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No way Santorum!!!

Who is Rick Santorum?  He served all those years in D.C. but I bet you never heard of him. The only time anyone started to recognize him is when he was a FOX news commentator and yet he knocks down Fox! Richard John "Rick" Santorum (born May 10, 1958) is an American Republican Party politician. He served as a United States Senator representing Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007. Born in Virginia, Rick Santorum was raised primarily in Butler, Pennsylvania. He obtained an undergraduate degree from Pennsylvania State University, an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, and a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. Santorum worked as an attorney at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart where he met Karen Garver. They married in 1990, and have seven children; an eighth child died shortly after birth. Santorum was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on behalf of Pennsylvania's 18th congressional district in 1990, becoming a member of a group dubbed the "Gang of Seven...

Sunday Show Lineup: 03.14.10

• NBC's Meet the Press :Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod, Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Fmr. Senior Adviser to President Bush Karl Rove and NYT's David Brooks and Thomas Friedman. • CBS' Face the Nation : White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), President of America's Health Insurance Plans Karen Ignagni. • ABC's This Week with Jake Tapper : White House Senior Advisor David Axelrod, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), ABC News' George Will and Cokie Roberts, Democratic Political Strategist Anita Dunn, Chairman of the Republican State Leadership Committee Ed Gillespie. • CNN's State of the Union (with Candy Crowley now) : White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod and Rep. John Boehner (R-OH). • Fox News' Fox News Sunday : Congressman Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA), White House Press Secretary Rober...

FCC investigating the shelved Fox game show 'Our Little Genius'

The program that was to have featured kids ages 6 to 12 drew the agency's scrutiny after a complaint of possible improprieties was filed by a would-be contestant's father. By Meg James February 22, 2010 Allegations that Fox's shelved game show "Our Little Genius" might have been rigged has prompted an inquiry by the Federal Communications Commission into possible violations of federal rules that govern quiz shows. Revelations of the FCC probe follows the News Corp.-owned network's decision last month to yank the highly promoted program from its schedule only a week before it was supposed to premiere. Fox took the unusual step after reality-show titan Mark Burnett, who was producing the program, informed the network that there was a problem with how the young contestants had been coached for the competition. The TV program was designed to showcase precocious children, ages 6 to 12, as they answered increasingly difficult questions in a bid to win thousands of d...