The bait. Im the guy that likes to do the fishing. Im the guy that likes to do the stories that nobody else is doing. But this one time tonight, im going to start with a story that i just dont think a lot of liberals in this country are terribly concerned with. But lets not be disfocused for a moment. I want to start tonight with a couple of numbers. The first number is nine. House republicans will form the ninth Congressional Committee to investigate the september 12th attacks in benghazi. Here go your tax dollars, folks. Today House Speaker john boehner selected South Carolina conservative republican trey gowdy to head up this new committee. The next number i want to focus on is 1,101. Fox news has mentioned the word benghazi no fewer than over a thousand times in the past year. Now, one more important number. And that would be six. Tomorrow marks six months away from the midterm elections. Thats what this is all about. Republicans have one strategy and one strategy alone to distract
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Preparing for a busy day at the ‘21’ Club’s popular Bar Room, which is festooned with “toys” from its famed clientele.
In 1931, Ernest Hemingway was caught in its kitchen having sex with gangster Legs Diamond s girlfriend. Holly Golightly dined there in
Breakfast at Tiffany s, as did the book s author, Truman Capote. Grace Kelly had its food delivered to an incapacitated Jimmy Stewart in the movie
Rear Window.
Frank Sinatra, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Elizabeth Taylor ate there, as did Groucho Marx, Jackie Gleason, Luciano Pavarotti, Audrey Hepburn, Helen Hayes, and Dorothy Parker, nearly a dozen American presidents and all kinds of business moguls. Its walk-in humidor cigars were a major feature of the restaurant before the New York smoking ban was home to the good smokes of Yul Brynner, Jack Lemmon and John F. Kennedy (when he was a senator) as well as Henry Ford II and the Duke of Windsor, among many others.