Elisabeth Hasselbeck is going to be on fox at some point Fox loves her!!!!!!!!!

Controversies are why foxnews loves her


On August 2, 2006, Hasselbeck got into a heated debate in which she strongly opposed the Food and Drug Administration's plan to sell the "morning after pill" as an over-the-counter drug. Hasselbeck stated, "I believe that life begins at the moment of conception..." She said the pill should be banned in cases of rape and incest, because "that life still has value." Hasselbeck argued that advocates of the drug use the "rape or incest" exception as a "bait-and-switch" distraction from the goal of making it universally accessible. She argued if the "rape or incest" exception was all advocates cared about, they would not support its over-the-counter status.[13]
On May 23, 2007, Hasselbeck was involved in a heated on-air argument with co-host Rosie O'Donnell concerning the war in Iraq, which she supports and O'Donnell opposes. When O'Donnell rhetorically asked, "655,000 Iraqi civilians dead. Who are the terrorists?"[14] she was criticized by conservative commentators for her question. O'Donnell complained about Hasselbeck's unwillingness to defend more strongly O'Donnell's statement following the media attention after her comment. Hasselbeck said "Defend your own insinuations" and responded that she shouldn't have to defend anyone else's words for them, especially when she has a forum with which to defend herself.[15][16]
In September 2007, Barry Manilow canceled a scheduled appearance on The View because of his dislike of Hasselbeck and her conservative views. Manilow said, "I strongly disagree with her views. I think she's dangerous and offensive. I will not be on the same stage as her." He added, "I had made a request that I be interviewed by co-hosts Joy (Behar), Barbara (Walters) or Whoopi (Goldberg), but not Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Unfortunately, the show was not willing to accommodate this simple request, so I bowed out".[17]
On October 3, 2007, Hasselbeck and The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg got into a discussion about Hillary Clinton's new $5000 baby entitlement which became heated due to Hasselbeck stating that it would lead to fewer abortions due to women wanting to keep the money. Goldberg told Hasselbeck to "back off a little" and asked her if she "had ever been in that position to make that decision".[18]
On January 21, 2008, Hasselbeck and her The View co-hosts were discussing the idea of whether it is harder to elect an African American or woman President. When asked "Is the country more racist than sexist?" by co-host Joy Behar, Hasselbeck was quick to respond with "Don't we have the answer already? Wasn't a black man able to walk into a voting booth long before a woman?" Co-host Whoopi Goldberg responded by saying that a woman was able to vote long before an African American.[19] The historical question is controversial. The first African American to vote under the 15th Amendment was Thomas Mundy Peterson in 1870 while the first woman to vote under the 19th was Marie Ruoff Byrum in 1920. On the other hand, some women were able to vote in various states long before either the 19th amendment or the 15th amendment and, due to Jim Crow laws, the 15th amendment did not effectively grant suffrage to African Americans on a national scale the way the 19th amendment did for women. Even so, at the time of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation in 1777, five states--Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, and North Carolina--permitted free blacks to vote.
On March 24, 2008, Hasselbeck commented on Rev. Jeremiah Wright's recent statements. After Hasselbeck said of Rev. Wright, "I would never continue to be friends with someone who was a racist,"[20] co-host Sherri Shepherd responded, "Can I say something? Because this man- 20 years he’s been preaching and he’s done so much for the community and I think, you know, to say that this man is racist, and you haven’t had the full text of what he said, that’s just really extreme, Elisabeth." Hasselbeck responded and used what she said was an "extreme" example to make her point; "Now, would you say, and I’m going to go to an extreme now since we’re going there. I’m sure at some point, Jeffrey Dahmer ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Does that make the fact that he then ate people less wrong?" Co-host Whoopi Goldberg asked, "How do you equate those two things together? I’m sorry, I, I-" [laughter][21][1][22] To refute Hasselbeck's accusation of Wright, co-host Joy Behar read dictionary definitions of "racism": "The second definition is, this is what I was driving at, 'a policy, a system of government based upon or forced such a doctrine of discrimination.' So it comes from the ruling party, the ruling class. It doesn’t come from the oppressed. It comes from above."[21]

Microsoft tries to fix big glitch on Obama this is not good at ALL!!!!

Microsoft tries to fix big glitch on Obama

A Twin Cities political adman pointed out that the Hotmail spell checker associates "Osama" with Barack Obama's last name.

By BOB VON STERNBERG, Star Tribune

For months, Barack Obama's campaign has repeatedly, and not always successfully, tried to swat away references to Barack "Osama," the mutating of the candidate's name into the similar-sounding moniker of the world's most-wanted terrorist.

Some of the mixups have been made accidentally (as when Sen. Ted Kennedy did it). Some have been made maliciously by Obama's critics (as when Rush Limbaugh did it).

One mixup, with potentially vast effect, apparently belongs to the unintentional category and gained wide currency this week: The spell-checker in Microsoft's Hotmail e-mail software recommends that users replace the word "Obama" with "Osama."

'Can of worms'

The glitch, which a Microsoft spokeswoman said the company is trying to fix, was brought to light this week by Twin Cities political adman Bill Hillsman, who said the e-mail wrinkle "opens a whole can of worms again that the Obama campaign desperately wants to stamp out."

Obama's exotic-sounding name (not least, his middle name, Hussein) has caused headaches for the candidate and his aides as they've tried to correct misconceptions about his heritage -- including that he's a closet Muslim.

A Google search of "Obama Osama" returns more than 400,000 hits. And with an estimated 260 million users of Hotmail worldwide, Hillsman said such an error can perpetuate those misconceptions.

"Self-identified independent voters are most likely to be influenced by this," said Hillsman, a partner in a political consulting firm that focuses on independent candidates and voters. "Democrats and Republicans aren't going to be swayed by this. But people e-mailing things back and forth about Obama are going to keep seeing this and if it happens enough times, they could make the wrong association."

Stumbled across the glitch

Hillsman, whose ad campaigns for Paul Wellstone and Jesse Ventura shot him to prominence, said one of his partners stumbled across the glitch while "fooling around on the computer, looking for things independent voters might find online. We figured this was a mistake."

That's exactly what it was, according to Microsoft spokeswoman Melissa Lawson.

"For the convenience of our customers, Windows Live Hotmail spell checking functionality helps provide suggested alternatives for words not recognized by the Hotmail dictionary, including suggestions for other words or proper names similar in spelling to the unrecognized term," she wrote in an e-mail.

"While the Hotmail spell checker currently recognizes the term 'Barack,' it does not properly recognize the term 'Obama.' We are working to update the Hotmail dictionary to recognize 'Obama.' "

Bob von Sternberg • 612-673-7184

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TMZ is being nice today.

Tim Russert Autopsy: He Had an Enlarged Heart
I am surprised, thay know how to do a good RIP story.!
See for your self.

The good ones go so fast!!!

He will be missd!!!!!!

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Tim Russert, NBC News "Meet the Press" moderator dies at age 58

From Wikinews, the free news source you can write!

Friday, June 13, 2008

Tim Russert on October 22, 2007

NBC News' Washington bureau chief, senior vice president and the moderator of Meet the Press Tim Russert has died today after a sudden heart attack at NBC's Washington news bureau. He was rushed to Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., where resuscitation efforts failed.

Russert was recording voiceovers for Meet the Press when he collapsed. Russert and his family had recently returned from Italy after celebrating his son Luke's graduation from Boston College. He is survived by his wife Maureen Orth, son Luke, and father, who he knew fondly as "Big Russ", as illustrated in his best selling book, "Big Russ and Me."

A Buffalo, New York native, Russert graduated from John Carroll University and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law before entering politics. He was also a member of the bar in New York and Washington, D.C.

Russert entered politics as former New York Governor Mario Cuomo's press secretary and was the chief of staff to former Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Russert joined NBC News in 1984, directed broadcasts of the Today program, and went on to lead NBC News broadcasts from South America, Australia and China in 1986 and 1987.

He took over the role as Meet the Press, a Sunday morning talk show, in 1991. His 16 1/2 years as moderator exceeded those of other hosts of the sixty year old public affairs show. His tenure in the position extended over the terms of three different U.S. presidents, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush. Time named him one of the world's one-hundred most influential people in 2008.

Russert was a very meritorious journalist, winning an Emmy Award for his coverage of the funeral of President Ronald Reagan. A very decorated journalist, Russert received fourty-eight honorary doctorates and was a member of the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame.

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High Court sides with Guantanamo detainees again Associated Press

High Court sides with Guantanamo detainees again
By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.

In its third rebuke of the Bush administration's treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating the rights of prisoners being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The court's liberal justices were in the majority.

Lufthansa Airbus wingstrike at Hamburg

The Lufthansa flight LH44 from Munich experienced wingstrike while landing at Hamburg on 1 March 2008 during Emma storm. Nobody was injured; the plane landed using another runway.

plane ablaze,

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Sudan Airways plane carrying 217 people burst into flames after landing at Khartoum airport on Tuesday and local media said dozens were feared killed.

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