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FRIEND: Gigi Goyette signed a confidentiality agreement with the American Media Inc. about an alleged affair she had with Arnold Schwarzenegger. The publisher agreed to pay her $20,000.

The Los Angeles Times has Tabloid’s Deal With Woman Shielded Schwarzenegger.

Days after Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped into the race for governor and girded for questions about his past, a tabloid publisher wooing him for a business deal promised to pay a woman $20,000 to sign a confidentiality agreement about an alleged affair with the candidate.

American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, signed a friend of the woman to a similar contract about the alleged relationship for $1,000.

American Media’s contract with Gigi Goyette of Malibu is dated Aug. 8, 2003, two days after Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy on a late-night talk show. Under the agreement, Goyette must disclose to no one but American Media any information about her “interactions” with Schwarzenegger.

American Media never solicited further information from Goyette or her friend, Judy Mora, also of Malibu, both women said. The Enquirer had published a cover story two years earlier describing an alleged seven-year sexual relationship between Goyette and Schwarzenegger during his marriage to Maria Shriver, California’s first lady.

So, Arnold is a womanizer.

The Enquirer had two years earlier published the story.

And the Governor admitted this while sparing his wife and the public the details:

When Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy on “The Tonight Show,” he speculated that he would face accusations of infidelity.

Host Jay Leno asked if he was prepared for a bruising campaign, and Schwarzenegger replied: “I know that they’re going to throw everything at me and they’re going, you know, to say that I have no experience and that I’m a womanizer and that I’m a terrible guy, and all these kinds of things are going to come my way.”

Flap fails to see any relevance to California politics or California public policy here.

If the Los Angeles Times wants to repeat the hatchet job they did on Schwarzenegger before the recall election of Gray Davis, then so be it.

Their circulation is already declining and will only accelerate their ultimate demise.

Has the Los Angeles Times run a piece on the Air America Radio Scandel and the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from poor kids in New York? NO!

But, I suppose gossip about a celebrity California Governor sells papers.

SEX does sell.

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TED TURNER BLASTS REPORTS HE’S JOINING FONDA’S PEACE TOUR.

Media mogul TED TURNER has slammed reports he’s joining ex-wife JANE FONDA on her peace tour, which aims to lobby American President GEORGE W BUSH to pull US troops out of Iraq.

The KLUTE actress, who was dubbed Hanoi Jane for her vehement opposition to the Vietnam War, is planning to join forces with military families whose loved ones have served in Iraq, for an anti-war bus tour next spring (06).

But her third ex-husband Turner was furious when gossip site PageSix.Com reported he would be touring with the 67-year-old.

His spokeswoman MAURA DONLAN told the website, “Your column this week said Mr Turner was joining Jane Fonda on her bus tour.

“Mr Turner wants me to tell you he will not be joining Jane.”

Once a TRAITOR always a TRAITOR.

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Flap ran across this new news service, Powerline Blog News.

The interactive world newspaper feed is cool.

It has RSS feeds (Flap has it in Onfolio and Bloglines) and….

includes some of Flap’s favorite bloggers, including Hugh Hewitt and Michelle Malkin.

Sooooo, get over there and READ!

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A new Zogby International Survey shows Connecticut voters overwhelmingly want to ban dental mercury (so-called “silver” fillings).

Zogby surveyed Connecticut voters in August and found:

* 87% support the law that prohibits the sale of mercury products in Connecticut;

* 79% did not know mercury is a primary ingredient in “silver” dental fillings;

* More than 80% support a ban on continued use of mercury fillings.

“These are startling numbers. This report should give both dental professionals and their patients something to chew on,” said John Zogby, President and Chief Executive Officer of Zogby International.

Another nail in the coffin of dental amalgam.

Many dentists no longer restore teeth with the mercury containing amalgam and replacement alternative restorative materials are continually being developed. Some of these alternative resin are very close to amalgam in properties and offer a more conservative approach to tooth preparation since they are chemically bonded to the tooth.

A few more years the “silver filling” will be on display at the Smithsonian as an example of antiquated 20th century dentistry.

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