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Strange de Jim's Zingers Collection - November 19 2009
O'Brien 3, Colbert 2, Ferguson 2, Letterman 2, Fallon 1 Winner David Letterman: "Monday morning Sheik Mohammed will be on the 'Today' show singing 'I Dreamed a Dream.' He's not coming on this show, though, apparently because of a joke I made about his daughter." David Letterman: "The CIA has a new terrorist plan.
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Mammograms: Reporters know best?
Do you know whether women in their 40s should have routine mammograms? A lot of our colleagues think they do.
Margaret Wente Published on Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 8:25PM EST Last updated on Tuesday, Nov.
Kind words from Katie Couric regarding my efforts
Okay, sure, Ms Couric is way too kind regarding big influencers in media . However, I feel that this has nothing to do with reality, but more to do with my naming in 2000 as one of the "top ten bachelors of Silicon Valley", and my appearance with her on the Today Show.
Sarah Palina s book goes rogue on some facts
Nov. 13: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin begins her book tour with an interview with Oprah Winfrey in which she talks about Levi Johnston, the McCain campaign and her interview with Katie Couric.
She faked breast cancer to get breast implants
Nov. 13: Police say a woman duped her community into believing she had breast cancer to get money for breast implants.
CBS: Obama 'So Thoroughly Researching Critical'...
News that President Barack Obama is demanding new Afghanistan options and answers, after months and eight meetings with top officials on General Stanley McChrystal's request for more troops, led ABC anchor Charles Gibson to express exasperation Thursday night: 'What new questions are there to be asked after all this time?' CBS and NBC, however, ...
Fox News regular says Katie Couric 'looks Oriental'
A Fox News contributor who helped popularize claims that President Barack Obama wasn't born in the United States has done one better, leveling a racist charge against CBS News anchor Katie Couric.
There's no shame in this bottle
It's probably not American wine drinkers' fondness for lots of alcohol and oak that most thoroughly confounds Old World wine lovers: It's their tendency to let fictional characters tell them what to drink.
Access Preview: Inside Andre Agassia s Shocking Revelations
Agassi's book has sparked huge controversy! From the wig he wore on the court to his admission of using crystal meth.
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The Obamas? Oh, they're just the first family next door
The pundits say the president took a beating at the polls, but Barack Obama won a very different kind of contest last week.
With his BlackBerry, his burger runs and his pickup basketball, 'he and his family have brought dramatic social change to the nation's capital and to the country's collective image of its first family,' USA Today declared.
Barack and Michelle 'have spoken more frankly about marriage than most intact couples, especially those running for office, usually do,' the New York Times Magazine reported, explaining how she was 'seduced by his mind, his charm, his promise of social transformation.' The first lady also dispensed dating advice in a Katie Couric sit-down for Glamour magazine, saying, 'Cute's good, but cute only lasts for so long.'
CBS & NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim; ABC's...
Neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, but ABC anchor Charles Gibson wasn't cowed by political correctness as he teased World News, 'Fort Hood tragedy: An Army officer, a Muslim convert, is the suspect in ...
Live Facebook Chat With Katie Couric Today At 3 p.m.
CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric will discuss her recent interviews with former Vice President Al Gore and First Lady Michelle Obama and answer questions during a live Facebook chat Thursday at 3 p.m. ET.
I hope you're all getting into some debauchery tonight. Like I said earlier, it's the one night of the year when you can dress like a slut, a freak, or a creep, and people won't think you're insane or hold you accountable.
Quayle v. Palin: Quayle Pulls Ahead
Remember the period between the 2008 Republican Convention, but before the Katie Couric interview, when Sarah Palin was widely seen as a new politico dynamo who had breathed life into the McCain campaign? I wrote a column pointing out the the reaction to Palin eerily recalled the early reaction to Dan Quayle in 1988: [S]omewhere in the recesses of ...
Ay! Former President George W. Bush is now billing himself as a motivational speaker.
Palin paid $1.25M for book before leaving office
Sept. 29: The publisher of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's new memoir, "Going Rogue," has decided to move up its release date.
Medicare Drug Planners Now Lobbyists, With Billions at Stake
A version of this story was co-produced with the CBS News investigative unit for CBS Evening News With Katie Couric and aired on that program on Tuesday, Oct.
Epilepsy: A Fight For The Cure
Susan and David Axelrod's oldest daughter Lauren had tried 23 different medications and an unsuccessful brain surgery to control her epilepsy by the time she was 18.
Rosalind Wiseman - Complete Interview
KATIE COURIC: Hey, everyone, this is At Katie Couric. Today's episode will be especially useful for anyone out there who, like me, is raising teenage daughters.
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