This coming weekend will see pop/country superstar Taylor Swift appear on the 2010 Grammy Awards show and possibly pick up a truckload of trophies. Just over a week before Taylor Swift scheduled awards show, a Taylor Swift CSI episode re-aired on CBS earlier on Thursday evening.
Chris Matthews commented on President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech last night. He said “You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.”
Chris Matthews is under fire for commenting on air that President Obama has done so much to heal racial divides that “I forgot he was black” as he watched Obama’s first State of the Union address Wednesday night.
Chris Matthews, who appeared on the cable network shortly after the speech, said of the president:
“I was trying to think about who he was tonight. And uh, it’s interesting. He is post-racial, by all appearances. You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour….
Robert Schimmel was on The Howard Stern show this morning talking about life and his new book, Cancer on $5 a Day (chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life.
Robert Schimmel, virtually an open book on his life, has an extraordinary following and has been telling it like it is for months. Making the talk circuit over the past week, his stop at the Howard Stern Show was another part of his journey.
However the response to him being on the show has changed the public perception dramatically. Robert Schimmel segment with the shock jock has brought in the ratings for the interest in his book and his wife, Melissa.
Toyota Recall Models Affected: 8 Models Are Affected
Reports have emerged that the nationwide car agencies have been affected the most by the Toyota recall. Car-Rental agencies have removed affected Toyota from their fleets. These agencies include Avis Budget Group Inc., Hertz Global Holdings and Enterprise Holdings Inc.
The car rental firms said Wednesday they are removing from their fleets those Toyota Motor Co. vehicles affected by the Japanese car maker’s sales halt.
Avis is removing 20,000 Toyota cars in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico region as a precaution against potential faulty gas pedals in them. Hertz, whose fleet of 290,000 vehicles is about 20% Toyota, has been impacted the most.
East West Shrine Game features some of the best college athletes in the Nation as well as coaches. The game’s main purpose though, is to help support Shriner’s Hospitals for children. Many events take place before the game to help raise money for these hospitals which helps out significantly.
Organizers did not immediately say how much money was raised during the two-hour “Hope for Haiti Now” show, but donations will continue to flow in as the phone lines remained open and the night’s musical performances are sold on iTunes.
UPDATE: BNO News confirms that a heart attack caused fatal cardiac arrest.
Gaines Adams is dead at the age of 26, according to reports. The Bears defensive end was the fourth overall pick by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2007 NFL Draft.
The Greenville News reports that Adams was pronounced dead at a Greenwood County, South Carolina hospital.
Adam Schefter and Jason La Canfora have tweeted that an enlarged heart caused cardiac arrest. According to Roy Philpott at Scout.com, Adams “is believed to have passed away in his sleep from a heart attack.”
Adams, a standout sack machine at Clemson, was seen as a disappointment in Tampa Bay after being viewed as a crucial part of the team’s pass rush. He was traded to the Bears last October.
Adams is the second NFL player to die in the past month. Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry died on December 17 after falling out of a moving pickup truck.
Lady Gaga Purdue: The latest hot celebrity news story involves the Lady Gaga Purdue concert which was highly-anticipated and has now reportly been canceled. The sold out show for Purdue University has been rescheduled for January 26th at the Elliott Hall of Music. Opening for Lady Gaga will be Semi Precious Weapons and Jason DeRulo.
Update: It’s now confirmed that more than $1 million has been raised through text message donations.
Update 2: $3 million has now been raised.
We’ve just confirmed that the Red Cross has already raised more than $800,000 for Haiti through their $10 text message donation initiative (text “Haiti” to 90999), which is backed by the United States State Department.
Susan Watson, director of marketing and visibility for the Red Cross, tells us that they’re getting reports every half hour with the latest donation numbers, and the current total — as of 4:30 p.m. EST — is greater than $800,000 for text message donations alone. Watson says, “The needs are so tremendous in Haiti, and we are honored that people continue to give to the American Red Cross. Raising this amount of money, $10 at time, is a true testament to the American spirit.”
Controversial U.S. televangelist Pat Robertson seems to have crossed the line once again with his recent statements on the devastating earthquake in Haiti.
The preacher says that the people of Haiti were cursed due to a pact with the devil.
“Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it,” he said on Christian Broadcasting Network’s “The 700 Club.” “They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon III, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you’ll get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it’s a deal.”
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