David Von Pein: Meet The Press: Senator John F. Kennedy (October, 1960)

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Erik Schneider

 

Source:The New Democrat 

The early 1960s was one of the hottest periods of the Cold War (no pun intended) and spending the first ten minutes of Meet The Press talking about China and other communist activities in Asia should be no surprise to anyone familiar with this period. Senator Kennedy who is a political hero of mine and perhaps my number one political hero and a big reason why I am a New Democrat. But he sounded on the defensive on the issue of Asia and China’s influence in Southeast Asia. And seem to want to move past that issue by saying that “Richard Nixon and I agree on this issue”.

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Joe Pyne Interviews Jack Anderson (April, 6, 1969)

Posted on August 26, 2014 by kireschneider


Source:The New Democrat 

Jack Anderson was a Washington columnist and a watchdog of Congress and wrote columns and did investigations with his partner Drew Pearson about what they saw as potential Congressional corruption. And I guess Senator Thomas Dodd of Connecticut was one of Mr. Anderson’s victims. Senator Dodd was accused of political corruption, by using his own campaign funds for his personal use. As Joe Pyne said in the video Senator Dodd claimed poverty, but as Anderson said “the man lived like a millionaire”. And the Senate agreed with that and censured the Senator in 1967.

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David Von Pein: Video: U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy Townhall, April 19, 1968

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Derik Schneider


The New Democrat

If you listen to Senator Robert F. Kennedy talk about the Vietnam War in 1968, it is not that different from how Barack Obama sounded about the Iraq War when he was running for president in 2007-08. And how President Obama now sounds about the Iraq War now. “We can help and we should help where we can, but at the end of the day this is their country and their war and they need to fight it and win it if they can”. Just replace Vietnam with Iraq and you have two different men from two different generations talking about two different wars, but they sound very similar.

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The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder: Ayn Rand (1979)

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Ederik Schneider


Source:The New Democrat 

Tom Snyder trying to learn about Ayn Rand’s objectivism and in this interview they are getting into religion. And Ayn telling Tom that “religion is wrong and not for people who base their beliefs on religion”. And that is probably putting it nicely. Snyder was a lifelong Catholic, so probably hearing Ayn Rand who was what I would call a fundamentalist Atheist talking about why she doesn’t like religion is probably hard for him to hear. But that is why Snyder did these interviews to learn about how others think even when he disagrees with them.

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Bob Parker: ABC News Nightline (October 1980) Presidential Campaign

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Rik Schneider


Source:The New Democrat 

By 1980, but probably much further back then that going back to 1968 or 64 TV and TV news especially was already a huge factor in how Americans got their political news and other current affairs news. Because even by 1980 ABC News, NBC News and CBS News broadcast news was the really the only game in town when it came to TV broadcast news coverage from. There was radio, but most Americans got their radio news in the car and not so much at home except when they are getting ready to go to bed or getting ready for work in the morning.

CNN was the only cable news network on TV and they were just getting started in 1980 and C-SPAN again had just gotten started and them along with CNN probably had about the same amount of viewers as PBS. This was way before the whole menu of cable news networks and so-called news networks like FNC, MSNBC and RT. This was also pre-internet, so of course there were no blogs and as a result the print publishing business was in much better shape with newsmagazines and newspapers. So broadcast TV news was the leader at this point in how Americans got their news.

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The Jack Paar Show: Senator John F. Kennedy (1960)

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Erik Schneider

 

Source:The New Democrat 

Jack Kennedy running for president in 1960 because he thought it was the most important job in the world. And that if he was going to be able to do the most for his country, serving in Congress even both in the House and Senate that he did for a total of fourteen-years in Congress was not going to be good enough. That he needed to be President of the United States and that America needed to be an example in the world when it came to freedom and take the lead in showing the dangerous effects of communism.

There are more reasons why Jack Kennedy ran for president in 1960. He thought the country was starting to fall behind Russia in some key areas like with exploring outer space and perhaps in technology and influence in the world. And that the Eisenhower Administration had felt satisfied with how things were going in the country, which is how Senator Kennedy felt. And that America needed to get moving again and he believed he was the person to get America moving again.

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Joe Pyne Interviews Governor Lester Maddox

Posted on August 25, 2014 by kireschneider


Source:The New Democrat 

Joe Pyne to the left of Lester Maddux in this interview. Which just goes to show you that there’s a certain point for smart right-wingers as far as how they’ll go even when it comes to how we treat criminals and convicted inmates when they say, “enough is enough, these people are people to and deserve to be treated like human beings. Criminals and inmates sure, but that doesn’t mean treating people even inmates like animals, but people in prison that deserve the respect of being treated like a human being”.

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David Von Pein: Richard Nixon On The Jack Paar Show in (1963)

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Rik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat 

Nixon actually showing a human side of him. A likable funny side that if he showed more people in public  and in private, especially with his taping system, instead of coming off as a mean old, well dick (pun intended) he would’ve been more popular in public and in the media and would’ve had an easier time politically. And would’ve gotten more positive attention for his laundry list of accomplishments and Watergate probably never happens, let alone needed to be covered up, or brought out in the open. Because he would’ve ended up liking and trusting more people with the same feelings towards him from others.

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Al Pacino: Any Given Sunday (1999) ‘The Game of Inches’

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Erik Schneider

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Source:NFL Films– apparently this scene was inspired by Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi.

Source:The New Democrat

“Al Pacino – Any Given Sunday – Peace by Inches”

From PSTIV-THNKN 

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Source:Fight Back– Al Pacino as Miami Sharks head coach Tony Damato.
From Fight Back

Al Pacino from Any Given Sunday playing Miami Sharks head coach Tony Damato (which I believe was the name of his character) explaining to his football team that life isn’t just a game of inches, but football is as well. And that every inch and every play is important and can end up being the difference between losing a game and winning the game. And the most important games are where each play in the game are that much more important: “What if I only made that tackle, or made that block, or made that catch, saw that defender before I threw the ball and get it picked off.”

Life and football perhaps especially is a game of inches and plays. Not one inch, or one play, but you add them all up and they become crucial. And the bigger the game is, or the situation in life, the better you have to play and the fewer plays you are able to take off. Because every mistake and come back and bite you in the ass and leave asking a bunch of what ifs. Which is why you have to play every play like it is not just important, but crucial. The difference between winning and advancing and losing and going home. And that was Tony Damato’s message in this scene.

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The LBJ Library: President Lyndon Johnson’s Meeting With Governor George C. Wallace, 3/18/65

Posted on August 24, 2014 by kireschneider


Source:The New Democrat 

President Lyndon Johnson talking about the need for Alabama Governor George C. Wallace’s need to enforce the law in Alabama. And in this case the law was a Federal court order that said civil rights marchers in Alabama had a right to march and that Alabama was responsible for keeping the peace and keep order in Alabama. What Governor Wallace I believe was trying to tell the President was that keeping order during this march would be difficult. And what President Johnson was saying was that he would help him do that in anyway he can.

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