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August 9, 2012
This came up while watching Don Drysdale's widow (Ann Meyers-Drysdale) calling the USA Womens Olympic Basketball games on NBC.
There's an interesting connection between Don Drysdale and Bobby Kennedy that seems to have had a significant impact on the former Dodger right up until he died...
Don Drysdale & RFK
This came up while watching Don Drysdale's widow (Ann Meyers-Drysdale) calling the USA Womens Olympic Basketball games on NBC.
There's an interesting connection between Don Drysdale and Bobby Kennedy that seems to have had a significant impact on the former Dodger right up until he died...
Donald Scott "Don" Drysdale (July 23, 1936 July 3, 1993) was a Major League Baseball player and Hall of Fame right-handed pitcher with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was one of the dominant starting pitchers of the 1960s, and became a radio and television broadcaster following his playing career. The Disney character Herbie has the number 53 since that was Drysdale's number...
Drysdale was born in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California and attended Van Nuys High School, where one of his classmates was actor Robert Redford...
Drysdale died of a heart attack in his hotel room in Montreal, Quebec, on July 3, 1993. Radio station employees were sent to look for him when he failed to make the bus for Olympic Stadium. where the Dodgers were to play the Expos. Hotel staff went in and found him face down, near his bed...
Among the personal belongings found in Drysdale's hotel room was a cassette tape of Robert F. Kennedy's victory speech after the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary, a speech given only moments before Senator Kennedy's assassination. In the speech, Kennedy had noted, to the cheers of the crowd, that Drysdale had pitched his sixth straight shutout that evening. Drysdale had apparently carried the tape with him wherever he went since Robert Kennedy's death...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Drysdale
Drysdale was born in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California and attended Van Nuys High School, where one of his classmates was actor Robert Redford...
Drysdale died of a heart attack in his hotel room in Montreal, Quebec, on July 3, 1993. Radio station employees were sent to look for him when he failed to make the bus for Olympic Stadium. where the Dodgers were to play the Expos. Hotel staff went in and found him face down, near his bed...
Among the personal belongings found in Drysdale's hotel room was a cassette tape of Robert F. Kennedy's victory speech after the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary, a speech given only moments before Senator Kennedy's assassination. In the speech, Kennedy had noted, to the cheers of the crowd, that Drysdale had pitched his sixth straight shutout that evening. Drysdale had apparently carried the tape with him wherever he went since Robert Kennedy's death...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Drysdale
August 9, 2012
Adam Davidsons Journalistic Corruption: NPR Host Boosts for Wall Street, While Taking Undisclosed Banking Money
By Yasha Levine and Mark Ames S.H.A.M.E. August 8, 2012
I feel like the voice of business journalism is sort of, its an authoritative voice of God.
Adam Davidson
Adam Davidson is the co-creator and host of the popular economic news radio program Planet Money. On air, Davidson plays the role of an earnest, brainy reporter whos doing his best to make sense of the complicated, jargon-filled world of finance to report business news in a way that NPR listeners can understand. However, behind the dweeby, faux-naive facade Adam Davidson presents to his listeners, is a shrewd propagandist with a long, consistent history of shilling for powerful and destructive interestsand failing to disclose his financial ties to the companies and industries he reports on.
Over the years, Davidson has boosted for the Iraq War and whitewashed the occupation of Iraq, praised sweatshop labor and experimenting on the poor, attacked the idea of regulating Wall Street, parroted libertarian propaganda about the governments inability to directly create jobs, argued for squeezing the middle class, and shamelessly fawned over Wall Street for allegedly blessing Americans with just about anything that makes you happy. (Read Adam Davidsons full S.H.A.M.E. profile.)
While Adam Davidson has recently come under increasing scrutiny for using his NPR platform to promote the narrow interests of the super-wealthy in this country, little attention has thus far been given to Davidsons corruptionhis numerous financial conflicts of interest that seriously undermine his claims to being a journalist, and instead reveal Davidson as a glorified product spokesman for his Wall Street sponsors.
Adam Davidson gained national media recognition as an on-air personality in 2008, after co-producing an episode for This American Life called The Giant Pool of Money about the implosion of subprime lending. Although Davidsons segment was praised for making the murky world of finance easier to understand, his framing of the subprime housing debacle served another purpose: It let Wall Street off the hook for its role in rampant criminal mortgage fraud and predatory lending...
http://shameproject.com/report/adam-davidson-corrupt-wall-street-booster/
Frontlines Astonishing Whitewash of the Crisis
Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency
Adam Davidson’s Journalistic Corruption: NPR Host Shills for Wall Street, While Taking their Money
Adam Davidsons Journalistic Corruption: NPR Host Boosts for Wall Street, While Taking Undisclosed Banking Money
By Yasha Levine and Mark Ames S.H.A.M.E. August 8, 2012
I feel like the voice of business journalism is sort of, its an authoritative voice of God.
Adam Davidson
Adam Davidson is the co-creator and host of the popular economic news radio program Planet Money. On air, Davidson plays the role of an earnest, brainy reporter whos doing his best to make sense of the complicated, jargon-filled world of finance to report business news in a way that NPR listeners can understand. However, behind the dweeby, faux-naive facade Adam Davidson presents to his listeners, is a shrewd propagandist with a long, consistent history of shilling for powerful and destructive interestsand failing to disclose his financial ties to the companies and industries he reports on.
Over the years, Davidson has boosted for the Iraq War and whitewashed the occupation of Iraq, praised sweatshop labor and experimenting on the poor, attacked the idea of regulating Wall Street, parroted libertarian propaganda about the governments inability to directly create jobs, argued for squeezing the middle class, and shamelessly fawned over Wall Street for allegedly blessing Americans with just about anything that makes you happy. (Read Adam Davidsons full S.H.A.M.E. profile.)
While Adam Davidson has recently come under increasing scrutiny for using his NPR platform to promote the narrow interests of the super-wealthy in this country, little attention has thus far been given to Davidsons corruptionhis numerous financial conflicts of interest that seriously undermine his claims to being a journalist, and instead reveal Davidson as a glorified product spokesman for his Wall Street sponsors.
Adam Davidson gained national media recognition as an on-air personality in 2008, after co-producing an episode for This American Life called The Giant Pool of Money about the implosion of subprime lending. Although Davidsons segment was praised for making the murky world of finance easier to understand, his framing of the subprime housing debacle served another purpose: It let Wall Street off the hook for its role in rampant criminal mortgage fraud and predatory lending...
http://shameproject.com/report/adam-davidson-corrupt-wall-street-booster/
Frontlines Astonishing Whitewash of the Crisis
Battling Wall Street: The Kennedy Presidency
August 9, 2012
"His favorite, I had long ago known, was John Connally. As early as October 6, four days before my resignation, the President had asked the former treasury secretary to accept the vice presidency. Both men knew it would give Connally a clear track to the White House in 1976. Connally wanted it, but he backed away when his enemies in both parties threatened to block his confirmation by the House and Senate and to drag the hearings on for many months. He was too new a boy in school to muster support from the Republicans in Congress, and his recent defection from the Democratic party did not endear him to those on the other side of the aisle.
By choosing Connally, Nixon would have become embroiled in another vicious partisan dispute, exactly the thing he was trying to avoid. So, with reluctance, he had to drop his favorite. He feared controversy would also rage if he chose Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, or Barry Goldwater, all of whom were being strongly recommended by their friends. So he quickly settled on Gerald Ford, the amiable Michigan congressman who had acheived popularity, if not great distinction, as the House minority leader" ...
http://www.amazon.com/Go-Quietly-Else-Spiro-Agnew/dp/0688036686
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=19363
Ironically(?), Nixon's first choice for VP to replace Agnew was John Connally...
"His favorite, I had long ago known, was John Connally. As early as October 6, four days before my resignation, the President had asked the former treasury secretary to accept the vice presidency. Both men knew it would give Connally a clear track to the White House in 1976. Connally wanted it, but he backed away when his enemies in both parties threatened to block his confirmation by the House and Senate and to drag the hearings on for many months. He was too new a boy in school to muster support from the Republicans in Congress, and his recent defection from the Democratic party did not endear him to those on the other side of the aisle.
By choosing Connally, Nixon would have become embroiled in another vicious partisan dispute, exactly the thing he was trying to avoid. So, with reluctance, he had to drop his favorite. He feared controversy would also rage if he chose Nelson Rockefeller, Ronald Reagan, or Barry Goldwater, all of whom were being strongly recommended by their friends. So he quickly settled on Gerald Ford, the amiable Michigan congressman who had acheived popularity, if not great distinction, as the House minority leader" ...
http://www.amazon.com/Go-Quietly-Else-Spiro-Agnew/dp/0688036686
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=19363
August 9, 2012
Gerald Ford watched on his television in his suburban Virginia home, as Richard Nixon handed the presidency over to him, his vice president of the past 10 months. Nixon became the first Chief Executive in U.S. history to resign the presidency.
After Nixon's brief address announcing his resignation, cheers could be heard throughout the nation's capital, as well as chants of "Jail to the Chief."
The end of Nixon's years in the White House came when he released secret tapes showing his involvement on the Watergate cover-up on June 3, 1972, one week after the break in of the democratic national headquarters. Congress' support for its leader eventually evaporated in his bursts of outrage over the prospects of impeachment.
On April 22, 1994, nearly two decades after the incident, Nixon died in his home state of California at the age of 81. The 4,000-plus mourners present, including every living American president and dozens of other world leaders, remembered Richard M. Nixon for his efforts to improve relations with Moscow, for opening the door to China and for finding an end to the Vietnam War.
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/221293/70/This-day-in-history-President-Richard-Nixon-resigns
On this day in history, August 8, 1974
Gerald Ford watched on his television in his suburban Virginia home, as Richard Nixon handed the presidency over to him, his vice president of the past 10 months. Nixon became the first Chief Executive in U.S. history to resign the presidency.
After Nixon's brief address announcing his resignation, cheers could be heard throughout the nation's capital, as well as chants of "Jail to the Chief."
The end of Nixon's years in the White House came when he released secret tapes showing his involvement on the Watergate cover-up on June 3, 1972, one week after the break in of the democratic national headquarters. Congress' support for its leader eventually evaporated in his bursts of outrage over the prospects of impeachment.
On April 22, 1994, nearly two decades after the incident, Nixon died in his home state of California at the age of 81. The 4,000-plus mourners present, including every living American president and dozens of other world leaders, remembered Richard M. Nixon for his efforts to improve relations with Moscow, for opening the door to China and for finding an end to the Vietnam War.
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/article/221293/70/This-day-in-history-President-Richard-Nixon-resigns
August 7, 2012
Waldron's interview on Coast2Coast a few weeks back.
Re: Watergate: The Hidden History
Waldron's interview on Coast2Coast a few weeks back.
August 7, 2012
Re: Discovered a new likable mystery writer...
Thanks for the tip. Here are a few more:
Wednesday, July 18,2012
From courts to escorts
MSU grad Allison Leotta uncovers the world of call girls in 'Discretion'
by KURT ANTHONY KRUG
The D.C. Madam scandal served as a jumping-off point for Michigan State University aluma Allison Leottas latest legal thriller, Discretion.
As a prosecutor, I handled a lot of cases where the victims were prostitutes, Leotta said in a phone interview. I saw on a firsthand basis how dangerous their lives were, especially some college girl getting into the business thinking its a quick, easy way to make money.
But thats really far from the truth. I wanted to paint that picture realistically. What is it really like? What are the dangers? What are the unsavory things that have to happen? I didnt want to glamorize it at all. I hope I hit that chord in Discretion. ...
http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/article-7637-from-courts-to-escorts.html
Former CNN Anchor Kitty Pilgrim on Her New Novel The Stolen Chalice (Q&A)
She talks about her new romantic thriller, making the leap from journalist to novelist and traveling the world for research.
11:05 AM PDT 8/3/2012 by Andy Lewis
Kitty Pilgrim, the CNN-anchor-turned-novelist, has a new book out, The Stolen Chalice, a follow up to her 2011 debut, The Explorer's Code, which continues the adventures of archeologist John Sinclair and Oceanographer Cordelia.
Pilgrim, who is also a member of New York Citys famed Explorers Club and the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations in addition to being a former news anchor, talked with The Hollywood Reporter about her "romantic thriller," making the leap from reporter to novelist and traveling the world for research...
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/cnn-kitty-pilgrim-stolen-chalice-358183
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