Democrats love their celebrities, and academia, well, they'll settle for celebrities' fathers. Cinncinatti.com's John Kiesewetter reports that Nick Clooney, George's dad, will be the "distinguished journalist in residence" at the American University in Washington D.C.
If George Clooney's dad, Nick Clooney, can be a professor of journalism, maybe I gave George's foreign policy chops short shrift.
Unlike his son, Northern Kentucky University’s most famous dropout, Nick Clooney has practically no formal education since graduating from St. Patrick High School in Maysville in 1952.
Although he frequently lectured at area campuses, nobody asked him to join a faculty until American University proposed he spend the 2008-09 academic year as the “distinguished journalist in residence” beginning Monday. It’s part of the partnership between the school and Newseum, a 250,000-square-foot museum in Washington dedicated to news.
“It never occurred to me to teach, so I’m not at all surprised that it never occurred to anybody else,” he says from his home about 50 miles southeast of Cincinnati. He’ll teach opinion writing this fall and a spring course based on his 2002 book, “Movies That Changed Us.”
"Movies That Changed Us." Doesn't that sound like just the title you'd expect for a book written by the father of a movie star?
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C'mon Jake. Clooney would
August 22, 2008 - 20:26 ET by BlazerC'mon Jake. Clooney would make a great foreign policy advisor or a Secretary Of State to Obama, I mean hell.........he was in "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"..... err, I mean "Syriana".
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
Yup, just like he would be
August 22, 2008 - 20:39 ET by taterYup, just like he would be a great Secretary of Health because he was on ER.
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"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." -Sister Lucia
I think he would be an
August 22, 2008 - 20:44 ET by BlazerI think he would be an excellent choice to head the Department Of Justice, after all, he once played "Batman", although Adam West would be my first choice.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
Clooney is qualified..
August 22, 2008 - 22:16 ET by HillbillyKingfor any number of Cabinet positions;
The FCC: Good Night and Good Luck
NASA: Solaris
Department of Defense: The Peacemaker, Three Kings
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Don Marquis 1878-1937
Oh, and don't forget..
August 22, 2008 - 22:25 ET by HillbillyKingCIA; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
and while it might be a stretch,
NOAA: The Perfect Storm
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Don Marquis 1878-1937
Joint Cheifs Of Staff:
August 22, 2008 - 22:34 ET by BlazerJoint Cheifs Of Staff: Combat High
NEA: Facts Of Life, Return To Horror High
Director Of The F.B.I.: Hunter, Murder She Wrote, Riptide
Department Of Agriculture: Return Of The Killer Tomatoes
Man this guy is the shiznit.
heck, it was only a few months ago that Mexican tomatoes were actually killing people for real , George would have stopped that sh&t cold.
"You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious. "
- Ben Kenobi on Liberals, and the MSM.
" The Cake is a lie."
HA! good ones Blazer.
August 22, 2008 - 23:27 ET by HillbillyKingWe can't forget;
FAA and NRC: Fail Safe (which I thought was very well done, honestly)
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Don Marquis 1878-1937
"Distinguished Journalist in Residence"
August 22, 2008 - 21:16 ET by stratmanI guess this is what passes as "distinguished" journalism these days.
Sigh.
Daddy in D.C.
August 22, 2008 - 21:28 ET by MCPO AirdaleIf Daddy is offered a job in D.C. it's a sure bet that Geaorge is counting on being named Secretary of State in the Obama Administration.
Whoa - hold on
August 22, 2008 - 21:57 ET by KC MulvilleThe father had his own career before his son came along. The father actually was a working journalist. He may not have been Scotty Reston or Bob Woodward, but he was well known, even before George became a movie star. I really don't see much wrong with American University offering him a teaching stint. Hell, he made a good living as a journalist, which is more than you can say for most hacks these days. If he teaches them how to make a buck at the news racket, he's probably taught them a useful skill. I see nothing wrong with that.
From the Wikepedia article
August 23, 2008 - 00:10 ET by jdhawkFrom the Wikepedia article on Nick Clooney:
"As part of the school-Newseum partnership, Clooney will host the fifth annual AU School of Communication-Newseum Reel Journalism Film Festival and other events at the Newseum. The Newseum moved into its new $450 million home at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. in Northwest Washington in April 2008."
It appears that George Clooney, made a deal for his out of work father, Nick Clooney. Nick Clooney gets the job at AU and Geore Clooney appears at the above events for the Newseum. Yeah, nothing wrong with that . . .
Meanwhile, the course, Films that Changed the World, is right up there in intellectual rigor with elbow conditioning at the local college bar, making fart sounds with your underarm and loogey tossing.
KC is correct
August 23, 2008 - 05:37 ET by cjbreischOlder Cincinnati residents will remember Clooney for years as the local anchor on channel 12. And he was a good anchor, someone who actually made an attempt to understand the news in front of him without parroting it, and for the majority of his career was relatively bias free compared to many of his counterparts.
So, I think this Newsbusters post is hitting below the belt a little bit.
Nick and the Collectivism of Thought
August 22, 2008 - 22:39 ET by Copperhead RidgeI live near a state university in Kentucky that has its own public television station and produces a weekly talk show that features notable Kentuckians and sometimes national figures. I discovered Nick Clooney on it one night and decided to see what he had to say.
He lamented the days of modern journalism in which there is too much diversity of opinion because it doesn't bring Americans together to reach a consensus. He longed for the days when ABC, CBS, and NBC were the only national news outlets because they could build a consensus among the American people.
I couldn't believe he was saying it. The lady doing the interview stared starry-eyed and nodded her approval.
It's funny how honest liberals are sometimes.
Brush with fame? I've been in Nick's mother-in-law's house. Crazy!
Copperhead Ridge
August 23, 2008 - 09:28 ET by AppyAmericanYou probably have the experience level, in years that is, to remember the dance show that the elder Clooney hosted on one of the Lexington tv stations. It came on on Saturday afternoons and had students from local high schools on it. I'm talking early to mid 60s. Ring a bell?
Clooneys
August 23, 2008 - 22:20 ET by doug1950I remember Rosemary Clooney from White Christmas fame, the rest of them I never heard of. nor care to.