3fer: CNN luerve affair. Ron SILVER claimed reverse blacklist. eBayer want$ to governate.

Re item 1: While ROBERTS deserves the flogging we've given him here for not asking CHEENEE about his death squads (among other things), since both of the CNNers were being inducted at the same event there must be something missing in the gossip to show more than "joined at the hip."

Re 2: So why didn't Ron's new Rethug pals help him get work?!1 What about a cushy ambassadorship or a "cultural" post?!

Re 3: Dems, take heart!1 Just because she can spend $50M on a campaign doesn't necessarily correlate to winning:: In Texas, one Tony SANCHEZ spent $30M of his own and LOST.




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http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172009/gossip/pagesix/anchor_appeal_159903.htm

ANCHOR APPEAL

JOHN Roberts, who was once the heir apparent to Dan Rather at CBS News, seemed to be joined at the hip with fellow CNN anchor Kyra Phillips last week in Toronto, where he was inducted into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame. "What's interesting to me is . . . that he - a veteran of the fourth estate - thought he could get away with it," noted National Post columnist Shinan Govani. Roberts "blanched" when asked about his gorgeous companion, Govani wrote: "Does he think no one is going to notice he's traveling with a drop-dead gorgeous co-anchor?" CNN had no comment.



http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172009/gossip/pagesix/career_suicide_159893.htm

CAREER SUICIDE

THE Hollywood blacklist still exists. It's no longer aimed at Communists and their fellow travelers from the Cold War. Now it's aimed at Republicans. Long before Ron Silver was diagnosed with cancer, the brilliant actor who co-founded the Creative Coalition was dead as far as his career was concerned. "After I made that speech for President George W. Bush at the Republican Convention here in Manhattan (in 2004), Holly wood and Broadway dried up on me," Silver told radio sta tion magnate William O'Shaughnessy last year when they saw each other at Le Cirque. "The phone stopped ringing . . . nada . . . not a thing."



http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172009/gossip/pagesix/ill_spend_50m_to_be_gov_159891.htm

'I'LL SPEND $50M TO BE GOV'

FORMER eBay CEO Meg Whitman plans to spend Bloomberg-type money in her quest to succeed California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. She tells Fortune, "it's conceivable" she'll spend up to $50 million of her own to rescue the Golden State from overspending. "Being CEO of the state is not a popularity contest. In the real world, business leaders cut expenses until the company is healthy again," she says. First, Whitman will have to get past state Attorney General Jerry Brown, who had the top job 30 years ago. He sums up Whitman's rationale as: " 'I ran a business. I can buy my campaign. I have zero experience in government. I want to take on the most difficult state government job in America. Therefore make me governor.' "

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THE PROBLEM WITH A DISCLAIMER is its coming off as defensive, especially when it's preemptive. Trouble is, it's damned if do/don't: NOT including it first results in the predictable problems.

DISCLAIMER re: linking to the NY Post (for to head-off highly predictable, OT/hijacking posts):: Yes, it is a RAG. Yes, it is owned by NewsCorp/Faux's MURDOCH. No, he doesn't Dictaphone content to his gossip columnists. No, "gossip" does NOT equate to "UNtruth" (OR with "triviality" for that matter). These old time gossipers are more journalistically reliable than Tweety and such ilk. Frequently, political tidbits are here first, later to show up in more "respectable" venues. Keep friends close, enemies closer. Cherrypicking intel results in self-fulfilling FALSENESS. I got hooked on these gossipers when they were on the E!1 network and, when they were cancelled, tracked them down and they happened to be at the RAG (NY Post). ALL I read at the RAG are the gossip and the horoscope.

The problem with Republicans is they keep trying to equate business with government, and there's no parallel.

A business can run in one of two ways: it can make an overall profit, or each of its activities can make a profit. If you're running a business the second way, any business segment that can't be made profitable is shut down. Government doesn't have that option. A lot of the things the government has to do COST money, they don't make money. Everyone here knows this, but Republicans don't seem to.

An intelligent woman with business acumen would've been too threatening to the base.

Ron silver was a loud month douche bag.

Meg Whitman? lol.. Ebay is as corrupt as ever. Run Cali like ebay?wtf!

Becareful as of now ebay is a pos. There's a BBC report that came out last year that negative feedback can not be left for corrupt buyers. Clearly a meg whitman idea.