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A group contends that Taco Bell’s “meat” contains only 37% meat; the rest is a mystery. Here is the response put out by Taco Bell:
“At Taco Bell, we buy our beef from the same trusted brands you find in the supermarket, like Tyson Foods. We start with 100 percent USDA-inspected beef. Then we simmer it in our proprietary blend of seasonings and spices to give our seasoned beef its signature Taco Bell taste and texture. We are proud of the quality of our beef and identify all the seasoning and spice ingredients on our website. Unfortunately, the lawyers in this case elected to sue first and ask questions later — and got their “facts” absolutely wrong. We plan to take legal action for the false statements being made about our food.”

Greg Creed
President and Chief Concept Officer
Taco Bell Corp.

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You can watch the debate above. I didn’t think there was a clearcut winner. though it is obvious Michael Steele was the big loser. I have to give some credit to Tucker Carlson and Grover Norquist for putting in some clever wrinkles to the debate. Asking the candidates who they most admire BESIDES Ronald Reagan was smart.

Julian Assange is a publisher who looks like he’s finally going to have a big payday. Assange claims he doesn’t want to write the books, but he has to in order to pay his legal bills. This does show that in today’s modern media world, attention is the most valuable commodity of all. And right now, Assange has the world’s attention and he is going to be able to monetize his fame (or infamy).

More at Breitbart

And Happy Holidays!

Is Twitter bad for writers?

Why and How Leaders Need to Say Thank You

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Across the nation, schools are trying to figure out what is the best policy when it comes to students and their cell phone usage. On the one hand, the desire to communicate is ingrained in students. On the other hand, it’s annoying and wildly disruptive to teachers and the classroom if cell phones are going off all the time. Increasingly, schools are allowing kids to have cell phones on the premises, as long as they don’t use them in class. And if you use them in class, your phone gets confiscated. This sounds about right to me. What do you think the policy should be? More at Fox News.

Give Schnitt his due; he knows media people can’t resist this sort of thing. And he knows that most media outlets are too lazy to every go back months later and see if he fulfills his promise. And media people (myself included) are too lazy to find out if Schnitt has $50,000 to offer (is it in an escrow account?). For that matter, we don’t know if Schnitt even has $5 extra dollars. But Schnitt is getting headlines throughout the world today; he’s played the media like a fiddle.

Christo may or may not be the greatest artist ever, but he is undoubtedly the greatest PR genius in the world. Christo makes Al Sharpton, Newt Gingrich and Chuck Schumer look like lazy shrinking violets in comparison. If you ever get a chance, watch HBO’s documentary on Christo, or just Google him. More at the Times.

A New Jersey pastor who believes Facebook leads to infidelity has offered to step down over a past affair that involved a three-way sexual relationship with his wife and a male church assistant. File this under the headline of things I was not surprised to hear about.

This pastor joins the long list of political and religious leaders that say one thing and in their private lives do another. Ted Haggard and Eddie Long were brought down because of involvement in gay sex scandals and now Pastor Cedric Miller will join the list of those brought down by their mouths and their deeds. It has come to light that that his wife had an extramarital affair with a male church assistant. Miller also said he was present at many of those meetings and sometimes the assistant’s wife was there.

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Really? Jesse was in a profession where he was kicked, beaten, smashed, punched and scratched as a professional wrestler for years. And now he claims he can’t take the abuse of going through airport security? I think I smell a rat who is trying to do whatever it takes to get himself some cheap headlines. It worked, but I think it took Jesse down another notch on the credibility meter. More at Infowars