Posted Wednesday August 23, 2006 at 07:22 PM
- "Once upon a time there was a boy who loved his sewing machine. And with
that love, he created a monkey." Has there ever been a better lede, like, ever? [Vanity Fair]
- David Ignatius interviews al-Jazeera EIC Ahmed Sheikh: "People say we are the channel of the insurgents. It's not true. We are the channel of everybody. We are critical and balanced. That is what a journalist is supposed to do — not drum the official point of view but criticize, try to evaluate." Wait, what about the monkey? [WaPo]
- Code.tv explained, sort of, by what it's not: Not a Daily Candy with video, not looking to break stories, not for tourists. "We don't want anyone who doesn't live in and know New York to be watching Code." [Jossip]
- More on the burgeoning man-love between Matthew McConaughey and Lance Armstrong: TMZ continues to flood the zone. Matthew + Lance = TMZ's Shamu! [TMZ]
- Anderson Cooper, celebrity journalist: More celebrity than journalist, but the kids love it. [Salon]
- HuffPo's Alex Koppelman interviews Joe Scarborough: On "Is Bush an idiot?" and his changing relationship with the Republican party. Once again, the kids love it. [Salon]
- Did the Kushner family buy Jared's way into Harvard?: That's not the question, actually. The real question is, did his high school fire his awful high school counselor for blabbing to the Daily News? [Gatecrasher]
- Yeah, people buy into Harvard. So what? Some people are born into it too. That's life. Here's how it works. Now get over it. [The Fuzz]
