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Weekend Sports Open Thread
A very active sports weekend ahead of us:Tiger on the prowl at Torrey Pines: Can he really win his first tournament after rehab? Did the Celtics show Thursday night that they are just flat out the better team, and it's time to stick a fork in the Lakers?Have you caught the baseball bug yet?What are you looking for at racetracks in Michigan and Kentucky?After demolishing Federer at Roland Garros…
AP CPI Story Paints Gloom and Doom; Market Reaction Is Opposite
The Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger got out the gloom-and-doom paint in his report on the Consumer Price Index on Friday morning. Here are his opening paragraphs: Inflation rate jumps by biggest amount in 6 months Inflation shot up in May at the fastest pace in six months, pushed higher by soaring costs for gasoline and other types of energy. The Labor Department reported Friday that…
Goldberg Recalls Russert's Call for Newsroom Ideological Diversity
Appearing by phone on Friday's The O'Reilly Factor on FNC, former CBS News correspondent Bernard Goldberg recalled for fill-in host Laura Ingraham how Tim Russert recognized there should be more to newsroom diversity than just diversity by gender and skin tone, that “you need ideological diversity.” Goldberg, who departed CBS News a few years after he pointed out their liberal bias, lamented: I…
CNN’s Roland Martin: ‘Idiot Democrats’ Behind Michelle Obama Rum
CNN contributor Roland Martin, a known Barack Obama sympathizer, surprisingly isn’t buying the argument that conservatives/Republicans are behind the rumored Michelle Obama "whitey" comment. During a segment on Thursday’s "Anderson Cooper 360," substitute anchor Campbell Brown asked Martin, "Republicans have made it clear, pretty much, that Michelle is fair game here. Are you surprised by the…
USA Today Cover Story Down on Drilling, Up on Alternative Fuels to Eas
Sidebars on solutions to high gas prices paint rosy picture for unproven gasoline substitutes and make drilling not seem worthwhile.
Weekend Captionfest
Hillary Clinton bears have been marked down at the Vermont Teddy Bear Company in Shelburne, VT. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot)
'Early Show' Tells Us How to Live 'the Right Way in the 21st Century
Show highlights green living, promoting Planet Green documentary.
ABCNews.com: Michelle Obama More like Jackie O Than Kerry's Wife
Picking up on the media's meme that a vast right-wing hate machine is going at full-tilt against Michelle Obama, ABCNews.com wants readers to know that the Illinois senator's wife is "more Jackie O Than Teresa [Heinz Kerry]."The story made the "top headlines" lineup for the afternoon of June 13, along with a headline tease for recent video from Fox News Channel where an onscreen graphic labeled…
NBC’s David Gregory Spikes Rev. Wright/Clinton Story; Cites Jewish B
Has NBC White House Correspondent David Gregory turned over a new leaf? Gregory, who has earned a lot of critics for having an anti-Bush/liberal bias, made it seem that way during a discussion about ethics in politics and journalism Thursday. He claimed to struggle with Jewish teachings about saying bad things about others - at least when it comes to Democrats. Gregory, who is Jewish, said…