Word: maher
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...Lobbyists from a variety of businesses and groups that work with the Senate Banking Committee have expressed concern about Dodd's small, overburdened staff. For example, the Senator has left vacant the top staff position on the committee since his committee director, Shawn Maher, left in December to work for the Obama Administration. "I guess it's hard to find staff. Would you want to go work for someone who might lose his job in two years?" says one financial executive who deals with the committee. "He doesn't have a lot of staff. How he gets work done, that...
...original version of this story misspelled Shawn Maher's name and attributed the book announcement to Crown Publishers instead of Publishers Weekly. It also said there had been a "revelation" that Dodd had gotten a "sweetheart deal" on his mortgage from Countrywide, when in fact it is an allegation that the Senator vehemently denies...
...Bill Maher says Carlin was the comic who "inspired me to think I could do things differently." Richard Belzer marvels over the "precision" of his technique. Lewis Black, perhaps Carlin's most obvious heir as an angry social satirist, says he "raised the level of our craft." Garry Shandling recalls how, as a young student at the University of Arizona, he accosted Carlin before a club date, showed him some jokes he had written, and got the encouragement that prompted him to get into comedy. After showing the full-length clip of Carlin's "Ode to a Modern...
...Chairman Steele is among the most articulate spokesman our party has to offer." - Del. Jeffrey M. Frederick, chairman of the Virginia GOP after Steele's win; Steele has appeared on Fox's Hannity Colmes, Comedy Central's Colbert Report and HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher (Washington Post...
...wasn't just bias, fear or jingoism at work. The 9/11 attacks brought with them an economic squeeze, which meant greater pressure not to alienate viewers or advertisers by going against the flow. White House press secretary Ari Fleischer warned people to "watch what they say," Bill Maher lost his job on Politically Incorrect (but later moved to HBO) after calling American air strikes cowardly, and CNN issued memos to "balance" reports of civilian casualties with references to the deaths on 9/11...