Candidate tells Gibson that Russian aggression could pull US into war
CNN Sep 12, 08 7:36 CDT
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Sarah Palin talked tough on Russia in excerpts from her interview with Charlie Gibson aired last night, CNN reports. The candidate said she firmly backed NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia. Asked if that meant America would have to go to war if Russia invaded Georgia again, she said "Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help."
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Gibson face-off to be featured on 20/20
Associated Press Sep 11, 08 11:03 CDT
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Charles Gibson's interviews with Sarah Palin will be featured on a special prime-time edition of ABC's 20/20 tomorrow, reports AP. Gibson is traveling to Fairbanks and Wasilla, Alaska, for the first TV interviews with Palin since she was selected as John McCain's running mate. Excerpts will be shown on ABC's World News this evening.
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OPINION
Respect and courtesy, certainly, but 'deference' is pushing it
Los Angeles Times Sep 11, 08 7:19 CDT
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The McCain camp's insistence that Sarah Palin not submit to questioning until the media shows "respect and deference" is a brazen double standard bound to raise voter eyebrows, Tim Rutten writes in the Los Angeles Times . She is certainly due respect, Rutten writes, but it is hard to justify the media showing more deference to the governor of Alaska than to the president.
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Cindy, John and eldest daughter spill about dirty jokes and checking in
People Sep 11, 08 1:55 CDT
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The McCains are hardly the average American family, but Cindy still wants that gas tank filled when the car comes back. Cindy, a reticent John, and eldest daughter, Meghan, 23, spilled the beans to People about McCain family life: On messing with mom: “Sometimes I just like to shock her and say the dirtiest jokes I can possibly think of and she's like, ‘Oh, Meghan!’ I think she secretly enjoys them.”
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Governator's Q&A with German mag ruffles Calif. feathers, too
Los Angeles Times Sep 10, 08 11:27 CDT
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Arnold Schwarzenegger has given an interview to a German magazine so candid that some in Sacramento are wondering if the Q&A with the California governor was mistranslated, the Los Angeles Times reports. Schwarzenegger told Der Spiegel he was surprised by John McCain's choice of the "feisty" and "good-looking" Sarah Palin, and that Tim Pawlenty was "the smartest" of the potential veep picks.
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OPINION
Dowd can't wait for the TV debut of Wasilla's own Eliza Doolittle
New York Times Sep 10, 08 9:53 CDT
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Maureen Dowd hops a plane to Wasilla, Alaska, where Sarah Palin will hold her first interview as a VP candidate this weekend. Media types might be flocking to the Last Frontier, but Palin has been sequestered from the press, brushing up for her sit-down with Charles Gibson. She's the Eliza Doolittle of the race, "pulling the political equivalent of an all-nighter."
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ABC's Gibson
gets first shot at
grilling McCain's
running mate
Chicago Tribune Sep 8, 08 1:58 CDT
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Sarah Palin will sit for her first press interview since accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination, reports the Chicago Tribune . She'll be interviewed by ABC anchor Charlie Gibson in Alaska later this week. The McCain camp has kept Palin from the press so far, calling its coverage of the Alaska governor sexist and intrusive.
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Moratorium on political guests in effect til presidential election
ABC News Sep 6, 08 5:56 CDT
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Talk show queen Oprah Winfrey will not host Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin on her program—and some viewers are hopping mad, ABC News reports. “She's doing an injustice to women,” said one likely former fan. The Drudge Report had suggested that the Oprah camp was at loggerheads over a possible Palin appearance. But Oprah denied the report, insisting she has no intention of inviting any political guests—at least until after the election.
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INTERVIEW
Says his peers are loath to concede
critical mistakes
Gelf Magazine Sep 1, 08 10:51 CDT
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You may have missed it, but the New Yorker pays attention to pop music. Flip past articles on dead American poets and you might find insightful, sometimes scathing, music critiques by Sasha Frere-Jones. The musician and critic sat down with Gelf Magazine to discuss the problems with defining indie rock—and owning up to mistakes he’s made in missing the mark.
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Comedienne has a new show and plenty to talk about
Radar Aug 21, 08 12:26 PM CDT
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If you've missed Margaret Cho's raunchy brand of comedy, her new "scripted reality sitcom," The Cho Show , debuts this month on VH1 and follows the comedienne and hangers-on through outrageous adventures in Hollywood. Cho sat down with Radar to talk about anal bleaching, defending Britney Spears, and winning the Korean of the Year Award.
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Harkleroad tells all before she bares all
ESPN Jul 17, 08 10:53 CDT
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Ashley Harkleroad isn’t that effusive when she talks about her chosen profession—tennis. “I have to think it's better than having a ‘real job,’” she tells ESPN. But when it comes to posing nude for Playboy, the world’s 65th-ranked player gushes. “I'm not a very modest person, so I was really feeling it,” the 23-year-old says. “I was having a good time and trying to feel sexy in my own body; I think it worked.”
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Conservative pundit takes relaxed, questioning attitude on new morning show
New York Jul 14, 08 12:19 PM CDT
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Joe Scarborough was a conservative Republican congressman who gained office in the 1994 House sweep that launched Newt Gingrich. His MSNBC show Scarborough Country was initially devised as a like-minded answer to Bill O’Reilly. But, as Mark Binelli puts it in New York magazine, "Scarborough never quite mastered the voice of perpetual outrage." Which could be why his new show, Morning Joe , has a surprisingly liberal following.
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Opinion
Puff piece with young daughters just another episode of political peekaboo
New York Times Jul 14, 08 9:50 CDT
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The press tries to treat politicians’ offspring, particularly younger ones, with kid gloves, writes David Carr of the New York Times —so it’s no wonder there was a furor when Barack Obama let Access Hollywood interview his 10- and 7-year-old daughters. Many reporters were irked by the beyond-puff piece, and Obama swiftly said he wouldn’t do it again, drawing the curtain back over his family.
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