ABC News executive producer Ian Cameron is married to Susan Rice, National Security Adviser.
CBS President David Rhodes is the brother of Ben Rhodes, Obamas Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications.
ABC News correspondent Claire Shipman is married to former Whitehouse Press Secretary Jay Carney
ABC News and Univision reporter Matthew Jaffe is married to Katie Hogan, Obamas Deputy Press Secretary
ABC President Ben Sherwood is the brother of Obamas Special Adviser Elizabeth Sherwood
CNN President Virginia Moseley is married to former Hillary Clintons Deputy Secretary Tom Nides.
And now you know why it is no surprise the media is in Obama’s pocket? In Hillary's pocket? that there might be a little bias in the news ???
Isn’t it interesting that every place you look in Obama’s administration people fill positions because of who they know, not what they know or how competent they are ---- and you wonder why our country has so many problems.
But then again, maybe not. I want to avoid being labelled a racist...
There is no legitimate, proven, medically endorsed connection to the maladies that most of you are attributing to MSG. You concerns are relegated to the same realm as vampire hunting, Sasquatch and unicorns. Unless you can prove it, don't bring it up. If you don't want to prove it - just don't eat it. And shut up about it. Maybe I have the order wrong.
A study done by Dr. Nicholas Maragakis and Dr. Jeffrey Rothstein posted in the Journal of Neurology called “Glutamate Transporters in Neurologic Disease”, found no connection to claims of neurological damage or migraines from even large quantities of MSG.
Yet another study by Dr. Stevenson called “Monosodium glutamate and asthma” (J. Nutr. 130: 1067S-1073S) found no connection with MSG increasing or worsening asthma.
And most recently last year, an article in the medical journal Clinical & Experimental Allergy reported that after more than a decade of study, no connection between MSG and allergies were ever found.
Sheesh.
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd fame has a Fender Stratocaster #0001, which has been well documented and photographed. In close examination by a number of experts, they believe that it is actually a 1954 model from the first year of manufacture. Some have contended that it is a Frankenstrat put together of old parts (1957 neck and 1957 body) but the pickups appear to be original 1954 and so do the tuners.
Although stamped with the #0001 serial number, it’s not the first ever-made Stratocaster. The unusual color and the gold hardware indicate that it might be a showpiece made for a special occasion or for an employee - perhaps an "unveiling".
Other researchers indicate that it was the first Stratocaster to have a serial number via a neck plate, and that there were most certainly other Strats produced ahead of Gilmour's. There is talk of a 1953 "prototype" as well as the original "body contour design" model given to musician Bill Carlson for testing. There are also pictures of what appear to be a Stratocaster with a Tele neck that Leo Fender used as a test bed during the Stratocaster development.
The neck is signed “TG 6.54”, referring to Taddeo Gomez June 1954 and the body has a handwritten signature “Mary 9.28.54”, referring to Mary (this could very well be Mary Lemus, a Fender factory employee. Mary began work at Fender in 1954 as an assembler, eventually becoming a final assembly supervisor) signing off on it September 28. 1954.
According to Guitarist journalist David Mead, who examined the guitar for an article in 1995, the ash body is indeed white although it might appear to be aged Olympic White, pale green or even blue-ish on some pictures. The guitar features an anodized gold 8 hole 1-ply pickguard, custom gold plated tremolo system and output jack and Kluson Deluxe tuners. The pickups appear to be original 1954 Fenders with a 3-way pickup switch (the 5-way switch didn’t surface until the mid 70’s).
First Strat? Probably not. Worth enough to buy a mansion? Undoubtedly.
