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2008-07-09 -Short Attention Span Theater-

CBS News Babe comes back from Iraq pregnant - Quagmire

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-07-09 05:28|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Pic at link. You decide.

Posted by Bobby 2008-07-09 06:00|| 2008-07-09 06:00|| Front Page Top

#2 he transferred her to Washington to get her on the air more often

Nah, it's because the supply of bad news in Iraq dried up, so no reason to keep journalists there.

Posted by gromky 2008-07-09 06:04|| 2008-07-09 06:04|| Front Page Top

#3 I've decided, Gromky, and the answer is an emphatic yes.

Posted by gb506 2008-07-09 07:18|| 2008-07-09 07:18|| Front Page Top

#4 I remember seeing LL on TV in the background of someone else's news report after a late night bombing/RPG attack near/at the correspondents' hotel in 2003. Wearing a flak jacket & helmet w/o makeup, she still looked very good. Constant excitement & stress does make people act even weirder than in normal times.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-07-09 07:43|| 2008-07-09 07:43|| Front Page Top

#5 The weird part of it is that she will probably be pressured by some of her radical colleagues to have an abortion, and for some pretty twisted reasons.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-07-09 08:46|| 2008-07-09 08:46|| Front Page Top

#6 he transferred her to Washington to get her on the air more often

In French it is funnier given what "getting himself on the air" means.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-07-09 09:09|| 2008-07-09 09:09|| Front Page Top

#7 'I'm not some Hollywood star,' Logan says in her first interview on the subject. 'It's not about a career for me. It's who I am. I do this because I believe in it.'

And I believe in YOU! Dankie for your service.

Posted by Besoeker 2008-07-09 09:11|| 2008-07-09 09:11|| Front Page Top

#8 She went deep under cover to get at the bottom of the steamy story!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-07-09 09:34|| 2008-07-09 09:34|| Front Page Top

#9 The National Enquirer reported last month on what the tabloid called Logan's 'torrid affair with a married man.'

See. If you want truth in the news, you don't go to the New York Times. You go to a reputable source like the National Enquirer.

Posted by tu3031 2008-07-09 09:41|| 2008-07-09 09:41|| Front Page Top

#10 She spent six months persuading the Navy to let her embed with the Seals... and she kept up with them while they were catching some pretty important people. The CBS management decided not to run the story, because one bunch of soldiers in uniform looks like every other bunch, so what her bunch did wasn't really news, not to mention that the American audience is tired of war stories. At least that's how she told it on The Daily Show. I respect her. Not to mention that it sounds like the first Mrs. Burkett had long not wanted to be married to a man whose career was far from home.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-07-09 10:53|| 2008-07-09 10:53|| Front Page Top

#11 Thing is they were both already in the process of divorce. No real affair there. Plus, if I were getting divorced, and I were in Iraq and I had a chance to hit that, you're damned skippy I'd knock boots.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-07-09 12:39|| 2008-07-09 12:39|| Front Page Top

#12 Iraqi maternity hospital construction nears completion

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-07-09 12:48|| 2008-07-09 12:48|| Front Page Top

#13 I think she has more than just an expanded portfolio......

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-07-09 14:32|| 2008-07-09 14:32|| Front Page Top

#14 #11 Thing is they were both already in the process of divorce. No real affair there. Plus, if I were getting divorced, and I were in Iraq and I had a chance to hit that, you're damned skippy I'd knock boots.

Quoted for truth.

I can't judge a person who lived in physical danger for 4 years to get stories. And, she turned into a small fistful of journalists over there in for the long haul, and telling us how it was. Her report on 60 Minutes describing the danger of the Baghdad-Airport highway from about 2004 was particularly good.

And I'd hit it like the angry fist of Allah if I ever had that chance.

Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2008-07-09 17:00|| 2008-07-09 17:00|| Front Page Top

#15 ...chief foreign affairs correspondent...

heh........

Posted by OyVey1 2008-07-09 17:02|| 2008-07-09 17:02|| Front Page Top

#16 Hey Joe, can I get your autograph?

Posted by Besoeker 2008-07-09 18:40|| 2008-07-09 18:40|| Front Page Top

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