Elsewhere: At the Opera
Liz Benjamin says that presidential hopeful Russ Feingold will speak at the Empire State Pride Agenda annual fundraiser on October 5th.
The richest man in America, Bill Gates, has maxed out his contributions to Bill Frist's political committees. He also gave $2,000 to Sen. George Allen.
That outrageous North Carolina congressional candidate, Vern Robinson, has another ad attacking his opponent in an unusual way. "Instead of spending money on cancer research, Brad Miller spent your money to study the masturbation habits of old men."
Amanda Gordon has pictures of Rudy Giuliani, Joel Klein, Barbara Walters and others from the Met Opera's opening night gala.
Daily Gotham says the Mayor's newly created Sustainability Advisory Board is meeting Wednesday behind closed doors.
Phase two of the Atlantic Yards Project, the one with the apartments, has no real deadline.
Somebody created a Wikipedia-like database political opinions.
EnWhySeaWonk spots someone reading "The Truth About The Jew" on the L train.
"Unmarried women unhappy with status quo," and other key findings of a "ground breaking" report from Greenberg, Quinlan Rosner Research is here. Eligible voters who enjoy long walks in the park, read on.
It's official. More people have been killed serving in Iraq and Afghanistan than were killed on Sept. 11, notes Greg Sargent.
And pictured above is the very kind Mark Green campaign aide who sent me (and other reporters?) a thank you note after the campaign.
-- Azi Paybarah
Politicker correctly notes that the number of those who died while "serving" in Iraq and Afghanistan has now exceeded the number of 9/11 dead.
Sargent's actual report reveals the always-shocking bias of American media that only American lives count.
Sargent writes: "For the first time, the death tolls from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have together now officially surpassed the number of people killed on 9/11."
The number of Iraqis who have died in our spurious war on terror is between 43,000 and 48,000, according to iraqibodycount.org.
Anyone out there know how many Afghanis have died? British? Other members of our "coalition of the willing"?
We exceeded the carnage of 9/11 in the first day of Shock and Awe. Let's stop being blind to what the rest of the world sees so clearly.
Greg is the man.
the flypaper theory worked! we have to spend the money there so we don't have to spend it here.
Greg is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. He also did a great job at finding so much on Cuomo. Cuomo would be smart to offer him a job to see what more there is. It would also be smart for Pirro to offer him a job.
Why would anyone from mark green's campaign send a thank you note to anyone in the press, after the press failed so miserably and was so lazy during the campaign? I don't remeber a single article during the campaign talking about the substance of the Green attacks, or the substance of the Cuomo attacks. Not a single paper mentioned that Cuomo was just as negative as Green throughout the campaign, maybe more so considering that most of his attacks were personal. If Green's attacks were talked about, the article would be about the fact that there was an attack, and never about the attack itself and the substance of it. They even let katz get them to do the "mean green" rhyme in most titles. Even Jayson Horowitz's article was lazy and, even though it was probably fairly positive for Green, was completely void of substance (see cuomo's quote where he said he found out about 203k abuses and stopped them, and horowitz didn't bother to say whether or not that was true). How did the press let Barret's very serious charge be turned into cuomo attacking Green's brother (essentially implying that Green wouldn't like his brother unless his brother gave him lots of money, and the fact that he was his brother wasn't an unavoidable conflict of interest in itself), without ever getting Cuomo to respond? The only msm reporter who bothered to do his own investigations was Dicker, which involved picking up the phone and calling Peccoco.
Maybe Greg should work for Fashion Week and not Hallmark.