Director Ron Howard appeared for a C-SPAN Washington Journal interview Monday morning on Capitol Hill with British screenwriter Peter Morgan to discuss their new film Frost/Nixon, based on Morgan’s play on the 1977 interviews between British TV star David Frost and the Republican president who resigned. The jarring moment came near the end, when C-SPAN host Steve Scully asked "For a generation who doesn’t remember Nixon or these interviews, what do you want them to come away with?"
Howard replied that Nixon’s crimes were "quaint" compared to the current administration: "Well, it’s a great drama. It doesn’t have a political axe to grind, and yet you know, it speaks to democracy, the media, the way it all works in the modern era. The only thing that’s kind of quaint about the story at all is the fact that, you know, uh, that the Nixon crimes pale by comparison, with uh, with uh, um, um, [picks up pen] you know, what we’ve been reading about and hearing about in the last few years. Uh, and yet, it also reminds us that abuse of power at any level cannot be accepted, and, so if there’s a political point to be made, you know, I’d say it’s nonpartisan, but that’s the point."
Did Howard really mean to endorse the John Dean thesis that Bush and Cheney’s crimes are worse than Watergate? Scully clearly read it that way, asking: "Is there a film in the back of your mind about the Bush-Cheney years?"
Howard laughed, and said "Not yet, but I’d like to start with some interviews." He didn’t deny that mental connection.
It may have sprung from a South Carolina caller earlier on in the session: "I always thought was a two-bit burglary, and you remember Kennedy and Johnson started Vietnam. But the movie you should make is the Bush and his puppy dog Blair for the millions who’ve been killed and displaced in Iraq." To which Morgan replied with a smile: "I’m busy working on it."
Howard deflected a caller who complained that Howard made an Internet ad with Andy Griffith touting Barack Obama for president when Obama was so inexperienced. (It aired on the video site Funny Or Die, and Howard decried the country going on a "divisive and wrong-headed path" under Bush, but said he felt Obama could be an "extraordinary president.")
The caller said he hoped the film was unbiased, which clearly isn't the case from the trailer, which laments Nixon as "the man who committed the greatest felony in American history would never stand trial."
By the way, in the middle of the interview, Scully displayed a clip from a two-hour C-SPAN Booknotes interview with Nixon (dated February 4, 1992) on the role of the media:
BRIAN LAMB: Did you ever ask yourself why so many in the media are against you?
RICHARD NIXON: Oh, they didn’t agree with what I stood for. This is long before Watergate. The [Alger] Hiss case in particular was very difficult for the media. They all thought he was innocent. And if they didn’t think he was innocent, they didn’t want him exposed, because as one individual said, he said it would be a reflection of the foreign policy of the Roosevelt administration, which of course was not my goal at all. And so with that, it was difficult. It’s not that I didn’t have many friends in the media. But media people, while they try to be objective, many of them do, they also have strong convictions, and, frankly, they generally are not particularly enamored with conservatives, as I am, even though I’m probably more reasonable than some of the conservatives they go after.
Morgan said it reminded him of how much the Clintons protested "a strong and vigorous media."
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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Sit on it,
December 2, 2008 - 14:00 ET by NewsbusterbrownSit on it, Ron.
“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
I liked him better when he
December 2, 2008 - 14:02 ET by USA4freedomI liked him better when he was Opie. Made more sense as well.
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
Opie 1961 and today
December 2, 2008 - 14:03 ET by Mica the MagnificentOpie: 1961
You call me pa?
Yes, Opie. Where are the tubes of airplane glue I left on the work bench?
Geez, pa. I don't know!
You know, son, sniffing glue will make you lose your hair and become wacky and say stupid things when you're older.
Opie: 2008
The only thing that’s kind of quaint about the story at all is the fact that, you know, uh, that the Nixon crimes pale by comparison, with uh, with uh, um, um, [picks up pen] you know, what we’ve been reading about and hearing about in the last few years
With all those ums
December 2, 2008 - 14:18 ET by Dan DiegoWith all those ums & uhs Opie sounds quite presidential.
btw you left out Stunts your Growth.
MtM, funny very funny
December 2, 2008 - 14:22 ET by upcountrywaterAnd no, airplane glue will not stick hair on head..Quit tryin will ya..
DEMOCRAT
School
It's a crime to do anything
December 2, 2008 - 14:11 ET by mattmIt's a crime to do anything liberals don't like.
But real crimes; like Whitewater, troopergate, filegate, Billy Dale-gate, cattle-futures, etc. etc.... will never be put in film by Hollywood pukes like Opie.
Er, maybe...ya don't suppose he was referring to Cold Cash Jefferson, or Harry Land-Deal Reid, or Franklin $90mil Raines, or that Mayor from Detroit - I for get what party he was from, or, well, you know...
It's a crime
December 3, 2008 - 07:03 ET by BobAnthonyTo be a liberal, PERIOD!
By the way, Ron Howard has a home here in Greenwich, People's Republic of CT-Stan. If I was Governor and he said things like that, I'D CALL FOR A FORECLOSURE! I would operate this state under martial law. Say anything to put down this country--OFF TO JAIL AND EVERYTHING IS TAKEN FROM YOU! I am no fan of Lexus Liberals, Cadillac Commies and Maserati Marxists, and Howard happens to fall into ALL THREE CATEGORIES! My family drives mere plebian cars, like Chevy and Toyota...and no GM DOES NOT DESERVE A BAILOUT!
For all the dumb stupid things Bush has done, especially on the border, spending, et al, we have been safe from another 9/11...for now. Now DOPEY OPIE, people like you and your UNQUALIFIED PRESIDENT SELECT OBAMA want to send us back to the 1990's when we had the biggest tax increase in this nation's history.
For the record, I am NOT RECOGNIZING BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ODINGA AS
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! I would like to become part of a
secession front!
uh, um, um, [picks up pen]
December 2, 2008 - 14:09 ET by katainkentyou know with the thing.. and the wiretaps [rubs nose]... and you know... the .. the thing... with the [coughs] war crimes.. and ya know..
was there a wink and a nudge too? :)
Go back to making fun movies Mr. Howard. Please.
"If you think you're finished shopping for Christmas, why not start on next year"
er um uhhh um..you know...
December 2, 2008 - 14:18 ET by theduck6The mating call of the leftie, Hollywood, yellowbellied loon.
Ron Howard...You know, it's really disheartening to find that...
December 2, 2008 - 14:33 ET by PrairieSkyone by one, so many of the figures in the entertainment industry that I grew up admiring (either personally, professionally, or both), have become (or maybe always were) uninformed, misguided, nutjob leftists. Unfortunately, it looks like Ron Howard has shown himself to belong to this group. I have always given him credit for having more sense than the rest of the great uneducated, uninformed, semi-literate masses that gravitate to the entertainment industry in recent years, but it appears I'm wrong.
The fringe leftist group-think in Hollyweird and the entertainment industry in general is so strong, it appears to be inescapable. It's like a giant, brainless black hole that seems to suck anyone into it that ventures near the industry.
I have a theory that along with a Screen Actors Guild card that members in the industry get, they also get a lobotomy at the same time. Does anyone "out there" think for themselves anymore?
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981
Ron Howard
December 2, 2008 - 14:30 ET by east tennessee johnWell Opie, the chances are just as good that Obama, as our first Marxist president could be a bust. Also, what exactly have you been reading and hearing about, and what are your sources, the white guilt MSM that shielded Obama, that NOW, after the election says we don't know anything about?From 9/11/01 to 12/02/08 no terror attacks on the homeland. Remember that in the years to come.
As the lefties said in 2001: He may be President of the United States, but he ain't MY President.
Ron Howard
December 2, 2008 - 14:30 ET by east tennessee johnWell Opie, the chances are just as good that Obama, as our first Marxist president could be a bust. Also, what exactly have you been reading and hearing about, and what are your sources, the white guilt MSM that shielded Obama, that NOW, after the election says we don't know anything about?From 9/11/01 to 12/02/08 no terror attacks on the homeland. Remember that in the years to come.
As the lefties said in 2001: He may be President of the United States, but he ain't MY President.
From "Apollo 13" to this trash
December 2, 2008 - 14:31 ET by Mary Louise TurnerThis is the man who gave us such a wonderful film, "Apollo 13", in 1995! Now he gives us this latest piece of liberal trash! He'll probably win a lot of Oscars given Hollyweird's mentality...*Sigh*
As I've said before, liberals get a free pass, whether they are in politics or in "entertainment".
yea Mary bummer...
December 2, 2008 - 14:55 ET by upcountrywaterApollo 13 was great... "In the shadow of the moon" was even better.
DEMOCRAT
School
Okay Opie...
December 2, 2008 - 14:31 ET by jackie3Name those crimes? Let's see proof.
Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Nixon
December 2, 2008 - 14:34 ET by easygoer"the man who committed the greatest felony in American history would never stand trial."
Get serious. That kind of ridiculous hyperbole destroys any credibility Howard or the movie have.
Having seen the trailer, I
December 2, 2008 - 14:35 ET by Jack BauerHaving seen the trailer, I can say confidently..
Frank Langella -- WORST NIXON EVER.
The Nixon cryo-head in Futurama is more convincing.
Jack B
December 2, 2008 - 16:01 ET by SemperrightLove the Nixon Head
Richard Nixon's Head: Good evening, ignorant pigs. Put down your crack pipes and your beer bongs and pay attention, as I sign a historic peace accord with ambassador Kong of planet Nintendu 64.
Semper Fi
Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
Ned Dolan
Good news everyone -- Yes
December 2, 2008 - 16:10 ET by Jack BauerGood news everyone -- Yes -- it's almost as funny as Bender.
"Tell me what you want. I'll betray anybody."
Jack......Semper.........that had to be...........
December 2, 2008 - 18:29 ET by BEGRUNTOne of the funniest exchanges between NB's I have seen in a while....LMAO!!!!!!
"Richard Nixon's Head:
Good evening, ignorant pigs. Put down your crack pipes and your beer
bongs and pay attention, as I sign a historic peace accord with
ambassador Kong of planet Nintendu 64".
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!
"If a man does his best, what else is there"?
General George S. Patton Jr.
Jack... I could not agree
December 2, 2008 - 18:35 ET by bigtimerJack...
I could not agree more.
This movie has got to flop...big-time!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Bill O'Reilly Loved Langella's Performance
December 5, 2008 - 00:30 ET by Rush FanOn tonight's (Thursday, 12/4) show, Bill O'Reilly played a brief clip of Langella playing Nixon. O'Reilly indicated that Langella's acting may have been the best O'Reilly has ever seen, and that Langella should win an Academy Award for his performance.
Although O'Reilly may be correct, I make it a point not to watch a movie with a left-leaning political agenda and directed by a leftist director. Consequently, I don't pay to see many movies.
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Why the two Americas, the Left and the Right, can never reconcile - An excellent article by Dennis Prager
Opie
December 2, 2008 - 14:44 ET by rossiOpie needs to keep his piehole shut or Aunt Bea will shove one of her prize winning pickles in it. What a waste of flesh.
Opie ain't been the same
December 2, 2008 - 14:51 ET by SickofLibsOpie ain't been the same since that weekend in Mount Pilate.
→ SOL
December 2, 2008 - 16:07 ET by Cool ArrowThat was the weekend he spent with Goober and Howard Sprague, wasn't it?
Brokeback Mount Pilot :
December 2, 2008 - 16:25 ET by SemperrightBrokeback Mount Pilot : The Lost episode
Semper Fi
Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
Ned Dolan
→ I saw it Semper
December 2, 2008 - 16:31 ET by Cool ArrowI think it ended with an exploding goat.
-->Cool
December 2, 2008 - 16:36 ET by SemperrightEarnest T. Bass shouldn't throw rocks at livestock under that kind of pressure. It splodes
Semper Fi
Freedom is not free, but the U.S. Marine Corps will pay most of your share.
Ned Dolan
Why the frig is C-SPAN
December 2, 2008 - 14:53 ET by midnight cowboyWhy the frig is C-SPAN giving a platform to a totaly clueless person, who, for his entire life since he came out of diapers, has made a career (except for Apollo 13) at in being in the land of make believe. His main job is to instruct people to pretend they are someone else and to recite words written by another person. And this guy is somehow has more knowledge than the dry cleaner owner, the mason, the cab driver, the cop, who have to deal with life's real issues on a daily basis, and not in the land of make believe?
Brian Lamb you sir are an idiot. Put a firefighter, the drug store owner, or the wife of a deployed soldier before you put Richie Cunningham on. Who next Potsie?
The Fonz
December 2, 2008 - 16:35 ET by Gat New YorkHave Winkler do his limp wrist impression using the Fonz character.
If Howard had a college degree and did anything else in his life other than live on movie sets then he might have some credibility. But the guy is dumber than Goober and Gomer.
How about?
December 2, 2008 - 15:30 ET by DragonsbreathHe makes a movie based on obama's life? Oh wait that's right it has all been blocked from public view. It would be a 5 second movie.
How about a move based on the media coverage this past election on both parties? Oh wait they are still looking for the coverage on obama.
When you can't ask a question to your leaders anymore, that gets scary. That bothers me."
Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelbacher
Here we go...a
December 2, 2008 - 15:33 ET by ConservativeRexHere we go...a knuckleheaded actor passing judgement. Ron, do you intentionally want to alienate 50% or better of the people that see your films? Is that really your purpose?
And exactly what crimes are anyone in the Bush administration guilty of? If you know, you had better own up to them.
The only crime anyone in the Bush administration in general and President Bush in particulaer is gulity of, is making sure your sorry ass has been protected these last 7 years. Making sure you and your out of touch with reality co-horts can continue to make movies against the Iraq war that fail monumentally.
If you and your idiot (my apologies to true idiots) co-horts would make a good news movie about Iraq it would do box office wonders. It would then be true and reality based and actually make Americans maybe just a little more prouder of this beautiful country.
But no, keep cutting your nose off to spite your face. As your movie studios sink deeper and deeper into the red. Good.
Okay then RON HOWARD is officially.....
December 2, 2008 - 15:40 ET by connman....on the will not buy a movie ticket to see in theatres list. And, if he keeps it up, I won't even throw him on Netflix.
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle
connman...Count me in, too...
December 2, 2008 - 17:41 ET by PrairieSkyThere are very, very few who work in Hollywood that I am willing pay to see anymore, and my list is getting longer by the day...
"...peace is the highest aspiration of the American People. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will never surrender for it, now or ever." President Ronald Reagan~ January 20, 1981
But the movie you should
December 2, 2008 - 15:35 ET by Dan The Man 2But the movie you should make is the Bush and his puppy dog Blair for the millions who’ve been killed and displaced in Iraq - This really stood out as Iraq only had about 26 million in 2005. So maybe 1 thenth of teh population was decinmated by Bush. Woot go Bush, Bush the Merciless.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
WTF!!?
December 2, 2008 - 17:03 ET by ahusserAre you being facetions, sarcastic or ironic or are you claiming Pres. Bush and PM Blair have killed 2.6 million Iraquis. Is this a claim or a joke. If the former how about some documentation.
Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster
→ ahusser
December 2, 2008 - 17:12 ET by Cool ArrowI took him literally - that 1/10th of 26,000,000 was decimated.
A decimation, by definition, is a tenth.
IOW, 1/10th of 1/10th of 26,000,000 equals 260,000.
Now I'm confused. He really didn't say what he meant?
The word decimation
December 2, 2008 - 17:20 ET by ahusserreally means 1/10th but it's modern usage is usually a synonym for annihilation. Besides I don't think we have killed even your figure. But I really wanted to say, but was refraining from ad hominem attacks, that maybe he ought to lay off the glue mentioned earlier in the thread. Now I am wondering who he wants to nuke. LOL
Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster
→ decimation
December 2, 2008 - 17:55 ET by Cool ArrowIt's kinda like getting stopped by the cops for a "California stop".
You tell the cop "I slowed down and looked both ways, that's the same as stopping"
Cop pulls you out of the car and starts beating the snot out of you. Finally the cop says "Do you want me to stop, or do you want me to slow down?"
Decimation still means, as it always has, eliminating one tenth.
You are right it means 1/10th but
December 3, 2008 - 00:09 ET by ahusserIts usage in the media and in everyday language has somehow become a synonym for annihilation and everytime I see it used that way It gives me pause cause I know the real meaning. It is inaccurate and poor usage but it exists and exists widely. Kind of like all the posters using the word loose for lose that I constantly see. Where that comes from I don't know but I have seen it countless times.
Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster
But the movie you should
December 2, 2008 - 17:39 ET by Dan The Man 2But the movie you should make is the Bush and his puppy dog Blair for the millions who’ve been killed and displaced in Iraq is a direct quote from teh blog thread. I was wondering where teh 2.6 million (as in millions) people went to.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
That is approx. 1780 people a day
December 3, 2008 - 00:12 ET by ahusserbeing killed or displaced since the invasion. Somehow I don't believe it. That rant is just one of the symptoms of BDS and can be disregarded.
Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster
Fonzie should have pounded
December 2, 2008 - 15:54 ET by chessplayerFonzie should have pounded the crap out of Dopie-Opie-Ritchie Cunningham.
→ Fonzie
December 2, 2008 - 15:57 ET by Cool ArrowI'm thinking Fonzie was fraternally cuckolding Richie with Jonie.
Chachi spent days scraping it off the water tower.
What are the crimes, again, Ronnie?
December 2, 2008 - 16:16 ET by krendlerAlways fascinating to watch these self-important, pious dorks (like Howard) spout off about "crimes" by Bush/Cheney and "impeachment" this and that without offering even the slightest explanation as to what "crimes" they're talking about or why, if crimes were committed, Bush wasn't impeached by a house and senate controlled by Democrats. Guess it just makes them feel hip to hear the boilerplate BDS verbiage spewing out of their mouths.
And of course, interviewers/moderators never have the integrity to challenge these loons on their hyperbole.
The Pumpkin Papers
December 3, 2008 - 13:00 ET by iveseenitallHey, Howard. Richard Nixon is the most defiled president in history. It continues to this day with this flick of yours. Why?" ---not Watergate, but Alger Hiss. Nixon and people like Whitaker Chambers outed the commie traitor. "Liberals" like you defended him. Nixon befriended Chambers, who was trying to leave the Communist Party. All the info came out in the Pumpkin Papers and Hiss was finished. The lefties lost a battle because of Nixon. Now they're making a comeback with Barry Obama. Lies ruled the day back in the 50's and America hasn't been the same since then. But Nixon put a temporary stop on the spying by the Soviets and began to show the world the evils of Communism and Socialism. That's why the left hates Nixon so much. Creeps!
Read "Witness" by Whitaker Chambers. You are sure to be one up on the likes of Ron Howard.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Meh
December 2, 2008 - 16:30 ET by ScarletI always preferred Anson Williams
I think Opie's new movie is going to bomb badly.
December 2, 2008 - 16:50 ET by R D Helm-Dave
When in doubt, always side with freedom, as it sure beats the hell out of the alternative.
Dave. it's the Opie thing that's trouble for me.
December 2, 2008 - 17:06 ET by ThalpyDave, it's the Opie thing that's trouble for me. Years ago when I was having a fair amount of trouble with my son, a lady told me that I had to put all of his baby pictures away, or I could never treat him with any objectivity. She was right! Every time I hear some lame comment from Ron Howard about many subjects, a picture of Opie comes to mind. I won't be able to think of Opie again--Ron Howard has seen to that.
I wonder
December 2, 2008 - 17:06 ET by JannyMaeI wonder if Mr. Howard had anything to say about it when the Clintons were caught with all those FBI files. Seems to me that Chuck Colson went to prison for that and nothing ever happened to anyone in the Clinton Administration.
Somehow, I doubt that's a comparison Mr. Howard wants to make.
Dumber with age
December 2, 2008 - 17:21 ET by ScandimanWow. Opie certainly was more intelligent under the care of Aunt Bee! He has become dumber with age.
Ron Howard has really
December 2, 2008 - 18:06 ET by bigtimerRon Howard has really become a big disappointment for me...I will never look at him the same, whether it is Opie ect...and same with a lot in La-La-Land, including music too.
Why can't these Hollywood critters just shut the heck up and do their work...let us enjoy some of it without knowing their views, or just not watching something because of their big mouths, this is getting so constant now, what is wrong with these people.
Never-mind...
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
I only care about
December 2, 2008 - 18:13 ET by OxyCon...what Potsie thinks about this. I don't take Opie seriously.
I would like to know
December 2, 2008 - 18:47 ET by littlemissmuffinI would like to know what Howard Morris (aka: Ernest T. Bass) has to think about all this. He was my all-time favorite character.
Maybe Opie swiped some of Otis' moonshine on the show and that's what scrambled his brain.
"If we conservatives moved to those seven non-existent States, the government couldn’t find us and tax us to death!"
lmm... As soon as I read
December 2, 2008 - 18:58 ET by bigtimerlmm...
As soon as I read Ernest T., I immediately thought of Otis...he was one of my favs too...lol.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
"I always preferred Anson
December 2, 2008 - 19:05 ET by chessplayer"I always preferred Anson Williams"
I liked Ralph and his lousy jokes.
→ Gomer Pile
December 2, 2008 - 19:08 ET by Cool ArrowI'll bet when Gomer Pile USMC got spun off he had trouble leaving his friends behind.
Cool... ...LOL... You're
December 2, 2008 - 19:10 ET by bigtimerCool...
...LOL...
You're so bad!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
→ I'm innocent
December 2, 2008 - 19:14 ET by Cool ArrowI swear judge! I didn't mean nothin' by it.
bwahahaha!!!!
ha!
December 2, 2008 - 19:42 ET by littlemissmuffinYou made me laugh. How do you come up with all these witty comments?
"If we conservatives moved to those seven non-existent States, the government couldn’t find us and tax us to death!"
Sure, Ron is a creepy bald
December 2, 2008 - 19:35 ET by Roger the ShrubberSure, Ron is a creepy bald Ginger, but, would you throw his daughter out of bed for eating crackers?
Are you kidding
December 2, 2008 - 19:59 ET by general companyI would provide the crackers
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
Meh. The man makes a good
December 2, 2008 - 19:51 ET by balboaMeh. The man makes a good movie.
Hey, evening boa... I
December 2, 2008 - 20:10 ET by bigtimerHey, evening boa...
I keep meaning to ask others here over time when I see the use of the word meh (I guess it is a word, I truly keep forgetting to look it up, just as I am now, and know I can count on you to tell me anyway)....what the heck does that mean?
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Hey, bt! It's actually just
December 2, 2008 - 22:03 ET by balboaHey, bt! It's actually just been added to the dictionary. It has been documented as from The Simpsons, indicating a general apathy.
but Bal
December 2, 2008 - 22:07 ET by botgit is teh bomb
A Beautiful Mind......
December 3, 2008 - 16:19 ET by connmanNOT!
This is "Far and Away" his most liberal thinking! He can just "eat my dust"!
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
-Aristotle
Hey boa.... Just getting
December 3, 2008 - 16:31 ET by bigtimerHey boa....
Just getting caught up around here...didn't see your response last night....
Thanks.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh