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IMDB rating: 8.10 Plot: This film adaptation of the ‘Lillian Hellman’ (qv) play depicts a post-Civil War southern community where nothing is more important than money and power to Regina Giddens (’Bette Davis’ (qv)). In order to join her equally ruthless brothers in a scheme that is sure to gain her wealth and power, she uses her young, naive daughter to fetch her estranged, ailing husband who is living elsewhere. When she cannot convince her husband to give her the money, she sets forward a cunning plan which escalates. |
Actors: Marshall Herbert,Carlson Richard,Duryea Dan,Dingle Charles,Reid Carl Benton,Marriott John,Hicks Russell,Littlefield Lucien,Thomas Henry ‘Hot Shot’,Drama,Romance,
Was it a mistake for the GOP to let the cameras roll?
GOP aides telling me it was a mistake to allow cameras into Obama’s QA with GOP members. Allowed BO to refute GOP for 1.5 hours on TV
-Luke Russert
Late Thursday night, just hours before Obama?s appearance, an Obama staffer called Conference Chairman Mike Pence (R-Ind.) with a request: Would the GOP leadership mind if the press was allowed to remain during the Q-and-A?
Sources say that Republicans immediately realized the perils of giving Obama such a platform but had little choice but to say yes.
After all, they have been hammering him for failing to televise all health reform negotiations. Obama admitted Friday that it was a mistake, adding, ?I take responsibility.?
"Perhaps the most telling aspect of the speech reactions," writes David Weigel at the Washington Independent, is that "Fox News, alone among cable networks, cut away mid-broadcast and went to a newsless interview with Rep. Peter King (R-NY)."
How did he tie his own noose? Did you watch? He wasn’t disrespectful.
I don’t think you watched it JC.
No. Trust me, the American people needed to see Obama act the way he did. Obama and Rahm Emanuel probably think it’s cool to act like that as leaders of our country — decent Americans aren’t going to be pleased. Especially after how he publicly humiliated the Supreme Court Justices in the SOTU address.
sophie | Jan 30, 2010
Obama tied his own noose today in front of those rolling cameras, and the higher you guys prop him up, the farther he’s going to have to fall when the bottom finally drops out of it.
El Tecolote | Jan 30, 2010
No it wasn’t a mistake. The GOP needed to be exposed for the a_holes that they are. They are so close-minded and think they are so right that they can’t even see how out of touch they are.
Corwin B | Jan 30, 2010
No, it confirmed that Obama is a whiney, insecure, petulent lightweight. He even got owned by a freshman congressman from Utah.
Obama ended up looking like a mental patient in denial; a teenager-in-chief. He reminds me of that left-wing loner way back in college that snivelled in the back of Politics 101.
J.C. Grant | Jan 30, 2010
Yes, it was a huge political mistake. They knew that, and that is why FOX was the only network to cut the cameras. It’s pretty hard to keep up their lies when the President is proving they’re lying. Shedding light on things is the best way to dispel the lies, so this was a great triumph for the Democrats. That’s why FOX cut the light. Hehehehe. Gotta love it!
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iris054 | Jan 30, 2010
Anyone who thinks that Obama destroyed his credibility today is highly blinded by conservative propaganda. Obama did the best thing in the world today. He had the opportunity to refute republican claims as they were made. He made republicans look like the immature ones. If the GOP doesn’t start compromising now, the American people, at least the ones that aren’t psychotic or racist, will see the republicans for what they are…career politicians, whose only concerns are to get re-elected.
Josh | Jan 30, 2010
all obama needed was a little makeup… and his clown suit wud be perfect… obama called the supreme court stupid… and made up charges that were lies… why wud anyone want to listen to a liar … my fear is that someone will really think obama can tell the truth…
Dennis C | Jan 30, 2010
To bad, now they can’t say no to future events like this. Everyone will see them as cowardly if they do. Plus they wanted an open and televised session, that’s what they got. What are they going to do, say no we were wrong.
Republicans Incorporated | Jan 30, 2010