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Topic: It’s all jerks, jokes & Jodie Foster |
It’s all jerks, jokes & Jodie Foster
New York Post, by Linda Stasi
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Posted By:MissMolly, 1/14/2013 5:27:45 AM
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| What do you get when 85 freeloading freelancers without genuine media affiliations vote for winners in an industry that’s filled with affiliations and worth more than most small countries? A) A scam; B) The Golden Globes; or C) Jodie Foster. If you guessed A, you are correct, if you guessed B, you are correct, and if you guessed C, you are as confused as the rest of us. Last night, for the 70th time, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association held their annual confusing grifter fest, the Golden Globe Awards, filled with Hollywood honchos pretending it was all real,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/14/2013 5:37:49 AM (No. 9115075)
Every year it seems like more and more movies nobody ever heard of or seen gets the awards,mostly because they push a "progressive" theme. The anti fracking movie turned out to be a box office flop but they´ll find some award for it. Obama 2016,never made it to the list of documentaries,despite out preforming all other docs combined.The same thing happened on "waiting for superman" which exposed union corruption in the school system and was produced/directed by a career lefty.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
kayjaymac, 1/14/2013 7:20:09 AM (No. 9115163)
Well, my favorite part of the GG´s is watching the Fashion Police rip everyone to shreds tonight on E. (It´s my ONE vice, people! Wink wink!)
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
a man over thirty, 1/14/2013 7:21:15 AM (No. 9115164)
Bubba gets a standing O for his surprise appearance at this big Hollyweird Leftie party - how low has NBC sunk since the days of ´must-see´ TV?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
seminolesecure, 1/14/2013 7:29:48 AM (No. 9115171)
I happened to surf by just as Jody Foster was revving up. Move over BHO, we have a new Messiah and we didn´t know it. Even the leftie boobs in the audience were dumbfounded and unconfortable.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
proactus, 1/14/2013 7:46:19 AM (No. 9115194)
The Golden Globes is the Kwanzaa of award shows.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bad Dog, 1/14/2013 7:47:51 AM (No. 9115197)
Since I had more important and interesting things to watch on TV last night (Anna and the King of Siam - the 1946 Irene Dunne version), I have to ask:
Why was Jodie Foster even there?
And why should we care ... about her, about any of this? Hollywood award shows are, and have been for - uh, always - a huge public ´´master-debation´´ display.
It is said that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. But truly - aren´t these shallow people all the same, inside? Walnut-size brains bouncing around giant swollen skulls.
Congralations, Mzzzzzz. Foster. I used to admire you but you have now placed yourself up there with the rest of the ´´who?´´ crowd. Don´t let that closet door hit you in the backside, dear.....
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DCGIRL, 1/14/2013 7:54:55 AM (No. 9115208)
I agree with #1. The left is trying to push their movies down our throats. Most I have never heard. One show that I would not take the time to review is "GIRLS" with that trashing Dunham. She calls republicans nazis.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 1/14/2013 8:02:45 AM (No. 9115218)
If that speech last night was Jodie´s coming out, I think it is safe to say that she didn´t have to bother because most of us have already suspected the truth. I don´t say that in a mean way, because I have always admired the fact that she never put her personal life in our faces and she stood up for Mel Gibson when he had his troubles. In a community that believes in the great art of backstabbing friends to get ahead, that is something noteworthy. If there is any thing resembling class in Hollywood, she is it.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
secondtimelucky, 1/14/2013 8:02:56 AM (No. 9115219)
why does Lena Dunham have a tattoo of two farm buildings on her back?????
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Adam, 1/14/2013 8:04:01 AM (No. 9115220)
I´d sooner stick needles in my eyes than watch ANY Awards show. But that´s just me.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Judith, 1/14/2013 8:24:10 AM (No. 9115245)
The little I read, it sounded like a bunch of adolescent, whiny girls parading their "alleged" victim status before the world....while they lived luxurious lives of privilege. Give...me...a...break.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jinx, 1/14/2013 8:26:00 AM (No. 9115248)
As I was surfing, I landed for a few minutes on the Golden Globes. Thought I might stay a while until I saw Jessica Alba walk out and read a piece of papter. I keep hearing her name and wonder why she is popular. Have never seen her in anything and after watching her last night, will never see her in anyting. She is fairly plain, has no personality, and can´t even read a piece of paper without stumbling. Moved on. Boring!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
M2, 1/14/2013 8:29:58 AM (No. 9115255)
Like most posters here, I couldn´t care less what these dimbulbs say and do, but it has long been known that Jodie Foster is a lesbian with (last time anyone checked) in a long-term, stable relationship.
It has always interested me how such talented people like Jodie Foster, Matt Damon, Streisand when she could still sing, Wesley Snipes, Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Joaquin Phoenix, Johnny Depp, Leonardo DiCaprio and some of the better actors can be so exceptional at their craft and so unfathomably vacuous in most other aspects of their usually dysfunctional lives, especially their politics.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 1/14/2013 8:33:46 AM (No. 9115260)
Ditto, #12. I watched a James Bond movie marathon and what is with the new one - talk about ugly. I haven´t been out to a movie in years - not much that I would watch and foster in particular. When Fellini died, I was sad, he was funny, sad and weird.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Gretchen, 1/14/2013 8:36:07 AM (No. 9115263)
Jody must´ve thought we cared.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
beca, 1/14/2013 8:39:24 AM (No. 9115270)
when horndog walked out like the second coming...i switched channels...jodie foster....who didnt know she was gay.....a gathering of idiots of the leftwing persuasion.........i found something better to do with my time
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Fiesta del sol, 1/14/2013 8:45:01 AM (No. 9115284)
All I need to know about the Golden Globes was that Julieanne Moore was awarded for her portrayal of Sarah Palin in ´Game Change´. And she was lauded for her "courage". Please. Call me when someone in Hollywood portrays Obama as a lazy Communist, and then we can talk courage.
PS...Sarah Palin is still being ripped by Hollywood? Did she run for something last year and I missed it? She didn´t even attend the RNC convention!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Patchy Groundfog, 1/14/2013 8:47:51 AM (No. 9115287)
My favorite part was a) missing it all and b) reading the whole of Nikki Finke´s snark blog at Deadline.com, especially the part about Ryan Seacrest and Bradley Cooper needing to ´redo their closets.´ Close 2nd: revealing that Lena Dunham is every bit the nasty piece of work she appears to be.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
suncitypro, 1/14/2013 8:48:26 AM (No. 9115290)
If the movie is not on the cable service that I already pay for, I don´t see it. I have a hard time supporting leftist bozo whiners. And award shows--No Way! Out
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Catherine, 1/14/2013 8:49:42 AM (No. 9115291)
I´ve thought for some time now that all the people ´outing´ themselves were making a big mistake. Very, very few of them go on to busy careers pretending to be someone else and winning awards for it. Jodie Foster is an excellent actress but after her plane movie where the bad guy were American - that´s it for me.
By the way, I think some of them are making it up - about being gay. Just a thought.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
LZK, 1/14/2013 8:54:01 AM (No. 9115299)
Another hollyweird show -- patting themselves on their respective backs for accomplishing nothing that interests the publlic....
Yawnnnnnnnn....
LZK
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46, 1/14/2013 9:20:01 AM (No. 9115343)
Why not put Swamp Loggers or L.A. Ink on as best shows? Oh, that´s right, all those garbage "Viewer Wrestling" shows don´t use writers since the writer strike ruined that pool of "talent". Unions have ruined Hollywierd as much as they have ruined this nation´s greatness as a world industrial leader. Now all the elites have is each other- clearly their audience has found other means of entertainment. The dive into commonality and mediocrity has been spectacular. Lady Gaga rules supreme and the world wonders.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
nekochan, 1/14/2013 9:20:35 AM (No. 9115344)
To poster #2: It´s a new kind of boob job.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
earlybird, 1/14/2013 9:43:04 AM (No. 9115390)
Most are nonentities. Mention their names and people shake their heads and go "huh? never heard of him/her"...
But no one has told them.
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler "wildly funny women"? Linda is very young or has a bizarre sense of humor. Perpetually meanspirited is not "wildly funny". Especially in women.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
janjan, 1/14/2013 9:47:13 AM (No. 9115401)
The oversized egos of these mental midgets is hilarious. Ms. Foster evidently thinks that the world is agog over her ´sexuality´ when in fact no one cares except maybe Hollywood and shut-ins who have nothing better to do than to follow celebrity gossip. Does anyone really watch these award shows? What is wrong with them?
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Belle, 1/14/2013 10:19:59 AM (No. 9115470)
I agree with number 10. I think she´s been hounded for years to come out publically and she hasn´t. She didn´t do it in an "in your face" way. She´s stood by Mel Gibson who´s politically incorrect as they come. She´s classy in my book.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
45_Auto, 1/14/2013 10:20:32 AM (No. 9115472)
Why any of you watch TV is beyond me.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
shamus, 1/14/2013 10:23:34 AM (No. 9115482)
Golden Globs
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
killerbee, 1/14/2013 10:36:28 AM (No. 9115515)
I read the transcript of Jodie Foster´s speech and it was very poignant. That the media is focusing on that one moment is par for the course but her words for her mother still give me a lump in my throat. That she acknowledges Mel Gibson was the brave moment, IMO. Not saying anything about her "partner".
She showed a room full of morally corrupt and selfish jerks what it is to be a good daughter, a good mother and a good friend.
The media, of course, turns it into something that fits their narrative.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
M2, 1/14/2013 10:39:52 AM (No. 9115523)
#29, because I like some of the better (real) cooking shows, TCM, A&E, BIO, HIST, and the occasional commercial-free movie.
That said, almost all our TV watching is Netlix streaming of movies or Fox News now and then. But these days, even watching Fox while on the treadmill is painful with that ditzy AM blonde who persists in peppering her speech with "you know".
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
caddyjak, 1/14/2013 10:46:00 AM (No. 9115544)
The show should have been titled " Bizarre Boobs with Bare Boobies Boastfully Bloviating".
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Dignitary Protection, 1/14/2013 10:46:14 AM (No. 9115547)
Sorry #45, I can´t miss NCIS and Person of Interest.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
msjena, 1/14/2013 10:52:20 AM (No. 9115562)
I turned it off when Clinton appeared. But I have to laugh. He was there to introduce Lincoln, which got snubbed.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
Farmwife1, 1/14/2013 11:00:31 AM (No. 9115593)
#19 a little heads up about Sarah Palin: when they diss her they are dissing conservatives in general. She represents our values and beliefs, so they can twist their dirty little knives in us whenever they get an opportunity to revile her.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Butch59, 1/14/2013 11:15:35 AM (No. 9115639)
I prefer the paint drying channel or the grass growing channel to most of anything on TV. I do, however, watch some sports and FNS at times, but most of the time, my TV stays off. I prefer my computer. That way I get to select what I want to see, hear, and read.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Rafter, 1/14/2013 11:22:41 AM (No. 9115666)
Mentioning BillyBoob Klintoon and his collection of fawning losers on last nite´s Global Warming Globule Episode...
There was one girl there displaying some really huge tats.
Oh, for Hugh Manatee. I miss him the way I miss Flipper. ... s/o
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
geoman, 1/14/2013 11:35:17 AM (No. 9115701)
Please let me know when How It´s Made is up for an award so I can watch for the first time.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
leftcoastmom, 1/14/2013 11:35:54 AM (No. 9115704)
#34, my two favorites as well
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
bob913, 1/14/2013 12:10:23 PM (No. 9115782)
Read http://www.deadline.com/hollywood/ for the best snarking behind the scenes of this show.
Spielberg spent a fortune trying to buy the an award that most in Hollywood make fun of and he lost.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
jbwater, 1/14/2013 12:20:51 PM (No. 9115799)
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
chicodon, 1/14/2013 12:27:40 PM (No. 9115814)
Oh, you love... You really love me. Sally Fields
These people are a train wreck.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
lencu255, 1/14/2013 12:39:35 PM (No. 9115840)
Because of Lucianne I just found out they had the reward dispensation gathering. It reminds me of 4 Hero of Soviet Union medals awarded to brezhnev or nobel prize awarded to obozo (lower case intentional). They gather in a dark alley (no matter how much glamor) and give the awards - it matters to the dark alley dwellers, not to us. Do they deserve those? Of course not, but because hollywood has monopoly producing entertainment goodies in the whole world what choice do you have? Watch this garbage or watch nothing!
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
eorsc, 1/14/2013 1:18:10 PM (No. 9115938)
It´s Hollywood patting Hollywood on the back. I haven´t seen a movie sice Cars but I am going to Zero Dark Forty and maybe Lincoln just because they gave kudos to their flavor of the day. Then I may not see another for 10 more years. Guns aren´t our problem. Hollywood is our problem.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
The Advocate, 1/14/2013 1:32:34 PM (No. 9115972)
I felt very sorry for Jody Foster´s two fatherless sons. What about their rights? How difficult for two boys to grow up knowing that their mother did not VALUE their father enough to be his wife. Is this intelligent, talented, rich and feted woman is lonely - sh has no one to blame but herself. Heather Has Two Mommies is a nightmare way to raise children- especially for young boys.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Calvinesq, 1/14/2013 2:01:13 PM (No. 9116035)
Next time, Jodie, get a script writer. Yale graduate?
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
cheeflo, 1/14/2013 2:03:33 PM (No. 9116038)
Old news. She came out years ago. She and her significant other have been together since 1993.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-501256/Jodie-Foster-comes-emotional-tribute-girlfriend-14-years.html
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
peterfleming, 1/14/2013 2:24:06 PM (No. 9116069)
Came in late, there was Mel sitting up close, Jody giving him support. Bravo. Mel and Jody, two of the most versatile actors ever, who are also stars. Jody is as versatile, do anything well, as Christopher Walken and Gary Oldman. Rambling speech was incoherent, but nice to see her getting attention. Great to see Mel, the most versatile, accomplished actor of the few true stars.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/14/2013 3:56:42 PM (No. 9116220)
I am with you #12. I´d rather poke my eyes out. But if Jodie is gay, so what? Anybody who saw her as a child KNEW she was gay before she eve knew it. It is obvious she was just made that way. It was more than her just being a tomboy as a kid.
Anyway, I believe ALL awards show are scams now. They are just a bunch of people congratulating themselves for being phony. Even the Academy Awards has turned that way. It is all a joke
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
Layne´s Soapbox, 1/14/2013 3:57:40 PM (No. 9116223)
And people wonder why I don´t watch tv. I like my Netflix and my DVD collection. We don´t go to the movies, we wait until it comes out on DVD. MUCH cheaper, the food is better, and so are the seats. There is also a "pause" button.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
BetseyRoss, 1/14/2013 4:32:00 PM (No. 9116287)
And I might add #51, your own refrigerator, bathroom, fireplace, pillow and blanket, microwave, and the ever present pause button. Pretty much nervanna, I think.
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
SoCalGal, 1/14/2013 5:16:06 PM (No. 9116371)
Ditto #34 and #40. Wish more people would watch "Person of Interest", an original and absolutely splendid program starring James Caviezel. Terrific. Do hope it is getting enough viewing to stay around longer.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
vesicant, 1/14/2013 5:17:15 PM (No. 9116372)
Foster actually went to college and earned a degree, so she´s what passes for an intellectual in Hollywood. Of course, her degree is in Literature from Yale, so it´s not worth much. As for her being a lesbian, I´m shocked, shocked.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
Charactercounts, 1/14/2013 5:23:09 PM (No. 9116381)
Jody proved last night just what a nut John Hinckley really was.
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Reply 54 - Posted by:
The Patriot Code, 1/14/2013 5:36:33 PM (No. 9116401)
Jodie Foster is gay? Holy shnikey! I never saw that one coming! The next thing you know Janet Reno will rip a closet door off it´s hinges.
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Reply 55 - Posted by:
franq, 1/14/2013 5:40:41 PM (No. 9116409)
No.
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Reply 56 - Posted by:
srhcb, 1/14/2013 6:47:28 PM (No. 9116525)
The Super Bowl Half-Time Show of Awards Shows
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Reply 57 - Posted by:
BadgerBill, 1/14/2013 7:04:00 PM (No. 9116554)
My fellow L-dotters still have (and view) tv´s why...??
If one watches television, one supports leftists.
Period.
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Reply 58 - Posted by:
Tianne, 1/14/2013 7:11:34 PM (No. 9116564)
#7 - perfect!
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Reply 59 - Posted by:
ColonialAmerican1623, 1/14/2013 7:37:56 PM (No. 9116603)
Isn´t this her second coming..out ? At least she is a college graduate, which is more than you can say about most of them. If it wasn´t all over the news, nobody would know or care.
How many of these overpaid prima donnas are paying their fair share of taxes ?
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Reply 60 - Posted by:
pearlyjo, 1/14/2013 11:26:50 PM (No. 9116923)
Who keeps asking?
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Reply 61 - Posted by:
DoktorFranken, 1/14/2013 11:38:34 PM (No. 9116936)
Leftists need a constant supply of arse smoke to buoy their flagging careers and useless existences and who better to supply it but themselves.
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 5:43:54 AM
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The State Department, under Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, created an arrangement for her longtime aide and confidante Huma Abedin to work for private clients as a consultant while serving as a top adviser in the department. Ms. Abedin did not disclose the arrangement — or how much income she earned — on her financial report. It requires officials to make public any significant sources of income. An adviser to Mrs. Clinton, Philippe Reines, said that Ms. Abedin was not obligated to do so. The disclosure of the agreement that Ms. Abedin made with the State Department comes as her husband,
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Higher-Ups Knew of IRS Case
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Wall Street Journal, by John D. McKinnon*
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/17/2013 10:23:18 PM
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The Internal Revenue Service´s watchdog told top Treasury officials around June 2012 he was investigating allegations the tax agency had targeted conservative groups, for the first time indicating that Obama administration officials were aware of the explosive matter in the midst of the president´s re-election campaign. The disclosure to the Treasury general counsel and the deputy secretary was a cursory one, according to J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. He said he didn´t reveal conclusions of the probe, which was in its early stages, and his disclosure came as part
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Rep. Issa subpoenas Benghazi auditor Thomas Pickering
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Julian Pecquet
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/17/2013 3:53:45 PM
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The lawmaker leading the charge to investigate the Benghazi terror attack on Friday subpoenaed the co-author of a report that slammed the State Department but didn´t interview Hillary Clinton. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) formally demanded that retired ambassador Thomas Pickering submit to being deposed by the committee next Thursday. The subpoena comes in the wake of a series of acrimonious public exchanges this week between the two men. Issa didn´t issue a subpoena to former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen, who co-authored the Benghazi report with Pickering.
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