This morning TV8's 8 a.m. newscast lead with breaking news that Iowa State had a new Head Football Coach (Auburn Defensive Coordinator Paul Rhoads) and that their sports guy John Meyer would have all the details in twenty minutes.
At 8:25 Anchor Amanda Lewis teased their breaking news and mentioned that their morning sports segment was taped last night so it wouldn't have the latest information.
They then ran a sports promo where Andy Garman had a rumor of ISU possibly hiring Arizona Coach Mike Stoops.
When they came back from break someone was at least smart enough to cue up Garman's tape past the Stoops story.
Meyer later came on and gave the scoop, that Rhoads was an Ankeny native and had been on the ISU staff from 1995-1999.
Although they couldn't find any file footage from those years, or even Google a picture to let viewers know what the new coach looks like.
The Liter had the opportunity to break news, but didn't want to take a chance of putting someone's job in jeopardy with the new Branstad administration.
Speculation and opinion isn't NEWS, breaking or otherwise.
Hell, even twelve year old Jack Greenberg knows that and schooled MSNBC on it this week...
I try to stay objective through all my work. I try to do my best not to keep a political opinion, because as a journalist I always try to balance it out with what is on the other side.
I have to remain impartial as a journalist for Scholastic News.
I'm confused at why we put down honest success in this Country?
My neighbors have several houses (one main residence, a lake home and income properties) I don't begrudge them anything because I know how hard they've worked for what the have.
I'd love to have a second home on Maui, but I don't get angry at those that do.
The only thing worse than an online screw up for the Ragister, is a print screw up, but that's exactly what happened when they also put Martin Van Buren's obituary in the print edition.
Breaking News and a Ragister Exclusive -- Martin Van Buren still dead.
Staci Appel-sauce for brains is a bit disingenuous with her "breaking news" e-mail that has "Congressman Latham losing in a head to head match" and Jim Mowrer doesn't clarify that it's a faceless, nameless, generic Dummycrat.
Calm down, it's WAY early.
Things will change when you put a name and face with the poll.
So welcome back baby To the poor side of town When is a poverty tour not a poverty tour?
When it's headed by a multi millionaire trial lawyer.
...publicity about his personal wealth - $400 haircuts, construction of a 28,000-square-foot house, hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary to speak about poverty and advise a hedge fund for the superrich - has opened him to charges of hypocrisy and threatened to undermine his message.
"Let them attack," Edwards said in a letter to supporters, asking for symbolic $8 campaign donations to support his effort.
Edwards poverty tour was supposed to be a break from fund raising and campaigning.
Do you see why there might be charges of hypocrisy?
Some at his campaign rallies do.
Last night in Fort Dodge, Dave Price reports this...
A woman first asked him if he would consider living on the "food stamp diet' a few members of Congress are trying. He told her he hadn't heard about it, but if he could make it work on the Presidential campaign trail, he would think about it. Then she brought up the haircut. She told him her family lives for weeks on what he paid for that one haircut. The comment brought a collective "ohhhh" from the crowd and silence for a bit from Edwards.
That's for a $400 haircut, but his barber---er, hairstylist was paid more.
Joseph Torrenueva has cut the hair of Hollywood celebrities, from Marlon Brando to Bob Barker, so when a friend told him in 2003 that a presidential candidate needed grooming advice, he agreed to help.
...Torrenueva has cut Edwards's hair at least 16 times.
At first, the haircuts were free. But because Torrenueva often had to fly somewhere on the campaign trail to meet his client, he began charging $300 to $500 for each cut, plus the cost of airfare and hotels when he had to travel outside California.
Torrenueva said one haircut during the 2004 presidential race cost $1,250 because he traveled to Atlanta and lost two days of work.
When this first came out Edwards said that he was embarrassed by the cost and that he "didn't know it would be that expensive," suggesting the haircuts were some kind of aberration given by "that guy" his staff had arranged.
16 times is not an aberration.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me 16 times you're a Fiberal Dummycrat.
...the Edwards campaign said this week that Edwards had arranged for the stylist to give him numerous cuts over the past four years. But it said that a personal assistant handled paying for the haircuts and that Edwards didn't realize how much they cost.
Really?
...According to Torrenueva, the last time he cut Edwards's hair was March 23, the day after Elizabeth Edwards announced that her cancer had returned and a month before the cost of the haircuts became public.
Unlike two prior haircuts in January and February, which were paid for by the campaign, Edwards personally paid the $400 for the March cut, the stylist said.
The Edwards campaign said this...
"Breaking news -- John Edwards got some expensive haircuts and probably didn't pay enough attention to the bills. He didn't lie about weapons of mass destruction or spring Scooter Libby; he just got some expensive haircuts."
No, Edwards lied about haircuts!
Pathetic!
There is one thing I can agree with John Edwards on...
"Democrats want to win. This is not an intellectual exercise for us..."
And the scientific community is united in that fact.
I can't blame you for tryin' I'm tryin' to make it too
... Together we can make it baby From the poor side of town
I recently received an e-mail against illegal immigration.
Let's Say I Broke Into Your House.
Let's say that when you discover me in your house, you insist that I leave.
But I say, "No! I like it here.
It's better than my house. I've made all the beds and washed the dishes and did the laundry and swept the floors.
I've done all the things you don't like to do. I'm hard-working and honest (except for when I broke into your house).
You are required to let me stay in your house.
You are required to feed me.
You are required to add me to your family's insurance plan.
You are required to educate my children.
You are required to provide other benefits to me and my family (my husband will do all your yard work because he is also hard working and honest, except for that breaking in part).
If you try to call the police or force me out, I will call my friends who will picket your house carrying signs that proclaim my right to be here.
It's only fair, after all, because you have a nicer house than I do, and I'm just trying to better myself.
I'm a hard working and honest person, except for well, you know, I did break into your house and what a deal it is for me!
I live in your house, contributing only a fraction of the cost of my keep, and there is nothing you can do about it without being accused of cold, uncaring, selfish, prejudiced, and bigoted behavior.
Oh yeah, I DEMAND that you learn my language so you can communicate with me. Before you go calling me bitter, take a look at this Associated Press news report...
(Which the Ragister re-edited to read Feds Frustrated by Immigrantsand dropping the ILLEGAL part).
The story tells how Illegal immigrants armed with torches, hacksaws, ladders and even bungee cords are making it around a section of the border fence...
...agents have found holes cut with acetylene torches, hacksaws and even plasma torches — a high-powered tool that uses inert gas or condensed air to quickly cut through steel and other dense metals.
That is breaking and entering and the scientific community is united in that fact!
When you come to this country illegally and make demands on your host nation, you insult my immigrant Grandfather who came legally and served in our military.
No one is claiming the people exist
illegally. But they did get here illegally, and that's what people... want us to forget.
...insistence that illegal immigrants be called "undocumented" is a
deliberate attempt to make people think that their status is merely the
result of some paperwork snafu. But it would be like calling a repeat
drunk driver who'd lost his license an "undocumented" driver.
Illegal
immigrants aren't breaking the law because they're undocumented.
They're undocumented because they broke the law. Changing what we call
them won't change that fact...
As the architect of the two national Bush victories, Fiberal Dummycrats despise Karl Rove.
What burns them more is his ability to shine the light on who they really are...
Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
Left out is their desire to blame America.
It's said you can tell a lot about a man by the enemies he makes.
From the Press, Bill Plante of CBS News...
"If he's so smart, how come you lost Congress?"
If you're so good, why do your ratings suck? From Dummycrats, John Edwards...
"Goodbye, good riddance."
Funny, those are the same words uttered by the American people in 2004 and will be repeated in 2008 and the scientific community is united in that fact.
I've never been a fan of the Bill Clinton thumbs up
Culver seems to have got it down pat.
Branstad should have been more clear on the debate format, wanting response time, especially after the moderators had just gone over it with the viewers.
Culver stumbled over Sioux City seeming to call it Sewer Water City.
I love how Branstad shot down Culver's AAA bond rating by noting how Enron and Lehman Brothers both received the same rating from Moody's.
Culver used a majority of his time regarding the judicial selection process to go back to a previous question about bonding.
Culver seemed to be bragging about the 30,000 Iowans collecting extended unemployment benefits, but because Culver did not seek a change in the state's unemployment law roughly 18,000 Iowans have missed out on an 13 weeks of benefits paid for by the federal government.
When questioned by Branstad, Culver could not name one (let alone the three asked for) of his biggest mistakes, yet said he takes full responsibility for his mistakes.
That lends credence to the belief that the mistakes he's admitting to making are just an insincere campaign ploy.
When Culver was given a chance to question Branstad he just talked and talked before finally asking him to admit I-JOBS was being funded with gaming revenue.
Those revenues continue to fall and I-JOBS could end up being paid back from the state's general fund.
Branstad scored with the 300,000 jobs he created as Governor versus the 50,000 jobs Culver has lost.
Education came up and Culver brought up his two "amazing" children.
Those kids have made a commercial for him, Clare seems to take after her dad and John after his mom, Mari.
Culver also claims preschool could be the defining issue in the campaign, which makes me wonder what happened to embryonic stem cell research?
Just last week it was to be a key to Culver winning re-election.
Branstad pointed out that preschool should not be an entitlement, funded by taxpayers for everyone, but should be paid for on the basis of need.
Congratulations to Culver on not breaking out Sweaty Chetty until roughly half way through the debate.
When questioned about what he would have done different about the floods of 2008, Culver started off his response about the tornado that hit the Little Sioux Scout Ranch and then mentioned being to Cedar Rapids 100 times.
When asked again what he would have done different, his response was nothing.
I loved how Branstad tied Jack DeCoster to the Dymmycrats with his $10,000 campaign contribution to Attorney General Tom Miller and to Culver via a $400,000 donation to the Democratic Governors ASSociation, which has funded Culver's campaign.
Thankfully nobody called Decoster a bad egg or a rotten egg.
I'm not sure what to make of Culver's claim that the "facts are getting in the way of the truth".
On the topic of economic development, Culver's plan to end brain drain in Iowa is with BRAIN SUCK.
As my lovely and talented wife pointed out to me, brain gain would have been more appropriate.
In his closing statement, Culver claimed Terry Branstad is against civil rights?
Larry is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet and when you say that about someone in broadcasting it is quite a statement.
Larry and I worked for the same company when he was in news at WHO TV and I was at KLYF Radio.
Larry organized the company basketball team and just a couple years ago organized a successful (and fun) reunion of onetime WHO TV/Radio and KLYF employees, where I reminded him that my grandmother (98 this month) was the house mother at his Iowa State fraternity and Larry shared nice memories of that experience.
