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Sound Smart at a Party A New Jersey Assemblyman is taking a stand against Snooki.
Ronald Dancer, an Ocean County Republican, recently introduced the “Snookiville Law,” which would allow towns to license and regulate the filming of reality television shows and make the shows pay for any additional police officers needed. “This bill will permit local officials to make sure taxpayers don’t get ‘Snook’-ered or public safety is compromised when reality stars such as Snooki or J-Woww come to town,” he says. While the idea sounds perfectly reasonable, it may be a little too late. The Jersey Shore has already filmed its final season, and since Snooki has a new role as Mama Guido, there have been no issues with her spin-off series in Manchester… We never thought we would say this, but there may be an up side to being a eunuch. A new study says
that men without testicles live longer. Researchers analyzed the court of Korea’s Chosun Dynasty and found that eunuchs lived 14 to 19 years longer than regular men of similar status. They even outlived the kings they worked for. Eunuchs reached the
age of 70 on average, with three guys living to 100 or older. One explanation could be that testosterone weakens the immune system and causes heart disease, as previous studies have shown that female mammals generally live longer than their male counterparts, but it is not conclusive. Still, that’s a heavy price to pay for longevity…
“I think [in] a lot of the record, I’m writing about being overwhelmed by trying to do all these things at one time. You just never know when you become a mom what it’s really going to be like. It’s so different than you think.” —Gwen Stefani on making Push and Shove, No Doubt’s first studio album in more than a decade. Since 2001’s Rock Steady, all four band members have become parents. In this photo Stefani and drummer Adrian Young perform at the iHeart Radio Music Festival on Friday, Sept. 21, 2012 at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas. (Photo by Eric Reed/Invision/AP)
A British soldier who didn’t know she was pregnant gave birth on the front lines of Afghanistan.
The Royal Artillery gunner went to the field hospital complaining of stomach pains, and ended up leaving with a baby boy. The soldier had conceived before she began her six-month deployment, where her field job involved providing covering fire for troops fighting insurgents. It is not military policy to allow service women to deploy if they are pregnant, but the woman did not know she was with child and the Ministry of Defense in London was not alerted.
The MOD said that the mother and baby were in stable condition and heading back to Britain… We finally found a politician we can fully support. Tuxedo Stan
is a tuxedo cat running for mayor of Halifax, Canada. For those of you who don’t know what tuxedo cats are, they are usually black with a white underside that makes them look like they are dressed for a black tie event. The 3-year-old is running on the Tuxedo Party, whose platform is
to improve the welfare of cats in the Nova Scotia area. And while Stan is unable to appear on official ballots because he’s not a human, a recent CBC News online poll showed that more than 55 percent of people said they would consider voting for the kitty, and Anderson Cooper is endorsing the feline. Stan isn’t the first cat to run for political office. Stubbs the cat has been mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, for the past 15 years, and Hank is a cat currently running for State Senate in Virginia…
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AHMADINEJAD—OFF TARGET Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for a “new order” to replace an era of “U.S. bullying.” So, calling Israel a “stinking corpse” doomed to disappear is the way to make friends? Just checking.
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GOOGLE—BULL’S EYE Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt says he would like to partner with Apple on mobile projects but it’s up to them now, venting his frustration over Apple’s decision to keep Google Maps, a superior mapping application to Apple’s app, off the new iPhone 5. First no Adobe Flash, now this? Come on, Apple.
FIONA—OFF TARGET After she was arrested for marijuana and hash possession in Texas, Fiona Apple goes on a rambling nonsensical tirade at a recent concert, calling out the individual sheriffs who arrested her and telling the crowd she wrote down and “encoded” all the details of their behavior. And we thought she’d never top her infamous 1997 Maya Angelou speech…
LI JOBS
GAGA—BULL’S EYE Responding to the frenzy over her 25-pound weight gain, Lady Gaga turns the tables on a bullying media, posting a picture of herself online in her underwear with the caption, “Bulimia and anorexia since I was 15.” Calling for a “Body Revolution” to “inspire bravery” and “BREED some M$therf*cking COMPASSION,” she added, “I am not going to go on a psycho-spree because of scrutiny. This is who I am.” Well said, Gaga. LI JOBS—OFF TARGET Long Island’s unemployment rate hits 7.8 percent, up from 7 percent last year, the highest it’s been since the recession of the early ’90s. On the bright side, we hear Fiona Apple is in need of a PR team… MADGE—PARTIAL SCORE Madonna goes off on a strange, profanity-laden endorsement of President Obama during her Washington concert, calling the president a “Black Muslim,” taking off her shirt to show “Obama” written across her back and then telling the audience she would “take it all off” when Obama is re-elected. No word yet on how much hash was found on Madonna’s tour bus.
The Pink Slip
Mark Bonilla Mark Bonilla, meet Vito Lopez. Sure, Bonilla’s a lowly Republican Hempstead Town Clerk and Lopez a once-powerful Democratic Assemblyman from Brooklyn, but they have so much in common. Both have been accused of sexually harassing young women who work for them and now refuse to resign. The only difference is Lopez actually paid a settlement to his accusers. Bonilla allegedly offered to pay $10,000 in hush money but never had the chance. And now they both have gotten Pink Slips. The law may protect these elected officials from being removed unless convicted of a felony—Bonilla’s facing three misdemeanors—but what’s right and what’s legal isn’t always the same thing. Look, Mark. Yes, you’re innocent until proven guilty. And yes, we’re a long way from learning the full facts of your case. But allegations of such sleazy magnitude are unacceptable for an elected official who’s supposed to be held to a higher standard. If you were in any other job, you’d be suspended without pay pending the outcome of the case—if not fired outright just for disgracing the office. Do us all a favor, because this isn’t just going to go away. Clean out your desk, but leave the reelection campaign ambitions behind. You’re fired!
The Quote
“The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.” —Mechanical engineer Bill Nye known as “The Science Guy” in an interview with The Associated Press weighing in on the evolution debate and urging parents not to pass on their own doubts about evolution to their children.
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Men wearing masks of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, left, Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, right, participate in a protest led by Iranian Americans and Syrian Americans outside the United Nations, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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2. REGISTER FOR THE DIVA RUN: On Sunday, Oct. 7 the Divas Half Marathon race will take over Eisenhower Park— feather boas, champagne and all! About 3,000 runners are expected to participate, and attendance will be around 15,000. All finishers will receive a huge, blinged out medal that spins and holds your picture. Register now at RunLikeADiva.com! 3. GET YOUR BIG BREAK AT GREAT NECK ARTS CENTER: On three special Saturday nights Love Revolution Org and the Great Neck Arts Center will search for the next big thing to come off LI—with a little help from some of their friends in the music industry—as the Gold Coast Acoustic Cafe presents “Big Break” Showcase Series at The Great Neck Arts Center. There’s an open call for all musicians ages 12 to 25 currently without a recording or publishing contract to strut their stuff in front of music execs and producers. Visit GreatNeckArts.org for entry guidelines. 4. HAVE A CADBURY SCREME EGG: Cadbury is putting the Easter candy on the back burner for awhile and focusing on Halloween, transforming their classic Cadbury Creme Egg to the Cadbury Screme Egg. Really, the only difference is the wrapper and the green yolk in the middle. The true novelty? Eating a Cadbury egg in October. God Bless America.
The Rundown
1. JOIN THE THRILLER FLASH MOB: On Saturday, Sept. 29 at noon, a combined Thrill the World flashmob including people from Long Island and the tri-state area will meet in Times Square to dance a three-minute version of the Michael Jackson Halloween classic that will be filmed. The “attack” plan includes Washington Square Park, Union Square and maybe even Grand Central Station. To be part of the madness just wear anything black and red with jeans. Visit ThrillTheWorld.com to learn the dance and join the Thrill team.
5. SEE JERRY SEINFELD IN NYC: For the first time in 14 years, Jerry Seinfeld is presenting full performances of his signature stand-up comedy in New York City. The Massapequa native will perform five shows—one in each NYC borough—on five Thursday nights this fall. The gigs will also feature special guest Colin Quinn. It kicks off at Beacon Theatre on Thursday, Oct. 4. 6. YOUTUBE “AH AH’S BACK”: A home video went viral of a young boy reunited with his favorite stuffed animal, a blue monkey named “Ah Ah” lost on a camping trip that turned up on eBay three years later. His mom orders it thinking it would make a great replacement monkey, but when it arrives she realizes it’s not just a look-a-like…it has the same exact ragged cut and singed fur the original “Ah Ah” had. In the words of one YouTube commenter: If you dislike this video, you don’t have a soul… 7. GOOGLE “IG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS 2012”: This year’s Ig Nobel Prizes were given out by real Nobel Prize winners at Harvard University last week for silly sounding research. Some of the prizes handed out went to a Dutch team who studied why leaning to the left makes the Eiffel Tower seem smaller, American and British researchers who calculated how and why a ponytail bounces, and University of California-Santa Barbara researchers for their paper on how to keep a coffee cup from spilling while you walk. 8. DON’T GET POPCORN LUNG: A Colorado man was awarded $7.2 million in damages by a federal court after developing “popcorn lung,” a chronic condition believed to have been caused by diacetyl, a chemical used as butter flavoring in microwave popcorn, which makes it hard for air to leave the lungs. The defense attorneys argued that his health problems were due to his using dangerous chemicals as a carpet cleaner and plan to appeal the decision, but still…you may want to stay clear of anything with diacetyl on the label. 9. CHECK OUT THE NEW TESLA STORE AT ROOSEVELT FIELD MALL: Electric car company Tesla Motors is opening 10 new stores across the nation, and one of them just opened its doors last week at Roosevelt Field Mall. The Garden City location includes interactive displays and design studios where customers can create their own Tesla Model S sedan on a large touch screen and then view it on an 85-inch video wall. 10. ORDER PINK RIBBON BAGELS AT PANERA: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Panera’s 22 LI bakery-cafes launches their annual Pink Ribbon Bagel campaign on Monday, Oct. 1. Now in its 11th year, it’s raised more than $100,000 to benefit organizations on LI. For those who have yet to taste a Pink Ribbon Bagel, it’s a cherry vanilla bagel, sweetened with brown sugar, cranberry chips and cherries, and shaped into a pink ribbon. Yum! news
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A Wedding in Great Neck by Yona Zeldis McDonough Everything must be perfect for the day of a wedding; it is not only a day for two loving partners but for their family’s celebration as well. But the binding ties of a family can be strong enough to either make it or break it. In A Wedding in Great Neck, the family of beautiful and accomplished Angelica Silverstein has gathered on Long Island for the fairytale wedding between Angelica and her Israeli fiancé, a former fighter pilot. Angelica is eager to make sure everything goes right. Yet conflicts and tensions ensue within the Silverstein clan, threatening her perfect day. In this book, McDonough gives readers a witty and moving glimpse inside this particular family, where conflicting emotions run rampant. Can they put aside their personal problems to celebrate their daughter’s nuptials? The tribulations within this family have unraveled at this crossroads and more than one life will be changed forever before the vows are even said. McDonough will be speaking about her book, her writing, and her life, following a book signing at the Great Neck Library on Sunday, 10.21. —Kathy Kim
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ALICIA “I REALLY AM CLUELESS!” SILVERSTONE Oct. 4, 1976 Alicia Silverstone, a Libra, is an actress best known as the star of ’90s teen flick Clueless and as PETA’s 2004 Sexiest Female Vegetarian. Libras are symbolized by the scales. They like balance and keeping things uncomplicated, whether it be by eating a vegan diet, living in an eco-friendly house or, in Silverstone’s case, feeding her son Bear Blu with chewed food from her own mouth. Silverstone recently wrote to Vladimir Putin regarding Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot, who are currently imprisoned for “hooliganism.” Yes, that is a real charge. And no, this one-trackminded Libra didn’t ask for the band’s release— she just put her thumbs together, gave a big “Whateverrr!” and asked that vegan meals be made available to them. How... SPORADIC!
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Leader of the “Free” World Part 3 of the special 8-part Off The Reservation election series
Vice President-elect Joseph Biden traveled to Afghanistan during the transition to the Obama presidency to gauge the war effort on the ground. After meeting with Afghan leaders, American field generals and soldiers who had served multiple deployments, he returned home to report his findings to the incoming president. His synopsis confirmed what most suspected about America’s forgotten war; there was no good news. We were losing the war. More troubling, according to Biden, was that nearly everyone he spoke with had a different impression of what our mission was. Intelligence confirmed that al-Qaeda hadn’t operated in Afghanistan in more than two years, perhaps longer. The Taliban was prepared to return at a moment’s notice, having found safe harbor in neighboring Pakistan. The Afghan economy was devastated and any efforts to train Afghani-led forces were futile due to the overwhelming rate of illiteracy among the population and the underwhelming amount of resources being given to our troops on the ground. The provisional government under Hamid Karzai’s tepid and erratic leadership had not yet been affirmed by a national election and his administration was becoming increasingly corrupt. A combination of protracted war and drought had shattered the local economy and secular tensions and age-old blood feuds among various ethnic groups made the politics impossible to navigate, particularly with no clear objective as to why and whom we were still fighting. These factors, along with an impossible terrain, made an Iraq-style surge improbable and unnecessary in the eyes of many advisors. Nevertheless, in 2009 Obama was now Commander in Chief and it was time to make good on some campaign promises. For months, Obama frustrated generals, media outlets, Democrats and Republicans—anyone with a stake in the outcome of the war. Even his most ardent supporters derided his Vulcanlike demeanor and refusal to commit to a plan of action. Not only had Obama received full cooperation from the Bush administration during the transition, he possessed a surfeit of intelligence information, an experienced team of advisors, 8
and the support of the American public. And yet, days turned to weeks, which turned to months. None of the options before him were good. All carried risk. But in order to place the risk in its proper context, there was one piece of critical information that the president was missing—something that no briefing could possibly clarify. Shortly before midnight on Oct. 28, 2009, President Obama traveled
to Dover Air Force Base. As midnight passed and the calendar turned a page, he stood in the darkness flanked by military personnel as the bodies of 18 dead soldiers whose calendars ceased turning somewhere on the desert battlefield were carried from a military cargo plane. In his book, Obama’s Wars, Bob Woodward describes how after saluting the fallen and meeting privately with the families for the next four hours, the president of the United States “slipped back in the helicopter, switched off the overhead light. No one said a word during the 45-minute flight to the White House.” No fanfare. No flight suit. Just a solemn acknowledgement that this mission was far from accomplished and that there were human beings beneath those fatigues. Shortly after this trip, Obama would reveal the strategy for the war in Afghanistan under his presidency. One by one, he delivered his orders to his senior officials, including Gen. David Petraeus. According to Woodward, “When [Petraeus] later learned the president had personally dictated the orders, he couldn’t believe it. ‘There’s not a president in history that’s dictated five single-spaced pages in his life.’” The world is a big place and Afghanistan occupies only a tiny sliver of it.
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What I appreciate about the president’s thought process is the scope of it, which stands in stark contrast to the singlemindedness of the Bush administration. We are still losing the war in Afghanistan, but our troops are withdrawing. Our operation in Iraq is finally coming to a close. And despite the most recent wave of anti-American sentiment fueled by an inflammatory film about the Muslim prophet Muhammad, we are balancing foreign affairs. While Obama’s nuanced approach has been marked by miscalculations, it takes into account the whole field of battle, which may not always include armed conflict. The ground is shifting beneath us. African nations are beginning to subdivide like cancer cells and we may even witness the reconciliation of North
over-reliance upon drone strikes abroad, there is plenty of criticism to be hurled Obama’s way. But like so many issues this campaign season, foreign policy is yet another area where Mitt Romney falters. Romney’s platform is devoid of nuance. For instance, his plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan asserts, “The United States enjoys significant leverage over both of these nations. We should not be shy about using it.” Only on Planet Romney does America have leverage over a nuclear Pakistan and Hamid Karzai, a man whom the CIA admits is a chemically imbalanced, erratic manic-depressive. He lambastes Obama for allegedly refusing to support uprisings in Iran, calling it a “disgraceful abdication of American moral authority,” while at the same time condemning Obama’s support of the uprising in Libya. Mitt Romney is already promising to write checks we can’t cash. From empty threats of force against Pakistan to declaring he will aggressively “disarm North Korea,” Romney has already displayed a remarkable ignorance. He’s also playing a dangerous game with Benjamin Netanyahu, pitting the Israeli Prime Minister against Obama in an effort to woo the Jewish vote at home. President Barack Obama and Maj. Gen. Romney ignores the success both the Daniel Wright (r) salute the remains of Bush and Obama administrations have army sgt. dale r. griffin of terre haute, had covertly disrupting Iran’s nuclear ind. during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., Oct. 29, ambitions and he underestimates the gal2009. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) vanizing effect a unilateral attack on Iran and South Korea in our lifetime. In would have in the Arab world against surveying Afghanistan, Obama under- both Israel and the US. stood that the real war was with Pakistan. Even more troubling is the team Moreover, our relationship with Pakistan of foreign policy advisors Romney has has always been built on half-truths and assembled, which includes several Bush double-dealing. The Pakistani secret administration retreads, two members police, the ISI, serves up lies to our opera- of the Heritage Foundation—the sham tives half of the time; the trick is to figure conservative think tank supported by out which half. Obama also knows that the Koch brothers—and former CIA our presence is virtually meaningless to Director Michael Hayden, an enthuPakistan compared to its siastic supporter of long-standing feud with rendition. India. Deftly managing Despite several this dynamic results in facebook.com/jedmorey initial missteps on the better intelligence on world stage by the al-Qaeda members who move between Obama administration, it is imperative Pakistan and Afghanistan and as far as we maintain continuity with a nuanced Yemen and Somalia with impunity; just approach and maneuver to achieve as breaking the back of the Assad regime greater stability abroad; if for no other in Syria is more devastating to Iran than reason than to prevent the catastrophic drawing artificial lines in the sand. return of Bush-era foreign policy that a This is only a fragment of the Romney administration would bring. backdrop against which we are being The world has had enough of American asked to elect our next Commander in bluster, particularly when we no longer Chief. From dangerous encroachments have the financial wherewithal or popular to our civil liberties at home to the casual support to back it up.
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Jerry’s Ink BY JERRY DELLA FEMINA, Publisher, the Independent
My Comedy Act I can’t get myself up to write a new column this week. For those who may be wondering, the “Shlomo Good Luck” charm for the New York Giants is going strong. Shlomo sat on my lap when I watched the game on Thursday night. Final score: Giants 36 - Carolina 7. As his agent, if he brings one more week of good luck for the Giants, I will start negotiating with them for a contract. So here’s a column (slightly re-edited) that I wrote in 2005. It describes a night that I dreaded which turned into a high point of my wretched life. I did a stand-up comedy act at Caroline’s Comedy Club. I have never been so frightened in my life. I was so terrified I wouldn’t allow my wife, the beautiful Judy Licht, or anyone I know to attend the show because if I was going to die I wanted to die alone. I also couldn’t stand the thought of getting a mercy laugh. It’s one thing to attempt to write funny, but it’s another thing to get up on stage with a few hundred strangers staring at you and saying to themselves, “Make me laugh!” The other two corporate types who took part in the show were James Liebenthal, the famous tax-free bond expert, and Carl (I can afford to buy a sense of humor—I’m a billionaire) Ichan. Liebenthal went on first. He’s a lovely man but the crowd was deadpan and quiet during his entire “act.” This scared me even more. Now there was a good chance that I would get up on the stage and either vomit or wet myself out of fear. Then I heard them call my name and I stumbled on to the stage to face hundreds of strangers. I delivered my first line and they laughed. “Hey,” I said to myself, “this isn’t so bad.” Then I talked about advertising. “Was I wrong in proposing a slogan for Feminique vaginal spray: ‘Feminique is not the best thing in the world—it’s next to the best thing’?” Crude stuff, but they were laughing and applauding. Here’s the closing part of my act: “Now the only reason I’m up here embarrassing myself is because it’s for charity. I hope someday Caroline’s will hold such an event for my favorite charity. I’ve written a commercial that you’ll all soon see on television. I have that famous bleeding heart, depressive Sally Struthers. “She whines, ‘Hello, I’m Sally Struthers. For years I’ve ruined your dinner by coming on television for some dubious charity and showing you starving children covered by flies. Now I’m here for an even
more serious appeal. Today I’m here to urge you to give to JEWS WITHOUT SECOND HOMES. “‘You see them on the weekends lunching at Fred’s at Barneys and having dinner at Sette Mezzo. Jews with no place to go. During the day wandering among the German and Italian tourists...at night going to boring foreign films about pregnant shop girls in India...Saturday... Sunday—the hours drag. “‘Mothers who have to admit to their children, ‘I’m sorry your friends are not around this weekend. I know they’re all in the Hamptons. If you’re lonely, go downstairs and talk to the doorman.’ “‘Jews who don’t have that sad confusion of wondering which house they left their heavy coat in. And why are those shoes that would be perfect with this dress in my closet in the Hamptons? And why are the clothes I want to wear always, always 120 miles away? Jews who will never spit out their Saturday morning coffee with milk that went sour because it was left on the counter of their second home all week. Jews who will never be able to say, ‘I have to go now, my phone doesn’t get service in Montauk.’ “‘Jews who are the hopeless victims of a rapidly shifting economy. They must be helped. Do they not have a second home because they didn’t want to buy at the top of one of the many Hamptons real estate bubbles? Or worse, did they sell their homes before the bubble started and can’t get back in? “‘Jews who sold their second home on the ocean in Southampton for $900,000 in 1979—now, when they drive past it, they realize it’s worth $14 million and they burst into tears. How about those poor Jews who sold because in 1985 their children were under the influence of some sadistic private school coach at Dalton or Spence who called for soccer and hockey practice on Saturday mornings. Now their kids have graduated and left home and these poor people are reduced to being houseguests of people they frankly can’t stand. When you go to your second homes this weekend, think of those poor Jews who only have one giant kitchen, just five gorgeous bedrooms. Only one Viking stove. Only one sub-zero refrigerator. I’m Sally Struthers urging you to reach into your pocket and give a donation to JEWS WITHOUT SECOND HOMES.’” The applause was incredible. I felt like Sally Fields at the Academy Awards many years ago whose whole acceptance speech was, “You like me. You really like me!”
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By Spencer Rumsey srumsey@longislandpress.com
For a couple of hours last Sunday afternoon, the First Baptist Church of Riverhead became the epicenter of one of the most hotly contested Congressional races in the country as Rep. Tim Bishop, the embattled Democratic incumbent, confronted his wellfinanced Republican challenger, millionaire entrepreneur Randy Altschuler, in the first official debate of this closely watched campaign that could determine which party controls the House of Representatives next year. Less than 20 miles away, the fate of the New York State Senate could be up for grabs in Islip as Assemb. Phil Boyle (R-Brightwaters) and Legis. Rick Montano (D-Central Islip) battle to replace Sen. Owen Johnson, who’s retiring after 40 years of public service. These two men have appeared together at social functions along with their wives, but their friendship is going to be sorely tested in the weeks remaining before Nov. 6, because the stakes are high. Right now, Sen. Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) leads the majority in the State Senate by a slim 33-29 vote margin. Democrats think they can shake him loose if they pick up this open seat. Ramping up the friction this election cycle is the presidential race, of course. Though the last Republican to get New York’s electoral votes was Ronald Reagan, no political pundit can predict how well President Barack Obama will do this time around in the Empire State. Registered Republicans outnumber Democrats 154,000 to 129,000 in the First Congressional District, which includes most of Suffolk County, but in the small Fourth Senate District on the South Shore registered Democrats have a 2,000-vote margin over Republicans, 62,000 to 60,000. Turnout for the top of the ticket will be key to the downballot races. Which party wins those contests could change the balance of power in both Washington, D.C., and 12
Rep. Tim bishop, the incumbent democrat from the east end (ABOVE), is locked in a tight race with randy altschuler (LEFT). their first debate took place at the first baptist church in riverhead, where the tone was civil compared to the rancor of their tv ads. (Dan O’Regan/ Long Island Press)
Albany. The impact could be significant. “They are sort of bellwether races in that sense,” says E.J. McMahon, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and its Albany-based Empire Center for New York State Policy. “If you have a situation where a Democrat carries the Johnson seat, then I think you do have huge repercussions because it probably means they’re also carrying other seats
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they’re not expected to carry… The Altschuler race is highly contentious and that’s seen as a national microcosm.” With that in mind, Speaker of the House John Boehner is coming Oct. 10 to a private fundraiser in St. James, where Altschuler lives, because the National Republican Congressional Committee has designated him one of their Young Guns, with whom they hope to build a permanent majority on Capitol Hill. Earlier this month, Republican mastermind Karl Rove’s Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, a super PAC (political action committee), spent $260,000 on a TV ad blasting Bishop as being unethical for receiving a campaign contribution from a constituent he’d helped get a fireworks permit for his son’s bar mitzvah. Another super PAC, Prosperity First, backed by Suffolk hedge-fund
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billionaire Robert Mercer, recently shelled out $312,000 for direct mail on Altschuler’s behalf. The Democrats desperately need to hold onto Bishop’s vulnerable seat— he defeated Altschuler in 2010 by only 593 votes—and regain 25 more before they can replace Boehner as Speaker. The House Majority PAC, a Democratic super PAC, is forking out $260,000 on a new TV ad attacking Altschuler as an “outsourcer” because his former company OfficeTiger supplied U.S. corporations with backoffice workers overseas. It’s a charge that the Republican entrepreneur vehemently disputes, although the description on his LinkedIn page did say OfficeTiger was in the “outsourcing/ offshoring industry” and the Wall Street Journal has reported it was based in the Netherlands. The GOP countered by attacking Bishop’s integrity, referring to an August story in Politico in which Bishop said that he’d agreed in May to help his constituent in Southampton get the fireworks permit, and that afterwards Bishop’s daughter, whom he’d hired to raise funds for his campaign, sought a contribution. Then the watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), spotted the piece, saw that he’d hired his daughter, and added the East End Democrat to their list of “Most Corrupt Congressmen,” giving the Altschuler campaign a golden opportunity to attack him with an ad saying: “Tim Bishop. Everything that’s wrong with Washington,” and calling for an ethics investigation. On that point, CREW’s executive director, Melanie Sloan, concurs. “I think there should be an investigation,” she tells the Press. “He admitted in print to something that’s a crime… He said to Politico that he gets money when people thank him for his work.” She said the Congressman “wasn’t on our radar screen until he gave the interview. So Bishop only has Bishop to blame. It wasn’t very smart to hire your daughter in the first place….I can’t help Continued on page 14 P r e s s P l ay
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it if politicians are dumb and say stupid things.” As for Altschuler’s campaign striking pay dirt with CREW’s compilation, Sloan said her committee is non-partisan. “He hasn’t had anything to sell,” she observes, “so he can’t use his position to benefit contributors.” So far, at least. One of Altschuler’s proposals on his “10-point plan” to improve the economy might raise eyebrows in the future since he says he’d turn his congressional office into a vehicle “for business expansion” staffed with an “economic development coordinator” and a “capital coordinator,” along with a promise that he’d meet personally with potential business owners in and outside of Long Island to promote Suffolk. In the meantime, his new CloudBlue company, which has won praise from the Government Service Administration for its innovative electronics recycling program, remains based in Norcross, Ga. Still, the ethics charge against Bishop is incendiary enough to force the Congressman to cut his own TV ad in which he tells the camera directly that “now, my opponent Randy Altschuler says I’m a criminal… You know me. And you know for Randy Altschuler to say that is just despicable.” It’s a risky step because it involves rehashing the charge against him. In his defense, Bishop’s campaign spokesman Robert Pierce told The Hill: “We responded to the outrageous, over-the-top attack ad put on the air by Randy Altschuler because people know Rep. Bishop, they know that he has conducted his entire adult life with integrity, and they know that outsourcer Randy Altschuler will stoop to any low to try to give his extreme Tea Party views another voice in Congress.” Heated words to be sure. But they were nowhere to be heard at last Sunday’s debate in Riverhead.
COMMON GOOD
In the crowded confines of this house of worship the tone was respectful, perhaps in deference to Rev. Charles Coverdale, who told the assembled: “We would appreciate you listening and not shouting while the speakers are speaking.” His assistant pastor, Cynthia Liggon, reminded the audience of several hundred people: “We ask that a spirit of openness, compassion and good will be amongst us…as we seek the common good for all humanity.” And so the rancor that has so bitterly divided the nation was kept 14
Legis. rick montano (d-central islip) is running for an open seat in the state senate because sen. owen johnson is retiring. as he shows on the map (LEFT), the newly redrawn senate district excludes most of those he represents in the suffolk county legislature. state democrats are giving him a hand because there’s no incumbent. carol a. gordon, a democrat (ABOVE), is facing a very steep challenge trying to unseat popular sen. charles fuschillo (r-merrick). (Spencer Rumsey/Long Island Press)
“the republicans have controlled this seat for 40 years and the demographics have changed.”
—legis. rick montano
briefly at bay as these two candidates for Congress, who couldn’t be farther apart politically, stood about six feet from each other at their respective podiums, no doubt longing to blast each other into smithereens but knowing they dare not. Their differences were obvious. The outcome won’t be clear until November—and maybe not even then, considering that their first race in 2010 took five weeks to decide. The two candidates offered a study in contrasts. The clean-shaven Randy Atschuler, 41, was all smiles; the gray-bearded Tim Bishop, 62, was tight-lipped. Both men looked like they
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could be corporate executives on Wall Street, pretending to get along as they posed together for the annual report, with the subtext being Altschuler dying to tell Bishop he’s just bought the company and is forcing the older man into early retirement. Both politicians traded shots over the controversial budget plan proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), Gov. Mitt Romney’s vice presidencial nominee. It’s formally called “The Path to Prosperity,” but liberal critics like The New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and others have dubbed it “the road to ruin,” because it would slash food stamps, cut college Pell grants, close
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national parks, privatize Medicare and slice Medicaid while eliminating mortgage interest deductions, among other initiatives, to avoid raising taxes on the wealthy. “One of the reasons I support the Ryan plan is because it is the only plan!” said Altschuler at the debate. “I do not support the Ryan budget,” countered Bishop. “I think that if the Ryan budget were ever to take on the force of law in this country it would impose enormous pain on people all across this country.” The debate left audience members with a clear impression of the very different visions these two candidates P r e s s P l ay
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have of America—and what their policies represent. Dan Farrell, the president of the Suffolk County Association of Municipal Employees, has endorsed Altschuler, despite what the Ryan budget might do to Medicaid payments to the elderly in nursing homes like the John J. Foley facility, where his union has 200 workers—and which Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, a Democrat, plans to sell to a private operator. Altschuler “stepped up to support us in the fight for Foley, and Bishop didn’t,” Farrell tells the Press, adding that Altschuler told the union leader that he would not necessarily toe the party line. “I asked Randy point-blank,” Farrell says. “If it means going against the party, then he can do that, and I’m confident he will do the right thing.” As for Bishop, the public employees union leader says, “It’s been the same old rhetoric over and over.” But he’s taking a different side in the State Senate race, backing Legis. Montano. His union presented the Democrat with a check for $10,000 at a recent fundraiser held at the fancy Southward Ho Country Club in Bay Shore. “He didn’t vote to sell Foley,”
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explains Farrell about his supporting Montano. “If he does move on to Albany, then we have a friend in Albany!”
ALBANY OR BUST
Is Montano ready to make the move upstate? His opponent, Phil Boyle, has been in the Assembly for 14 years, and is comfortable in Albany. The Democratic legislator certainly seemed at ease in his element while having a late lunch at Tango, an Argentinian steakhouse in Central Islip as a steady stream of acquaintances came by his table to chat. He says he wants to go north— and he cites his experience growing up listening to his father Armando Montano, who served in the Assembly for over a decade and a half. “I’m 62,” Montano says with a smile. “I can’t afford to pass up this opportunity!” He believes he’ll make a difference in Albany. “We’re not looking at imposing taxes on working and middle classes,” says Montano. “There’s a great contrast between what I believe as a Democrat and what my opponent believes as a Republican… The Republicans have been in control of this seat for 40 years and the demographics have changed.
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“if he does move on to albany, then we have a friend in albany.” —Dan Farrell, president of suffolk county association of municipal employees, about Legis. Rick Montano
“I have nothing against Phil Boyle,” he adds. “Everyone tells me he’s a nice guy, but I can’t name one thing that he’s done.” His good feeling about his opponent may not last much longer because some people in his district have recently been receiving “push polls,” in which callers purporting to be conducting an election survey are really disseminating criticism of a candidate. One man in Bay Shore, a retired union worker, got one and it made him
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so angry he intends to volunteer for Montano’s campaign. “They describe Boyle like Jesus Christ and Montano like the devil!” he tells the Press. Boyle’s campaign has not been linked to the push-poll calls. “I like Rick,” says Boyle, as he’s going to door to door in one of the richest neighborhoods in his district, Bayberry Point, where the mansions and Spanish-style villas, some built in the 1920s, are far apart, and sports cars are parked in the circular driveways and boats are tied up to the canals in back. And where, he says in answer to a reporter’s question, property taxes could be “at least $50,000.” This year the Republicans in the State Senate redrew the Fourth Senate District and conveniently cut out almost all of Montano’s Ninth Legislative District. “It would be a disaster for Dean Skelos to lose that seat,” says a well-connected political insider—not a Republican—who didn’t want his name used because of his close ties to both sides. “It’s in his own backyard!” Boyle insists that if the Democrats took over the State Senate it would lead to “utter chaos,” as he said it was when Continued on page 16
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they were in charge in 2009 and 2010 and made New York City issues their priority. “We need to make sure we maintain a Long Island-based majority in the State Senate,” says Boyle. “This is not about Republican versus Democrat— this is about Long Island versus New York City.” His years in Albany have taught him a lesson in humility. “To be effective as a minority Assembly person, you need to be able to put your ego aside,” Boyle says. To Montano’s way of thinking, Boyle’s experience in the Republican minority “means you go up there and for the most part do nothing because you have no power,” he says. But he doesn’t see himself facing the same situation in the State Senate. “When we win this seat,” Montano says, “this could determine the balance of power in New York State.” That won’t happen, says Scott Reif, a spokesman for Skelos. “We believe we’re going to win this seat,” says Reif. “We believe we’re going to expand our majority. It’s very important to keep all nine seats on Long Island in Republican hands. That’s been very good for Long Island.” State Sen. Michael Gianaris
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(D-Queens) differs. “We’re very optimistic about Rick’s chances,” says Gianaris, head of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee. “I think they’re seeing the same numbers that we’re seeing, and those numbers indicate that we’re returning to the majority in January.” He believes that Boyle’s conservative views on women’s reproductive rights and fair pay, as well as his opposition to raising the minimum wage make the Republican—with whom he’d served in the Assembly before being elected to the State Senate himself— “out of touch with the people of Suffolk County.” And he scoffs at the charge leveled by Boyle’s backers that Montano would be nothing but a Democratic pawn for the city. “In a Democratic majority, a Senator Rick Montano would actually have a lot more influence than a Senator Phil Boyle would have in a conference with many [Republican] senators from Long Island,” he says. “A Democratic member from Suffolk would have an outsized voice within our conference.” Of course, anyone who’s tangled with Montano would know that’s probably an understatement. One of those guys is Suffolk Democratic Chairman Rich Schaffer, who’s
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publicly supported Sen. Owen Johnson over the years—much to the legislator’s displeasure. But now that the 83-yearold senator is retiring, Schaffer is fully backing Montano. The issue, Schaffer tells the Press, “was always about the relationship I had with Owen….He went against the Republican Party when the Town of Babylon was experiencing great financial difficulty…and helped us get through that difficult period without [us] having to declare bankruptcy.” Now, Schaffer says, “We support Rick Montano. [He] has been an important part of the legislative caucus and I think he’ll take the same philosophies of protecting our suburban interests to the State Legislature.” Schaffer’s counterpart, Suffolk Republican Chairman John Jay LaValle, tells the Press that “Phil Boyle’s going to win handily.” Still, the chairman notes, “Phil’s taking nothing for granted. He’s knocking on doors. He’s doing everything he can possibly do…. I do expect that that’s going to equate to votes at the ballot box.” New York State Republican Chairman Ed Cox says he’s known Boyle “for a long while” and “he is one of the best political minds that we have!”
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“it’s very important to keep all nine seats on long island in republican hands.” —Scott reif, spokesman for state senate majority leader dean skelos
Independence Party Chairman Frank MacKay previously endorsed Boyle when he ran for the Assembly and he’s proudly giving Boyle his party’s line in the State Senate race. “Phil Boyle would maintain more of an Owen Johnson-type agenda,” MacKay tells the Press, adding that he’s been impressed by Boyle’s stamina. “He’s working 18 hours a day—I’ve
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assemb. phil boyle (r-Bay Shore) confers with nicole graziano, one of his campaign workers (ABOVE), as he goes door to door in bayberry point drumming up support for his race to succeed sen. owen johnson, who’s retiring after serving the district for 40 years. the outcome could determine whether the republicans continue to hold onto the state senate. (Spencer Rumsey/Long Island Press)
never seen anybody work this hard in a campaign!” Montano says he hasn’t been slouching off, either. “People tell me I look great,” he says with a laugh. “I’ve lost 10 pounds!” A former federal prosecutor, Montano relishes making his case that he’ll win this open seat. He says he’s counting on voter turnout of 65
percent or more—the last presidential election yielded about 75 percent, he says—and that “our data clearly shows that Obama’s going to win this district.” His major concern is about ticket-splitting, considering that the Independence Party line might take between 5 and 7 percent of the vote. “What I’m telling people is stay on the [Democratic] line! That’s our key to victory.”
How many voters cast their ballots for the Independence Party’s candidates may not be so pivotal in this State Senate race but it could make the difference in the First Congressional District, many observers say, since Bishop got more than 7,000 votes in 2010 and won’t be listed on their ballot spot this time—and that has got Democratic operatives worried.
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“This election is about whether we want a Tea Party Congress that ends Medicare to give more tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas, or whether we want people like Tim Bishop who are fighting for the middle class and seniors,” says Rep. Steve Israel Continued on page 18
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(D-Dix Hills), head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “The choice couldn’t be clearer, and we will do everything we can to help Tim win.” Israel insists that the House is in play, telling Roll Call that “it is in range.” Poppycock, scoffs Nat Sillin, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. He notes that the NRCC has reserved $540,000 in TV ad time for the First Congressional District and says that “by our math” more than $1.5 million will be spent on Altschuler’s behalf before the race is through. “We view this as one of the greatest pickup opportunities for Republicans in the Northeast,” Sillin tells the Press. “Randy Altschuler is running a very strong campaign.” A key difference is having Altschuler on the Independence Party line. “Frankly it shows Randy’s independence,” Sillin says. “It demonstrates his ability to appeal to folks from all political persuasions.” “Randy is a very impressive individual,” says Frank MacKay, state and national chairman of the Independence Party. “He’s the epitome of independence. He’s a self-made man who’s had success in the private sector, and these
are the types of people who bring fresh ideas into government.” Nassau County Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs, no fan of Altschuler’s to begin with, says: “I think the more people get to know him, the less they’ll vote for him.” And Jacobs believes that, compared to the majority running the House of Representatives now: “Long Islanders tend to be more
LaValle, who thinks the Republican challenger will be helped by having Romney at the top of the ticket. “I believe Romney’s going to win Suffolk County,” says LaValle. “I think it’s going to be by a couple of points, a 52-48 type of win. Four years ago McCain lost to Obama 52-48.” Cox, state GOP chairman, who lives in the Hamptons, agrees.
“what the republicans want to do, that’s not long island.” —jay jacobs, nassau county democratic chairman
moderate. What the Republicans want to do, that’s not Long Island.” He contends that Obama is going to win big in New York and that will help Bishop because “Romney suffers from a disconnect with voters here on Long Island and that may make them less enthusiastic…and somewhat depress turnout.” “I think Randy’s running a great race,” says Suffolk GOP chairman
“I think Romney will run strong in Suffolk County,” he says. As for the Empire State being in Obama’s column, he says emphatically: “I’m not willing to concede New York yet!” Although that result is certainly debatable, the chairman adds: “There’s no doubt that we will have a majority in the House of Representatives.” Indeed, he says, it’s “the largest majority we’ve had since the 1920s.”
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Interestingly, the 112th Congress, which only has a few months left before it fades into history’s dustbin, has also been regarded as the one of the worst in decades, garnering only a 10 percent popularity rating in a recent Gallup poll. Congress’ dismal record came up at the debate in the First Baptist Church of Riverhead. “There used to be a bipartisan consensus on how to handle a really big issue that has no easy answers,” Bishop told the audience. “As the membership of the House of Representatives has moved much further to the extreme right, that bipartisan consensus has broken down. So if you’re looking for a fault, it is not someone like me who has been trying to work across the aisle to solve problems as opposed to someone who wants to dig in and let existing problems remain. We have to find common ground.” Altschuler pledged he’d do the same. “As a businessman, I’ve never asked anybody what party they’re in,” he said. “I only ask them how we can work together.” Voters will get to decide who they want working for them on Election Day.
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Thirteen years ago, Gary Zaccaro brought with him to Massapequa a six-year-old home improvement company committed to rebuilding and renovating homes, sometimes from the ground up. Since that time, Zaccaro has also dedicated himself to his community and struggling neighbors that he’s also helped lift off the ground, armed with a toolbox and a big heart. Earlier this year, Zaccaro, founder and President of Ambassador Home Improvement, got a call from the White House asking him to visit. No work needed to be done, of course, President Barack Obama wanted to honor the 46-year-old Massapequa resident for his work in the community, and awarded him with the gold-level Presidential Volunteer Service Award, which hangs in his office. The presidential recognition doesn’t just stem from one generous offer to help a family, but from a lifetime of service to his neighbors. “I can’t help the world, I’m one person,” says Zaccaro, also the vice president of Drug Free Massapequa. “But if it’s local within my community I try to get involved as much as a I can.” In January, Zaccaro read about a man battling a very aggressive form of leukemia that limited his interaction with his family because of the dangers of contracting germs and other bacteria. Realizing how sad it was that the man could barely touch his kids, Zaccaro felt like he needed to step in. “I decided to renovate an entire basement for him and make it a germ-free living space gislandpress.com
for him so he can live within his house and be able to still see his family,” he says. “But God forbid his children - he has two little kids - if one of them was sick and he hugged them, he has no immune system, he could die.” The renovation cost $35,000. All of it came out of his own pocket. Three years ago, Zaccaro decided to build a new press box for the local little league team so players, coaches and fans could have a warm area to sit in during games. That cost him $25,000. It’s a lot of money, but he’s glad to do it. Through 19 years of running his business, Zaccaro has rolled with the punches. Business was great in the ‘90s when the economy was booming, and then he had to lead the company through the Great Recession. But he never wavered in his commitment to the community. “My whole life has been trying to get somebody to sign a contract with me so I could renovate their home,” he says. “To be able to sit in front of somebody and say ‘look you don’t have to sign anything, I’m doing it, there’s no charge, I want to do it, I feel good about it,’ it makes me feel really good about myself.”
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Greening Your Home By DAN O’REGAN Higher energy bills seem inevitable when winter comes, but greening one’s home by making it more energy efficient and environmentally friendly is a smart way to help keep home heating costs down during the colder months. According to Gordian Raacke, founder and executive director of nonprofit Renewable Energy Long Island, Long Islanders still have a long way to go in making their homes as green as possible. He offers some tips for homeowners. “Schedule a general checkup for your home called a home energy audit,” he says. “A qualified energy professional will give you a list of upgrades for your home to consider.” Homeowners can then choose what to improve, continues Raacke. Long Island Power Authority (LIPower.org) offers free home energy audits, he adds, as do programs available through the Long Island Green Homes Consortium (LongIslandGreenHomes.org), a cooperative effort of seven municipalities to help residents upgrade their homes’ energy performance. One costly waste for many Long Islanders is heat escaping through folding attic stairs. An easy remedy, says Raacke, is an attic tent—a sealable, insulated barrier
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blocking the staircase opening. Attic roof insulation can also be a weak point in many homes across Long Island, says Mark Gunthner, president of Brentwood-based Home Performance Technologies (HomePerformanceTechnologies. com). A quick way to better insulate an attic, he explains, is with spray foam roofing—the application of foam insulation either inside the attic or coating the roof. “[Spray foam roofing] is one of the best measures you can do to improve the energy efficiency of your house,” says Gunthner. “It brings your attic into the thermal boundary so it is now conditioned space, and the heat stays in the attic and doesn’t get lost through the attic.” Attics aren’t the only places drafts can occur in a home, stresses David Magid, renewable energy coordinator at You Save Green (YouSaveGreen.com), a renewable energy contractor with offices in Albertson. That’s because most homes are not completely airtight, he says. “Reducing airflow is critical in the winter time,” he explains. “There is a lot of small things that add up. These small holes can sometimes be equivalent to a window being open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, in the middle of the winter.”
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Homeowners should also look at openings they may not consider problems, continues Magid. Central air vents and wallmounted air conditioner units left unsealed in winter can be a big drain on a heating bill. Massapequa Park-based MAVCAP Industries aims to eliminate this problem entirely with its AC DraftShields. The clearplastic covers fit over central air grates and wall-mounted air conditioners to seal out drafts. The company (ACDraftShields.com) is also developing a cover to fit over electrical outlets to prevent drafts through noninsulated wall spaces. These products keep energy costs down while more efficiently heating a home in the winter. Chu & Gassman Consulting Engineers calculated that AC DraftShields can save oil users $103 annually for through-wall air conditioners and $260 per year for central air grates covered, according to MAVCAP’s website. The products have the potential to save gas users $89 annually for covering through-wall air conditioners and $244 per year for central-air vents. “Something as simple as blocking a draft has a profound impact on [energy costs],” says MAVCAP Industries President Tom Mavroudis. “Depending on how bad your systems are between your outlets, your vents and your through-the-wall air conditioner, you could save 10 to 15 percent off your energy bill.” For more ideas, check out the LI Green Homes Open House, a free event on Oct. 13 at 15 locations across LI, offering tours, green technology in action and talks with homeowners and contractors. To register visit RenewableEnergyLongIsland.org. .
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Giving Back By Laura Cerrone John Sopack never expected to have his basement renovated for free. He also never thought he would be diagnosed with leukemia in September 2011. The young married father of two had no escape in his own home from germs that could delay his recovery. Gary Zaccaro read about Sopack’s illness in a local newspaper and decided he would lend a helping hand, and an open wallet. Zaccaro has built his business, Massapequa-based Ambassador Home Improvement, by renovating homes for nearly 20 years. Without any hesitation, Zaccaro completed Sopack’s basement, outfitting it with metal stairs so dangerous mold couldn’t grow, as well as keeping the work environment free of dust. Before donating his time, resources, and paying for Sopack’s basement renovation, Zaccaro had been active in helping the local Massapequa community since 2009. “I know it sounds very generic but I just love helping people,” he tells the Press. Zaccaro was approached by the Massapequa Coast Little League team to help spruce up the baseball fields at John J. Burns Park in Massapequa. The Long Island and New York State champion team was looking to add a press box and Zaccaro, a coach of one of the teams, stepped up to the plate. “I never did something of that scale
before. It was exciting and fun, and it was nice to have good things come out of it,” he says. More good things were to come Zaccaro’s way after helping out Sopack. Zaccaro says someone anonymously nominated him for a President’s Volunteer Service Award. “The White House called my office and I thought it was a joke,” he says, referring to when he was notified in February about winning. Zaccaro describes the experience as one of the most amazing in his life, but is even happier about the response of locals who’ve been calling up and asking how they can get involved, too. He believes that when people work together to help others, it only leads to more positivity. It has also made his employees happier to work for him. “My employees see what I do in the community, and it makes them feel good about working for me and working for this community,” says Zaccaro. Zaccaro says community service can be “infectious.” Recently, Don Higgins Realty, a Manhattan- and Oyster Bay-based real estate company, has also caught the bug, donating 10 percent of its commission sales to charities. Matt McGarry, a real estate broker with DHR who lives in Locust Valley, agrees that employees derive happiness from working for a company that gives back to the community.
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McGarry says DHR’s owner, Don Higgins, has wanted to be charitable for years, but DHR has only been able to donate to charities for about five months due to verifying documentation with the state. In those five months, DHR has donated to the East End Hospice, the Eastern Long Island Hospital, Lead the Way Fund, The Life Enrichment Center at Oyster Bay, Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation, Manhasset Student Aid Association, North Shore Animal League America, North Shore-LIJ Health System Foundation and the Peconic Bay Medical Center Foundation, he says. DHR is planning to spread its charitable donations to the Boys and Girls Club in Locust Valley, too, he adds. “Unfortunately because of the economy these charities are the first to feel the cuts,” says McGarry, explaining why they chose to start their charity work. Alure Home Improvements in East Meadow is another Long Island company that has made donating to charity and volunteering its time two of its top priorities. Over the past few years, Alure has been involved with more than 20 different projects that have benefited everyone from college students to cancer patients. Most notable of all the work is the eight times Alure has been a remodeler for the television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Sal Ferro, Alure’s president and CEO, says his company’s experience has been rewarding. “I’ve been touched by the number of people we’ve heard from that were inspired to get involved in supporting other charitable organizations after volunteering on one of our Extreme Makeover projects and experiencing w w w. lo n g i sl a n d p r ess . c o m
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the gift of changing lives,” he says. Ferro echoes Zaccaro’s sentiment that employee morale is improved by their company’s charity work, and their contribution is invaluable and inspirational. “I’m just thankful that Alure is fortunate to be in a position where we can actually make a difference,” he says. From John Sopack, to the eight families with new homes, and all the hundreds of other people touched by Zacarro, Don Higgins Realty, and Ferro’s commitment to the community, Long Island has learned how far the positive, selfless acts of some of its top businesses can reach.
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New tests performed on hair and tooth samples taken from the body of Princess Doe, the unidentified young woman found beaten to death in a New Jersey cemetery in 1982, suggest she spent time in the Long Island area prior to her death and was likely (L) sketch created From Donna Kinlaw’s details. (R) originally from Arizona. composite created using a CT scan of Princess Doe’s skull (Photos: Warren County Prosecutor’s Office) Retired Det. Lt. Stephen Speirs appeared on CNN Sept. resubmit [the DNA] because we can 22 to give an update on the first round do so many better things now. It’s more of tests investigators hope will lead to advanced so we can take the smallest amounts of trace evidence and be able to Princess Doe’s identity. “The last five months [prior to her develop a DNA profile.” That means detectives could actually death] she was in Region Two of the United States, which puts her in the have DNA belonging to Princess Doe’s Northeast area,” Speirs said regarding the killer right now, or at the very least, the DNA of someone close to her before she hair sample testing results. Speirs said one of Princess Doe’s died who might be able to identify her. “If this evidence does prove to be teeth was also sent out for isotope testing, which gave investigators an idea of where contributed not from Princess Doe, but from someone other than Princess she spent her early life. “We’ve determined that there’s a Doe, then that clearly gives us a person potential she could have come from the of interest,” said Speirs. “I’ve never been Midwest area meaning, quite honestly, more optimistic than I am now, and I’ve Arizona is what we’re focusing on now,” been around the block on everything you can imagine, all over the place, with this he continued. Speirs said investigators have also case.” Detectives released a brand new received phone calls regarding Princess composite of Princess Doe this past July, Doe’s clothes. “We’ve gotten phone calls from using the latest technology from the three separate individuals in the Long Smithsonian Institute in Washington, Island area,” said Speirs. “When they saw D.C. The new composite, which police the pictures of the composite, as well as the picture of the clothing, three separate say is the most accurate to date, may people told us they bought the exact give some credibility to the story of one same dress from a dress store in the Long woman who claimed she was in the Island area. And we have been focusing cemetery when Princess Doe was killed. A hand-drawn sketch previously our efforts in the Long Island area as created by a forensic artist with the help well.” These are just the first round of of Donna Kinlaw, who told police she recently submitted test results that have witnessed Princess Doe’s murder at the come back in a new push to give Princess hands of currently incarcerated convicted Doe back her name—the subject of an murderer Arthur Kinlaw, her husband at August 2012 Press cover story “Identify- the time, bears striking similarities to the new computer-generated image. Donna ing Princess Doe.” In 1999, Princess Doe’s body was also told detectives the woman was from exhumed to retrieve DNA from her the Long Island area. While detectives say Arthur had remains, but forensic science has evolved since then and 30 years later investigators once claimed responsibility for the hope that resubmitted DNA will yield crime, neither of the Kinlaws’ stories of what allegedly happened to Princess Doe more answers. “Preliminary results from those tests could ever be confirmed. Police are asking for anyone with any suggest that we may have some trace evidence that does not belong or was information regarding the Princess Doe not contributed by Princess Doe,” Speirs case to please call the anonymous tip line at told the Press in August. “Now, we can 1-866-942-6467. news
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We live in an age of change, especially when it comes to the multitude of apps that are available on smartphones. Students are constantly looking for something else to spend their time doing. Students want something challenging, or maybe distracting. The large amount of simple games on the market allows us to do that. “I like to beat my high scores,” said junior Ariana Ferretti. “I like to beat people.”
There are more benefits that come with having so many games at one’s disposal. “You get to play against your friends, you get to beat them [and] you get bragging rights,” said sophomore James Shekian. And what could possibly be better than having bragging rights? Whenever there are games, there is competition. Everyone gets satisfaction from saying that they “won.” Having access to more games means more opportunity to show off anyone’s “awesome skills” whether they are your secret ninja skills in “Fruit Ninja,” your
artistic ability in the new app “Draw Something” or your superbly lavish vocabulary in “Words with Friends.” “I [play] after school a lot when I get bored…whenever I am bored,” said Shekian. The repetitiveness of these games can lead to intense boredom, no matter how many times you beat your friends. “People get bored of it. You are playing the same thing over and over again,” said Ferretti. When people get to this point, it is time to find another game that can be played and obsessed over. But how do people find out about all of these games? One could go on the app store and find the top games, see what people are talking about on Facebook or take advice from other students.
Students are not the only ones getting involved in this app craze. Some teachers are picking up on what game is popular and what to play at this time. “My students will give me a heads up; they’ll say ‘Franzke, you need to download’ whatever it is,” said Franzke. Apps are constantly changing and coming out. Students can be found downloading a new app at anytime because they never cease to appear on the app store. The debate still stands as to whether or not this flood of new games is beneficial for a society. “I don’t think [apps are] good [for society]…the level of commitment is so minute, and I think that is the one thing we lack the most…If I was to say ‘Is this good for society?’ I would say a massive ‘no’, and I am part of it,” said Franzke.
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Singer-songwriter Missy Higgins plays The Bell House in Brooklyn With Butterfly Boucher on Friday, 9.28.
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Singer, songwriter, producer, instrumentalist, actor and part of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather, Jack White gets around. White comes alone this time to Radio City in support of his first solo studio album, Blunderbuss, named after the muzzle-loading firearm, and released on White’s own label, Third Man Records. The album was written, recorded and produced entirely by White and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Radio City Music Hall. Saturday, 9.29 & Sunday, 9.30. —Jaclyn Gallucci
PATENT PENDING
Mount Sinai’s pop punkers bring their “We mosh because we care” mantra to Amityville. The band released six albums on their own before their 2006 Save Each Other, the Whales Are Doing Fine, which landed them a spot on the Vans Warped Tour. Fast forward to 2012, and the band is touring in support of their latest album Second Family and celebrating their title of Billboard’s “Dreamseeker Artist of the Year.” Revolution. Sunday, 9.30. —Daphne Livingston
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Shawn “Jay Z” Carter comes home to where it all began as part of his record-setting, sold out, eight-night residency as the debut show at the new Barclays Center. Since 1996, JayZ has become a New York Times best-selling author, won 13 Grammys, founded Rocawear and morphed himself into a businessman. As president and CEO of Def Jam Recordings, he’s cultivated the careers of artists like Rihanna, Ne-Yo and Kanye West. His recent collaboration with West, Watch the Throne, reached No. 1 on the charts. What else can we say? Let’s hear it for New York... Barclays Center, Friday, 9.28– Saturday, 10.6. —Kate Kincaid
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Gotye @ Williamsburg Park Country Music Party @ The Emporium, With Southbound.
Ground Up Supernatural Mixtape Release Party @ Gramercy Theatre, With Dillon Cooper, Pat Solo and Ab’stract. Sonny Landreth @ B.B. King Blues Club, Also 9.28 @ YMCA Boulton Center Long Island Fair @ Old Bethpage Village Restoration, Bluegrass bands, mime, magician, puppet show, and musical entertainment. Come see Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, old time baseball on the field, old time games of skill and children’s races, the Old Bethpage Brass Band, the Grand Army of the Republic (Civil War veterans) exhibit and the music of Jeff Davis and contra dancing. Be a farmer for a day, shuck corn, cut through a log with a two-man saw for cash prizes. Through 9.30. —JG The Corin Tucker Band @ Mercury Lounge, With Ideal Forms. Also 9.29 @ Bell House. The Long Live A$AP Tour @ Roseland Ballroom Cavestomp! Garage Continued on page
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thursday Cont. Rock Festacular! @ Bowery Electric friday 9.28 One Direction @ Nikon @ Jones Beach Theater, Also 9.29. John Legend & Taio Cruz Concert @ Walt Whitman Shops, Celebrate the opening of Microsoft’s newest retail store with a red carpet and giveaways. Want a chance to play
Kinect against football star Curtis Martin? Lucky fans will get their chance the next day on Saturday, 9.29 at the new store. Biohazard @ Revolution, With Agnostic Front, Ludichrist, Sworn Enemy, Live Fast Die Fast, Fear the Dawn, Ionize & Black Dawn. American Music Festival @ Port Jef-
ferson Village, Loaded with 25 headlining bands and emerging artists on multiple stages throughout the village of Port Jefferson. Through 9.30. Archangel Michael Greek Orthodox Church Festival @ North Hempstead Beach Park, West Shore Road, Port Washington, Games, food, rides and vendors in the park! Through 9.30. Funkin A @ Stephen Talkhouse Green Machine @ The Emporium, With That 70’s Band, DJ and WBLI. Dayglo @ Pennysaver Amphitheater Bettye Lavette CD & Book Release Show @ Highline Ballroom Two Door Cinema Club @ Central Park
COMIC ART Filmmaker Matthew Berkowitz of Plainview hosts legendary artist and writer Dean Haspiel of HBO’s Bored To Death and Harvey Pekar’s American Splendor, as he presents his work—which stretches from drawing black and white alternative comics in the 1980s to four-color superhero comics for Marvel & DC Comics in the 2000s. Haspiel will discuss going from print comic books to graphic novels to web comics and beyond, and read from Beef With Tomato, his original DC Digital series, Street Code, and The Last Romantic Antihero, starring his hero, Billy Dogma. The program will be followed by a signing session in the Sky Room Cafe. Cinema Arts Centre. Thursday, 10.4. —Jaclyn Gallucci
Jessica Kirson @ Governor’s Comedy Club Go Big CD Release Party @ Mr. Beery’s, With The Nix86, Feeling Frisky, Eli Whitney and the Sound Machine. Bossa Nova Favorites @ Dix Hills PAC Melody Gardot @ Town Hall Mason @ Vibe Lounge, With DJ Nogaro, Envyus, Kid Fresh, Davon King & Clayton. Ray Manzarek & Robbie Krieger of The Doors @ The Paramount Nitty Gritty Dirt Band/Asleep At the Wheel @ NYCB Theatre @ Westbury Johnny Rivers @ B.B. King Blues Club
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New York City native and worldrenowned surrealist Vincent Castiglia presents his solo art exhibition entitled “Resurrection,” which will include a striking collection of paintings created with Castiglia’s own blood. In the privacy of his studio, he practices a kind of modern-day phlebotomy, siphoning the life force that he believes contains his own psychic energy, while giving it an outlet and form. In doing so, he dissolves the barrier between artist and art in a most literal sense. This retrospective encompasses all of his available work from the beginning of his career and aims to examine the congruency of life and death. Sacred Gallery. Thursday, 10.4. Through 10.31. —Daphne Livingston Arrested Development @ B.B. King Blues Club All-Breed AKC Canine Competitions @ Flowerfield Fairgrounds, Also 9.29. saturday 9.29 Turnaround Bitches @ Stephen Talkhouse Nick DiPaolo @ Governor’s Comedy Club
Joplin’s Pearl Rock the Women of Rock @ Patchogue Theatre With Bobby Rondinelli, formerly of Black Sabbath, Rainbow & Blue Oyster Cult, on drums and Richie Cannata, recording artist and touring musician for Billy Joel & The Beach Boys, on Saxophone. Completely Unchained @ Napper
Tandy’s Smithtown Global Festival @ Central Park, With Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, Band of Horses and K’naan. Tiki Kings Car Show @ Mr. Beery’s, With Trouble Bound, Boogie Brains, Saint Grenade and Blue Velvo. Doo Wop Extrava-
Saturday Night Dance Party @ The Emporium, Celebrity DJs spinning house, hop hop and rock live with Party 105. Vicente Fernandez @ Nassau Coliseum Frank Turner & the Sleeping Dogs @ Webster Hall, With Larry And His Flask & Jenny Owen Youngs. Also 9.30. Randy Jackson (Zebra) @ Napper Tandy’s Miller Place
ganza @ NYCB Theatre @ Westbury, Featuring Lou Christie, Shirley Alston Reeves, Charlie Thomas’ Drifters & The Marcelles. Blameshift @ Revolution, With Renditionn. Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon & Red House Painters) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg, With Advance Case.
WHO KNEW SEUSS COULD BREW? John W. Engeman Theater at Northport’s production of Seussical the Musical kicks off this week with all Suess’ classic characters. Fun Fact: Before he was Dr. Seuss, Theodor Geisel developed images for Narragansett Brewing which were used in several ads. Seuss’ family were also brewers in Springfield, Mass., and owned the Kalmbach and Geisel Brewery before Prohibition forced them to close. Want to know more? Check out “Who Knew Dr. Seuss Could Brew” at NarragansettBeer. com. Suessical the Musical runs through Sunday, 10.28. —Jaclyn Gallucci
Pumpkin Carving/ Pumpkin Beer Bonanza @ Tap & Barrel Andrews Sisters Tribute @ Dix Hills Performing Arts Center Author Rita Plush (Lily Steps Out) @ Atria Cutter Mill Family Festival by The Sea @ Lido Beach Town Park 4th Annual NYC NEDA Walk & Expo @ Foley Square, Lafayette & Centre Streets, Manhattan Join the Eating Disorder Treatment Collaborative Team and walk for the cause. Register at NationalEatingDisorders.org. 3-Hour Gun Buy Back @ Perfecting Faith Church, 311 N. Main St., Freeport. Turn in your handgun and get $200 cash. Must be operable, no licensed guns, BB guns, air pistols, long guns or replicas, from 9 a.m.– noon. Fish Hatchery Fall Fair @ Cold Spring Continued on page
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Ninth Annual Long Island Garlic Festival @ Garden of Eve, Features garlic-inspired foods, music, crafts, square dancing and more. Also 9.30. Wildwood Fall Festival @ Wildwood State Park, Hulse Landing Road, Wading River, Familyoriented fall event with craft vendors, wagon rides, pony rides, inflatables (weather permitting), funny fotos, environmental displays, children’s pie eating contest, and children’s entertainment. sunday 9.30 The Band Tribute w/ The Bandits @ Dix Hills Performing Arts Center Fair & Summer Concert Series w/Eddie Money @ Harry Chapin Lakeside Theater, Eisenhower Park, Parade begins at 9 a.m. at Briarcliffe College. The car show opens at Eisenhower Park at 11 a.m. Live
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Justin Timberlake Probably making bigger headlines these days than Clint Eastwood’s turn as grouchy baseball scout Gus in Trouble With The Curve is his surprise performance talking to an empty chair on stage at the recently wrapped up Republican National Convention. Though it may come as a surprise that this is nothing new for the “Make my day” movie vigilante—who happens to talk to his furniture, his toilet bowl and his not unrelated uncooperative kidneys in his new movie. But this conversation is not about Clint, rather his decidedly more reticent, yet pretty funny, Trouble With The Curve co-star, Justin Timberlake. The singer turned movie star talked about the perks of golfing with the veteran screen icon and getting to play the good guy for a change.
the two of them. Or, you know, this thread between the two of them. So I actually just saw him as a really good guy. Um, which I don’t think I’ve gotten to play yet! 3. What was it like for you being directed by Clint Eastwood? I don’t know that there’s a descriptive. Yeah, that’s it! I don’t know that there’s a descriptive. But if you would have told me a year before that I was going to get to sit at a bar and drink scotch and trade lines with Mr. Eastwood, I would have laughed at you. And then, I would have probably cried!
4. Wow, how come? Because I would have felt like I would never get that opportunity. But, you know, there really just isn’t a descriptive, to be honest with you. 1. What’s your game plan when And then to watch what Clint does on set. figuring out how to romance on the Making this movie was the most familial screen? Um, well, I like to...under- experience I’ve ever had. And even playing promise! No, we had a really great time a supporting role. And, you know, with the working together. It’s kind of interesting, nature of shooting, you’re in and out. But because Amy Adams is, well, Amy is elite there was such a constant good feeling any in this craft. So we can start there. But she’s time we were on set. so skilled, and I know she’s talked about 5. And what was it like golfing playing someone that felt close to her. But I really think she’s so amazing at, you know, with Clint? To have the experience then really finding so much of herself in every of playing golf with him, I mean, if you roll character that she embodies. And it just so with Clint, you can get on Augusta with happened that this character was a lot more no problem. So you’re hanging out with the coolest guy in the world! And then just serious. watching him lead by example, and to see 2. What got you excited about someone who’s had such an iconic career, playing an aspiring sports broadcaster? but who continues to be so excited to be I guess I sort of specifically saw Johnny as the there, and who is so supportive of everyone only character in the movie who was actually else, and so collaborative, that’s why the being honest about everything. I mean, movie is great. It’s because of his leading by you have a character like Gus, who’s going that example. through the trials of aging. And you know, 6. Is music still in your future? Am not wanting to be helped. And then you have a character like Amy’s character, who I gonna sing in the future? Uh, like when has probably filled her life up with work. So cars are flying in the future? I hope so! there’s this thing under the chest of trying 7. Is there anything you’ve got to fill something that’s missing. And what I thought was sort of great about this character coming out right now? Not anytime soon. is that, through his humor—hopefully!— But, hopefully, yes. I would like to continue that he sort of became this bridge between to do that. Yes! 40
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Phase 4 Films, Rated R
A word of advice to all those women out there bent on creating the definitive, raunchier than thou female Hangover movie. Knock it off, enough already. And that includes the latest seemingly self-hating sexpots in their own mind, garish girls gone wild spree, That’s What She Said. Not that the cast depicting chattywhen-not-catty sluts on screen is lacking in talent. Anne Heche, Alia Shawkat and Marcia DeBonis as a horny threesome, collectively combine enough charisma and negative sassy charm to set a script on fire, if only they were given something to say— which brings up the title of this movie, That’s What She Said. Statically staged as a series of screeching coffee shop gripe sessions, the mostly all talk and no action downtown Manhattan slacker setting plods along with all the momentum and zip of a sedentary filmed play. The plot, such as it is, features DeDonis as Bebe. A bawling bubblehead behaving
like a fortysomething female going on 14, Bebe gushes nervously to terminally cynical chain smoking best friend, Dee Dee (Anne Heche) about a prospective date with an elusive guy not likely to materialize. Meanwhile, stray sex addict Clementine (Shawkat) turns up out of nowhere to attach herself to the terrible twosome, tending to barf uncontrollably, but mostly whining about her spontaneous sex drive, stimulated even by the subway. That’s What She Said is a cross between a bickering small screen reality show and a chick flick revenge. But clearly setting out to be the opposite of feminist in the extreme, while likely to please neither gender in the audience. And if you think the coffee shop customers perpetually frowning in the background of this movie were placed there by the filmmakers to signal an annoyance alert to viewers, wait till you get an earful. All of this tends to add up to suspicions that the movies mocking women as laughable losers lately, and made by women, may be the work of assorted mean girls all grown up now. On a possibly related side note, That’s What She Said is masterminded by two glamorous actresses more recently venturing into moviemaking, including first-time screenwriter Kellie Overbey, along with director Carrie Preston, whose mother happens to be, of all things, a therapist.
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While 2016: Obama’s America may be a shameless pro-Romney conservative con job on the part of right-wing-mediapundit-turned director Dinesh D’Souza during this heated election season, the movie critics either boasting about or blasting him can hardly be said to be demonstrating political neutrality on this matter themselves. In other words: Is there anyone out there who can rise above being either a red state or blue state movie critic when it comes to political documentaries in such a divided nation? And as someone who, by way of disclaimer, is in no way thrilled by either presidential candidate—a feeling shared by the vast majority of Americans who vote ‘neither’ every election year—I guess that would qualify as neutral, relatively speaking. So let’s take a look at 2016: Obama’s America for what it has to say—or doesn’t—as a documentary. The primary thesis of D’Souza’s documentary is Obama has a secret plan, which will only come to light if and when he is assured of re-election, to implement his own absentee African father’s socialist and news
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anti-colonialist politics and thereby pander to his supposedly extremist supporters on the left. And as far as D’Souza’s implication that Obama is covertly in league with Muslims around the world because his father was one, the last time I turned on the news, Muslims around the world were burning Obama’s effigy because of an entirely different movie clip now making the rounds on YouTube. But one key element of 2016: Obama’s America offers clues as to just how deceptive and misleading, not to mention crafty, D’Souza can be and that’s his pretense of placing urgent cell phone calls to his investigators who will provide the big reveals that never, incidentally, materialize. So while D’Souza paces about on his cell phone, his helpers are actually being recorded by sophisticated camera and sound equipment but pretend not to be, as is D’Souza himself in fakery mode, and by all accounts, straight out of the seeing is not believing school of filmmaking. The verdict on 2016: Obama’s America? Zero stars. Primarily because infomercials—and this one is hardly the first to be smuggled into movie theaters, lately—don’t and shouldn’t count as actual documentaries.
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