Echo
Friday, September 3, 2010
Baby, It's You
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Fox's Iraq Band
Haven't checked up lately on our komrades at Media Matters. Here's what our agitprop friends are serving up Thursday: 'Serial Iraq misinformers find home at Fox.'
When The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
"The worst stuff isn't even in there." Vanity Fair's Michael Gross pimping his October Palin piece on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Thursday a.m. H/t Danny Shea Huff Post
Self-proclaimed 'Christian small town' Gross: "I started this with every good intention toward her. I was just shocked and appalled at every step at what I found. And I wrote this story sort of against my will. It wasn't what I wanted to write, it wasn't what I wanted to find. It was what was forced on me by the facts."
Mika Brzezinski seat-filler Chris Jansing seemed gobsmacked by Gross's portrayal of Palin's 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde dichotomy': "I think it borders on genius the way she manages to get in the media almost every day."
Uh, Chris, MSNBC and the rest of the easily manipulated media are as malleable as raw ground moose patties . . .
Letterman Blackmailer Voted Off The Island
If you were a twee . . .
Ed Schultz Planning Reenactment of WWII Bataan Death March
"Ed Schultz said he could draw 300,000 people at the mall. Hey Ed, just a quick personal note: first, why don't you try to draw 300,000, you know, in the demo? Just to turn on their TV. And then you get back to us on the mall." Glenn Beck's retort to MSNBC's Ed Schultz who claimed on his radio show 'it ain't a big deal' for him to stage a similarly attended Ed March. H/t Radio Equalizer Huffington Post
The only way Ed could coax 300,000 beer-drinking union guys to Washington would be at the point of a bayonet . . . Or free Bud Light.
The only way Ed could coax 300,000 beer-drinking union guys to Washington would be at the point of a bayonet . . . Or free Bud Light.
Media's Rear Entry in Age of Twitter
The Washington Post runs a sidebar Thursday asking readers if they use Twitter for 'breaking news.' One negative news-overloaded opinion: "What's it really going to matter whether you know five minutes or one hour after it happens? It's amazing that news has taken over the networks (bring back the game shows!). It's bad news anyways, so there's another reason to ignore the news."
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Fox Sweeps MSNBC, CNN Under New Oval Office Rug
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (8:00-8:19PM watched by 29 mil)
FNC: 2,888,000 in total viewers (694,000 in 25-54)
MSNBC: 1,311,000 in total viewers (373,000 in 25-54)
CNN: 988,000 in total viewers (300,000 in 25-54)
The rest of Tuesday August 31, 2010. TVBytheNumbers:
7PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The Fox Report w/ Shep – 1,621,000 viewers (354,000) (736,000)
John King USA – 389,000 viewers (68,000) (137,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews – 633,000 viewers (164,000) (260,000)
Kudlow Report–125,000 viewers (a scratch w/48,000) (60,000)
Issues – 443,000 viewers (174,000) (268,000)
8PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor– 2,521,000 viewers (624,000) (1,238,000)
Rick’s List –544,000 viewers (153,000) (227,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 1,031,000 viewers (308,000) (566,000)
Crime Inc: Counterfeit–203,000 viewers (100,000) (103,000)
Nancy Grace – 619,000 viewers (215,000) (307,000)
9 PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Hannity– 1,924,000 viewers (428,000) (907,000)
Larry King Live —591,000 viewers (123,000) (208,000)
Rachel Maddow Show —970,000 viewers (266,000) (509,000)
Bio: Starbucks – 201,000 viewers (94,000) (81,000)
Joy Behar – 445,000 viewers (132,000) (180,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
On the Record w/ Greta—1,694,000 viewers (363,000) (781,000)
Anderson Cooper 360 — 643,000 viewers (175,000) (250,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 407,000 viewers (154,000) (226,000)
American Greed– 267,000 viewers (118,000) (114,000)
Nancy Grace –429,000 viewers (201,000) (242,000)
Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch
Business Insider reports Lee had pestered Discovery for years (left photo). Discovery took him to court and got a restraining order.
Read Lee's demands here.
Related: NYDN
Wash Post has photos. TVNewser reports the Big Three cable networks plus FBN and CNBC covered it.
In February 2008, the nut job caused a ruckus outside Discovery's Silver Spring, MD HQ with free money he threw into the air. Watch the greedy go for the green:
Live and Let Live
Wash Post columnist Parker needles Glenn Beck in print for lifting his uplifting 8/28 buzz directly out of A.A.'s 12 Steps.
I already made that observation in comments here on Chickaboomer. But in a positive vein. Anyone who is familiar with the Twelve and Twelve is aware that recovering alcoholic Beck is attempting to pass on the principles to others.
Maybe Kathleen should check her H.A.L.T. -- hungry, angry, lonely, tired . . . Or maybe she's just F.I.N.E. -- fucked up, insecure, neurotic, emotional.
Media-Internet Complex (MIC)
Back in the 1960s our mission was to fight the Establishment. Now we are it. Or some of us on Vanity Fair's New Establishment 100 2010 list.
Black hoodie Facebook magnate Mark Zuckerberg is #1. News Corp's Rupert Murdoch is #4. At unlucky 13, Time Warner's Jeff Bewkes. 21. Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. Jon Stewart, number 29, is ridiculed for wearing skintight black pants in public. Oh, Jon, bring it on!
Comcast's axe man Steve Burke at #38.
Political chameleon (once a Repub when gay former hubby was in Congress), Arianna Huffington rolls in at 42 with "What began as a blog for liberal kvetching by her glam friends has evolved into a bona fide news organization with a paid staff of 70 reporters and editors and an investigative fund."
Funny, real journalist Chickaboomer also started out that way but as of this writing, this writer is still kvetching solo . . .
Octogenarian Betty White's Emmy win and SNL Emmy noms from White's appearance put SNL creator Lorne Michaels at #49.
MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' show rundown map, Mike Allen, purveyor of Mike Allen's Politco Playbook, logs in at 53.
PBS's Charlie Rose is 62. CBS honcho Les Moonves, 64.
NYT liberal columnist Frank Rich, #77, for his 'virtuosic columns.' Yeah, it's a word. Aw, sick . . .
Deadline Hollywood's poison pen Nikki Finke #93. Nikki takes no prisoners and doesn't suffer fools gladly Nikki once called NBC CEO Jeff Zucker a 'kiss-ass incompetent.' If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck . . .
Comcast's axe man Steve Burke at #38.
Political chameleon (once a Repub when gay former hubby was in Congress), Arianna Huffington rolls in at 42 with "What began as a blog for liberal kvetching by her glam friends has evolved into a bona fide news organization with a paid staff of 70 reporters and editors and an investigative fund."
Funny, real journalist Chickaboomer also started out that way but as of this writing, this writer is still kvetching solo . . .
MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' show rundown map, Mike Allen, purveyor of Mike Allen's Politco Playbook, logs in at 53.
PBS's Charlie Rose is 62. CBS honcho Les Moonves, 64.
NYT liberal columnist Frank Rich, #77, for his 'virtuosic columns.' Yeah, it's a word. Aw, sick . . .
How Low Can They Go?
Last week NBC, CBS, and ABC's signature evening newscast viewership in the aggregate hit the grimmest numbers ever recorded.
Dan Rather's laughing his ass off . . .
Sarah Palin Fear Factor
Barack Obama: Style Over Substance
Obama delivered his short Iraq address from the newly renovated Oval Office (warp speed extreme makeover during Obama's 10 days at Martha's Vineyard). See Michelle's Mirror 'Big Desk, Little Man.'
Like FDR's 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'
The WH has commissioned a smaller circular rug with famous Obama's sayings -- such as 'Let me be clear.'
More photos here.
Maureen Dowd's Wednesday NYT column: If we had wanted earth tones in the Oval Office, we would have elected Al Gore. (Oh, yeah, we did.) On the night we were reminded that George W. Bush ended up in the White House and heedlessly, needlessly started the war with Iraq, President Obama did his Mission Relinquished address from his redecorated man cave. The Oval Office was done over by the chichi decorator Michael Smith, who was previously paid $800,000 for his part in refurnishing the lair of the former Merrill Lynch C.E.O. John Thain (a $1.2 million project featuring the notorious $35,000 antique cabinet, or commode). The Oval Office, the classiest, most powerful place on earth, is now suffused with browns and beiges and leather and resembles an upscale hotel conference room or a ’70s conversation pit with a boxy coffee table that even some Obama aides find ugly.It almost made me long for the Technicolor Belle Watling swagging and swathing style of the Clintons’ Little Rock decorator, Kaki Hockersmith. The recession redo, paid for by the nonprofit White House Historical Association, was the latest tone-deaf move by a White House that was supposed to excel at connection and communication. Message: I care, but not enough to stop the fancy vacations and posh renovations. As Obama himself said in February 2009 when he released his first budget: “There are times where you can afford to redecorate your house, and there are times where you need to focus on rebuilding the foundation.” It might have been wise, given America’s slough of despond, to hark back to a time when presidents just went to work and took their office pretty much as they found it, without the need to make a personal statement. As the former White House curator Rex Scouten once told me, in the era from Taft to Truman, the green rug in the president’s office was changed only once, when it wore out, to a new green rug. The new cream-of-wheat-colored rug is made of 25 percent recycled wool and features 100 percent recycled quotes around the border that have significance for President Obama. (Which means, of course, that the next chief executive will want to carpet copy-edit and put his or her own special quotes on the Oval rug. If the Tea Party triumphs, it might be “Don’t Tread on Me.” If Sarah Palin ascends, it will no doubt be a mama grizzly bear rug, personally bagged by her.)The quotations chosen by Obama include F.D.R.’s “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”; Martin Luther King Jr.’s “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice”; Lincoln’s “Government of the people, by the people, for the people”; J.F.K.’s “No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings”; and Teddy Roosevelt’s “The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.” Given the cunning tableau created on the Mall over the weekend by Glenn Beck and Palin, in their artful and frightening mix of theology and Tea Party ideology, the president might be better served by a carpet that prompts him to get his groove back.The first thing the once inspirational orator should embroider around the rug, the maxim that sums up so much of what’s wrong with the administration now, is the immortal line from “Cool Hand Luke”: “What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.”Sidetracked by the mosque fight and now admirably plunging into brokering a Middle East peace, Obama clearly needs a reminder about what really counts as the Democrats prepare to get their clocks cleaned. The rug should quote James Carville’s famous admonition: “It’s the economy, stupid!”There should be a special message for John Boehner, the Republican leader who has been strutting around as the Speaker-in-Waiting and who led the Republicans on Tuesday in their inane effort to deny Obama credit for anything by spending the day reminding people that it was W.’s war. The president should emblazon Kathleen Turner’s line from “Body Heat”: “You’re not too smart, are you? I like that in a man.”Obama needs his rug to remind him to toughen up. When the self-styled Republican “Young Guns” — Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy — pull their wacky ideas out of their policy holsters, they should have to look down and read the warning from Al “Scarface” Pacino about his machine gun: “Say hello to my little friend.” While he’s at it, the president who naïvely yearned for unanimity when he had a majority might put this legend around the border of his carpet: “Post-partisanship doesn’t work with Mitch McConnell.” And for all of us who have that sinking feeling that the economic rug is being pulled out from under us, the president might stitch in the famous warning from “Jaws”: “We’re going to need a bigger boat.”
Olbermann Sticking It To New Nubile Babe
Speak loudly and carry a small stick . . .
Cable News Ratingzzz
| FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,977,000 FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,645,000 FOXNEWS BECK 2,600,000 FOXNEWS BAIER 2,097,000 FOXNEWS SHEP 1,858,000 FOXNEWS GRETA 1,856,000 MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,078,000 MSNBC MADDOW 1,027,000 MSNBC SHULTZ 699,000 CNN SANCHEZ 676,000 CNN KING 620,000 MSNBC HARDBALL 620,000 CNNHN GRACE 586,000 CNN COOPER 581,000 Source: Drudge |
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Rick Sanchez: Cotton Mouth Whistling Dixie
After apologizing, Rick retorted he picked up the phrase growing up in the land of cotton.
As for Rick's 8p ratings, Rick's listing. CNN's lowest 8p numbers in three years. Business Insider
Where There's Smoke, There's Fire
Rival: Huffington Post (headline, left).
Mike Allen's Politico Playbook: GLENN BECK LAST NIGHT OPENED HIS OWN WEBSITE, “The Blaze,” to compete with Drudge, Huff and FoxNation: “The Blaze is a news, information and opinion site brought to you by Glenn Beck and a dedicated team of writers, journalists & video producers. Our goal is to post, report and analyze stories of interest on a wide range of topics from politics and culture to faith and family.” The news site was announced on GlennBeck.com, with the slogan: “Nothing burns hotter than the truth.” The site has a big ad for FreedomWorks, Dick Armey’s group, adding another revenue stream to the Beck empire, which was taking in $32 million a year, according to Forbes. The breakdown: publishing, $13 million; radio, $10 million; digital, $4 million; events, $3 million; television, $2 million. (His three-year Fox News contract is a rounding error!) The Blaze’s managing editor is Scott Baker: “In 2007, Scott co-founded Breitbart.tv. He served as Chief Operating Officer and co-editor of the site for three years.” Glenn Beck tells Mediaite: “Our hope is that everyone who comes to The Blaze finds original reporting, insightful opinions and engaging videos about the stories that matter most. We are excited to launch and I look forward to keeping Scott and his team busy by sending countless ideas at 3am every morning.”
Related: 'Beck may be unlikely leader for conservative Christians' Wash Post 'Beck's marriage of politics and religion raising questions' Wash Post
Related: 'Beck may be unlikely leader for conservative Christians' Wash Post 'Beck's marriage of politics and religion raising questions' Wash Post
Hank Stuever Wash Post columnist: Thank you, New York Times, CNN, Washington Post, Huffington Post, MSNBC, Associated Press and even CBS, with your independent aerial audit on crowd attendance that came to 87,000, give or take, for playing your parts so very well. "No newspaper in America" bothered to convey the message, Beck said, that the next "40 days and 40 nights" will see a profound spiritual shift in our lives. Thanks for that, too. Thanks to anyone who posted Web photo galleries of 8/28-ers and mocking what they wore, what their T-shirts said, how they looked.It was all to Beck's greater good, giving him and the rest of Fox News enough to discuss, ruminate and refute for many hours to come. Even this review, I admit, is just another part of the depressing Moebius strip that guides the American news cycle.
Monday, August 30, 2010
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Beau Geste
The most ridiculous blog post sported (and later pulled) by the Huffington Post Monday offered a $100,000 reward for anyone who can produce a Glenn Beck sex tape.
The clown is the former executive editor of the now-defunct Air America. Beau Friedlander currently writes for le beau monde Huff Post and LAT.
Friedlander posted a subsequent apology: 'I was actually trying to mimic what I saw as the way right wingers go about these matters, and by misapprehending the way they do things, I went too far.'
Beck's radio retort.
H/t ZD
Conan's Cold Finger
Or did the hung out to dry former 'Tonight' show star's finger freeze in mid-air after Emmy host Jimmy Fallon (who inherited Conan's old NBC late night slot) fingered fickle f**kers of Fate -- NBC -- during Sunday's Emmys broadcast on NBC?
Psst. Jon Stewart got the Emmy and not Conan . . .
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