Showing posts with label speech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label speech. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 September 2012

Fiona Apple addresses drug arrest in odd speech at concert

Earlier this week, Fiona Apple followed in the footsteps of Armie Hammer by getting arrested in Texas for marijuana possession, and everyone wondered why Texas was so obsessed with ruining everyone's good time. And the arts. At the very least, this

At a concert in Houston two days after her drug arrest, Fiona Apple opened up to her audience about the experience while alluding obscurely to some kind of wrongdoing by people involved in the arrest. Apple was busted on Wednesday in the border town of

The singer may face serious jail time in Texas thanks to a state law that classifies possession of any amount of hashish, no matter how small, as a third-degree felony.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Singer Fiona Apple opened up to fans during a concert in Houston in a bizarre speech about the night she spent in a Texas jail after being arrested for hashish possession last week. Apple, 35, began by apologizing to her jailer for

Fiona Apple says everyone at the Texas jail where she was booked for possession of marijuana treated her real nice everyone except FOUR PEOPLE — and…


Friday, 7 September 2012

Warren Falls Flat In Her DNC Speech

(CNN) — Elizabeth Warren, the White House consumer-protection adviser now running for a U.S. Senate seat from Massachusetts, ripped into the tax plan put out by Mitt Romney, the state's former governor, at the Democratic National Convention on

These are the prepared remarks of Elizabeth Warren, candidate in the 2012 United States Senate election in Massachusetts. Warren spoke Wednesday night at the DNC in Charlotte, NC: “Thank you! I'm Elizabeth Warren,

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In the fall of 2008, two weeks after Election Day, Harry Reid picked up the phone and called Elizabeth Warren, a little-known law professor with a background in consumer advocacy. We want you to run

She is, however, a person. (Jonathan Newton – THE WASHINGTON POST) So it turns out I'm a corporation. Wednesday night at the Democratic National Convention, Elizabeth Warren pointed out how to tell the difference between corporations and people.

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Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Residents across the Washington area moved by Michelle Obama's speech at …

Speech boosts Barack Obama standing on Internet. By Jill Serjeant. LOS ANGELES, Sept 5 (Reuters) – Michelle Obama wowed Americans with an emotional speech at the Democratic National Convention that set the Twitterverse alight with gushing praise

Michelle Obama will command the spotlight at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. on Tuesday night.

Michelle Obama will command the spotlight at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. on Tuesday night.

MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell joins fellow host Martin Bashir to discuss why First Lady Michelle Obama's definition of “success” made her speech so more successful than Ann Romney's – and then the dig into a new report about Paul Ryan's support for an

Sep. 5, 2012 – The first lady gives an emotional speech in which she details her early life with Barack Obama, dealing with student loan debt and raising their two girls. Obama addressed the Democratic National Convention on the first day of the


Commentary: Clint Eastwood's RNC speech was bad and ugly for Romney

He had a few things to say about Clint Eastwood's unforgettable RNC speech, talked about Twitter's effect on comedy and left us with such beautiful nuggets of truth as, "Sometimes you gotta put that phone down and go live your life." "Live At The

Clint Eastwood did more than make headlines with his bizarre speech at the Republican National Convention — he managed to make Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker cringe. Walker called the speech "that one moment,

During his speech at the Democratic National Convention this evening, Hollywood actor Kal Penn mocked fellow actor Clint Eastwood's speech at the Republican National Convention. “I've worked on a lot of fun movies but my favorite job was having a boss

The music couldn't have been more fitting when Clint Eastwood walked on the Republican National Convention stage to a rendition of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly's theme. Eastwood's speech, though, was more bad than ugly and far more ugly than good

On Thursday night, Clint Eastwood, the Academy Award-winning actor, director, and screenwriter, delivered one of the most bizarre political convention speeches in American history. Speaking without prepared remarks,


Commentary: Clint Eastwood's RNC speech was bad and ugly for Romney

He had a few things to say about Clint Eastwood's unforgettable RNC speech, talked about Twitter's effect on comedy and left us with such beautiful nuggets of truth as, "Sometimes you gotta put that phone down and go live your life." "Live At The

Clint Eastwood did more than make headlines with his bizarre speech at the Republican National Convention — he managed to make Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker cringe. Walker called the speech "that one moment,

During his speech at the Democratic National Convention this evening, Hollywood actor Kal Penn mocked fellow actor Clint Eastwood's speech at the Republican National Convention. “I've worked on a lot of fun movies but my favorite job was having a boss

The music couldn't have been more fitting when Clint Eastwood walked on the Republican National Convention stage to a rendition of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly's theme. Eastwood's speech, though, was more bad than ugly and far more ugly than good

On Thursday night, Clint Eastwood, the Academy Award-winning actor, director, and screenwriter, delivered one of the most bizarre political convention speeches in American history. Speaking without prepared remarks,


Monday, 3 September 2012

Obama still a fan of Clint Eastwood despite chair speech: President praises …

CLINT EASTWOOD'S CHAIR SPEECH: ACTOR UNLEASHES BIZARRE LECTURE AT RNC. When the USA Today reporter asked him if Eastwood had offended him with the on-stage antic, he said with a smile: “One thing about being president or running for

"It seems doubtful that Clint Eastwood made Mitt Romney's day with his speech during the Republican National Convention on Thursday. The acclaimed actor and

Hey, stranger things… Apparently, people think Clint Eastwood's speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night (above) was SO weird, awkward and cray cray that they're assuming it HAD to be part of his

It combined the rambling, torturous pace of J. Edgar, the oddball clairvoyance of Hereafter, and … that line from Dirty Harry. Clint Eastwood's speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention in Tampa was an anomaly befitting James Franco

Clint Eastwood's speech to the Republican National Convention has been panned as badly delivered and condemned as disrespectful. But it drew some of the most enthusiastic response of any speech at the three-day event.


Sunday, 2 September 2012

Obama still a fan of Clint Eastwood despite chair speech: President praises …

CLINT EASTWOOD'S CHAIR SPEECH: ACTOR UNLEASHES BIZARRE LECTURE AT RNC. When the USA Today reporter asked him if Eastwood had offended him with the on-stage antic, he said with a smile: “One thing about being president or running for

"It seems doubtful that Clint Eastwood made Mitt Romney's day with his speech during the Republican National Convention on Thursday. The acclaimed actor and

Hey, stranger things… Apparently, people think Clint Eastwood's speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night (above) was SO weird, awkward and cray cray that they're assuming it HAD to be part of his

It combined the rambling, torturous pace of J. Edgar, the oddball clairvoyance of Hereafter, and … that line from Dirty Harry. Clint Eastwood's speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention in Tampa was an anomaly befitting James Franco

Clint Eastwood's speech to the Republican National Convention has been panned as badly delivered and condemned as disrespectful. But it drew some of the most enthusiastic response of any speech at the three-day event.