Comments on: Teitelbaum: Troopergate Probe No Whitewash

By: Tim Hays

Tim Hays — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:03:39 +0000

Wow! I’d like to know what “hot buttons” delayed my previous posting! Was it the word “Jews” in Neal Gabler’s title? (A best-selling book.) Or was it the link to wikipedia for the Sam Goldwyn bio?

It couldn’t have been “Knopf.”

By: Tim Hays

Tim Hays — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:57:33 +0000

Ed: humbly submitted, a couple of good reading suggestions—
“An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood,” 1989. By Neal Gabler, a sine-qua-non historian. He did the bio of Walt Disney three years ago. Gabler is a magnificent historian.

And “Goldwyn: A Biography,: 1998. By A. Scott Berg, America’s modern pre-eminent biographer (Lindbergh, and others).

Both were originally published by Knopf, which is the “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” for well-edited books.

Gabler and Berg are on a par with one another: great writers, significant intellect and curiosity, and native Californians, like Ted Williams, and me.

further reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Goldwyn

You’ll have a kick, while writing your short stories.

Best,

Tim

By: Tim Hays

Tim Hays — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:39:05 +0000

Ed—Jack Warner (horse’s head in the bed in GF) was maybe the more intelligent, but Samuel Goldfish (Goldwyn) was the wiser, and shrewder, even with his malaprops.

And, Sam Goldwyn was a Republican.

By: ed1

ed1 — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:07:51 +0000

Tim – I believe it was Jack Warner who referred to Hollywood screenwriters as “schmucks with Underwoods.” Presumably he was speaking of Faulkner, Fitzgerald, et al.

By: Tim Hays

Tim Hays — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:10:53 +0000

Hey ed:

We like “Police State” for his knowledge of Samuel Goldwyn, the master of the malaprop.

Let’s ask our friends at the Federal Government to check (en)Teitelbaum’s 1040s, and 1099s.

The one part of our federal budget for which I heartily approve is that for more funding of our United States Attorneys’ offices, particularly here in the 2nd District. And, most especially, for that part of the Feds’ “public corruption” unit.

(en)Teitelbaum, Rostenkowski: what’s the difference? Well, at least Dan Rostenkowski got some money for his own district, in Chicago, and he wasn’t lining his own pockets as greedily as the way supporters of our immediate past governor seemed to have been doing.

By: North Korea

North Korea — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:56:35 +0000

Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?IvanaSantilliIvana Santilli, Too Deep

By: Islamic Jihad

Islamic Jihad — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:38:44 +0000

Avoid being seized by the police. The cops are not your friends. Don’t tell them anything.HunterS.ThompsonHunter S. Thompson, advice on ‘adventure’ in Men’s Journal

By: Police State

Police State — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:34:11 +0000

I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.SamuelGoldwynSamuel Goldwyn

By: ed1

ed1 — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:04:25 +0000

No whitewash? The people who pled guilty receive only a “public rebuke,” and go back to business as usual. The ones who refused to plead guilty, although the obvious is the obvious, MIGHT, at worst, receive meaningless fines by the time the whole thing is duly buried. But more likely, they, too, so long as they stop trying to involve Spitzer in any wrongdoing, will also be simply “rebuked publicly.” And what about the Albany DA that evidence shows conspired with Spitzer? The ex-governor is effectively found to have been uninvolved with the whole fiasco, but despite convincing evidence to the contrary, he’s saluted and sent on his way. Nice State we have here, or should I say THEY have here. The people on this “Public Integrity Commission,” should not only be let go, THEY should be prosecuted. We all may as well be living in Biafra.