Saturday, October 30, 2010

Olbermann Brain Fart Blows Backward

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann stoops to juvenile scatalogical 'humor' to dump on ABC News for hiring conservative Shirley Sherrod outer and Drudge disciple Andrew Brietbart as an election night analyst. Something to do with farts . . .



Via Vinney  Media Matters is barking mad.

MSNBC: Tammany Hall


Why is MSNBC's Tamron Hall dressed up in a Barack Obama Halloween costume on NBC's "Today" show?  MSNBC.  Lean Forward.  Below, Al Roker, Natialie Morales as Justin Bieber, and Tamron,




Meredith Viera as Lady Gaga



Ann Curry/Amelia Earhart


Kathie Lee and Hoda as Lucy and Ethel



FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real

Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's clever 'Rally To Restore Sanity/Fear' kicks off at Saturday noon Eastern in Washington. The Rally/Fear website is energizing the base with these photos, among others.




Wash Post: Two months after Glenn Beck staged a religiously themed "Restoring Honor" rally on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech with Sarah Palin on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Stewart and Colbert will hold their rally at the opposite end of the Mall. It will also offer the opposite point of view.The "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" is billed as a correction to what Stewart, Colbert and their legion fans consider the extremism, vacuousness and dishonesty that has infected the American political system, especially the self-righteousness and conservative fear-mongering they see in Beck and his employer, Fox News. It will include musical interludes by reliable openers such as the Roots and professional rally balladeer Sheryl Crow. It will be emphatically covered by the rating-points and Web-traffic-hungry mainstream media -- including The Washington Post -- that it vigorously mocks. For his part, Beck, a professed fan of Stewart, has passive-aggressively wished the rally "great success."

A Daily Beast poll shows that 67% of those responding believe Stewart's rally will have zero effect on the midterm elections.


CBS News pimped SANITY/FEAR Saturday as a rally for "moderates":



H/t NewsBusters



Watch Stewart/Colbert LIVE here!

Cable News Ratingzzz

Thursday October 28, 2010 TVbytheNumbers 

CNN's pairing of Eliot Spitzer and Kathleen Parker isn't going so well; the duo failing to sock it to the ratings.

Michael Starr NYPThe talking head show, co-hosted by Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer, premiered Oct. 4. In its first three weeks, it averaged 424,000 viewers at 8 p.m. — down 32 percent from the timeslot’s year-ago average (627,000 viewers), according to Nielsen. There’s a caveat here: those numbers don’t factor in the show’s Oct. 13 telecast, which averaged nearly 2.7 million viewers. Why? Because that was the night the Chilean miners were rescued after 10 weeks trapped underground. CNN went live with wall-to-wall coverage of the rescue effort.“Parker Spitzer” averaged 465,000 viewers in its first week; that number fell to 395,000 viewers in its third week (ending last Friday, Oct. 22).

Friday, October 29, 2010

Where In The World Is David Shuster?

The M.I.A. MSNBC news anchor suspended in April:  (A) went to "hippie" summer camp, (B) earning a masters at Georgetown U, (C) is desperately seeking new TV gig when his MSNBC contract pisses away in December.

MSNBC slapped Shuster with an indefinite suspension after he shot a pilot on rival CNN.  The blowhard infamously suggested Hillary was "pimping out" reclusive Chelsea in 2008 presidential campaign appearances. 

All of the above.  FishbowlDC

Update:  Shuster denies he's done at MSNBC.

Heckuva Snow Job

President Obama manufactures terrorist threat to deflect from disasterous Jon Stewart show and cacophonous cable news chatter over Dems' done deal defeat Nov. 2. Obama changed "the narrative" Friday afternoon by appearing presidential over cargo planes found with "suspicious packages" from Yemen. MSNBC, Fox, CNN  march to White House convo changer claiming victory for busting a "terror rehearsal."

Obama IS the suspicious package.  Desperate times require desperate measures just four days away from the mid-terms with all signs pointing to a Repub takeover of the House. If it were Bush losing the House and maybe the Senate, MSNBC blowhard Keith Olbermann would be bellowing "phony, inside job."

NYP  NYDN

Apparently Yemeni terrorists have spent days analyzing that annoying, shrill, singing UPS 'Logistics' TV commercial.  UPS and FedEx aren't picking up any more packages in Yemen.

What's Wrong With This Picture?

Huffington Post high priestess Arianna Huffington, indebted beneficiary of George Soros millions, poses with NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Ground Zero Mosque's Imam Rauf at a Manhattan event hosted by Ms. Huffington. NYP

Oliver Twist

Mohammed and its variations, number two on the UK's top baby boy names, finally makes it to number one, knocking off OliverGuardian UK

Chuck Todd Refuses to Shit Where He Eats

MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Scarborough puts NBC News WH correspondent Chuck Todd on the spot.  So what does he REALLY think of Obama press czar Robert Gibbs? NewsBusters

Michelle Obama: Lady Killer

Ellen DeGeneres generously (if not erroneously) introduces Michelle Obama as "The Most Powerful Woman in the World."  Michelle grinds her endless hips to "Ladies Night."  H/t Michelle's Mirror 'Last Train to Snarksville'  Special appearance by Jill Biden (above).

Newsweek Ranks The Pundits

Newsweek teases with Rush Limbaugh at #1 "who lives like a pasha." The entire list out Monday.

Anderson Cooper: The Advocate

CNN's Cooper gets gay-bashing Arkansas school board member to resign on his show. H/t Huffington Post.

Conan: “I just have a bad feeling, I just think Jay’s going to hurt me in some way.”

Conan to NBC suits:  "What does Jay Leno have on you?"  [Jeff "Shitstorm" Gaspin, above right]

Good question.  NYT's Bill Carter updates his 1996 book 'The Late Shift' on the battle between Jay Leno and David Letterman to succeed Johnny Carson with the inside dope on how Jay Leno and NBC pulled the "Tonight Show" from under Conan O'Brien.

Vanity Fair has an extract, 'The Unsocial Network', from Bill's book 'The War For Late Night' coming out next week.  Huffington Post is CliffsNotes.

Heckuva Job, Stewart! 3 Mil.

Obama is gold for Jon Stewart.  Not so much for Obama where his performance was universally panned. (At least in MY universe.)

Stewart's top three-rated shows are all Obama:  Obama in 2008; Michelle Obama; and the latest cock-up (for Obama), in that order.  NYT

Related:  Wash Post 'Jon Stewart's Daily Show Has Exploded Beyond Its Humble Late Night Roots"

If Only God Would Double John Roberts' Ratings

CNN's John Roberts and his fiancee, CNN anchoress Kyra Phillips, are pregnant with twins!  PEOPLE mag exclusive!  Roberts is 53; Kyra 46.

Wednesday Oct. 27 cable news ratings via TVbytheNumbers: CNN's 'American Morning'  a mere 188,000 viewers; an embarrassing 86,000 in the Golden 25-54 demo.

Aloha! Danno is Dead

James MacArthur (son of legendary stage and screen actress Helen Hayes) has exited the planet.'Danno,' as he was known on the TV series 'Hawaii Five-O,' was 72.  Natural causes, says his agent.  More photos here. LAT obit. The 1968-1980 series' phrase "Book 'em, Danno," uttered by star Jack Lord, who checked out in 1998, is memorialized in American pop culture. Check out this 1981 syndication pimp reel:

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Kenneth, What's The Frequency?

CNBC host Joe Kernan makes the mistake of joking about Big Honcho Guest's (Home Depot co founder) appearance onCNN's chihuahua 'Parker Spitzer.'

Big Honcho Guest goes off-script, prompting squawks as he pimps his election night appearance on Fox Business Network's Neil Cavuto with "He's my kind of guy!":   4:20 in:



TVNewser has the exchange partial transcript.

Dems Seeing Red


Related:  Gallup Poll:  'Electorate Looking More Republican'

Comity Central

“Being a comedian is harder than being a pundit. Being a pundit you just have to open your pie hole. My point [on CNN's  Crossfire when he called Tucker Carlson a dick] was I have a fucking job, do yours. We don’t fact check to be good journalists. We fact check because good comedy doesn’t lie.”  Jon Stewart Behind The Scenes at  Wednesday's Barack Obama Taping where FishbowlDC grunts "waited four hours in the pounding rain"  in a media queue outside a DC theater.

Related:  Wash Post's Dana Milbank 'On The Daily Show, Obama is the last laugh."  More Wash Post.  Even more Wash Post.  Wash Post Jon Stewart Sightings. 'Obama is a smooth operator -- as usual' NYDN's David HinckleyABC News Jake Tapper:  'Obama Meets Jon Stewart's Enthusiasm Gap'



The Michelin of reviews:  Michelle's Mirror

Oprah's Book Club

Oprah Winfrey is facing a plagiarism lawsuit from an author claiming he sent her his book from which the billionaire TV queen later lifted passages word for word on her show.  Read the lawsuit here.

Feeding the Beast

When did the media turn reactionary?  Was it Phil Donahue inflaming the hearts of women audiences which begat Jerry Springer, Oprah, and a host of forgettable daytime sensationalists?

Was it the Iran-Contra hearings in the 1980s mesmerizing TV viewers that propelled Ollie North and his secretary Fawn Hall to international stardom (and celebrity Guest Zero at the White House Correspondents Dinner thanks to now-dead scribe Michael Kelly).

Was it the O.J. Simpson trials in the 1990s turning lawyers into high-paid TV talking head celebrities?

Or President Bill "I did not have sex with that woman" Clinton and the nascent Drudge Report (going in 1998 where others (Newsweek) feared to tread)?

Then-staid CNN dominated cable news from 1980 until 1996 when rivals MSNBC and Fox News materialized.  In the past decade the Internet spawned countless news websites of every political stripe competing for investors, advertising, and readers.

Which leads to today where every outrageous brain fart from the likes of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann,  ABC's 'The View' Joy Behar and a host of others become news.

Earlier this week Behar branded Nevada Repub Sharron Angle "a bitch."  Twice on two consecutive shows.

Quel horreurs!

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann delivers a Wednesday night "Special Comment" diatribe picked up by the media and analyzed (Mediaite) as if it were the latest communique from Osama bin Laden. Huffington Post

Juan Williams was fired by NPR but beaten to death in the media.

The genie's out of the bottle.  The lid's blown off Pandora's Box.

That doesn't stop me from wishing for the good old days of journalism.

President Barack Obama desperately pimped himself and the Dems facing an election tsunami November 2 on Wednesday's Jon Stewart 'The Daily Show."

The media are all a-twitter because Stewart addressed Mr. President as "dude."  WSJ

Genie's out of the bottle.  Lid's blown off Pandora's Box.  The media feed the beast.  The beast feeds the media in a socially and culturally dumbed-down circle jerk bereft of civility and respect.

Whaddaya expect?

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Jerry Springer: Eliot Spitzer of the 1970s

From the Annals (or Anals, as pronounced by fired CNN resident moron Rick Sanchez) of  Dubious Television Milestones:  Jerry Springer's 20th anniversary in syndicated was Wednesday October 27th.

Jerry, 66,
to the  LAT: "I told NBC Universal I'll stop when I'm 107."  Jerry's singing Larry King's former one note samba. 

Like CNN's newest TV star, Eliot Spitzer, Springer started in politics.  Like Eliot, Springer was fingered with prostitutes and had to resign from the Cincinnati city council.   Unlike  Jerry, Eliot will be lucky to last six months on CNN.

CNBC succinctly memorialized Jerry's sins (as well as Eliot's) in Prostitution Cases of the Rich & Famous

"Weird Al" Yankovic best sums up Jerry's 20 years:

Cable News Ratingzzz

Tuesday Oct. 26, 2010 via TVbytheNumbers  [Photo h/t Ron Brown]

Thank God It Wasn't the Entitlement Stench from Taxpayer-Financed Halal Food

Lebanese/Albanian Princess Zog sends this along from "Dearbornistan" with the above hilarious headline. Odor Closes Fordson High School. Predominately Arab Fordson High School in Dearborn, Michigan with the largest Muslim population per capita outside the Middle East.  Watch the video.  You'd swear it was Pakistan.


The above group is lobbying for federally-mandated Halal labels on America supermarket products.

Joy Behar Raises Thousands For Sharron Angle's Campaign Against Harry Reid

Sharron Angle sends ABC's 'The View' Joy Behar flowers as a thank-you for $150,000 in campaign contributions after Behar called Angle "a bitch," among other nasties, Tuesday. Behar did it again Wednesday, bellowing the posies were picked by illegal aliens who wouldn't vote for "the bitch."   More like couldn't:



H/t Danny Shea Huffington Post

Conan the Contrarian

Conan O'Brien's stirring up media buzz for his new late night show debuting November 8 on TBS. The former NBC "Tonight Show" host is arming himself for a potential NBC lawsuit for defying NBC's proprietary lock on Conan-created characters like the Masturbating Bear.  Conan lights the fuse in Rolling Stone mag.

NBC and MSNBC: The Big Uneasy

MSNBC's Chris Matthews gets a thrill up his leg fantasizing about a Cecil B. DeMille cast of Dems glued to MSNBC election night.

NBC may rue the day suits let NBC News WH correspondent Chuck Todd "cross over" the River Styx separating NBC from partisan hellfire MSNBC.  Chuck appears mighty uncomfortable with Matthews's delusional speculation.  Even the Huffington Post observed Chuck was uneasy. 11:02 in.

Sine Qua Juan

Juan Williams got a standing O Tuesday night at the University of Maryland where he spoke to a group of lawyers. 

Baltimore Sun's TV critic David Zurawik snagged Juan after the speech
At NPR…they don’t know this: A third of the audience for Bill O’Reilly’s show is made up of people of color,. At NPR, they think, ‘Oh, these people who watch Fox don’t appreciate diversity of opinion, they’re not smart people. They’re not informed people. Oh, yeah? I’ll tell you what: They’re informed.” . . . Williams said NPR "just doesn't understand the Fox audience" -- or have any idea how much more enlightened Fox News management is in some ways compared with news outlets like NPR, CNBC or CNN.
"Just consider the idea that Fox allows me the opportunity to sit in for Bill O’Reilly on their No. 1 show," he said. "That’s the franchise. That’s the moneymaker. If that show falls in the toilet, it’s bad for the whole lineup. And yet Fox allows a black guy with a Hispanic name to sit in the big chair and host the show."
"If you ask NPR they’d say, 'Oh that could never happen at Fox.' But it is happening at Fox. And let me me ask you something? Do you see it an CNBC? Do you it at CNN in prime time. Am I lying to you?"

CNN's Parker Spitzer: Flying Blind

Outgoing NY governor David Paterson is a big fan of CNN's Parker Spitzer.  "He is incisive. He is quick."  (Complained the underwhelmed hookers to their Madam, Kristin Davis, running for -- NY governor.) The Dem who replaced Eliot Spitzer after Client #9's prostitution scandal resignation tells WNBC he's waiting in the wings should CNN dump SpitzerNYP

Paterson wouldn't have blind pig Spitzer's struggle with the teleprompter . . .




The governor proved he has far more personality than Spitzer on SNL's September season opener:

Shriver Angling For TV Gig

Outgoing California First Lady Maria Shriver is nudging NBC to rehire her now that there's no conflict of interest.  NYP  (Left, Maria Monday with Michelle Obama clad in the latest couple of grand Jason Wu.) H/t Michelle's Mirror
CB's classic Shriver shot:

NPR's Smoke Bomb

NPR Marxist wusses quaking in their Birkenstocks after somebody mailed in a bomb threat -- five days after Juan Williams was blown out. Paul Farhi Wash Post

No One Has Taken Responsibility. 

NBC News Leans Forward

NBC has found a clever way to keep Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw off MSNBC Nov. 2:  blow out Jay Leno and Jimmy Fallon for election coverage. TV critic Ed Bark finds linkage between NBC's expanded coverage press release trumpeting election night strategy compartmentalization, and NBC's effort to distance itself from MSNBC's liberal immersion.

Only two NBC News talent will be "crossing over" to MSNBC:  Chuck Todd (who co-hosts an MSNBC morning show), and Lester Holt. 


Crossing over.  Somehow the vision of Dante's Inferno with Virgil at the Gates of Hell crosses one's mind.

Ed Bark: MSNBC may be the "Place For Politics," but it's well past being a comfortable home for either Williams or Brokaw.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Cable News Ratingzzz

Monday Oct. 25, 2010 via TVbytheNumbers

Dems' Desperation

China is secretly dumping dough to elect Republicans. CNBC let this loony go on for more than six minutes. H/t NewsBusters



In 2007 Dem presidential candidate Hillary Clinton got her ample tit in a wringer over nearly a mil in donations from Chinese fugitive Norman Hsu.   After Obama won and nominated Hillary as secretary of State, Bill Clinton was forced to disclose the foreign donors to his foundation. NYT Wash Post

CB Loyal Readers, chip in what you can

Marty, chip in what you can
From:
Barack Obama 
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To:Marty Davis 

Marty --

Right now, the same special interests that we've fought for two years are flooding the airwaves with negative ads. They don't have the courage to stand up and disclose the identity of their donors. They could be insurance companies. They could be Wall Street banks. We don't know.

This kind of politics isn't just a threat to Democrats. It's a threat to our democracy.

And the only way to fight back is with millions of voices, ready to stand up and finish what we started in 2008. That means you. And we have just seven days to do it.

The reason you knocked on doors, made phone calls, chipped in what you could, and cast your vote in 2008 was because you believed that your actions could make a difference and you could play a role in bringing about historic change. You were right.

But the next seven days are a pivotal moment in that continuing fight for historic change. And I need you again to do everything you can.

Because this moment is so crucial, Organizing for America is pairing every grassroots donor who gives today with another individual giving what he or she can afford.

Please donate $3 right now, and it will become $6 because another person out there is ready to invest in this movement with you.

We are not just calling for change, we are grinding it out. We are doing the hard, frustrating, inch-by-inch, day-by-day, week-by-week work of bringing about change.

I understand that when you're watching it, you say to yourself, this is hard. This isn't happening as fast as I would like.

But I want you to understand this. You cannot let it get to you. Don't ever let anybody tell you that this fight is not worth it. Don't let them tell you that you're not making a difference.

Because of what you did, there's a woman somewhere who no longer has to choose between keeping her home and treating her cancer.

Because of you, there are parents who can look their children in the eye and say, "You are going to college."

Because of you, there are small businesses that kept their doors open and folks who didn't lose their jobs. Because of you, communities are safer because firefighters, police officers, and paramedics were able to keep their jobs.

Because of you, there are 100,000 brave men and women who are back from a war in Iraq.

The journey we began together was not about putting a president in the White House. It was about building a movement for change that endures. It's about realizing that in America, anything is possible -- if we're willing to work for it, if we're willing to fight for it.

That's what I believe. And if that's what you believe, I need you to knock on doors, and make phone calls, and talk to your friends, and talk to your neighbors. And I need you to dig deep and give what you can.

And if you do that, I promise you, not only will we win this election -- we will restore the dream for the next generation. We have seven days to do it.

Please donate $3 or more to help Organizing for America finish strong:

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I don't know WHY I'm on the list!  CB reader and syndicated talk show host Jim Bohannon got the same email Tuesday.  I understand why Jim got it. But why me?



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Katie Couric Boner

Katie Couric, fresh from ruining her Louboutins exiting limos on gravel in “this great unwashed middle of the country,”  confides to The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz“American voters are slightly schizophrenic—they want compromise, and yet some of them are ideologically so fixated to one point of view… There are a lot of moderate Americans who are just fed up with negative campaign ads, fed up with the vitriol, fed up with the paralysis.”


It's just another speculative puff piece on the $15 mil a year third-place media leaker.  "Unwashed" CB reader ZD wonders: "Should I be offended?" 


Is this the same Katie Couric who carried around chicken bones in her pockets?

Shep's New Deal

Fox News anchor Shep Smith signs a new deal worth millions.  Shep talked about it Tuesday on  ABC's "The View."  By then Joy Behar had swallowed a few Valium when she intro'd Shep with: "Will I walk out on another Fox News personality?"

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H/t Medaite

It Takes One To Know One

"The View's"Joy Behar gets big audience laughs calling Harry Reid's Repub Senate opponent Sharron Angle "a moron," "bitch," "stupid," "evil," because of a TV political ad.  "I'd like to see her do this ad in the South Bronx.  C'mere, bitch!  Come to New York and do it!" . . . "She's goin' to hell!"


Clap, clap.  Laugh, laugh.

This Oughta Hold The Little FCC and Congressional Bastards!

NBC's parent company GE presents:  MSNBC's Joe Scarborough narrating an 8:47 film on Ronald Reagan.  Rendevous With Destiny: Reagan's journey from GE to the White House.  Cameo appearance by Tom Brokaw.


Executive summary: Ronald Reagan (as host of TV's GE Theater) honed his political skills making speeches on GE's watch. GE made Reagan. Scarborough:  "And from General Electric to the White House, the result was a brighter future for this country." 

Snow Job

"His deputies don't have to spend the whole afternoon cleaning up after him the way Tony Snow's deputies did."  An anonymous White House correspondent extolling the press prep of Obama's press czar Robert Gibbs in a GQ fawning profile.

"Fox wins that fight."

Jon Stewart: "Are you kidding me NPR? You're picking a fight with Fox News? They gave Juan Williams a $2 million contract just for you firing him! NPR? You just brought a tote bag of David Sedaris books to a knife fight."

Stewart enlists a female voice seemingly laced with Valium posing as an NPR anchor reading the Juan firing story.  A Huffington Post babe blogger expressed dismay that Stewart "surprisingly claimed Fox News the winner."

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10c
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www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRally to Restore Sanity

"Why don't you just make your slogan 'Bend Over?'"

The latest rival to LOL about MSNBC's new ad campaign "Lean Forward" is Glenn Beck:



Via Huff Post and Mediaite

CNN Cock-up

MSNBC's canned doc "Lockup" rocks Larry King and Anderson Cooper. Cable news ratings Friday October 22, 2010 via TVbytheNumbers:


5PM – P2+ (25-54)
Glenn Beck – 2,190,000 viewers (567,000)
Situation Room—350,000 viewers (105,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews – 646,000 viewers (159,000)
Showbiz Tonight — 122,000 viewers (54,000)
6PM – P2+ (25-54)
Special Report w/ Bret Baier – 2,160,000 viewers (444,000)
Situation Room—383,000 viewers (100,000)
Ed Show —767,000 viewers (201,000)
Prime News – 165,000 viewers (75,000)
7PM – P2+ (25-54)
The Fox Report w/ Shep – 1,954,000 viewers (463,000)
John King USA– 345,000 viewers (125,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews – 666,000 viewers (151,000)
Issues – 335,000 viewers (139,000)
8PM – P2+ (25-54)
The O’Reilly Factor– 3,011,000 viewers (701,000)
Parker/Spitzer –322,000 viewers (98,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 977,000 viewers (247,000)
Nancy Grace – 598,000 viewers (192,000)
9 PM – P2+ (25-54)
Hannity–2,000,000 viewers (494,000)
Larry King Live —370,000 viewers (83,000)
Lockup —859,000 viewers (227,000)
Joy Behar – 385,000 viewers (88,000)
10 PM P2+ (25-54)
Greta or Stossell—1,685,000 viewers (363,000)
AC 360 — 330,000 viewers (110,000)
Lockup– 357,000 viewers (181,000)
Nancy Grace –314,000 viewers (112,000)


Not getting ratings sucks . . . 

Moveon.orgy: Paul Maul

Female suicide bomber tackled outside Rand Paul debate Monday night:  Okay, it was a Moveon.org chick from Washington, DC battered by Paul people after she taunted the Repub Kentucky Senate candidate:

Keith's Teats?

Photo surfaces of a young Keith Olbermann in a training bra.  NYDN

Doubting Thomas

CB Executive Summary: She's got an unpublished book and is pimping for a publisher.

CNN's Larry King sits down with Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas's former prosecutor/judge girlfriend who claims Clarence was a "raving alcoholic" and porn afficionado:

Monday, October 25, 2010

"A Safe House"

"This show was a safe house. Where people can come and talk whether they're on the right or the left. But there aren't many places like that left, outside these three hours."  MSNBC's Joe Scarborough talking about his own show 'Morning Joe.' 6:02 in:

NPR Shrink Rapped

Bret Baier's Fox News Special Report welcomed back regular Juan Williams Monday night.

When it was syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer's turn to answer one of Bret's issue questions, Charles prefaced it with "I am Juan's psychiatrist and he's way behind on his bills" (I originally thought Charles said 'meds.')

Unlike NPR's head Vivian Schiller's diagnosis of Juan as a prime candidate for a shrink's couch, Charles IS a psychiatrist.  Harvard M.D.  Catch Charles's sardonic swipe at 3:42:



Fox News sent out this tease of Bill O'Reilly's Monday night show with his Ambusher-in-Chief Jesse Watters pouncing on Schiller:



H/t Huffington Post

Earlier Monday MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' co-host Mika Brzezinski opined: "This is about him working on Fox."  Former Fox News WH correspondent Major Garrett chimes in 3:55 in, triggering The Cable Gamer's ire against "Major Benedict Arnold Garrett":