NPR CEO Vivian Schiller was forced to resign this morning, according to the network’s board. Her ouster comes following an undercover sting in which Ron Schiller, a senior NPR exec (no relation), was taped describing Tea Party members as “racist.” Joyce Slocum, SVP of legal affairs and general counsel, has been appointed as interim CEO. [...]
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I bet no one saw that coming. No, it’s not a headline from The Onion. Last week, Kansas City Royals pitcher Gil Meche announced his retirement from baseball, giving up the $12 million paycheck due on the final year of his deal. The baseball world was shocked by the news. Meche, 32, said he just [...]
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So which newspaper do YOU read? More here: Funny Lists 1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. 2. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country. 3. The Washington Post is read by people who think they ought to run the country. [...]
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Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), who has spent the last 5 years amassing a huge grassroots following, has come forth to support support the kind of transparency that WikiLeaks supports. In a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives on Thursday, Paul gave his opinion on the controversy. What do YOU think of Ron [...]
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Wikileaks is set to release over 400,000 sensitive documents surrounding the Iraq War on Monday in what will be the largest leak since the site leaked the controversial Afghan War Report. UPDATE: Click here to read the Pentagon’s response to the newly leaked documents. The Pentagon is bracing itself and has been sorting through database [...]
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The NY Post‘s (unofficial) response to the New York Times Weekender commercial. Caution – language is NSFW. P.S. – Love the nod to the WickedFire Skittles thread at 0:45. Watch more Viral Videos here
WikiLeaks has dropped another bombshell on the world. this time releasing into the wild “The Afghan War Diary“, some 92,000 classified reports about the war in Afghanistan. The Afghan War Diary is the most significant archive about the reality of war to have ever been released during the course of a war. The deaths of [...]
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The photo above is rumored to have been published last month (June 16) by the Associated Press. It was then supposedly picked up by the New York Times as well as the NOAA. Now, word is that all traces of the photo have disappeared. What do you think? Is this proof that BP is burning [...]
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It now appears that the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, Linda McMahon, is responsible for alerting the public to the false, misleading statements made by U.S. Senate Democrat candidate Richard Blumenthal regarding Vietnam. Blumenthal had previously suggesting that he had served in Vietnam. This didn’t seem to match reality, however, as he was granted [...]
While it didn’t make our list of top 10 Super Bowl commercials, the Audi “Green Police” commercial is raising a few eyebrows. In the ad, every-day citizens are arrested for using plastic instead of paper, tossing out batteries, not recycling orange rinds, using incandescent light bulbs, and setting their hot tub thermostats too high. All [...]
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This is a guest post by Matt Williams. Check out his novel website at www.JakPhoenix.com. Despite what Jay says, he’s not the victim. You can do anything you want in life, unless Jay Leno wants to do it too. At least that’s what soon-to-be former Tonight Show host Conan O’Brien says. But as further developments [...]
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