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Tune in ... "BET AWARDS '08" - 'The Hottest
Ticket on Television' - Premieres Tuesday,
June 24 at 8:00 P.M.*
Hosted By D.L. Hughley, "BET AWARDS '08"
Features Performances by Ne-Yo, Rihanna,
Keyshia Cole, Marvin Sapp, Alicia Keys, Chris
Brown, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Nelly, Usher
and Young Jeezy, With Appearances by Terrence
Howard, Jennifer Hudson, Samuel L. Jac
Jill Scott Confirmed to Perform Tribute to
Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Al Green
Quincy Jones to Receive 2008 BET Humanitarian
Award
NEW YORK, June 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Rihanna,
Ne-Yo, Keyshia Cole, Usher, Lil Wayne, Alicia
Keys, Chris Brown, Kanye West, Nelly, Marvin
Sapp, and Young Jeezy are all on board to
perform at BET AWARDS '08. In addition, LL
Cool J, Samuel L. Jackson, Ice Cube, Terrence
Howard, Jennifer Hudson, Gabrielle Union,
Mary Mary, Lauren London and Kevin Hart will
be on hand as presenters, and Jill Scott will
perform a special tribute to legendary R&B
icon Al Green, who is receiving BET's
Lifetime Achievement Award. Quincy Jones,
celebrated producer/arranger/composer, is
also being honored this year with BET's
prestigious Humanitarian Award for his
outreach to young African-Americans through
the Listen Up Foundation. Hosted by actor and
comedian D.L. Hughley, BET AWARDS '08
premieres live from Los Angeles' Shrine
Auditorium on Tuesday, June 24 at 8:00 p.m.*
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Tagged as "the hottest ticket on television,"
BET AWARDS '08 brings together the biggest
stars in music, sports and entertainment for
an electrifying evening. For the past seven
years, the BET AWARDS has boasted
unforgettable moments such as Michael
Jackson's surprise appearance during James
Brown's tribute; Rick James in his final duet
with Teena Marie; Will Smith presenting
Muhammad Ali with the first-ever Humanitarian
Award; Prince onstage backing Chaka Khan;
Stevie Wonder, Yolanda Adams and India Arie
in a powerhouse tribute to Rufus' first lady
of funk; Destiny's Child's steamy lap dance;
the reunion of one of hip hop's most beloved
trios, The Fugees; and last year's touching
opening performance with Jennifer Hudson and
Jennifer Holliday.
BET has once again teamed up with Cossette
Productions, the famed producers of the
GRAMMY Awards® and the seven record-setting
BET AWARDS shows, to handle production of the
telecast. Stephen Hill, BET Executive Vice
President, Music and Programming, along with
Lynne Harris-Taylor, BET Vice President of
Specials, will executive produce the
telecast.
BET AWARDS '08 will be sponsored by Dodge,
Pepsi, Verizon Wireless, General Motors, P&G,
Target, CIROC Vodka and Ford.
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Palin remarked, "I guess a small-town mayor
is sort of like a community organizer, except
that you have actual responsibilities."
Now I'm all for upholding the dignity of
small-town mayors and acknowledging the
responsibilities they shoulder. And certainly
we need to more of a town hall forum dynamic
within government on a national scale if
ordinary people are to have any access to
counter the influence of corporate lobbyists.
But it's just wrong to dis community
organizers. More than that, it's politically
stupid to belittle community organizers when
you are trying to portray yourself as an
insurgent candidate seeking to overthrow the
Washington elite.
So let's start with one obvious way in which
community organizers make a difference. They
register new voters. In 1992, a record
150,000 new voters were added to the rolls in
Chicago owing in large measure to a
grassroots effort led by Project Vote. A
January 1993 analysis by Chicago magazine on
the local director of Project Vote concluded,
"A huge black turnout in November 1992
altered Chicago's electoral landscape -- and
raised a new political star: a 31-year-old
lawyer named Barack Obama."
And community organizers...empower people to
express their needs and concerns, not just as
individuals but as a more powerful collective
of diverse but coordinated souls. This means
that community organizers must also be
skilled at communication, negotiation, and
compromise -- traits required of any good
leader.
I can't say what possessed Palin to dis
community organizers. I hope she understands
that most Americans are not on a first-name
basis with their mayor. I hope she
understands that most Americans cannot and
should not expect to get a check from their
state government because corporations are
making billions by extracting nonrenewable
resources. I hope she understands that there
are millions of Americans living in places
like the South Side of Chicago, inner-city
Detroit, and small towns across America whose
lives and communities have been devastated by
deindustrialization, environmental
degradation, the war on drugs, the collapse
of public school systems, and so on.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-kurashige
/dont-dis-community-organi_b_124069.html
Obama's State Senate legislative record...US
Senate record...sponsorship of 820 laws in
Illinois, and authorship of 152 bills and
co-sponsorship of 427 in Washington. The 2007
Ethics Reform bill alone cannot be dismissed
as simply non-existent.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai
ly_dish/2008/09/palin-on-obama.html#more
I couldn't agree more about the nastiness.
What we saw last night was the mainstreaming
of Ann Coulter, the normalization of the
principle that it isn't bile when it's spoken
by a pretty woman. Coulter has gloated, "I am
emboldened by my looks to say things
Republican men wouldn't." And even though the
Post reports today that Palin's was a
"masculine" speech—written before the final
candidate was selected—it bore so very many
hallmarks of a vintage Coulter/Ingraham
performance. Susan Estrich describes the
Coulter approach as a play "to the lowest
common denominator of derision, labeling the
hero a coward, her opponent a traitor ... she
is about suspicion and exclusion," and anyone
who pushes back is a member of the "liberal
media elite" and a sexist.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/arc
hive/2008/09/04/mainstreaming-the-mean-girl.a
spx
But what an unbelievably vicious speech! The
nastiness level was just sky-high (or gutter
low). And though Palin certainly didn't write
the words she spoke, she sure looked like she
enjoyed every second of delivering those
zingers. That speech wasn't meant to
inspire—it wasn't about our better selves
or what we might be able to accomplish, as a
nation—it was all about rage, sarcasm,
resentment, mockery. And the crowd just
lapped it up.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/arc
hive/2008/09/04/i-m-depressed-now.aspx
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