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Drew Griffin is a reporter on the American cable news channel CNN.
Griffin worked as an investigative reporter for CBS 2 News in Los Angeles for 10 years. He joined CNN in May 2004. In September 2005, Griffin covered the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Griffin's reports about the looting by some New Orleans police officers led to a police investigation. He also broke stories about nursing home deaths after Katrina.
During the 2012 presidential race, Griffin was called out by Jon Stewart for deliberately ignoring presidential candidate Ron Paul despite his second-place result in the Iowa straw poll by less than one percent of the votes -- 152 votes. He was criticized by Stewart for unprofessionally joking to a colleague on air, "And guess what Paul; if you get video of Sarah Palin or get a soundbite of her, bring that back to us. You can hold that Ron Paul stuff.(chuckles)" despite the fact that Sarah Palin had not even declared her candidacy at the time.
Griffin won a business and financial reporting Emmy Award in 2005 for his reports on a fault in Ford vehicles which caused them to catch fire. He earned his second Emmy in 2006 for the CNN Presents documentary "How to Rob a Bank" and a third in 2007 for "Hidden Spending," an Anderson Cooper 360° segment about congressional spending.
Sarah Louise Palin i/ˈpeɪlɨn/ (née Heath; born February 11, 1964) is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice presidency. Her book Going Rogue has sold more than two million copies. Since January 2010, she has provided political commentary for Fox News, and hosted a television show, Sarah Palin's Alaska. Five million viewers tuned in for the first episode, a record for The Learning Channel.
She was elected to Wasilla City Council in 1992 and became mayor of Wasilla in 1996. In 2003, after an unsuccessful run for lieutenant governor, she was appointed Chairman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, responsible for overseeing the state's oil and gas fields for safety and efficiency. The youngest person and first woman to be elected Governor of Alaska, Palin held the office from December 2006 until her resignation in July 2009. She has since endorsed and campaigned for the Tea Party movement, as well as several candidates in the 2010 midterm elections. From the time of her Vice Presidential nomination in 2008, Palin was considered a potential candidate for the 2012 presidential election until she announced in October 2011 that she would not run.