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Rush Limbaugh Jokes

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:07:31 GMT

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Police Chase Ends In Violent Brawl

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:03:37 GMT

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May 5: This image Philadelphia shows police officers kicking and beating suspects pulled from a car during a traffic stop in Philadelphia.

PHILADELPHIA — A half-dozen police officers kicked and beat three suspects pulled from a car during a traffic stop as a TV helicopter taped the confrontation, and the city's police commissioner said "it certainly does not look good."

The video, shot by WTXF-TV, shows three police cars stopping a car on a city street on Monday, two days after a city officer responding to a bank robbery was fatally shot.

The tape shows about a dozen officers gathering around the vehicle and pulling three men out. About a half-dozen officers hold two of the men on the ground. Both are kicked repeatedly, while one is seen being punched; one also appears to be struck with a baton.

"On the surface it certainly does not look good in terms of the amount of force that was used," Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said. "But we don't want to rush to judgment."

Woman Found Hanging In Tree, Suicide?

Wed, 07 May 2008 15:02:27 GMT

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RESERVE, La. — Suicide has been ruled in the death of a woman found hanging from a tree branch in this southeastern Louisiana town, authorities said.

St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff Wayne Jones said Tuesday that deputies found notes near the body and said detectives tentatively identified the woman as Paula Chenier of Reserve. Chenier has been missing for four weeks.

Chenier was seen on a Reserve store's surveillance camera on April 3 making a purchase. The clothes she was wearing on the video matched clothes found on the body, Jones said.

Four suicide notes written to family and friends and signed by Chenier were recovered from a purse found near the body. Chenier's identification also was inside the purse, Jones said.

The body was found May 1 by a parish employee who had just finished cutting grass near a canal.

Obama Credits Rush With Hillary Win

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:55:40 GMT

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Barack Obama’s campaign issued an e-mail on Tuesday night that appeared to relegate Hillary Clinton’s lead in Indiana to efforts by Rush Limbaugh to wreak havoc in the Democratic presidential primary contest.

In an e-mail entitled “The Limbaugh Effect in Indiana = 7 percent,” Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton wrote: “According to the latest exit polling data, 17 percent of voters in the Indiana primary today said they would vote for John McCain in a Clinton/McCain match-up. Forty-one percent of that number is constituted by people who voted Clinton in the primary but also indicated they will vote for McCain in the general election. That comes out to just under 7 percent of the primary electorate the number that may be attributed to a Limbaugh Effect.”

Limbaugh has said his scheme to tilt the Democratic primary exceeded his expectations.