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Swear Tactics
2008-04-23 01:38:00
"I don't think I'll take any shit for this." Bill Clinton 's hardening of the arteries erupts again. This time in a Pennsylvania radio interview where delusional victim Bill accused Obama of using the "race card" against him. YouTube NYP NYDN Like his wife when presented with the videotape of her Bosnia sniper lie, Bill denied minimizing Obama like Jesse Jackson's niche presidential run to a TV reporter the evidence is on tape) in January before the SC primary. Psychopath Clinton's like the guy surprised in flagrante delicto with a woman not his wife. "This is my sister." The Clintons' "little boy who cried wolf" and the voters who buy into it are troubling... Wash Post
More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Tactics

King's Heart Strings Zing
2008-04-23 00:23:00
TV Newser reports Larry King will continue his CNN gig through 2010. The septuagenarian will be 77 when the new contract extension runs out. So much for speculation that Katie Couric 's sliding into ol' Lar's chair...
More About: Heart , Cable News , Strings

Clear Channel Banks: Bane Of Bain
2008-04-22 23:17:00
Tom Taylor's Radio Info: Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee had barely finished reading this morning's offer by Citigroup and five other lenders whom they're suing - and Bain/Lee call it "yet another disingenuous attempt by the banks to avoid living up to their commitments." The private equity groups claim that "the banks want to move this case into the back room, because they fear that a public trial will clearly expose their misconduct." Bain/Lee are suing the lending group in both Texas (for tortious interference) and New York (for breach) and there are trial dates set for both cases. Word of the rejection by Bain/Lee started "CCU" stock on a downtrend, following the earlier 5% gains.Sirius/XM's "dirty little secret" gleefully headlined by the NAB in the emailed "Smart Brief" but missing on the NAB website. Radio Ink
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Newsprey
2008-04-22 17:18:00
Rupert Murdoch's media blob consumes Newsday . $580 mil.
More About: Newspapers , News Corp , Rupert Murdoch , Media Ownership

30 Rock From The Sun
2008-04-22 16:42:00
The Aliens Are Here to monitor the Pennsylvania Dem primary and reprogram Keith Olbermann before he goes on the air tonight.UFOs spotted over Phoenix yesterday and over the weekend in Florida. Watch Phoenix amateur vid here.
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Snow Job
2008-04-22 01:09:00
Former Bush flack Tony Snow to CNN. TV Newser Karl Rove 's scoring great, albeit begruding, reviews doing the same on Fox News . Unlike Karl, the media never had a hard-on for Tony.
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Couric Canned
2008-04-22 01:02:00
No shockeroo. Katie Couric will clack into the CBS News sunset with no 2008 Dem debate under her stilettos. TV Newser Barack wouldn't commit so the NC Dem party bagged it.
More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton

Citizen Bane
2008-04-21 16:02:00
Great headline: "Murdoch Inc." Newsweek : "This week the Murdochian Era of the Proper Newspaperman has its debut. When readers open their newspapers Monday morning, they will discover a Wall Street Journal fashioned to the tastes of the man who revolutionized media markets from Australia to North America. With its increased focus on politics, international news, culture and sports, Murdoch's reconceived Journal represents nothing short of a formal declaration of war on that most venerable of journalistic institutions, The New York Times . Not since William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal challenged Joseph Pulitzer's New York World in the late 19th century has there been such a clash of newspaper titans."There's a naked girl on page six. Just kidding...
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"Senator" Chris Matthews Muzzled
2008-04-21 15:29:00
"Where do you get that from? I am still honoring the commitment I made in 1987 to cover politics, not engage in it." MSNBC blowhard Chris Matthews to the Philadelphia Inquirer denying he's going after Arlen Specter's Senate seat. Then why did the MSNBC peanut gallery waste valuable air pimping your coy Colbert appearance over and over? Matthews has backed off from publicly thumping his starry-eyed "I want to be a Senator " vision. Some MSNBC suit clamped a muzzle on him. Naive Mika Brzezinski has put a sock into pimping him on air as "Senator." Prediction: Matthews will be blessedly gone after the presidential inauguration...On interrupting guests: "Because I do let them finish their sentences, maybe not their sentences... I'm not entirely patient... I may need more training." Another MSNBC blowhard requiring more training in managing his ego: Moron Joe Scarborough. Somebody please call"Morning Joe" on the carpet and demand he stop his daily on-air fix blabbing about his short, un...

NBC BJ
2008-04-21 15:07:00
NBC News charging suckers $35,000 to enroll in NBC's digital training courses, luring them with subtle job promises. NYT NBC pockets a percentage of the tuition.Why does this remind me of the Barbizon "Be A Model Or Look Just Like One" modeling school scam? Or the Columbia School of Broadcasting? These outfits are franchised nationwide promising fame and fortune to starry-eyed fools.
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The Sumner Of His Discontent
2008-04-21 14:52:00
"Les Moonves is royally screwed." Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood DailyAncient but wily Viacom head Mighty Mouse Sumner Redstone snatches the Viacom, Paramount, MGM and Lionsgate cable premium channel deal from under CBS head Les's nose. The new channel with video-on-demand takes on HBO and Showtime next year. NYDN Miz Nikki claims Moonves was "lowballing" the price for Paramount movies and his "overnegotiating" gambit ticked off the Hollywood studios.
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Pawntiff
2008-04-21 14:36:00
Headline of the day: "Ben's Sermon On The Mound" NYP An aside: take-no-prisoners Bill Maher 's Pope non-apology. YouTube You listened to me.
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Hillary: Campaign Calamity Jane
2008-04-15 04:03:00
"Mama Told Me Not To Come." 1970. Three Dog Night written by Randy "Short People" Newman. "This is the craziest party there could ever be. Don't turn on the lights, 'cause I don't want to see." Flick my switch:Hillary 's not "elitist" but Obama is for his riff on small town America. "Guns and Bitter" trumpeted "Countdown's" Keith Olbermann. MSNBC's resident elitists, David Gregory and Chris Matthews - serial waitress abusers - and their talking heads pondering if Obama is "racist." Pat Buchanan's Obama "elitist" bellows silenced tonight by another talking head who reminded him he had to give up his Mercedes during his failed bid for the Republican prez nomination after the media found out. Hillary's in it until the "bitter" end... The name of a famous Greenwich Village club that launched hundreds of careers. Just not in politics...
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Obama to Hillary: "Draw!"
2008-04-15 00:03:00
"One thing I can say about you is, you sure are a draw," gushed Associated Press head honcho Dean Singleton hyping Barack Obama before his speech at the DC annual lunch drawing 1,100. "You?ve done better than the Rolling Stones do." Editor & PublisherA dazzled Dean later intoned the greatest threat to the world is "Obama bin Laden." E&PNo, the greatest threat to the world: the dyamic media duo of Sam Zell and Rupert Murdoch that Dean and Co. installed on the AP board today. Huff PostRunner-up: Hillary "Annie Get Your Gun Shot And A Beer" Clinton. Watch Obama's response. Huff Post vid
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Chickaboomer's Family Jewel
2008-04-14 21:08:00
There is only one human who can muzzle The Opine Miss M: My 24-year-old daughter.The apple fell really far from the tree...
More About: Family , Jewel , Tube

Keith Uber-Mann
2008-04-14 19:41:00
"He remains an acquired taste." Keith Olbermann appears on TV Week's 10 Most Powerful in TV news list. #6 one step above Bill O 'Reilly . The only other Serious Anchordude to make the list: Tim Russert. The rest are the ususal exec species.
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Ann Coulter "Bodless: Chest Of Horrors"
2008-04-14 18:50:00
Rupert Murdoch dispatches a grunt to snap up copies of the National Lampoon-ish Wall Street Journal fake paper featuring a too-big-boobed Ann Coulter . NYT Former Lampoon editor Tony Hendra makes us laff once more. My Wall Street JournalThe cunning conservative psychoflamethrower attention-starved media whore Coulter must be ecstatic to 1) get the free pub without having to screech obscenities; 2) entice clueless male victims with nonexistent 36DDs.
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Star Of David
2008-04-14 18:30:00
NBC WH correspondent David Gregory (left with wife) had to promise to stop being obnoxious to waitresses under threat of losing his new MSNBC show. Jossip reports Tim Russert was dining with Gregory who tore the server a new one after the order got screwed up. ?Russert warned Gregory never to behave that way in front of him again,? says a spy. And once MSNBC got wind of the story, they made Gregory ?promise up and down to change his behavior? before they handed him the 6pm slot."Jossip continues: But the NBC staffers in D.C. wouldn?t be surprised ? that?s his normal workplace behavior. ?He still treats most of ? the newsroom like shit,? says a NBC insider. Not that the higher ups are reprimanding him for how he treats his staff or anything. Says our tattler: ?Amazing how NBC cares more about food servers than about the people who have to deal with Gregory?s arrogance every day.?Let's segue to: Chris Matthews and his wife are at the next table. He starts yelling at his waitress bec...
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DC Madam: Rooked Hookers
2008-04-14 17:51:00
Republican Sen. David Vitter (left) doesn't have to testify in the DC Madam prostitution case. MSNBC How convenient! Interestingly enough none of the high-powered johns have to take the stand. "Prosecutors have called just three ex-clients -- a landscaper with a history of mental illness and two suburban lawyers you never heard of. No senator. No diplomat. No war strategist." Wash PostThe case is sexist vanilla as only the babes are publicly humiliated. Prosecutor: "Of those 80 appointments, approximately how many times did you have sex?" Ex-call girl: "Seventy-nine... All except the gentleman who was a quadriplegic." Wash PostThose 79 are among 700,000 men in American who frequent hookers in an escort economy that's robust and recession-proof. Portfolio
More About: Lawsuits , Hypocrisy , Prostitution , Double Standards

Kevin, What's The Frequency?
2008-04-14 17:14:00
"As federal judges consider pivotal cases about what constitutes offensive TV and radio broadcasts, an expletive might best describe the state of the federal government's enforcement of indecency rules. It's all bleeped-up." LA TimesYouTube TV News cleared in more than a dozen markets starting September. B&CStephen Colbert 's in Philadelphia all this week. Liberal Air America is "in better shape than ever." David Hinckley NYDN Harry Potter billionaire authoress J.K. Rowling flies in on her broom to personally testify in NYC today against a small Michigan publishing company's fan tome. NYT NYPTee Vee networks loading up late night with annoying commercials to gauge ratings. Ad AgeBryant Gumbel excised from the NFL network. Why not move him from HBO's "Real Sports" to "Real Sex" and be done with it?
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Daryn Kagan: Rope-A-Hope
2008-04-14 16:51:00
Ex-CNN anchor and Rush Limbaugh fiancee Daryn Kagan shills her new book "What's Possible." Exclamation point! David Bauder "Dave was interested in my story of reinvention in light of all the news about so many TV news jobs going away. Looks like I'm a beacon of hope that there is life after a traditional news career. Yes, there is!" Daryn Kagan's blog Here she gives us a "sneak peek" into the book. One must hand it to Miz Daryn. She's branded. Turned S**t Happens into Hope Happens. How much did Rush Limbaugh pay her to keep her yap shut about their relationship? I find it hard to believe she saved all her CNN $$$ for the inevitable hereafter.
More About: Books , Rope

Headless Body In Flopless Star
2008-04-14 16:13:00
A copy of the silent 1950s movie of Marilyn Monroe giving a guy a blow job sold! $1.5 mil. Cross-dresser blackmailer FBI headtrip J. Edgar Hoover obsessed over the identity of the headless man. JFK? RFK? NY Post"A former FBI agent... tipped G-men to the existence of the film in the mid-'60s. The feds eventually confiscated the original footage - but not before the informant made a copy of it." The informant's son reaped the $1.5 mil. Joe DiMaggio struck out after offering the guy 25 grand to buy the damning celluloid. Marilyn was sewn in the dress (right) before warbling a boozy birthday tune to JFK in 1962. YouTube vid
More About: Movies , Body , Star

Graceful Kelly
2008-04-14 15:44:00
Fox News brass trotting out blonde, beautiful lawyer/anchorbabe and rumored Brit Hume honey Megyn Kelly (she's married now & in NYC) to negate Fox's bikini bimbo blonde, beautiful anchorboneheads. Howard Kurtz Wash PostCaught Fox's latest tinkering with Fox & Friends Weekend. Liked the Boston sports guy David Briggs trying out Saturday. Cute. Love the dimples. My jury's out on the bombastic Clayton Morris. Ainsley Earhardt's million-dollar smile and bubbly personality acquitting herself nicely. The anchors dancing in their seats to a live band was a bit disconcerting...Quintessential news quack Courtney Friel fronted the scripted newscasts. Even with a script she effs up. Miz Courtney stumbled over several words in the bit I watched and uttered "s**t" instead of "ship."
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Garbage In. Garbage Out.
2008-04-14 15:22:00
In a move reminiscent of a major league sports deal, rumors surface of a Katie Couric Anderson Cooper "trade." Richard Huff NYDN Anderson to the CBS anchor chair; Katie to CNN. Anderson, a CBS News "60 Minutes" contributor, attracts the much-coveted younger demo elusive to network and cable TV news...Katie Couric is merely the public face to CBS's woes. People are getting fired left and right to save money. CBS stock is tanking. Ad sales suck. Yet head honcho Les Moonves rakes in more dough. Nearly $37 mil last year - $8 million more than the year before. Brian Stelter NYT A 28% increase. LA Times
More About: Hypocrisy , Garbage , Cable News

Dr. Phil: Shrink Rapped
2008-04-14 14:50:00
"A rogue producer for the "Dr. Phil " show, who posted bail for a Florida teenager jailed for taking part in a videotaped beating of another teen, has forced the show to cancel a planned episode on the incident." NYP Page Six NYDN"Rogue"?? Nice try, Dr. Shrill. It's all about ratings and the "get." The Moderate Voice There's videotape of the producer/bouncer leading 17-year-old head girl thug Mercedes Nichols shouting "We have exclusivity!!!" through a gantlet of Florida media vultures. MyFox Tampa Bay vid WESH TVNarcissistic media whore Phil blabbed to the scrum about Britney's mental state after crashing her hospital incarceration. Her parents were so ticked they bailed from an appearance on his show in January 2007. NYDNThe rogue with no boundaries: Dr. Phil. Oprah and her new doctor Tee Vee protegee are rubbing their hands in glee...
More About: Britney Spears , Crime , Hypocrisy

Dick Cheney's Hot Rod
2008-04-11 15:23:00
Let's put an end to the speculation. This reflection in Dick Cheney 's sunglasses is not a naked babe. He'd be dead already from a heart attack. It's Deadeye Dick fondling his rod. McClatchey News
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DC Madam: Schlock & Awful
2008-04-11 15:00:00
Missing In Action: top gun DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey (r) clients at her federal trial for prostitution and racketeering. The only ones getting publicly skewered and humiliated are the girls who worked for her "fantasy escort service." A Navy lieutenant commander endured this yesterday: Navy Times Wash Post"The case will almost certainly end her career. The prosecutor, Daniel Butler, had the woman spell her name slowly and clearly, then had her talk about when she was "aggressive" with a client, when she was "more submissive," when she had a difficult client ("he tried to remove the condom") and how often she got "intimate.""What do you mean by 'intimate'? "The soon-to-be-former naval officer looked at him in disbelief. "Touching, caressing," she explained."What happened" after that? he demanded."Sex.""What type of sex?""Sometimes it was oral sex; usually it was normal.""Normal?" Butler persisted."I'm not sure what you're getting at," the stricken witness pleaded."What's no...
More About: Lawsuits , Prostitution , Hookers , Awful

Dan Rather: "Don't Bet The Trailer Money On It Yet"
2008-04-11 14:41:00
CBS News lawyers after a judge disemboweled Dan Rather's $70 mil lawsuit against the Tiffany Network: "What's left in the case is a garden-variety contract dispute." NYO"We need Billy Crystal to Analyze This." No wonder CBS dumped Dan. His "Ratherisms" got increasingly more bizarre as he became more delusional:
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Katie Couric's Bowl Movements
2008-04-11 14:05:00
"ABC's Charles Gibson could knock over a liquor store and not generate as much attention.And that's why Couric needs to get the hook - now." Richard Huff NYDNIn the nightly news Bowl -A-Rama Miz Katie 's scored a dismal Obama 37...
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Katie Couric: Bye, Bye Miss American Pie
2008-04-11 13:18:00
The New York Times follows up on yesterday's WSJ's musings about Katie Couric 's CBS News demise. Apparently the rumors of her death weren't greatly exaggerated and the rumors greased the skids for her exit:Bill Carter & Jacques Steinberg NYT: The discussion took place in New York on Feb. 28 and involved four people: Ms. Couric; her agent, Alan Berger of the Creative Artists Agency; Sean McManus, the president of CBS News; and Leslie Moonves, the chairman of CBS. The meeting took place in Mr. Moonves?s office. The conversation included what one participant said was some ?idle talk and musings? about the big question hanging over CBS News: should Ms. Couric leave her position as the news anchor after the presidential election, a development that had long been rumored.No one involved in the meeting or briefed on its particulars would be identified for attribution because of the delicate nature of the talks. But Ms. Couric discussed several things she might do if she left the an...
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