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	<title>City Desk &#187; daytona 500</title>
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		<title>No, It&#8217;s a D-Bag Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dave McKenna</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driver Matt Kenseth, after winning the Daytona 500 by rainout, told a TV audience through tears that the victory was "a G moment."
I wasn't familiar with the phrase, but ran to Google to confirm that "G Moment" is a trademark of a sponsor.
Turns out it's from Gatorade.
Kenseth's plug was seamlessly delivered with the rest of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Driver <strong>Matt Kenseth</strong>, after winning the <strong>Daytona 500</strong> by rainout, told a TV audience through tears that the victory was "a G moment."</p>
<p>I wasn't familiar with the phrase, but ran to Google to confirm that "G Moment" is a trademark of a sponsor.</p>
<p>Turns out it's from Gatorade.</p>
<p>Kenseth's plug was seamlessly delivered with the rest of his victory speech. He wiped away the tears and took a pull from a bottle of orange Gatorade.</p>
<p>It was brilliant and douchebaggy, all at once.</p>
<p>And, besides, Kenseth's pitch wasn't nearly the hardest to watch speech of the day. That award goes to the pre-race prayer delivered by some clown named <strong>Dr. David Uth</strong>, a preacher from Orlando.</p>
<p>Anybody who wants to work up some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdDKlUXPWUw">anti-Christian fervor should check out Uth's work</a>, while remembering this is a sporting event that calls itself "The Great American Race."</p>
<p>Talk about a pulpit bully.</p>
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<p>Uth was only brought in because longtime race chaplain <strong>Rev. Hal Marchman</strong>, 90, was too ill to deliver the invocation. Marchman used to end his prayer with "shalom and amen."</p>
<p>The heavens must not have liked Uth's drivel too much.</p>
<p>In one of the few non-offensive portions of his speech, Uth thanked God for the sunshine.</p>
<p>And then the clouds opened up.</p>
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		<title>Weekend in Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Wemple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK, before getting into this huge news docket for the weekend, let me include a gratuitous slam on President's Day Weekend. It's a waste of taxpayer money, a disgrace in these lean times, a stupid holiday right in the middle of an ugly season, and it wreaks havoc on the Washington City Paper editorial deadlines. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>OK, before getting into this huge news docket for the weekend, let me include a gratuitous slam on President's Day Weekend. It's a waste of taxpayer money, a disgrace in these lean times, a stupid holiday right in the middle of an ugly season, and it wreaks havoc on the <em>Washington City Paper</em> editorial deadlines. Enjoy Monday off, Rest of the World. </p>
<p>Big news coming out of Daytona. I mean, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/15/AR2009021501170.html?hpid=artslot">Kenseth is a monster</a>. </p>
<p>Good feature on the front of <em>Washington Post</em> Metro today about an <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/14/AR2009021401760.html?hpid=topnews">ages-old killing in Virginia, a confession, and the aftermath</a>. I've been hearing some grumblings of late that the Metro people are having a tough time making it to A1. If so, this'd be Exhibit A in my case to the page-placement jury.  </p>
<p>NYT has a great piece on an inquiry into corruption on part of U.S. officials in Iraq just after "Mission Accomplished." Something about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/world/middleeast/15iraq.html?scp=1&#038;sq=%22pizza%20boxes%22&#038;st=cse">big wads of money in pizza boxes and the like</a>. Also, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/02/15/us/AP-Burris-Blagojevich-Donation.html?hp">this guy Burris</a>--perhaps the best approach was indeed to send him out into the rain. </p>
<p>WashTimes, with the <a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/15/gibbs-stimulus-vital-nations-recovery/">unscoop that Obama administration says stimulus key to economic recovery</a>. </p>
<p><em>Examiner</em>'s <strong>Nei-man</strong> needles Fenty for nominating<a href="http://www.dcexaminer.com/local/Fenty-pulls-one-nomination--adds-two-jogging-buddies_02_15-39588347.html"> two jogging buddies</a> to posts. </p>
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