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Obama and His Big Awkward Mouth
I’m not sure what I feel about Obama and his bowling joke. Well, his “bowling like he’s in Special Olympics” joke. He’s allowed to be make a mistake. Right? He’s the president; he’s not Gandhi or Mandela. Well, they made a few mistakes, too. Anyway… as an uncle of a Down’s Syndrome albeit mainstreamed nephew,…
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AIG Builds Moat to Thwart Populist Outrage
As if Wednesday’s public Congressional flogging of AIG head Edward M. Liddy weren’t enough, pitchforks, frothing mouths and Molotovs are still a concern for the insurance giant. A leaked AIG internal memo suggests the corporation has finally noticed the outrage (from Barack Obama, no less!) directed at its brazen pillaging of the US Treasury. And AIG is not the kind of company…
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Eastwood directs Mandela Flick… Why?
So Clint Eastwood will direct the untitled Nelson Mandela biopic. Whether you like Eastwood’s latest ventures of Gran Torino or Flags of Our Fathers, Hollywood has thrown him the wheel and he’s in the Mandela’s driver seat. Eastwood has also cast Morgan Freeman as Mandela which will probably be Freeman’s role of a lifetime. Eastwood…
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Telling Southern Govs to Take the Money
Web advocacy group ColorOfChange.org has its members hounding South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford and his band of Southern-guv rebels over their refusal to use stimulus cash. (I’ve worked for ColorOfChange.org as a consultant.) More than 600 of the group’s members bombarded Sanford’s office with calls earlier this week, and 28,000 had signed a petition demanding…
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The Tonight Show… with President Obama
Saaret Yoseph is a writer and Assistant Editor at TheRoot.com. She manages and blogs for \”Their Eyes Were Watching …\” President Obama chose The Tonight Show to get serious about the AIG bonuses, the economy and to defend Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. But the POTUS and Jay Leno were still able to share a few laughs… You…
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Bowling Giveth, Bowling Taketh Away
I have a theory about that campaign stop almost exactly a year ago, where President Barack Obama bowled miserably at Pleasant Valley Bowl in Altoona, Pennsylvania. For better or worse, most of the time a black candidate doesn’t have to worry about convincing voters that he’s got some basic coordination and rhythm. Since Obama already…
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Working the Late Show Shift
PHOTO GALLERY: The Tonight Show with… President Obama? READ Why Obama’s Special Olympics joke was a wrong move by David Swerdlick. READ Jimi Izrael’s take. INTERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT BY JAY LENO, “TONIGHT SHOW” Burbank, California Q The 44th President of the United States, please welcome President Barack Obama. (Applause.) THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. (Applause.)…
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Friday's Headlines
BB: Lehman Stress Balls Coughed Up By Barclays; Bloomberg Headline, Not Ours IHT: More Comes Out about Gaza killings; Israel Would Deny, But Knows How Much That Stinks in Reverse Fox: Iranian Leaders Reject Prez’s Gesture; Obama Says “Rahm, Fetch My Shinebox” SR: 50 Cent Replaces Forrest Whitaker in Film; Apparently, Every Black Actor Ever…
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Obama Working the Late Show Shift
JAY LENO The 44th President of the United States, please welcome President Barack Obama. (Applause.) PRESIDENT OBAMA: Thank you. (Applause.) MR. LENO. Good to see you. MR. OBAMA: It is good to see you and –- (applause.) Thank you. Let me just say, I think Kevin looks good in a suit. (Laughter.) MR. LENO. Thank…
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Did You Do Your Women’s Bracket?
The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament starts Saturday, and I have a problem with that. The women’s tournament is easily the third-best collegiate sporting event, surpassed only by football and men’s hoops. While pundits love to debate the viability of the WNBA (and those who wish it would go away try to ignore that attendance was…