Newsgasm: Trump as Literary Critic Edition

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By m_ruv | Tuesday, January 24, 2006 | 10:14 am | 2 Comments

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  • Donald Trump has slapped author Timothy O’Brien with a FIVE BILLION DOLLAR libel lawsuit, claiming that O’Brien made defamatory statements about Trump’s personal life and net worth. Oh best not touch the net worth angle, son. The high point of Trump’s press release: “[T]he public should be informed so that they can take a more skeptical view of the things they read in certain media. The libel laws of this country exist to protect against the dissemination of malicious falsehoods.” Trump also added that the book was “terribly written.” [Yahoo! Business]
  • UPN and The WB announced that they’re merging into a new network called The CW. Awesome! I was thinking JUST THE OTHER DAY how we don’t have enough networks that begin with a branded “The.” Maybe they could launch a new pilot set at The Johns Hopkins University. [AP]
  • And apologies if this has made the rounds already, but this video of current governor Arnold Schwarzenegger “sampling Brazilian delicacies” in Rio during Carnaval 1983 is truly excellent. It’s like watching a long, slow-motion car accident narrated in broken Germano-Portuguese. Tudo de bom pra você INDEED. [iFilm]

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2 Comments

  1. 1
    lurkertype
    Posted January 24, 2006 at 2:15 pm

    The CW? The COW? The WC?

    Two half-networks nobody watches merge into one half-network that nobody watches.

  2. 2
    stm007
    Posted January 25, 2006 at 5:26 am

    Wow. Donald Trump gets REAL touchy when people print the truth about him – he’s a barely mediocre flim-flam man with a never ending line of credit.

    He’s a suited version of Dr. Terminus from “Pete’s Dragon” – without the Red Buttons side-kick, unfortunately.

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