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Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
Week-ends (11/24/12)
A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In...
HEROES OF THE WEEK
America's givers
Pete Vadola
Hero vets
Joe DiBernardo
Nico Castro
Andrzej Sekowski
Sia Ta Kian
Tim Allen
Jack Taylor
And don't miss this one...Dr. Russell Dohner
VILLAINS OF THE WEEK
Hamas
Audrey Collins
Sarah Hamilton-Parker
Ken Qualls
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“We have got to stop dividing the American voters. We need to go after one hundred per cent of the votes, not fifty-three per cent.”
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal
“The president was elected on the basis that he was not Romney and that Romney was a poopy-head and you should vote against Romney.”
Grover Norquist
"You know, I travel all around the country, every week I go to a different part of the country. I'm with small businesses. And I'm not hearing that.”
Obama’s Small Business Administration Chief Karen Mills on MSNBC saying she has not heard one case of Obamacare hurting small business.
“You’ve never heard that? You need to talk to your staff and tell them to get you out of the bubble, because we are hearing that all the time.”
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough responding to Mills
“The stores, we hear, will open on Thanksgiving. Isn’t that a sign of progress and liberation? Sorry, but no — it’s a sign of a further descent into a highly privatized, impersonal, keep-people-at-a-distance culture, one that values having stuff and doing things over just being with people whom we love, cherish and appreciate.
Timothy Dolan
“This film… takes you back to a younger, perhaps gentler,
Mick Jagger, introducing the new HBO documentary “The Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane.”
“A situation that has been comprehensively mismanaged, characterized by a string of blunders and miscalculations.”
The definition of “omnishambles,” the
“Has anyone ever told you that you look like John McCain?”
An
OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK
Black Friday.
Headlines from the Drudge Report:
'Gang fight' at Black Friday sale...
Man Punched in Face Pulls Gun On Line-Cutting Shopper...
Shots fired outside WALMART...
Shoppers smash through door at URBAN OUTFITTERS...
Customers run over in parking lot...
Woman busted after throwing merchandise...
Thousands storm VICTORIA'S SECRET...
VIDEO: Insane battle over phones...
Mayhem at Nebraska mall where 9 murdered in 2007...
Shoplifter tries to mace security guards...
Men Steal Boy's Shopping Bag Outside BED, BATH & BEYOND...
Heckler calls them zombies...
MOST UNDER-REPORTED STORY OF THE WEEK
Stimulus reporting errors
MOST OVER-HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK
Take your pick: Twinkies or Black Friday.
STRANGEST, MOST UNUSUAL STORY OF THE WEEK
WHAT kind of surgery?
That's it for Week-ends.
We close with the latest from NewsBusted. NewsBusted is off this week, so here's last week's installment that we couldn't show you because we were off.
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