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Booker Booking Out
2008-05-24 13:33:00
Fired psycho Tee Vee anchorbabe Alycia Lane's hunk sunk.Page Six: Expect Chris Booker back in town soon. The hunky deejay, who dates sexy newsgal Alycia Lane, has been let go as morning man by Philly's Q102 FM, which plans to stress more music and less personality. "We were doing extremely well, it's just that they're going in a different direction," Booker - who'll be paid for the remaining year of his contract - told Page Six yesterday. "This is par of the course in radio." Booker loves New York. As we reported in January, the former K-Rock deejay and MTV personality was mulling lucrative radio and TV deals here and still kept his pad in the world's greatest city.
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Hillary Clinton And The Last Crusade
2008-05-24 12:59:00
Keith Olbermann's "Special Comments" are Valium compared with his scathing diatribe last night on psychopath Hillary 's political suicide. MSNBC vidI searched deep in my head trying to analyze this! The sleepy media didn't pick it up the first time Miz Radioactive said it (TIME mag) in March. This time it was before the editorial board of a South Dakota newspaper. ABC NewsThe ruthless corrupt morally bereft bitch is so hellbent on winning she'd off Obama. Subliminally I view it as a threat to Obama. He'd be absolutely out of his skull if he bows to pressure to crown her VP...Watch her implode here. And here."The Last Straw" NYDN "Stirs Uproar" NYT "Clinton Sorry" Wash Post "The Specter Of The Unspeakable" Wash Post "EXCUSE FOR NOT QUITTING: HEY, RFK GOT SHOT IN JUNE!" NYP "She was waiting for Obama to implode. Instead she has." Andrew Sullivan The Atlantic
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Shun Of Sam
2008-05-17 16:51:00
Via Soup Cans: "Sam Donaldson would never kiss and tell." How right you are! Donaldson believes her [Barbara Walters ] decision to include the salacious tidbit [affair with married senator] was clearly for business purposes. He says, very matter-of-factly; "she's selling books." But don't wait for the the ABC newsman to make any intimate confessions of his own. "You know, I don't think I would do it. Those kind of things are sort of private to me. Now when I say I'm the 'old school,' Barbara's older than I am believe it or not, but even so, you don't kiss and tell."Now, didn't Sam's 36-hour Cialis erection wither after his phone number showed up in the DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey's phone records? See: "Sorry, Wrong Number" 11-28-07 "Bungled Number? 11-13-07
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MSNBC: Cruella de Bill
2008-05-17 16:03:00
MSNBC, continuing its on-air humping of Bill O 'Reilly 's f**k-laced rant, went back to the videotape last night with a doctored version where we see the hapless stage hand (I hestitate to bill the guy a producer) handing it back to O'Reilly: Sardonic Rachel Maddow, sitting in for Keith Friday night, is far BETTER than Keith. At least she doesn't have that wacky Howard Beale thing going on... I look forward to the day when MSNBC, secretly owned by Iran, forces Howard/Keith to make good on his on-air suicide threat...
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Larry King: As Predictable As Ex-Lax
2008-05-17 13:53:00
?That?s why I?ll never work here. Breaking booty news ? that?s my background.? Ryan Seacrest to Larry King on why he'll never take over Larry's show permanently. Jacques Steinberg NYTCNN honcho Jon Klein's trying to quell rumors that CNN is: A) dumping Larry for Ryan or Katie. B) Moving ol' Lar out of the 9 p slot. Klein: "?Larry King Live? is one of the few appointment-viewing shows on television. It takes years and years to build that up.? ?As long as he continues to get the great bookings and the great ratings and maintains his passion for doing it, all of which he?s maintained, he?s there... He hoped Mr. Seacrest would continue to fill in for Mr. King ?from time to time,? but added that he had given no thought to a more permanent role for Mr. Seacrest at CNN. As to any interest he might have in Ms. Couric... ?She?s got a job at CBS. She?s got a contract over there. That?s all there is to say.?Larry has delusions of working until he's 83 - in 2017 - if God doesn't strike hi...
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Maddow Mania
2008-05-16 17:42:00
The lone female among the MSNBC political blowhards - Rachel Maddow - expands her Air America radio show to Chicago's progressive WCPT AM. Robert Feder Chicago Sun-Times Rock star Rachel is the Obama of the cable Tee Vee world. She's got adoring fans. Everybody wants to be her MySpace friend. If anyone can shut up the MSNBC penises, it's Ph.D. Rachel.Rachel, please forgive me my Evil Twin cannot resist. I admire and respect your intellect and commanding presence - even though you're too liberal for my taste. But, this is the closest Miz Rachel will ever get to anything that resembles a penis...
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...And The Horse You Rode In On
2008-05-16 15:35:00
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" ran that Bill O'Reilly F-laced rant at least twice this morning. Mika can't contain her glee. MSNBC has milked Bill's blowup ad nauseum. Jossip vid"His words would make Sue Simmons sh*t her pants... For "Today" John Larson NBC News Los Angeles." Snarky NBC news piece replayed on prissy Dan Abrams's MSNBC "The Verdict." Watch it here. "Statestical dead heat." Yuck yuck. MSNBC Tee Vee anchorbabe Contessa Brewer. Abrams hauls Miz Contessa into the studio to relieve her on-air fuck-ups. You DO look like a bimbo. And Abrams comes off a himbo. My biggest on-air gaffe? 'Orgasm" for "organism"...
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What's Wrong With This Picture?
2008-05-16 15:08:00
Via FTV Live...
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Gayboy: Playboy Goes AC/DC
2008-05-16 14:57:00
Time-Warner Cable putting Playboy's new gay porn channel on the air. NYP XBIZ

Hollywood Babble On
2008-05-16 14:48:00
Johnny Depp was known as "donkey dong"... Sean Connery posed nude for art studies, and one student said: "It was the biggest I've ever seen. It made me drop my charcoal pencil." Rush & Molloy NYDN on the bombshell book due out June 1st: "Hollywood Babylon: It's Back." The guy behind Blood Moon dishes the dirt here. YouTube
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Consolidate This!
2008-05-16 14:43:00
Bush FCC shill Kevin Martin got his ass kicked by the Senate last night. B&C

Sue Simmons: Different Yokes For Different Folk
2008-05-16 14:26:00
The most surprising thing about Sue Simmons ’s unbleeped blooper the other night is that anyone in this city even noticed. “She’ll continue to be on the air,” said a WNBC spokeswoman... The reality is that this vulgar word has been tossed about with such abandon in public for so many years that New Yorkers tend to tune it out. Its endless, and mindless, repetition left them numb long ago. By now, the word is no longer shocking, just tedious. Clyde Habermann NYTThe media fawned over Tony Soprano. Expletives undeleted. The hypocrisy is stunning. It's all about expectations... We expect Tony's expletive-laced rants and in the context of the venue, f**k you is acceptable. NBC's Brian Williams latest pimp to convince people he's human ("a sailor on crack" cracked Conan): "Do you think you'll ever drop the f-bomb?" The staid Williams replied that he doesn't "talk that way or have a potty mouth" and while he "occasionally...will use some salty language" he "can never say it wo...
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Maligned John Tesh Has Last Laugh
2008-05-16 14:07:00
One word: "plastics." We all should've gotten into plastics instead of TV news. Or sales.Richard Huff NYDN: WNBC/Ch. 4... talk is rampant that there will be an anchor overhaul and how the staff will be used for the new 24-hour channel. "I think we are all frustrated because we don't know how much more work we can do," said a worried Ch. 4 staffer. Concerns about the workload and the way the station has treated news in the past year have the source troubled. "There's nothing like doing local news in New York," John Tesh said yesterday on WPIX/Ch. 11, where he was on to pitch his latest project. Tesh should know. Long before became known for his sappy music, he worked at WCBS/Ch. 2. "Television is a young person's game," said Tesh. "I look at it now - could I do that? I don't think so." Tesh left TV news, married a hot actress, and it would take a Paul Bunyan anchor to secure his boatload of dough. WNBC worried grunts: Reinvent yourself before they reinvent you...
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Stay Classy, New York!
2008-05-14 16:43:00
Stephen Colbert does a hilarious send-up of the Bill O'Reilly on-air "Inside Edition" blowup. About 3:12 in... Ran on the Colbert Report last night. He dons a Ron Burgundy mustache and turtleneck, pretending to be a local TV news anchor in some obscure North Carolina market: Ron Burgundy's San Diego is much classier today. A Tee Vee station served an open-ended suspension to "Good Morning San Diego" reporter Rod "shit out of" Luck for beating it out of his girlfriend. The 58-year-old Luck looks like a Las Vegas casino bouncer. Check it out...
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Let's Go To The Videotape...
2008-05-14 14:50:00
It's now de rigueur to unearth ancient clips of "respected" Tee Vee journos unloading expletives on camera. Perhaps to justify that such so-called "meltdowns" aren't anomalies in the broadcast biz. We've endured live and Memorex memories of MSNBC blowhard Chris Matthews frequent s**t bombs. MSNBC had a field day with that the ancient Bill O'Reilly "Inside Editon" f**k-laced harangue, whetting our appetite for more. WNBC's Sue Simmons's FU to her co-anchor Chuck Scarborough gave temporary relief to Cable Tee Vee talking heads' interminable Hillary/Obama misguided and schizo speculation. So for your viewing pleasure Gawker assembled the "Top Ten Angry On-Camera Meltdowns" starring Lesley Stahl, Chris Matthews, Sam Donaldson, Bill Plante and more...

Fidel-ity
2008-05-14 14:42:00
"Barbara Walters is a shameless media whore." Rupe Murdoch's NYP quoting some Bible-thumping conservative hack. I don't care about her affairs with the senator - and NBC's Andrea Mitchell's now-hubby Alan Greenspan. I still want to know if she boinked Fidel...

Are You Experienced?
2008-05-14 13:47:00
"The NBC Experience" wandering through a purple haze of mixed reviews. The expensive high-tech upfront presentation shepherding advertisers through a maze resembling the stations of the cross. "I think NBC is doing this for its own vanity and to impress the people in the Hollywood community. I think they are in trouble." John Consoli MediaWeek Jossip
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Static
2008-05-14 13:31:00
Clear Channel avoids an expensive legal fight by lopping a bil and a half from the buyout deal. NYTOne of my favorite actors, James Garner, going home after a "minor" strroke. The 80-year-old Garner starred in TV's "Maverick" and "The Rockford Files." NYDNOprah gives up on that absurd ABC reality show "The Big Give." Don Kaplan NYPABC's fall prime time sked. Wash Post Lisa de Moraes WP "A Second Night For Comedy At CBS" Bill Carter NYT CW's sked. Wash Post
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Hillary: Git-R-Done!
2008-05-14 12:37:00
"Indiana Clinton and the Nomination of Doom." Boston radio talker Jay Severin on Don Imus this a.m. Don: "What's the difference between the white guys in Iowa [where Obama won] and West Virginia?" Severin: "West Virginia is made up entirely of relatives of 'Larry the Cable Guy.'" Don: "What makes you think Satan can't win the nomination?" Severin : "Take away the [superdelegates with dicks in an Obama political vise] belts and shoelaces." I tuned in Don Ho, sick of the Cable Tee Vee Talking Heads bandying about "metrics" and math. Yesterday I saw MSNBC blowhard Chris Matthews utter: "If Hillary Clinton says the word 'white' one more time, she's going to be accused of being the Al Sharpton of white people." Laffs all around. NewsBustersAlthough psychomanic Hillary czar Terry McAuliffe claims the media are "in the tank for Obama," the schizo scribes and talking heads are starting to buy into Hillary's cry that Obama can't win Joe Sixpack and swing states. Maureen Dowd NYTCami...

Sexpletives Deleted
2008-05-08 16:48:00
NYP Page Six: NO sex please, we're Channel 2. Producers of the Broadway musical "Passing Strange" say WCBS-TV has axed their song "We Just Had Sex" from a pre-Tony Awards show to air June 7 because it was deemed too racy. The lyrics go: "We just had sex. There's nothing sleazy 'bout a natural reflex. It's nice and easy. No need to crane your necks. It's all cool and breezy, baby." Producer Oskar Eustis said he'll protest the censorship. A Channel 2 rep said the song was "inappropriate . . . for a 7 p.m. audience when children are watching."

Graphic Images
2008-05-08 16:25:00
NBC hearts Keith Olbermann's video graphics. NBC affiliates are getting a new graphics package that suspiciously looks like "Countdown's" dark and stormy nights. Newscast Studio Blog And what's with this weird phallic graphic? If you look closely you'll see His Keithness trolling for newbies under the bridge...
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Lightnin' Striking Again! (and again, and again, and again)
2008-05-08 16:04:00
Fired Tee Vee psycho anchorbabe Alycia Lane's wild Atlantic City bash for boyfriend Chris Booker pissed off former station brass because some current talent went. Dan Gross A weather dude was chastised for a photo posted on a radio station website of him brandishing two drinks. While we're on the weather, here's David Letterman's "Top Ten Signs There's Trouble At The Weather Channel." My favorite: #2 Weathercasters giggle every time they say, "ball lightning."If you don't get it read this. Or watch this. It's beyond comprehension that Weather Channel honchos turned a blind eye to this case as well as other celebrated sex harassment cases that have plagued the network over the years. I always thought weatherdudes were a) asexual, b) gay, c) mommies' boys. With the exception of the Weather Channel's darling Ray Stagich! It's not about sex; it's about power. Any woman spotted in their Doppler radar is a target.

Media Buzzzz
2008-05-08 15:45:00
Crazy billionaire Sam Zell puts veteran radio guy Randy Michaels in charge of his monolith Tribune Co. LA Times Robert Feder Chicago Sun-TimesThe NYT jettisons 15 journos after reporters refused to drink the buyout Kool-Aid. NYPGawker's Nick Denton analyzes the NYT's conundrum: Risk sullying the lofty image or just acknowledge the liberal bias and run with it. "All this messy modernity compromises the Times' prissy self-image. The newspaper's proprietors and editors are obviously moderate liberals, and the conservative columnists are either watered-down or compromised, as token as the useless liberals allowed to whine on Fox News—but the Times can't acknowledge that it's partisan."
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Know When To Fold 'Em
2008-05-08 15:26:00
Update: Rush denies the front page Wash Post piece. Hasn't suspended Operation Chaos.Rush Limbaugh ditches"Operation Chaos" now that the Dem party is more effed up. Limbaugh succeeded in putting Hillary over the top in Indiana by dispatching his Repub soldiers to vote Hillary. The idea was to ensure Hillary got the nomination because she'd be easier to beat. But now El Rushbo has reversed himself: "I now believe he would be the weakest of the Democrat nominees... He can get effete snobs, he can get wealthy academics, he can get the young, and he can get the black vote, but Democrats do not win with that." "Did Rush Limbaugh Tilt Results In Indiana?" Wash PostEmbarrassingly, Hillary doesn't know when to fold 'em. "She stays in the race now for the worst possible reasons, hoping that there is some new bogeyman like Wright around the corner and Obama will somehow break down in the stretch like a fragile racehorse." Mike Lupica NYDN"They say it's all over but the shouting. Fortun...
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Circle Of Jerks
2008-05-08 14:54:00
Keith Olbermann proves he's a jerk at both ends of the camera. "Countdown's" #1 story last night was Keith's EXCLUSIVE! tour of Yankee stadium's reconstruction. Olbermann shot the video himself and it looked it. See for yourself at MSNBC vid. In exchange for the pub Keith slides into the $2,500 PER GAME seats. Free.The guillotine's come down on Katie Couric's producer Svengali Rick Kaplan. Or so we hear. The fired MSNBC producer who tangled with Keith Olbermann on His Keithness's manic Howard Beale on-air weirdness after his brush with smoking-related cancer, apparently wanted more dough for his dual gigs as temporary "Early Show" and "CBS Evening News" wrangler. JossipThe debut (NYO spells "premiere" wrong) of MSNBC's political blab-a-thon with NYT reporters sucked big time. NYO has the numbers The ink-stained wretches have no cleavage, blow-dried hair, aren't pimping themselves as ex-members of Congress, and one - Adam Nagourney - has that serial killer look. Hillary Cl...
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Hillary: Death Becomes Her
2008-05-08 02:41:00
Clinton WH insider/pimp now high-paid ABC News talking head George Stephanopoulos claims Hillary 's staying in the race for the VP slot. ABC News Why? Dem bigwigs wasted no time bailing today. CBS News video via YouTubeTalking points to Obama: You've got a death wish if you pick Hillary. The ruthless Clinton Inc. goons will have your head - either before November or after... If you cherish your balls and your existence on this planet...
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Kaplan: A Man A Plan A Canal. Panama!
2008-05-08 02:28:00
TV Newser: Ungentle giant Rick Kaplan sheds his temporary gig at CBS News "Early Show." Kaplan's been producing that and Katie Couric since psycho producerbabe Shelley Ross got the heave-ho.[I just felt compelled to use that palindrome headline...]
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Star F****r
2008-05-08 02:16:00
"I will not dignify this with a comment. Barbara's written words say it all!" A Babs Walters flack responding to dumped "The View" wacko Star Jones's shot at the veteran newsbabe "an adulterer in the sunset of her life" aftear Babs blabbed about Star's gastric bypass and obscene wedding on Oprah. US mag Huff Post has the competing volleys between the two egos and Walters's Oprah vid diss.

How Refreshing
2008-05-08 02:01:00
"Holy Schlitz! Obama's A Big Tipper!" TMZ Obama throws down a Pabst brewski in NC and could've had nine more with the tip he left. Multiply that by millions and you've got the "bribe" Obama's dangling for Hillary to go quietly into the good night. Thomas Edsall Huff Po: "Obama campaign would agree to pay back the $11.4 million she has loaned her own bid, along with an estimated $10 million to $15 million in unpaid campaign expenses." It's not usual for the victor to financially sweeten the spoiler. What's unusual is the outrageous amount.

NBC's Cups Runneth Over
2008-05-07 21:06:00
NBC ramping up a 24-hour local news channel like NY1 on flagship station WNBC. Bill Carter NYT The on-line store hawking peacock string bikinis and men's thongs....
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