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Looking Glass
2008-05-31 14:48:00
Don't look at electronic billboards. Big Billboard is Watching You... NYT[The complete manuscript of George Orwell's "1984"]
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Sunday Spin Shows
2008-05-31 14:29:00
Classified under "Entertainment" - Scott McClellan's appearance tomorrow on "Meet The Press." NYP
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Hillary: The Devil's Advocate
2008-05-31 13:41:00
What: Clash of the titans Hillary and Obama. When: 9:30 a.m. today. Where: A DC hotel. Why: You know why. Wash Post NYP NYDN So what if Hill captures Puerto Rico tomorrow.C-SPAN and the orgasmic political Tee Vee talking heads fuel-injected LIVE coverage!. Mark Halperin The Page TIMEMy prediction: Michigan and Florida delegates are shit out of luck thanks to their short-sighted party elders who thought Hillary had it in the bag. If they seat any of them they're going against their own rule change... "Clinton forces have a weak hand." Thomas Edsall Huff PostIt's all over for Hillary. Politico Obama's kicking off his general campaign Tuesday on Repub convention turf. Ballsy...Don't expect the Clintons to go quietly into the good night. Bill Clinton 's Nixonian enemies list is growing and as the Clintons have repeatedly demonstrated over the years, paybacks are hell. To resurrect Hillary's admonition to Barack Obama : "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen".
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Al Sharpton: Pumped and Spinning
2008-05-31 13:34:00
Captions, anyone?"My Jaguar I got for free is in the shop."
More About: Hypocrisy , Al Sharpton , Spinning , Sharpton

Hillary's Last Stand
2008-05-30 18:22:00
It's the kind of rare event that political Tee Vee talking heads would gladly lop off their nuts with no anesthesia to witness in real time. Democratic party honchos gather in a DC hotel tomorrow where drama queen victim Hillary's already summoned her female protest warriors. The Dem rules and bylaws committee takes up the Florida and Michigan delegate seating issue to determine once and for all who gets the nomination crown. PoliticoChris Matthews has a 36-hour thrill up his leg...
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Clear Channel Greases Palms To Block XM/Sirius Merger
2008-05-30 17:16:00
Clear Channel spent more than $760,000 in the first quarter lobbying against the combination of two satellite radio companies and on other issues, according to a disclosure form, reports Encore.com. The company, like most of the broadcast radio industry, opposes the proposed $5 billion acquisition of XM Satellite Radio by Sirius . That deal was cleared by the Justice Department in March but still needs approval by the FCC. All AccessSo what's so unusual about that?
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Scott McClellan: $$$$ Boy
2008-05-30 16:48:00
This is not the first time MSNBC blowhard Chris Matthews has invoked the classic Frank Capra film starring Jimmy Stewart as "Mr. Smith Goes To Washington." Here he's elevated Pillsbury doughboy Scott McClellan with poppin' fresh video.Keith Olbermann's paranoia appears to be rubbing off on Matthews. Chris claims Huff Po editrix Arianna Huffington (former frequent MSNBC talking head now banned) has a private dick spying on an unnamed NBC rival in the Washington bureau. Gawker

Jane Clark: Bug Off
2008-05-30 16:06:00
Fox News whiner Jane Clark has post traumatic stress disorder from three bed bug bites? The wacko is suing everybody but Fox for "Acute psychological injuries," resulting from Clark being bitten three times by bed bugs. She has not returned to her job as satellite desk coordinator since May 12. TV Newser Fox isn't named in the suit "...because FNC parent News Corp. is paying full Workers Compensation to Clark, which includes being treated three times a week by a psychologist and frequent doctor visits, legal action cannot be brought against them.Clark's lawyer is a veteran of bed bug lawsuits... Fox announced the bugs were "totally eradicated" in March Jacques Steinberg NYT and another report claims the source of the bed bugs was fired. The crux of the lawsuit in my view: That Fox lied... The unimaginative media are universal in bleading off with "Something is bugging a Fox News employee..."

GE: "We Bring Good Things To Light"
2008-05-30 15:43:00
It's been a bad week at 30 Rock. The long knives are out as Katie Couric claims she was pressured to positively spin Bush's Iraq war while NBC "Today" show hostess the same day a former MSNBC reporter said the same. "Was Press A War Enabler?" NYTRe: Katie's blast: A spokeswoman for General Electric, which owns NBC and MSNBC through its division NBC Universal, declined to speak about the specifics of the comments but said, ?General Electric has never, and will never, interfere in the editorial process at NBC News.? Jessica Yellin, the ex-MSNBC chick now at CNN, "revised and extended" her remarks: "No, senior corporate leadership never asked me to take out a line in a script or re-write an anchor intro. I did not mean to leave the impression that corporate executives were interfering in my daily work; my interaction was with senior producers. What was clear to me is that many people running the broadcasts wanted coverage that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the country a...
More About: George Bush , Light , Things

Olbermania
2008-05-30 15:07:00
"As to the "crazy" part, he had to pay me $800,000 for the rest of 2001, and lord knows how many tens of millions I've helped MSNBC take out of his pocket ever since ? so: who's crazy?" Keith Olbermann's response to Rupert Murdoch's branding him "crazy." Olbermann claims Rupe had a hard on after Keith did a Fox sports story about Rupe selling his LA Dodgers...Manic Olbermann had Bush turncoat Scott McClellan on for almost the entire hour last night followed by righteous turncoat Watergate dodger John Dean. Keith's schizo. Watch the vid"Fox News Sunday" Chris Wallace agrees with Rupert's "crazy" assessment - and NBC's allowing "Howard Beale" to drift between wacko and Serious Journalist: "There's Keith Olbermann, you know, one minute delivering a rant about 'Shut the hell up, President Bush,' and then the next minute he's the anchor of their news coverage or their election coverage."Serious journalists inside NBC (read WH correspondent David Gregory held hostage by Olberma...

Obama Pastorized
2008-05-30 14:17:00
For once Chris Matthews and I are bump dancing in rhythm. "I don't see the importance of this," Matthews opined on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" this a.m. "This" is this: A white guest pastor at Obama 's Chicago church doing stand-up political comedy. I thought it was Hil-arious. Obama claims he's "disappointed." Wash Post Jaded me thinks the Obama campaign orchestrated the Hillary attack... NewsBusters has the vid Catholic priest and now-ex Obama adviser Michael Pflegler later apologized.The guy's shtick sent Harvey Korman laughing all the way to the 15th Vibration. Hilarious Harvey has exited the planet. The Carol Burnett TV show genius was 81. NYP NYT

Olbermann's Waterloo
2008-05-29 19:49:00
They're coming to take me away, Haha, They're coming to take me away, Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha, To the funny farm Where Life is Beautiful all the timeAnd I'll be happy to seeThose Nice Young MenIn their Clean WhiteCoatsAnd they're coming to take me AWAY,HA HAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!Napoleon XIV 1966Hear it here!Rupert rings in on Imploding Big Head Keith Olbermann . Would he rehire obsessive-compulsive wack job primal screamer Keith Olbermann. "No. I fired him 5 years ago. "He was crazy." Silicon Valley Insider
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MSNBC Sends In The Clown
2008-05-29 18:46:00
To commit Serious Journalism, pissing off NBC WH correspondent David Gregory fingered for leaking an anti-Olbermann jab appearing in the Wash Post yesterday. Jossip has the back story.Here's what set off Olbermann: "Some top NBC journalists say privately they are troubled by the overlapping identities." [Now that NBC has physically swallowed MSNBC at 30 Rock.] Thin-skinned Olbermann went bat shit when he saw this: "Olbermann is edging ever-closer to self-parody, or, worse, predictability... every time he turns up the volume to 11 like this lately, he sounds like just another of the cable gasbags he used to be a corrective to." TIME James PoniewozikWhen I wrote about both jabs yesterday I observed that Olbermann's skin was so thin he could be flayed with a butter knife. As I predicted months ago Olbermann's snake skin is shedding to reveal suicidal blowhard wacko TV anchorman Howard "Mad As Hell" Beale in 1976's "Network." Help me untie the Gordian Knot. Who wins the war? Gregor...
More About: Keith Olbermann , Howard Kurtz

For Whom The Belle Toils
2008-05-29 18:10:00
Did MSNBC suits bow to WH pressure to spike negative Bush Iraq war stories? CNN's Jessica Yellin was at ABC News and before that MSNBC. Politico 's Michael Calerone with video she plans to correct on her CNN blog inferring the suits were ABC News:CNN's Jessica Yellin to Anderson Cooper last night: "The press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives, frankly, to make sure that this was a war presented in a way that was consistent with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings. And my own experience at the White House was that the higher the president's approval ratings, the more pressure I had from news executives ? and I was not at this network at the time ? but the more pressure I had from news executives to put on positive stories about the president, I think over time..."Cooper: "You had pressure from news executives to put on positive stories about the president?" Yellin: "Not in that exact.... They wouldn't say it in tha...
More About: George Bush , Media Bias , Belle

You Don't Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows
2008-05-29 16:58:00
Who is ABC "Good Morning America " weatherswish Sam Champion's boyfriend? Radar A gay NBC-owned Bravo exec gets dishy on his blog about the fah-byoo-lous Memorial Day do in the Hamptons. One would think guys like Sam and Anderson Cooper find their dual existences stressful. Gawker The youngsters at Radar seem to think the explosion of gay weathermen is a recent phenomenon. "Cloudy With A Chance Of Fabulous". Au contaire, my callow compadres. Let's reel in the years to 1970, shall we? 1. Mommy's boy. Momma's surrogate spouse. Possesses an Arctic jet stream. 2. Asexual. Not even a 9.9 tornado rings his stationary front. 3. Married. Shows cold front to wife. Imagines hot front of hunky general manager.4. Married. Physically slight and wussy as 1, 2, and 3. Chases eyes of her-icanes. Insists on measuring female dew point and heat index.5. Beefy absolute zero occupying continental air mass disgorging gale force winds. 6. Secretly gay. Gets off on mercurial barometer and icicles.7. Gay...
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Katie Couric: How Low Can You Go?
2008-05-29 16:31:00
Katie Couric's ratings slipped again last week beating the old record low set in April. Huff PostCatty Lisa Ling signed by CNN to deliver doom and gloom to your HDTV. Hollywood Reporter Ling will report from countries where battles are being waged over oil, land, water and food. Also reporting for "Planet in Peril: Battle Lines" will be anchor Anderson Cooper and chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta . It will be televised in high definition at year's end.How will Miz Lisa arrange for those Botox shots in the bush... Maybe Gupta will volunteer.
More About: C News , Katie Couric , Brian Williams

Hot Scott
2008-05-29 13:49:00
The "get" of the moment Scott McClellan on the "Today" show this a.m with his book #1 on Amazon.There are several kinds of Washington memoirs: ?I Reveal the Honest Truth,? a kiss-up-and-tell designed to settle scores (nod to honesty optional). ?I Was There at the Start,? designed to make the author appear to be the linchpin of history. And, most tedious: ?I Knew It Was a Terrible Mistake, but I Didn?t Mention It Until I Got a Book Contract.? NY Times editorial"...McClellan is an exceptionally nice guy." NYP McClellan's book contrasts sharply with his spin before the jaded WH press corps when he was on Bush's watch. Wash Post ABC News "An affable Texan, McClellan was extremely well-liked by White House press corps regulars and was accessible off-camera. But he never earned a reputation for being particularly helpful or pushing for more information. "I didn't ask about that" was a phrase reporters heard regularly." Thomas DeFrank NYDN
More About: Books , George Bush , Dick Cheney , Scooter Libby , Karl Rove

Bang A Tong
2008-05-29 13:32:00
Local TV news celebrities can't even pass gas without it ending up in the NY tabloids. Veteran New York anchorwoman Kaity Tong had a health scare that kept her off Channel 11's newscast Wednesday night.Tong's WPIX colleagues called 911 Wednesday afternoon when she fainted at the 42nd St. station, sources confirmed. The beloved anchor reported feeling lightheaded and sick. But Tong, who is believed to be 57, went home on her own, sources said. She's expected back at work today. Richard Huff NYDNCould it be that toxic mold that drove Miz Kaity out of her pricey pad in 2007? Gawker
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Howard Kurtz's Reliable Sources
2008-05-29 13:13:00
The ubiquitous, prolific media gadfly Howard Kurtz fending off conflict of interest sniping from NYT's Jacques Steinberg after the Wash Post columnist and host of CNN's "Reliable Sources " pimped a new book PR flacked by none other than Howard's wife. His on-air disclaimer wasn't enough for Jacques and other "media ethicists" - an oxymoron, CBS News
More About: Iraq , Books , Washington Post

ABC's Charles Gibson Mulls Future
2008-05-29 12:57:00
?We?re figuring this out. They?ve asked me to stay. We?ll see.? Does coy Charlie want to? ?I honestly don?t know." Jacques Steinberg NYTThe sexagenarian's contract expires after the November election. Gibson was passed over a mere three years ago when Peter Jennings expired. Fate intervened. Jennings's heir, Michigan prep school boy Bob Woodruff, foolishly went to Iraq and nearly had his head blown off. His co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas couldn't cut it solo. Rival sexagenarian Diane Sawyer jonesin' for a nightly anchor gig wouldn't talk to Jacques.
More About: Future , C News , Good Morning America , Charles Gibson

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...
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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.
More About: George Bush , Time , Media Bias , Tool

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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