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Dennis Rodman Has Meltdown in N. Korea Interview

Doesn't handle question about Kenneth Bae well, to say the least

(Newser) - Here's a sampling of the headlines circulating your Internet regarding Dennis Rodman's ... interesting interview with CNN this morning from North Korea :
  • "Dennis Rodman Loses It During CNN Interview from Pyongyang" ( The Wire )
  • "Dennis Rodman Launches Into A Weird, Screaming Rant During CNN Interview" (
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Rodman Back in N. Korea With NBA Old-Timers

Country's not so bad, he insists

(Newser) - Dennis Rodman is back in Pyongyang for yet another visit, accompanied by a team of former NBA stars who will play a North Korean team in an exhibition game to celebrate Kim Jong Un's birthday this week. Rodman calls it "basketball diplomacy" and brushes off suggestions that he...

Rodman Reveals Ex-NBA Stars to Play in N. Korea

Kenny Anderson, Cliff Robinson, Vin Baker on exhibition-game team

(Newser) - The next stage of Dennis Rodman's North Korean "basketball diplomacy" involves an exhibition game , with former NBA stars facing off against a North Korean team. The US team includes former all-stars Kenny Anderson, Cliff Robinson, and Vin Baker, the AP reports. Also on the team: ex-NBA players Craig...

Rodman Back in N. Korea to 'Have Some Fun'

Will spend 4 days training basketball team

(Newser) - Dennis Rodman is back in North Korea for his third visit, and this time he has a documentary crew along for the ride. The least influential person of 2013 will spend four days training the country's national basketball team, which is due to play a team of unannounced ex-NBAers...

Least Influential Person of the Year? Rodman
 Least Influential Person 
 of the Year? Rodman 
'gq' list
Nov 24, 2013 12:33 PM CST

Least Influential Person of the Year? Rodman

'GQ' rounds up the 25 people who didn't make a difference

(Newser) - Dennis Rodman certainly thinks he's influential, but GQ disagrees. The basketball star and self-styled North Korea ambassador is the No. 1 entry on the magazine's annual list of the 25 Least Influential People. Rodman "was the first prominent American celebrity invited inside the nation-sized prison that is...

Dennis Rodman Is a Joke
 Dennis Rodman Is a Joke 
OPINION
Sep 10, 2013 1:39 PM CDT

Dennis Rodman Is a Joke

His North Korea trips are an 'outrage': Michael Moynihan

(Newser) - Dennis Rodman's old stunts, like wearing a wedding dress to a book signing, were mostly unimaginative ones designed to distract us from the fact that he's a washed-up former athlete without much to say, writes Michael Moynihan at the Daily Beast . The media fawned over him: Oh, that...

Rodman Reveals Name of Kim's Secret Baby

Leader's daughter is called Ju-ae, he says

(Newser) - Dennis Rodman is continuing his habit of yakking about Kim Jong Un, revealing yet more details about the North Korean dictator's daughter. The former NBA star, who wrapped up his second visit to Pyongyang over the weekend, says he held the baby and her name is Ju-ae. Kim's...

Rodman Leaves N. Korea, Curses Obama, Clinton

Says it's 'not my job' to get US citizen out

(Newser) - Dennis Rodman wrapped up his second visit to North Korea today, and, no, he didn't secure the release of a detained US citizen. "Guess what? That's not my job to ask about Kenneth Bae ," he testily told reporters at the Beijing airport, reports AP and CNN...

Rodman Returns to N. Korea to Hang With the 'Marshal'

Jailed American won't be discussed, he says

(Newser) - Dennis Rodman is back in Pyongyang, but the family of imprisoned American Kenneth Bae shouldn't get their hopes up: The former NBA star says the five-day visit is about basketball and hanging out with his "awesome" buddy Kim Jong Un, not diplomacy. "I'm not going to...

Dennis Rodman: I Deserve Nobel Peace Prize

For his incredible work in North Korea, he explains

(Newser) - Dennis Rodman is pretty pleased with himself and the important work he did over in North Korea. So pleased, in fact, that he offers up this amazing quote to Sports Illustrated :
  • "My mission is to break the ice between hostile countries. Why it’s been left to me to
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Jordan, Not Rodman, Was First Pick for N. Korea

Filming documentary like being on Truman Show : narrator

(Newser) - With his bizarre reputation, Dennis Rodman may have seemed the perfect candidate to visit a country that recently claimed the discovery of a unicorn hideout —but he wasn't the first choice for the HBO team that pushed the visit, the New York Times reports. The makers of Vice...

Diplomat Rodman Plans August Mission to N. Korea

He'll try to get American freed because Obama 'can't do s---'

(Newser) - Dennis Rodman already has asked his pal Kim Jong Un from afar to "do me a solid' and release imprisoned American Kenneth Bae. Now he's going back to North Korea in early August to ask in person, reports TMZ . Why? Because, Rodman explains in his unique version of...

Rodman Asks Kim Jong Un for Big Favor

Rodman asks Kim to 'do me a solid,' release Kenneth Bae

(Newser) - See America, Dennis Rodman's friendship with an oppressive, warmongering dictator isn't all bad after all: The NBA Hall of Famer and self-appointed diplomat has asked BFF Kim Jong Un to release imprisoned US citizen Kenneth Bae, CNN reports. "I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North...

BBC Blasted for Covert Reporting Trip to N. Korea

London School of Economics irate journos traveled with students

(Newser) - On the heels of a child abuse scandal , the BBC finds itself embroiled in another controversy—this time over covert reporting in North Korea. The London School of Economics says the media organization "deliberately misled" and endangered 10 of its students during a trip to the country that included...

McCarthy, SNL Rip on Rutgers' Disgraced Coach

Funnywoman nails it in second appearance as host

(Newser) - Melissa McCarthy stormed Saturday Night Live a second time last night, falling down (literally and intentionally) in her opening monologue before proceeding to lead a hysterical tour de force in "stellar physical comedy," writes Hal Boedeker at the Orlando Sentinel . Perhaps most notably, McCarthy ripped on disgraced Rutgers...

Did Dennis Rodman Just Spill a North Korean Secret?

Babbles about Kim's daughter, 'wackadoo' love of '80s disco music

(Newser) - Dennis Rodman just cannot shut up about Kim Jong Un. In an interview with the Sun (amusingly headlined, "Why I danced to Michael Jackson with North Korean tyrant"), the basketball star insists Kim is "not one of these Saddam Hussein-type characters that wants to take over the...

Rodman at Vatican, Hawking Gambling Site

He predicts next pope will be black

(Newser) - Globe-trotting ambassador Dennis Rodman has arrived in Vatican City as promised, though his main goal isn't very saint-like. He's pushing Irish gambling site Paddy Power, reports CBS News . As part of the gambit, Rodman says he intends to meet the next pope and predicts it will be a...

Rodman 'Vacationing' With Kim Jong Un This Summer

Oh, and the Worm is jetting to Rome in hopes of meeting new pope, too

(Newser) - Just when you thought the Dennis Rodman-Kim Jong Un relationship couldn't possibly get any weirder ... now they're planning a vacation together, AFP reports. "I don't condone what he does, but he's my friend," Rodman said in a bizarre, rambling interview with KXJB yesterday. So...

Kerry Not Too Worried About Rodman Stealing His Job

Suggests he might want to stick with basketball

(Newser) - So how does America's top diplomat criticize America's new most high-profile diplomat ? Diplomatically, as it turns out:
  • “Dennis Rodman was a great basketball player,” John Kerry tells Andrea Mitchell, reports NBC News . “And as a diplomat, he is a great basketball player. And that’
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Rodman Declares Love for Kim Jong Un—for 3 Hours

While waving about that dictator's manifesto: source

(Newser) - Painful proof Dennis Rodman's love of Kim Jong Un is for real: The former NBA great reportedly spent three hours praising the North Korean dictator—and the manifesto Dear Leader has apparently penned—at an NYC hotel bar on Sunday. "He kept saying what a nice guy Kim...

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