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By Reid Pillifant 4/23/10 10:21pm

What We Learned This Week: April 23 Edition

Media hires, volcanic ash, mayoral money in the Cayman Islands, and no repentence from Goldman Sachs. Heyo! All that and more key findings from the past seven days.

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By Azi Paybarah 4/16/10 5:20pm

Paterson Jokes

‘Screw You’

Young Republicans chide David Paterson for, among other things, not calling a special election to fill the seat vacated by Democratic Rep. Eric Massa. The refrain is “screw you tax payer.” Which is something.

Paterson has said he has concerns about how much money it’ll cost to hold a special election, something he Read More

By Reid Pillifant 3/16/10 1:54pm

Eric Massa’s Fellow Sailors Found Him Simply ‘Amazing!’

“Who is the man behind the hard stare?” asks The Washington Post this morning in a profile of Eric Massa.

The Post got its hands on Eric Massa’s old Naval Academy yearbook from his salty sailing days, and–while most of the out-of-uniform portraits are breezy, smiling shots of young sailors about to Read More

By Reid Pillifant 3/15/10 2:35pm

Fox Journalists Delighted With Glenn Beck’s Massa Disaster

Fox is at a crossroads because of Glenn Beck’s antics, writes Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post this morning. Naturally, Roger Ailes loves Mr. Beck for the huge lead-in he provides to the network’s evening lineup.

But Fox employees–the ones who still harbor hopes of being regarded as a legitimate journalistic outlet–so loathe Read More

By Azi Paybarah 3/15/10 2:23pm

W.F.P. Demands Democrats Vote for Health Care Bill

Dan Cantor is throwing down the gauntlet, threatening to withhold the W.F.P.’s support for Democrats who don’t support the health care bill in Washington.

In announcing the move, the party noted “Votes on the WFP ballot line have been the margin of victory for Democratic Congressional candidates in New York five times since Read More

By Azi Paybarah 3/15/10 1:35pm

Massa Massages and Massa-bation

Seinfeld: “If you’re going to sexually harass people who work under you, dude, don’t trade mark it.”

Meyers: “It’s truly incredible to be New York’s biggest disaster at a time when David Paterson is still governor.”

By Reid Pillifant 3/12/10 11:07pm

Findings

What We Learned This Week

Well, David Paterson must be pleased that Eric Massa took over the news cycle.

Mr. Massa was kind enough to teach us some new words: fracking and snorkeling. Elsewhere, we discovered the goodness of Garden and Gun, the twisted beauty of a little blight, and the inevitablity of e-books. We also got a window into Read More

By Reid Pillifant 3/11/10 3:14pm

Daily News Fishing For Salty Massa’s Messages

The House Ethics Committee has said it’s done investigating salty former Congressman Eric Massa, the Daily News has not.

Yesterday, the paper sent a reporter to the house where the alleged snorkeler admittedly lived with his male staffers before his chief of staff had a “conniption” over the arrangement. Read More

By Azi Paybarah 3/11/10 1:39pm

Paterson Patient on Massa Election, Still No Date With Investigators

David Paterson did not commit to a specific date by which he’d call a special election for the upstate congressional seat vacated by Democratic Rep. Eric Massa.

“I would not imagine it would be too long,” Paterson said this morning during an interview on WOR News Talk Radio.

Massa resigned from Congress Read More

By Reid Pillifant 3/10/10 11:37pm

Ethics Committee No Longer Pursuing Massa’s Fracking Nor His Snorkeling

The House Ethics Committee abandoned its probe of Eric Massa this afternoon–according to The Washington Post–concluding that it couldn’t do anything to the former congressman even if it uncovered the fracking, or snorkeling, or text messages that appeared to be out there.

Republicans are pressing for the committee Read More

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What We Learned This Week: April 23 Edition

‘Screw You’

Eric Massa’s Fellow Sailors Found Him Simply ‘Amazing!’

Fox Journalists Delighted With Glenn Beck’s Massa Disaster

W.F.P. Demands Democrats Vote for Health Care Bill

Massa Massages and Massa-bation

What We Learned This Week

Daily News Fishing For Salty Massa’s Messages

Paterson Patient on Massa Election, Still No Date With Investigators

Ethics Committee No Longer Pursuing Massa’s Fracking Nor His Snorkeling

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