NBC news correspondent Jenna Bush Hager had a news exclusive. And, like news exclusives in the Era of Infotainment TV, this one was broadcast by the entertainment division. Specifically, Jenna Bush interviewed her mother, Laura Bush, on 38th episode of “The Jay Leno Show.”
It makes no difference what the questions or answers were. Journalism hasn’t [...]
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by Walter Brasch
The vice-presidential debates proved one thing. At the very least, Sarah Palin can be trained.
For several days, she had camped out in one of John McCain’s Arizona houses, where she underwent Debate Boot camp conducted by drill instructors who make Marine DIs appear to be slaggers.
With a few “darns,” “betchas,” and “ya”s, Palin [...]
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Take a look at this comparison video of Palin’s Katie Couric interview, to “Lauren Caitlin Upton, the Miss Teen USA contestant who set off an Internet sensation with her bizarre, rambling question to a geography question” – Battle of the Beauty Contestants!
Oh my!
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Tags: Beauty Contestants, Geography Question, Internet Sensation, Katie Couric, Lauren Caitlin [...]
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David Letterman received a personal phone call from McCain explaining that he had cancel his scheduled appearance to rush to Washington to save the economy. Fine, that’s a reasonable excuse. Letterman was peeved at the whole thing and the beginning of this video shows that clearly.
After the show had started, his staff found out that [...]
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Say what? The McCain campaign had an ad up that was ‘misleading.’
Via Politico:
YouTube has removed a webad that casts Sarah Palin as the victim of sexism on the request of CBS, whose anchor Katie Couric was featured in the ad.
“One of the great lessons of that campaign is the continued and accepted role of sexism [...]
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