Embedded video from CNN Video Former First Lady Laura Bush is defending President Barack Obama's effort to tell U.S. school kids, en masse, that they ought to stay in school and study hard. "There is a place for the president...
A while back, Christy Hoppe told you about RonPaulSingles.com, a Libertarian's matchmaking dream. Now that it's bounced around the Internet a little, CNN has asked the Gulf Coast congressman about it. (Fast-forward to about the 5-minute mark, unless you want...
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has this take on what it means to be a Republican - smaller government, lower taxes, fewer regulations on business. And the social issues? Not so much. In an appearance Thursday on Rick Sanchez' show on...
Barack Obama confirms that Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., collapsed at the inaugural luncheon. A low-keyed Obama is continuing with his prepared comments, after expressing concern for Kennedy's health. No further details....
So say our folks at the two election night parties for John McCain and Barack Obama, where giant television monitors are keeping revelers abreast of the latest news. Gromer Jeffers reports that a few monitors do feature other networks, "but...
As we flip through television channels, CNN has pulled out about every tech trick in the book, including Star Trek-esque holographic projections of the U.S. Capitol to illustrate changes in Senate seats. NBC, meanwhile, is employing an ice rink...
From staff writer Blanca Cantu: After she voted in her hometown, Gov. Sarah Palin was asked if she had any regrets about the campaign, CNN reported. Palin bemoaned "the state of journalism today." "The blogosphere, the two, three hour news...
Here's a link to the story, from cnn.com. Unclear whether Tina Fey's 'Sarah' will also appear, as Amy Poehler did with the real Hillary, back in March. Photo: NBC...
CNN says John McCain got it wrong when he said Barack Obama would fine employers who don't provide health care. Some other fact checks of note today: CNN also looks at whether Obama sought a delay in U.S.-Iraq talks. That...
The fact-checkers out there had a busy weekend. And three of them weighed in on Barack Obama's claim that Social Security recipients "would've watched as the market tumbled and their nest egg disappeared before their eyes." CNN says "there is...
A McCain campaign video that claims former Fannie Mae CEO Franklin Raines gave Barack Obama economic advice is "exaggerating wildly," The Washington Post says. Some other fact checks for today: CNN takes on the McCain claim that Barack Obama is...
CNN is already a dirty word to conservative Republicans -- at the Xcel Center, all public TVs are on Fox News. But the anger has grown since Campbell Brown's fiesty interview of McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds the other day....
Of course not. But for a brief moment, CNN flashed a graphic along the bottom of its screen indicating that presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain was up for nomination consideration as Democratic delegates are now casting their votes here...
Anderson Cooper, now CNN's primetime news hunk but once host of a bad reality show, is apparently dipping back into the world of fakery. Our Amy Rosen snapped pics of "AC" heading over toward our media tent to participate...
A few days ago, we told you about the relative seating locations of the delegations of Barack Obama's VP finalists here at the Democratic National Convention. (Ignore, please, that that observation apparently meant absolutely nothing.) Now, CNN reports that the...
So Barack Obama -- whose campaign, top to bottom, is a lot more high-tech than John McCain's -- was going to announce his selection of a running mate digitally, in a way that no presidential candidate had ever done it...
Dave alluded to this yesterday, but I thought you might like to see how CNN has taken over Brooklyn's, a Denver eatery right across from the Pepsi Center. I just hope that given its proximity to our workspace (Media Pavilion...
Over at our City Hall blog, Dave Levinthal reports that the CNN elections bus is headed our way. I wonder if they'll bring a mini-version of the "magic wall."...
So, John King just took to CNN's mesmerizing "magic wall" to explain, in essence, why Indiana has not yet been called for Clinton, even though everyone knows she won it. Polls in a particularly Obama-heavy area of the state, northwest...
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