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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; LODGING} - Tropical Oasis Conveniently Located (Westwood)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:01:13 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>ejkjyditxobnwiaybjpsziinnaskuznnlykjdiglfuwpasjunpqjtsyohmjdvciuqxbsbydyaoybmqfobjmkjqrorokjgwucanroThis warm and sunny tropical oasis is conveniently hidden in the Westwood area. 1 mile to Beverly Hills, north of Culver City, 2 miles to Santa Monica Pier. This is an old-school Hollywood house with a guest-house (and a lush, tropical garden with a variety of succelent and exotic plants...and many amenities). Find Out More Information Hereejkjyditxobnwiaybjpsziinnaskuznnlykjdiglfuwpasjunpqjtsyohmjdvciuqxbsbydyaoybmqfobjmkjqrorokjgwucanro</description>
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Sfbay.Craigslist.Org</span> - ejkjyditxobnwiaybjpsziinnaskuznnlykjdiglfuwpasjunpqjtsyohmjdvciuqxbsbydyaoybmqfobjmkjqrorokjgwucanroThis warm and sunny tropical oasis is conveniently hidden in the Westwood area. 1 mile to Beverly Hills, north of Culver City, 2 miles to Santa Monica Pier. This is an old-school Hollywood house with a guest-house (and a lush, tropical garden with a variety of succelent and exotic plants...and many amenities). Find Out More Information Hereejkjyditxobnwiaybjpsziinnaskuznnlykjdiglfuwpasjunpqjtsyohmjdvciuqxbsbydyaoybmqfobjmkjqrorokjgwucanro<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Tropical Oasis Conveniently Located {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> August 26, 2008, 8:01 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> August 26, 2008, 9:15 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;4KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/">Regional</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/">North America</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/">United States</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/">California</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/">Metro Areas</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/">San Francisco Bay Area</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/">Travel and Tourism</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/"><b>Lodging</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; LODGING} - Prime 1 bd apt in STA MONICA  2 trade 4 similar in SFO - Sept 6-10 (santa monica) 1bd</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:59:37 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>We have a sunny, elegant 1 bd plus den in the best part of Sta Monica...with a heated pool and sauna too!Wireless connection and 47" LCD in the living room -but there is too much to do to watch TV.  Great neighborhood, everything is in walking distance...it is just blocks to the beach (with bike and rollerblade path)and the Sta Monica Pier (see photo), the park along the bluffs- ideal for picnics or walks/jogs, 3rd St. Promenade with EVERYTHING -18 movie screens, great cafes and restuarants, shops, Montana Avenue with a more local vibe and very upscale boutiques. Venice is nearby accessable on the local shuttle if you don't want to drive. New queen bed - wake up and see the skyline of palm trees.We are a neat, professional, non-smoking couple and are seeking to trade with the same. We take care of our home and will do the same to yours. With recently installed maple hardwood floors and new carpeting, have a no-shoes policy and want someone who'll honor it. More photos are available on this link: http://www.homeexchange.com/show.php?id=89701

We need to be in SF Sept 6-10 to meet friends who are attending a conference (and staying at a hotel).  We are open to  neighborhoods , as long as it is in the city and we are able to walk to restaurants, etc.We don't want to have to drive into the city from outside... If you are interested, please provide photos of your home and info on where we can park since we will be driving. Thanks!</description>
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Sfbay.Craigslist.Org</span> - We have a sunny, elegant 1 bd plus den in the best part of Sta Monica...with a heated pool and sauna too!Wireless connection and 47" LCD in the living room -but there is too much to do to watch TV.  Great neighborhood, everything is in walking distance...it is just blocks to the beach (with bike and rollerblade path)and the Sta Monica Pier (see photo), the park along the bluffs- ideal for picnics or walks/jogs, 3rd St. Promenade with EVERYTHING -18 movie screens, great cafes and restuarants, shops, Montana Avenue with a more local vibe and very upscale boutiques. Venice is nearby accessable on the local shuttle if you don't want to drive. New queen bed - wake up and see the skyline of palm trees.We are a neat, professional, non-smoking couple and are seeking to trade with the same. We take care of our home and will do the same to yours. With recently installed maple hardwood floors and new carpeting, have a no-shoes policy and want someone who'll honor it. More photos are available on this link: http://www.homeexchange.com/show.php?id=89701

We need to be in SF Sept 6-10 to meet friends who are attending a conference (and staying at a hotel).  We are open to  neighborhoods , as long as it is in the city and we are able to walk to restaurants, etc.We don't want to have to drive into the city from outside... If you are interested, please provide photos of your home and info on where we can park since we will be driving. Thanks!<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Prime 1 bd apt in STA MONICA  2 trade 4 similar in SFO - Sept 6-10 {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> August 19, 2008, 11:59 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> August 20, 2008, 10:41 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;5KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/">Regional</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/">North America</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/">United States</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/">California</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/">Metro Areas</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/">San Francisco Bay Area</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/">Travel and Tourism</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/"><b>Lodging</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; LODGING} - Beautiful Venice Beach Vacation Home (Venice Beach) $4500 3bd</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:29:44 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>Stay at CASA KARMINA, for the perfect L.A. beach vacation!
ON the Beach--Panoramic Ocean Views from Marina to Malibu Mts.

$2,900 per week low season; $4,500 per week high season (May 1-October 31, Thanksgiving week &amp; December 15-January 7); Prefer weekly or monthly rentals only but will do nightly at $500 (low season) -$700 (high season) plus cleaning fee of $125 if have availability; Monthly rates: $9,000 low season, $15,000 high season
PLEASE CALL US FOR THE DETAILS OF OUR PARTY AND WEDDING PACKAGES!!

2 1/2 bedroom/2 full bathrooms ON the beach; Call Robin at (310) 721-2343 to discuss your questions, availability, receive more photos, or for appointment to see unit; or email with your questions: wildrudi@mac.com
Our "overflow unit", The Tower Unit, may be available when the main unit is not, so be sure to ask us about the Tower Unit--good for smaller groups (3-4) or for families with children (5-6)
Hot tub on roof deck overlooking the beach &amp; pier;
Stunning panoramic views of beach/ocean/sailboats/surfers;
Faces beautiful white sand;
4 bikes available (women's 3 speed, men's cruiser, teen bike, and 1 "3 wheeler" with large rear basket), or rent more 20 steps away, have sled/saucers for use on sand dunes in winter, skate board, boogie boards, skim board, beach chairs &amp; beach toys;
Outdoor hot/cold shower;
Faces Venice pier--stunning views night or day, from Marina del Rey to the Malibu mountains;
Can fish from pier.
Watch the surfers and sailboats from the living room; dining room, both BRÂs and balcony;
Very large, covered balcony/lanai;
Sleeps 8 in beds (1 in bunk room, 3 in 2nd bedroom bunk bed--double size on bottom, 2 in master bedroom (Olympic Queen) &amp; 2 on queen pull out couch in living room), more will fit up to 10 if you use our 2 (comfy) cots or blow up mattresses/Aerobeds. Can even sleep outside on covered balcony/lanai in good weather (or bad weather if youÂre an outdoors type--never gets too cold here and deck is well protected!);
Upper unit of a duplex;
Brand new construction;
2nd bath has deep whirlpool bathtub;
3rd 1/2 Bedroom with twin bed or guest Âbunk roomÂ;
1 block from Washington Street Venice Beach Âtown squareÂ shops &amp; restaurants;
Short walk to numerous other fabulous restaurants;
3 minute walk to colorful central Venice, Muscle Beach, steet vendors/artisans &amp; performers;
Short bike ride to Santa Monica Pier &amp; ferris wheel/arcades;
Adjacent to Marina del Rey, short walk (on beach) to boat harbor/jetty;
45 min. or less drive to Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm, Hollywood, Beverly Hills or Universal City;
Large, new washer &amp; dryer in unit;
Beautiful hard wood floors throughout;
Parking: 1 reserved space, 1 optional tandem parking may be available;
Gas fireplace in Living Room;
Ceiling fans and wall heaters in every room;
Brand new plumbing and clean water system (Life Source)--drink from the tap;
Large shared side yard &amp; garden, with grass;
Will consider pets with increased deposit;
Will arrange Beach Photo Shoot for you and your family with local resident photographer, Frankie Batista;
Will arrange your personal trainer for your stay--work out right on the beach in front of the beach house;
Fully furnished;
1200 sq ft;
Safe area but has alarm system if desired;
Appliances like new;
Weekly house cleaning;
All utilities incl, wireless internet, Cable TV, 43" beautiful plasma flat screen;
Lots of DVD's and video's--extensive children's collection;
VERY cool landlord :)

See more photos at:
http://www.casakarmina.com
"http://www.vrbo.com/169407"

Call Robin at (310) 721-2343 to discuss your questions, availability, receive more photos, or for appointment to see unit or email with your questions: wildrudi@mac.com
One of the few Venice Beach Houses right ON the sand, Casa Karmina is the perfect spot for your Venice Beach or Los Angeles vacation! Maximize your enjoyment and stay right on the sand. The unit was remodeled just a couple of months ago. Start your visit with fresh flowers from the local flower shop and a few local treats, compliments of your host. Watch the ocean, surfers &amp; sailboats from any room of the house. Dine at the table on the lower patio, right next to the sand. Or just enjoy the views from the table on your covered lanai. Enjoy the sun and views from roof deck or the beach. Watch the kids play in the sand from your lanai. The brand new hot tub, which fits up to 6, is on the roof deck and is always at 103 degrees! We have lots of beach toys, 2 bikes and a boogie board. In the winter months, ride our sled/saucers down the nearby sand dunes (a favorite for the kids!). There are numerous fun and easy activities just outside your gate. Take the three minute walk to colorful central Venice, Muscle Beach, street vendors, artisans &amp; performers. Or take the short ride to Santa Monica Pier &amp; ferris wheel/arcades. And be sure to enjoy historic Venice Pier: make it your morning or evening walk and even teach your kids to fish, just a few steps from the house. You can also take a walk in the Historic Venice Walk Streets and the Venice Canals (yes, Venice was originally modeled after Venice, Italy!) And finally, enjoy the fine dining, Italian family style, the highly rated "Naked Sushi" bar, your choice of three Mexican restaurants or simply the local coffee house/deli, "The Cow's End", all just literally around the corner. There are also many fun apparel and souvenir shops just a block away as well. Casa Karmina is in a perfect location for access to everything you need. Once you arrive, you can spend days here without getting in your car! Casa Karmina means "house of song", so come prepared to enjoy the extensive music library, numerous percussion instruments and upright piano...or bring your own! Enjoy the magnificent L.A. area and all it has to offer, from this awesome home base on the beach. Ride or roller blade along the beach on the extensive bike paths, to the Santa Monica Pier or to the Marina del Rey jetty. Take a short walk to the nearby infamous Muscle Beach, skate park, children's playground, tennis/handball back boards, basketball courts or paddle tennis courts. We will help you set up a day trip to Catalina Island from nearby San Pedro Harbor. Or take off to Disneyland, The Getty, Hollywood or Universal City! Essentially all of L.A.'s pleasures are less than 45 minutes away. Go to Casa Karmina's website for even more photos of the beach house and the general area. There couldn't possibly be a more perfect beach house for your vacation or temporary stay in Venice! It really IS as wonderful as it sounds...
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Sfbay.Craigslist.Org</span> - Stay at CASA KARMINA, for the perfect L.A. beach vacation!
ON the Beach--Panoramic Ocean Views from Marina to Malibu Mts.

$2,900 per week low season; $4,500 per week high season (May 1-October 31, Thanksgiving week & December 15-January 7); Prefer weekly or monthly rentals only but will do nightly at $500 (low season) -$700 (high season) plus cleaning fee of $125 if have availability; Monthly rates: $9,000 low season, $15,000 high season
PLEASE CALL US FOR THE DETAILS OF OUR PARTY AND WEDDING PACKAGES!!

2 1/2 bedroom/2 full bathrooms ON the beach; Call Robin at (310) 721-2343 to discuss your questions, availability, receive more photos, or for appointment to see unit; or email with your questions: wildrudi@mac.com
Our "overflow unit", The Tower Unit, may be available when the main unit is not, so be sure to ask us about the Tower Unit--good for smaller groups (3-4) or for families with children (5-6)
Hot tub on roof deck overlooking the beach & pier;
Stunning panoramic views of beach/ocean/sailboats/surfers;
Faces beautiful white sand;
4 bikes available (women's 3 speed, men's cruiser, teen bike, and 1 "3 wheeler" with large rear basket), or rent more 20 steps away, have sled/saucers for use on sand dunes in winter, skate board, boogie boards, skim board, beach chairs & beach toys;
Outdoor hot/cold shower;
Faces Venice pier--stunning views night or day, from Marina del Rey to the Malibu mountains;
Can fish from pier.
Watch the surfers and sailboats from the living room; dining room, both BRÂs and balcony;
Very large, covered balcony/lanai;
Sleeps 8 in beds (1 in bunk room, 3 in 2nd bedroom bunk bed--double size on bottom, 2 in master bedroom (Olympic Queen) & 2 on queen pull out couch in living room), more will fit up to 10 if you use our 2 (comfy) cots or blow up mattresses/Aerobeds. Can even sleep outside on covered balcony/lanai in good weather (or bad weather if youÂre an outdoors type--never gets too cold here and deck is well protected!);
Upper unit of a duplex;
Brand new construction;
2nd bath has deep whirlpool bathtub;
3rd 1/2 Bedroom with twin bed or guest Âbunk roomÂ;
1 block from Washington Street Venice Beach Âtown squareÂ shops & restaurants;
Short walk to numerous other fabulous restaurants;
3 minute walk to colorful central Venice, Muscle Beach, steet vendors/artisans & performers;
Short bike ride to Santa Monica Pier & ferris wheel/arcades;
Adjacent to Marina del Rey, short walk (on beach) to boat harbor/jetty;
45 min. or less drive to Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm, Hollywood, Beverly Hills or Universal City;
Large, new washer & dryer in unit;
Beautiful hard wood floors throughout;
Parking: 1 reserved space, 1 optional tandem parking may be available;
Gas fireplace in Living Room;
Ceiling fans and wall heaters in every room;
Brand new plumbing and clean water system (Life Source)--drink from the tap;
Large shared side yard & garden, with grass;
Will consider pets with increased deposit;
Will arrange Beach Photo Shoot for you and your family with local resident photographer, Frankie Batista;
Will arrange your personal trainer for your stay--work out right on the beach in front of the beach house;
Fully furnished;
1200 sq ft;
Safe area but has alarm system if desired;
Appliances like new;
Weekly house cleaning;
All utilities incl, wireless internet, Cable TV, 43" beautiful plasma flat screen;
Lots of DVD's and video's--extensive children's collection;
VERY cool landlord :)

See more photos at:
http://www.casakarmina.com
"http://www.vrbo.com/169407"

Call Robin at (310) 721-2343 to discuss your questions, availability, receive more photos, or for appointment to see unit or email with your questions: wildrudi@mac.com
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - Kurtz and Mason falsely suggested it was "new information" that McCain "acknowledged" his responsibility for failed first marriage</title>
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		<description>On the August 17 edition of
CNN's Reliable Sources, Houston Chronicle White House
correspondent Julie Mason characterized as "extraordinary" the
response Sen. John McCain gave during the August 16 Saddleback Civil
Forum on the Presidency to a question about his "greatest moral failure." Commenting on
McCain's response that his "greatest moral failing" was
"the failure of my first marriage," Mason said: "I think
McCain really did something extraordinary when -- the way he answered that question. ...
He addressed an issue that the campaign has been having a hard time figuring
out how to deal with. They've wanted to confront it, it's out there on the
Internet, it's something that Democrats are trying to use against McCain. So he
put it out there, he acknowledged it. And he sort of inoculated himself against
it. I think that's really going to help him." Host Howard Kurtz similarly
said: "McCain has acknowledged that he was not faithful in his first
marriage, but not necessarily before a national television audience." But
contrary to Mason's and Kurtz's suggestion, there was little new in
McCain's assertion regarding his first marriage: McCain has repeatedly
"acknowledged" his responsibility for the breakup of his first
marriage in his memoir,
in interviews, and "before a national television audience."

Mason contrasted McCain's response with Sen. Barack
Obama's, in which
Obama named his past drug
use and said, "What I trace this to
is a certain selfishness on my part. I was so obsessed with me and, you know,
the reasons that I might be dissatisfied that I couldn't focus on other
people." Mason said: "Obama's answer, you know, that was not new information.
For a 47-year-old man to claim that his worst moral failing happened when he
was a teenager -- I
don't know, it's a little disingenuous." 

Indeed, during his
first presidential run and in his 2002 memoir, McCain mentioned the breakup of his first
marriage numerous times. For example: 

On the February 2, 1999, edition of a CNN special event titled First
in the Nation: The New Hampshire Primary, co-host Bernard Shaw asked
McCain: "You had an affair your first marriage. The sitting president is
been impeached for his conduct with Monica Lewinsky. Should a politician's
private acts be part of public discourse?" McCain replied: "Let me
say that I am responsible for the
break-up of my first marriage. I will not discuss or talk about
that any more than that. If someone wants to criticize me for that, that's
fine. I believe that the standards of morality of conduct will be determined,
not by the politician themselves, but by the media and the American people. I
will leave that judgment to them."
On the March 2, 1999, edition of CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, host Wolf
Blitzer interviewed McCain and asked of McCain's
"background": "Is there anything out there that you want to
talk about rather than wait until this campaign goes on and on and on that's
going to cause surprises in the press, once again will focus on scandals as opposed
to policy issues?" McCain replied: "I certainly hope not. I have
made it clear that I am responsible
for the break-up of my first marriage. But I've also made it
clear that I'm not going to discuss that."
During the April 18, 1999, broadcast of CBS News Sunday
Morning, correspondent Rita Braver aired an interview she conducted with McCain, in which she
said to McCain: "You admitted to infidelity in your first marriage. Are
you worried about the scrutiny that you and your family will have to undergo in
this campaign?" McCain responded: "I have said that I'm responsible for the
breakup of my first marriage. I have then and now refused to
discuss that further."
An August 20, 1999, San
Francisco Chronicle article reported that McCain told San Francisco
talk-radio host Ronn
Owens: "I'm responsible
for the breakup of my first marriage ... but I don't want to go
into the details."
On the September 8, 1999, broadcast of ABC's 20/20,
then co-host Sam Donaldson reported that "[w]hen he [McCain] came back
from the war to a wife who had waited for him -- not only that, but had been
badly injured in an auto accident while waiting -- he divorced her for the
daughter of a wealthy Arizona beer distributor." Donaldson asked McCain,
"What do you say about that?" To which, McCain replied: "I
say I'm responsible for the
breakup of my first marriage, and I will always bear that
responsibility. And I am not proud of it."
In
his memoir Worth
the Fighting For (Random House, 2002), McCain wrote that in the years
following his return from Vietnam
he did "not show[] the same determination to rebuild my personal
life" as he did his
professional life. McCain wrote: "My marriage to Carol McCain was falling
apart. Sound marriages can be hard to recover after great time and distance
have separated a husband and wife. We are different people when we reunite. But
my marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and
immaturity more than it was to Vietnam,
and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was
entirely mine."


From the August 17 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources: 


KURTZ: Let me turn now to last
night's presidential forum. This was the
pastor Rick Warren at
California's Saddleback Church.
He had Obama and McCain on separately, asked them a lot of questions that you don't usually get
asked at these things, including -- well, I'll let you hear the question, but
in a response, Obama
talked about his teenage drug use, and John McCain talked about his past
infidelity years ago. Let's watch. 

[begin video
clip] 


WARREN: What would be, looking over your
life -- everybody's got weaknesses, nobody's perfect -- would be the greatest
moral failure in your life?

OBAMA: What I trace this to is a
certain selfishness on my part. I was so obsessed with me and, you know, the reasons
that I might be dissatisfied that I couldn't focus on other people.

McCAIN: My
greatest moral failing -- and I have been a very imperfect person -- is the
failure of my first marriage.

WARREN: And everybody has some kind -- 


[end video clip]

KURTZ: Julie Mason, this was on
Saturday night, up against the Olympics, Michael Phelps winning his record-shattering eighth gold
medal. Is this going to be a blip in terms of the campaign coverage? 

MASON: I don't know. I mean, I think
McCain really did something extraordinary when -- the way he answered that question,
Howie. He addressed an issue that the campaign has been having a hard time
figuring out how to deal with. They've wanted to confront it, it's out there on
the Internet, it's something that Democrats are trying to use against McCain.

So he put it out there, he
acknowledged it. And he sort of inoculated himself against it. I think that's
really going to help him.

Obama's answer, you know, that was not
new information. For a 47-year-old man to claim that his worst moral failing
happened when he was a teenager --
I don't know, it's a little disingenuous.

So I think it does get some traction
going forward. There was a lot of news coverage, even if people weren't
necessarily watching the forum.

KURTZ: Right. McCain has
acknowledged that he was not faithful in his first marriage, but not
necessarily before a national television audience.

Rick Warren, he asked questions
about the nature of evil, Christ, abortion. Did he elicit more interesting
answers than a network anchor might have?

JOSHUA GREEN (senior editor of The Atlantic): I think he
intended to. I mean, it seemed to be more of a conversational setting. You
know, we were told ahead of the time there weren't going to be any
"gotcha" questions. He certainly managed to slip in a couple on the
Supreme Court and other things.



From the September 8, 1999, edition of ABC's 20/20:



SAM DONALDSON: (voice-over) But no
story ends so perfectly, nor does this one for John McCain.
When he came back from the war to a wife who had waited for him -- not only
that, but had been badly injured in an auto accident while waiting -- he
divorced her for the daughter of a wealthy Arizona beer distributor.

(on camera) What do you say about
that?

JOHN MCCAIN:
I say I'm responsible for the
breakup of my first marriage, and I will always bear that
responsibility. And I am not proud of it. 


From the August 20, 1999, San Francisco Chronicle: 


For his part, McCain
admitted to being "very uncomfortable" with the continual questions
of Bush. "The media and the American people have the right to make a
judgment about him ... (but) the governor is entitled to privacy."

"I've done things in my life
I'm not proud of. ... I'm a believer in redemption, and my life has been less
than exemplary in many respects," he said.

"I'm responsible
for the breakup of my first marriage ... but I don't want to go
into the details," he told KGO's Ronn Owens.

But asked at The Chronicle editorial
board meeting if the cocaine question was a fair one for a presidential
candidate, McCain,
63, said he had never used cocaine. 


From the April 18, 1999, edition of CBS News Sunday Morning:



BRAVER: (Voiceover) McCain
has, indeed, re-established his reputation for integrity. He considers himself
a family man, but in the wake of President Clinton's indiscretions, everything
about every candidate's past will be scrutinized.

You admitted to infidelity in your
first marriage. Are you worried about the scrutiny that you and your family
will have to undergo in this campaign?

Sen. McCAIN:
I have said that I'm responsible
for the breakup of my first marriage. I have then and now refused
to discuss that further. I have done a number of things in my life that are
pretty colorful, that--that we referred to earlier. But I don't intend to
discuss my private life in this campaign, and that is my response.

BRAVER: Do you think there are
episodes that will be revealed that will be embarrassing to you?

Sen. McCAIN:
There's nothing in my life that I know of that will disqualify me from being
president of the United
  States. 


From the March 2, 1999, edition of CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer:



BLITZER: Your background. Is there
anything out there that you want to talk about rather than wait until this
campaign goes on and on and on that's going to cause surprises in the press,
once again will focus on scandals as opposed to policy issues?

MCCAIN: I certainly
hope not. I have made it clear that I am responsible
for the break-up of my first marriage. But I've also made it
clear that I'm not going to discuss that. It's -- the American people, the
media and anybody else who wants to, can discuss it, I just don't choose to.

BLITZER: Is it fair game to go after
candidates' personal backgrounds like that, or should we, the media, just stay
out of it?

MCCAIN: Well,
obviously all candidates would like to see the media stay completely out of it,
but the fact is the media will be in it, and to what degree will be decided by
the media and the American people; the candidates will not decide. So I have to
say I have no position on that because I have no control over it.



From the February 2, 1999, edition of CNN's First in the Nation: The New Hampshire Primary:



BERNARD SHAW: You had an affair your
first marriage. The sitting president is been impeached for his conduct with
Monica Lewinsky. Should a politician's private acts be part of public
discourse?

MCCAIN: Let me say
that I am responsible for the
break-up of my first marriage. I will not discuss or talk about
that any more than that. If someone wants to criticize me for that, that's fine.
I believe that the standards of morality of conduct will be determined, not by
the politician themselves, but by the media and the American people. I will
leave that judgment to them.

SHAW: How will you handle people trying
to pry into your personal life? People who are just outright nosy?

MCCAIN: It happens,
it goes with the territory, it's part of a political campaign, I'm not equipped
to change it; only the American people and the media are. I realize that this
is a very, very tough business. It's not a contact sport, it's a collision
sport. 


From Pages 13-14 of Worth
the Fighting For: 



I had used my professional
advantages well since I had come home from war and was building a decent reputation
for myself in the navy. But I had not shown the same determination to rebuild
my personal life. My marriage to Carol McCain was falling apart. Sound
marriages can be hard to recover after great time and distance have separated a
husband and wife. We are different people when we reunite. But my
marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and immaturity
more than it was to Vietnam,
and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was
entirely mine. 

    
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - On the August 17 edition of
CNN's Reliable Sources, Houston Chronicle White House
correspondent Julie Mason characterized as "extraordinary" the
response Sen. John McCain gave during the August 16 Saddleback Civil
Forum on the Presidency to a question about his "greatest moral failure." Commenting on
McCain's response that his "greatest moral failing" was
"the failure of my first marriage," Mason said: "I think
McCain really did something extraordinary when -- the way he answered that question. ...
He addressed an issue that the campaign has been having a hard time figuring
out how to deal with. They've wanted to confront it, it's out there on the
Internet, it's something that Democrats are trying to use against McCain. So he
put it out there, he acknowledged it. And he sort of inoculated himself against
it. I think that's really going to help him." Host Howard Kurtz similarly
said: "McCain has acknowledged that he was not faithful in his first
marriage, but not necessarily before a national television audience." But
contrary to Mason's and Kurtz's suggestion, there was little new in
McCain's assertion regarding his first marriage: McCain has repeatedly
"acknowledged" his responsibility for the breakup of his first
marriage in his memoir,
in interviews, and "before a national television audience."

Mason contrasted McCain's response with Sen. Barack
Obama's, in which
Obama named his past drug
use and said, "What I trace this to
is a certain selfishness on my part. I was so obsessed with me and, you know,
the reasons that I might be dissatisfied that I couldn't focus on other
people." Mason said: "Obama's answer, you know, that was not new information.
For a 47-year-old man to claim that his worst moral failing happened when he
was a teenager -- I
don't know, it's a little disingenuous." 

Indeed, during his
first presidential run and in his 2002 memoir, McCain mentioned the breakup of his first
marriage numerous times. For example: 

On the February 2, 1999, edition of a CNN special event titled First
in the Nation: The New Hampshire Primary, co-host Bernard Shaw asked
McCain: "You had an affair your first marriage. The sitting president is
been impeached for his conduct with Monica Lewinsky. Should a politician's
private acts be part of public discourse?" McCain replied: "Let me
say that I am responsible for the
break-up of my first marriage. I will not discuss or talk about
that any more than that. If someone wants to criticize me for that, that's
fine. I believe that the standards of morality of conduct will be determined,
not by the politician themselves, but by the media and the American people. I
will leave that judgment to them."
On the March 2, 1999, edition of CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, host Wolf
Blitzer interviewed McCain and asked of McCain's
"background": "Is there anything out there that you want to
talk about rather than wait until this campaign goes on and on and on that's
going to cause surprises in the press, once again will focus on scandals as opposed
to policy issues?" McCain replied: "I certainly hope not. I have
made it clear that I am responsible
for the break-up of my first marriage. But I've also made it
clear that I'm not going to discuss that."
During the April 18, 1999, broadcast of CBS News Sunday
Morning, correspondent Rita Braver aired an interview she conducted with McCain, in which she
said to McCain: "You admitted to infidelity in your first marriage. Are
you worried about the scrutiny that you and your family will have to undergo in
this campaign?" McCain responded: "I have said that I'm responsible for the
breakup of my first marriage. I have then and now refused to
discuss that further."
An August 20, 1999, San
Francisco Chronicle article reported that McCain told San Francisco
talk-radio host Ronn
Owens: "I'm responsible
for the breakup of my first marriage ... but I don't want to go
into the details."
On the September 8, 1999, broadcast of ABC's 20/20,
then co-host Sam Donaldson reported that "[w]hen he [McCain] came back
from the war to a wife who had waited for him -- not only that, but had been
badly injured in an auto accident while waiting -- he divorced her for the
daughter of a wealthy Arizona beer distributor." Donaldson asked McCain,
"What do you say about that?" To which, McCain replied: "I
say I'm responsible for the
breakup of my first marriage, and I will always bear that
responsibility. And I am not proud of it."
In
his memoir Worth
the Fighting For (Random House, 2002), McCain wrote that in the years
following his return from Vietnam
he did "not show[] the same determination to rebuild my personal
life" as he did his
professional life. McCain wrote: "My marriage to Carol McCain was falling
apart. Sound marriages can be hard to recover after great time and distance
have separated a husband and wife. We are different people when we reunite. But
my marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and
immaturity more than it was to Vietnam,
and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was
entirely mine."


From the August 17 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources: 


KURTZ: Let me turn now to last
night's presidential forum. This was the
pastor Rick Warren at
California's Saddleback Church.
He had Obama and McCain on separately, asked them a lot of questions that you don't usually get
asked at these things, including -- well, I'll let you hear the question, but
in a response, Obama
talked about his teenage drug use, and John McCain talked about his past
infidelity years ago. Let's watch. 

[begin video
clip] 


WARREN: What would be, looking over your
life -- everybody's got weaknesses, nobody's perfect -- would be the greatest
moral failure in your life?

OBAMA: What I trace this to is a
certain selfishness on my part. I was so obsessed with me and, you know, the reasons
that I might be dissatisfied that I couldn't focus on other people.

McCAIN: My
greatest moral failing -- and I have been a very imperfect person -- is the
failure of my first marriage.

WARREN: And everybody has some kind -- 


[end video clip]

KURTZ: Julie Mason, this was on
Saturday night, up against the Olympics, Michael Phelps winning his record-shattering eighth gold
medal. Is this going to be a blip in terms of the campaign coverage? 

MASON: I don't know. I mean, I think
McCain really did something extraordinary when -- the way he answered that question,
Howie. He addressed an issue that the campaign has been having a hard time
figuring out how to deal with. They've wanted to confront it, it's out there on
the Internet, it's something that Democrats are trying to use against McCain.

So he put it out there, he
acknowledged it. And he sort of inoculated himself against it. I think that's
really going to help him.

Obama's answer, you know, that was not
new information. For a 47-year-old man to claim that his worst moral failing
happened when he was a teenager --
I don't know, it's a little disingenuous.

So I think it does get some traction
going forward. There was a lot of news coverage, even if people weren't
necessarily watching the forum.

KURTZ: Right. McCain has
acknowledged that he was not faithful in his first marriage, but not
necessarily before a national television audience.

Rick Warren, he asked questions
about the nature of evil, Christ, abortion. Did he elicit more interesting
answers than a network anchor might have?

JOSHUA GREEN (senior editor of The Atlantic): I think he
intended to. I mean, it seemed to be more of a conversational setting. You
know, we were told ahead of the time there weren't going to be any
"gotcha" questions. He certainly managed to slip in a couple on the
Supreme Court and other things.



From the September 8, 1999, edition of ABC's 20/20:



SAM DONALDSON: (voice-over) But no
story ends so perfectly, nor does this one for John McCain.
When he came back from the war to a wife who had waited for him -- not only
that, but had been badly injured in an auto accident while waiting -- he
divorced her for the daughter of a wealthy Arizona beer distributor.

(on camera) What do you say about
that?

JOHN MCCAIN:
I say I'm responsible for the
breakup of my first marriage, and I will always bear that
responsibility. And I am not proud of it. 


From the August 20, 1999, San Francisco Chronicle: 


For his part, McCain
admitted to being "very uncomfortable" with the continual questions
of Bush. "The media and the American people have the right to make a
judgment about him ... (but) the governor is entitled to privacy."

"I've done things in my life
I'm not proud of. ... I'm a believer in redemption, and my life has been less
than exemplary in many respects," he said.

"I'm responsible
for the breakup of my first marriage ... but I don't want to go
into the details," he told KGO's Ronn Owens.

But asked at The Chronicle editorial
board meeting if the cocaine question was a fair one for a presidential
candidate, McCain,
63, said he had never used cocaine. 


From the April 18, 1999, edition of CBS News Sunday Morning:



BRAVER: (Voiceover) McCain
has, indeed, re-established his reputation for integrity. He considers himself
a family man, but in the wake of President Clinton's indiscretions, everything
about every candidate's past will be scrutinized.

You admitted to infidelity in your
first marriage. Are you worried about the scrutiny that you and your family
will have to undergo in this campaign?

Sen. McCAIN:
I have said that I'm responsible
for the breakup of my first marriage. I have then and now refused
to discuss that further. I have done a number of things in my life that are
pretty colorful, that--that we referred to earlier. But I don't intend to
discuss my private life in this campaign, and that is my response.

BRAVER: Do you think there are
episodes that will be revealed that will be embarrassing to you?

Sen. McCAIN:
There's nothing in my life that I know of that will disqualify me from being
president of the United
  States. 


From the March 2, 1999, edition of CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer:



BLITZER: Your background. Is there
anything out there that you want to talk about rather than wait until this
campaign goes on and on and on that's going to cause surprises in the press,
once again will focus on scandals as opposed to policy issues?

MCCAIN: I certainly
hope not. I have made it clear that I am responsible
for the break-up of my first marriage. But I've also made it
clear that I'm not going to discuss that. It's -- the American people, the
media and anybody else who wants to, can discuss it, I just don't choose to.

BLITZER: Is it fair game to go after
candidates' personal backgrounds like that, or should we, the media, just stay
out of it?

MCCAIN: Well,
obviously all candidates would like to see the media stay completely out of it,
but the fact is the media will be in it, and to what degree will be decided by
the media and the American people; the candidates will not decide. So I have to
say I have no position on that because I have no control over it.



From the February 2, 1999, edition of CNN's First in the Nation: The New Hampshire Primary:



BERNARD SHAW: You had an affair your
first marriage. The sitting president is been impeached for his conduct with
Monica Lewinsky. Should a politician's private acts be part of public
discourse?

MCCAIN: Let me say
that I am responsible for the
break-up of my first marriage. I will not discuss or talk about
that any more than that. If someone wants to criticize me for that, that's fine.
I believe that the standards of morality of conduct will be determined, not by
the politician themselves, but by the media and the American people. I will
leave that judgment to them.

SHAW: How will you handle people trying
to pry into your personal life? People who are just outright nosy?

MCCAIN: It happens,
it goes with the territory, it's part of a political campaign, I'm not equipped
to change it; only the American people and the media are. I realize that this
is a very, very tough business. It's not a contact sport, it's a collision
sport. 


From Pages 13-14 of Worth
the Fighting For: 



I had used my professional
advantages well since I had come home from war and was building a decent reputation
for myself in the navy. But I had not shown the same determination to rebuild
my personal life. My marriage to Carol McCain was falling apart. Sound
marriages can be hard to recover after great time and distance have separated a
husband and wife. We are different people when we reunite. But my
marriage's collapse was attributable to my own selfishness and immaturity
more than it was to Vietnam,
and I cannot escape blame by pointing a finger at the war. The blame was
entirely mine. 

    
<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - Kurtz and Mason falsely suggested it was "new information" that McCain "acknowledged" his responsibility for failed first marriage {...} On Reliable Sources , the Houston Chronicle &#39;s Julie Mason said of Sen. John McCain&#39;s statement that his "greatest moral failing" was "the failure of my first marriage": "I think McCain really did something extraordinary when -- the way he answered that question. ... So he put it out there, he acknowledged it. And he sort of inoculated himself against it." Howard Kurtz similarly said: "McCain has acknowledged that he was not faithful in his first marriage, but not necessarily before a national television audience." In fact, McCain has repeatedly "acknowledged" his responsibility for the breakup of his first marriage in his memoir, in interviews, and "before a national television audience." {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> August 17, 2008, 9:47 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> August 18, 2008, 10:21 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;31KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; REAL ESTATE} - LARGE WAREHOUSE WITH LARGE PARKING (OAKLAND (24TH/FILBERT)) 10000sqft</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:05:03 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>commercial Warehouse - AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE OCCUPANCY 

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EXCELLENT LOCATION - SPECIAL DEAL FOR QUALIFIED APPLICANTS,
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PLEASE CALL FOR MONICA/MICHELE AT 650-685-8550 / 650-771-1693.
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LOCATION ADDRESS:
2400 FILBERT STREET, OAKLAND, CA 94612
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APPROX:10,000 SQ FT WITH PLENTY OF PARKING

CONVENIENT CENTRAL BAY AREA LOCATION......JUST 5 MINUTES FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY BRIDGE, DOWNTOWN OAKLAND, AND 4 MAJOR FREEWAYS

Summary Description:
The warehouse structure is located at the northwest perimeter of the site. The original portion of this structure is of concrete block construction and was built in the 1950's. It contain a gross building area of approximately 10,000 square feet and has a clear truss height of roughly 12 feet and one grade level overhead door, which faces the subject's north loading/receiving area. In 1868 a new concrete lilt-up building was added to this structure.

Site improvement include a 12ft high chain link fence, which surrounds the east and south perimeter of the site. Two 12ft high, chain link gates provide access from 24th Street to the subject's southeast parking and shipping/receiving area. The gates are on rollers. In addition, two 12th ft high link feneces with redwood slats and two roller gates are located on the filbert street and myrthe street entrances to the subject's north parking and yard area.






Located at 2400 Filbert St., Oakland
10,000 sq. ft Commercial Warehouse space
Property protected by 12ft. fence
Rent is Negotiable

For more information please call 650.685.8550 or email us at baycitiesproperties@yahoo.com </description>
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EXCELLENT LOCATION - SPECIAL DEAL FOR QUALIFIED APPLICANTS,
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PLEASE CALL FOR MONICA/MICHELE AT 650-685-8550 / 650-771-1693.
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LOCATION ADDRESS:
2400 FILBERT STREET, OAKLAND, CA 94612
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APPROX:10,000 SQ FT WITH PLENTY OF PARKING

CONVENIENT CENTRAL BAY AREA LOCATION......JUST 5 MINUTES FROM SAN FRANCISCO BAY BRIDGE, DOWNTOWN OAKLAND, AND 4 MAJOR FREEWAYS

Summary Description:
The warehouse structure is located at the northwest perimeter of the site. The original portion of this structure is of concrete block construction and was built in the 1950's. It contain a gross building area of approximately 10,000 square feet and has a clear truss height of roughly 12 feet and one grade level overhead door, which faces the subject's north loading/receiving area. In 1868 a new concrete lilt-up building was added to this structure.

Site improvement include a 12ft high chain link fence, which surrounds the east and south perimeter of the site. Two 12ft high, chain link gates provide access from 24th Street to the subject's southeast parking and shipping/receiving area. The gates are on rollers. In addition, two 12th ft high link feneces with redwood slats and two roller gates are located on the filbert street and myrthe street entrances to the subject's north parking and yard area.






Located at 2400 Filbert St., Oakland
10,000 sq. ft Commercial Warehouse space
Property protected by 12ft. fence
Rent is Negotiable

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		<title>{NORTH AMERICA &gt; LODGING} - Gr8 Sta Monica apt near beach, etc for yours in SF city 9/6-11ish (Santa Monica) 1bd</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:27:12 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>How about coming out to Sunny LA - Southern Calif. for some gorgeous weather...heated pool, sauna, walk to the beach, pier, promenade, restaurants, movies.. you name it! A quick drive to Beverly Hills, Malibu, Getty..or head up to Santa Barbara and the wineries... 
We are meeting up with some European friends 9/6-11 and would like to trade our great apt in prime Sta Monica for one similar located in the city. We don't want to drive in daily. Our freinds will be staying in a hotel) 
Complete info on us and photos of our place is available on this link. http://homeexchange.com/show.php?id=89701 We have done several home exchanges and all were great experiences. We are non smoking, neat, considerate professionals who will respect your home and we seek to trade with the same. Our dates for coming are fixed, but if you want to do a non- simultaneous exchange and come here another time that is possible too. We will be traveling a lot in the coming months and are flexible. </description>
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Sfbay.Craigslist.Org</span> - How about coming out to Sunny LA - Southern Calif. for some gorgeous weather...heated pool, sauna, walk to the beach, pier, promenade, restaurants, movies.. you name it! A quick drive to Beverly Hills, Malibu, Getty..or head up to Santa Barbara and the wineries... 
We are meeting up with some European friends 9/6-11 and would like to trade our great apt in prime Sta Monica for one similar located in the city. We don't want to drive in daily. Our freinds will be staying in a hotel) 
Complete info on us and photos of our place is available on this link. http://homeexchange.com/show.php?id=89701 We have done several home exchanges and all were great experiences. We are non smoking, neat, considerate professionals who will respect your home and we seek to trade with the same. Our dates for coming are fixed, but if you want to do a non- simultaneous exchange and come here another time that is possible too. We will be traveling a lot in the coming months and are flexible. <blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Gr8 Sta Monica apt near beach, etc for yours in SF city 9/6-11ish {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> August 12, 2008, 8:27 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> August 13, 2008, 2:10 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;5KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/">Regional</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/">North America</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/">United States</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/">California</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/">Metro Areas</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/">San Francisco Bay Area</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/">Travel and Tourism</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/travel-and-tourism/lodging/"><b>Lodging</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - On CNN, radio talk show host Lars Larson suggested Sen. Clinton is like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:36:54 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>On the August 7 edition of CNN
 Election Center,
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank said Sen. Hillary
Clinton "must really look like some sort of a poltergeist" to Sen.
Barack Obama, adding, "Each time he thinks he has finally finished off
Hillary Clinton, she keeps coming back." Radio host Lars Larson later
said, "I have got to tell you, he's thinking of the movie Poltergeist? I'm thinking of Fatal Attraction. And I'm waiting to find
out when the bunny turns up in the stew pot." 

In director Adrian Lyne's 1987 film Fatal Attraction,
Glenn Close plays Alex Forrest, a woman who begins stalking her co-worker Dan
Gallagher and his family following a one-night stand. In the film's climax,
Alex attempts to kill Dan's wife, Beth, with a butcher knife while she's
preparing for a bath. Dan hears the attack and wrestles Alex into the bathtub,
appearing to have drowned her until Alex suddenly springs from the water,
wielding the knife at Dan. Alex is then shot by Beth, who had gone to get a gun
Dan bought to protect the family from Alex. Earlier in the film, Beth comes
home to find their daughters' rabbit boiling on the stove, presumably
placed there by Alex.  

As Media Matters for America has
noted, Monica Crowley, a
conservative radio host and panelist on the syndicated program The McLaughlin Group,
National Public Radio political editor Ken Rudin, and Atlantic senior editor and
blogger Andrew Sullivan have also compared
Clinton to Close's character in Fatal Attraction. 

From the August 7 edition of CNN Election Center:


BROWN:
Dana, you heard what Hillary Clinton said in that YouTube video, a little
earlier, that her supporters just need a cathartic moment, and then
they're going to get 100 percent behind Senator Obama. What do you think
about that?

MILBANK:
You know, to Obama, this must really look like some sort of a poltergeist. Each
time he thinks he's finally finished off Hillary Clinton, she keeps
coming back.

And I'm
struck by -- they're sort of saying the right words, but if you look at this
joint statement that came out, it's sort of like one of these joint communiqués
during nuclear negotiations with the Soviet Union.
There's no warmth in there.

And I
think we've reached a point where they're just not going to get to that
warmth. There's a fundamental conflict here, and that is, it's in Hillary
Clinton's interests if she wishes some day to be the president for Obama not to
be the president. That's the fundamental conflict here.

BROWN:
Lars, what's really going on here?

LARSON:
I've got to tell you, he's thinking of the movie Poltergeist, I'm thinking of Fatal Attraction. And I'm waiting to find
out when the bunny turns up in the stew pot.


I mean,
this woman, she's committed to Obama? How deep in his back does she need to
drive a knife? I mean, she wants this nomination, and I think she still sees a
chance to get it. He's only ahead of McCain by four points. And I think she
might -- she thinks she might be able to talk the convention into giving it to
her anyway.

    
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - On the August 7 edition of CNN
 Election Center,
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank said Sen. Hillary
Clinton "must really look like some sort of a poltergeist" to Sen.
Barack Obama, adding, "Each time he thinks he has finally finished off
Hillary Clinton, she keeps coming back." Radio host Lars Larson later
said, "I have got to tell you, he's thinking of the movie Poltergeist? I'm thinking of Fatal Attraction. And I'm waiting to find
out when the bunny turns up in the stew pot." 

In director Adrian Lyne's 1987 film Fatal Attraction,
Glenn Close plays Alex Forrest, a woman who begins stalking her co-worker Dan
Gallagher and his family following a one-night stand. In the film's climax,
Alex attempts to kill Dan's wife, Beth, with a butcher knife while she's
preparing for a bath. Dan hears the attack and wrestles Alex into the bathtub,
appearing to have drowned her until Alex suddenly springs from the water,
wielding the knife at Dan. Alex is then shot by Beth, who had gone to get a gun
Dan bought to protect the family from Alex. Earlier in the film, Beth comes
home to find their daughters' rabbit boiling on the stove, presumably
placed there by Alex.  

As Media Matters for America has
noted, Monica Crowley, a
conservative radio host and panelist on the syndicated program The McLaughlin Group,
National Public Radio political editor Ken Rudin, and Atlantic senior editor and
blogger Andrew Sullivan have also compared
Clinton to Close's character in Fatal Attraction. 

From the August 7 edition of CNN Election Center:


BROWN:
Dana, you heard what Hillary Clinton said in that YouTube video, a little
earlier, that her supporters just need a cathartic moment, and then
they're going to get 100 percent behind Senator Obama. What do you think
about that?

MILBANK:
You know, to Obama, this must really look like some sort of a poltergeist. Each
time he thinks he's finally finished off Hillary Clinton, she keeps
coming back.

And I'm
struck by -- they're sort of saying the right words, but if you look at this
joint statement that came out, it's sort of like one of these joint communiqués
during nuclear negotiations with the Soviet Union.
There's no warmth in there.

And I
think we've reached a point where they're just not going to get to that
warmth. There's a fundamental conflict here, and that is, it's in Hillary
Clinton's interests if she wishes some day to be the president for Obama not to
be the president. That's the fundamental conflict here.

BROWN:
Lars, what's really going on here?

LARSON:
I've got to tell you, he's thinking of the movie Poltergeist, I'm thinking of Fatal Attraction. And I'm waiting to find
out when the bunny turns up in the stew pot.


I mean,
this woman, she's committed to Obama? How deep in his back does she need to
drive a knife? I mean, she wants this nomination, and I think she still sees a
chance to get it. He's only ahead of McCain by four points. And I think she
might -- she thinks she might be able to talk the convention into giving it to
her anyway.

    
<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - On CNN, radio talk show host Lars Larson suggested Sen. Clinton is like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction {...} On CNN Election Center , after The Washington Post &#39;s Dana Milbank said Sen. Hillary Clinton "must really look like some sort of a poltergeist" to Sen. Barack Obama, adding, "Each time he thinks he has finally finished off Hillary Clinton, she keeps coming back," radio host Lars Larson said, "I have got to tell you, he&#39;s thinking of the movie Poltergeist ? I&#39;m thinking of Fatal Attraction . And I&#39;m waiting to find out when the bunny turns up in the stew pot." {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> August 9, 2008, 12:36 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> August 9, 2008, 11:32 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;20KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{ISSUES &gt; BIAS AND BALANCE} - Hannity falsely claimed "Obama can't point to a single instance in which ... Sean Hannity or talk radio" has "made an issue of Obama's race"</title>
		<link>http://articles.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/hannity-falsely-claimed-obama-can-t-point-to-a-single-2008089667.htm</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:41:29 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>Four days after falsely suggesting that no
"prominent Republican" has "said that [Sen. Barack Obama] is
not patriotic, or that he's got a funny name," Sean Hannity claimed on
the August 4 edition of his
nationally syndicated radio program that Obama "can't
point to a single instance in which President Bush or [Sen. John] McCain or
[former White House senior adviser] Karl Rove or Sean Hannity or talk radio or
any other major Republican has made an issue of Obama's race." In
fact, as Media Matters for America
noted, Hannity
asserted on the March 2 edition of Fox News' Hannity's America: "As more is learned about
Barack Obama's positions, his past, and his affiliations, it seems that the
'change' candidate has all the same problems with race as those before
him," and later added, "It's only fair to ask: Do the Obamas have a
race problem of their own?"

Hannity has also repeatedly distorted what Michelle
Obama wrote in her 1985 Princeton University
senior thesis, taking the following phrase from the thesis out of
context to suggest that she has divisive views of race: "because of the
belief that Blacks must join in solidarity to combat a White oppressor." As Media Matters documented, the full paragraph in the
thesis makes clear that Obama was purporting to document attitudes among black Princeton alumni who attended the school in the '70s, and not asserting
her own views. 

Media Matters has also
documented numerous examples of other radio and TV personalities making
"an issue of Obama's race."

Radio host Rush Limbaugh:

On the June 2 broadcast of his nationally
syndicated radio program, while discussing Obama's presidential candidacy,
Limbaugh asserted that the Democratic Party was "go[ing] with a veritable
rookie whose only chance of winning is that he's black."
On May 21, Limbaugh said that "Barack Obama is an affirmative action candidate." Speaking about 'feminazis,' " Limbaugh asserted: "They forgot affirmative action for black guys. And because of that, every bit of their plan has gone up in smoke now, because they -- if -- they had to come out in favor of affirmative action for black guys, and that's -- see, this is one of the things that really irritates the women. And there are women all over this country fit to be tied -- trust me on this. ... [L]iberals eventually are going to be devoured by their own policies. And it has happened here. Because Barack Obama is an affirmative action candidate." He concluded, "So, it's just -- they just forgot that one thing: affirmative action for black guys. And if they had remembered to oppose that, then they wouldn't face the situation they face today."
Limbaugh stated during his May 14
broadcast that "[i]f Barack Obama were Caucasian, they would have taken
this guy out on the basis of pure ignorance long ago."
On the January 24, 2007,
edition of his radio show, Limbaugh referred
to Obama and actress Halle Berry
as "Halfrican American[s]," stating that "Barack Obama has
picked up another endorsement: Halfrican American actress Halle Berry."
Limbaugh then said: " 'As a Halfrican American, I am honored to have Ms. Berry's support, as well
as the support of other Halfrican Americans,' Obama said." Limbaugh then
conceded that Obama "didn't say it."


Fox News contributor Monica Crowley:

Guest-hosting the June 23 broadcast of Talk Radio Network's The Laura Ingraham Show,
Crowley
forwarded a wholly unsubstantiated smear that Obama has lied about his
ethnicity. A caller to the show claimed that Obama is "not really
African-American. He's Arab. Forty-three percent Arab, 6 percent African negro,
and half white. And that is the biggest fraud being perpetrated on us
all." In response, Crowley said that "according to this genealogy --
and again, because I haven't done the research, I can't verify this -- but
according to this guy Kenneth Lamb, Barack Obama is not black African, he is
Arab African." Crowley
continued: "And yet, this guy is campaigning as black and painting anybody
who dares to criticize him as a racist. I mean, that is -- it is the biggest
con I think I've ever seen."


Radio hosts Melanie Morgan and Brian
Sussman

On the December 4, 2006, broadcast of San Francisco radio
station KSFO's Sussman, Morgan &amp; Vic,
in speaking to a co-host -- apparently Sussman -- Morgan referred to Obama as
an, "as you call, 'Halfrican.' " Sussman responded, "Halfrican
... his father was from Kenya,
his mother's white." He added that, "in my opinion -- 'cause my
opinion is your average white guy," Obama "is not allowed to wear the
African-American badge because his family are not the descendants of slaves,
OK? He can't identify with the discrimination and the slavery and all of that
that's gone into these black families for generations."



Sussman also said, "I have ... nothing against
mixed-race people," but later added, "I get offended and I know I
have many black friends who get offended when he [Obama] stands in front of
that black audience talking like he's from the hood, born and raised, and ...
can identify with all of their issues. He can't!"


Radio host John Gibson: 

On the June 6 edition of his Fox News Radio
show, Gibson said to a caller who spoke favorably of Obama: "You don't
know what Barack Obama stands for. You just like him because he's -- he's --
he's like you and you want to see one of you up there, and you don't care what
he stands for." The caller responded: "[H]e's not one of me. ... He's
not one of me just because he's a black guy or something like that. That
doesn't make him one of me. He's standing for him, not me."
During the April 9 broadcast of his radio show,
Gibson told a caller, "[Y]ou are the third or fourth caller in a row who
is -- has identified yourself to [associate producer] Christine as
African-American. And when I talk to you, you obviously are smart, well-educated,
well-read, and all that, and I think that your loyalty to Obama here is an
issue that goes beyond the issues." When the caller asserted, "No,
it's not -- it's not beyond the issues," Gibson said, "It is a racial
solidarity bond you have with Obama. Tell me -- I dare you to deny that."
Moments later, Gibson added: "You're sticking with Obama, because he's ...
he's a brother." Gibson also asserted about Obama: "He is lying to
your face but he knows you are so -- you so identify with him on the basis of
race, you will not even see the lies."


CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck: 

On the February 12, 2007,
broadcast of his
nationally syndicated radio show, Beck featured Philadelphia-based conservative
radio host Dom Giordano,
who claimed that "the mainstream media has dubbed [Obama] to be
African-American" and said, "If you start to, you know, delve around
the edges, say, 'Wait a minute, isn't he mixed race? Weren't we told that last
year?' Or whatever, biracial. Not allowed to say that anymore." Beck
responded by saying "he's very white in many ways," adding, "Gee,
can I even say that? Can I even say that without somebody else starting a
campaign saying, 'What does he mean, "He's very white?" ' He is. He's
very white."



After the interview, Beck attempted to clarify his comments
to executive producer and head writer of The
Glenn Beck Program, Steve Burguiere, who is known on- air as
"Stu." Beck claimed that Obama "is colorless," adding that
"as a white guy ...
[y]ou don't notice that he is black. So he might as well be white, you know
what I mean?" In addition, Beck said: "I guarantee you, there will be
blogs today that will have me being a racist because I say that."


On the January 25 edition
of his CNN Headline News program, Beck asserted: "[I]f [Sen.] Hillary
Clinton wants to be consistent, I believe, affirmative action, she should give
Barack Obama an additional five
percentage points just for the years of oppression."


From the August 5 broadcast of ABC Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show: 


HANNITY: But I think they made a
real tactical mistake here by playing the race card the way they did.
It's -- because Senator McCain has gone out of his way not to do this.
You know, they're making the argument that Obama is a risky choice for
president. And that is the right argument to make because he doesn't have
experience. And after all, if Obama had his way, we would already have been
defeated in Iraq.
We would have lost a major war. That's a risky experiment.

You know, when Obama says
they're going to scare Americans by saying that he doesn't look
like all those presidents on dollar bills, he can't mean anything other
than race. In fact, Obama tipped his hand when he said it back in June:
"Oh, and did I mention he's black?"

Obama can't point to a single instance
in which President Bush or McCain or Karl Rove or Sean Hannity or talk radio or
any other major Republican has made an issue of Obama's race.

As for his name, earlier in the
campaign, when my buddy Bill Cunningham in Cincinnati, great American that he is,
criticized -- he was criticized by McCain for saying Barack Hussein Obama. The
only one that keeps bringing up Obama's middle name is Barack Obama. So
the charge is without merit. And it is his name, by the way.


    
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Mediamatters.Org</span> - Four days after falsely suggesting that no
"prominent Republican" has "said that [Sen. Barack Obama] is
not patriotic, or that he's got a funny name," Sean Hannity claimed on
the August 4 edition of his
nationally syndicated radio program that Obama "can't
point to a single instance in which President Bush or [Sen. John] McCain or
[former White House senior adviser] Karl Rove or Sean Hannity or talk radio or
any other major Republican has made an issue of Obama's race." In
fact, as Media Matters for America
noted, Hannity
asserted on the March 2 edition of Fox News' Hannity's America: "As more is learned about
Barack Obama's positions, his past, and his affiliations, it seems that the
'change' candidate has all the same problems with race as those before
him," and later added, "It's only fair to ask: Do the Obamas have a
race problem of their own?"

Hannity has also repeatedly distorted what Michelle
Obama wrote in her 1985 Princeton University
senior thesis, taking the following phrase from the thesis out of
context to suggest that she has divisive views of race: "because of the
belief that Blacks must join in solidarity to combat a White oppressor." As Media Matters documented, the full paragraph in the
thesis makes clear that Obama was purporting to document attitudes among black Princeton alumni who attended the school in the '70s, and not asserting
her own views. 

Media Matters has also
documented numerous examples of other radio and TV personalities making
"an issue of Obama's race."

Radio host Rush Limbaugh:

On the June 2 broadcast of his nationally
syndicated radio program, while discussing Obama's presidential candidacy,
Limbaugh asserted that the Democratic Party was "go[ing] with a veritable
rookie whose only chance of winning is that he's black."
On May 21, Limbaugh said that "Barack Obama is an affirmative action candidate." Speaking about 'feminazis,' " Limbaugh asserted: "They forgot affirmative action for black guys. And because of that, every bit of their plan has gone up in smoke now, because they -- if -- they had to come out in favor of affirmative action for black guys, and that's -- see, this is one of the things that really irritates the women. And there are women all over this country fit to be tied -- trust me on this. ... [L]iberals eventually are going to be devoured by their own policies. And it has happened here. Because Barack Obama is an affirmative action candidate." He concluded, "So, it's just -- they just forgot that one thing: affirmative action for black guys. And if they had remembered to oppose that, then they wouldn't face the situation they face today."
Limbaugh stated during his May 14
broadcast that "[i]f Barack Obama were Caucasian, they would have taken
this guy out on the basis of pure ignorance long ago."
On the January 24, 2007,
edition of his radio show, Limbaugh referred
to Obama and actress Halle Berry
as "Halfrican American[s]," stating that "Barack Obama has
picked up another endorsement: Halfrican American actress Halle Berry."
Limbaugh then said: " 'As a Halfrican American, I am honored to have Ms. Berry's support, as well
as the support of other Halfrican Americans,' Obama said." Limbaugh then
conceded that Obama "didn't say it."


Fox News contributor Monica Crowley:

Guest-hosting the June 23 broadcast of Talk Radio Network's The Laura Ingraham Show,
Crowley
forwarded a wholly unsubstantiated smear that Obama has lied about his
ethnicity. A caller to the show claimed that Obama is "not really
African-American. He's Arab. Forty-three percent Arab, 6 percent African negro,
and half white. And that is the biggest fraud being perpetrated on us
all." In response, Crowley said that "according to this genealogy --
and again, because I haven't done the research, I can't verify this -- but
according to this guy Kenneth Lamb, Barack Obama is not black African, he is
Arab African." Crowley
continued: "And yet, this guy is campaigning as black and painting anybody
who dares to criticize him as a racist. I mean, that is -- it is the biggest
con I think I've ever seen."


Radio hosts Melanie Morgan and Brian
Sussman

On the December 4, 2006, broadcast of San Francisco radio
station KSFO's Sussman, Morgan & Vic,
in speaking to a co-host -- apparently Sussman -- Morgan referred to Obama as
an, "as you call, 'Halfrican.' " Sussman responded, "Halfrican
... his father was from Kenya,
his mother's white." He added that, "in my opinion -- 'cause my
opinion is your average white guy," Obama "is not allowed to wear the
African-American badge because his family are not the descendants of slaves,
OK? He can't identify with the discrimination and the slavery and all of that
that's gone into these black families for generations."



Sussman also said, "I have ... nothing against
mixed-race people," but later added, "I get offended and I know I
have many black friends who get offended when he [Obama] stands in front of
that black audience talking like he's from the hood, born and raised, and ...
can identify with all of their issues. He can't!"


Radio host John Gibson: 

On the June 6 edition of his Fox News Radio
show, Gibson said to a caller who spoke favorably of Obama: "You don't
know what Barack Obama stands for. You just like him because he's -- he's --
he's like you and you want to see one of you up there, and you don't care what
he stands for." The caller responded: "[H]e's not one of me. ... He's
not one of me just because he's a black guy or something like that. That
doesn't make him one of me. He's standing for him, not me."
During the April 9 broadcast of his radio show,
Gibson told a caller, "[Y]ou are the third or fourth caller in a row who
is -- has identified yourself to [associate producer] Christine as
African-American. And when I talk to you, you obviously are smart, well-educated,
well-read, and all that, and I think that your loyalty to Obama here is an
issue that goes beyond the issues." When the caller asserted, "No,
it's not -- it's not beyond the issues," Gibson said, "It is a racial
solidarity bond you have with Obama. Tell me -- I dare you to deny that."
Moments later, Gibson added: "You're sticking with Obama, because he's ...
he's a brother." Gibson also asserted about Obama: "He is lying to
your face but he knows you are so -- you so identify with him on the basis of
race, you will not even see the lies."


CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck: 

On the February 12, 2007,
broadcast of his
nationally syndicated radio show, Beck featured Philadelphia-based conservative
radio host Dom Giordano,
who claimed that "the mainstream media has dubbed [Obama] to be
African-American" and said, "If you start to, you know, delve around
the edges, say, 'Wait a minute, isn't he mixed race? Weren't we told that last
year?' Or whatever, biracial. Not allowed to say that anymore." Beck
responded by saying "he's very white in many ways," adding, "Gee,
can I even say that? Can I even say that without somebody else starting a
campaign saying, 'What does he mean, "He's very white?" ' He is. He's
very white."



After the interview, Beck attempted to clarify his comments
to executive producer and head writer of The
Glenn Beck Program, Steve Burguiere, who is known on- air as
"Stu." Beck claimed that Obama "is colorless," adding that
"as a white guy ...
[y]ou don't notice that he is black. So he might as well be white, you know
what I mean?" In addition, Beck said: "I guarantee you, there will be
blogs today that will have me being a racist because I say that."


On the January 25 edition
of his CNN Headline News program, Beck asserted: "[I]f [Sen.] Hillary
Clinton wants to be consistent, I believe, affirmative action, she should give
Barack Obama an additional five
percentage points just for the years of oppression."


From the August 5 broadcast of ABC Radio Networks' The Sean Hannity Show: 


HANNITY: But I think they made a
real tactical mistake here by playing the race card the way they did.
It's -- because Senator McCain has gone out of his way not to do this.
You know, they're making the argument that Obama is a risky choice for
president. And that is the right argument to make because he doesn't have
experience. And after all, if Obama had his way, we would already have been
defeated in Iraq.
We would have lost a major war. That's a risky experiment.

You know, when Obama says
they're going to scare Americans by saying that he doesn't look
like all those presidents on dollar bills, he can't mean anything other
than race. In fact, Obama tipped his hand when he said it back in June:
"Oh, and did I mention he's black?"

Obama can't point to a single instance
in which President Bush or McCain or Karl Rove or Sean Hannity or talk radio or
any other major Republican has made an issue of Obama's race.

As for his name, earlier in the
campaign, when my buddy Bill Cunningham in Cincinnati, great American that he is,
criticized -- he was criticized by McCain for saying Barack Hussein Obama. The
only one that keeps bringing up Obama's middle name is Barack Obama. So
the charge is without merit. And it is his name, by the way.


    
<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">Media Matters - Hannity falsely claimed "Obama can&#39;t point to a single instance in which ... Sean Hannity or talk radio" has "made an issue of Obama&#39;s race" {...} On his radio show, Sean Hannity said that Sen. Barack Obama "can&#39;t point to a single instance in which President Bush or McCain or Karl Rove or Sean Hannity or talk radio or any other major Republican has made an issue of Obama&#39;s race." In fact, Hannity asserted on the March 2 edition of Hannity&#39;s America : "As more is learned about Barack Obama&#39;s positions, his past, and his affiliations, it seems that the &#39;change&#39; candidate has all the same problems with race as those before him," and later added, "It&#39;s only fair to ask: Do the Obamas have a race problem of their own?" Media Matters has also documented numerous examples of other radio and TV personalities making "an issue of Obama&#39;s race." {...}</blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> August 7, 2008, 11:41 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> August 8, 2008, 11:57 am - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;27KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/">Society</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/">Issues</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/">Business</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/">Media</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/society/issues/business/media/bias-and-balance/"><b>Bias and Balance</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{LIBRARIES &gt; WEBLOGS} - Information Literacy Roundtable presents inaugural Michigan Information Literacy Initiative (MILI) program</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:16:27 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>Even though it is last minute; here is a great opportunity!!The Information Literacy Roundtable Board invites you to attend the June 6 inaugural Michigan Information Literacy Initiative (MILI) program at Michigan State University in East Lansing.The MILI program is a day-long series of workshops to help you enhance your planning, instruction and teaching skills. Our speakers are committed to providing you with interactive programs that will enhance your skills and provide you with real tools and methods you can put to work right away in your own teaching environment.Here  is a quick outline of the MILI Program:Keynote speaker: Dr. Caroline Stern, Ferris State UniversityBeyond Instruction: Practical Techniques and Resources for Developing Information LiteracyDr. Stern asks us "how can librarians maximize the opportunities they have to offer instruction in the limited time they have with their learners". She'll discuss learner analysis, goals and outcomes, and practical methods of instructional delivery that can improve the instructional design of your instruction sessions.Track A - Suggested for Librarians with more than 3 years of instruction experienceInstructional Design for Information Literacy: Theory-Based Practical TipsOur keynote speaker, Dr. Caroline Stern, reviews instructional design basics and "how to" practical, classroom-tested models for instructional design that can help improve the development and delivery of instruction.Effective Needs AssessmentDr. Monica Tracey, Wayne State University, focuses on identifying and using the tools of Needs Assessment including identifying learner characteristics, knowledge, skills and ability assessment. You'll walk away with a Needs Assessment Toolkit to help you answer the question, "what do they want?"Track B - Suggested for Librarians with less than 3 years of instruction experienceUsing a VAKuum to Learn About Yourself as a Teacher and Your Students as LearnersLeslie M. Behm, Michigan State University, focuses on VAK, the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles. Find out what the differences are and how to work with your material to make your teaching more effective.I'm Up Here! Presentation and Teaching Techniques that Engage Your Audience from Start to FinishVeronica Bielat, Wayne State University and Elise Brown, Kendall College of Art &amp; Design, explore the methods of effective presentation and ways to develop a classroom environment of cooperation and collaborative learning.Learn how to engage your students the minute they enter the door of your classroom.Sign up for MILI today!! Make sure you tell us which track you would like to participate in the Additional Information area of the Registration Form.For questions about MILI please contact:Veronica BielatWayne State University Education Librarianag6887 at wayne.edu(313) 577-4217 phone</description>
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">Www.Information-literacy.Net</span> - Even though it is last minute; here is a great opportunity!!The Information Literacy Roundtable Board invites you to attend the June 6 inaugural Michigan Information Literacy Initiative (MILI) program at Michigan State University in East Lansing.The MILI program is a day-long series of workshops to help you enhance your planning, instruction and teaching skills. Our speakers are committed to providing you with interactive programs that will enhance your skills and provide you with real tools and methods you can put to work right away in your own teaching environment.Here  is a quick outline of the MILI Program:Keynote speaker: Dr. Caroline Stern, Ferris State UniversityBeyond Instruction: Practical Techniques and Resources for Developing Information LiteracyDr. Stern asks us "how can librarians maximize the opportunities they have to offer instruction in the limited time they have with their learners". She'll discuss learner analysis, goals and outcomes, and practical methods of instructional delivery that can improve the instructional design of your instruction sessions.Track A - Suggested for Librarians with more than 3 years of instruction experienceInstructional Design for Information Literacy: Theory-Based Practical TipsOur keynote speaker, Dr. Caroline Stern, reviews instructional design basics and "how to" practical, classroom-tested models for instructional design that can help improve the development and delivery of instruction.Effective Needs AssessmentDr. Monica Tracey, Wayne State University, focuses on identifying and using the tools of Needs Assessment including identifying learner characteristics, knowledge, skills and ability assessment. You'll walk away with a Needs Assessment Toolkit to help you answer the question, "what do they want?"Track B - Suggested for Librarians with less than 3 years of instruction experienceUsing a VAKuum to Learn About Yourself as a Teacher and Your Students as LearnersLeslie M. Behm, Michigan State University, focuses on VAK, the visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles. Find out what the differences are and how to work with your material to make your teaching more effective.I'm Up Here! Presentation and Teaching Techniques that Engage Your Audience from Start to FinishVeronica Bielat, Wayne State University and Elise Brown, Kendall College of Art & Design, explore the methods of effective presentation and ways to develop a classroom environment of cooperation and collaborative learning.Learn how to engage your students the minute they enter the door of your classroom.Sign up for MILI today!! Make sure you tell us which track you would like to participate in the Additional Information area of the Registration Form.For questions about MILI please contact:Veronica BielatWayne State University Education Librarianag6887 at wayne.edu(313) 577-4217 phone<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">The Information Literacy Land of Confusion: Information Literacy Roundtable presents inaugural Michigan Information Literacy Initiative (MILI) program {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> August 6, 2008, 11:16 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;91KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/reference/">Reference</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/">Libraries</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/">Library and Information Science</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/reference/libraries/library-and-information-science/weblogs/"><b>Weblogs</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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		<title>{ASIA &gt; NEWS AND MEDIA} - Indian weighlifter 'fails test'</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:56:05 GMT</pubDate>
		<description>Weightlifter Monica Devi is dropped from India's team for the Beijing Olympics after reportedly failing a drugs test, officials say.</description>
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<td width="100%" style="font:9pt Verdana,Arial,Sans-serif;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;font-variant:small-caps;">News.Bbc.Co.Uk</span> - Weightlifter Monica Devi is dropped from India's team for the Beijing Olympics after reportedly failing a drugs test, officials say.<blockquote style="background:#FAFAFA;border:1px dotted #E6E6E6;font:italic 10pt Times New Roman;padding:9px;">BBC NEWS | South Asia | Indian weighlifter 'fails test' {...} </blockquote><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Published:</span> August 6, 2008, 3:56 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Indexed:</span> August 6, 2008, 10:50 pm - <span style="color:#808080;">Page Size:</span>&nbsp;45KB</div><div style="font:8pt Verdana,Arial;vertical-align:top;"><span style="color:#808080;">Category:</span> <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/">Regional</a> &gt; <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/asia/">Asia</a> &gt;  <a href="http://www.world-of-newave.info/regional/asia/news-and-media/"><b>News and Media</b></a></div></td></tr></table>
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