Bissinger Misses Perfect Gig For Rendell – And Is Tea Party A Downer For Corbett?
WHAT’S THE BUZZ –
The Buzz Bissinger piece on Ed Rendell in Sunday’s Inky missed the point. Actually, it missed several points. While he was looking for the “next thing” for the Pennsylvania Governor, the Buzz forgot something. Rendell is one of the most marketable Democratic communicators in the nation. Rendell could have a lucrative career in Television, as an analyst for any one of the cable news operations.
Buzz also forecasts that there will be no place for Rendell in the Obama White House. Not so fast! Although the two do not maintain a cozy relationship, the President has discovered that there is little cabinet talent on the Democratic front. Did you watch his Homeland Security Secretary in action after the Christmas bombing attempt? Did you see the fumbling transportation secretary on the Toyota recall?
Who am I to argue with a writing giant like Buzz Bissinger? But to tell you the truth: don’t think that Rendell is going to some sort of retirement. Don’t cry for Ed. He’ll be just fine.
GAME CHANGE—
The book by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin is as good as it gets for a solid accounting of the political intrigue of the 2008 election. I’m especially fascinating by the author’s detailed accounts of the Bill and Hillary Clinton inner circle, and the suggestions that Bill’s personal life remained a problem before and during the campaign. This is a tremendous book that reads like a fiction thriller, but, as we know, it all happened. “Game Change” is the book you need to read.
TEE OFF PARTY –
Members of the so called Tea Party of the Republican right showed up at the state party’s coronation of Attorney General Tom Corbett for Governor and Pat Toomey for Senate. The Tea Party wing is volatile and also appealing to many Republican populists. As I see it, Corbett appears to be the frontrunner for Governor, but if the extreme right fights his election, it may give the Democrats a real chance.
It is such an irony that the anticipated Republican victories in many races might be lost by extreme forces in the Grand Old Party.
Comments(36)
Larry, what do you mean by Bill’s personal
life remaining a problem. I have not read the
book so don’t know what you mean by problem.
Are you referring to the really tight 40
something aerobics instructor he was linked
to during that time?
Thank you for not taking about potholes.
Did your concert promoter agree that talking
about potholes is not the way to be seen as
hip and relevant in front of the big show.
Could you tell us more about it? I see you’ve
begun referring to it as a lecture. Are we to
assume you are at every show presenting a
lecture? Will there be Beatles music amd concert
footage? My wife is giving some push back on
going since I could not really explain what it
is and what it is not. The Franlin Institute
People had no idea what it was about when I called.
The response was “ain’t no concert hall here, they
Beatles dead anyway” very dissapointing!
Typing quietly in my ulra deluxe hotel room in Vancoever. Dr Jill is still asleep. It’s only 4AM here. I’d be a deadman if I woke her up. Instead I’m typing quietly on my Blackberry in the hotel room bathroom. My fingers are so large. The typing keys so small.
So Saturday AM Barack calls and says he has a mission for Dr Jill and I. Be at Air Force 2 at 11AM. We get flown from Andrews AFB to McChord AFB in Washington. Then by SS SUV caravan to Vancoever. We’re going to the Olympics. The most ceremonial of all duties. Representing the US. I guess it’s good we can still find places for the Winter Olympics with the massive meltdown from Global Warming. Pretty soon the Winter Olympics will be held in Anarctica every year until the last iceberg breaks off.
So why is Barack sending Dr Jill and I? A couple of old white folks. Because we’re the only demographic that still watches the Winter Olympics? Barack and Chelle would be attending if the US Dream Team were playing basketball or the US 4X400 relay team were running. But the Winter Olympics is too much of a whiteout for Barack. Too much like X Games meets Disney on Ice. Ya don’t see that shit back in the hood. Shaun White. Lindsey Vonn. Bode Miller. Too cold. Too much snow. Too much like Chicago. And don’t forget who was embarrassed in Copenhagen when he went with Chelle and Oprah to boost Chicago’s chances for 2016. Don’t think he hasn’t forgotten that gigantic snub.
So we’re hoping we are going somewhere warm and getting out of the snow. We fly 6 hours and we end up in about the only place in North America that’s colder and with more snow than Delaware. Go figure. We put our red, white and blue parkas on over our thermal underwear and smiled our way through 3 torturous hours of pairs skating. I was hoping to get a little excitement at the luge run. Instead I’m stuck watching skaters in spandex and sequins for 3 hours. Privately I had been hoping I was going to be going to Daytona for the NASCAR thingy. I thought I could hang with Danica Patrick in the NASCAR VIP tent and drink shooters til dawn. Instead I’m drinking hot cocoa inside watching ice dancing.
Impeachment in 2010! Just wait until I’m the boss!
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Larry, you’ve missed the point on Fast Eddie. He is nationally irrelevant. He’s a ticking timebomb of inappropriateness. He’s a huge potential liability that Barack can not afford right now. He might be a good trial lawyer but that does not translate beyond the court room. Are you privately hoping you’ll be his Press Secretary if he gets elected President? Or is he just a poker buddy?
I heard that Doctors went into Bill Clinton’s chest to do the stint operation and could not find a heart. They just found a couple of rolled up Playboys and an empty Big Mac container.
Bubba is as cold, dark and sinister as any politician that has ever darkened the White House. It’s no wonder Hillary got passed by Barack. With Hillary you would get a 2 for. Most Americans had already seen far too much of their bad act.
And the suddenly prolific Mr.Kane again gives a blog change,kudos sir.But seriously,Ed Rendell in Obama’s cabinet ? If you think Janet Napolitano put her foot in her mouth following the attempted undie bomber fiasco,what do you think Rendell would’ve done ? Actually it would be the undie bomber scenario every day.Except on Sunday’s during football season of course.
Larry, you have no concept. You have no sense of the pulse of America. You are an anachronism. You are like a time traveler from the 20th century suddenly landing in 2010. You grew up in a time when people trusted government. You still believe that liberal poppycock about the rich helping the poor. You are willing to part with 10s of thousands of your dollars in taxes to help the lost souls. Not sure if that makes you a kind soul or just stupid. I will give you the benefit of the doubt. You were born in a time when people trusted government, authority figures and the system.
Back when people had wooden teeth and did not lie about chopping down cherry trees, we did not trust the expansion of government. We feared that the executive would become a monarchy. We institute a system of checks and balances into the Constitution to prevent that. The fear was that if one group gained too much power the majority would lose its voice and control.
Just such a situation is in play now. The Democrats have had a lock on Congress for 13 months. The President is trying to impose an extreme socialistic agenda on Americans. Our basic way of life was in jeopardy until Scott Brown’s election restored a modicum of balance back into the system.
You have routinely berated conservatives and Republicans on this website. It has been your cause de celebre. You are entitled to your opinion. You can espouse whatever nonsense you please. There is always the First Amendment to fall behind. I’m not sure this is what we founding fathers had in mind but so be it.
Now you are attempting to minimalize a grassroots group of Americans that are speaking out and attempting to restore some sense of my America. The Tea Party group is not a corrupt vote scamming group like ACORN. They are group of Americans angry with the way government has moved to the extremes in both parties and are looking for someone to listen to reason, common ground approach and issues that real Americans are interested in, not just the elite idologists. Do not demean these patriots because you do not like their message or methods. They too have the right to speak out about the issues of our time. Clearly they land closer to the GOP values of less government and less government control, but do not dismiss them as right wing nutjobs. Just because your anachronistic view says that government is there to fix all of society’s problems does not mean that is a fact.
Like it or not your two party anachronistic view of America may be about to implode. Neither party can field a candidate that strikes a chord with mainstream America. It is generally the lesser of 2 evils. In this last election, it appears we we mistaken. The populace is rising up and trying to reclaim America from those that seek to destroy it. Embrace change, Larry, do not fight it. Change your paradigms before it is too late. Join the 21th century. Grab your sack of tea and throw it into the Delaware.
Hey, it’s my birthday and that’s my two cents worth. Now I’m heading over the what use to be Bookbinders for lunch. Everything has changed in this city since 1776. The only thing that remains is Tories like you that would rather pay high taxes to a monarchy.
I knew Ben Franklin and, you sir, are no Ben Franklin.
I love people like George Washington here that think it matters what party gets elected. “Extreme socialistic agenda?” Oh, you mean, continuing pretty much everything Bush was doing? People here think the “other party” is the problem, when in reality, the whole system is a failure.
Also, Larry has a plastic face.
I see Ed Rendell running one of the PA casinos. He’s a perect fit. He’s perky, schmoozey, fast talking, and likes to collect other peoples’ money.
Word at Comcast is that Rendell crony and Comcast VP David Cohen’s going to bump you to make room for an Ed Rendell show that will attract actual viewers.
The mayor only deserves moderate praise for snow, its still a mess on many side streets, now more ice and snow.
Tea Party is really going to get Larry’s goat in next couple of years. Many of these people are Pat Buchanan conservatives with pitch forks who want to take back their government. They are a real force to be reckoned with and should be heeded by liberals, unless they want to lose everything this November.
A new report today reveals that boys as young as 10 years old are being trained by al qaeda to be bomb mules. They are no longer teaching young boys to be fighters. Instead they are conditioning them to carry muntions in their rectums. The stratey is that after a few years of enlarging the rectums of these boy with increasingly large cylindical objects they can by age 15 or so carry enough explosives in their rectum to take down a plane. Think about it, 14 and 15 year old boys and girls do not raise a lot of eyebrows at security, especially if they are traveling to visit a relative alone or with a sibling in the U.S.
Dick Cheney is correct that Obama does not understand the threat or the lengths radical Islam will go to take down another plane. Another plane is their holy grail and they will sacrifice their youngest and most innocent to achieve that goal. Sadly, there is no shortage of parents offerring their 10-year olds for “training”. The other dirty secret is these parents are probably being paid to enlist their children and that’s the darkest part of this sinister plan. These people will not stop until they begin to love their children more than they hate Israel and the U.S.
@Wake Up America – I’m just going to assume you don’t have any family members in the military. Also, when will you be enlisting to combat this threat?
Blah makes a good point. I alwaysa ask people
that spout off about how we have to “take Iran
Out” and other such bravdo, if they their father
or son or daughter has served. The war hawkes,
especially those most vociferously for the
defense of Israel tend not to have served and
would never allow their children to enlist.
Ny father and uncles all served, I have not
and would not want my children to unless it
mandatory and for a good reason. I’d like to
first see all of the Asian, Indian, and Middle
Eastern college kids who are getting educated
and taking jobs here enlist first, my children
will be right behind them in line- I promise!
Larry I pictured you as a let’s celebrate Presidents Day kind of guy. The depth of your subject matter is now beyond your pay grade.(you do this for free don’t you?) I mean you were right to say that who am I to argue with a giant of a writer like Buzz. Stay within your limits Larry or I’ll call some “volatile” Tea Baggers and have them go over to your house and reek havoc. They might even carry a sign with a picture of John Lennon wearing a Hitler mustache.
Larry I have to say that the irony of your pothole comment wasn’t lost on me. The Daytona 500 race was held up for a couple of hours yesterday and can you guess why? That’s right they had a pothole on the track. They only had one but I bet the sponsers and the officials were crying their eyes out. I don’t believe too many race fans stuck aroud and watched them fix a pothole. On the other hand I’d rather watch a pothole getting fixed that cars going around and around in circles for hours.
As for the book “Game Change” I heard one of the authors explain he was writing a history book. Seems to me it was a “tell all” book after the fact. Not quite the same thing. Larry I suppose you just loved the dirt that they unearthed. Is it possible that this type of journalism is what we should expect in the future?
Hey Larry Kane, I just wanted to say that you are not the best there is, you are not the best there was and you are not the best there ever will be. You should go eat a big packet of mustard for all you’ve done to promote world peace.
I say, Larry, when you have the new BIG BAD District Attorney on the show, will you be asking him about how much Philadelphia spends to prosecute pot smokers? Are you going to ask him if he thinks it’s bad that black people hate the cops because they mainly enforce drug laws in black neighborhoods? Are you going to ask him if drug use is mostly harmless for most people (it is) and then call him on it when he starts asking about the children?
No, you’re going to avoid that question, and any hard question, and just speak about accountability and random nonsense. Yaaaaaawn. Tell me when you get a big giant moose to host your show. That would be super duper. Gong! Buggity big bang boo.
Why not more entertainment and girlish gossip here? Larry asks (falsely) who he is to argue with Buzz, then goes and contradicts everthing he said. Here’s the truth, Larry beleives he is qualifed to argue with Buzz, and he beleives he has an inside track on Rendell, both of are true. Larry is the God Damn Dean of telvision, Buzz is someone no one knows who at one time probably wore his hair in a buzz cut. Rendell is very likeable and will never retire. He does suffer from foot in mouth disease and would likely implode if left too long with an open mike. Rendell likes off color and racial humor and is a huge flirt. Those things will get him into trouble after he leaves office- guaranteed!
$HITMAN, I think your opinion is a good example of what happens when one does too many drugs. Try rehab and come back in a couple of months.
Alas, Larry has lost the wind in his sails. He’s stalled out in dullsville.
I’ll host your show and bring Rocket J. Squirrel to co-host.
Michael Vick is running for GOP senator from Pennsylvania! He heard from Evan Bayh that Congress is a huge dogfight. Cheers to Vick!
EMI has put Abbey Road Studios up
for sale! Beatles recorded 90 percent
of songs there. Larry we need to put
together an investor group to buy!
We can move it to Frostbite Falls! I can chip in $1M is residuals.
Evan Bayh will not seek relection!
Obama’s house of hope and change is really
Working. Anyone who hopes Congress changes
Control this fall is in for a treat,
courtesey of the hope and change agent
himself!
Larry tell your weathermen friends to quit teasing the viewers with another snow storm. When one is over they continue to predict another “big” one is coming. This week it was another 8″s which turned out to be nothing now Cecily Tyson says another snow storm might be approaching. WTF Larry, do these weather people have no shame?
I’ve got 8″ for Cecily right here!
His name is Rocket J. Squirrel.
Moose and squirrel give me indigestion. You busy-bodies have busied your last body.
I am socialist from another country. Comrade Obama is good friend and colleague.
In my country there are no weathermen. Everyday is sunny like Philadelphia except whens it rains… or snows… or we have avalanche.
Ed, how is your heating situation. In old country we burn furniture when it gets really cold.
They burn up the doorframes and woodwork
to stay warm in Philadelpia. We need Obama
to give Buderus to every American, its green
clean and should be free to all Americans, not
just men of privalage and good taste. A chicken
in everypot is old school Democrat, a Buderus
in every basmement should be Obama’s new
mantra. The poor guy is in serious deep water
and does not swim the way he shoots hoops!
This site is the best thing I’ve ever discovered, its bigger than any Rock Band that I discovered. Is it true that Larry Kane discoverred the Beatles?
Evan Bayh leaving Congess is a big damn deal, Birch is rolling over in his water soaked grave. What shame he brings the the liberal Bayh name. Patrick Kennedy dropping out is even sweeter. After that pathetic eulogy he delivered for his father it was clear RI would not reelect such a wimpy drug addicted man to represent them. His legless brother was much more impressive, too bad Teddy didn’t drown Patrick at birth, you know give him the Mary Jo treatment, he would not have been missed.
What is wrong with the writers at Family Guy?
I know Larry Kane likes to take shots at
Sarah Palin, but they are always above the
belt. To mock her retarded child is probably
the meanest comedic thing done to her yet.
Letterman went too far and had to apoligize.
When will these liberal writers realize that
its not funny to attack children and attacking
disabled children is just sick. This liberal
sickness will be refuted come November, average
Americans have had enough of the self annointed
and will show their displeasure at the polls.