Word: scandalous
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...dueling outrages? "Without discounting the real roots and feeling of anti-Semitism both men have, most of this is really about drawing attention to a European campaign no one cares about," says Lorrain de Saint-Affrique, a political strategist who advised Le Pen in the 1980s. "Le Pen needs scandal to be elected. Dieudonné is an entertainer using politics to promote his career. Outrage generates headlines - and both men need those." Yet another thing the two have in common...
...chose not to write about the tabloid scandal a few years ago about your husband's infidelity. How come you didn't use your book as a vehicle for writing more about that? Well, I explain that in the book. Out of love and affection for my husband, at this point. Any time you keep picking at a scab, it cannot heal. I've said everything I wanted to say, and so has my husband. People say, "Well, do you have a statement?" I say no. We're concentrating on being a statement. We put our family first...
...think one hooker scandal would be enough to ruin the ShamWow (and its pitchman) forever, but you'd be wrong. Even the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is trying to cash in on the ubiquity of the super-absorbent towel infomercial with a YouTube parody designed to lure younger, tech-savvy souls to its services in New York. Dubbed "SoulWow," the commercial spoof features "Father Vic" (whose resemblance to ShamWow spokesman Vince Shlomi is downright eerie) hawking the only product that lets you "clean yourself from the inside...
...down the Teachers' Retirement System and other firms for campaign funds for Blagojevich, and also of trying to extort one of the producers of the Clint Eastwood film Million Dollar Baby. He has been under indictment since October, the 13th person charged in the ongoing Illinois pay-to-play scandal that prosecutors said traces back to even before Blagojevich became governor. Cellini has denied any wrongdoing. (Read "The Fall of the House of Blagojevich...
...That's far less than the $7 billion stock-market valuation Satyam, India's fourth-largest I.T. company, once enjoyed before the scandal. In January, Satyam founder and chairman B. Ramalinga Raju confessed that accounts at had been fudged for years and that assets and profits to the tune of $1.6 billion did not exist. The government subsequently stepped in, appointing a board of directors to try to stabilize Satyam until a buyer could be found...