mediabistro.com - 1/3/2009
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During the three-hour UParty 2009 New Year's Eve special, Fox News asked viewers to send in text messages which aired in the ticker. Among the tens of thousands of submissions, this one got on the air...
Happy New Year and let's hope the magic negro does a good job. Love, Jen and John C.
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Related: fox news vp of programming suzanne scott explains negro, fox news magic negro, New Year's Eve
Another Bubble Goes Pop
crooksandliars.com 12/29/2008 — This makes me a little sad . As someone who was born nine months after New Year's Eve (and of course I have a bubbly personality), I think champagne at the start of the year is a lovely tradition:
There will be little celebration for champagne makers this year.
After last year's strong 4% ...
Dick Clark Still "Rockin" Despite Walker, Wheelchair
huffingtonpost.com 12/30/2008 — LOS ANGELES — Four years after a stroke, Dick Clark is relishing the prospect of another New Year's Eve celebration, determined to appear for his 36th year in Times Square. And he's hardly surprised by the current state of the music industry he helped build _ he predicted this, after all. ...
Clintons Leading Times Square New Year's Eve Ball Drop
huffingtonpost.com 12/31/2008 — NEW YORK — Last New Year's Eve they were in Iowa. This year, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton will be in Times Square, helping Mayor Michael Bloomberg lower the glittery New Year's Eve ball.
The Clintons will ...
The New Year's Eve live-blog.
althouse.blogspot.com 1/1/2009 — 7:27 Central Time: Shouldn't you be out carousing? No. It's smart to stay in on the night when everyone else is out. So hang out here if you like. I hope you don't mind that I'm doing Central Time. But one must be somewhere? Where are you? Are you ...
The Fantasy Man's 2009 New Year's Eve Fantasy Baseball Countdown
ringers19.blogmatrix.com 12/31/2008 —
The Fantasy Man's 2009 New Year's Eve Fantasy Baseball Countdown is full of tips, tricks, strategies, ideas and thoughts
heading into your 2009 fantasy baseball season. Actually, it's a TOP 50! So the top 50 things you need to know before you
participate in your league draft! Check out ...
Bush Looking Forward to a Quiet New Year's Eve on the Ranch
voices.washingtonpost.com 1/1/2009 — By Nelson Hernandez CRAWFORD, Tex. -- President Bush promised to "sprint to the finish" of his term in office, which ends Jan. 20, but when the ball drops at midnight, the commander in chief is probably going to be catching some Z's. Bush, an early ...
Bomb Threats Shut Down Aspen on New Year's Eve
talkleft.com 1/1/2009 — One of the biggest nights of the year in Aspen is New Year's. Not this year. Police evacuated downtown -- 16 blocks in all -- because someone, possibly this 71 year old man dropped off two suspicious packages with threats inside. Police identify the man in the photo as Jim Blanning of Denver ...
CTA Offering Penny Rides On New Year's Eve, Expanded Service For Winter Classic
huffingtonpost.com 12/29/2008 — The CTA this year will be continuing its tradition of offering penny rides on New Year's Eve and will also expand service on all of its train and several bus lines.
Additional train and bus service will also be implemented for the NHL Winter Classic on New Year's Day at Wrigley Field.
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TPMtv: The 2nd Annual Golden Duke Awards
talkingpointsmemo.com 1/1/2009 — The muck has been raked. The nominations are in. The judges have made their final decisions. Tonight, New Year's Eve, in our year ending episode of TPMtv, we bring you the winner's of this year's Golden Duke Awards ...
Full-size video at ...
'As Soon As He Saw Me, His Eyes Went Wide With Terror'
jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com 1/2/2009 — Always a good idea if you're in the burglary business to case out your targets before striking. Seriously, how could this thief not know he was in Thor's crib?A muscle-bound building boss who came home from a New Year's Eve fancy dress party kitted ...
Fox News Airs "Magic Negro" Message On New Year's Broadcast
huffingtonpost.com 1/2/2009 — Think Progress caught a "magic negro" reference during the New Years Eve broadcast on Fox News.
Viewers were allowed to text in messages that scrolled across the bottom in lieu of the news.
One message read:
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET'S HOPE THE ...
Fox News Apologizes For "Magic Negro?" - Not!!!!!! —
News Hounds
Via Think Progress and TV Newser : Fox News VP of programming Suzanne Scott "explains" (not apologizes) the offensively racist New Years chyron , "We received tens of thousands of text message submissions during our New Years Eve special, and this particular viewer submission was inadvertently ...
Fox News Wishes Everyone a Magical Negro New Year —
Politics Daily
Man, you gotta love "satire," don't ya? During Fox News' New Years broadcast, the network scrolled text messages from Fox viewers, and one of them was a clever, pitch-perfect satire of the LA Times. From HuffPo : Viewers were allowed to text in messages that scrolled across the bottom in lieu ...
Fair and Balanced, Bitchez —
Shakesville
Just watch the scroll at the bottom of the screen, where Fox News was posting Happy New Year text messages from its viewers: If you can't see the video, it reads: "HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET'S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C." Stay classy, Fox. [Via Think Progress .]
Foreclosing on 2008 —
Firedoglake
The elegant mrs tbogg and I are off for New Year's dinner at our favorite restaurant where they serve a boeuf Bourguignon that can knock your socks off.
On behalf of the whole tbogg clan we wish you a safe New Year's Eve, smoke'em if you got 'em, don't get any on you, hugs not drugs, and if ...
New Year's Eve Open Thread —
Daily Kos
There's a lot that feels different this New Year's Eve -- yes, the economy sucks, but at least now everyone acknowledges that it does. We have good governing to look forward to in the coming year. Before saying "President-elect Obama" even has a chance to get old, we'll be able to start saying ...
It's New Year's Eve —
TalkLeft
Are you going out or staying in tonight? I'm doing both, out to an early party then back home in plenty of time to watch the ball bounce. From all of us at TalkLeft, we wish you a Merry New Year's Eve, and if you are online, thanks for spending some of it with us. This is an open ...
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