Speed Read Feed for July 13, 2006
Valerie Plame is suing Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and others over her cover as a spy being blown.
House democrats are using images of soldiers coffins in their new campaign video.
A Reverend at Ken Lay’s funeral compared the late CEO to Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jesus Christ.
The Reverend Dr. Bill Lawson compared Lay with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ, and said his name would eventually be cleared.
“He was taken out of the world right at the right time,” he said. “History has a way of vindicating people who have been wronged.”
South Park’s Scientology episode will be re-aired by Comedy Central. The episode is up for an Emmy award. The episode pokes fun at Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Scientology.
Comedy Central plans to air the Emmy-nominated episode on July 19. It was last scheduled to rerun in March but was abruptly pulled by the network.
The show’s co-creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, were told in May that the episode was pulled from the schedule to appease Cruise and his partners in “Mission: Impossible III,” according to reports.
“If they hadn’t put this episode back on the air, we’d have had serious issues, and we wouldn’t be doing anything else with them,” Stone said in Wednesday’s edition of the trade paper Variety.

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