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Rosalea Barker: Three Little Magic Words
Friday, 24 November 2000, 9:25 am | Rosalea Barker
Let's talk turkey. After all, I am writing this on the second to last Thursday of November so it's a bird on everybody's mind, if not already on their lips. One even got granted clemency by the President in a televised ceremony at the White House ... More >>
US Elections: The Only Game In Town
Monday, 20 November 2000, 8:36 am | Rosalea Barker
It's the only game in town. The Stanford-Cal college football Battle for the Axe, of course. It's early Saturday afternoon here in sunny Berkeley and the streets are running red with Stanford supporters - even the florist shops have corsages in either ... More >>
US Elections: PR Nightmare
Thursday, 16 November 2000, 9:37 am | Rosalea Barker
There is no other news. If Brunei was hoping for a surge in American tourists on the back of hosting the APEC conference it had better stick to oil-drilling, because the television networks here have made scant made reference to Clinton's 'trip to ... More >>
US Election: Surgeon General Issues Health Warning
Sunday, 12 November 2000, 1:52 pm | Rosalea Barker
Fat lady singers - do not hold your breath! It ain't over yet by a long shot. I refer of course to the two spoiled brats squabbling over the last Playstation 2 in the store, which is what this presidential election has revealed itself as. But when ... More >>
US Elections: Two horses win six-legged race
Thursday, 9 November 2000, 5:21 pm | Rosalea Barker
Missing my usual flutter on the Melbourne Cup on November 7, I took a bob each way on the Presidents Cup instead. Three green Tic Tacs still await their fate, bet recklessly on George Bush winning as I sat with my fellow Alameda County vote counters last ... More >>
US Elections: After the People Vote
Monday, 6 November 2000, 10:48 am | Rosalea Barker
As the days wind down to the US elections strange stuff emerges from the pundits. On this morning's Meet The Press a comment Clinton made on a NY radio show about voting "for the next best thing" was interpreted as sure evience that Hillary ... More >>
US Elections: Tight As A Tick On A Smelly Rat
Monday, 6 November 2000, 10:06 am | Rosalea Barker
Competition between broadcasters is a wonderful thing. NBC's local affiliate KRON4 just gave us live full coverage of Bush's interrogation by the press over the news that broke earlier this evening about a 1976 drunk driving charge. More >>
US Elections: Dot-com vs Dot-org
Monday, 30 October 2000, 9:49 am | Rosalea Barker
Just nine days to go to the election and the talking heads shows are getting in a lather. They - along with the writer of a recent NY Times editorial - seem to be outraged that Ralph Nader is not giving up and going away now that the race is as ... More >>
US Election: Using Field Glasses to Read the Polls
Thursday, 26 October 2000, 7:56 pm | Rosalea Barker
"Here he is, the world's greatest pollster!" So went the introduction for Merv Field whose famous California poll dates from the Dewey/Truman era and who was speaking in the Harris Seminar series at the Institute of Governmental Studies at ... More >>
US Elections: Baiting With Weighted Breath
Tuesday, 24 October 2000, 9:26 am | Rosalea Barker
Bore and Gush (oil, that is) duked it out for the final time in a TV debate on Tuesday night. All I saw of it was the glimpse I got through a stretch limo's tinted windows of Gush shaking his fist and Bore pacing. The limo was disgorging its passengers ... More >>
Rosalea Barker On US Elections: Friday the 13th
Monday, 16 October 2000, 10:15 am | Rosalea Barker
To mangle a line from "Casablanca": Of all the deli's in all the world I have to live above this one. The men running it are from the Yemen and display the prophet Muhammad's last sermon prominently by the cash register, the way supermarkets ... More >>
US Elections: Great Entertainment!
Thursday, 12 October 2000, 5:54 pm | Rosalea Barker
Jim Lehrer, the moderator, is the frontperson of the NewsHour on PBS. The very same Jim Lehrer who first recommended himself to me as a consummate news anchor during the Olympics when he said that a particular female athlete whose lycra-clad form ... More >>
US Elections: The 4YK Problem
Monday, 9 October 2000, 10:58 am | Rosalea Barker
Since the presidential and vice presidential debates earlier this week the airwaves have been infested with the 4YK bug as the US gets ready to elect its next 4-year king. Writes Rosalea Barker from San Francisco. More >>
US Elections: Undecided Voters Suddenly Sexy
Monday, 2 October 2000, 9:20 am | Rosalea Barker
To go to a Global Exchange/KPFA Free Speech Radio benefit in Berkeley is to see 30,000 years evaporate right before your very eyes. A thousand greyhairs in their Birkenstock sandals shed 30 years and become again the young radicals that made Berkeley famous ... More >>
US Elections: The Equestrian Events
Monday, 25 September 2000, 9:55 am | Rosalea Barker
Rosalea Barker - based in the US - is Scoop’s new US Presidential elections columnist and will be filing a round-up of news, views and observations from the campaign trail every Monday from now till the poll. More >>
