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The whitewashing of Ted Kennedy continued on the cover of Parade magazine, a supplement to many Sunday newspapers around the country. Dotson Rader interviewed Victoria Kennedy, the second wife of the late senator. Decades of womanizing and a woman’s death at Chappaquiddick after Kennedy left the scene of an accident weren’t really noteworthy. One large bold pull quote read "Nobody had a better sense of what was right than Teddy." "Tell that to Mary Jo Kopechne" was not a sentence that appeared in the article. The other large pull quote from Mrs. Kennedy was "He was elected to make...

In Parade Mag (8/9/09) O'Reilly lists 5 lessons Obama can teach America's kids: forgiveness, respect, persistence, hard work and anything is possible. Here are some other things Obama has taught. It is okay to illegally take the Census from the Legislative Branch and put it under Presidential control although it violates the Constitution. It is okay to illegally fire an inspector general for questioning the spending of your man. Okay to appoint 44 czars to eventually take over the government without Congress' advice and consent per Constitution. Okay to be a citizen of Indonesia still, certainly not a natural-born citizen...

"What do you consider to be your greatest achievement in 2007?.......... Iraq..... Health Care.... Infighting between Democrats and Republicans..... read the article for more.....

What would you like to tell President Bush? I ask this riddle of a woman. She would tell him, she replies, that propping up Musharraf’s government, which is infested with radical Islamists, is only hastening disaster. “I would say, ‘Your policy of supporting dictatorship is breaking up my country.’ I now think al-Qaeda can be marching on Islamabad in two to four years.”

Editor's note: We are all saddened by the murder this morning of Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto. The assassination adds more danger and confusion to the already chaotic situation in the region. In late November, PARADE sent Contributing Editor Gail Sheehy to Pakistan. Sheehy traveled with former prime minister Benazir Bhutto as she campaigned through her home provinces. Sheehy had two long interviews with her—the first in Bhutto’s home in Islamabad, a second at her residence outside Karachi. Bhutto told Sheehy that she had long been a target of terrorists. She knew she was also now a target of the Musharraf government....

In late November, PARADE sent Contributing Editor Gail Sheehy to Pakistan. Sheehy traveled with former prime minister Benazir Bhutto as she campaigned through her home provinces. Sheehy had two long interviews with her—the first in Bhutto’s home in Islamabad, a second at her residence outside Karachi. Bhutto told Sheehy that she had long been a target of terrorists. She knew she was also now a target of the Musharraf government. Today’s suicide bombing mirrors the earlier attempt on her life that Bhutto described to Sheehy.

Friday, February 18, 2005 MEDIA MATTERSEhrlichman ID'd Kissinger as Watergate 'Deep Throat' Powerful Nixon aide 'believed it very strongly,' 'was absolutely convinced' Posted: February 18, 20058:58 p.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com The identity of "Deep Throat" – the mysterious source that helped Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein break open the Watergate scandal that ended Richard Nixon's presidency – has never been revealed, although it's been the object of much speculation over the past 30 years. Henry Kissinger Now, it turns out that one of Nixon's top aides, John Ehrlichman, who spent time in prison for his role in...

December 27, 2004 -- Oprah for president! That's who Americans want in the White House, according to a new Harris pop-culture poll done for Parade magazine. When 3,077 adults were asked whom they'd most like to see run for president, the talk-show queen won with 21 percent. After Oprah, we voted for Bill O'Reilly, with 8 percent, Will Smith, with 7 percent, and Jon Stewart, Donald Trump and Richard Gere, all tied with 6 percent.

This is the lead question in the "Ask Marilyn" column in today's Parade Magazine. When our forefathers were forming this nation, they never could have conceived of the power of present-day news organizations and the media, all in the control of relatively few people yet with a tremendous power to influence voters. I feel there would have been something written into the Constitution in consideration of what seems to be the one "unchecked power" in our nation. Do you think it would be possible to amend the Constitution and maintain "freedom of the Press?" If so, how would you write...