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5 things I think about today’s St. Petersburg Times

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“Who is Sandra Gadsden?” was the invariable response I received last evening from each person I asked if they knew who Sandra Gadsden is. I was at a fundraising reception chock full of political operatives and their handsome wives.  Each of these people recognized the names of  Adam Smith or Aaron Sharockman or David DeCamp.  Some even recognized John Frank’s name.  But not one person — and this is a room full of people who make St. Petersburg move –…

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5 things I think about today’s St. Petersburg Times

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“Who is Sandra Gadsden?” was the invariable response I received last evening from each person I asked if they knew who Sandra Gadsden is. I was at a fundraising reception chock full of political operatives and their handsome wives.  Each of these people recognized the names of  Adam Smith or Aaron Sharockman or David DeCamp.  Some even recognized John Frank’s name.  But not one person — and this is a room full of people who make St. Petersburg move –…

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PolitiFact goes big time with appearance on Colbert Report

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From Eric Deggans: He hardly got a word in around host Stephen Colbert‘s artful ribbing about a Sunday politics show daring to check its guests’ facts. But PolitiFact editor Bill Adair still lodged an amazing milestone, joining ABC This Week interim host Jake Tapper on the Colbert Report Wednesday to take a few good-natured shots on the partnership that has seen the St. Petersburg Times‘ factchecking Web site take on the Sunday TV political establishment. “I don’t care about facts; I…

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Rep. Jim Frishe’s cousin ejected from American Idol

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Eric Deggans reports on Didi’s Benami’s departure from American Idol.  Benami is the cousin of state Representative Jim Frishe : Watch closely, and you can see a one-time TV powerhouse working just a little too hard. Forget about the nine hopeful singers still struggling to win American Idol’s top prize — often it seems the show itself is trying WAY too hard to prove it’s still tops at its game. Increasingly, the fates of the actual singers of the show feels like an…

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Rep. Jim Frishe’s cousin ejected from American Idol

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Eric Deggans reports on Didi Benami’s departure from American Idol.  Benami is the cousin of state Representative Jim Frishe : Watch closely, and you can see a one-time TV powerhouse working just a little too hard. Forget about the nine hopeful singers still struggling to win American Idol’s top prize — often it seems the show itself is trying WAY too hard to prove it’s still tops at its game. Increasingly, the fates of the actual singers of the show feel like an…

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Jimmy Fallon hosts live performance of ‘Lazy Sunday’

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H/t to Eric Deggans at The Feed.

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Happy Birthday (belatedly) to St. Petersburg Times’ best writer, Eric Deggans

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In basketball, there are players so talented that they can win games without ever touching the ball. Coaches sometimes have a difficult time finding a place for them on the court, yet when they are in the game, they so clearly make everyone else around them better that it is foolish to keep them on the bench. Shane Battier, the mercurial forward on the Houston Rockets, is this kind of player, so much so that he was featured in this…

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