She's been on Hollywood red carpets, so you can imagine her true colors. Yet she posted on Facebook: "I'm not getting involved with politics, but I love Ivanka Trump. She is so classy and smart. Graduated from Wharton with honors and has so much drive and ambition. An entrepreneur with 3 kids!!! My new idol."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Meanwhile, cheers came from closer to the action.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">California delegate Shawn Steel: “He does the blue collar, she does the millennials. It’s a powerful combination. This woman, I’ve been saying for some time, is the greatest asset Donald Trump has.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Breitbart's Julia Pollak: "For millennial women, who are the new generation of moms and workers, balancing everything is hard. And Ivanka spoke directly to me."</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">It took a month for Trump to again unsheathe his wonderful weapon. This time the venue was Fox, where Greta Van Susteren gave Ivanka a full hour.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The daughter darted through the show with sharp support.</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Other candidates are "managed by a team of 50 people who are testing and polling every word." As for Trump, "that's not him. That's not the leader he wants to be."</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The public sees that Trump gets the issues. "He's an unbelievable listener. If he has a question on something, he will pepper people who he believes are smart and informed. ... Ultimately he arrives at his own conclusion."</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">At the end of the Fox interview, Greta asked her about President Obama's Trump-is-unfit knife job. Ivanka wasn't about to be cut.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"I clearly disagree," she said. "I think he'd be an excellent president."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Such dexterity dressed in glamour that the Liz Warren Dem duds can't match will lead to this:</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Donald Trump will be the 45th president.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ivanka Trump will be a first daughter for the ages.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><i><b><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Bucky Fox is an author and editor in<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Southern California</span>.</span></b></i></span></span></li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-89320240029268567422016-08-12T15:12:00.001-07:002016-08-12T15:19:43.333-07:00Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-14543198842433454552016-08-12T15:12:00.000-07:002016-08-12T15:23:04.320-07:00Ivanka Helps Trump Dig In His Heels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OrZmEmkwF1w/V65Hvtym1bI/AAAAAAAAAS8/E7VEKrHWsLAJxASMQwvGGawQ7BLBMgfvgCLcB/s1600/14002446_10210656647078137_1247160058_o.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OrZmEmkwF1w/V65Hvtym1bI/AAAAAAAAAS8/E7VEKrHWsLAJxASMQwvGGawQ7BLBMgfvgCLcB/s320/14002446_10210656647078137_1247160058_o.jpg" width="213" /></a></span></span></div>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">As Donald Trump tears toward the White House, he's wielding stilettos vs. the opposition.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">They're worn by Ivanka, the dream daughter who's causing lefty nightmares.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">There's her look, so stunning that only Melania trumps her.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">There's her name, evoking rock solid and exotic.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">There's her biz muscle, lifting tall buildings such as Trump International Hotel in D.C. in time for Donald to live on Pennsylvania Avenue no matter what happens Nov. 8.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">There's her motherly acumen, on display at Trump's economic presentation this week in Detroit.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"She is, without question, one of her father's most trusted advisers," says Roger Stone, a Nixon hard charger who has Trump's ear.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ivanka told Time magazine that her father "raised me to be opinionated. When he asks my opinion, I give it."</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ivanka is 34 and the mother of three. She's married to Jared Kushner, who like Trump turned his dad's real estate firm into a colossus. With Ivanka joining Jared's religion, the White House will finally star a Jewish family. Which makes libs' labeling of Trump a Nazi laughable.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ivanka was already ahead of the game before her dad ran for president and even before she shone as a Trump Organization exec. Her fashion line clicked with masses of women.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">So did her introduction of Trump at the GOP convention. That Cleveland coronation elevated the New York Princess to American Queen.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Regal and projecting, Ivanka hailed Donald for the titan he is: boffo builder, august altruist, phenomenal father.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">But anyone plugged in knows that.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Here's where Ivanka hoisted the next president in a light that blinds liberals:</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">"</span>My father values talent. He recognizes real knowledge and skill when he finds it. He is color blind and gender neutral. He hires the best person for the job. Period."</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"Gender is no longer the factor creating the greatest wage discrepancy. Motherhood is."</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"As president, my father will change the labor laws that were put in place during a time in which women were not a significant part of the workforce and will focus on making quality childcare affordable and accessible for all." </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"American families need relief. Policies that allow women with children to thrive should not be novelties; they should be the norm. Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this too, right alongside of him."</span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ivanka delivered with such towering conviction and diction, my wife raved. And she's a Bubba-loving Democrat.</span></span></span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SZPapZM7uwA/V65H5ozr0gI/AAAAAAAAATA/b8C2NSoHMn8S4GKZmPOmJnSHys3i8vBMwCLcB/s1600/14011787_10210656647518148_1211532444_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SZPapZM7uwA/V65H5ozr0gI/AAAAAAAAATA/b8C2NSoHMn8S4GKZmPOmJnSHys3i8vBMwCLcB/s320/14011787_10210656647518148_1211532444_n.jpg" width="256" /></a></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Christine Holly Ngo, like Ivanka dressed to win. </span></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br /></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Then there's Christine Holly Ngo, a pal of mine whose glam rivals Ivanka's. Now Christine is hardly conservative. She's been on Hollywood red carpets, so you can imagine her true colors. Yet she posted on Facebook: "I'm not getting involved with politics, but I love Ivanka Trump. She is so classy and smart. Graduated from Wharton with honors and has so much drive and ambition. An entrepreneur with 3 kids!!! My new idol."</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Meanwhile, cheers came from closer to the action.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">California delegate Shawn Steel: “He does the blue collar, she does the millennials. It’s a powerful combination. This woman, I’ve been saying for some time, is the greatest asset Donald Trump has.”</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Breitbart's Julia Pollak: "For millennial women, who are the new generation of moms and workers, balancing everything is hard. And Ivanka spoke directly to me."</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br style="font-family: "arial",sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;" /></span></span>
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<span style="color: blue;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">It took a month for Trump to again unsheathe his wonderful weapon. This time the venue was Fox, where Greta Van Susteren gave Ivanka a full hour.</span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-13824580750016746242016-05-07T08:03:00.000-07:002016-05-07T08:05:36.746-07:00President Trump, Here We Come<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Donald Trump has a fresh moniker: Presumptive Nominee.</div>
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He wears it in style, as with his Trump ties and cufflinks. </div>
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Sure beats Trump Just Might Be The Nominee.</div>
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Trump fans got tired of that as far back as last summer. Even then they knew he was a lock to head the Republican presidential ticket.</div>
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Now with his knockout of Cruz and Kasich, Trump stands alone in the GOP ring.</div>
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And when he enters the Oval Office about 250 days hence, he'll get crackin' on Making America Great Again by:</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Building the wall.</b> </span>Congress already said OK 10 years ago to the border barricade. Now the Trump Tower Titan will put his talent to work on the demarcation, replete with sending the bill to Mexico. How to make the Mexicans pay? As DonaldJTrump.com details, America will "impound all remittance payments derived from illegal wages; increase fees on all temporary visas issued to Mexican CEOs and diplomats (and if necessary cancel them); increase fees on all border crossing cards – of which we issue about 1 million to Mexican nationals each year (a major source of visa overstays); increase fees on all NAFTA worker visas from Mexico (another major source of overstays); and increase fees at ports of entry to the United States from Mexico."</div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">Braking illegal immigration. </span></b>Right away, criminal aliens will get tossed and sanctuary cities will draw no more federal bucks. Savings are in the offing, says Trump's site: "Applicants for entry to the United States should be required to certify that they can pay for their own housing, health care and other needs before coming to the U.S." That should end the outrageous freebie demands of illegals at hospitals and other costly facilities. And drive more punchlines from Twitter's @WriteInTrump parody comic, who wrote, "I love Hispanics so much that when I'm elected I'm going to give millions of them an all expense paid trip to their homeland."</div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">Axing taxes.</span></b> Businesses will see their payments plummet to 15% from 35%. So they won'tbe tempted to leave heavy-handed America for open arms overseas.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>Trashing terror.</b></span> ISIS will be WASWAS quicker than you can say NO PRISONERS. And the Syrian Trojan Horse trotting to our country will do an about-face. Two million Muslims have already swamped our land since 9/11, with many yearning for berkahs and the rest of Shariah hell. Trump's message: America First, not Worst.</div>
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More specifics are coming as we head for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_110126523" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Nov. 8</span></span>. Trump will nail down his points and even miss, as he did the other day in Costa Mesa, Calif., telling us we numbered 31,000 when really the amphitheater held 8,700. But, as he says, these are minor details.</div>
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What counts is the vote number on Election Day, leading to the ultimate title: President Trump.</div>
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<i>Bucky Fox is an editor and author in Southern California.</i></div>
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Walter Knott rode spirit to theme-park heights.<br />
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“Success comes as you have confidence in yourself,” he said.
“Self-confidence is built by succeeding, even if the success is small.
It is the believing that makes it possible. No man succeeds without
faith.”<br />
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With that faith came boysenberries, roller coasters and a cowboy theme park called Knott’s Berry Farm.<br />
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The amusement spot in Buena Park, Calif., just north of Disneyland,
boasts 5 million visitors a year, ranking among the top funfair draws in
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The 160-acre plot — from which its Orange County city thrives with
motels and restaurants — originated with a 1920 germination from Walter
Knott (1889-1981).<br />
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“Walter Knott possessed the persistence that very few people have ever had,” said Jay Jennings, author of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/knottsearlyyears" target="_blank">“Knott’s Berry Farm: The Early Years,”</a> “He believed that anything was possible if you tried hard enough.
That’s why he stayed in the fields and kept farming despite his many
early failures in growing vegetables and fruit.<br />
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“Knott loved agriculture, turning weed patches into crop-yielding
gardens. He learned at an early age (9) how to contribute to the
family’s income by selling produce from his crops to railroaders who
lived near the Southern Pacific track. Knott’s grandmother Rosamond
Dougherty was another big influence. She moved in with his brother,
mother and himself and shared exciting stories about her adventures in
the Old West, which later motivated Knott to build his Ghost Town at
Knott’s Berry Farm.”<br />
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The man simply had a “unique combination of having clear goals in
mind along with an almost obsessive work ethic,” said Christopher
Merritt, co-author of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Knotts-Preserved-175903632427821/?fref=ts" target="_blank">“Knott’s Preserved.”</a>
“Even in the face of adversity (i.e., attempting to grow grapes in the
Mojave Desert prior to cultivating his farm in Buena Park), he stuck to
his overall plan and simply did not give up, when others would have more
quickly come to their senses and moved on to other, less daunting
prospects.”<br />
<br />
<h2>
<span style="color: red;">Star Power</span></h2>
John Wayne, who had a Knott’s Berry Farm theater named for him,
called Knott “a true image of American capitalism. He takes pride in the
efforts of his organization and the quality of his product. … I delight
in calling him a friend.”<br />
<br />
Another actor, Ronald Reagan, took time out from his California
governor duties in 1968 to laud Knott as “one of America’s great
patriots, one who has successfully climbed to the very top rung of the
ladder of success … yet one who has always been careful to see that he
left each rung of that ladder in good repair so those who followed would
have less trouble in climbing life’s ladder than he had.”<br />
<br />
Walter started his rise not far from Buena Park — in San Bernardino, born to Elgin and Virginia Knott.<br />
<br />
“Walter Knott overcame many hurdles and hardships,” said Jennings.
“First was the death of his father at age 6, which meant that he and his
mother couldn’t keep their family farm due to financial hardships. When
Knott was a sophomore in high school, the small bit of farmland he and
his cousin owned in Coachella Valley was destroyed by a November freeze.
Knott moved back to Pomona and worked in the fields all week, then
jumped on a train to drop produce off and take orders at various cities
on the line. It was grueling but profitable.”<br />
<br />
Walter was 21 when he married Cordelia, his bride of six decades and the mother of their four children.<br />
<br />
With their Pomona house, life looked nice and easy. Only, Knott
wanted a farm, even in the rough California desert. “Think of it: 160
acres of land to call our own if we live on it for three years!”<br />
Cordelia reacted with tears, foreseeing “coyotes, rattlesnakes, no
inside plumbing, no running water, not even a house but a humble adobe
dwelling,” wrote the biographer Helen Kooiman. “Sand. Hardship. ‘Walter,
you can’t mean it!’ ”<br />
<br />
He did. “Those desert years were some of the best years of our life. …
The hardships we endured made us tough,” said Walter. “After what we
went through there, nothing could faze us.”<br />
<br />
<h2>
<span style="color: red;">Finding Traction</span></h2>
By 1920, Walter was moving back to the Los Angeles area — and found
his gold mine: Buena Park. He took up his cousin Jim Preston’s offer to
join a farming partnership.<br />
<br />
“His farming dream was still alive, and Knott leased 20 acres of land
along Grand Avenue from William Coughran, which Knott later bought
outright,” said Jennings. “This was the land that Knott’s Berry Farm
would later be built on.”<br />
<br />
Knott made money selling berries at a roadside stand that grew into a building called Knott’s Berry Place in 1928.<br />
<br />
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Then came Walter’s eureka moment. Discovering Anaheim park chief
Rudolph Boysen’s mix of blackberry, loganberry and red raspberry, Knott
started growing the boysenberry in 1933.<br />
<br />
Depression? What Depression? Knott suddenly had a hot seller in
boysenberry pie and jam. With Cordelia weighing in with her chicken
specialty, their restaurant boomed.<br />
<br />
“Few people who went down the road from Buena Park to the sea could
resist the temptation to stop at the Berry Farm, either for a chicken
dinner or for the berries,” wrote Norman Nygaard in “Walter Knott: 20th
Century Pioneer.”<br />
<br />
By 1937, wrote Kooiman, “waiting lines were so long, he couldn’t see the end.”<br />
<br />
This was after a banker turned him down for a loan with a dismissive
“highway restaurants fail when they try to expand,” noted Jennings.<br />
<br />
Knott found the means, and payroll was about to rocket — from 25 in 1936 to 350 in 1947 to 2,000 in 1972 to 10,000 now.<br />
<br />
“My greatest satisfaction in life,” said Knott, “is knowing that some
widow, some young person or other human being can come here and find an
honest job and win the biggest prize life has to offer — self-respect.”<br />
<br />
Those early employees felt Walter’s tenet of goodwill toward
customers: “This is more valuable than what we actually sell here on the
farm. Goodwill doesn’t develop simply. It develops only through years
of integrity, fair dealing and honest toil. We’ve worked hard to develop
this, and we want you to help us maintain it.”<br />
<br />
<h2>
<span style="color: red;">Riding High</span></h2>
With the food good, Knott wanted the farm’s entertainment to be even
better. So he added amusement to the mix in 1940, sparking Knott’s Berry
Place & Ghost Town with a Western theme. In the coming years he
littered it with Calico Square, Calico Saloon, Calico Mine Ride and the
bandit-thrilling Calico Train, taking the name from a town he had turned
into a tourist attraction in San Bernardino County between Buena Park
and Las Vegas.<br />
<br />
“Walter Knott is credited with many crucial innovations that paved
the way for his many successes,” said Jennings. “The first was cutting
out the middleman so he could keep more profits from his farming and
selling directly to grocers.<br />
<br />
Then came the boysenberry, incorporated
into punch, jams, jellies and pies at Knott’s Berry Farm for over 80
years.<br />
<br />
Yet another successful business venture came from the Chicken
Dinner Restaurant that has been serving their world famous chicken for
80 years as well. To accommodate the long lines, Knott built Ghost Town
in 1940.<br />
<br />
Word of mouth traveled across the country, and within a few
years, Knott’s Berry Place (which became Farm in 1947) was one of the
most successful amusement parks in the United States and still is to
this day.”<br />
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Nowadays, Knott’s Berry Farm spotlights six live shows, 18 family rides and 10 roller coasters.
<br />
Also in the complex is a rendition of Independence Hall, replete with a 2,000-pound bell, dedicated on July 4, 1966.<br />
<br />
Cheers rang in the coming years, especially from Reagan: “He’s been a
participant in every worthwhile cause that you can imagine. He has
never said no to anything charitable or to anything in the community. We
need a couple hundred million more citizens like Walter Knott.”<br />
<br />
Reagan became president in 1981, the year Knott died at age 91. His descendants sold Knott’s Berry Farm to Cedar Fair Entertainment for about $250 million in 1997. The parent company, based in Ohio, has
seen its stock rocket 900% since 2009, with record net revenue of $1.24
billion in 2015, although it doesn’t publicly break out individual park
sales among its 11 amusement sites.<br />
<br />
“Walter Knott is indeed an inspirational figure,” said Jennings, “in
the sense that he started with very little and through sheer will power
and positive thinking (failure was not in his vocabulary) found the
farmlands that he needed to grow his fruits and vegetables and then
expanded and bought more land as the years progressed and then
capitalized on what customers wanted: good food, good preserves and good
old fashioned Old West entertainment, which really couldn’t be found
anywhere else, at least until Disneyland opened in 1955.<br />
<br />
“Walter Knott started as a simple farmer and eventually became the
owner of one of the world’s most popular and successful amusement parks.
Talk about inspirational.”<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Photos Courtesy Jay Jennings</span><br />
<br />
<i>Bucky Fox is an editor and author in Southern California.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Jesse
Lee Peterson is hardly part of the silent majority.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Because
nothing about him silent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">The
radio, TV and book voice roars with points that turn on some, turn off others
in America.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">“Racism
is an illusion,” says Peterson. “It doesn’t exploit people. The anger
that black people have starts in the home, not from white people. Racism isn’t
holding black people back. The problem is that black leaders keep them in a
state of anger.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">He
tries to take that leadership from his conservative side:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">As
a frequent guest on Sean Hannity’s hit Fox News Channel show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">With
“The Jesse Lee Peterson Radio Show” that airs throughout the South and online.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Through
his Los Angeles-based, family-advice organization, BOND, or the Brotherhood
Organization of a New Destiny.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">As
an ordained minister who makes his case on the speaking circuit.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Via
three books, the latest of which is “The Antidote: Healing America From the
Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Peterson, loud and clear in his weekly
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">“Blacks
in the United States are the freest and wealthiest group of blacks anywhere. If
black America were a country, it would be the 16th wealthiest nation in the
world.</span></div>
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many as half a million black babies are killed in the womb each year — roughly
three times the rate of white babies. . . . Some black lives apparently don’t
matter at all.”</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">“For
political reasons, black leaders supported these other minorities (Hispanics,
Muslims), even if it meant selling out black citizens to do so. This has never
been more obvious than in the support of black political leaders for illegal
immigration. . . . They look at people sneaking into the country, illegally
taking jobs that poor blacks and whites might have otherwise had, and see only
future Democratic votes.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Andrew
Klavan, a crime novelist out of Southern California who has covered Peterson,
lauds the reverend: “Jesse talks directly out of his life, out of his own
struggles with anger, his own search for forgiveness, and out of his Bible
reading - and with no regard whatsoever for the current racial narrative. Where
we've all been so brainwashed into thinking of a black man's struggles as
intimately connected to his blackness, Jesse refuses to do down that rabbit
hole. He's a man. His experience is a man's experience. His wisdom is a man's
wisdom. His answers are human answers. In this race-corrupted day and age, that
makes everything he says riveting and original. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">“The
guy is unbelievably authentic. It's not that he's politically incorrect. It's
that the category of political correctness doesn't seem to exist in his mind.
As far as I can tell, he does not give Damn One about what he's supposed to
think or say. He says what he means, what he knows. The minute he starts
talking, his absolute fearlessness is the first the thing you notice about him.
It's a God Thing, I think. He's got the Bible to back him up. You don't like
it, file your complaints with the Lord and good luck.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Alabama Rise</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Peterson started out 66 years ago on a
plantation near Eufaula, Ala., with his grandmother and cousins. Their tiny
house had no bath, shower or running water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Making it tougher was an absent father. Then
his mother and new husband moved with their children and left Jesse with
Grandma.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Jesse’s father barely came by. Filling that
void was Grandpa.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">“Sometimes during the school year I would
stay home to help with the plowing and the planting, the picking of cotton and
the harvesting of crops,” Peterson wrote. “Now, if that is not an ‘authentic’
black experience, I am not sure I know what is.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Peterson
found his way to California and found a job transcribing on computers at the
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, but wanted more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">He
searched for a business he could start without much money and found one: a
janitor service. He dived into double duty, working morning to afternoon
inputting at the hospital, then till midnight cleaning buildings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">In
seven years, his company grew to seven full-time employees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">By
1990, he heard another calling. He sold the janitor service and had enough
money to start BOND. “I was called by God to do this,” he says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">To
strike out on his own, he had a hurdle to leap: fear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">“Because
I was not raised by a father, I didn’t have a good example of how to start a
business,” he said. “I also had to overcome anger. The offspring of anger is
fear. When God took my anger away, He took my fear away. Now I was not afraid
of giving it a good try. I didn’t have fear to hold me back.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Having
been ordained a minister by the state, Peterson started bolstering the group
that today counsels 160 people at any one time, with a staff of 10 and an
annual budget of $500,000, much of which comes from donations, plus his
speaking fees and books.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">The Peterson Principle</span></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">“I’m
proud of the fact that I’ve never gotten one dime from the government,” he
said. “I’ve worked hard.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Especially
with books. Before “The Antidote” came “From Rage to Responsibility” in 2000
and “Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America” in 2003. He was
building a brand — black conservative with strong opinions that, he says,
“opened so many possibilities.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">All
the while, he gained traction on the TV shows of Geraldo Rivera and Phil
Donahue, plus radio interviews and a newsletter — while keeping his BOND focus
on “rebuild the family by building the man. It’s all about getting people to
overcome anger, blame and victimhood. We teach people to judge based on
character rather than color. We encourage men and women to get married, stay
together and raise families. We teach people to be independent thinkers and to
be self-sufficient so they’re not relying on the government for jobs or
handouts. For those interested in starting a business, we provide resources and
mentors to help them get started.” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">As for Peterson’s own life, he’s never been married. He
has a son from a relationship decades ago and now has several grandchildren.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">That son, the name of which Peterson wants private for
security reasons, is in his early 40s and lives in New York. Jesse relates how the young man
gave him a joyous gift one day with a phone call: “He had overcome the anger in
his life. I felt like the man wandering in the desert who finally found a
spring. . . . I’m blessed that God returned my son to me.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">Hence
Peterson’s advice to kids at BOND: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">“Overcome your anger from that feeling of
lack of love. I show them that they have to forgive and do well in school. If
they do that and network, they can make it.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">That
networking helped Peterson make a national imprint. He met Hannity’s sister
years before running into the TV and radio star. That led to a friendship with
Hannity that regularly lands Peterson on the conservative personality’s Fox
program.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt;">One
reason opinionated shows want Peterson is his refusal to pull punches. He
swings hard amid an America boiling with Ferguson, Baltimore and Chicago:</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“People have to get back on their feet alone.
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voice Dennis Prager: “There are many admirable traits that a good person may
possess — honesty, integrity, compassion, among others — but there is one trait
that very few people have. That trait is courage. . . . Jesse is fearless. Or
to be more accurate, he does not allow fear to govern his behavior or speech. I
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Klavan
is another journalist glad to have met Peterson: “As best I can remember, I was
waiting to give a sales talk at Thomas Nelson publishers, and picked Jesse's
first memoir off a shelf and paged through it. I was caught. I took the book
home and read it and thought: I gotta talk to this guy. I wound up doing a <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_1_jesse-lee-peterson.html">profile</a>
on him for City Journal, and if you read it, you can almost hear me spluttering
with awe at the guy's honesty. Since then, I've become a supporter and I hope
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Bucky Fox is an author and editor in Southern California. </span></i><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;"></span>
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Americans are crazy about Donald Trump.<br />
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As am I, so nutty I listen to just about every Trump speech on my long California commute.<br />
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Nothing on the air is more entertaining.<br /><br />Aside from Build The Wall and We’re Gonna Knock The Hell Out Of ISIS — which ignite seismic cheers — Trump’s lines lasso fans with the levity of a stand-up comic.<br /><br />“Folks, what’s more fun than a Trump rally?” he likes to bark while a disrupter gets hauled off.<br /><br />The answer is in the numbers. Over 30,000 fans have jammed venues in Alabama, with 20,000 packing Mississippi, Oklahoma, Florida and Texas and 10,000 in Ohio, Vermont, New Hampshire, Iowa, Illinois, Georgia, Arizona, South Carolina, North Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nevada, Michigan and Missouri.<br /><br />Why do so many like him? Because Trump speaks nationalist — the language of America first. Stop illegal immigration. Hold off the Muslim/terror flood. Treat veterans right. Lower taxes to keep companies in this country. Rework trade deals to bring back jobs.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">City Cracks</span></h3>
<br />Trump speaks New York, full of his trademark “that I can tell you.” He mixes gut with gag:<br /><br />“I was watching the news a little while ago and one of the commentators, who I’m not particularly fond of — but these are minor details.”<br /><br />“I don’t care if you’re dying. I don’t care if your wife just said she’s leaving you. Get out and vote.”<br /><br />“I carried all the groups: tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people.”<br /><br />“I’ll have the toughest people make our deals, guys who are so disgusting you’d never want to have dinner with them. Who cares?”<br /><br />“First of all, I don’t believe anything Telemundo says.”<br /><br />“Obama better be glad I didn’t run last time. He would’ve been a one-term president.”<br /><br />“You know why we didn’t build the wall before? We couldn’t get environmental approval. Woulda hit a toad, maybe a snake. You think China got an environmental impact statement before digging up the South China Sea? I don’t think so.”<br /><br />The Trumpet belts it all out without a script. Without teleprompters. He takes to the podium amid the hysteria, pulls out a piece of paper with notes, says “Oh wow” and riffs.<br />
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<br />Other highlights on the Trump Trail of speeches and press conferences that started in June and will climax with his presidential victory Nov. 8.<br /><br />Cutting off a long question from a radio guy: “No one’s listening to you.”<br /><br />Dealing with his ground game: “We’re working hard on our ground forces.”<br /><br />Answering a New Hampshire pacifist’s whine about our atom-bombing of Japan: “Do you remember this thing called Pearl Harbor? It turned out we were stronger, meaner and smarter.”<br /><br />On a business backing from months before: “Carl Icahn endorsed me the other day.”<br /><br />On a laudatory cover story from two months before: “You really have to read this week’s Time magazine.”<br /><br />On the budget: “President Obama is a lousy negotiator with everybody except when he deals with the Republicans. Then he gets everything he wants.”<br /><br />On Ben Carson: “How many people has he hired, a couple of nurses?”<br /><br />On Mexican leaders bashing his border plan: “The wall just got 10 feet higher.”<br /><br />On the crummy Iran deal: “The ayatollah would never be called the supreme leader by Trump. That I can tell you.”<br /><br />On the past two elections: “McCain lost, Romney lost. I said, ‘The next time I’m just gonna do it myself.’ ”<br /><br />“Sometimes there’s just no better word than the word stupid.”<br /><br />“Most politicians want your money. They say: ‘I’ll take anything. Give us an undershirt!’ ”<br /><br />“If you’re not gonna vote for me, don’t vote!<br /><br />Chris Matthews: “What are your tools (to get things done)?” Trump: “Me.”<br /><br />“Who’s gonna pay for the wall?” Crowd: “Mexico!”<br /><br />Praising Ann Coulter’s best-seller “Adios, America”: “You have to go out and buy her book ‘Adios, Amigo.’ ”<br /><br />On hitting Hillary with Bill’s philandering: “Believe me, they had a rough weekend after that. If they were even together.”<br /><br />Analyzing Marco Rubio’s ragged try at trashing Trump: “Hostility is not for everyone.”<br />
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<br />The March 15 Trump Show turned into the funniest victory act since Costello beat Abbott.<br /><br />“Nobody has ever, ever in the history of politics received the kind of negative advertising that I have. … By the way, mostly false. I wouldn’t say 100%, but about 90%.”<br /><br />“Then a commercial comes on. The worst commercial, and I’m with these wonderful people from Cadillac and all these top executives, and I’m saying, ‘Look over there! Look! Don’t watch it. Don’t. You don’t want to watch it.’ I’m saying, ‘Isn’t the grass beautiful? Look! Look! Don’t watch.’ ”<br /><br />The genteel Palm Beach audience howled and stood with fervor. Trump towered again.<br />
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<em>Bucky Fox is an editor, author and columnist in Southern California.</em><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-42749852656462492682016-03-25T08:00:00.000-07:002016-03-25T08:08:29.135-07:00Trump Towers Over Presidential Field<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Let’s take a rare journalistic moment to answer definitively:<br />
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Will Donald Trump win the presidency?<br />
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Yes.<br />
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Good. Got that out of the way. No dialing a focus group. Tell it straight.<br />
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Like Trump at the Houston debate earlier this year, when asked whether Hispanics’ negative opinion makes him unelectable: “No.”<br />
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Like Trump recently on if he would consider David Petraeus as veep. “No.” The billionaire spotlights the general as unfairly hammered vs. what Hillary Clinton is skirting. Still, the Iraq War hero has too much legal baggage.<br />
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Regarding that vice presidential pick, would Trump seek a fellow biz type or go with a politician? “Politician.” The tycoon knows he has to close deals with Congress.<br />
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How about dunking terrorists to make them talk? Again, Trump gets to the point. As opposed to every other prez contender.<br />
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Mideast savages are “chopping off heads and they’re saying to themselves, ‘Can you believe how weak and pathetic the Americans are?’ So they’re asking Ted Cruz: What do you think of waterboarding? ‘Uh, uh, what do I say? I want to be politically correct. Waterboarding is so terrible … even though they’re chopping off heads,’ ” Trump taunted in Las Vegas in February, the day before nailing down Nevada. “He couldn’t answer the question. He was a mess. Then they said to me, ‘What do you think of waterboarding?’ I said I think it’s great, but I don’t think we go far enough. It’s true.”<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Bold, Brash, Beloved</span></h3>
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Answers. Trump rattles them off fearlessly. He doesn’t consult pollsters. He goes with his gut. Which is one reason he’s wildly popular — dominating the Drudge debate poll with 57% — and on the way to delivering the inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2017, as the 45th president.<br />
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As Ann Coulter says, President Trump will be halfway through that speech as the Republican Party keeps debating his viability.<br />
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Don’t limit that hedge to GOP bureaucrats. Throw in 99% of TV pundits: Karl Rove, Brit Hume, George Will, Bill Kristol, Rich Lowry, Steve Hayes, Charles Krauthammer, S.E. Cupp, Mike Smerconish, Ben Ferguson, Jeff Toobin.<br />
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They share a maddening trait — smug, glib and handsomely paid while belittling Trump’s odds of winning. Even though that’s all he’s done while building a titanic real estate empire.<br />
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About the only media types who had it right from the start last summer were Coulter, Jeff Lord, Charles Hurt, Michael Savage and Joe Scarborough. Let’s also not forget Fox Sports Radio’s Andy Furman, who sounded the Trumpet on his morning show, with sidekick Mike North lauding him: “If I bet on all those other guys who said Trump had no shot, I’d be broke.”<br />
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The smart ones see a runaway Trump Train, with Los Angeles radio host Doug McIntyre — hardly a Don fan — conceding after Nevada’s rout, “Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination.”<br />
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No “maybe.” No “very well could.” Trump will claim the GOP trophy in July in Cleveland. And win it all in November.<br />
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Why?<br />
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1. <span style="color: red;">Issues.</span> Trump owns immigration, trade, Muslim terror, self-funding his campaign to ignore special interests. As CNN’s sharpest panelist, Kayleigh McEnany, said after Tuesday’s Vegas jackpot, “Donald Trump isn’t so much ideological as America first.”<br />
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2. <span style="color: red;">Moxie.</span> Trump has it in spades.<br />
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Responding to ex-Mexican President Felipe Calderon saying his country wouldn’t pay for the Trump Wall: “It just got 10 feet taller.”<br />
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Lauding his supporters: “68% would not leave under any circumstances. I think that means murder. I think it means anything.”<br />
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Analyzing Nevada’s sweeping triumph: “I won with tall people, I won with short people, fat people, skinny people. I won with highly educated, OK educated and practically not educated at all.”<br />
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Hitting back at a protester: “I love the old days. You know what they used to do to guys like that when they were in a place like this? They’d be carried off on a stretcher, folks. … I’d like to punch him in the face.”<br />
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<span style="color: red;">The Trumpet</span></h3>
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Juxtapose all that with Tim Pawlenty, whose wilting beside Mitt Romney in the GOP’s 2012 debate cycle finished the former Minnesota governor. Pawlenty just endorsed Marco Rubio. Enough said.<br />
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Then there’s John Kasich, whose benign line about “many women who left their kitchen” to volunteer for him decades ago caused a tiny PC tremor – for which the Ohio governor APOLOGIZED. Even Trump detractor Matt Lewis said, “This is exactly why Trump is so popular. This is political correctness run amok.”<br />
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CNN’s Brianna Keilar is supposedly so shocked by Trump’s takes, she wondered, “Does this pay off, this kind of language?”<br />
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Yes.<br />
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<em>Bucky Fox is an editor, author and columnist in Southern California.</em><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-46370123107951816072015-11-14T15:36:00.000-08:002015-11-15T19:58:39.966-08:00Ron Baskin, The Regal Lion<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The sad call came from my buddy Brett Miles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He was crying over the loss of a fellow pal and Heidelberg High Lion for the ages:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ron Baskin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If Billy Joel sings it right, that only the good die young, Ron fits the ONLY tag. He was good and young at 60.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Good man.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Good dad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Good athlete.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Make that great sportsman.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Brett recalled how Ron quarterbacked the Patrick Henry Village Browns to dominance in youth football.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And how once they pulled on the Lion blue & gold, Ron shifted to halfback, with Brett calling signals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Baskin and Miles turned HHS' varsity into a football juggernaut from 1970 to 1972, with Ron returning and rushing the Lions to a Hall of Fame triumph over Frankfurt in their sophomore season.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Baskin-Miles trumped Baskin-Robbins with ice-cold precision on the basketball court.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ron & Brett made the Defense Department school system's cinder their personal track.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The memories overwhelmed Brett at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., a marathon from Ron's Dallas but steps from the mental picture of glory days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Others from Heidelberg High weighed in. Karen Kalina, down the road from Ron in Austin, wept over her dear friend. Debra Ford-Robertson wrote endearing thoughts from California.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Also by the Pacific, I'm reminiscing about a wonderful day in our wonderland - Heidelberg, Germany - where Ron married HHS sweetheart Clivia. The couple killed it on that wedding afternoon in the Holy Ghost Church three decades ago - groom snappy in Army officer dress blues, bride in a gown straight out of Vogue.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You knew they would produce gorgeous children, and they did: Margeaux and Tai.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now Lions hither and yon are flooding Facebook with their tears upon Ron sister Monica's shocking news.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It came on Friday the 13th, when Paris also died.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not an easy time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The least we can do is salute the Rock that was Ron.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Bucky Fox is a Heidelberg American High School loyalist, class of 1973, who writes, edits and suns in Southern California.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-9753460389080963862014-08-02T22:55:00.001-07:002014-08-03T18:17:18.223-07:00Pat Buchanan, A Hero In Nixon's Moon Shot<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pat Buchanan takes no prisoners.<br />
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His aim is to defend America's greatness. And if blacks, Jews, Muslims, Mexicans, queens and Bush backers (I'm one of them) get their feelings hurt during his riddling, tough.<br />
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Such shots got Buchanan fired from MSLSD (Mark Levin's twist on the lefty network), which was fine news for Pat fans. Now he ended up on my namesake channel, Fox News, where we could catch the deepest, cleverest commentator in the biz. All is good in righty land.<br />
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Here's the truth among libs: They pay attention to him. Why? Because Pat Buchanan can flat-out write. His prose is entertaining like no one in the newspaper, magazine, blog arena. Period. Paragraph.<br />
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Those last two words are stolen from Pat. Along with a grasp of geography, names, politics and history like no one else in the arena (check out his appearance on Peter Robinson's online show "Uncommon Knowledge" for dead-on analysis you can't turn off), Buchanan has old-school lines that make his columns and books sing. Such as: "headed for the tall grass." Meaning pussed out.<br />
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No wonder Richard Nixon hired him. He found a thoroughbred and rode his speechwriting and brilliant ideas from 1966 all the way to the presidency two years hence.<br />
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The stunning gallop is captured in Pat's new book, "The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority."<br />
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Being the Nixon and Buchanan cheerer that I am, I bought the tome the minute it went on sale. And a ticket to see the man who in his 20s had the guts to join the former vice president when all anyone else saw was a loser of 1960 and '62.<br />
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During what Nixon called his wilderness years pretending to be a lawyer in New York, Buchanan was just about the whole staff. And he talked all about it in a riveting speech and Q&A at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., 20 minutes from my home, on July 21.<br />
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I could've listened to Pat for a week straight. The man is Mount Rushmore compelling. As it was, I had his ear and fun delivery during the book signing. Told him my sister lives in his McLean, Va., neighborhood. And asked what he thought of Ted Agnew the man. Pat said he got along great with him, only it was too bad the vice president took cash in the basement. Ah, well. Let others wallow.<br />
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So the book. Just finished it and gotta say it's right up there with fellow Nixon scribe Bill Safire's "Before the Fall" as the coolest political productions you could ever read.<br />
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Favorite takes:<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><strong>* Quoting Murray Kempton</strong></span> of the New York Post: "One finally decides that he must have manufactured a splendid car at American Motors. You got to have a great product for George Romney to sell it."<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><strong>* "The cruelty</strong></span> of the commentary on Romney continued unabated. Gene McCarthy was quoted as saying that in Romney's case a full brainwashing had been unnecessary, as 'a light rinse would have sufficed.' "<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><strong>"Years later, </strong></span>after I had dropped off a speech draft in the Oval Office, the President read it and muttered, 'For God's sake, Buchanan, get some lift into it!' As I reached the door, he said loud enough to hear, 'Why can't I get speechwriters like Wilson's?' Not until I was outside the Oval Office did I retort, sotto voce, 'Wilson wrote his own speeches.' "<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><strong>* "Rockefeller said</strong></span> he had written an affidavit to have his name removed from the Oregon ballot. 'It is my complete conviction that this is the truest service I now can give to my party and my country.' Dwight and I rushed to the bedroom. 'He's not running!' 'It's the girl,' said Nixon." Meaning a Rocky affair.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: lime;">* "(Martin Luther) King</span></strong> had moved so far out of the mainstream that black columnist Carl Rowan had penned an attack on him in Reader's Digest. Bill Buckley wrote that King was becoming 'the Harold Stasson of the civil rights movement.' That there would be a national holiday for King was unimaginable in that spring of 1968, as would the claim by 21st-century conservatives that Dr. King was somehow one of us."<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><strong>* "The pattern was set.</strong></span> Violence by whites resisting integration merited national coverage and thunderous condemnation. Black-on-white violence called for reticence and perspective, an understanding of the 'root causes.' "<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><strong>* "Nixon's advice</strong></span> went down to the minutest detail. When on the road, 'never pass a men's room without going in,' he advised me, which I found to be sage counsel. Once when a congressman put in the Congressional Record remarks insulting Nixon, I wrote a letter that was just short of challenging him to a duel. Nixon told me to drop it. 'Ignore him,' Nixon said. 'He's congressman.' What he meant is that an ex-vice president does not engage a congressman. That would diminish us and elevate him."<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><strong>* "Among his finer performances</strong></span> in 1968 had been the one before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, where Nixon had opened himself up for questioning by the editors after Governor Rockefeller bored them with one of his ponderous speeches on more money for the cities."<br />
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<span style="color: lime;"><strong>* "On the plane back,</strong></span> the writers were called up to the front. Nixon seemed relaxed, confident, fatalistic about the outcome. After the previous evening's jolting remark on the telethon about down to the 'nut-cutting,' he went into a disquisition on 'sheep fries' and 'lamb fries' — testicles, how they were obtained, and how delicious some folks thought they were."<br />
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Marvelous stuff from Pat. Now the man who led the Buchanan Brigades through his own primary runs of 1992 and '96 has new marching orders: a book on the Vietnam War-ending, all-volunteer-Army-starting, Israel-rescuing, moon-landing Nixon presidency of 1969 to '74.<br />
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<i>Bucky Fox is an author and editor in Southern California.</i><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-28049979820901344332013-08-17T10:29:00.002-07:002013-08-17T15:16:47.500-07:00Finally, Fox TV Follows Fox (Me)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">It's on!</span></span></span></b><br />
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</span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Fox Sports 1 kicked off over the weekend. Nine years after I pushed for it in my very first effort for TheColumnists.com.</span></span></span></b><br />
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</span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">OK, so it's a decade late. But who's counting? Now flabby ESPN has competition. Another network is going round the clock with sports. And you better believe Fox will live up to our name. Just look at Fox News. It's No. 1 on the cable front. I'll bet Fox 1 carries that number right past the Mother Ship, as its old mate Dan Patrick calls it.</span></span></span></b><br />
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</span><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Here's what I predicted in January 2004:</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If Fox television were related to me, I’d offer brotherly advice: Give ESPN a fight.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Right now, Fox’s sports channels look like twerps against ESPN’s muscle.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s an embarrassing mismatch. In the blue corner: Fox Sports Net’s lightweight graphics, jingles and broadcasters. In the red corner: ESPN’s slick logos, tunes and talent.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Fox picture looks even weaker when its Fox Sports Net2 takes on ESPN2 and ESPN Classic.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s a rout. Fox hardly puts up its dukes against ESPN’s barrage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I’m speaking for America’s fans when I say: Enough. It’s time to rumble.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ESPN is simply too big for its britches. It needs a good, clean clocking to give sports TV a healthier look so we fans can twist the Fox News creed into good use: You Report, We Decide.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have no decision these days. It’s all ESPN all the time: covering baseball, football, basketball, hockey, tennis, golf, soccer, boxing, bowling, cheerleading, darts, pool, poker. It could squeeze in bridge if it weren’t for motocross.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it catches its breath, the network features historical athletes and games. And to make sure you know ESPN is everywhere, Chris Berman surfaces at every event from the Super Bowl to the Stanley Cup Finals to golf’s U.S. Open to the World Series.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We watch it all because ESPN does it better than anyone. It obviously spends a mint to make every presentation look and sound professional, Berman’s hideous comb-over notwithstanding.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take a typical morning in the college football season. ESPN broadcasts Northwestern-Purdue, and ESPN2 has Utah-Air Force. Both football games look and sound like major events.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The options? Fox Sports Net has women’s college volleyball, Fox Sports Net2 some puff piece on Pac-10 women’s basketball. Both have the feel of a high school class project. It’s as if Fox threw in the towel: We can’t do it like ESPN, so let’s not even try.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enough. Buck up, Fox. Get in shape and give ESPN the battle we fans want.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We want good old American competition, which always makes for better men and products.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">McDonald’s has Burger King. Nike has Reebok.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Derek Jeter has Nomar Garciaparra. Donovan McNabb has Rush Limbaugh.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They’re all better because of the heat.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without a race to be best, you get stagnation. Which is why you stand in line forever at the post office.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If Microsoft really had another firm breathing down on it, you’d see computers turn on as quickly as TVs. If Shaq had to face serious centers every game, he’d get in shape and whip the Lakers toward 70 wins.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It took Fox’s leap into the NFL in 1994 to spark changes in TV coverage. The network’s fresh thinking produced the constant score block in the corner of your screen. Later, TV came up with running scores from around the league and the yellow first-down line.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember the old days when you’d ask the guy watching the game what the score was? Without competition, CBS would still be keeping the score to itself until it went to a break.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ESPN looks like it’s doing everything new and improved. But without a lean and mean network across the street, ESPN can only get fat and happy — and easily dismiss changes that would help fans.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ESPN once faced a contender. CNN’s “Sports Tonight” had top talent in Fred Hickman, Nick Charles, Vince Cellini and Jim Huber and gave fans a fun alternative to ESPN’s “SportsCenter” in the ’80s and ’90s. But no longer.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Fox jab at ESPN would jar the Disney baby into smarter decisions, such as get out of the pompous drama (“Playmakers”) business and replace college football color man Mike Gottfried with a live body.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fox can do it. Its main network proves it can stand up to anyone in sports. Fox’s NFL pregame show is No. 1 because James Brown’s team is sharp and funny, Jillian Barberie gorgeous and the whole package electric. Fox’s World Series coverage clicked because of edgy graphics, fine camera work and the Joe Buck-Tim McCarver combo. Buck is the brightest announcer this side of Bob Costas. McCarver says something you never thought of every inning.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what must Fox do to compete with ESPN every day?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brother, do these and you’re off the ropes:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Rename the sports channel Fox Too. The current loser, Fox Sports Net, is too cumbersome. What is that Net? Probably Network, but it could be a tennis Net for all we know. Fox Too is short and fun. So the franchise would involve Fox, Fox News Channel and Fox Too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Shift Fox News boss Roger Ailes to sports. He’s the George Steinbrenner of TV. A tough winner. Ailes made Fox News Channel exciting to watch. That’s why it miraculously decked CNN. Now have Ailes pull a Roone Arledge, who three decades ago masterminded ABC’s “Monday Night Football” and then turned ABC News into a heavyweight. If Ailes worked in the sports corner, Fox Too would come out swinging.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Hire Suzy Kolber back from ESPN. And make her the face of Fox Too. She’s the quickest and most screen-friendly broadcaster at ESPN, yet way underused since they hired her away from Fox. That’s what happens when you have a monopoly. Steal her, jack up salaries, and the talent will flow Fox’s way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Fix the sets. Not to mention the aforementioned logos, graphics and music. Fox Sports Net’s “National Sports Report” died because it lacked in all those categories. Its follow-up shows look and sound just as sophomoric. This is an area Ailes would fix faster than a Roy Jones uppercut.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Get off the canvas, Fox. Honest TV sports competition — not to mention our name — depends on it.</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">OK, so Fox Sports 1 hasn't corralled Kolber. Yet. It does feature Erin Andrews, the knockout of Pac Man proportions. The photo above clinches it.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Uh, we can live with that.</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Good for you, Fox.</span></span></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bucky Fox is an author and editor in Southern California.</span></span></i><br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-35925043304280938602013-07-20T13:34:00.000-07:002013-07-24T18:50:51.690-07:00Infatuated With TV's 'Loving Leah'<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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old Catskills comedian Milt Kamen had a routine about Western movies.
He loved them. You could kick back, relax. The
good guy was killing the bad guy. End of story. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In particular, Kamen applauded "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral": "I saw it before, but that's why I went. Because a lot of times I want to know what's coming. I don't want any strain, nothin'. I just want to sit, you know. Because the world is changing all around us, and at least that stays steady." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Exactly my sentiments with Hallmark Channel. Its movies are as predictable as a first-date rejection. And I devour them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No torture. No treachery. No complications. Just a kiss at the end with understood married bliss forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can take the terror of "A Clockwork Orange" and repugnance of "Pulp Fiction."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Give me "The Magic of Ordinary Days" and "Loving Leah."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Both
are Hallmark landmarks living off the channel's formula: Man and woman
hook up, don't realize how great they have it, then wake up in time for
happily ever after. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey, I'm 58. I don't need a heart attack. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I watch these two favorites ad infinitum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm
so into "The Magic of Ordinary Days," I get a kick out of the little
country tune when Keri Russell's Livy character drives off with her
antique find.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm so hooked on "Loving Leah," I can't get enough of the kitchen kissing, the hottest scene of all time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And
here I am laughing at my sister Pam for once watching "Leave It to Beaver"
reruns on a loop. And my wife, Maria, for focusing on The Filipino
Channel. At least they catch variety. I'm on a broken record. And
reveling in it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hallmark's
"The Magic of Ordinary Days" is tops enough — yet just below the book.
The show made me check out Ann Creel's novel, and it's a doozy. It
packs American, Colorado, European and WWII history alongside real
people issues and the forced-marriage-yields-to-ardor theme into a
wonderfully written book. The metaphors alone are worth turning the
page. Seriously, Kreel's work left me with one adjective: jealous. You
can only look up at her talent. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then there's "Loving Leah."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If
I watch it anymore, it'll pass "Dr. No" on my DVR replay run. To say
I'm addicted makes a mockery of monthly pancakes. I watch "Loving Leah" once a week. And can't recall what
life was like before the flick filled our living room flat screen in
late June.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's
so bad, I'm consumed by Jeff Beal's music setting up scenes. His effort
landed an Emmy for a reason. The melodies capture each moment — the
memorial, the comedy, the sorrow, the romance — with perfect pitch. I'm
not sure whether he used a clarinet to transition to the Jewish burial
near the opening, and I asked him about that on Facebook, but the tone
is spot on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That
alone reflects my obsession with "Loving Leah." How many nonmusical
comedies leave their melodic impression on you? None. With me, I'm
into the "Lawrence of Arabia" score, but figured that was it. Until now.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Loving
Leah" came out years before I became aware of it. Its first TV showing
was in January 2009. Where have I been? Watching the Lakers, Jets,
Mets, Mizzou, Bond. Really just got fixated on Hallmark this year. Comes
with age. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Besides Beal's music, what's the hook of "Loving Leah"?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">The
cast.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Lauren Ambrose (the "Six Feet Under" redhead) should've landed an Emmy for her kissing
approaches alone. If chicks did that all the time, dudes would never get
out the door. Ambrose's facial expressions also spark, but what really
flashes is her overall look. Her Leah starts as a dowdy widow and
ends as a pillar of sophisticated beauty. Adam Kaufman, as her beau
Jake, comes through with funny faces and lines. Also on target are Susie
Essman (the Larry David screamer) as Leah's Jewish-to-the-hilt mama, Mercedes Ruehl as Jake's
joyous mom, Natasha Lyonne as Leah's cool sister and Ricki Lake as the
equally guy-named Rabbi Gerry. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">The
religion. </span>When "Loving Leah" isn't maneuvering through its title, it's
spotlighting Jewish life. My dad was a Jew, but he knew more about Army
helmets than yarmulkes. We kids grew up
Protestant under our mom's tutelage. Now I'm back in the Catholic fold that Mom's way-back-when Italian relatives no doubt practiced. Part of me
wonders what it would've been like to take the Jewish path of my
cousins Rusty, Ronnie, Stephie and Ira. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Loving
Leah," thanks to P'nenah Goldstein's brilliant script, spells out the
Jewish culture that so many of us don't know. She has Leah and her
sister uttering vayzmeer, Yiddish for oh, brother. The playwright also shares the
observant and shrugging Jewish sides, with Leah and Jake landing in the
middle. When Goldstein is done, she's left a gold stone of a treasure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thirty-five years after he gave Joe DiMaggio's streak a serious run, the Hit King contends 56 is reachable.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Twenty-seven years after he smacked his last hit — the record 4,256th — Rose adds up his production against the greatest pitchers.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thirty-seven years after sparking Cincinnati to its dynastic sweep of the Yankees, Charlie Hustle calls those Reds tops in entertainment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pete is plugged in, period. He might be 72. He might be three decades removed from capturing three world titles, three batting crowns, 17 All-Star honors, a National League MVP trophy and a World Series MVP award. But he's still the Hit King.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">He still has it. It's something that draws fans to Mandalay Bay's sports memorabilia shop in Las Vegas. Two of those Pete partisans are Tommy Tutt and I — a couple of bald buddies having a ball recently with their idol.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here's how deeply Rose affected my teen years. As he closed in on 1,500 hits in 1970, I kept a daily total on acetate on my bedroom wall. Talk about obsessed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">— me </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">— </span></span>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">in their clubhouse at Houston's Astrodome. I was spellbound. </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now here we were, Tutt and Fox, pitching questions to the Hit King:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><b>The streak. </b></span>Since your 44 straight in 1978, no one has come as close to DiMaggio's 56. Kostya Kennedy devoted a book to it — "56: Joe DiMaggio and the Last Magic Number in Sports." Is it truly the record no one will break?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rose: "It's not untouchable. Here are two records that no one will break: Cy Young's 511 wins and Johnny Vander Meer's two straight no-hitters. I mean, you'd have to throw three straight to break that. Forget it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"But 56 straight? You'd need a little bit of luck for two months, but it could be done. Guys like Ichiro (Suzuki of the Yankees) and (the Angels' Mike) Trout could do it. Then there's (Detroit's Miguel) Cabrera, who had the Triple Crown last year. You saying he can't do that? I had seven streaks of 20 or more, so I know."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rose: "The greatest pitcher I ever faced was Sandy Koufax. A guy recently texted me my stats against the top pitchers. I had 64 hits against Phil Niekro. Those were my most against one guy. I hit .308 against Bob Gibson. Here are my other stats: 60 for 177 against Don Sutton, 42 for 142 against Tom Seaver, 42 for 138 against Gaylord Perry, 42 for 123 against Juan Marichal, 17 for 32 against Warren Spahn."</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: red;">The Big Red Machine: </span></b>Owning the coolest nickname of any monster team since Murderers' Row, the Reds of Rose, Johnny Bench, Joe Morgan and Tony Perez reamed rivals in the mid-1970s. How do you rank them among all-time teams?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Rose: "I don't want to rank us. But we were definitely the most entertaining team in history. Just take this point: We were the only team with a white Hall of Famer in Bench, a black Hall of Famer in Morgan, a Latino Hall of Famer in Perez and a Hall of Fame manager in Sparky Anderson.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Sparky was the best, and I played for 12 managers. Sparky was the best, but I was the smartest because I played for myself."</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That was during Rose's 1984-86 run as player-manager with the Reds. He lasted four more years as their skipper before Major League Baseball bounced him for gambling.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">That betting side sure doesn't bother Tommy and me, especially on this day living it up in Vegas.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We simply see Rose as a Hall of Famer, exactly what Kennedy calls him in "56."</span></span><br />
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of the San Francisco
49ers sure can make the tough call. He could easily have stuck with Alex Smith.
The quarterback shot the Niners so close to an NFL title last season. And had
them rushing to one this fall. Yet Harbaugh benched him in favor of Colin
Kaepernick. Hard enough to spell the Dutch name. But to spell a former No. 1
draft choice and leave your prospects to a near rookie? Takes balls. Footballs.
Also takes brains. Harbaugh is right. The Flying Dutchman is exactly what
Frisco needs to zip past the Giants, Falcons and Pats to the championship. Will
be the Niners’ first since the 1994 season. All because the coach went
callin’ on Colin.</span></span></div>
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Ryan, who wrecks the Jets. And Mike Tomlin, who’s been out of it with the
Steelers. Ryan sticks with Mark Sanchez. That’s the safe nonmove. Sanchez
shot Ryan to two straight conference title games, so the coach sticks with him
at quarterback. While the Jets dive toward the Hudson. Would take Ryan’s considerable
gut to eject Off The Mark and put Tim Tebow in the pilot’s seat. Rex
evidently listens to Tebow naysayers wallowing in his style rather than his
stellar record and feels frozen. Ryan simply can’t shift. Until
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shoehorns in Charlie Batch. This was the safe decision. Batch had won a few for Pittsburgh. But he’s
old. Played in Detroit
so long ago, probably replaced Bobby
Lane. Harbaugh would’ve pulled the trigger
with Brian Hoyer, the young gun who backed up Tom Brady in New
England the past three years. Better yet, he’s the son of Ed
Hoyer, a buddy of mine from our Heidelberg
High School days in the
1970s. Tomlin is no Harbaugh. Went with Batch. And lost against lowly Cleveland. Time for
some Steel in that back, Mike.</span></span></div>
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lit up in the NBA in the early 1970s. They even kept me warm during a Boy Scout
camporee in Germany
while winning their first world trophy. Because of the time difference, I
stayed up till dawn in my pup tent yelling for Clyde Frazier and Dick Barnett
to beat the Lakers. Ultimately they did, in seven games. Now they’re
back, in the thick of NBA Eastern Conference contention.</span></span></div>
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brand of basketball was THE reason I watched New York
do in Dallas
last season. These days the guard plays in Houston.
The NBA had a sweet star in the Big Apple. Now he’s gone to Texas, as the old book
title went. David Stern, the commish whose name means Star, should’ve
shone during the summer and kept Lin in Madison Square
Garden. As it is,
Lin’s a Rocket man lost on the regular fan. </span></span><br />
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that of baseball's old New York Giants. Now if only my team could win like
today’s Giants, who wear their orange and black in San Francisco while reigning as champions for
the second time in three years. The Mets stole half the Giant hue, orange, and
half that of the Dodgers, blue, when they filled New York’s National League void in
1962. Yet the Mets couldn’t duplicate the winning of the Giants and
Dodgers, who after moving to the West Coast tied atop the NL 50 years ago. The
Mets still can’t keep pace, finishing 24 games out of first this year. At
least they look good with their hat, which I loyally wear every day.</span></span></div>
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Especially the Steeler ones. You catch the striped, prison garb of a few weeks
ago? More asinine than the pink shoes every team wears in October. Bring back
Johnny Unitas, black hightops, horseshoe on the helmet, done. Thing of beauty.</span></span></div>
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Universities of Illinois and Maryland.</span></span></div>
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TV theme songs that rock. Particularly for the NFL on Fox, college
basketball on ESPN, pro hoops on ABC. Too bad the NBA left NBC, home of
the hoppingest number of all time.</span></span></div>
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Johnny Football. The coolest nickname in sports since
White Shoes for old Houston Oiler receiver Billy Johnson. As for this
Texas A&M quarterback, th</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14.0pt;">is is all anyone calls Johnny Manziel,
especially
since he pronounces his surname all wrong: Manzell. This week when
college
football passes America’s
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Now he's telling ObamaTax (a cool tag originated by Times247.com whiz Jessica <span aria-live="polite" aria-relevant="additions" class="messaging-history styled-scrollable" role="log" style="bottom: 74px;" tabindex="24">Chasmar)</span>
to stick it after the Supreme Court took the Marxist medical pill.</div>
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No way his state is going to sick bay as the Dems throw up the biggest levy in history.</div>
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Scott Walker knows the right way. The governor galloped against union robbery, and the country rallied behind his alarm.</div>
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<br /></div>
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Now the jig's up. Citizens know exactly where their taxes go — to government pensions — and are starting to stop this nauseous
spending. </div>
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Natch, this sanity appeals only to conservatives. </div>
<div>
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Liberals hate it. Spending for them is like a cruise buffet. Constant gorging. Try to stop it, and a big, fat riot ensues. </div>
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Hence the Wisconsin eruption when Walker said: Government employees should contribute some to their retirement.</div>
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In other words: Enow felicity.<br />
<br />
For that radical proposition, the goons for greed went ment.<br />
<br />
And did what they're expert at — shovel millions down a rat hole — while trying to fire the governor.<br />
<br />
So what's lefty left with?
Ad hominem, no doubt. Walker is an idiot. Righty is on a union witch hunt (we can only wish).
Romney's army is deaf to the common man.<br />
<br />
It's all SOP — standard operating procedure.<br />
<br />
Liberals are nothing if not masochistic. Even pinkos at private firms vote to pay higher taxes so gov types can haul in $150,000 a year in salary and benefits.<br />
<br />
Other liberal laughers:<br />
<br />
1. Liberals hate themselves so much, they don't want to call themselves that. They prefer progressives, even with regressive ideas.<br />
<br />
2. They're not pro abortion. They're pro choice, but God forbid if your choice is to cut gov funding for Planned Parentless.<br />
<br />
3. They don't call 'em bisexual. Their term is transgender.<br />
<br />
4. It's not spending. It's investing.<br />
<br />
5. Terrorists? Never. They're militants.<br />
<br />
6. The Muslim massacre of 9/11? Hardly. 'Twas a nondenominational event.<br />
<br />
7. American exceptionalism? Too embarrassing to express. <br />
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8. Don't dare say Indians. They're Native Americans, as opposed to every other American born here.<br />
<br /></div>
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9. They love to say give back, as if society provided
those riches in the first place. News: Philanthropists don't give back.
They give.</div>
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10. They don't blame Obummer's socialism for FDR Depression II. With them, the buck stops at Bush.</div>
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They're here all week. </div>
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<i>Bucky Fox is an author and editor in Southern California. </i></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-50076596681852608152012-06-27T09:20:00.000-07:002012-06-27T17:57:38.131-07:00The Oh Bummer In Obama<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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ObamaCare could get whacked by the gavel this week.<br />
<br />
As if that jars Obummer.<br />
<br />
He'll simply ignore the court ruling.<br />
<br />
Just like he dismissed Congress by hitting America with Obamnesty.<br />
<br />
Law and order? More like flaw and border.<br />
<br />
If you're bound to vote Democrat, don't bother recrossing to Mexico. Even if you're an illegal alien or something from "Aliens."<br />
<br />
Hand it to Obummer. He led with his gut, not his behind.<br />
<br />
You know he hungers to crash open our Southern flank.<br />
<br />
Just like he yearns to ditch traditional marriage.<br />
<br />
And choke industry through his fellow zealots at the EPA: Every Pinko Apply.<br />
<br />
With this dictate, the Red House made Congress forceless.<br />
<br />
So? That's what Barry wants with all his transformations. Ignore the pesky Constitution with his Dem Dozen:<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>1.</b> <b>Strip America's boundary.</b> </span>Obummer ticket to young illegals is still too confining. What of the 6 billion other people seeking U.S. entry? Let 'em all in.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>2.</b> <b>Knock knock.</b></span> With such a packed country, what to do about housing? Home owners, open your doors. Plenty of room in there for the huddled masses.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>3.</b> <b>Campus rush. </b></span>College too expensive? Not anymore. Free tuition, a gift of the taxpayer.<br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: red;">4. Free grub.</span> </b>Food stamps aren't doing the job. Time for food ramps <span style="background-color: #441500; color: #ffeedd; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 24px;">—</span> right into HomeTown Buffet. And don't charge admission.<br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: red;">5. Joyless ride.</span> </b>Memo to energy companies: Gas up all the cars with rocket-high bills for all those car clingers. And do it without drilling for oil.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>6. Better red than shed.</b> </span>Jack the debt limit to $50 trillion. If that bleeds the printing presses, good.<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b>7. This works.</b> </span>Now we have enough dough for 100% employment <span style="background-color: #441500; color: #ffeedd; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 24px;">—</span> in government jobs doing nothing at $150,000 per year.<br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: red;">8. Class drivefare.</span> </b>Can it be that some steer Mercedes while others are stuck with lousy Civics? Just isn't right. Time for a Benz in every garage.<br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: red;">9. Click.</span> </b>Evidently not everyone has a MacBook Pro. Easy to solve that. Give 'em out.<br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: red;">10. Cut the cherry tree crap. </span></b>George Washington stood for too much America. Schools better get with the program. Namely Marx. Easy enough since that's what they're teaching now.<br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: red;">11. Turn out the lights.</span></b> The party's over, South Korea. Not the Communist Party. With our troops out of there, better get used to the North.<br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: red;">12. Fold it.</span></b> Enough of that arrogant "Star-Spangled Banner." Strike up the band with an anthem in keeping with our borderless land: "We Are the World."<br />
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<i>Bucky Fox is an author and editor in Southern California.</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-91423144033677505902012-06-10T10:29:00.000-07:002012-06-10T10:39:09.987-07:00Pacquiao Robbed By A Saturday Night Special<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cN0lfxVxAnE/T9Tba3u5u7I/AAAAAAAAALA/-GE035Du8RI/s1600/pacman%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="303" width="400" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cN0lfxVxAnE/T9Tba3u5u7I/AAAAAAAAALA/-GE035Du8RI/s400/pacman%2B2.jpg" /></a>
Pacman won the fight.<br />
<br />
Ellipses.<br />
<br />
Only, the judges gave the belt to a guy so battered, he rolled out of the arena in a wheelchair.<br />
<br />
Reminds me of the coolest headline in sports history: Harvard beats Yale 29-29.<br />
<br />
As with that 1968 Crimson rush to a tie, Manny Pacquiao was so impressive Saturday night, only one result was possible: He won.<br />
<br />
Ellipses.<br />
<br />
After Pacman pounded Tim Bradley through 12 rounds, the decision came in:<br />
<br />
Judge 1 voted for Pacquiao. Duh.<br />
<br />
Judge 2 voted for Bradley. OK, a numbnuts.<br />
<br />
Judge 3 voted for Bradley.<br />
<br />
The guy posing as a heavy bag all night had hit the jackpot at the MGM Grand.<br />
<br />
The Pacman fight party that my Filipino wife and I joined did a massive imitation of "The Scream." Jaws dropped. Sound stopped.<br />
<br />
Then came the TV outrage.<br />
<br />
From Jim Lampley and his HBO team.<br />
<br />
From Bob Arum, the Pacman promoter.<br />
<br />
From Freddie Roach, the Pacman trainer.<br />
<br />
From the fans flowing from the Vegas arena like bettors stung by the biggest robbery since Solyndra.<br />
<br />
Even Bradley sounded stunned. Or at least like a realist, that he beat odds that only rollers at the craps table could appreciate.<br />
<br />
Funny, only the man with the ugly goatee and snappy record <span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #441500; color: #ffeedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: xx-small/24px Verdana; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>—<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>now down to 54-4-2 with this first setback in seven years <span style="color: black;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #441500; color: #ffeedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: xx-small/24px Verdana; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>—<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span>bobbed from the hysteria.<br />
<br />
The lone thing that hurt him was his chin-straining smile.
He knew he had turned the Californian's bald top into a bobble head.<br />
<br />
He also knew this: A November rematch with the 29-0 Palm Springs muscleman has the weight of a Bradley Fighting Vehicle.<br />
<br />
You can't buy this pub.<br />
<br />
If Pacquiao had pulled the proper votes, the boxing world would be yawning like a wife in bed with her longstanding husband.<br />
<br />
Now we're engaged.<br />
<br />
Filipino TV spent half an hour whining about the bout this morning.<br />
<br />
We did the same over BLTs at the breakfast table.<br />
<br />
Then we finally awoke. November suddenly has more substance than Romney-Obama. Bring on Pacman-Bradley II.<br />
<br />
This Shock on the Strip makes all sorts of sense. And a pile of cents.<br />
<br />
Saturday's steal does bring back memories of other shaky decisions.<br />
<br />
Sugar Ray Leonard over Marvelous Marvin Hagler, who dominated the 1987 fight.<br />
<br />
Felix Trinidad over Oscar De La Hoya, who clobbered the Puerto Rican in 1999.<br />
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Any Olympic figure skating final in the Cold War, when communists won automatically.<br />
<br />
All sure safer than a hot war. This is just sports, after all.<br />
<br />
And we have six months to sweat another showdown: the Filipino Fist vs. Desert Storm.<br />
<br />
Period.<br />
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<i>
Bucky Fox is an author and editor on Southern California. </i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-82417431185939158932012-06-06T17:47:00.000-07:002012-06-07T09:24:38.403-07:00D-Day Through The Decades<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eXMM6V2aunM/T8_5t82pXaI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/rL7vNe6EXyM/s1600/bob%2Bwicker.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="217" width="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eXMM6V2aunM/T8_5t82pXaI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/rL7vNe6EXyM/s320/bob%2Bwicker.JPG" /></a>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="">June 6, 2012</a> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #441500; color: #ffeedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/24px Verdana; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>—<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>68 years after D-Day, when a wave of heroes stormed Normandy on the way to nailing the Nazis. </span></div>
<br />
<div>
Among the American stars was Creighton Abrams, whose
tanks rolled through France toward Germany years before he commanded
the Vietnam drawdown. It's a story Scott Smith captures solidly for
Investor's Business Daily and for which I had the honor to edit. </div>
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<div>
Abrams was the kind of soldier President Reagan
lauded in his "Boys of Pointe du Hoc" speech on D-Day's 40th
anniversary. I watched in awe as Reagan delivered Peggy Noonan's line on that Hoc
cliff after Secret Service agents cleared the
Pointe for the president's chopper landing. They did it smoothly, even
making Walter Cronkite traipse through airport machines. </div>
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Twenty-eight years after that 1984 R-Day <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #441500; color: #ffeedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/24px Verdana; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>—<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Reagan
Day <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #441500; color: #ffeedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/24px Verdana; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>—<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-suBwvgXaXrY/T9AHy7kbLOI/AAAAAAAAAKg/tS7c9l1wZQQ/s1600/dadgrave.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="166" width="124" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-suBwvgXaXrY/T9AHy7kbLOI/AAAAAAAAAKg/tS7c9l1wZQQ/s320/dadgrave.jpg" /></a>
I recall it as one of the grandest of my life. It felt so special
when I related it to my Dad, Charles Dickens Fox, himself a Bronze Star
recipient from the WWII European front. He loved reliving history, as
when we hit Bastogne, Belgium, ground zero of the Battle of the Bulge,
and drove to Luxembourg's cemetery, the resting spot of Gen. George
Patton, who died in Heidelberg so sadly after a paralyzing car crash
just months beyond his Hitler-crushing triumph. </div>
<br />
<div>
So now D-Day 2012. This time the crisis is personal.
My wife, Maria, is having heart surgery. I'm at the hospital awaiting
good news. And thinking of good times. </div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
One of the finest involves another top soldier and great American: Bob Wicker (swinging above at his favorite venue, the golf course). </div>
<br />
<div>
Bob was my sports editor at Stars & Stripes in
Germany in the 1980s and '90s. Before that he was a GI with the sweetest
job of all time: S&S reporter in Paris. </div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
Now he lives near Reno, Nev., and I hope to see him in Vegas at a Stripes reunion in the fall. </div>
<br />
<div>
Bob is pillar. He was a rock of a newspaperman, solidified with creativity and integrity. Think NCIS' Gibbs with a laugh. Or new TV badass Longmire without a gun.</div>
<div>
</div>
<div>
Now
Bob is a semiretired husband (to a champion wife, Kathy) and father (to a titlist son, Thomas) whom all of his old
sportswriters <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #441500; color: #ffeedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/24px Verdana; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>—<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span> Bob Dillier, Tim Boivin, Rob Staggenborg, Tom Saunders,
Rusty Bryan, Klint Johnson, Ben Abrams <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #441500; color: #ffeedd; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: x-small/24px Verdana; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>—<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>revere to this day. </div>
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<div>
Cool thoughts on D-Day, which lives forever. And now that my wife is safely out of surgery, it's even more reason for me to celebrate.</div>
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<em>Bucky Fox is an author and editor in Southern California.</em> </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-47522497356408169302012-03-25T17:25:00.007-07:002012-03-27T07:56:21.427-07:00Tim Tebow's Jets Set To Take Off<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vzKjOUk8b_0/T2-3JcrZ4wI/AAAAAAAAAJI/d00_FwAtnlk/s1600/tebow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vzKjOUk8b_0/T2-3JcrZ4wI/AAAAAAAAAJI/d00_FwAtnlk/s320/tebow.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>New York Jet fans should be on Cloud 15. <br />
<br />
Tim Tebow has flown into town with that number on his jersey and another digit in his sights: 1.<br />
<br />
By the time he parks his left, bulging arm behind center, he'll be quarterbacking the Jets to heights they haven't seen since January 1969.<br />
<br />
That would be on top of the Super Bowl.<br />
<br />
Guaranteed.<br />
<br />
He might even do it in white cleats to go with the white duds and green trim of the Jets' greatest pilot, Joe Namath.<br />
<br />
Did someone mention Mark Sanchez? Sure, he passed the Jets to AFC finals in his first two seasons. But that's as far as he's going. <br />
<br />
You knew he reached his limit in that Steeler curtain call of January 2011. When Pittsburgh's pass blockers were done grounding Sanchez, the old Trojan made USC stand for under size child. <br />
<br />
So he has the style that scouts, hence the talk-radio pack, hence brain-dead fans think is so crucial. Wow, he has the footwork that Tebow doesn't! As my word whiz sister Debbie says, if they want footwork, hire Fred Astaire.<br />
<br />
No, I want a champion. So bring it on, Tebow. Back up Sanchez for a while and win at once, the way you did as a freshman at national champion Florida in 2006. <br />
<br />
Then grip the team with the vigor of 2008 when you inspired the Gators to another national title. <br />
<br />
What was that about the Steelers? Ah yes, the team Tebow trashed in this past season's NFL playoffs. This was no child facing Pittsburgh. This was a Denver Dude who rode the Broncos to victory. <br />
<br />
And what of the Broncos? They gave up on 24-year-young Tebow to make way for 36-year-old Peyton Manning. <br />
<br />
He of the four neck surgeries and multiple playoff chokes.<br />
<br />
Looks like Denver landed the wrong Manning. Eli's two titles double his brother's.<br />
<br />
As it is, Eli is the Giant of New York. But look out. <br />
<br />
Tebow Time is coming. <br />
<br />
<b>Extra points:</b><br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: lime;">Give it up:</span></b> Republicans should back gay marriage. There. Said it. Tired of fighting this issue, even if I make total sense in saying government has no role in marriage and that if lez wants to get hitched, do it and quit waiting for a mommy gov pat on the head. <br />
<br />
Meanwhile, gays are relentless on this matter. And as states vote to legalize guy-guy and gal-gal matrimony, the bandwagon is rolling. Better jump aboard. <br />
<br />
If righty says I do, think of the positives.<br />
<br />
1. A gang of gays could vote straight-ticket GOP. Makes sense. This is one rich constituency, thanks to no kids to shell out for. Gotta to be tired of tax-and-waste lefty and ready to rush to the Republican altar.<br />
<br />
2. Trade the cost of more gov marriage certificates with the killing of two rat-role departments, Energy and Education. Win-win.<br />
<br />
3. Finally we'd see an end to this boring marriage belligerence.<br />
<br />
4. I could become a divorce lawyer and make a fortune.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: lime;"><b>Beatle mania:</b></span><br />
<br />
Top 5 songs from the Fab Four that the "Yesterday"-brainwashed masses know nothing about:<br />
<br />
"Hey Bulldog"<br />
<br />
"I Don't Want to Spoil the Party"<br />
<br />
"And Your Bird can Sing"<br />
<br />
"Baby, You're a Rich Man"<br />
<br />
"Mother Nature's Son"<br />
<br />
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<i>Bucky Fox is an author and editor in Southern California.</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-37279006123300753602012-01-28T19:37:00.000-08:002012-01-28T21:27:41.262-08:00Super Bowl Recall: A Giant Of A Dad<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rpTfs-DLW-8/TyTFdw6QjiI/AAAAAAAAAJA/016VdSE7-pg/s1600/dad1935.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rpTfs-DLW-8/TyTFdw6QjiI/AAAAAAAAAJA/016VdSE7-pg/s320/dad1935.jpg" width="226" /></a></div>My dad would be turning 100 on Feb. 4.<br />
<br />
The name of my all-time hero was Charles Dickens Fox.<br />
<br />
Terrific timing. Three days later, on Feb. 7, 2012, the author he was named after celebrates his 200th birthday.<br />
<br />
Charles Dickens and Charles Dickens Fox. So the former wrote "A Christmas Carol" among his library of brilliance. But on the pedestal of my life, Charles D. Fox stands tallest. He was a fearless World War II and Korean War Army officer. He shone as a husband and father. And so what if he didn't produce "Great Expectations"; Dad wielded the cleverest fountain pen I ever saw in action. <br />
<br />
Typical missives (his word) included:<br />
<br />
<em>Alas alack, anon</em> and<em> enow felicity</em> from Shakespearean English. <br />
<br />
<em>Inconsistencies of opinion, due to a change of circumstance, are often justifiable</em>, a variation of Daniel Webster's line.<br />
<br />
<em>Sydney, please draw my bath</em>, from his WWII trans-Atlantic crossing. <br />
<br />
Then there were Dad's names for me:<br />
<br />
<strong><span style="color: red;">Buster</span></strong>, from Buster Brown. <br />
<br />
<strong><span style="color: red;">Lefty</span></strong>, from Lefty Grove, joined the vernacular after finishing in the running for greatest righty pitcher in the Stars & Stripes baseball centennial poll in 1969. <br />
<br />
<strong><span style="color: red;">Boy</span></strong>, because I was one.<br />
<br />
Right this minute I'm watching highlights of the January 1972 Super Bowl, the one in which Dallas won its first title by manhandling Miami. And man, does that rewind our joy watching it together.<br />
<br />
In those black-and-white days living in Germany, Americans had to find an Air Force base to catch big games on TV. So we traipsed (another Dad word) an hour north from Heidelberg to Frankfurt's Rhein-Main Air Base to see Tom Landry finally win the big one. <br />
<br />
How we could've cheered together now. ESPN. NFL Network. MLB Network. The NBA all over the tube and Internet. Email. Texting. FaceTime.<br />
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Charlie Fox and I would be having a ball discoursing, especially now in the thick of Super Bowl week. Forty years after that Cowboy-Dolphin clash comes Giants-Pats. Dad was a New Yorker. He relished recalling the 1958 Greatest Game Ever Played, the one Johnny Unitas pulled out for the Baltimore Colts at Yankee Stadium. <br />
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Eleven years after that, Dad and I huddled near the radio as the Jets' Joe Namath returned football's crown to New York by stunning Unitas and the Colts. <br />
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Gotta believe that now Charlie Fox would be pulling for the Giants. He and I would be tackling the Eli-Brady rivalry, the parallels with the 2007 season, whether New York's D could pressure Brady the way it did in the Giants' upset four years ago. <br />
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I visualize us pulling for New York and wondering how the oddsmakers could make New England a three-point favorite. <br />
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Wish he'd be watching with me Sunday. Wish he were alive and not at Arlington National Cemetery, where we buried him in 1989. <br />
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As it is, old Heidelberg buddies Derrick and Warren Jones will be here for kickoff. We'll roar for the Giants and laugh up our growing-up days.<br />
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You can bet that a couple of times one name will bounce around the Bowl: Charles Dickens Fox.<br />
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<em>Bucky Fox is an author and editor in Southern California: BuckyFox@yahoo.com.</em>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-42665595245375551232011-12-11T19:51:00.000-08:002011-12-11T22:17:30.791-08:00Albert Pujols Joins Shaq, Kobe, Tebow In Scoring For The Ages<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-09v2EDVgbTs/TuUEpSAbHSI/AAAAAAAAAI4/_mkX5NB6iWE/s1600/pujols.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-09v2EDVgbTs/TuUEpSAbHSI/AAAAAAAAAI4/_mkX5NB6iWE/s320/pujols.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Suddenly 2012 screams Angel scarlet. After 2011's Cardinal red.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Who maintains the color for the new year?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Albert Pujols. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The superstud turned from Redbird to Halo at the drop of a $25 million annual check. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So now Sir Albert plays first base for Los Angeles. Baseball mania is back in the Land of Disney. Ten years after the Angels won their only world title, they're ready to ride Pujols to the peak again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">So watch Angel Stadium sell out nightly in 2012. That's the one downside. No more easy tickets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The upside? Homers into the rocks. Winning. Hysteria. Locked in to the key to it all: Albert Pujols. </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">So here we are in December 2011, celebrating<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> a dandy dozen of years for TheColumnists.com. And counting.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">So many games. Athletes. Championships.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">What was the site’s first full year of 2000 like again?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Shaq and Kobe’s Lakers won the first of three straight NBA titles.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Derek Jeter and Mo Rivera’ Yankees captured their third straight World Series.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Three horses — Fusaichi Pegasus, Red Bullet, Commendable — won each of the Triple Crown races. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Really doesn’t seem that long ago. Who's been keeping us mesmerized all this time?</span></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: small;">2000. Shaq.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> This was really his one megayear. MVP of the regular season and NBA Finals. And a Blazer-banishing dunk for highlight heaven. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">2001. Andre Agassi.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> He was perpetual youth. Won the Aussie Open again. Simply the biggest reason to watch tennis at this point. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">2002. Troy Glaus.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Classic power in a classic World Series. When the seven games and Frisco were done, Glaus and the Angels were giants of baseball. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">2003. Eric Gagne.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> He was on the greatest relief-pitcher run in baseball history. When he came on, the Dodger scoreboard flashed his goggled face and Game Over. Because it was. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">2004. Roger Federer.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> The Swiss Swatter couldn't miss. Certainly not in the U.S. Open, his ultimate display of tennis brilliance. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">2005. Kim Clijsters.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> The Belgian Belter had shown grand tennis for years, but never at a Slam. Until now. In the U.S. Open she bounced back against Maria Sharapova in the semis and polished off Mary Pierce in the title match. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">2006. Manny Pacquiao.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> I'm married to a Filipina, so when the Filipino Fist fights, Saturday turns into PacMan Partytime, decked with serious grub from the Philippines. And at middecade, Manny was in the thick of his title bulge. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: small;">2007. Tom Brady. </span><span style="font-size: small;">He beat 'em all. Even the Giants, who would avenge that game and turn his Pats' perfection into 18-1 by the end of the Super Bowl. Still, when Brady passed this season, you had to catches his act. </span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: small;">2008. Brett Favre. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Finally my Jets had a Dude at quarterback. He was the talk of the country after his marathon exit from Green Bay. And staying with that color, he had New York soaring into contention — until a dud landing. </span><br />
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<span style="color: yellow; font-size: small;">2009. Kobe.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> Now he had his own championship with the Lakers. Shed of Shaq and sharing the ball with Pau Gasol, Bryant blew by Orlando in the NBA Finals.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-size: small;">2010. Aaron Rodgers.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> His wizardry with Green Bay sent every other NFL team Packing. And let every radio host forget Favre. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange; font-size: small;">2011. Tim Tebow. </span><span style="font-size: small;">Name one other Bronco. Thank you. Denver is so close to a Mile High because of the Florida lefty. Every week he runs and guns the orange and blue to nut-cuttin triumphs. Like on Dec. 4 in Minnesota. As I sat at the sports book in Primm Valley, between L.A. and Vegas, multiple screens offered NFL games. I felt myself glued to one quarterback: Tebow. His direction past the Vikings was worth the hypnotism.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bucky Fox is an author and editor in Southern California.</i></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4239732106368461158.post-64015677440318369392011-10-27T19:50:00.000-07:002011-10-30T01:31:31.642-07:00Mike Napoli, David Freese, Tim Tebow, Cam Newton, the unbeaten Green Bay Packers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vN3G5E3seJo/Tq0LHrP9s8I/AAAAAAAAAIk/suLTN4KjPE0/s1600/freese.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="240" width="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vN3G5E3seJo/Tq0LHrP9s8I/AAAAAAAAAIk/suLTN4KjPE0/s320/freese.jpg" /></a></div><br />
Boo!<br />
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That's exactly what Los Angeles Angel loyalists were screaming while watching the World Series.<br />
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And they didn't need Halloween to scare them into that rage.<br />
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All they had to see was Mike Napoli in his Texas Ranger costume. The same Napoli who slugged and squatted as a rock of an L.A. catcher for five stout seasons starting in 2006.<br />
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Why the Angels let the Italian Ignition go after three straight years of at least 20 homers is harrowing to Orange Countiers batty over baseball. Then to see him land in hated Texas, carrying the Rangers thisclose to their first title?<br />
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It's simply all trick and no treat.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red;">Missouri's party.</span></b> 'Twas terrific enough that my Tigers hoed A&M on Saturday.<br />
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How about Mizzou's David Freese the night before? The frat boy battered another Texas version, those Rangers, in Game 7 of the World Series. He won it for his hometown St. Louis Cardinals and collected the Series MVP trophy.<br />
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And did anyone else notice Deep Freese is the spitting' image of Wayne Gretzky?<br />
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<b style="color: red;">Star power.</b><span style="color: red;"> </span>Tim Tebow just has it. Which is why he fills TV and radio sports shows.<br />
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A winner. Great looking. Cool communicator. Tebow has the package. His latest exclamation point came in Miami, where he quarterbacked the Denver Broncos to that miraculous comeback.<br />
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Another Heisman quarterback with a national championship is Cam Newton. Talk about the face of the NFL. Gotta be the handsomest dude in the arena.<br />
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When he has the Carolina Panthers on the upswing along with Denver, it'll be Cam-Tim Time something fierce.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">Who else has it?</b> Manny Pacquiao for sure. He embodies boxing.<br />
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Kobe Bryant. Champion on the basketball court. Plus all style and syntax.<br />
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LeBron James. A magnet for cheers and jeers. Hasn't won a thing, but draws interest like no one else in sports.<br />
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Sidney Crosby. The only hockey player regular fans can pronounce.<br />
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Alex Rodriguez. Won that elusive crown in 2009. Throw in his muscular numbers and sexing dates, and he lives up to his A Rod title.<br />
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Derek Jeter. Another Yankee, only this one with five titles and cleats on the ground. Really the biggest hero of the current crop.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">Among former athletes?</b> Muhammad Ali, Joe Namath, Mike Tyson, Reggie Jackson, Pete Rose, O.J. Simpson.<br />
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<b style="color: lime;">They're Packin'. </b>Seven down, 12 to go. That's the map as the Green Bay Packers roll toward a perfect season.<br />
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They sweep those last dozen, and they’re the first undefeated champions since the 1972 Miami Dolphins.<br />
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Can Green Bay do it? You bet. Look at its schedule. Filled with Bears, Lions, Vikings and other ne’er-do-wells: Chiefs, Raiders, Bucs.<br />
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The only ambush could come at Diego on Nov. 6.<br />
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I say they do it. The 19-0 Packers of 2011. Nice ring.<br />
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<b style="color: red;">Then again.</b> If the Packers take an 18-0 record into the Super Bowl, they'll try to avoid the crackup of four years ago. You might recall the New England Patriots took that haughty mark into the NFL final, only to cash against the New York Giants.<br />
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Who would be waiting to ruin Green Bay's sweep? Maybe the Pittsburgh Steelers. They're the same AFC bunch that gave the Pack a run for the Bowl money last winter.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal">Will Pittsburgh double up this time — avenging last season's loss and ruining Green Bay's golden day?</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">One Steeler zealot yells yes. His name is Derrick Jones, the biggest black-and-gold backer in California. He's also my old Boy Scout buddy, and when he says Scout's honor his boys will win it all, I gotta honor that. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Plus, he was planning to have me over for the Steeler-Pat game. Plenty of reason to root for Derrick's home team.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><b style="color: red;">From Newton to Newt.</b> That's Newt Gingrich, who makes up for his nonathletic look with champion discourse. The man can hit points like Kobe at the buzzer. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Because of that brilliance, I'm pulling for Newt this election season. As vice president.<br />
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Why not prez? The answer hit me the other night while watching him speak in Iowa. He's too serious. Call him the Pouty Professor. He delivers his message with all the joy of Mudville after Casey's strikeout.<br />
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For all the details we want our president to retain, we also demand zest. Think Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan. They gave 'em hell. Newt gives us, well, paragraphs without bold and ital. <br />
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Rather Herman Cain for the top spot. He raises Cain like the Herminator he is. With a laugh.<br />
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And he's right on the issues. Like fellow Georgian Gingrich.<br />
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Cain-Newt. Now that's a championship ticket.<br />
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<i>Bucky Fox is an author and editor in Southern California: BuckyFox@yahoo.com.</i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408187249373564852noreply@blogger.com0