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Point taken. When I say she was alone, I mean that her core group of advisers that she had were not in her White House. All Presidents have an inner group that they rely on. Nixon had his California guys, Carter had his Georgia Mafia and Kennedy had his Boston crew. Neither Amy, Gary, Kent or Mike were there when she was elected President.
Will have a look at that. Cheers, mate.
I am keenly aware that society is horrible, Friend.
I was referring to a system that allows people like Marla Grayson to operate and flourish with no oversight or checks.
Not looking for a cyber spat.
Thanks for this link, Friend.
It is one thing to be informed about something by friends or relatives. It is completely different experience when you have a physical sign that reinforces all the information. It makes s**t very real.
It was only when George Wallace became a born again Christian that he had a change of heart and renounced his past. Maybe him being in a wheel chair after the assassination attempt in 1972, made him also ponder the positions that he had taken.
There is also the added factor of news as a business. Newspapers are also commercial enterprises, making a big splash can boost readership which pleases advertisers. This drives reporters to chase stories in a pack mentality. I remember the Monica Lewinsky scandal which followed Richard Jewell. Any sense of decency was cast aside as the media hordes chased this young girl like wolves. All of them looking for "angle."
Laughed out loud when Nicole visited her childhood home with Lee Simon. The pair go upstairs to her bedroom, she talks about her childhood and she unzips his fly....
The word inappropriate does not even come close!
It is available on the itv hub.
FeeCJ
I did not notice that before. Went back and watched that episode again. It is very poor.
Open Range and Hidden Figures show that Costner has still got it. Maybe he needs a good western role.
Agreed. He is also effective in the action blockbuster Olympus has fallen.Small role but he more than holds his own.
There is a funny scene in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever when one of the characters is complaining about Italian-American women. He says that all they want are White Anglo Saxon P***ks! He lists men such as Harrison Ford, Robert Redford and William Hurt. In the early 90s, Hurt was still huge.
I'm not sure about that, Friend. Having a child die because he got in the way, speaks volumes. She even allows her lover to hang in order to escape justice. At least he had pangs of guilt. Katherine displayed zero scruples. This being the 1800s, her word against a black farm hand is going to be taken as gospel. In her mind, the ends justified the means. Her survival was all that mattered to her.
Agreed. Homelander is a sick man, underneath the celebrity/near God like status.The scene on the plane when he threatened to laser the panicked passengers revealed that this "superhero" is a total psychopath. Afterwards he even gives a George W Bush style " I hear you..."speech to the rescuer services near the site where the plane went down. I thought Maeve was going to throw up at the memorial.
I must have missed that . I will watch it again as I am a big Redford fan. Thanks
Of course, it's a movie. It's also based on real events. Thank you for the observation.
Responding to your replies, he had tried to kill himself before. Maybe he was so emotionally damaged that retirement was not viable.
You should definitely watch it! It was a huge hit here in the UK ratings wise AND it was major cultural talking point in the media. There were articles in the press about who the villains were and explanations about plots and characters. In the age of streaming and box sets it is very rare to capture the public with a political thriller /drama on terrestrial TV.
The whole was based on lies and Johnson was not the only one. Kennedy denied that American troops were involved in the fighting when in fact they were. Robert McNamara lied repeatedly about the progress of the war. By way, the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, probably never actually happened.