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So I’m reading about Sarah Palin’s speech in Wisconsin today, which was brilliant by the way. I think the question has been answered because this sounded like a campaign speech to me. Anyway the liberal hack reporter for the Associated Press, some joker named Todd Richmond, of course littered the article with the usual “subtle suggestions” intended to slant the narrative in the “correct” manner so we rubes in trailer park country get the right message. First, the fool reports that “hundreds” of people showed up to hear Palin’s speech. Later, when he has to report the crowd estimate from...

Ellie Light sure gets around. In recent weeks, Light has published virtually identical “Letters to the Editor” in support of President Barack Obama in more than a dozen newspapers.Every letter claimed a different residence for Light that happened to be in the newspaper’s circulation area. Associated PressPresident Barack Obama has both detractors and fans. A curious number of his fans are named Ellie Light.“It’s time for Americans to realize that governing is hard work, and that a president can’t just wave a magic wand and fix everything,” said a letter from alleged Philadelphian Ellie Light, that was published in the...

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers and tourists braved snow, rain and frigid temperatures last night and early this morning to be a part of the world's most famous welcome to the new year. "It was well worth the frozen toes," said Zach Thomas, 20, of Connecticut, moments after Mayor Bloomberg pushed the button to start the 12-foot, 11,875-pound Waterford crystal ball's descent over Times Square. Richa Pandey, 20, who's from sunny Southern California, was not turned off by the cold. "I like the weather," she said. "It's full of surprises. Just like the city." REUTERS Fireworks and light shows...

WASHINGTON -- Sources say Alaska Governor and Republican Vice-Presidential nominee persists in breastfeeding her youngest child, Trig Palin, in spite of the fact the scientists and economists agree that the practice will do nothing to drive down elevated milk prices or alleviate child hunger on a global scale. Palin, who declared October 2007 as Breastfeeding Awareness Month in Alaska, admitted earlier this year that she has been providing an unspecified amount of breast milk to her 4-month-old son. Dr. Michel Fromage, spokesman for Médecins Sans Intégrité, lashed out at the mother of five on Monday. "This woman's do-nothing 'solution' is...

The quickest way to get the liberal media to pay attention to you is to claim to be a Republican who hates Republicans. It's an almost infallible public relations strategy that of late has worked well for "Republican" Monica Green. It's also done wonders for "lifelong Republican" Henry A. Lowenstein, who has managed to get 20 different letters published in the New York Times since 2003, a remarkable feat when you consider that the Times (by its own admission) receives around 1,000 letters a day and prints only 15 on its letters page. That means the odds of the average...

What, pray tell, is the purpose of the Man on the Street interview? Judging by a local TV news poll of passersby in the Times Square area, it must be to prove to the world that New Yorkers are just as uninformed as the people giving idiot responses on “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.” The topic of the poll was Friday’s indictment of I. Lewis Libby,Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff. One has to wonder how many people were screened before those shown on air were selected and why the only question asked was, “Do you think this is...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 - A year after taking charge of the Central Intelligence Agency, Porter J. Goss is still struggling to rebuild morale and assert leadership within an institution shaken by recent failures and buffeted by change, current and former intelligence officials and members of Congress say. On Thursday, two days before his one-year anniversary on the job, Mr. Goss met with agency employees and told them that his vision for further changes would involve "breaking some molds" to reassert the C.I.A.'s role as "a global agency." "We are developing new and creative ways to get more and more of...

Rick Rodriguez: Griego Erwin resigns amid internal inquiry into her columns By Rick Rodriguez -- Bee Executive Editor Published 2:15 am PDT Thursday, May 12, 2005 Diana Griego Erwin, whose column has appeared in this space three days a week, resigned Wednesday amid an internal inquiry into whether some people mentioned in several recent columns actually existed. During our inquiry we found we could not authenticate the existence of several people even though they were identified by name, age and sometimes by the neighborhoods in which they were reported to have lived. We used extensive online database searches as well...

Ho hum. Another day another New York Times poll showing the President's poll numbers in the crapper. Geez, if you only read the NYT you would wonder how George Bush got elected dog catcher, let alone President. Look, we don't doubt it's been a tough week or two for the President on Social Security, but there's no way in hell it's as bad as this across the board on all issues like foreign policy and Iraq. You're telling me people favor the Democrats 51-30% on Social Security? No way, no how. There's no way you can tell me that while...

NEW YORK — The marchers streamed past Madison Square Garden for more than four hours on Sunday afternoon, a snaking throng of Bush protesters — many of them pausing in front of the site of the upcoming Republican National Convention to either raise a hand in the peace sign or in an obscene gesture. "Of all the reasons to be here, the main one, in a word, is Iraq," said Doug Hofeling, 30, a restaurant manager from Salt Lake City, who came to New York to protest. "It's the difference between being angry and taking to the street." Hundreds of...

http://adeimantus.blogspot.com/2004/06/instant-rehabilitation-of-saddam.html In his report on the transfer of sovereignty, Associated Press writer Tarek el-Tablawy includes the following quote to buttress his assertion that "the response [to the handover] in Baghdad was mixed":"Iraqis are happy inside, but their happiness is marred by fear and melancholy," said artist Qassim al-Sabti. "Of course I feel I'm still occupied. You can't find anywhere in the world people who would accept occupation. America these days, is like death. Nobody can escape from it."I am always suspicious of these man-on-the street-type of quotes, which reporters too often use selectively as a device to interject their own...

<p>Presidential memoir breaks one-day sales record at Barnes & Noble, exceeds expectations at Borders.</p> <p>NEW YORK (CNN) - Former President Bill Clinton is about to add the title of best-selling author to his resume as copies of his memoir move at record-setting levels.</p>

Fans queue for bit of Clinton's `Life'ROSIE DIMANNONEW YORK  Like the sex he famously had with Monica Lewinsky, President Bill Clinton's just-published autobiography lacks... penetration. Nine hundred and fifty-seven pages ribcage-crushing heft for those who like to read in bed (a fitting position, the horizontal, for consuming these memoirs) with innumerable mea culpas front to back, but still a tease, maddeningly thin on the pith and perplexity of this most quixotic of presidents. Saturation, though, there be gobs of that. The Bubba Bombardment an unprecedented promotional blitz that propelled My Life to the top of the best-seller charts even before...

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Less than a week after CBS’s John Roberts filed two reports about how Republicans are “furious” at President Bush, Sunday’s CBS Evening News, anchored by Roberts, showcased a story about a 50-something “Republican” couple in Ohio who are disillusioned by President Bush over his tax cuts, how he “lied” about Iraq and how he’s focusing on gay marriage when there are “a million domestic problems” that are more pressing. CBS on Sunday launched a new series, “American Voices,” and it just happened to highlight the “Republican” couple who criticized Bush from the left. Reporter Gretchen Carlson warned that “if what...

Disenchanted Bush Voters Consider Crossing Over By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Published: February 22, 2004 BEACHWOOD, Ohio - In the 2000 presidential election, Bill Flanagan a semiretired newspaper worker, happily voted for George W. Bush. But now, shaking his head, he vows, "Never again." "The combination of lies and boys coming home in body bags is just too awful," Mr. Flanagan said, drinking coffee and reading newspapers at the local mall. "I could vote for Kerry. I could vote for any Democrat unless he's a real dummy." Mr. Flanagan is hardly alone, even though polls show that the overwhelming majority of Republicans...

I flipped over to NBC last night, and caught the tail-end of Nightly News. Brian Williams was doing a story on our man, Greg Packer. I had the volume down, so I couldnt catch everything, but it almost seemed like they were admitting they had been duped by the guy before, and were having a laugh at their own expense.

News Organization: Associated PressTo: News Editors/ Correspondents USA The world is full of all kinds of interesting people.One of them is Greg Packer a [Contsruction Worker] from Huntington, NY who apparently lives to get his name on the Associated Press Wire and in other media.A Nexis search turned up 100 mentions in various publications. And that is just a handful of the stories. He shows up in AP Broadcast actualities and in one APTN piece.Mr. Packer is clearly eager to be quoted. Let's be eager too--to find other people to quote.So far, he is apparently just attending East Coast events....

Thursday, June 12, 2003 The Times' Designated Man in the Street When the New York Times needs to find a man in the street to interview they never have to look very far - they have one on tap suitable for every occasion. Thanks to a sharp-eyed Ann Coulter, one Greg Packer has been outed as the media's designated man in the street - a role Mr. Packer has played more than 100 times, Coulter discovered. His latest assignment for the Times was to be the average man in the street in line waiting to buy Mrs. Clinton's newest work...