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That the prospect of perhaps playing for my Chicago Bulls tempted him at least a little.

I can dream . . .

Rooney was the only one I saw who pegged him right away.  I just can't figure how a PR or press person worth his salt could not know.  Isn't that their job???

Funny how all the goateed mediocities look alike.

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before he got REALLY popular, so he could get away with it.  Today, he would have a hard time duping most people.

pegged him for being an imbecile is how I thought it went down (it's gotta be a year or more since I saw that episode, so, my memory may not be perfectly accurate). In other words, it certainly appeared that Rooney had no idea he was being duped by a clever British satirical comedian, but rather, thought he was dealing with a complete idiot with an incomprehensible cockney accent and horrid grammar. But I agree: how could a corporate PR person not know about Ali G's lampoons. Which leads me to believe many of these interviews (at least those done with famous people) are just cleverly staged acts done for entertainment effect. But maybe I'm wrong.

Spammer.  SBC sure makes me laugh though, especially when Kazakhstan sues him...

Hey, that applies to ice hockey, too, now.  (Er, international play is settled by penalty shots, while in the NHL, penalty shots decide only regular-season games).

Don't mess with hockey.

and I HATE that they introduced shootouts this season. that said, they go till someone wins in the playoffs (the best playoffs in sports, I might add). I still remember that 5 overtime game between philly and pittsburgh a few years back.

and everytime you think it might not, it just offers you further evidence: what other sport has such a lame way to deterimine a championship game than PENALTY KICKS!?!? might as well do eeny-meeny-minie-mo. this "sport" is so laughably stupid.

What did he really have to think about, waiting this long to say he was going to accept Cleveland's max offer?

At least he didn't do what Kobe did, and make them wait until the day signing was opened to make up his mind...

 Tax revenue up, mainly due to increased corporate receipts and receipts from the rich, shudder!

     I wonder why?  If this keeps up the democrats will be reduced to advocating inter-species marriage and full government subsidies for proctological surgery.    Poor schmucks!

the Dim's Platform. It all Your. As in your money and your fault.

Laker purple and gold (or whatever color they're wearing out in Tinsel Town these days) written all over him, so I thought. Frankly I'm a bit surprised he signed.

interviews know he's in character, and cooperate with him for comedic effect, or is he really duping them?

I caught an "interview" he did with Andy Rooney. It was freakin' hillarious. Rooney, needless to say, didn't suffer this particular fool particularly gladly. It was an authentic performance. But then I thought "Wait a minute; do you mean to tell me the PR people at CBS have never heard of Ali G, and thus booked him for a serious interview with Andy Rooney"?

Didn't seem plausible. Kinda reminds me of the Jerky Boys (remember them?). Funny stuff. But surely most of those recipients of their crank calls were in on the act. Or am I just being paranoid?

languages of parody, satire or humiliation.

given the recent performance of our own Supreme Court.

Lebron is going to reverse the Curse in Cleveland and bring us a championship.

Landmark al Queda trial collapses

And the first goal scored on Italy (they scored on themselves against U.S.) comes in the form of a penalty kick. The same way they beat "mah boyz" in Portugal.

Poppycock, I say.

looks like AJ from the Backstreet boys?  I have no idea who he is, but I'm telling you, they could be brothers.

The Geneva conventions permit civilians to engage occupiers too.

this weekly standard piece by Noemie Emery:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/407mnukf.
asp

(h/t The Corner)

in repsonse to Peter Beinart's "Imaginary Democrats" (the Powerline gang's brilliant appellation)

Who and what is being described here?

"The judiciary is collaborating with the Islamist extremists and this verdict is politicized,"

Fits our own Courts rather well I'm afraid.

we are all witnesses.

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