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Oooh Sarko get so mad sometimes! On last night’s 60 Minutes, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who George Bush likes or something, walked out of an interview with the charming Lesley Stahl after being asked about his split with wife Cécilia (it was taped a few weeks ago, before France announced their divorce). As the New York Times describes the scene, Sarkozy “was shown standing up muttering in French” before peacing.

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Little Nicky Douglas over at the Huffington Post created the graphic you see above so that you don’t have to watch or read anything about President Bush’s interview on CBS last night. It’s the number of times he said the word “decision” in nine short minutes. Total Decision count: 24 decisions (including the two times he yelled it for some reason). MORE »

Nearly every sighting this week comes from the exact same place, several at the exact same time. Wonkette operatives didn’t even need to use their sharp eyes to spot these old men in a barrel. Apparently, Bistro Bis is the be-seen restaurant du jour. Or maybe it was all along — the closest we come to a power lunch is eating a burrito really fast. But John Kerry, John Bolton, Jon Tester , Jim Lehrer, and Steve Kroft have more discriminating palates. You get all of them, and one Senator too busy working on his abs to respect his elders, by indulging your Mecury-in-retrograde-moon-is-in-the-seventh-house fantasies on the other side of the worm hole.

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Another Wednesday, another installment of our very favorite regular blog feature, “What As Andy Thinking.” Here, courtesy CBS, the topics of some of Andy Rooney’s 60 Minutes editorials in 2003: MORE »

We take back every single negative thing we have ever said about a) blogs b) CBS c) TV news d) humanity in general. Because of this new feature at the CBS “PublicEye” site. It is called “What Was Andy Thinking?” and it is a list of things talked about by Andy Rooney every week on 60 Minutes. Here is but a sampling: MORE »