Saturday, January 21, 2012

Colbert's Super PAC ad attacks ... Colbert

By Chiderah Monde and Randee Dawn

?The 2012 presidential campaign: It just keeps getting better and better. Or, depending on your perspective, weirder and weirder.

First, the Super PAC formerly run by "The Colbert Report's" Stephen Colbert (and now overseen without any coordination whatsoever by "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart) released a new attack ad yesterday -- against Colbert!

Yes, that's Samuel L. Jackson appearing in the voiceover, asking important questions about the talk show host like, "And come on, why is the 'T' in his name silent? What else is he silent about? Letting murderers out of jail?"

Jackson then launches into a "Snakes on a Plane"-esque tirade: "Enough is enough! I have had it with these money-grubbing Super PACs messing with our money to buy the elections!" before endorsing Herman Cain for president.

Herman Cain? He dropped out of the race, didn't he?

Well, yes. But that doesn't mean he's gone for good: Last night, Colbert announced on "The Colbert Report" that he will hold a rally on Friday in South Carolina, one day before the primary featuring special guest ... Herman Cain!

In support of their non-candidacies, the event, entitled "The Rock Me Like a Herman Cain: South Cain-olina Primary Rally" is set to take place at 1 p.m. at the College of Charleston. ??There will be speeches, there will be?cheerleaders, there will be?a marching band and a gospel choir. ??

Colbert promised this rally will be better than the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" (because, as he said, Jon Stewart won't be there). ??

In a release from Colbert's "campaign" as seen on Buzzfeed, Colbert explained, "Herman is the only former candidate who truly shares my values. It's like our values were separated at birth. And our ethics are at least first cousins." ??

He then went on to say?he?wanted ?all undecided voters to vote for Cain" and ?9-9-9.? ?? ?

Kathy Hoekstra, Cain's Director of Media Relations, told Fox News yesterday that Colbert's people "got in touch" with the Cain camp last week to alert them of something happening soon. She confirmed Cain?would be taping a segment with Colbert on Friday in South Carolina.

No word yet on whether Cain will sing during that segment. But that's something people would probably vote for.

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Friday, January 20, 2012

Japan told US military of radiation fallout days before public

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Published: January 17, 2012

YOKOTA AIR BASE, Japan ? Japan?s science ministry provided data to U.S. forces about levels of radioactive fallout from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant far earlier than it informed the public, according to The Associated Press.

U.S. forces received the data on March 14, three days after the 2011 tsunami led to a meltdown at the plant, according to Itaru Watanabe, an official with the Foreign Ministry?s science bureau. The public was not provided data until March 23.

Watanabe, a member of the investigative panel probing the nuclear disaster for the Diet, said at a meeting Monday that the science ministry had released the information to the U.S. ?to seek support from them? in dealing with the emergency, according to the AP.

It?s unclear what U.S. Forces Japan did, or could have done, with the data. No spokesperson for USFJ was immediately available for comment.

U.S. troops arrived at the disaster zone in a matter of days to provide humanitarian relief and assist in rescue operations. The U.S. Defense Department is still in the process of determining how much radiation each of its 61,000 personnel in Japan was exposed to during the crisis. In November, DOD officials said they expected to release the data by the end of the year, however, Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith said in an email in December that the data could not yet be released. She did not give a reason for the delay.

The Japanese government has been criticized for its tardy release of data from the so-called System for Prediction of Environmental Emergency Dose Information. The government was unable to use the SPEEDI information as expected because data on the radioactivity released from the plant was inaccurate.

Instead, the science ministry and nuclear safety agency produced their own data by making assumptions on the amount of radioactive substances released. Critics say that releasing this information to the public could have helped local municipalities and residents decide whether and how to evacuate.

The panel was appointed by the Diet in December and is tasked with examining what roles the magnitude-9 earthquake and monster tsunami each played in causing the meltdown.

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Thursday, January 19, 2012

Tax return often an issue for White House hopefuls

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at the Florence Civic Center in Florence, S.C., Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney campaigns at the Florence Civic Center in Florence, S.C., Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry, left, speaks as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney listen at the South Carolina Republican presidential candidate debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, Pool)

(AP) ? Mitt Romney's promise to release his 2011 tax return in April follows the practice of leading presidential candidates that began after Watergate. If history is any lesson, questions and criticism will continue long afterward.

For more than three decades, the major party nominees have released their income tax records. Some offered one year and others more than 10 years of returns. The same has been true for vice presidential candidates, except for Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas when he joined President Gerald Ford on the GOP ticket in 1976.

Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan broke his longstanding rule of keeping his personal finances private in July 1980 when he released his 23-page 1979 income tax return weeks before accepting the GOP nomination. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton weathered weeks of criticism in 2008 for not releasing tax returns showing family income after Bill Clinton left the presidency. She ultimately produced the records in April of that year after taking a pounding from her top party rival, Sen. Barack Obama.

Even after returns are released, controversies persist. Democratic Sen. John Kerry took heat in 2004 after releasing his returns because his wife, heiress to the Heinz Co. food fortune, initially refused to release hers, which were filed separately. Four years later, Republican Sen. John McCain faced similar criticism because his wife didn't release her separately filed returns, which reflected income from a Phoenix-based beer distributing company she inherited. She later released the two top summary pages of one year's return, the same that Kerry's wife had released.

Now it's Romney's turn. Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who released his own tax returns dating back to 1991, urged Romney during a debate Monday to release his. Romney, whose net worth is estimated at roughly $250 million, previously had resisted calls to release his tax returns. Anticipating a key question about his taxes, Romney disclosed Tuesday that he pays an effective federal tax rate of about 15 percent, still higher than the rate paid by many Americans.

Romney said in the debate that he will decide whether to release returns in the coming months.

"I hadn't planned on releasing tax records because the law requires us to release all of our assets, all the things we own. That I have already released," he said. Later, he added, "What's happened in history is people have released them in about April of the coming year and that's probably what I would do."

Romney's right. There is no law requiring presidential candidates to release personal tax information. Since 1978, however, they've had to disclose information about their income and some about their assets, like real estate holdings, investments and outside business interests. But those disclosures only show a range of values for assets, making it impossible to use those forms to identify a candidate's actual wealth.

He's also right that many leading candidates in recent history chose April to release their tax returns.

On Tuesday, Romney gave reporters in South Carolina more insight into his plans, saying he would release one year of his tax returns, not the six previous years that Obama released as a candidate in 2008 or even the two years that McCain released that year.

"People will want to see the most recent year," Romney said.

He said he's paid "closer to the 15 percent rate" in taxes because most of his income has come from investments and not ordinary wages, which have a top tax rate of 35 percent for those with the highest earned income.

When he ran in 2008 Romney refused to release his tax returns, and he previously had filed only state financial disclosures that described his assets in the most general terms.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia has said he will release his tax returns Thursday.

Even when tax returns are released, they offer only a narrow snapshot into a candidate's financial background. But some candidates in the past, like former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter in 1976, have offered more specific breakdowns of their financial worth.

Some of the bigger controversies over tax returns have belonged to vice presidential candidates. Geraldine Ferraro was a little known New York City congresswoman when the Democratic nominee, Sen. Walter Mondale, chose her as his running mate in 1984. The euphoria of that history-making selection of a woman for a major presidential ticket ended abruptly when Ferraro began battling criticism over her husband's refusal to release his separately filed tax returns. After they finally relented, she faced more controversy over accounting errors and other questions in the returns.

George H.W. Bush was Reagan's vice president at the time and became one of Ferraro's biggest critics on the issue, only to face his own controversy that year when he initially declined to release three years of returns. Bush argued he couldn't release them because he had turned his personal financial affairs over to a blind trust when he became vice president. But he ultimately released the returns weeks before the 1984 election.

Dick Cheney, George W. Bush's running mate in 2000, got blasted after releasing his returns for his financial ties to a Dallas-based oil company and for charitable giving that amounted to less than 1 percent of his income. After becoming Obama's running mate in 2008, Sen. Joe Biden faced similar criticism over his charitable giving once his tax returns became public.

In 2008, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's tax returns for two years triggered scrutiny because Palin, then McCain's running mate, did not list per diem payments the state made to her when she stayed in her own home. She later had to pay taxes on the payments.

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The Last Great Game

How the 1992 Duke and Kentucky teams took a trip into college basketball immortality.

An unforgettable moment in college basketball stands poised for a new wave of nostalgia when March Madness returns in a couple of months.

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In the weeks ahead, even the most casual fan will find it all but impossible to avoid highlight clips showing Grant Hill throwing a 75-foot inbounds strike to Christian Laettner, who caught the ball, dribbled once, and sank the winning shot, all in 2.1 seconds.

The 104-103 overtime victory sent Duke to the Final Four and an eventual second straight national championship, but few people remember any of those subsequent games. Instead, Laettner?s last-second jump shot against Kentucky looms above anything else that occurred in the 1992 NCAA tournament, or almost any other moment in the rich lore of brackets and buzzer-beaters.

Many have billed it the greatest college basketball game in history. Twenty years later, it comes under closer inspection in The Last Great Game, veteran sportswriter Gene Wojciechowski?s account of the players, coaches, and even referees on the court that day at The Spectrum in Philadelphia. Wojciechowski offers a nice blend of past and present perspectives as he tells the story of how an unlikely classic came to be, how it played out, and how it lives on. Like many other sports books, this one bears a subtitle that lacks merit (?Duke vs. Kentucky and the 2.1 Seconds that Changed Basketball?), since there is little evidence that basketball itself was changed by the game. It is more than enough that the game was marvelous, memorable, and changed ? or at least enhanced ? the lives of so many of the participants.

But those are minor complaints in a book that is both fun and thorough without getting tedious.

Sportswriters and fans, not to mention ESPN and the other networks that show the endless series of major pro and college sporting events, seem prone to overhyping every player and every game in the current era of infinite highlight loops, constant analysis, and screen-bottom scrolls. So much so that even a game from 1992 ? the regional final between defending national champion Duke and heavy underdog Kentucky ? feels quaint by comparison.

To be sure, the climactic Hill-Laettner clip of what many believe is the greatest game ever played is familiar even to those fans who were too young or weren?t even alive at the time, but, by today?s standards, the reaction was tame. ESPN didn?t dub it an ?Instant Classic? and replay the game multiple times during the following week, though it did, of course, show the highlights on ?SportsCenter? in constant rotation. No Twitter tag was created labeling it ?#grtstgmevr? and clips of Laettner?s shot weren?t swapped instantly on iPhones in the minutes and hours after the game ended.

Those things didn?t happen because the technology didn?t exist, but the prevalence of such accoutrements today makes it all the harder to discern what is memorable because of accomplishment and what is memorable because of mere ubiquity. Such are the concerns of the modern sports fan and opinion makers, often left to ponder how each generation?s subsequent media age shapes the eternal debates: the best plays, the best players, the best games, the best moments, and so on.

In the case of Duke-Kentucky, there is no need for second-guessing. Take, for instance, the opinion of Len Elmore, the CBS analyst who called the game that day. Elmore told Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan Duke-Kentucky was the greatest game the sport had ever seen and he should know. Elmore played for Maryland in the 1974 Atlantic Coast Conference championship against North Carolina State, the previous consensus standard-bearer.

Wojciechowski makes the book richer by taking time to establish what is much less obvious today than it was in 1992: Kentucky basketball was on the edge of oblivion. A series of recruiting scandals and other misdeeds left the program in tatters, forced out coach Eddie Sutton, and convinced many players to transfer to other schools to avoid NCAA penalties sure to be imposed on the team.

Sports Illustrated all but declared the program dead three years before the overtime regional final against Duke nearly put Kentucky in the Final Four. Before and after that shameful period, the Wildcats have been ? along with UCLA, Kansas, North Carolina, and a few others ? among the most dominant teams in college basketball. (The Wildcats reached the Final Four last season and currently rank among the top 10 teams in the country.)

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

'Game Of Thrones' Season Two Preview: It Gets 'Bigger'

On Golden Globes red carpet, David Benioff promises, 'A lot of bloodshed' and 'more romance.'
By Kevin P. Sullivan, with reporting by Josh Horowitz


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In its first season, "Game of Thrones" struck a chord not only with fans but with critics as well, and on the carpet at the 2012 Golden Globes, showrunner David Benioff shared some hints about season two with MTV News' Josh Horowitz.

"A lot of bloodshed, as they're used to. More romance, I think, than season one. There are some great love stories starting up," Benioff said about the next season, which premieres April 1 on HBO.

The first season of "Game of Thrones" earned several nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, including Best Drama Series and Best Supporting Actor, which Peter Dinklage won.

According to Benioff, season two will be about expanding the world of the television show. For production, that meant traveling all over the world. "The worlds just keep getting bigger and bigger," Benioff said. "We traveled to Croatia and Iceland and again to Northern Ireland this year. I think it looks even better than last season."

The prospect of a new season is a nerve-racking one for Benioff, but the showrunner said that the series' work behind the camera ensures a great second season. "Obviously, I'm biased, but you're always nervous going into a new season," he said. "Can you match what happened before? I think our directors and our cinematographers took it to a whole different place."

Benioff ended his tease for season two with a hint that is sure to make any fan giddy with excitement. "It looks absolutely gorgeous," he said. "And the dragons are getting bigger."

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