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Obama will have a hard time complaining about that now, though, having been established in the narrative as the media's darling, even as the press fixates on the new, fascinating celeb who keeps it at arm's length--waiting, wanting and wondering...
There's a myth, perpetuated by the press and the 2006 Disney movie Glory Road, that it took exceptional courage for Don to start an all-black team. Not really. It took a guy who didn't care about colors. He would have started five white kids or five Chinese kids if that gave him the best chance to win. Don's legacy is that he played the game the way he thought it should be played, without prejudice...
...rule “a little drastic”; not the numerous socially conscious citizens across the country who blogged about the rule’s unfairness for foreign players and questioned why the rule only applied to female golfers. Their perplexity is understandable. As reported by the press, the rule seems wrong on a fundamental moral level, an example of cultural imperialism through the imposition of our own lingual standards on others...
...years of George W. Bush's presidency and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs under Donald Rumsfeld, published in February 2006 Lipstick on a Pig: Winning In the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game. Clarke, who also served at one time as McCain's press secretary, argues in the book that sugarcoating bad policy doesn't make the policy any better. "A bad story is still a bad story...
...Hard to say. She has already issued a few seemingly contradictory statements about the matter. Just after Monegan's firing, she said that "never was there any pressure put on Commissioner Monegan to hire or fire anybody." A month later, though, she held a surprise press conference, which revealed that key staffers and even her husband had made more than two dozen contacts with Monegan about Wooten, contacts she insists she hadn't known about. It turns out an increasingly wary state police had recorded one of those conversations, which is fairly explicit in its intent. The call, from Palin...