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Saturday, August 13, 2005
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James Wolcott "Roger L. Simon I don't consider a liberal hawk. Because he isn't. He isn't much of a liberal of any kind. Instead, he typifies a subset of bloggers who day-in, day-out bash the UN (particularly over the "oil-for-food" scandal") while saying damn near nothing about the billions of reconstruction money lost or stolen in Iraq and the sweetheart deals for companies like, yes, Halliburton; who dump scorn regularly on the ACLU and minimize the brutalities at Abu Ghraib...read on"
(Via Crooks and Liars.)
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AMY ARGETSINGER, WASHINGTON POST - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, already facing plummeting approval ratings and questions about his business dealings, took another hit Friday with a report that a tabloid publisher with close ties to the former movie star paid an alleged paramour of his $20,000 not to discuss their relationship. The August 2003 confidentiality agreement between American Media Inc. -- publisher of the National Enquirer, Globe and Star -- and bit-part actress Gigi Goyette was reached two days after Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy for governor, and seven months before he signed on as an editor for two bodybuilding magazines owned by the company.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) had close ties to the publisher. Details of the agreement -- in which Goyette agreed not to share her story with anyone outside American Media -- were reported in a front-page story in the Los Angeles Times on Friday, though the deal was first described in an opinion piece published by freelance journalist Laurence Leamer in the same newspaper more than a month ago.
(Via UNDERNEWS.)
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The bogus "teacher prevented from distributing the Declaration of Independence" story which received national attention last year for its claims of "religious discrimination" has quietly died. After a judge had previously dismissed all but one of the claims in the lawsuit filed by the right-wing outfit representing/using the teacher, they have now withdrawn the remaining claim, proving without a shadow of a doubt that the entire claim of discrimination, and the story which went along with it (that the teacher was just "teaching history" and not trying to proslytize his students), was complete and utter nonsense. Not that that prevented the story from garnering national attention, thanks to the right-wing noise machine.
(Via Left I on the News.)
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