Powell to Ring in 2005 in Times Square

[Danmel]

Colin Powell, at the inviation of Mayor Bloomberg . will start the ball drop at Times Square on New Year's Eve.

http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_356142359.html

Can anything be done without some glorification of this war and administration? Can't we celebrate without have to adore them?????

[henslee]

1. He says no but could he really be thinking about running for NY Gov?

[NNguyenMD]

36. I say BRING it Colon Bowel...

And we'll make sure Eliot Spitzer dissects every second you spent in the Bush administration letting Rumsfeld and Cheney make you their bitch, while you helplessly watched them march our sons and daughters to their death, on false pretenses, poorly equiped, and out gunned.

He earned some points from me from Gulf War I, but as far as I'm concerned he and that prick son of his are gutless pussies in my book.

[pinniped]

2. Was this the only piece of shit available?

?

[saigon68]

3. The Creep sure "DROPPED THE BALL" on Iraq--didn't he.

Maybe Rice can "Drop the Acid" and they both can re-orient themselves.

[The Zanti Regent]

5. You took the words right out of my mouth.

That liar has to spend the rest of his life knowing that he sent people like my only child to die for lies.

But then, Powell got where he was by covering up for his friends...

[TheDebbieDee]

19. Just like Xbox - only you die!

Saigon, I love your signature picture and quote. Thanks for the laugh!

[saigon68]

21. Thanks--- I try to 'liven" up the Place

Have a Happy Holiday Season !!!!

[WI_DEM]

4. I thought he was replacing Dick Clark

since Clark had a minor stroke. Now that he isn't SOS, Powell will become known as "Mr. New Years Eve" with the "Colin Powell's Rockin'New Years Eve" spectaculars.

[0007]

7. Colin will only ever be known as the man with the long long long

nose. Both Dick Clark and Colin Powell are first class cretins, bar none.

[LiberalEsto]

8. Clark did his thing in Philadelphia

It's a separate event from the Times Square one.

[Spinzonner]

6. Obviously to honor

all those who wont be around for the new year because he couldnt resist lying for the Neocon Cabal

[arwalden]

9. Allow Me To PROJECTILE Vomit... This Is DISGUSTING!!!

[DFWJock]

10. Oh, really?

I thought he would be over in Iraq, looking for those mobile labs he told us about.

[ucmike]

11. i'd rather see colin than michael.

at least colin used to be respectable. i assumed it would be the celebrity photo-op, tech shilling, "hey any telco companies wanna sponsor me on new years eve so i can use the fcc to increase your profits while ruining broadcast media" powell.

[Massachusetts]

12. BLOOMY IS OUT OF TOUCH...

Why wouldn't he have one (or several) of OUR Troops who did time in IraqNam do this? Priorities first I guess....

Think McFly....Think!!!!!:crazy:

[Name removed]

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[KurtNYC]

15. Perhaps you could tell this orphan how cool Colon Powell is

Tony Nave, 6, leaves the service Saturday for his father, Maj. Kevin Nave, Michigan's first known casualty of the war.

http://www.detnews.com/2003/metro/0304/06/a01-129230.htm

..because I sure couldn't.

[njdemocrat106]

45. Very sad photo

:scared:

[grumpy old fart]

16. ???????? n/t

[wicket]

25. man, you're just everywhere today

Enjoy your short stay!

[Karenca]

28. NOT COOL AND NOT WELCOME IN NYC!

We do not WELCOME the ministers of Corporate War here!!!!!!

[Vidar]

14. Hope he stands under the ball.

[Danmel]

17. No New Yorkers go anyway

It's all out of towners who go to Times Square- they'll all be enthralled waving flags and cheering on the war effort. The whole thing just makes me so sick- what will it take to unmask these murderers????????

I'm really beginning to lose hope.

[genieroze]

20. In NY? Maybe not. eom

[yorkiemommie1]

18. oh brother

thank god i'm usually asleep by then. this year i'll make SURE of it.

[caligirl]

22. disturboing; military general SOS ringing in the new year, this is not

good. Just gives me the creeps to see this happen, and i have been connected to the military all my life. I don't think this should be happening.

[Algorem]

23. Could be like a mess with him there,I'd for sure stay away.

[zann725]

24. Is there anywhere we can write to contest this?

This is so weird, and omenous. To have someone like Powell usher in 2005, seems to forbode The Year of Military State and War here at home.

[MADem]

26. Come on, this isn't the first time they've waved the flag

They had Shoshanna Johnson last year--the 'brave POW who was shot and captured by the vicious forces of evil.' They would have had Jessica if they could, but she wasn't doing well enough.

New Year's Eve in New York will, until we get these dipshits OUT OF GOVERNMENT, be a "OSAMA-SADDAM-911-WORLD TRADE CENTER-911-DID I MENTION 911?" event for the next four miserable years.

Keep them afraid, make them unwilling to question anything, fill them full of fake nationalism, and wave that flag. Wave, wave, WAVE!!! While they are qivering in fear and gaining false courage from faux national pride, take away their civil liberties, suppress dissent, and destroy the reputations and beat the living shit out of anyone who disagrees with their agenda.

Turn off the TV. Just say no. Don't watch the nonsense. If you've got dorky local coverage, watch that, and enjoy the provincial flavor of it all--the smaller the venue, the better.

[Danmel]

27. NYC is my Dorky provincial coverage

That used to be a good thing!

[MADem]

29. Maybe you can find something on the net

Turn off the tv, crank up the volume on some dinky, offbeat community radio channel that streams on the net, and have some fun with it. Turn off the lights, light a few candles, and bang pots at midnight...!!!!

[txaslftist]

30. Yeah... ignore it and it will go away....

Like herpes or aids. The country is infected with war fever, and it's caused 1300 local deaths, over ten thousand debilitating injuries, and that's just Americans. Among the 'unwashed heathen' the casualties are something in excess of 100,000 -but we needn't count them, right?

Powell is supposed to be an intelligent man, but he LIED to us, to the UN, on national TV. He staked his credibility and his reputation on his claims of Saddam's WMDs and link to Al Qaeda, and both turned out to be purely false. He deliberately spread this fatal affliction, so the mask is off.

Colon is a liar and a sell-out at the least, a neocon hawk in moderate's clothing at the worst. The idea of him ushering in the new year puts me in mind of the Berlin olympics, cir. latter 1930s.

[zann725]

37. Thank you! My thoughts exactly!

We REALLY need to complain about this.

NYC on New Years Eve is the focus of most of middle America's TV watching. Having Powell there is just TOO 'heavy-handed.'

What has happened to our country?! Don't even recognize it.

[MADem]

43. If enough people ignore it, it WILL go away

The Brady Bunch and the Partridge Family were once HUGE hit TV shows. Then, like many others, people STOPPED WATCHING.

If the ratings suck, they'll stop spending the big money on the ball dropping, and it will revert back to a pre-TV big city celebration, covered by the NEWS outlets, after the fact or as part of a montage. Right now, they program their whole show to the Nth degree, with specialty acts, lowest common denominator entertainment, multiple stages in different cities, all because they are counting on people WATCHING.

If there was something BETTER, either on TV, radio, or out in the real world, to do, then that show would meet the same fate as something like the Miss America Pageant....

Times change, tastes change (....to quote an old cigarette TV commercial)...

Demonizing Powell won't work. Like it or not, the country won't buy it. The country regards him as a good guy. There's no great footage of him doing anything terrible, just him doing "good" things. It's all about image. When he sat in the UN spilling that bullshit, most people were at WORK. They never saw the news, they never paid attention if they were watching, they MISSED it. They DID see him during the first Gulf War briefings, and they LIKED him. That "cut off the head and kill him" line brought the house down.

I'm not saying that your opinion of the man is invalid. All I am saying is that the country won't buy him as a bad guy, at least not yet. Maybe someday, but right now, he's a Bronx boy doing the honors on New Year's Eve. If we don't watch, maybe they'll be a little less political in their entertainment programming.

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

31. Why not? He's dropped the ball on everything else.

[Dem2theMax]

34. There ya go. Perfect talking point.

"Why not? He's dropped the ball on everything else."

And all we need to do is repeat it, over and over and over and ... you get it.

[musette_sf]

32. I think it's an excuse to hike up "security"

to a level even beyond that of the Millenium, or any post-9/11/01, NYE gathering in Times Square.

Gotta keep the angry citizens with pitchforks and anti-Bu$hCo signs off camera!

[NJmaverick]

33. so the repukes

Have exploited the 9/11 victims, God and now New Year's eve for political gain. Is there nothing that is beneath these dirt bags?

[proudbluestater]

35. Thanks, now I can mark ABC off my list of stations to watch that night.

"Can anything be done without some glorification of this war and administration?"

Good point. I was in the doctor's office waiting room today. I no longer watch commercial tv, but there were two tvs blasting, Jerry Springer and the View were on. I sat near the View tv and heard them launch the next topic of discussion, "The Battle to Have a Baby."

Good GAWD. Must everything be couched in war terms now? We used to call the inability to conceive INFERTILITY.

[zann725]

39. Oh, it's on ABC? ABC's at the top of my "no watch" list...

That'll be easy. Though the Powell thing still bothers me a lot.

[daleo]

38. Powell can wave a vial of white powder around as the ball comes down

It can be a reenactment of his most ignominious moment, the U.N. speech of lies. It would be appropriate in New York.

Better yet, demonstrators could wave these at him (baking soda would be nice), and the TV cameras. I suppose they would be arrested for being terrorists, though.

[autorank]

40. He'll lie about the time...it's his nature. haha, Powell U R A Clown

THE WHOLE WORLD'S LAUGHING COLIN, YOU CLOWN!!!

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/usa/colin-powell/

[daleo]

41. Powell: "Welcome to 1984"

Now, would that be a lie or not?

[autorank]

42. Guy dances & sings so bad, he turns back time...1984, correct for $400.

[CoffeeCat]

44. You gotta be frickin kidding me....

You gotta be kidding me!

We've just spent the last four years watching Colin Powell "drop the ball", as he skulks along with the Bush thugs and their ill-planned joke of a failed war. Now, we get to watch Colin literally "drop the ball" on New Year's Eve.

This must be some sort of joke.

What is this...performance art?

Will other Bush Administration officials perform visual representations of their own major failings?

Will Rumsfeld lead the New Year's parade in an unarmored Humvee and declare, "You don't start off the New Year with the parade you want. You start off the New Year with the parade that ya have!"

Will Condi and Cheney struggle to hold onto the "Curious George" balloon as it careens out of control?

Does the absurdity ever end with these people?

[njdemocrat106]

46. Was Bernard Kerik unavailable?

You just know they would have loved to introduce "former New York City Police Commissioner, now Homeland Security Director Bernard Kerik", but things don't seem to be going that well for ol' Bernie right now.

[fooj]

47. I still can't get past that heartbreaking photo

of the little six year old boy leaving his daddy's funeral service. In the name of what? Power? Greed? If i have to hear one more "family values" piece of propaganda BS, I am gonna puke! Have they no shame?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

48. he certainly dropped the ball on iraq

seems appropriate

[lovuian]

49. He is so Pathetic!!!

He still has hopes for being in Politics!!!

[0007]

50. I hope Powell doesn't get his nose caught under the ball!

[EmpireWeAre]

51. In the military we called

people like Powell promotion grabbers. They do everything only to make themselves look good and get promoted.

He has all the morals of a crocodile.

At least we know what Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and crew are... fascists.

Powell is worse, he's an enabler and apologist.