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This content was published April 30, 2008. … I found a site called Dead or Alive? The concept was to show a list of famous people, whether the lines were flat or wiggling, and the date of the passage. There was one obvious name to check out. DOA supports the notion that Elvis Presley is dead. …
DOA had a list of people who died in the last six months. The Fabulous Moolah, Earl Butz, and Robert Goulet were the surprises. … “It’s part of Elvis Presley lore … the time Elvis filled the screen of his 25-inch RCA TV full of buckshot. Because of Robert Goulet. … Apparently, in the late 50s, when Elvis was in the army and stationed in Germany, his girlfriend at the time, singer Anita Wood, was performing with Robert Goulet and comedian Buddy Hackett. Wood dutifully wrote to Sergeant Presley and, apparently, Goulet added a note to one of her letters, informing Elvis that he was personally “taking care” of Wood (wink, wink). Elvis didn’t appreciate Goulet’s randy sense of humor and carried a grudge the size of Graceland, for years. In 1974, Elvis was relaxing in his swanky penthouse suite at the International Hotel in Vegas when he spotted Goulet on the tube. (The crooner was appearing as a guest co-host on The Mike Douglas Show.) Supposedly, Elvis yelled, “Get that s**t outta my house!” And with that, he aimed and fired.”
Mr. Goulet and Ms. Moolah were part of a phenomenon. These are people who I don’t know if they are dead or alive, until I hear that they have died. Other examples would be Anita Loos and Lowell Thomas. And now, Albert Hofmann, the man who first synthesized LSD. Dr. Hofman was 102, and seemed to have mixed feelings about his discovery. He deplored the excesses, but did not support criminalization. … I had a high school geometry teacher who took part in some of the army LSD experiments. She said a good shot of whiskey would do more for you.
This content was published April 25, 2008. … John McCain has done it again. He condemned an ad by North Carolina Republicans, and gave the ad a lot of publicity in the bargain. What a deal. … The ad shows Jeremiah Wright screaming, and says that Barack Obama enabled his screaming for twenty years. We all knew this. It gets creepy at this point. It seems as though Richard Moore and Beverly Perdue are Democrats running for North Carolina Governor, and they have endorsed Mr. Obama. This makes them “Too Extreme for North Carolina”.
When I heard this ad (on radio, without the visuals) it made me sick, and more than a bit sad. This ad is mean and sleazy. It says more about the party that runs it than it does about the two candidates for governor. This ad is the kind of pointless negative advertising that makes people replulsed by politics. Ads like this make me dread elections. Mr. McCain is correct in denouncing it. … What has been the interesting is the reaction of talk radio. Laura Ingraham was having convulsions…we can’t have fun trashing people, and we won’t support you later because of this. You took our toy away. WAAAAAAA.
Mike Gallagher said there was nothing wrong with the ad, that it was the truth. (2026 Disclosure: The Gallagher and Ingraham quotes are from memory, and do not have a link.) Just because it is the truth doesn’t mean you have to say it, or make it any less distasteful. I get the impression that many conservatives are amused by this sort of guilt by association ad. And they wonder why many people think they are a bunch of jerks. Two wrongs do not make a right. Somebody needs to be the better person, not merely the loudest or most aggresive.
North Carolina Republicans would be doing themselves a favor to take down the ad. It says more about them than it does the Democratic Candidates. It also is giving name recognition to the two Democrats. Someday politicians will learn to be smart and quit offending voters. I am not holding my breath. … Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Russell Lee took the social media picture in April 1941. “ Mother and children at home. Chicago, Illinois” ©Luther Mckinnon 2026 · selah