>>>>>>CNN.com's home page has a frequent banner section near the top labeled "Live Developing Story". Sometimes it really is big news, other times it's just something they happen to have video footage of. Anyway, the current headline is "Replay of President Obama's prime-time news conference." Hmmm. Live? Developing?
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>>>>>Earlier it was this:
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>>>>>Liberians facing mass deportation from U.S.
>>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/09/liberians.deportation/?iref=mpstoryview
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>>>>I see they're back to Caylee Anthony now ;-( Undoubtedly by the end of the day they will have a new live, developing story about that blonde who disappeared in the Caribbean, showing us her picture again.
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>>>More likely the porn star for Louisiana Senator story... :o)
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>>They tease out some of these human interest stories forever. It's tabloid journalism masquerading as a breaking news service.
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>>Wait a minute -- is there really a porn star running for the Louisiana Senate? This could be bad news for Illinois. Rod Blagojevich seemed to have given us the temporary lead in the battle for sleaziest politics.
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>I don't understand why this is such a big news. Here in Massachusetts the State House is full of whores (of male gender).

Good point. I'm sure there are many jokes that could be made about whores and politicians. For once I will pass, but the floor open to anyone who wants to compare and contrast the two ;-)