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Tim Russert Dead of Heart Attack at 58

June 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments

The New York Post is reporting Tim Russert, host/moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” died today after suffering from an apparent heart attack at the network’s Washington news bureau. He was 58. Russert, who also served as managing editor of the NBC program, was only the ninth person ever to be a permanent host of [...]

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Is Barack Obama Involved in Cop Sex Ring?

January 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments

The cover of today’s New York Post is worth a good laugh today, the result of a photo of Barack Obama appearing opposite a headline that might cause some to wonder whether the Democrat presidential candidate is involved in a COP SEX RING. Obama’s photo appeared on the the New York newspaper’s cover after the [...]

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Is a Clinton-McCain Ticket Out of the Question?

December 15th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Travel back in time with me to Jan. 30 and a post in which I advised readers of this blog to take a look at a photo that had accompanied a New York Post article under the headline, GAZE IN THE MILITARY, the same day. Though the photo no longer appears with the article, the [...]

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War Movie, Candidacy Earn Similar Reviews

November 26th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Few headlines in recent memory have left me feeling as pleased as the one that appeared above a Page Six piece by Richard Johnson in Sunday’s New York Post: DE PALMA IRAQ FLICK BOMBS. Johnson explains that “audiences are really avoiding ‘Redacted,’ (Brian) De Palma’s picture about U.S. soldiers who rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, [...]

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