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Brian Williams: McCain/Palin Shunning Him Because of Olbermann/Matthews
2008-10-08 05:49:00 -By Warner Todd Huston In the Actions have consequences department, Brian Williams recently told David Letterman that the McCain camp is punishing him by not allowing him to interview Sarah Palin because the McCain camp is mad at MSNBC’s extreme leftism as evinced by Chris "Thrill up my leg" Matthews and Keith Olbermann. Is Brian crying? ...
By: Publius Forum
Separated At Birth: Dustin Hoffman & David Muir
2008-06-06 16:49:00 Yet another vain victim network Tee Vee newsdude bitching about his high-paid gig. "Marathon Man" Men's Vogue: In a shrinking news industry, on-air talent are increasingly called on to do everything ? shoot footage, write a blog, anchor a webcast ? and Muir has embraced multitasking with the enthusiasm of NBC's Brian Williams, to whom he is often compared, and the élan of the late Peter Jennings, whose encouraging words he still carries with him. Like both men, Muir got his start young, as a teen gofer for a local station in Syracuse. While still attending Ithaca College, he both anchored and produced a weekend newscast there, timing segments at the anchor desk with a yellow stopwatch even as he was delivering them ? and then driving 60 miles to meet his buddies for Saturday night's last call. Metrosexual Muir's trials triggered a comparison in my Friday-fried mind between his pedestrian "Marathon Man" ordeals with older version Dustin Hoffman's in 1976's "Marathon Man". I wat...
By: Chickaboomer
Makeup Free Kathie Lee
2008-06-06 13:52:00 Katie Couric and her YouTube camera invade the sanctity of NBC's "Today" show make-up room zeroing in on an unmasked Kathie Lee Gifford. Without her paint Miz Kathie Lee could pass for a Wal-Mart cashier.
By: Chickaboomer
Brian Bags Barack
2008-06-04 21:04:00 Brian Williams interviews Barack Obama tonight on what Fox & Friends Steve Doocy branded the "National Barack Company" this a.m.
By: Chickaboomer
Marty McCry
2008-06-01 18:19:00 Fire consumes backlot at Universal City. KNBC photos Defamer Variety Hollywood Reporter MSNBC Fox News Deadline Hollywood DailyThe "Back To The Future" set and famous clocktower went up in smoke. MSNBC vidThe blaze incinerated 50,000 films - but there were duplicates. Same kind of fire hit Universal City in 1990...Expect ex-volunteer firefighter Brian Williams to weigh in...
By: Chickaboomer
Katie Couric: How Low Can You Go?
2008-05-29 16:31:00 Katie Couric's ratings slipped again last week beating the old record low set in April. Huff PostCatty Lisa Ling signed by CNN to deliver doom and gloom to your HDTV. Hollywood Reporter Ling will report from countries where battles are being waged over oil, land, water and food. Also reporting for "Planet in Peril: Battle Lines" will be anchor Anderson Cooper and chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. It will be televised in high definition at year's end.How will Miz Lisa arrange for those Botox shots in the bush... Maybe Gupta will volunteer.
By: Chickaboomer
Chevy Volt on the NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams
2008-05-28 03:38:00 Considering the current national gas and oil price crisis, media outlets can’t seem to discuss the topic enough. This has led to a break for GM and the Chevy Volt. As readers here have pointed out, the Volt was featured on a segment on tonight’s broadcast of the NBC Nightly news. View it here. Neilson ...
Edwards & Obama: Ring Around The Blue Collar
2008-05-14 23:59:00 Update 6:48 p: Edwards is blabbing right now. He entered the packed arena like a rock star to Bruce Springsteen. Edwards spent the first few minutes praising Hillary (to scattered boos). He's sucking the air out of Hillary's campaign and blue collar support. You're looking at the Dem ticket: Obama and Edwards.Keith Olbermann 8:03p: "The polls have now closed in the State of John Edwards." Cute. Cunning John Edwards instinctively knows when to play his hand. He endorsed Barack Obama in my home state of Michigan, screwing up network evening news rundowns. MSNBC NYT NYP Politico Newsday NYO Fox News CBS News CNN ABC News NBC News Right when Hillary was swinging in swing states with Joe Sixpack. Her West Virginia Big Mo hits a media brick wall...Clever man, that John Edwards... Good move in Michigan, and before Obama bites it in Kentucky next Tuesday. Edwards brings 18 delegates to Obama (20 left for the nomination) and his "hard-working white Americans." The Page Mark Halperin TIME ...
By: Chickaboomer
Brian Williams' Complete Interview with Barack Obama
2008-05-09 03:52:00 Brian Williams' 23-minute interview today with Barack Obama follows. Some six minutes were aired on the NBC Nightly News. But, as Williams said, the full interview was too long for the Nightly News (which is 30 minutes, including commercials). So the entire interview was made available on msnbc.com - with an easy way to embed it on any blog, such as this one. That, in itself, is something laudable about this interview. Its mode of presentation serves as a good example of the way traditional media such as broadcast television and new media such as the web can work together to assist democracy.I thought the best thing about the interview itself was Obama's relaxed, engaging, Presidential style. Asked about Joe Scarborough's advice that Obama should just come right out and say he was President of the Harvard Law Review and he was proud of it, Obama said he'd be happy to interview Scarborough for a press job in his administration. Williams countered that Scarborough was a Repu...
By: Infinite Regress
More Anti-Dem Spin From "The Brian Williams Network"
2008-04-30 20:20:00 I came across the following “hatchet job” masquerading as reporting from MSNBC Mike Viqueira here (concerning the 110th Congress)…So far this year, the stimulus package has passed, and that's about it. It has been slow going, no question. Behind the scenes, the Democratic leaders are still wrestling with the question of how to handle the president's latest request for war funding, this time for $108 billion.Funny that Viqueira should mention the latest war funding demand hissy fit request, since Kagro X of The Daily Kos addressed that subject here (including Dubya’s promised veto if more funding is included for our military to receive the education they were promised upon enlistment; the Repugs’ protest over requiring President Stupid Head to sign waivers when he rotates untrained, unrested, and unarmored troops back into combat; Dubya’s demand that the war be funded through his term and six months into the term of his successor, and on and on).They are looking at legi...
Katie Couric: The Party's Over
2008-04-16 15:55:00 Washington Times Inside The Beltway: Overheard one CBS News veteran in Washington, who shall remain nameless, refer to the network's struggling anchor Katie Couric as a "lame duck."There's a beaming Katie on her first day cloaked in a girlish jumper with Bob Schieffer with news prez Sean McManus in the background assuming the unwittingly prescient arm across the chest defensive position."Is she leaving? Of course she is. And it may well be after the presidential election, even though the public relations department at CBS has turned blue denying it. But there's a bigger question: Why do we need Couric ? or Charlie Gibson or Brian Williams ? to read us the news every night? Simply put, TV's evening news is a dinosaur that should go the way of the dodo bird."You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. I wrote the same dinosaur thing LAST week. Broadcast networks bleeding ad dollars to new media: get with the program or bust. MediaPostMark Dawidziak: Tom Rosensti...
By: Chickaboomer
Rookie Monsters
2008-04-03 15:23:00 NBC's trying to kill off employees in the 30 Rock cafeteria rather than fire them. TV Newser Advice: get yourself a food tester.Brian Williams plies his legendary comedic talents on "Sesame Street." Brian Williams Daily Nightly blog.Boston Globe: The era of celebrity local anchors is over. Why? Local Tee Vee is no longer the golden goose. Baltimore Sun Obscenely high-paid anchors are getting the boot for lower paid no names. Phil Rosenthal Chicago Tribune Viewers are pissed at CBS's wholesale canning of popular anchors. Robert Feder Chicago Sun-Times It's a sign of the new media times when the Sam Zell-owned LA Times (Tribune Co.) hires a video expert to teach ink-stained scribes to hoist a camera. RosenblumTV My friend Lee Abrams just moved back to his Chicago hometown as "chief innovator" of Zell's Tribune radio and TV operations. Lee had the same gig at XM. Arianna Huffington's $200 mil leftist Huff Post is getting competition but Tina Brown INSISTS her apolitical offering w...
By: Chickaboomer
Who Gives A Shirt?
2008-04-01 15:17:00 Ex-volunteer firefighter OCDer Brian Williams is once again on Vanity Fair's "International Best-Dressed List." NYP Page SixThere's Brian (left) in his custom Charvet Joe Sixpack shirt. Answer: Matt Lauer. If you don't get it click on obsessive/compulsives.
By: Chickaboomer
White Men Don't Hump
2008-03-13 14:10:00 It's their birthright to indulge and justify risky sexless gloveless oral sex. NBC still refuses to employ the "D-word" (not Dick) in tagging Eliot Spitzer. ABC News coughed it up last night. So did Katie Couric. NewsBusters The Washington Post sprawls prone on a shrink's couch to justify Spitzer's behavior. The whole point of males' often-risky efforts to achieve power, resources and prestige was to translate status into sex with more women. You run the tribe, you get dibs. That's the way it worked in hunter-gatherer cultures, most of which, Shackelford says, were polygamous. Nearly all men, in every age, wanted sex with multiple partners, but only the leaders could (a) attract additional partners and (b) have the resources to provide for them. "It's a relatively new development for men to be vilified for reaping what would have been ancestral rewards for power and prestige." "Men such as those in Spitzer's position do not so much pay for women to have sex with them; the...
By: Chickaboomer
A person starts dying when they stop dreaming - Brian Williams
2008-03-12 12:21:00 Some time ago I bought a book called "Dreamings: The Art of Aboriginal Australia". I find aboriginal art very inspiring and I have a thing for earth colors. I also like the way each aboriginal painting tells its own story.Have a look at the sites and browse through some amazing art.Desert ArtDreamings iconography: how to read the paintings.Aboriginal paintings at Galeria AnielaAutralian Art and PrintsAboriginal Art onlineCooinda GalleryJapingka Gallery
By: MindFul MiMi
Networks Up The Donkey's Ass
2008-03-11 11:48:00 NewsBusters picks up on an obvious Eliot Spitzer media omission (deliberate?) that I noticed yesterday after the story broke: his political party. Charlie Gibson and Brian Williams couldn't even spit out "Democrat" on last night's network news. ABC did super Eliot with a "D." Hand it to Katie Couric for uttering the D-word. After the story broke yesterday afternoon I strained my eyeballs searching for "Democrat" in the raft of print stories on Spitzer's hoist by his own petard.The media hammered "Republican" at every opportunity in the recent cases of Larry Craig, David Vitter, Mark Foley et al.
By: Chickaboomer
SNL Propels Brian Williams To #1
2008-03-10 10:53:00 What do Brian Williams and Hillary Clinton have in common? Both got a huge surge in popularity from "Saturday Night Live." "For the February sweeps, Williams averaged 9.5 million viewers to Gibson's 9.3 million; Couric trailed with just under 7 million." Howard Kurtz Wash PostSome people scoffed when Williams appeared on SNL but it paid off big time in the ratings.Over at MSNBC Dan Abrams has changed the name of his show to "Verdict."
By: Chickaboomer
Brian Williams: Keep Your Day Job
2008-02-29 16:57:00 A manic Brian Williams dodges Jon Stewart's question on NBC's alleged Hillary bias. Jossip vid God, stiffy BriWi tries SO HARD to be funny. Stewart: "Are you biased against Hillary because you're sexist or Obama because you're racist?" Bri: "I drink." Stewart: Did Hillary take you off guard when she said she was "curious" she got the first question? Williams: "I was curious myself... She made the most news. It was natural to start with her." Prescient Brian gloated about his prediction that Hillary would bring up the Obama "SNL" skit at the Ohio debate.
By: Chickaboomer
One Dead In O-hi-o
2008-02-27 15:06:00 Tim Russert wondered which Hillary Clinton would show up last night? NYDN Answer: The Victim. Hillary took a shot at the media right out of the gate whining about ALWAYS getting the first question and media bias against her after commandeering the debate for 16 interminable minutes on health insurance. NBC's Tim Russert painted The Victim into a coffin last night on Iraq - the death rattle heard 'round the world signaling a gasping Hillary's final moments. NYP Wash Post NYDN NYTPerhaps finally sensing that she was, in stand-up comedy parlance, dying and not killing, Clinton tried to lighten the tone by quoting a lame, one-joke sketch from the recent return of "Saturday Night Live." TV Newser vid The one joke, perhaps less than one, was that the news media have been openly and lavishly biased in favor of Obama, a hugely arguable premise in the first place. Clinton made a reference to lines from the sketch about running off to get Obama a pillow so he'd be comfy in his chair and s...
By: Chickaboomer
Which Hillary Clinton Will Show Up Tonight?
2008-02-26 13:40:00 NBC's Tim Russert on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." Russert and Brian Williams are moderating tonight's debate in Cleveland. Guess which "Sybil" Hillary multiple personalities will rear their ugly heads. Southern accent, harsh Midwestern shrew, weeping willow, the gracious and complimentary Clinton, ruthless sarcastic bitch?The NYT asked five "experts" to come up with questions that haven't been asked. See if you agree here. The Wash Post culls the top Obama & Hillary flip flops.
By: Chickaboomer
Mitt Has Left The Room
2008-02-07 18:33:00 Mitt's out. CNN Politico 12:36 P This is an NBC News special report. Here is Brian Williams. "Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has apparently decided to end his quest for the GOP nomination." Tim Russert: "He doesn't have the delegates and he doesn't have the money." Cue the music... back to MSNBC where there are technical glitches. All we hear is a woman talking. Then: Brian: "I have no audio, Chris, I can't hear you." Well, they're back on track blabbing with Tim Russert. MSNBC is flummoxed waiting to go live to the annual CPAC conference in Alexandria, Virginia. Pause. Chris: "Let's go live to Laura Ingraham on the floor where she's introducing Mitt Romney..."Miz Laura snipes at McCain: "It's not enough to say you were a 'foot soldier in the Reagan revolution'? What have you done for conservatism lately?" Crowd erupts in cheers. "I ask all of you should all of us 'calm down?' Should we 'calm down' or should we point out that Americans will cease to be free....
By: Chickaboomer
Bri Wi Fie!
2008-02-06 03:48:00 Soupcans serves up these tasty tidbits. The media were banned from a Dan Rather "students only" Q & A at USC last night. The Enterprise ReportTee Vee groupies charged 65 bucks a head to flash NBC's Brian Williams Feb. 8th at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. RR FoundationOh, just book me, Danno! "She's usally the one ASKING the questions...but on February 26th, 2008, Katie Couric will be on the other side of the microphone. WCBS morning anchor Pat Carroll will lead the discussion to get answers to questions you have about Katie. What's it like to be the first female solo anchor of a weekday network evening newscast? How about spending your life in the spotlight, both professionally and personally? What do her two daughters think about mom and her high-powered career? And Katie will be fresh off the campaign trail, as she leads the CBS News coverage of an extraordinary primary election season. You don't want to miss her insight on that! So register now for the WCBS Wor...
By: Chickaboomer
Smear Pap
2008-01-26 15:18:00 "You?re not really a huge power broker of the female variety until some bitchy man writes a nasty biography of you, a literary pap smear meant at once to diagnose and humiliate." Atlantic Monthly babe on Edward Klein's Katie Couric book.The one salient line in an abject waste of the Atlantic Monthly column inches: "She spent her time gunning for a position that had been drained of its status and importance long before she got there. And what she has learned, the hard way, is that her climb to the top has been not a triumph but the act of someone who slept through a revolution." This piece is just as absurd as one posted on Forbes where NBC's Brian Williams is the lone Tee Vee anchor on a vapid "flirt list" pimped by PR Newswire. SoupCans Any guy unfortunate enough to be on this ugly ass chick's high value target list should seriously consider leaving the country. You want the REAL media flirts? Lemme see... I have some great stories. Dan Rather. And more. Hmm. I'd rather not...
By: Chickaboomer
Duh
2008-01-17 16:20:00 Brian Williams: It's Ne-VA-dah not Ne-VAH-dah. Williams got so much flack from irate Nevadans after he mispronounced Nevada during this week's Dem debate that NBC did a story on it. University of Nevada Reno Try your hand at Nevada's state bird: Sialia currucoides (Mountain bird). Or state fish with an uncanny resemblance to Diane Sawyer: Oncorhynchus clarki henshawi (Lahontan Cutthroat Trout).Rock my world! Fox News star Shep Smith tackles the news on Superbowl Sunday. NYDN Inner TubeLet me guess. "Which slave-driving producer of a morning TV show was ordered by the network's legal department to cease and desist offering staffers tequila shots on Friday afternoons? The grinch-like suits were worried about liability?" NYP Page Six You make it too easy. CBS Morning Newsbitch Shelley Ross. Take another shot of courage. Wonder why the right words never come.You just get numb. It's another tequila sunrise,this old world still looks the same, Another frame...
By: Chickaboomer
MSNBC Nevada Democratic Debate (January 15, 2008)
2008-01-17 06:39:00 On Tuesday, January 15, 2008, the top 3 Democratic candidates debated the issues in Nevada on MSNBC. Dennis Kucinich was not allowed to participate by MSNBC and that ruling was upheld when it was challenged in court. A judge in a lower court had threatened to block the MSNBC broadcast if Kucinich was not allowed to participate but the Nevada Supreme Court reversed that decision 1 hour before the debate went on air. The debate went on without Kucinich and the tone was friendly throughout the debate. Tim Russert, Natalie Morales, and Brian Williams were the moderators of the round-table style debate. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were asked about the issue of race and the battle that emerged between the two parties over the past week. The candidates stayed true to their word and honored the truce on the issue. ?I think that what?s most important is that Senator Obama and I agree completely that neither race nor gender should be a part of this campaign,? Sena...
We Are Family!
2008-01-16 03:19:00 I've got all my bros and me! "We both have exuberant and sometimes uncontrollable supporters. We are all family in the Democratic party." Hillary blaming campaign grunts for the escalating race baiting. NBC's Brian Williams kicked off the Dem debate noting it was Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday today. "No one expected [race] to be as prominent as it is." So Hillary and Obama toned down the anatagonism a few notches to prevent the debate from turning into a free-for-all. "Senator Obama and I agree completely that neither race nor gender should be part of the campaign." Obama was nothing but a gentleman and diplomatic in praising Hillary. Russert: "Do you regret pushing this [race] story?" Obama blamed his staff. Cutaway shots showed a tired, set-jaw Hillary blinking her eyes and nodding her head. Russert: "Do you think it was a deliberate attempt to marginalize you as a candidate?"Obama (lying): "No." "Whats a white male to do running against these historic candidates?" Viewer q...
By: Chickaboomer
Obama chats with Brian Williams
2008-01-08 05:56:00 Senator Barack Obama sat down and talked with Brian Williams today. In lengthy interviews, Obama is able to show his thoughtfulness on the issues. With the New Hampshire primary coming tomorrow, 2 new polls (USA Today- Gallup and CNN-WMUR) show Barack Obama opening up a 2 digit lead in the granite state. ...
War Of The Poseurs
2008-01-04 17:18:00 Prediction: Fox News will buckle and reverse course on excluding wacko Ron Paul from joining the Repub debate team. Last night Shep Smith had the balls to pose the question to Greta Van Susteren and awful plastic surgery freak Susan Es-tretch. Miz Greta went against the Fox machine and said yes. Johnny Dollar's Place video ABC News is giving Paul a ticket into Saturday's debate. TV Newser Charlie Gibson fronts the debate. BTW Charlie's the 2007 nightly news ratings king. NYDN B & C The liberal media are crowing about the sucky ratings for Fox Business News. Richard Huff NYDN Chicago Tribune NYT Whaddaya expect? It takes months, even years, to build a brand. CNN and Fox News responded by filling the hours as they often do in these circumstances: By talking to themselves. CNN had an endless supply of panelists bouncing the same ideas off each other over and over again, with master of ceremonies Anderson Cooper reminding us that he's as solid a game-show host as he is a journal...
By: Chickaboomer
The Walking On Airfoot Contessa
2007-12-22 16:33:00 NBC's Brian Williams was supposedly grabbed in the hall by MSNBC bonehead anchorbabe Contessa Brewer December 19th - the day before National Regifting Day or whatever - and went on air with her - and the video finally hit YouTube. I happened to be watching Wednesday and wrote this. MSNBC spins it like the Bri Wi/Contessa encounter was chance. It smacks of staging to make Brian look human. Contessa looks like she's on the verge of an orgasm with her glistening eyes and adoring smile. "Regifting." A word and practice crying out to be waterboarded from American lexicon.
By: Chickaboomer
Bri Wi Whine
2007-12-19 19:22:00 NBC's Brian Williams just got off the MSNBC set with bonehead anchoress Contessa Brewer blabbing about "regifting" - a word and practice that has become commonplace in American lexicon and bad behavior.What is this? Another attempt to portray dweeby Brian as a real guy? The on-air spin was it wasn't Brian's idea to do the segment. Contessa: You just told me an interesting story about regifting [off the air, presumably in the hallway]. Bri Wi sets up his regifting debacle. He doesn't drink. Somebody gave him a bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau. "I'm from Jersey," Mr. Joe Sixpack swaggers. The Land Of Beer. The wine sat gathering dust. He wrapped it as a gift. Since Bri doesn't imbibe he had no idea Beaujolais Nouveau must be consumed posthaste. Busted! Brian says he still gets kidded. He also told Miz Contessa he almost regifted a "writing instrument" until he discovered it was engraved with his name. A nearly mute starry-eyed Contessa pertly cocked her head, smiled, and let Brian b...
By: Chickaboomer
Romancing The Crone
2007-12-19 15:36:00 Bri Wi's new announcer replacing the Great Piped One doesn't ring my chimes. The thinny tinny Michael Douglas sounding as though the plastic surgeon slipped and clipped his vocal cords during one of many facelifts. CNN's Anderson Cooper, tongue in his cheek, cattily comments on NBC's jettisoning a no-name to get media buzz. Inside Cable News has the video. Who would Anderson choose to intro his 360? Fran Drescher. Clint Eastwood. Pee Wee Herman. Cher. Let me help you out. Madonna, Judy Garland, Elton John, Prince, Boy George. Village People. Jody Foster? Perhaps Anderson will be the "last man standing" when CNN's bitches' brew of cooked presidential debates with no potatos and rating falls to Fox News and MSNBC. Head honcho Jon Klein just signed up for four more years and cattily dismisses rivals and "couch potatos." "We?re the last man standing in terms of covering the news. We love that.? NYO
By: Chickaboomer
The War Of The Poseurs
2007-12-18 14:20:00 NBC newsdud Brian Williams dangles the secret identity of the new "Nightly News" announcer. Oh, big effing deal. Poster and video from Some Audio Guy.The Huffington Post harked the EXCLUSIVE! yesterday. Let's see if Michael Douglas's authoritative tones translate into ratings.
By: Chickaboomer
High Priestess Katie Couric's Confessional Box
2007-12-05 19:21:00 Miz Katie's presidential confessions yielding these sins. CBS News videoMy children, the Stilettoed One forgives and absolves you of all your phony BS. Now if we could only find an exorcist willing to risk his life deo volente removing the sins of a revolving headed demonic Katie spewing green liberal goo. Catholic exorcism ritual in Latin & English. Don't try this at home, kids. "Exorcizo te, omnis spiritus immunde, in nomine Dei Patris omnipotentis, et in noimine Jesu Christi Filii ejus, Domini et Judicis nostri, et in virtute Spiritus Sancti, ut descedas ab hoc plasmate Dei (Katie Couric), quod Dominus noster ad templum sanctum suum vocare dignatus est, ut fiat templum Dei vivi, et Spiritus Sanctus habitet in eo. Per eumdem Christum Dominum nostrum, qui venturus est judicare vivos et mortuos, et saeculum per ignem."If Katie's into voodoo she might consider sticking pins into Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson dolls. NYT
By: Chickaboomer
Shower Power
2007-12-04 16:00:00 NBC's Brian Williams' clever nominee for TIME mag's "Person Of The Year." "My nominee for 2007 Person of the Year is a woman - a woman with a history of abuse, a woman who has never run for elective office, someone we all know, someone who makes her presence known on a daily basis in all our lives and, for my money, is better than any male alternative. That woman is Mother Earth. I think the environment is the compelling issue of our time." TIME I'd photograph Mother Earth in a wife-beater.If TIME suits don't buckle to pressure to pick Don Imus, Brian will be 2 for 2. "You" was his nominee last year and TIME bought it. This "save energy, shower with a friend" recycled 70s political correctness is getting out of hand. Brian, you're not permitted to disengage from marriage. Uncoupling from wedlock causes global warming, obscene energy and water waste. Wash Post Just another lame liberal reason to stay together and an even better excuse than "for the sake of the kids."
By: Chickaboomer
Sound Bites
2007-11-30 16:26:00 2007 sets a record for dead journalists. UK GuardianABC News and the WGA hammer out a contract which includes a one-time bonus and 3.5% wage increase. The 250 employees have been working under the old contract since January 31, 2005. Crain's Striking movie writers say two thumbs down to the latest deal from studio and network execs. The smoking gun: TV networks are making $120 million this year on web advertising. Financial TimesDark Broadway is glittering again. NYDNWhy did NBC's Brian Williams publicly agonize over hosting "Saturday Night Live" when he's on late night talkers' short lists in case guests cancel? BriWi tells the Fairfield University paper he's been on Leno and Letterman about a dozen times. On Comedy Central's fake news "The Daily Show" many times: "I was known simply as the giant head of Brian Williams on Jon Stewart's show. A brilliant idea he had just to take my head. We are going to do some more of that and it's fun. I have a very one-dimensional business."
By: Chickaboomer
Sound Bites
2007-11-21 16:15:00 Verizon FiOS cable rates going up. NYP FCC headtrip Kevin Martin pisses off congressional Republicans over his proposed cable TV regs. WSJOprah gives away $2 mil in her annual self-promoting Christmas gift dump. NYP"Saturday Night Live" and "30 Rock" get around the writers' strike going live at a Manhattan improv. NYPFox apologizes for Polish joke in TV comedy "Back To You." NYDNNBC anchor Brian Williams pisses off gays. Queerty Mike Tyson forced to wear guy magnet pink underwear in jail. NYDN Fortunately for Tyson he was only in 24 hours.Certifiably crazy Heather Mills threatens to cut off media making fun of her. Who cares? NYP Page SixAtlanta TV station erases posthaste the bio of Cari Champion canned for erasing the evidence of her on-air motherf***er slip. NewsbluesSaw Laura Ingraham hosting Bill O'Reilly's "Factor" last night. She's FAR better than strident blowhard Bill. O'Reilly and his ego are in Afghanistan. Miz Laura had on two chick Fox News in-house lawyers - Lis...
By: Chickaboomer
Ordinary People
2007-11-13 22:43:00 How much did CBS, ABC, and NBC News flacks pay to get this press? Chicago Sun-Times TV critic Doug Elfman polishes the shoes of Brian Williams and Charlie Gibson, and sees his face in Katie Couric's Jimmy Choo boots. Chicago Sun-Times The executive summary: Williams, Gibson, and Couric have found a niche cable news ignores by doing "hard-hitting" stories on the plights of "ordinary people." Katie's jettisoned the fluff. Doug is so dazzled by Brian Williams he wrote this line twice: Williams also had the week's best Chicago reference, saying of the space shuttle landing: "May your next landing at O'Hare be this smooth."
By: Chickaboomer
When Anchors Attack!
2007-11-05 15:00:00 Lean to the left, lean to the right, stand up, sit down, fight, fight, FIGHT! Wash Post's Howard Kurtz on the polarizing cheerleading sections for delusional blowhard Bill O'Reilly and his liberal nemesis, Keith Olbermann. Wash Post I caught Howard on Tim Russert's OTHER show this weekend. Tim asked him about the influence of guys like Jon Stewart on the Big Three's staid network newscasts. There's a place for both, he contends. Not for long, I counter. Wash Post's brilliant TV critic Tom Shales agreed with me on Brian Williams's SNL appearance. He "neither took nor gave a pie in the face." My assessment early Sunday morning was "No harm, no foul." Almost Alive! Brian Williams on SNL! The media were so into speculating about Brian Williams's performance as the first network Tee Vee anchordude to venture into uncharted comedy waters. Should he do it? Not do it? His news cred? Who gives a f**k. NBC's witty, erudite Edwin Newman hosted the show twice in 1984. Richard Nixon blu...
By: Chickaboomer
Brian Williams on SNL
2007-11-05 00:34:00 One of the funniest things I've seen all day is the video of Brian Williams on SNL. In all honestly, a Brian Williams SNL appearance is about the last thing in the world that I would think would be funny, but they did a great job with it. Brian 7 Zoom(s)
Brian Williams SNL
2007-11-04 21:55:00 Click here if you missed Brian William kick ass performance on Saturday Night Live last night. So funny! Image: Times Union
Brian Williams SNL
2007-11-04 16:34:00 Brian Williams SNL? That’s right news guy Brian Williams was the host of Saturday Night Live last night. It gave him an opportunity to show his comedy off and to show he is not serious all the time. Brian Williams kicked things off with his opening monologue. He made an funny crack at himself saying “each ...
By: TheNewsLeak
Almost Alive! Brian Williams!
2007-11-04 06:02:00 Executive summary: Brian Williams should keep his day job. Reading cue cards, acting, and attempting accents aren't his forte. And probably never would be. Brian redeems himself when he's in his news anchor element in pre-recorded segments. I swear he has a bald spot on the top of his head near the back. SNL kicked off with a fake cackling Hillary (the fabulous Amy Poehler) in a white bridal dress Halloween costume that the other Democratic presidential candidates and "Bill Clinton" mistook for a witch's costume. You can run, Hillary, but you can't hide. "Bill Richardson" was in an Al Gore costume. "Joe Biden" and "Chris Dodd" as identical Sponge Bobs. "We cancel each other out." "Mike Gravel," strapped into a strait jacket, handed "Hillary" a bag of loose Milk Duds he "found on the bus." "Hillary" opened the bag and took a whiff. "They're not Milk Duds." A guy in a Barack Obama mask enters the room. The guy whips off the mask and underneath - the real Obama! "I enjoy being mys...
By: Chickaboomer
The Blur Between News & Entertainment
2007-11-03 21:22:00 Chickaboomer gets comments. This one from "Rita" on Brian Williams venturing into the comedy zone. Brian has appeared as the Giant Talking Head of Brian Williams on Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and NBC's Conan O'Brien. He is funny, in a seriously dapper way. It's so easy to get pissed off at preening Tee Vee types, isn't it? But, do remember that he did pay his dues in the ugly, mold and dust- infested old White House press room. And, he was picked as the Heir Apparent to Tom Brokaw, for a very easy reason to understand. He's easy on the eye. I know. I know. It's supposed to be about how well he knows the AP and Chicago Style books. But, dream on!My response. Dear Rita: That's not it. Your points are valid and well-taken. I find him condescending on the air. I asked my friends, Bob Horner (president of NBC News Channel), and his wife, Jeane von Essen (VP foreign news and biz development at NBC) about the disparity between Brian's lofty news delivery a...
By: Chickaboomer
The Thrill Of The Kill
2007-11-03 15:49:00 It's a safe bet Brian Williams is practically peeing his pants in anticipation of his "Saturday Night Live" host debut tonight. Williams concedes an unfamiliarity with a live audience (except for NBC stagehands) in Howard Kurtz's Wash Post piece cutely titled "NBC Anchor Feeling Skit-ish." I'll be watching tonight, Brian. You'd better kill. In the words of that beaver shilling for Rozerem (which doesn't work, BTW), "Chill."
By: Chickaboomer
Almost Live!
2007-11-02 14:16:00 ?I?m Brian Williams, and I?ll be hosting Saturday Night Live this week. And if the threatened writers? strike takes place, I?ll be hosting My Name is Earl.?NBC promo pimping BriWi. We'll see Saturday if Brian lives up to his hype as a REALLY FUNNY guy off-air. He's funny when he parrots that promo off the TelePrompTer. Brian is sparing us his off-key crooning. NY Daily News
By: Chickaboomer
Beat The Press
2007-11-01 18:10:00 Hillary and frothing henchmen furious with Tim Russert and BriWi following that disasterous (for Hillary) debate. It's not smart to piss off the guys behind the mike. Tim Russert "should be shot?" The HillThis is what America and the clueless media get if Her Imperial Heinous Hillary becomes Queen.
By: Chickaboomer
Strictly Speaking
2007-11-01 14:25:00 NBC's Brian Williams ruminates on the Greats Before Him who have been annointed Host of Saturday Night Live. Daily Nightly But Brian isn't breaking any new ground. A full-service NBC newsman who could still run professional circles around BriWi beat him to SNL. He fronted the show twice in 1984. Williams wonders: "Finally there is Edwin Newman, who hosted SNL in 1984, and anchored ?Weekend Update? on several other occasions. Ed was a best-selling author and an expert on the English language, but he was - and is - best known for his many years as a correspondent and anchor for NBC News. Now how on earth did a guy like that get to host Saturday Night Live?" And with Kool & The Gang? Edwin's still alive. He's 88. I idolize Mr. Newman. Have for years. Every journalist-in-diapers should be made to read Edwin's books "Strictly Speaking" and "A Civil Tongue." I still have my first editions from the mid-70s. Edwin is my hero for pointing out egregious misuse of the English language...
By: Chickaboomer
Democratic Debate in Philadelphia (October 30)
2007-10-30 18:36:00 Democratic candidates shown debating in New Hampshire. Tonights debate will be held in Philadelphia on MSNBC. (Photo by REUTERS). Tonight, Brian Williams and Tim Russert will moderate the eighth Democratic debate that will air on MSNBC. You will also be able to see the debate streamed live on MSNBC.com. The debate will begin at 9:00 PM Eastern time and is supposed to last 2 hours. The thing to watch tonight will be Barack Obama?s offensive strategy on Hillary Clinton. Do not forget that John Edwards will also be there on the offensive as well, especially on the issue of Hillary taking money from lobbyists. I have been hearing political commentators saying that this debate will be more important for Obama because the next debate is too close to Thanksgiving. That debate is scheduled for November 15, 2007. I thought Thanksgiving was on the 22nd? I think they under estimate Americans ability to think about the upcoming holiday and what Barack Obama says i...
Don't Faze Me, Bro
2007-10-30 16:22:00 Does anyone buy Brian Williams spin that hosting "Saturday Night Live" was ?one of the toughest decisions I've ever made." The NBC Nightly News anchor humanizes himself as host this Saturday November 3rd. We'll see if Williams lives up to his off-air hype as a "funny guy." NY Daily News He must be feeling pretty schizo this week fronting a presidential debate tonight and seguing to SNL. Will he be wearing his Stephen Colbert red rubber bracelet? Williams makes such a BIG DEAL that he's the first BIG TIME news anchor to go on SNL. Big effing deal. That's his ego talking. I'm still nostalgic for 1968 when Dick Nixon warbled "Sock It To Me!" on "Laugh-In." YouTube video.
By: Chickaboomer
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