https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKaQLYPf5hM

Leaked training film prepared by Harbottle and Lewis, solicitors, to prep their client Rupert Murdoch for his appearance before parliamentary committee.

Press reaction? “You’re a very naughty billionaire!”

Our guest columnist is Nelson Rockefeller, speaking to the 1964 Republican convention.

The time has come for the Republican party to face this issue realistically and take decisive action. It is essential that this Convention repudiate here and now any doctrinaire, militant minority, whether Communist, Ku Klux Klan or Bircher, which would subvert this party to purposes alien to the very basic tenets which gave this party birth.

Precisely one year ago today on July 14, 1964, I issued a statement wherein I warned that:

“The Republican party is in real danger of subversion by a radical, well-financed and highly disciplined minority.”

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ABC’s Brian Ross, curious about Michele Bachmann’s self-medication regimen, thought he would engage her in a little chat at a campaign rally. Hilarity ensued:

Ross dashed after Bachmann, repeatedly asking whether she had ever missed a House vote due to a migraine. She ignored him. Ross pursued her into a parking area behind the stage. Her aides grew alarmed. When Ross made a beeline for the white SUV waiting to carry Bachmann away, two Bachmann men pounced on him, grabbing and pushing him multiple times with what looked to me like unusual force. In fact, I have never seen a reporter treated so roughly at a campaign event, especially not a presidential one. Ross was finally able to break away and lob his question at Bachmann one more time, but she continued to ignore him.

Afterward, I asked Ross — a hard-nosed pro who nevertheless seemed slightly shaken — whether he had ever been treated so roughly. “A few times,” he told me. “Mostly by Mafia people.”

This of course puts Marcus in a new light. We’re thinking of casting him as Junior.

Reporter Accosted After Bachmann Comments on Migraines [Time]

Tom Coburn’s debt-reduction proposal: “The Treasury Department should phase out use of the $1 bill and replace it with the $1 coin. Paper-based currencies wear out faster than coins, and so cost taxpayers more in the long run.” The pocket-bursting savings would be $184 million a year. [ThinkProgress]

Someone, Palin? Perry? (feel free to speculate) has planted a story about Michele B at The Daily Caller that would raise serious doubts regarding her capacity to compete for the Republican nomination. Strangely, it’s not the crazy but something else; something we here at Stinque had never heard of before: migraines.

It seems la cagna pazzo pazzo suffers from migraines in a big way and for the first time I find myself actually feeling some sort of weird, creepy, somewhat shamefaced, pity/sympathy for the creature — because I would truly not wish that on anyone. Having become, for the first time, human to me — or something approaching it — I find it hard to gloat. If there’s one thing that musical theatre teaches us it is this: When you get right down to it, we’re all on pink contracts.

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We suppose, if we thought about it, that we could twist a font designed for dyslexics into a statement about Our Great National Train Wreck Debt Debate, but that would require making sense of the irrational, and we fear that if we crossed our eyes just so, they’d never become unstuck.

Project Dyslexie [Studio Studio, via Kottke]

Literally: