The funniest thing that happened over the weekend has to be the charge by Hillary Clinton that Barack Obama plagiarised Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in a recent speech. If I'm Obama I'm thinking, "is that the best you've got?" In an age of suspicion created by steroid use, spygate, referees on the take and worse, using someone else's words is a bit of a joke. Who doesn't use other people's words? My guess is that not all of Hillary's words are her own. She might even have someone who writes words for her occasionally. She might use, dare I say it? A speechwriter???
Could this be a sign of desperation on the part of Hillary, now trailing Obama in the polls? I think Obama, in this case, should have quoted his friend, Patrick because the quotes paraphrased were historic. Obama did say that he "should have." But this is no big deal. I doubt that Hillary gained any points by even bringing it up...
I must confess that when I said it was no big deal in the previous paragraph, those were not my words. It was part of a quote by Barack Obama. The direct quote was "I really don't think this is too big of a deal." Please accept my apology...
10 Timeline Memories:
- 1878] Crank it up: Thomas Alva Edison patents a music player. The phonograph is born and here's a demonstration of a similar device: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qGJR2DZBfF0 ...
- 1942] Racially divided: Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an executive order giving the military authority to relocate and intern Japanese Americans...
- 1953] Truly Splendid: Ted Williams, a Marine pilot since 1951, escapes after crash-landing his F-9 Panther after being hit in Korea. He climbs down from the cockpit just before the plane explodes...
- 1966] Joe Pa: Joe Paterno moves from assistant head coach at Penn State, where he began at the school in 1950, to head coach replacing Rip Engle, 42 years later he's still head coach. In this video clip, Joe Pa breaks the all-time record for victories: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0rzzsEWvE4o ...
- 1977] I beg your pardon: President Gerald R. Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose"...
- 1984] Double your pleasure: Twin brothers Phil and Steve Mahre finish 1-2 in the men's slalom on the final day of the Sarajevo Winter Olympics...
- 1985] Cherry Coke: Cherry Coke is introduced by Coca-Cola. This is a drink that was discovered a lot earlier than that in every neighborhood 'candy store' in New York City. What's next? The Egg Cream??? They did make good commercials though: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hZCdteA8T5g ...
- 1987] The smoking light goes out: A controversial anti-smoking ad airs for the first time on network TV. It features Yul Brynner after he had died from lung cancer caused by heavy smoking: http://youtube.com/watch?v=JNjunlWUJJI ...
- 1995] Wedding Bells: Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson rock down the aisle. This relationship has been off and on ever since...
- 2004] Guilty as charged: Former Enron chief Jeffrey Skilling is charged with fraud, insider trading and other crimes in connection with the energy trader's monumental collapse. Worst of all, his loses his company parking space...
Music Memories:
- 1956] Recorded on this date: "The Magic Touch" - The Platters, right off the record: http://youtube.com/watch?v=uRsBPoeMtrQ ...
- 1974] TV debuts: Kiss make their TV debut on "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert"...1974] Dick Clark's "American Music Awards"...
- 1981] Sound familiar?: George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" which surpasses "temporary insanity" as a defense, between his song, "My Sweet Lord" http://youtube.com/watch?v=95LFNe3Uw-w&feature=related and "He's So Fine"...
Commentary:
As a follow up to Friday's feature on fact checking, Gordon Brown offers the following website to varify so called "facts": http://www.snopes.com/ . Here's another one which I found recently: http://www.truthorfiction.com/ . Both are good sources for fact checking...
"Happy Birthday...happy birthday":
Haylie Duff (23), Justine Bateman (42), Seal (45), Prince Andrew (48), Jeff Daniels (53), Lou Christie (65), Bobby Rogers and Smokey Robinson of The Miracles are 68 today and here they are with the legendary Motown group: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ad1RDt1WsHY ...
Timeline Countdown: 19 days until Daylight time, 31 days until the beginning of spring and 36 days until opening day...
