Brother Glib

Obama press secretary Robert Gibbs mocked Sarah Palin's hand-written notes scrawled on her left palm during Tuesday's WH follies. 

Gibbs joked he'd written down "milk, bread, eggs."  All off which the American public will be be scrambling to afford  if the White House keeps paying lip service to jobs. [Would've been a better line had Gibbs replaced bread with butter.]

Call Of The Wilder

Former Virginia Dem Governor Doug Wilder's stunning advice to Obama:  fire the Chicago mafia inside the White House; dump DNC chair and former VA guv Tim Kaine; and get to the business of governing with pros who got you elected. 

The always-dapper 79-year-old Wilder tells POLITICO:  "It is not rocket science" to listen to the American people on THEIR #1 issue - jobs. 

In 1990 Wilder became the first black governor in U.S. history.

Red Eye Gives CNN Black Eye

Fox's 3a show "Red Eye" (celebrating three years) beats CNN's prime time 25-54 numbers as Fox finishes last week #2 in all cable second only to USA.

Feb. 01-05 25-54
FOX Red Eye                180,000
CNN Campbell Brown   155,000
CNN Larry King Alive   156,000
CNN Anderson Cooper 163,000

Cable news ratings Monday Feb. 8.  MSNBC's "Morning Joe" is below 300,000 total viewers, and 25-54 108,000

The numbers continue to be a huge embarrassment for both MSNBC and CNN.

Access Of Weasels

Obama ducks into the WH briefing room Tuesday. Fox's Major Garrett gets the first question. All hell breaks loose on Twitter after Major takes a photo for posterity.

The WH ink-stained wretches and snow blind TV guys 'n dolls have been bitching about Barack access...  So then Obama's "surprise" appearance...

Sammon Swimming Against Mainstream Media Tide

So former Washington Times scribe - now Fox News suit - Bill Sammon is swimming with snarks in the Washington press poo pool for opining the MSM "hates" the tea party movement.  Monday night Fox's Bill O'Reilly had on MSNBC-friendly Jim VandeHei - one of the founders of POLITICO.  Bill claimed his research showed only "two positive stories" on the tea party movement since its inception.  VandeHei directed Bill to POLITICO's coverage.  The two got into a Mexican standoff over mainly print media.  POLITICO's media maven Michael Calderone disagrees with Bill Sammon. 

I don't.  But I wish Bill had zeroed in on cable news' denigration of tea partiers as "tea baggers" after he glossed over CNN's Anderson Cooper first invoking the sexual slang on his show during an interview with political hack David Gergen. 

Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow were relentless in steeping the "tea baggers" verbally and with graphics. And recall CNN reporteress Susan Roesgen fired for lack of professionalism after challenging tea partiers during a live shot. 

The righteous TV talking heads are attempting to divert Sammon's slam with disingenuous claims of just trying to do their jobs. 

Specifically NBC's White House correspondent Chuck Todd who revised and extended his initial "absurd" dismissal on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Tuesday:



"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough pointed out a favorable Sunday's NYT piece on the tea party convention in Nashville  (after he bashed Sarah Palin's speech performance).  

It 's more fear than hate.  Superiority translating into denigrating media attitudes and behavior.  These are the same media outlets that have referred to the Republican Party as the GOP - "Gossipy Old Party" - among other gems.

I rest my case.

Leno: No Looking Back

Jay Leno drives out of primetime purgatory. NYDN's Richard Huff on Leno's Last Stand Tuesday night.  NYP's Michael Starr says Leno will have a "looking back" segment on his brief tenure at ten. Jay returns to the "Tonight" show March 1st.

Superb Bowl

"It speaks to how great broadcast television is."  CBS czar Les Moones on Sunday's Super Bowl record ratings.  106 mil watched.  The most viewed TV program ever, beating 1983's M*A*S*H finale.

It also may speak to the snow....  M*A*S*H star Alan Alda tells the NYTimes: “I’m happy for New Orleans. I want to see that city come out first in every way that it can, even if it means giving up a record that ‘M*A*S*H’ held for a long time.  But don’t give me the Magnanimity Medal yet.” He wonders about Nielsen Media’s ability to account for the effect of large groups gathered around TV sets to watch major events."

David Letterman's top 10 Indianapolis Colts excuses:  1. Peyton left early to tape a Gatorade commercial.  5.  Saints players were shoving us.



Check out Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees' suit:



Related:  NYDN photos of celebrities at the Super Bowl

SI Cover

Tennis star Andy Roddick's hot wife is this year's Sports Illustrated cover model. The issue is out Tuesday.

ESPN: Give Phillips Another Shot

Fired ESPN baseball analyst and diagnosed sex addict Steve Phillips segues from 45 days in rehab to NBC's "Today" show. Phillips just got out of the same Mississippi sex clinic where Tiger Woods was curing his compulsions. Why didn't Matt Lauer ask him if he ran into Tiger during Monday's interview?

Best line: "I'm working my tail off to save my marriage."

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Brian Williams Spreads His Back Door For A Slow Jam

Why NBC News "Brilliams" has to be a lousy lay - let's go to the videotape!   Maybe he's not.  AP's David Bauder's piece on Nightly:"Comfortable in his own skin" Williams says he's "as straight.... as they come."

Andrea Mitchell's Hand Job

Executive summary:  How can Sarah Palin criticize Obama's terminal teleprompter crutch when she writes notes on her hand?  H/t Danny Shea Huff Post "Andrea Mitchell Mocks Sarah Palin"

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MSNBC, CNN Vanishing Viewers: Down 50% From A Year Ago

Where's the rest of me? 

Pregnant Pause

The liberal angst over the Tim Tebow Super Bowl anti-abortion spots turned out to be a tempest in a teapot.  Even former MSNBC GM and show host Dan Abrams' "progressive" media website Mediaite pronounced both spots "uncontroversial" and Tim's mom Pam "the winner." 

The predictable kneejerk Mainstream Media swallowed the Focus On The Family's "Celebrate Life"  pre-game ad hype - hook line and sinker.

"I'm Barack Obama and I approved this ad."

NYT's ad guru Stuart Elliott on that freaky, frightening portent of things to come Audi Green Police Super Bowl spot:  "This misguided spot put the 'mental' in 'environmental.'"

Fast-forward to 2030:  Not only are we dogged by Gestapo Green Police, but environmental parasite oldsters like Betty White (star of another Super Bowl spot) are hauled off to the Soylent Green factories.

Frank's With Saint Peter. How About Them Saints?

Frank Magid, the TV news guru responsible for "happy talk" news (coined by a Chicago TV columnist named Sid or something in the 1970s), is dead.  And he died of....  cut to commercial.

No more than a 20-second obit for him, yuks the anchor to the sports dude.

The New Happy Talk? Twitter...

Letterman: "This is the worst Super Bowl party ever." Leno: "He's just saying that because I'm here."

It wasn't a $3 mil per 30 sec spot that stole the Super Bowl commercials:  it was a 15 second free CBS promo for Letterman.  Letterman's idea.

I thought it was fake.

Wash Post Tom Shales reviews that stunner and the crop of spots (many of which had me running for the barf bag - those fat, flabby fools in saggy whiteys:  The spot was taped Tuesday night in the Ed Sullivan Theater on Broadway, where Letterman's show is performed. Winfrey was smuggled in unnoticed and Leno arrived in a disguise that included dark glasses and a fake mustache."

NYP has the Letterman spot and others. NYDN's David Hinckley has his spin.  NYT Bill Carter on how the Letterman/Leno Super Bowl ad came together.  NYT's Stuart Elliott on "The Nostalgia Bowl" with ads starring a jarringly ancient Chevy Chase and more...

Mad Men's bible - Advertising Age - rates the ads.  USA TODAY has all the spots.

Weather Vain

A stoked weatherman auditions for NBC's Weather Channel by mimicking Keith Olbermann.  H/t NewsBusters:

SNL Fox Parody Flaccid

SNL sends up Greta, Glenn Beck, Karl Rove, Ollie North, Robert Gibbs, and an "attractive blonde lady" on "Don't ask, don't tell." It's stupid...

"I've got so many legislators in my colon I need 60 votes just to take a crap."

"Rahm Emanuel" apologizes for calling liberal Dems pissed off at no health care fucking retarded."  The notoriously foul-mouthed Obama White House chief of staff said what he should've called them was "fucking babies." Re: Sarah Palin's call for Rahm's resignation, "Why don't you stick to collecting checks for your stupid tea party speeches?"

Shue-in

NBC's Amy Robach marries actor Andrew Shue.  Amy was shod in Christian Louboutins and an off-the-rack Saks frock.