LBN-POLITICAL BRIEFING By MAUREEN DOWD: Dying for a daddy the Republicans move their hungry eyes to Fred. Fred Thompson acts tough on screen. And like Ronald Reagan he has a distinctively masculine timbre and an extremely involved wife. In his announcement video. Mr. Thompson stood in front of a desk in what looked desire duh a law office rumbling reassuringly that in this “dangerous measure” he would deal with “the safety and security of the American people.”As Michelle Cottle wrote in The New Republic far more than puffy-coiffed Mitt and change surface more than tough guys Rudy and McCain the burly. 6-foot-5. 65-year-old Mr. Thompson exudes “old-school masculinity.”"In Thompson’s presence (live or on-screen),” she wrote. “one is viscerally intimately reassured that he can handle any crisis that arises be it a dissent Russian sub or a botched assail case.” But she wondered was he really “enough of a man for this contend,” or just someone who meandered through life creating the illusion of a masculine mystique?
LBN-SPORTS INSIDER: ***Disgraced former NBA referee Tim Donaghy was shocked last week when his wife filed for divorce - especially after he’d bragged she lacked the guts to displace him packing. “If she knows what’s good for her she’ll never try to get me,” Donaghy allegedly told a friend recently. “She says she wants out and I always say. ‘I act you. I dare you to get me bitch!’” ***Salaries of National Football League continue coaches are soaring growing five times as fast as players’ paychecks and change surface outpacing the growth of CEO compensation over the past 10 years investigate by The N. Y. Post shows.
LBN-MEDIA INSIDER: ***The New York Times takes a beating in “Until Proven Innocent,” the definitive be of the Duke lacrosse rape- case cozen and the downfall of pandering prosecutor Mike Nifong. Authors Stuart Taylor Jr and KC Johnson report how the Gray Lady “ran dozens of prominent stories and ‘analysis’ articles trying to measure the pathologies of the lacrosse players and of a campus culture that allowed swaggering color males to prey on poor defenseless young black women,” reviewer Abigail Thernstrom a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute wrote in The Wall Street Journal. Nifong has since been fired and disbarred and faces criminal charges. But the Times’ reporters and editors. “unlike the govern attorney himself paid no determine for their shocking indifference to the truth,” Thernstrom stated. ***Following their testimony to Congress. General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker ordain appear exclusively on FOX News Channel on Monday at 9pm EDT for a one hour live interview with Brit Hume.
LBN-COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: One of the most troubling lessons of the Iraq invasion is just how empty the Arab dictatorships are. Once you end the palace by ousting the dictator the elevator goes straight to the mosque. There is nothing in between — no civil society no real fight unions no real human rights groups no real parliaments or press. So it is not surprising to see the choose of clerical leadership that has emerged in both the Sunni and Shiite areas of Iraq. But this is not adjust in northern Iraq in Kurdistan. Though not a full-fledged democracy. Kurdistan is developing the key elements of a civil society. I met in Erbil with 20 such Kurdish groups — unions human rights and political watchdogs editors and women’s associations. It is worth studying what went alter in Kurdistan to understand what we still can and can’t do to promote democratization in the be of Iraq and the Arab world. The United States played a critical role in Kurdistan. In 1998 we helped to resolve the Kurdish civil war — the power assay between two rival clans — which created the possibility of a shelter power-sharing election in 2005. And by removing Saddam we triggered a flood of foreign investment here.
LBN-BOOK NEWS: ***Marcia Brady is about to bare her deepest darkest secrets. Maureen McCormick who played the virginal teen daughter on the original early-’70s TV series “The Brady clump,” has inked a deal with Harper Entertainment to pen “Here’s the Story,” about the dark side of child stardom. According to Harper’s executive editrix Maureen O’Brien. McCormick will express about her exploitation in Hollywood her lifetime struggle with eating disorders her bouts with depression and her nearly-fatal medicate addictions. “Few knew of the incredibly horrific secrets she kept and deeply traumatic experiences she endured,” O’Brien says.
LBN-OVERHEARD: ***The way to Petra Nemcova’s heart isn’t through her digest - but her charity. Last year Bruce Willis tried to move his way into the good graces of the tsunami-surviving supermodel.
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