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ABC News This Weak
2008-05-02 00:17:00
Former Bill Clinton puppet George Stephanopoulos's seamless segue into Tee Vee news pays off big time for Hillary in the 11th hour before Tuesday's primaries. ABC News props him up as the front man for a Hillary "town hall meeting." One Repub wag tells Matt Drudge: " We look forward to ABC holding the next town hall meeting with President Bush, hosted by Karl Rove!" Stephanopoulos should be banned from moderating anything after that disasterous ABC News debate where the fix for Hillary appeared to be in...
More About: George Bush , Hillary Clinton

People. People Who Need People...
2008-05-01 17:28:00
"You know, when I was a kid, food was food! Until our scientists polluted the soil... decimated plant and animal life. Why, you could buy meat anywhere. Eggs, they had. Real butter. Fresh lettuce in the stores! How can anything survive in a climate like this? A heat wave all year long! The greenhouse effect! Everything is burning up!" "Soylent Green" 1973 Sound familiar? The sky is falling, punctured by skyrocketing food prices. Wash Post Food rationing is reality. The burgeoning boomer population rife with the old and infirm are consuming precious resources... How prescient is the movie? Is there a Soylent Corporation secretly stockpiling Soylent Green - a small green wafer which is advertised as being produced from "high-energy plankton"? But there's not enough and people are rioting: The spoiler ending: Soylent Biscuit Company
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True Snit
2008-05-01 17:16:00
His Keithness, gritting his teeth over Bill O 'Reilly 's media grab for his Hillary two-parter, has Michelle Obama on "Countdown" tonight.
More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Fox News

You're So Lame: Simon Says S**t
2008-05-01 16:48:00
Notorious stage fright freak Carly Simon slides "shit" into her new CD "This Kind Of Love" pimp-a-thon on Fox & Friends this a.m. It went right over Steve Doocy's head. He was more into the S&M action she was confessing in front of God and Everyone: Miz Carly orders the biggest stage hand thug to spank her before she goes on stage. "It provides me with some external pain so I can forget the internal shit." Has time for the pain... Via Johnny Dollar's Place . Thanks for the tip!I have two words: Beta blockers. Banishes stage fright. BTW: What has Carly done to her face? Pre-pimp plastic surgery, Botox, spacklers, airbrushed tan...
More About: Music , Plastic Surgery , Fox News

Les Moonves: Kung Fool
2008-05-01 15:28:00
Time Warner jettisoning Time Warner Cable. B&C NYTCablevision trumps Rupe and Mort - upping the ante for Newsday . $650 mil. NYT NewsdayWriters' strike exposes "Grey's Anatomy" bones. Bill Carter NYT"I'm a lover not a fighter." Viacom /CBS chief Sumner Redstone kickboxes Les Moonves for a) putting ugly, violent martial arts on CBS airwaves, b) not telling him first. Hollywood ReporterNBC entertainment chief Ben Silverman bagging the May upfront dog and pony show, unveiling Al Capone's programming vault to nab advertisers before the Web nabs them. Ad Age If you care, MediaWeek has an Upfront News Channel...
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King Pinged
2008-05-01 14:27:00
"It may take a crowbar to pry King off CNN's stage. For starters, the network just extended his contract another two years to June, 2011. And at 74, despite painful moments of cluelessness with even borderline-hip guests, King still draws some of CNN's strongest numbers." Gail Shister TV Newser in a Q&A with dumped CNN ego Aaron Brown on the beach until now with a new PBS Tee Vee show. He didn't need the dough. CNN paid Brown for doing nothing while his contract ran out. "After collecting his $1.8 million-a-year CNN salary for not working from November 2005 until his contract expired last July, he wasn't looking for a full-time gig." Brown sticking it to CNN on Larry: "I love Larry. If Larry wants to work at CNN until he's 110, I'm there." It ain't your call, bud... Brown also tells Shister he likes Keith Olbermann .
More About: Katie Couric , Larry King

TIME Has Come Today
2008-05-01 13:51:00
Tim Russert makes TIME mag's "100 Most Influential" list. The road to the White House goes through Tim...
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WOR Cashes In On Gambling
2008-05-01 13:24:00
"If you'd told me six months ago I'd be returning to WOR," mused John Gambling , "I'd have said you were out of your mind." David Hinckley NYDN NewsdayGambling's weekly sidekick, NY Mayor Mike Bloomberg, defects from WABC to WOR. NYPWOR beached Gambling in 2000 ending 75 years of Gambling domination on WOR. He then went to WABC. But there he will be. WABC's Phil Boyce who fired the veteran talk radio guy in March: "He's a class act. I wish him only the best."

Humadore
2008-05-01 12:53:00
The old chestnut muff diver rumors about Hillary and her 33-year-old "butt girl" rear again, this time in the Globe tabloid. "One political website, bigheaddc.com, quotes a top-level U.S. Justice Department official as saying "I am close enough to Hillary and Huma to tell you the 'rumor' is true. If you call Hillary's residence in D.C. the first thing in the morning, Huma answers the phone. Same thing late at night and on the road. It's a closely guarded secreat that Hillary's inner circle protects her at all costs." Even the respected Sunday Times in London took note syaing "The mainstream U.S. media has managed to ignore... allegations that Hillary Clinton is having an affair with Huma Abedin." ON NEWSTANDS NOW! We report, you decide...
More About: Golden Globes , Hypocrisy , Lesbians , Adultery

Hillary Kills On Bill
2008-05-01 12:16:00
"Morning Joe" Scarborough and the MSNBC gang begrudgingly admit Fox News conservative blowhard Bill O 'Reilly 's interview with Hillary last night was good. They were talking about it out of the gate at 6 a.m. MSNBC played O'Reilly clips showing a gentle but persistent Bill and an amazingly poised Hillary parrying questions like: "You're a polarizing figure. Just like me. I hate to say it but.." Hillary's performance got Obamagirl Mika's nose out of joint. You could tell. She was gritting through her teeth watching Hillary kill. Watch last night's interview here. Part two airs tonight. Reviews: NYP NYDN Wash Post Huff Post vidO'Reilly pats himself on the back: "This was the toughest interview she's ever done." TV NewserMSNBC 6:35a.m. An Andrea Mitchell piece thumping Barack and Michelle Obama's NBC "Today" show Meredith Viera interview. Segue to an O'Reilly/Hillary bite on Wright: "Hillary courting O'Reilly's viewers even though he's been one of her harshest critics..."H...
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MSNBC's Ship Of Tools
2008-04-30 17:04:00
NBC News suits ordering grunt leakers to keep a lid on it are consumed by the lumbering rolling media blob brimming with insiders' jabs at MSNBC lame duck blowhard Chris Matthews and his heir apparent David Gregory - NBC WH correspondent and MSNBC talking head on the new 6 p.m. show "Race For The White House." Gawker: Matthews is a network star, but he comes with a lot of baggage, like accusations of sexism, embarrassing magazine profiles, and his inability to deal politely with his staff. Gregory?famous for, in addition to his height, his testy and sarcastic exchanges with Bush press secretaries?doesn't have the ratings to justify any of this yet, obv, but supposedly CBS wants him so therefore NBC needs him even more because that's how TV works with its "talent." But would replacing Matthews with Gregory be even more of a disaster? Gregory generally came off as awkward when trying to lighten up during his gig guest-hosting Today?he also did quite a bit of dancing. He also once c...
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Hillary: Say Cheesy
2008-04-30 16:19:00
Via Johnny Dollar's Place: "It's a trap" whines a liberal Daily Kos kommando. But Bill promises "it won't be a gotcha interview." NYDN Moses Goes To The Mountain in Indiana where he'll chat up Hillary in an interview running during his show tonight and tomorrow.Wash Post Howard Kurtz kommands komments: "We came to see that, essentially, Hillary is a woman animated by a lifelong ambition. That ambition is to make the world accept the ideas she embraced in the sanctuaries of LIBERATION THEOLOGY, RADICAL FEMINISM, AND THE HARD LEFT. We came to see her as a politician who invented her own strategies of protective coloration, who learned to mask her true feelings and intentions. She had become the master manipulator of the press, the public, her staff, and--likely--even the president" - Barbara Olson in her book HELL TO PAY: The Unfolding Story Of Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999)The late Barbara Olson (died 9/11 Pentagon plane) rang me up in 2000 when I was doing a DC talk show. We ripp...
More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Bill O , Fox News , Reilly

Done Dribbling, Obama Shoots
2008-04-30 15:28:00
Does Rev. Jeremiah Wright have a brand new off-shore bank account in the Caymans? I wouldn't put it past the corrupt Clinton machine to grease Wright's retired pastor palms. The NYDN reported yesterday that a Hillary supporter National Press Club chick arranged for Wright's woeful psycho wronging Obama speech duly thumped by cable Tee Vee talking heads Monday. A Press Club flack tells Politico's Michael Calderone Wright was "pitched" two years ago. Obama's Aldrich Ames was ripe for a payoff. "Betrayed" by his former supplicant. NYPNYDN: "Wright was the crazy uncle Obama kept in the basement. And now he has come charging out, spewing nonsense, for all the world to see. And for voters to wonder about the candidate who tried to hide him." NYT editorial: "It was the most forthright repudiation of an out-of-control supporter that we can remember." More NYTMaureen Dowd NYT: For some, Obama didn?t offer enough outrage. ?He talks about Reverend Wright violating his core beliefs as if h...
More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , John Edwards

CBS: Takes A Licking But Keeps On Ticking
2008-04-30 14:54:00
CBS flies in the face of vulture forecasters by 3 cents. Analysts ventured a wild guess that CBS shares would be up 36 cents. Nyet. 33 cents. The writers' strike kept production costs down. Dough from political ads helped boost $$$. The beleaguered CBS Radio revenue was down 6 percent. Tim Arango NYTNot impressive no matter how you spin it. Last week Katie Couric 's ratings hit an all-time low. It's a safe bet Fox will bump off #1 CBS. TV Newser: Fox & Friends beat the bejeezus out of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and CNN's "America In The Morning" in April ratings. BTW: Fox News going HD tomorrow in some markets. TV Newser Political pimping propels CNN's ratings. Olbermann still sucking wind to Bill O 'Reilly . New guy on the MSNBC news block, David Gregory, already doing better than Tucker Carlson in that 6 p.m. slot.
More About: Keith Olbermann

Beware Of Greeks Bearing Rifts
2008-04-30 13:52:00
The symbiotic relationship between tedious liberal intelligentsia blowhard Huff Post Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington and NBC News appears to be over. Keith J. Kelly NYP Arianna Huffington claims that she was banished from NBC News shows because her new book, "Right is Wrong," blasted "Meet the Press" anchor Tim Russert. Huffington is the force behind the Huffington Post , an influential political Web site where she had started a blog called "Russert Watch." Her new book, which is slated to hit later this week carries the sub title, "How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution and Made Us All Less Safe." Aside from being the anchor, Russert is also the managing editor of the show, the Washington Bureau Chief of NBC News and a senior vice president of NBC News. Huffington dubs him "EZ Pass" Russert because she claims his softball questions give the Washington elite a free wave-through when they appear on his shows. While he may ask a tough opening question, he ...
More About: Barbara Walters , Greeks , Keith Olbermann , Beware

Hillary: Shrink Rapped
2008-04-28 16:23:00
The Wash Post consults a shrink to explain why Hillary 's not bailing: The interests of a candidate pitted against the collective interest of his or her party -- shows up in many economic and political domains and is sometimes called the "tragedy of the commons." Individuals embroiled in similar dilemmas find them impossible to solve on their own, because they are confronted by a Hobson's Choice: Act selfishly and cause collective disaster, or act altruistically and aid someone else who is acting selfishly. Either way, selfishness wins."The way the system is set up, the more-selfish person has a higher probability of winning," social psychologist W. Keith Campbell said of the Democratic primary. "You end up with the more narcissistic, belligerent candidate."What's next? A psychic? Hill's new campaign anthem? "Against All Odds" Phil Collins. NYDN Bill Clinton "doesn't like Obama." New Yorker But the serial narcissist sure likes himself... NBC's political director Chuck Todd: "N...
More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Minutes

Static
2008-04-28 15:30:00
Ex-CNNer Aaron Brown back on Tee Vee after two years in professorial Siberia. PBS "Wide Angle." APEx-MSNBC "military analyst" Col. Ken Allard tells CNN's Howard Kurtz MSNBC's tilt to the left was why he left. NewsBustersEx-ABC Newser Chris Wallace adores the face time he gets on cable news. Florida Sun-SentinelBrian Steinberg Ad Age: The big three TV network newscasts lost about 1.2 million viewers last year, and advertising on their three big morning news shows fell to an estimated $1.03 billion. The average viewer is 60 years old, and the demographic marketers most want to reach is more likely to be facing a computer screen than a TV screen when the evening news comes on. Collectively, ABC, NBC and CBS's network newscasts lost about 1.2 million viewers in 2007... Given that rather sobering picture, maybe the discussion shouldn't be over whether Katie Couric will last at CBS through the election. Maybe it should be whether we need network-TV news at all. The WB Tee Vee network ...
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Karl Rove: Fox In The Hen House
2008-04-27 15:09:00
Unsolicited advice to Obama from Fox News political guru, the redeemed Karl Rove : "You're making mistakes and making people worry that you're an elitist. So while you'll almost certainly win the nomination, Democrats are nervous about the fall. You've given them reasons to be." More at NewsweekMaureen Dowd NYT likens Obama's waning life force to vampire chick lit. "She?s the one who is more energetic and focused and beaming, and he?s the one who seems uneven and gauzy, often fatigued and unable to disguise being fed up with the slog... Even his speeches don?t have the same pizazz.Even some Obama fans find Hillary?s toughness and shameless shape-shifting compelling. Having lost the White House twice to brass-knuckled pols, the Dems may be drawn to a woman who thinks like Karl Rove."
More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton

Butch Hillary and the Run Dance Skid
2008-04-27 14:32:00
Johnny Dollar's Place has the video of Chris Wallace talking about Obama's pre-taped appearance on today's "Fox News Sunday." Nearly two years ago Wallace challenged Obama to an on-air duel. Obama promised but then strung him along until last week.Macho Hillary challenges Obama to a verbal duel with no Tee Vee "wrangler." NYDN NYP [photo Burr/Hamilton 1804 dueling pistols]Obama shoots her down on "Fox News Sunday." 21 debates. Enough already...
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Chickaboomer Does Hillary
2008-04-26 22:50:00
What TV news missed at Thursday's Hillary campaign rally in Asheville, NC. Chickaboomer reports on the former shoe-in pleading for prayers.Feel Hillary's pain at Chickaboomer's YouTube channel.
More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton

The Amazing Randi Part III
2008-04-25 16:12:00
Chainsaw Al's former company, Sunbeam , handling the Randi Goldklank thing as delicately as defusing a C-4 plastique bomb. Circling the wagons: The unfortunate events of last Sunday night were unanticipated and Ms. Goldklank is deeply regretful,? She is currently undergoing medical treatment and is on administrative leave from the company. We wish her a speedy recovery, as do her many friends in Boston and throughout the broadcasting industry.? Boson HeraldIf she weren't a suit her tiny ass would've been fired as soon as word got out that the Ch. 7 Boston Tee Vee GM's airplane meltdown hit the media. ?Do you know who the fuck I am?? Her next question is going to be, ?Do you know who I was?? Howie Carr Boston Herald Radio talk show host Carr's online poll: 72 percent think Miz Goldklank should be fired. In 25 words or less: Goldklank went batshit on a plane before it landed at Logan. Claimed she wasn't drinking but later blabbed she had "three dozen drinks" and the antidepressan...
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Katie Couric: Wizard Of Odds
2008-04-25 15:54:00
Unsolicited advice to Katie Couric : "Take a long sabbatical, then hope for Larry King to keel over." Emily Rooney (the daughter of CBS "60 Minutes" appallingly groomed Andy Rooney): "Talk about stop-loss. It's got to be her move. She's got to make it work out for her in every way, personally. That's her No. 1 concern right now. She has to save some face here." Gail Shister TV News er"CBS could certainly replace Couric with a woman with less gums and giggle." NewsBusters shooting down a TIME mag critic shilling the "white guys" old chestnut.And your little dog, too...
More About: Hypocrisy , Les Moonves , Today Show

Headline Of The Day
2008-04-25 15:46:00
NYP Cover: "Wesley Stripes." Snipes to the slammer for tax evasion. Three years. NYP NYT
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NYT: Kool And The Gang Bang
2008-04-25 15:36:00
Not enough NYT journos are drinking the Kool-Aid. So to persuade the reluctant, this media leak: "The New York Times' news room is bracing for a bloodbath in the next 10 days. The word from inside is that approximately 50 unionized journalists have accepted the buyout proposal, and only another 20 non-union editorial employees have gotten on board. That means the ax could fall on as many as 30 editorial people in the company's first-ever mass firing of journalists in its 156-year history." Keith J. Kelly NYP
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American Idle
2008-04-25 15:31:00
NYT: With the end of Andrew Lloyd Webber week on ?American Idol,? Fox breezed to a first-place finish in the ratings on Wednesday. Nielsen estimated that 22.6 million viewers tuned in to ?Idol? at 9 p.m., dominating all other programming. Fox earned smaller audiences in the low-rated 8 p.m. hour with the comedies ? ?Til Death? and ?Back to You,? which drew 6.2 million and 7.3 million viewers. Those shows lifted Fox to first in the hour among adults 18 to 49, edging past ABC?s ?Wife Swap? (5.9 million), CBS?s ?Big Brother? (6.7 million), and the first half of NBC?s two-hour ?Deal or No Deal.? NBC was second for the night over all, winning the 10 p.m. hour with ?Law & Order? (12.6 million), which delivered its highest ratings since its season premiere. CBS finished third despite repeats from 9 to 11. ABC was fourth, drawing 5.4 million viewers for ?Supernanny? at 9 and 5.2 million for ?Men in Trees? at 10.
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Don Ho's Redemption Redux
2008-04-24 16:03:00
James Brady in Forbes: What about the advertising?WABC's Phil Boyce: "It's coming in and we're getting much higher rates, and we're getting closer to sellouts."Brady: And the man himself, a good coat, clear eye, is he behaving?Phil: "He's sounding well and seems at peace with himself. And I think he's in a better place."
More About: Don Imus , Redemption

The Hills Have Eyes
2008-04-24 15:54:00
Now that North Carolina is a Dem presidential primary playa, I'm biting the bullet and going to a Hillary rally tonight in mountainous Asheville. I promise I won't get arrested...CHAOS: Clinton Hates All Obama Supporters
More About: Eyes , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , The Hills , Hills

Ave Maria
2008-04-24 15:38:00
California first lady Maria Shriver really believes she's still a marketable Tee Vee newsbabe. To "Today's" Matt Lauer : ?I think I can always come back. I think I can do special reports. You could hire me.? MSNBC vidIf you ask me Miz Maria, 53, is ticked "Today" let long-in-the-tooth Kathie Lee Gifford reinvent herself on NBC.NBC gingerly dumped Maria from "Dateline : NBC" after Arnold was elected guv.
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CNN Digs A Hole To China
2008-04-24 15:20:00
Jack Cafferty and CNN face two China lawsuits for Cafferty's "goons and thugs" on-air comments. MSNBC Reuters One is demanding $1.3 billion - a buck for every Chinese person.
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Randi Goldklank: Snake On A Plane
2008-04-24 14:51:00
Only an alcoholic with high tolerance can drink "three dozen drinks" and still be alive. But there is a point where the body turns on the alcoholic and the alcohol-assaulted organs rebel. The self-described "tiny lady" was ?cocky, combative, argumentative, staggering, thick tongued, unsteady and extreme? when she was arrested for disorderly conduct after her plane landed at Boston's Logan. Police say Goldklank broke a state trooper's glasses in her "Do you know who the fuck I am?" tirade and admitted she had "three dozen drinks" and the antidepressant Lexapro. "Overnight she went from the top of her game - the youngest general manager in a big, tough TV market, one of the few women GMs in the country - to an object of ridicule." Margery Eagan Boston HeraldThe Herald's Jessica Heslam polls PR gurus. The consensus: The tiny terror must either resign or check herself into rehab. Her assault arraignment was postponed to next month.
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