NYT False Bottom

NYT corrects imprecise David Carr

Words similar to imprecise:  wrong, careless. All wet.  Doesn't wash. False. Unreliable. 

Same Thing Different Day

Ed Henry fights off bloodthirsty Jay Carney

Jay Carney should tattoo the words to The Isley Brothers' 1969 hit "It's Your Thing" on his palm.  "It's your thing.  Do what you wanna do.  I can't tell you who to sock it to."



Ed Henry, Fox News chief WH correspondent, riles Obama press sec Carney on Ed's virgin appearance Tuesday after bolting CNN, by pressing the press spox on Obama's debt ceiling plan of which there is none.

Wednesday Ed pressed again.

Carney: "I know you're creating a thing here for Fox."
Ed (not suffering the fool gladly): "That's not what I'm doing. You know better than that."



Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik fears the WH is '"trying to pick another fight with Fox News." 

Jay, give it up, bro. The veins under your thin skin are popping.  Blaming Fox has become the White House's tedious teenage modus operandi to divert attention from the rest of the media socking it to Obama.  Richard Nixon possessed an elephant hide compared with this White House.

Error Walks Among Us

No, it's 105 degrees, not 100 as Politico claims in a hot piece on Fox News Homeland Security correspondent Catherine Herridge's devotion to Bikram yoga.  Get your facts straight, boys!  The Daily Caller picks up Politico's erroneous reporting.

One Degree of Separation just doesn't have the same ring.  Five degrees is huge.  I know.  I attempt to perform the 90 minutes of 26 poses in a 105 degree studio. Catherine says it's a "good thing to do at least once a week."  I was doing it every day.

Catherine's written a new book on American al Qaeda recruits with a book blurb that kicks off scary:  "TERROR WALKS AMONG US."

Most days I'm far more frightened of the recruitment tactics of American media training camps.  See MSNBC and Shill Man Al Sharpton.

The world was far less complex in 1956 when Americans were scared of Gill Man.

Piers Morgan: Whine and Decline

'It's Morgan In America' James Wolcott Vanity Fair April 2011

CNN host Piers Morgan stiffs CNN's Sunday weekly media recap show 'Reliable Sources.'  Howard Kurtz:  "We invited Piers Morgan to appear on this program because of the questions that's been raised and he declined."  Reliable Sources transcript

Piers was autopsied anyway. 

Vanity Fair contributing editor Vicky Ward (whom Howard is quick to point out has longtime ties to Murdoch) sticks it NYT's London bureau chief John Burns's incredulous defense of the NYT's flies on shit Murdoch coverage: "We have been especially careful to be forensic and even handed about this." 

Ward:  "With all due respect, in your own paper today there's a headline, "CNN host, an ex-tabloid editor is reluctantly dragged into the phone scandal." Talking about Piers Morgan. He wasn't reluctantly dragged into the phone scandal. He came out on his own volition on Monday night and then certain assertions were made by Louise Mensch, a British member of parliament about what was written in his diaries.  He then defended himself and said were categorically untrue and all you had to do for him to be validated was to read his book. Even the British have come out and said she got it wrong."

Burns:  "I think there's an edge of paranoia with what you're saying. You apparently don't want to talk about the substance of the article which gives full voice, very extensive voice and I know this firsthand because I was involved in preparing an e-mail exchange. It could only be e-mail because that's what Piers Morgan insisted on last night. The questions that we put to him, he answered them and answered them fully. We ran a very long story, two pages on the web site, giving his answers in full. As for the reluctantly dragged in, I'm sure everybody who has been associated with this in any way, whose name has been brought up in any way, would be reluctant to be drawn into it. I think Piers Morgan would be the first to say, and it certainly was strongly implicit in everything he said to us on the telephone and by e-mail last night that he was very reluctant as who would not be?"

Winner:  Never one to miss an opportunity to promote himself, Piers Morgan used the lady MP's attack and a former London Daily Mirror journo's assertions that phone hacking was rampant when Piers was editor -- to shamelessly pimp his book.  BTW just because he didn't write about it doesn't mean it didn't happen.

Winner:  Howard Kurtz for encouraging ex-MSNBC seat filler Cenk Uygur to trash CNN rival MSNBC which jettisoned the reformed Muslim and outspoken Obama critic from the 6p slot for Al Sharpton.  Cenk's shortened his sound bites since his nearly 12-minute anti-MSNBC rant last week.

Related:  MSNBC's 'tokenism' in hiring Sharpton.  NYDN guest opiner Columbia U prof John McWhorter:  "There was a time when it was acceptable to think of black people as most welcome in the role of entertainers. In his protest work, Sharpton has played a role in getting America ever further from those days of entrenched racism. It is ironic, to say the least, that MSNBC is now putting him in the shop window to lend the place a little color."

Tiger By The Tale

Dem Rep. David Wu:  "It's GRREAT!"

Beaver State (Oregon) Democrat Rep. Wu is facing the ire of a teen tigress young enough to be his daughter granddaughter.  The Oregonian reports the woman, a campaign donor's daughter, left a "distraught" voice mail "this spring" after Wu supposedly came on to her last Thanksgiving.  Wash Post  

Wu has a history of bizarre behavior:  forcing at least one woman to have sex with him, pendulum emotions, inexplicably weird photos (see above) sent to his staff, illegal prescription drug use. 

Translation:  Dems, fearful of losing his seat to a Repub, are riding this tiger into the political jungle.  Wu's wacko.  Chris Cillizza Wash Post

Wu chases his tail in reax.  Dems smell fresh kill.  KATU TV

Update: Nancy Pelosi won't "weigh in."  Wash Post 

Monday July 25:  Wu won't resign, claims he won't run in 2012.  Ethics investigation threat. Wash Post

White Men Can't Hump

US mag's 25 Most Stylish New Yorkers

Old white guy arrested for lying in wait outside MSNBC hostess and Today Show token Tamron Hall's NYC apartment building.  NYP Exclusive!

Michelle Obama's Buss Stop

Move that butt bus!

Michelle Obama drops in Thursday on ABC's Extreme Makeover of a Fayetteville, NC house. More from Michelle's Mirror.  Obama was reported to be adding "a few finishing touches" before the big reveal. The campaign stop humanitarian gesture was a three-fer for the First Lady.  (1) There's a green house in back appealing to Michelle's do what I say not what I do diet. (2) The house will house homeless female vets which segues nicely into (3) Mrs. Obama's focus on military families with Fort Bragg and Pope Air Force Base conveniently nearby.

The First Lady hugs homeowner and Navy vet Barbara Marshall.

More photos via the local ABC affiliate WTVD TV Raleigh Durham.

Related:  Building an Oasis in America's Food Deserts Michelle's Mirror

Cenk Clubbed By Two-Tone MSNBC

"I am OUT at MSNBC!"  Cenk offends MSNBC suits' Fellow Travellers.

"I was called in a couple of weeks ago and told I will not get the six o'clock shot. . . .  One of the producers on one of the shows pulled me aside as a friend and gave me a little talking to. He said, 'Look Cenk  There are two audiences.  He said there's the audience that you're trying to appeal to that's the viewers and there's the audience that is management.  And management is kinda like the club.  And they want to make sure you're cool and that you're gonna play ball to be in the club.'. . . .  Then I started getting notes after awhile . . . 'Act more like a senator.'  . . . I stopped listening to their advice in April. . . . I got pulled in and they told me, hey listen, or, it was exactly one specific person, the head of MSNBC, he said I was just in Washington and people in Washington tell me they're concerned about your tone. . . .  He gives me the second part of the speech. Hey, listen, Cenk.  Outsiders are cool. . . . He said , I'd love to be an outsider, outsiders are cool.  But we're not. We're insiders.  We are the establishment. . . . He said, 'Look you gotta tone it down.' . . ."

In a nearly 12-minute soliloquy on his Young Turks show Wednesday night Cenk says he didn't listen to Griffin, kept doing the show His Way, and the ratings went up.  Griffin delivers Tone Speech 2.0 and offers a lesser role.  Cenk tells Griffin to stuff it.  Cenk's replacement:  tone-deaf racist Al Sharpton.



Via Huff Post

If tone is the sole firing criteria at MSNBC, misogynistic blowhard Chris Matthews would have been canned right out of the box. Keith Olbermann would've been gone posthaste.

Amassed Media

Free Press campaign to Stop Big Media starts with the Comcast NBC merger.

NYT's Young Media Turk Brian Stelter Wednesday plants the seeds for liberal foes to mount FCC license challenges of Rupert Murdoch's Fox TV stations now that Murdoch and News Corp are vulnerable.  The lid blows off Pandora's Box as the Obama FCC revisits media ownership rules.  Under the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the FCC is required to review media ownership every four years. The last review was in 2006.  See what the FCC's up to for 2010.

Impiety

Pie-eyed Frank Sinatra.

Rupert Murdoch, his finger in every media pie, is given the Soupy Sales treatment during Tuesday's House of Commons hacking hearing. Rupert's sweetie pie wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, morphs into White Fang, decking the shaving cream pie-pasting perp. ABC News

Rupert (Wendi pretty in pink) before the assault. 

Wendi packs a punch

Easy as pie.  Shut your pie hole! Photos ABC News Australia

Weather Bunny Boilers

In television's vast wasteland of self-important cable news hacks, blowhard talking heads, preening anchors, compromised reporters, some TV weathermen are breaking out of laughable stereotypes by saving people's lives.  No more the butt of jokes.

NYT

CNN could trade that terminal black cloud for sunny ratings as the Climate News Network . . .

Bride's Head Revisited

Here comes the bride to the wedding frog march!  Busted for identity theft by cop wedding crashers.  The Smoking Gun

Radar Online

Putin's Smarmy

Some Russian babes billing themselves as "Putin's Army" are showing their support for Vlad the Impaler by taking off their clothes and beckoning other babes to do the same. The idea is to return Putin to the presidency now occupied by Putin sock puppet Dmitriy Medvedev. Putin's second two-year run as president ended in 2008. (With all the lure of a honey trap, the most alluring stripper wins an iPad2.)

CB reader Bill Harlow muses:  "Is Bill Clinton smacking himself on the forehead saying 'Why didn't I  think of that?'"

The UK Telegraph puts Putin in understatement you'd expect in Pravda: "Widely seen as Russia's key decision-maker."

Putin on the tits! UK Daily Male Mail

Putin's Army! by agg44

Russia's FSB now stands for puttin' out for Putin Fornicating Stripper Babes. 

Related:  NBC's Today Show wonders why people are "obsessed with breasts."  NewsBusters

Cenk Hole

MSNBC 6p seat-filler, Chris Matthews vanilla filling, and reformed Muslim Cenk Uygur's news hole filled by. . . Al Sharpton?    Mediaite fleshes out TVNewser's leak scoop.

Sharpton demonstrates MSNBC's new seven-second delay.

Brand New Bag

"Which television pundit who jumped to a competing network is only getting a pittance for his appearances?" NYP Page Six

Roots of Heaven

Jimmy Durante greases the skids for the Grass Roots. RIP lead singer and bassist Rob Grill (far right) exiting the planet listening to 1967's "Live For Today."  Reportedly says his wife. He was 67.  NYT obit.



"Let's Live For Today" #8 in 1967, "Midnight Confessions" #5, their biggest hit in 1968, "Wait A Million Years" #15 in 1969, "Temptation Eyes" #15 in 1970, "Sooner Or Later" #9, "Two Divided By Love" #16 in 1971.

My memory is foggy, but a lot of grass went up in smoke in 1970 to the the Grass Roots' "Temptation Eyes."  Or maybe it was 1971. Sooner or later . . .

Breaking The Mold

Jim Bohannon flashes me (uh, not really as we're 10 hours apart) that he can't comment on my cryptic won't be back until after Labor Day message.  I don't get it either.  Long-departed British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli once observed "Never complain and never explain."   Lemme explain.  Last week I returned to my house in Witness Protection Program Land to get more stuff and discovered a mammoth problem:  mold.  Black mold. House is nearly as toxic as cable news. I hadn't been there since the end of April when I moved to Charleston, SC.  Executive summary:  it could take me weeks to (a) fix this maybe beyond salvage mess, and (b) finish moving.  Made the ten-hour round trip twice last week.  Back this week.  Going to Michigan for a family reunion and wedding the first two weeks of August.  So I figured I'd bag CB until Labor Day.  

I intend to return after Labor Day.

Am off today searching for the "Devil" Nancy Grace cries is "dancing" somewhere now that "tot mom" Casey Anthony escaped Nancy's Inferno.

Olbermann Current Leakage

93,000 second week average in the golden 25-54 demo. 253,000 total viewers down 29% from his debut week -- but better than Al Gore's obscure cable network's usual puny primetime audience. TVbytheNumbers

CNN Finds An Audience

On the cable network's website. One mil pairs of eyes turned to CNN.com before and after the Casey Anthony verdict. Via TVbytheNumbers

And on sister cable network HLN. Look at HLN's numbers last Friday:

What's HLN's next artificial and ultimately fleeting audience attraction?  Joe Flint LAT

Nancy Grace Is Batshit!

Drudge Report

NYDN

Follow Nancy on Twitter!  Read more in the Orlando Sentinel!  Watch Nancy invoke the devil!  (H/t ZD)

Nancy (blaming the jury selection process):  "There's nothing we can do about this verdict.  But we can do is to keep seeking justice." Nancy later walked it back: "Attacking the jury is misplaced."

Voir dire. The jurors refuse to speak to the media. Court spox:  "A universal, unequivocal no!"  Nancy's colleague Vinnie is crazed:

Nancy's understudy Jane Velez-Mitchell is dubbing this "O.J. Number Two," a line she lifted from an irate spectator she was interviewing outside the courtroom.

"I hope this is a lesson to those of you who have indulged in media assassination for three years."  Defense second string Cheney Mason "disgusted" by the "ignorant" TV talking head hosts and know-nothing lawyer speculators.  See Are Nancy-Grace-led media as vile as Casey Anthony lawyer claims? David Zurawik Baltimore Sun

Celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred to Nancy:  "I think that the jury made the right decision. ... They couldn't say beyond a reasonable doubt. ... In the court of public opinion anything goes.  In a jury there's a completely different standard."  

But 78% of Orlando Sentinel readers disagree. Wash Post commenter: Maybe now she can grow into the person O.J. became, and use her freedom to dedicate her life hunting for the "real" killer. 

Related:  What's HLN's next ratings gambit?  Marisa Guthrie THR Fox News Geraldo Rivera's tweets. Geraldo got an Exclusive! with Casey lead defense lawyer Jose Baez. Watch it here!  If given a choice between Nancy Grace and a chloroform facial, Jose picks chloroform.

Jenna Lee: SEALed With A Kiss

Fox News Hottie Jenna Lee and her Navy SEAL husband.  Via People mag

Cluster F**k

No Independence Day

During July 4th closing arguments the Casey Anthony kiddie murder prosecution played her jailhouse phone call to her mother.  The first "fucking" got by trial-orgasmic HLN which put up a countdown clock seconds after the jury went out. No apologies there but Fox News did apologize to viewers after a few slipped by live before they hit the seven-second delay button.  THR

Fuck and variations thereof do not offend me. The Sopranos inured Americans to the "bad word" fuck.  Casey Anthony's lack of concern about her daughter in the aforementioned phone call was appalling.  Her mother's perjury was contemptible. HLN's Nancy Grace clone, the fierce Jane Velez-Mitchell's multiple use of the redundant "general consensus," stung my ears.

Fox News Hacked Off

UK Guardian

Multiple fake tweets. Gateway Pundit Gateway Pundit

The Secret Service and Fox News Digital are drilling down the breach. NYT reports the hack attack was the work of a group known as "Script Kiddies." A Twitter spox can't explain why the fake tweets were up for 10 hours before they were removed. Wash Post NewsBusters

Fox issued this statement: Jeff Misenti, vice president and general manager of Fox News Digital,said FoxNews.com is working with Twitter to address the situation as quickly as possible."We will be requesting a detailed investigation from Twitter about how this occurred, and measures to prevent future unauthorized access into FoxNews.com accounts."

(H/t ZD)

Howard Kurtz: "Maybe the most substantive show on cable news."

'Vocabulary malfunction'

CNN's Reliable Sources Howard Kurtz:  "The indictment is being expanded to say that Mark Halperin is the epitome of superficial theater criticism and empty  Beltway conventional wisdom. What's your take?

The Hill's A.B. Stoddard: "MSNBC had no choice but to suspend him. And I think that if you look in the past at their suspension policy, it's a little haphazard. I don't know how they make up their mind. I think they say you're indefinitely suspended, and then they make up their mind about when you'll return to work based on different criteria."

Kurtz:  "Would it have been different if he had called George W. Bush the d-word? Would the reaction in the media circles have been different?"

Weekly Standard's Matthew Continetti: "I think he may have gotten his own show if he used that term to describe Bush on that network."
Kurtz: "Of course, Fox News would have gone crazy if he had done that to Bush."

Keith Olbermann spent seven edgy years hurling epithets at President George W. Bush with impunity.  What's worse?  Being labeled a "dick" or a purveyor of "murderous deceit," among other absurdities. MSNBC's Chris Matthews attacked Hillary Clinton in 2008 as "witchy" and a "she-devil," pissing off Media Matters.  During the presidential campaign Matthews was forced to apologize (no suspension) for accusing Hillary for cashing in on roundheel Bill's wandering dick. MSNBC's David Shuster was suspended and subsequently evaporated into MSNBC etherland for suggesting Hillary "pimped out" daughter Chelsea from Clinton-ordered media blackout to campaign tool.  And much, much more.

The reactionary online media -- right and left -- breathlessly regurgitate cable news outrages as news, egging on these blowhards to blow the envelope wide open. To wit: Mediaite shoots the messenger Halperin. I am fed up to my keister with symbiotic schoolyard reporting masquerading as news.  At one point I imposed a moratorium on terminally offensive Keith Olbermann. But there's no putting back the lid on the media's Pandora's Box.

Luftwaffle

Below is not an anomaly. This BBC TV news presenter must have the world record for the most on-air screw-ups. Via UK Daily Mail



(H/t Brent Baker NewsBusters)

Media Matters: The Taxman Cometh?

"Why should a guerrilla war against one network be supported by taxpayer dollars?" Former NYT reporter Judith Miller on liberal Media Matters running off the tax-exempt 501(c) (3) rails by shifting from mere media monitoring to aggressive lobbying against Fox News.  A taxable offense.

 (Mediaite)  Video via Johnny Dollar

FNC, CNN: Checkmate

"You gotta give him a lot of credit, Roger Ailes. He's got a lot of credibility in terms of what he has achieved over these years. Fox News Channel is very, very successful." CNN's Wolf Blitzer wrapping up a report on memos unearthed in Richard Nixon's library to provide Republican-spun TV news to local stations.  The detailed delivery system is assumed by some to be the work of then-Nixon consultant now FNC boss Roger Ailes.

FNC served up a two-sentence statement Friday with the proviso CNN run it as is.  CNN refused for "policy" reasons. Clever Fox knew CNN  wouldn't run this part:  "If Mr. Ailes did have the idea for Fox News nearly half a century ago, he would have beaten CNN and MSNBC even sooner.” Via Mediaite 

Checkmate

The CNN reporter waxing orgasmic over the revelation that the Nixon White House was in on a plan to level the early 1970s media playing field has no institutional knowledge of the lopsided political and media climate 40 years ago. He wasn't born yet.  Wolf, 63, was, and understands the times we lived in then.  As it turned out, Ted Turner beat Ailes to it when CNN went on the air June 1, 1980.

Both Ailes and Turner were visionaries. Ailes still is. 

A third cable news network signed on in 1996 -- the same year as FNC. In 2008 MSNBC established itself as the de facto delivery system for the Obama White House.

Glenn Beck's Lone Star State

"An entertainer's dream!" Part of the real estate hype on Glenn Beck's new Texas rental digs:  8,000 sq ft, seven bedrooms, $20,000 a month rent.  Via Huffington Post
 

Glenn sold his Connecticut house for nearly $4 mil, wrapped up his Fox News show Thursday, and did a 'geographical,' as they say in Beck's A.A.

Our Lady Of Prompter Succor

FLOTUS requires a teleprompter in a casual Dem donor chat to 'a relatively small and friendly audience.' Michelle's Mirror

Related: NBC Comcast suit raises big bucks hosting Obama fundraiser in Philadelphia. Wash Post

Scarborough, Brzezinski Tit For Tat

Morning Joe retaliates after MSNBC suits suspend Joe talking head staple Mark Halperin for calling Obama 'a dick' on Thursday's show in Friday's pushback suggesting they can't get anyone to swear allegiance to the president these days.

Mika Brzezinski after deliberately setting up two Dem journos who refused to bite her bait demanding they express support for Obama: "I guess what I'm getting at is we're getting hit a lot lately for, uh, not bringing on people who speak, you know, on behalf of the White House and really stick up for the president. But we are bringing people on but they're not doing it as much lately."

Scarborough (fighting to be heard over Brzezinski's disruptive dickering): "We've been criticized by a couple of our friends who say, oh, a lot of your people around the table, there's a suggestion we need to get, eh, more balance to our table and more Democrats which we checked the numbers, and oh my God, it's like a ten-to-one ratio Democrats to Republicans as far as guests on this show, and yet there are a lot of people that supported the president strongly for two years that just don't support him anymore."

Translation:  You dick with us, we'll dick with you. It all makes sense now. Halperin's dick comment greased by Morning Joe glee was planned and purposeful. Mika, you've come a long way, baby, from parroting White House talking points sent to your BlackBerry...



Via NewsBusters

Sanchez Surfaces, Reverses Course: Stewart Not 'A Bigot'

Rick listed on CNN after an anti-Semitic attack on diaphanous-skinned Jon Stewart. He couldn't get a TV news gig to save his life after CNN fired him in January 2010. So now he's back. As a contributor to Mediaite:

As I so look forward to devouring his work.

Sanchez crawls up Stewart's ass after a year and a half in TV news Siberia. Rick goes after Fox's Bernard Goldberg "who I have much respect for" for labeling Stewart "a racist" for skewering Repub presidential candidate Herman Cain by talking like Kingfish.

Rick shifts:  I was on receiving end of Jon’s jokes for a long, long time.  I was thin-skinned enough to think that I was a target due to my ethnicity.  And I was wrong. Jon’s not a racist or a bigot—not even close.  The insinuation that he is any of those things, hiding under the cover of comedy, is just plain wrong.  The assertion that Jon “gets away” with jokes because FOX classifies him as a liberal, and that a conservative would get eviscerated for saying the same things, doesn’t hold water.  Unless we’re ready to classify Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh as comedians rather than pundits, anchors or hosts on a news network, then any comparison to Jon is a false one. Jon’s goal every night is to inform and illuminate, and to be funny while doing so.  Whatever Jon’s political leanings, he is an equal-opportunity comedian and satirist. Whether you’re black, brown, green or purple, whether you’re Hispanic, White, African-American, Arab or Chinese, whether you’re liberal, conservative, libertarian or just plain apolitical, Jon just goes where the funny is (and sometimes it’s the jugular).  Nobody gets a pass. And that’s exactly the way it should be.As for the Herman Cain impression, well, I’d invite you to check out Jon’s other impressions—Italian, German, Arab, French, Scottish, British and Russian voices as well as famous people and politicians from Bill Clinton and Al Gore to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.I won’t pretend to speak for Jon—he does that quite well on his own—but I would venture to say that Jon sees his role as holding up a mirror to our society, showing us the absurdity of our politics and discourse and that the emperor has no clothes.  That’s what the Rally to Restore Sanity was about.  That’s what The Daily Show is about.  And it’s what I believe Jon is about.So if you’re a politician advocating a ridiculous position, a pundit pontificating from on high or an anchor who has the inevitable flubs that come from doing a live daily show while refusing to use a teleprompter like a robotic newsreader (ahem), brace yourself because Jon will get you the next day.  And you probably have it coming.

 

Rick just goes where the stupid is. Rick, for whom I have much disdain.

Huff Post

CNN's Sinking Ship Rearranging Deck Chairs

NPR's David Folkenflik profiles CNN suit Mark Whitaker on Morning Edition:  Top shows on the Fox News Channel typically draw 2 million viewers or more. CNN's top prime-time shows attract about a third of that each night. And the network's new top news executive, Mark Whitaker, acknowledges CNN has been thrown off course."A big challenge for CNN now is to really decide who its audience is," he says, "and to really focus on doing the best job possible for that audience and not think it can be all things to all people."

Uh-huh.

Sunshine Is The Best Disinfectant

Huffington Post
Mediaite

Fox is rotating hosts through the summer on a five-member panel aptly dubbed "The Five."  TVNewser My permanent choice, John Stossel, is not on the list, although he's in Beck's slot Friday.