FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, ENLARGING ON EARLIER POST….. A Senior Fellow at the Institute of Nonexistence Dan Mirvish, who with Eitan Gorlin created an elaborate Internet hoax complete with a fake policy institute and a phony adviser to Senator John McCain. By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA Published: November 12, 2008 It was among the juicier post-election [...]
ONE MIGHT SAY THAT THE ENTIRE MEDIA UNIVERSE IS A HOAX….. FROM THE AP MSNBC retracts false Palin story; others duped By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer Wednesday, November 12, 2008 MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to John McCain had identified himself as the source of an [...]
FROM THE SF GATE — GAROFOLO AGAIN….. Free Sarah Palin: NOW she talks — when it doesn’t matter So who gave the Biden pills to Sarah Palin? Now that it doesn’t matter, the woman won’t shut up. On Wednesday, she talked to CNN’s Wolfie Blitzer — you know, like she COULD HAVE DONE UP UNTIL [...]
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IN THE NEW YORK TIMES….RICH IS THE BEST POLITICAL COLUMNIST OUT THERE THESE DAYS…… November 9, 2008 OP-ED COLUMNIST It Still Felt Good the Morning After By FRANK RICH ON the morning after a black man won the White House, America’s tears of catharsis gave way to unadulterated joy. Our nation was still in the [...]
JUDITH WARNER, IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, SPELLS IT OUT AS WELL AS ANYONE CAN–HERE IS PERHAPS THE MOST POIGNANT ASSESSMENT OF WHAT ELECTION 2008 MEANS IN THE SYMBOLIC UNIVERSE…….. NOVEMBER 6, 2008, 9:03 PM Tears to Remember By JUDITH WARNER On Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1980, my 10th-grade American history teacher started class by unfurling [...]
AND THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND, THANK GOD, YES, FROM THE BBC, Foot massages calm unruly pupils Disruptive schoolchildren in south London will be given foot massages by therapists to help get their aggressiveness under control. Reflexologists will visit 74 primary and secondary schools in Lambeth and tend to children under 13. Lambeth Council [...]