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'Deadeye Dick's' Daughter to Fox News
2012-01-06 17:56:00
Mike Allen's Politico Playbook
More About: News , Dick Cheney , Fox News

NBC On Humpty Dumpty Chelsea Clinton: 'There was no over-hyping of her rol
2012-01-06 13:49:00
Overzealous NBC just pushed her off the wall.NYT graphicApparently Chelsea Clinton is attempting to put the chick back into the egg.  Now "sources" say Chelsea agreed to be pimped out to NBC News for a mere 90 days. Or at least that's the face-saving spin coming from . . . the Clintons?  NYP Page Six:Chelsea Clinton sat on a wall, Chelsea Clinton had a great fall. All NBC's whores, And all NBC's men, Couldn't put Chelsea together again!
More About: Brian Williams , Caroline Kennedy

Payne Reaction
2012-01-05 17:15:00
"Carried away." Charles Payne Says 'Fucking' On Fox Business Network Mediaite vidSo, too, MSNBC gaffemeister Al Sharpton , carried away election night, uttering "extreme white wing" instead of "extreme right wing."  Huff Post

CNN's Caucus Cock-up
2012-01-05 16:13:00
Jon Stewart on suggesting the Iowa caucuses be allowed "to play out in real time in front of the cameras." Stewart: "How do you think CNN'll fuck that up?"Wolf Blitzer :  "Check out these little guys. Imagine they're Iowa Republicans.  They're showing up for caucuses." Wolf:  "This is supposed to be representative of Mitt Romney." Stewart:  "Why the cybernetic, multicolored, featureless dildo people?  For God's sakes, this is why people really aren't that fond of CNN."Related:  Jon Stewart Mocks Holographic ?Dildo People? In CNN?s Iowa Coverage MediaiteDavid Zurawik, Baltimore Sun TV critic and staple talking head on CNN's Howard Kurtz Sunday media critique vehicle Reliable Sources, warbles:  "Forget . . . the Weebles . . .  there was only one TV place to be: CNN."  MSNBC* and Fox were "Tuesday night pretenders." (But Fox won the ratings.) TV by the NumbersStewart's Comedy Central cohort Stephen Colbert flicks off comely cipher...
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Shakespeare: 'What is past is prologue.' Current TV: 'This is Keith being
2012-01-05 15:28:00
Fouling the air at Current TV.NYT's Brian Stelter: The broadcaster Keith Olbermann is famous for estranging himself from his bosses, be it at ESPN, Fox or MSNBC.At his new home, Al Gore ?s Current TV, he has done it in record time.Mr. Olbermann, who was hired last year to be the top star of the upstart liberal news source, had been on the job scarcely three months when trouble started. He declined Current?s requests to host special hours of election coverage, apparently out of frustration about technical difficulties that have plagued his 8 p.m. program, ?Countdown.?The channel decided to produce election shows without him. Mr. Olbermann, however, said he did not know that, and on Tuesday, the day of the Iowa caucus, the cold war of sorts reached a flash point. He held a staff meeting even though ?Countdown? had been pre-empted.Perceiving it to be an act of defiance, David Bohrman, Current?s president, wrote a memo to Mr. Olbermann?s staff telling them that the anchor had long ago g...
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Romney: 'Here's looking at you, kid.' Rick Paves Way To Casablanca.
2012-01-04 15:27:00
NYDN: "Mitt Romney pulled off a shocker." "It is decidedly so."Tuesday a.m. I divined on Facebook the Iowa cauci winners: 1. Romney.  2. Santorum.  3. Paul. The message:  your vote matters. Sweater boy Santorum comes out of Iowa with juice but Romney's got the dough, org, and today, John McCain 's endorsement (Santorum did not support McCain in 2008)).  Romney, the presumptive Repub nominee after this embarrassing presidential reality show which should've been canceled after 13 weeks.  The best part?  All-knowing, all-seeing TV news blowhards shaking their Magic 8-Balls all night and getting the same answer:  "Reply hazy. Try again later." Brian Stelter NYT "Tight Race Catches TV Anchors by Surprise."  Mediaite: Watch CNN "lose it."Stelter: The cable news networks had been preparing for months to show off their election season staffs and technological toys. . . . At 11 p.m., the CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer went ahead and projected the third- thr...
More About: Casablanca , Rick , Ron Paul

Al Roker Blowback
2012-01-04 14:51:00
Hurricane Al:  "There was a lot of blow there.""NBC declined to comment" on Today Show's Al Roker stormy weather in the unfriendly skies when he refused to exchange plane seats so a whiny rock star couple could sit together.  NYP Page Six Eyewitnesses say Al didn't do an Alec Baldwin on the pair, but the Post crows "he nearly pulled an Alec Baldwin."  Hardly. He kept his yap shut and texted.  An airline agent finally asked him to move but:And your little dog, too.Al stood his ground.  The NBC star was returning to NYC after hosting the Rose Bowl parade.Update:  Page Six digs into Al's dog allergy only to find Al pitched a dogs behaving badly reality show in 2005 dreamed up by his production company.An NBC spox surfaces:  ?Al produced a show about the DEA, but he didn?t go out on drug busts. And he produced a show about the Coast Guard, but he didn?t fly a chopper. One has nothing to do with the other.?Related:  Today's Matt Lauer tri...
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Alan Colmes Released From Santorum Sanitorium
2012-01-03 15:52:00
Santorum dons Dan Rather 's trustworthy sweater vest.Liberal talk show host and former Fox News Hannity sparring partner Alan Colmes rings up Rick Santorum to apologize for calling the Santorums "crazy" for bringing home their dead newborn son to show their other children they had a brother. (Hot Air)I know Alan. I have no idea why he said it.  Not like him. Hannity vid via The Right Scoop
More About: Released , Sean Hannity

CNN's Over The Top New Year's Eve Live Broadcast Starring Topless Kathy Gri
2012-01-02 18:18:00
Why Kathy Griffin stripped to her underwear on CNN's New Year's Eve extravaganza:  the New York Daily News fingered her last week in Famous beach bods we never wanted to see.#20 of 42: "There's nothing funny about comedienne Kathy Griffin's pasty beach bod." Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. Cooper:  "You got a rockin' body!" NYDN: Griffin in her bra and panties (we never see the panties) sent Cooper "into a fit of nervous giggles."It was "awkwardness."  A "surreal exchange" when Cooper brought in Serious Guy --CNN talking head David Gergen.  Mediaite"Entertaining" exclaimed Huff PostOn Twitter, Griffin gushed: "Trying 2 get a LIVE pelvic exam from Dr.Sanjay Gupta . Fingers crossed!"  CNN seriously needs to examine the continued pairing of Cooper with this flake. 
More About: Broadcast , Live , Anderson Cooper

Rupert Murdoch's Wife Tweets CNN's Piers Morgan: 'hi piers i hear u are TH
2012-01-02 17:55:00
Update: Wendi's Twitter fake! UK TelegraphNews Corp's 80-year-old boss Rupert Murdoch's first tweet sent from the Caribbean island of St. Barths (or St. Barts) meets the press New Year's Eve.  So far he's hammered out 17 tweets, is following four, and has 54,395 followers. APAnd deleted one hot potato at the behest of his newly tweeting wife, Wendi.  The Week The UK Guardian finds his first tweet "oddly staccato." Is it really Rupe?  NPR  Yup.One of Wendi's 51 virgin tweets to CNN's Piers Morgan -- a UK tabloid rag ex-editor under investigation in the Brit phone hacking scandal that's claimed Rupe and his sons -- is merely odd:NYT "On Yacht, Murdoch Catches the Twitter Wave": Some people sunbathe and drink daiquiris on their Caribbean vacations. Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of the News Corporation, joined Twitter.On Dec. 31 the media mogul, on board his 184-foot yacht, Rosehearty, with his family, was playing with his iPad and decided...
More About: Wife , Hear , Fox News

'Iowa restaurant dips into Soylent Green secret stash when Romney reporter
2012-01-02 16:59:00
Iowa restaurant dips into Soylent Green secret stash when Romney reporter scrum tsunami triggers food shortage.Real caption: SEE THE MEDIA CRUSH during Mitt Romney 's brief stop yesterday at the Family Table diner in snow-dusted Atlantic, Iowa. The aisles were so clogged with craning journos that the servers gave up delivering food.  Mike Allen's Politico PlaybookSEE THE MSNBC PIMP after Politico's Friend With Benefits Joe Scarborough's interview with TIME's Mark (Obama "is a dick") Halperin: Ya think?It's Comcastic?  Politico Nah, logo just looks like Comcast's.
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Is High Voltage Keith Olbermann Short-Circuiting at Al Gore's Current TV?
2011-12-30 16:34:00
Huff PostThe rumors were first reported by NYT's Brian Stelter:Brian Stelter NYTOlbermann left MSNBC a year ago and was hired by Al Gore and ambulance-chasing lawyer Joel Hyatt in February at a rumored salary of $10 mil a year and a large footprint.  Mission Impossible: to turn the obscure cable network into a liberal political instrument. His MSNBC Countdown retread debuted in June.Stelter on Olbermann's latest weirdness after "technical difficulties" cut the lights in Olbermann's Current TV studio: "In early December, Mr. Olbermann suddenly started to broadcast from a darkened studio, with nothing but a black backdrop behind him." The issue was resolved but: "Mr. Olbermann apparently decided to stay in the dark for the remainder of the month."
More About: Keith Olbermann , High

CNN's Morning Show Starting Over: If You Build It Will They Come?
2011-12-30 16:12:00
Starting pitcherCNN plucks an apt name for the new morning show debuting January 2: Starting Point.  Soledad O'Brien is the recycled host. Huff Post THREarly Start is the name of the 5-7a show. Starting Point is building a presence on Twitter. Wikipedia.  Same with Early Start.  Let's hope CNN's ratings-challenged a.m. presence is starting off on the right foot.
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'Fox Primary' Fallacy
2011-12-30 15:36:00
Unlike MSNBC, which made it perfectly clear which Dem presidential candidate they preferred -- Obama over Hillary -- the Wash Post's Paul Farhi finds "there?s not much evidence to suggest that Fox News has crowned any one candidate as the eventual nominee."
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The Bain Of MSNBC's Existence
2011-12-30 15:16:00
Politico's Playbook -- MSNBC's Morning Joe content provider and pimper of all things MSNBC -- buries the lede Friday, slipping in this little gem in the second to last paragraph.Mike Allen's Politico PlaybookAllen left out this part of Byers's story:  We?ve reached out to MSNBC to ask why anchors only started disclosing the connection now, but have yet to hear back. But the connection certainly doesn't seem to be providing Romney with much favorable coverage:?Mitt Romney `s history at Bain Capital is not going to help his image as a job creator,? Schultz said on last night?s show. ?Now, we want to disclose that NBC Universal and Bain Capital are each a part owner of the Weather Channel . Bain Capital`s main business model is buying companies like American Pad and Paper and restructuring them. In many instances, Bain turned a profit by strip-mining these companies. American -- AMPAD is what it`s known. The stock was driven down and the company we...

David Letterman Extortionist is on Paula Zahn's 'Case'
2011-12-30 14:35:00
Emmy award-winning CBS News 48 Hours ex-producer Joe Halderman, whose life as he knew it ceased to exist in 2009 when he was caught trying to extort $2 mil from David Lettterman after he found out the married Letterman was dicking around with Halderman's girlfriend, is off the beach with a full-time gig.  Halderman is  On The Case with Paula Zahn . Richard Huff NYDNConvicted felon Halderman spent four months in the pen in 2010.
More About: David Letterman , Discovery Channel

Obama Foils Press Stalking Whores
2011-12-29 15:22:00
Press bone to pick:  nothing to chew on. Obama ditches the pesky press pool Wednesday in Hawaii after proclaiming January 2012 National Stalking Awareness Month. The president's latest golf game was chronicled from afar by CBS News Tweetmaster Mark Knoller. Mike Allen's Politico PlaybookCNN eyewitness Peter Morris, who just happened to be feasting inside Mr. Wong's, was discreet in his tweet:Obama's rubbing the press the wong wrong way . . . Again. Related:  Occupying Honolulu Michelle's Mirror Middle Class Warriors Dine Out for $260 Keith Koffler WH DossierOfficial White House websiteRelated:  Journalists complain the White House press office has become overly combative Paul Farhi Wash Post.
More About: Barack Obama , Press , Michelle Obama

NYT Slams Keith Olbermann, Al Sharpton
2011-12-29 14:41:00
Among the New York Times'  75 Things New Yorkers Talked About in 2011:  27. Anderson Cooper?s disappointing talk show. Sigh. He should have waited for Regis to retire. 35. The Murdoch phone-hacking scandal. Has there ever been a better example of schadenfreude? 41. Brian Williams : the next Walter Cronkite or the next Johnny Carson? 55. Andy Rooney signs off for the last time
More About: Current , Al Sharpton , Keith Olbermann , Olbermann

Al Roker Knows Candy
2011-12-28 22:54:00
Aye, candy! Today Show's Al Roker plays candy man in a bizarre riff on man candy. Sometimes you feel like a nut.  Sometimes you don't.You've Got Al Roker
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Fox News 'Republican Party TV': Rachel Maddow on 'The Murdoch Primary'
2011-12-28 22:37:00
This MSNBC Rachel Maddow rant appears to have been crafted by Jon Stewart's Cecil B. De Mille cast of thousands of comedy writers.  Huff Post Mediaite
More About: News , Party , Republican , Fox News

'Merry Christmas from your friends in Newt Hampshire!'
2011-12-28 11:58:00
Don we now our gay apparel. Politico's Ben Smith digs up what he calls "possibly the weirdest video" of the presidential election cycle thus far, and wonders if some of the participants were forced to perform.Perhaps this is evidence of political campaign Stockholm Syndrome.  Update: The Gingrich grinches took it down but you can see some of it in this ABC News Jonathan Karl report.  (H/t NewsBusters)
More About: Christmas , Friends , Newt Gingrich , Hampshire

'It's a great day in South Carolina!'
2011-12-28 00:40:00
Doing fill-in talk radio gig on Charleston's Cumulus station WTMA Wednesday 8-10a.  Listen live here!Radio Hall of Famer and legendary syndicated talk show host Jim Bohannon is on in the 8a hour.Ellis Henican, Pulitizer Prize-winning Newsday columnist, Fox News political analyst, and syndicated talk show host is on in the 9a hour.Photo: John Quincy Dec. 28, 2011
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CNN Presents: Newt Lied About First Divorce
2011-12-27 15:37:00
CNN got its hot little hands on Newt Gingrich 's first divorce docs and gleefully reports Newt's campaign version that it was his wife who wanted the divorce is bogus.  CNNAn aside:  I knew Newt's first wife, Jackie.  Newt lies.  Period. 
More About: Divorce , Presents

Fox News 'The Five': Genus Out Of The Bottle
2011-12-26 18:16:00
Fox News programming genius Roger Ailes channels Carnac the Magnificient:Answer: "The Five."Question:  "Who replaces Glenn Beck ?" Andrea Tantaros, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino , Greg GutfeldNYT's Brian Stelter:  So, about a week and a half before Mr. Beck signed off, Mr. Ailes wrote the words ?The Five? on a piece of paper.Stelter:  "So far this month it had 1.6 million daily viewers, matching Mr. Beck?s final numbers for the first time.  . . . And most important, the advertisers that had shunned Mr. Beck are coming back to the time slot." NYTHave the other "revolving hosts" touted in Fox's July press release been rotated out?  Geraldo, Andrew Napolitano, Monica Crowley.  Just asking . . . Press release via TV by the Numbers(H/t Johnny Dollar)
More About: Fox News , Geraldo Rivera

PEJ: Fox, MSNBC's 2011 'News Agendas' 'Similar'
2011-12-26 16:58:00
PEJ: CNN also covered lifestyle, celebrity and sports more heavily (comprising 4% together) than Fox (3%) or MSNBC (2%). And it covered disasters more heavily (7%) than Fox (3%) or MSNBC (3%). The two channels whose evening programming is dominated by ideological talk show hosts, Fox News and MSNBC, were actually more similar in their news agendas generally. Related:  PEJ on "Network News Agendas."  NYT Brian Stelter:  Afghanistan Low on News AgendaThe Year in News 2011

Jerry Springer: Eliot Spitzer of the 1970s
2010-10-28 01:49:00
From the Annals (or Anals, as pronounced by fired CNN resident moron Rick Sanchez ) of  Dubious Television Milestones:  Jerry Springer 's 20th anniversary in syndicated was Wednesday October 27th. Jerry, 66, to the  LAT: "I told NBC Universal I'll stop when I'm 107."  Jerry's singing Larry King's former one note samba. Like CNN's newest TV star, Eliot Spitzer, Springer started in politics.  Like Eliot, Springer was fingered with prostitutes and had to resign from the Cincinnati city council.   Unlike  Jerry, Eliot will be lucky to last six months on CNN.CNBC succinctly memorialized Jerry's sins (as well as Eliot's) in Prostitution Cases of the Rich & Famous. "Weird Al" Yankovic best sums up Jerry's 20 years:
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Cable News Ratingzzz
2010-10-28 01:15:00
Tuesday Oct. 26, 2010 via TVbytheNumbers  [Photo h/t Ron Brown]
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Thank God It Wasn't the Entitlement Stench from Taxpayer-Financed Halal Foo
2010-10-27 23:26:00
Lebanese/Albanian Princess Zog sends this along from "Dearbornistan" with the above hilarious headline. Odor Closes Fordson High School. Predominately Arab Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan with the largest Muslim population per capita outside the Middle East.The above group is lobbying for federally-mandated Halal labels on America supermarket productst.

Joy Behar Raises Thousands For Sharron Angle's Campaign Against Harry Reid
2010-10-27 23:04:00
Sharron Angle sends ABC's 'The View ' Joy Behar flowers as a thank-you for $150,000 in campaign contributions after Behar called Angle "a bitch," among other nasties, Tuesday. Behar did it again Wednesday, bellowing the posies were picked by illegal aliens who wouldn't vote for "the bitch."   More like couldn't:H/t Danny Shea Huffington Post
More About: Harry Reid , Campaign , Reid

Conan the Contrarian
2010-10-27 18:28:00
Conan O'Brien's stirring up media buzz for his new late night show debuting November 8 on TBS. The former NBC "Tonight Show" host is arming himself for a potential NBC lawsuit for defying NBC's proprietary lock on Conan-created characters like the Masturbating Bear.  Conan lights the fuse in Rolling Stone mag.
More About: Jeff Zucker , Jay Leno