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@ 2008-07-08 16:16:00
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CBS Star Correspondent Lara Logan in a Family Way
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Lara Logan, the CBS Iraq correspondent who gave an awesome interview to Jon Stewart and was promptly promoted to "Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent" in D.C., gave her first interview since arriving home, only to find herself mired in a non-scandal about how she—gasp!—slept with some people while she was covering the war. The biggest takeaway? She's pregnant! It wasn't planned, she tells the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz, but she says she's "looking forward to being a mom."


Logan, whose divorce from energy lobbyist Jason Siemon is slated to become final in the next two weeks, says she's planning on marrying the father, contractor Joseph Burkett, but doesn't say when. In the meanwhile, we'd all do well to forget that the National Enquirer ever made this a story in the first place: Logan was single when she started seeing Burkett, and Burkett, while technically married, had been separated from his wife for six months. Neither Logan's relationship with Burkett nor her previous relationship with CNN's Michael Ware are anyone's business but her own and the two male principals. Though we do admit that the tale of Burkett and Ware duking it out over Logan in a Baghdad safe house would probably make a pretty awesome template for a screenplay.

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[info]stupiddumbpanda
2008-07-08 08:27 pm UTC (link)
Her interview on TDS was amazing. I think i love her.

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[info]cut_piece
2008-07-08 08:28 pm UTC (link)
me too

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[info]cut_piece
2008-07-08 08:27 pm UTC (link)
I loved that Jon Stewart interview.. she's so smart & gorgeous

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[info]mr_jellyneck
2008-07-08 08:37 pm UTC (link)
Ikr? She was like a movie character. Watching that interview I couldn't believe she was real.

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[info]cut_piece
2008-07-08 08:39 pm UTC (link)
Me too I was *mesmerized* lol

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[info]misscrystal
2008-07-08 08:31 pm UTC (link)
Can anyone tell me what's with her accent?
It was going in and out during her interview on The Daily Show. Where is she from?

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[info]scifijunkie
2008-07-08 08:35 pm UTC (link)
South Africa, I believe.

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[info]dickieangenson
2008-07-08 10:27 pm UTC (link)
she is south african. its like a british mixed with dutch accent.

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[info]la_bellavidaxo
2008-07-08 08:32 pm UTC (link)
slut

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[info]jigglemypuff
2008-07-08 08:34 pm UTC (link)
What is up with all the skanks lately? Madonna, Christie's ex, and now this bitch? Married people ARE NOT OK to date.

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[info]cut_piece
2008-07-08 08:58 pm UTC (link)
She was seeing someone who'd been separated from his wife for 6 months. Not skanky or bitchy. She's actually really intelligent and an excellent reporter.

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[info]inorio
2008-07-08 08:34 pm UTC (link)
bitch is pretty. get it get it.

pussay tightuh!

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[info]mr_jellyneck
2008-07-08 08:35 pm UTC (link)
I keep scrolling down and thinking the top of this picture is the beginning of a mug shot.

I'm disappointed every time.

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[info]merrite
2008-07-08 08:35 pm UTC (link)
She was pretty awesome on the Daily Show last night.

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[info]scifijunkie
2008-07-08 08:36 pm UTC (link)
Her pulling out with "How's it going, motherfuckers?" on TDS was awesome. At least she seems happy about it.

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[info]itsjoelle
2008-07-08 08:50 pm UTC (link)
I know this is like the 5th time I've told you this but ICON LOVE.

Only 3 more days till the premiere :)

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[info]scifijunkie
2008-07-08 08:52 pm UTC (link)
It's beautiful, isn't it? 3 more days! S4 DVDs came out today.

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[info]itsjoelle
2008-07-08 08:41 pm UTC (link)
Yo whats up motherfuckers.

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[info]crimps4
2008-07-08 08:57 pm UTC (link)
I thought, when she came out on TDS, that she was going to be some vapid twit (I don't watch TV news so I'd never seen her before). Clearly I was mistaken. She's got some other awesome moments captured on YouTube, if you look around. I'm not entirely enamored with how she seems to have conducted her personal life, but as a journalist she is quite amazing.

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[info]carboni
2008-07-08 09:23 pm UTC (link)
I don't know who she is but, wow, whatever.

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lol
[info]sofvckinghot
2008-07-08 09:23 pm UTC (link)
Is she gonna be on Maury Povich for a WHO'S THE DADDY segment?

Sh!t like this is why it's so hard to be a woman in the entertainment business. No matter how spotless you keep your reputation, there is some woman out there fvcking around and making everyone think that any woman working with a bunch of men is just trying to get laid...

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[info]scarlet_scream
2008-07-08 09:23 pm UTC (link)
It's a pity that instead of just being known as a fierce, intelligent woman she's now known as a fierce, knocked up skank. And yes, you are a skank if you are fucking around with two men, one married, while you still are married to a third man and then end up with an unplanned pregnancy.

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[info]tammyinlalaland
2008-07-08 09:27 pm UTC (link)
In her defense it seems like the boys had a duel for her which makes it ok, right?

And in Maryland (and Virgina I believe) you have to be separated for a year before you can file for a divorce so a lot of people date techincally married people

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[info]pennyfeather
2008-07-08 09:38 pm UTC (link)
Also in her defense, she didn't think she COULD get pregnant, and I'll venture that birth control isn't super-available over there... Having a sex life isn't a crime, especially when you're being faced with real danger every moment and the people you're banging are separated and filing for divorce.

But I agree on principle that it doesn't look so good for fierce, intelligent women everywhere, nonetheless.

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[info]jezabel
2008-07-08 10:02 pm UTC (link)
iawtc. Some of these slut comments deserve stupid_free attention.

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[info]cut_piece
2008-07-08 10:29 pm UTC (link)
seriously..

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[info]scarlet_scream
2008-07-09 04:36 am UTC (link)
I agree, sex is not a crime. It is however fucked up when you get pregnant while in a relationship with two men and married to a third.

You are right though, a duel makes it totally romantic and Jane Austin :0)

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[info]cut_piece
2008-07-09 07:47 am UTC (link)
There's no proof that she was dating 2 men at the same time.. you really believe the Enquirer? She and her husband were separated, Burkett and his wife were separated. Not a big deal.

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[info]scarlet_scream
2008-07-09 06:57 pm UTC (link)
It's not just the enquirer where the stories came from. Seperated is a long way from divorced. Ask the many women who have sex with 'seperated' men who are going to leave their wives and end up raising the kid on their own because the guy ends up going back to his wife. Oldest trick in the book.

When you're in the public eye you keep your shit clean because it's going to come out somehow.

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[info]phunkadelik
2008-07-09 02:48 am UTC (link)
correction: YOU see her as a knocked up skank as opposed to a fierce and intelligent woman. god knows there are plenty of men out there with decorated names have done much worse with their genitals ;)

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[info]scarlet_scream
2008-07-09 04:34 am UTC (link)
The thing is though that men aren't the ones who are being talked about like an episode of Maury. There is a double standard where men and women are concerned but if you told this story and left out that she was an intelligent journalist, people would scream skank. Women are called skanks for far less.

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[info]phunkadelik
2008-07-09 01:55 pm UTC (link)
...and that totally makes it okay? no, it doesnt.

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[info]scarlet_scream
2008-07-09 06:40 pm UTC (link)
Doesn't make it okay but she's still a skank who blighted her reputation through incredibly stupid behaviour.

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[info]pennyfeather
2008-07-08 09:34 pm UTC (link)
I can't blame someone for not being able to keep their personal life uncomplicated while embedded with troops, but I am disappointed at the timing of her pregnancy -- I think it just lends more fodder to people who don't believe that women can be professionals in the field, much less high-pressure journalists surrounded by primarily men.

But she's also a total badass, and she looks a ton like Charlize Theron. So <3!

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[info]jezabel
2008-07-08 09:54 pm UTC (link)
Would not be a story if a guy was in the same situation and had gotten some girl pregnant.

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[info]dickieangenson
2008-07-08 10:41 pm UTC (link)
she was mentioning suicide alot.

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