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Network news executives said they are preparing for an unusual Election Night challenge: How to be honest with the audience, and still keep them tuned in, if the race between John McCain and Barack Obama is effectively decided before most Americans have finished dinner.The quandary is highlighted by Virginia, a state that has not voted Democratic for president since 1964 but where Obama is now leading in polls. There is no realistic McCain electoral college strategy that does not depend on winning the Old Dominion.

I just heard on KTOK that Obama is paying for advertising here in the Sooner State. He hasn't any chance AT ALL here. So..the radio announcer said it was probably because they want to boost his overall national vote.

I have never posted a vanity thread before or something so "off topic." But I am desperate and need help. My husband is going crazy trying to figure this out, and I am following him! :-) My husband has a 45 minute video that he made. He wants to put this DVD on his computer(an ibook G4),edit it, and then put it into mpeg4 to upload on our churches website. The only editing he wants to do is put an intro and an exit. It is a church service video. I don't know anything about this sort of thing, but...

CONCORD, N.C. (AP) -- Reigning Nextel Cup champion Kurt Busch told Roush Racing he has signed with another racing team for 2007 and has asked to be released from his 2006 contract, Roush said Tuesday. It was not immediately clear which team Busch signed with, although Penske, Joe Gibbs Racing and Dale Earnhardt Inc. all have cars coming open next season. Roush said the team will wait for ``an indefinite period'' before making a decision on Busch's request to leave after this season. In a statement announcing Busch's departure, Roush said it would have no additional comment on the split....

Kensington, MD (PRWEB) March 21, 2005 -- “Free Money Man,” Matthew Lesko, (www.lesko.com) has been trying to get the New York Consumer Protection Board to stop misrepresenting government money programs. In their efforts to rid the nation of fraudulent companies who scam consumers with promises of government grants, the New York CPB has also mislead consumers about the facts concerning programs that are in place to help consumers. In an NBC News interview on January 28, 2005, CPB Chairman, Teresa Santiago tells consumers “There is no free government money to pay your personal bills. There isn’t. That is a myth.”...

Press Conference getting ready to be in progress...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR has announced that rule infractions this past weekend at Las Vegas Motor Speedway have resulted in the suspension of three Nextel Cup Series crew chiefs. The No. 48 Chevrolet team received three penalties, due to the car's roof height being too low in post-race inspection... (snip) A penalty of 25 driver points dropped Jimmie Johnson -- the race winner at Las Vegas -- back to second place in the standings, 10 behind reigning series champion Kurt Busch. Chad Knaus, Johnson's crew chief, has been suspended from competition for the next two races and fined $35,000;...

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Nationally syndicated radio talker, Glenn Beck, has renewed his contract with Premiere Radio Networks. "Glenn has created a great reputation for himself and his program, as a host quite capable of producing excellent ratings for affiliates and incredible loyalty among listeners," said Kraig T. Kitchin, president/COO of Premiere Radio. "When our industry talks about being able to develop 'radio stars of the future,' Glenn is proof positive of how that can happen. He has created a place for himself in the national radio landscape, and we're just getting warmed up!" With his fresh comedic...

My lifelong Republican father, a conservative who pines for the good old Spiro Agnew days, told me this summer he would not be voting for George Bush, a revelation that was nothing short of astonishing, like Donald Trump switching to a buzz cut.(snip) The second and more significant factor is contempt, which has suffused and shaped both sides of this election more than any in memory. Whoever ends up in the White House will have reached there not on the power of his ideas but the power of his opponent's repugnance (snip) He hates that Democrats are running down the...

The dirtiest word in the American political lexicon these days is "liberal." It is used to denote everything the neoconservatives want to root out of national life: moral permissiveness, softness on crime, weakness on defense, big government and, of course, the Democratic candidate John Kerry. .(snip) Since Reagan, the focus of attacks on liberals has shifted somewhat to the moral sphere, a terrain less susceptible to compromise. Liberals are lambasted for supporting the right to abortion, favoring same-sex marriages, rejecting the death penalty and generally being too wimp-like for wartime. .

TULSA - U.S. Rep. Brad Carson promised he would no longer run negative ads Monday, saying it's not too late to talk about issues important to voters. Carson made the promise during a live U.S. Senate debate televised on KTUL Channel 8 in Tulsa. It is the next-to-last scheduled debate for Carson and former U.S. Rep. Tom Coburn, with another scheduled Wednesday night in Stillwater. "I'm saying to the voters who are watching this at home, to the voters who are here, no more of this stuff," said Carson, D-Claremore. "You're going to hear no more of this from me...

Left-wing blogs may be our only hope. Now we have one right here in Arkansas, thanks to those old Arkansas Gazette refugees at the Arkansas Times. I'll get back to that. First we must establish context. You surely are aware that the right wing has taken over all American news media except the part that maintains left-wing vestiges but has little credibility left. The New York Times had to admit to publishing lies. CBS went after the president on documents it had to confess it couldn't authenticate. The television networks must live with the small matter of having declared the...

A recent survey by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies may have uncovered the Cosby Factor. You may recall that last summer, Bill Cosby went on a rant that made him look more like an angry old man than the beloved comedian he is. Indeed, when Cosby scolded irresponsible poor black parents for holding back the race, he sounded more like Rush Limbaugh than most of us wanted to admit. But Cosby may just be showing his age. According to the Joint Center's report, in 2004 -- for the first time in recent years -- younger African Americans...

One week ago Clark County was just another county in Ohio. Then came a campaign to pair Guardian readers with its undecided voters and suddenly the world knew its name. G2's editor, Ian Katz, looks back on seven days of email spleen, air-mailed letters, media frenzy and dodgy dentistry and asks: were we right? Blimey. I think I have an idea as to how Dr Frankenstein felt. By the beginning of this week, a quixotic idea dreamed up last month in a north London pub had morphed into a global media phenomenon complete with transatlantic outrage, harrumphing over journalistic ethics,...

SUCH is the power of movies that the first image "Watergate" brings to mind three decades later is not Richard Nixon so much as the golden duo of Redford and Hoffman riding to the nation's rescue in "All the President's Men." But if our current presidency is now showing symptoms of a precancerous Watergate syndrome - as it is, daily - we have not yet reached that denouement immortalized by Hollywood, in which our scrappy heroes finally bring Nixon to heel in his second term. No, we're back instead in the earlier reels of his first term, before the criminality...

2004 Pulitzer Prize winner Leonard Pitts Jr. said he wanted to "give students something to think about" in his speech entitled "One Nation" last night in Morton Hall. He said students --and the rest of Americans --should think for themselves. "Too often, and for too long, news media has gotten away with painting a picture of America that is not quite America. The people in the picture do not represent the overwhelming majority of people I meet while traveling the nation," Pitts said. His speech focused on how "bumper-sticker simplification" -news media labeling and defining such terms as "liberal" and...

For the record, I don't regularly listen to Rush Limbaugh. Yes, I've heard his program, or pieces of it, here and there over the years - enough to know he's an entertainer and a salesman, not a journalist, who plays on people's emotions. He's also a political hack who never lets the truth get in his way. That's part of his schtick. But, I wave it off as entertainment and sometimes wonder aloud how people can buy into his rhetoric as the political gospel. Of course, as long as he's making an obscene amount of money he doesn't care what...

Local radio station WTAW will sever its ties with CBS News because of negative reaction to the network’s recent news coverage of President Bush’s military record, the station said Tuesday. WTAW, which is located at 1620 AM, will ditch its CBS affiliation and begin airing national news broadcasts from ABC within 90 days, station manager Ben Downs said. A news piece that relied on questionable memos depicting Bush as having used his family’s connections to get him into the Texas Air National Guard during the 1970s “acted as a catalyst” for the switch, Downs said. While residents have complained for...

I was listening to Rush Limbaugh Thursday morning, and he said: "Folks, you want to know about the debate tonight? Well, you don't have to bother to tune in. What will be reported on Friday morning is that John Kerry walked away with it." Well, that's not exactly the unanimous verdict, but it's true that Kerry scored. There were two reasons for this, one personal, the other objective. Sen. Kerry was presentable, polite, informed, combative and credible. Those who felt that he would crumble, or hoped that he'd do so, waited out the 90 minutes without gratification. He is quick...

An unknown suspect fired several shots into the Bearden office of the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign Tuesday morning. The headquarters are located at 4618 Kingston Pike, next to Noveau Classics and in the same shopping plaza as Long's Drugstore. According to Knoxville Police Department officers on the scene Tuesday, it is believed that the two separate shots were fired from a car sometime between 6:30 am and 7:15 am. One shot shattered the glass in the front door and the other cracked the glass in another of the front doors. There were no witnesses to the shooting. A customer at a...