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...tightest format around. It begins with "news from Iraq and life during wartime," has several five-minute sermons on topics of the day, allows only two segments for interviews with newsmakers and journalists. As a break from the gargle of grim death, she answers nonpolitical questions from listeners ("Ask Dr. Maddow"). And toward the show's end she veers into the weird and wacky. For months she has monitored reports of severed feet washing up on the shores of the Pacific Northwest, and she's displayed nearly as magnificent an obsession with animal oddities as Stephen Colbert has with bears...
...When we take an animal away, people ask us, 'What are you going to do with it?' " he says. "And we tell them, 'Put it back as near as possible to where we got it.' They look at us suspiciously and say, 'You can't do that - I don't want it near me!' And I just say, 'Listen, this is where these creatures live. They were here long before...
...that McCain, who during his 2000 presidential run famously referred to some of them as "agents of intolerance," is one of them; instead he revealed that while he attends a Baptist church in Phoenix, he has not been baptized. But what about that moving POW guard story, you might ask? The one about the guard who drew a cross in the sand to share his Christian identity with McCain? That tale, it turns out, is actually a large part of the problem for Evangelical leaders. In off-the-record conversations, they complain that the story is about someone else...
...hoping 10,000 friends of friends of friends will each put $2.50 in the mail or send the money via PayPal. "If you're worried I am one of those internet rip-off artists, call NYU's admissions office at 212.998.4500," his e-mail continues, "and ask for someone in international admissions - they handled my admissions as I was recruited to play ice hockey for Russia and spent last year there...
...visit came in a campaign notable for candidates avoiding various media. Most Democratic candidates, including Obama, largely shunned Fox during the primaries. (Obama has gone on Fox News Sunday.) John McCain canceled on Larry King earlier this week to punish CNN for Campbell Brown's having dared to ask a McCain aide too many follow-up questions about Sarah Palin's foreign policy credentials. And Palin, thus far, has been avoiding all national media interviews, save one with People magazine...