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Some Republicans complain of a tilt toward Obama in the polls. But in elections past, the forecasts have overestimated on both sides.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/us/last-10-presidential-elections-show-no-consistent-bias-in-polls.html
A 25-year-old man initially arrested Sunday on an assault charge after Lindsay Lohan claimed he grabbed her in her New York hotel room in an argument over cellphone images was freed hours later and his arrest voided when the charge could not be substantiated, law enforcement officials said.
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CARR: Tired Cries of Media Bias…
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A video archive of the most memorable moments in U.S. presidential debates wouldn’t feature many exchanges over taxes, schools or national security. It would be more like a blooper reel.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/the-goofs-and-gaffes-in-presidential-debates/
The mainstream media are frequently faulted as biased against conservative causes. But it seems a dubious notion when the ownership of the megaphone is increasingly up for grabs.
via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/business/media/challenging-the-claims-of-media-bias-the-media-equation.html
Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch is to The Hobbit‘s Smaug as Andy Serkis is to Gollum. “It’s very freeing, once you put the suit on and the sensors. I’ve never felt less encumbered, actually,” Cumberbatch says of the stint as a motion-capture dragon. “You just have to lose your shit on a carpeted floor, in a place that looks a little bit like a mundane government building.” With the second of the three Hobbit films titled The Desolation of Smaug, plan for lots of Cumberbatch shit-losing.
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via Vulture http://www.vulture.com/2012/09/benedict-cumberbatch-the-hobbit-smaug.html
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who recently paid $20 million for a think tank at USC, gets a segment on “60 Minutes” tonight to give just enough mea culpa on the whole cheated-on-Maria thing to make it sound like a blip on his historical screen. But at the Daily Beast, longtime Arnold chronicler Ann Louis Bardach says the chronology given to CBS’ Lesley Stahl and in Schwarzenegger’s forthcoming memoir, “Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story,” is anything but true.
Bardach:
Schwarzenegger’s book offers a remarkable—and according to several former staffers and friends, fictitious—timeline and spin of his affair with Mildred Baena, the housekeeper with whom he fathered a son. (That would be at the same time and in the same house where his wife Maria Shriver was pregnant with son Christopher.)
Schwarzenegger’s account, according to several carefully-calibrated leaks, has him conveniently not learning about his paternity of Baena’s child until after he is elected governor—and Shriver, also conveniently, learning about the child in a joint therapy session just one day after he stepped down as governor….
But friends and former employees of the couple say Schwarzenegger’s version of events is pure confection. One former staffer, who worked at both their home and offices, said, “It was my impression going back to 2000 that it was common knowledge among the household staff that Joseph Baena was Mildred’s son with Arnold.†Said one former housekeeper, in Spanish: “No, it was not a surprise to me. But I don’t want to say anything more.
The book people should be waiting for, says Bardach, is Shriver’s. “A mega-million book deal has been offered her, and according to one friend, she just might write her own account, and finally, set the record straight,” the story says.
The subject of the affair with the housekeeper is corralled into a corner of the “60 Minutes” piece. From CBS:
“I went all around the world with him,” says Lesley Stahl. “And it never came up. He never brought it up, I never brought it up.” Finally, at the end of Stahl’s final interview with former Gov. Schwarzenegger, it became clear that the hard questions had to be asked. “He knew the time had come and I knew the time had come– and we both did our jobs. Let’s put it that way.”
Part 1 of tonight’s “60 Minutes” segment:
Backstage extra:
via LA Observed http://www.laobserved.com/archive/2012/09/schwarzenegger_rehab_tour.php
After the panic over Mitt Romney’s characterization of 47% of his fellow citizens as moochers, rightbloggers flailed for a way to make the maker-and-taker philosophy of the modern conservative moveme
via Runnin' Scared http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/09/rightbloggers_m_1.php
In a ’60 Minutes’ interview, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he realized he was the father of his housekeeper’s child when the boy was 7 or 8.
SACRAMENTO — Arnold Schwarzenegger said he realized he was the father of his housekeeper’s child when the boy reached age 7 or 8 and the resemblance became apparent.
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Arthur Ochs Sulzberger
Arthur O. Sulzberger, who was Times publisher from 1963 to 1992, died Saturday after a long illness.
Mr. Sulzberger’s tenure, as publisher of the newspaper and as chairman and chief executive of The New York Times Company, reached across 34 years, from the heyday of postwar America to the twilight of the 20th century, from the era of hot lead and Linotype machines to the birth of the digital world.
* Arthur O. Sulzberger, publisher who changed the Times, dies at 86 (nytimes.com)
via JIMROMENESKO.COM http://jimromenesko.com/2012/09/29/former-new-york-times-publisher-arthur-ochs-sulzberger-is-dead-at-86/