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Verbinski To Remake Host

Universal Pictures and Gore Verbinski will remake the 2006 Bong Joon-ho-directed Korean creature feature The Host, with commercials director Fredrik Bond making his feature helming debut and Mark Poirier (Smart People) writing the script, Variety reported.

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Radio host Baker referred to Thomas Beatie as a "mutilated lesbian"

On the November 14 edition of his Minneapolis radio show, Chris Baker repeatedly referred to Thomas Beatie, a pregnant transgender man, as a "mutilated lesbian." He also referred to Beatie as a "freak." Baker also stated: "If a lesbian gets pregnant, I'm fine with it. I'm OK. Just stop alternating reality and trying to force me to buy into your psychosis." Baker made the comments while discussing Barbara Walters' interview of Beatie and his wife, Nancy Beatie. Guest co-host Nicole Remini said of Walters' interview, "[S]o Barbara goes, 'Are you pregnant again?' Like, bluh. Sorry, I just threw up in my mouth on the radio." Remini added: "It's disgusting. I really have a problem with it." Though Beatie identifies as a man, Remini, Baker, and KTLK guest host Todd Walker repeatedly referred to him as a female throughout the discussion. Baker stated Beatie is "not a guy," while Remini said, "You're a chick," and, "[S]top saying you're a man." Walker said, "She's a man," and said, "[D]id you see her as a woman when she was the beauty queen? She was pretty hot." Baker also stated: "Excuse me, I don't believe you're a guy. Can you stand up to pee? OK? There you go. Scoreboard." Baker later said of Beatie: "She had her hoots whittled off. And that's it. That's it. That's it; that's all. And when I think of all the women out there that have little hoots who would love to have those hoots, and this woman's throwing them away." ABC News reported in a November 13 "Barbara Walters Exclusive" that the Beaties are expecting their second child. Their first baby was born in June. As Media Matters for America documented, on the April 4 edition of MSNBC's Morning Joe, after playing a clip of Beatie's April 3 appearance on Oprah to discuss Beatie's first pregnancy, co-host Mika Brzezinski stated, "I'm going to be sick. I am going to be sick." During the same discussion, host Joe Scarborough stated: "I really do feel sick." From the November 14 broadcast of KTLK's The Chris Baker Show: BAKER: That mutilated lesbian's running around claiming to be a pregnant guy again. REMINI: She's pregnant again. It -- WALKER: She is? REMINI: Yes. You know? Ugh. BAKER: And it's not a guy. Yet -- this freak is on with Barbara Walters. REMINI: Yeah. BAKER: "Oh, the man is pregnant again." And this mutilated lesbian is literally saying, "Well, you know, after the first baby, I didn't want to go back to my testosterone injections." REMINI: Right. And so Barbara goes, "Are you pregnant again?" Like, bluh. Sorry, I just threw up in my mouth on the radio. BAKER: How is that happening? REMINI: It's disgusting. I really have a problem with it. BAKER: Look, you know what? I don't mind if -- look, I have no problem with a lesbian being pregnant, OK? REMINI: Right, but stop saying you're a man. BAKER: If a lesbian gets pregnant -- WALKER: Yeah, but she's a man. BAKER: -- I'm fine with it. I'm OK. Just stop alternating reality -- REMINI: Right. BAKER: -- and trying to force me to buy into your psychosis. REMINI: Right. You're a chick. WALKER: But did you see her as a woman when she was the beauty queen? She was pretty hot. REMINI: Was she? BAKER: Right. WALKER: Oh, she was smoking. I looked her up online. BAKER: Right. She's a mental case. WALKER: She was -- I mean, she was an attractive, attractive woman. BAKER: In order to -- REMINI: Her wife is not pretty. BAKER: -- in order to undergo the so-called gender reassignment surgery -- I'm telling you right now, I'm gonna throw this entire theory right out the window, all right? Here's the truth. In order to get this so-called gender reassignment surgery, a shrink has to diagnose you with a mental disorder known as gender -- what is it? -- gender -- REMINI: Is it a transgender -- BAKER: Yeah. Gender identification -- WALKER: Gender confusion. BAKER: -- gender identification disorder or some kind of stuff. You're a nut, technically. REMINI: Right. Right. BAKER: You know, basically. REMINI: Right. BAKER: OK? Look, just -- we love you as you are as a human being; just stop trying to screw up reality. [unintelligible] REMINI: Yeah, Todd, I don't need Botox. BAKER: Excuse me, I don't believe you're a guy. Can you stand up to pee? OK? There you go. Scoreboard. WALKER: So, is everything gone down there with her? REMINI: I think so. BAKER: Everything is the same. REMINI: Oh, no. It's the same because -- BAKER: It's a woman. REMINI: -- she had to be -- 'cause she had the baby. BAKER: Right. She didn't even have a cesarean, OK? How can you say, "I'm a guy," and you had a baby and it wasn't even by cesarean? WALKER: But didn't she have it rebuilt so there's an outie down there, though? REMINI: Oh, gosh. WALKER: I think she did. BAKER: No. No. No, not at all. That's why the whole thing is stupid. WALKER: So, it's just a woman having a baby. [unintelligible] BAKER: It's a mutilated lesbian. She had -- REMINI: Who happens to have a beard. WALKER: And who happens to have a moustache and beard, right. BAKER: She had her hoots whittled off. And that's it. That's it. That's it; that's all. And when I think of all the women out there that have little hoots who would love to have those hoots -- WALKER: Yeah. BAKER: -- and this woman's throwing them away. REMINI: I'd like to fill my hoots. Now, that's something I'd like to do. WALKER: Get rid of them? REMINI: No, fill them. WALKER: Fill -- really? Let's see them again. [laughter] BAKER: 651-989 -- REMINI: I have the best bra in the world on today, too. I would share it. WALKER: I don't think you -- there's any reason to do anything with them. BAKER: -- 5855.

Limbaugh's guest host is latest radio host to compare current policies or proposals to slavery

While discussing potential Republican outreach efforts toward African-Americans during the November 14 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show, guest host Jason Lewis stated: "[T]his whole notion of taxing -- taxing America's labor -- you know, I don't know how else you describe what this sordid experience of slavery was when you take away somebody's ability to engage in the marketplace with the fruits of their labor." Lewis later added: "We need to go into the African-American community there on cultural issues. And they should be there on taxes, because they know what it's like to have to work for free. And during the times of slavery, we targeted black folks. Well, now I guess it's OK to target wealthy folks. Either way, you're taking something that doesn't belong to you." Lewis hosts a weekday radio show on Minnesota's 100.3 KTLK-FM, the same station that broadcasts The Chris Baker Show. As Media Matters for America documented, on the November 6 broadcast of Clear Channel's The War Room, co-host Jim Quinn compared "slave[s] in the old South" to welfare recipients today, the "difference" being that "[t]he slave[s] had to work for" the benefits Quinn said they received. Quinn defended those comments on the November 7 broadcast of his radio show, saying, "Now, naturally, the point that I was making was that there are two forms of servitude: There's the servitude that you can be forced into, and there's the servitude you can be coerced into, I mean, the horrors of slavery notwithstanding -- naturally, that was my point." Additionally, on the September 3 broadcast of San Francisco radio station KSFO's The Lee Rodgers Show, host Lee Rodgers said: "Bring us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free. ... Free of the stifling stupidity of liberalism, which disguises slavery as benevolence. That's -- that's the program for the Obama campaign, by the way." From the November 14 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Rush Limbaugh Show: LEWIS: What was the party in control? During the Jim Crow era, what was the party in control? The Democrats. CALLER: The Democrats. LEWIS: Yeah. CALLER: Nobody knows that, though, Jason. Nobody knows none of that history, particularly down here where I'm at. Nobody knows. They've been lying to them, man, for 40 years. LEWIS: By the way, it's another great point you bring up. It's also very dangerous to rely on the Supreme Court and unelected judges, because it was the Supreme Court that upheld Plessy versus Ferguson in -- I think it was 1896 -- that said separate but equal is just fine, for 60 years. Well, what was the court made up of? I mean, you're right -- CALLER: Nobody knows that history, Jason. We -- I saw -- somebody was reading it off one of the morning shows or something, what all the Republicans have did as pertaining to that issue. And the Democrats -- LEWIS: I got you. CALLER: -- ain't got nothing compared to that. So, we're talking -- LEWIS: Well, it might change. [Caller], I gotta go -- I gotta go, buddy. But it might change if former Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, who has announced his candidacy for the position of chairman of the Republican National Committee -- conservative African-American -- becomes the head of the party. I know he's been wanting Republicans to go into the African-American community and saying that. And I would only add that this whole notion of taxing -- taxing America's labor -- you know, I don't know how else you describe what this sordid experience of slavery was when you take away somebody's ability to engage in the marketplace with the fruits of their labor. We fought a great war over that. And you're quite right. We lost 600,000 Americans, many of them white, by the way. This country repaired itself. This country repaired the damage it was done. Those are reparations -- 600,000 lives. The bottom line, however, is, that we need to go into the African-American community as conservatives. It's a natural constituency. Seventy percent of African-Americans voted to uphold traditional marriage in California, and now they're seeing the intolerance of the militant gay left. We need to go into the African-American community there on cultural issues. And they should be there on taxes, because they know what it's like to have to work for free. And during the times of slavery, we targeted black folks. Well, now I guess it's OK to target wealthy folks. Either way, you're taking something that doesn't belong to you. Thanks for the call and the reminder.

Brazil To Host Large Biofuels Conference (AHN)

(AHN) - Brazil is scheduled to host a large biofuels conference promoting its massive ethanol industry. - Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:57:41 GMT

BBC host replaced in 'racism' row

A BBC radio presenter is replaced over "unacceptable" comments she made during an off-air telephone call.

BBC host replaced over phone call

BBC Radio Bristol replaces a presenter over "unacceptable" comments made during an off-air telephone call.

Schwarzenegger to host governors' climate summit

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is to host an international summit next week to discuss and develop strategies aimed at combating climate change, his office said in a statement Tuesday.

Moscow to host Mid-East meeting

Quartet mediators says it will hold a major conference next spring in Moscow, after no sign of a peace deal this year.

Falcons to host England Under 18s

The Rugby Football Union is delighted to announce that Newcastle Falcons has been chosen to host the prestigious international fixture between England Under-18 and Scotland Under-18 this season. Kingston Park will welcome international rugby with the future sporting talent from both countries battling it out on Sunday, March 22nd (kick-off 2pm).