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GoDaddy's Psychopathic Superbowl Commercial Sparks Outrage Posted by Pile (13228 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
A huge Internet outrage has erupted in the wake of GoDaddy's latest commercial leak online of what was apparently going to be their Superbowl commercial. Which has now been pulled. In what appears to be a clear attempt to court sadist and sociopathic customers, they tell the tale of the abandoned puppy that desperately tries to find its way back to its owner (a GoDaddy customer) who expresses excitement at the puppy returning home after its arduous journey so she can ship it off to someone who bought it off her GoDaddy web site... yes... WHAT? Watch the video - we have it here. GoDaddy has pulled it from the Internet. The original YouTube link was here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2AHrCtOHqc
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A Pulitzer Winner You're Not Going To See On Cable Posted by ueberbill (11550 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
The Pulitzer's came out this week but there's one winner who's story (or name, even) you probably haven't heard of. His name is David Barstow and he writes for a little newspaper called the... I have it right here, one second- New York Times', maybe you've heard of it. But you could be forgiven for not having heard of him thanks to every cable news network in America.
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Dennis Kucinich On How To Acheive Peace Posted by Pile (10682 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
Senator Kucinich was one of only five in Congress who didn't blindly support Israel's offensive against the Palestinians. He appears on Democracy Now and explains his position, and as usual, is a breath of fresh air...
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Republican Don Sherwood Pays Mistress To Keep Quiet, Or Not Posted by Pile (9174 views) [E-Mail link]	[Beating Dead Horses] [Pubic Relations]
A Republican congressman accused of abusing his ex-mistress agreed to pay her about $500,000 in a settlement last year that contained a powerful incentive for her to keep quiet until after Election Day, a person familiar with the terms of the deal told The Associated Press. Rep. Don Sherwood is locked in a tight re-election race against a Democratic opponent who has seized on the four-term congressman's relationship with the woman. While Sherwood acknowledged the woman was his mistress, he denied abusing her and said that he had settled her $5.5 million lawsuit on confidential terms.
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Boy Scouts Taught a Lesson by the MPAA Posted by ueberbill (10026 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
The Boy Scouts of Los Angeles will be issuing a new kind of merit badge soon. This one's curriculum was developed by the movie industry (the MPAA) and will teach Boy Scouts about the importance of copyrights and evils of pirating. In a related story, Burger King is developing a merit badge to teach the importance of flame broiling and chicken fries.
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October Surprise? A New Sex Scandal? Posted by Pile (10468 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
With the capital already mired in its latest sex scandal, federal agents last week raided the home of a woman they allege has, for the past 13 years, operated a Washington, D.C. escort service that dispatched college-educated prostitutes to the homes and hotel rooms of well-heeled clients. A two-year probe by Internal Revenue Service and Unites States Postal Inspection Service agents has targeted the Pamela Martin & Associates escort service and its owner.
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Pope Caught Orchestrating Church Pedophile Cover Up Posted by Pile (89564 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
A BBC documentary has exposed that Pope Benedict XVI, aka Cardinal Ratzinger, played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests. In 2001, while he was a cardinal, he issued a secret Vatican edict to Catholic bishops all over the world, instructing them to put the Church's interests ahead of child safety. The document recommended that rather than reporting sexual abuse to the relevant legal authorities, bishops should encourage the victim, witnesses and perpetrator not to talk about it. And, to keep victims quiet, it threatened that if they repeat the allegations they would be excommunicated.
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Evidence Mounts of GOP Attempted Cover-Up of Masturgate Posted by Pile (9217 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
Congressman Tom Reynolds' (R-NY) chief of staff, Kirk Fordham, tried to broker a secret deal last Friday to get ABC News to cover up the worst part of the Foley child predator scandal, the lurid five-plus-page instant message chat in which Foley asked a child to measure his penis and then led the child into a detailed discussion of masturbatory techniques. The scandal, now dubbed "Masturgate" is spreading across the net like fire, even though the mainstream media continues to turn a hairy palm and blind eye to the details that high ranking officials knew about the congressman's activities and tried to cover it up for more than FIVE YEARS! And what's Foley done in the wake of the scandal? The standard celebrity & conservative escape hatch made famous by everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Mel Gibson: blame it on alcohol and check yourself into rehab. But wait, we have more, oh so much more, including double video goodness.
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Transcripts of Mark Foley's Lurid Chats w/Congressional Pages Posted by Pile (21674 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
Brace yourself for this... ABC got some transcripts of the claimed chat sessions between Republican Congressman Mark Foley and the young boys he had been trying to seduce... there's not much ambiguity here in this Congressman's intent and you will see from the files...
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Second Rule of Congress: No Sexy Homo E-Mail Advances Posted by Pile (21752 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
Rep. Mark Foley, R-Florida, submitted a letter of resignation from Congress on Friday in the wake of questions about e-mails he wrote a former 16-year-old male page, according to a congressional official. Foley, 52, had been considered a shoo-in for re-election until the e-mails surfaced in recent days. So what kind of republican starts creeping out a 16-year-old boy by talking about "sexual organs and acts?" The one that's the Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus for Missing & Exploited Children.
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The Art of Lying After Getting Caught Posted by Pile (10786 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
When you're caught doing something horribly wrong, you could apologize... or you could hire a firm to do it for you. Faced with a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the payment of approximately $A300 million in kickbacks to Saddam Hussein's government, in breach of the United Nations' Iraq Oil-for-Food Program, the Australian wheat trader AWB Limited hired crisis management guru Peter Sandman to help it draft an apology. The Australian inquiry released e-mails between Sandman and AWB, which reveal that Sandman's proposed confessional statement was watered down by ABW's other PR adviser, Ian Smith from Gavin Anderson & Company. "The less you blame yourself, the more the public will blame you. You aren't blaming yourself nearly enough in this draft," Sandman wrote in one e-mail. Sandman's original three-page statement was eventually pared back to only one page. However, AWB executives decided not to make a public apology at all. The inquiry resumes public hearings in two weeks.
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Beachwear Goes Full Circle Posted by Pile (10847 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations] [Vanity]
Announcing Wholesomewear! Yes, a new line of swimwear for modest folks who think that showing bare shoulders or any skin above the knees would be... well, just tawdry. The company claims, "The need for modest swimwear is greatest and the supply is almost non-existent." Unfortunately, at $80+ the price is anything but modest!
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Janet Jackson's Nipples More Dangerous Than Coal Mining Posted by Pile (10556 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
Yesterday, five miners died in a Kentucky mine explosion. Some are asking what's being done to improve mining conditions. George Miller, who co-sponsored a miner safety bill in the wake of the Sago mine tragedy, that Congress doesn't seem to care about, says "When Janet Jackson had her wardrobe [malfunction], it took Congress 40 days to change the law...It's now over 120 days, and Congress hasn't done a damn thing about securing a safer workplace for these miners and for these families." Obviously the problem is these miners aren't wearing g-strings.
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Kid Rock & Scott Stapp Sex Tape Posted by Pile (19342 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations] [Movies]
Two people that one wouldn't expect to see in a sex scene are Kid Rock and former Creed frontman-turned-Jesus, Scott Stapp. Nonetheless, a company named Red Light District, the same who hawked the Paris Hilton sex tape, now plans to release this orgy of music personality mediocrity. Update: A Florida woman who stars in the Kid Rock-Scott Stapp sex tape has filed a lawsuit against the California company that has recently tried to market the racy video of her 1999 tour bus encounter with the two rock stars. In a complaint filed yesterday in Miami-Dade County Circuit Court, the woman, identified only as "Jane Doe," contends she has suffered emotional distress (and had her, um, privacy invaded) as a result of the attempted sale of the video by World Wide Red Light District. While a federal judge last month halted the video's distribution at the request of Rock (real name: Robert Ritchie), segments of the sex tape have appeared online.
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Congressman Sanitizes His Wikipedia Page Posted by RantMaster (10459 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations] [Dubious Research]
The staff of U.S. Rep Marty Meehan wiped out references to his broken term-limits pledge as well as information about his huge campaign war chest in an independent biography of the Lowell Democrat on a Web site that bills itself as the "world's largest encyclopedia," Wikipedia.
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Atheist Group Offers "Smut For Smut" Posted by Pile (9242 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
A group of atheists at the University of Texas in San Antonio is trying to tempt college kids into trading their Bibles for pornography. It's part of a program called Smut for Smut sponsored by the student organization called Atheist Agenda.
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Yahoo and Match.com Accused of "Date Baiting" Posted by Pile (10590 views) [E-Mail link]	[Viral Marketing] [Pubic Relations]
There are two separate class action lawsuits being brought against various dating web sites, claiming that the companies posted fictitious ads, bogus solicitations, and even had paid employees bait people into renewing their subscriptions to popular online dating sites.
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Man Banned From All Home Depots Over Pencil Accident Posted by Pile (11779 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
Kansas handyman Michael Panorelli was handed a pencil by his friend to mark some of the $117 worth of lumber he was purchasing at Home Depot. Security came running after him following his exit from the store with the used pencil that he accidently put in his pocket. Now Home Depot is doing some damage control to deal with the PR nightmare. Rumor has it if you write the wrong quantity of nuts & bolts on a bag of hardware, they put you on an unmarked plane and fly you to Syria.
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Battle of the Documentaries Posted by Pile (10519 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
In August 2004, the consulting firm McKinsey & Company told Wal-Mart, "The public believes [Wal-Mart] treats its employees poorly and is a negative force in communities." The report suggests steps for "managing change," including to "spread messages that it cares for employees, build local relationships, increase local philanthropy." McKinsey also helped prepare a memo, leaked to the New York Times last week, that proposed "numerous ways to hold down spending on health care and other benefits," in part by "discouraging unhealthy people from working at Wal-Mart." With the new Robert Greenwald documentary "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" about to be released, Wal-Mart's PR firm, Edelman, "sent reporters a press kit last week attacking claims made in the film's trailer, along with negative reviews of Greenwald's previous work. Wal-Mart is also promoting a competing documentary about the company, directed by Ron Galloway, titled 'Why Wal-Mart Works & Why That Drives Some People Crazy.'"
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Hurricane Victim Expresses Gratitude to Cheney Posted by wizeGurl (9600 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
In an interview on MSNBC, a Mississippi resident who has lost everything interrupts an interview with the Vice President to express his feelings about the government's response.
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Anti-Gay Republican Revealed as Gay Child Molester Posted by wizeGurl (9508 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
Jim West, the fiscally conservative, anti-gay rights, anti-abortion, anti-teen sex Republican mayor of Spokane, Washington has been caught with his hand in the cookie-jockstrap, as he was exposed arranging dates on Gay.com with what he thought was an 18-year-old man, offering him enticements such as trips and an internship to make it seem tempting to go out with a 53-year-old closeted politician. But wait, it's gets better...
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KISS groupie: Gene Simmons made me look sleazy Posted by Pile (14563 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
Georgeann Walsh Ward, 53, of Chester, N.Y. is suing KISS rocker Gene Simmons claiming his VH1 special slanders her good name. In the special Simmons claims to have slept with over 4,000 women; there wasn't one that was off limits, and he enjoyed all of them. However Ms. Ward said she met Simmons at a concert in October 1972 when she was 21. For the next three years through fall of 1975, she says in court papers, they were in what she believed was "an exclusive, monogamous, romantic relationship."
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Rumsfeld Supports the Troops

Posted by wizeGurl (8303 views) [E-Mail link]

[Military]
[Pubic Relations]

On a morale-boosting trip to Kuwait to talk to soldiers, Sec. of Defense Rumsfeld received several tough questions. One asked why the troops didn't have enough armor for their vehicles.

Spc. Thomas Wilson had asked the defense secretary, "Why do we soldiers have to dig through local landfills for pieces of scrap metal and compromised ballistic glass to up-armor our vehicles?" Shouts of approval and applause arose from the estimated 2,300 soldiers who had assembled to see Rumsfeld.

Rumsfeld basically told them to suck it up and deal with it.

"You go to war with the Army you have," Rumsfeld replied, "not the Army you might want or wish to have."

You'd think that in a year and a half, they could have made some progress towards getting the equipment they need, though.

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CSPAN viewers tell politicians to GET A ROOM! Posted by RantMaster (8075 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
CSPAN viewers got a little extra this week as Rep. Rob Simmons talked about Iran's WMD program on camera, Reps Rick Renzi (AZ-01) and Katherine Harris (FL-13) cuddle in the background. That's ok though, they're married... but DOH not to each other!
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Sex & Politics Posted by wizeGurl (8009 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
Several organizations are doing what they can to make politics sexy again. One of the more tame is Votergasm.org, which encourages "young people everywhere to have sex with voters on Election Night, and to withhold sex from non-voters until the next presidential election."
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Bush Relatives for Kerry Posted by spyder (8402 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
"Bush Relatives for Kerry" grew out of a series of conversations that took place between a group of people that have two things in common: they are all related to George Walker Bush, and they are all voting for John Kerry. As the election approaches, we feel it is our responsibility to speak out about why we are voting for John Kerry, and to do our small part to help America heal from the sickness it has suffered since George Bush was appointed President in 2000. We invite you to read our stories, and please, don't vote for our cousin!
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O'Reilly caught with his pants down? Posted by Pile (9311 views) [E-Mail link]	[News Media] [Pubic Relations]
First it was Bill O'Reilly launching a preemptive strike against a producer of his show claiming an attempt to extort $60M to stop a harassement complaint from going public, and now Andrea Mackris' side of the story - a lewd tale of lots of nasty sexual things O'Reilly apparently enjoyed confiding to her... there's an ominous rumor asserted that some of this may have been recorded. Spinmeisters, on your marks, get set...
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Census Working Overtime Posted by Pile (8739 views) [E-Mail link]	[Dubious Research] [Pubic Relations]
"The press loves to bury us in public opinion polls, but something about these pie charts tastes funny to me." Daniel Price of AbusedByTheNews.com has published an interesting report on the state of statistics and polling methodology. Trust me, four out of five irate cows would rate this story as worth reading.
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Mail clerk in Senate blogs her sexcapades Posted by Pile (8188 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
Looking for a way to turbo-charge your mundane clerical career? When Jessica Cutler put her dirty secrets on the Web, including an escapade with a married Bush administration official, she lost her job, signed a book deal, posed for Playboy -- and raised a ton of questions about where America is headed. So far I seem to be the only creature on this planet that does not have a book deal. I must be sleeping with the wrong people.
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Oops! Cameron Diaz sex video hits Internet Posted by Admin (13400 views) [E-Mail link]	[Pubic Relations]
A sexy video of a 19-year-old Cameron Diaz in bondage gear has apparently surfaced on the Internet being sold by (gasp) a Russian web site. The Charlie's Angels' publicist verifies its authenticity and claims they had an injunction to have this stopped. It's hard to believe that anyone would think a video of a semi-nude, 19-yo Cameron Diaz on a leash would be of interest to people. Go figure? And now in what is obviously a bold act of defiance, some Russians are selling the video. Could this usher in the next cold war?
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