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Keith Olbermann: Three Faces Of Peeve
2008-06-06 14:08:00 Keith Olbermann has as many personalities and accents as Hillary Clinton. And just as tortured. Here he is last night imitating Rupert Murdoch's Australian lilt. Gawker vid :44 in
By: Chickaboomer
MSNBC's Organ Grinder
2008-05-22 16:22:00 MSNBC's in-house organ TV Newser makes fun of Fox & Friends anchorbabe - the prim former Miss America Gretchen Carlson - for refusing to utter "Hell" on the air like liberal foul mouth Keith Olbermann.
By: Chickaboomer
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...
By: Chickaboomer
Me Thinks The Lady Doth Protest Too Much
2008-05-13 21:22:00 Hamlet Act 3.Men keep pressing Fox's soon-to-be-latest Ailes anchorbabe acquisition Megan Henderson. Playing coy and keeping her cards close to her chest. Uncle BarkyMiz Megan IS meeting with Roger, WILL be on Fox & Friends Weekend Saturday. TV Newser
By: Chickaboomer
New Muscle On Fox News Weakend
2008-05-12 21:27:00 As I'd hoped Fox News appears to be close to hiring an anchorbabe with beauty AND brains... TV Newser Megan Henderson, Fox Dallas. She was so impressive in her Fox & Friends weekend audition a few weeks ago I filed her photo in my Fox News Anchorbabes folder...
By: Chickaboomer
Keith Uber-Mann
2008-04-14 19:41:00 "He remains an acquired taste." Keith Olbermann appears on TV Week's 10 Most Powerful in TV news list. #6 one step above Bill O'Reilly. The only other Serious Anchordude to make the list: Tim Russert. The rest are the ususal exec species.
By: Chickaboomer
Ain't Nothing Like The Friel Thing, Baby
2008-04-08 23:49:00 I saw Fox Weekend's new luscious anchorbabewithabrain. Ailes, hire Megan Henderson out of Fox in Dallas/Fort Worth. She went to J-school. Not a beauty queen, red carpet potted plant, on-air wrestler wrangler, card shark anchorslut. Or bonehead. She doesn't have 58 half-naked photos of herself on the Internet a la Miz Courtney Friel. Miz Megan coyly insists she's just "visiting" the Fox set and denies the "audition."Tee Vee curmudgeon Uncle Barky breathlessly reports his communique from Miz Megan. I'm barking up Uncle Barky's tree for this: "Courtney Friel can't even be characterized as a bimbo because that would be an upgrade... During one of Saturday's periodic news breaks, the former World Poker Tour host termed herself a "total ghetto princess" after breaking a few moves. On Sunday Friel fittingly went to the circus, where she gleefully wore a low-cut sequined circus outfit while feeding an elephant an apple through his trunk. This was accompanied by a series of orgasmic-e...
By: Chickaboomer
Heard It Through The Grapevine
2008-03-30 17:03:00 "What top cable news executive is repeatedly cheating on his wife with younger women? He even recently made a play for one of his on-air babes." NYP Page Six Would the Murdoch NYP out one of its own? Like Roger Ailes with, say, that bikini bonehead Courtney Friel? Her presence on Fox News defies logic. Attempting to teach her to commit journalism is akin to teaching NY's new blind guv David Paterson to see. Maybe we're talking CNBC or MSNBC... CNN?
By: Chickaboomer
Fox News Ainsley Airhead
2008-03-20 19:21:00 Fox News bonehead anchorbabe Ainsley "Hitler Did Great Things" Earhardt (yeah, she really said that ON THE AIR! Jossip video)was taken to the woodshed this morning and spanked on Roger Ailes's lap for blabbing to bloggers. TV Newser?Please be patient with us, while the bosses decide who will be the best fit for the Fox and Friends weekend show: I?m sure they will make the right decision and you will be happy with the final selection.? She added, ?But your guess is as good as mine.? Carpe DiemRoger: Carpe Diem. Latin translation: "Let The Buyer Beware."Oh, and Earhardt is a German surname... Maybe she's got old Nazis in the family tree spontaneously combusting and regenerating in an enternal circle jerk with Josef Mengele. Or perhaps Miz Ainsley was a Hitler Youth fanatic in a previous lifetime...
By: Chickaboomer
Dobble Head
2008-03-16 17:29:00 Gobs of Dobbs from R&R's Talk Radio Seminar. The setting: Renaissance Hotel DC ballroom. Ted Baxter's body language double Dobbs slithers his way up to the stage after his suck-up intro by ex-Fox News Tee Vee talking head John "The Big Story" Gibson now languishing in Dante's radio inferno as of last week. Me (insincerely): "It really sucks about your TV show." Gibson (deflated like a day-old helium balloon): "It [Fox radio Siberia] really is a terrific thing... In TV I just read the TelePrompTer"... Me: "Like an automobile assembly line." Gibson (demurring): "I don't want to say anything. I might still end up on TV." Or words to that effect. Back to Lou. He takes two calculated steps up the stairs. Turns around. Walks in front of the stage microphone in hand reveling in his introduction as a "super talent." "Can I do this?" croons Lou. "I feel like a college professor." [behind the podium] "Thank you Fox News!" Yeah, he never thought he'd be saying that. Laughs and cl...
By: Chickaboomer
What Ailes Fox News?
2008-02-19 18:54:00 UPDATE 2-20-08 The Britney Spears Of TV NewsGawker picks up my story "Friel of Fortune" on Fox News one-dimensional narcissist Courtney Friel's banal blog brimming with 58 photos of herself on one page.Gawker's Terrifying Blog Of Fox News "Bikini Bonehead": Fox News talking head Courtney Friel was recently called a "bikini bonehead" (yeah, that would be me), and a walking non-sequitur (ditto), but Friel tried to juice all the hate for what it was worth on her blog, writing "any publicity is good publicity."I did not break this story out of "hate." As a former network radio and TV news anchor with a master's degree in journalism, I just call it as I see it with absence of malice. Dear Courtney: It's nothing personal. Fox News suits, news and image consultants, voice and speech coaches, have taken on an impossible challege transforming you into a credible television journalist. You're a blank canvas constitutionally incapable of emerging from the TV news cocoon reborn infused wit...
By: Chickaboomer
What Ailes Fox?
2008-02-11 15:58:00 No surprise. Psycho Tee Vee bikini anchorbabe Alycia Lane's assault case against a NYC lady police officer will be dismissed if she's a good girl for six months. Dan GrossCNN's Carol Costello was spotted sniffing Alycia's former anchor chair at Philadelphia TV station KYW. Philadelphia InquirerWinston-Salem TV anchoress answers cell phone on the air crimping her pimping. Live Leak Fox News crimping the career of media critic Eric Burns. Why? The weekend "Fox News Watch" ratings are good. I've admired Burns since his NBC News days. He's likable, professional, objective, smart, thoughtful, soft-spoken. No blowhard. Refreshing, eh? This sucks. So Fox claims it wants the show to go in "a new direction?"Roger Ailes paging Courtney Friel...From Eric's Fox News bio: For his work with NBC, Burns was named by the Washington Journalism Review as one of the best writers in the history of broadcast journalism, joining such luminaries as Edward R. Murrow, Charles Kuralt, Eric Sevareid, Ha...
By: Chickaboomer
?We live in America? [Roger Ailes]
2008-02-08 21:42:00 You’ve got to love the consistency of message. Even when Roger Ailes complains about “selfish complaining” and “petty whining” at his cable network, Fox News, the Murdoch henchman manages to work in a patriotic theme. From a memo leaked to TV Newser: “We make a decent living. Many of us are quite comfortable. Some of ...
What Ailes Fox News?
2008-02-08 18:40:00 Fox News boss Roger Ailes to bitching, greedy grunts: Shut your whining yaps. You've got it good. "Some of you are famous." There's always the door... Ailes puts it on the line today in a communique to Fox employees, one or more of whom promptly leaked it to TV Newser. "The best things about those days [when Ailes came to Fox in 1996] were the positive attitude, team spirit, energy, personal sacrifice, cheerfulness, lack of complaints, kindness and a "can do" attitude. That combination made us the #1 news channel in America and the most successful cable channel launch in American history. But today, I sometimes hear too much selfish complaining, petty whining, and a desire to have what someone else has. Of course there are exceptions to this and we all know who they are, on the other hand do not assume I am talking about someone else. As I have always said, negative people make positive people sick."
By: Chickaboomer
Napolitano Boned Apart
2008-01-19 00:15:00 What catches Fox News boss Roger Ailes's eye? Blonde hair, great legs, short skirts, perky boobs. In Judge Andrew Napolitano's case, he possesses none of these attributes. But then again, Ailes was still at CNBC and hadn't been Rupertized.He caught Roger's attention in a 1995 press conference denouncing the lousy pay of New Jersey judges. Napolitano had just bagged a cushy lifetime gig on the NJ Superior Court because he was "tired of being poor" making a paltry 100 grand a year. The ex-judge tells the Washington Times: "About a week after that, Ailes reached out to me and said, 'We are about to cover this trial in California. Why don't you come in and see if the camera likes you and you like it?' Of course, it was the O.J. Simpson case."Napolitano went to Fox News in 1998 and is Fox's "senior judicial analyst." The Princeton and Notre Dame law chool grad opines daily on Papa Smurf John Gibson's show (wins the worst hair in the world contest hands down).I submit for your co...
By: Chickaboomer
Great Balls Of Ire
2008-01-17 22:30:00 MSNBC's Contessa Brewer: "This story really has balls. Red balls, green, balls, yellow balls. (pause) Blue balls." Plastic balls. Cute. Fire the writer. Brass-balled Keith Olbermann went after the Fox & Friends trio for blabbing on-air about the Men's Journal Keith piece where some unnamed MSNBC honcho claimed Keith runs the ratings bereft network. TV NewserI must say that Keith's send-up last night of Fox's Gretchen Carlson as a mere "beauty pageant winner", Brian Kilmeade (sports), and Steve Doocy (weatherman), wasn't off the mark. And the Fox trio's anger that "partisan" Olbermann anchored debates when Fox boss Roger Ailes - in another incarnation - was a Republican political hack. TV Newser video MSNBC's pimp disguised as a TV news blogger, former MSNBCer Chris Ariens, duly reports the offending leaker was Davidson Goldin let go in the latest purge.Back to Contessa Brewer: ..."Trousseau. I speak French." [read: you f**king callow morons] "They just said it in my ear. ...
By: Chickaboomer
TV and the presidency: Roger Ailes and Richard Nixon
2008-01-08 16:45:00 From Joe McGinniss, The Selling of the President 1968 - a young Roger Ailes, formerly exec producer of the Mike Douglas Show, has been hired to produce ten live one-hour programmes featuring Richard Nixon. Nixon met the 28-year old Ailes before he appeared on the Douglas show.“It’s a shame a man has to use gimmicks like this to get elected,” Nixon said.“Television is not a gimmick,” Ailes said.(BTW Nixon beat Mitt Romney’s dad to the Republican nomination) As he prepares for the last two shows of the 1968 campaign, Ailes reflects:“This is the beginning of a whole new concept,” Ailes said. “This is it. This is the way they’ll be elected forevermore. The next guys up will have to be performers.”Nixon wound up his last broadcast like this: “I’m not a showman,” Richard Nixon was telling America. “I’m not a television personality.”And Ailes’s assessment?“Tonight,” he said, “this was the Nixon I met on the Douglas show. This was the Nixon I wante...
Roger Ailes: ?Republicans are cowards??
2008-01-06 00:05:00 If they can’t face FOX News, how can they face Al Qaeda? Remember that one? State GOP withdraws as FOX debate partner UnionLeader.com has learned that the New Hampshire Republican Party has quit as a co-sponsor of tomorrow night’s nationally televised GOP forum on FOX News. The 8 p.m. event at Saint Anselm College — the last debate ...
Roger Ailes: ?Republicans are cowards??
2008-01-06 00:05:00 If they can’t face FOX News, how can they face Al Qaeda? Remember that one? State GOP withdraws as FOX debate partner UnionLeader.com has learned that the New Hampshire Republican Party has quit as a co-sponsor of tomorrow night’s nationally televised GOP forum on FOX News. The 8 p.m. event at Saint Anselm College — the last debate ...
Worst person - Roger Ailes
2008-01-05 08:56:00 Today’s worst persons in the world - Rudy Giuliani finished 3rd for answering a question about whether he is worried or not by, wait for it, invoking 9/11, again. Bill O’Reilly has trouble differing between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Fox Business Channel seems to be having trouble getting viewers. ...
Rupert Murdoch And The Temple Of Cume
2007-10-25 14:50:00 The Emperor of TV Newser, Chris Ariens, has the lowdown on the glitzy Fox Business Network's gala at NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art. From all accounts Rupert Murdoch loftily believes he is the Roman Empire's first and most important emperor Augustus (nephew of Julius Caesar) reincarnated. The coronation was at the MET's Temple of Dendur (15 B.C.) (left). Rupert, are you aware of the Curse Of The Pharaohs?
By: Chickaboomer
More from Roger Ailes
2007-10-16 13:07:00 You have to love this quote from Fox boss Roger Ailes in Broadcasting & Cable:Q: Are you getting more nervous as [the launch of Fox Business News] approaches?A: No. Look, when you die, the first 100 years in the ground is just the beginning. So you just can’t get yourself all worked up over things like this.
Roger Ailes, the Jackie Mason of news
2007-10-09 16:16:00 I can’t help myself. I have great admiration for Roger Ailes. Take a look at these clips that didn’t make the cut from a Wall Street Journal interview transcript:WSJ: Your best friend and longtime colleague, Chet Collier, died recently. What are some of the things you learned from Chet - either about the television business or about business in general?ROGER AILES: I learned a lot about what I know about talent. He said two things: “One, your job is to protect the talent and make them look good, and nobody ever tuned in to see you, if you’re an executive or a producer, they tune in to see the talent; so, remember that.“And, No.2, the talent will never let you down; they will always look out for themselves.” The reason is they’re out there being exposed. They get the criticism. So you have to understand, it’s a very complex relationship. So, I love talent, and I protect talent, but I have to negotiate with talent, which is difficult. I learned a lot about the talent b...
YouTube: Fox News CEO Roger Ailes? Obama Joke Causes Debate Cancellation!
2007-03-10 04:40:00 A presidential debate thatwas to be co-hosted by FOX news networkgot cancelled because of a joke by FOX’s CEO Roger Ailes. His comment deliberately confused Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama with terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. Because of this comment the Democrats cancelled the debate. Here is the video: |
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