The Daily Show and broadcast news include all the same parts: a congenial anchor and a staff of correspondents on a flashy set, interviewing big name guests. The difference is one is a parody, while the other is the real deal - but deciphering which is which seems to become harder every day.
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June 20, 2007
In 1993, President Clinton
’s then-Assistant to the President John Podesta issued a staff memo clearly stating that all administration e-mails dealing with official business had to be “incorporated into an official recordkeeping system,” stressing that no “e-mail document that is a Presidential record should be deleted.”
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June 20, 2007
Bush said it was important that Iran faced “consequences” such as sanctions and other economic measures for defying the international community over its nuclear program. “There’s a price to be paid,” Bush said.
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June 20, 2007
Excluding Ron Paul from a “tax relief” candidates
’ forum is like excluding Batman from an Anti-Riddler Convention.Even funnier is that these two organizations, in blacklisting Paul, reveal themselves to be even worse than the mainstream media they always criticize.An online petition in support of Paul’s inclusion in this event needs signatures here
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June 20, 2007
At least 88 White House officials, including senior political adviser Karl Rove, former Chief of Staff Andy Card, and former political director Ken Mehlman used the outside email accounts extensively, according to a report by the House oversight panel. The White House had earlier acknowledged the use of only 50 such accounts…
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June 20, 2007
Well, at least the comedy’s over. We have a one party system, i.e., the Democratic/Republican Party.
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June 20, 2007
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals finds that e-mail deserves the same privacy protection as a telephone, even when stored on a third-party server. The maker of Enzyte is grinning like Bob.
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June 20, 2007
Answering questions after a preview of his new documentary “SiCK0″, Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker Michael Moore discusses 9/11 eyewitness testimony of explosions, suppressed video footage from the Pentagon and the unlikelihood of a plane striking a five story building at 500mph with ultra precision.
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June 20, 2007
South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel, a former real estate developer who became a rising political star after his election last year, was indicted Tuesday on federal cocaine charges. Thomas Ravenel is also the state chairman for former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign.
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June 20, 2007