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New York Post (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
KATIE Couric is not hawking weight-loss pills, despite claims by Ultimahoodia. The company sent out a mass e-mail from "Katie Couric" with a link to its Web site, where a large photo of the CBS anchor is displayed under a banner reading: "Wouldn't...
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Olbermann Watch (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Book based on translations of captured files from the regime itself. Among others, no less than four al Qaeda affiliates listed. Including Ayman al-Zawahiri's Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Much more work to be done...
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NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
A minor item for a Friday night. File under: Which way is it? ABC anchor Charles Gibson contended that French President Nicolas Sarkozy's “effusively kind words” about Barack Obama, who joined Sarkozy at a press conference in Paris, “bordered on an endorsement.” On CBS, however, anchor Katie Couric reported that Sarkozy said the French people have been following Obama “with passion” but, she noted,...
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Olbermann Watch (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
"COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN" (8:00 P.M.-9:00 P.M. ET) Host: Keith " Czechoslovakia " Olbermann? Comedian Rachel Madcow? Topics/Guests: TBA It's another thrill-packed edition of You Write the Recap! Comments are open, as before. And we invite all our clear-headed readers to watch the program and post their comments to each segment. Later we'll check out the comments, and the best, most insightful,...
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Truemors (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Jessica Zajicek seemed to have a pretty cushy job working as self-described D-Lister Kath Griffin’s assistant and receiving perks like getting trashed with Anderson Cooper and traveling to exotic locales like Bora Bora, but it seems some behind the scenes drama ensued. Zajicek reportedly quit her job in early July with an insider (read: Tom) [...]
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Slate Magazine (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Barack Obama's trip to Iraq was so presidential that at moments, he sounded like our current White House resident. When Karen Tumulty of Time asked Obama what he'd learned on his trip, he said, "It confirmed a lot of my beliefs." Lara Logan of CBS asked him if he was ever in doubt when it came to foreign-policy issues, and he answered, "Never." [ more ... ]
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Media Matters (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a July 24 New York Times article , Michael Cooper reported that in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric, Sen. John McCain falsely asserted that the 2007 U.S. troop surge "began the Anbar Awakening." But while noting McCain's falsehood and that it occurred during the interview, Cooper did not point out that CBS News did not actually air the falsehood; indeed, in the clip aired...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
For the second night in a row , CNN's documentary, "Black in America," was the top rated program in all of cable news in the A25-54 demo. Last night the program did even better than Wednesday, with 1,210,000 demo viewers. In second place was Anderson Cooper 360 (746,000) following the special, and FNC's The O'Reilly Factor (524,000) finished third. In Total Viewers The O'Reilly Factor was tops (2,586,000),...
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D-Day (Free subscription) | yesterday
On the question of Iraq, John McCain is now a ridiculous figure, as this CNN interview paraphrased by Josh Marshall makes clear. First, apparently Maliki didn't really mean what he said. Second, Wolf Blitzer read back to McCain his repeated claim that Obama would rather lose a war if it helped him win a political campaign. This is close to an accusation of treason. So Blitzer asked him whether this...
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Talking Points Memo (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sen. McCain's made a series of pretty extraordinary statements on his interview on CNN. First, apparently Maliki didn't really mean what he said. Second, Wolf Blitzer read back to McCain his repeated claim that Obama would rather lose a war...
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The TV Zone (Free subscription) | yesterday
File this one under a "worth noting...: "The Evening News with Katie Couric" will finally go hi-def on Monday. Eureka! The reason why "EN's" ratings have been in the dumpster for so long - the PICTURE"S FUZZY!!! It had...
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Fair Proxy Web (Free subscription) | yesterday
(CNN) — Sen. John McCain on Friday said as president he would consider bringing Osama bin Laden to justice through a Nuremberg-like international trial. He told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, We have various options. The Nuremberg Trials are certainly an example of the kind of tribunal that we could move forward with. [...]
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: [b]CNN[/b] (CNN) Sen. John McCain on Friday said that as president he would consider bringing Osama bin Laden to justice through a Nuremberg-like international trial. He told CNN's Wolf Blitzer: We have various options. The Nuremberg Trials are certainly an example of the kind of trib...
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Political Ticker (Free subscription) | yesterday
McCain questions Obama’s experience and knowledge. (CNN) — Sen. John McCain on Friday said that as president he would consider bringing Osama bin Laden to justice through a Nuremberg-like international trial. He told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “We have various options. The Nuremberg Trials are certainly an example of the kind of tribunal that we could move forward [...]
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The Utah Amicus (Free subscription) | yesterday
Article from syndicated columnist Thomas Sowell: ...As Well As Several Other Issues By THOMAS SOWELL | Posted Thursday, July 24, 2008 4:30 PM PT Here are some questions that Katie Couric, Brian Williams and Charles Gibson should be asking Barack Obama as they follow him on his trip: Q: Before your trip to Iraq, you said that you intend to give the military a "new mission" — all of the combat troops...
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paps01 | 04/01/2008
Kim Kardashian and her rag-tag clump of kinsfolk members obstructed by Larry King Live on Friday. After effort peppered by Barbara Walters most her stimulate tape , Kim was primed for added clumsy communicating most her status with the astonishingly alive.