Adam West gives ‘crime-fighter’ Coffey AG nod
By Brendan Scott
Holy endorsement, Batman!
The star of the campy 1960s “Batman” TV series swooped into Gotham yesterday to boost a Democratic contender for state attorney general ahead of tonight’s cliffhanger ending to the primary race.
Adam West, now 81 and living in Idaho, lent his sonorous voice to automated phone calls boosting prosecutor-turned-trial-attorney Sean Coffey for the Democratic Party’s nod to succeed Andrew Cuomo as the state’s top lawyer.
The actor famous for his cheesy, melodramatic delivery and lumpy physique channeled his classic role as the Dark Knight to assure Democrats that Coffey is the “best crime fighter” in the crowded five-way race.
“I know a thing or two about keeping Gotham City safe,” West told voters on a 45-second recorded message. “Sean is an independent voice who wants to fight those villains in Albany.”
Coffey first teamed up with West a few years back while fly fishing in Idaho’s Silver Creek, and the duo has since forged a dynamic friendship.
“I came to the conclusion Sean Coffey’s not only a good guy, but a clear thinker,” West told The Post. “I’ve been a pretend crime-fighter for years. Now, we’ve got a potential real one with him.”
The heroic assist came as voters prepared to narrow the field in key statewide races and numerous congressional and state Legislature posts.
A hapless Pennsylvania Secretary of Welfare, Helen O’Banion tries to argue for the welfare state. Dr. Thomas Sowell squashes her like a bug. Milton Friedman is evidently on deck, finding whatever O’Banion says to be quite funny!
I was pleased this morning as I sat down at the desk of the Silver State Chronicles with my cup of morning java. I tuned into my favorite morning radio show, The Dennis Prager Show, to learn that the guest in his first hour was the legendary Dr. Thomas Sowell, one of my favorite economists and thinkers!
Well, those that know me know that I am a huge fan of classicist Victor Davis Hanson, one of the genuinely brightest minds of our time! He visits The Hugh Hewitt Show now and thenand his insights are always appreciated! Well, Hugh talked him into an expanded interview on Wednesday, October 8, 2008, and it was fascinating!
Hugh’s conversation with Mr. Hanson covers the state of the 2008 campaign, the state of the world, the state of the war against radical Islam, and the state of the culture war here in America. It took up 2 hours of radio time but the commercials have been removed so each part runs about 35 minutes, for a toal of 70 minutes of Hanson wisdom!
Keep in mind that almost everything Hillary says here is untrue
Hillary Clinton has had problems with the truth all along the campaign trail. Recently on the stump, she related a hospital/insurance horror story with quite a bit of passion and detail. Here it is…
Well, the big problem with her horror story (where characteristically both a woman and a child are victimized) is that it didn’t happen.
For the second time in recent days, Sen. Hillary Clinton has had to drop a story from her stump speech after being challenged on its accuracy.
For the past month, the New York senator liked to tell the tale of a pregnant woman who was denied health care from an Ohio hospital because she did not have $100 the hospital demanded to treat her. After being turned away, the woman was brought back to the hospital days later with severe complications. She had to be rushed to another facility for advanced treatment, but it was too late. Both the woman and the baby died, Clinton told her audiences.
For Clinton, the story was an example of how everyone should have universal healthcare. It is a powerful tale and always drew gasps from the audience.
The hospital, which was never named in Clinton’s speeches, objected this weekend, saying it wasn’t true and demanded that Clinton stop telling it.
The O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio, told the New York Times that the woman was insured and was never denied treatment.
The Clinton campaign told ABC News today that the candidate heard the story from a deputy sheriff and had no reason to doubt the story.
“If the hospital claims it didn’t happen that way, we certainly respect that and she won’t repeat the story,” said Clinton spokeswoman Mo Elleithee.
“Candidates are told stories by people all the time, and it’s common for candidates to retell those stories,” Elleithee said. “It’s not always possible to fully vet them, but we try. For example, medical records are confidential. In this case, we tried but weren’t able to fully vet the story.”
Elleithee said the point of the story is that the country has a health care problem. “That’s a point very few people will dispute,” she said. The senator’s credibility came under fire last week when she tried to burnish her credentials as a veteran of international hot spots and described dodging sniper fire upon arrival in Bosnia in 1996 when she was traveling as a First Lady.
She admitted she “misspoke” when a video emerged showing her getting off the helicopter and being greeted by a girl with flowers. Clinton later tried to make fun of the misstep by telling Jay Leno during an appearance earlier this week that she almost was late because she was pinned down by sniper fire at the Burbank airport.
Well, that makes me feel a lot better – they pretty much admit they shoot their mouths off half cocked, and there’s no claim that they ever even tried to verify the story.
Very shoddy. It’s really something that 1/2 of the democrat constituency is rooting for her. To be fair, it’s really something that the other 1/2 of the democrat constituency is rooting for that other guy.
She sure has a strange fetish about late-night calls
Looks like Hillary Clinton is returning to the ad format that helped her whip Barry Obama in Texas and Ohio – a bunch of cute kids sleeping and a late-night call on the Batphone, demanding her expertise, wisdom, and sound judgment.
The last time, it was some unnamed world crisis that demanded a bespectacled Hillary’s attention. This time, evidently some great late-night financial crisis makes her spring into action.
This stuff is self parody, clearly. The ad makes no sense. I really have to wonder about the kind of mind that is moved by an advertisement like this.
Kerry: Obama Could Help US Relations with Muslim Nations ‘Because He’s a Black Man’
In an interview with Massachusetts’ SouthCoastToday, Obama-backing Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., says among other reasons he’s supporting Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, is his belief that “it would be such an affirmation of who we say we are as a people. if we could elect an African-American president, young leader, who is obviously visionary about the ability to inspire people.”
Kerry said that a President Obama would help the US, in relations with Muslim countries, “in some cases go around their dictator leaders to the people and inspire the people in ways that we can’t otherwise.”
“He has the ability to help us bridge the divide of religious extremism,” Kerry said. “To maybe even give power to moderate Islam to be able to stand up against this radical misinterpretation of a legitimate religion.”
Kerry was asked what gives Obama that credibility.
“Because he’s African-American. Because he’s a black man. Who has come from a place of oppression and repression through the years in our own country.”
An African-American president would be “a symbol of empowerment” for those who have been disenfranchised around the world, Kerry said, “an important lesson for America to show Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, other places in the world where disenfranchised people don’t get anything.”
oly endorsement, Batman!
