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Joe the Plumber: The price of fame (Updated)
Spin CycleWell, it turns out that Joe is not a licensed plumber, and the local union is now mad at him for working without a license. He has an $1182 delinquent tax lien on his house. His name is misspelled......Tags: Lawyers, Pennsylvania, Court Administration, Politics, Ohio
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Powell endorsement: Payback from the WSJ?
Spin CycleEven before they carried Rupert Murdoch's water, the blindered ideologues who run the Wall Street Journal's opinion pages were not shrinking violets. Just ask Vince Foster. So now that Colin Powell has endorsed Obama on Meet the Press, he......Tags: Albert Hall, Colin Powell
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Zell: A bit of history
Spin CycleAnyone surprised that Newsday's former owner Tribune Co. is going into Chapter 11 under the stewardship of Sam Zell hasn't been paying attention.To see just how inevitable this was, check out these two blog posts by Alan Mutter: April......Tags: Employees, Career and Workplace, Newspaper and Magazine, Tribune Company
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Why did the Post endorse Caroline?
Spin CycleAnyone wondering why the NY Post endorsed Caroline for Hillary's seat this morning, please note this passage in the NYTimes profile: "As one might expect, she is also the consummate insider: When Rupert Murdoch???s young daughter was applying to the......Tags: News Corp.
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Report: Caroline a Mike subsidiary
Spin CycleWayne Barrett of the Village Voice has just posted an item full of new details on Michael Bloomberg's behind the scenes effort to boost Caroline Kennedy. ">Of interest: 1. Barrett thinks that if Kennedy gets the seat through his......Tags: Politics, Michael Bloomberg, Mort Zuckerman, Internal Revenue Service, Caroline Kennedy
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Michelle Obama's White House designer
The Swampby Mark Silva Stand close enough to the White House on a sunny day and one notices that it isn't really white, but rather an off-white blend of cream or perhaps pink - only her painter knows for sure. And......Tags: White House, Politics, Cindy Crawford, Michelle Obama, Steven Spielberg
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Chimp-cartoon protestors march in N.Y.
The Swampby Mark Silva They were marching in the streets of New York today to protest the Post cartoon depicting a rogue chimpanzee as author of the nation's economic stimulus. "End racism now,'' chanted demonstrators led by the Rev. Al Sharpton,......Tags: Connecticut, Entertainment, Cartoons, Racism, Getty Images Inc.
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Chernin Leaves News Corp: June
The TV ZoneSomehow this was expected, but not today - Peter Chernin is outathere. The Kingdom of Rupert just announced. How big is this showbiz news on a scale of one to ten, with ten being big, and one not? A......Tags: Government, News Corp., Corporate Officers, Companies and Corporations, National Government
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Rupert Murdoch: Sorry for chimp cartoon
The Swampby Mark Silva The New York Post may have been somewhat equivocal in its printed apology for the cartoon about the author of the economic stimulus picturing a dead chimpanzee. But the Post's publisher, Rupert Murdoch, pulled no punches in......Tags: Connecticut, Government, Entertainment, Cartoons, Racism
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Mayor Mike's 3rd term deception: New details?
Spin CycleBetting on political amnesia seems to be Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan for success in a November re-election that -- under the law and by his own vow -- was never supposed to be. Months after he and the City......Tags: Local Elections, Politics, Idaho, Regional Authority, Michael Bloomberg
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Is Simon Cowell worth $144M -- a year?
The TV ZoneKing o' the world? (Getty Images Photo) I see the press has its tighty-whities all in knot over the report out the U.K. yesterday that Simon Cowell - SiCo - has been offered $144 million a year to continue......Tags: Consumer Electronics Industry, Entertainment, Getty Images Inc., Television, Popular Music (genre)
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Sarah Palin's memoirs: 'Going Rogue'
The Swampby Mark Silva Sarah Palin is a speed-writer, it appears, or perhaps the hired evangelical collaborator on her forthcoming memoirs is a task-master. But without question, her publisher is a markerting whiz: Going Roque is the announced title of the......Tags: Government, Christianity, Services and Shopping, News Corp., Republican Party
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