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calliaume

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« Reply #15 on: May 15, 2005, 09:22:09 PM »
[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' date=\'May 15 2005, 08:10 PM\']Personally, I like every party - especially when the vodka is premium!
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« Reply #16 on: May 15, 2005, 10:32:18 PM »
I'd be in favor of the third party, but I passed out after the first two.

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« Reply #17 on: May 16, 2005, 12:25:52 AM »
[quote name=\'SRIV94\' date=\'May 15 2005, 06:57 PM\']For some reason, I have a vague recollection of Woolery using SCRABBLE93 as a platform for right-leaning issues (these would come out after clues had been solved).  Of course, that was 12 years and 13 brain cells ago (didn't have that many to lose to begin with ;-) ), so my recollection could be hazy.

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I hadn't heard of Chuck's leanings until the "Scrabble '93" clue in which the answer to "Some say he's responsible to bad Rush hours" was "Limbaugh".  He blamed the clue on the communist pinko writing staff.  Limbaugh featured the clip on his TV show for the following two days after it aired.

Being a right winger since the early 80s (at the ripe old age of 10[??]), I've come to respect Chuck a lot for it.  Same goes for Sajak and Martindale.

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« Reply #18 on: May 16, 2005, 12:27:32 AM »
[quote name=\'calliaume\' date=\'May 15 2005, 02:35 PM\']Gene Rayburn - Much to my surprise (because I'd never noticed), Wikipedia says he was an "unabashed liberal."
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If any more proof is called for, Gene played for Planned Parenthood on Card Sharks' Game Show Emcees Tournament.

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« Reply #19 on: May 16, 2005, 10:25:26 AM »
Regarding Richard Dawson, he made fun of Clinton during the FF94 revival as well.  I don't think his jabs were directed at any particular ideology, just political figures in general.

Also, I can't believe no one thus far has mentioned Ben Stein...

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« Reply #20 on: May 16, 2005, 10:32:25 AM »
[quote name=\'sshuffield70\' date=\'May 16 2005, 12:25 AM\']I hadn't heard of Chuck's leanings until the "Scrabble '93" clue in which the answer to "Some say he's responsible to bad Rush hours" was "Limbaugh".  He blamed the clue on the communist pinko writing staff.  Limbaugh featured the clip on his TV show for the following two days after it aired.[/quote]
Without seeing the clip in context, if Chuck really did use the words "Communist pinko writing staff" and they left it in, it sounds like a joke and not necessarily any deep insight into Chuck's political leanings.
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« Reply #21 on: May 16, 2005, 10:43:45 AM »
Rafferty took a jab at Reagan and his 19 cabinet members on the 2/16/87 episode of Blockbusters when a question came up with the correct answer "Cabinet", saying that none of the cabinet members know what they're doing.

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« Reply #22 on: May 16, 2005, 01:36:42 PM »
[quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' date=\'May 16 2005, 09:32 AM\']Without seeing the clip in context, if Chuck really did use the words "Communist pinko writing staff" and they left it in, it sounds like a joke and not necessarily any deep insight into Chuck's political leanings.
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I remember the remark.  He called the writers the "pinko Commie lefto staff over here".   He also admitted liking Rush's show (didn't specify radio or TV; both assumed).

One more for you.  Kevin O'Connell.  He may have been "K O  for G O" -- but he's not for the GOP.  

I think we all know Kevin's in Buffalo at WGRZ anchoring the weather.  The Buffalo News reported Kevin engaged in some happy talk with a news anchor that was anything but happy.  After President Bush won re-election, Kevin said the wrong candidate won.

The newspaper also reported Kevin's the son of George O'Connell, a prominent Democrat who served as Buffalo's city controller.
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Mike Tennant

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« Reply #23 on: May 16, 2005, 03:53:55 PM »
[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' date=\'May 15 2005, 08:10 PM\']Bob Eubanks is a rightwinger. Traditional values, and some of the prejudices that also accompany that political view.
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Can we infer from this, Randy, that you do not subscribe to the same political viewpoint as Mr. Eubanks?

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« Reply #24 on: May 16, 2005, 04:26:07 PM »
Joe Pyne of NBC's "Showdown" also had a talk show in the '60s.  Whether it was just to provoke, he came off as somewhat right-wing on that talk show.


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« Reply #25 on: May 16, 2005, 04:37:03 PM »
[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' date=\'May 16 2005, 03:26 PM\']Joe Pyne of NBC's "Showdown" also had a talk show in the '60s.  Whether it was just to provoke, he came off as somewhat right-wing on that talk show.
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"Somewhat right-wing" is putting it mildly.  See here.

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« Reply #26 on: May 16, 2005, 04:43:23 PM »
Great discussion: Puts me in mind of this song my brother had on a 45 record years ago..Johnny Cash and I think a few others sang it.

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« Reply #27 on: May 16, 2005, 05:12:22 PM »
[quote name=\'tvrandywest\' date=\'May 15 2005, 09:10 PM\']
Bob Eubanks is a rightwinger. Traditional values, and some of the prejudices that also accompany that political view.
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I also heard that on a Card Sharks episode that Bob was for gun-control but also on another CS show, there was a female contestant who said that she lived with her boyfriend, & I could tell the look on Bob's face that he didn't like that at all.
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« Reply #28 on: May 16, 2005, 05:28:08 PM »
[quote name=\'Passepartout\' date=\'May 16 2005, 04:12 PM\']
I also heard that on a Card Sharks episode that Bob was for gun-control but also on another CS show, there was a female contestant who said that she lived with her boyfriend, & I could tell the look on Bob's face that he didn't like that at all.
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This seems really strange to me, considering the really risque humor that Bob seemed to encourage, even thrive on, during the various incarnations of his
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« Reply #29 on: May 16, 2005, 06:11:49 PM »
[quote name=\'Mike Tennant\' date=\'May 16 2005, 11:53 AM\']Can we infer from this, Randy, that you do not subscribe to the same political viewpoint as Mr. Eubanks?
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Oh, I think this is SO not about me. But allow me to say how pleased I am with the style of your post. It's apparent from your proper grammatical use of "infer" that you know the difference between "imply" and "infer". I find that very refreshing  ;-)


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