By The Admin on October 22, 2010
Politico
- Fox News moved swiftly to turn the controversy over Juan Williams’s firing to its advantage, offering him an expanded role and a new three-year contract Thursday morning in a deal that amounts to nearly $2 million, Matea Gold reports.
Roger Ailes took a jab at NPR in the process.
“Juan has been a staunch defender of [...]
Posted in Media
By The Admin on October 22, 2010
Bill Clinton, out of the Oval Office for nearly a decade and once considered a political liability, is campaigning for Democratic candidates at a pace no one can match, drawing big crowds and going to states that President Barack Obama avoids.
If the Republican wave on Nov. 2 ends up a bit weaker than many now [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections
By The Admin on October 21, 2010
Longtime news analyst Juan Williams, who has written extensively on race and civil rights, has been fired by NPR after saying on the Fox News Channel that he gets nervous when he sees people in Muslim garb on an airplane.
NPR issued a statement late Wednesday saying his contract as a senior news analyst was being [...]
Posted in Media, Race
By The Admin on October 21, 2010
Election Day is already over for more than 3 million Americans, and a surprising number of them are Democrats.
Republicans clearly are gaining ground in turning out early voters compared with their showing two years ago, but figures from the first batch of states that offer clues about 2010 early voting patterns still give Democrats an [...]
Posted in 2010 Elections
By The Admin on October 21, 2010
CNN
- Carl Fields flips through hundreds of job applications he’s filled out during the last 20 months of unemployment.
“I feel that I am going to get a job,” he says. “I just feel it in my bones and my spirit that I am going to get a job. … It’s just a matter of when.”
Fields, [...]
Posted in Money & Finance
