DavidBeckwith's Comments (21)

“Campbell Brown's husband is a Republican consultant who works for FOX. Did she say that? No. I suspect she is holding out for a larger bid from FOX, at which point she will simply go there for her money. It's not about truth or good journalism. It's about money. Just like a Wall Street banker.”

“How small they must be to need so much!”

“Yes, I cans!”

“This is an indictment of Home Depot, and their nutty CEO than Bank of America, who, it is said, played a minor role. It is perhaps a pregnant coincidence that a Home Depot in midtown Charlotte closed its doors yesterday. Everything I know about BOA, at least historically, tells me that the shaken CEO (syndrome?) was not speaking for the bank, since the bank has been a godsend for many communities, being a good neighbor, funding the arts and job creation, listening, being an early adopter of green technologies, and so on. An exemplar, truth the told, and not a villain. At least this is my judgment after decades of watching them, knowing their people, banking with them, and seeing how they've created so much good in places they've been. It is important to expose bad practices, but it is equally important, especially now, to also highlight good practices. And on most things, I think the bank really does strive, and achieve, higher standards, and certainly needs to continue being a bank of opportunit­y...becaus­e Lord knows America and the world could use more light. As a product of San Francisco and Charlotte, the bank is not really a typical Wall Street anything. I personally think they could well be a very large part of the solution to the problems we face today. Best to arm ourselves with the complete picture before casting judgments.”

“A dog barks, a caravan passes.”

“McCain needs to act like a grown-up. He chose her. It is his fault, not hers.”

“If anyone can turn North Carolina blue, it is Andy Griffith, who has been a kinda role model for us North Carolinians for decades. With Ron Howard and Henry Winkler also showing their support, I should think this little film might well turn out to be the chief bluing agent, putting North Carolina firmly in Obama's camp. Perhaps Mr. Colbert will do the same favor for South Carolina, our oft' slow-headed sister.”

“As long as girls cheer jerks like him on, there will continue to be wars.
Most guys are that shallow.

This is probably a stunt of some sort. He should know that rough-housing of the type that he suggests, would close more doors than they would open...and might well turn him into a pariah, an untouchable, a bully.

Kaufman is lurking somewhere in the corner, I suspect...”

“It's not every actor who can elicit a torrent of tears, but Paul Newman was not every actor. He was a great humanitarian and political visionary. I am deeply moved by his loss, and want to wish his family peace, love and comfort. Rest in peace, sweet Prince.”

“I personally find Joel Osteen to be a refreshing change of pace, particularly when you compare him with the vitriolic and hate-filled blowhard, John Hagee. Rev. Osteen has had the good graces to have been taken in by Billy Graham -- something that Hagee could not even buy. As such, he seems to have absorbed some of Billy Graham's magnanimity and progressive spirit.
On my TV, Hagee follows Osteen. I call it the Heaven and Hell Hour. Joel brings Heaven, and Hagee Hell.
As far as the wife goes...I couldn't care less.”

“You left out the well-heeled shoehorns.”

“When John speaks of morality, he is talking about our relationship with the least among us. I never heard him mention anything about sexual morality..­.which should be a more private matter anyway.”

“There has been a corporate media brownout against Edwards all along. They are Goliath and he is David. Why wouldn't they? Sadly, most Americans pull for Goliath these days.
America loved The Overdog, even nurses at its teat. Drinks the milky koolade. Adds to the pollution. Shuts out the light.”

“Each time the sword goes into John, it goes into Elizabeth as well. And it cuts to the heart of their children as well. If John were a brave defender of the rich, like most Republicans, be probably would not be going through this "fifth trial". But he is a brave defender of the poor, and like Gandhi and Jesus, he is persecuted, and his family is persecuted.

Some people think that by hating or scolding John, they are somehow being nice to Elizabeth, but this is not the case. It is the opposite of the case, and I would ask that these "would-be do-gooders" realize the pain they are causing Elizabeth to suffer. Has she not suffered enough? If she forgave him, don't you think she would have US forgive him as well?
Maybe we are not that good. Maybe we are merciless schadenfreudists who relish watching Elizabeth squirm with each jab at her family and husband.

I am disappointed in John, yes, but I will be more disappointed if he lets the brave defenders of the rich beat him down.”

“If John Edwards were Hitler, I would say "Go ahead and destroy the man and his family."
But John Edwards is no Hitler, and most Americans know this. In fact they know he is at the other extreme of Hitler. Rather than dedicating himself to taking lives, he has dedicated himself to saving lives.
He is guilty of too much love. Not too little.
Those who are attacking him are guilty of that.

It is not just John you are destroying. It is also Elizabeth. But will YOU apologize to her?
I somehow doubt it. Thus once again proving, to your dismay, that John Edwards really is a better man.”

“I'll read Bugliosi, but I do want to see how Truman Capote does as Herr Roverer. Herman Hesse playing Rudolph Hess. Could be a real knee-slapper.”

“One mustn't discount the power of evolution. North Carolina and Virginia are starting to realize that they are more like the amazing and awesome blue states on the map, like, well, the east and west coast, than are they like your more landlocked states, like West Virginia and Oklahoma.
NC, VA and Georgia all have fine centers of learning, and the word gets passed around.
It's harder to dupe a Carolinian, a Virginian or even a Georgian, although the same cannot be true of Georgian Ws.
In the end, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Alabama may be the only red strongholds. This does not paint a very pretty picture for the future of red states.
Back to evolution. SC and Florida will follow NC and Va into the blue, and the skies themselves will turn blue in commemoration of this overdue correction. See, there is a cause for optimism!”

“I too worked with Interface/Comdex in the 80s, and can assure you that Adelman is no Soros, although he does have a lot of money. He is more like a Southie who has just robbed a bank. His parties were expensive affairs that largely celebrated him. At one party, I, a lowly conference biographer, chose to wear tails, and when he saw me in the bathroom, primping, mumbled "You can't buy class".
I only wish he had been looking in the mirror when he said that.
If he happens to reading this, let me say to him: Get off your high horse, man, and learn a little humility, before you become just another blood-thirsty stain on humanity. Your embrace conceals a strangulation; your kiss a bite. Snap out of your Napoleonic hallucination, and learn to love your brothers and sisters...­not kill them.”

“10k is no Versailles. That said, his response made me think of something Bucky Fuller used to ask of people: "How much does YOUR house weigh?" I suspect, and know, that we will see that houses too can begin to regarded with the same disgust as is shown toward those mobile energy-squanderers; the hummers, the half-tracks, the megatrucks, and escalades.
"Look honey! That house! It's a real hummer!"”

“General Clark is the expert on the matter...a­nd yet many in the hyperventilative classes are attacking him as if he could not be in possession of such knowledge. Sad thing, it is they themselves who are a-lacking. More chicken-hawk tawk from chickentown. Therefore we say "Phooey!". "Phooey" on the junkfood that passes for news when the real news, in Iran, is deflected, per sharks and Condit, and the dirty deeds pass beneath the radar, which is aiming up Britney's skirt, rather than scanning for dangers.

General Clark is vastly more qualified to be Commander-in-Chief than John McCain, and you can bet that he will continue to serve the military and our country at a very high level of responsibility. But John McCain is no thin-skinned armchair philosopher either, and he is surely able to withstand mere words tossed his way. No need to coddle him.”

“I generally like Keith, but I do think he becomes too hyperventilative and self-righteous at times.
I hope he will focus his wrath on those who deserve it, and not Hillary, Katie and other relative innocents.”