Quotes of the Day NEWSMAKER QUOTE OF THE DAYLive from Baghdad, NBC News Tom Aspell spoke to Imus about the aftermath of a suicide bombing at a Baghdad hotel yesterday.“The damage has largely been cleared, but there is still a huge crater in the road that has been covered with some metal sheeting. Americans are on guard with armored vehicles and snipers are on the rooftop. It’s almost as if they expect the place to get hit again. There has been a real high increase in numbers of Iraqi police carrying automatic weapons. The traffic is still moving normally on the street. The bomber had to make a swerving turn to get to the front gate of the Baghdad hotel. Because of the concrete crash barriers he was stopped a good 50 yards short of his target and that’s why I guess there were no American casualties inside. There was one American slightly wounded but he was released.”SHOW QUOTE OF THE DAYImus spoke about the incident between N.Y. Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer and Boston Red Sox pitcher Pedro Martinez on Saturday night.Imus:“Pedro grabbed Zimmer by the head and threw him down like a rag doll and tossed him aside. Zimmer is lucky Pedro didn’t punch him in the mouth.”Bernie:“He’s lucky he didn’t get cut.”Imus:“..or knife him...that was like a drunk grandfather at a birthday party.”You can get on our e-mailing list today by clicking right here: SUBSCRIBE(Or just read our online edition below.)
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The Democratic Presidential candidates
are not taking a holiday from campaigning.
Dennis Kucinich will make it official and
announce he’s running, while Joseph Lieberman
will propose a tax overhaul. Also we are closer
to knowing which teams will play in the
World Series. There’s as much action off the
diamond as on at the Imus studios. Tune in
after the Yankees play the Red Sox in game
four to catch up on the winners and losers
and to follow the fallout of Don Zimmer’s
charge on to the field.
At 7:29am ET author of “Legacy: Paying
the Price for the Clinton Years”, Richard
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“The American administrator in Iraq
vowed to hunt down those responsible
for a car bomb attack that shook
central Baghdad, killing at least six
bystanders and wounding dozens of
others.”
Suicide car bombing rocks Baghdad
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“President Bush has lost control
of Iraq policy because of infighting
among administration officials, the
leaders of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee said Sunday.
The administration also came under
criticism from Democratic presidential
candidate John Kerry for being
unwilling to create a real
international coalition and alienating
governments everywhere. “This is
haphazard, shotgun, shoot-from-the-hip
diplomacy,” the Massachusetts senator
said.”
Senators denounce Bush Iraq policy
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“One of Asia’s most-wanted terror
suspects was killed in a shootout
Sunday, police said, ending a massive
three-month manhunt launched after
his stunning escape from Philippine
police headquarters.”
Terror suspect killed in shootout
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“The new Palestinian prime minister,
in his first week on the job, said
Sunday that he was on the verge of
quitting, a development that deepened
the Palestinians’ political crisis.”
Arafat’s Premier Says He Is Close to Resigning Post
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“Told that his 2-year-old twin boys
were no longer joined at the top of
their heads, their father, who had
just endured the wait through 34 hours
of surgery, fainted.”
Egyptian twins successfully separated
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“Democrat Joe Lieberman, hoping to
jump-start his presidential campaign
with a fresh attack on White House
policy, is promising to ensure that
upper-income Americans pay more taxes
than they did before President Bush’s
record-breaking tax cuts.”
Lieberman proposes raising taxes on wealthy
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“Some of the al-Qaeda operatives whose
activities led to a U.S. security
warning last month have been captured,
while others remain at large, U.S.
counterterrorism authorities say.”
Information uncovers plans for more al-Qaeda attacks
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“In concerts, masses and national
television specials, Poles honored
Pope John Paul II, their native son,
as he marked his 25th year as leader
of the world’s Roman Catholics.”
Poles Mark 25th Year of John Paul Papacy
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“The three final candidates to be
China’s first astronaut in space
have arrived at the spacecraft’s
desert launch pad, the government
said Monday, and suggested that only
one will make the trip.”
Three Arrive for China Spaceflight
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“California has became the first
state to require businesses with
large state contracts to offer
domestic partners the same benefits
that spouses enjoy, although the
law will not take effect until 2007.”
Davis Signs Domestic Partner Benefit Bill
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Imus Stuff
“When Bush the Elder put Bush the Younger
in the care of Dick Cheney, he assumed that
Mr. Cheney, who had been his defense secretary
in Desert Storm, would play the wise, selfless
counselor. Poppy thought his old friend Dick
would make a great vice president, tutoring a
young president green on foreign policy and
safeguarding the first Bush administration’s
legacy of internationalism, coalition-building
and realpolitik. Instead, Good Daddy has had
to watch in alarm as Bad Daddy usurped his
son’s presidency, heightened its conservatism
and rushed America into war on the mistaken
assumption that if we just acted like king of
the world, everyone would bow down or run away.”
A Tale of Two Fathers
by Maureen Dowd
NY Times.com
“As a precondition for helping us in Iraq,
the U.N. is demanding that the U.S. hand over
‘early sovereignty’ to an interim Iraqi
government and then let those Iraqis invite
in the U.N. to oversee their transition to
constitution-writing and elections. I too
would like to see Iraqis given more control
faster and the U.N. more involved. But
people are tossing around this idea without
answering some hard questions first.”
The Least Bad Option
by Tom Friedman
NY Times.com
“No baseball and no fights. But plenty of
rain, fines, apologies and finger-pointing
at Fenway Park.Game 4 of the AL championship
series was rained out Sunday, giving the
New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox a
day to reflect on the nastiness of their
basebrawl game the day before.
Rain cools off Yanks-BoSox
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“Don Zimmer’s voice quivered, his body shook.
A day after one of the nastiest games in the
long-running Yankees-Red Sox feud, New York’s
72-year-old bench coach apologized for his role
in a melee that left him sprawled on the ground.”
Zimmer apologizes for role in fracas
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“Josh Beckett and the Florida Marlins put
history on hold - at least for a couple of
days. With the Chicago Cubs set to clinch
their first World Series trip in 58 years,
Beckett buzzed Sammy Sosa in pitching a
two-hitter and leading the Marlins to a
4-0 win Sunday in Game 5 of the NL
championship series.”
Beckett keeps Marlins alive in NLCS
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“The four-game winning streak is nice.
So is being first in the NFC East. Still,
the strongest proof yet that the Dallas
Cowboys are a completely new team under
coach Bill Parcells lies in beating the
Philadelphia Eagles and how they did it:
with big plays from the opening kickoff
to the closing minutes.”
Parcells, ’Boys pass another test
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