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Apr 15 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: Rumsfeld Does Right, more

-Donald Rumsfeld is writing his memoirs, to be published by Penguin -- and unlike just about everyone else in Washington, he's donating all the proceeds to charity. Sounds like somebody got tired of being universally hated. [Reuters]

-Time, Newsweek, Forbes, BusinessWeek and U.S. News were all down by double-digit percentages in first-quarter ad pages. [NYP]

-A British CBS News employee kidnapped in Iraq was freed in a raid by Iraqi Army troops. [WaPo]

-The Los Angeles Times reporter who falsely tied Sean Combs to an attack on Tupac Shakur is in professional limbo, according to his new boss. [E&P]

-Watch this hilarious video of Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney being an unbelievably condescending jerk to a guest for absolutely no reason. [Gawker]. □

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