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Boobs
2008-05-20 14:33:00
"Lighten Up, Dolly" dishes NYP Page Six over Howard Stern's "parody" putting evil words in her mouth by clever editing of her audio book. The top-heavy seemingly ageless country star is thinking lawsuit. Conservative radio talk show flamethrower and CNN host Glenn Beck bags a lucrative two-book deal. Simon & Shuster is forking over $3 mil after his first book hit #1 on the NYTimes bestseller list. NYOThe War between NBC and Fox lives another day. NYDN: It looks as if Keith Olbermann really got under Bill O'Reilly's skin. Apparently O'Reilly's on-air assault against GE chief Jeffrey Immelt (and GE's business in Iran) is revenge against Olbermann's constant attacks, reports Howard Kurtz of The Washington Post. Fox News honcho Roger Ailes was so fed up with Olbermann's snarking that he warned NBC's Jeff Zucker he would let his right-wing host endlessly bash Zucker's friends at GE. Olbermann told us that "when The Washington Post reports [Rupert] Murdoch's going to use th...

Arrevederci, Vito
2008-05-20 13:15:00
Snarky Page Six runs this: "Which television correspondent got her job the old-fashioned way? After she bedded her boss at her former network, she became very close with the married news head of her current network." I presume the Rupert Murdoch -owned Post isn't referring to a Fox News anchorbabe - or Barbara Walters ..."Vito Finito" trumpets the NYP! The lone NYC Repub congressman got his dick in a wringer - a two-fer - DWI (0.17) and a second family he'd hidden away in the DC area. Wash Post Somebody got to him between the weekend and Monday. A blissfully compartmentalized Vito gladhanded voters all weekend insisting he was still running. NYDN It didn't take long for Vito's life to flash before his eyes. NYDN NYT Maybe must-see Tee Vee next...Richard Huff NYDN: The Spitzer household might want to skip "Law & Order" Wednesday night. That's because the season finale airing at 10 p.m. has a story line that hits close to home - perhaps too close. Get this! There's an investig...
More About: Eliot Spitzer , Kristen

Bob Woodward: Deep Pockets
2008-05-20 05:32:00
Legendary Wash Post Watergate icon Bob Woodward's taking the buyout. But how much will he get? The 65-year-old reporter took a voluntary pay cut to ten grand in 2006. Will management lapse into a state of denial" and get cheap with double the current 10K as required by the buyout or double the $180,000 he was making before as managing editor? It's not like he needs the dough. Bob's rich from his books. The newspaper once nixed Bob's offer to work for a buck a year. Washington City Paper
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Alexis Glick: Lady Diaphanous
2008-05-20 05:17:00
Yeah, I see. Alexis Glick appears to have stuffed grapefruits in her bra under a tank top and a diaphanous number. Fox is in dire need of an Edith Head wardrobe mistress to replace the Hooters costumes with appropriate attire... OCN
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Olbermann-ic
2008-05-20 04:07:00
Tonight a hypermanic Keith Olbermann waxed ponderous and condescending in a "Special Comment" to clarify last week's eye-glazing ponderous "Special Comment" on Bush and (surprise) Iraq , Iran, "appeasment," Obama et al. The #1 Story: Keith. It was to appease (or MSNBC forced Olbermann) the right-wing lugnuts in Tee Vee Land who Keith claims are too dumb and rabid to get when he referred to Bush and his henchmen as "cold blooded killers" he didn't mean (duh) our troops. Olbermann WatchOlbermann laid off O'Reilly tonight and instead targeted conservatives Ollie North, Bill Kristol, and "comedian" Rush Limbaugh , Laura Ingraham and Mark Levin. Let's go to the videotape. Perhaps MSNBC brass ordered him to cool it on O'Reilly after the juicy anonymous-sourced speculation leaked by NBC piece to Howard Kurtz.
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Smith and Lesson
2008-05-20 03:20:00
NewsBusters chastises CBS "Early Show" anchor Harry Smith for observing, in an interview with Dem Sen. Jim Webb that A) Jim's "the least political person I know who's ever run for office," B) Jim's novels are "phenomenal" and "amazing." I've known Jim for 18 years (kids went to school together) and we were neighbors in Falls Church, Virginia. I spent a lot of time in the presence of Jim and then-wife Jo Ann's (she's my best friend). Hung around the house, dinners, parties, went to Jim's niece's wedding a couple of years ago... I can knowledgably observe Jim is the LAST person I ever thought would run for elected office. Although brilliant, intense, and opinionated, Jim seemed content to churn out his "amazing" (yes, amazing) books and movie scripts. Jim's refusal to don the phony mantle of, say, where shall I begin? John Kerry, is mountain air to the hot air political stench. Jim can be "scary" (my daughter and friends) and eschews fools. But at least you know where he stan...
More About: News , Barack Obama , Lesson

Choosy Billionaires Choose Barack
2008-05-20 01:56:00
The World 's Richest Man chooses Obama. CNN
More About: Barack Obama , Warren Buffett , Forbes , Barack

Bush: Mad As Hell and Not Taking It Anymore
2008-05-20 00:35:00
After 1,460 days of enduring Howard Beale/Keith Olbermann's Bush bashing, Bush bashes back, accusing NBC of dicking around with editing to change the meaning of a Bush soundbite. This after last week's Bush Israel speech widely interpreted by the liberal media to be anti-Obama. NBC news prez Steve Capus gets a lonnnng missive from WH counselor Ed Gillespie: ?I?m sure you don?t want people to conclude that there is really no distinction between the ?news? as reported on NBC and the ?opinion? as reported on MSNBC, despite the increasing blurring of those lines. I welcome your response to this letter, and hope it is one that reassures your broadcast network?s viewers that blatantly partisan talk show hosts like Christopher Matthews and Keith Olbermann at MSNBC don?t hold editorial sway over the NBC network news division.? The HillTV Newser has the "deceptively edited" Richard Engel vid in question and the WH letter to Capus as well as NBC's f**k you response: Richard Engel's inter...
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Hillary's Sexual Politics
2008-05-19 16:19:00
The New York Times slides a mirror under Hillary's pants leg. She seemed uncertain how to reconcile her sex with her political persona. Though she projected an aura of authority, said Robert Shrum, a Democratic consultant unaffiliated with any candidate, she variously cast herself as a victim of male domination, a warm girlfriend type and, at the end, an indefatigable warrior. She even made contradictory statements about whether sex should be a factor in the race.
More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Hypocrisy , Sexual

CBS: If It Bleeds, It Leads
2008-05-19 14:48:00
"How puzzling must it have been for CBS when Bob Schieffer , a bona-fide old guy, with white hair and a gravelly voice, got ratings that were better than both Rather?s and Couric?s?Nancy Franklin in a New Yorker piece with an illustration that makes Katie Couric look like a predatory rodent. Not so puzzling considering liberal Rather turned off the old fart "CBS Evening News" La-Z-Boy viewers nodding off behind TV dinner tray tables. But wait! There's more! "She often comes across as hollow and robotic. I?m never as aware that anybody is reading from a teleprompter as I am when I?m watching Couric. She is essentially wasted in this job, as it has been defined by her and by Moonves, but the fact is that anyone with more of a reporting background would probably have been even unhappier in the job than Couric has evidently been, because CBS doesn?t appear to be all that interested in maintaining its news division; earlier this year, it was reported that the network was looking into usi...
More About: Leads , Dan Rather , Les Moonves

Bob Stews No More
2008-05-19 13:51:00
CBS News old hand Bob "Face The Nation " Schieffer will face the nation until he's road kill. Wash Post reports 71-year-old Bob and CBS today announce the reversal Bob's January 2009 retirement and he'll stay until he exits the planet. Bob revealed he had retiree's remorse at Radio & Records DC Talk Radio Seminar in March...
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NBC Immeltdown
2008-05-19 12:56:00
Keith Olbermann's four-year MSNBC-sponsored war against Bill O 'Reilly lures the terrorists out of their cave.Howard Kurtz Wash Post: Bill O'Reilly, Fox News star, is mounting an extraordinary televised assault on the chief executive of General Electric, calling him a "pinhead" and a "despicable human being" who bears responsibility for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq . On the surface, O'Reilly's charges revolve around GE's history of doing business with Iran . But the attacks grow out of an increasingly bitter feud between O'Reilly and the company's high-profile subsidiary, NBC, one that has triggered back-channel discussions involving News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, NBC chief executive Jeff Zucker and General Electric's CEO, Jeffrey Immelt. Ailes called Zucker on his cellphone last summer, clearly agitated over a slam against him by MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. According to sources familiar with the conversation, Ailes warned that if Ol...

Keith Olbermann Off His Meds
2008-05-19 12:30:00
What does Keith Olbermann have in common with cheetahs? They're the only wild cat without retractable claws....Rupert Murdoch's NYP Page Six slow on the uptake picking up a Keith Olbermann item first reported by another gossip - Jossip -and then here - last week: Anchor's Adrift Again. Is Keith Olbermann, MSNBC's top-rated anchor, on the verge of yet another professional meltdown? His feuding with "Hardball" host Chris Matthews is nothing new. But now we're told notoriously odd Olbermann is lashing out at the rest of his network's talking heads. During West Virginia primary coverage the other night, Olbermann began pounding the table when lead White House reporter David Gregory didn't wrap his segment quickly enough to satisfy him. Olbermann recently encouraged management to oust the cable channel's lone conservative, Tucker Carlson, and it's also no secret among producers that Olbermann refuses to introduce Dan Abrams' show, which follows his own. Olbermann walked out of ...
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Take Me Out At The Ball Game
2008-05-18 14:34:00
How did the New York Yankees become the richest baseball franchise? By charging fans nearly ten bucks for Bud and $5.75 for Cracker Jack. That All Star jacket is $300. NYDN had to file a FOIA demand to get the goods...
More About: Sports , Game , New York Daily News , Ball

Shot & A Leer
2008-05-18 14:12:00
"Fox & Friends" whups CNN's "America In The Morning" on CNN's home turf. AJC Somewhere I read a rumor Kiran Chetry's going back to Fox? Or maybe she's sending up trial balloons... There are viewers who miss shots like this.
More About: Fox News , Shot , Fox and Friends

McCutty
2008-05-18 13:39:00
"I haven't seen this much smoke blown since Al Sharpton 'apologized' for Tawana Brawley." Ex-Fox News entertainment reporter Bill McCuddy at a NYC cigar smoker benefit. Page Six

Hillary: Erase Her
2008-05-18 03:18:00
A desperate Hillary 's up to her old tricks, laying down the Big Media Boys v Poor Little Hillary card again in a new ad aimed at elicting sympathy and jump-starting womens' engines. YouTubeNew to the Hillary store! $40 Hillary poster designed by the guy who wrote the Schwarzenegger movie "Erase r." Am I blue? Hillary's sending out shock waves...While Hillary's blaming the media, backbiting, finger-pointing campaign insiders leak to the New Republic: "The way we handled you guys was a mistake on our part. What we're hearing is that we truly treated people badly and weren't accessible enough or open enough. We had bad relationships with reporters, and it probably bit us on the ass. We ran a press operation that lost all credibility with the press."

Ted Kennedy: Carpe Diem
2008-05-17 22:56:00
The cable Tee Vee news vultures circling over Ted Kennedy as if he was fixin' to join JFK, RFK, the dead Kennedy compound, and Mary Jo Kopechne. [He's "resting comfortably" "talking" "joking"]MSNBC and Fox News wallpapered the etherland with any talking head they could dredge up who could offer their memories of Teddy. Trent Lott, Geradine Ferraro (on Fox). It was almost like he was dead already. It could've been the networks' Pope Death Watch. Rushed to the hospital with stroke-like symptoms... The second-longest serving senator... More influential than his brothers... [graphic, Boston talk radio dude Howie Carr's nas-ty Ted "Fatboy" website]Hillary issued a statement: "My thoughts and prayers..." Ted's health was left in the dust as the speculation turned to Obama and what will happen if Ted isn't around to campaign for his political protege? When Ted didn't cooperate and exit the planet, the cable vultures dumped him like Paris Hilton dumps boyfriends. Drudge, the doy...
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Muscled Out
2008-05-16 04:55:00
Former NBC "Today" show anchoress Jane Pauley weighs in on Katie Couric 's abject failure at the helm of the CBS Evening News. "It was a brave experiment. I think her strengths were unique but she was not well used." WWD
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Atlas Shrugged
2008-05-16 04:38:00
If this is all Democrats have in their Atlas Project bag of tricks to derail John McCain ... The political "ad" suggests McCain is too old to get it up.
More About: Stupidity , Atlas Shrugged

CNN's Artificial Intelligence
2008-05-16 04:25:00
CNN's John King appears to be communicating with UFOs using his high-tech election night video map (invented by U.S. intelligence black ops) in this rather amusing send-up by 23/6 that would impress even Steven Spielberg .
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Fox's Fringe Benefits
2008-05-16 04:08:00
We're not talking the hot Tee Vee anchorbabes with more boobs than brains. Fox's new TV show "Fringe " where there are fewer commercials in "Remote Free TV" Land. Media Week B&C TV Week TV Week has a look at Fox's programming crystal ball. [FTVLive graphic]I presume the idea is to get people to keep their hot little hands off the channel changer like McDonald's conditioned humans to dump their own trays.
More About: Fox News , Courtney Friel , Benefits , V Live

Pelican Brief
2008-05-16 03:57:00
Private dick to the stars Anthony "The Pelican " Pellicano will be 74 when he gets out of Club Fed on his wiretapping, racketeering, conspiracy conviction. The LA jury found Pellicano innocent of just one of 77 charges. NYTDefamer dubbed the lonnnnng trial a "clusterfuck of justice."
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"The Most Trusted Name In News" Blows
2008-05-16 03:48:00
CNN blew it on California's gay marriage ruling. The legal analista got it wrong. Pageoneq vid
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David Gregory and Keith Olbermann: Primary Colors
2008-05-16 02:18:00
I left the Chickaboomer Command Center Compound for My Other House In Witness Protection Program Land just as this broke and look what I return to at 8:30p: MSNBC denies the on-air bad blood between bully David Gregory and bully Keith Olbermann . TV Newser The guy who took over TV Newser from Brian Stelter (now NYT), Chris Ariens, is ex-MSNBC. TV Newser is basically an MSNBC in-house organ. When TV egos clash! David Gregory v Keith Olbermann. The NBC News WH correspondent and heir apparent to Chris Matthews "Hardball" is a bull in the NBC ego shop. Matthews hates him. Joe Scarborough. Now Keith Olbermann. Jossip gossips about this on-air dustup on MSNBC's Tuesday night West Virginia primary coverage: Around 10 pm, you might?ve heard a very loud thud, followed by Gregory abruptly wrapping up his panel discussion. [Yeah, I heard it.]According to witnesses, that thud was Olbermann slamming his fist down on his desk (he was in one studio with Chris Matthews), because he felt Gregory and...
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Good Golly, Miss Dolly
2008-05-15 17:27:00
Anatomically correct silicone doll Dolly Parton is pissed at Howard Stern . "I have never been so shocked, hurt and humiliated in all my life. I cannot believe what Howard Stern has done to me. In a blue million years, I would never have such vulgar things come out of my mouth. They have done editing or some sort of trickery to make this horrible, horrible thing." David Hinckley NYDN I divine an Al Sharpton anti-Stern protest demanding the foul jock's head... Stern has crossed the line big time.What Stern did was put together a string of unrelated words from her audio book... The tamest: "When I was a teenager I raped Minnie Pearl's dead body." And Don Imus got done in by "nappy-headed hos?"
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CNN Kow Tow
2008-05-15 17:11:00
CNN capitulates over Jack Cafferty 's China "thugs and goons" bombast. CNN Worldwide prez Jim Walton: "On behalf of CNN I'd like to apologize to the Chinese people for that," said Walton in a letter to Chinese ambassador to the United States Zhou Wenzhong, according to Qin. Walton also said, "CNN has the highest respect for Chinese people around the world and we have no doubt that there was genuine offense felt by them over the Jack Cafferty commentary." In early April, Cafferty said in a live show that Chinese products were "junk" and the Chinese were "basically the same bunch of goons and thugs they've been for the last 50 years." Xinhua china.org
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Bill O'Reilly Blowback
2008-05-15 15:39:00
MSNBC gleefully plays Bill O 'Reilly 's on-air blow off of his blow up on "Inside Edition" at least two times this morning. Bill chuckles: "I, your humble correspondent, have plenty of much newer stuff and by contractual obligation I have to create more dramas for the amusement of my co-workers." 5:00 in...
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CBS Cops CNET
2008-05-15 15:30:00
Paidcontent.org quoting Les Moonves on CBS's $18 bil acquisition: ?CBS stands for premium content and unparalleled reach, and CNET Networks will add a tremendous platform to extend our complementary entertainment, news, sports, music and information content to a whole new global audience. Together, CBS and CNET Networks will have significant additional exposure to the fastest- growing advertising sector and can accelerate our growth through a number of new content, promotion and advertising initiatives. We could not be more pleased with the prospect of adding CNET Networks and its tremendous team of people to the CBS family. Rumors of a coming CNET acquisition have been bandied about for many years?it almost became a boring old joke, the equivalent of yelling Freebird at a rock concert.
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Dupe-re
2008-05-15 14:59:00
"In her sexy, see-through top, tight-fitting leather skirt and Fendi belt and buckle that retails for $632, the pulchritudinous prostitute looked worth every bit the $4,300 that Spitzer coughed up for their assignation in February." "'Kristen ' $hows What She's Got" NYPI just want to know if her shoes are Manolos or Jimmy Choo..."Kristen" aka Alexandra Ashley Dupre is a witness for the prosecution in the prostitution ring trial. "This could scare former Gov. Eliot Spitzer out of his socks: The woman who booked his high-priced hooker has agreed to tell a grand jury all she knows." NYDN
More About: Hypocrisy , Prostitution