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Preview: CNN’s DNC Convention Costume!

Reporting in Texas on that state’s March primary, CNN’s Ali Velshi was on horseback in a ten gallon hat (authentic Texas props=authentic Texas coverage). So here,...
August 11, 2008

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Reporting in Texas on that state’s March primary, CNN’s Ali Velshi was on horseback in a ten gallon hat (authentic Texas props=authentic Texas coverage).

So here, CNN, is what you’ll want to wear to cover the Democrats’ convention in Denver: the Rockmount Ranch Wear shirt. To put it in proper perspective for Big Name Reporters (per the AP, per the shirt company’s president): “New York has Barneys and Denver has Rockmount.”










AP Photo/Ed Andrieski

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Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.

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