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Baghdad Shoe Hurler: Journalistic Role Model
6:21AM Hamilton Nolan | Let’s not forget that the hero Iraqi Shoe Hurler was a journalist before he became a footwear projectilist. A certain portion of his colleagues think he disgraced his profession. They’re wrong. Let’s go to Muntader’s brand new explanatory op-ed! More »
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Sun Reports Michael Jackson Collapsed After A Demerol Injection
2:06PM the cajun boy | Rupert Murdoch’s Sun coaxed some paramedics and UCLA hospital employees into talking anonymously about Michael Jackson’s death today, and according to those sources, Jackson collapsed shortly after an injection of the painkiller Demerol. More »
Kathie Lee Gifford Breaks ‘Twilight’ Audience Into Good Girl and ‘Tramp’ Segments
7:55AM STV | No explanation of the Twilight Phenomenon™ would likely be complete without such sizable insights as Kathie Lee Gifford’s and the authoritative cultureklatsch at Fox and Friends. The latter group’s ownership of the story — as evidenced by last Friday’s extraordinary investigative study of “babes” headed to the multiplex in droves — continues today with a more think-y survey of how the chaste-vampire genre trumps the more occult flavour of the Harry Potter series, but over on TodayKathie Lee diclosed the real trick nudging Twilight toward box-office immortality: Teen girls are more into romance than sex. And those who aren’t will be after the dressing-down delivered here. Failing the ready availability of another tween-friendly franchise, Hollywood would do well to bottle this and sell it. More »
