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Super Bowl With a Side of POTUS: President Obama Sitting Down with CBS News Before the Game
President Obama talking about gun violence and immigration policies in Las Vegas earlier this week. AP Photo/Isaac Brekken, File
President Obama will sit down with Scott Pelley, anchor of the CBS Evening News, for a one-one-one interview to air live before the Super Bowl at 4:30p.m. ET. TVNewser reports that the interview had been in the works for a while, but was only recently confirmed.
“Indeed, it has been a long-standing tradition for the President to sit down with an anchor from the network that is broadcasting the Super Bowl that year,” the site says.
The President already appeared on CBS recently for an interview, talking with 60 Minutes alongside departing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. He was also on Telemundo last night to talk about immigration reform.
Chances are, the President will be careful about what he says during the interview. During his 2009 pre-Super Bowl sit down, which took place soon after he was sworn in for his first term, he predicted an economic turnaround during his first term.
“That ‘one-term proposition’ phrase followed Obama throughout the 2012 election, cited by Republican opponent Mitt Romney and others,” says USA Today.
Then again, now that the President is in his second term and doesn’t have to worry about another election, he might just cut loose.
Condoleezza Rice Is TV’s Latest Pundit With CBS News Gig
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Condoleezza Rice is coming to television. CBS News chairman, Jeff Fager, and the president of the news network, David Rhodes, announced that Rice will be coming on board as a regular contributor. The Hollywood Reporter quotes a CBS statement, saying the former Secretary of State “will use her insight and vast experience to explore issues facing America at home and abroad.”
Rice, who currently holds the position of professor of political science at Stanford University, was Secretary of State under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009, and national security adviser from 2001 to 2005.
Rice isn’t the only Bush cabinet member to make the jump to TV. “Other figures from the Bush administration have been hired as television commentators, including Karl Rove, the former deputy chief of staff, and the former United Nations ambassador, John Bolton, both at Fox News,” reports the NY Times.
Rice is also a founding partner of a business consulting firm, RiceHadleyGates. She’s also one of the first women to be admitted to the Augusta National Golf Club, and was even tossed into the ring of future presidential candidates after her speech at the Republican National Convention last year.
10-Year-Old Girl Gives Birth in Colombia
Source: topnewsonline.co.uk
Do you remember what you were doing at the age of 10? Hopefully you weren’t in the hospital getting ready to give birth, but in the case of a 10-year-old girl from Manaure in Colombia, that’s exactly what she did. The young girl, according to CBS News, is from an indigenous tribe called Wayuu, and she gave birth recently via cesarean section. She came into the hospital complaining of massive pains and bleeding a great deal. Allegedly, this child is not the first girl from the Wayuu tribe to wind up pregnant, but because the tribe is allowed to govern itself in Colombia, police don’t usually try to go after the fathers. This is what the director of the hospital in which the girl gave birth told a local Colombian radio station: “We’ve already seen similar cases of Wayuu girls. At a time when (the girls) should be playing with dolls, they go to having to take care of a baby. It’s shocking.”
According to reports, she gave birth to a healthy 5-pound, 5-ounce baby girl, but that the delivery was the first time the girl had been to the doctor at all since becoming pregnant. Since giving birth, the 10-year-old new mother allegedly doesn’t seem interested in trying to breastfeed, nor does she understand or know a thing about motherhood. But I mean, at the age of 10, the closest thing you would know about “motherhood” is from what you see your own mother doing, or better yet, from lugging around a doll.
While we’re glad that she came out of the delivery alright, according to CBS News, she could face some serious health risks and major obstacles down the road:
“Pregnant mothers this young could face major risks, according to doctors. They face a higher risk for pregnancy-induced hypertension (high blood pressure) or a dangerous condition called preeclampsia, in which a mom-to-be with high blood pressure also has protein in their urine, which causes sudden weight gain and swelling of the hands and face…According to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, they could also face long-term risk for problems with school failure, poverty, and mental illness such as depression.”
It’s terrible to think that this young girl won’t be able to actually be a child anymore, and it’s probably worse to know that this “trend” of VERY young mothers (both a 10 and 11-year-old girl gave birth in Mexico last year) is becoming somewhat common. The fact that she and her baby are healthy is an absolute blessing, but her pregnancy in general (and the fact that she only saw a doctor about it once)? Now that’s just a horrifying mess…
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Gonorrhea Superbug Found
Have you heard about the new strain of gonorrhea on the block that could create a worldwide health risk? New developments show that the first superbug (H041) of gonorrhea has been found in Japan. A superbug is a bacterium that is able to survive exposure to antibiotics.
This could “transform a once easily treatable infection into a global public health threat,” reports Reuters.
What does this mean for you? In the words of the great philosopher Snoop Doggy Dogg, “ain’t no loving good enough to get burnt while I’m up in it.” According to the CDC, “gonorrhea rates among African Americans in 2007 were 19 times as high as those of whites.” So if there’s an incurable gonorrhea, you can expect that our community will be disproportionately affected if an outbreak occurs.
Obama Makes 15 Recess Appointments, Scolds GOP
(CBS News/AP) — Fed up with waiting, President Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment.
The move immediately deepened the divide between the Democratic president and Republicans in the Senate following a long, bruising fight over health care. Mr. Obama revealed his decision by blistering Republicans, accusing them of holding up nominees for months solely to try to score a political advantage on him.
Obama Makes 15 Recess Appointments, Scolds GOP
(CBS News/AP) — Fed up with waiting, President Obama announced Saturday he would bypass a vacationing Senate and name 15 people to key administration jobs, wielding for the first time the blunt political tool known as the recess appointment.
The move immediately deepened the divide between the Democratic president and Republicans in the Senate following a long, bruising fight over health care. Mr. Obama revealed his decision by blistering Republicans, accusing them of holding up nominees for months solely to try to score a political advantage on him.
