Republicans are concerned that they could lose an open Senate seat in Georgia, vacated by retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss – particularly with two Todd Akin-esque candidates, Paul Broun and, to a lesser degree, Phil Gingrey, in the race.From the Associated Press:The question is whether a bruising party primary becomes a liability, particularly if voters nominate U.S. Rep. Paul Broun, who once called evolution and the Big Bang Theory “lies straight from the pit of hell.” Broun and U.S. Rep. Phil Gingrey, both conservative physicians, are the only Republicans to announce officially since incumbent Saxby Chambliss said he will retire. But the GOP primary field eventually could include as many as a half-dozen candidates with a credible shot at a runoff spot.”There’s no question that the Republican Party in Georgia and the nation are concerned that we could have another Todd Akin-type scenario here,” Heath Garrett, a GOP campaign consultant and former aide to Sen. Johnny Isakson, told the AP.Continue Reading… … Read More
Republicans split on gun control filibuster
As more Republican senators, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, announce that they will support a filibuster of gun control legislation, a few outliers have said that they disagree with blocking a vote.Most recently, Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., said he thinks there should be a “vote up or down.”“I’ll speak for myself on that question,” he said on CBS’s “This Morning.” “There’s no ambivalence on the gun issue, I think everyone knows what the issues are. We have not seen the final draft of the legislation that was produced, I understand, last night, but I think it deserves a vote up or down.”Continue Reading… … Read More
Jim Carrey’s anti-gun music video: Charlton Heston had an ‘itty-bitty gland’
Crooning like Johnny Cash in a satirical music video published Monday by comedy website Funny or Die, actor Jim Carrey mocks gun enthusiast and actor Charlton Heston, claiming his famous remarks about prying a gun from his “cold dead hands” kept him out of heaven, and also means he…
Jay Leno’s new role? NBC insult comic — and the network’s not amused
There’s a long tradition of late-night hosts biting the hand that feeds them and making fun of their networks — it’s a good way to show you have a little edge. Johnny Carson would zing NBC, while David Letterman has made sport of dull old CBS for as long as he’s been there. Conan O’Brien even jokes about his basic-cable bosses at TBS — you’d have thought that might be a sore subject.But Jay Leno, somehow, may be crossing a line on “The Tonight Show.” Some three years after his reinstatement as that program’s host and the dismissal of O’Brien, the host has called NBC executives “snakes” and, last night, mocked the network’s bottom-of-the-barrel ratings. (Indeed, late night and the evening news broadcasts are the only elements of the schedule NBC consistently wins.) David Letterman’s jokey prank phone calls with CBS president Les Moonves this isn’t; indeed, NBC head Robert Greenblatt has reportedly asked Leno to desist.Continue Reading… … Read More
Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr releases video for new single
Known in recent years for work with Modest Mouse and The Cribs, the legendary former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has been hard at work on a new type of project: a solo album called “The Messenger.” Boasting 12 tracks, the album is written and produced by Marr alone, who also supplies the vocals and guitar. Today, NME.com has released a video for “Upstart,” the fourth track on the album. Give it a listen below:”The Messenger” is due out on Feb. 26.Continue Reading… … Read More
Wheel Of Fortune FAIL: I Have The Wine By Johnny Cash (VIDEO)
Sure, not everyone is familiar with all of Johnny Cash’s hits, but this one should have been pretty obvious. Not that this contestant’s version wouldn’t have been an equally great song.Read More…
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Johnny Marr: I don’t talk to Morrissey
If Morrissey’s continued insistence that the Smiths will never reunite hasn’t convinced you, perhaps this will: Johnny Marr tells the Guardian that the two have not spoken in years.”We don’t have any reason to, to be honest,” he says, with a touch of glumness. When Marr remastered the Smiths’ back catalogue two years ago, he emailed Morrissey (along with all his ex-bandmates) saying he could hear the love in the music, but didn’t hear back. “It was a nice way to leave it, I think,” he considers, tiptoeing carefully around too much discussion of his former partner. “You can only try and be friendly with someone for so long without getting anything back. … When Marr started Electronic with Bernard Sumner, Morrissey opined: “He’s replaced me. I’m not sure what with.” Does Marr think he still feels betrayed? “You never know. I don’t have any weirdness about it, or any of them.”Marr, who has a new solo album out later this year that embraces his distinctive sound, after years of hiding from his legacy, says the band did not necessarily have to split when it did in 1987. A meeting which ultimately led to his departure from the band, he says, was really only a plea for a vacation.Continue Reading… … Read More
