Caption This: Weiner Rubbed The Wong Way

Weiner gets testes testy Tuesday calling one reporter a "jackass" while dismissing the photo of his crank as a "prank."  NYDN

Note the photog's last name as in "that Weiner is such a wong!" 

Related:  Weiner's Tweet Hearts NYP

TV Nudes

Those were the days (1965)

Thunder Ally: Sarah Palin in the Bitch Seat

AP photo NDYN story

Sarah Palin: "Oh, it would be a blast if they were this loud and if they smelled this good.  I love that smell of the emissions!" 

No, she wasn't referring to Anthony Weiner's rolling blunder.  Via Mediaite

Anthony Weiner: House Dick

Lucky stiff Weiner now has 45,000 followers

NY Dem Congressman Anthony Weiner on his new-found Twitter fame after the newly-married Weiner was accused of tweeting his hard-on to a college age "girlfriend." Via Gateway Pundit (H/t ZD)

Conservative flamethrower Andrew Breibart's Big Government instigated this.  If the photo's real, Anthony's weiner gives new meaning to the heretofore much-maligned concept of "big government." 

Blogger Robert Stacy McCain believes pipe cleaner man Weiner's spin that he got the shaft from hackers "because his penis is probably much smaller than that."

A phallacy.

McCain makes the mistake of judging a book by its cover. "Frank Sinatra was so endowed that one of his wives, famous actress Ava Gardner, said of him, 'He only weighs 120, but 100 pounds is cock.'" Scroll down for more exceptions.  Well-hung Frank had specially made underwear to house his massive hose.

Was it really the work of a hacker?  NYP NDYN poll

Related:  Porfirio Rubirosa

Mika Brzezinski's Pique Value

Value-addled Mika Brzezinski, May 9th book party poseur TVNewser

Long-suffering unequal pay for equal work MSNBC hostess Mika Brzezinski appears to have unilaterally resuscitated the Equal Rights Amendment with her new book Knowing Your Value.  Amazon reports self-styled high value asset Mika's little instruction book for discriminated against chicks is on Amazon's top 100 list.  But, alas, sagging faster than an sexagenarian women's libber's unrestrained boobs.

Brzezinski may have struck a chord with a few angry women, but at least one critic isn't buying the shallow shill. The Washington Post's Becky Krystal shows no sympathy for Brzezinski's lonnnng ordeal over making a check-bouncing $250K compared with co-host Joe's approximate $3.5 mil.

"That Brzezinski was able to squeeze more money out a multimillion-dollar company may ring equally hollow to the legions of women without a fan following or co-host going to bat for them. Perhaps they could teach her the value of a little humility."

(H/t Johnny Dollar)

Donny Deutsch?  Deutsch got his dick in a wringer in August 2009 for knowing Sarah Palin's value as a hot chick and slyly suggesting if she's "ever single again, call me."  Via Hot Air

In 2008 Deutsch shed his shirt during an interview with a lady reporter.  That same year the twice-married Deutsch was observed in flagrante delicto with a married woman.  Page Six

This is Brzezinski's second book published by Harvey Weinstein.  The first, a ghost-written tediously self-centered, limousine liberal whine on juggling marriage, family, and career, ranked 73,209 on Amazon's best seller list. 

On February 25th VF writer Bryan Burroughs appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe pimping Hollywood producer wonderboy and Morning Joe darling Weinstein as the comeback kid two days before the Oscars where Weinstein won the statue for best picture. (Weinstein's PR machine placed the same spin in early March on NPR.)

Weinstein in MSNBC's green room

Related:  NYP Weinstein brothers pay 500 grand bribe to postpone $54 mil fraud lawsuit until AFTER the Oscars

Caption This!

Ousted IMF head and hotel housekeeper humper Dominque Strauss-Kahn with the Obamas in 2009 Via NY mag

(H/t Bill Harlow)

On the flip side, Obama and Carla Bruni Sarkozy.  Via Michelle's Mirror

MSNBC's Thin Veneer of Civilization Scraped Off (again)

NYDN poll on MSNBC's Ed Schultz apology to Laura Ingraham after calling her a slut.

Rather than pulling the plug on Schultz posthaste, MSNBC let Ed take to the air Wednesday night for maximum media buzz and ratings in a 3:46 soliloquy. MSNBC then dispatched Ed to the beach for a long Memorial Day holiday payless week suspension. Via NYDN

Ed went batshit Tuesday on his radio show after Laura jumped on Obama's ass for swilling brew in Ireland while Joplin, Missouri was reeling from those devastating tornadoes. "It doesn't matter that it was on radio and that I was ad-libbing."  Ed claims he "offered to take" himself off his show without pay:

Ed Rendell: Cat On A Hot Thin Roof

POLITICO

Is there such a thing as thick veneer?

Political and media opportunist Rendell could have just left intact Sir J.G. Frazer's famous line "thin veneer of civilization" (The Golden Bough), later lifted by the likes of Jack London and Edgar Rice Burroughs), applying it instead to his new employer's progressively uncivil descent into journalistic savagery.

Passing Judgment Day

l965: "Why don't we have Skeeter Davis do another song right now? I think it would be really appropriate at this point."



BTW Skeeter exited the planet in 2004 at age 72.

My friend from Detroit TV news days, George Noory (he was a producer then), is doing a Saturday night special on The End of The World. George Noory's Coast to Coast

Re:  ends.  I've come to a dead end with Chickaboomer.  After nearly five years blowing my mind and feeding your head, I am channeling my intensity to elevate my mind, body, and spirit via yoga, 12 Steps (1. We admitted we were powerless over cable news (Obama, fill in the blank) and our lives had become unmanageable), meditation.  My life is about getting to the next level.  I may write when the spirit moves me...

Ground Control To Major Tom

Chris Licht holding on to Morning Joe 7-second delay box like the presidential nuclear football.

“We’re thrilled with the show and look forward to the continued success of ‘Morning Joe.’" MSNBC flack on the expected departure of EP Chris Licht to CBS News as VP programming  Brian Stelter NYT Media Decoder

Chris Licht Friday AM

Licht's new Simon & Schuster book What I Learned When I Almost Died has nothing to do with Morning Joe's ratings.... A paltry 176,000 in the golden 25-54 demo Wednesday May 18.  Via TVbytheNumbers

Dick Out

NYT:  NBC Executive Who Delivered Spent An Obscene Fortune and Ended Up In The Red Olympics Quits

I don't know about you, but I saw that coming with NBC's thrifty new owners and CEO Steve Burke...

Les Moonves: "At CBS, we don't rebuild, we reload."

 Yeah, he said that. Deadline Hollywood

Snarky Wash Post TV critic Lisa de Moraes on CBS upfront

TIME mag's James Poniewozik

Meanwhile The Universe played a dirty trick on Turner Broadcasting Wednesday when a power surge knocked out the electricity and left suits and clients in a dark ballroom, breathing life into the old chestnut:  "Will the last one out of CNN please turn out the lights?" B&C

Related: B&C's Upfront Central

Second-Rate CNN's Second Acts

"Men involved in these kinds of scandals can sometimes have second acts (see: Spitzer, Eliot)." NYT Thursday May 18th 

Spitzer, in CNN's Arena Wednesday night, draws on his own media circus before and after he resigned the NY governor's gig over his hooker obsession. Spitzer on resigned IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn:  "Why do I suspect that even if he's permitted to go back to his apartment, there are going to be cameras at every one of the --"

Spitzer's cut off by loquacious CNN lawyer contributor and second actor Jeffrey Toobin, sucked into a nasty paternity case after the married with children Toobin knocked up veteran TV journo (ABC, CBS) Jeff Greenfield's daughter, Casey, and was being a real asshat about owning up to it.

CNN In The Arena transcript

Dominque mug shot NYP

Chickaboomer hears CNN's champing at the bit to rescue Dominque from perp to prime time when Strauss waltzes from Rikers maybe Friday. NYT

Spitzer's still silent on Schwarzenegger...

Huck Soup: "All the factors say go, but my heart says no." The Ratings Blow.

Size matters

National Journal:

Ex-AR Gov. Mike Huckabee's (R) self-hyped and speculated Saturday night announcement on whether he would run for president didn't seem to resonate with younger viewers, in particular the key advertising demo. "Huckabee" came in behind CNN, in viewers ages 25-54.

According to Nielsen Ratings Co., "Huckabee" on Saturday night averaged 338K in the demo. While CNN's Presents "Inside the Mission: Getting Bin Laden" attracted 348K viewers. Even MSNBC's "Locked-Up" brought in 214K viewers in the demo.

Other FOX News programs were able to attract a higher percentage of younger viewers. During the rest of FOX's Saturday primetime lineup, John Stossel had 27% of demo viewers and Judge Jeanine Pirro attracted 18%. Yet, neither show was as highly promoted.

In total viewers, "Huckabee" still came out on top, attracting 2.2M viewers but given all the buzz surrounding Saturday's show, one would expect more viewers, especially in that key demo, to tune in. Interestingly, CNN which averaged less than half of his total viewership (913K), still managed to beat him in the demo, without all the hype (Hotline reporting, 5/17).

White House Press Poo

Boston Herald 

(H/t ZD)

Rise Of The Machine

Stewart:  It could be "Cook."

Watch the vid.

Related:  Why the National Enquirer protected Arnold. Jacob Bernstein The Daily Beast

An aside: CB divines Maria will turn up as a paid host on Oprah Winfrey's cable news network...

The Rap on Eliot Spitzer

"As a disgraced former governor, Spitzer is the only pundit on cable news who can personally relate to Schwarzenegger's apparent affair and would-be public unraveling." The Wrap pointing out that Eliot Spitzer didn't say one word about the Arnold love child thing on his CNN show Tuesday night.

Monday CNN ran a suspicious package on political sex scandals, conveniently leaving out Eliot.  TVNewser keeping them honest.

See you at the party, Richter!

Tammy flew as stew on Air Arnold

Gawker deconstructs the Arnold Schwarzenegger love child true lies and finds there's more to this than meets the eye.

Pumping irony

Gawker update: Are there two Schwarzenegger love children?

Arnold housekeeper Mildred "Patty" Baena, 50, who reportedly was going to blab.

Unfortunately (for the Schwarzeneggers) Patty has photos of Arnold's spawn on her still active MySpace page.

Related:  NYDN LA Weekly

It's not coincidence that People mag's Arnold/Maria cover and story are already being pimped by People's troops just hours after Arnold dropped the bomb.  A concerted multi-platform PR spin with Maria's appearance on Oprah Wednesday telling the unbelievable story that Maria didn't know about the spawn even though the housekeeper lived with the Schwarzeneggers for years and the two women were pregnant at the same time.

Beaver Shot

Mel Gibson in Cannes pimping his new movie "The Beaver."

Truth In Advertising

Conservative Cincinnati radio talker and frequent Hannity guest Bill Cunningham

It’s also reported the show will be called, “The Bill Cunningham Show” and not “Big Willie” as originally planned. Cunningham's new TV show title as reported by Talkers magazine. (H/t Jim Bohannon)

StEAL Team 6

Jon Stewart's new segment "Well, That Was Fast" lumps Disney's chutzpah trademarking "SEAL Team 6" just days after Osama's takedown with the Comcast/NBC monopoly.

Jon:  "Disney isn't the only big media company making the moves."

NBC's Nightly News anchor Brian Williams when the FCC approved the Comcast/NBC deal:  "This merger will create a $30 billion dollar media company with cable, broadcast, Internet, motion picture, and theme park components."

Stewart:  "Oh, thank God!  Now if I have my cable go out and I go to a theme park and choke on a giant fried turkey leg, right before I find out my favorite show got canceled, I only have to call one number to complain. This monopoly is awesome!  I don't know why this doesn't happen more often! Oh, right, 'cause it's illegal.  Which is why it had to be approved by the FCC, that's right, the same people who freak out when boobs pop out at the Super Bowl, or keep me from saying things like [expletives deleted]. . . . But part of the FCC's job is also making sure the media companies don't get too powerful or else they might start doing stuff like trademarking the names of heroic military units for their own financial gain."

Stewart reviews the art of the Comast/NBC deal, and wraps up with Fox News Bret Baier revealing the future of Obama-appointed FCC Commissioner and Comcast merger shill Meredith Baker who complained the merger process is "too cumbersome": "Federal Communications Commissioner Meredith Baker announced she's resigning next month to become Comcast NBC Universal Senior Vice President of Governmental Affairs" to gasps, deafening boos and jeers from Stewart's studio audience.

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Hardly related but nonetheless relevant in Today's Knee-Jerk Media Milieu: Jon Stewart appears on Bill O'Reilly vid

Glenn Beck: The Zion King

Glenn Beck

Last August it was the Lincoln Memorial.  This August it's Moses. Glenn Beck is imploring the followers to travel to Israel. Beck announced his latest gambit on his radio show and his Fox News show. Mediaite

Beck firmed up the deal during a visit to Jerusalem last week.  Monday Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat appeared in person on Fox's Neil Cavuto and Beck's own show thumping the same talking points.  Glenn and Neil are witting lobbyists for Israel's impressive PR machine.  As much as I support Israel, I view this deal as shameless manipulation of TV news.  Glenn's news peg:  good v evil.

On Monday's Fox News show prophet Glenn acknowledged the risky business of assembling a rally in Jerusalem, conceding his flock may find the journey too costly. Maybe Glenn can part America's sea of red ink . . .

Beck warned his rally could draw him, the mayor, and maybe two of Beck's fellow travelers. That terminal tease Beck promised to reveal the date Friday.

Olbermann: Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye!

Olbermann lets off steam GQ graphic

"The guy who made ESPN a household word, the guy who made ESPN mean something in the market to everyone, was Keith Olbermann. God, he was a genius. He just reinvented sportscasting by being the smartest guy who ever did it. And watching him in the mid-'90s was a pleasure. It was appointment viewing: What was Olbermann going to say that night"  Bill Wolff, MSNBC's VP primetime programming, and Rachel Maddow's EP quoted in the June GQ excerpt of James Miller and Tom Shales's book Those Guys Have All The Fun: Inside The World of ESPN.  (H/t ZD) 

It's All About Olbermann. "ESPN wasn't truly the worldwide leader in sports until Keith Olbermann came along. Brilliant, combustible, and allergic to authority, he revolutionized its flagship program—and started a countdown clock for his ugly exit the moment he walked in the door."


Call me cynical, but I find the timing suspect. GQ's handing Olbermann media buzz and credit for putting ESPN on the map the same month Olbermann's MSNBC retread Countdown makes its debut on Al Gore's dubious cable channel Current TV with a mere 23,000 primetime viewers sends the message that Keith is Al Gore's savior.

Kiss Olbermann goodbye

Anal Sax

Bill Clinton as satyr centaur ridden by Monica Lewinsky

In a town with a terminal bubbling undercurrent of illicit sex, a new DC restaurant is raising hypocritical eyebrows with lewd murals and lingerie-clad dancers and waitresses. Wash Post Photos here

Sax is the rich man's Hooters.

Mike Huckabee the New Glenn Beck?

"It’s no surprise that Huckabee prefers his new life as a Fox News host to the dubious pleasures of another presidential run. But he’ll be missed in the 2012 race, and not just because his absence promises to dramatically reduce the entertainment value of the Republican debates."  NYT token conservative columnist Ross Douthat on Mike Huckabee's political pragmatism money talks, politics walks:

 

MOTUS reports exclusively! that Huckabee's sliding into Glenn Beck's soon-to-be-vacant 5p slot.  The formerly impecunious Arkansas governor and 2008 Repub prez candidate, now flush with dough, is building a $3 mil 8,224 sq ft ocean front pad with a nearly 3,000 sq foot porch and deck near Destin, Florida.  Arkansas Times.

More photos via Arkansas Times

Huckabee's Holiday Inn Express nights are so over . . .  Huckabee announced he wouldn't run in a five-minute soliloquy Saturday Fox News show.  Watch the vid. "All the factors say go, but my heart [wallet] says no."

Related: Who benefits from Huck's absence? MSNBC

Adam's Rib

Fox News hunk Adam Housley's new bride changed costumes three times during their wedding over the weekend in San Francisco's Napa Valley.  People  Housley wore Converse basketball shoes. Housley married former teen TV star Tamera "Jesus is my homie!" Mowry after dating six years.

Lemon Drop

Gay PR wrangler Howard Bragman's latest high profile decloseting wasn't Anderson Cooper.  Rather anticlimactic to learn it's CNN's Don Lemon exiting the closet. Bragman's Lemon aid  NYP Page Six

Bill Carter NYT (H/t ZD)

Obama: The Great SEAL Of The United States

Obama as SEAL a steal at only $34.95!

Obama SEAL Team Six Action Figure

Rush Limbaugh:  "Now, they used Michelle's body, not his."



Herobuilders crafts non-talking custom action figures costing $375. $399 for talking. I hear your minds whirring now . . .

(H/t ZD)