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Lee Bailey's EURextra - Thursday
March 13, 2008

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In This Issue:
* Joseph C. Phillips: The Rules by any other Name
* Dick Morris: Obama Will Be Democratic Presidential Nominee
* Newsbits: LA Times Writer Defends Tupac Article
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JOSEPH C. PHILLIPS: The Rules by any other Name

*It is truly a testament to the ego and tenacity - both admirable
qualities in a president - of Hillary Clinton that she and her campaign
continue to press for the recognition of the delegates from Florida and
Michigan.

Speaking at the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Democratic
presidential hopeful stated that "The results of those primaries were
fair and they should be honored." No doubt it depends on your definition
of fair. It should be noted that in Michigan, Mrs. Clinton's name was
the only one on the ballot.

Unfortunately, the current controversy also provides further
testimony of the Clinton propensity to cast rules aside in order to get
the results they want.

When her husband spread his DNA all over their wedding vows,
rather than toss the bum out on his ear and strut her stuff to an
authentic old school feminists track, she chose instead to blame it all
on conspiracy.

Now she is attempting to ride into the oval office on her
husband's coattails touting her experience to the rhythm of a new school
feminist beat, "you go sister girl!" Changing the rules in the middle
of the game is, alas, a quality most find rather unpleasant in a leader.

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DON'T WORRY, IT'LL BE BARACK OVER HILLARY: Bill Clinton's former
advisor, Dick Morris, says it's practically a done deal

Will the Gospel According to Jeremiah Wright sink the Obama
candidacy? Not very likely.

Let's start with two basic facts:

(a) Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) has already won the Democratic
nomination. It's over. Regardless of how the remaining primaries and
caucuses go, including Michigan and even Florida, Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton (N.Y.) can never catch Obama in elected delegates. His current
lead of 170 pledged delegates will not be overcome no matter what
happens.

Even if Clinton beats him by 10 points in each of these primaries,
he will still lead among elected delegates by over 100. The
superdelegates will not override the will of the voters unless Obama is
in jail.

They will not let themselves in for a civil war by overruling a
black man who is beloved by the young by going over the heads of the
electorate and naming the candidate that lost the primaries as the
nominee. Regardless of how damaged Obama may be by the Wright tapes, it
will not provide sufficient cover or cause for them to do so.

(b) Wright's rantings are not reflective of Obama's views on
anything. Why did he stay in the church? Because he's a black Chicago
politician who comes from a mixed marriage and went to Columbia and
Harvard. Suspected of not being black enough or sufficiently tied to the
minority community, he needed the networking opportunities Wright
afforded him in his church to get elected. If he had not risen to the
top of Chicago black politics, we would never have heard of him. But
obviously, he can't say that. So what should he say?

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LA ACTIVIST NAJEE ALI'S OPEN LETTER: Mayor Villaraigosa and Police Chief
Bratton: 'You both are misguided and in a state of denial.'

"Definition: Ethnic cleansing: The elimination of an unwanted ethnic
group or groups from a society as by genocide or forced emigration.
(Source Random House unabridged dictionary 2008)

Chief Bratton and Mayor Villaraigosa, you both are misguided and in a
continued state of denial as both of you continue to downplay and state
that the recent murders of African American children are not race
related.

There is a growing and rising sentiment across the city that these
recent murders of African Americans in L.A County by Latino gang members
are racially motivated and should be prosecuted as Hate crimes.

Chief Bratton, you recently chastised me at a public forum for using the
term ethnic cleansing when describing how racist Latino gang members
were killing innocent Blacks who had no ties to gangs in any manner.

Well Chief when Latino Gangs are killing Black folks and employing 'The
elimination of their unwanted ethnic group from a society as by genocide
or forced emigration.' That sounds like ethnic cleansing to me."

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LA TIMES WRITER DEFENDS TUPAC ARTICLE: Chuck Philips says he has two
more articles on the subject coming soon. [Watch interview here.]

*Los Angeles Times writer Chuck Philips, whose article last
weekend suggested that Sean "Diddy" Combs and the Notorious B.I.G. had
prior knowledge of the 1994 shooting of Tupac Shakur, stands firmly
behind his allegations despite a statement from Diddy claiming the
report is untrue.

During a live chat Tuesday (March 18) on LATimes.com, Philips
also reiterated that Biggie was in Nevada at the time of Shakur's 1996
murder in Las Vegas, according to unidentified sources. He also said
that Diddy's Bad Boy camp provided insufficient evidence that the rapper
(real name:
Christopher Wallace) was in New Jersey at the time of Shakur's death.
[View interview here:
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhh3AOa4I1B57C4u9F]

"It has never been proven that Christopher Wallace was not in Las
Vegas on the night Tupac was shot," Philips said. "Bad Boy produced some
computer-generated documents purporting to place him in a recording
studio in New York, but they were not time-stamped. Bad Boy said it was
going to produce video of Biggie there. They never did that. I have
since learned that federal officials conducted interviews in Las Vegas
to determine whether Wallace was present. My sources were there and say
he and other East Coast figures were in Las Vegas on the night the
Southside Crips killed Tupac."

Philips, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for beat reporting, also
revealed he would publish two more related stories by the end of the
year, although he didn't specify the topics. One is believed to be a
report on who is responsible for the death of the Notorious B.I.G.

VH1 ADDS VIVICA FOX TO REALITY SLATE: Actress to host search for next
great celebrity stylist.

*VH1 has gotten into the Vivica A. Fox business with a new
competition show that searches for the next great celebrity stylist.

"Glam God With Vivica A. Fox," due to premiere this summer, will
feature contestants vying to become a stylist to the stars through their
talents in three key elements of fashion - hair, make-up and wardrobe.

Each week the hopefuls will compete in various challenges designed
to test their knowledge of fashion and style trends as they create the
perfect look from head to toe. Those who fall short will have their
style license revoked and be sent packing. The lone remaining stylist
will win a chance to style an A-list celebrity and receive $100,000.

"Vivica is a movie star and a fashion icon who knows how to step
onto the red carpet and nail it every single time," said Jeff Olde,
Executive Vice President, Original Programming and Production, VH1. "Her
instincts are impeccable and she knows how critical it is to have a
'glam god' she can trust to create a star-making killer look. We are
thrilled that we have her vision and insights to drive this show."

DONATELLA'S CUPID MOVE LEADS TO BERRY BABY: Designer talks about the
infamous Versace photo shoot where Halle first met Gabriel.

*Donatella Versace can take full credit for the birth of Nahla
Ariela Aubry. After all, it was the designer who first introduced the
baby's parents to each other at a 2005 photo shoot for her brand and
insisted that they go on a date.

"Of course, I was at the [photo] shoot when they met," she told
People, referring to actress Halle Berry and model Gabriel Aubrey. "I
know him very well. I pushed a little bit. I said, 'Why don't you go out
together.' I said it in front of them. It went well at the shoot."

The couple immediately hit it off, she said Tuesday at the launch
of Versace Menswear at Barney's New York. "It was a moment when both of
them were single. And they are both such nice people."

Versace said she has yet to lay eyes on little Nahla, but believes
the child is nothing short of "fantastic looking. I cannot imagine a
better looking baby than this one."

GAME GOES STRAIGHT FROM JAIL TO STUDIO: New track "Big Dreams' recorded
the day after his early release.

*On the heels of his release from prison last week, The Game spent
last Wednesday in a recording studio with producers Cool & Dre to lay
down a track called "Big Dreams." By the weekend, it had found its way
to the Internet.

"Right now, he's like 'Pac," Dre told MTV News the day after the
track was recorded. "It's like when 'Pac came outta prison and did
'California Love' that same night.
"Lyrically, he's somewhere else right now," the producer added.

Tapped to be the first single from his upcoming album "L.A.X," due
in June, "Big Dreams" includes the lines: "Irv Gotti know I'mma
murderer/ Half of the n---as beefing with me I never heard of them/ If I
was the old me I would murder them/ Matter fact, if I was the old me, I
would Curtis them."

The recording session with Dre & Cool also birthed the "L.A.X."
tracks "Make the World Go 'Round" and "Red Magic."

"When he was going to jail ... he said he didn't know how long
he's gonna be going in for," Dre told MTV. "But he was like, 'When I
come out, I'm ready to go.' So the day he got out, we got the phone
call, like, 'Yo, come to L.A. right now.' So me and Cool jumped on the
p***."

After serving eight days of a scheduled 60-day jail sentence at
Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles, the rapper was
released on March 9 due to overcrowding.

MINGHELLA PRAISES JILL SCOTT IN VOGUE: Next issue includes props from
late director for his lead actress in 'No. 1 Ladies.'

*An upcoming Vogue magazine article touting Jill Scott as
Hollywood's next big thing features kind words from Anthony Minghella,
the late director of her upcoming HBO pilot "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective
Agency."

The Oscar winner died Tuesday of a hemorrhage at London's Charing
Cross Hospital following an operation last week for a growth in his
neck.

In the article appearing in next month's Vogue, Minghella says of
his lead actress: "She is extremely stellar. I think she can be a real
star."

Scott portrays Botswana detective Precious Ramotswe in the
upcoming flick based on a series of novels by Alexander McCall Smith.

BANNED 'BOONDOCKS' EPISODES AIR IN CANADA: 'Hunger Strike' and 'Ruckus
Reality Show' clips run on country's Teletoon channel.

*The Canadian Press is reporting that two episodes of Aaron
McGruder's Cartoon Network strip "The Boondocks" that were pulled from
the schedule for content are currently airing north of the border on
Canada's Teletoon channel.

The episode "The Huey Freeman Hunger Strike" aired last Sunday
(View entire episode here:
http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshh0t82i2XBg7IFpivh),
while "The Ruckus Reality Show" will be featured this coming Sunday at
10:30 p.m. ET/PT on the network's adult-themed "Detour" programming
block.

As previously reported, the two episodes in question were pulled
by the Turner Cable-owned Cartoon Network because of its brutal bashing
of BET.
BET's CEO, Debra Lee, is depicted in "Hunger Strike" as "Debra Lee-vil,"
a sinister Dr. Evil clone who kills underlings and rants about creating
a network "that would accomplish what hundreds of years of slavery, Jim
Crow and malt liquor couldn't - the destruction of black people."

BET entertainment president Reggie Hudlin - once a "Boondocks"
executive producer - is depicted as Dr. Lee-vil's Harvard-educated
lieutenant whose bright idea is to steal five-year-old reality show
ideas from MTV and graft them onto the BET brand.

WE REMEMBER IVAN DIXON: Actor known for role on 'Hogan's Heroes' dies at
age 76.

*Actor, director and producer Ivan Dixon, best known for his role
as Kinchloe on the 1960s television series "Hogan's Heroes," died Sunday
at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte after a hemorrhage and of
complications from kidney failure. He was 76.

Dixon's acting career was launched on Broadway in such plays as
"The Cave Dwellers" and "A Raisin in the Sun." On film, he appeared in
"Something of Value," "A Raisin in the Sun," "A Patch of Blue," "Nothing
But a Man" and the cult favorite "Car Wash."

His most famous role was U.S. Staff Sgt. James Kinchloe on TV's
"Hogan's Heroes," a satire set in a German prisoner-of-war camp during
World War II. Kinchloe, in charge of electronic communications, could
mimic German officers on the radio or phone.

Actor Sidney Poitier said he befriended Dixon when the actor
worked as his stunt double in the 1958 movie "The Defiant Ones."

"As an actor, you had to be careful," Poitier said in a statement.
"He was quite likely to walk off with the scene."

Dixon earned an Emmy nomination for his performance in the CBS
Playhouse special "The Final War of Olly Winter." The actor also
directed hundreds of episodic shows, including "The Waltons," "The
Rockford Files,"
"Magnum, P.I." and "In the Heat of the Night."

Born April 6, 1931, in New York City, Dixon graduated in 1954 from
North Carolina Central University in Durham. His honors include four
NAACP Image Awards, the National Black Theatre Award and the Paul
Robeson Pioneer Award from the Black American Cinema Society.

In addition to his daughter Doris Nomathande Dixon, survivors
include his wife of 53 years, Berlie Dixon of Charlotte, and a son, Alan
Kimara Dixon of Oakland, Calif. Two sons, Ivan Nathaniel Dixon IV and
N'Gai Christopher Dixon, died previously. At Dixon's request, the family
said, no memorial or funeral is planned.

CITY COUNCIL WANTS KWAME KILPATRICK TO RESIGN: Vote goes 7-1 in favor of
his removal; Mayor says it's irrelevant.

*The Detroit City Council voted Tuesday to call for Mayor Kwame
Kilpatrick's resignation in the wake of his embarrassing text-message
scandal.

According to the Detroit Free Press, the vote was 7-1 in favor of
urging the politician to step down.

Kilpatrick has dismissed the nonbinding resolution as irrelevant
and vowed not to resign, according to the newspaper. A last-minute
change to the resolution struck language calling for the council's
independent attorney, Bill Goodman to "explore the proceedings by which
the mayor may be removed from office" if Kilpatrick stands by his
promise to stay in office.

The resolution cites 33 reasons for Kilpatrick to quit, including
failing to inform the council of a secret deal the mayor made to settle
a whistleblower lawsuit and an accusation that he "repeatedly obfuscates
the truth." It also claims his administration has failed to govern
effectively, noting widespread street light outages and mandatory audits
getting turned in late.

It also says: "There is an overwhelming and growing sentiment
amongst citizens of Detroit that the City Council should stand firm
against Mayor Kilpatrick and seek his resignation."

Responding to the resolution during an appearance at Wayne County
Community College's east-side campus, Kilpatrick told reporters: "My
reaction is, OK, now since it's over, it has no effect, it's not
binding, let's get back to work."

OPRAH'S HARPO INKS DEAL WITH KIRSTIE ALLEY: Future project with the
studio unclear for now.

*Kirstie Alley is now officially part of the Oprah Winfrey
machine. The actress, who has been a frequent guest on "The Oprah
Winfrey Show," signed a development deal with Oprah's Harpo Prods. for
as-yet-unnamed television projects.

According to Variety, Harpo is considering a daily talk show to
be hosted by the former "Cheers" star, who recently resigned from her
gig as spokeswoman for the weight loss company Jenny Craig.

"I'm very open with what I've been through in my own personal
life, and nothing -- I mean nothing -- is off-limits for me to talk
about," Alley said. "And I won't lie -- I live a beautiful life. So I
hope to bring those elements together to offer something totally fresh
for the television audience."

In addition to having her kitchen famously remodeled by Oprah
regular Nate Berkus on "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Alley also made
headlines for a November 2006 appearance in which she wore a bikini to
flaunt her 75-pound weight loss.

NIECY NASH TO STAR IN HER OWN SITCOM: Fox green-lights project written
and exec-produced by 'Arrested Development' vet.

*Actress Niecy Nash, best known for her role as the
healthy-bottomed cop Raineesha Williams on Comedy Central's "Reno 911,"
will topline a comedy pilot for Fox titled "The Inn."

The storyline is described by the Hollywood Reporter as an
updated version of the British drama "Upstairs/Downstairs" set at a hip
New York hotel.

The multi-camera project, written and executive produced by
"Arrested Development" executive story editor Abraham Higginbotham,
comes from 20th Century Fox TV.

Nash, whose real name is Carol Denise Ensley, is currently in
theaters as a voice in the No. 1 film "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who."

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