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Jim Bohannon Whips Out His Bone
2008-06-05 16:13:00
Jim Bohannon blows his 'bone. Video Story: "Bad To The 'Bone "
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Kathie Lee's Vain Pain
2008-06-05 15:23:00
Michael Starr NYP: "Today" show host Kathie Lee Gifford says she and hubby Frank Gifford personally felt President Clinton's pain during the Lewinsky era - because he wrote them heartfelt letters describing his agony. "We have letters from Bill Clinton written at the White House that would break your heart. Written to us," Gifford tells the July issue of Ladies Home Journal. "Letters that will never be seen. They're in our safe." And pray they stay there... It's incomprehensible that Bill put his "angst" in writing to media whore Kathie Lee?
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CNN Cops Tuesday's Primary Ratings Crown
2008-06-05 14:56:00
Lisa de Moraes Wash Post: CNN clocked more than 3.5 million viewers in prime time. That's a 34 percent lead over MSNBC's more than 2.5 million viewers. It's also a 47 percent advantage over Fox News Channel's prime-time crowd of 2.4 million viewers.Yes, it appears MSNBC edged out FNC in prime time Tuesday. "Many journalists despise TV news. They hate watching it, they hate producing it, and, given the opportunity, they turn it off and ignore it." California professor Tee Vee news students' cable TV smackdown: "...the titillation - fear-mongering crime reports, salacious coverage of the entertainment industries, reporters and anchor people glammed up to look like models. And when TV reports covered more serious issues, including politics, they result as little more than propaganda - talking points served up from two sides, with no analysis testing the claims, beyond petty insults. The broadcast majors among them expressed their revulsion at moving into an industry where "good te...
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Switch Hitters
2008-06-05 14:29:00
"There are delegates, super-delegates, pledged delegates, lemon-pledged delegates and of course, farmer-in-the-delegates" - Jimmy Kimmel on the Democratic party's nominating process. And switching delegates. "If You Remember The '70s, You Weren't Wearing Anything" Linda Stasi NYP Richard Huff NYDN "Borrowing a Cup of Sugar (and Maybe a Spouse)" Alessandra Stanley NYTTom Shales Wash Post: "The very first scene... is a fake-out involving what appears to be an act of oral sex, and... is punctuated with horseplay, bi-play and foreplay."Like presidential campaigns...
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Michelle, Ma Belle
2008-06-05 14:03:00
ABC's "The View " pimps itself as "an integral stop on the campaign trail" in trumpeting media's presumptive First Lady Michelle Obama's guest hosting gig June 18th: On Senator Obama's recent appearance on The View, he told the ladies that Michelle should appear on the show because she'd "really dish the dirt." Well now it's happening! She's making her first appearance ever on The View. [First? NYP claims Miz Michelle hosted last December 5th] And since her husband has said he has the votes to be the first African-American Democratic Presidential nominee, we're sure there will be a lot to discuss! This is just another example of how The View is an integral stop on the campaign trail. This season, many of the major campaign front-runners have appeared on the show--including Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Cindy McCain and Barack Obama . The New York Times recently wrote, "For politicians, The View on ABC is a halfway house in between a CNN interrogation and the razzing of The Dai...
More About: Barbara Walters , C News , Belle

E-Nail
2008-06-05 13:56:00
Page Six bites the hand that feeds it in: Was dethroned Philadelphia newsgal Alycia Lane the target of a diabolical plot by her former co-anchor to destroy her career? That bizarre scenario seems possible, say pals of the dark-haired beauty. It's popped up now that Emmy-winner Larry Mendte of CBS affiliate KYW-TV has been booted off the air because of an FBI probe. Last month, the feds seized Mendte's computer to determine if he was the person who hacked into Lane's private e-mail hundreds of times, then anonymously dished gossip to Page Six and Philadelphia media via an untraceable e-mail account, sources told us. "Larry has been jealous of Alycia's success since she brought the ratings from third place to first. She got all the credit and his ego couldn't handle it," a TV insider said. "Larry worked hard to take Alycia down . . . Now he'll get what he deserves. Sure, this is a competitive industry filled with big egos, but [this] is downright creepy." Creepy enough to get NB...
More About: Crime , Bizarre , Today Show , Hell Hath No Fury

Scarborough Lair
2008-06-05 13:33:00
NBC czar Jeff Zucker zaps MSNBC's Joe Scarborough as a "space filler". Like the Academy Awards no-name seat fillers for stars' cocaine breaks. Well, what Zucker REALLY said in a puffy Jacques Steinberg NYT piece today: ?It?s probably a little unfair to call Joe a ?space filler''. The three hours of hard-core political chat (often laced with humor) that Mr. Scarborough and his co-hosts, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, put on each day is unlike anything else on morning television. Little wonder that every major presidential candidate has made at least one stop at Mr. Scarborough?s desk since fall ? including Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose husband Mr. Scarborough voted to impeach ? and that throughout the broadcast Mr. Scarborough?s Blackberry continuously vibrates with e-mail messages from the candidates? surrogates. [Sending a Chris Matthews thrill up Joe's third leg?]?Scarborough is a crazy right-winger, and Mika?s in the bag for Obama,? said Jay Dunn, an adviser to [Terry] Mc...
More About: Media Bias , Keith Olbermann , Tom Brokaw

"At Last, Hill Freezes Over"
2008-06-05 12:49:00
Headline of the week. NYP This headline would be really hilarious if we were talking about the other Clinton: "Clinton Pullout Likely Saturday" Wash Post "Stick a fork in Hill ary Clinton - no, use a stake instead." Thomas DeFrank NYDN "Exit, Sort of" Wash Post "She Could Accept Losing. She Could Not Accept Quitting" Wash Post NYDN "Clinton To End Bid And Support Obama" Adam Nagourney NYT"Hillary talked her way out of the vice presidency on Tuesday night. Barack Obama may never have intended to make her the offer. But Clinton's largely self-focused non-concession speech suggested that what some call a dream ticket could turn into a nightmare." E.J. Dionne Wash Post"Clinton was horning in on the climax to Obama's amazing political feat. Worse yet, she was going public on a vice presidential bid she knows Obama does not want to offer." Robert Novak Wash PostI'm reminded of the old Hollywood line: "Who do I have to f**k to get in this picture?" If you take the word figuratively rathe...

Too Frank Eubanks
2008-06-05 01:10:00
Hollywood is retooling two more Chuck Barris game show blasts from the past: "The Newlywed Game" and "The Dating Game". Hollywood Reporter Bob Eubanks is still a 6' 7" hottie at 70 or 71, depending on who you believe (born the same day as me - January 8 - and we both hail from Michigan) and is hip to MySpace. Dear Bob: May I be so presumptuous as to suggest some judicious edits on your MySpace "General" interests? You write: I remember once, on The Newlywed Game, there was this woman that would knock your socks right off. I mean she was a knockout! Anyhow, before the show I offered to give her a "private" guided tour... if you know what I mean. By "private", I mean just the two of us and by "guided tour", I mean of my penis. Well, I don't think I have to tell you what happened next. Let's just say the strangest place she made whoopie was no longer in the back seat of her husband's 72' Gremlin.P.S. Bob, if I started blabbing all my 40 years of escapades to a global audience I'd ...
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Jay Leno Sucks Up To Gays
2008-06-05 00:46:00
Jay Leno puts his mouth where his dick isn't. Jay appears at a California gay marriage rally tomorrow. Queerty Gays aren't thrilled with Jay's gay jabs. Jay's sliding his oral blade back into the sheath...
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Disarray & The Un-Americans
2008-06-05 00:28:00
"This magic moment. Will last forever (this magic moment) Forever 'til the end of time (magic) Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh (magic) Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh (magic) Oh-oh-oh-oh (moment) Oh-oh-oh-oh (magic) Oh-oh-oh-oh (magic)Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh (magic) Oh-oh-oh-oh (moment)Magic, oh-oh-oh Magic, oh-oh-oh Magic, oh-oh-oh (moment)" Chris Matthews so blinded tonight by the thrill up his leg he verbally ejaculated for joy at Obama's "magic moment" minimizing real news of Obama's Chicago sleazoid bag man Tony Rezko's fraud and money-laundering conviction. Matthews (the aural and visual equivalent of Spam-a-lot) was humming "Camelot." NewsBustersThe escalating internecine warfare between NBC aces and MSNBC towelheads requires a UN resolution and Camp David peace talks...
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David Letterman's Limp Dick
2008-06-05 00:20:00
David Letterman's new "comedy" crack at Dick Cheney falls flat. "Dick Cheney. Comedy Genius" Huff Post vid Grade D. For Dick-Less. The best crack I've ever heard about a Dick was Nixon during the 1972 presidential election: "You don't change dicks in the middle of a screw. Vote for Nixon in '72."
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Brokaw Busts Gasbag Olbermann
2008-06-04 23:55:00
Did you see the Tom Brokaw smackdown of Keith Olbermann during MSNBC's political blab-a-thon last night? If you blinked you would've missed it. Olbermann blurted something negative about Hillary and Real Newsman Brokaw - visibly irritated - jumped down the fire-ready-aim blowhard. But NewsBusters was on the ball: Shortly before 8:00 p.m., after Brokaw finished describing what he called the "very strong credentials" and "remarkable stories" of Barack Obama and John McCain, Olbermann chimed in: "And a third one trying to shoe-horn her way into those, the coverage of the first two." After flashing for a moment a disapproving frown, Brokaw chided Olbermann for disrepecting Clinton: "Well, I think that's unfair, Keith. I don't think she shoe-horned her way in." Brokaw then went on to recount her electoral accomplishments, contending that she "will have some real bargaining power" on behalf of blue-collar workers and women.

Heavy Lifting
2008-06-04 21:08:00
Now that the New York Times is starting an etiquette column conveniently written by a lawyer, etiquette this: "The Case Of The Purloined Piece"."The Complete Guide To Stealing News Stories" GawkerNewspapers Direct competitor: "In a story first reported by the LA Times, scientists have confirmed that Scott McClellan is an android."Others: "Scott McClellan is an android, scientists confirmed today." MagazinesDirect competitor: "Is your kid drinking Lysol to get 'high?' It's a phenomenon that's been reported by Time and others, but...."Others: "Your child may be drinking Lysol right this minute. To get high!"Blogs Direct competitor: "Hipsters eat magic fruit, then eat each other. [Curbed]"Others: "Crazy Williamsburg hipsters are berry-munching madmen?with a taste for flesh!" Television Direct competitor: "CBS News has reported that Hillary Clinton is dropping out and joining a nunnery."Others: "Rumors have emerged that Hillary Clinton may be dropping out to join a nunnery."
More About: Plagiarism , Heavy , Gawker Media , Lifting

Brian Bags Barack
2008-06-04 21:04:00
Brian Williams interviews Barack Obama tonight on what Fox & Friends Steve Doocy branded the "National Barack Company" this a.m.
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I Like "Em Big and Stupid
2008-06-04 20:59:00
Perils of live Tee Vee! TV news reporterbabe headlocked by wrestler. "I love you, baby!"
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Keith Olbermann: Why Is He Still Single?
2008-06-04 20:32:00
"I like to watch the body language." Fox News Alisyn Cammerota on the tension between Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews. Johnny Dollar's Place"Tim Russert's taking orders from Keith Olbermann... He is essentially Keith Olbermann's poodle." Steve Doocy. Steve, I doubt that. Gretchen Carlson: "The other night he called me stupid... I'd like to know why he's still single." Gretchen went to Stanford. Why is he single at 48? Olbermann's still 16. Emotionally. Stunted big time. Puerile South Park behavior for all to marvel at on "Countdown." Why else is his live-in love only 24? MNSBC's in-house organ, TV Newser, posted an answer this a.m. to Gretchen's question hyping Olbermann's stellar education at Cornell after graduating from high school at 16. Doocy feigned stalking off the set after his rant claiming he's got to "calm down."
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Aural Vex
2008-06-02 00:19:00
I'm just about to throw a Manolo Blahnik at MSNBC's Puerto Rican recap because of Norah O'Donnell. Her amazingly annoying cackle makes Hillary's wicked witch sound like a Margaret Thatcher tee-hee. Miz Norah is the Fran Drescher of Tee Vee news. The female Chris Matthews...

The Bane Of McCain Falls Mainly On The Brain
2008-06-01 23:46:00
Bush should've axed Karl Rove in Miss Covert America Valerie Plame CIA leak case. Former press flack Scott McClellan to Tim Russert on "Meet The Press." VideoMaureen Dowd NYT: McClellan did not realize the value of a favorite maxim ? ?The truth shall set you free? ? until he was hung out to dry by his bosses in the Valerie Plame affair, repeating the lies Karl Rove and Scooter Libby brazenly told him about not being the leakers. ?Clearly,? McClellan says, sounding like the breast-heaving heroine of a Victorian romance, ?I had allowed myself to be deceived.? He felt ?something fall out of me into the abyss.?It could be Pillsbury doughboy Scottie McClellan who denies John McCain the presidency. Frank Rich NYT "McCain's McClellan Nightmare": Mr. McClellan isn?t a sizzling TV personality, or, before now, a household name beyond the Beltway. His book secured no major prepublication media send-off on ?60 Minutes? or a newsmagazine cover. But if the tale of how the White House ginned up ...
More About: Books , George Bush , Dick Cheney

Democrats' Animal House
2008-06-01 18:38:00
A Hillaryista tossed out of the Dem bash yesterday. The hag's crazy, paranoid, foul, and appears drunk. A YouTube phenom in 24 hours snagging 6,668 comments.It was "Operation Chaos" inside as the Democrats sniped, swore, and sunk their own unity ship. Dana Milbank Wash Post Rush Limbaugh will be positively orgasmic on his show tomorrow."It's Barack Obama 's Party Now" AP
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Marty McCry
2008-06-01 18:19:00
Fire consumes backlot at Universal City. KNBC photos Defamer Variety Hollywood Reporter MSNBC Fox News Deadline Hollywood DailyThe "Back To The Future" set and famous clocktower went up in smoke. MSNBC vidThe blaze incinerated 50,000 films - but there were duplicates. Same kind of fire hit Universal City in 1990...Expect ex-volunteer firefighter Brian Williams to weigh in...
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Fisher Cuts Bait
2008-06-01 18:04:00
Wash Post's Marc Fisher bags his Radio Listener column after 13 years: "Radio in its AM-FM incarnation seems to have largely defined itself out of creative energy; rather, it has set itself (blaming market and historic forces, but really because of a sorry lack of gumption) on a path toward irrelevance."Read his last column here. Executive summary: Radio sucks.
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Bill Clinton: "The Comeback Id"
2008-06-01 17:08:00
Best headline of 2008 crowning a new Vanity Fair piece by Todd Purdum (husband of former Clinton press sec Dee Dee Myers), on how f**ked up narcissistic Bubba is. He's no longer "the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral." Next stop: his own. Long piece but a must-read... The Universe nails Bill in this lifetime...
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Flex and the City
2008-06-01 16:53:00
What do ABC's Robin Roberts, Barbara Walters, Kelly Ripa, and Eliot Spitzer hooker Ashley Dupre have in common? They all landed on a new list of the 50 most powerful women in NYC. NYP What, no Diane Sawyer or Katie Couric?
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Hillary: Girl Interrupted
2008-06-01 01:43:00
MSNBC's Chris Matthews got to spend 10 hours in the political candy store as Democrats haggled over the Florida and Michigan delegate seating. "The closest thing to gavel-to-gavel" Matthews exuded before the mess got started at 9:30 this a.m. I watched a little bit this afternoon when Matthews & Company were in the awkward position of having to fill a big chunk of air as the Dems ran over their break by a couple of hours. When the bigwigs filed in and the thing cranked up again, the honchos could barely hear themselves pontificate with the yelling onlookers. A harbinger for the convention...TV Newser stayed glued to the tube for the boring predictable MSNBC CNN BS-a-thon. Me, I had better things to do. Like wash my hair... If you care, here's what happened. Hint: They did what Bill Clinton whispered in Blowing Rock (see previous post). It was a backroom done deal before today's dog and pony show. MSNBC NYDN NYP Fox NewsLoser: Hillary NYT She can bag the gagging shots and beer...
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Church Bulletin: Unholy Trinity Loses Hymn
2008-06-01 01:23:00
Obama bids adieu to his church pew. Politico ABC News NYT NYDN NYP
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Bill Clinton Blowing Crock
2008-05-31 22:25:00
What the hell is Bill Clinton doing on MY turf? Here he is at a chi-chi spa in Blowing Rock, North Carolina where somebody recorded him saying "seat half the delegates."DNC chair Howard Dean jetted off to NY to confer with the Godfather - Al Goracle - after he kicked off the Dem thing today by sending a message to You Know Who. Gore told him to get out of the race for John Kerry because it's not about you. It's about the party.NYT's Adam Nagourney has a piece running tomorrow on "No Roadmap For Democrats As Race Ends".An aside: The heinous Hillary hag with a bullseye on her forehead is reason enough to vote for Obama.
More About: Hillary Clinton , Al Gore

Cloud Burst
2008-05-31 15:51:00
NY's WCBS TV anchorbabe slips and calls weatherdude "Lonnie Queer" instead of "Lonnie Quinn." Gawker video from last night's 5 p news. Lonnie blew it with swishy arm action in tandem with "whoops!" Related: "You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows"
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McClellan Factors In O'Reilly
2008-05-31 15:43:00
After bitching that suddenly hot Scott McClellan was avoiding him, Bill O 'Reilly nails Scotty Monday night. Jossip What's left to say? The NBC Tee Vee vampires have sucked all the blood...
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Mike Hammered
2008-05-31 14:58:00
Mike remained behind the mic rather than bag his radio show and hightail it to that tragic crane collapse. Richard Huff NYDNDo you think he should've stayed on the air?
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