3fer: Embarrassment/BARNICLE calls NYT an embarrassment. FDR walking. Julian CASTRO to HUD.
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http://gawker.com/mike-barnicle-who-is-a-confirmed-fabricator-and-plagia-1577646625 (readers’ comments are good)
[font size=5]Mike Barnicle—who is a confirmed fabricator and plagiarist, as well as being a toxic race-baiter and a suck-up to a psychopathic murderer—wants to share the word that this week's trouble at the New York Times is "an embarrassment to journalism." [/font]
http://news.yahoo.com/rare-footage-shows-brave-struggle-fdr-walking-140454642.html
[font size=5]Rare footage shows 'brave struggle' of FDR walking[/font]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Rare film footage featuring President Franklin D. Roosevelt walking to his seat at a baseball game helps dispel the myth that he completely hid his disability and shows the courage it took to go about his daily life, experts said Friday. ....
Former Major League Baseball player Jimmie DeShong shot the film at the 1937 All-Star game in Washington. On Thursday, the Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg announced it had acquired the clip from the family of DeShong, a native of the state's capital city.
DeShong's daughter Judy Savastio said she showed the clip to officials at the FDR library in Hyde Park, New York, about two years ago. She allowed the footage to be used in a montage that has been on view at the museum for about a year.
"I was very surprised that they were so excited about it," Savastio said Friday.
Filmmaker Ken Burns calls the footage "one of the very best pieces of film that so clearly shows what a brave struggle it was for FDR to move." Burns plans to incorporate it into his upcoming documentary on the Roosevelts, which is slated to air on PBS this fall. ....
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/18/us/politics/san-antonio-mayor-to-lead-hud.html?_r=0
[font size=5]San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro to Lead HUD[/font]
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