Tipper Oil Tanks
Obama went swimming in waters that could have been from the Gulf of Mexico last weekend. There's some online dispute as to whether swimming at Point Alligator near Panama City in an inlet off th e gulf is really swimming in the gulf.
Also some might remember how the newly-sworn-in Obama sought to exclude his daughters from the media spotlight, at least when he didn't want them in the media spotlight as political props.
Mao was sick or already gone to the Great Wall in the Sky, his entourage used a photo of him or at least his head allegedly swimming among the proletariat in the Yangtze River as evidence that the supreme leader remained alive and active -- and, would-be rivals beware, so was his circle's power.
Douglas MacArthur had himself photographed dramatically striding through waves with determination, vision and his staff during World War II to fulfill his vow of returning to liberate the Philippines from Japanese control.
A Correct. This was an unprecedented departure from his usual behavior.
B Wrong, and well aware he is being dishonest.
C Wrong, and somehow either oblivious to his history or self-deluded enough to convince himself he is right.
Full Story: The Glenn Beck Conundrum - eNews Park Forest
Fully 67% say they have a lot (20%) or some trust (47%) in information on the oil leak coming from news organizations. That compares with 51% who have at least some trust in information from the federal government and 39% in information from BP.
The latest News Interest Index survey, conducted June 3-6 among 1,002 adults by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, finds that the oil leak continues to dominate the public’s news interest. Nearly two-thirds (66%) cite the Gulf disaster as the story they followed most closely – more than seven times the percentage citing the economy (9%), the second-leading story. As the disaster continued to grow, the leak was also the most heavily covered story, accounting for 35% of the newshole last week, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
The survey finds that the public is much more interested in the impact of the Gulf oil leak and how far it might spread than in the response by politicians or assessments of blame.
Full Story: News Media Trusted For Information On Oil Leak - Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
A Correct. This was an unprecedented departure from his usual behavior.
B Wrong, and well aware he is being dishonest.
C Wrong, and somehow either oblivious to his history or self-deluded enough to convince himself he is right.
Full Story: Media Matters: The Glenn Beck Conundrum - Media Matters for America
Gene Weingarten took questions before the third-annual Post Hunt, a wild afternoon of brainteasers in downtown D.C. The transcript is below.
FAQ , or revisit last year's puzzles for a taste of what you're in for.
Who is going to take the blame for the unmitigated disaster that this Post Hunt will have been? No one could have expected the scope of this disaster next weekend.
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