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NBC and MSNBC: The Big Uneasy
2010-10-27 18:08:00
MSNBC's Chris Matthews gets a thrill up his leg fantasizing about a Cecil B. DeMille cast of Dems glued to MSNBC election night.NBC may rue the day suits let NBC News WH correspondent Chuck Todd "cross over" the River Styx separating NBC from partisan hellfire MSNBC.  Chuck appears mighty uncomfortable with Matthews's delusional speculation.  Even the Huffington Post observed Chuck was uneasy. 11:02 in.

Sine Qua Juan
2010-10-27 17:31:00
Juan Williams got a standing O Tuesday night at the University of Maryland where he spoke to a group of lawyers. Baltimore Sun's TV critic David Zurawik snagged Juan after the speech: ?At NPR?they don?t know this: A third of the audience for Bill O?Reilly?s show is made up of people of color,. At NPR, they think, ?Oh, these people who watch Fox don?t appreciate diversity of opinion, they?re not smart people. They?re not informed people. Oh, yeah? I?ll tell you what: They?re informed.? . . . Williams said NPR "just doesn't understand the Fox audience" -- or have any idea how much more enlightened Fox News management is in some ways compared with news outlets like NPR, CNBC or CNN."Just consider the idea that Fox allows me the opportunity to sit in for Bill O?Reilly on their No. 1 show," he said. "That?s the franchise. That?s the moneymaker. If that show falls in the toilet, it?s bad for the whole lineup. And yet Fox allows a black guy with a Hispanic name t...
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CNN's Parker Spitzer: Flying Blind
2010-10-27 17:02:00
Outgoing NY governor David Paterson is a big fan of CNN's Parker Spitzer.  "He is incisive. He is quick."  (Complained the underwhelmed hookers to their Madam, Kristin Davis, running for -- NY governor.) The Dem who replaced Eliot Spitzer after Client #9's prostitution scandal resignation tells WNBC he's waiting in the wings should CNN dump Spitzer. NYPPaterson wouldn't have blind pig Spitzer's struggle with the teleprompter . . .The governor proved he has far more personality than Spitzer on SNL's September season opener:
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Shriver Angling For TV Gig
2010-10-27 16:25:00
Outgoing California First Lady Maria Shriver is nudging NBC to rehire her now that there's no conflict of interest.  NYP  (Left, Maria Monday with Michelle Obama clad in the latest couple of grand Jason Wu.) H/t Michelle's MirrorCB's classic Shriver shot:

NPR's Smoke Bomb
2010-10-27 15:36:00
NPR Marxist wusses quaking in their Birkenstocks after somebody mailed in a bomb threat -- five days after Juan Williams was blown out. Paul Farhi Wash PostNo One Has Taken Responsibility. 
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NBC News Leans Forward
2010-10-27 15:19:00
NBC has found a clever way to keep Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw off MSNBC Nov. 2:  blow out Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon for election coverage. TV critic Ed Bark finds linkage between NBC's expanded coverage press release trumpeting election night strategy compartmentalization, and NBC's effort to distance itself from MSNBC's liberal immersion.Only two NBC News talent will be "crossing over" to MSNBC:  Chuck Todd (who co-hosts an MSNBC morning show), and Lester Holt. Crossing over.  Somehow the vision of Dante's Inferno with Virgil at the Gates of Hell crosses one's mind.Ed Bark: MSNBC may be the "Place For Politics," but it's well past being a comfortable home for either Williams or Brokaw.
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Cable News Ratingzzz
2010-10-26 23:59:00
Monday Oct. 25, 2010 via TVbytheNumbers
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Dems' Desperation
2010-10-26 23:29:00
China is secretly dumping dough to elect Republicans. CNBC let this loony go on for more than six minutes. H/t NewsBustersIn 2007 Dem presidential candidate Hillary Clinton got her ample tit in a wringer over nearly a mil in donations from Chinese fugitive Norman Hsu.   After Obama won and nominated Hillary as secretary of State, Bill Clinton was forced to disclose the foreign donors to his foundation. NYT Wash Post
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CB Loyal Readers, chip in what you can
2010-10-26 23:11:00
Marty, chip in what you canFrom:Barack Obama Add to ContactsTo:Marty Davis Marty --Right now, the same special interests that we've fought for two years are flooding the airwaves with negative ads. They don't have the courage to stand up and disclose the identity of their donors. They could be insurance companies. They could be Wall Street banks. We don't know.This kind of politics isn't just a threat to Democrats. It's a threat to our democracy.And the only way to fight back is with millions of voices, ready to stand up and finish what we started in 2008. That means you. And we have just seven days to do it.The reason you knocked on doors, made phone calls, chipped in what you could, and cast your vote in 2008 was because you believed that your actions could make a difference and you could play a role in bringing about historic change. You were right.But the next seven days are a pivotal moment in that continuing fight for historic change. And I need you again to do ...
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Katie Couric Boner
2010-10-26 23:03:00
Katie Couric, fresh from ruining her Louboutins exiting limos on gravel in ?this great unwashed middle of the country,?  confides to The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz : ?American voters are slightly schizophrenic?they want compromise, and yet some of them are ideologically so fixated to one point of view? There are a lot of moderate Americans who are just fed up with negative campaign ads, fed up with the vitriol, fed up with the paralysis.?It's just another speculative puff piece on the $15 mil a year third-place media leaker.  "Unwashed" CB reader ZD wonders: "Should I be offended?" Is this the same Katie Couric who carried around chicken bones in her pockets?
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Shep's New Deal
2010-10-26 19:23:00
Fox News anchor Shep Smith signs a new deal worth millions.  Shep talked about it Tuesday on  ABC's "The View."  By then Joy Behar had swallowed a few Valium when she intro'd Shep with: "Will I walk out on another Fox News personality?"oH/t Medaite
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It Takes One To Know One
2010-10-26 19:00:00
"The View 's"Joy Behar gets big audience laughs calling Harry Reid 's Repub Senate opponent Sharron Angle "a moron," "bitch," "stupid," "evil," because of a TV political ad.  "I'd like to see her do this ad in the South Bronx.  C'mere, bitch!  Come to New York and do it!" . . . "She's goin' to hell!"Clap, clap.  Laugh, laugh.
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This Oughta Hold The Little FCC and Congressional Bastards!
2010-10-26 18:42:00
NBC's parent company GE presents:  MSNBC's Joe Scarborough narrating an 8:47 film on Ronald Reagan .  Rendevous With Destiny: Reagan's journey from GE to the White House.  Cameo appearance by Tom Brokaw.Executive summary: Ronald Reagan (as host of TV's GE Theater) honed his political skills making speeches on GE's watch. GE made Reagan. Scarborough:  "And from General Electric to the White House, the result was a brighter future for this country." 

Snow Job
2010-10-26 18:10:00
"His deputies don't have to spend the whole afternoon cleaning up after him the way Tony Snow 's deputies did."  An anonymous White House correspondent extolling the press prep of Obama's press czar Robert Gibbs in a GQ fawning profile.

"Fox wins that fight."
2010-10-26 17:22:00
Jon Stewart: "Are you kidding me NPR? You're picking a fight with Fox News ? They gave Juan Williams a $2 million contract just for you firing him! NPR? You just brought a tote bag of David Sedaris books to a knife fight."Stewart enlists a female voice seemingly laced with Valium posing as an NPR anchor reading the Juan firing story.  A Huffington Post babe blogger expressed dismay that Stewart "surprisingly claimed Fox News the winner." The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c NPR Staffing Decision 2010 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRally to Restore Sanity
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"Why don't you just make your slogan 'Bend Over?'"
2010-10-26 17:08:00
The latest rival to LOL about MSNBC's new ad campaign "Lean Forward" is Glenn Beck :Via Huff Post and Mediaite
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CNN Cock-up
2010-10-26 15:33:00
MSNBC's canned doc "Lockup" rocks Larry King and Anderson Cooper. Cable news ratings Friday October 22, 2010 via TVbytheNumbers:5PM ? P2+ (25-54)Glenn Beck ? 2,190,000 viewers (567,000)Situation Room?350,000 viewers (105,000)Hardball w/ C. Matthews ? 646,000 viewers (159,000)Showbiz Tonight ? 122,000 viewers (54,000)6PM ? P2+ (25-54)Special Report w/ Bret Baier ? 2,160,000 viewers (444,000)Situation Room?383,000 viewers (100,000)Ed Show ?767,000 viewers (201,000)Prime News ? 165,000 viewers (75,000)7PM ? P2+ (25-54)The Fox Report w/ Shep ? 1,954,000 viewers (463,000)John King USA? 345,000 viewers (125,000)Hardball w/ C. Matthews ? 666,000 viewers (151,000)Issues ? 335,000 viewers (139,000)8PM ? P2+ (25-54)The O?Reilly Factor? 3,011,000 viewers (701,000)Parker/Spitzer ?322,000 viewers (98,000)Countdown w/ K. Olbermann ? 977,000 viewers (247,000)Nancy Grace ? 598,000 viewers (192,000)9 PM ? P2+ (25-54)Hannity?2,000,000 viewers (494,000)Larry King Live ?370,000 viewers ...

Moveon.orgy: Paul Maul
2010-10-26 15:12:00
Female suicide bomber tackled outside Rand Paul debate Monday night:  Okay, it was a Moveon.org chick from Washington, DC battered by Paul people after she taunted the Repub Kentucky Senate candidate:Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com

Keith's Teats?
2010-10-26 14:58:00
Photo surfaces of a young Keith Olbermann in a training bra.  NYDN
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Doubting Thomas
2010-10-26 14:45:00
CB Executive Summary: She's got an unpublished book and is pimping for a publisher.CNN's Larry King sits down with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas 's former prosecutor/judge girlfriend who claims Clarence was a "raving alcoholic" and porn afficionado:

Bland Jive: Andrea Mitchell Verbally Fisted
2008-06-10 16:16:00
NBC promotes former South Carolina beauty queen Amy Robach to Saturday "Weekend Today" hostess. TV NewserNBC/MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell forced to apologize on-air yesterday for calling West Virginians rednecks. Redneck coal-dusted newspaper wretch: "Thank You, Andrea Mitchell, For The Ready-Made Column" Bristol Herald J. Todd Foster: "You might be a gold digger if you marry a Fed chairman older than your daddy". "Where is Walter Cronkite when you need him?" Disgusted CNN viewer on political and media whores pretending they're hip with the Obama "fist bump". CNN "A Brief History Of The Fist Bump" TIME magTIME gets away with what Fox News E.D. Hill is pounded for: likening the American hand jive with a similar Arab terrorist hand gesture. Media Matters
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Matthews & Olbermann: Weapons Of Mass Obstruction
2008-06-10 15:58:00
You got Fox to the right of you, MSNBC to the left, and CNN stuck in the middle with you winning the cable Tee Vee political ratings race."Get the facts from the only news channel to give you all sides. No spin. No affiliation. No agenda."On cloaking political agenda-driven blowhards Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann as Serious Journalists, CNN honcho Jon Klein snipes: "a slippery slope."On MSNBC's musical chairs format changes: "I don't spend a lot of time thinking about or analyzing their decisions. They've tried a lot of different things over the years. They'll probably try something different next year."MSNBC newsczar Phil Griffin: "That's an outrageous statement, but it fits CNN, which is living in the past. The last two years, MSNBC has been focused and has figured out who and what it is. . . . For the first time, this is a three-way race. If he's not scared now, he better start getting scared." Matea Gold LA TimesWith Fox #1 CNN and MSNBC are engaged in a competitive e...
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CBS: Ratings Roadkill
2008-06-10 15:46:00
Bob Schieffer back in the CBS News anchor chair? "No. That is not anticipated." B&C CBS News prez Sean McManus . B&C: "You also recently weathered another spate of piranha-like media speculation about Katie Couric ?s future. At what point does this type of coverage affect your brand?"McManus: "I think the negativity has died down dramatically over the past couple of months... And I watch what Katie does every night and I would put it up there against what anybody else is doing on network and cable television right now. And if we keep doing that, the brand will be just fine. Nobody likes to read negative press..."
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Weasel Words
2008-06-10 15:17:00
Jossip: "Now that Hillary Clinton has finally fulfilled Chris Matthews?s year-long dream of exiting the race, it?s time to make sense of all that was the 24-hour primary news cycle during the 16-month Barack v. Hillary battle." Tom Brokaw Monday morning quarterbacking his MSNBC blowhard juniors Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann: ?...too much time and too little imagination.? On David Letterman last night pimping his BOOM! book Brokaw made phony limousine liberal Letterman squirm over his huge carbon footprint hypocrisy. NewsBustersBrokaw's successor Brian Williams washes his hands and dumps America's salvation on the new Me generation.Junior J-Man Chris Matthews pimps the new NBC talking points by reduntant repeated hectoring lectures this a.m. to MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on America "self-inventing themselves" "self-creating themselves" while pimping his book and cross-promoting "Hardball". Fox News Molly Henneberg, Joe Weasel (no joke) and other young media Y...
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Keith Olbermann: Dim Gnat
2008-06-10 14:49:00
Common Complaints About Keith Olbermann : 1) Aggressive political nakedness 2) Prick up artist 3) Failing to mop up debt 4) Leaving hate lying around 5) Hogging the camera 6) Kissing his own hustle 6) Pooping in the press pool 7) Pissing on powers 8) Sex in the [Trump] Towers"Infested & Crude By Rude Gym Rats" NYP "The Post's efforts to slam Keith Olbermann are getting increasingly desperate." GawkerAs a veteran gym rat and self-styled enforcer, I'd be homicidal if I had to endure Keith Olbermann's cacophony while concentrating on my bicep curls.
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Keith Olbermann: Stop His World! He Wants To Get Off.
2008-06-05 19:30:00
Web of Deception's Joseph Culligan has unearthed everything you've always wanted to know but were afraid to ask about Keith Olbermann 's tax liens. But wait, there's more! The tax liens on Keith's live-in baby love Katy Tur's parents...
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Amtrak Flack Attack
2008-06-05 18:37:00
Fox reporter shuffles off to DC's Union Station to do a report on train station thugs' harassment of photographers. Whaddaya think happens to him in the middle of an interview with Amtrak flack? Video
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Howard's End?
2008-06-05 17:57:00
What has Howard Stern done to himself? He looks like a cross between Larry King and Michael Jackson ... Is he deliberately trying to look butt ugly for his October wedding to Miz Beth?
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Separated At Birth: Obama's Twin
2008-06-05 17:40:00
DCRTV mailbag: CASTING CALL: "The Barack Obama Story"! One of my favorite TV shows was the police drama "Homicide: Life On the Streets", which ran on NBC from 1993 - 1999. In one extended story line, Erik Todd Dellums portrayed the Baltimore drug kingpin, Luther Mahoney. If someone ever decides to do a bio-pic of Barack Obama, I don't think they could do better than to cast Dellums in the title role. He's an incredible actor and I think he bears a remarkable resemblance to Barack! Based in Washington, DC, the 44-year-old Erik's daddy is former California Congressman Ron Dellums (now mayor of Oakland, CA). Erik's acting laundry list.He's about the same age as Obama and possesses political genes. A disclaimer: I know Erik, his mom and dad. In 1995 Erik agreed to be my sidekick on my Howard Stern Lite for chicks talk radio show - "Radio Marty" - the concept universally forpraised by male radio suits too testosterone-laced, skittish at trying something radical, and wussy to actuall...
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Hillary: "...And Your Little Dog, Too"
2008-06-05 16:58:00
Hillary's such an angry resentful shallow bitch she didn't even call Obama personally to tell him she was dropping out of the race. And she demands Obama hand her the VP? Please...Instead Obama heard it through the media grapevine. Politico Not even a Hillary Band-Aid on the gaping Dem wound.
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