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April 12, 2013
The Real Conversation Started by "Accidental Racist" Is in the Comment Section of CNN
Yeah, Brad Paisley's "Accidental Racist" may not be a perfect song. It might not be a totally inoffensive or non-hilarious song. But, dangit, Brad Paisley and LL Cool J were just trying to start a conversation. "I felt like when we were writing this song," Paisley told Ellen DeGeneres, "it wasn't n ... More >>
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February 19, 2013
Enjoy Watching Very Stoned People Drive Cars in this Hard-Hitting CNN Investigation
"As a consultant prepared our marijuana-smoking lab..." So begins this delightfully straight-faced CNN investigative report, in which the producers got Washington State drivers increasingly high in between repeated outings behind the wheel on a closed course to test their performance. The rest is jo ... More >>
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January 4, 2013
Watch Kathy Griffin Try to Kiss Anderson Cooper's 'Sardine' on NYE
On Monday night, Kathy Griffin rang in the New Year with Anderson Cooper in a CNN special from Times Square. While the affable Cooper explained the drinking game fans created in his honor, Griffin got rowdy and told Cooper she wanted to "kiss his sardine." Um, ok...
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November 7, 2012
Gary Clark Jr. - Hurricane Sandy Benefit at Brooklyn Bowl - 11/6/12
Better than: Paul Ryan's hair. Disasters have a way of forgetting themselves. The attention span of the public is fickle; once the actual logistics of dealing with catastrophe replace splashy news coverage we often lose interest. See: Hurricane Katrina. Other news catches our attention, some o ... More >>
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August 28, 2012
Mitt Romney's Five Sons Don't Drink, Don't Smoke, And Really Love Their Dad. They're Terrifying
Mitt Romney's five adult sons have been making the cable news rounds leading up to the Republican National Convention -- which has cued TV news hosts to go to great lengths to get the men to say at least one bad thing about their old man.Despite the valiant efforts, both CNN's Piers Morgan and Fox N ... More >>
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August 13, 2012
Update: Multiple Shooting Victims at Texas A&M University; Gunman, Two Others Dead
Update 4:10 p.m.: KBTX is reporting the College Station Police Department has confirmed three people dead. Officials now say that Constable Brian Bachmann has been shot dead, as well as the gunman and a male civilian. CSPD is now reporting that one officer was shot in the leg, one female civilian is ... More >>
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August 11, 2012
CNN and Time Magazine Suspend Fareed Zakaria for Plagiarism
In journalism school, plagiarism is equivalent to life without parole: it is the bane of any writer's existence and an automatic halt on one's professional reputation. We are told over and over and over again to source everything, make sure all of your facts line up and that we'll be outcasted from ... More >>
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August 10, 2012
Traingasm Video A Spoof. Thank Gawd
We're relieved to report that the world is not quite as creepy as we initially thought it was after watching a video of an Upstate man having what can be best described as a "traingasm."A few hours ago, we posted the video -- titled "Excited Train Guy" -- thinking it was legit. Turns out, it's bulls ... More >>
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August 5, 2012
When Rightbloggers Tell You the Battle of Chick-fil-A Isn't About Gay Rights, It's About Gay Rights
In years to come, rightbloggers will tell their grandchildren many stories of the glorious summer of twenty-twelve. They'll tell 'em how they warned America about the socialist menace of the Olympics. They'll tell 'em how, in the wake of the Aurora shooting, they defended assault weapons against Dem ... More >>
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June 18, 2012
Texas Congressman Thinks Children "Have A Say" In Whether They Cross Border Illegally (Sigh)
President Barack Obama announced last week his plan to no longer deport children who were brought into the country illegally by their parents in a policy shift that the far-right is calling "backdoor amnesty."The spirit of the president's new policy is to not punish the roughly 800,000 undocumented ... More >>
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June 17, 2012
BREAKING: Rodney King Found Dead in His Pool in L.A.
As of 11:25am, Reuters is reporting that 47-year-old Rodney King, the famous victim of LAPD police brutality and protest symbol in the early 1990s, has been found dead in his pool. According to the news wire, "there is no sign of foul play" and his representative, Suzanne Wickman, has conf ... More >>
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January 8, 2012
Beyoncé Gives Birth; Wild Card Blowouts; Second New Hampshire GOP Debate
Last night, Beyoncé Knowles gave birth to her and Jay-Z's child, Ivy Blue Carter. The Daily News reports the baby girl was born in Lenox Hill Hospital on the Upper East Side in a private wing and that "hospital workers placed tape over security cameras and are forcing employees to turn in cell phon ... More >>
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December 11, 2011
Ryan Braun Fails PED Test; Iran Won't Return Drone; MTA Worker Allegedly Stabs Boss
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun has tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug, ESPN reports. Braun, who was last season's National League MVP, reportedly failed a test adminstered during the playoffs. "It's B.S.," the 28-year-old told USA Today. A spokesman for Braun released a ... More >>
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October 16, 2011
74 Arrests Made at Occupy Wall Street Protests; MLK Memorial Dedication; Demonstrators Killed in Yemen
A total of 74 people were arrested yesterday as Occupy Wall Street protesters marched from Zuccotti Park to Times Square. 24 people were arrested and charged with criminal trespass at a LaGuardia Pl. Citibank. Witnesses and protesters say some of those arrested were trying to close their acco ... More >>
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October 3, 2011
More Tainted Produce; Sandwiches from Around the Country Come to NYC
Killer cantaloupes are still a concern, and now you also have lettuce to worry about. A California lettuce grower has recalled 2,498 cartons of chopped or shredded romaine over more Listeria monocytogenes fears. [CNN] Alton Brown says that Good Eats 3 will be his last traditional cookbook. His next ... More >>
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September 29, 2011
Michelin Releases Its Best-Value NYC Restos; When a Bad Review Only Makes You Stronger
New research reveals that major river basins in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have enough water to meet food needs for the entire century. [Bloomberg] In the wake of a rising death toll attributed to tainted cantaloupes, Costco's head of food safety spoke out against the cantaloupe industry. [NY ... More >>
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September 11, 2011
9/11 Anniversary; Swedish Terror Arrests; Cliff Robertson Passes Away
Commemorations of the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks are being held around the country to remember those lost a decade ago. At the site of the World Trade Center memorial--which opens to the general public tomorrow--President Barack Obama and President George W. Bush will spea ... More >>
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August 14, 2011
Stage Collapse at Indiana State Fair; Bachmann Wins Straw Poll; Suicide Attack in Afghanistan
A concert stage collapsed last night at the Indiana State Fair, killing four and injuring 40. After a performance by singer Sara Bareilles, winds "between 60 and 70 mph" knocked over rigging and collapsed the structure to the ground. Attendees reported that "Spectators grabbed parts of their ... More >>
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August 7, 2011
London Riots; 4 NATO Soldiers Killed; S&P Warns of Another U.S. Credit Downgrade
Telegraph.co.ukRiots raged overnight in the Tottenham area of London as protesters stormed the streets and burned buses, police cars and buildings. A crowd of 120 marched on the Tottenham police station in response to the shooting of Mark Duggan, a man who died in an alleged gunfight with off ... More >>
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June 26, 2011
Psychics Predict Future of World Economy
This is a real CNN report from three days ago. According to the psychics, who know more about Ben Bernanke's plans in the next three months than Ben Bernanke does, everything is going to be just fine. [@_rosiegray]
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June 15, 2011
John Edwards Mugshot: A Photoshopper's Dream
The grin, the fancy haircut, the blue tie -- it's all there in ex-Senator and two-time presidential candidate John Edwards' mugshot, released today by the U.S. Marshals Service to the delight of the internet everywhere. Edwards pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and violating campaign laws for ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Ann Coulter vs. Piers Morgan: She Just Doesn't Want Stalkers to Know How Old She Is
It's hard with people like Ann Coulter because yes, everyone knows her game is to get people riled up with things like xenophobia, homophobia, lies, and rape jokes, while making piles of money in the process but really subsisting on the attention, and that's precisely the trap Piers Morgan falls in ... More >>
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May 17, 2011
Saif al-Adel Is al Qaeda's Next Top Bad Guy
In the vacuum left by the demise of Osama Bin Laden, a man known as Saif al-Adel ("Sword of Justice" to you; other aliases include Muhamad Ibrahim Makkawi and Ibrahim Al-Madani) has been appointed interim leader of Al Qaeda, reports CNN. Al-Adel, who is Egyptian, was once a Special Forces off ... More >>
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May 2, 2011
Osama Bin Laden Is Dead: Reports From Ground Zero This Morning [UPDATED]
Photos by Steven ThrasherIt was quiet and foggy at Ground Zero this morning -- the first New York had woken up to knowing Osama Bin Laden was dead -- but not entirely silent. By 5:30 a.m., the impromptu all night party was still going on in pockets, most noticeably in front of the 9/11 Memori ... More >>
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May 1, 2011
Qaddafi's Son, Three Grandchildren Killed In Airstrike
One of Muammar Qaddafi's sons, 29-year-old Seif al-Arab Muammar el-Qaddafi, was killed in a NATO airstrike yesterday along with three Qaddafi grandchildren. Qaddafi and his wife, who were at their son's house in Tripoli at the time, survived. The house was reportedly destroyed. A Qaddafi spok ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
The World Will Be Overrun by Cats Named After Prince William
Today in important royal wedding-related news, William has become an extremely popular name for cats. In fact, reports CNN, the name "William" has experienced a tremendous upswing in popularity this year, to the extent that "if the trend continues there will be a nearly 70 percent increase th ... More >>
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April 9, 2011
Government Narrowly Avoids Shutdown
via Good Men ProjectThe government was this close to shutting down last night but managed to reach an eleventh-hour (literally) compromise before the midnight deadline. House Speaker John "Smarmy" Boehner presented the laundry list of spending cuts and revisions and got Congress' positive respons ... More >>
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April 4, 2011
Food Dyes Save Us from Gray Foods; Kale is the New Spinach
Apparently, farmers are not to blame for rising food costs. Experts are saying energy, weather, and global unrest are more likely culprits. [Washington Post] The FDA is proposing that calorie counts become mandatory nationwide on menus and menu boards for chain restaurants, but not movie the ... More >>
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April 3, 2011
Bodies of Two Fukushima Workers Found; Teen Dies After Being Hit By Train
via NYDNAdrian RodriguezThe bodies of two workers at Fukushima Daiichi missing since the earthquake and tsunami on March 11 have been found. Kazahiko Kokubo, 24, and Yoshiki Terashima, 21, were discovered in the basement of the No. 4 reactor; they appear to have suffered multiple traumatic injur ... More >>
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April 2, 2011
Southwest Grounding 79 Planes After Hole Incident
Southwest is grounding 79 members of its fleet after a 3- or 4-foot hole tore open in the fuselage of a plane traveling from Phoenix to Sacramento. It had to make an emergency landing at a military base. The grounded planes are being inspected for something called "aircraft skin fatigue."
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March 26, 2011
Qaddafi Forces Withdraw From Key City; Carles Quits; Possible Pub Crawl Ban
Libyan rebels have regained control of Adjabiya, a key city in the east. Adjabiya is considered a gateway to Libya's oil fields. In other Libya news, a woman named Eman al-Obeidy fought to tell foreign journalists her story of alleged rape and abuse by 15 government soldiers. She broke into ... More >>
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March 24, 2011
Disney Cruise Line Worker Missing at Sea
A Disney Cruise Liner that left from Los Angeles on Sunday is reporting that a crew member on "The Disney Wonder" has gone missing. The crew realized that the unidentified worker was missing on Tuesday when he didn't show up for his morning shift. The boat docked Wednesday in Puerto Vallarta, ... More >>
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March 17, 2011
Japanese Nuclear Crisis Continues; It's St. Patrick's Day; Employees Fired for Shrink-Wrapping Coworker
• The nuclear crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Tokyo continues. Americans within 50 miles of the plant have been told to evacuate. The Japanese government has issued an evacuation zone of 12 miles, and says that those within 20 miles should "take shelter." Meanwhile, officials are s ... More >>
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March 13, 2011
P.J. Crowley Resigning As State Department Spokesman Due to Bradley Manning Comments
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley is resigning from his position under pressure from White House officials, CNN reports. Earlier this week, Crowley described the United States' treatment of soldier and WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning as "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid." Manning i ... More >>
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March 13, 2011
Is Western Coverage of Japan Veering Into "Disaster Porn"?
Reuters via NYTAn idea getting thrown around on the Internet is that American news networks' coverage of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is a form of "disaster porn." This post from Tokyo photographer Rikki Kasso's blog reposted on Tumblr sums up the argument: Please everybody do not re ... More >>
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March 9, 2011
Eliot Spitzer Running For Mayor of New York City? Only Two Years To Go...
Shut up, it's too early for this! Not for the political news media, who will gladly play this game for the next twenty-four-plus months. No one knows for sure, of course, whether ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer will run for mayor in 2013, but it's never too early to start the speculation. (But if we were ... More >>
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February 28, 2011
Rich People Love Fast-Food; It's Been a Good Year for Maine Lobster
A U.S. Appeals Court upheld a lower court ruling allowing Starbucks to end its distribution agreement with Kraft. [BusinessWeek] Rich people are eating out more at fast-food restaurants. It turns out some people with six-figure salaries would rather spend their money on Jimmy Choos than dinn ... More >>
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February 19, 2011
Somali Pirates Hijack American Couple's Yacht; Man Saved After Staten Island Ferry Jump; Bronx Rapist Busted (Weekend Links)
Jean and Scott Adam, an American couple, were taken captive by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean yesterday. The pair were sailing from Mumbai to Oman when they were captured, and "sources onshore in Somalia indicated that a well-known piracy gang from northern Somalia had captured them and was ta ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Study Says Processed Foods Can Make You Dumb; More States Fight Fast-Food Marketing to Kids
A study in Great Britain found that kids given high levels of processed foods are at a greater risk for developing lower IQs. [CNN] More tainted meat is being recalled in Southern California due to possible E. coli contamination. [Nation's Restaurant News] A new survey finds that more than ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
NASA Is Breaking The Law By Not Building a Rocket
cosmobcNASA has been allocated $8 billion to revamp its obsolete shuttle program's rocket, and it has till 2016 to do so. CNN reports (with the hilarious headline, "NASA says its pockets not deep enough for new rocket." Pocket rocket? That's a boner!) that NASA officials think the budget isn' ... More >>
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February 6, 2011
Cairo Muslims to Protect Christians During Mass; Mystery Hero Saves Woman From Subway Tracks (Sunday Links)
via ReutersHey everyone. It's looking like a nice Sunday out there! Not that you're even reading this, because today's the Super Bowl. You morons. Today in Egypt: the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group long banned by Egyptian authorities, is joining other opposition groups in meeting with Vice P ... More >>
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January 31, 2011
Brisenia Flores Murder Makes CNN, Still Nothing From the New York Times
Why isn't the murder of 9-year-old Brisenia Flores and her father, allegedly at the hands of anti-immigration vigilantes in Arizona, a national news story, we wondered on Friday afternoon. The trial of Shawna Forde, who prosecutors say led the raid of the Flores home to steal drug money, bega ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Anderson Cooper and Boyfriend Go To Gay Party
CNN's charismatic Anderson Cooper and his boyfriend, club owner Ben Maisani, turned up at the gayest party in town on Wednesday night.It was gay club promoter Josh Wood's birthday bash in a suite at the Chelsea Hotel, and I hear it was attended by a glittery bunch of males, plus two women and one pe ... More >>
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January 26, 2011
Keith Olbermann's Future: What Will It Be?
Fiery Keith Olbermann is no longer at MSNBC, as you know, prompting a hailstorm of speculation about what he might end up doing, when he's contractually allowed to relocate. One report said he might consult and/or appear on an Aaron Sorkin show for HBO about cable news, which is interesting, ... More >>
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January 20, 2011
Betty White Lives on 'Crap'; Chervil Making a Comeback
Wal-Mart is rolling out a five-year plan to make thousands of its packaged foods lower in sodium, fat, and sugar, and to slash prices on produce. [NY Times] Ever wonder how 89-year-old Betty White is still kicking? Her co-stars say she lives on fried foods and candy. [Digital Spy] The Chi ... More >>
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January 10, 2011
Rightbloggers Comfort the Real Victims of the Gabrielle Giffords Shooting: Themselves
After Saturday's shootings in Arizona -- which left Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords badly wounded and six people dead -- rightbloggers were swift to condemn... any possible criticism of themselves. You can understand their defensiveness. Back during the 2010 campaign, Sarah Palin had en ... More >>
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January 8, 2011
Weekend Links: U.S. Subpoenas WikiLeaks Twitter Info; Portuguese Journalist Found Dead in Midtown Hotel
Good morning and welcome to Runnin' Scared Weekends 2.0 I'm Rosie - you might remember me as the intern that went on embarrassingly public dates and got on Dov Charney's bad side. Now I'm taking over weekends here from the venerable Joe Coscarelli. So! Let's begin. According to an Icelandic l ... More >>
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January 5, 2011
Hijacking Alert Issued Over Spilt Airplane Coffee
Perhaps the most disturbing part of this story about an in-flight cockpit coffee spill is this: Pilots are allowed to drink coffee while piloting commercial airliners!? Because it seems that a coffee spill could do far worse than simply triggering a hijacking alert and forcing a United Airlin ... More >>
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December 16, 2010
New Study Shows That Food & Wine Really Don't Mix; Ex-Google Chefs Start Catering Biz
Steve Cuozzo offers advice on how to survive dining out during the holidays: for one, do not drive into Manhattan. Hear that, Jersey? [NY Post] The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group, is suing McDonald's for using toys to market Happy Meals to young children. [CNN] ... More >>
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November 30, 2010
Barack Obama Holds "Slurpee Summit"; Google Investigated for Antitrust; Rock Center Xmas Tree Lights Up
• President Obama will meet with congressional leaders from both parties today -- a/k/a, the "Slurpee summit," actual Slurpees TBD -- to discuss a number of issues, including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and tax cuts. Can some ice shavings and food coloring bring peace to this nation ... More >>
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