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Posts Tagged ‘the economist’

Katie Couric Mocks Sarah Palin For Being Illiterate

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Here’s “gotcha journalist” Katie Couric getting quizzed by TMZ about her reading habits. She says the same exact thing that Sarah Palin said (”all of them, any of them”), except she says it to be funny. HOW DISRESPECTFUL. Katie also says she reads The Economist for the articles, and for the monthly compendium of slightly ribald jokes about oversexed blondes which she likes to tell at cocktail parties while John McCain is off raping gorillas. [TMZ via Ben Smith]


Wonk’d: A Supremely Bad Hair Day

Friday, September 8th, 2006

alito.jpgWashington people just never quit working. Bill Kristol rises early to have breakfast with congressmen, Michael Chertoff spends Friday nights securing the homeland’s movie theaters, and Valerie Plame reads political non-fiction on street corners cause she can’t get enough. And kindly father Alito (at right — ain’t he loveable?) spends his weekends carting his daughter’s luggage all over 37th street. This plus philandering soccer players, jaywalking TV gangsters, and mustachioed wrestlers, after the jump!

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Rumors on the Internets: People Are Really Pissed Off Today

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

* Michelle Malkin sleeps on a king-size Lego bed, in a Lego tower, surrounded by an adhesive image of a moat. Naivete sold separately. [Michelle Malkin]
* Hillary Johnson can


Metro Section: Good Luck With That

Monday, March 20th, 2006

* The Economist is going on a marketing blitz — in Baltimore. [NYT] MORE »