Duration: 03:02 min.
From: Anderson
Added: Jun 1, 2012
Description: A pageant mom is tired of hearing about the sexualization of little girls who compete in beauty pageants.
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLJGrUqiGjo
Friday, June 1, 2012
The OxyMoron Mom
Duration: 03:02 min.
From: Anderson
Added: Jun 1, 2012
Description: A pageant mom is tired of hearing about the sexualization of little girls who compete in beauty pageants.
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLJGrUqiGjo
Remember The Bear Trainer?
Soon to be 45!
Duration: 01:13 min.
From: TheThewirethewire
Added: May 10, 2011
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URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr-Tkzck0bI
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Friday, June 01, 2012 -- 9:30 AM
Our friends at Yahoo! Shine are always following the hottest trends. On today's show, Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Romolini updates Anderson on a few of the coolest trends in style and food. Take a look...
What Made the List:
1) Medieval Fashion
Jennifer calls it "Knight Chic" -- and it's a combination of style inspired by "Hunger Games" and "Game of Thrones." "It's like armor!" says Anderson.
2) Pizza Cones
"It's like rolled up pizza!" says Anderson.
3) Web Trend: WotWentWrong.com
Not sure what went wrong in your past relationship? Jennifer says this site allows you to find out what went wrong by sending a survey to your ex. Would you be willing to try it?
Having A Ball
Photos: 'Anderson' Wrap Party
Friday, June 01, 2012 -- 5:00 AM
The "Anderson" team has had a great time getting to know one another throughout the course of season one, and they celebrated their friendships as well as the success of the show at a season wrap party.
Click through to see some fun pictures of the "Anderson" team in the photo booth at the wrap party… even Anderson joined in on the fun, snapping some shots with the team.
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News From Ohio State U.
with OSU students
[Anderson's segment ends at 2:20 min.]
Duration: 05:49 min.
From: TheLanternOSU
Added: May 31, 2012
Description: In this week's webcast, Anderson Cooper motivates Ohio State student with an appearance at Mershon Auditorium, students express their fear and excitement for graduation and Urban Meyer talks about his offense and how he will communicate with players over the summer.
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MJ4Gt7VM9M
Syria Is Not Libya
Is Syria unsolvable?
By Aaron David Miller, Special to CNN
updated 7:52 AM EDT, Fri June 1, 2012
Editor's note: Aaron David Miller is a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and served as a Middle East negotiator in Democratic and Republican administrations. He is the author of the forthcoming book "Can America Have Another Great President?" Follow him on Twitter.
(CNN) -- Is Syria Barack Obama's Rwanda? The Stanford University scholar, Fouad Ajami, usually an astute and wise observer on matters Middle Eastern, raised this question (and false analogy) with CNN's Anderson Cooper several weeks ago.
Comparing atrocities is a profitless and cruel but still -- at times -- an important exercise, at least for some perspective. Rwanda was a comprehensive and directed genocide in which Hutus killed 10,000 Tutsis a day during three months in 1994. It wasn't a regime against rebels or a civil war; it was a systematic extermination.
No, Syria isn't Rwanda; and it's certainly not Barack Obama's primary responsibility. But does that mean the need to stop the killing -- 12,000 dead and counting -- is any less urgent and acute?
The issue, as always, is what to do. In policy matters -- as in life, people (and governments) -- are more frequently presented with imperfect options. Those abound in the case of Syria. Here is why they are imperfect:
Sanctions and political isolation won't work quickly enough. A year in, the Assad regime has demonstrated that it can "manage," even as it faces a deteriorating economy and a pariah status. Aid from Iran helps it get by. As long as the regime keeps its military and security services happy, it might survive for quite some time.
Diplomacy has failed. The six-point peace plan brokered by United Nations envoy Kofi Annan — it called for a ceasefire and dialogue with the opposition, among other things -- can't succeed because it has no agreed-upon end state acceptable to the regime and the opposition. It's worth trying to get the Russians to walk away from the Assads, but this will not be easy.
After all, the Russians have seen their former clients drop like pins in a bowling alley, all under American pressure -- Saddam Hussein, Moammar Gadhafi, now, perhaps, Bashar al-Assad-- and the United States is now asking them to press their Iranian friends on the nuclear issue, too. You'd have to satisfy Moscow that some regime elements would remain as part of any solution and give al-Assad immunity -- both tough to do.
Half measures don't answer the mail. These seem compelling and logical on paper. But in practice, half measures, such as arming the opposition and establishing safe zones, will not bring the desired result -- the toppling of the regime. The first is being done already -- quietly -- apparently with American support. But against the al-Assad regime you could never supply the kind and quantity of weapons necessary to turn the tide decisively against the regime's superior firepower; nor can we control to whom these arms are actually going. The proliferation of weapons and militias in post-Gadhafi Libya also points up the problem of unregulated,unsupervised arms flows.
Safe zones, secure areas along the Turkish border that could provide sanctuary for refugees and a base from which to equip and terrain rebel military forces, would require full buy-in by Turkey, which so far has been reluctant to intervene. They'd also have to be defended, lest we repeat the tragedy of Bosnia in 1995, where UN peacekeepers couldn't or wouldn't prevent Serbian massacres of Bosnian Muslims. The Russians and the Chinese would likely oppose them, too. And in the end, it's not at all clear how they would prevent the regime from continuing its repression and killing.
Military intervention: We need to be honest with ourselves. Unless we get lucky -- perhaps if there's an internal coup that takes out al-Assad or the Russians help pressure him -- only military intervention that directly weakens the regime and changes the balance of power on the ground will bring them down.
We need to be clear about what this might cost. There is no international mandate to sanction a military intervention (and there likely won't be given Russian/Chinese opposition). Syria isn't Libya; it has a sophisticated air defense system and stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and it's much more likely than in Libya that airstrikes and precision guided munitions alone won't do the job. Boots on the ground may be required, too.
If the president of the United States determines that toppling al-Assad is in the vital national interest of the United States, then he should craft a strategy to do it. My take is that it isn't, certainly not enough to justify a unilateral military intervention that could have the United States "owning" the country (see Afghanistan and Iraq).
It won't be on the cheap.
Indeed, the president also has to accept the possibility that what we break during a military campaign, we'll own and have responsibility for fixing. If al-Assad falls, the process of putting the Syrian Humpty-Dumpty together will make the Libyan experience look like Switzerland. And we could be right in the middle of the muddle.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Aaron David Miller.
Crooks & Liars & Birthers
Why politicians lie and why we want to believe them
By Halimah Abdullah, CNN
updated 5:30 AM EDT, Fri June 1, 2012
Well, I'm not a crook."
Washington (CNN) -- Wolf Blitzer and Donald Trump's heated showdown this week over claims of a conspiracy to conceal President Barack Obama's true birthplace was, at its core, an argument about lying.
Trump and other "birthers" believe the president, mainstream media outlets, the courts and the state of Hawaii are all lying, conspiring in a cover-up that began with Obama's birth announcement in a Honolulu newspaper in 1961.
Those who maintain the president was born in Hawaii -- and has produced an authentic birth certificate to prove it -- believe Trump and the other side are willfully ignoring the facts in front of them and spreading lies for political gain.
Despite a frustrated GOP, anti-Obama 'birthers' still persist
"It's very complicated, the way we process information," said Ron Riggio, an organizational psychology professor at Claremont McKenna College speaking broadly about the nature of lying. "It's the politics of audacity. The more outrageous and audacious the lie is, the more people say 'that's got to be true because why would someone make something like that up?'"
While many politicians are truthful, honest public servants, too many politicians and their surrogates often lie, and voters often let them get away with it, Riggio contends. In the world of politics, lies are that relative no one really likes but everyone reluctantly invites to Thanksgiving dinner.
From Richard Nixon -- "I'm not a crook" -- to Bill Clinton -- "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky" -- to Marion Barry -- "It's all made up... I don't know what happened" -- to John Edwards -- "The story is false... It's completely untrue, ridiculous" -- American politicians have had a history of political deception, or at least stretching the truth.
Edwards not guilty on one count; mistrial on other charges
In 2007, Edwards, who at the time was a leading candidate for president, lied about his mistress and baby when the National Enquirer caught him at the Beverly Hilton Hotel visiting the child. The jury in his conspiracy and illegal campaign contributions trial Thursday found Edwards not guilty on one of six counts. The judge declared a mistrial on the other five counts.
And last year, disgraced congressman Anthony Weiner looked CNN's Wolf Blitzer in the eye and lied when confronted with evidence of illicit Twitter photos. He later admitted the deception and resigned from office.
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"From a leadership perspective, so often the lies politicians are involved in are part of leaving an impression about information," Riggio said. "So much of it is the little white lies that are part of the social fabric. But when it crosses the line that the public truly believes is important, then it becomes a big problem."
Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colorado, found himself straddling the line between deception, confusion and evasion after reports leaked that he questioned the president's citizenship at a recent fundraiser.
"I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that," Coffman reportedly said. "But I do know this, that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American."
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The ensuing media storm over Coffman's comments forced the congressman to backpedal and issue a statement that he does believe Obama is an American citizen but that the president doesn't share the lawmaker's belief in "American exceptionalism."
But Coffman's gaffe seems to fall more along the lines of what some behavioral experts call a dodge or an evade.
"Most dodgers, they're not lying. They just create a false impression," said Michael Norton, an associate business professor at the Harvard Business School who studies how and why people lie. "Occasionally politicians get caught in a lie, but it's quite rare. If they are doing their jobs they don't lie, they just evade."
The Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact website has made its mark by grading the shades of accuracy in politicians' statements on the "Truth-O-Meter."
"I think voters are well aware that politicians stretch the truth -- sometimes to the breaking point," said Bill Adair, editor of PolitiFact and Washington bureau chief of the Tampa Bay Times. "And I think voters are also savvy enough to realize there are shades of gray that turn a seemingly accurate statement into a half truth."
However, unlike the days when webs of political deception were tougher to untangle, savvy voters now have more tools on hand.
"What's different today is that there is so much information available to help people make sense of the political discourse and discern the difference between an exaggeration and a pants-on-fire lie," Adair said.
When Gilberto Hinojosa, who was seeking the Texas Democratic Party chairmanship, declared "a large majority of the Republican Party believes that (Obama) is a Muslim and was born in a foreign country, was not born in the United States," at the Central Texas Democratic Forum last month, the would-be chairman rated a "false" on the Truth-O-Meter.
Similarly, most claims about the president's birthplace as Kenya and the falsity of his Hawaiian birth certificate rate a flaming "Pants on Fire" on the Truth-O-Meter.
Not that any of those ratings will convince Trump, those who agree with him or those who believe the president was born in America. And it doesn't matter how much or how hard either side defends their position, Norton said.
"We're much more likely to notice evasive behavior with politicians we already disagree with," Norton said. "But we forget people in our party are doing the same thing."
Drive Thru At Your Own Risk
May 31st, 2012
11:42 PM ET
A Taco Bell customer really thinks “outside the bun” and ends up arrested - and on the RidicuList.
Orcas In Danger
June 1st, 2012
12:20 AM ET
.. with Jack Hanna and David Kirby reports.
A judge upheld safety violations against SeaWorld and said there should be better measures, like physical barriers, to protect trainers. Jack Hanna and David Kirby debate the treatment of killer whales in captivity.
Good Luck For The Cute Stupid
May 31st, 2012
11:44 PM ET
.. and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin report.
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin weighs in on the chances of John Edwards being retried.
Abour Obama & About Romney
May 31st, 2012
11:36 PM ET
.. with Newt Gingrich reports.
Anderson Cooper asks Newt Gingrich how Romney can criticize Obama for government investments when he supported them as governor.
May 31st, 2012
11:32 PM ET
.. with Gov. Deval Patrick reports.
Gov. Deval Patrick says Mitt Romney's job creation record is not as strong as he claims during his time as governor.
Syria's Killing & Liying
May 31st, 2012
11:34 PM ET
Despite evidence to the contrary, the Syrian government is claiming its civilians are being slaughtered by terrorists.
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