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Roderick Spencer: Fake News is the Real News Top
With a distressed eyeroll at Seanglenn Beckhannity, and a weary headshake at Keithrachel Olbermaddowman, not to mention clenched fists of despair at TalkRadio VonHateScream, let me remind the rest of us - aka. most people - that just because the makers of so called News think Balanced and Thoughtful is some long-ago folk duo, it doesn't mean we should join in the sneerfest, and passively watch as standards continue to plummet. When President Obama is called everything from Gandalf the Wizard or NaziMuslimTerrorGuy it remains every engaged citizens' duty to firmly say, "No he's not!", and to perhaps aim a little humorous scorn at anyone who'd believe such twaddle. But much as I love John Stewart, Stephen Colbert and their colleagues, it strikes me as downright surreal that they, and not the 'real' Anchorpersons and Commentators, seem to be the only people on TV who actively adhere to concepts like fairness, primary sources and....facts. They're comedians for god's sake!! It's not their job to keep journalism from becoming.. a joke! Yet, again and again Stewart and Colbert, while being consistently hilarious, are the only frequently watched TV talkers that; 1. bother to put current events into historical context, 2. examine bizarre claims for the few shreds of truth they might contain, and 3. confront their guests with questions that aren't solely intended to add to the noise. Ironic is too mild a word for the fact that, with rare exceptions, the only professionals on TV who seem to want, in Walter Cronkite's words, "to protect the news.", are the ones using it to get laughs! It does take courage to confront and lampoon our disgraceful national shouting match, but I think Messrs Stewart, and Colbert would heartily agree that when a handful of comedians are the closest we've got to Uncle Walter, we're in deep s****. Americans have always had a stand-offish relationship with facts, especially if they run contrary to our ideals, or expose our prejudices. We're equally uncomfortable with censorship, however because after all freedom of speech, and the public's right to know, are foundations of a free society, etc, etc; Which is precisely why Walter Cronkite became so trusted, and ultimately influential. Because we believed the stories he told us. He was a reliable reporter. He protected the news. His opinions carried weight precisely because he expressed them so rarely. Ted Turner's brilliant gamble of putting News on the air 24/7, was supposed to continue that tradition, but it has failed, with the unintended and lamentable consequence of making us less well informed, and more agitated. Why? Because it turns out that some of the public trust stories told by charlatans, self promoting dweebs, and unstable rageaholics, no matter how fact-free they turn out to be. Could our chronically neglected public education system have something to do with this? Is Talk Radio and Rant TV merely a symptom of a society which seems more and more willing to ignore, or at best laugh at, what's actually happening all around us? Has it become smart to present bullshit as news? Are comedians the only ones who rely on the truth anymore? Has Comedy filled the void where Substance used to be? Does it have to be a joke to be true? Does the truth have to be funny for anyone to pay attention to it? How funny is globalwarmingconstantwarfarefinancialcatastropheracistparanoia, anyway? Okay, my time's up! Good night folks, thanks for coming and don't forget to tip your waitresses, ah hell, knock 'em right over!? But seriously, I'll be here all week!! More on Daily Show
 
Andy Plesser: Simon & Schuster Authors on "Game-Changing" Platform for Digital Book/Video Hybrid with a New "Vook" Top
In the fast-changing landscape of digital book publishing there is now something called a vook , a product and company which is a hybrid of text and video, delivered on the Web and as an iPhone download . Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint, is working with Vook , a San Francisco-area start-up, to publish four "vooks," of both non-fiction and fiction. They are Promises, by Jude Deveraux; The 90-Second Fitness Solution by Pete Cerqua; The Embassy by Richard Doetsch and Return to Beauty by Narine Nikososian. The multimedia products sell for $6.99 and are available on the Simon & Schuster and Vook sites and on the Apple iPhone application store. It is not yet available on Amazon. Vooks wont be available on the current crop of Kindles as they don't support video. Vook was conceived and self-funded by Brad Inman , a former San Francisco Examiner business columnist who has created several digital media start-ups.  His most recent company is TurnHere , an Emeryville, California company which creates and syndicates  Web vidoes under contract to customers from hotels to local directories. TurnHere has created a network of thousands of videographers who produce videos on assignment.  The Vook videos were created by videographers in the TurnHere network. The deal with Simon & Schuster is not exclusive and the company plans to work with other publishers.  In a statement, Ellie Hirschhorn, Executive VP and Chief Digital Officer of Simon & Schuster said, "Vook is a game-changing model for reading in the digital age of multimedia, the first viable combination of text and video that is user friendly and that addresses today's multitasking audience and how it absorbs information and entertainment." Motoko Rich reports on the "bookbending experiment" in Thursday's New York Times.  Here's the story by the Associated Press. Andy Plesser, Executive Producer You can find this post up on Beet.TV
 
Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast: The Script That Kills: Austin Peck on The Blue Tooth Virgin Top
A TV writer tries his hand at a feature film. His friend reads the script, thinks it's an ungodly mess of muddled symbolism and Freud 101 anxieties. "Be honest," the writer says. This is the way friendships end, and mean, funny films about the deaths of such friendships are born. In The Blue Tooth Virgin , Austin Peck -- best known to soap aficionados as Brad Snyder on As the World Turns -- plays the writer of said screenplay, not coincidentally called The Blue Tooth Virgin , while Bryce Johnson is his put-upon friend. Director Russell Brown, who also scripted, has structured the film as a series of two-character confrontations, bringing in friends, girlfriends, therapists, and Karen Black as a decidedly off-center script consultant to add their own feedback to the proceedings. The dialogue is crisp, funny, and frequently, happily, nasty, and the film speaks at once to those directly immersed in the machinations of the film industry, and to everyone who puts their creativity, and their egos, on the line. Austin Peck gave me some good insights into fragility of the creative soul, and whether Karen Black can still deal gracefully with those who ask about the Zuni fetish doll. Click the player below to hear the interview. EXTRA SPECIAL BONUS EPISODE (Just to show I'm always thinking of you) The rock documentary, Anvil! The Story of Anvil! is having its TV debut this Saturday, October 3, at 10 PM ET/PT on VH1 and VH1 Classic. In honor of the event, I figured I'd repost the interview I conducted with the film's director, Sacha Gervasi. Check out the doc -- it's a good 'un -- then listen to this ep to get some insight into how it all came together. Or listen to it ahead of time. Go ahead. It's a free country. More MMP on HuffPost: Anne Fontaine on Coco Before Chanel Michael Almereyda on Paradise Ben Whishaw and Paul Schneider on Bright Star Check out the Mighty Movie Podcast homepage. More on Satire
 
Joy Behar, Ann Coulter Spar Over Death Panels, How "Coherent" Sarah Palin Is (VIDEO) Top
Joy Behar hosted Ann Coulter for the second edition of her HLN show, "The Joy Behar Show." Behar and Coulter sparred over death panels, with Coulter defending the notion — popularized by Sarah Palin — that one proposal in the health care reform debate included government-run "death panels" to determine whether elderly people could live or die. The two then discussed Palin herself, both agreeing that she has become very powerful but differing over how coherent she is. "Nobody wanted to hear John McCain. Sarah Palin would show up, and she got audiences bigger than Obama," Coulter said. "She's prettier, that's about it," Behar said. "She's more coherent, she's conservative, she's actually a Republican," Coulter shot back. "Ann — not for nothing — I like you, she's not coherent," Behar said. "The woman cannot construct a sentence!" Watch: Embedded video from CNN Video
 
Madonna On Letterman: I 'Would Rather Get Run Over By A Train' Than Marry Again (VIDEO) Top
Madonna returned to David Letterman Wednesday night, riding in on the shoulders of NY Rangers, and joked about smoking a joint before a previous appearance, her recent dalliance with Alex Rodriguez, and her recent divorce from Guy Ritchie. Of her eight-year marriage to Guy Ritchie, she said it was "the Bush years... a good time to be out of America." But she won't marry again. "I think I'd rather get run over by a train." Letterman later found something that she had never done before - eat a slice of New York pizza. She claimed it's because she's 'not a cheese person.' The pair then walked next door and were served pre-ordered slices of cheese-less pie with olives, which she even took a bite of on camera. Highlights below. WATCH: Get HuffPost Entertainment On Facebook and Twitter! More on Madonna
 
Jeff Stein: How They Cracked Zazi Top
The feds cracked Najibullah Zazi without laying a hand on him, according to most news accounts. But some people still wonder if the rough stuff would have worked better -- if only to make sure he gave it all up. They've got to turn off their TVs. Today I asked two veteran counterterrorism interrogators to take me inside the room when Zazi, the erstwhile New York street peddler - turned-alleged linchpin of a countrywide terrorist plot, was being questioned. These guys -- one from the FBI, and one an Air Force interrogator who mentally sparred with al Qaeda suspects in Iraq and Afghanistan -- are the real deal. They've spent years eyeball-to-eyeball with hardcore terrorists and assorted other psychopaths, breaking them down. Neither of them was in the room when the FBI cracked Zazi in Denver two weeks ago. But the techniques used to peel the 25-year-old Afghan immigrant like an avocado aren't a mystery, either. Here's Joseph Navarro, veteran FBI counterterrorism interrogator and author of " Hunting Terrorists: A Look at the Psychopathology of Terrorists ": "The bureau would have established rapport with the guy, attending to his needs and starting a dialogue," says Navarro, whose career was launched stalking FALN terrorists in Puerto Rico in 1981. "Because most of these guys were narcissists," he says of such quarry, "there is not much to do but stroke their egos, be amazed at how clever they are, and let them talk." And, he says, "They all talked." I asked Matthew Alexander, the pseudonym for a 14-year Air Force criminal investigator who interrogated al Qaeda and insurgent suspects in Baghdad and the U.S. base at Bahgram in Afghanistan, to elaborate on techniques that probably were used on Zazi. They will sound familiar to anyone who grew up watching Dragnet -- but not "24," where Jack Bauer shoots terrorists in the leg to get them talking. "I would assume that the interrogators would have used a 'We Know All,' or 'Futility' approach," Alexander said, " based on the amount of physical evidence that they collected prior to Zazi's detention." "It would make the most sense, given the large amount of evidence they had," added Alexander, who conducted more than 300 interrogations and supervised over a thousand more during three wars, winning a Bronze Star in 2006. "The 'We Know All' approach," he said, "is exactly that: The interrogator tells the detainee that they already know everything and that it is futile to resist and that the detainee's best bet is to cooperate and then a judge (or jury) might show them leniency (no promises, however)." "'Futility,'" he added, "is really just a continuation of the same approach -- no reason to resist because the situation is futile. "There are other methods, however, that they could have used." "For instance, they could have used an 'Establish Your Identity' approach and accused Zazi of being higher than he actually is within Al Qaeda. "That would be an attempt to get him to describe exactly his role in order to disprove the allegation that he is a high-level leader. " The way Alexander talks about it, interrogators have more tricks than a Countrywide mortgage broker. And in the end, they're just as effective, not to mention a lot less painful. Last December the retired major wrote a book on it, " How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq ." "Honestly, the amount of legal, non-coercive options for interrogation approaches in a case like this [Zazi] are almost endless," Alexander said. "What would have been difficult is balancing the need to get a confession for legal prosecution, versus obtaining intelligence information that could prevent a future terrorist attack." Harsh interrogation boosters, most recently former Vice President Cheney's daughter Liz, a high State Department official in the Bush administration, harp on the need for rapid intelligence extraction over gathering evidence, arguing that saving lives is more important than prosecuting terrorists. Even some liberals have begun to crack, fretting that Zazi might still possess "ticking bomb" information that requires "harder" methods. But that assumes "harder" methods produce more and better information, counters Navarro. "They associate chatter with the truth and that is totally wrong," he told me. But, I asked, if you don't at least knock a guy around, how do you know a suspect isn't holding something back? "Everyone will always hold something back," Navarro said. "But we want cooperation, not coercion." "The tortured, as the Gestapo learned, will also hold back," he said. More on Terrorism
 
Forbes 400 List: Forbes Releases Names Of America's Richest People Top
The rich haven't gotten richer--or poorer--this year. The price of admission to this, the 27th edition of The Forbes 400, is $1.3 billion for the second year in a row. The assembled net worth of America's wealthiest rose by $30 billion--only 2%--to $1.57 trillion. More on Billionaires
 
Dan Rather To Speak To Neil Cavuto About Lawsuit Top
The Huffington Post hears that Neil Cavuto has landed an exclusive interview with Dan Rather, his first since his lawsuit against CBS was dismissed Tuesday . The interview is expected to air on Cavuto's Fox News program, "Your World with Neil Cavuto," as well as on his Fox Business Network program. Rather is expected to discuss his decision to appeal the dismissal of his case. Rather's $70 million breach of contract suit — in which he claimed that CBS wrongfully fired him over his report on George W. Bush's service in the National Guard — was thrown out Tuesday by a judge in the Appellate Division of New York's Supreme Court. Rather's attorney immediately indicated that he planned to appeal. More on Dan Rather
 
Rufus Lusk: Short Films/ Live Score Top
Still from Jesse Gelaznik's Dying Science Still from Rachel Blackwell's Ritual 1 This Friday Rachel Blackwell and Jesse Gelaznik are showing new video and film work at the 92Y SOHO. Rachel will be showing videos whose themes include the presence and absence of ritual in contemporary life, and the universality of death. Jesse has composed live scores for Rachel's work that will be performed by The Dirty Churches. The live score moving image combo recalls the early days of cinema and is an eerie and exciting way to see Rachel's work. Also playing are two new films by Jesse. Beautifully shot by DP Miguel Contreras, the works evoke a narrative world particularly unsettling in that it may or may not be a dream. The Details: http://www.92y.org/shop/92Tri_event_detail.asp?category=92Tri+92YTribeca+Film888&productid=T%2DMM5FT08 More on Video
 
Steve Parker: What really happened? Penske drops Saturn bid; GM says division doomed Top
Today, Roger Penske called-off talks for his takeover of Saturn, almost certainly dooming yet another General Motors division. For so many months, it's seemed like a slam dunk for one of the auto world's smartest and richest executives. Penske, whose racing team has won a record 15 Indy 500s, had come to agreement with GM to take over their once-vaunted Saturn brand, keeping the stores open and workers making cars. It appeared to be great deal for Penske; he would initially buy cars from GM to sell as Saturns at his stores, then in another two years work with another carmaker which would supply the cars, branded with the familiar "Saturn" name. A GM exec with a car which will never be; a 2010 Saturn plug-in hybrid Though details were never forthcoming, many thought Penske was getting Saturn for next-to-nothing. He would supply the approximately 250 dealers with cars and trucks; he wouldn't have to make the cars, he wouldn't have to sell them; just be the go-between the factory and dealers. He was going to be a car distributor. But that "other" carmaker, never officially named, the one Penske needed to supply him and his Saturn stores with vehicles, dropped out of the negotiations when, according to Penske, that company's board of directors balked. So as of today, he has nothing to distribute. GM said after the Penske announcement that they would begin "winding down" Saturn as a corporate division. Roger Penske at his favorite weekend hobby; in the pits, running his IndyCar team It's an ignominious and atypical end to the deal for Penske. He's used to being in close control of his vast business empire (he's the world's biggest car dealer, for one thing), and that another carmaker's board of directors would doom his dream must especially chafe. Penske's failure will almost certainly result in Saturn's demise, and publicly, officially and finally ends the Roger Smith era at GM. Smith (the "Roger" in Michael Moore's first film, Roger and Me) was ultimately considered something of an uninformed buffoon by the time he left his GM CEO position. He didn't speak well in public and always seemed ill-at-ease at media events, But he was also something of a visionary, if not always as detailed as he should have been, with his creation of Saturn and he was a tough political in-fighter who held some sway over GM for years after he officially left. Smith created Saturn in the early 1990s specifically to do battle with the Asian imports. Dealerships would be open and friendly, prices would be "no haggle" and buyers would be treated with respect. Roger Smith at the Saturn factory he built Smith built a dedicated factory which would make only Saturns in Spring Hill, TN, a hint of the industry's future moves to southeast "greenfield" locations. The contract between Saturn and the United Auto Workers was way ahead of its time and is still considered a model of fairness. Smith didn't want the GM name associated with Saturn at all; he even hired an ad agency with no automotive experience, Hal Riney and Associates of San Francisco as Saturn's agency. Riney himself did the voiceovers for the spots, classics of the sort (his company also created and he voiced the infamous "It's morning in America" ad for Ronald Reagan). Even when things went wrong, Saturn seemed able to turn it into a positive. When a customer in Alaska had a problem with their car's seats, Saturn flew a technician there from the Lower 48 to make the fix, and that made news. When the occasional recall hit, dealers would hold cook-outs when owners brought their cars for repair to strengthen their bond with their customers. And things were fixed right, the first time, if at all possible. Perhaps most surprising, for several years "Saturn Homecoming" conventions were held at the Spring Hill factory, with thousands of owners driving from everywhere in the US and Canada to attend. This is something you expect at, say, the Corvette plant in Bowling Green, KY ... not at a factory building cars selling for around $20,000. Saturn indeed became an American phenomenon, and there was a major reason behind their success: they built pretty damn good cars. Combined with the dealer attitude towards customers and the great PR the company was getting, GM appeared to have a winner, possibly a huge one. A 2003 Saturn; the company was on its fatal downturn by this point So what went wrong? GM started running out of money a long time before the current depression. As the 21st century approached, GM's board apparently chose Saturn to suffer most from the downturn. The company started selling cars and trucks not built in Spring Hill and available in other GM stores under other names, and those cars were not covered with what had become a Saturn trademark --- plastic body panels to ward off parking lot dings. Though the dealers stayed loyal to Saturn's original concept of treating the customer like they'd never been treated at a car dealer, since 2000, new product barely trickled into the stores (this is how a carmaker can punish dealers or an entire division) and not-so-slowly Saturn appeared destined for failure. Why was Saturn picked by the GM board to suffer? Some think, with a new generation of leaders, it was the company's way of thumbing the corporate nose at Roger Smith, who had embarrassed GM so often and so badly. Others say it was because no one really knew what Smith had spent to create Saturn; many put the figure above $10 billion, in 1990 dollars, and some insiders told me Saturn would always be a liability and never be able to pay for itself, much less show a profit. Another possible reason: Somewhere in every Chevrolet dealer's contract, it states that Chevy is the "entry level" car for GM. A Saturn store selling a lot of cars and trucks for less than the Chevys down the street didn't engender warm feelings from Chevy dealers towards Saturn. Chevy dealers are the 800-pound gorilla of GM; there are 3,812 Chevy stores in the US, and that carries weight with the corporation. Perhaps those Chevy dealers just wanted Saturn to go away... and GM wanted to avoid lawsuits. A 2010 Corvette Gran Sport, the modern version of Roger Penske's 1963 race car; both the Corvette and Saturn factories are far from Detroit It's no secret that Roger Penske has been sought-after by every carmaker in Detroit to serve as a top executive. He's always turned them down, preferring to run his own company as he pleased and succeed or fail on his own terms. Penske, along with very few others, including Walter P. Chrysler, Pete Petersen at Ford, John DeLorean, Lee Iacocca and Bob Lutz, is certainly among the smartest people ever in the car business. Over 20 years ago, on the day he opened his $100,000-million California Speedway with a full house of over 100,000 fans and great racing events, early that morning I watched Penske drive a minitruck around the track and the infield area, stopping to get out and pick up litter when he spotted some. He leaves nothing to chance; that incident told me all I needed to know about Penske. Want a Smart car? Daimler, its owner, sells them in the US only through Penske-owned dealerships And he's still going strong at age 72. Americans can buy a Smart car only at a Penske dealership and his Longo Toyota in southern California is reputed to be the single biggest car dealer in the world of any type, retailing a new car or truck every 15 minutes, 24 hours a day, every day of the year. I never recommend dealers because it often turns into a nightmare and I become the bad guy: Longo is the only dealer I recommend and I've never been disappointed. Penske almost tasted the sweetest irony. He's been on GM's radar since he won the Sports Illustrated Driver of the Year award racing sports cars in 1960, then started a Cadillac dealership in Philadelphia, but GM could never get him to work for them. (Penske even raced one of the five legendary 1963 Gran Sport Corvette race cars, built to take on Ford's Cobra, which they did). Then Penske gets a chance, almost 50 years later, to own a former division of that same company. Then, the deal fails because of an unnamed carmaker which couldn't supply Penske with the cars he'd need to get to his Saturn dealers, something out of Penske's control. He's also known, not surprisingly for a top business person, for a certain steely coldness. When his racing team fired Paul Tracy from his IndyCar racing job, one story says that Tracy was called to a hotel room where he found two seated Penske executives, and he was simply told, "You're through." And that was that. Automotive trivia lovers probably know that Enzo Ferrari was known as "Il Commandatore." Roger Penske is known as "Captain" to those around him, and his achievements are legion, outliving those of even Roger Smith. Can Saturn survive? Is there another savior out there with the money, brains and experience to keep those stores open, cars selling and most important, people working? Or could only another car company do what Penske had planned for Saturn? More on Michael Moore
 
Former Prosecutor: I Lied In Polanski Documentary Top
LOS ANGELES — A former prosecutor said Wednesday he lied when he told a documentary film crew that he advised a judge handling Roman Polanski's sex case that he should send the director to prison. The statement later became part of the basis for a move by Polanski's attorneys to dismiss the case against the fugitive director who was arrested in Switzerland on Saturday. "They interviewed me in the Malibu courthouse when I was still a DA, and I embellished a story," David F. Wells said in an interview with The Associated Press about his statements to the makers of "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired." "I'm a guy who cuts to the chase – I lied. It embarrasses the hell of me." he said. Wells, 71, did not handle Polanski's case but was assigned to the courtroom where it was heard and had frequent interactions with the judge. Wells said he was sorry about making the comments for the documentary. "I cost the DA's office a lot of money and aggravation over this," said Wells, who retired as a prosecutor more than two years ago. Polanski was accused of plying a 13-year-old girl with champagne and part of a Quaalude during a modeling shoot in 1977 and raping her. He was initially indicted on six felony counts, including rape by use of drugs, child molesting and sodomy. The director pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of unlawful sexual intercourse; in exchange, the remaining charges were dropped, and the judge agreed to send Polanski to prison for a 90-day psychiatric evaluation. But Polanski was released after 42 days and fled the country on the eve of his Feb. 1, 1978, sentencing after the judge reportedly told lawyers he planned to add more prison time. Polanski's attorneys later argued in a motion to dismiss the case that the communications between the judge and Wells were clear misconduct and violated Polanski's constitutional rights. That motion was dismissed because Polanski was a fugitive at the time, though the judge acknowledged "substantial misconduct" in the original case. The matter is now in the hands of an appeals court. One of Polanski's attorneys, Chad Hummel, declined to comment on Wells' comments. District Attorney's spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said the office also had no comment. Marina Zenovich, who directed the film, did not return a phone message seeking comment. Wells said he overstated his actions to the filmmakers because he was told the documentary would air in France, not the United States. The documentary aired on HBO. In the documentary, Wells is depicted as conferring with the now-deceased trial judge Laurence J. Rittenband about Polanski's case. Wells says in the film the judge took his advice in deciding to renege on a plea bargain and give Polanski additional prison time. "I made that up to make the stuff look better," Wells said. His admission was first reported in a story by former O.J. Simpson prosecutor Marcia Clark on the Web site The Daily Beast. Polanski's victim, Samantha Geimer, who long ago identified herself, has joined in Polanski's bid for dismissal. She testified at the time that Polanski forced himself on her – which he acknowledged in his guilty plea – but has said she forgives him and wants the ordeal to be over. Wells said he would testify in court that he lied and has offered to give a sworn declaration to prosecutors about his actions, in case they need it. No one from the district attorney's office has contacted him since he made the offer several months ago, he said. Wells said he showed Rittenband a copy of a newspaper that pictured Polanski with girls at an Oktoberfest event. Wells said he never talked about potential sentences and the judge would have seen the paper anyway. Wells said he still believes Polanski should receive a much stiffer sentence. More on Roman Polanski
 
Elizabeth Smart To Testify In Court Against Alleged Kidnapper Top
Seven years since she was abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom by knifepoint, Elizabeth Smart will be in the same room on Thursday as her alleged kidnapper, Brian David Mitchell. More on Crime
 
Huff TV: Arianna Defends Alan Grayson, Discusses Urgent Need For Health Reform On "Countdown" (VIDEO) Top
Arianna was a guest on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" tonight and she defended the remarks made by Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson (FL) about the GOP and health care reform, saying he has the truth on his side. She also stressed that the need for fundamental reform is urgent because the lack of health insurance is killing thousands of Americans every year. WATCH: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy More on Video
 
Will Ferrell's Wife Expecting Baby #3 Top
Will Ferrell's house is fast becoming a real boys' club. The former Saturday Night Live star, 42 and his wife, auctioneer Viveca Paulin, 40, are expecting their third child, a boy, the actor's rep tells PEOPLE. More on Will Ferrell
 

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