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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

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

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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Hillary: "When you get to a fork in the road, take it." - Yogi Berra
2008-05-07 20:31:00
Hillary "will drop out by June 15th." Lawrence O'Donnell Huff Post Three days ago the fickle media were in the throes of Hillary orgasms. Today: Clinton shill George Stephanopoulos "This nomination fight is over."Tim Russert - "We now know who the Democratic nominee will be." David Gergen - "I think the Clinton people know the game is almost up." Matt Lauer: "Good morning, is it over?" IHTFormer Wash Post political guru Thomas Edsall now at the Huff Post: "Hillary Clinton, who for seven weeks has crawled, kicked and bitten her way back into contention, suffered a blow on Tuesday, halting the momentum behind her bid for the nomination just when she had begun to regain credibility. In the universe of political clichés, she is on life support, her oxygen choked off, her knees buckling, unable to stanch the bleeding, down for an eight count, on the ropes, praying for the bell to ring, desperate to get her wind back."Dem disaster John Kerry - an Obama pimp - blamed Rush Limbaugh for ta...
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Bill Maher Sleeps With The Dishes
2008-05-07 17:57:00
The HBO comedy perv with a penchant for busty strippers forgets the chicks he sleeps with - but the girls don't forget him. NYP Page Six
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Media Buzzzz
2008-05-07 17:15:00
NYDN's Richard Huff throws ice water on wacko former prosecutor and Fox Tee Vee talking head Jeanine Pirro's foray into the lucrative land of TV judges. "Many Judge, But Judy Rules."Howard Stern rules satellite radio. David Hinckley NYDNStern's nemesis, Don Ho, is just trying to stay employed through his charity pimp. Hinckley: When Don Imus launches his annual charity radiothon tomorrow, he has at least two specific goals: 1) raise a lot of money and 2) stay employed for the radiothon's full two days. Last year he met only one of those goals. He was fired from WFAN after the first day, as a result of the unrelated firestorm over his earlier comments on the Rutgers women's basketball team.
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Hillary: McQuit!
2008-05-07 17:03:00
Former Dem prez contenda George McGovern tells Hillary to bag it. He's now backing Barack. Here's McGovern a month ago: "I don't think she should drop out. She should stay through the primaries, see how they come out after that... I see no move to call it off until the primaries are over." Argus Leader

Dan Rather: "When the going gets weird, anchormen punt."
2008-05-07 16:54:00
Delusional Gunga Dan Rather files another lawsuit against CBS for screwing him out of other gigs. "Too hot to handle." "Too much baggage." Hollywood Reporter CBS sniffs: "He will fail." Dan ended up in media Siberia at HDNet...
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Babs Babbling Brooke
2008-05-07 16:41:00
Babs Walters confesses "I lied" to cover Star Jones's formerly fat ass. Don Kaplan NYP Walters's "confession" of her affair with married black Senator Ed Brooke to pimp her autobiography isn't a revelation. What happens on The Hill doesn't always stay on The Hill... Page Six WaPo's Howard Kurtz looks at Babs's illustrious career. At risk of redundancy: Enquiring minds (mine) want to know if Babs had a fling with Fidel...
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Hillary's Flaccid Political Muscle
2008-05-07 15:53:00
Hillary's henchmen stranded on Fantasy Island. In a conference call this a.m. pimp Howard Wolfson still spinning Obama is unelectable. Hillary will continue to dip into Bill Clinton's ill-gotten corrupt foreign millions to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic...Katie Couric flexes her atrophying muscles calling Indiana for Hillary at 8:09 p.m. last night. Fishbowl DC NYT I did hear she's a nail-biter... The cable Tee Vee talking heads waited until 1:09 a.m. NBC's Tim Russert branded Obama the Dem nominee at 12:11 p.m. Howard Kurtz Wash PostThe biggest loser: John Edwards for sitting on the fence and not endorsing Obama. He's no longer a playa.The second biggest loser: John McCain. He got only a quarter of Repub votes in both Indiana and NC voted for him. "GOP Leaders Warn Of Election Disaster" PoliticoThe third biggest losers: Bombastic Tee Vee blowhards in the business of predicting the news and not reporting it. "[At] MSNBC's 'Race for the White House With David Gregor...
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Hillary Clinton Owes Herself $6 Million
2008-05-07 14:41:00
"Toast!" NY Post cover. MSNBC "Morning Joe" Scarborough snipes to NBC's Brian Williams (BriWi brought up the headline) this a.m: "What's Rupert Murdoch going to say when she's Senate majority leader?" Read Bubba's body language (right). HE knows she's toast. Hillary 's toast in six million ways: She borrowed $6.4 million from herself. Mark Halperin TIME mag The Page Nobody in their right mind would donate $$$ to a loser. Hillary had her tin cup out last night in her speech pimping for dollars. But she's soldiering on "full speed ahead" to the WH, campaigning today in West Virginia. Hillary henchman Howard Wolfson tells MSNBC's Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski his boss is prepared to tap into her vast wealth to continue the campaign. In the aggregate Hillary's loaned her campaign nearly $11.5 mil. Howard Wolfson's end game is hollow and grating even to Mika and Joe. Hmmm. When talking heads murmur "hmmmm" they're so over the spin. Politico's Mike Allen has a roundup of the ...
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Hillary: The Party's Over
2008-05-07 05:41:00
Hillary's canceled her appearances on all the morning Tee Vee shows. With good reason. The Clinton Machine had better dig up more dirt on Barack that sticks. They almost had him with Reverend Wright. Posthaste. "As the clock ticks down, that more and superdelegates will begin considering her chances remote and decide that it is time for the contest to end." NYT "I hope you're proud of yourself," bellows MSNBC blowhard Chris Matthews. "Yourself" would be Operation Chaos Commander-In-Chief Rush Limbaugh who should "carry this the the rest of your life." Voters cut off Hillary's newly grown testicles and stuffed them in the same formaldehyde jar with Rush Limbaugh's where they can experience Rush's Hillary crush through all eternity. If Hillary wins in Indiana, Rush will take credit for dispatching his Hillary-voting dittoheads. Obama creamed Hillary in NC; may even blow her away in Indiana. Stunning news for the Obama campaign with a "talking points" memo from Tuesday: "There rea...
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Weather Channel: Different Stokes For Different Folks
2008-05-07 01:50:00
Weather Channel bigwigs tried to keep the lid on a sexual harassment arbitration finding in favor of the harassee, Hillary Andrews. But The Smoking Gun has the goods. TMZHe yelled. He bullied. He cornered her. He struck her on the arm.And that was the previous weatherbabe trapped on-air with the popular high-rated weatherpsycho Bob Stokes. When she complained, management sent her to the equivalent of Siberia - overnights. The Weather Channel brass protected Stokes by ignored the lady's complaints which "emboldened him" for her replacement: Hillary Andrews. A sexually stoked Stokes: "Will you lick my swizzle stick?"It tortures me when you wear those high heels." He followed her into the women's dressing room.Leered at her chest. Obsessed, scorned Stokes sabotaged Andrews on the air and more. Again the Weather Channel backed Stokes by not renewing Hillary's contract and sticking her on the overnight shift while the contract clock ran out. The serial sexual psycho Stokes was blown o...
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Obama Wins North Carolina
2008-05-07 01:36:00
Obama races past the checkered flag in North Carolina . ABC NewsNBC jumps the gun and calls it at 8 p.m. flat.
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Factor This
2008-05-06 23:55:00
TV By The Numbers: Hillary did wonders for Bill O’Reilly’s The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News, and last Wednesday’s airing made the top 20 at #19. And it doesn’t matter how badly the yellow and porous one beats up on Bill O., we’re sure none of that is going to keep him humble. Though when he thinks about losing to the Britney’s pregnant as jailbait little sister, Jamie Lynn, it still must sting a little bit. Of course the chances that he ever thinks about that are: ZERO! Comes this ass-kissing after Fox & Friends Steve Doocy sent up a giant PR company on air for for offering free de-lousing for Fox News green room guests who were in the house when the Fox was crawling with bedbugs: E-mail from PR marketing honcho to Gawker It seemed like a good idea at the time. Sometimes the commitment to generate publicity can get an agency in trouble. As you noted in your post, one of our more aggressive marcom specialists at Fleishman-Hillard developed a news release for a client...

Hillary: I'm Your Vehicle, Baby
2008-05-06 22:34:00
Hillary hauls "testidular fortitude" to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway today and injects racing terms into her speech with embarrassing overkill. Wash Post Examiner"That we need to get on the track in America"... "If you want to go forward, you put it in D. If you want to go backward, you put it in R." There is no reverse gear in racing cars... Put it in D for dumb.
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