WOAI-TV MAY BE MAKING LIGHT SIDE TOO LIGHT

 
WOAI-TV, which was thought of as San Antonio's no-nonsense news station for decades - even to the point of seeming too stodgy - has done a dramatic turnaround in the past year-and-a-half.

 

WOAI Sportcaster Don Harris gets dowsed wth a water cooler during a WOAI promo

  

When it comes to ratings for the big three network affiliates, the station, at last check, still was third for news. However, one could say it has become No. 1 for nonsense.

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SAN ANTONIO MAN CHARGED IN FATAL CRASH


Police arrested a man accused of causing a fatal vehicle crash while intoxicated, then fleeing from the scene.  

According to a police report, Julian Rodriguez, 79, was killed after he was pinned underneath a Ford Ranger in the 700 block of Austin Street just east of downtown about 2 p.m. on Wednesday.

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BREWER, OBAMA EXCHANGE TENSE WORDS OVER BOOK, IMMIGRATION AT AIRPORT 

 

President Barack Obama arrived at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport and was greeted by Gov. Jan Brewer, among other dignitaries and local mayors. The two spoke intensely for a few minutes. At one point, she pointed her finger at him. At another, they were talking over each other. 

  

  

 

Obama appeared to walk away from Brewer while they were still talking.

 

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GOVERNOR JAN BREWER SHAKES HER FINGER AT OBAMA

Brewer defends pointing finger at Obama

 

Governor Jan Brewer Lashes Out at Obama on Tarmac in Arizona

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GEORGIA COURT TOLD OBAMA SLAM-DUNK DISQUALIFIED

Georgia citizens today delivered sworn testimony to a court that Barack Obama is slam-dunk disqualified from having his name on the 2012 presidential ballot in the state, because his father never was a U.S. citizen, which prevents him from qualifying as a "natural-born citizen" as the U.S. Constitution requires for a president.

  

 

 

The historic hearing was the first time that a court has accepted arguments on the merits of the controversy over Obama's status. His critics say he never met the constitutional requirements to occupy the Oval Office, and the states and Congress failed in their obligations to make sure only a qualified president is inaugurated. His supporters, meanwhile, argue he won the 2008 election and therefore was "vetted" by America.

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36 OBAMA AIDES OWE $833,000 IN BACK TAXES

How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes.

Because how unfair -- indeed, un-American -- it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet's secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.

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CONSERVATIVE STALWART BOZELL: 'NO DOUBT' GINGRICH IS REAGAN CONSERVATIVE

There is "no doubt" that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is a strong conservative in the proud tradition of former President Ronald Reagan, Media Research Center founder and President L. Brent Bozell II told Newsmax on Thursday.

  

 

 

Regarding the GOP presidential candidate's commitment to Reagan's principles, Bozell said flatly of Gingrich: "He was a warrior - of course he was."

Read more on Newsmax.com: Watchdog Bozell: 'No Doubt' Gingrich Is Reagan Conservative
Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!

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REAGAN AUTHOR SHIRLEY: ROMNEY ATTACK OF GINGRICH IS 'PREPOSTEROUS'

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's contention that Newt Gingrich isn't really a Reaganite is "preposterous," historian Craig Shirley writes in an Op-Ed in South Florida's Sun Sentinel.

Shirley, author of three books about President Ronald Reagan, noted that, when Romney was asked about his conservative credentials during his run for the Senate in 1994, he replied: "I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush."

"From the beginning of his political career, Gingrich was always at the ramparts as a staunch ally of the Reagan White House, from tax cuts to anti-communism to Federalism to pro-life and in all manner of great fights in that decade of Great Debates," the Reagan Scholar at Eureka College wrote.

 

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RUSH: NEWT UNDER 'COORDINATED ATTACK'

A series of media hit pieces on Newt Gingrich that appear online today represent a "coordinated attack" on the Republican presidential candidate in the days leading up to Florida's primary election, Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show.

 

Limbaugh cited the blog of Greg Sargent of The Plum Line, who wrote a story titled "Romney paints Gingrich as mentally unstable," as well as a headline on the Drudge Report proclaiming, "Gingrich reportedly insulted Reagan." He also denounced an article by Elliott Abrams of the National Review.

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VIDEO OF GINGRICH BASHING REAGAN WAS EDITED TO BE MISLEADING

Video supposedly showing Newt Gingrich bashing Reaganism just at the end of Ronald Reagan's presidency was edited to put the then-up-an-coming congressman in a bad light, it has turned out.

The C-SPAN video, titled "Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1998" on YouTube, was part of a huge coordinated campaign against Gingrich that was launched on Thursday, five days ahead of the vital Florida primary.  

Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

But it cuts off before Gingrich explains what he means.

In the portion shown on YouTube, Gingrich talks about the Republican Party's chances after Reagan leaves office. "On Election Day, the American people, given a choice of more of eight years or something new, will vote for something new," he said.

But what the clip does not show is Gingrich's rationale behind his statement, which shows he was not bashing Reaganism, but merely suggesting that then-Vice President George Bush needed to take it forward.

The entire clip, which was discovered by the website RiehlWorldView, shows Gingrich going on to say he wanted "A Republicanism of the '90s that builds on Reaganism, but goes beyond Reaganism."

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MIKE REAGAN, RUSH LIMBAUGH BLAST ROMNEY

Ronald Reagan's eldest son Mike Reagan has issued a statement lambasting Mitt Romney and his supporters for claims that Romney's Republican presidential rival Newt Gingrich was a strong critic of President Reagan.


Reagan says such claims are false.

Even Rush Limbaugh, shocked by the Romney claims, chimed on his Thursday radio broadcast to say "This is obviously a coordinated attack to take Newt out here in Florida."

Rush slammed the Romney-backed smear campaign against Newt.

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GINGRICH BLASTS ROMNEY BEFORE LAST FLORIDA DEBATE

Newt Gingrich lashed out at Mitt Romney Thursday, accusing his Republican presidential opponent of engaging in sleazy negative politics and being part of a fragile establishment desperate to stop the former House speaker from winning the GOP nomination.

Gingrich's attack came hours before the final Florida GOP primary debate, to be held at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. The debate is being hosted by CNN, the Republican Party of Florida and the Hispanic Leadership Network, a center-right advocacy group.

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NEWT DECLARES WAR ON MEDIA

The Republican re-embrace of former Speaker Newt Gingrich says a lot about whom he sees as his opponent - and it isn't just President Barack Obama. It's the media.

If not for major media's embrace, Obama would still be sitting in the Senate, perhaps mulling another run for the presidency. A UCLA economist-political scientist recently tried to measure how the liberal media bias influences the way people vote. He concluded that this bias gives the Democrat candidate 8 to 10 percentage points.

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GINGRICH TELLS UNIVISION: NO PERJURY DURING MY DIVORCE DEPOSITIONS

Newt Gingrich today was forced to confront head-on charges of hypocrisy after last week he angrily dismissed questions about his extra-marital conduct when a little over a decade earlier, as Speaker of the House, he had led impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton for his own affair.

"When you were Speaker of the House, you criticized President Clinton for having an extramarital affair," Univision correspondent Jorge Ramos said to Gingrich during a forum Wednesday in Miami.

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GINGRICH STAFFER ADMITS CLAIM WAS WRONG 

After nearly a week on the defensive, CNN's John King reports tonight that Newt Gingrich's claim about offering witnesses to ABC News in his defense - to rebut the network's interview with his second wife, Marianne Gingrich - was not true.

Gingrich staffer admits claim was wrong

"Tonight, after persistent questioning by our staff, the Gingrich campaign concedes now Speaker Gingrich was wrong - both in his debate answer, and in our interview yesterday," King said on tonight's edition of John King USA. "Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond says the only people the Gingrich campaign offered to ABC were his two daughters from his first marriage."

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GINGRICH CLAIMS OF VERACITY IN DIVORCES DON'T HOLD UP

For years, Newt Gingrich has defended the Clinton impeachment hearings by saying that they were about perjury, and that he always told the truth when deposed in his own divorce proceedings. But no evidence exists that he ever testified. Plus, the charade continues: Wayne Barrett follows up on Gingrich's deposition lies.

A review of Newt Gingrich's divorce records contradicts his public contention that it was his own divorce experience with depositions that forced him to push for Bill Clinton's impeachment in 1998.

Insisting in a 2000 New York Times interview that he had been "through two tough divorce depositions in my life and I told the truth both times," Gingrich has long justified his votes in favor of all four of the impeachment counts against Clinton on the basis of the president's alleged perjury. But a Daily Beast probe of both divorces can find no evidence that he was ever deposed.

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GINGRICH ORCHESTRATED GOP ADS RECALLING CLINTON-LEWINSKY AFFAIR

The GOP's multimillion dollar ad campaign invoking President Clinton's relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky was devised by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and tested before more than three dozen groups of likely voters before Republicans unleashed the assault, party sources said yesterday.

In reviving the presidential sex scandal just one week before Election Day, Gingrich and his chief strategists aimed to energize their most loyal supporters, whose enthusiasm appeared to be waning after House conservatives lost the budget fight and the Clinton scandal fell off the front pages.

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GINGRICH REPEATEDLY INSULTED REAGAN

In the increasingly rough Republican campaign, no candidate has wrapped himself in the mantle of Ronald Reagan more often than Newt Gingrich. "I worked with President Reagan to change things in Washington," "we helped defeat the Soviet empire," and "I helped lead the effort to defeat Communism in the Congress" are typical claims by the former speaker of the House.

 

The claims are misleading at best. As a new member of Congress in the Reagan years - and I was an assistant secretary of state - Mr. Gingrich voted with the president regularly, but equally often spewed insulting rhetoric at Reagan, his top aides, and his policies to defeat Communism.  

 

Gingrich was voluble and certain in predicting that Reagan's policies would fail, and in all of this he was dead wrong.

 

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DOLE ASSAILS GINGRICH IN PLEA TO CONSERVATIVES

Bob Dole, a Mitt Romney supporter and former Republican presidential nominee, issued a scathing statement Thursday blasting Newt Gingrich for being a "one-man-band who rarely took advice." 

  

 

 

In an open letter to conservatives distributed by Romney's campaign, Dole said he personally took steps to assist the former House speaker pay off a penalty levied by the House Ethics Committee.

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DELAY: 'HE'S NOT REALLY A CONSERVATIVE'

 Newt Gingrich better hope voters who lapped up his delicious hits on the "elite media" and liberals don't read the Drudge Report this morning.

Or the National Review. Or the American Spectator. Or Ann Coulter.

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"RE-ELECT OBAMA: VOTE NEWT!" SAYS ANN COULTER



 To talk with Gingrich supporters is to enter a world where words have no meaning. They denounce Mitt Romney as a candidate being pushed on them by "the Establishment" -- with "the Establishment" defined as anyone who supports Romney or doesn't support Newt.

Gingrich may have spent his entire life in Washington and be so much of an insider that, as Jon Stewart says, "when Washington gets its prostate checked, it tickles [Newt]," but he is deemed the rebellious outsider challenging "the Establishment" -- because, again, "the Establishment" is anyone who opposes Newt.

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NANCY REAGAN:  RONALD PASSED THE CONSERVATIVE TORCH TO NEWT

 

Nancy Reagan 1995: Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt

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NEWT BACKED REAGAN, ROMNEY OPPOSED HIM

A newly surfaced video shows that no less a figure than Nancy Reagan asserted that President Ronald Reagan passed the "torch" of Reagan conservatism to Newt Gingrich - belying efforts by Mitt Romney supporters to cast Gingrich as anti-Reagan.

And Reagan's eldest son Michael has endorsed Gingrich, voicing strong support for the former House speaker's campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

Read more on Newsmax.com: Newt Backed Reagan, Romney Opposed Him
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EVANGELICAL SPEAKER: TRUE CHRISTIANS DON'T DEMONIZE MORMONS, OBAMA

Mark DeMoss has a message for his fellow evangelicals: You can't attack and demean Mormons or President Barack Obama and still consider yourself a follower of Jesus Christ.  

 

It is impossible to abide by Paul's admonition to regard others as more important than yourself, DeMoss said Tuesday during a Brigham Young University devotional, "and also stand outside [LDS] General Conference hurling insults as [Mormons] walk by to worship with [their] fellow Latter-day Saints."

 

Just because the First Amendment gives everyone the right to "demonize" others with their speech, he said, "doesn't make it right."

 

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THE MORMON DIVIDE
Jane Chastain has admonition for Christians regarding support of Romney

In this election, one of the most disturbing lines to come from some of my Christian brethren is "I will never cast a vote for a Mormon for president."

 

This column is not an endorsement of Mitt Romney, but it is a call to serious reflection. That attitude is un-American. It is also dangerous, particularly so in this election. Four more years under an unrestrained Barack Obama and we will not be able to recognize this country. In the name of "social justice," he is committed to leading us down the road to his version of a socialist utopia.

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RICK SANTORUM UNSURE OF FLORIDA PLANS

Rick Santorum isn't likely to be in Florida on Tuesday for a primary he's expected to lose.

  

 

 

Santorum told reporters Thursday that he hasn't yet planned an election night party in the Sunshine State because he may spend the day campaigning elsewhere.

 

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'TEBOW LAW' FOR HOMESCHOOL SPORTS FINDS SUPPORT IN VA.

  

 

  

  

 

"I don't have a David Beckham or a Tim Tebow on my hands, but he's not bad," Sharon Brockman boasts of the 13-year-old son she homeschools in Montgomery County near Christiansburg.
Will plays on a private club team now, but that will end once his contemporaries matriculate into high schools and compete on their varsity teams over the next year or two. And under current Virginia law, Will will watch from the bleachers unless he enrolls in the public schools - something Sharon Brockman says won't happen.

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