Herman Cain: Ginger Snaps

“The funny thing about Herman Cain is never in a million years did he probably think that I would speak out on this. And honestly speaking I never wanted to.” Ginger to George

ABC's George Stephanopoulos does a nearly eight-minute interview with Herman Cain chick Ginger White.  ABC News nuggets.  If she's to be believed, Ginger is to Herman what Gennifer Flowers was to Bill Clinton. Ginger claims she blew the whistle on their longtime "casual" affair after the media started badgering her.

Will Herman Cain's invocation of Clinton's "nuts and sluts" (she's a "troubled" woman) get him off the hook?  Cain spox Mark Block:  "No way he's dropping out."  But NY1 reports Cain canceled a Sunday dinner with media heavyweights, leading some to believe he's bagging the race this week.

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The nugget served up by ABC:  "I honestly do not think that he is, in my opinion, would make a good president as far as I'm concerned."

Whoopi Goldberg: A Bone To Pick

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Huffington Post's bonehead justification for quoting Whoopi Goldberg's boner defending Repub presidential candidate Herman Cain.  Mediaite

American Airlines Slogan 'Be Yourself. Nonstop.' Averts Brian Williams On-Air Crash.

NBC Nightly News live broadcast plagued with something special in the air -- whooping fire alarms right out of the gate Tuesday night as he was announcing the bankruptcy of American Airlines. Huff Post

The media are making a huge deal out of "unflappable," "cool" Brian Williams not moving a muscle in reax.  BFD.  As a former TV news anchor, I had my share of distractions and kept my cool.  Like the time a ceiling studio light crashed to the floor.

To illustrate how tone deaf Williams is, on Monday's prime-time ratings disaster Rock Center, Williams warbled about the "1950s" . . . "wholesomeness" of the Obama family.  NewsBusters

Ann Coulter Uses MSNBC's Morning Joe to Bag Media Buzz

MSNBC's knee-jerk "bleep" attempts fail to silence Ann Coulter after the canny conservative called John McCain a "douchebag" on Tuesday's Morning Joe. A POLITICO Exclusive!  Huff Post



Coulter must be greasing the media skids for a new book tour. She called Ted Kennedy "human pestilence."

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough: Week Need

MSNBC's Morning Joe Scarborough on the defacto producer of Morning Joe's show segments:

Mike Allen's Politico Playbook Nov. 29, 2011

Mika Brzezinski prepares to demonstrate The Tebow.

You scratch my balls; I'll scratch yours.  Allen vomits Scarborough in Tuesday's over the moon Mitt v Mitt DNC vid orgasm:

Regal Rita Refutes Capitol Steps Romp

Rita Jenrette, now living the sexagenarian good life as an Italian princess, now denies she and her congressman husband had sex on the Capitol steps more than 30 years ago.  A founding member of the highly successful comedy troupe that snatched its name from the infamous Capitol breach, The Capitol Steps, tells the Wash Post Reliable Source gossipista Roxanne Roberts: “Maybe she had sex somewhere else we could incorporate into our name. The Reflecting Pool?”

As for Rita's revising and extending her remarks, ex-hubby John Jenrette: “That’s not the way I remembered it."

The New Yorker:  "That period of her life still haunts her."

MSNBC Morning Joe Stars: Everyday People

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MSNBC's got Joe Scarborough mixed up with Charlie Rose.  I don't know what else to say about this.  Really. This 2:53 Morning Joe pimp to Sly Stone's "Dance To The Music."  I don't know where to start ripping this thing apart. With promo Morning Joe, it's more like Dance To The Muzak pumped from de facto house organ, Politico, amid Starbucks product placement and annoying Mika Brzezinski swagger.

John McCain on Daughter Meghan's MSNBC Move: 'She went over to the dark side.'

It's a cookbook!

“She went over to the dark side I guess. I am very proud of her. She’s feisty. Being over there she is going to have to have quite a bit of that."  John McCain to Fox Business Network's Don Imus.

Imus to McCain:  "I don't know if I can have her on anymore."

Related: Meghan McCain To MSNBC

'A delicious mess.' Greg Gutfeld on Fox's 'The Five.'

"I try to turn his head into a red state."  Fox News The Five ensemble cast wag Greg Gutfeld cranking up cohort and Dem presidential old hand Bob Beckel's blood pressure. LA Times Q&A.

(H/t Johnny Dollar)

Newsweek 'Sex Addiction Epidemic' Puts Woman, Not Weiner, On Cover.

In 1973 author Erica Jong dubbed them "zipless fucks."

Why is a woman on the cover?  Newsweek Facebook commenter

It's a male-dominated "addiction."  8% men; 3% women.  Maybe 15 mil "addicts." Dr. Patrick Carnes, the sultan of sex addiction.  Newsweek quotes "Harper" -- a "TV executive . . who found himself caught in the grips of sex addiction for four years."

If you look at the symptoms, Anthony Weiner should be on the cover, not some shadowed, shamed "love addict" babe.

The Sex Addiction Epidemic: Although Newsweek admits "about 90 percent" ("3 to 5 percent of the population could meet the criteria of addiction") of sex addicts are men, it appears the impetus for the piece is to convince women to admit they're addicted:

Addicts and therapists alike say they hope a greater awareness of the disease will eventually help addicts of all genders and ages come forward and seek treatment. Many are likely to find that “sex addiction isn’t really about sex,” . . .  it’s about “being wanted.”

CNN Rubs Salt In Fox's Megyn Kelly Pepper Spray Self-Inflicted Wound.

Pepper spray, where is thy sting? On the Internet where CNN assures us "online mockery stings for a lot longer."

Megyn Kelly: "It''s a food product, essentially."

CNN's Jeanne Moos rubs it in: "Megyn Kelly probably would like to eat her words as long as they weren't seasoned with pepper spray." 

Wash Post Newt Gingrich: 'Rarely has reincarnation been so lucrative.'

Wash Post Sunday

New Hampshire newspaper endorses Newt.
Bill Clinton: "He's articulate." Newt as independent voter magnet.

Liberal NYT Tax Dodger Takedown

NYT piece on legal tax loopholes used by Estée Lauder cosmetics heir and Republican Ronald Lauder to conceal millions from Uncle Sam: an art gallery and "abusive" but legal artful dodges. 

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NYT:  What Would Estée Do? March 26, 2011

Around The World With Erin Burnett

CNN's ratings-challenged comely cipher Erin Burnett's Thanksgiving Huff Post spin: "I'm grateful for a new job I love where I see the world." 

And CNN's 7p OutFront embarrassment where few see her.

MSNBC long-in-the-tooth weekend chick Alex Witt: "I'm thankful for the magicians in MSNBC's Hair and Makeup department."

And MSNBC's Special Effects black magic master delusionists.

Arianna Huffington: "I'm thankful that Herman Cain doesn't oversee Hair and Makeup HR here."

Herman comes up to Arianna's surgery-sculpted chin.

MSNBC's Ed Schultz:  "I'm so thankful for our radio and television audience that has allowed me to advocate for those who don't have the chance or vehicle to speak up."

"No one" watches Ed, pronounces GQ mag, fingering Ed #3 on "The Least Influential People Alive" list. TVNewser  NewsBusters

Except his wife. 



















Huff Post: What Media Personalities Are Thankful For (not one from Fox News).

Piers Got Talent

The CNN host produces baby #4 -- #1 with wife #2.  A girl.  Huff Post

Obama As Johnny Wadd

Wadd you say? Obama played basketball Saturday after his 30th golf game of the year Thanksgiving Day -- 88 times chasing around little white balls since his inauguration.

No question, Obama's got balls.  Big time.  But this is a real ball-buster:

Michelle's Mikes rror: "Black Friday You Can Believe In."

Vote smart November 2012.  Render Obama well-hung.

Related:  Obama promotes Small Business Saturday. NYDN

NYP Anthony Weiner Porn Cite

Separated at birth (according to the NYP):  Anthony Weiner and 1970s porn star stiff John "Johnny Wadd" Holmes.  Is it a stretch for the Post to suggest that Weiner's "X-rated" moustache Black Friday shopping disguise is "homage to a porn god?"

The King: John Holmes

Spanking the Monkey: NBC News De facto Flack Politico Pimps 'Today' Show Book

Mike Allen's Politico Playbook:

Stephen Battaglio has appeared on NBC's 'Today' and MSNBC. Two days ago Battaglio, TV Guide's business editor, crawls up the ass of NBC News prez Steve Capus in a Q&A on the controversial hiring of Chelsea Clinton.

Nyet: Russian Newsbabe Beached for Giving Obama the Finger

The Russian newscaster who thought she was off-camera when she gave Obama the finger is off the air "because of the use of the unacceptable gesture and for committing a gross gross violation of professional discipline."  Pravda

Not related but hilarious:  Pravda fingers NYT for "Thanksgiving Hypocrisy" editorial.

NYT Splitting Mitt's Hair

The NYT splits hairs in  a front page below-the-fold colossal waste of column inches on Mitt Romney's hair with the snide head: The Image Expert Who Shapes Romney (His Hair, Anyway).

• By far his most distinctive physical feature, Mr. Romney’s head of impeccably coiffed black hair has become something of a cosmetological Rorschach test on the campaign trail, with many seeing in his thick locks everything they love and loathe about the Republican candidate for the White House. (Commanding, reassuring, presidential, crow fans; too stiff, too slick, too perfect, complain critics.) 
• Mr. Romney’s advisers have been known to fret about the shiny strands, and his rivals have sought to turn them against him. Asked by the late-night-television host Jimmy Fallon on Monday what word she associated with Mr. Romney, a businessman, Olympics executive and governor, Representative Michele Bachmann replied, “Hair.” 

NYT quotes Romney's longtime barber: “He is a very controlled man. The hair goes with the man.”

Romney pays a fraction of John Edwards's infamous $400 haircuts or Bill Clinton's $200 plane-delaying tarmac emergency trim: $70. 

No dye or molding products.

• Andrea Saul, a spokeswoman for the Romney campaign, declined to comment on the candidate’s hairstyle, or to make Mr. Romney available to discuss it. Advisers describe Mr. Romney, whose hectic schedule has landed him in barbershops from Atlanta to New York City (where his cut costs $25), as uninterested in the finer points of his appearance. The same cannot be said of his advisers. In 2007, the last time Mr. Romney ran for president, they drafted a 77-page PowerPoint presentation on his strengths and weaknesses, which later fell into the hands of a reporter. 
• His hair was listed as a potential turnoff. 
• Mr. Romney’s age-defying hair is an asset, especially with women.

It's equally stupid for the media to wring its collective hands over Obama does he or doesn't he dye his rug. Or Hillary's hair incarnations.  O, what does it all MEAN?

I'm more intrigued with political plastic surgery, Botox, spacklers, sand blasters, and other Joe Biden tools of the trade.

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Brian Williams: Comic Relief

An example of NBC's Brian Williams "signature wit" to "lighten the serious mood" at a press awards dinner in Manhattan Tuesday: “By being here you are all missing the latest GOP debate tonight. Unfortunately for you, they’re like a parking meter running out. We’re now about 29 minutes away from the start of the next one. We can all catch one by the time we get home tonight.”  NYP Page Six

Who gives a shit about Brian Williams' alleged "signature wit" when the big news was Gunga Dan Rather got an award?

Septuagenarian Dan escorted off stage.

Michele Bachmann to NBC: Apologize!

Bachmann: "If that had been Michelle Obama who had come out on the stage, and if that song had been played for Michelle Obama, I have no doubt that NBC would've apologized to her . . . this is clearly a form of bias on the part of the Hollywood entertainment elite, but also I think is sexism as well. This wouldn't be tolerated if this was Michelle Obama. It shouldn't be tolerated if it's a conservative woman, either. I accept Jimmy's apology but this really needs to come from NBC. This is an outrage." 

Fallon's house band drummer claims his choice of Fishbone's "Lyin' Ass Bitch" as Bachmann's Monday walk-on tune was merely "tongue in cheek." ABC News
 
NBC and MSNBC have a long history of smearing women no matter their political stripe. MSNBC misogynist blowhard Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, and Keith Olbermann have slimed Bachmann, Palin.  Matthews, Hillary Clinton in 2008.  Ex-MSNBC's David Shuster was suspended for suggesting Hillary "pimped out" Chelsea to help her presidential campaign.

(H/t TVNewser)

Update:  NBC finally apologized via a letter from the VP of late night programming.  Doug Vaughn called the incident "not only unfortunate, but also unacceptable," adding the little drummer boy has been "severely reprimanded." NYDN NYP Fox News

Why NBC waited a day to issue the weak mea culpa is anyone's guess.  But here's a good one:

Apparently NBC's "strategy," snarks Wash Post TV critic Lisa de Moraes, of "appointing Fallon as in-house canary, sending him down the political coal-mine shaft to see exactly how toxic the air is" failed to mollify Michele and at least one of her congressional colleagues, Dem NY Rep. Nita Lowy charged the tune “was insulting and inappropriate," adding "I do not share Michele Bachmann’s politics, but she deserves to be treated with respect. No female politician — no woman — should be subjected to sexist and offensive innuendo like she was." 

Meanwhile today, Thanksgiving, on Fox & Friends, The Five co-host Dana Perino glided on set for her 7a segment to the tune of Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose's "Treat Her Like A Lady." 

CNBC Cutting Content to Conserve Cash?

Comcast pressuring CNBC prez Mark Hoffman to cut content?

“CNBC has never been stronger or better and is tracking for a sixth consecutive year of record financial performance. You don’t become first in business worldwide by skimping on content and coverage.”  A CNBC spox on street squawk new owner Comcast isn't pleased with the financial cable network's dwindling bottom line.

Stern Line

Stern tweeting with pussy, Walter.

Howard Stern is (a) demanding $20 million bucks, and (b) America's Got Talent to move from LA to NYC before he takes Piers Morgan's judge gig. NYP Page Six 

Apparently Simon Cowell wants Howard in the worst way . . . Morgan's bailing to focus on his CNN chat show Piers Morgan Tonight.

MSNBC Twit Al Sharpton A Fool Product, Essentially

MSNBC's Al Sharpton cries police brutality, a kick, essentially over fake Megyn Kelly tweets following Monday's O'Reilly Factor appearance in which Kelly billed pepper spray used by police on student sitting ducks as "a food product, essentially." 

Al gets his own MSNBC Lean Forward TV pimp, which is nothing more than a food product, essentially: 



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