They're All Up In Arms

1. The press is . . . about three current “scandals” facing the Obama administration:  the IRS  under fire for targeting conservatives, the aftermath of the raid on Benghazi  (again) and Associated Press phone records  seized involving an al-Qaeda plot.
2. . . . . Their mouths are watering.  They smell a rat.
3. . . . . A friend of mine called them the “gutter” press. 

“FIN ROT”

1. . . . That’s what they’ve discovered on some of the red snapper off the Alabama coast in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a report on the CBS Evening News last week by correspondent Elaine Quijano.
2. . . . Wildlife experts down there say it’s the result of the BP oil spill from two years ago when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded.
3. . . . It’s like a fungus infection that eats away at the flesh of the fish. It doesn’t look nice.

DICK CLARK AND AMERICAN BANDSTAND: THE EARLY DAYS

1. . . . “America’s Oldest [Living] Teenager” died Wednesdayin Santa Monica, Calif., of a heart attack at the age of 82.
2. . . . CNN dragged Larry King out of the mothballs to talk about him. He remembers everybody.

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