News from The Smoking Gun

[email protected] Tue, 04 May 2004 13:30:00 -0400
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Dear Friends:


Thanks to prodding by Howard Stern and Jimmy Kimmel, the Federal Communications Commission has received more than 1600 letters complaining about a recent Oprah Winfrey show regarding teenage, um, practices like tossing someone's salad. Not surprisingly, the correspondence is brutally frank, funny, and worth a read:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0504044oprah1.html


The criminal investigation of Murder, Inc. and the New York City druglord who allegedly bankrolled the rap label is now being aided by a convicted narcotics trafficker who the feds have recently stashed in the witness protection program. Details at:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0504041theinc1.html


New prize contest has begun, so take a shot and you might win some new CDs (Loretta Lynn, Motown hits compilation) and a deck of mug shot playing cards. So enter here:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/contest/contest.html


Since we don't often come with our hat in hand, we don't feel too bad about asking for your vote in this year's Webby awards. There's no way our estimable outfit should be outpolled by those Al Jazeera punks:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0504042webby1.html


Regards,

Your pals at TSG


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