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On Tuesday, Valuetainment Television made a public $100 million, five-year contract offer to Tucker Carlson, plus ownership shares in the company. Carlson is still under contract to News Corp., however, and his Tucker Carlson Today shows are still in the archive lineup. But his sidelining has created a media feeding frenzy. Newsmax also seems to be in the hunt. Backchannels — and in the case of Valuetainment, a publicity-grabbing front channel — have opened up as media companies hope to steal market share on the Right from the Fox News Channel.When Tucker Carlson Tonight was canceled by the Fox News...

The "Tech Executive-1" in John Durham's indictment of a Democratic cybersecurity lawyer testified in a lawsuit that he had invoked his Fifth Amendment rights when asked to testify by the special counsel. Rodney Joffe, former senior vice president at Neustar, coordinated in 2016 with Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who was indicted last year for allegedly concealing his clients, including Hillary Clinton's campaign and Joffe, from the FBI in September 2016 when he pushed debunked claims of a secret back channel between the Trump Organization and Russia's Alfa Bank. Alfa Bank filed a "John Doe" lawsuit and deposed Joffe in...

A classified ad offering a job in the New York publishing industry has been posted, and reposted, with almost no changes for more than 10 years. The curious job offer advertises a PA/research associate for "a busy executive" in New York City, with no further information about the employer. The salary is described as between $90,000 and $110,000 per year — generous, for the role.

May 28th 2010 — Posted to News Flash So how did it happen? How did a straightforward question and blunt answer bring anxiety to the White House? I’ll tell you the story.For over three months now, friends and others have asked me to recount the events of February 18th of this year, when a single question from me to Congressman Joe Sestak unleashed a controversy that remains to this day. Is it a political issue? Is it illegal? I can’t answer those questions, but I can tell you how casually it all happened, and what basis I had for asking...

An e-mail from Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-Calif.) campaign suggested Wednesday that the controversy over Rep. Joe Sestak’s (D-Pa.) alleged administration job offer could be President Barack Obama’s Watergate scandal. In an e-mail with the subject line “The Sestak Affair – Obama’s Watergate?”, the ranking member on the Oversight and Government Reform committee focused on “long-standing questions” about the offer Sestak says was made to him to urge him to drop out of the Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary. The campaign e-mail says the allegations would amount to three felony charges of bribery and corruption.

So, when will the Obama White House come clean about Rep. Joe Sestak? The Pennsylvania Senate nominee has charged for months that the White House "offered [him] a job" -- reportedly secretary of the Navy -- to abandon his primary challenge to Republican-turned-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter. But Sestak stayed in and last week defeated Specter. Then, on "Meet The Press" Sunday, he reiterated the claim. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs and special adviser David Axelrod both say the matter has been "looked into" and nothing "inappropriate" occurred. Sure they'd say that. Otherwise, they could be facing criminal charges. At least...

Sen. Arlen Specter took a shot at his Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary opponent on Friday, suggesting Rep. Joe Sestak was milking his claim that the White House offered him an administration position if he dropped his challenge to Specter. "He has made the charge to get political mileage, playing underdog without getting into specifics," Specter said in an interview on a Pennsylvania radio station. "I am honest and will never do a deal unlike Arlen Specter who switched parties," Sestak shot back in an interview that followed Specter on the same station. "I answered honestly, then I said no further...

VANITY - I need help from freepers. I heard Rush say (on Monday and Tuesday) that Mary Mapes already had a job offer as a news special consultant from PBS. I didn't hear his source and I can't find anything about it on FR or Google. Does anyone know about this ?? Rush sounded like he had a source. Thanks