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What Ales Bush?
2008-05-29 05:55:00
Booze, Blow, and Bush : A Love Story. Gawker examines George Bush 's drug history.
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Pop Goes The Weasel
2008-05-29 05:42:00
ABC News vultures aren't circling ex-Bush press sec Scott McClellan and apparently aren't interested in picking his brain. But Fox's Bill O 'Reilly is ticked big time that Scott blew him off for "the crazy left". Bill O'Reilly on his radio show: ?We had contacted McClellan very early on. I said, ?Hey Scott, come on the program, you know the Factor sells more books than any other show. Absolutely want to have you.? Then he said he was gonna come on and now he?s not. That shows me he?s a weasel. Then who does he sign up with? The crazy left. Now when you do that, and I?m saying to myself, ?I?ve got no axe to grind against Scott McClellan.? I mean I just want to ask him questions about his book. The same thing I do with Hillary Clinton. But now I see what the marketing strategy is: Go to the Bush-hater people and that?s where we?ll sell our books. To me, you?ve got to be a person who sees the world the way it is, and to me, I could be wrong, I can?t read his mind, but it looks like...
More About: Liberals , Books , George Bush

Jane, You Ignorant Slut
2008-05-29 05:22:00
TV Newser: A 12-year veteran of Fox News Channel has been diagnosed with post traumatic stress syndrome and is now filing suit over the bed bug infestation in the FNC newsroom. According to her lawyers, Jane Clark "can no longer go to work after suffering emotional distress due to a continuous and ongoing bedbug problem at work."I thought Fox exterminated the creatures in March... Post traumatic stress disorder for BED BUGS?
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Tool Time
2008-05-29 05:11:00
Liberal tool Keith Olbermann is retooled. A new, improved "Countdown" website. Olbermann's MSNBC blog is agog over Bush's venomous ex-press secretary.
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Scott Issue
2008-05-29 04:28:00
Well, the Scott McClellan shit's really hit the fan since I disappeared for parts unknown 12 hours ago. The Pillsbury 'ho boy hits the "Today" show in the a.m. and MSNBC blowhard Keith Olbermann's "Countdown" Thursday night. I hear Keith swallowed a Cialis so when the moment's ready he'll be ready. NewsBustersOlbermann's political partner in crime, the loquacious Chris Matthews, creamed his trousers over the Scott McClellan book - cutting off "Hardball" talking heads tonight - including a royally pissed off NBC WH correspondent David Gregory. NewsBusters vidIt comes as no big shock that the WH is spinning the "Scotty, we hardly knew ye" damage control. Huff Post The liberal media are agog. I haven't been rocked by such a thunderous media rolling orgasm since Anna Nicole Smith. Variety MSNBC 9.9 on the Richter scale. (Runner-up: Chris "Thrill Up My Leg" Matthews's Obama race speech jerk off. Bush henchmen employing the Clinton "Nuts & Sluts" blow off of enemies - perceiv...
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This Is A Test
2008-05-28 14:41:00
XM and Sirius could be going to the Chapel Of Love the end of June. David Hinckley NYDNChicago Tribune TV critic to the small screen in a deal with TiVo. Brian Stelter NYT"Good Day New York" anchoress Jodi Applegate is hoping for a good day on Broadway where she hits the boards today for a one-time performance in "Chicago". Richard Huff NYDN
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MSNBC: The Happy Organ
2008-05-28 14:32:00
"MSNBC , which bills itself as "the place for politics," is being pummeled by political practitioners." Awesome alliteration from Howard Kurtz Wash Post"It's an organ of the Democratic National Committee," says Steve Schmidt, a senior strategist for John McCain's campaign. "It's a partisan advocacy organization that exists for the purpose of attacking John McCain."MSNBC head honcho Phil Griffin sniffs: "To call us an arm of the DNC is a joke. We have people with multiple points of view. Everyone is getting a little thin-skinned. We argue and debate every topic."The #1 Story? MSNBC's Thin Skin Keith Olbermann. "Olbermann is edging ever-closer to self-parody, or, worse, predictability." "Keith Olbermann Blows Last Remaining Gasket" TIME mag Olbermann's skin is so thin you could flay him in one fell swoop with a butter knife...["The Happy Organ " Dave "Baby" Cortez 1959 Watch here]

The Three Tenors
2008-05-28 14:06:00
More on the Big Event this morning: Katie Couric, Charles Gibson, and Brian Williams singing on all Big Three network morning shows sucking the air out of Jerry Lewis's Labor Day telethon. Michael Starr NYP Richard Huff NYDN Jacques Steinberg NYT

Manhattan Transfer
2008-05-28 13:29:00
Page Six: Are James Dolan and his Madison Square Garden minions capable of vengeance? That's what pals of Tom Brokaw are saying over the treatment of his friend, hedge fund manager Ralph Schlosstein, who had been paying the Garden for two of Brokaw's four Knicks season tickets for the last 10 years. The retired NBC anchor was being interviewed on XM Satellite Radio in April when he announced, "I won't renew because I don't like the attitude that the ownership has brought to the community. They have failed their obligation to the city . . . The Garden has lost a lot of its luster." When Schlosstein recently inquired about "his" two seats, he was told he was out of luck. "There's a waiting list for those tickets," a Garden rep told Page Six. "The policy is, you can't transfer tickets." Brokaw and Schlosstein wouldn't comment. But a friend of both men said, "The Garden is being incredibly childish. Because Tom said those things, they want to kill anyone connected to him." Attent...
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Big Flack Attack
2008-05-28 13:16:00
David Gregory and MSNBC's "Morning Joe" crew gloating over this: Politico Wash Post Former Bush press flack and fellow Texan Scott McClellan's "story of how the presidency of George W. Bush veered terribly off course." "Scott McClellan Blames The Liberal Press Corps For Eating Up Bush's (His?) Drivel Too Easily" JossipTim Russert and Mike Barnicle blabbing McClellan's "how the [Iraq ] war was a marketing campaign." Scott is pissed that Karl Rove lied, making him look like a buffoon before the laughing-behind-his-back WH press corps. So what else is new? The flack can be is the last to know...Bad news for John McCain ...This is what the Iraq war is about. Money. Corruption. Military and intelligence contractors you've never heard of making millions in Iraq. Halliburton, its spinoff Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), and North Carolina-based Blackwater are just the tip of the iceberg. Tim Shorrock "Spies For Hire." Tell me why MSNBC "Morning Joe" Scarborough was invited (paid?) to del...
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30 Rock A Bye
2008-05-28 00:37:00
Conan is already bitching about his new NBC "Tonight" show studio in beautiful downtown Burbank. NY mag
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Barry Nolan's 36 Hour Erection
2008-05-28 00:20:00
Think Progress hypes whining liberal ex-Boston Tee Vee anchordude Barry Nolan with his fist up his ass: So, I?m that TV guy who got fired by Comcast over Bill O?Reilly. I protested the fact that O?Reilly was chosen to receive the Governors Award at this year?s Emmy Awards ceremony. That?s the highest honor that they hand out. The important word here is: honor.Now granted ? you won?t find a lot of Albert Schweitzers or Mother Teresas working in television, but at least the people who had been honored in the past had pretty much followed the part of the Hippocratic oath that says, ?First, do no harm.?O?Reilly was an appalling choice, not because of his political views, but because he simply gets the facts wrong, abuses his guests and the powerless in general, is delusional, and, well, you might want to Google: Narcissistic Personality Disorder.I did and whaddaya know? Up pops pushing 50 Keith Olbermann and his 24-year-old live-in babe - and a link to Cialis...
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MSNBC's Obama Orgasmus Interruptus
2008-05-27 23:56:00
Isacc Chotiner The New Republic: MSNBC's bias has actually hurt the Illinois senator. After all, it was the Obama cheerleading from MSNBC (among others) that helped lead to Clinton's New Hampshire comeback. And even if you think (as I do) that the Clintons have made too big of a deal out of the "sexist" and "unfair" portrayal their candidate has received in the press, if you watch enough MSNBC, you realize that their claim isn't without truth. How could you believe otherwise when Olbermann, with his trademark hauteur, told Hillary that "voluntarily or inadvertently, you are still awash in this filth [of the campaign]," or when Matthews took such self-evident glee in trouncing Clinton in between the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary? Similarly now, by mocking Clinton's decision to stay in the race, Olbermann has only bolstered her argument that "the boys" are trying to push her out. And finally, on a number of primary nights, but most notably in Pennsylvania and Ohio/Texas, M...

Katie Couric's Muscular Diss Trophy
2008-05-27 22:29:00
Breaking: TVNewser has learned that all three evening news anchors, CBS' Katie Couric, ABC's Charles Gibson and NBC's Brian Williams will appear live, in studio, on all three network morning shows tomorrow morning. The appearances will be to announce a cancer-research telethon airing on ABC, CBS and NBC on September 5. BREAKING NEWS! The New York Post reported it yesterday. Michael Starr Not the part about the Big Three Musketeers sharing a limo and face time. The pimp job was hyped by Matt Lauer this a.m. who dangled a "Katie Couric Big Announcement." Is she leaving CBS? Alas, no. Just the announcement of the Second Coming Of [Media] Heist. NYDN A beg-a-thon to usurp Jerry Lewis's yearly Labor Day spotlight in telethon glory. Why don't these high-priced anchors, Les Moonves, Jeff Zucker, David Westin et al. simply dip into their own deep pockets and cough up the dough? Last year ol' Jer caught himself before coughing up the word "faggot."
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GMA & Today: Ruff Diving
2008-05-27 22:22:00
ABC's "Good Morning America" is in a snit because rival "Today " show landed a good "get" - the two divers stranded at sea. TV Newser
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Hillary's Boogie Nights
2008-05-27 16:57:00
Somebody says "shit" in front of Hillary and she doesn't even blink. Ask the Secret Service why. Hillary takes a dainty sip from a longneck El Presidente beer and shakes her groove thing with a dazzled Fox News producer Aaron Burns: On her way out the door, she advised two traveling TV reporters that they were free to start drinking as well ? before stopping to groove for a few seconds to the Enrique Iglesias hit ?Be With You? with a certain Fox producer. Fox News videoJust as phony as this staged photo op during Bill's reign to trick the gullible small story media into believing Hillary's the only gal on Bill's dance card....
More About: Video , Hillary Clinton , Bill Clinton , Phony

Size Matters
2008-05-27 16:32:00
Politico's John Harris Do as I say. Not as I do in "How Small Stories Become Big News"It would be a big story if Clinton said something like this: ?Hey, I know it looks bad for me now But, think about it. Obama could get shot and I?d get to be the nominee after all.? But Clinton?s clumsiness does not excuse news media clumsiness in making a minor story seem like a major one. A note on the randomness of the news: If this really was a big story, then the media has blown it for months. Clinton made similar remarks to Time magazine back in March. (The Wall Street Journal reporter with Clinton has an entertaining look at how the pack traveling with the candidate initially missed the story.)Blame cable Tee Vee...
More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Politico , Size , Cable News

Cable TV Primary Colors
2008-05-27 15:14:00
The former "Anonymous" Joe Klein files "Lou Demagogue" under his real name: "Why the network [CNN] allows Lou Dobbs to continue spewing false, inflammatory nonsense under the guise of objective journalism."Joe blows on: Now, I know that Dobbs brings in some serious ratings. And he is certainly entitled to his own opinion. But he is not entitled to his own facts--especially not on a network that makes a real effort to separate truth from falsehood and represent all sides of the political debate. Shouldn't someone be editing this swill? Doesn't CNN have a responsibility to tell its viewers that, in this case, one of their presenters is engaged in flat-out anti-immigrant fearmongering? Perhaps the network could employ a simple superimposed title--THIS IS NOT TRUE...or LOU HAS JUMPED THE SHARK ON THIS ONE--whenever Dobbs pretends that there is such a thing as the NAFTA Superhighway. This sort of thing diminishes the credibility and hard work of the other journalists on the network. (A...
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Color Bars
2008-05-27 14:42:00
Nattering nabobs of negativism are throwing water on former Repub Congressman J.C. Watts 's dream to start an all-black cable TV channel Don Kaplan NYP Media Week in predominately black markets where 25 million TV sets will fade to black when TV goes digital February 19, 2009. Brian Stelter NYT
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Whole Lotta Trotta Goin' On
2008-05-27 13:51:00
Liz Trotta used to be a sharp reporter in the 1960s and 1970s but she's gotten a little dotty in her old age. The Fox News anti-Hillary talking head shoud've kept her yap shut when she blabbed "Osama" instead of "Obama" in yet another deconstruction of Hillary's Obama assassination creative visualization. Maybe it was a Secret Message to Hillary henchmen to Carry Out The Deed. When corrected Miz Liz joked maybe both Os should be "knocked off." TV Newser Johnny Dollar's Place video She later apologized...Me thinks the liberal pro-Obama Huff Post doth protest too much. Same for a wacko Daily Kos frothing fool showing how dumb and delusional he is here. The gaffe simply gave the liberal media and bloggers another excuse to hammer Fox News to deflect from Hillary's repeated Obama threat and burgeoning criticism of Keith Olbermann 's crazy nightly anti-Fox rants.
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The Bell Tolls For Thee
2008-05-27 09:53:00
He was only 73. Esteemed prolific film director Sydney Pollack exits the planet. Cancer. Pollack directed one of my favorites: "Three Days Of The Condor" w/Robert Redford. Won an Oscar for "Out of Africa" (Redford starred). Played out-of-work actor Dustin Hoffman's exasperated agent in "Tootsie" (1982). NYT Wash Post NYP NYDN Photos and film retrospective from Elsa MoraWatch this memorable scene where Hoffman confronts Pollack in "Tootsie."Mr. Pollack directed the brilliant "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" Redford's "The Way We Were". The Cruise/Kidman vehicle "Eyes Wide Shut". 1981's "Absence Of Malice". "The Swimmer" starring Burt Lancaster - brilliant albeit strange movie where he's not credited. My Sydney Pollack memory bubble is stuck in "Tootsie" (above photo). The Indiana-born Pollack headed for NY to make his fame and fortune as an actor. He landed his first role - "For Whom The Bell Tolls" - on TV's "Playhouse 90":.
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Queen, But
2008-05-26 15:36:00
Is it coincidence that Oprah 's gold-plated media empire is wearing thin after Miz O hooked up with Barack Obama? NYT
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Olbermann Trickle Up Effect
2008-05-26 15:25:00
Is loudmouth liberal wacko Keith Olbermann tarnishing the reputation, as it were, of the Big Network NBC? Olbermann's success has had a spillover effect on the network, said Eric Burns, an ex-NBC News correspondent and former host of "Fox News Watch" on Fox News Channel. "He has made, just in terms of general image, MSNBC and by implication NBC (appear) much more liberal than it really is." David Bauder AP NYP
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Safire's Ire
2008-05-25 17:40:00
I adore William Safire. Have read all his books. Today's NYT Safire "The Seamy Side Of Semiotics" column lede: When was the last time you saw a person stop and think on television?Thinking in public is just not done. When asked a question or given some other verbal or visual cue, a panelist or interviewee will bark out an instantaneous answer. Talking points will march out smartly, often backed up by a fact or a figure to display a certain certitude.But in a subjunctive mood, we can ask: What if a candidate, expert or pundit were to lean back in the hot seat, look up at the ceiling, wrinkle the brow, steeple the fingers ? and say nothing for four or five seconds?Unprepared! the audience expecting instant profundity would cry. The alien thinker would be adjudged to be frozen stiff, startled into silence, exposed as ignorant...The sought-after savant caught momentarily marshaling thoughts on camera would be transformed from a get to a geddoutahere.
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Sock It To Him
2008-05-25 17:27:00
The new issue of stuffy New Yorker magazine gets the Spitzer "blow-by-blow" from Republican Sultan Of Sleaze Roger Stone on how he blew the whistle on Eliot. NYP The burning question still unanswered: why Spitzer keeps his socks on while getting his rocks off...
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Hillary: Pulp Fiction
2008-05-25 14:50:00
Maureen Dowd on "Meet The Press": "I think her timing was excruciatingly bad. She doesn't wish him bodily harm but she does wish him ill... as the Clintons attempt a hostile takeover of the VP's mansion." Tim Russert speechless as staid historian Doris Kearns Goodwin observes: "Better to have your enemies inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in." Al Sharpton socks it to psychopol Hillary over her over-the-top Obama assassination fantasy. NYDN "The last nail in her campaign's coffin." A Kennedy to the NYP "Obama now has the perfect excuse not to pick Hillary as his running mate." NYT's Maureen Dowd in "All About Eve" - another shot at Hillary's multiple personality (Dowd's compared her to "Sybil"). NY Gov David Paterson: "Desperate." NYDNKnowing he's got the nom in the bag gallant Obama cuts her slack. Wash Post NYDN But it ain't over until the psychobitch sings. Wash Post "We again are hearing the old discouraging response: No, Mrs. Clinton cannot share ...
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Go To Your Room
2008-05-25 14:14:00
The Fickle Finger Of Fate fingers "Laugh-In's" Dick Martin. The funnyman was 86. His partner Dan Rowan died in 1987. NYP NYDN Some of "Laugh-In's" (1968-73) running jokes...Blame Richard Nixon for the tedious endless spate of politicians pimping on comedy shows to make people think they're human (and the pack journalists duly regurgitating the salient bites). Nixon made a scandalous appearance on the show uttering "Sock It To Me." Another reason to hate Nixon...
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
2008-05-25 00:53:00
More reax to psychopath Hillary's stunning and revealing narcissistic victim pathology. "For all her claims of media bias and ill treatment by her male fellow candidates, Hillary has got off absurdly softly in this campaign. No one ? neither her rivals nor mainstream journalists ? has had the guts to explore or even list the bursting catalogue of past Clinton scandals, in which Hillary was nearly always hip deep." Camille Paglia in exploring how Hillary's clinging to the phony sexism whine vineand is ruining it for other chicks. WSJ's Peggy Noonan : Great women, all different, but great in terms of size, of impact on the world and of struggles overcome. Struggle was not something they read about in a book. They did not use guilt to win election -- it comes up zero if you Google "Thatcher" and "You're just picking on me because I'm a woman." Instead they used the appeals men used: stronger leadership, better ideas, a superior philosophy.Someone please have the compassion and cojo...
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Sing Along With Bitch
2008-05-24 14:16:00
Watch Katie Couric 's on-stage moves and mediocre singing with Bette Midler. "When the moon is in the Seventh House and Jupiter aligns with Mars..." What's with those white UFO disc earrings? They're waaay too big for her head...
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Pimp My Bride
2008-05-24 13:53:00
Fox News Weekend bonehead anchorbabe Courtney Friel 's husband (left with Kevin Spacey) is hired by CNN. TV NewserFrom his website: Carter Evans is a high energy storyteller. "Slick TV storytelling is a craft," Carter says. "I don't just tell you what's happening... I take you there with me!" Carter is a high energy TV reporter with 12 years of Live on air experience at network affiliates. From breaking news, to complicated court cases, Carter always tells compelling stories. Watch the network feeds and you'll see Carter live in the middle of a brush fire one day and Skydiving with the Flying Elvi the next. In New York City, Carter's a freelance reporter and anchor. Look for him on My 9 News (WWOR) and CBS Newspath. Perhaps CNN's hiring him to relieve burned-out cruise ship jumper daredevil LIVE stuntman Rick "tase me, bro'" Sanchez. TV Newser also reports David "Pimp ed Out Chelsea" Shuster is sliding into MSNBC's 4 p hour.
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