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(CNSNews.com) – During post-vice presidential debate coverage, Current TV host Cenk Uygur said Thursday that Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan looked like a baby next to Vice President Joe Biden. “The audience looks at that and goes, ‘That kid? Who’s that kid, Paul Ryan? I don’t want that guy being president.’ You know why he likes fetuses so much? Because he looked like one next to Biden,” Uygur told co-hosts former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, and John Fugelsang. “That’s enough. You’re, you’re wrong,” Spitzer said in response. Current TV was co-founded by former...

Don't be surprised f you see a bunch of pink-slipped Current producers in SOMA, so be nice and buy one a drink. San Francisco-based Current Media, cofounded by former Vice President Al Gore, is looking to lay off more local employees, according to a source familiar with its plans. The company laid off 60 employees last year, or about 15 percent of its staff, though promised to rehire some in new positions. Part of the losses will stem from moving all video production to Los Angeles, or even outsourcing it entirely. The network made the news when a reporter Laura...

I am wondering: Obama and Al Gore think huge carbon footprints are sinful. But they apparently endorsed a private jet flying all the way across the ocean with one guy...to pick up two women. Can we measure how much carbon was put into our atmosphere for these liberals' jaunt?

Amid all the adulation over Bill Clinton's "rescue" of the two reporters from North Korea, what have we learned since they were released about the circumstances under which they were captured by the North Koreans? Have the two acknowledged whether they crossed illegally into North Korea and thereby precipitated the crisis?

Now that all the hoopla and nonstop CNN 24/7 type celebrations and TV interviews and book deals will ramp up over the release of two liberal Democrat California-based freelance/Al Gore journalists from communist North Korea, based on a Bill Clinton secret deal and eventual flying to North Korea to apologize and legitimize the dictatorial regime--developing nuclear strike capabilities and exporting said terror--I say "hold your horses", as we have important unfinished business. I would expect the MSM to gloss over these so I raise them here.

U.S. journalists head home from North Korea (CNN) -- Two U.S. journalists who had been detained by North Korea were traveling back to the United States with former President Clinton hours after being pardoned, a Clinton spokesman said. President Clinton meets Tuesday with North Korea leader Kim Jong Il. "They are en route to Los Angeles [California] where Laura and Euna will be reunited with their families," said spokesman Matt McKenna. Doug Ling, Laura's father, reacted to the news outside his home in Carmichael, California, with, "One of the best days in my life ... I figured, sooner or later,...

Former President Bill Clinton arrived Tuesday in Pyongyang, North Korea, on a mission to free two U.S. journalists imprisoned there since March, North Korea's official news agency reported. Mr. Clinton's trip was first reported by South Korea's Yonhap news agency. The State Department declined to comment, but diplomats indicated that the Yonhap report was correct. The journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, were arrested March 17 near the Chinese border with North Korea. They were on assignment for Current TV, a cable outlet co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore. Last month, they were sentenced to 12 years of hard...

North Korea has not yet sent two convicted U.S. journalists to a prison labor camp in a possible attempt to seek talks with Washington on their release, a scholar who visited the North said in an interview published Friday. Laura Ling and Euna lee, who work for former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's California-based Current TV media group, are being kept at guest house in the North Korean capital and have not yet been sent to a prison camp as called for in their sentences, University of Georgia political scientist Han Park said. "I heard from North Korean officials that...

Two of Algore's employees are rotting in a North Korean prison. It was 30 years ago that two of Ross Perot's employees were rotting in an Iranian prison. The outcome for those two men was that their boss cared. Not a word out of Algore on the current matter. From Wiki: "Just prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the government of Iran imprisoned two EDS employees in a contract dispute. Perot organized and sponsored a successful rescue. The rescue team was led by retired U.S. Army Special Forces Colonel Arthur D. ('Bull') Simons. When the team couldn't find a way...

North Korea’s bankrupt justice system has delivered a cruel verdict — 12 years of hard labor — to the American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling. After an imprisonment of nearly three months in one of the world’s most inhumane gulags, they have already paid a huge and unfair price for doing their job. They should be released immediately.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA-- The two reporters for Al Gore’s TV Current, an on-line journal based in San Francisco, who have been held since March, were found guilty of illegal entry and sentenced to 12 years hard labor, the North Korean news agency said on Monday. Al Gore and his on-line network have yet to speak out on the actions by the North Korean government -- the arrest and now the sentencing.

SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea convicted two American journalists and sentenced them Monday to 12 years of hard labor for crossing into its territory, intensifying the reclusive nation's confrontation with the United States. The Obama administration said it would pursue "all possible channels" to win the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for former Vice President Al Gore's San Francisco-based Current TV media venture.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korea's top court convicted two American journalists and sentenced them to 12 years in a prison Monday, intensifying the reclusive nation's confrontation with the United States. The sentencing came amid soaring tensions fueled by the North's latest nuclear and missile tests. Many believe Pyongyang is using the journalists as bargaining chips as the U.N. debates a new resolution to punish the unpredictable country for its latest military threats. In a cryptic two-sentence report, the North's state news agency said Laura Ling, 32, and Euna Lee, 36 were sentenced after the five-day trial ended Monday....

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A sombre scoop for Pyongyang's pawns By Donald Kirk WASHINGTON - North Korean strategists must be loving every minute of it. They've got two American women in their net, charged with entering the country illegally and committing "hostile acts". They've got the United States State Department working behind the scenes for their release while talking tough in public about North Korean "provocations". They've got the women's relatives - including an older sister who once made a television documentary exposing the horrors of life in North Korea - appealing publicly for mercy. And they've also got activists across the US staging...

Former Vice President Al Gore may be sent to North Korea to negotiate the release of two American journalists on trial, the AFP reported. Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for Gore's California-based Current TV, were arrested March 17 near the North Korean border while on a reporting trip to China on charges they entered the country illegally and engaged in "hostile acts" — allegations that could draw a 10-year sentence in a labor camp. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly did not rule out the possibility of Gore being sent when asked if it would make sense for him to...

Al Gore may visit N.K. for detained reporters The United States Thursday did not rule out the possibility of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore flying to North Korea to negotiate the release of two American journalists detained for alleged illegal entry while reporting in the area, according to news reports. "This is such a sensitive issue, I'm just not going to go into those kinds of discussions that we may or may not have had," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters when asked about Gore's possible trip to Pyongyang. "The bottom line is that these two young women...

SEOUL -- Two American journalists detained at North Korea's border with China two weeks ago will be indicted and tried, with "their suspected hostile acts" already confirmed, Pyongyang's state-run news agency said Tuesday. The Korean Central News Agency report did not say when a trial would take place but that preparations to indict the Americans were under way as the investigation continues. "The illegal entry of U.S. reporters into [North Korea] and their suspected hostile acts have been confirmed by evidence and their statements," the report said. The report did not elaborate on what "hostile acts" the journalists are accused...

I Want My GoreTV: MTV Launches New Global Warming Alarmism Campaign Posted by Noel Sheppard on June 15, 2007 - 14:45. Just in case our kids weren’t getting enough global warming alarmism from their teachers and the mainstream media, MTV announced Wednesday that it will be further brainwashing youth with junk science about the planet’s imminent doom. How might that change Mark Knopfler’s fabulous “Money For Nothing” lyrics and video? Before we get to that, here’s how Variety reported this announcement (h/t Tim Graham, emphasis added throughout): Following its Staying Alive Aids campaign, MTV Networks International Wednesday unveiled its latest...