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PLAYGIRL Announces Winners of Sexiest Newscaster Election
Playgirl ^ | 9/13/04 | Press Release

Posted on 09/13/2004 2:20:26 PM PDT by misterrob

NEW YORK, Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The results are in and it's time to set the record straight. Of the 50,000 votes cast in the Playgirl's "Sexiest Newscaster" election, where readers were asked to vote online for their favorite national newsman -- the official winner is MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. Several news sources had inaccurately reported that a candidate from a rival cable network had actually won when in fact, he came in second. We still love you, Sean Hannity. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030102/PLAYGIRLLOGO ) Olbermann ran a tough campaign -- linking his website to PLAYGIRL's and urging his viewers to get out the vote. He won with 24%, sweeping both "red" and "blue" states. Hannity of the Fox News Channel has his adoring fans as well, sliding him firmly into second place. CNN's Anderson Cooper, who was in Baghdad and unable to make those crucial stump speeches, came in a close third. The full election results can be seen in the October issue of PLAYGIRL.

"Voter turn-out was phenomenal," said Michele Zipp, PLAYGIRL's Editor-in-Chief. "Our readers jammed our email server extolling the virtues of all those sexy news guys on TV. In the end, it was Keith Olbermann who brought it home. Playgirl will be honored to make a $2,500.00 donation to the charity of his choice."

There were big some surprises among the top ten. Andy Rooney tied for 5th place with a much younger Bill Hemmer of CNN. Today's Matt Lauer earned 6th place, ABC's Peter Jennings scored #7 while NBC's Tom Brokaw tied for 8th place with his colleague and successor Brian Williams. One smitten Williams devotee wrote Zipp a lengthy email explaining how she willingly bought her own satellite dish just to watch his newscasts! Fox News Channel's Washington reporter, Brit Hume placed at #9, while NBC's Lester Holt held slot #10.

AND THEN THERE WERE THE WRITE-IN VOTES...Bill O'Reilly of Fox News Channel, received about 200 write-in votes from his admiring fans followed by CNN 's medical cutie Sanjay Gupta and NBC's Stone Philips of Dateline. Oh, and Wolf Blitzer, your fans tell us you definitely have the sexiest name.

For more news on the poll, tune into the October issue of PLAYGIRL on newsstands today.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fraud; newscasters; polls; sexy
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Let the fun begin.....
1 posted on 09/13/2004 2:20:27 PM PDT by misterrob
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To: misterrob

Keith who?


2 posted on 09/13/2004 2:21:44 PM PDT by Glenn (The two keys to character: 1) Learn how to keep a secret. 2) ...)
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To: Glenn

You mean DAn Rather didn't make the final four?

nick


3 posted on 09/13/2004 2:22:23 PM PDT by nikos1121
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To: misterrob

This is from The Onion, right?

Keith Olbermann--he of the One Eyebrow? With lips like a dead lizard? And the wit of a Pet Rock?

These female voters need help--lots of it!


4 posted on 09/13/2004 2:22:31 PM PDT by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: Glenn

We should be demanding the same for the ladies...

one of the few times I support equal opportunity speech


5 posted on 09/13/2004 2:23:01 PM PDT by misterrob
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To: misterrob

Olbermann?????????sexy????????????
What about Rob Morrison of NBC...now that's sexy.


6 posted on 09/13/2004 2:23:23 PM PDT by stanz (Those who don't believe in evolution should go jump off the flat edge of the Earth.)
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To: misterrob

Remember, Playgirl is pretty much a gay men's magazine that masquarades as a magazine for women.


7 posted on 09/13/2004 2:24:01 PM PDT by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: HitmanNY

Really? And you know this becasue?


8 posted on 09/13/2004 2:24:28 PM PDT by misterrob
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To: misterrob

Readers of PlayGirl watch the news?


9 posted on 09/13/2004 2:24:54 PM PDT by nuconvert (Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.)
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
Olberweinie? Sexy?

Uh.....uh......I wonder how his pictoral will play down in "boys town"....

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

10 posted on 09/13/2004 2:25:54 PM PDT by mhking
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To: misterrob
ROFLMAO,

brutal!

11 posted on 09/13/2004 2:26:12 PM PDT by MJY1288 (John Kerry Says He Can Do a Better Job of Implementing President Bush's Policies :-))
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To: misterrob

Because I am a straight man, of course.


12 posted on 09/13/2004 2:26:17 PM PDT by HitmanLV (I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
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To: misterrob
PlayGIRL!! What a Girly Man!!
13 posted on 09/13/2004 2:26:40 PM PDT by BallyBill (John Kerry the Emir of Schmowland)
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To: misterrob
Andy Rooney tied for 5th place

Why do I suddenly have this mental image of Madeline Albright, obsessively voting and then wiping the cookies from her computer... voting and then wiping the cookies from her computer... voting and then wiping -- ? :)

14 posted on 09/13/2004 2:26:40 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
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To: misterrob

what about the women version? Laurie Dhue or Page Hopkins... tough decision :)


15 posted on 09/13/2004 2:27:21 PM PDT by FredWolfe
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To: HitmanNY

Right, because women are not at all interested in seeing men in a magazine the way men are interested in seeing women in a magazine.


16 posted on 09/13/2004 2:28:01 PM PDT by StoneColdGOP (Nothing is Bush's fault... Nothing is Bush's fault... Nothing is Bush's fault...)
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To: Glenn

Keith, the MSNBC newsreader who doesn't have a p*nis.


17 posted on 09/13/2004 2:28:31 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: misterrob

Because most women are not visually stimulated. They are emotionally stimulated. Thus, reading a book about some heoric stud resucing them is far more of a turn on that seeing some naked gay guy on the page of a magazine. Psychology 101.


18 posted on 09/13/2004 2:29:16 PM PDT by bjmorris
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To: mhking

Olber?????????? omigod ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!


19 posted on 09/13/2004 2:30:18 PM PDT by msp2004
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To: bjmorris

Sorry about my pathetic spelling in the previous post. I'm typing this on a selectric composer and I'm out of whiteout.


20 posted on 09/13/2004 2:30:37 PM PDT by bjmorris
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