I'm on vacation until late next week.  Family reunion in Canada.

Joy's Foot-and-Mouth Disease

Over at ABC's 'The View,' the bitches are jockeying for the two prime seats next to Barack Obama.  The prez appears once again (first time during the 2008 presidential campaign) to massage his message.

If past is prologue, Joy Behar will be one end of the Obama sandwich (Babs - returning from her heart surgery sickbed the other), with Joy poking her pointy pump into Obama's shoe. (photo, Joy playing footsie with Bill Clinton.)

A majority of New York Daily  News readers responding to a poll (naively) believe Obama's appearance (the first sitting prez on daytime TV) will 'give us insight into the president.'

Putz Schultz

MSNBC blowhard Ed Schultz preening at a liberal bloggers' conference (sponsored by several unions including SEIU), whining that Obama hasn't gone on his show or sat recently for interviews with Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow.  He said that during the campaign, "I busted my ass for Obama."  Schultz said that instead of going on The Ed Show, Obama went on Bret Baier's show on Fox, "in my time slot. What's that all about?"

Ratings, Ed, ratings.  As Juan Williams remarked on Fox's 'Special Report' Friday night, your show gets half the ratings as Bret's.  Panelist Charles Krauthammer was more direct with 'nobody watches.'

Ed's audience isn't worth targeting for another reason:  although 'progressives' are angry at Obama for not living up to his liberal promises, the president has zero reason to play to the meager MSNBC audience he already has in the bag.

Caption This!

With Chelsea's estimated $2 mil wedding a week away, crafty Vietnamese leaders conceal a mil worth in gems encrusted in a framed rendition of Hillary and Chelsea's coneheads photo shot during the duo's 2000 visit to Vietnam,

Rush Busts A Gut

A majority of readers responding to a New York Daily News poll on Fox News's Shepard Smith's decision not to not run the Shirley Sherrod NAACP video that led to her firing think there was no reason for Shep to run it.

This in response to Rush Limbaugh's bellowing that Fox News has no guts. I don't think any news outlet should run the video.  Surely Shirley will sue Andrew Breitbart, the conservative Big Government blogger and Matt Drudge protege who disseminated the video early Monday morning, triggering a firestorm of epic proportions. Shirley could fold any and all media which ran the thing into a defamation lawsuit.

Schorr No More

The CBS News website posts the obit of former CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr (exited the planet Friday at 93), and misspells CBS chick Lesley Stahl's first name.

Schorr went to CBS in 1953 as one of 'Murrow's boys.'  During the Nixon years he wound up on Dick's Enemies List. In 1979 he joined CNN.  In later years he delivered commentary for NPR.  NPR obit  Better yet, Museum of Broadcast Communications.

Here's Ricky!

How long do you think it'll take for Campbell Brown's staff of the 'most talented, dedicated, loyal, caring group of people' to turn into 'The Shining's' Jack Nicholson with Rick Sanchez as 8p seat-filler until Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker's much-heralded fall debut?

Campbell signed off the ratings cellar-dweller 8p slot Wednesday night:

Rachel Maddow: Grilled Tuna

Fox's Bill O'Reilly had the audacity to call MSNBC's 'Greater Tuna' Rachel Maddow 'Madam' Wednesday, triggering an Olbermann-esque apples-and-oranges, let's call it Rachel's 'Tuna Surprise,' snide soliloquy Thursday diminishing Fox's huge ratings by invoking blockbuster cable hits like 'Deadliest Catch' which outranks Bill & Rachel (Bill: [Fox] 'kicks your network's butt every night, Madam'), and 'fake' scandals like ACORN.

Rachel:  You can insult us all you want about television ratings, Mr. O'Reilly, and you'll be right that yours are bigger for now and maybe forever. You are the undisputed champion. But even if no one watches us at all, except for my mom and my girlfriend and people who forgot to turn off the TV after Keith, you are still wrong on what really matters and that would be the facts, your highness.

Rachel's ardent admirer, The Huffington Post, ejaculates in a WWIII size headline and glowing piece.

Blow past the ACORN stuff to 1:59 in:

Cable News Ratingzzz

Wednesday July 21, 2010

Keith Olbermann's Dry Fuss

The Right Scoop has Glenn Beck's 6:56 radio retort to Keith Olbermann's bizarre Shirley Sherrod 'Special Comment' -- and it is must-hear radio! I just about peed my new Sulka silk zebra thong.

Olbermann likened Sherrod's ordeal to that of Alfred Dreyfus.

What?  You don't know your 19th century French history?  Olbermann failed to mention actors Richard Dreyfuss and Seinfeld's Julia Louis-Dreyfus are distant relatives.









The NYT (with a 'content-sharing agreement' with NBC and its various platforms) backed Beck over Olbermann and his ilk:

The administration’s haste to fire Ms. Sherrod was unfair and unseemly. She told of how an agriculture under secretary phoned her to demand she resign instantly via her BlackBerry. The official anxiously cited the likelihood the furor would “be on Glenn Beck tonight.”  By the time the conservative commentator took up the issue, the full transcript of the speech was out and Mr. Beck was citing Ms. Sherrod — but as a victim of administration recklessness. This time, he was right.

Even the left-wing 'Journolist' hacks exposed by The Daily Caller harbor a long-standing hatred of 'pompous,' 'predictable,' 'unfunny,' 'arrogant,' misogynistic' Olbermann.

Another One Flies Out Of The Cuckoo's Nest

Another MSNBC hostage escapes Keith Olbermann's rubber room, triggering an Olbermann Twitter outburst.

Greg Kordick finds normalcy as the new executive producer of Lawrence O'Donnell's 10p show.  Olbermann's long-suffering head chick Izzy Povich was the first to defect to O'Donnell.

Charlie Whores

One inherent advantage to being a young reporter: sometimes you inadvertently get stories the jaded usual suspects can't. To wit: NBC's Luke Russert confronting hardened veteran NY Congressman Charlie Rangel over an ill-timed (for Democrats in an election year) September ethics violations trial ordered by Dem House colleagues.

Russert asks Rangel (in Congress longer than Russert's been on the planet - 40 years) about the possibility of losing his job:  'What are you talking about?You just trying to make copy? How do you think I got my job? I was elected. How do you think I lose it? What station are you from?'

Russert: 'NBC. MSNBC.'

Rangel: 'While you're young, I guess you do need to make a name for yourself, but basically you know it's a dumb question...it doesn't really sound like NBC asking these dumb questions, but it just shows what has really happened to a channel that did have some respect.'

Spawn of the venerable Tim Russert, Luke did dad proud as the exchange made Thursday's NBC Nighty News.  Watch Charlie's wheels come off over Luke's impertinence:

NYT reports a defiant Rangel has no plans to resign. 'The reputation of the House will be at stake in the proceedings as much as the congressman’s standing before the ethics charges.'  NYT editorial

Charlie, 80, reluctantly gave up the chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee in March.  CB prediction:  Rangel will be expelled from Congress to send a message to voters in what could be a disasterous election year for Democrats.

MSNBC: Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic

'He's going to lift all the boats on our schedule.'  MSNBC prez Phil Griffin on the addition of ABC's 'Nightline' Martin Bashir.  Bashir will host the 3p hour come September.

'Good Morning America' co-host Bill Weir replaces Bashir.

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I'm blowing out of here until Friday a.m. Am getting squirrelly over Shirley.
Chuck Chuck bo buck . . .

Dead Man's Curve

What do Congress and TV news have in common?  They both suck, according to a new Gallup poll.

Look at how people's trust in Congress has plummeted over the years.  11% 2010.

Chen Music

CBS is replacing 'As The World Turns' with a show like ABC's 'The View.'  Starring the boss's wife, Julie Chen.

Read the CBS press release with the names of the other chicks. 

It's good to be Queen . . .

Purely Shirley

On MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Thursday a.m., shortly before 8:30, Lawrence O'Donnell offered Shirley Sherrod the 'Mika' seat on his new MSNBC 10p show.

Shirley finally appeared on 'Morning Joe' -- nearly an hour and a half after the initial 'tease.'

Joe wrapped it up with 'I want to thank you for this exclusive.'  Exclusive?  The woman's been live wall paper on every network but Fox News.

A Brick Short Of A Load

This Huffington Post headline and story are patently false.  Watch the video.  Fox's Shep Smith does not 'unload' on Fox. He makes one brief reference.  That's it.  Huff Post scooped the pant-load from Mediate.

Shirley You Jest

Wash Post Howard Kurtz:  '...for all the focus on Fox, much of the mainstream media ran with a fragmentary story that painted an obscure 62-year-old Georgian as an unrepentant racist.'

Shirley surfaced on the liberal Media Matters blasting Fox.  Wednesday Fox News 'Special Report' anchor Bret Baier read the quote, adding Fox made repeated requests for her on-air presence, but . . .

Wednesday night Fox's Bill O'Reilly apologized for running the clip Monday hours after Shirley was forced to resign.   No other Fox News program ran it that day. O'Reilly never demanded her resignation and only found out she had resigned ex post facto.  O'Reilly tapes his 8p show at 5p.

LA Times: Michael Clemente, senior vice president of news editorial, said the network’s news programs reported the story with caution. “When I heard about this Monday morning and saw it on Breitbart’s website, I said, ‘OK, could be a story, let’s check it out,’ ” Clemente said. “We did the normal fact-finding we would do on any story.” At an afternoon editorial meeting Monday, Clemente urged the staff to first get the facts and obtain comment from Sherrod before going on air, according to internal notes from the meeting that were provided to The Times. “Let’s make sure we do this right.'

Howard Kurtz: 'Sherrod may be the only official ever dismissed because of the fear that Fox host Glenn Beck might go after her.'

An irrational fear, as it turns out.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough Thursday a.m.defending Fox multiple times: 'She got fired because of the Breitbart clip...  The White House responded to the Breitbart clip, an edited clip, not a Fox News show.'

Wednesday night MSNBC's Keith Olbermann cut short his 'couple of weeks' vacation' to serve up a 'Special Comment' on the Shirley Sherrod mess:



The Obama White House mud, oil, incompetence, naivete-saturated dragging skirt is sullying the plush Oval Office carpet.  The buck stops with the knee-jerk WH.

Context Matters

TIME mag's Michael Scherer, one of the 'journolists' exposed by The Daily Caller as anti-Fox News, now says the emails obtained and posted by DC were 'out of context,' firing back Glenn Beck's initial 'context matters' reaction Tuesday to the knee-jerk Obama WH firing of Shirley Sherrod for reverse racism.  Shirley has since been offered another job at USDA.

Politics Daily's Matt Lewis quotes a TIME mag statement: 'Michael Scherer fully disputes The Daily Caller's account, which selectively quotes his emails and takes his comments about the changing news landscape entirely out of context. In his emails he vocally opposes any suggestions to restrict Fox News.'

Why does this matter?  Because Scherer recently was elected to the White House Correspondents' Association Board which is expected to make a decision by August 2nd on who gets Helen Thomas's prime front row press room blue seat. 

Fox News and Bloomberg are the main contenders with Fox reportedly having the edge.  Just this week NPR jumped into the race.

Scherer (left) is TIME mag's WH correspondent writing for 'Swampland.'  Before that Scherer toiled at Salon.com and Mother Jones.

'Slowly I turned ... step by step ... inch by inch...'

Cable news ratingzzz Tuesday July 19, 2010  MSNBC's Keith Olbermann must be really threatened by fill-in host Lawrence O'Donnell. 

On Friday Olbermann alerted the media he was going on vacation 'for a couple of weeks.'

Lawrence helms it two nights and the crazy mother is back Wednesday night with what I hear is an hour 'Special Comment' on the incompetent, impetuous Obama adminstration's Shirley Sherrod clusterfuck.

Dance With The One Who Brung Her

Who leaked this to New York mag?  Katie Couric might go back to NBC? 

Strike up the music!  The marathon whirling dervish media dance is about to begin.

Al Gore: Schlong and Grinding Toad

The National Enquirer has dug up two more women claiming Al Gore assaulted them.  One, a masseuse  quoted as saying Gore dropped his towel and barked:  'Now take care of this!' 

Gold Fingered In Obama Health Care Law

If you buy or sell gold, you'd better do your deals before the end of the year.  ABC News

Rush To Judgment

The takeaway on the Shirley Sherrod racism  that wasn't.  Despite the earlier bravado and strong-arm tactics in attempting to discredit and minimize Fox News as not a 'news organization,' the Obama White House is scared shitless of the conservative media and the Tea Party.

So was the liberal 'journolist' group exposed by The Daily Caller, with rabidly pro-Obama media types clandestinely plotting to defuse Fox News.

This isn't about Fox News.  Fox has no dog in this fight.  This is about the knee-jerk actions of an irresponsible media, Obama WH, and NAACP lapping up an edited video circulated Monday by conservative Andrew Breitbart.  Breitbart went on Sean Hannity Tuesday night to defend himself.  Video here.

On Wednesday's MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' and 'The Daily Rundown,' the buzzwords were 'conservative' and 'motivation.'

Rather than shooting the messenger (Breitbart), shoot the media, the WH, and the NAACP for snapping up Breitbart's offering at face value and running with it.

Driving the convo should be why the Mainstream Media aren't doing the jobs for which they are paid handsomely.  Huffington Post Wednesday.

But that's not what MSNBC's liberal lioness Rachel Maddow was doing Tuesday night in blaming the WH for falling for Fox News 'political stunts.'

On Tuesday's Fox News 'Special Report,' a bemused Bret Baier responded to the NAACP's charge that it was 'snookered' by Fox News. ''Fox didn't even do the story,' said Baier.

Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik laments the 'out-of-control, reckless story driven by the Web and cable' and asserts Fox should be given the chance to defend itself against the NAACP 'snookered by Fox' charge. I think Bret Baier's succinct response suffices.

Over at CNN, departing Campbell Brown blamed the NAACP for its knee-jerk reaction.  In an interview with NAACP VP Hilary Shelton, Brown asserted 'You allowed yourself to be snookered' by not watching the entire video and taking at face value Breitbart's edited version.

The NAACP, orginally appaulding Sherrod's firing, released the entire video and has backtracked - twice.  Obama Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack is said to be 'reconsidering' his knee-jerk firing of the black USDA official.

The truth came out Tuesday when Sherrod was interviewed on CNN.  Wash Post: ... in Sherrod's account, her firing was driven more by the exigencies of the news cycle -- and the administration's fear of conservative wrath. She said she was "harassed" to quit by USDA Deputy Undersecretary Cheryl Cook, who told her to "do it, because you're going to be on 'Glenn Beck' tonight."  Sherrod added: "The administration was not interested in hearing the truth."

The Post goes on to say that Breitbart just took part of Sherrod's 43-minute speech to highlight the hypocrisy of the NAACP which has accused the Tea Party of racisim.

The farmer couple at the center of this media firestorm appeared on CNN Tuesday afternoon countering the initial media interpretation of the video.  The couple said 'friend' Sherrod helped them save their farm 24 years ago. 

As for Sherrod, she told NBC's 'Today' show's Matt Lauer Wednesday that it's like ex post facto the WH has now decided to 'look into the facts.'

What I find so damning about this, is the USDA tracking down Sherrod Monday afternoon after the shit hit the fan demanding she pull over on the road and text her resignation.

Fox's Glenn Beck expressed sympathy for Sherrod on his show Tuesday, adding she should get her job back. Sherrod says she's not sure she wants it back.

As for Andrew Breitbart, he outfoxed the media, the knee-jerk NAACP, and Obama WH. As ye shall sow so shall ye reap.  The buck stops with the impetuous Obama WH, the impetuous media, and the impetuous NAACP for leaping before they looked.

Caption This!

Mediaite's Steve Krakauer's 'Three Amigos' caption contest.  Fox's Bill O'Reilly, Geraldo Rivera, and Glenn Beck at Tuesday's Yankees game.  'Vacationing' Keith Olbermann was also in the stands.  Somewhere . . .

Via Johnny Dollar's Place  H/t ZD

Chris Matthews: Do As I Say, Not As I Do

Rendering MSNBC's blowhard Chris Matthews as 'one of the most influential personalities on cable television,' Politico's James Hohmann reviews the ready-fire-aim host waxing nostalgic for the good old days of political civility and bipartisanship.

Izzy Crazy?

Page Six:  We asked in May: "Which producer for a dorky cable anchor has been complaining to colleagues that she's tired of his notoriously nasty behavior?" The answer came Monday when MSNBC announced that Izzy Povich, executive producer of "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" since 2004, had been named senior executive producer of Lawrence O'Donnell's program, which debuts this fall at 10 p.m. Izzy, the daughter-in-law of Maury Povich and a mother of two, had no comment.


But Tueswday night Olbermann tweeted, as noted by ICN:  My EP got a PROMOTION to a job that doesn’t exist on Countdown: Senior EP, developing show from scratch. Anybody saying otherwise is lying. 

But then Olbermann's psychosis kicks in: BTW let’s nip in the bud the latest conspiracy theory being pushed tonight by Murdoch about my EP leaving for Lawrence’s new show.

CNN: Cheap News Network

Eliot Spitzer's new 8p gig is costing CNN the price of a high-end hooker's services for a year. NYP

You could say Eliot comes cheap . . .

A Woody For Guthrie

NPR's 4:40 'Morning Edition' segment Tuesday. NBC's Guthrie: A Case Study In New News Norms. 

NBC News prez Steve Capus:  'I'm constantly blown away by her range.' (Huff Post head, left.) 

Capus argues that viewers understand the difference between shows with a lively political mix and those offering an ideological take. And he says he's been very careful not to push Savannah Guthrie in that latter direction, saying it would be a waste of her talent.

"This is what I teach students here: Keep your biases to yourself," says former CNN and ABC News correspondent Charles Bierbauer, now dean of communications at the University of South Carolina. "I don't want to know what they are when I go to the news. If I want opinions, I go to the editorial page, or I turn on one of the political food fights. But [there] I know what I'm getting."

Not so, argues former CBS News senior vice president Marcy McGinnis. She says the top-rated opinion hosts blur the lines.

"The format looks like news," says McGinnis, now associate dean of journalism at Stony Brook University. "You've got anchors. You've got people talking to reporters in the field. And I think viewers might be taken in by the fact that it looks so much like a news show."

But Capus is also not apologetic about MSNBC's hybrid identity. As he acknowledges, it took a long time for his cable channel to hit on a successful formula.

The NPR piece cites Fox's Megyn Kelly for taking on 'a noticeably sharper tone,' and CNN's Campbell Brown's exit over low ratings while ostensibly committing journalism.

And The Number One Story Is . . .

Monday July 19, 2010  Already former MSNBC GM and 'The Verdict' host Dan Abrams's Mediaite is touting how well Keith Olbermann fill-in Lawrence O'Donnell did in the golden 25-54 demo.

Olbermann, on 'vacation,' was spotted loitering on a New Jersey man's porch in a ratty Junior Soprano bathrobe and worn slippers. 

Media Plotted The Wright Stuff

A group of journalists founded by the Washington Post's Ezra Klein met to plot strategy during the 2008 presidential election to get their man Obama elected. The now-defunct Journolist with members from the Post, Baltimore Sun, The Nation, Huffington Post, Politico, and more plotted media manipulation to discredit other news outlets and get Rev. Jeremiah Wright stories spiked outright.

What's more, the plotting got to the point where it was suggested that the group paint conservatives Karl Rove and Fred Barnes as racist. 

Barnes reax Tuesday:  'I’d like to hear an explanation from those who participated in the Journolist about this. Why didn’t they quit the thing when smearing other journalists to help Barack Obama was advocated? Why didn’t they denounce the idea in unison?'

The Daily Caller's Jonathan Strong has the goods here.

Tuesday publisher Neil Patel talked with Fox News anchoress Megyn Kelly:

'He's not dead!'

CNN's Rick Sanchez runner-up resident idiot anchor whatsisname interviews the wife of the farmer at the center of the resignation of a black Agriculture Department official (the wife claims the fired woman is her 'friend).

The CNN guy calls the woman a 'widow' and talks about 'your late husband' before the woman corrects him on live TV.

This anchor appears to be sleepwalking through this interview mumbling so s-l-o-w-l-y.  Or he's on Valium:  



Watch the video that cost the woman her job.

The farmer and his wife later showed up on -- Rick Sanchez's show!



BTW I'm not getting into this imbroglio over Shirley Sherrod, the NAACP, Barack Obama, Tea Party, Fox News, Andrew Breitbart, AG Sec Tom Vilsack.

White House Press Seat Beat

Fox News and Bloomberg, duking it out over Helen Thomas's vacant front row WH press room prime perch, have new competition.  NPR wants it.

Black Like Me

Glenn Beck and Anderson Cooper find common ground as both are named 'The Blackest White Folks We Know' by The Root - Wash Post's online site targeting blacks.

On Glenn: The emotional right-wing talk show was probably the last person on earth we'd put on this list until he discovered that blacks have been all but removed from the history of America's founding, and actually gave a black history lesson on his cable TV show. Yet we suspect we'll have to revoke it after his upcoming rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the "I Have a Dream" speech anniversary.

Anderson: The courageous CNN journalist, though a scion of the Vanderbilts, was first on the ground in Katrina, Niger and most recently, Port-au-Prince. He's not only got the contacts, and the interest in the well-being of others, he's a devoted fan of The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

Mediaite fails to mention Anderson as one of the 33. 

Raunchy Bill Maher makes the color blind cut for his penchant for black chicks.  Bill Clinton.  One terse word:  'No.'

The Right Scoop has Beck's radio response.

Death Valley Days

Sunday July 18, 2010 may be remembered as the day the Mainstream Media entered Tombstone Territory. On that day the Washington Post's top cop -- omsbudsman Andrew Alexander -- admitted the Post fucked up in ignoring the Black Panther voter intimidation case where Obama AG Eric Holder declined to pursue  first reported by Fox News.

NYT and Washington Post gunslingers have come late to the showdown on stories Fox has broken because of institutional political bias and elitism. ACORN.  Van Jones.  Media heavies were jarred into the New Reality earlier this year when the National Enquirer's intrepid pursuit of John Edwards was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

Bill O'Reilly and former CBS News correspondent turned media critic Bernard Goldberg concluded Monday's segement with Bill crowing 'There's a new sheriff in town.' 



'I shot the sheriff' Mediate, former MSNBC GM and 'The Verdict' host Dan Abrams's gossip site, isn't buying Bill's verdict.

The Sumner Of His DIscontent

CBS/Viacom boss Sumner Redstone attempts to bribe former NYP TV titan Peter Lauria into fingering his inside source for a titillating story he wrote for The Daily Beast on sex-obsessed Sumner's penchant for young hot babes. The octogenarian media mogul left a long, rambling message on Lauria's voicemail sclaiming he did not intend to 'kill' the blabber, just 'talk to him,' and that Lauria would be 'well-rewarded' and 'well-protected' for cooperating with the 87-year-old horndog:



Via Huffington Post

Rick Sanchez: CNN's Converse All-Star

CNN's resident idiot Rick Sanchez steps on his dick again.  Sanchez displays incredible and inexcusable political history ignorance by telling his CNN audience the Kennedy-Nixon televised presidential debate happened in 1962. NewsBusters  The virgin TV debate was in September 1960.  What's more, bumbling Sanchez thinks 'converse' means opposite.

The Tweetosphere was alive with Rick retorts like:  'Ron Burgundy strikes again!'

Vinney, Chickaboomer's head joke writer, is sending this posthaste to the hapless himbo.

Larry Pickled Pepper

Now that Larry King's got one foot in TV oblivion, NYP TV critic Phil Mushnick is safe telling his favorite Larry King story:  Years ago, after a 30-ish TV critic for a New York newspaper took a few swings at King in print, he wrote the columnist a nasty letter, attacking the writer’s newspaper.The critic replied that he doesn’t hold King responsible for everything presented on the networks he works for, thus both should answer only for their own work.

Years later, King surprised that critic with a phone call. He complimented him for having had the nerve to stand up to him, Years before, and, as a reward, he was going to give him a big news scoop. Would he like that?

“Sure; fire away,” said the TV columnist. And here it was: He, Larry King, is dating Angie  Dickinson. ['Pepper' on TV's 'Police Woman.']

King had Angie on in 2000 where he probed to find out if she boinked Marlon Brando 'a great kisser' and Frank Sinatra.

As we now know, Marlon swung both ways.  Who can forget Larry's 1994 interview where Marlon kissed Larry after the duo crooned 'I Got A Date With An Angel.'

Share your favorite Larry King moments here!

Money Honey

At 22, which former CNN blowhard's daughter is a millionairess in her own right?  Answer here.

As You Sow So Shall You Reap

A black Agriculture Department honcho is forced to resign for deep-sixing a white farmer pleas to save his farm from bankruptcy.  The smoking gun video here where the official entertains a laughing NAACP crowd with how she sunk the guy with the 'superior' 'tude.

Sherman Tanks

The backstory:  Dem California Rep. Brad Sherman (above) was booed and shouted down at a July 11th town hall meeting in his congressional distrct after being asked about the 2008 voter New Black Panther party 2008 Philadelphia voter intimidation case dropped by Obama's AG Eric Holder.   

Fox News snapped up the YouTube video of Sherman professing ignorance.  Sherman responded by claiming the media didn't cover it, citing several newspapers, magazines, but no cable TV, broadcast networks, local stations, or talk radio. 

The Harvard lawyer laments:  'It shows first, that we tend to live in different worlds. There's a world of Fox News in which a different reality exists. They're disdainful of other media, and they think they're the center of the universe. . . . The idea that this was a difficult question that I was evading is insane."

Politico's Ben Smith: Many people who do not watch Fox News or follow conservative media have never heard of the issue. The disconnect was painfully clear to Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), who, when asked about the controversy at a recent town hall meeting in his district, admitted to constituents that he’d never heard of it.

“What this shows is just how polarized we’ve become as a country,” Sherman told POLITICO.

Sherman said he thought the Justice Department had “mishandled” the Panther case but blamed what he called the “manipulative cowards at Fox News” for blowing it out of proportion.

I'd never heard of Sherman before Fox News catapulted him out of congressional Siberia and on to the national stage.  When I think Sherman I think Allan Sherman's 'Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah.'

It's a safe bet ace Politico scribe Ben Smith had never heard of Brad Sherman either.  And if it weren't for the 'manipulative cowards at Fox News,' Sherman would still be obsessed with filling his website and Facebook of photos of him with 'Important People.'

I kid you not.  He's got links to 'Important People' and 'Very Important People.'

Why the over-the-top vituperative attacks on Fox News? 

Turns out CNN's parent company Time Warner is a top contributor to Sherman's campaigns, and in 2004 Time Warner was the recipient of three Department of Defense contracts worth nearly $600,000 in Sherman's San Fernando Valley congressional district.

For the 2010 election cycle Sherman is #4.  Via Open Secrets

Pity Politico's crackerjack reporter Ben Smith failed to do due diligence on Sherman's greasy palms -- and Brad Sherman's 'painful disconnect.'

Filling the Bill

Bill Hemmer, Fox News's 'eye-catching anchor,' gets The Insider treatment.  Bill's come a long way since his CNN days.  At CNN he did his own makeup.

At Fox News, he gets the brush from a hot brunette makeup artist.