Excerpted from the Nome Observer Courier:

In a frank admission to Fox News on-air personality Greta Van Susteren, Todd Palin admitted that residents of Alaska don’t actually refer to snowmobiles as snowmachines.

“Yep, it started as a joke and then one of McCain’s campaign strategists just went with it,” Palin confessed.

“Something about how people love exotic sounding things.”

Palin shrugged.

“I thought it was a bit ridiculous, but they were supposed to know what they were doing, so we rolled with it and asked the Wasilla residents to do the same.”

Excerpted from the Manhattan Spectrum:

Despite O’Reilly’s several requests for Beck to join him for lunch in the Fox News cafeteria, a NewsCorp insider says Beck has yet to acquiesce to the senior broadcaster’s invitation.

“He’s been really elusive.  He’s never in the cafeteria at the same time as O’Reilly and if he does stumble in while Bill is there he always turns and leaves explaining that he left his wallet or that he thinks he left the stove on back at his mid-town apartment.”

“There’s even a rumor that Beck has a paid-intern who’s sole job is to track where O’Reilly is so that Beck doesn’t accidentally bump into him.”

When asked why Beck would be avoiding O’Reilly, the insider shrugged.

“Beats me.  It’s all very strange.”