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Sue Simmons Story a Battle of Sources
Tipsheet Says WNBC Colleagues Upset by N.Y. Post Piece A TV insider tipsheet Friday posted a rebuttal to a New York Post story that began, “There were 5 million reasons to oust Sue Simmons — and they were all in her paycheck.” The Post “exclusive” by Don Kaplan, published Thursday, asserted, “WNBC/Channel 4 refused to…
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Obama: GOP Would Have Left Auto Industry to Die
President Barack Obama slammed the Republican Party Tuesday in a speech, saying that the GOP would have let the auto industry die, according to the Detroit News. “This notion that we should have let the auto industry die, that we should pursue anti-worker policies in hopes unions like yours will unravel — it’s part of…
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The Massachusetts Curse
What is it about Massachusetts that produces such lousy presidential candidates? Has some strange brand of bipartisan political devolution been at work in the Bay State since the heyday of John F. Kennedy, bringing forth such hopeless hopefuls as Michael Dukakis, John Kerry and, last and least, Mitt Romney? Or is it, as Rick Santorum…
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Loose Ball: Giants GM Earns 2nd Super Bowl
In Jerry Reese’s first season as the New York Giants general manager, the team advanced to Super Bowl XLII and defeated the New England Patriots. Now, four seasons later, the Giants have made it to Super Bowl XLVI, and they’ll face the same opponent Sunday. But much has changed for Reese. He suffered through the…
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Romney and Obama: The Same Guy?
After three years of GOP railing against the perils of a bloated “nanny state” and the loud gnashing of Tea Partiers’ teeth as they looked to “take the country back” from a “socialist” president of questionable American birth, the Republican Party, in the wake of the New Hampshire primaries, now stands on the cusp of selecting former…
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J-Students Say Author-Professor Is AWOL
“Pulitzer Prize winner and renowned author Isabel Wilkerson has not fulfilled her requirements as a College of Communication professor and a member of the Boston University faculty-in-residence program despite her relatively high professor’s salary and other benefits, BU students and faculty said,” Steph Solis reported Monday for the Daily Free Press at Boston University. “The…
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Toy With OWS and the Tea Party at Your Peril
The words “Take Back the American Dream” crudely plastered on the sign held by a protestor reflect real frustration. Another placard simply saying, “Don’t Trust the Government” announces heartfelt skepticism. Yet another screaming, “Make GM Pay Taxes” is a virtual anthem for the middle class. Demonstrators cheer as a speaker blasts the bank bailouts of…
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Qaddafi Dead: One More Success for Obama
Just like the widely hailed death of Osama bin Laden in May or the more recent — and more controversial — death of Yemeni-American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki at the hands of the U.S. military, the death of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi at the end of an eight-month fight between loyalists and NATO-backed rebels was accompanied…
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Capitol Connections: CBC Edition
The Turkish Embassy hosted an exclusive soiree honoring the chiefs of staff of the Congressional Black Caucus members. The reception was held after the annual CBC gala dinner. Two of the most influential chiefs of staff on the Hill, Tracie Pough, chief of staff to Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Fla.), and Yebbie Watkins, chief of staff…
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Article Compounds Family's 9/11 Tragedy
Attendant on Doomed Flight Falsely Labeled “Hysterical” The world learned that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, had begun when flight attendant Betty Ong, flying on the hijacked plane that left from Boston, picked up the in-flight phone and punched the buttons for the American Airlines reservations desk. ” ‘The cockpit is not answering…