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Yogi Berra Has A Gay Old Time At ‘Moneyball’
Scene: A movie theater in Montclair, N.J. Yogi Berra is here to see “Moneyball.” Berra didn’t earn a ton of money playing baseball. The game was different then. When Yogi was a 17-year-old prospect from St. Louis, he signed with … Continue reading
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Tagged Jason Gay, Moneyball, Wall Street Journal, Yogi Berra
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Times Co. Town (Andy Rooney Edition)
From our Before They Made Him They Broke the Mold desk (apologies to S.J. Perelman): Kissin’ cousins New York Times and Boston Globe staged a compare-and -contrastapalooza with their respective obituaries of CBS News icon Andy Rooney. The Globe glowbit here. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Rooney, Beat the Press, Boston Globe, Emily Rooney, glowbit, Greater Boston, New York Times, WGBH
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Occupy Gayle King/ESPN/Fox News
Occupy Wall Street is about to occupy ad time on New York cable networks. Via Mashable: [Occupy Wall Street supporters] chipped in more than $6,000 to a crowdfunding campaign that will put a video of protesters explaining their objectives in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomberg Business TV, ESPN, Fox News, Gayle King, Mashable, Occupy Wall Street
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On The Media’s Brooke Gladstone Unilaterally Declares NPR Centrist
In a conversation with NYU Press Thinker Jay Rosen about NPR’s serial firings of staffers and freelancers over their advocacy of Occupy Wall Street, On the Media host Brooke Gladstone made this statement: What’s wrong with different kinds of institutions deciding on … Continue reading
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Tagged Jay Rosen, NPR firings, NYU, Occupy Wall Street, On the Media, Press Think
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Ballad Of A Boston Marathon Bandit
From our Taking Themselves Too Seriously desk: The Weekend Wall Street Journal’s A-Hed chronicles the world of rogue marathon runners – that is, the great unnumbered. Headline: Fleet of Foot and Blissfully Bold, Freeloaders at the Marathon Wear Fake Bibs—but … Continue reading
Cain ‘High-Tech-Lynching’ Ad Coming Soon To A TV Near You?
Grand Old Partier Hormone Cain (R-Am I Clarence Thomas Yet?) has just released a high dudgeon high-tech-lynching web video that’s as ludicrous as his shape-shifting defense against sexual harassment charges has been. Via Romensko: Jim Geraghty of the National … Continue reading
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Tagged Clarence Thomas, Grand Old Partier, high tech lynching, Hormone Cain, Iowa, Jim Geraghty, National Review Online, Romenesko
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Dr. Ads Deigns To Cher
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Cainicide? Larry Sabato Says ‘Not So Fast’
While everyone else writes off Grand Old Partier Hormone Cain (R-My Place Or Mine?), Mr. Crystal Ball Larry Sabato reminds us of this in a Rasmussen Report commentary: The lesson of history is clear, as our quick-take chart shows: From 1976 to 2008, there … Continue reading
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