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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....
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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":.
More About: Tom Cruise , Movies , Nicole Kidman , Actors

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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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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