OKGazette.com - CFN

KD to the Izzo -

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Jay-Z has a lot of things: like, you know, 17 Grammys, Beyoncé and a Forbes-estimated $500 million.

More powerful than a locomotive (and sounding like one, too) -

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

It’s a bird! It’s a plane!

Judging the judges -

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But try telling that to Oklahoma’s supporters of tort reform. That crowd wants its retribution piping-hot and fresh from the microwave. At least that’s how it looked after the state Supreme Court ruled June 4 that 2009’s landmark tort-reform law was unconstitutional.

PR BS -

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Lots of press releases cross our desk. Recently, these titles least screamed, “Stop the presses!”

CFN Quote (and Possibly Advertisement) of the Week -

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

“Thank you to the engineers who developed the safety features of my F-150 that allowed us to walk away from [the May 31 tornado]. I’ll be getting another F-150 as soon as I can!”

Hard rain’s a-gonna fall -

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Does it just set your teeth on edge that your license plate bears the image of a sculpture of a Native American performing an ancient religious ceremony? If so, worry not, weary motorist and teeth-gnasher. Oklahoma City pastor Keith Cressman has got your back.

What, me bothered? -

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Just days before winning the Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete Award — an honor reserved for those who “excel in their sport and who show by their actions a desire to help others” — Adrian Peterson announced he is “not with” same-sex marriage.

Undaunted Durst -

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Remember that annoying “Nookie” song all your friends who listened to Top 40 were singing in high school? Something about cookies? And that one puzzling line about where haters could stick it? Yeah, we barely do, either.

PR BS -

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Lots of press releases cross our desk. Recently, these titles least screamed, “Stop the presses!”

Oh, hair, no! -

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

We’ll say this for U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn: No amount of government spending is too modest for him to oppose. The Muskogee Republican recently has taken his crusade against federal largesse to his Coburn’s hostility for the colleagues on Capitol Hill.

Hardcore Doppler -

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Is it just Chicken-Fried News or is it getting hot in here? Porn queen Jesse Jane has revealed in Aroused, a newly released documentary about adult-film starlets, that the triple-X world evidently saved her from a life of radar-reading.

The cannabis justice system -

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Question: What issue is black, white and green all over?

Answer: Marijuana possession in Oklahoma.

Stormy weather -

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

It’s not news that U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Tulsa, doesn’t believe in manmade climate change. It’s not news that Oklahoma is smack dab in Tornado Alley.

In and out and in -

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Make up your minds, already. Either you do or you don’t.

Out of shape -

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Oklahoma City: big-league city, or big ’n’ fat city?

Atheists, assemble! -

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

After her house was destroyed in the May 20 tornado, Rebecca Vitsmun bravely ditched the rules of Bible Belt conversation when CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked her in a live interview if she “thanked the Lord” for having survived. Vitsmun hesitated before answering that she’s actually an atheist. That declaration prompted atheists everywhere to raise money for her, showing that Christian charity can be just plain charity.

Skirting the law? -

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 EDT

The May 25 arrest of an Oklahoman newspaper reporter for taking inappropriate photos proved irresistible for British tabloids. Screamed one wordy headline in The Daily Mail: “Oklahoma newspaper reporter arrested for ‘taking up-skirt pictures of teen girls’ at emotional graduation for students from tornado-ravaged Moore.”

What a hack -

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Oh, college. That wonderful, carefree blur of partying ... pulling all-nighters to finish homework ... surviving on cheap noodle soup ... changing your grades and blocking faculty access to them ...

Tabloid heaven? -

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT

Have you been missing the never-ending gossip powerhouse that was TomKat?

Praise the who? -

Wed, 29 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT

The world’s news media does so enjoy the caricature of Oklahoma as the buckle of the Bible Belt. And, yes, while there’s no denying that much of the Sooner State’s population is devout, every so often a TV correspondent will stumble across an Okie who hasn’t gotten the memo. That’s what happened last week when CNN’s Wolf Blitzer did a live TV interview with a woman whose family survived the May 20 tornado.