'Change' will be all that's left Oct 3, 2008
wtf wrote on Oct 1, 2008 8:36 AM:" Top notch letter, Bryan. You are absolutely right, we'll only be left with "chump" change. LOL! Since the bailout didn't pass the House, it's winding its way through the Senate today. Same thing will apply in my book: any senator who votes yes gets booted off the island when they come up for re-election. McNerney's already gone as far as I'm concerned.But I think your letter was written when the MSM talking heads were trying to tell us how Wall Street would... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
'Watchmen' Sneak Peek: A Shot-By-Shot Look At Jaw-Dropping New Footage Oct 3, 2008
He's in his apartment making a cup of tea, watching a "McLaughlin Group"-esque group of talking heads (including Eleanor Clift and Pat Buchanan. discuss the rising Russian aggression. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Your views: Economic turmoil Sep 25, 2008
Meanwhile, the CNBC talking heads tell me the only balance sheet big enough to absorb the mess made by Wall Street is the Congressional Balance Sheet code speak for the average taxpayers. And today my bank calls me to inform me my unused home-equity line of credit is terminated. (Florida Today)
Cable News Nets Profit Sep 22, 2008
The night before, on Comedy Centrals The Daily Show, Jon Stewart marveled at how CNBC had had to expand to an octobox screen to accommodate all of the financially attuned talking heads on the networks Power Lunch. . (TVweek.com)
People search for a safe place to put their money Sep 20, 2008
He flipped on TV hoping to hear something that would allay his fears about his deposits, but the talking heads only rattled him more. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. guarantees bank deposits up to $100,000 per person, per insured institution. (OregonLive, OR -- Business)
O'Brien's beat blog Sep 20, 2008
As did the cover of the Talking Heads Psycho Killer that the band does so well. They did just about everything off Isbell s great solo record 2007, Sirens of the Ditch. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
9/24: Vampire Weekend Sep 19, 2008
And so it's come to pass that Vampire Weekend has had to contend with a constant barrage of rock journalists falling back on two comparisons that appeared in that star-making posting in an effort to sum up the African side of their sound - Paul Simon's Graceland and Talking Heads ... Someone who'd actually listened to Vampire Weekend's self-titled debut would hear plenty of things going on that owe nothing to Graceland, Talking Heads or even the African records members of the band would point to... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Use Internet to get the answers Sep 19, 2008
The talking heads on TV like to start by blaming one party or another. Not a day goes by that I don't get a forwarded e-mail that is almost always misleading or even outright wrong. (Florida Times-Union)
Obama Invokes Rush Limbaugh in New Spanish-Language Ad... Sep 18, 2008
It was Right-wing radio and T.V. talking heads telling YOU ALL that Obama's people think he was a Messiah. Or have you forgotten your own smear campaign commercials. (The Drudge Report)
Bulldogs underrated Sep 18, 2008
The ESPN talking heads are so biased I sometimers wonder if their not catching a few dollars under the table to hype OSU - a periennial disappointment. Oh, Ryder. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Microsoft's Zune makes strides to catch Apple's iPod Sep 18, 2008
A Peter Gabriel square was surrounded by albums by Phil Collins and Talking Heads and squares for The Beatles (they influenced Gabriel) and Jon Hassell (Gabriel influenced him). Microsoft has a way to go to catch Apple. (USA Today -- Tech)
$85,000,000,000 to AIG Sep 17, 2008
The right-wing talking heads had a field day denouncing plumbers and painters, teachers and personal trainers threatened with foreclosure: Theyre idiots. Theyre losers. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Politics Blog: Obama needs Sister Soulja moment Sep 16, 2008
The charge may stick only because the media is in full "elect Obama" mode so the talking heads are trying to make it stick. Posted By: easttree | September 15 2008 at 12:42 PM. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Reality show hosts finally recognized by Emmys Sep 16, 2008
In a time when reality show hosting is filled with personality-deficient talking heads being commanded by off-screen producers, all five nominated hosts are talented. Still, four of the five have vastly different roles because, just as during the early years of the other reality TV-related categories, the Academy hasn't yet figured out the category's parameters. (MSNBC -- Terrorism)
Bradley's Buzz: Do Dawgs have fleas? Sep 16, 2008
My issue is the perception and I submit it s fueled more by the talking heads on ESPN than any written word that a ranked team has to Win Big or it hasn t really won at all ... Remember all of the talking heads say South Carolina s defense is one of the best in the nation ... And frankly, it all boils down to UGA wins out and all the talking heads are going to have to shut up and put them in the NC game. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Louisa May Alcott gets a biopic Sep 14, 2008
The movie intersperses talking heads commentary by current historians with actress Elizabeth Marvel, as Alcott, speaking directly to the camera and Jane Alexander, also in full 19th-century dress as Alcott's biographer Ednah Cheney, giving her insight. Alcott and Cheney's words are drawn from their own writing and other firsthand accounts. (Boston Globe)
8 great new wave classics Sep 14, 2008
Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings and Food ... But it worked for Talking Heads, whose Take Me to the River would quickly become the definitive version. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Idaho Supreme Court hears cases at BYU-I Sep 14, 2008
"Hopefully people will see the process and see that it's not like it is on TV or like some of the talking heads say it is," he said. "I would hope that they would understand that Idaho state government is run by a group of individuals who are trying to do the best job possible, and that goes for people in the executive, judicial and legislative branches.". (Rexburg Standard Journal, ID)
Bring Paper Back Sep 13, 2008
That's the gist of this preaching-to-the-converted documentary, which offers the testimony of dozens of talking heads and a great deal of circumstantial evidence to detail voting irregularities that have shaken the credibility of our democracy. Widely reported problems in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections focused public attention on the issue and provided plenty of fodder for conspiracy theorists. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Portrait Of An Artist Sep 13, 2008
Talking heads in Christina Clausen's documentary recall that dealers and friends exhorted Haring (1958-1990) to curtail his staggering productivity to enhance the market for his work. But he would not, or could not, or both. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Campaign shocks! The Outrage Machine is on a roll Sep 12, 2008
how many times has this same thing happened to a repub and the press and talking heads jump down his/her throat. " TheLurch wrote on Sep 10, 2008 3:47 PM:" Obama should just stop worrying about the truth so much and tell the American people anything they want to hear so he can get elected. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
Does the Truth Matter Anymore? Sep 10, 2008
Does the Truth Matter Anymore. - PostPartisan - Quick takes by The Post s opinion writers. (Washington Post)
Rasmussen: By 10-to-1 Public Says Reporters 'Trying to Hurt Palin' Sep 10, 2008
The CNN talking heads had a measured response to the video in comparison to their competitor at MSNBC Keith Olbermann, who took offense to how his network decided to show the Republicans' video. (See item #3 above). (MediaResearch.org)
The World's Only Bull Market Sep 10, 2008
No matter what the market does, you can open up your newspaper or turn on your TV and find talking heads with conflicting opinions on why "we've hit bottom" or why "the worst is yet to come." (Full disclosure: I sometimes find myself sitting in front a TV camera in that same role. But ask the biggest market Cassandras about how well their strategy of dumping U.S. dollars and assets and moving them into Chinese stocks and gold has served them this year. (Human Events Online)
Critic's Corner Sep 9, 2008
Robert Bianco: I don't really cover the coverage, except in rare circumstances - but I can tell you which network I generally watched: PBS, because it paid more attention to what was being said at the podium, and less to what was being spewed by its own talking heads. Boston, MA: Robert, I understand you are not a big fan of Prison Break, but hopefully you don't mind taking a question on the show. (USA Today -- Life)
Bridge to Nowhere? Sep 9, 2008
Yes, the mute button makes all talking heads shut tf up. Instead, read their body language to tell who s the doo-doo butt liar. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Candidates for 2008: They're preposterous! Sep 9, 2008
Let the Internet, the bloggers and the 24-hour news talking heads keep their names in the public eye ... " wtf wrote on Sep 6, 2008 7:57 AM:" Joe said: "Let the Internet, the bloggers and the 24-hour news talking heads keep their names in the public eye.". (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Favre's move does favor for CBS Sep 8, 2008
In the pregame chatter, NFL talking heads were all over the map. Esiason said he was "more skeptical than ever" that Favre would succeed. (USA Today -- Sports)
VMAs: The Top 10 Things You Didn't See On TV Sep 8, 2008
T-Pain played the game with the most gusto, taking turns on both the drum kit as well as the guitar on the Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer.". 4. (Billboard.com)
Richt: ESPN missed out on Knowshon Sep 8, 2008
Yes, this run should have been on ESPN. With that said, all Dog fans need to forget about polls, ESPN and its talking heads ... That was evident last year on the last weekend when all of the talking heads at ESPN immediately started knocking UGA and saying someone else should be in the NCG. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Pitts: Insight, wisdom abound in movie 'Katrina's Children' Sep 8, 2008
There is no narration, no talking heads, virtually no adults whatsoever. Instead, there are the children, drawing pictures of the day their city drowned, telling how it feels to leave or lose everything you've ever known, walking you through the debris and the detritus, weeping and wondering why it happened. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Huskies Had More Bite Than Expected Sep 8, 2008
An unencumbered observer listening to TV talking heads or reading headlines and these same message boards might think the penalty prevented Washington from winning the game. NOT. (TotalBlueSports.com)
Political junkies deal the smack Sep 8, 2008
And don't forget the gorgeous talking heads on TV who wear more makeup than a teenage girl in the school play. That proverbial white paste at the edges of the junkies' mouths is a sure sign of someone whose reasoning is based only on partisan political addiction. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
"O'Reilly" ambushes AJC's Tucker at home Sep 7, 2008
Why no Palin on the Sunday talking heads. I read today. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Forum: Towers' beat blog Sep 7, 2008
More than likely not because the talking heads at ESPN are in love with them and Southern Cal the other USC ... Still not one ounce of respect from any of the talking heads ... It s so sad that the talking heads have so much influence over the voters. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Sports)
Riding along in rural Missouri with future soldiers of Iraq war Sep 7, 2008
To The Talking Heads' "Wild, Wild Life," we watch American convoys getting blown up: a flash of orange, a Humvee rolls lamely to the side of the road, the monotone chant of "alahu akbar.". The next day at a training site, Pitts details proper technique for clearing rooms. (San Francisco Chronicle)
McClellan Saw Storm in White House Katrina Strategy Sep 6, 2008
I can understand, also, how people who live in an information age of 24 hours news programs and talking heads can think they are well informed about issues. However, if you read most of these posts these arent about issues, or facts, they are about feelings. (Yahoo News -- Tropical Storms and Hurricanes)
Can't get There from Here-The high road Sep 6, 2008
The hateful talking heads on the news channels will make you pull your hair out, but at least I can decline to watch those channels. But I can t keep John and Barack from invading the breaks between innings of my baseball game. (Billerica Minuteman, MA)
Crammed TV screens a strain on the brain? Sep 6, 2008
Ever since television executives decided viewers wanted screens crammed with banner headlines across the top, crawls along the bottom, talking heads in tiny boxes, moving graphics and unmoving logos, all of it pasted over a background of shape-shifting patterns, scientists and others have tried to figure out how well our brains are handling the information overload. They're still trying to figure it out. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Cosentino: Tone of coverage on TV changes Sep 5, 2008
Gone are the white wipe boards with magic markers, replaced by talking heads that seem to want to raise the volume level not that of the discourse and discussion. But then again, should we expect anything else from the networks that reward with air time the outbursts, jibes and quips of those they cover. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
David Cook to perform on 'Oprah' Sep 5, 2008
said that all the talking heads can find to say about her (in a negative way i assume) was that she had a gasp. speechwriter. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Loose Change Sep 5, 2008
Radio talking heads love to attach the flip-flopper label to politicians they dislike, but now it seems they'll be able to use it to describe one of their own. As the LAT points out, few conservatives seemed as happy with Palin's speech on Wednesday as , who has been famously unenthusiastic about a McCain candidacy but had been pushing for him to pick the Alaska governor as his running mate for some time. (Slate)
Thrillers and spills in the world of espionage Sep 4, 2008
David Byrne of Talking Heads fame takes his creative flair and love of cycling to the streets. Essential Baby The saying goes 'never work with children or animals' but can you live with both. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Dear Editor: Senator McCain not bad Sep 4, 2008
How many times did CNN and other talking heads repeat Bill Clinton's White House debauchery during Hillarie's campaign. And, there are reports that his philandering continues, but no detailed reports by CNN.. (Heber Springs Sun-Times, AR)
The Heron's Nest: The GOP's St. Paul-i Girl Sep 4, 2008
No, not the storms, the talking heads trying to describe them. The Phillies really needed Cole Hamels last night. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
Sarah Palin Wows Convention! Sep 4, 2008
Some talking heads may even crow that this splendid performance shows Palin is ready to be president, should tragedy befall President McCain. Don't believe a word of it. (Slate)
Roger Stone: Chris Matthews Aims for Senate Run Sep 4, 2008
But Stone isn't merely decrying Matthews' double role as commentator and Senate hopeful, he says he's going to take steps to stymie the MSNBC talking head's political hopes, saying that he plans to start a new 527 committee called MOUTH, the Movement Opposing Unqualified Talking Heads. The committee will collect, review and organize everything Matthews has said or written in his public career in preparation for television ads introducing the real Chris Matthews to Pennsylvania voters. (Newsmax)
Joe Biden Needs an Off Button Sep 4, 2008
One of the innumerable TV talking heads made the prescient observation last week that Sen. Joe Biden doesnt have an off button. (Newsmax)
The Game, David Byrne have new CDs Sep 3, 2008
David Byrne and Brian Eno, Everything That Happens Will Happen TodayReprising a creative partnership that yielded several classic Talking Heads albums and 1981s My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, David Byrne and Brian Eno are taking the digital/self-release route for their latest pairing. Working via e-mail, Eno constructed the instrumentation and Byrne crafted the lyrics and melodies. (MSNBC -- Music)
F Yeah Music Fest Sep 3, 2008
Abe Vigoda played a set of highly inventive songs with rollicking rhythms, echo- drenched guitars, dub-thick bass lines and yelping dual vocals that put their sound somewhere between Sonic Youth, Talking Heads and calypso music. However, the jam-packed audience never let their hipster-selves get too lost in the danceable grooves and instead, remained polite and patient even when one of the guitar players took a few minutes to change a broken string. (Variety)
Drowning in crocodile tears Sep 3, 2008
That doesn t bother me as much as the AJC (along with other Liberal fish wrappers and talking heads) not doing their job and posing the tough questions to their Savior, Barack Obama. I guess they don t want to be Stephanopoulosed. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Letters for Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Sep 3, 2008
We hear the talking heads on radio and TV giving all sorts of analyses, quoting polls and pundits, and filling the air with high sounding rhetoric. What we don t hear very often is the truth of the matter. (Missoulian, MT)
The Sarah Palin Show Sep 3, 2008
(This mostly means that TV talking heads must resort to heated media criticism in order to talk about the pregnancyand also that the girl will possibly be spared the airing of her sonograms. Palin's infant son is, however, not just in-bounds but a. (Slate)
LETTERS: NCT, Sept. 1, 2008 Sep 2, 2008
It brings the time back to me when most conservatives, and ALL the right wing talking heads from Hannity to Coulter, were up in arms warning Republicans not to touch John McCain with a ten foot pole ... to HUH wrote on Sep 1, 2008 4:20 PM:You are a veritable parrot of the right wing talking heads. (North County Times)
Jabs 'right-wing nutcase' who recorded him... Sep 1, 2008
Political Radar: Ex-Dem Chair Apologizes for Hurricane Remark. Ex-Dem Chair Apologizes for Hurricane Remark. (The Drudge Report)
NYC Neighborhoods: Turtle Bay Sep 1, 2008
If you want to see the talking heads from your favorite TV national news show, stop into PJ Clarke's for at 55th and Third, also just slightly out of the neighborhood, but worth it. The restaurant also has great burgers. (Suite101.com)
DVD Report: This week's new releases (Aug. 31) Aug 31, 2008
Morgen stitches together historical footage without resorting to narration or talking heads ... It does so through period footage (much of it riveting), newly shot material, and talking heads ... Unfortunately, these stories get buried among too many talking heads (Nicholas is one) and a larger, diffuse account of the devastation the war wrought. (Boston Globe)
Lost treasures Aug 29, 2008
Brian Trenchard-Smith wrote and directed numerous wild action films, including The Man From Hong Kong and the notorious Turkey Shoot (described by Britain's TimeOut magazine as "Turkey shite, more like"), and is one of many eloquent talking heads interviewed in Not Quite Hollywood. He sums up Hartley's film perfectly. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Why your newspaper, and local Web site, are struggling Aug 28, 2008
wtf wrote on Aug 27, 2008 2:15 PM:" 1 voice what you write "sounds good" and is how is **used to be** many moons ago; however, the way the "news" has been reported in recent years by the MSM leaves a LOT to be desired. There is too much spin, opinion, "talking heads", "experts" and focus on fluff i.e., Brittainy, Madonna, etc., in other words, garbage, and no real hard news - presented in an objective manner - for people to read and make their own decisions. ". wtf wrote on Aug 27, 2008 2:10... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Biden -- and Kerry and Clinton -- go on the attack Aug 28, 2008
This campaign will not be decided by whether the columns that will surround Obama Thursday night are Ionic or Doric; the overhyped theatrics surrounding the roll-call vote for president will not matter in November; nor will the verdict of the electorate depend on the vaporous punditry of TV talking heads. It will all come down to the choice that voters with loose party allegiances make between Obama and McCain. (Salon)
Insight, wisdom in Katrinas Children Aug 27, 2008
There is no narration, no talking heads, virtually no adults whatsoever. Instead, there are the children, drawing pictures of the day their city drowned, telling how it feels to leave or lose everything you ve ever known, walking you through the debris and the detritus, weeping, and wondering why it happened. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Newsweek: TV pundits should get out of the way Aug 27, 2008
Instead, talking heads were talking to other talking heads about Hillary's dead-enders, or some other overblown story, at self-parodying length ... Comment: Exactly, they are talking over the very people that we tuned in to hear ( and it wasn't the talking heads). (MSNBC -- Politics)
Grow up, Hillary supporters Aug 27, 2008
listen up - currently white america is sitting back smiling and offering no resitance or arugument to black america as black america is already celebrating obama s election (with the exception of the talking heads on tv and radio) ... The talking heads will break her speech down and infer as much negativity they can dream up into it to SCARE WHITEY. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Democratic Convention Ratings Fall From 2004 Aug 27, 2008
I watched CSPAN because I didn't feel the need to listen to pontificating talking heads. There was nothing these self involved blowhards could add that wasn't something they have already said, probably ad nauseum. (TVweek.com)
On Your Mind Aug 27, 2008
I guess like many such talking heads he does not know that Russia was the Soviet Union. Keep the Diana West column and dump the (Maria Elena) Salinas column. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)