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Letterman: Top 10 Jane Fonda Excuses
by David Edwards and Chris Tackett
Jane Fonda's recent on-air gaffe using a profanity rarely heard on television was the subject of a David Letterman Top Ten List on Thursday night.Earlier yesterday, Fonda was a guest on NBC's 'Today' show to discuss her participation in the enduringly popular play The Vagina Monologues. During the appearance she used a vulgar reference to the female anatomy, the word being the title of a monologue she will be performing in that same production. | Christine Pelosi: Superdelegates Should Not Overturn Majority Dem. Vote
by Sam Stein
Christine Pelosi, daughter of the Speaker and (more notably at the moment) a superdelegate, warns of a massive disillusionment of voters should Democratic Party officials back a presidential nominee that didn't win the pledged delegate vote."Many of us are elected by the grassroots of the party," she said, "And I cannot imagine going home in November to those people and try to phone bank for someone who did not capture the [pledged delegate] vote... We were all galvanized by what happened to Al Gore in Florida." | Unstoppable Obama
by Barbara Ehrenreich
When did you begin to think that Obama might be unstoppable? Was it when your grown feminist daughter started weeping inconsolably over his defeat in New Hampshire? Or was it when he triumphed in Virginia, a state still littered with Confederate monuments and memorabilia? For me, it was on Tuesday night when two Republican Virginians in a row called CSPAN radio to report that they’d just voted for Ron Paul, but, in the general election, would vote for… Obama. | The Lost Kristol Tapes
by Jonathan Schwarz
Imagine that there were a Beatles record only a few people knew existed. And imagine you got the chance to listen to it, and as you did, your excitement grew, note by note. You realized it wasn’t merely as good as Rubber Soul, or Revolver, or Sgt. Pepper’s. It was much, much better. And now, imagine how badly you’d want to tell other Beatles fans all about it. | The Mittification of McCain
by Gail Collins
As Mitt Romney said this week when he endorsed John McCain, the campaign might have been rough but “we always had good laughs together.” As examples of this hitherto-unnoticed good fellowship, Mitt pointed cheerily to the fact that he and McCain had shaken hands before the debates and “said hi to each others’ wives.” | Bush's Protect America Bill Bull
by Dave Lindorff
President Bush has turned to the cheapest lies in an effort to protect himself from being exposed as a criminal in the ongoing campaign to have the National Security Agency spy at will on Americans.Claiming--without a scintilla of evidence to back him up--that there are people planning a "much worse attack" than 9-11 on America, he says he must not only have free rein to unleash the NSA spymasters on American telephone and internet communications, but also a grant of complete immunity from prosecution for such spying for the telecom industry. | National Disaster Narrowly Averted: A Brief History of the Near Future
by Jaime O'Neill
"If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would...make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."--Mitt Romney, bowing out of the Republican primary campaign before the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, Feb 9. 2008 | The Candidate of the Permanent Will
by David Sirota
Our media love to tell us just how much Americans are pining for an independent presidential candidacy, and specifically, just how much potential support there is for a Mike Bloomberg for President campaign. But as I show in my new nationally syndicated newspaper column out today, both assertions are fiction. That begs a simple question - one that ties into my upcoming book: Why is the Establishment so adamant about jamming a candidacy down our throat that we so clearly do not want? Why is the political elite so insistent on crushing what has become a full-fledged uprising in 2008? | So the War Isn't Gonna Be an Issue, eh?
by Gregg Gordon
Lately I've been reading that because of St. Petraeus' wonderfully working surge in Iraq and the resulting drop in US casualties, the war is officially no longer an issue in the 2008 elections. The weekly roll call of the dead can be done in only a minute or so every Friday on the PBS Newshour, and the Iraqis -- they're only dying by the dozens per day, not hundreds. So the whole thing is now off the front page and now, and as it ever shall be, it's the economy, stupid. | Stealth Topics
by Bob Patterson
Sometimes polls reveal interesting, unexpected tangential information. A friend and former coworker was hired to work on a survey gathering information about the emergency room services that are used by undocumented aliens. Doing the work, he was exposed to tuberculosis and that prompted this columnist to do a spate of google-news searches which indicate that a disease which had been on the decline is experiencing a resurgence. A columnist can mention the coincidence of what happened to a friend, but a report about the growing number of tuberculosis cases would have to be done by a major member of the news media with both a staff and budget large enough to be able to gather the diverse elements needed for a legitimate news story on that topic. The best a columnist/blogger can hope for is that someone at a major news publication points out the online item to his (or her) assignment editor at the next story conference. | Deal in the works to give Marlins a stadium by 2011
by Charles Rabin
Miami and Miami-Dade commissioners are expected to be briefed Sunday or Monday on an agreement reached by the city, county and the Florida Marlins that could supply the team with the money it needs for a new baseball stadium.All indications point to a pair of votes late this week by both commissions that would finally put an end to the decade-long search for funding that has plagued all three owners the team has had. | Fox News Radio's Tom Sullivan aired "side-by-side comparison" of speeches by Hitler and Obama
by MediaMatters.org
On the February 11 broadcast of Fox News Radio's Tom Sullivan Show, host Tom Sullivan took a call from a listener who stated: "Listening to [Sen. Barack] Obama ... it harkens back to when I was younger and I used to watch those deals with [Nazi dictator Adolf] Hitler, how he would excite the crowd and they'd come to their feet and scream and yell." Sullivan replied: "Oh, yeah, yeah ... I presume you're not saying he's Hitler, but I understand your point." Following the commercial break, Sullivan stated the caller "wasn't calling Barack Obama Hitler. He was just talking about how Hitler got the crowd all excited, and Barack Obama got the crowd all excited." Sullivan then stated that he would do a "side-by-side comparison" of a Hitler speech and an Obama speech. Sullivan then introduced the "comparison" by stating: "So, ladies and gentlemen, from the past, a little archive, a little walk down Der Fuehrer's memory lane. Here he is, the one, the only, Adolf Hitler!" Sullivan proceeded to play a clip of a Hitler speech, followed by Obama's February 9 speech at the Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Richmond, Virginia. Sullivan mimicked the crowd during both speeches, yelling, "Yay! Yay!" | Man suspected of calling 911 over 27,000 times
by Nanette Asimov
Hayward police and federal investigators did the grunt work, and it paid off:They tracked down and arrested a cell phone caller believed to have phoned the emergency 911 number more than 27,000 times making bodily noises, muttering in a disguised voice, and pressing the beep tone. | Clinton aide changes Mich., Fla. stance
by Hope Yen
Harold Ickes, a top adviser to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign who voted for Democratic Party rules that stripped Michigan and Florida of their delegates, now is arguing against the very penalty he helped pass.In a conference call Saturday, the longtime Democratic Party member contended the DNC should reconsider its tough sanctions on the two states, which held early contests in violation of party rules. He said millions of voters in Michigan and Florida would be otherwise disenfranchised — before acknowledging moments later that he had favored the sanctions. |
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