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20 February 2008

mccain projected to win wisconsin republican primary

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - Sen. John McCain won the Wisconsin vote to select a Republican presidential candidate on Tuesday, moving closer toward locking up the party's nomination after his leading rivals bowed out of the race, U.S. media projected.

u.s. limits okinawa troops to bases over rape case

TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. military in Okinawa ordered its members and their families on Wednesday to restrict their movements after the arrest last week of a Marine on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old girl.

castro steps down after half a century

HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro stepped down on Tuesday 49 years after taking power in an armed revolution, closing the book on a Cold War career that made him an icon to leftists and a tyrant to his foes.

australia says job is done for soldiers in iraq

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's top military commander said on Wednesday the job of the country's combat soldiers in southern Iraq was done, bolstering a government decision to bring them home mid-year.

olivia newton-john to trek china's great wall

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Singer-actress Olivia Newton-John plans to walk along the Great Wall of China to raise money for a cancer charity, with celebrities from around the world planning to join the trek, she told reporters on Tuesday.

javier bardem may be days away from an oscar

We've gotten so used to seeing Javier Bardem all dressed up in suits for the many award shows he's been hitting up lately, but he got to dress down while hanging out in Madrid this weekend. His little vacation won't last long ? he'll be heading back to LA for the biggest award show of all this weekend. We haven't been shy about our Oscar excitement, and you can join in the fun too by filling out a ballot for the chance to win some awesome prize
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washington post pimps msnbc

If you were to write an article about how the three cable news networks are covering a story, would you address the one with the highest ratings first, or the also-ran?At the Washington Post, the answer is "the also-ran." On Tuesday, in a piece about how political pundits are "overpopulating the news networks," staff writer Paul Farhi first highlighted what was going on at third-place MSNBC, and even gave Keith Olbermann the first crack at commen
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nyt gives 'charismatic' castro credit for 'great social achievements'

The "charismatic" Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's shock retirement for health reasons is covered on the New York Times web site this morning by James McKinley Jr., writing from Mexico City -- "Fidel Castro Resigns as Cuba's President." President Castro? Was there nothing stronger in the NYT thesaurus this morning? By contrast, when right-wing dictator Augusto Pinochet died in December 2006, the headline that greeted him was (emphasis added): "Augus
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google de-lists prominent un critic blogger

In another blow against freedom of speech on the Internet, Fox News is reporting that Google has taken the measure of de-listing the work of an anti-UN blogger named Matthew Lee. For several years, Lee has run the Inner City Press, a small news/opinion site that is focused on criticizing the United Nations. But since Google has teamed up with the UN on recent initiatives, Google has found that Lee's criticism is too much for them to handle. Mr. L
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abc's sawyer hails 'dashing' 'rock star' fidel castro

While covering the breaking story on Tuesday of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's decision to step down from power, various "Good Morning America" anchors and reporters soft peddled the communist leader's crimes. In a profile piece that narrated a brief history of his life, co-host Diane sawyer enthused, "Castro knew life is a stage and played the part of the dashing revolutionary coming to New York, getting rock star treatment." Now, she did add tha
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nbc?s missed prediction: $4 gas by mid-february

Early last month, when oil prices flirted with inflation-adjusted record highs, fears of sky-high gas prices were filtered through the media. CNBC's Erin Burnett gave viewers a frightening prediction of $4-a-gallon gasoline during a January 2 appearance on the NBC "Nightly News." The "Street Signs" anchor cited John Kilduff, the vice president of risk management at the MF Global Ltd. Brokerage, as the source of this predicted high watermark
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castro headlines/labeling watch

Update 14:16 | Matthew Sheffield. The level of excusing and tip-toeing around the truth about Castro is staggering. As of 2:13 ET when you do a Google News search for "Fidel Castro" you come up with 7,520 results. Add the word dictator after it and you come back with 1,417. That's 81 percent less. Just a few headlines from major newspapers as Fidel Castro has called it quits as dictator: Castro resigns, ending era in Cuba (LATimes.com front page
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behar: 'some saints' canonized because they were 'psychotic'

?View? co-host Joy Behar followed up her anti-Catholic "saints are crazy" line, noting she "got in trouble with the Catholic Church." Though she emphasized it was "not all but some," she still called them "nuts" and "psychotic," and added that "not all of them deserved to be saints." Behar also added her opinions how crazy people in medieval Europe would be able to escape punishment by saying they were saints."I mean, let?s say that you were a pe
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mark levin tells michelle obama ?stop putting down my country!?

For those that missed it, Mrs. Barack Obama recently told a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, crowd, "For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country."On Monday, my colleague John Stephenson wisely asked, "Will Media Ignore Michelle Obama Remark?" After looking at what MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski said on Tuesday's "Morning Joe," the answer to Stephenson's question is: media that don't ignore Obama's disgraceful comments will likely defend
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bill clinton, still a victim of paula jones and 'clinton haters'

In the 8:30 half hour of Tuesday?s "Today," NBC?s Matt Lauer interviewed Washington lawyer Robert Bennett on his new book "In The Ring." Lauer began by noting Bennett?s been in all manner of Washington scandals. But Lauer and Bennett chose to hone in on just one: Paula Jones. Lauer didn?t suggest there was anything wrong with what Jones said Bill Clinton did at a Little Rock hotel room, in dropping his pants and asking her, a stranger and a state
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dobbs rants about safety chief?s remarks; calls her 'imbecilic'

No one has ever accused Protectionist-in-Chief and CNN host Lou Dobbs of being one to exercise discretion when something has ticked him off. The host of ?Lou Dobbs Tonight? blew up after interview after CNN correspondent Christine Romans interviewed Nancy Nord, chairman of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, on his a February 18 show. ?This ? Nord, is she as imbecilic as she appears to be as absolutely insensitive to Ameri
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too conservative for cnn: mccain pounded for no tax pledge

Well, that didn?t take long. On CNN Monday night, John McCain was treated like any other conservative Republican, as correspondents and a tilted panel of ex-Clinton officials painted him as irresponsible for opposing a supposedly necessary increase in taxes. In a ?Keeping Them Honest? segment on Anderson Cooper 360, reporter Tom Foreman wondered if McCain ?can keep that promise? of ?no new taxes,? before asserting: ?Some economists say not.? But
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nb interview with publisher al regnery

Earlier today NewsBusters Managing Editor Ken Shepherd briefly interviewed conservative publisher Al Regnery, author of a newly-published history of the modern American conservative movement, "Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism." Regnery had just finished a lunchtime chat about "Upstream" with conservative bloggers at Heritage Foundation's weekly blogger briefing. Regnery will deliver a free lecture at Heritage tomorrow. Audio is
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