Now that the election season is over, we can look back on those campaign ads that invaded our living rooms nonstop and determine which one we like best!
From a simple YouTube video
comparing Barack Obama to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears to a 30-minute
primetime infomercial, the candidate sales pitches came in all shapes and sizes. Mike Huckabee even teamed up with Chuck Norris
to make an ad full of Chuck Norris jokes, and Paris Hilton herself
hit the campaign airwaves with a video announcing her candidacy.
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Molly
This weekend the New York Times ran a story about
the plight of the local news anchor. Apparently due to the current economic situation and need to cut spending, some cities have realized that it simply costs too much to keep veteran local anchors with extremely high salaries.
According to a study cited in the article, slightly over half of American households still watch local news over big network news or the Internet.
David Gregory will be the next host of Meet the Press,
according to reports. The NBC vet will take over after interim host Tom Brokaw interviews President-elect Barack Obama on this weekend's show.
Gregory, 38, has served as NBC's White House correspondent since 2000, and he currently hosts his own show on MSNBC.
Cuban President Raul Castro is ready to listen to what President-elect Barack Obama has to say about US-Cuban relations. But Castro
told Sean Penn, who traveled to Cuba to interview the dictator, that the meeting would have to be on neutral ground. Castro said: Personally, I think it would not be fair that I be the first to visit, because it is always the Latin American presidents who go to the United States first.
NBC
may soon name the next permanent host of Meet the Press. Whomever succeeds longtime host Tim Russert,
who died unexpectedly earlier this year, will surely become one of the most influential journalists in the world.
Every president since John F.
Thanks to relatively cheap prices, wireless Internet on board, and an increase in service-frequency,
more Americans are hopping on the bus, rather than traveling by plane or car. Over the past year, intercity bus travel (think Greyhound) has increased by 9.8 percent, a growth rate higher than anything seen in the past 40 years.
Considering driving a car rules out multitasking, and flying includes long security lines, taking the bus doesn't seem so bad!
Speaking about uncertain economic times at a press conference today, President-elect Barack Obama
said one thing's for certain: He has a mandate. Obama explained: We had, I think, a decisive win, because of the extraordinary desire for change on the part of the American people. And so I don't think there is any question that we have a mandate to move the country in a new direction, and not continue the same old practices that have gotten us into the fix that we're in.
Everything about this video produced to give thanks for Sarah Palin sounded legitimate, and then I watched it. And everything — save the part about the troops — looks like a parody that Tina Fey will jump into at any second.
Yet it all checks out.
The desire to own a piece of history has spawned a $200 million market for Obamabilia, and there are still two months to go until the inauguration. The
New York Times explains that independent vendors have cashed in on the sophisticated branding Barack Obama cultivated during the campaign.
So what's for sale?
Reformed call girl Ashley "Kristen" Dupré has finally opened up about her experience with "Client No. 9," or as you may know him, former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. While involvement with an illegal prostitution ring didn't result in any federal charges for the governor with a tough-on-crime reputation,
it did cost Spitzer his job.
