Monthly Archives: May 2004

Jessica Cutler = Washingtonienne: The Story Continues

Unbelievable Truth

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Welcome to a special Friday night edition of The Unbelievable Truth, your weekly (but this week appearing twice) guide to the down and dirty, stuff that has almost no impact on our lives but stuff we seem to care about anyway. Salacious, gossipy, full of sex and bordering on the libelous — once again, The Unbelievable Truth offers you and I a respite from the trials and tribulations of our far too busy, yet all-too-prosaic, lives.

Jessica Cutler: Washington, D.C. Enthralled With Nymph Behaviour


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Washingtonienne = Jessica Cutler

You wanted her, you’ve got her. More information about Jessica Cutler than you’ll find anywhere else on the ’Net
Last week, we introduced you to the Tart of the Potomac. This week we’ll fill you in on everything that the delectable Ms. Cutler has been up to since the story of her horizontal mambo-dancing with the high and mighty in the U.S. national capitol was first brought to prominence in Ana Marie Cox’s Wonkette blog last Friday (as for VanRamblings, we’re just waiting for the story to break on just what Ms. Cutler was up to with George W. during the period that she was a college student … hey, it might even help poor ol’ Bushie in the polls … not that we want to do anything like that, you understand).
Well, first off, the name-calling by Republican apparatchiks has ramped up in earnest. Michelle Malkin, in an article titled The skanks on Capitol Hill, goes on the attack, as she makes passing reference to “Cutler’s indecent conduct, glib rationalizations and in-your-face shamelessness,” placing the “vulgar little episode” into the context of a Girls Gone Wild culture run rampant in the U.S.


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Next, Ms. Malkin turns on Ana Marie Cox for bringing Ms. Cutler’s trysts with older men to light, and the “narcissism, moral bankruptcy and self-congratulatory media-political incest’ engendered in their symbiotic — and profitable — relationship. Finally, Ms. Malkin brings out the heavy artillery, as she takes the Washington Post to task for publishing this story about “two vain, young, trash-mouthed skanks who couldn’t care less about what their parents think of their sex-drenched infamy.” Michelle, tell us how you really feel.
Then there are these updates: Jessica is a 26, not 24, as she’s been telling everyone. And, Richard Leiby — the Reliable Source at The Washington — in a published version of an online interview confirms that Jessica Cutler did not attend Syracuse University, as was stated on her résumé. You mean, Jessica is being less than truthful. We’re shocked!
The improbably-named I Love Jenna Bush blog has published details about Jessie’s trysts, naming names and stoking the fires even more.
For those who haven’t seen it, Nerve Magazine has an interview (about half way down the page) with Jessie, the naughty, naughty girl.
Sad to say, it seem like Jessie’s father, Robert Cutler, was the last to know about his daughter’s little Washingtonienne imbroglio.
Meanwhile, tonight, the National Debate website has confirmed earlier rumours that Playboy wants Jessie for a nude shoot. Apparently, there’s a six-figure sum on offer (that’s a million or more to you or me). No word on the purported Manhattan book deal, and Jessie’s relocation to Gotham City.

As The Dial Turns: Vancouver’s Spring 2004 Radio Ratings Are In

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Corrected figures applied. The chart above is a copyright of PugetSoundRadio.com.




As the men at Corus Radio’s 730 MOJO Sports Radio remain in their crisis prayer circle at Hooters on Robson, and Corus General Manager Lou del Gobbo recovers from having to fork out $2 million to keep middling sports quasi-‘talent’ Neil McRae in the Corus fold — a rumour is being floated that McRae will host a new noontime sports show on CFMI — there is general rejoicing at Corus that CKNW clobbered JACK-FM in the spring radio ratings, as ’NW emerged once again as Top Dog in the Vancouver market.
No one at Corus has much to say about the miniscule ratings jump by sibling, Rock 101 CFMI. Sister station, suburban rocker 99.3 The Fox is also up a bit in the ratings, to a relatively anemic 4.7, picking up the extra point and a half following the demise of urban rocker, 104.9 X-FM.
Meanwhile, over at Rogers, there’s much gnashing of teeth given the precipitous drop in listenership suffered by winter radio ratings leader, 96.9 JACK-FM. So much for the spike in ratings that was expected following the investiture of Larry and Willy into JACK’s morning slot. Execs at Rogers’ Toronto headquarters have to be asking just how much the firing, last fall, of former PD Pat Cardinal has to do with JACK’s 3-point ratings drop?
For the folks at Rogers, clear is clearly no improvement, as sister station 104.9 clear-fm picked up only one point over their urban rock predecessor, X-FM, landing in the unlucky number 13 spot, overall. Meanwhile, on Rogers’ AM side, News 1130 remains steady (or is that mired?) in 12th spot, with a 3.6 share of the Vancouver radio listening audience.
The dim bulbs at CHUM Radio can’t be all that happy, either. Even though soft rock 103.5 QM/FM spiked a bit in the ratings, AM sister stations 1410 CFUN and Sport Radio – the Team 1040, remain radio ratings basement dwellers. But at least the Team 1040 crushed their MOJO competition.
As for the remaining, also-ran, radio stations on Vancouver’s airwaves: in respect of former new music powerhouse, Z-95.3 (who’s new website sucks), all that the spring radio ratings tell you is that these are early days. Jettisoning their Top 40 format in favour of an urban adult contemporary format hardly seems to have paid off for Z in the short term, but at least the station wasn’t obliterated in the spring ratings, given their mid-book change in format. Sister station 650 CISL — who’s sound is brighter than than it’s ever been — actually lost listenership. The owners at Standard Broadcasting have to be scratching their heads.
94.5 The Beat, which has pretty much switched to a Top 40 format, failed to pick up any of of Z’s old audience. Pattison-owned 600 AM dipped dramatically, while sister station JR-Country spiked a bit.
According to the story that ran on Global-TV last night, Rafe Mair’s Spring 2004 numbers are down approximately 40% from the fall book (a 6.9 share this time out, as opposed to an 11.2 last fall). Many believe this has to do with Rafe’s too frequent vacations; the fact that he doesn’t work the Mondays of long weekends; a 10:30 a.m. sign-off time that is much too early (considering that his competition on CKNW, Bill Good — who, in the important spring ratings period, posted a much-improved 13.6 share — stays on the air until noon); an inadequate vacation replacement in the person of producer Shiral Tobin; and Bob Saye’s shamefully poor ‘lead-in’ morning show. Rafe — who is currently on vacation — won’t like the Spring ratings book. Changes will definitely be in the works at 600 AM.
As of 10 p.m., Puget Sound Radio has corrected the figures on the radio ratings chart (above) to reflect the accurate information supplied by CBC to VanRamblings this morning. As the CBC official averred: “CBC 690 has gained a 13.0 share in the Central Vancouver Area, and 5 a.m. til 1 a.m. CBC Radio One sits at a 7.8 share — up a full point over the autumn book — for fourth place overall in the Vancouver market. In the morning period, the Early Edition is up Spring 2004 over the fall book, at a 13 share, second overall across the Lower Mainland in listenership.” Good news abounds.

Tommy Douglas, and a Better World For All of Us
What Might Have Been, and What Will Surely Come To Be

Decision Canada

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At present in Canada, we are in the throes of a federal election.
Although the choices before us are not quite the same Tweeledum and Tweedledee that has been the case in the past, as the Liberal Party and the Progressive Conservatives vied for the reigns of power, truth be told there’s still not a great deal that separates the two parties, or even Canada’s traditional third party, the New Democratic Party, under new leader Jack Layton.
Oh sure, the Conservative Party is no longer Progressive, and even the last leader of the PC’s, Joe Clark, finds himself campaigning on behalf of Liberal candidates, and against the right-wing forces of the presently constituted — and still socially conservative — Conservative / Reform / Alliance party.
Today, we offer a voice from the past, that of Tommy Douglas, the founder of Medicare, and the first leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. Mr. Douglas helps us to remember a time in the not-so-distant past when the idea of truly building a better world was an honourable and reasonable goal, when we worked collectively with members of our communities to transform a patriarchial consumerist society into an egalitarian society where want and injustice would become but distant concepts.
Tommy Douglas was the most influential politician never to be elected Prime Minister. He pursued his humanist ideals relentlessly until they became so mainstream that rival politicians claimed them as their own. Douglas battled hard to bring the New Democratic Party to legitimacy in its first ten years, following the formation of the party in 1961. He was often criticized for his singular idealism but through it all Douglas was undeterred, convinced that he was helping to create a better, more humane society.
VanRamblings offers Tommy Douglas’ voice, as a reminder of what might have been, and what will surely become our shining future.