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Week-ends (10/20/12)
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
James Des Jardins
Texas mom
3D printing
Katy Perry
8 dogs
VILLAINS OF THE WEEK
Boy Scout leaders
Arizona National Guard members
Raemon Matthews
PURE Insurance
Petiola Manu
Madonna
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“When do you graduate? 2014. When you come out in 2014, I presume I’m going to be president. I’m going to make sure you get a job.”
Mitt Romney during this week’s debate.
“We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our Cabinet. I went to a number of women’s groups and said, ‘Can you help us find folks.’ And they brought us whole binders full of women.”
Mitt Romney during this week’s debate.
“You shouldn’t have to hire a lawyer to figure out how to get into this country legally.”
Mitt Romney during this week’s debate.
“Gov. Romney doesn’t have a five-point plan; he has a one-point plan. And that plan is to make sure that folks at the top play by a different set of rules.”
President Obama during this week’s debate.
“We haven’t heard from the governor any specifics beyond Big Bird and eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood in terms of how he pays for that.”
President Obama during this week’s debate.
“I don’t look at my pension. It’s not as big as yours, so it doesn’t take as long.”
President Obama during this week’s debate.
“This was a boxing match. This was heavyweight. This was Frazier-Ali. Even the stage was sort of like an arena, a ring where they circled each other. At one point, I thought they were going to use their mics as weapons and it was going to turn into the Taiwanese parliament.”
Conservative Charles Krauthammer commenting after the Obama-Romney debate.
“I had to turn it off. I got an hour into it and I couldn’t watch it anymore. They were getting a little bit brutal with each other.”
Undecided voter Angela Boozhoo on the Obama-Romney debate.
“You want to interrupt me, Joe Biden, let me finish.”
Tommy Thompson to Tammy Baldwin during their
"I can't stand whining. I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made. You live in a time when there are endless choices. Money certainly helps, and having that kind of financial privilege goes a long way. But you don't even have to have money for it. But you have to work on yourself ... do something!"
Hillary Clinton in a magazine interview referring to women who complain about the difficulty of balancing family and work commitments.
“We have a joke around here. Pretty soon we’re going to have such long commercial breaks that people are going to tune in and all they’ll hear is: ‘Hello, welcome to News 3. And goodbye.’ ”
The general manager of KSNV, the NBC affiliate in
“That brother has slugged me a couple times. I assure you President Obama has nothing to worry about.”
Josh Romney, after his brother Tagg said he wanted to “take a swing at” Obama during the last Presidential debate.
President Obama and Mitt Romney exchange jokes at the Alfred Smith dinner...
OUTRAGE OF THE WEEK
Candy Crowley disgraces herself at debate.
MOST UNDER-REPORTED STORY OF THE WEEK
Tammy Baldwin and body armor.
MOST OVER-HYPED STORY OF THE WEEK
Tommy Thompson's son made a birther joke.
STRANGEST, MOST UNUSUAL STORY OF THE WEEK
The woman does WHAT?
That's it for Week-ends.
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