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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Cheat Sheet - Niall to Critics: Stick It

Today: Romney Has Huge Cash Advantage , The Beautiful Bromance Between Filmmakers Tony Scott and Ridley Scott , Two Teens Victims of Train Derailment
Cheat Sheet: Afternoon

August 21, 2012
Liberal Lies

First, duck the argument. Second, nitpick. Third, vilify. That’s what Niall Ferguson says liberal bloggers did after reading his Newsweek story on Obama’s record. Now Ferguson offers a point-by-point defense of his argument.

MONEYBAGS

Those days when President Obama was a fundraising powerhouse must seem like a long time ago now. The president and the Democratic National Committee raised $75 million in July, significantly less than the $91 million it spent and also significantly less than the $101 million his challenger, Mitt Romney, and the Republican National Committee raised in the same month, according to campaign finance filings released Monday. Even worse for Obama: the RNC reported having some $62 million more in the bank, with $186 million cash on hand compared with $124 million for the Democrats. But it turns out Romney isn’t completely silent on the Chick-fil-A controversy: according to the campaign filings, his team spent $500 at a Chick-fil-A in Atlanta last month.

FAMILY TIES

Oscar-winning director Ridley Scott pushed his younger brother into filmmaking, and the two enjoyed one of the most collaborative and lucrative sibling partnerships in Hollywood history. Chris Lee on the Scotts’ brotherly bond.

Tragic

Two teenage girls were confirmed to be victims of a midnight train derailment in Maryland on Tuesday, reports NBC News. Elizabeth Nass and Rose Mayr, both 19, tweeted pictures of their feet dangling from the Ellicott City bridge just hours before the incident. “Looking down on old ec…@LizNassty” wrote Mayr. Emergency workers in Howard County are still searching for additional victims amid the automobiles left crushed below the tracks. Heading from Grafton, W.V., to Baltimore, the train contained no hazardous materials.

Like

At least someone’s still making money off of Facebook. Facebook Inc. director Peter Thiel sold most of his shares in the social-networking website, after restrictions on insider sales ended. He sold roughly 20.1 million shares Aug. 16–17, raising about $395.8 million. But he had already taken in some $640.1 million during the company’s initial public offering. Thiel had initially invested $500,000 in the company back in 2004. Facebook unlocked 271.1 million shares last week, and another 1.44 billion shares will be unlocked by November.


NICE TRY
Akin: Please Forgive Me
Releases new ad in Missouri.
HOLY COW!
‘Fifty Shades’ Boosts Barnes & Noble
Erotic trilogy had “biggest impact” on sales increase.
FUNNY MAN
Jimmy Kimmel Moves to 11:30
Starting in January, ABC says.
Not an Athlete
Prince Harry Races Ryan Lochte
At the swimmer’s Las Vegas birthday party. 
YOU BELONG TO ME
Taylor Swift Comforts Conor Kennedy
At Mary Richardson Kennedy’s grave.
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Prince Harry vs. Ryan Lochte

Apparently what happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay there. Prince Harry made waves during a party when he lept into a pool and challenged Olympic gold-medalist Ryan Lochte to a race on Monday.



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