Mike Myers - World-of-Newave.info http://answers.world-of-newave.info/mike-myers.htm Latest news and articles about Mike Myers en-us Copyright (c)2004-2008.§/Newave SARL. All rights reserved. webmaster@world-of-newave.com (Webmaster) Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:38:50 GMT Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:38:50 GMT Newave Lisa XML Engine v1.0 - http://www.world-of-newave.info/about.htm 60 http://www.world-of-newave.info/images/wi8831.gif World-of-Newave.info - Knowledge and Informational Database http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 88 31 {LITERATURE > RSS FEEDS} - Smart Spies First Place http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/science-fiction/rss-feeds/smart-spies-first-place-20080645233.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/literature/genres/science-fiction/rss-feeds/smart-spies-first-place-20080645233.htm Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:00:00 GMT Get Smart outsmarted The Love Guru for first place at the June 20 weekend box office, taking first place with about $39.2 million in ticket sales, the Associated Press reported. Mike Myers' Guru took in just $14 million to open in fourth place. Scifi.Com Smart Spies First Place {new window}   Www.Scifi.Com - Get Smart outsmarted The Love Guru for first place at the June 20 weekend box office, taking first place with about $39.2 million in ticket sales, the Associated Press reported. Mike Myers' Guru took in just $14 million to open in fourth place.
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]]> Arts > Literature > Genres > Science Fiction > RSS Feeds {MOVIES > REVIEWS} - The Love Guru http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/movies/reviews/the-love-guru-20080657617.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/movies/reviews/the-love-guru-20080657617.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:55:48 GMT Starring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan... Review: In this corner, Mike Myers, the sharp comic mind behind Austin Powers and countless SNL skits. Handicap: His edge has been blunted from lack of use over five years, except for voicing an ogre in the Shrek trilogy. Here, as guru Pitka, an American-born rival to Deepak Chopra in love therapy, he repeats lame jokes in a singsong accent until you want to scream. His formal greeting is "Mariska Hargitay." His mentor is guru Tugginmypudha (Sir Ben Kingsley). He helps Jessica Alba, the unlikely owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, deal with libidinous goalie Jacques "Le Coq" grande (Justin Timberlake). Ninety minutes pass like an eternity. Verdict: Down for the count. Watch Peter Travers' video review of The Love Guru. Rating: 0.5 Star Rollingstone.Com The Love Guru {new window}   Www.Rollingstone.Com - Starring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan... Review: In this corner, Mike Myers, the sharp comic mind behind Austin Powers and countless SNL skits. Handicap: His edge has been blunted from lack of use over five years, except for voicing an ogre in the Shrek trilogy. Here, as guru Pitka, an American-born rival to Deepak Chopra in love therapy, he repeats lame jokes in a singsong accent until you want to scream. His formal greeting is "Mariska Hargitay." His mentor is guru Tugginmypudha (Sir Ben Kingsley). He helps Jessica Alba, the unlikely owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, deal with libidinous goalie Jacques "Le Coq" grande (Justin Timberlake). Ninety minutes pass like an eternity. Verdict: Down for the count. Watch Peter Travers' video review of The Love Guru. Rating: 0.5 Star
The Love Guru : Review : Rolling Stone {...} In this corner, Mike Myers, the sharp comic mind behind Austin Powers and countless SNL skits.... {...}
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]]> Arts > Movies > Reviews {MOVIES > REVIEWS} - Love Guru http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/movies/reviews/love-guru-20080648030.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/arts/movies/reviews/love-guru-20080648030.htm Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:55:48 GMT Starring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan... Review: In this corner, Mike Myers, the sharp comic mind behind Austin Powers and countless SNL skits. Handicap: His edge has been blunted from lack of use over five years, except for voicing an ogre in the Shrek trilogy. Here, as guru Pitka, an American-born rival to Deepak Chopra in love therapy, he repeats lame jokes in a singsong accent until you want to scream. His formal greeting is "Mariska Hargitay." His mentor is guru Tugginmypudha (Sir Ben Kingsley). He helps Jessica Alba, the unlikely owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, deal with libidinous goalie Jacques "Le Coq" grande (Justin Timberlake). Ninety minutes pass like an eternity. Verdict: Down for the count. Watch Peter Travers' video review of The Love Guru. Rating: 0.5 Star Rollingstone.Com Love Guru {new window}   Www.Rollingstone.Com - Starring: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan... Review: In this corner, Mike Myers, the sharp comic mind behind Austin Powers and countless SNL skits. Handicap: His edge has been blunted from lack of use over five years, except for voicing an ogre in the Shrek trilogy. Here, as guru Pitka, an American-born rival to Deepak Chopra in love therapy, he repeats lame jokes in a singsong accent until you want to scream. His formal greeting is "Mariska Hargitay." His mentor is guru Tugginmypudha (Sir Ben Kingsley). He helps Jessica Alba, the unlikely owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, deal with libidinous goalie Jacques "Le Coq" grande (Justin Timberlake). Ninety minutes pass like an eternity. Verdict: Down for the count. Watch Peter Travers' video review of The Love Guru. Rating: 0.5 Star
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]]> Arts > Movies > Reviews {HOCKEY > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Interview: Mark Ellis, sports coordinator for 'The Love Guru,' on Mike Myers, filming hockey and the sports movie that inspired him (Yahoo! Sports) http://articles.world-of-newave.info/sports/hockey/ice-hockey/leagues/national-hockey-league/teams/detroit-red-wings/news-and-media/interview-mark-ellis-sports-coordinator-for-the-20080693927.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/sports/hockey/ice-hockey/leagues/national-hockey-league/teams/detroit-red-wings/news-and-media/interview-mark-ellis-sports-coordinator-for-the-20080693927.htm Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:04:11 GMT Ed. Note: We've got a few "The Love Guru" related treats this week. On Thursday, we have a rather... Sports.Yahoo.Com Interview: Mark Ellis, sports coordinator for 'The Love Guru,' on Mike Myers, filming hockey and the sports movie that inspired him (Yahoo! Sports) {new window}   Sports.Yahoo.Com - Ed. Note: We've got a few "The Love Guru" related treats this week. On Thursday, we have a rather...
Interview: Mark Ellis, sports coordinator for 'The Love Guru,' on Mike Myer... - NHL - Yahoo! Sports {...} Interview: Mark Ellis, sports coordinator for 'The Love Guru,' on Mike Myers, filming hockey and the sports movie that inspired him Related: Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings {...}
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]]> Sports > Hockey > Ice Hockey > Leagues > National Hockey League > Teams > Detroit Red Wings > News and Media {ISSUES > BIAS AND BALANCE} - After lambasting sourcing of NY Times ' McCain story, Scarborough, Barnicle, and Buchanan ignore anonymous sourcing in Vanity Fair article about Clinton http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/after-lambasting-sourcing-of-ny-times-mccain-story-2008066368.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/after-lambasting-sourcing-of-ny-times-mccain-story-2008066368.htm Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:47:51 GMT Following the publication of a February 21 New York Times article regarding Sen. John McCain's ties to lobbyists, including telecommunications lobbyist Vicki Iseman, which reported that in 1999, "according to two former McCain associates, some of the senator's advisers had grown so concerned that the relationship had become romantic that they took steps to intervene," Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, and MSNBC political analysts Pat Buchanan and Mike Barnicle sharply criticized the Times for its use of anonymous sourcing in the report. But on the June 3 and 4 editions of Morning Joe, in discussing Vanity Fair national editor Todd S. Purdum's article, which contained numerous anonymously sourced claims about former President Bill Clinton, Scarborough, Barnicle, and Buchanan offered no such criticism. As Media Matters for America noted, Purdum cited quotes or paraphrases of nearly two dozen anonymous sources in discussing what Purdum referred to as "a steady stream of tabloid speculation and Internet intimations that the Big Dog might be up to his old tricks" -- despite his acknowledgement that there was no "proof of post-presidential sexual indiscretions on Clinton's part." On the February 21 edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough said of the Times' McCain article: SCARBOROUGH: They better have pictures. They better have receipts. They better have -- if they're going to claim here -- and I would say this about any politician -- if they're going to claim that John McCain had an affair and he misused his position as chairman of the Commerce Committee to help multinational corporations because of it, they better have more than two unnamed sources who were former disgruntled employees. And if I am wrong, I -- you know, we -- seriously, tomorrow we have to get journalism professors on this show. Earlier in the program, Scarborough said of the article, "And for The New York Times to suggest this ... all of this based, [co-host] Willie Geist, on two disillusioned former associates who are not named to me seems like an incredible stretch. My hope is, for The New York Times' sake, that they have this thing sourced on background with receipts and whatever else they need because this is a stunning news article to be -- to be -- Willie, to be so thinly sourced." Later in that segment, he asserted: "[M]y guess is that The New York Times has a lot more that they did not print. They have a lot more to substantiate this article. I, again, I hope for their sake that they do because right now they're basing it on -- this is just such a thinly sourced story. It is so prejudicial to John McCain on every front." But Scarborough offered no such criticism of the Vanity Fair article's use of anonymous sources while discussing the story in three separate segments on the June 4 edition of Morning Joe, nor did he suggest that the report was "prejudicial to" Clinton. Regarding Sen. Barack Obama's possible selection of a vice presidential running mate, Scarborough said: "Let's talk about the Vanity Fair article very quickly, and all of the garbage that that brought back into it. It looks like that Hillary Clinton could be disqualified because of Bill Clinton, right?" During a separate segment, Scarborough asked NBC News special correspondent Tom Brokaw: "[D]oesn't the Todd Purdum Vanity Fair article just add another layer of complication for a Clinton vice presidency? When, after all, what Todd ... wrote in that article is what we've all been hearing for a year and a half." And during a third segment, Scarborough asked Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, whether the Vanity Fair article about Bill Clinton "hurts" Hillary Clinton's chances of becoming the vice presidential nominee. Yet when McAuliffe said the article "was a hit piece; nobody quoted" and that "I would like legislation. If you're going to say something, you've got to go on the record and say it," Scarborough did not address the issue of sourcing, except to ask McAuliffe: "He call you?" Similarly, on the February 21 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, Barnicle said of the Times' article, "God, I hate this story," adding, "I hate it for what it does to the process of journalism." He also asserted, "I'm reading it, a couple of anonymous sources. If you're a newspaper editor and someone comes to you and says, 'Hey, I've got two anonymous sources. They think there's a suspicion of sex between a United States senator and a lobbyist' -- what do you say? You say, 'Yeah, please. Come back later.' " Barnicle added: "That's not front-page stuff. But it's front-page today." Later in the segment, Barnicle told host Chris Matthews, "[T]his particular story here, Chris, again, the problem is the anonymous sources. It's a huge issue, I mean, in terms of, it's on the front page of The New York Times. It's magnified beyond all proportion." And on the February 21 edition of MSNBC Live, Buchanan said of McCain's assertion that the Times story was "not true": BUCHANAN: But there's no question about it. If McCain has told the straight, honest truth about his conversations with his aides and about this woman, then [Times executive editor] Bill Keller should be out of a job. I mean -- because of what's been done to McCain's reputation by this story. If it's no better sourced than what Chris is saying, the two disgruntled guys saying they thought or believed, and you put that on the front page, you should be out of a job. But neither Barnicle nor Buchanan offered similar condemnations of Vanity Fair or Purdum while discussing the article on the June 3 edition of Morning Joe. During the segment, co-host Willie Geist read a portion of the article in which Purdum wrote: "Over the last few years, aides have winced at repeated tabloid reports about Clinton's episodic friendship and occasional dinners out with Belinda Stronach, a twice-divorced billionaire auto-parts heiress and member of the Canadian Parliament 20 years his junior, or at more recent high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip that Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California. There has been talk of a female friend in Chappaqua, a woman in a bar at a meeting of the Aspen Institute, and a public sighting of a Clinton, [liberal activist and movie and music producer Steve] Bing, and a ravishing entourage in a New York elevator that, a former Clinton aide told me, led a business leader who saw them to say: I don't know what the guy was doing, it was so clear that it was just no good." Neither Barnicle nor Buchanan pointed to the anonymous sourcing in the paragraph. Barnicle offered no response and Buchanan laughed, saying only, "I don't want Todd Purdum doing a profile of me, I'll tell you that." Later in the segment, Barnicle said of the Vanity Fair article: BARNICLE: When you read the entire piece, when you read Todd's entire piece, I think the most salient aspect of the piece is how he points out and quotes several close associates of former President Clinton as saying his political prowess today, as compared to when he was in office, 1992, 1996 -- the last time he ran was in 1996 -- the difference between the cultures, media cultures is night and day. And he has just lost a step." From the February 21 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe: SCARBOROUGH: Let's look at this for a second. MIKA BRZEZINSKI (co-host): OK. SCARBOROUGH: Two disillusioned former associates are the basis of this story that The New York Times ran on -- BRZEZINSKI: I really want to ask the editor of The New York Times about this. SCARBOROUGH: -- on page one. Again, the charges are about as bad as charges could be for John McCain for two reasons: Reason number one, the evangelical base of the Republican Party will be turned away by John McCain because of this -- a base that he is right now fighting to get on his side. This is a base that turned quickly against George W. Bush in 2000 on the last weekend when it was revealed that he had a DUI like 30 years ago. That's number one. Number two: John McCain is the maverick. He is the reformer. That is a central part of his message. And for The New York Times to suggest this -- and, again, I have been very tough on John McCain through this primary process, for the record -- but to suggest -- all of this based, Willie Geist, on two disillusioned former associates who are not named to me seems like an incredible stretch. My hope is, for The New York Times' sake, that they have this thing sourced on background with receipts and whatever else they need because this is a stunning news article to be -- to be -- Willie, to be so thinly sourced. Am I missing something? [...] BRZEZINSKI: We're also making calls to The New York Times and hoping to see if we can get someone to come on the air. SCARBOROUGH: Well, that'd be good. Again, I -- you know what? -- my guess is that The New York Times has a lot more that they did not print. They have a lot more to substantiate this article. I, again, I hope for their sake that they do because right now they're basing it on -- this is just such a thinly sourced story. It is so prejudicial to John McCain on every front. BRZEZINSKI: It just feels motivated on a number of levels beyond journalism, and I can't believe I'm saying that about The New York Times. I could be wrong. I want to hear more. [...] SCARBOROUGH: When you have this explosive of a story -- you know what? The headline is -- when I got the calls from very educated people in the media last night, I picked up the phone, and what did they say? BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. SCARBOROUGH: "Have you heard?" And I said, "What?" "John McCain." And I thought immediately, "OK, let's hear the story about an affair or some other scandal." And they said, "John McCain had an affair." I said, "Really? With whom?" And then they started telling me the story. "Who says so?" And then you find out that it's disgruntled former employees -- BRZEZINSKI: With no name, at least in one paper. SCARBOROUGH: -- that won't give their name to The New York Times, the paper that broke this story. BRZEZINSKI: Right. SCARBOROUGH: So, yeah, it's very troubling to me. BRZEZINSKI: And you have two people who have been asked about it, John McCain and Vicki Iseman -- SCARBOROUGH: They denied it. BRZEZINSKI: -- and both deny it. SCARBOROUGH: They better have pictures. They better have receipts. They better have -- if they're going to claim here -- and I would say this about any politician -- if they're going to claim that John McCain had an affair and he misused his position as chairman of the Commerce Committee to help multi -- BRZEZINSKI: Because of it -- SCARBOROUGH: -- multinational corporations because of it, they better have more than two unnamed sources who were former disgruntled employees. BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. SCARBOROUGH: And if I am wrong, I -- you know, we -- seriously, tomorrow we have to get journalism professors on this show. From the June 4 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe: SCARBOROUGH: Hillary Clinton wants to be vice president. Let's talk about the Vanity Fair article very quickly -- BRZEZINSKI: OK. BUCHANAN: All right. SCARBOROUGH: -- and all of the garbage that that brought back into it. It looks like that Hillary Clinton could be disqualified because of Bill Clinton -- BARNICLE: Bill Clinton. SCARBOROUGH: -- right? BARNICLE: Yeah. BUCHANAN: There's a lot of garbage in there, but his response to it -- he's really undisciplined really at the end of this thing, the comments he made on the line. As we said, he was sandbagged there with that woman coming up and asking him. BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. BUCHANAN: But I don't think Obama wants her. I don't think Michelle [Obama] wants her. I do think if they get into August and they find out that he hasn't been able to break into these Hillary voters and this could cost him the election, he may have to look at her. [...] BUCHANAN: I think he's handling it exactly right. Look, it's a very tough, troubled time for her, her husband, moving out of this. I think he handled it -- he was extraordinarily gracious to her. Let her work it out. There's no need to interfere with this process. That realization I think is going to come in on her and she's going to realize she can't force herself on the ticket, that would be foolish of her to do it. SCARBOROUGH: Right. BUCHANAN: And she's going to make herself available. And I don't think if she's denied the vice presidential nomination, which I would expect, I think she's going to go out and work for this ticket very, very hard. SCARBOROUGH: But, but -- BUCHANAN: It's in her interest. And it's the right -- BRZEZINSKI: She must want something. BUCHANAN: -- thing to do and she is a Democrat. SCARBOROUGH: Tom, though, doesn't the Todd Purdum Vanity Fair article just add another layer of complication for a Clinton vice presidency? When, after all, what Todd -- BROKAW: Yeah, I -- SCARBOROUGH: -- what Todd wrote in that article -- BROKAW: I think without -- SCARBOROUGH: -- is what we've all been hearing for a year and a half. BROKAW: Listen, without that article, that was going to be a complicating factor. A very senior Obama person said the first conversation you'd have to have would be with her about him, about where his money has come from for the library, the fees that he's earned the last several years, the speaking fees that he would have to forgo if she were to be the vice president, and they -- a number of people on the Obama side see that as a big obstacle for it ever happening. [...] SCARBOROUGH: All right, let's talk, though -- as we talk about the vice presidential possibility, and Pat Buchanan asked, why wouldn't he? Do you think the Vanity Fair article about Bill Clinton hurts? Do you think Barack Obama's people are going to say, "You know, we don't care whether it's true or not, there's just too much dirt" -- BRZEZINSKI: Too much stuff. SCARBOROUGH: -- "with him and her and the presidential library." Is that a possible disqualifier? McAULIFFE: Well, first of all, you look at her approval ratings now at the end of this process. She is up in all of these states that we've got to win. You know, the Vanity Fair -- I talked about this yesterday -- you know, it was a hit piece; nobody quoted. I don't like articles -- in fact, I would like legislation. If you're going to say something, you've got to go on the record and say it. Now, they said he talked to 50 people close to Bill Clinton. Most people know the president and I talk every day, we have for years. SCARBOROUGH: He call you? McAULIFFE: Never called me. Now, what does that tell you? Also, this story comes out the weekend before the last weekend of voting. I gotta tell you, it is suspect from the start. You know, listen, it's unfortunate, but forget all that. This is about the people. It's about health care, education. Hillary has made the argument. We won in South Dakota last night, when people called this over. From the February 21 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews: MATTHEWS: I've been trying to understand this story. I have not put [unintelligible] on either side of this fight, except to read the paper. Mike Barnicle, who is that used -- La Guardia -- "All I know is what I read in the papers"? A female lobbyist has been turning up with him at fundraisers. The staff thought it was a romantic relationship. They pushed her away. What do we make of this as journalism? BARNICLE: Well, God, I hate this story, Chris. I hate it for what it does -- MATTHEWS: I hate it, too. BARNICLE: I hate for the pro -- what it does to the process of politics. I hate it for what it does to the process of journalism. The New York Times and no other paper ought to be on the ballot. They are now on the ballot, so to speak, people voting up or down on the Times, what they did today. The New Republic piece, incidentally, which is on the Internet this afternoon, is a terrific piece about this whole thing. The problem with the piece, Chris, is what you just referenced talking to Frank [Foer, editor of The New Republic]. There are hundreds of smaller papers across the country that get the Times news service. It's a 3,000-word story. They don't have space for that. They're going to cut it down to about 850 words. Guess which 850 words they're going to choose? They're going to pick out the sex stuff and put it up. And I don't know what it means. I'm reading it, a couple of anonymous sources. If you're a newspaper editor and someone comes to you and says, "Hey, I've got two anonymous sources. They think there's a suspicion of sex between a United States senator and a lobbyist" -- what do you say? You say, "Yeah, please. Come back later." That's not front-page stuff. But it's front-page today. [...] MATTHEWS: You know, with Gary Hart, Mike -- and I hate to go back over this, but I'm going to do it. Gary Hart, when they nailed him back in, what, '87 on a relationship with that woman, they had a guy who staked out the house for the party that night, was there all night, caught him there. They got a picture of him with her on his lap. I mean, if you want to nail down that story, I guess that's what you do. But, here, they didn't even try to do that, the Times. They simply had two former staffers -- or they could be Democratic staffers who didn't like the guy because he's a Republican -- we don't know -- saying that they think he had this affair. BARNICLE: That's what I'm saying. They had a suspicion that there was something going on. The Gary Hart thing, I mean, Gary, unfortunately, begged the press to follow him. He challenged the press to follow him around. And they followed him around. And they found Donna Rice at the end of the trail. But this particular story here, Chris, again, the problem is the anonymous sources. It's a huge issue, I mean, in terms of, it's on the front page of The New York Times. It's magnified beyond all proportion. From the 10 a.m. ET hour of the February 21 edition of MSNBC Live: SCARBOROUGH: Pat Buchanan: John Weaver, obviously, his credibility is going to be central in this, as well as The New York Times'. Do you have the McCain campaign now starting to sling arrows behind the scenes to reporters, trying to diffuse this story, trying to destroy Weaver's reputation? BUCHANAN: Yeah. But here's what you do. They've got -- Charlie Black is doing a good job for them, and they've got Bob Bennett out there, Joe. And they, incidentally, are showing a lot more rage and indignation and anger than McCain showed today. And that was one thing that surprised me a bit, that McCain did not seem to be profoundly and deeply offended by this. But there's no question about it. If McCain has told the straight, honest truth about his conversations with his aides and about this woman, then Bill Keller should be out of a job. I mean -- because of what's been done to McCain's reputation by this story. If it's no better sourced than what Chris is saying, the two disgruntled guys saying they thought or believed, and you put that on the front page, you should be out of a job. From the June 3 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe: GEIST: Even as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton seem to be getting more polite toward each other toward the end -- BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, there seems to be a -- yes, mmm, yes. GEIST: Bill Clinton not on board with that program. BRZEZINSKI: Oh, he didn't get the memo. GEIST: There was a Vanity Fair piece that just came out, Todd Purdum wrote it. BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes. GEIST: Very, very critical of former President Bill Clinton. I'm just going to read a little of it here, and then we'll play you some reaction. Here -- this is from the piece. It says this: "In the end, this is Clinton's most grievous sin, his steady refusal to take grown-up responsibility for the consequences of his own actions. It is Clinton's invariable insistence that his problems are someone else's fault and that questions or criticisms of him, his methods, motives, or means are invariably unfair. That is his unforgivable flaw." BRZEZINSKI: No. GEIST: Now, that's only the beginning. It gets -- BRZEZINSKI: It goes from bad to worse. GEIST: It gets personal. We have another excerpt here. I think we've got it. BRZEZINSKI: Oh, wow. GEIST: It says this: "Over the last few years, aides have winced at repeated tabloid reports about Clinton's episodic friendship and occasional dinners out with Belinda Stronach, a twice-divorced billionaire auto-parts heiress and member of the Canadian Parliament 20 years his junior, or at more recent high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip that Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California. There has been talk of a female friend in Chappaqua, a woman in a bar at a meeting of the Aspen Institute, and a public sighting of a Clinton, [liberal activist and movie and music producer Steve] Bing, and a ravishing entourage in a New York elevator that, a former Clinton aide" -- BRZEZINSKI: OK, enough. GEIST: -- "told me, led a business leader who saw them to say: I don't know what the guy was doing, it was so clear that it was just no good." And on, and on, and on. BRZEZINSKI: I don't care. Bill Clinton. BUCHANAN: I don't want Todd Purdum doing a profile of me, I'll tell you that. BRZEZINSKI: Well, Bill's not happy, is he? GEIST: No, Bill is clearly not happy. BRZEZINSKI: Oh, dear. GEIST: Now, this audio comes from a reporter -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, dear. GEIST: -- from The Huffington Post. And I believe at first didn't identify himself as a reporter. BRZEZINSKI: Oh, well that's not fair. GEIST: Was on a rope line, and Bill Clinton just launched into a tirade against Todd Purdum, again -- BRZEZINSKI: Did he know he was being recorded? GEIST: -- the author of that Vanity Fair piece. I don't know if he knew he was being recorded. Let's listen to some of it. [begin video clip] FOWLER: What do you think about that hatchet job somebody did on you on Vanity Fair at the end of the race? CLINTON: Sleazy. He's a really dishonest reporter, and one of our guys talked to him. [unintelligible] But I haven't read it. But the guy told me there's five or six just blatant lies in there. But he's a real slimy guy. FOWLER: Yeah, it's all over cable news. CLINTON: It's totally slimy. Just blow it off. FOWLER: But he's married to Dee Dee Myers? CLINTON: Yeah, but he -- that's all right. He's still a scumbag. [end video clip] BRZEZINSKI: Oh. GEIST: You heard the word "scumbag" in there. "Sleazy," "dishonest," "slimy." Bill Clinton talking about Todd Purdum. Now, I don't know if you could hear the -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, boy. GEIST: -- woman from HuffPost, but Todd Purdum, of course, married to Clinton's former press secretary. BARNICLE: Did the reporter -- did she ever identify herself? BRZEZINSKI: See, that's what we're -- we're hearing she didn't. And I don't think that's fair. BARNICLE: That bothers me. BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. BARNICLE: That bothers me. I mean, you know, the president of the -- former president of the United States, he should always be aware, I suppose, that he's always on. But still, that's a sandbagging job there. BRZEZINSKI: A little bit, a little bit. GEIST: His larger point, though, if you listen further to Bill Clinton, was that this was part of the orchestrated media campaign against Hillary Clinton, this Vanity Fair piece. BARNICLE: When you read the entire piece, when you read Todd's entire piece, I think the most salient aspect of the piece is how he points out and quotes several close associates of former President Clinton as saying his political prowess today, as compared to when he was in office, 1992, 1996 -- the last time he ran was in 1996 -- the difference between the cultures, media cultures is night and day. BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. BARNICLE: And he has just lost a step, in terms of -- BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. Little bit out of -- BUCHANAN: He's very un -- he's undisciplined, I mean, in every way you can imagine. And I think it's hurtful, and frankly, this could be hurtful for her chance to be the vice presidential nominee. BRZEZINSKI: Ah. You bring up a good point. Mediamatters.Org After lambasting sourcing of NY Times ' McCain story, Scarborough, Barnicle, and Buchanan ignore anonymous sourcing in Vanity Fair article about Clinton {new window}   Mediamatters.Org - Following the publication of a February 21 New York Times article regarding Sen. John McCain's ties to lobbyists, including telecommunications lobbyist Vicki Iseman, which reported that in 1999, "according to two former McCain associates, some of the senator's advisers had grown so concerned that the relationship had become romantic that they took steps to intervene," Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, and MSNBC political analysts Pat Buchanan and Mike Barnicle sharply criticized the Times for its use of anonymous sourcing in the report. But on the June 3 and 4 editions of Morning Joe, in discussing Vanity Fair national editor Todd S. Purdum's article, which contained numerous anonymously sourced claims about former President Bill Clinton, Scarborough, Barnicle, and Buchanan offered no such criticism. As Media Matters for America noted, Purdum cited quotes or paraphrases of nearly two dozen anonymous sources in discussing what Purdum referred to as "a steady stream of tabloid speculation and Internet intimations that the Big Dog might be up to his old tricks" -- despite his acknowledgement that there was no "proof of post-presidential sexual indiscretions on Clinton's part." On the February 21 edition of Morning Joe, Scarborough said of the Times' McCain article: SCARBOROUGH: They better have pictures. They better have receipts. They better have -- if they're going to claim here -- and I would say this about any politician -- if they're going to claim that John McCain had an affair and he misused his position as chairman of the Commerce Committee to help multinational corporations because of it, they better have more than two unnamed sources who were former disgruntled employees. And if I am wrong, I -- you know, we -- seriously, tomorrow we have to get journalism professors on this show. Earlier in the program, Scarborough said of the article, "And for The New York Times to suggest this ... all of this based, [co-host] Willie Geist, on two disillusioned former associates who are not named to me seems like an incredible stretch. My hope is, for The New York Times' sake, that they have this thing sourced on background with receipts and whatever else they need because this is a stunning news article to be -- to be -- Willie, to be so thinly sourced." Later in that segment, he asserted: "[M]y guess is that The New York Times has a lot more that they did not print. They have a lot more to substantiate this article. I, again, I hope for their sake that they do because right now they're basing it on -- this is just such a thinly sourced story. It is so prejudicial to John McCain on every front." But Scarborough offered no such criticism of the Vanity Fair article's use of anonymous sources while discussing the story in three separate segments on the June 4 edition of Morning Joe, nor did he suggest that the report was "prejudicial to" Clinton. Regarding Sen. Barack Obama's possible selection of a vice presidential running mate, Scarborough said: "Let's talk about the Vanity Fair article very quickly, and all of the garbage that that brought back into it. It looks like that Hillary Clinton could be disqualified because of Bill Clinton, right?" During a separate segment, Scarborough asked NBC News special correspondent Tom Brokaw: "[D]oesn't the Todd Purdum Vanity Fair article just add another layer of complication for a Clinton vice presidency? When, after all, what Todd ... wrote in that article is what we've all been hearing for a year and a half." And during a third segment, Scarborough asked Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, whether the Vanity Fair article about Bill Clinton "hurts" Hillary Clinton's chances of becoming the vice presidential nominee. Yet when McAuliffe said the article "was a hit piece; nobody quoted" and that "I would like legislation. If you're going to say something, you've got to go on the record and say it," Scarborough did not address the issue of sourcing, except to ask McAuliffe: "He call you?" Similarly, on the February 21 edition of MSNBC's Hardball, Barnicle said of the Times' article, "God, I hate this story," adding, "I hate it for what it does to the process of journalism." He also asserted, "I'm reading it, a couple of anonymous sources. If you're a newspaper editor and someone comes to you and says, 'Hey, I've got two anonymous sources. They think there's a suspicion of sex between a United States senator and a lobbyist' -- what do you say? You say, 'Yeah, please. Come back later.' " Barnicle added: "That's not front-page stuff. But it's front-page today." Later in the segment, Barnicle told host Chris Matthews, "[T]his particular story here, Chris, again, the problem is the anonymous sources. It's a huge issue, I mean, in terms of, it's on the front page of The New York Times. It's magnified beyond all proportion." And on the February 21 edition of MSNBC Live, Buchanan said of McCain's assertion that the Times story was "not true": BUCHANAN: But there's no question about it. If McCain has told the straight, honest truth about his conversations with his aides and about this woman, then [Times executive editor] Bill Keller should be out of a job. I mean -- because of what's been done to McCain's reputation by this story. If it's no better sourced than what Chris is saying, the two disgruntled guys saying they thought or believed, and you put that on the front page, you should be out of a job. But neither Barnicle nor Buchanan offered similar condemnations of Vanity Fair or Purdum while discussing the article on the June 3 edition of Morning Joe. During the segment, co-host Willie Geist read a portion of the article in which Purdum wrote: "Over the last few years, aides have winced at repeated tabloid reports about Clinton's episodic friendship and occasional dinners out with Belinda Stronach, a twice-divorced billionaire auto-parts heiress and member of the Canadian Parliament 20 years his junior, or at more recent high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip that Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California. There has been talk of a female friend in Chappaqua, a woman in a bar at a meeting of the Aspen Institute, and a public sighting of a Clinton, [liberal activist and movie and music producer Steve] Bing, and a ravishing entourage in a New York elevator that, a former Clinton aide told me, led a business leader who saw them to say: I don't know what the guy was doing, it was so clear that it was just no good." Neither Barnicle nor Buchanan pointed to the anonymous sourcing in the paragraph. Barnicle offered no response and Buchanan laughed, saying only, "I don't want Todd Purdum doing a profile of me, I'll tell you that." Later in the segment, Barnicle said of the Vanity Fair article: BARNICLE: When you read the entire piece, when you read Todd's entire piece, I think the most salient aspect of the piece is how he points out and quotes several close associates of former President Clinton as saying his political prowess today, as compared to when he was in office, 1992, 1996 -- the last time he ran was in 1996 -- the difference between the cultures, media cultures is night and day. And he has just lost a step." From the February 21 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe: SCARBOROUGH: Let's look at this for a second. MIKA BRZEZINSKI (co-host): OK. SCARBOROUGH: Two disillusioned former associates are the basis of this story that The New York Times ran on -- BRZEZINSKI: I really want to ask the editor of The New York Times about this. SCARBOROUGH: -- on page one. Again, the charges are about as bad as charges could be for John McCain for two reasons: Reason number one, the evangelical base of the Republican Party will be turned away by John McCain because of this -- a base that he is right now fighting to get on his side. This is a base that turned quickly against George W. Bush in 2000 on the last weekend when it was revealed that he had a DUI like 30 years ago. That's number one. Number two: John McCain is the maverick. He is the reformer. That is a central part of his message. And for The New York Times to suggest this -- and, again, I have been very tough on John McCain through this primary process, for the record -- but to suggest -- all of this based, Willie Geist, on two disillusioned former associates who are not named to me seems like an incredible stretch. My hope is, for The New York Times' sake, that they have this thing sourced on background with receipts and whatever else they need because this is a stunning news article to be -- to be -- Willie, to be so thinly sourced. Am I missing something? [...] BRZEZINSKI: We're also making calls to The New York Times and hoping to see if we can get someone to come on the air. SCARBOROUGH: Well, that'd be good. Again, I -- you know what? -- my guess is that The New York Times has a lot more that they did not print. They have a lot more to substantiate this article. I, again, I hope for their sake that they do because right now they're basing it on -- this is just such a thinly sourced story. It is so prejudicial to John McCain on every front. BRZEZINSKI: It just feels motivated on a number of levels beyond journalism, and I can't believe I'm saying that about The New York Times. I could be wrong. I want to hear more. [...] SCARBOROUGH: When you have this explosive of a story -- you know what? The headline is -- when I got the calls from very educated people in the media last night, I picked up the phone, and what did they say? BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. SCARBOROUGH: "Have you heard?" And I said, "What?" "John McCain." And I thought immediately, "OK, let's hear the story about an affair or some other scandal." And they said, "John McCain had an affair." I said, "Really? With whom?" And then they started telling me the story. "Who says so?" And then you find out that it's disgruntled former employees -- BRZEZINSKI: With no name, at least in one paper. SCARBOROUGH: -- that won't give their name to The New York Times, the paper that broke this story. BRZEZINSKI: Right. SCARBOROUGH: So, yeah, it's very troubling to me. BRZEZINSKI: And you have two people who have been asked about it, John McCain and Vicki Iseman -- SCARBOROUGH: They denied it. BRZEZINSKI: -- and both deny it. SCARBOROUGH: They better have pictures. They better have receipts. They better have -- if they're going to claim here -- and I would say this about any politician -- if they're going to claim that John McCain had an affair and he misused his position as chairman of the Commerce Committee to help multi -- BRZEZINSKI: Because of it -- SCARBOROUGH: -- multinational corporations because of it, they better have more than two unnamed sources who were former disgruntled employees. BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. SCARBOROUGH: And if I am wrong, I -- you know, we -- seriously, tomorrow we have to get journalism professors on this show. From the June 4 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe: SCARBOROUGH: Hillary Clinton wants to be vice president. Let's talk about the Vanity Fair article very quickly -- BRZEZINSKI: OK. BUCHANAN: All right. SCARBOROUGH: -- and all of the garbage that that brought back into it. It looks like that Hillary Clinton could be disqualified because of Bill Clinton -- BARNICLE: Bill Clinton. SCARBOROUGH: -- right? BARNICLE: Yeah. BUCHANAN: There's a lot of garbage in there, but his response to it -- he's really undisciplined really at the end of this thing, the comments he made on the line. As we said, he was sandbagged there with that woman coming up and asking him. BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. BUCHANAN: But I don't think Obama wants her. I don't think Michelle [Obama] wants her. I do think if they get into August and they find out that he hasn't been able to break into these Hillary voters and this could cost him the election, he may have to look at her. [...] BUCHANAN: I think he's handling it exactly right. Look, it's a very tough, troubled time for her, her husband, moving out of this. I think he handled it -- he was extraordinarily gracious to her. Let her work it out. There's no need to interfere with this process. That realization I think is going to come in on her and she's going to realize she can't force herself on the ticket, that would be foolish of her to do it. SCARBOROUGH: Right. BUCHANAN: And she's going to make herself available. And I don't think if she's denied the vice presidential nomination, which I would expect, I think she's going to go out and work for this ticket very, very hard. SCARBOROUGH: But, but -- BUCHANAN: It's in her interest. And it's the right -- BRZEZINSKI: She must want something. BUCHANAN: -- thing to do and she is a Democrat. SCARBOROUGH: Tom, though, doesn't the Todd Purdum Vanity Fair article just add another layer of complication for a Clinton vice presidency? When, after all, what Todd -- BROKAW: Yeah, I -- SCARBOROUGH: -- what Todd wrote in that article -- BROKAW: I think without -- SCARBOROUGH: -- is what we've all been hearing for a year and a half. BROKAW: Listen, without that article, that was going to be a complicating factor. A very senior Obama person said the first conversation you'd have to have would be with her about him, about where his money has come from for the library, the fees that he's earned the last several years, the speaking fees that he would have to forgo if she were to be the vice president, and they -- a number of people on the Obama side see that as a big obstacle for it ever happening. [...] SCARBOROUGH: All right, let's talk, though -- as we talk about the vice presidential possibility, and Pat Buchanan asked, why wouldn't he? Do you think the Vanity Fair article about Bill Clinton hurts? Do you think Barack Obama's people are going to say, "You know, we don't care whether it's true or not, there's just too much dirt" -- BRZEZINSKI: Too much stuff. SCARBOROUGH: -- "with him and her and the presidential library." Is that a possible disqualifier? McAULIFFE: Well, first of all, you look at her approval ratings now at the end of this process. She is up in all of these states that we've got to win. You know, the Vanity Fair -- I talked about this yesterday -- you know, it was a hit piece; nobody quoted. I don't like articles -- in fact, I would like legislation. If you're going to say something, you've got to go on the record and say it. Now, they said he talked to 50 people close to Bill Clinton. Most people know the president and I talk every day, we have for years. SCARBOROUGH: He call you? McAULIFFE: Never called me. Now, what does that tell you? Also, this story comes out the weekend before the last weekend of voting. I gotta tell you, it is suspect from the start. You know, listen, it's unfortunate, but forget all that. This is about the people. It's about health care, education. Hillary has made the argument. We won in South Dakota last night, when people called this over. From the February 21 edition of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews: MATTHEWS: I've been trying to understand this story. I have not put [unintelligible] on either side of this fight, except to read the paper. Mike Barnicle, who is that used -- La Guardia -- "All I know is what I read in the papers"? A female lobbyist has been turning up with him at fundraisers. The staff thought it was a romantic relationship. They pushed her away. What do we make of this as journalism? BARNICLE: Well, God, I hate this story, Chris. I hate it for what it does -- MATTHEWS: I hate it, too. BARNICLE: I hate for the pro -- what it does to the process of politics. I hate it for what it does to the process of journalism. The New York Times and no other paper ought to be on the ballot. They are now on the ballot, so to speak, people voting up or down on the Times, what they did today. The New Republic piece, incidentally, which is on the Internet this afternoon, is a terrific piece about this whole thing. The problem with the piece, Chris, is what you just referenced talking to Frank [Foer, editor of The New Republic]. There are hundreds of smaller papers across the country that get the Times news service. It's a 3,000-word story. They don't have space for that. They're going to cut it down to about 850 words. Guess which 850 words they're going to choose? They're going to pick out the sex stuff and put it up. And I don't know what it means. I'm reading it, a couple of anonymous sources. If you're a newspaper editor and someone comes to you and says, "Hey, I've got two anonymous sources. They think there's a suspicion of sex between a United States senator and a lobbyist" -- what do you say? You say, "Yeah, please. Come back later." That's not front-page stuff. But it's front-page today. [...] MATTHEWS: You know, with Gary Hart, Mike -- and I hate to go back over this, but I'm going to do it. Gary Hart, when they nailed him back in, what, '87 on a relationship with that woman, they had a guy who staked out the house for the party that night, was there all night, caught him there. They got a picture of him with her on his lap. I mean, if you want to nail down that story, I guess that's what you do. But, here, they didn't even try to do that, the Times. They simply had two former staffers -- or they could be Democratic staffers who didn't like the guy because he's a Republican -- we don't know -- saying that they think he had this affair. BARNICLE: That's what I'm saying. They had a suspicion that there was something going on. The Gary Hart thing, I mean, Gary, unfortunately, begged the press to follow him. He challenged the press to follow him around. And they followed him around. And they found Donna Rice at the end of the trail. But this particular story here, Chris, again, the problem is the anonymous sources. It's a huge issue, I mean, in terms of, it's on the front page of The New York Times. It's magnified beyond all proportion. From the 10 a.m. ET hour of the February 21 edition of MSNBC Live: SCARBOROUGH: Pat Buchanan: John Weaver, obviously, his credibility is going to be central in this, as well as The New York Times'. Do you have the McCain campaign now starting to sling arrows behind the scenes to reporters, trying to diffuse this story, trying to destroy Weaver's reputation? BUCHANAN: Yeah. But here's what you do. They've got -- Charlie Black is doing a good job for them, and they've got Bob Bennett out there, Joe. And they, incidentally, are showing a lot more rage and indignation and anger than McCain showed today. And that was one thing that surprised me a bit, that McCain did not seem to be profoundly and deeply offended by this. But there's no question about it. If McCain has told the straight, honest truth about his conversations with his aides and about this woman, then Bill Keller should be out of a job. I mean -- because of what's been done to McCain's reputation by this story. If it's no better sourced than what Chris is saying, the two disgruntled guys saying they thought or believed, and you put that on the front page, you should be out of a job. From the June 3 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe: GEIST: Even as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton seem to be getting more polite toward each other toward the end -- BRZEZINSKI: Yeah, there seems to be a -- yes, mmm, yes. GEIST: Bill Clinton not on board with that program. BRZEZINSKI: Oh, he didn't get the memo. GEIST: There was a Vanity Fair piece that just came out, Todd Purdum wrote it. BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes. GEIST: Very, very critical of former President Bill Clinton. I'm just going to read a little of it here, and then we'll play you some reaction. Here -- this is from the piece. It says this: "In the end, this is Clinton's most grievous sin, his steady refusal to take grown-up responsibility for the consequences of his own actions. It is Clinton's invariable insistence that his problems are someone else's fault and that questions or criticisms of him, his methods, motives, or means are invariably unfair. That is his unforgivable flaw." BRZEZINSKI: No. GEIST: Now, that's only the beginning. It gets -- BRZEZINSKI: It goes from bad to worse. GEIST: It gets personal. We have another excerpt here. I think we've got it. BRZEZINSKI: Oh, wow. GEIST: It says this: "Over the last few years, aides have winced at repeated tabloid reports about Clinton's episodic friendship and occasional dinners out with Belinda Stronach, a twice-divorced billionaire auto-parts heiress and member of the Canadian Parliament 20 years his junior, or at more recent high-end Hollywood dinner-party gossip that Clinton has been seen visiting with the actress Gina Gershon in California. There has been talk of a female friend in Chappaqua, a woman in a bar at a meeting of the Aspen Institute, and a public sighting of a Clinton, [liberal activist and movie and music producer Steve] Bing, and a ravishing entourage in a New York elevator that, a former Clinton aide" -- BRZEZINSKI: OK, enough. GEIST: -- "told me, led a business leader who saw them to say: I don't know what the guy was doing, it was so clear that it was just no good." And on, and on, and on. BRZEZINSKI: I don't care. Bill Clinton. BUCHANAN: I don't want Todd Purdum doing a profile of me, I'll tell you that. BRZEZINSKI: Well, Bill's not happy, is he? GEIST: No, Bill is clearly not happy. BRZEZINSKI: Oh, dear. GEIST: Now, this audio comes from a reporter -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, dear. GEIST: -- from The Huffington Post. And I believe at first didn't identify himself as a reporter. BRZEZINSKI: Oh, well that's not fair. GEIST: Was on a rope line, and Bill Clinton just launched into a tirade against Todd Purdum, again -- BRZEZINSKI: Did he know he was being recorded? GEIST: -- the author of that Vanity Fair piece. I don't know if he knew he was being recorded. Let's listen to some of it. [begin video clip] FOWLER: What do you think about that hatchet job somebody did on you on Vanity Fair at the end of the race? CLINTON: Sleazy. He's a really dishonest reporter, and one of our guys talked to him. [unintelligible] But I haven't read it. But the guy told me there's five or six just blatant lies in there. But he's a real slimy guy. FOWLER: Yeah, it's all over cable news. CLINTON: It's totally slimy. Just blow it off. FOWLER: But he's married to Dee Dee Myers? CLINTON: Yeah, but he -- that's all right. He's still a scumbag. [end video clip] BRZEZINSKI: Oh. GEIST: You heard the word "scumbag" in there. "Sleazy," "dishonest," "slimy." Bill Clinton talking about Todd Purdum. Now, I don't know if you could hear the -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, boy. GEIST: -- woman from HuffPost, but Todd Purdum, of course, married to Clinton's former press secretary. BARNICLE: Did the reporter -- did she ever identify herself? BRZEZINSKI: See, that's what we're -- we're hearing she didn't. And I don't think that's fair. BARNICLE: That bothers me. BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. BARNICLE: That bothers me. I mean, you know, the president of the -- former president of the United States, he should always be aware, I suppose, that he's always on. But still, that's a sandbagging job there. BRZEZINSKI: A little bit, a little bit. GEIST: His larger point, though, if you listen further to Bill Clinton, was that this was part of the orchestrated media campaign against Hillary Clinton, this Vanity Fair piece. BARNICLE: When you read the entire piece, when you read Todd's entire piece, I think the most salient aspect of the piece is how he points out and quotes several close associates of former President Clinton as saying his political prowess today, as compared to when he was in office, 1992, 1996 -- the last time he ran was in 1996 -- the difference between the cultures, media cultures is night and day. BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. BARNICLE: And he has just lost a step, in terms of -- BRZEZINSKI: Yeah. Little bit out of -- BUCHANAN: He's very un -- he's undisciplined, I mean, in every way you can imagine. And I think it's hurtful, and frankly, this could be hurtful for her chance to be the vice presidential nominee. BRZEZINSKI: Ah. You bring up a good point.
Media Matters - After lambasting sourcing of NY Times ' McCain story, Scarborough, Barnicle, and Buchanan ignore anonymous sourcing in Vanity Fair article about Clinton {...} Discussing in February a New York Times article about Sen. John McCain's ties to lobbyists, MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle, and Pat Buchanan criticized the Times for its use of anonymous sources. However, Scarborough, Barnicle, and Buchanan offered no such criticism in their discussions of a Vanity Fair article that also relied on anonymous sourcing in purporting to report on "post-presidential sexual indiscretions" by former President Bill Clinton. {...}
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Price - $1,700,000 * 6.55% Cap Rate!  NNN Dunkin Dontus Sarasota, FL - *6.85% Cap. Rate - NNN BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION! 20 Year Absolute NNN Leases!! Annual Rent Increases! 6,000 sf Price - $1,650,000 * 6.85% Cap Rate! NNN CitiFinancial / Cingular center Melbourne, FL All leases are NNN with great rent bumps! This property is a two-building, retail strip center, shadow-anchored by Home Depot, recently completed in 2006. It is 100% occupied, national tenants include Quizno' s Sub, Cingular Wireless, and CitiFinancial. Price - $9,600,000 - 7% CAP Pier One Plaza - Ft. Myers, FL 6.9% CAP rate Pier One Plaza is a new 18,066 sq. ft shopping center anchored by an 11,000 sq ft Pier One store. This architectural award-winning center is located just off the SEC of the intersection of Summerlin and Pine Ridge Roads, whose trffic counts are 31,000 and 10,900 AADT. Summerlin provides the only highway access to Sanibel Islandand, accordingly, fly-overs are being built east and west of the center's controlled interesection, which makes this intersection by far the best on Summerlin for continued retail development. New CVS and Walgreen stores at this intersection as well as two nearby Publix centers on Summerlin reflect the desirability of this location. Price - $5,000,000 * 6.9% Cap Rate! NNN Shopping Center Orlando, FL NNN shopping center anchored by many national tenants such as McDonald’s, WAMU, Starbucks, UPS Store, and Coldstone Creamery. b demographics! Excellent location. The Property is less then 15 miles from Orlando. New construction. Tenants have NNN long leases with scheduled annual increases. Contact Steve for a full offering memorandum. Price - $14,000,000 - 6.75% CAP NNN Tractor Supply Company Florida BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION! 15 Year NNN Leases - Rent Increases every five years Tractor Supply Company is the largest operator of retail farm and ranch stores in the United States with 764 stores in 43 states. The company also serves the maintenance needs of those who enjoy the rural lifestyle, as well as tradesmen and small businesses. As of December 2007, Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ:TSCO) had a net worth of $565MM. Price - $5,000,000 WAMU Building - Miami FL Washington Mutual Bank leased over one half of this retail building for a 10 year primary term with 3 five year option terms at a net rent of $120,000 per annum with 12% increases every 5 years. In addition Quiznos leased 1300 sf for 5 years and Wirelss Toys has a 10 year lease. Total Net rent is $218,200 per annum. 6.5% Cap Rate! Price - $3,400,000 NNN Leased Starbucks and Gamestop - Miami, FL This brand new construction two tenant building with drive-thru is leased to Starbucks and Gamestop for 10 years. Construction of the base building is nearing completion and turnover of the space to Starbucks and Gamestop is expected by the end of February 2008. Starbucks Coffee (NASDAQ: SBUX) is the #1 specialty coffee retailer in the world with more than 15,000 locations in more than 35 countries. The stores offer coffee & tea drinks, food items, roasted coffee beans, tean and merchandise. Starbucks wons 8,500 stores in 10 countries with licensees operating approximately 6,500 units in airports and hotels around the world. Gamestop (NYSE:GME) is the world's largest video game retailer operating over 5,000 stores throughout the United States and 15 countries worldwide. The company sells new and used video games in addition to video game systems and entertainment software and related accessories. 6.5% Cap Rate! Price - $3,400,000 Starbucks center- Panama City, FL The subject property is a retail shopping center located in Panama City (Callaway), Florida. It is comprised of four tenants in a total of 6,838 rentable square feet and situated on 43,440 square feet of land. The property is brand new and 100% leased to corporate backed Starbucks, Gamestop, Alltel Wireles and Supercuts. The Starbucks tenant, which includes a drive-thru, has a 10 year lease with 10% increases every five years and four 5-year options. The landlord is responsible for maintaining the roof & structure. Starbucks Anchored Strip Center - Class A Property. Across the Street from Wal-Mart Supercenterr Price - $2,700,000 * 6.75% Cap Rate!  National Bank - Locations - FL, TX, NV, GA, AL 6.25% - 6.75% Cap. Rates - Corp. Guaranteed Brand new 15 year Absolute NNN deals 1.25% annual increases S&P rated BBB+ Price - $850,000 - $5,000,000 Multiple Locations available Call Steve for an offering memorandum.     For More Information regarding Commercial Real Estate Contact Steve Schroeder | Solid Investments FL | Steve Schroeder | 954-593-6466 |   PRINCIPALS ONLY PLEASE! FOR MORE GREAT DEALS IN FLORIDA **For more hot deals, go to:**   See something you like? Call the Solid Investment Team today!954-593-6466 PRINCIPALS ONLY PLEASE! A+ Single Tenant NNN Buildings for sale! Steve Schroeder | Solid Investments FL| 954-593-6466 CVS - BBB+ Credit Rating 25 Year Absolute NNN - Corporate Guaranteed Multiple locations available throughout the US. S&P "BBB+" Credit Rating. AbsoluteNNN Long Term Lease. Arm Chair Investment GREAT FOR 1031 EXCHANGES!! Prices from- $3,500,000 - $7,500,000 Auto Zone - 16 +/- locations available across US 20 Year NN - Corporate Guaranteed Auto Zone, Inc. is the nation's leading retailer of automotive parts and accessories, with over 3,600 stores in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Mexico. S&P Rated BBB+ qualifying as Investment Grade, this Fortune 500 company has store sales totaling over $5.6 Billion! Prices from- $1,100,000 - $2,500,000* Tractor Supply Company- 15 Year Absolute NNN Lease 10% Rent Increase every 5 Years - Corporate Guaranteed TSC is the largest operator of retail farm and ranch stores in the United States with 676 stores in 37 states (including one store in British Columbia), focused on supplying the lifestyle needs of recreational farmers and ranchers. As of December 2006, Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO) had a net worth in excess of $598 million. Brand New Construction! Multiple Locations available from- $3,500,000 - $6,500,000   See something you like? Call the Solid Investment Team today! 954-593-6466 Sfbay.Craigslist.Org •►1031 Exchange Investment Property ★ NNN Investments in CALIFORINA (SOMA / south beach) $3800000 {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - PRINCIPALS ONLY PLEASE! This service is not offered to brokers or their agents, it is for principals only. Looking for 1031 Exchange Property? At Solid Investments we have access to over 200 "off market" NNN Investments. If you don't see a property that meets your criteria below, or on our website, contact Solid Investments and we will find it for you. Triple Net (NNN) Corporate Retail in CALIFORNIA for sale! Steve Schroeder | Solid Investments FL | 954-593-6466 NNN Applebees California The subject property is a free standing Applebee's Neighborhood Grill & Bar restaurant located in California. Brand new 15 year absolute NNN lease, which will include rent increases every five (5) years. Additionally, the tenant will have four 5 year options to extend. This is an excellent opportunity for an investor to purchase a stable, long term investment opportunity with zero landlord responsibility. Price: $4,200,000 CAP Rate: 6.00% Walgreens - California 25 Year Absolute NNN - Corporate Guaranteed This is an absolute triple net lease with Walgreen Company, which has a high investment grade S & P rating of A+ GREAT FOR 1031 EXCHANGES!! Contact Steve today for available locations Prices from- $3,000,000 - $8,500,000 Long Jons Silvers- Multiple locations available California 1.75% Annual Increases- Absolute NNN 20 Year lease Experienced 50 Unit Operator in desiarble California Locations. No Management Needed! Brand New 20 Year Absolute NNN Leases!! Prices from- $920,000 - $1,500,000 Multiple locations available - contact Steve for more info Chipotle Mexican Grill - Corporate Guaruntee Absolute NNN California Corporate Guaranteed Absolute NNN Lease! 6.25% CAP Rate! A+ Location! Guarantor: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. Excellent demographics! Price: $1,406,557 CAP Rate: 6.15% NNN Corporate IHOP California Triple Net Leased IHOP corporate guaranteed restaurant for sale in a proven location On November 29, 2007, IHOP Corp. successfully completed the acquisition of Applebee' s International, Inc. for $25.50 per share in cash, representing a total transaction value of approximately $2.1 billion. With more than 3,250 restaurants, the combination brings together two leading restaurant brands and creates the largest full service restaurant company in the world. Price: $5,352,485 NNN Corporate PepBoys. Locations - AZ, CA, PA, TX The Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack (NYSE: PBY) is a leading automotive parts/accessories retailer and automotive maintenance and service provider. Currently the company operates a chain of 560 stores in 36 states and Puerto Rico. All stores are corporately owned and operated. * Revenues in excess of $2.2 billion in 2006 with net worth approx. $530 million * Strong annual service revenue base of nearly $1 billion * 15 year absolute NNN lease with annual rent increases. Price from- $2,500,000 - $8,000,000 Multiple Locations available Call Steve for an offering memorandum. Jack in the Box - Corporate Guaruntee Absolute NNN California Corporate Guaranteed Absolute NNN Lease! 6.5% CAP Rate! A+ Location! Jack in the Box, Inc. Corporate Guaranteed Lease (BB Credit, NYSE: JBX) Founded in 1971, Jack in the Box operates and franchises two restaurant chains: Jack in the Box and Q-Doba Mexican Grill with more than 2,100 quick-service restaurants in 43 states. Price: $2,471,376 CAP Rate: 6.25% PRINCIPALS ONLY PLEASE! FOR MORE GREAT DEALS IN FLORIDA **For more hot deals, go to:**   See something you like? Call the Solid Investment Team today!954-593-6466 PRINCIPALS ONLY PLEASE!   New NNN Centers in Florida | Steve Schroeder | Solid Investments FL | 954-593-6466 | Absolute NNN AutoZone, Florida Brand new AutoZone with a long term lease and 10% rent bump in year 10. AutoZone, Inc. is the nation's leading retailer of automotive parts and accessories with over 3,600 stores in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Mexico. Since opening its first store in Forrest City, Arkansas on July 4, 1979, the company has joined the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:AZO) and earned a spot in the Fortune 500.. Price - $1,700,000 * 6.55% Cap Rate!  NNN Dunkin Dontus Sarasota, FL - *6.85% Cap. Rate - NNN BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION! 20 Year Absolute NNN Leases!! Annual Rent Increases! 6,000 sf Price - $1,650,000 * 6.85% Cap Rate! NNN CitiFinancial / Cingular center Melbourne, FL All leases are NNN with great rent bumps! This property is a two-building, retail strip center, shadow-anchored by Home Depot, recently completed in 2006. It is 100% occupied, national tenants include Quizno' s Sub, Cingular Wireless, and CitiFinancial. Price - $9,600,000 - 7% CAP Pier One Plaza - Ft. Myers, FL 6.9% CAP rate Pier One Plaza is a new 18,066 sq. ft shopping center anchored by an 11,000 sq ft Pier One store. This architectural award-winning center is located just off the SEC of the intersection of Summerlin and Pine Ridge Roads, whose trffic counts are 31,000 and 10,900 AADT. Summerlin provides the only highway access to Sanibel Islandand, accordingly, fly-overs are being built east and west of the center's controlled interesection, which makes this intersection by far the best on Summerlin for continued retail development. New CVS and Walgreen stores at this intersection as well as two nearby Publix centers on Summerlin reflect the desirability of this location. Price - $5,000,000 * 6.9% Cap Rate! NNN Shopping Center Orlando, FL NNN shopping center anchored by many national tenants such as McDonald’s, WAMU, Starbucks, UPS Store, and Coldstone Creamery. b demographics! Excellent location. The Property is less then 15 miles from Orlando. New construction. Tenants have NNN long leases with scheduled annual increases. Contact Steve for a full offering memorandum. Price - $14,000,000 - 6.75% CAP NNN Tractor Supply Company Florida BRAND NEW CONSTRUCTION! 15 Year NNN Leases - Rent Increases every five years Tractor Supply Company is the largest operator of retail farm and ranch stores in the United States with 764 stores in 43 states. The company also serves the maintenance needs of those who enjoy the rural lifestyle, as well as tradesmen and small businesses. As of December 2007, Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ:TSCO) had a net worth of $565MM. Price - $5,000,000 WAMU Building - Miami FL Washington Mutual Bank leased over one half of this retail building for a 10 year primary term with 3 five year option terms at a net rent of $120,000 per annum with 12% increases every 5 years. In addition Quiznos leased 1300 sf for 5 years and Wirelss Toys has a 10 year lease. Total Net rent is $218,200 per annum. 6.5% Cap Rate! Price - $3,400,000 NNN Leased Starbucks and Gamestop - Miami, FL This brand new construction two tenant building with drive-thru is leased to Starbucks and Gamestop for 10 years. Construction of the base building is nearing completion and turnover of the space to Starbucks and Gamestop is expected by the end of February 2008. Starbucks Coffee (NASDAQ: SBUX) is the #1 specialty coffee retailer in the world with more than 15,000 locations in more than 35 countries. The stores offer coffee & tea drinks, food items, roasted coffee beans, tean and merchandise. Starbucks wons 8,500 stores in 10 countries with licensees operating approximately 6,500 units in airports and hotels around the world. Gamestop (NYSE:GME) is the world's largest video game retailer operating over 5,000 stores throughout the United States and 15 countries worldwide. The company sells new and used video games in addition to video game systems and entertainment software and related accessories. 6.5% Cap Rate! Price - $3,400,000 Starbucks center- Panama City, FL The subject property is a retail shopping center located in Panama City (Callaway), Florida. It is comprised of four tenants in a total of 6,838 rentable square feet and situated on 43,440 square feet of land. The property is brand new and 100% leased to corporate backed Starbucks, Gamestop, Alltel Wireles and Supercuts. The Starbucks tenant, which includes a drive-thru, has a 10 year lease with 10% increases every five years and four 5-year options. The landlord is responsible for maintaining the roof & structure. Starbucks Anchored Strip Center - Class A Property. Across the Street from Wal-Mart Supercenterr Price - $2,700,000 * 6.75% Cap Rate!  National Bank - Locations - FL, TX, NV, GA, AL 6.25% - 6.75% Cap. Rates - Corp. Guaranteed Brand new 15 year Absolute NNN deals 1.25% annual increases S&P rated BBB+ Price - $850,000 - $5,000,000 Multiple Locations available Call Steve for an offering memorandum.     For More Information regarding Commercial Real Estate Contact Steve Schroeder | Solid Investments FL | Steve Schroeder | 954-593-6466 |   PRINCIPALS ONLY PLEASE! FOR MORE GREAT DEALS IN FLORIDA **For more hot deals, go to:**   See something you like? Call the Solid Investment Team today!954-593-6466 PRINCIPALS ONLY PLEASE! A+ Single Tenant NNN Buildings for sale! Steve Schroeder | Solid Investments FL| 954-593-6466 CVS - BBB+ Credit Rating 25 Year Absolute NNN - Corporate Guaranteed Multiple locations available throughout the US. S&P "BBB+" Credit Rating. AbsoluteNNN Long Term Lease. Arm Chair Investment GREAT FOR 1031 EXCHANGES!! Prices from- $3,500,000 - $7,500,000 Auto Zone - 16 +/- locations available across US 20 Year NN - Corporate Guaranteed Auto Zone, Inc. is the nation's leading retailer of automotive parts and accessories, with over 3,600 stores in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Mexico. S&P Rated BBB+ qualifying as Investment Grade, this Fortune 500 company has store sales totaling over $5.6 Billion! Prices from- $1,100,000 - $2,500,000* Tractor Supply Company- 15 Year Absolute NNN Lease 10% Rent Increase every 5 Years - Corporate Guaranteed TSC is the largest operator of retail farm and ranch stores in the United States with 676 stores in 37 states (including one store in British Columbia), focused on supplying the lifestyle needs of recreational farmers and ranchers. As of December 2006, Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO) had a net worth in excess of $598 million. Brand New Construction! Multiple Locations available from- $3,500,000 - $6,500,000   See something you like? Call the Solid Investment Team today! 954-593-6466
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Business and Economy > Real Estate {VIDEO GAMES > W} - Games Without Frontiers: Games Give Free Rein to the Douchebag Within http://articles.world-of-newave.info/games/video-games/news-and-reviews/w/games-without-frontiers-games-give-free-rein-to-20080845726.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/games/video-games/news-and-reviews/w/games-without-frontiers-games-give-free-rein-to-20080845726.htm Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 GMT I really want to nuke Athens. I know it's possible. Hell, I've watched and rewatched the YouTube videos of the 14-year-olds who've done it in Sid Meier's new game, Civilization Revolution. The guttural roar of the ICBM taking off, the flare of the missile as it arcs slowly across the sky, the terrifying rumble in your Xbox 360 controller as the nuke pulverizes the target: It's awesome. I can't sleep until I've rained that sort of death on the world. What the hell is wrong with me? There are a lot of ways to win at Civilization Revolution that do not involve taking a happy, peaceful city and reducing it to a smoldering gravesite filled with radioactive trinitite. I could, for example, train my country in brilliant artistry, building Wonders of the World -- a "cultural victory," as it's called. Or I could win by becoming a great economic power, enriching my citizens and the global community. But no. Every time I plunge into a game, I inevitably choose the most Cro-Magnon, "Hulk smash, Hulk destroy" strategy possible. Or maybe I geek out and try to discover spaceflight before anyone else, so I can outfit my hermetically sealed, glassed-in astronaut city with interstellar warp drives, blur the stars into hyperspace, arrive at Alpha Centauri, encounter alien worlds ... and then try to kill them. Ooooh, you guys back home wanna spend your time carefully building the Hanging Gardens, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Alexandrian Library? Fine. Go for it. Hippies. Me, I'm gonna reach for the goddamn stars, built some kickass mechs, flatten anybody in my way with a molten avalanche of plasma. I repeat: What's wrong with me? One of the classic highbrow defenses of videogames is that they allow you to experience new personalities -- to, in the words of Sherry Turkle, create a "second self." This is considered supremely healthy, because self-exploration is generally a good thing. But what happens if the second self you create inside videogames turns out to be a total dick? Sometimes I think the best way to get a grip on my true inner self would be just to list all the people I choose to be inside games. For example: In racing games, I never want gearhead realism that replicates the precise feel of a Porsche 911. No, I want cartoon, Tex Avery physics and fishtailing insanity -- pedestrians screaming and diving out of the way and not quite making it. In first-person shooters, I hate, hate, hate any complexity or nuance -- like protecting innocents, avoiding friendly fire or figuring out which stupid door to open. I don't even like games that don't give me unlimited ammo. In MMOs, I inevitably play as a class that can work solo -- like a Paladin, balanced between skull-crushing might and self-healing magic. "OK, so, deep inside you're a frustrated geek with serious masculinity issues who doesn't like authority," said a gamer friend of mine when we talked about this over drinks. "And you're a loner who can't handle complexity." Except, except ... wait a minute, that's not even vaguely what I'm like in real life. In meatspace, I'm a total people-pleaser who avoids all conflict (to the point where I often get completely doormatted in my professional life). And I have a superhighly tuned, sensitive-boi EQ. Christ, I cry at weddings. What's going on? Nothing weird, said Ian Bogost, a friend of mine who's one of the smartest game academics and game designers around. The whole reason my in-game choices are so divergent from my wussy-ass actual self is because I'm using games to see life from a different perspective; the Walter Mitty effect, as it were. Nothing wrong with that. And, he added, I'm imprisoned by a lack of options. Too many mainstream games are predicated on loony macho conflict because it's easy to model, and because the industry is focused on the power fantasies of 14-year-olds. I shouldn't blame myself for getting sucked into their poor choices. Fair enough. Except ... there's been a huge growth in alternative forms of gaming in recent years, and the sad truth is that I rarely get as excited by them. All those "click management" games, like Diner Dash or Cooking Mama -- the ones that model the chaos of real life in a charming, witty way, and let you deal with it? That stuff puts me to sleep. Hell, I don't even have the patience for computer golf. When offered a choice inside games like Civilization, given the option of picking amongst different types of personalities, I choose to play as a complete douchebag. (In Halo 3, as you may recall, I wound up embracing suicide-bomber tactics.) Now, I'll issue my usual caveats here. I don't mean to suggest that I, or anyone else, should police their fantasy lives. Games are -- at least partly -- an exercise of the imagination, and it's always a perspective-broadening experiment to visit the dark or creepy places of the mind. But interestingly, the rest of the world is beginning to realize that one's game preferences can be regarded as a Myers-Briggs personality type for the digital age. Plenty of college kids list their most-played games on their Facebook pages, under the presumption that this speaks as clearly about their inner lives as their religion or political stances. And in the last few years, Silicon Valley companies have begun actively recruiting the leaders of major World of Warcraft guilds, under the assumption that people who choose those roles are good at being leaders, motivating teams and defusing interpersonal drama. Just imagine what things will look like 10 years from now. "Hmmm, this job applicant has a kind of cool Alliance-Mage thing going on, so she'd be good in the legal support department, eh? Yeah, but her team-killing stats in Gears of War 4 are really troubling." Or in the world of dating: "I just don't know if I can go out with someone who never plays any of the side missions in Grand Theft Auto!" Maybe, for the sake of my social reputation, I should start playing some Diner Dash. Who knows: If I play it enough, I might get really into it. Yeah, I think I'll head out to the GameStop and get a copy. Right after I nuke Athens. - - - Clive Thompson is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to Wired and New York magazines. Look for more of Clive's observations on his blog, collision detection. Wired.Com Games Without Frontiers: Games Give Free Rein to the Douchebag Within {new window}   Www.Wired.Com - I really want to nuke Athens. I know it's possible. Hell, I've watched and rewatched the YouTube videos of the 14-year-olds who've done it in Sid Meier's new game, Civilization Revolution. The guttural roar of the ICBM taking off, the flare of the missile as it arcs slowly across the sky, the terrifying rumble in your Xbox 360 controller as the nuke pulverizes the target: It's awesome. I can't sleep until I've rained that sort of death on the world. What the hell is wrong with me? There are a lot of ways to win at Civilization Revolution that do not involve taking a happy, peaceful city and reducing it to a smoldering gravesite filled with radioactive trinitite. I could, for example, train my country in brilliant artistry, building Wonders of the World -- a "cultural victory," as it's called. Or I could win by becoming a great economic power, enriching my citizens and the global community. But no. Every time I plunge into a game, I inevitably choose the most Cro-Magnon, "Hulk smash, Hulk destroy" strategy possible. Or maybe I geek out and try to discover spaceflight before anyone else, so I can outfit my hermetically sealed, glassed-in astronaut city with interstellar warp drives, blur the stars into hyperspace, arrive at Alpha Centauri, encounter alien worlds ... and then try to kill them. Ooooh, you guys back home wanna spend your time carefully building the Hanging Gardens, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Alexandrian Library? Fine. Go for it. Hippies. Me, I'm gonna reach for the goddamn stars, built some kickass mechs, flatten anybody in my way with a molten avalanche of plasma. I repeat: What's wrong with me? One of the classic highbrow defenses of videogames is that they allow you to experience new personalities -- to, in the words of Sherry Turkle, create a "second self." This is considered supremely healthy, because self-exploration is generally a good thing. But what happens if the second self you create inside videogames turns out to be a total dick? Sometimes I think the best way to get a grip on my true inner self would be just to list all the people I choose to be inside games. For example: In racing games, I never want gearhead realism that replicates the precise feel of a Porsche 911. No, I want cartoon, Tex Avery physics and fishtailing insanity -- pedestrians screaming and diving out of the way and not quite making it. In first-person shooters, I hate, hate, hate any complexity or nuance -- like protecting innocents, avoiding friendly fire or figuring out which stupid door to open. I don't even like games that don't give me unlimited ammo. In MMOs, I inevitably play as a class that can work solo -- like a Paladin, balanced between skull-crushing might and self-healing magic. "OK, so, deep inside you're a frustrated geek with serious masculinity issues who doesn't like authority," said a gamer friend of mine when we talked about this over drinks. "And you're a loner who can't handle complexity." Except, except ... wait a minute, that's not even vaguely what I'm like in real life. In meatspace, I'm a total people-pleaser who avoids all conflict (to the point where I often get completely doormatted in my professional life). And I have a superhighly tuned, sensitive-boi EQ. Christ, I cry at weddings. What's going on? Nothing weird, said Ian Bogost, a friend of mine who's one of the smartest game academics and game designers around. The whole reason my in-game choices are so divergent from my wussy-ass actual self is because I'm using games to see life from a different perspective; the Walter Mitty effect, as it were. Nothing wrong with that. And, he added, I'm imprisoned by a lack of options. Too many mainstream games are predicated on loony macho conflict because it's easy to model, and because the industry is focused on the power fantasies of 14-year-olds. I shouldn't blame myself for getting sucked into their poor choices. Fair enough. Except ... there's been a huge growth in alternative forms of gaming in recent years, and the sad truth is that I rarely get as excited by them. All those "click management" games, like Diner Dash or Cooking Mama -- the ones that model the chaos of real life in a charming, witty way, and let you deal with it? That stuff puts me to sleep. Hell, I don't even have the patience for computer golf. When offered a choice inside games like Civilization, given the option of picking amongst different types of personalities, I choose to play as a complete douchebag. (In Halo 3, as you may recall, I wound up embracing suicide-bomber tactics.) Now, I'll issue my usual caveats here. I don't mean to suggest that I, or anyone else, should police their fantasy lives. Games are -- at least partly -- an exercise of the imagination, and it's always a perspective-broadening experiment to visit the dark or creepy places of the mind. But interestingly, the rest of the world is beginning to realize that one's game preferences can be regarded as a Myers-Briggs personality type for the digital age. Plenty of college kids list their most-played games on their Facebook pages, under the presumption that this speaks as clearly about their inner lives as their religion or political stances. And in the last few years, Silicon Valley companies have begun actively recruiting the leaders of major World of Warcraft guilds, under the assumption that people who choose those roles are good at being leaders, motivating teams and defusing interpersonal drama. Just imagine what things will look like 10 years from now. "Hmmm, this job applicant has a kind of cool Alliance-Mage thing going on, so she'd be good in the legal support department, eh? Yeah, but her team-killing stats in Gears of War 4 are really troubling." Or in the world of dating: "I just don't know if I can go out with someone who never plays any of the side missions in Grand Theft Auto!" Maybe, for the sake of my social reputation, I should start playing some Diner Dash. Who knows: If I play it enough, I might get really into it. Yeah, I think I'll head out to the GameStop and get a copy. Right after I nuke Athens. - - - Clive Thompson is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and a regular contributor to Wired and New York magazines. Look for more of Clive's observations on his blog, collision detection.
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]]> Games > Video Games > News and Reviews > W {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - TRADE YOUR SONOMA/NAPA/MARIN (surounding area)HOME FOR MY S.W. FLORIDA (City of Cape Coral - near Naples /Ft Myers) http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/trade-your-sonoma-napa-marin-surounding-area-home-20080868221.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/trade-your-sonoma-napa-marin-surounding-area-home-20080868221.htm Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:24:10 GMT My name is Alexander. My home is a spacious 2500sq ft. aprox. (Air Conditioned Interior Space) plus a large poolside Florida bonus room, Well Landscaped, Well maintained three-bedroom two-bath private home on two lots, laundry room, with an attached oversized two-car garage. The large master bedroom suite has an on-suite large bathroom with a double (2) sink vanity as well as a large walk in closet. There is an open floor plan Kitchen / Breakfast room/ Solar heated Pool with lanai & large family room. 12 ft wood beam vaulted ceilings are in both the family room and large Florida bonus room. Stone pattern concrete Pool Lanai and Driveway Surfaces. This home is in close proximity to S.W. Regional International Airport, Shopping, Schools, Hospitals, Churches, Golf, Tennis, Beaches, Water Sports, Entertainment, etc. This is a single-family private property. No Home Owners Association Fees. Additional photos available to view upon request by email fvpele@comcast.net If you have any questions please feel free to phone me in Mill Valley. Cordially. Alexander 415.388.2485 Sfbay.Craigslist.Org TRADE YOUR SONOMA/NAPA/MARIN (surounding area)HOME FOR MY S.W. FLORIDA (City of Cape Coral - near Naples /Ft Myers) {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - My name is Alexander. My home is a spacious 2500sq ft. aprox. (Air Conditioned Interior Space) plus a large poolside Florida bonus room, Well Landscaped, Well maintained three-bedroom two-bath private home on two lots, laundry room, with an attached oversized two-car garage. The large master bedroom suite has an on-suite large bathroom with a double (2) sink vanity as well as a large walk in closet. There is an open floor plan Kitchen / Breakfast room/ Solar heated Pool with lanai & large family room. 12 ft wood beam vaulted ceilings are in both the family room and large Florida bonus room. Stone pattern concrete Pool Lanai and Driveway Surfaces. This home is in close proximity to S.W. Regional International Airport, Shopping, Schools, Hospitals, Churches, Golf, Tennis, Beaches, Water Sports, Entertainment, etc. This is a single-family private property. No Home Owners Association Fees. Additional photos available to view upon request by email fvpele@comcast.net If you have any questions please feel free to phone me in Mill Valley. Cordially. Alexander 415.388.2485
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]]> Regional > North America > United States > California > Metro Areas > San Francisco Bay Area > Travel and Tourism > Lodging {NORTH AMERICA > LODGING} - Maui , Hawaii Penthouse on the Beach (lahaina ) $241 1bd http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/maui-hawaii-penthouse-on-the-beach-lahaina-241-1bd-20080832421.htm http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/maui-hawaii-penthouse-on-the-beach-lahaina-241-1bd-20080832421.htm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:08:13 GMT Thank you for your interest in my second home , I would rather be there than answering e-mails and going to work. You can find more information at www.vrbo.com/103392 and feel free to call me anytime at 408-476-0253. I am in California. I believe my condo is one of the nicest and best values in Maui for under $450 per night , my rate though is only $269.00 per night which includes all the taxes , reservation fee and nightly front desk fee. Read below for some reviews on my property from others tat have stayed there : REVIEW #1 Traveler rating: Lahaina: Lahaina Shores Beach Resort: "Penthouse # 6 at Lahaina Shores. AWESOME!!!" rprofancik, cleveland, ohio Jul 31, 2007 Hello. Our family stayed in Maui for the 4th of July week and stayed at Lahaina Shores because we wanted a condo with a kitchen. We contacted the owners of the condo directly and saved a lot. The place is beautiful. It isn't an ocean view, but the view of the mountains from the lanai is super, great for a morning coffee and sunrise or an afternoon cigar, Make sure you have plenty film in your camera. The unit is just recently decorated and looks like it came out of a magazine. We wanted to save some money so we shopped at Safeway (make sure you go to the customer service counter and get a shopping card to use instantly and save more), which is right up the street at the northern end of Lahaina, and we ate dinners in the condo. It has a full kitchen with everything you need. We also packed lunches for the daily snorkeling and sightseeing trips. It was right next to town for shopping and other ventures from the marina (parasiling, snorkeling, deep sea fishin