March 9th, 2010 // comments (0)
FOX/CNN/MSNBC DISSECTED
Some great analysis of the current cable media landscape from CJR today. I disagree with a few points (especially the bit about MSNBC offering a rainbow of opinons) but this quote is interesting:
From personal experience covering news around the world, you almost always run into a CNN crew or stringer. You almost never run into a Fox reporter, and never one from MSNBC.
Read the whole thing at CJR’s website.
-- Shawn Wasson
March 8th, 2010 // comments (0)
ROY ASHBURN: “I’M GAY”
California State Senator Roy Ashburn admits to being a homosexual in an interview today on KERN. You can listen to the interview in this post and read the details here. Ashburn vows to carry on.
-- Shawn Wasson
March 8th, 2010 // comments (0)
BETTY WHITE TO SNL
After a massive online movement to draft her into the hosting duties at Saturday Night Live, Betty White confirms she will appear on the show.
But will she host?
-- Shawn Wasson
March 8th, 2010 // comments (0)
PETA TARGETS SEAWORLD
PETA sees a wounded opponent in SeaWorld after last month’s killer whale attack. Their latest mantra: “Let whales and dolphins ‘out of prison.’
-- Shawn Wasson
March 7th, 2010 // comments (0)
ADAM GADAHN CAPTURED
HUGE news out of Pakistan: American-born al-Qaeda leader Adam Gadahn has been arrested.
Update: It’s not him?
-- Shawn Wasson
March 6th, 2010 // comments (0)
NYT ON SCIENTOLOGY
‘Breaking With Scientology’ won’t hit print until tomorrow but you can read the New York Times assault on Scientology online right now.
-- Shawn Wasson
February 23rd, 2010 // comments (0)
PHOTOS: TOYOTA HEARINGS
Executives from Toyota Motor Corp made the journey to Washington D.C. this morning to face down angry customers seething over their company’s recall follies. Take a look at these pictures from today’s event.
-- Shawn Wasson
February 22nd, 2010 // comments (0)
THE BLOOM BOX
I can’t decide if the Bloom Box is the greatest invention ever or if I’m a bit like an old lady being conned by a slimy auto mechanic. Regardless, you have to watch this video. [Video]
-- Shawn Wasson
February 21st, 2010 // comments (0)
SCOTTY LAGO PHOTOS
Snowboarder Scotty Lago leaves the Olympic village in Vancouver after sexually suggestive photos of the bronze medalist and his trophy surfaced online. Lago says he’s in a ‘blackout’ and can’t talk about the event until next month. [View The Photos]
-- Shawn Wasson
February 17th, 2010 // comments (1)
RAY GOSLING ARRESTED
What happens when you admit to a murder on British public television? Well, you get arrested, of course. BBC presenter Ray Gosling arrested on suspicion of murder. [Details]
-- Shawn Wasson
February 17th, 2010 // comments (0)
TIGER WOODS PRESSER
Tiger Woods will finally reemerge from the shadows this Friday. The golf pro and reported sex addict is planning on holding a press conference at the PGA headquarters at 11AM Eastern. [Details]
-- Shawn Wasson
February 17th, 2010 // comments (0)
JOE BIDEN’S FOREHEAD
As I was watching President Obama’s stimulus update presser today, several readers emailed to ask ‘What’s that spot on Joe Biden’s forehead?’ Joe Biden is the first Catholic Vice President the U.S. has seen so each Ash Wednesday these questions float in like crazy. It’s Ash Wednesday, folks.
-- Shawn Wasson
May 31st, 2008 // comments (0)
News Junkie Radio Show 05-31-08
Delegate Mayhem, New Pastor, Howard Dean, Aliens And More:
Missed The Show? Click Here To Download And Listen Now.
(Show begins at 05:30 into the file…)
May 31st, 2008 // comments (0)
Clinton Supporter Goes Berserk
Clinton Supporter Thrown Out of Rules Committee Meeting:
The divide among the Democrats has never been so clear.
May 30th, 2008 // comments (0)
Purported Alien Video Released!
The Wait Is Over – Here Is The Detroit Alien Video:
A few minutes of grainy, black and white video show a shadowy creature with big eyes peeping over a windowsill. But does it show a puppet or an alien from outer space?
The video, purportedly capturing proof of alien life, was released this morning during a press conference at the Tivoli Student Union on the Auraria campus in downtown Denver.
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May 30th, 2008 // comments (0)
Mysterious Indian Tribe Photos
“Uncontacted Indians,” who have never before had any contact with the outside world, were discovered in the Envira River region in Brazil during a flight in May 2008 according to Funai, the National Indian Foundation, and the group Survival International. The tribe is shown here reacting to the unexpected visit over their camp, located close to the border with Peru.
I’ve seen photos of tribes much like this one in Sri Lanka…
May 29th, 2008 // comments (0)
A Brief History Of Gas Prices
Let’s Jump In The Time Machine And Head Back To 1998:
Take A Look At This Beauty! A Shell Station – 1999:
Just A Year Later, In 2000, Citgo Was At $1.08:
A Photo, From 2001, Spotlights High Gas Prices In OK:
After A Quick Dip In Price, Gas Was Back Up In 2002:
In Early 2003 Gas Prices Jumped Over The $2.00 Mark:
At $2.50 A…
May 29th, 2008 // comments (0)
‘Daily Show’ On The Campaign Trail
The Daily Show’s Rob Riggle Follows The Obama Campaign:
“Daily Show” correspondent Rob Riggle recently spent some time on the Barack Obama campaign bus and made it his personal mission to annoy as many of the journalists covering the campaign as he could. In the video below, watch as he manages to harass Newsweek’s Richard Wolfe, NBC’s Lee Cowan, and countless others with pointless questions and bus-wide announcements of stories from his
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May 29th, 2008 // comments (0)
A Living, Breathing Alien Video?
Purported UFO Video To Be Shown Friday In Denver, Colorado:
A video that purportedly shows a living, breathing space alien will be shown to the news media Friday in Denver.
Jeff Peckman, who is pushing a ballot initiative to create an Extraterrestrial Affairs Commission in Denver to prepare the city for close encounters of the alien kind, said the video is authentic and convinced him that aliens exist.
“As impressive as it
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May 29th, 2008 // comments (0)
Drunk Russian Politician With Gun
Vladimir Zhirinovsky Fires A Weapon From A Moving Train:
Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky is a Russian politician, founder and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), Vice-Chairman of the State Duma (Russian Parliament), and a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
If I am to understand correctly, he’s drunk on a train, sends an aide to the back to get his shotgun so he can hunt
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May 28th, 2008 // comments (0)
Happy To Be Nornal Looking
Cody Hall Endured 18 Surgeries To Reverse A Birth Defect:
Compare The Happy, Smiling Teen Above With Her Younger Self:
Cody Hall was born with a hemangioma, a tumorous birthmark that distorted the shape of her face and grew larger as she got older.
When she was 1-year-old, her doctors in England told her parents that nothing could be done about her condition, so her parents took her to see surgeons
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May 28th, 2008 // comments (0)
Photo Of The Day – 05/28/08
French Fishermen Pull A Robin Hood In Supermarket Protest:
Protesting French fishermen take frozen fish from a supermarket to hand out to passers-by in western France.
And just what are they protesting over? Gas prices.
May 28th, 2008 // comments (0)
Bolton Evades ‘Citizens Arrest’
Security Stopped The Moron Before He Got To Bolton:
John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, has escaped an attempted citizen’s arrest as he appeared at the Hay Festival.
Security guards blocked the path of columnist and activist George Monbiot, who tried to make the arrest as Mr Bolton left the stage.
The former ambassador – a key advisor to President George W Bush who argued strongly in favour
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May 28th, 2008 // comments (0)
The Charlie Crist ‘Make-Out’ Tape
Charlie Crist Wants You To Know That He Kissed This Lady:
How interested is Florida Governor Charlie Crist in being John McCain’s VP runningmate? So much so that veteran GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone — who coordinated a few dirty stunts in support of Crist during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign — is quietly peddling a so-called “Charlie Crist sex tape.” That’s what Stone called it during a telephone conversation. And no,
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May 28th, 2008 // comments (0)
Crazy Naked Lady On The Loose
A ‘Mentally Unstable’ Woman In Utah Causes A Scene:
Two men in a Ford Bronco were looking for a lost cat when they spotted a car coming at them.
“This lady was speeding directly toward us,” said Fred Rollins, a passenger in the Bronco. “I tried to warn my friend to get out of the way, but she seemed like she was intent on hitting us and she did.”
After ramming them
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May 28th, 2008 // comments (0)
Bolton Facing ‘Citizens Arrest’
The Former U.S. Ambassador To The United Nations Is In Wales:
John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, faces a citizen’s arrest when he addresses an audience at the Hay Festival in Wales this evening.
George Monbiot, the journalist and activist, is planning the action because he believes Mr Bolton is a “war criminal”.
He said he was surprised that Mr Bolton would be allowed to “swim through the
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May 28th, 2008 // comments (0)
Fuel Theft On The Rise
Thieves Increasingly Drilling Into Fuel Tanks To Steal Gas:
DETROIT — Dale Fortin is getting a new kind of customer at his Detroit auto repair shop, customers who have not just been in a fender-bender or had a windshield smashed by a rock.
The soaring price of crude oil has turned gas tanks into a cache of valuable booty, and Fortin has replaced several tanks punctured or drilled by thieves thirsting for
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