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jodymarie aimee's JournalCNNs Patty Hearst Docuseries Shows Surprising Depth
CNN’s Patty Hearst Docuseries Shows Surprising Depth
Jeffrey Toobin's book on the kidnapped heiress was a mess. This telling is much better..I had left Berkeley by the time this happened. Have always been fascinated by the story. So far, this CNN series is brilliant. Opens with the real Steven Weed. Whoa...then the real Bill Harris narrating. No wonder Patty no likey.
There was no reason to expect anything different from The Radical Story of Patty Hearst. But, startlingly, Toobin proves himself a much better storyteller when the medium is video, at least for the first five hours or so.
A large part of that is due to the surprising presence of a couple of long-silent participants in the Hearst drama. One is Steven Weed, Hearst's fiancé (and, ahem, former high school math teacher) at the time of her kidnapping.
To many of the Americans following the case, Weed seemed a sketchy character from the beginning, a sexual wastrel in search of teenage nookie and a lifetime lunch ticket from a rich daddy.
The impression was bolstered in the tapes Hearst sent from underground proclaiming her conversion, which described him in progressively more brutal terms until cutting him loose as "a sexist, ageist pig" that she never wanted to see again. Up close, the picture got worse; Weed, in those days, apparently had some quality that his acquaintances found extraordinarily grating.
I've bumped into a number of them over the years and they all behave much like the proprietor of a hole-in-the-wall used book store in Southern California did when he saw me picking up a battered old copy of a book Weed wrote about the Hearst case. "I lived down the hall from Steve at Princeton," he said, shaking his head. "What an asshole!"
Why Weed, now a sunken-cheeked old man nearing 70, would want to put himself back in the line of this fire is a perplexing question. But he actually acquits himself quite well, relating small details of his life with Hearst that turn her from a tabloid caricature to the cute, charming teenager she really was. Weed even—rather gallantly, under the circumstances—defends her, decrying the portrait of a spoiled rich kid taking a walk on the wild side painted by Toobin: "I think it's not that simple."
The other surprise guest is William Harris, a bluff ex-marine who was part of the SLA team that grabbed Hearst and styled himself "General Teko" in the group's grandiloquent communiqués.
OBAMA just started speaking...oh my, magnificent man...
He just said We miss you guys, they laughed and clapped......please get a clip of this later today. Thanked the artist for capturing the grace, beauty, intelligence and HOTNESS of the woman I love...
Oh we miss YOU, beautiful man.
This man does not have the mental hardware for the job he holds..John Dean
JohnWDean
WaPo analysis shows Trump spends more time watching Fox News than LISTENING (forget reading, he doesn't do that) his daily intelligence briefings. This man does not have the mental hardware for the job he holds!
fauxianity...Lizz Winstead has a new word for Daddy Huckabee
Gov. Mike HuckabeeVerified
It's telling that leftists who think aborting babies is a "good" thing and will "save the planet" weren't aborted by their parents and even have THEIR own children. Elitist and twisted. Sad, sick, and yes, Satanic!
Lizz Winstead Retweeted Gov. Mike Huckabee
What is "Telling?" This gibberish you have cobbled together for this tweet is a cesspool of fauxianity.
Free Market Strikes In Green Bay..this is so lovely...he comes on locally at 9AM...precedes Rush.
Free Market Strikes In Green Bay..this is so lovely...he comes on locally (central WI)at 9AM...precedes Rush. Disgusting man.
Karma bides it’s time. You will always have to watch out. Karma is unforgiving and always gets payback.– Benjamin Bayani
Jerry Bader, the right wing hate talker from Green Bay, who has a career of racism, sexism and flat out lies, was let go from his daily spewing hatred radio show.
While Bader says it is because he is a never trumper, the reality is he is a small fish in a big pond and always thought of himself as a Muskie.
His perpetual attempts to be a poor mans Charlie Sykes, turned out to be more worthy of pity than audience share.
In an era where businesses are cutting costs and employees, one where Republicans like to tout the free market when hundreds get laid off, was bitten by the same bug that has brought him so much joy these last few years.
His radio show was boring stale and unimaginative. While his old employer still has hate talkers, Rush, Levin and Hannity are still being played on the airwaves, the station does not have to provide them with insurance, benefits or expenses.
The free market in action.
When Charlie Sykes defends you, there is nothing else that needs to be said!
Charlie Sykes?
@SykesCharlie
Bader was a courageous, principled voice, who refused to join other talkers on Trump train despite threats from management. #Respect
Bader has another job. he works for Mediatrackkkers(which is part of the wing nut welfare system of WI). In the history of their ridiculous blog, no one who has written for them has ever had even an inkling of principle.
Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
Justice today, was served!
The Law of Karma is also called the Law of Cause and Effect, Action and Reaction and: as you sow, so shall you reap.– Sham Hinduja
Posted by Jeff Simpson at 12:34:00 PM
Labels: Charlie Sykes, green bay, Jerry bader, Karma, mediatrackers, WTAQ
If you want nasty things done, you hire nasty people. Thats how criminal syndicates thrive.
It should no longer be a surprise to people that Caveman Trump would hire a man like Porter, who’s accused of beating his wives. If you want nasty things done, you hire nasty people. That’s how criminal syndicates thrive. Jim Carey.
The United States government did this..Sarah Silverman.
The United States government did this..Sarah Silverman.
@CNN With nothing but the clothes on his back and less than $300 in his pocket, this 'pillar of the community' was put on a plane and deported to Jordan after living in the United States for nearly 40 years.
Need help contacting Holder/Obama project RE: Wisconsin Assembly
I was thrilled to learn that the Holder/Obama initiative is going to work in my state of WI, but my Rep told me yesterday they will campaign for Gov and Senate, but Assembly is on their own. Do any of you brilliant DUs know how I could contact Holder and ask him why. Our assembly is totally R.....due to gerrymandering....
Bay View is for many an idyllic community, only practicing Christians can own property
Bay View is for many an idyllic community – but a lawsuit will test its rule that only practicing Christians can own property.
Prospective homeowners, according to a bylaw introduced in 1947 and strengthened in 1986, are required to produce evidence of their faith. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo
Tucked away in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, somewhere along the winding roads that hug Great Lakes shores, is an idyllic town named Bay View. For more than a century, generations of “Bay Viewers” have congregated here to share in summer activities.
What started out as a modest camping ground for Methodist families 140 years ago has quietly developed into a stunning vacation spot for people who can afford the upkeep of a second home. Streets named Moss, Fern and Maple are dotted with impeccably maintained century-old gingerbread cottages. Over the horizon, residents can watch lifelong friends sail their boats across the water.
But this paradise is not open to all.
In Bay View, only practicing Christians are allowed to buy houses, or even inherit them.
Prospective homeowners, according to a bylaw introduced in 1947 and strengthened in 1986, are required to produce evidence of their faith by providing among other things a letter from a Christian minister testifying to their active participation in a church.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/feb/09/christians-only-town-bay-view-michigan?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+Collections+2017&utm_term=263514&subid=17536001&CMP=GT_US_collection
WTF? THE HILL: Will the FISA memo turn into Obama's Watergate? By Sebastian Gorka
I get THE HILL in my inbox daily...I thought it was a good source...why are they publishing this crap?
Will the FISA memo turn into Obama's Watergate?
By Sebastian Gorka
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