Hillary to give up tomorrow night.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Wezil
I'm glad I don't get as much grief about my thread titles.

Yours are funny. I also frequently exaggerate in my titles for humourous effect.

Oerdin just lies.

[Dinner]

You're so full of crap Asher. Like your thread title "Europe is really creepy" contains no distortions at all. I realize you're angry about the tourette's thread but you need to learn to just relax and stop fixating.

[Ming]

Enough with the personal crap!

[Asher]

Thank you Ming, Oerdin really has it in for me!

[Asher]

Originally posted by Oerdin
You're so full of crap Asher. Like your thread title "Europe is really creepy" contains no distortions at all.

Europe is really creepy. That's simply fact.

Have you ever been there? They speak weird languages, they store their daughters in dungeons and rape them, they play soccer (which they call "football"), and they stop people from wearing Transformers shirts from boarding airplanes for security reasons.

No, Europe really is creepy. If you had started a thread saying "Hillary Clinton is creepy" I'd not have objected, either.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by Asher
...they store their daughters in dungeons and rape them...

It is all preparation for a career as a journalist.

VIENNA, Austria - Television was once her only window on the world. Now Natascha Kampusch - still adjusting to life after spending 8 1/2 years in an underground cell - is starting an improbable new career as a TV talk show host.

Less than two years after staging a dramatic escape while her captor was distracted with a phone call, the young Austrian woman whose ordeal stunned people worldwide is going prime time.

"Natascha Kampusch Meets ...," a chat show featuring local celebrities, debuts Sunday evening on Puls4, a new private cable channel.

A Puls4 trailer shows Kampusch typing on a laptop computer, pouring herself a glass of mineral water and grinning as makeup artists give her a final touchup on the set. She wears her long blond hair down and sports a sweater and a floral-patterned skirt - both in purple, her favorite color.

But Kampusch, 20, is the first to acknowledge she's an unlikely talk show host.

"So much has been written about me, and so many people want to know what it's like to be on the other side" of the interviewer's table, she told Austrian media this week.


"It's not easy for me to get all my ducks in a row. But I'll gladly take on this challenge. As long as you keep overcoming, you keep developing."

Kampusch was a freckle-faced 10-year-old when she vanished while walking to school in Vienna in March 1998. Her abduction was Austria's greatest unsolved criminal mystery until Aug. 23, 2006, when - pale, feeble and nearly blinded by the light of day - she stumbled to freedom.

Within hours of her escape, kidnapper Wolfgang Priklopil - who had confined her to a cramped, dingy, windowless cell beneath his suburban home - committed suicide by leaping in front of a rush-hour commuter train.

Kampusch, who was 18 when she escaped, drew fresh attention last month after a similar but even more horrific case surfaced in Austria.

Police allege that Josef Fritzl, 73, confessed to holding his daughter captive for 24 years in a windowless prison beneath his home in Amstetten, west of Vienna, and fathering seven children with her - including one whose body he tossed into a furnace after it died in infancy.

Kampusch has offered financial assistance to Fritzl's alleged victims and said she wants to meet with his 42-year-old daughter, who was 18 when she was confined to the cellar.

Those who have closely followed Kampusch's metamorphosis won't be surprised at her new career: Since she resurfaced, she repeatedly said she was considering a job in journalism, even though she has no formal training and is still completing her high school education. She has also expressed interest in photography, acting and art.

Kampusch was remarkably poised and articulate when - just two weeks after escaping - she gave her first nationally broadcast interview, repeatedly shutting her still-sensitive eyes against the glare of the spotlights.

During her captivity, Kampusch was allowed to watch TV and videos, listen to the radio and read books in her cell, which included a bed, toilet and sink.

Executives at Puls4 said they plan to air her 50-minute talk show once a month. The show will be prerecorded rather than broadcast live.

Puls4 declined to say how much it's paying Kampusch, and she did not immediately respond to a request for an interview with The Associated Press.

Kampusch told the Austria Press Agency she's "already really excited" about what kind of reaction the show will get.

As a host, she said she intends to engage her guests "very openly in front of the camera - and also reveal quite a lot about myself."

"I really want to know how my guests view their lives, their jobs, their friends. Are they content? What are their dreams?" she said.

But Kampusch said she's also bracing for criticism about her unusually bold move into the public eye, saying she's "certain" to wind up with detractors.

Since she got her life back, Kampusch has tangled with autograph hounds and paparazzi photographers who have tracked her to cafes and discotheques. Some are likely to see her new public persona as at odds with her insistence that people respect her right to privacy, or dismiss the concept of her show as tasteless and voyeuristic.

"How much elbow room does one have? Where are the borders? How will viewers and the public react in the long run?" she said.

So far, she's gotten mostly accolades from those who admire her courage.

They include her first guest: Niki Lauda, a former Austrian champion Formula One race car driver who now runs Lauda Air, a small airline.

Lauda told the Kurier newspaper he had misgivings about going on Kampusch's show because of her inexperience, and insisted on meeting with her first.

"But she was very professional," he said. "And she asked me questions that no one's ever asked me before."

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/MediaNews/2008/05/29/5708171-ap.html

[Asher]

Do you think Hitler was imprisoned as a youth, thus his obsession with Lebensraum?

[Julian Delphiki]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_el_pr/clinton

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation's first female president.
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The former first lady will stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City. Obama is 40 delegates shy of clinching the nomination, but he is widely expected to make up the difference Tuesday with superdelegate support and votes in South Dakota and Montana. Once he reaches the magic number of 2,118, Clinton will acknowledge that he has secured the necessary delegates to be the nominee.

She will pledge to continue to speak out on issues like health care. But for all intents and purposes, the two senior officials said, the campaign is over.

Most campaign staff will be let go and will be paid through June 15, said the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge her plans.

The advisers said Clinton has made a strategic decision to not formally end her campaign, giving her leverage to negotiate with Obama on various matters including a possible vice presidential nomination for her. She also wants to press him on issues he should focus on in the fall, such as health care.

Universal health care, Clinton's signature issue as first lady in the 1990s, was a point of dispute between Obama and the New York senator during their epic nomination fight.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

OMG, OP was right.

[Dinner]

IN YOUR FACES!

[Asher]

Originally posted by Oerdin
IN YOUR FACES!

No one said it wasn't going to happen or wasn't likely.

The issue was you stated something definitively when it was not definitive. It's dishonest and misleading.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by JulianD

OMG, OP was right.

If you want to be technical - no.

The former first lady will stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City.

That isn't "giving up".

[Asher]

Oh look. CNN.com:

BREAKING NEWS: Hillary Clinton not prepared to admit Barack Obama has beaten her in race for Democratic nomination, her campaign chairman told CNN.

[DinoDoc]

Poor Oerdin.

[Julian Delphiki]

Originally posted by Wezil


If you want to be technical - no.

The former first lady will stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City.

That isn't "giving up".

I read the story but didn't want to get technical.

[Wezil]

We are all about hair splitting here at Poly.