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Ex-Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm?s 1978 ?Dating Game? appearance (VIDEO)

Ex-Gov. Jennifer Granholm during a 1978 "Dating Game" appearance (YouTube)In the Internet age, almost nothing stays hidden forever. Current TV host and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm is the subject of a humorous video flashback, after someone posted video of her 1978 appearance on "The Dating Game."

"Let's give a hand for the cute and curvaceous Jennifer Granholm," says the show's host, Jim Lange, when the future governor first appears on-screen.

Granholm is sharing in the laughs after the video was reportedly posted on Facebook by one of the three male contestants who appeared with Granholm on the show.

"I'm still laughing so hard my stomach still hurts," Granholm told the Detroit Free Press about the clip.

In the appearance, Granholm has very big hair and is wearing a puffy-sleeved blouse with gray suspenders.

The British Columbia native was 19 years old at the time and an aspiring actress.

You can watch the video appearance below:

That should make sense to anyone who caught Granholm's unusually expressive speech before the Democratic National Convention early this month.

"I'm a Democrat of the liberal persuasion, and I have always admired Jennifer Granholm," said Marty Nislick, who spotted the video on Facebook and posted it to YouTube. "And she was 19 years old, so I think she could be excused for being on a stupid show."

Granholm's former spokeswoman Liz Boyd says she emailed the video to her old boss on Thursday and that the two could "barely say hello to each other," because they were laughing so hard.

"Alas, this is what being a teenager in the '70s gets you: I was having a bad hair decade!" Granholm said in a statement released through Current TV.

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HP CEO admits company will eventually offer another smartphone; no interest in BlackBerry 10

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Agreement near in Chicago teachers strike: union chief

CHICAGO (Reuters) - The head of the Chicago Teachers Union said on Thursday an agreement was near to end a four-day strike in the nation's third-largest school district over education reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Asked how close the union was to a deal with Chicago school officials, teachers union president Karen Lewis told reporters: "On a scale of 1 to 10, I'm a nine."

But it was unlikely students would be back in school before Monday even if a tentative deal was struck today, she said.

The strike by 29,000 public school teachers and support staff affecting 350,000 elementary and high school students is the biggest strike in the United States this year.

Lewis, who called Emanuel a "bully" and "liar" before leading teachers out on their first strike in 25 years, struck a conciliatory tone for the first time after late-night talks on Wednesday.

Barbara Byrd-Bennett, chief education adviser for Chicago Public Schools, told reporters on Thursday: "Given what happened last night and the progress last night and early this morning with our team ... there's no way - unless we get, like, really nutsy - that we could not have an agreement."

Lewis, speaking separately to reporters before entering talks, said it was unlikely school would resume on Friday because the union's delegates would have to formally approve a deal.

"From the pace at which these things go, I doubt very seriously I can get a House of Delegates meeting together tonight," Lewis said. "Doing something fast is not the way to go ... . I think we still have too much on the table."

As for schools reopening on Monday, Lewis said: "I'm praying, praying, praying - I'm on my knees - for that, please, yes, I'm hoping for Monday. That would be good for us. That would be very good for our kids."

CORE ISSUES

Lewis said there was progress on the two most vexing issues - using student test scores to evaluate teachers and giving more authority to local principals to hire teachers.

The union is concerned that more than a quarter of its membership could be fired because the teachers work in poor neighborhoods where students perform badly on standardized tests, which Emanuel wants to use to evaluate teachers.

"This is really not a 'gotcha' evaluation system," Byrd-Bennett said. "It's to make sure we have a very high standard ... that will keep the very best teachers in front of our students every day."

Lewis said the union fears Emanuel plans to close scores of schools, putting unionized teachers out of work. In recent years about 100 public schools have been closed, with officials usually citing low enrollments. At the same time, a similar number of publicly funded, non-union charter schools have opened.

About 52,000 students enrolled at those schools have not been affected by the strike this week.

The strike in Barack Obama's home city also has put the U.S. president in a tough spot between Emanuel, formerly a top aide to Obama, and the labor unions that Obama is counting on to work for his re-election on November 6.

Obama's own Education Department has championed some of the reforms Emanuel is seeking, and a win for the ambitious Chicago mayor would add momentum to the national school reform movement.

Both sides agree Chicago schools need fixing. Chicago students consistently perform poorly on standardized math and reading tests. About 60 percent of high school students graduate, compared with 75 percent nationwide and more than 90 percent in some affluent Chicago suburban schools.

The fight does not appear to center on wages, with the school district offering an average 16 percent rise over four years and some benefit improvements. Chicago schools already have a projected $665 million budget gap for the year that began in July, a key factor driving Emanuel's reforms.

More than 80 percent of Chicago public school students qualify for free school lunches because they come from low-income households.

"Teachers feel beaten down throughout the country," said Randi Weingarten, national president of the union including the Chicago teachers. "They feel beaten down because of austerity, because of test- rather than teacher-driven policies, because of a spike in poverty, because of the demand on them to do more with less - and then blame them when that doesn't work out."

"That's what's created all the frustration that you hear on the picket line," she said.

(Additional reporting by James Kelleher, Nick Carey and Greg McCune; Writing by Peter Bohan; Editing by Bill Trott and Xavier Briand)

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Lilian Garcia will rock MetLife Stadium on Sept. 30

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WrestleMania XXIX might not be until April 7, 2013, but WWE ring announcer Lilian Garcia is ready to rock MetLife Stadium a few months earlier. The SmackDown songstress will perform during the New York Jets? halftime show on Sept. 30, when Gang Green battles the San Francisco 49ers.

?When I got the call, I nearly dropped the phone,? Garcia told WWE.com, thinking back on when the Jets told her the good news. Garcia was already scheduled to perform the national anthem ? as she has done at Jets games seven times prior ? but this marks the first time she will perform at an NFL halftime show. ?The Jets want me to do a seven-minute show with their Flight Crew Cheerleaders, and I?m going to be rehearsing with them next week.?

Lilian?s halftime performance is in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Day at MetLife Stadium, which is part of the NFL?s recognition of Hispanic Heritage Month from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.

??Being Latina, this is a huge honor for me,? Garcia said with a smile. ?It?s just really, really exciting to be part of this. It?s very surreal.?

?Surreal? seems to be a great way to describe Lilian?s life for the past few months. Last December, the versatile Diva returned to WWE as a full-time ring announcer after a more than two-year hiatus. Additionally, on top of her announcing duties and hectic travel schedule, Lilian has kept busy on the music front, releasing a six-song extended play (EP) follow-up to her 2007 premiere album, ??Quiero Vivir!? The EP is titled ?My Time,? and was released on Aug. 19 ? coincidentally sharing the date with SummerSlam as well as Lilian?s birthday. But the coincidences don?t end there ? Lilian?s first performance since that EP?s release just so happens to be at the very same venue as next year?s WrestleMania. To say that Lilian?s WWE and musical careers are entwined as of late would be an understatement. (LILIAN GARCIA PHOTOS AND VIDEOS)

?It?s almost like it was supposed to happen,? Lilian said of her halftime show at the East Rutherford, N.J. venue that will play host to The Showcase of the Immortals. ?To be performing at MetLife Stadium, out of all the buildings and all of the stadiums I could be performing at ? especially my first performance coming off of my EP being released ? it?s magical. The Jets fans are great, too, and there are a lot of WWE Universe members within the Jets community.?
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Jets fans and WWE Universe members alike can look forward to Garcia performing a medley of songs from ?My Time,? in addition to what she called a ?little surprise? for her fans.

?I can envision it in my head already,? Lilian said. ?It?s going to be an amazing day.?

For the latest updates from Lilian Garcia, be sure to follow the SmackDown songstress on Twitter. To download her new EP, ?My Time,? click here.

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FACT CHECK: Romney misstates facts on attacks

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The gunfire at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, had barely ceased when Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney seriously mischaracterized what had happened in a statement accusing President Barack Obama of "disgraceful" handling of violence there and at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo.

"The Obama administration's first response was not to condemn attacks on our diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks," Romney said in a statement first emailed to reporters at 10:09 p.m. Eastern time, under the condition it not be published until midnight.

In fact, neither a statement by the U.S. Embassy in Cairo earlier in the day nor a later statement from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton offered sympathy for attackers. The statement from the Cairo Embassy had condemned anti-Muslim religious incitement before the embassy walls were breached. In her statement, issued minutes before Romney's, Clinton had offered the administration's first response to the violence in Libya, explicitly condemning the attack there and confirming the death of a State Department official.

"I condemn in the strongest terms the attack on our mission in Benghazi today," Clinton said in a written statement received by The Associated Press at 10:08 p.m. "As we work to secure our personnel and facilities, we have confirmed that one of our State Department officers was killed. We are heartbroken by this terrible loss."

Then, at 10:24 p.m., a Romney spokeswoman lifted the release restriction on the Republican's statement, and it was widely published.

At the time, the Romney campaign did not know that the U.S. ambassador, Christopher Stevens, had been killed, nor did the Obama administration. Libyans told American officials around midnight that the ambassador had died, but Americans were unable to confirm his identity until hours later.

"I strongly condemn the outrageous attack on our diplomatic facility in Benghazi, which took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens," Obama said in his first statement at 7:21 a.m. Wednesday, the next morning.

A closer look at the day's events and rhetoric:

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Tuesday, Sept. 11, Cairo, Egypt

Early Tuesday morning, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo got word that demonstrators, angry about an anti-Islamic film produced in the U.S., were gathering in the streets. It issued a safety warning to Americans: Stay out of the streets.

As the situation became increasingly tense? but while the crowd was still peaceful ? the U.S. Embassy in Cairo issued a statement condemning what it called "religious incitement" as it worked to calm the tensions.

"The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims ? as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions," the embassy said at 6:18 a.m. EDT, shortly after noon Cairo time.

That's the statement that Romney referred to as the administration's "first response." By Wednesday morning, the Republican nominee was at a podium in Jacksonville, Fla., saying that statement "appeared to be an apology for American principles." It's a theme Romney has hammered against Obama throughout his presidential campaign, including in his campaign book, "No Apology."

But the embassy's condemnation of religious incitement hardly amounted to an apology.

Romney also said Wednesday that the Cairo Embassy "put out a statement after their grounds had been breached. Protesters were inside the grounds. They reiterated that statement after the breach."

Not quite. Almost five hours after the Cairo Embassy issued its statement ? at about 11:15 a.m. EDT ? Associated Press images show protesters atop the Cairo Embassy's walls. At about 11:33 a.m. EDT, the American flag there had come down.

The embassy did use its Twitter account to say, at about 8 p.m. EDT, that "this morning's condemnation ... still stands." The tweet was later deleted.

The Obama administration later backed away from the embassy's statement entirely. "That statement was not coordinated with Washington. It was taken down," a senior administration official said.

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Tuesday, Sept. 11, Benghazi, Libya

As the protests in Cairo were winding down, the situation in Benghazi was getting worse. At about 4:15 p.m. EDT, senior administration officials said, attackers had entered the compound, firing at officials and setting the consulate's main building on fire. Three Americans were trapped inside, including Stevens, the ambassador. They became separated from each other; one made it out before going back inside to search for the others.

No one could find Stevens.

They took refuge in a second, smaller building around 4:45 p.m. EDT. More shooting started at 5 p.m., and two additional U.S. personnel were killed. Two more were wounded. It wasn't until 8:30 p.m. EDT that Libyan security forces helped the Americans regain control of the compound. Still, no one knew where Stevens was.

That was less than two hours before Romney's initial 10:10 p.m. statement.

At midnight, Libyans told American officials that Stevens was dead. But they had to wait until dawn to identify him.

At 10:43 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Obama was standing in the White House's Rose Garden, offering a tribute.

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Wednesday, Sept. 12, Jacksonville, Fla.

Just minutes before Obama appeared in the Rose Garden, Romney spoke to reporters at a hastily arranged news conference at his Jacksonville campaign office, walking to the podium at about 10:15 a.m. What was supposed to be a small rally was abruptly turned into a statement of condolence for the deaths in Libya ? and a doubling down on the previous night's criticism of Obama.

Romney was pressed about whether he would have made his Tuesday night statement if he'd had complete information about the situation in Benghazi.

"I'm not going to take hypotheticals about what would have been known what and so forth," Romney said. "I ? we responded last night to the events that happened in Egypt."

But his statement had referenced both countries, referring to "attacks on our diplomatic missions."

In Washington, Republican foreign policy veterans called Romney's initial statement premature and rushed, with limited facts and an incomplete understanding of what was happening in Egypt and Libya. Romney's team also was unclear about the timeline of when the Obama administration weighed in.

One Republican official advising Romney's campaign on foreign policy and national security issues painted a picture of a Romney campaign more focused on ensuring Romney's evening statement made it into morning news stories than on waiting for details about what had happened.

This official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid angering Romney's campaign, said that as word of violence spread, campaign aides late Tuesday watched tweets coming out of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo that were criticizing the filmmaker rather than condemning the attackers, and saw an opportunity to criticize Obama.

It wasn't until Wednesday morning, when the U.S. confirmed the death of the U.S. ambassador to Libya, that Romney's team recognized the severity of the situation ? and that, the night before, it had opened itself up to criticism for politicizing a diplomatic crisis.

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Associated Press writers Steve Negus in Cairo and Philip Elliott and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.

EDITOR'S NOTE _ An occasional look at political claims that take shortcuts with the facts or don't tell the full story

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fact-check-romney-misstates-facts-attacks-233322109--election.html

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