New York has always prided itself on not being one of those cities (ahem, D.C.) that just shuts down when an inch or two of snow hits the pavement. We press onward like our neighboring cities to the north, forcing kids to get on buses and making incomprehensible announcements about alternate side parking that nobody understands. Instead of deciding whether to go to work or school, we debate whether it's socially acceptable to use an umbrella in the snow, and whether we really need to bring another pair of shoes to work along with the cute wellies we just got at J.Crew. (We heard Michelle Obama has them.) But not today! The storm that began last night — and, let's be honest, didn't impress us that much until this morning — is predicted to get so bad that New York City Public Schools have called a snow day. That never happens! You schoolkids, promise us you'll have fun for all of us adults who still have to work, okay? Don't just stay in and Twitter. Go outside and have some good old traditional American fun in the snow. You know, build a snowman, hide behind parked cars and throw snowballs at taxis, make mush angels — whatever kids are supposed to do in the city. By the time we get out of work, the snow will be all mucky and used up and no good to play in. Do it for the grown-ups.
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Getting an exclusive broadcast interview with all four members of U2 was the easy part. Getting an advance copy of their new CD required a bit more strategizing. "No Line on the Horizon" hits store shelves and digital outlets in the United States on Tuesday.
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Reuters - For the most part, the experience is missing from Disney's "Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience." Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 2 Mar 2009 | 12:37 pm
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Within hours of Santelli’s rant, a website called ChicagoTeaParty.com sprang to life. Essentially inactive until that day, it now featured a YouTube video of Santelli’s “tea party” rant and billed itself as the official home of the Chicago Tea Party. The domain was registered in August, 2008 by Zack Christenson, a dweeby Twitter Republican and producer for a popular Chicago rightwing radio host Milt Rosenberg—a familiar name to Obama campaign people. Last August, Rosenberg, who looks like Martin Short’s Irving Cohen character, caused an outcry when he interviewed Stanley Kurtz, the conservative writer who first “exposed” a personal link between Obama and former Weather Undergound leader Bill Ayers. As a result of Rosenberg’s radio interview, the Ayers story was given a major push through the Republican media echo chamber, culminating in Sarah Palin’s accusation that Obama was “palling around with terrorists.” That Rosenberg’s producer owns the “chicagoteaparty.com” site is already weird—but what’s even stranger is that he first bought the domain last August, right around the time of Rosenburg’s launch of the “Obama is a terrorist” campaign. It’s as if they held this “Chicago tea party” campaign in reserve, like a sleeper-site. Which is exactly what it was.
Ames and Levine go on to trace the shadowy influence of the Koch family, megarich funders of all sorts of right-wing advocacy groups. This is definitely weird, but let's not get ahead of ourselves. First off, Ames and Levine are hardly the hard-boiled international reporters they paint themselves to be. The two co-edit a Russian expat magazine, Xile, and are perhaps best known Stateside for a dustup surrounding a fake interview they wrote with Maroon Five frontman Adam Levine back in 2007. Their article doesn't give any indication that the writers tried to get comment from Santelli, or CNBC, or FreedomWorks, the PR organization founded by Dave Arney and funded by the Koch family, or any of the other "pr operatives, bigwig politicians and notorious billionaire funders" they claim are behind this vast right-wing conspiracy. One blog, the Daily Bail, which Ames and Levine name as an "astroturf" website planted by PR operatives, has already posted a bemused response.
The authors believe that we're part of a shadowy, right-wing conspiracy creating fake websites to influence public opinion. It specifically accuses us of being an 'astroturf' website, part of an imitation grassroots campaign to advance the corporate interests of the Koch family and FreedomWorks.org. The accusation might actually bother me if it weren't so comical. He says our site is well-written and slick. Thanks for the compliment, I think. But had the writers bothered to contact me before going to press, they would have learned a few things about me politically and personally that would have kept our name out of the mud.
That said: Is it weird that this domain name was purchased back in August? Totally. Contacted by Daily Intel, CNBC offered the following statement:
"Rick Santell's comment clearly struck a nerve among a large portion of American citizens and sparked a debate, which is something Rick has done for more than ten years on CNBC. To try and make it about anything more than that is ridiculous and without basis in fact."
Further pressed, spokesperson Brian Steel said: "There could be a right-wing conspiracy, but there's no basis in fact that Rick has any involvement."
Which would seem to support Glenn Reynolds (who says the protests predate Santelli) in his contention that: "[M]odern technology allows a bunch of people who don't know each other to coordinate a nationwide campaign 'suspiciously' well." Is Santelli a fellow traveler? Probably. Was his rant part of a brilliantly planned PR blitz? Probably not.
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Reuters - Looking to the 1980s for fashion inspiration has spread to the Milan catwalks, with Italian designers playing with the decade's bold style for next winter's womenswear. Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 1 Mar 2009 | 3:43 pm
Fashion Wire Daily - It was billed as the debut of a new designer at the house of Emilio Pucci but felt more like the launch of a diffusion line, and a confused and derivative one at that.
Front Page: 'Brothers' can't steal spotlight from Perry pic -- Fox Searchlight's "Slumdog Millionaire" enjoyed the biggest post-Oscar bounce since "Titanic" at the domestic box office, grossing an estimated $12.2 million as it boldly expanded to 2,943 runs in its 16th sesh.
Front Page: Newsman has been heard nationally since 1951 -- Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talkradio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation’s most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona, according to ABC Radio Networks. He was 90.
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