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13 Apr 2010 10:30

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Politics: Cha-ching! Sarah Palin makes a lot of money as a free agent

  • $125,000
    yearly
    amount Sarah Palin made from her gig as Alaska governor
  • $12
    million
    amount Palin’s made since she quit that job last year source

05 Apr 2010 22:06

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Politics: Sarah Palin’s speaking engagements: Pro-alcohol, pro-marijuana?

  • $25,000 to toke her soul, go pro-pot source

05 Apr 2010 21:24

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U.S.: Meg Whitman is a money-spending force of nature

  • $46M the amount the former eBay chairwoman has spent on her California gubernatorial campaign
  • 40% the size of the lead she has over her GOP primary challenger Steve “Steamrolled” Poizner
  • seven the number of months she has before the election; she leads Jerry Brown, too source

01 Apr 2010 23:09

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U.S.: Can Arizona Gov. get around attorney general for health care lawsuit?

  • YES thanks legislature; now she’s gonna sue too! source

17 Mar 2010 10:27

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U.S.: Auctioning off votes? Meg Whitman leads Jerry Brown in Ca. Gov. race

  • 46% support the former eBay chief executive in the governor race
  • 43% support the current California Attorney General
  • 11% support the pollster not asking so many questions source

14 Mar 2010 23:08

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Politics: Max Headroom: Jesse Ventura crazy conspiracy lightning round!

  • The former Minnesota governor is a 9/11 truther. Great. Jesse Ventura made the media rounds this week promoting a book where he analyzes pretty much every conspiracy ever, and calls it a lie. The book, “American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies that the Government Tells Us,” is bound to be a lightning rod (how ’bout that title?), but is it all just a crock of @(&!? Judge for yourself from these clips.

  • On “The View” On “The View,” it gets downright heated, especially when he discusses 9/11. We like how Whoopi looks like she just doesn’t want to be there at all. The JFK assassination conspiracies are also quite silly, too. Ventura looks crazy with that nest of gray hair.

  • on “The Today Show”Ventura notes that he didn’t give the book its name. “The title scared my wife,” he starts out. He suggests that the CIA is the key to the conspiracy. Ann Curry makes a major factual error in this clip, claiming that Sirhan Sirhan and James Earl Ray killed presidents.

  • On “Larry King Live” King spent a whole hour interviewing the former governor (worth watching in whole), but this clip on Afghanistan is choice, because he suggests George W. Bush and Dick Cheney essentially let Osama bin Laden get away in Afghanistan. Sigh. Whatta loon.

12 Mar 2010 13:19

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Politics: Gavin Newsom puts his left foot in, puts his left foot out, puts his…

  • … left foot in, and he shakes it all about. The San Francisco mayor is doing the hokey pokey, with his political ambitions, reportedly announcing he’s running for lieutenant governor of California months after dipping out of a gubernatorial bid. Beyond being a less glamorous job, his dip-out from before gives his primary opponent, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, an obvious thing to attack him on. She’ll say, “Oh, he’s indecisive!” Just wait for that. We gave you a preview of the primary. source
 

09 Mar 2010 12:26

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Politics: Jesus, Crist, looks like you’re gonna lose the Florida Senate primary

  • 60% of Florida voters plan to pick Marco Rubio in the Senate GOP primary
  • 32% plan to pick Charlie Crist, the current Florida governor
  • 8% of undecideds not nearly enough for Crist to grab onto source

05 Mar 2010 11:47

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Politics: N.Y. Gov. David Paterson not exactly doing well in the polls

  • 46% of those polled say David Paterson should finish his term
  • 42% want to throw the scandal-ridden bum out of office early
  • 12% want to know why you’re bothering them source

04 Mar 2010 20:23

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U.S.: David Paterson’s bad day: The latest in the NY governor’s scandal

  • one His communications secretary resigned, saying he couldn’t “in good conscience” support Paterson.
  • two Paterson’s scandal continues to broaden, with ill-gotten World Series tickets under deep scrutiny.
  • three Paterson said he’d be governor Friday, but stayed silent when asked if he would be governor next week. source