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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Michelle Shocked to discuss anti-gay comments on Internet radio
Posted by Kevin Allman on Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:26 AM
Folk singer Michelle Shocked, whose anti-gay comments at a San Francisco concert last Sunday night made worldwide headlines after fans walked out and the venue pulled the plug on her mic, will appear on an Internet radio show tomorrow morning to discuss the incident.
Shocked, a former New Orleans resident who performed at the 2011 Jazz & Heritage Festival and local venues around town (most recently a gig at Chickie Wah Wah in November), had much of her upcoming tour canceled after her remarks, which reportedly included her belief that the overturn of California's Proposition 8 (which put a ban on same-sex marriage in the state Constitution) would result in the return of Jesus Christ. (Time reported the story with the headline "Singer Who Everyone Thought Was a Lesbian Spews Anti-Gay Hate at Concert.")
Shocked, now a self-described fundamentalist Christian, has taken to Twitter to explain, somewhat, that her remarks were taken out of context and misquoted. "Am neither against a woman's right to choose nor gay marriage. Am a fundamentalist tho," she explained. "Most don't even know what my 'views on Gays' are. What is reported to be my views on Gays isn't," she added, as well as "Just my usual troublemaking, at the expense of dear friends who trust me, even when I appear to be gay-bashing."
She is scheduled to appear on The Nicole Sander Show on RadioOrNot.com Thursday morning at 10 a.m., where she'll certainly be asked about exchanges like this:
Monday, March 18, 2013
Report: Michelle Shocked tells concert audience "God hates fags," denounces same-sex marriage
Posted by Kevin Allman on Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:28 AM
The crowd had come, presumably, to hear songs like “Come a Long Way” and “On the Greener Side,” which got airplay on MTV back in the day. (“Greener Side” was even up for a VMA against Madonna’s “Vogue.”)Instead they were treated to a tirade that allegedly included Shocked announcing “God hates fags.”
Matt Penfield, who was live-tweeting the show from onstage called her rant, delivered during her second set, “totally sincere [and] super anti-gay and hateful.”
We’re still trying to get the full text of her speech, but apparently she told fans “you can go on twitter and say Michelle Shocked said ‘God hates fags.’”
Another Twitter user posted that Shocked “said she lives in fear that the world will be destroyed if gays are allowed to marry.”
Friday, March 15, 2013
VIDEO: Bobby Jindal speaks at CPAC
Posted by Kevin Allman on Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:00 PM
Gov. Bobby Jindal spoke at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) annual meeting today in a speech that appears to have been a mashup of a January speech to the Republican National Committee and some of the jokes from his turn at the dais at last weekend's Gridiron Club roast in Washington, D.C.
Among the topics of Jindal's jokes: his skinny frame vs. the not-skinny frame of N.J. Gov. Chris Christie, Jindal's Indian-American heritage and waterboarding. Take it away, Atlantic Wire:
The speech delivered by the Republican Governor of Louisiana at the Conservative Political Action Committee on Friday afternoon borrowed heavily — literally paragraph by verbatim paragraph — from his January 24 speech at the Republican National Committee's winter meeting in Charlotte, where Jindal implored his colleagues to "stop being the stupid party" in a forceful speech otherwise seen as bolstering his 2016 credentials. ...Preceding the prepared remarks, Jindal delivered a series of jokes drawing attention to his frame, his ethnicity, and the supposed racism of either political party, among other touchy subjects.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Friday, February 15, 2013
CNN: Lack of communication aboard Carnival Triumph = Hurricane Katrina
Posted by Kevin Allman on Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:18 AM
Last night I saw a bloated vessel filled with crap dock in Mobile, Ala. — but enough about CNN. The story, of course, was the arrival of the Carnival cruise ship Triumph, which had an engine failure that stranded it in the Gulf of Mexico and turned it into the Good Ship Lollipoop for a few days.
But for CNN's Martin Savidge, the lack of communication aboard the ship was equivalent to the lack of communication on the ground in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures ...
SAVIDGE: blah blah blah Hurricane Katrina blah blah I assume it's something very similar.PASSENGER: Yeah, but let's put that in perspective. I mean, Katrina was a major devastation. We're on a friggin' cruise ship, and we're just havin' a good time, so ... Two different things. Two different things.
CNN has mostly moved on to the Russian meteor story, but if you still want tales from the S.S. Hurricane Katrina, CNN.com still offers "Video: 'Everyone will need psychological help'", "Parisa Safarzadeh shares her account of the hellish trip on the Carnival Triumph" and the popular "Passenger video: Sewage on walls."
UPDATE: It seems that one of the charter buses bringing passengers from Mobile to New Orleans broke down on I-10, and those on board had to wait nearly an hour for a replacement bus, which must have been like Superstorm Sandy.
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Q: What was the best part of the Super Bowl?
Posted by Kevin Allman on Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:51 AM
The Winnipeg Sun asked its readers what they thought was the best part of the Super Bowl ...
Agreed.
Monday, December 10, 2012
Roundtabling and logrolling
Posted by Kevin Allman on Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:41 PM
Corporate Realty newsletter, Sept. 6, "NOLA Media Group Leases Top Floors of One Canal Place":
Mike Siegel represented NOLA Media Group in its office space search and lease negotiations in One Canal Place, which is managed by Corporate Realty. “This is a significant lease that will establish a major presence for one of the leading businesses in our region in the Central Business District,” Siegel said. “It continues the momentum of leasing activity with another major company making a commitment to New Orleans, and especially to the CBD of New Orleans, on the heels of the recent GE and Ochsner announcements,” Siegel said.
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NOLA.com, Oct. 3, "NOLA Media Group signs long-term lease in downtown Baton Rouge":
Michael J. Siegel, president and director of leasing with Corporate Realty, said NOLA Media Group's commitment to Baton Rouge includes a long-term lease. The space will be gutted, then designed and constructed to best fit Nola Media Group's operational, aesthetic and technical needs. Siegel added that the build-out will be an asset to the building and to downtown. "This move, which has been in the works for the past six months, is a clear commitment by NOLA Media Group that they intend to invest in the communities they serve," Siegel said. "One American Place is a great location for them to implement and expand their Baton Rouge initiatives."
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NOLA.com, Dec. 9: "Meet The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com community Roundtable":
Publisher Ricky Mathews last week convened The Times-Picayune/NOLA.com Roundtable for its inaugural meeting. Fourteen leaders in business, health care, education, the arts and other arenas came together for a two-hour conversation about the issues they believe are most important for our region. There are 19 leaders in all who have agreed to be a part of the Roundtable, which will meet every other month.We believe these sessions will be invaluable to our work. We expect to gain insights we otherwise might not have. We expect to be prodded and, sometimes, chided. We expect input from Roundtable members to point us to compelling stories and inspire us to write editorials. And we expect our readers to benefit from the collective wisdom of this group. ...
Meet the members of the Roundtable ...
Mike Siegel, president of Corporate Realty in New Orleans. He chairs the board of Metairie Park Country Day School and is a board member of the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Bobby Jindal, newly compassionate conservative, gives interview to Politico
Posted by Kevin Allman on Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:20 AM
- FLICKR/DONKEY HOTEY
- Gov. Bobby Jindal
The GOP is still reckoning the reasons for its losses on Election Day one week ago, and two general but contradictory schools of thought have emerged among the chattering classes:
1. Mitt Romney (and the downticket candidates) were too hardline on social issues, scaring off moderate potential swing voters.
2. Mitt Romney spent too much time trying to "appease" moderates rather than satisfy the already-energized tea party wing of the GOP.
Jindal, a skilled political sailor who can tack into the slightest change in the current wind, provided Politico with a series of remarkable quotes, characterized by Martin thusly:
Jindal urged Republicans to both reject anti-intellectualism and embrace a populist-tinged reform approach that he said would mitigate what exit polls show was one of President Barack Obama’s most effective lines of attack against Mitt Romney.
(Meanwhile, Slate calls it "Bobby Jindal's Plan To Reposition The GOP On Economics Without Changing Any Of Their Economic Policies.")
Oh, and the new head of the Republican Governors' Association still "has the best job in the world." But what's he saying about a 2016 Presidential run?
Quotes under the jump ...
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
A Tale of Two Headlines (and one tweet)
Posted by Kevin Allman on Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:24 PM
Five minutes later ...
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