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A TV anchor started his broadcast Sunday with a startling statement. “Good evening,” said WABC weekend anchor Joe Torres. “We begin with Hillary Clinton’s death.” Torres didn’t correct himself, but the broadcast continued on to report Clinton’s health troubles at Sunday’s 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York. The Democratic presidential candidate was dehydrated standing outside on the hot day, her campaign said, and video taken of her leaving the site early showed her needing assistance to get into a van. The station told TVSpy that the mistake was accidental. “During a live introduction to a story about the health of...

The Daily Mail reports that Barack Obama is still Barack Obama. During a White House meeting called to brief America’s largest tech companies today about government overreach in electronic surveillance, President Barack Obama changed the subject – angering some meeting participants by shifting gears to address the failed launch of healthcare.gov. ‘That wasn’t what we came for,’ a vice-president of a company whose CEO attended told MailOnline. ‘We really didn’t care for a PR pitch about how the administration is trying to salvage its internal health care tech nightmare.’ One executive said that meeting participants were dead-set against straying from...

Howie Carr thread; columns, discussion of his show. Is there a winner in the death pool? Charlton Heston won't be down for bkfst...also if there's a Sunday Herald column today we'll lead off with that

Howie Carr live thread. HC hinted there could be a death pool today if Merv passed on and sure enough, he did... but who knows if Howie will do one today. "Gee, all the lines are lit up...I wonder why?" Howie may be off tomorrow or sometime soon due to jury duty and he also may burn off some vacation time. As things stand, still no word about lawsuits being settled...HC's last day with Entercom is due to be Sept 19 but who knows how accurate that will be (he may be heading to WTKK, but all still tech. up...

How long till we stop writing "'06" on our checks, Mr. Speakah? How many more checks will have the wrong year on them? Not sure if Howie is live today; I have a hunch it's a best of, or a fill-in. We'll find out at 3.