Published: PolicyMic (January 14, 2013)
In light of Jodie Foster’s widely discussed Golden Globes Award acceptance speech last night, I think it’s only appropriate to take a look at the top 5 greatest award acceptance speeches in history:
5. Jodie Foster
Let’s start with the oratorical performance that is setting cyberspace afire right now … Jodie Foster’s acceptance of the Cecil B.
Of course, this was hardly well-known during the 1968 election, when it mattered most. Sure, a trio of British reporters later chronicled Sanders’s contributions in their classic book “An American Melodrama: The Presidential Campaign of 1968.”
Published: PolicyMic (June 6, 2012)
Back in 1964, a Republican Governor named George Romney performed an act of rare political courage. As party delegates convened in San Francisco to coronate Senator Barry Goldwater as their presidential nominee, Romney noted Goldwater’s opposition to civil rights legislation and announced that because “his [Goldwater’s] views deviate as indicated from the heritage of our Party, I will do everything within my power to keep him from becoming the Party’s next candidate.”
Published: The Morning Call (October 2, 2011)
In a recent interview with Politico, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum issued a scathing denunciation of Google. “If you’re a responsible business,” he remarked, “you don’t let things like that happen in your business that have an impact on the country.”
One might expect such strong words to be reserved for the greatest rascals of American capitalism – you know, like the Wall Street firms whose chicanery plunged our nation into its current economic mess, or perhaps the corporate executives who throw hardworking employees onto the unemployment rolls instead of accepting modest cuts to their own massive salaries.... Read Original Article