"Chris Wallace sounds like a teenage girl interviewing the Jonas Brothers." The Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan on the Fox host's Sunday interview with former veep Dick Cheney.
Obama spox Robert Gibbs responds today to ABC's Jake Tapper:
Here's Andrew Sullivan Saturday after the WaPo published an astonishing piece on how torture worked on the brains behind 9/11:
It details that Khaled Sheikh Mohammed gave up a wealth of information in the period after he was tortured by Cheney and Bush via the CIA. It does not and cannot prove that his information could not have been procured by legal or ethical interrogation methods. But what is interesting to me is the Washington Post's editorial and institutional position in favor of not calling waterboarding and sleep deprivation what they have always been called in every court of law and every society including the US in recent times: torture. They refuse to use the word "torture" for an act that is memorialized in Cambodia's museum of torture. That's how deeply the Washington Post is enmeshed in the pro-torture forces in Washington. The refusal to use this word is a clear, political act by the Post in defense of the Bush administration's torture and abuse policies. It places the Washington Post as an adjunct to the Bush-Cheney policy of torturing thousands of prisoners across every theater of war and across the globe.
Let's go to The Daily Banter's Ben Cohen, shall we? "It shouldn't be too much to ask for a featured political journalist to ask him some tough questions. But given Cheney will only ever talk to Fox hacks like Wallace, we'll most likely never see that happen. Instead, we'll get fluff pieces glossing over his tragic record in office and no serious attempt to hold him to account. And torture, it seems, is a Fox News favorite. Tragic."
What's tragic is what Hezbollah did to CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley in the 1980s proving torture works. I'm not going to get into Buckley's case here. Just click on the labels below.
Had I been interviewing Cheney I probably wouldn't have been deferential like Wallace is at the end of the interview. He asked solid questions. Predictably not tough enough for Sullivan and his liberal ilk.
Regarding the Washington Post story, my friend Bob Woodward is close to the CIA. The WaPo is changing the torture dialogue much to the chagrin of those claiming Cheney's a "war criminal." I'd make book that certain individuals at the Washington Post know more than their chest-beating media brethren.
Related: What If Torture Did Work? Daily Intel New York Magazine
Monday, August 31, 2009
MSNBC Flacks Fudge
Carlos's chick compadre chirped some stereotypical BS about gays being some of the most creative people. Oh, wait! There's Anderson Cooper!
The funniest part of this venture is the vid's creator's last name. Fudge. And he loves In-and-Out burgers.
DeLay Action
This one begs a caption:
"If this is foreplay I'm a dead man!"
Obama on Oil for Dude Program: "What Did He Know and When Did He Know It?"
About the Oil for Dude Program releasing that Lockerbie terrorist?
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: "This is just one of those stories that smells from the very beginning. They set up that Scottish guy to hold the press conference, like he's going to release the biggest terrorist this side of al Qaeda? . . . No! You knew the British government was attached. We predicted it last week; it's come true. Then that raises the next question: what's the link between Great Britain's government and the U.S. government? Anybody that works in Washington for more than a day knows the British government is not going to release a terrorist that killed American kids without getting the OK from the American government. Because of that celebration, this is the end of Gordon Brown's government; there's no surviving this, is there? This is the last straw."
Pat Buchanan: "I don't think there is any surviving: this guy is just holding on . . . My guess is this thing went up the food chain at State and went up the food chain through the NSC."
Joe Scarborough: "If this did not end up at the White House, Mike Barnicle, I would be shocked."
h/t NewsBusters transcript
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: "This is just one of those stories that smells from the very beginning. They set up that Scottish guy to hold the press conference, like he's going to release the biggest terrorist this side of al Qaeda? . . . No! You knew the British government was attached. We predicted it last week; it's come true. Then that raises the next question: what's the link between Great Britain's government and the U.S. government? Anybody that works in Washington for more than a day knows the British government is not going to release a terrorist that killed American kids without getting the OK from the American government. Because of that celebration, this is the end of Gordon Brown's government; there's no surviving this, is there? This is the last straw."
Pat Buchanan: "I don't think there is any surviving: this guy is just holding on . . . My guess is this thing went up the food chain at State and went up the food chain through the NSC."
Joe Scarborough: "If this did not end up at the White House, Mike Barnicle, I would be shocked."
h/t NewsBusters transcript
Howard Kurtz Puts His Pants On Two Legs At A Time
Howard posited this theory on CNN's "Reliable Sources" over the weekend. NewsBusters has the transcript and vid.
Robin Meade's Panic Room
"I don't think my bosses here, or the people I worked with, had any idea that I struggled with anxiety." Anchoress Robin Meade on years of anxiety attacks that started when she was a young anchor at NBC's WMAQ Chicago.
The 40-year-old HLN hottie's book comes out September 10th. The approved spin: "Robin Meade is the poster child for confidence and self-assurance. But the anchor of Morning Express with Robin Meade wasn't always that way. In fact, there was a period in her career when she was plagued with anxiety and panic attacks. In MORNING SUNSHINE, she tells how she overcame her fear of public speaking to go on and achieve her dream of becoming a news anchor."
"Robin Meade offers her own tried-and-true four-step approach to building confidence. Her trademark warm, personal style translates from the screen to the page in this book, which will give readers even more insight into the young woman who came out of nowhere to become one of the most popular news anchors on television today."
I'm not a shrink but I suspect the Emmy winner's anxiety and panic attacks (same thing) had something to do with an event in her life at the time of the attacks. She married in 1993. Had the attacks when she was in Chicago in the mid-to-late 1990s.
She grew up the daughter of a minister in a small Ohio town. Went to a no-name college. Shot to stardown as Miss Ohio in 1992 and was one of the top ten Miss America finalists. Took the beauty queen's predictable route to TV anchordom.
Usually these attacks are the culmination of years covering the vulnerable dragon's missing scale. I know this because I'm a veteran of years of anxiety/panic attacks that ceased in 2002 with medication. Robin's self-esteem issues go back to her childhood where somehow she was emotionally scarred.
Related: Robin's blog
The 40-year-old HLN hottie's book comes out September 10th. The approved spin: "Robin Meade is the poster child for confidence and self-assurance. But the anchor of Morning Express with Robin Meade wasn't always that way. In fact, there was a period in her career when she was plagued with anxiety and panic attacks. In MORNING SUNSHINE, she tells how she overcame her fear of public speaking to go on and achieve her dream of becoming a news anchor.""Robin Meade offers her own tried-and-true four-step approach to building confidence. Her trademark warm, personal style translates from the screen to the page in this book, which will give readers even more insight into the young woman who came out of nowhere to become one of the most popular news anchors on television today."
I'm not a shrink but I suspect the Emmy winner's anxiety and panic attacks (same thing) had something to do with an event in her life at the time of the attacks. She married in 1993. Had the attacks when she was in Chicago in the mid-to-late 1990s.
She grew up the daughter of a minister in a small Ohio town. Went to a no-name college. Shot to stardown as Miss Ohio in 1992 and was one of the top ten Miss America finalists. Took the beauty queen's predictable route to TV anchordom.
Usually these attacks are the culmination of years covering the vulnerable dragon's missing scale. I know this because I'm a veteran of years of anxiety/panic attacks that ceased in 2002 with medication. Robin's self-esteem issues go back to her childhood where somehow she was emotionally scarred.
Related: Robin's blog
The Thrill Is Gone
"For those who once felt a thrill up their leg, the sensation may be wearing off." WaPo media maven and CNN "Reliable Sources" host Howard Kurtz finds Obama's liberal media shills are shattered he's not the messiah.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
MSM: Hager The Horrible
NYDN poll results as of 8:30a EDT Monday: Do you think Jenna Bush has enough experience to be a correspondent for the 'Today' show?
Yes, she's the daughter of the president and has written a book. 27%
No, what does she know about being a reporter? 55%
I'm not sure, but I'll definitely tune in! 18%
The puzzled are asking me why Jim Bell hired Jenna. How's this? Perhaps "Today" has taken notice that other media outlets are glomming on to John McCain's daughter Meghan. The younger McCain will warm Elisabeth Hasselbeck's chair on "The View" while the former is off on maternity leave.
Ms. Meghan has no broadcasting experience either.
Today's NYT snarky lede: "Even the former first daughter Jenna Bush Hager has to supplement her teacher’s salary with a part-time job. In her case, though, the second job is rather high profile: she is going to work for NBC as the newest “Today” show correspondent."
Julie Banderas Marries
Things you didn't know about Fox News Weekend anchoress Julie Banderas.
- Her real last name is Bidwell..
- She has a sailboat, and a dog named Sasha.
- Nearly five years ago she met the man she married yesterday at Fox News where he'd show up every Saturday with a date to watch the show.
- The new Jersey boy hubby proposed on the aforementioned boat by planting a note in a bottle conveniently placed overboard within reach.
So where did Julie's last name "Banderas" come from? TV stage name? She's not changing her name professionally although Julie Sanzone rolls off the tongue rather nicely...
Separation of Church and State: Lyin' Kings Disoriented Are
Will MSNBC's David "Chelsea pimped out" Shuster target the Kennedy family Monday for "pimping out" Teddy's hapless young grandson during the Lion's funeral?
The kid was used as a tool during the service to pimp universal health care in the Prayers of the People part of the Catholic liturgy. O Lord, Hear Our Prayer! Excise politics from the thoughts, words, and deeds of the liberal religious when tempted by Satan to throw stones at their conservative Christian brothes.
These are the same religious secularists who reject public displays of Christmas trees and navity scenes as politically incorrect.
The kid was used as a tool during the service to pimp universal health care in the Prayers of the People part of the Catholic liturgy. O Lord, Hear Our Prayer! Excise politics from the thoughts, words, and deeds of the liberal religious when tempted by Satan to throw stones at their conservative Christian brothes.
These are the same religious secularists who reject public displays of Christmas trees and navity scenes as politically incorrect.
The Politics of Clothes
Pulitzer Prize-winning Wash Post fashion czarina Robin Givhan on how the Kennedys are the exception rather than the rule regarding America's distaste for ostentatious political wealth: The photographs of the Kennedys ooze with wealth and privilege. And yet they are romanticized as political savants and national royalty. They represent a time when this culture seemed more comfortable -- even mesmerized -- with the idea of an anointed family, a ruling class, a group of public servants to whom so very much had been given... But the Kennedys were mostly grandfathered in. Bad behavior was incorporated into the myth. It's hard to think of any political family that so publicly lived a life of luxury with little comment. The Bushes of Kennebunkport certainly revealed their patrician background, but it was met with plenty of comment . . . and criticism and derision.
Decidedly unpreppy is Michelle Obama in a Moschino bow blouse at Kennedy's funeral.
Look closely. Michelle's shaking Bill Clinton's hand. Bubba's got a bald spot...
Look closely. Michelle's shaking Bill Clinton's hand. Bubba's got a bald spot...
Saturday, August 29, 2009
The Patti Wagon
"Artist" David Combs on his "Notorious P.A.B.": "I dont [sic]think of myself as a painter, more of a conduit to a world beyond. So when I awoke in a puddle of my own sweat with this vision of Patti Ann Browne burned in my mind I knew that I had to show the world. And more than that... I had to put it on eBay. Half of the final selling price will be donated to the independent journalist Michael Yon. The other half I will use on my various addictions and obsessions."
The bidding started out at a penny. 26 bids and the price is up to $247.50. He's also selling two fishing rods and a 9 DVD "Twilight Zone" set described as "RARE HORROR."
One overzealous commenter gushed: "Wow. He really ... nailed the ... ESSENCE of (Patti Ann Browne). I mean, the decapitated men especially. It's like Francis Bacon, only with midget aliens and Nancy Sinatra boots ;)"
You think?
Sunday Spin
Politico: NBC's 'Meet the Press': Hour-long tribute to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy with Sens. Dodd and, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, former Ted Kennedy speechwriter Bob Shrum and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin.
ABC's 'This Week': Sens. Hatch and Kerry, roundtable with ABC's George Will, former State Department official Liz Cheney, ABC's Sam Donaldson, PBS's Gwen Ifill, and the Washington Post's EJ Dionne.
EXCLUSIVE -- LOOKING AHEAD: Expect a flurry of media appearances by former Pennsylvania governor and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, promoting his new book, 'The Test of Our Times.' Monday stops include ABC's 'Good Morning America,' CBS's 'Early Show' and FOX's Sean Hannity, with Tuesday appearances on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe,' CNN's 'American Morning,' FOX's 'Fox and Friends' and MSNBC's 'Rachel Maddow.'
ABC's 'This Week': Sens. Hatch and Kerry, roundtable with ABC's George Will, former State Department official Liz Cheney, ABC's Sam Donaldson, PBS's Gwen Ifill, and the Washington Post's EJ Dionne.
CBS's 'Face the Nation': Tribute to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy with Sens. McCain, Hatch and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Georgetown University's Michael Eric Dyson.
CNN's 'State of the Union': Sens. Dodd and Hatch, Mayor Menino, former Lieutenant Governor Thomas P. O'Neill III (D-Mass.), Boston Red Sox CEO Larry Lucchino, and Democratic strategist James Carville and GOP strategist Mary Matalin.
FOX's 'Fox News Sunday': Former Vice President Dick Cheney, roundtable with Fox News's Bill Sammon, NPR's Mara Liasson, The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol, NPR's Juan Williams.
That's former President Cheney:
EXCLUSIVE -- LOOKING AHEAD: Expect a flurry of media appearances by former Pennsylvania governor and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, promoting his new book, 'The Test of Our Times.' Monday stops include ABC's 'Good Morning America,' CBS's 'Early Show' and FOX's Sean Hannity, with Tuesday appearances on MSNBC's 'Morning Joe,' CNN's 'American Morning,' FOX's 'Fox and Friends' and MSNBC's 'Rachel Maddow.'
King Of The Road
2009 Obama, before Ted's Boston funeral, escorted to private meeting with the Widow Kennedy. Reel in 40 years to 1969 and the Beatles.
It's Comcastic!
DC Appeals Court struck down the FCC's 30% ownership ceiling rule as "arbitrary and capricious."
Nappy-Headed Woes
"Whenever I start a new job I always wear my hair straight for the first three months until I get health care." A reader of Danielle Belton's The Black Snob
"The notion of natural black hair as being subversive or threatening is not new." TIME mag scribe Jenee Desmond Harris in "Why Michelle's Hair Matters."
And that thinking has its roots (pardon the pun) in sixties/seventies Communist Black Panther radical Angela Davis (no relation)who sported a huge Afro.
Some of my conservatives colleagues find TIME fatuous for running this piece. More proof TIME mag is up Obama's ass. But as a white chick who was a news anchor on urban stations in DC, I get it and appreciate the culturual hair issues unique to black women.
Black women, with a coif conundrum foreign to their white sisters, figure they're more attractive personally and professionally if they straighten their nappy, kinky, frizzy - whatever you want to call it - hair.
Harris observes that America's not ready for kinky First Lady locks in the White House. Although true, I'm appalled at the sexism and double standard. No one's made an issue out of Obama's nappy coils.
What are the three words that strike fear into the hearts of men? Male pattern baldness. I'll bet TIME's been there, done that.
Michelle Obama's wardrobe may be inconsistent and occasionally ghastly, but thanks to a great hairstylist and in-house makeup artist even applying false eyelashes, from the neck up the First Lady gets an A when she's in full face. And I don't begrudge the expense.
"The notion of natural black hair as being subversive or threatening is not new." TIME mag scribe Jenee Desmond Harris in "Why Michelle's Hair Matters."
Some of my conservatives colleagues find TIME fatuous for running this piece. More proof TIME mag is up Obama's ass. But as a white chick who was a news anchor on urban stations in DC, I get it and appreciate the culturual hair issues unique to black women.
Black women, with a coif conundrum foreign to their white sisters, figure they're more attractive personally and professionally if they straighten their nappy, kinky, frizzy - whatever you want to call it - hair.
Harris observes that America's not ready for kinky First Lady locks in the White House. Although true, I'm appalled at the sexism and double standard. No one's made an issue out of Obama's nappy coils.
What are the three words that strike fear into the hearts of men? Male pattern baldness. I'll bet TIME's been there, done that.
Michelle Obama's wardrobe may be inconsistent and occasionally ghastly, but thanks to a great hairstylist and in-house makeup artist even applying false eyelashes, from the neck up the First Lady gets an A when she's in full face. And I don't begrudge the expense.
Friday, August 28, 2009
FCC Diversity Czar Disbarred In DC
Oh, and the Web of Deception's Joseph Culligan finds Mr. Lloyd's license is suspended by the DC bar.
Lloyd co-wrote a 2007 report called "The Structural Imbalance Of Political Talk Radio" when he was a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress. Read the report here.
Lloyd's hero appears to be Venezuela thug Hugo Chavez and his "incredible revolution:
If Ted Had ObamaCare He Would've Been Dead Months Ago
Dr. Allan Friedman, center, operated on Kennedy in May 2008. In June I attended a wedding in San Francisco where Dr. Friedman's daughter was a guest.
His daughter says her dad, chief of Duke neurosurgery, likesto invent cancer treatments in his spare time like the re volutionary "heat-seeking missile" used on Kennedy. She said Kennedy's brain cancer was extensive. But he lived longer than anyone expected.
Crazy Like A Fox
RE CNN: "There has got to be a programming choice other than that between dead air and dead people." David J. Rothkopf Forign Policy magazine
Woody Guthrie
I've had occasion to witness her marionette presence on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" where she's seat-filling for Mika Brzezinski.
Guthrie brings nothing to the "Morning Joe" table. Zero. They're talking about Ted Kennedy. Guthrie didn't show up on this planet until 1971. She was only 20 when Teddy cleaned up his act and married Miss Vicki. The girl has no institutional knowledge of Ted and the Kennedy dynasty. She sat there like a stone while the crew and Peggy Noonan stripped Teddy bare.
Guthrie's a former lawyer at the white-shoe DC law firm Akin Gump. Her niche? Michael Jackson. OJ. Court cases. White collar crime. She was a local reporter for the DC NBC TV affiliate before CourtTV plucked her from the talent pool. Is it because somebody considers her "hot?" Savannah boasts loyal Facebook fans... I'm clueless.
Keith Olbermann at Half Staff
Page Six: Which cable news anchor should be more careful with his cellphone? After he recently misplaced it, a co-worker opened it up and found a nude photo of the anchor's girlfriend...
This SCREAMS Olbermann, no? Speaks volumes about the maturity level of a 50-year-old man and his 25-year-old live-in he recently strong-armed WNBC-TV - NBC's NYC flagship O&O in - into hiring as a reporter.
Obama's Organ Grinders
Fox's Glenn Beck's 3 mil viewers Wednesday second to Bill O'Reilly BUT Glenn beats all in the 25-54 demo. Incredible in that 5p time slot Siberia. TVByTheNumbers
Beck and Rush Limbaugh fear the Obama administration is gunning for a power grab to silence conservative talk radio with the appointment of activist Mark Lloyd as FCC diversity "czar."
Beck: If you watch what could only be called the administration's organ – anything involved with GE or NBC – you've got Jeffrey Immelt on the board of the Federal Reserve, you have him in the Oval Office consulting not only on health care, but the financial situation, and they are an organ.
If you watch MSNBC, I contend that you will see the future because they are laying the ground for a horrible event ... anything from the right, there's some awful event and I fear this government, this administration has so much framework already prepared, that they will seize power overnight before anybody even gives it a second thought.
Beck and Rush Limbaugh fear the Obama administration is gunning for a power grab to silence conservative talk radio with the appointment of activist Mark Lloyd as FCC diversity "czar."
Beck: If you watch what could only be called the administration's organ – anything involved with GE or NBC – you've got Jeffrey Immelt on the board of the Federal Reserve, you have him in the Oval Office consulting not only on health care, but the financial situation, and they are an organ.
If you watch MSNBC, I contend that you will see the future because they are laying the ground for a horrible event ... anything from the right, there's some awful event and I fear this government, this administration has so much framework already prepared, that they will seize power overnight before anybody even gives it a second thought.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Cigar Butt
Enough Already!
Right, Joan Kennedy's minidress scandalized the White House in the 1960s.Howard Kurtz Wash Post: "I'm not ashamed to admit it, I liked the guy," Mike Barnicle, the former Boston Globe columnist, said on NBC. "I admired the guy."
- News of his passing came too late for most Eastern newspapers, so they posted their pieces and pictures online, sharing cyberspace with Facebook postings and tweets. Ted Kennedy and RIP Teddy were the top trending topics on Twitter, but Mary Jo Kopechne, who died at Chappaquiddick, wasn't far behind. Kopechne was also No. 2 on Google Trends, which measures a surge in searches.
- ABC was first on the air, at 1:18 a.m., with "Nightline" co-anchor Terry Moran getting a reporting assist from George Stephanopoulos. Soon the cable networks were going wall-to-wall, the story dominated the morning shows, and the evening newscasts relegated other headlines to the final minutes. By last night, the broadcast networks were airing prime-time specials and CNN was carrying the HBO documentary "Teddy: In His Own Words." Time and Newsweek are publishing commemorative editions on Friday. Hachette Books announced it would rush out 1.5 million copies of Kennedy's recently completed memoir in mid-September, and by Wednesday "True Compass" ranked No. 15 on Amazon.
- Washington can be the smallest of towns, and many in the media recounted touching encounters with the late senator. Chris Matthews, a Type 2 diabetic, spoke of Kennedy calling him with advice after the "Hardball" host had an attack of hypoglycemia. Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist, recalled on CNN that when his father had received a cancer diagnosis, Kennedy called and "gave me the name of one of the world's foremost experts in cancer treatment. He said, 'He's expecting your call. I just talked to him.' And he helped pave the way to get my father the treatment that, frankly, saved his life."
- The Boston Globe, once seen as a Kennedy house organ, took note of his "personal and political failings" in its lead story Wednesday. Globe reporters are suddenly in demand; Peter Canellos signed a contributor agreement with CBS, and Susan Milligan with ABC.
- Kennedy's relations with the media were not always so smooth. He was savaged after struggling to explain why he wanted to be president in a 1979 CBS interview with Roger Mudd. Anthony Lewis called him "stumbling, inarticulate, unconvincing" in the New York Times. "And not just on Chappaquiddick: his responses in general seemed to be those of a man unsure of the whys and wheres in his life -- unsure of who he was."
- After that losing campaign, coverage of Kennedy's legislative accomplishments was punctuated by reports of his drinking and womanizing. But at some point, perhaps after his second marriage, to Victoria Reggie, Kennedy attained senior statesman status. When Kennedy endorsed Barack Obama last year, news organizations trumpeted his echo of his brother's inaugural proclamation that "the torch will be passed again to a new generation of Americans."
- An MSNBC promo touted its programming as "an American icon remembered," and given the ratings-driven repetitiveness of television, the dream shall never die, at least not for many days to come.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Keith Olbermann: False Prophet
What four-legged animal do you think Fox's Glenn Beck deems best illustrates MSNBC's Keith Olbermann for falsely claiming his show is the highest-rated on cable?
No. Another mammal. Ass donkey? Nope.
Photo hat tip Bob Dacey
The Morning After Kennedy Hangover: Double Shot of Chris Matthews
MSNBC's Chris "Thrill Up My Leg" Matthews brands Barack Obama "the last [Kennedy] brother." Is he fucking delusional? Just because Ted supported Obama over Hillary? Passing the torch? Kennedy and the Clintons were big time rivals.
I fully expect Matthews to fall off the wagon on the air, and in a tribute to cursed alcoholic Teddy, burble between sobs:
Has anybody here seen my old friend Teddy
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill
With Abraham and Martin and John.
And Bobby. And Barack.
Dion recorded the Dick Holler song in 1968. Holler penned 1966 hits "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" and "Double Shot of My Baby's Love."
I fully expect Matthews to fall off the wagon on the air, and in a tribute to cursed alcoholic Teddy, burble between sobs:
Has anybody here seen my old friend Teddy
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill
With Abraham and Martin and John.
And Bobby. And Barack.
Dion recorded the Dick Holler song in 1968. Holler penned 1966 hits "Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" and "Double Shot of My Baby's Love."
Imus to Fox
I told you Imus made the deal to go to Fox. Now Fox persona non grata (my interpretation) Brian Stelter, intrepid purveyor of gratuitous leaks and a dogged reporter to boot, reports Imus is leaving Green Acres and RFD TV.
Presumably for greener pastures on Fox Business Network where Imus is going come September - although there is no official announcement yet, sez TVNewser.
6-9a - same slot he had at rival MSNBC.
Presumably for greener pastures on Fox Business Network where Imus is going come September - although there is no official announcement yet, sez TVNewser.
6-9a - same slot he had at rival MSNBC.
After his last RFD show Friday 69-year-old Imus'll be hanging his hat at Fox Biz.
Just Sayin'....
Study: "People think I'm cool because I watch Keith Olbermann." Strike that. Keith Olbermann. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
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Comedy Central paid for a report that shows 20% of hardcore fans believe the above. Add 13% and you've got the disparity between Fox News Bill O'Reilly's nightly numbers 25-54 and MSNBC's Keith Olbermann's.
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Howard's End
What's up next for Howard Stern when his $500 mil contract Sirius expires in 15 months? David Hinckley NYDN
Embalming?
Ratings Bait Kate
Gosselin joins other guest hostesses Meghan McCain, E.D. Hill, and LaToya Jackson.
Hatch Act
Utah Repub Sen. Orrin Hatch's tribute song he wrote for Ted Kennedy. I give it a 25. Impossible to dance to...
Dubious Distinction: Corpse News Network First Cable Network With Teddy Death
CNN beat the clock at 1:22a. Fox News 1:37. MSNBC 1:28. Among the Big Networks, ABC first at 1:18a. Source: TVEyes.
But Fox broke in at 1:26 before MSNBC. Its not enough anymore who's first on the air. It's now who tweets first. First on Twitter trumpets Mediaite, which tracks this sort of thing for paying clients of Abrams Research, was a CNN producer.
Inside Cable News has an excellent blow-by-blow of the cable news coverage.
Former MSNBC's Dan Abrams's Mediaite scribe Steve Krakauer jabbed that Fox "was the only network that seemed antsy to get on with other news," noting that Fox & Friends wound up the 8a hour with a live performance of Jack Ingram's country hit "Barefoot and Crazy."
But since 9a Fox is full-tilt boogie Ted. Ted will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery where JFK and RFK are buried.
But Fox broke in at 1:26 before MSNBC. Its not enough anymore who's first on the air. It's now who tweets first. First on Twitter trumpets Mediaite, which tracks this sort of thing for paying clients of Abrams Research, was a CNN producer.
Inside Cable News has an excellent blow-by-blow of the cable news coverage.
Former MSNBC's Dan Abrams's Mediaite scribe Steve Krakauer jabbed that Fox "was the only network that seemed antsy to get on with other news," noting that Fox & Friends wound up the 8a hour with a live performance of Jack Ingram's country hit "Barefoot and Crazy."
But since 9a Fox is full-tilt boogie Ted. Ted will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery where JFK and RFK are buried.
James and Dean: Rebels Without A Cause
Howard Dean nearly run out of a Northern Virginia health care town hall put on by Virginia Congressman James Moran. Even a rabbi's blessing didn't stop the verbal brawl. One guy was ejected.
Waiting To Inhale
"I just wanted to come and breathe the same air as them." An Obama fan among the throng of hundreds Tuesday outside a Martha's Vineyard restaurant.
Obama on Ted: "The greatest United States Senator of our time."
"He's someone who belongs in the company of Henry Clay and Daniel Webster." Newsweek's Jon Meacham and MSNBC talking head who, minutes later at 8:12a , was the first on MSNBC to bring up Chappaquiddick.
Radio Hall of Famer Jim Bohannon recalls Ted Kennedy: I only met Ted a few times. The first time was in the late 70's when I was morning news anchor at WRC all news 98, Washington, DC. I managed to thoroughly anger him, for reasons I can't recall. It wasn't some Chappaquidick cheap shot or anything like that. I don't even think it was a major issue of the day. But we sat side by side, almost touching, and I can remember that large head almost glowing like a halloween pumpkin.
The other time you can see in the picture. Ted and John McCain did a radio debate called "Face Off" which we carried on my "America in the Morning" program. We went to Capitol Hill for a photo op, and we're standing there, when McCain said, "This is supposed to be a debate!" and he put up his fists. Ted immediately joined in, and there I was, acting as a mock referee. That same day we got to see Ted's senate office, which was filled with mementoes. I recall in particular a headline of Ted scoring a winning Harvard touchdown, and a picture of Ted as a child of maybe six years old, with a tiny toy sailboat.
Atlanta, July 1988, the Dukakis Democratic convention. At one point the fire marshall closed down the Omni and Ted was caught outside. There he was, yelling at the fire marshall, "Do you know who I am?"
He did, but Ted still didn't get back in til others had left.
Radio Hall of Famer Jim Bohannon recalls Ted Kennedy: I only met Ted a few times. The first time was in the late 70's when I was morning news anchor at WRC all news 98, Washington, DC. I managed to thoroughly anger him, for reasons I can't recall. It wasn't some Chappaquidick cheap shot or anything like that. I don't even think it was a major issue of the day. But we sat side by side, almost touching, and I can remember that large head almost glowing like a halloween pumpkin.
The other time you can see in the picture. Ted and John McCain did a radio debate called "Face Off" which we carried on my "America in the Morning" program. We went to Capitol Hill for a photo op, and we're standing there, when McCain said, "This is supposed to be a debate!" and he put up his fists. Ted immediately joined in, and there I was, acting as a mock referee. That same day we got to see Ted's senate office, which was filled with mementoes. I recall in particular a headline of Ted scoring a winning Harvard touchdown, and a picture of Ted as a child of maybe six years old, with a tiny toy sailboat.
Atlanta, July 1988, the Dukakis Democratic convention. At one point the fire marshall closed down the Omni and Ted was caught outside. There he was, yelling at the fire marshall, "Do you know who I am?"
He did, but Ted still didn't get back in til others had left.
Glenn Beck Genus Envy
Top Ten Reasons Not To Advertise With Glenn Beck. Someone went through a lot of trouble to get these video clips. The Fox host has only been on the air since January 21 of this year and is amassing killer numbers in 5p Siberia.
Cable News Ratingzzz
FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,440,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,937,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,810,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,450,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,066,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 1,860,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,114,000
CNN KING 1,063,000
MSNBC MADDOW 885,000
CNN COOPER 827,000
MSNBC HARDBALL 640,000
Glenn Beck "back with a vengeance." TVByTheNumbers
Cable news "with you, Ted" with wall to wall coverage. NBC's Andrea Mitchell is camped out in Hyannis Port. MSNBC's brought out all the big guns: Brokaw, Brian Williams. Williams anchors NBC Nightly News tonight from Hyannis Port.
Who'll win the dead Kennedy cable news ratings sweepstakes? CNN - the Corpse News Network?
Teddy's Dead
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" recalls the triumphs and tragedies of the last surviving Kennedy brother - omitting Chappaquiddick and the July 18, 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
Acclaimed novelist Joyce Carol Oates's Pulitizer Prize-nominated 1992 novella "Black Water" - about the final thoughts of a young lady as the water slowly crept up in the car abandoned by "The Senator" is a thinly disguised account of Chappaquiddick.
One of the funniest lines ever came from then-Senator Howell Heflin after Ted got caught by a foetog with his bare ass bobbing over a woman in a boat - I think in France in the 1980s. Heflin said something like "Ted Kennedy gives new meaning to offshore drilling."
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Obama Roto-Rooted At McCain Town Hall. MSNBC Cuts To Aspray Infomercial.
All three cable news networks roadblock John McCain's town hall Tuesday where he's booed after saying Obama "respects the Constitution of the United States.
And "I am convinced the president is absolutely sincere in his beliefs."
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