A staffer for the CNN anchor thinks Cindy McCain dresses well and has nice hair. She also details a lot of nice things about Sen. John McCain’s spouse, apparently in an effort to help you get to know her. And then she mentions that Cindy was once a drug addict.

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What was up with the anchor’s dramatic spray tan/makeup during tonight’s Republican debate on CNN? He looked more made up than the dearly departed Tammy Faye Baker.

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“CNN’s Anderson Cooper asks: ‘What does it say about Mitt Romney that the more money he spends and the more people get to know him, the less they like him? If anyone should know the answer to that question, it’s A.C.’” So says Seattle Times columnist Ron Judd. Ouch. Finally, someone who’s meaner than us.

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Ellen DeGeneres is playing a little hardball with her male cable anchor crushes, it seems. Yesterday, the talker got MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews on the phone during her popular daytime program.

But, alas, it was just a play to get the attention of the real man of her dreams. While chatting about the new O.J. Simpson case, a crawl across the bottom of the screen read: “Ellen’s on the phone with Chris Matthews because Wolf Blitzer wouldn’t take her call.”

When DeGeneres asked Matthews about CNN’s Blitzer, the squawker was obviously hurt: “He’s a little different than me.” Matthews then told the gay icon to “dump him, get me on. Forget him. It’s a rivalry here.”

Which leaves us wondering: Who’s cuter? Matthews or Blitzer? And who would be better in a threesome with Anderson Cooper?

Earlier: Wolf Blitzer Gives Ellen the Cold Shoulder

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So the second hour of Anderson Cooper 360 is getting the ax… but CNN would have you believe that it’s because Anderson is TOO successful to handle a full two hours!

Variety’s Michael Learmonth reports today that “Cooper averaged 747,000 viewers in his second hour in August, less than O’Reilly’s 965,000 and a steep drop from the 1.1 million he averaged during the first hour, according to Nielsen.”

Well, Cooper must have a best friend named Nielsen, because if you look at the year to date numbers for the show (instead of just August), they tell a much different picture.

YTD, 360 averages 831,000 total viewers from 10 p.m. - 11 p.m., and only 524,000 from 11 p.m. - midnight.  This is even using the famous “live plus Same Day” info that CNN uses to tout ratings.

Rumor has it that the real reason Cooper’s second hour got axed is not only because of the drastic decline in the second hour, but that Prima Donna Cooper hated doing a second hour… he felt that since he is the marquee talent for the network, he shouldn’t have to do two hours in prime!

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