March 9th, 2010 // comments (0)
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)
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.
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March 8th, 2010 // comments (0)
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?
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March 8th, 2010 // comments (0)
PETA sees a wounded opponent in SeaWorld after last month’s killer whale attack. Their latest mantra: “Let whales and dolphins ‘out of prison.’
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March 7th, 2010 // comments (0)
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)
‘Breaking With Scientology’ won’t hit print until tomorrow but you can read the New York Times assault on Scientology online right now.
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February 23rd, 2010 // comments (0)
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)
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]
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February 21st, 2010 // comments (0)
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)
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]
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February 17th, 2010 // comments (0)
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]
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February 17th, 2010 // comments (0)
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.

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May 5th, 2009 // comments (0)
Henrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker is salivating over the possibility of a Justice Gore. But would President Obama even consider Al Gore for the open Supreme Court slot? No. Even Hertzberg admits ‘it ain’t gonna happen’.
Let me give you three reasons why…

First, Al Gore is too old. President Obama wants to appoint justices who will last decades on the court. He wants to have influence of the direction…
March 11th, 2009 // comments (0)
Increased Number Think Global Warming Is “Exaggerated”

As recently as 2006, significantly more Americans thought the news underestimated the seriousness of global warming than said it exaggerated it, 38% vs. 30%. Now, according to Gallup’s 2009 Environment survey, more Americans say the problem is exaggerated rather than underestimated, 41% vs. 28%.
Al Gore would like to believe the ‘time for debate is over‘ but the American public seems to disagree.…
January 28th, 2009 // comments (0)
I forgot to post this earlier… but better late than never:
November 17th, 2008 // comments (0)
A new Irish film claims that climate change guru Al Gore is an alarmist and that those who think they are saving the planet are only hurting the poor
IF THE ADVANCE publicity is anything to go by, Not Evil Just Wrong will do for Al Gore what Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 did for George W Bush.
Bad News: The film isn’t quite finished. Good News: It looks pretty promising.
November 13th, 2008 // comments (0)
President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team is flirting with creating a White House “Climate Czar,” but climate change crusader Al Gore says he doesn’t want the job.
The Obama team declined to comment on such a post, even as environmentalists and power industry executives say it’s being widely discussed inside the transition offices as a way to spur a clean energy industry, which Mr. Obama has promised will ween the U.S. from foreign
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July 20th, 2008 // comments (0)
Americans for Prosperity rallied taxpayers outside Al Gore’s big global warming speech in Washington, and found that some Gore followers didn’t exactly practice what he preached.
July 17th, 2008 // comments (0)
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The United States should be making all of its electricity with renewable and carbon-free energy in 10 years, former Vice President Al Gore said Thursday.
“The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk,” Gore said.
In a speech at Washington’s Constitution Hall, Gore touched on an array of the nation’s current woes, saying the economic, environmental and national security crises are
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June 16th, 2008 // comments (0)
Al Gore Endorses Obama And Promises To ‘Help Him’:

FLINT, Mich. – Al Gore announced his endorsement of Barack Obama Monday and promised to help the Democrat achieve what eluded him — the presidency.
In a letter to be e-mailed to Obama supporters, the former vice president and Nobel Prize winner wrote, “From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected president
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May 15th, 2008 // comments (0)
All Eyes Are Focused On The Only Major Endorsement Remaining:

May 15 (Bloomberg) — John Edwards’s endorsement yesterday of Barack Obama leaves former Vice President Al Gore as the major Democratic figure still on the sidelines in the party’s presidential race.
Edwards, a former North Carolina senator who ended his own bid for the nomination in January, said Obama is the candidate who can unite Democrats for the “fight of our
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April 22nd, 2008 // comments (0)
Al Gore Busted Trying To Pass Off CGI As Actual Footage:
It’s quite obviously the same footage. This is example number 10,218 when it comes to why you can’t trust Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth is full of more errors and misleading statements than a Michael Moore flick. Now we know that Gore used CGI footage from a movie to shock and awe his viewers. This movie is still being…
April 8th, 2008 // comments (0)
Al Gore’s Error-Ridden ‘Warming’ Slideshow Has Been Revamped:
In Al Gore’s brand-new slideshow, he presents evidence that the pace of climate change may be even worse than scientists were recently predicting, and challenges us to act with a sense of “generational mission” — the kind of feeling that brought forth the civil rights movement — to set it right. Gore’s stirring presentation is followed by a brief Q&A in which he is
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