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Nashville Gas Runs Dry as Rumor Spreads

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 05:07:50 GMT

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Call it a self-fulfilling prophecy: An estimated three-fourths of gas stations in the Nashville, Tennessee, area ran dry Friday, victim of an apparent rumor that the city was running out of gas.

"Everybody has just gone nuts," said Mike Williams, executive director of the Tennessee Petroleum Council.

He said he has no idea about the origin of a rumor that there was going to be no gas in Nashville. One reporter called him, saying she had heard that Nashville would be without gas within the hour, he said.

Hearing the rumor, drivers rushed to fill their cars and trucks.

CNN called 13 Nashville gas stations at random. Only two reported having gas, and one said it was almost out. The stations said they were being told they would not get more until Monday or Tuesday.

Katie Givens Kime, visiting from Atlanta, Georgia, was trying to fill up her tank for the trip home when she ran into trouble -- when she was already low on gas.

Alaskan Armageddon

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 07:46:56 GMT

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Clip Source: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

(CNN)— A video of Sarah Palin’s pastor calling Alaska a “refuge” state for “hundreds of thousands of people” in the world’s final days has been making waves on the Internet. Now the church is asking observers in, inviting CNN’s Jessica Yellin to attend and offering a firsthand glimpse of their worship services.

Bill Clinton will not attend Obama's speech

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:47:50 GMT

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Clip Source: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

DENVER (CNN) – Hillary Clinton will be on hand for Barack Obama's acceptance speech, but according to a source close to former President Bill Clinton, he will not: the source tells CNN that Clinton will not join his wife at Invesco Field Thursday night.

Cop Fired for Bigfoot Hoax

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:53:23 GMT

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Clip Source: news.aol.com

The two men who claimed to have found the carcass of Bigfoot have surfaced to say: Hey, it was just a joke.

Not everyone is laughing

In an exclusive interview with CNN affiliate WSB, the two hoaxers -- car salesman Rick Dyer and now-fired police officer Matt Whitton -- said the whole situation began as a joke and then got out of hand.

"It's just a big hoax, a big joke," Dyer said.

"It's Bigfoot," Dyer explained. "Bigfoot doesn't exist."

Whitton chimed in: "All this was a big joke. It got into something way bigger than it was supposed to be."

At a news conference in California last week, the two men had stood by their claims that they had discovered Bigfoot's corpse and had it on ice. Scientific analysis would prove it, they said.

Not quite.

Now the two Georgia men admit that the hairy, icy blob was an Internet-purchased Sasquatch costume stuffed with possum roadkill and slaughterhouse leftovers.

Whitton and Dyer say that when they came up with the hoax, they had no idea it would become a medi

Stay classy, CNN

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:35:55 GMT

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Clip Source: shutterline.com

McCain restricts access to medical records

Thu, 22 May 2008 22:03:06 GMT

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Clip Source: washingtontimes.com

As Americans kick off the first holiday weekend of the summer Friday, Sen. John McCain will release 400 pages of his medical records to a handpicked group of reporters who can neither photocopy nor keep the documents, illustrating the sensitivity the campaign places on the 71-year-old candidate's age and health.

The health of the certain Republican nominee, who bears large scars on his face and neck from surgery in 2000 to remove an invasive form of skin cancer, has been a question throughout the early part of the presidential campaign. For more than a year, Mr. McCain has repeatedly promised to release his recent medical records, but has yet to do so.

The McCain campaign has selected a handful of news organizations to review the records in a conference room at the Copper Wind Resort in Phoenix, near the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale. Reporters from all five major networks —CBS, ABC, NBC, CNN and Fox—will be allowed to take notes from the records

NetRatings: Top 30 Online Current Events & Global News Destinations

Thu, 22 May 2008 01:30:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ranked by Sessions per Person

Clip Source: www.naa.org

1. drudgereport.com; 18.0; 3,322

2. Fox News Digital Network; 8.5; 10,871

3. Daily Kos^; 8.4; 1,034

4. CNN Digital Network; 8.0; 33,423

5. AOL News; 7.8; 23,134

6. Yahoo! News; 7.1; 34,437

7. MSNBC Digital Network; 6.2; 32,382

8. Real Clear Politics; 6.1; 927

9. Star Tribune; 6.0; 1,423

10. NYTimes.com; 5.4; 17,911

11. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 5.3; 1,049

12. Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division; 5.3; 13,172

13. Worldnetdaily.com^; 5.3; 673

14. Google News; 5.2; 10,782

15. Zwire^; 4.8; 1,078

16. Netscape; 4.5; 2,291

17. One News Now^; 4.5; 736

18. Media General Newspapers; 4.2; 1,351

19. ksl.com^; 4.2; 760

20. IB Web Sites; 4.1; 6,077

21. WorldNow; 3.9; 7.741

22. NewsMax.com; 3.9; 2,982

23. Townhall.com; 3.9; 1,406

24. St. Louis Post Dispatch^; 3.8; 1,264

25. Breitbart.com; 3.8; 2,462

26. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; 3.7; 1,164

27. GTGI Network^; 3.7; 1,777

28. theatlantic.com; 3.5; 973

29. USAToday.com; 3.4; 10,729

30. MediaNews Group Newspapers; 3.3; 6.442

"Poor Hillary"

Fri, 16 May 2008 20:13:41 GMT

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Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

At some point along the way, Hillary Clinton became "poor Hillary" and it stuck.

She went up against a charmer who once made an audience cheer just by blowing his nose (poor Hillary), and she lost states and delegates and she bet on a filly that died (poor Hillary), and nobody cares that she won West Virginia because it's over, except she can't see it because she's . . .

"Poor Hillary," write the op-ed writers and the bloggers and the newspaper letter-writers. "Poor Hillary's done," writes a gleeful reader in Portsmouth, Va., on Mother's Day. "The Billstone Around Poor Hillary's Neck," reads a New York Daily News headline yesterday. The talk show host Bill Maher has used the phrase, and the occasional CNN anchor, and, of course, the conservative yakkers who like the pure, distilled schadenfreude of those two words.

"Poor Hillary," Sean Hannity said at one point during this never-ending primary. "Running out of money, couldn't pay her staff."

"Bless her heart," said his conservative guest.

Meeting Called Unprecedented Pope Brings His Guests to Tears

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:54:29 GMT

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Clip Source: news.aol.com

On Thursday, the pope prayed with tearful victims of clergy sex abuse in a chapel, an extraordinary and likely unprecedented gesture from a pontiff who has made atoning for the great shame of the U.S. church the cornerstone of his first papal trip to America.

The Rev. Federico Lombardi, a papal spokesman, said that Benedict and Boston Cardinal Sean O'Malley met with a group of five or six clergy sex abuse victims for about 25 minutes, offering them encouragement and hope.

"They prayed together. Also, each of them had their own individual time with the Holy Father," Lombardi said. "Some were in tears."

Bernie McDaid, one of the victims, said in an interview with CNN that he told the pope he was an altar boy when he was abused and "it wasn't just sexual abuse, it was spiritual abuse. And I want you to know that. And then I told him that he has a cancer growing in his ministry, and needs to do something about it. And I hope he hears me ... and he nodded."

Dean: I need a decision 'now'

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:25:51 GMT

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Clip Source: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

(CNN)— An increasingly firm Howard Dean told CNN again Thursday that he needs superdelegates to say who they’re for – and “I need them to say who they’re for starting now.”

“We cannot give up two or three months of active campaigning and healing time,” the Democratic National Committee Chairman told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “We’ve got to know who our nominee is.”

After facing criticism for a mostly hands-off leadership style during much of the primary season, Dean has been steadily raising the rhetorical pressure on superdelegates. He said Thursday that roughly 65 percent of them have made their preference plain, but that more than 300 have yet to make up their minds.

The national party chair, who has remained neutral throughout the primary process, said again it’s his job to make sure both candidates feel they are treated fairly – but not to tell either of them when to end their run.

Pennsylvania crowd jeers Clinton attacks on Obama

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:40:12 GMT

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Clip Source: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) – On Monday, with the Pennsylvania primary just days away, Hillary Clinton continued to hammer Barack Obama over his comments that small town Americans "cling to guns or religion" because they are "bitter."

But the audience at a forum put on by the Alliance for American Manufacturing didn't appreciate her line of attack.

"I understand my opponent came this morning and spent a lot of his time attacking me," she said at the beginning of her remarks here.

Many in the crowd responded with audible groans, and a few shouted, "No!"

Obama spoke to the same forum earlier in the morning and ribbed Clinton for doing a shot of whiskey in front of TV cameras on Saturday in Indiana.

Clinton continued, "I know that many of you, like me, were disappointed by the recent remarks he made."

This time, a louder, sustained chorus of "No!" emanated from the audience. Clinton soldiered on.

CBS in serious talks to contract out 'most of its news reporting to CNN

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:58:25 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

CBS, the home of the most celebrated news division in broadcasting, has been in discussions with Time Warner about a deal to outsource some of its news-gathering operations to CNN, two executives briefed on the matter said Monday.

Over the last decade, CNN has held intermittent talks with both ABC News and CBS News about various joint ventures. But during the last several months, talks with CBS have been revived and lately intensified, according to the executives who were given anonymity because of the confidential nature of the negotiations.

Broadly speaking, the executives described conversations about reducing CBS’s news-gathering capacity while keeping its frontline personalities, like Katie Couric, the CBS Evening News anchor, and paying a fee to CNN to buy the cable network’s news feeds.

Another possibility, these people said, would be for CBS to keep its correspondents in certain regions but pair them with CNN crews.

Hillary plants question in Republican debate

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:40:50 GMT

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Clip Source: www.townhall.com

It turns out that Keith Kerr, retired Colonel., U.S. Army; retired Brigadier General, California National Reserve, who submitted a YouTube question about gays in the military, is actually a member of Hillary Clinton's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Steering Committee. He's also part of a film production crew trying overturn the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.

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UPDATE: In the final seconds of the post-debate coverage, Anderson Cooper acknowledges that CNN messed this up and states that CNN did not know that Kerr has a position within the Clinton campaign and that had they known, they would have disclosed the association.

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Questions About Carville and CNN

Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:39:15 GMT

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Clip Source: thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

There are very few political analysts more closely associated with the Clintons than James Carville, who was a key adviser to Mr. Clinton in the 1992 campaign.

So it’s no surprise that Mr. Carville’s appearance on a round table after last night’s CNN-sponsored Democratic debate is arousing some morning-after controversy.

“Would it kill CNN to disclose that James Carville is a partisan Clinton supporter when talking about the presidential race?” wrote Daily Kos. “Would it kill James Carville to disclose that he is a partisan Clinton supporter when on the air talking about the presidential race? Apparently so.”

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'Good Job, Wolf'

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:02:20 GMT

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Clip Source: drudgereport.com

CNN debate moderator Wolf Blitzer did an 'outstanding' job in Vegas, a senior adviser to the Hillary campaign said early Friday. 'He was outstanding, and did not gang up like Russert did in Philadelphia. He avoided the personal attacks, remained professional and ran the best debate so far. Voters were the big winners last night.'

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