March 11, 2009
The above headline isn't even the half of it. After the attacks were known to all, James Carville told assembled Washington reporters at a hotel conference room breakfast where he and Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg spoke (photo is from the May 20, 2004 Christian Science Monitor) to "Disr...
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What's this, our friend Ashley Dupre, nee Spitzer, has taken up yoga and is hanging with Russell Simmons developing "inner strength?" Pish posh! You need to focus, Ashley. You'll ruin everything. Ashley has a new 'blog' today! What's she been up to? Oh yoga and this and that, etc.: In great part, di...
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February 26, 2009
It was bad enough when a Fox News producer was fired for possessing child pornography. But now a former NPR correspondent has been charged in a child porn case. The problem is media-wide! The Department of Justice says that David Malakoff, who resigned last June as a science editor and correspondent...
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January 02, 2009
American queen Sarah Palin spent her New Year's Eve in the traditional Wasilla way: placing angry phone calls to media outlets insisting her teen (mom) daughter and her man aren't high school dropouts. "You need to know that both Levi and Bristol are working their butts off to parent and going to sc...
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December 19, 2008
The mom of Levi Johnston—first daughter candidate Bristol Palin's uncomfortable jock boyfriend—has been arrested on drug charges. Law and order Republicans now support Obama! Because this sounds vaguely like a meth lab: "Troopers served the warrant at Johnston's home at the 'conclusion o...
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July 15, 2008
"Two payments to the Mayflower Hotel [NO!] in Washington were included in former Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s latest campaign filing, released on Tuesday afternoon. The two payments, $411.06 apiece, were recorded on Jan. 14 — predating the now infamous February rendezvous with a prostitute that prompted...
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July 11, 2008
HBO announced it was moving forward with a pilot for Washingtonienne, based on the book that lightly fictionalized Senate staffer Jessica Cutler's adventures as an anonymous blogger who took money from politically-powerful men for sex including, famously, for lots of ass fucking. The show, whose dev...
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July 09, 2008
Madonna, sporting wet hair again yesterday.Photo: FilmMagic The Post keeps telling us that the publicity explosion around the divorce of Cynthia and Alex Rodriguez is one person's fault. The only problem is, every day that person changes. Today we read in "Page Six" that manager Guy Oseary planned o...
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July 08, 2008
They make Reverend Wright and Trinity United disappear The Media,Lining it Up And for their next trick, the media will stuff Illinois Senator Barack Obama’s liberalism back into his hat. On Sunday, the Washington Post’s Jonathan Weisman gave us a 1,152 word news-ish story entitled “Obama Addre...
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June 24, 2008
Zimbabwean dictator and overall monster Robert Mugabe is one of the world's top bad guys. But if you're running an ad agency in Zimbabwe, hey, work is work. So a firm called Imago—owned by Young & Rubicam, the US ad giant—made a bunch of ads for Mugabe's "re-election" campaign. Now Y&R i...
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