Continuing to carry the torch for my woefully outdated philosophy of what makes a lede story, here is my pseudo-front page for this evening as we head into a long weekend:
- Obama, in Gulf, Pledges to Push on Stopping Leak (WSJ) — Anybody else flashing on an image of W. facing the camera with Jackson Square in the background? And another vast plume is discovered.
- Pakistan mosque attacks in Lahore kill scores (BBC) — Simultaneous raids on two mosques of the minority Ahmadi Islamic sect in Lahore.
- CPD officer pulls woman from burning car just before explosion (WIS) — Nice to celebrate heroism among our local cops after recent news.
- Police: McMaster death threat mentioned ‘Jesuits’ (thestate.com) — OK, here we go, profiling on the Catholics again…
- White House Used Bill Clinton to Ask Sestak to Drop Out of Race (NYT) — Normally, I pay zero attention to these politics-elsewhere stories. I actually had to look up “Sestak” to remind me who he was when this broke this morning. But this looks like it’s turning into something, as this WashPost blog indicates: “Sestak story challenges Obama transparency vow.”
- Child Star, ’70s Icon Gary Coleman Dies At 42 — Unlike Art Linkletter yesterday, this was not a celebrity of my generation, but some of you may have watched the TV show that made this little guy famous.
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Re: “Jesuits”–they are being very cryptic about exactly what that was used to refer to. BTW, Henry belongs to First Presbyterian Church, an ARP church–the conservative version of Presbyterian, natch.
Maybe instead of “Jesuits”, it was some redneck saying “Jes’ you wait!”
Always amusing as people freak out when they discover that Barack Obama is a … politician.