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We Have a Winner! The TV Host Most Likely to Cause an International Incident Is ...

Oh, like you didn't know!!!

(Photo illustration above by me.)

TalkingPointsMemo.com:

On his radio show Monday, Glenn Beck announced that he'll be holding a "Restoring Courage" rally this August in Jerusalem, which he said would be a "life altering event" that the "very gates of hell" would try to prevent.

A post on his official site explains: "Taking a stand is not always easy, but now more than ever it is imperative that we live with conviction and do the right thing. It is time for us to courageously stand with Israel."

"I invite you to join me in Israel this summer to stand together and show the world what living a life of faith and honor really means," Beck said. "I invite you to join me in my quest to Restore Courage."

There is so many ways this could go wrong, but I'll tell you which way I think it could go. You know how there's something of an alliance between Israeli Jews and American fundamentalists forged by the fundies' belief that the Jews need to be in Israel for the rapture to come? And you know how those same fundamentalists believe that the rapture will leave behind those who don't believe that Jesus is our savior?

I believe that someone like Beck, with support from the fundamentalist Christians that watch and listen to him, could push this trope so hard that the supportive Israeli Jews might finally see the mean-spiritedness in the whole thing and pull away from those Holy Land visiting, Not Of This World bumper sticker-having, Christian Zionists who seem to want the Jewish people to exist only to further their ascension into heaven.

As if any of this really existed or made any difference whatsoever. Oh, you know how I feel about such things, such a waste of passion and energy and in some cases good intention (though I really believe it's all a scam, the whole business).

I'm not saying it's a bad idea to send a dry-drunk LDS Church member with delusions of grandeur and a rapt audience of fearful, angry, ignorant and undereducated trolls to a foreign country ...

Oh, sorry. That's exactly what I'm saying.

Video -- On Jon Stewart's Index Card, Rupert Murdoch is a Terrorist

Watch it, click here for it.

If you don't get this, I can't help you, Jon can't help you, no one can help you.

Daily Show Video -- But Bernie, "they're a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization."

Apparently Bernie Goldberg used the Fox Noise bandwidth the other day to look into Bill O'Reilly's cameras to talk directly to Jon Stewart.

Here's what he said and what Jon had in response.

You really need to see this, if only for the Rex Harrison-inspired gospel rap PLUS dancing ... yes, a dancing Jewish comedian on TV ... no, you won't see Bernie returning the favor -- at least I hope we don't.

Click here and watch the whole thing. You've got 11 minutes, right?

Right.

Imagine You're Running All Over the World Touting #Progressive Causes (and #JonVoight Is Your Dad)?

What would you do? What could you do?

I'm not in the business of feeling sorry for Angelina Jolie, certainly she's been fortunate in a number of ways and has purportedly worked hard to get where she is (though acting is still nowhere close to working in a Massey Energy coal mine).

And even if you still kinda think that she very methodically went about lifting someone's husband from them on a movie set (which I still kinda do, I may be wrong but I'll always kinda believe that) you have to respect what she's doing in the international marketplace of ideas and policy.

She does good works. And that's a good thing.

Then, she comes home from all that and clicks over to the Huffington Post Entertainment homepage and sees that her frickin' crazy ass dad screaming on Mike Huckabee's Fox Noise show that our President is "raping this nation."

And you know she's gonna end up being in the same room as the President sometime soon and can you imagine yourself hangin' with Barack after your dad said something like this?

One thing I have over Angelina, my father would never embarrass me in front of the President and the world.

Fox Noise Packs Thursday #SarahPalin Show With Repurposed LL Cool J Interview?

And, you can imagine that when LL (are we calling him that, or Todd Smith, or James Todd Smith or ... hey, whatever he wants, especially if he takes his shirt off, right?) noticed this hour of Palin, the first for her on Fox Noise, was being promoted on his very v-shaped, very well-muscled back, he took to the equalizer, Twitter.

Danny Shea at HuffPo has the details, which include this Twitter status: "Fox lifted an old interview I gave in 2008 to someone else & are misrepresenting to the public in order to promote Sarah Palins (sic) Show. WOW."

And now he's not gonna be on the show at all.

I thought it was fishy from the get-go, I can't think of one person who's on a primetime series short Craig T. Nelson (has already made a fool of himself on Beck) who would let themselves become a selling point for this hour of fresh meat for the Tea Party crowd.

Betcha he's available. Producers? He's in a series, has something to promote. And ... he could say the most stupid thing I've ever heard someone say on Fox Noise, again. Click that link above to see what idiocy came out of Coach's craw.

Now a little something at the end for Mr. Smith, who stood up to big media doing him a disservice and won (which we like here) ... a preview of his April 6 episode of NCIS: Los Angeles featuring some mixed martial arts superstars Dan Henderson, Gil Melendez, Frank Shamrock, Cung Le, Josh Thompson, KJ Noons and referee Big John McCarthy.

Click here.

Daily Show Video -- Fox Noise Host Brit Hume's "Come to Jesus" Moment

(This post is also the first time I've ever posted Fox News video on this blog. First time! It was just too good to pass up, and it sets up the Daily Show vids better.)

Remember when Brit worked for ABC News and kept his personal religious beliefs to himself so as not to let them get in the way of the impartiality and neutrality?

Remember?

Ah, good times.

Now, not only does he show up on the Chris Wallace-hosted Sunday show to suggest that Buddhism just can't knock the cheating on your wife outta you as well as some good ol' fashion born again generic Christianity (LINK), but then he shows up on Bill O'Reilly's wankfest the next day (LINK) to answer his critics.

I love when Fox News creates its own news to cover, it's quite an  achievement to actually become a self-perpetuating news machine.

More after the jump.

Got $4 Million? Celebrate New Year's By Buying Glenn Beck's House

 

Yes, it's for sale, all eight thousand seven hundred twenty square feet of it, on the block for a cool four mil. Anyone biting?

Check out the exclusive New Caanan, CT listing at this link from Realtor.com.

He's just a regular guy, just like you and me ... but more like Jeff Immelt, the GE Chairman that Beck used to harangue regularly until GE sold NBC-Uni to Comcast. Immelt lives in the same town.

Glenn, though, is just a regular guy, like you and me. Because we all have five full baths and three half baths on 2.8 acres with a view of a lake and a 26' by 18' kitchen.

And six bedrooms including a 22' by 16' master bedroom. And three private schools within three miles.

Just a regular guy. Like you and me.

Time Warner Cable May Drop ALL Fox Channels -- At Odds Over Carriage Fees

In which case you'll have to watch your favorite Fox shows on Hulu, which comes into my home via ... Time Warner Cable's broadband service, and with many less commercials.

And then that may end because Hulu eventually plans to put up a paywall, and then I'll use "other methods" to see those shows, methods that involve the internet connection I have from ... Time Warner Cable ... so it all comes around again.

And again.

And again.

Reuters has the story from the Fox perspective today that was picked up by their partners at The Hollywood Reporter:

Fox said it has for the past nine months attempted to "negotiate in good faith" with Time Warner Cable, the No. 2 U.S. cable operator, which serves some 14 million customers, and said those talks are ongoing.

But there is a "very likely possibility that Time Warner Cable may choose to no longer carry Fox Broadcasting, Fox Cable and Fox regional sports programming," Fox said.

Time Warner Cable confirmed that the talks are ongoing but said Fox's current demands "are unreasonable and excessive, especially in this economic climate."

"We hope Fox won't punish our customers by taking their programming away while we try to reach an agreement," said spokeswoman Maureen Huff.

(Ms. Huff is the TWC exec I spoke to regarding the BBC America in HD situation back in July before the Torchwood miniseries Children of Earth.)

TWC has opened a website called Roll Over Or Get Tough (www.RollOverOrGetTough.com) that lays out the issues this way:

These days, every dollar counts. And for most families, cable TV provides the best entertainment value for the money.

But some of our contracts with program providers are up at the end of this year – and they’ve demanded as much as 300% more for their shows. Even worse, they’re threatening to pull the plug if we don’t pay their price.

In today’s economy, a 300% price increase is excessive. And withholding popular programming is unfair to America’s families – especially over the upcoming holidays.

Don’t let these TV networks hold your TV hostage. Together, we just might make a difference in what America pays for TV.

They don't mention Fox by name.

More after the jump, important stuff you need to know.

Guardian UK on Glenn Beck: "The Republican Party ... is now a wing of Fox"

Interesting that a British paper (albeit the politically liberal one) is talking about Beck and the birthers and teabaggers and the paranoid delusions of the former alcoholic, ADHD-er, Mormon who supports gay marriage (at least he says he does)  and poster boy for Vick's Vapo-Rub and its tear-inducing qualities.

A taste of it here, but please click this link and read the extensive article from Gaby Wood at the Guardian:

One of Beck's campaigns featured a security system now being offered with some General Motors cars. It's called Onstar; it includes a tracking device in case your car gets stolen, and a speed limit you can impose so a thief can't get away in a high-speed chase. Beck's take on this was that since GM is now partly owned by the government, this was the government's "spy satellite", its way of knowing where you are at all times. Yet Beck positions himself as an entirely reasonable, non-conspiracy theorist. He's just like you: an ordinary guy who wants to know what's going on. He refers to others as "the nut-job fringes" and says: "the fringes are what's pulling us apart".

No, I didn't know about Beck's Onstar problem, either. And about his "nut-job fringes" remark, all I can do is make reference to a pot and a kettle and you know the rest. But it doesn't seems to bother his viewers, as Ms. Wood remarks:

His 5pm show on Fox now claims 3 million viewers; his syndicated morning radio show has 8 million listeners; he has several bestselling books, including a novel and a children's book; he has his own one-man touring stage show and, as of last week, conducts political rallies. (His earnings in the year leading up to June 2009 were estimated by Forbes to be around $23m, and they are set to increase.)

Still, there are 300 million plus Americans, and fortunately most of them are either shaking their heads in amazement or dismay or actively debunking all his claptrap (that group would include moi). And I find it particularly vexing that this guy, who lives in New Canaan, CT, home of the biggest wage earners in the country including the CEO of the parent company of Beck nemesis MSNBC, gets away with leading a populist uprising, albeit an uprising of seemingly uneducated or bigoted Americans.

I totally get that there are enough people out there, between those fashioning their tin foil hats and those who still just despise the fact that (their words, not mine) "that n***** is in the White House," but it embarrasses me that people in other countries are figuring the same out.

Embarassed that we still have this race problem in this country, embarassed that people don't read enough to know what he says is total crap, embarassed that a high school grad who is nothing more than a bad entertainer has such sway over a swath of Americans.

And one more thing ... how is it that Beck supports gay marriage and still gets all this ink from the LDS Church (Mormon) press? It seems they can be awfully selective in their hearing.

Report -- Car Crash Victim Unfortunately Not Glenn Beck

From The Onion, natch.

Mother of the victim: "There's no harder thing than having Glenn Beck outlive your child."

Question of the Day: Does Beck's audience know he's a Mormon? Because my impression is that the Fox Noise audience was key in quashing Mitt's Presidential bid in 08.

Talk amongst yourselves, clip after the jump.

Tears courtesy Vicks Vapo-Rub. Details at this link.

Video -- Glenn Beck: McCain Would Have Been Worse President That Obama or Hillary

The quote comes from a show debuting online in less than two hours called @KatieCouric, a web-0nly show where she'll interview people who are interesting but not interesting enough (or too controversial for, maybe?) the CBS Evening News or 60 Minutes.

Today's guest? Howard Beale + Stupid + Dry Drunk + Crazy + Mormon = Glenn Beck.

And, now that his big 9/12 event has come and gone, I guess he feels safe to tell the teabagging crowd that watch him with their tin foil hats on that John McCain would have been worse for this country than either of the two Dem frontrunners ... including that "Marxist, Fascist, Nazi, Commie, Kenyan euthanizer of your grandma."

They won't be loving that now, will they! To all of them I have to say, "Sorry about your fearless leader talking out both sides of his ample ass, but crazy, stupid, LDS Church-going dry drunks will do that, you know. Even if they live with the rich people in New Canaan, CT."

Watch the clip after the jump, and then click over to the @KatieCouric page at CBS News to watch the entire interview at 7 eastern time.

I wonder if Beck will play this clip on HIS show today? I wonder if he has the stones to alienate his core audience? Maybe if he sends them all Reynolds Wrap coupons afterward.

For that hats, you know.

Beck graphic courtesty The Disorderly Report.

Fran Drescher, Please Just Back Away From the Cable News Offers

(US News and World Report blogged about Fran's talks with two cable news outlets at this link.)

Oh, honey, I love you to death, Fran. Really, from the first time I ever saw you as Bobbie Fleckman in Spinal Tap to Doctor Detroit (the most underrated Dan Aykroyd movie ever, Karen Blittstein is the best Jewess name in modern film) to The Nanny and all those great tight short outfits.

I love your voice, I love your laugh, I love you general demeanor. You're "my people" after all. Over the top, larger than life female TV star.

I enjoyed The Beautician and The Beast. Seriously, I did.

I love your special interest in healthcare. I get that as a cancer survivor who had to do a lot of your own advocacy with the medical establishment you have a vested interest in woman's health issues.

But ...

You know what I said about another over the top, larger than life female TV star with a special interest of her own thinking about surfing the cable news waves? I said this, in a post called "Rosie O'Donnell on MSNBC? No. Thank You" on November 6, 2007:

Not that I don't enjoy Rosie, but she has no place on a cable news channel.

Like I said, it's a NEWS channel.

If you want to put an out lesbian on your network, Dan Abrams, it's not Rosie you should be looking at, it is Rachel Maddow.

How many times do I need to say this to you, Dan?

And Dan did give a show to Rachel.

In this case, the person who should get the MSNBC show who shares your special interest is Elizabeth Edwards, current affiliated with the Center for American Progress. That's a show I'd like to see.

You certainly don't want to be a person who works at the Fox News Channel. Frankly, I fear that they'd give you a show only so that they could work some sort of "whiny Hollywood actress is the best the Dems got, hahaha" meme.

(Don't gang up on me now, you saw what they did to Alan Colmes, it's what they do. I'm not trying to besmirch Fran's intelligence or the advocacy she's done, I'm just being frank.)

Would love to see you on Curb Your Enthusiasm as Susie Essman's sister, but not on a cable news channel.

Besides, that infotainment line is blurry enough, isn't it?

Olbermann Video -- Howard Beale + Stupid + Insane = Glenn Beck

You walk by the TV when he's on (not in your home, because you're smarter than that, but at an airport or in a restaurant or Dick Cheney's house) and you'll think he's kidding.

But he's not.

I would worry about the scads of hate mail I should get after calling Glenn Beck a stupid, insane version of Howard Beale, the character Peter Finch made so famous in the motion picture Network, but I don't think those people can turn on their computers without fearing that the little teeny tiny people who pushing the letters and pictured around in the series of tubes that is the internet are trying to ...

• Steal their thoughts ...
• Euthanize them ...
• Indoctrinate their kids, or ...
• Redesign the tin foil hats they wear to prevent Sasha and Malia Obama from scrambling their brains.

BTW, my calling Beck stupid and insane has nothing to do with his claimed dual diagnoses of ADHD and alcohol addiction, the latter of which he says is controlled by AA and his faith.

He's stupid and insane on top of his ADHD and addiction issues. Not just stupid and insane, but now an analyst of public art and architecture, as you'll see in the clip, which is after the jump along with more about Glenn.

Video -- "Death Panel" Inventor Betsy McCaughey Tonight on The Daily Show

And I have a Daily Show clip you have to see all the way to the end just to see how Craig T. Nelson (Coach, The Proposal) makes a complete ass out of himself, when he tells Glenn Beck he was on welfare and food stamps yet no one helped him out.

That might be the fastest anyone on Fox Noise every contradicted themselves. Not just in the same sentence, there wasn't even punctuation separating the statement and the contradiction.

Get after it, Jon. And not in a cutesy, funny way, either. Slam McCaughey, who has a history of lying about any political issue that will get her traction in the media.

Gawker:

Betsy McCaughey is a professional liar. She lies. The things she writes are untrue. They are not even "distortions." They are made-up.

(snip)

Her first stab at derailing this year's health care debate came with a Bloomberg column about fictitious health care rationing hidden in the stimulus bill.

In a July 24 column for the New York Post, McCaughey smeared Ezekiel Emanuel (the nice Emanuel brother) as a murderous "deadly doctor."

In a radio interview with Fred Thompson, McCaughey got more explicit, wholly inventing mandatory death panel sessions American seniors would have to face every five years.

And, thus, "death panels." From Betsy to Rush to Sarah Palin to Chuck Grassley to your own old relatives forwarding you crazy shit, probably.

More on McCaughey and the clip after the jump.

Take Action! -- Boycott iTunes Until Apple Pulls Their Glenn Beck Ads

And no iTunes gift cards and no new iPods, and if you're thinking about that new Mac Book Air, just wait.

Because a progressive company like Apple should know better.

The Brainstorm Tech blog at Fortune:

The issue is an iPhone ad that appeared on the Aug. 7 broadcast of the Glenn Beck show on the Fox News Channel (NWS).

Under pressure from advocacy groups, more than a dozen companies, including ConAgra (CAG), Geico, Procter & Gamble (PG) and Progressive (PRG), have pulled their commercials from the conservative commentators' show. (See here.)

The boycott was launched last month by ColorofChange.org after Beck made remarks on Fox and Friends that labeled President Obama a "racist" with a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.”

The campaign was picked up by Democrats.com, which provided its members with a list of advertisers and an e-mail form letter that threatens to stop buying the sponsors' products as long as they advertise on Fox News. The organization set a goal of 100,000 letters; as of Saturday morning 46,575 had been sent.

Leave a comment after the post, it will be your show of solidarity.

We show our numbers we show our strength.

Glenn Beck Loses Advertisers GEICO, Proctor & Gamble, SC Johnson, Progressive Insurance

Well, that's a beginning.

THR:

Geico has pulled its ads from Fox News Channel's "The Glenn Beck Program." Lawyers.com, which is owned by LexisNexis, also has vowed not to advertise during the program, according to Color of Change, an African-American online political organization that has been spurring advertisers to stop supporting the show.

Additionally, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance and SC Johnson all said their ad placements during the broadcast were made in error and that they would correct the mistake.

The controversy stems from Beck's comment that President Obama is a "racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people."

Geico spent more than a half-billion dollars on ads last year, according to the Nielsen Co. It spent more than a quarter-billion dollars for the first half of 2009.

Interested in writing a letter to Fox about Beck? There are a lot of ways to do that, but I think this is actually the best way to get Fox Noise's attention. They do love their money.

Go to ColorOfChange.org for more information on an advertiser boycott and the petition to advertisers.

Have a caption idea for the image above? Leave me a comment below.

Another Day, Another Fox Noise Employee With an Legal Problem

You'll remember that recently we reported on Aaron Bruns, the Fox News Producer who was booted from college for distributing child pornography.

Today news from Gawker of another Fox News person, their writer Don Broderick, who according to them has been arrested for "hitting a cyclist in Central Park earlier this month, dragging him four blocks, and fleeing the scene, has been arrested, according to an NYPD spokeswoman."

Nice going, tool.

And yesterday Gawker had more. They've talked to some former co-workers who used these words:

"He's a creep and a bully," says one of three former Fox Newsers who spoke to Gawker. "He really is crazy. People are frightened to turn their backs to him. The fact that he still works there is mind-boggling."

Why not just back a police van up to the employee exits at the cable channel and wrangle them all into the local precinct. NYC would be much better off and so would TV watchers.

I know for a fact that they are guilty of killing the news business.

More on Broderick and his alleged crimes in the NY Daily News.

Obama Abandoning Current TV's Laura Ling, Euna Lee? Must Be Today's RNC Meme to All the Sheep

It must be in the daily talking points that will eventually get downloaded into the very outdated computer mechanism that is Elisabeth Hasselbeck's brain.

First of all, it's not true. Secondly, it probably wouldn't be so much of a problem if the Bush Administration hadn't spent eight years threatening North Korea instead of carrying out the mission, which is diplomacy.

Then again, George W. Bush thought diplomacy was best done at the end of a weapon. Idiot.

So far I've found two instances of this, and I'm most disappointed with former woman's activist and NOW President Tammy Bruce, who after Dennis Miller is the weirdest shift to the hard right that I've ever seen among people who previously employed sense and rationality in their public proclamations.

She has a column these days at the Fox News website and I guess it gets distributed to the best of the bird cage floors too, since I can't imagine what good it is otherwise.

Back in March she called Michelle Obama trash. So she's certainly not operating in the rational sphere. Actually might be pretty standard for her, back in the days of the O.J. trial, the first one, she was censured by NOW and eventually had to leave that post because of racially insensitive things she said about black people during that trial.

Shoulder? Meet chip.

(And this image above left with the revolver? It's one of her publicity photos, believe it or not. Who does PR pics with a gun in their hand? People really trying to boost their NRA credentials, actors on cop shows and ... crazy people!)

About this situation she says (and I apologize in advance for linking to the Fox Noise website, but it's the only place I can find this, her personal site with her columns doesn't seem to be working):

When you abandon Americans held by terrorists, and then reward terrorists who trained with Al Qaeda, some might argue it’s more than priorities that are screwed-up in the White House.

So, why has the Obama administration allowed these kidnappings of Saberi, Ling and Lee to stand? The hostage-taking of these women is no different than the kidnapping of the Maersk Alabama’s Captain Phillips by terrorists on the high seas. Obama’s mob has made pathetic noise about Saberi’s kidnapping, noting Obama was “disappointed” when Iran announced they had found her guilty of a sham crime by a sham trial.

Allowed to stand? What, we can wave a wand and make it go away? Sheesh.

Maybe it's because we don't have any avenue for diplomacy with either of these nations. Might have something to do with that Axis of Evil shit that Bushie was yelling about for all those years.

Yeah, we can get people out of harm's way using ships and guns and Navy SEALS. But Tammy, and you know this (or, you just write with half the information at your grasp, which is just as bad as being stupid when the info is available), North Korea is a nuclear nation that has been testing rockets and spouting all kinds of warning crap.

And in Iran (where Roxana Saberi is being held) we are hamstrung by the Bush administration's failure to prosecute the Iraq War in a way that didn't strengthen the ties between the Maliki government in Iraq and the clerics in Iran.

Moves in either area of the nature you are suggesting would come with bad complications.

So, because of the failures of the Bush administration, who have been gone 101 days today, Tammy Bruce is willing to say that our new President is abandoning women reporters that are held in two nations that make up 67% of her preferred president's Axis of Evil.

Disingenuous, sloppy, ill-informed, and ultimately using those three journalists (two who work for Al Gore, to whom I know she can't have an ounce of good feeling) to advance her own career, which also makes her ... revolting. But, you know, she has books to sell. And if she doesn't have something new to say she can't get those tasty bookings with Bill-O and Manatee on Fox.

Hey, next time you're on with Hannity why don't you also offer to be waterboarded. By then maybe Lee and Ling and Saberi will be back and they'll get to "do you." It's the least we can do for them after all the zazz you're getting from their incarceration.

Big Bang Theory Clip -- Tonight, Sheldon's Spot on the Couch Ruined!!!

You know why I never write about this show? Because it's always funny, always on point, always laugh out loud great, and I can't think of anything else to say about it.

Though I would love more Howard and Raj, and in fact I would expand the show to an hour to get me some more Howard and Raj.

I'm not saying that I'm an award-winning engineer or a prodigy physicist, but identifying with this show for me is easy. I so key into the insecurities of these guys. I know them, I commiserate with them, I applaud them.

And I laugh my ass off.

Tonight, Penny has apparently had a paintball accident in the guys' apartment, and it's Sheldon's special spot on the couch that is the casualty.

Oh, and Leslie Winkle is back (Sara Gilbert).

And, in other after the show news, last week's Chuck Lorre vanity card was particularly interesting as it went like this:

A wise man once told me that we are all God in drag. I like that. Sometimes when I'm in a public place or sitting at a stop light, I'll watch people walking by and I'll silently say to myself, "He's God. She's God. He's God. She's God." Before long I always find myself feeling a warm sense of affinity for these strangers. The experience is even more powerful when I do this while observing a person who is clearly suffering. On occasion I'll test my little spiritual practice by turning on Fox News. Within minutes I become an atheist.

Amen, brother Lorre.

Clip after the jump, show airs at 8 on CBS. Tonight.

One Kind of Person Who Works at Fox News is a Child Pornogrpher

Fox knew that in 1999  Aaron Bruns was booted from the University of Michigan after being arrested for distributing child pornography.

In college he was doing this.

Despite all this, Fox still hired him, in 2002. And kept him on staff until this very moment, as far as I can tell.

This is what kills me, he gets clearance to follow around Hillary Clinton during the 2008 Presidential campaign? Really? This never came up? No questions about a guy with a criminal past running with the election reporter pack behind Hillary?

(Don't they vet these people for ... anything? You can travel with a Presidential candidate with a history like this?)

And then, in November, per this post at Gawker, trouble came knocking:

Last November, Robert Erdely, a Pennsylvania policeman, used standard file-sharing software to find child porn available on peer-to-peer networks. He found some files on a computer later shown to belong to Bruns, and notified a joint task force run by the FBI and the District's Metropolitan Police Department, a group which included Det. Timothy Palchak.

On January 16, Palchak applied for a warrant to search Bruns's residence, an apartment in northwest Washington. The warrant was approved, and a week later, members of the task force searched Bruns's apartment at 8:15 in the morning. Bruns was there at the time.

FBI agents and police officers found computers, hard drives, and CDs. A Dell Inspiron laptop contained digital photos and movies "depicting children under the age of ten being sexually abused by adult men and women," according to Palchak's affidavit. Bruns had also taken naked pictures of himself.

Why would Fox News hire a person who had already been arrested on child porn distribution charges? The network of O'Reilly, that hot, fresh piece of dogshit. Where Hannity hangs his slanty hat? Where Greta battles Xenu daily? Where Neil Cavuto disgraces his Italian-American heritage daily (just by showing up on air)?

Maybe they hired Bruns to make all the anchors at Fox Noise feel like they were better people than they actually are? If you were doling out the hate and lies like they do every day, you might want a scummier human around to make you feel better about yourself, too.

Photo above was lifted from a MediaBistro/TV Newser piece ... get this ... on the hottest men, not on camera, in news.

I would betcha the writer of the post, named Patrick, would like to get this particular post back.

Video -- Glenn Beck, American Douchebag, But Not the Biggest Douchebag

That would be former KKK Grand Wizard, former congressional candidate, and former ugly person (who isn't much better, even with all the plastic surgery he had before his Congressional run) David Duke, commenting on the RNC's election of Michael Steele as their new chairman.

If Duke has his way, he'll be taking a part of the party away with him and starting anew.

You see, Michael Steele is a black man.

Frankly, I would love to see this happen. Anything that leads to the destruction of the party of Grover Norquist and Tom DeLay is fine with me.

Olbermann's Worst Persons below.

LINK

Bill-O Says Goodbye to Radio (But it's not all good news)

O'Reilly is saying that he's quitting The Radio Factor so that he may ... uh, oh ... focus on his TV show (NY Daily News):

"The media business is getting more and more intense," O'Reilly said Thursday. "We've got to keep the TV show at the level we have it now, and that means more and more time to keep it competitive and fresh. I've been working 60, 65 hours a week and I just can't keep doing that."

So, be prepared for that. You can do what I do, just block Fox News on your TV so that you never have a chance of even stumbling on it by mistake. I have to hit four different buttons on my remote in the proper sequence to actually view the evil visage.

But dissecting that statement tells us that he's working 65 hours a week, and considering everything he gets wrong on his show that's just remarkable. He must have poor work habits.

Maybe he gets distracted in the office when he's working by his co-workers with the different genitalia that he fantasizes about having showers with, using loofahs on and otherwise debasing.

I was reminded of such when I watched that Rosie O'Donnell variety show (finally) that was on my DVR (the show's writers came up with an O'Reilly friended me on Facebook joke). More on the abomination that was that show later today.

(It's your fault, btw, you guys voted that I had to watch it!)

Of course, this all comes amid the recent revelations that no one at FNC seems to legitimately like O'Reilly, but they do enjoy the money that he brings in.

RawStory.com:

Michael Wolff, author of The Man Who Owns the News, told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Tuesday, "I would mention ... Bill O'Reilly [to Murdoch] and he would get this look which was like revulsion." Wolff added that "I started to see this around all of Murdoch's people. ... No one says, 'O'Reilly, we hate him' ... but everybody goes into a contortion."

That's okay, Fox News employees, I'm always here to say it for you.

Preview Video -- The Soup Takes on Fox & Friends in Monday Special Cold Turkey: Shows We Can't Quit

But first, I have tour dates for Joel from his personal web space, which is not Myspace (though he does have a Myspace), but this space.

And just so you don't have to click over, here's some upcoming dates:

• Nov. 21, Spokane, WA, INB Performing Arts Center
• Nov. 28 and 29, Seattle WA, Moore Theatre
• December 5, Flint Center, Cupertino, CA

And, make plans for New Year's Eve in Boston at the Wilbur Theater with two shows.

I would probably opt for the early and then get home before crazy people drive drunk, but you do whatev.

Now, to the clip ... they're doing sweeps month specials at The Soup again, and on Monday at 10 they have Cold Turkey: Shows We Can't Quit, which includes this on the gang at Fox & Friends Gretchen, Doocy, and the brown-haired guy.

And, a remarkable moment of TV on that show brought to you on that show by Oscar winner Ernest Borgnine. It's after the jump.

Mourning the Brain Death of Former SNL Star Victoria Jackson

She must be. Brain dead, that is.

I can't figure out how she ambulates, how she breathes or how words actual come out of her mouth, but let's be serious about one thing, if Victoria Jackson were a smart woman she would have figured out how to remain relevant when she left SNL in a comedy addicted America.

Sarah Silverman and Janeane Garofalo were just getting popular at the time. Victoria Jackson was coming off a TV show and couldn't keep it going.

(Each of those are links to YouTube clips of them at that time, btw.)

And she still hasn't figured out how to make crowds like her, so now she uses her misguided faith to bring crowds. Note to her fans -- to you really think she's drank the kool-aid or do you think she's just trying to make a buck off your religious beliefs.

Shame of Fox Noise for building the apparatus that allows such low-information voters like Victoria Jackson to reach a nation audience.

And who put her on the teevee box where the magic happens to make Victoria "really small so that she can fit in the box and be seen by people all over the place?"

Bill-O!

HuffPo:

Former Saturday Night Live cast member Victoria Jackson, who earlier this week was dispatched by the GOP to go after Al Franken, graced the set of the "O'Reilly Factor" Friday night, where she delivered an amusingly incoherent attack on Obama. Having previously called Obama everything form a racist to a communist, she told O'Reilly that Obama's ubiquity is like "Castro In Cuba, the guy in China." (Mao?) She also noted, proudly, that she's read "1984," twice! O'Reilly, meanwhile, defended Obama as being ostensibly a capitalist because he "buys things."

She's read 1984 twice. Not the novel by Orwell. She's read the numbers 1984. Twice!

Jonathan Chait at The New Republic:

Per Ben Smith, Jackson has a blog. Some samples of her thoughts:

Thank you President George W. Bush along with God above and the brave soldiers in the US military for keeping us safe, these last 7 years, from terrorist attacks on our homeland.  I really appreciate it very much.  xxoo  You did a Great job! And, Thank you God for giving us George W. Bush, and for giving us John McCain and Sarah Palin.

...We must in all seriousness ask if Barack Hussein Obama could be a Muslim terrorist sympathizer or a Marxist mole.  His closest friends include Communists, domestic and Muslim terrorists, racists and convicted felons.

I especially like this line:

I don't want a political label,  but Obama bears traits that resemble the anti- Christ and I'm scared to death that un- educated people will ignorantly vote him into office.

Yes, heaven forbid those un-educated people vote.

You gotta know that Keith will have footage of her Fox Noise appearance Monday on Countdown.

Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic in a post called "Whatever Happened to Victoria Jackson?":

The bubbly actress comedienne who was a Saturday Night Live cast member during its salad days?

She's one of the few conservatives in Hollywood.

And it seems she's convinced that Barack Obama is secretly a Muslim. And a communist.

And a liar.  

What happened to Victoria Jackson is that she found comfort in religion, got convinced that these ridiculous fascist political movements inside these churches was part of the game and she decided to go for it. It made her a celebrity again and she liked that, so she's fed the beast to feed her ego.

And it didn't really happen to her. She did it all by herself.

Some people screw up their second act.

MSNBC Beats CNN in Primetime -- Matthews, Olbermann, Maddow Lineup Scores

Okay, so they didn't beat Fake News, but Fake News is ... well, fake news.

Hollywood Reporter:

MSNBC GM Phil Griffin said Monday that it's a historic placement for the network and part of MSNBC's long-term strategy when it set out on this course two years ago.

"We wanted to challenge CNN and become a player by the election," Griffin said. "Guess what? In the months leading into the election, we beat CNN."

"Rachel Maddow," in fact, beat CNN's "Larry King Live" in October in the demo with 700,000 viewers to "King's" 673,000. It was way ahead of where MSNBC was a year ago (141,000 adults 25-54) as well as viewership, where it averaged 1.9 million to last October's 389,000.

(snip)

CNN-U.S. president Jonathan Klein didn't seem to be too worried. In a statement Monday, Klein said: "CNN is beating MSNBC in primetime, we are No. 1 in all cable news at 10 p.m., and it is no surprise that their partisan approach will see a bump a month before the election. We think our objective, post-partisan approach will have better long-term results."

Jonathan Klein, how can you say CNN is post-partisan with Lou Dobbs leading off your nighttime lineup at 7 eastern? Are you high?

And since when is telling the truth partisan anyway? The facts are the facts, and the commentary is always noted as such.

And I'm sure viewers of the other channels can say the same, but I'm right.

Fox Noise Channel Uses Eight-Year-Old Younger-Looking McCain 2000 Campaign Footage as B-Roll

Not that I caught it on Fox Noise, I don't slum around like that.

Above, McCain joking about being old with Conan. It's funny, 'cause it's true.

I saw first mention of this on Olbermann's Countdown, and then I saw some footage in a Daily Show clip the other day. Of course, that clip isn't posted separately, so I'm gonna try to get it on Hulu for you.

(Ah, success, check it out below.)

Look at the campaign signs. They say "McCain 2000."

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Check it out at the 4:20 mark, or thereabouts.

UPDATE: And yes, it does happen to fall at the 4:20 mark, you stoners you. No more email, okay?

Note to Fox Noise Blonde E.D. Hill: Jimmy Kimmel Must Be a Terrorist, Too!

Hey, you airbrushed sweater-filling ideological tool ho bigot, get a real job.

Anti-Obama Pundit Calls Howie Mandel, Ballplayers and Me a Terrorist

Well, Howie is from Canada, and they're dangerous, huh?

He does the fist bump, just like Obama did with his wife the other day, and there's some shithead at Fox Noise (her name is E.D. Hill (actual given name Edith Ann Tarbox, not very TV ready, huh), and I don't care what you say about her, she's a shithead, you are, lady!) that thinks that the fist bump, or as Guy Fieri from the Food Network calls it, "The Rock," comes from the world of terrorists.

What the fuck is wrong with these blonde women from Fox? Is Bill-O dosing the coffee with Ecstacy in the hopes that someone, anyone, will have sex with him?

[UPDATE: (moments later) HuffPo reporting that E.D. Hill has been relieved of her 5 pm Eastern slot at Fox Noise. Don't get too happy, though, her replacement is Laura Ingraham.]

Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have more in a clip after the jump.

Fox Noise Trolling MSNBC Spot Cable, Matthews Presses Buchanan on Racism

I'm sitting here watching Tweety's coverage of the Edwards endorsement of Barack Obama, and they cut to the quarter hour break with the spot cable ads and one of them is for Fox Noise, touting their popular shows like The O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes and On The Record with Greta Van Susteren.

Greta? Really? I think What The Buck?! gets more viewers any day of the week.

BTW, if you get the chance, watch Matthews essentially ask Pat Buchanan if he's a bigot.  I have the clip after the jump, and Buchanan just melts down like the fire his ideological brethren set in the Reichstag in 1933.

And, on Olbermann (okay, you caught me, sometimes I stop blogging just to eat dinner), a new special comment about War and Golf, which will be after the jump as soon as it's posted.

An excerpt:

Golf, Sir?

Golf sends the wrong signal to the grieving families of our men and women butchered in Iraq?

Do you think these families, Mr. Bush - their lives blighted forever -- care about you playing golf?

Do you think, Sir, they care about you?

You, Mr. Bush, let their sons and daughters be killed.

Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you gave up golf?

Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you didn't give up your pursuit of this insurance-scam, profiteering, morally and financially bankrupting war.

Sir, to show your solidarity with them - you didn't even give up talking about Iraq - a subject about which you have incessantly proved without pause or backwards glance, that you may literally be the least informed person in the world?

Sir, to show your solidarity with them, you didn't give up... your 4,000 dead Americans and your response... was to stop playing golf!

Golf.

Not "gulf" - golf.

If I can find it, I'll leave the clip here later. Pat melting down after the jump.

Gossipper Liz Smith Calls Keith O. "Tiresome"

Which is interesting, because I said the same thing about her not coming out of the closet until years and years after everyone else did.

She's just a Texas girl who loves Bill O'Reilly and thinks that Keith just doesn't like women, because that's the only way anyone could be saying what he is about the Presidential campaign.

She says (at a website called Wowowow.com, that btw has a section for "hair day weather" on their homepage, how progressive for a site for women, huh? Because all the important women I know just want to make sure their hair looks good -- NOT!):

Olbermann is extremely tiresome when he tries to imitate O’Reilly’s voice. There is this ideological chasm between the two, but they share a sense of towering ego, self-righteousness and seem to be twin entities. Maybe they cancel one another out. (O’Reilly won’t utter Olbermann’s name and has attacked NBC relentlessly hoping to drive Keith out. But the latter has made big mileage from directly attacking O’Reilly, who is Roger Ailes’s great star at Fox News.)

Sometimes I think the young idiots at MTV’s “The Real World,” now in its 20th terrible year, behave more maturely than some of the big guys who are positioned to give us what is laughingly called “hard news” and what is mostly egotistical analysis.

So, Hillary can't win and that means that men are immature? Or do you just not like the dangly parts, Liz? Are you one of those manhating lesbians that the far right tells us exists despite my protests? Maybe they know they exist because they know you?

And how could any woman call Bill O'Reilly a great star after what went on with Andrea Mackris.

Liz, the only tiresome one here is you.

"Hi, I'm the War in Iraq and I'm This Many Years Old"

(Holding up five fingers.)

Well, on the fifth anniversary of the shock and awe campaign, I have one finger to hold up to the Bush Administration.

And this is why I'm not called by the TV networks to go in front of a camera and talk about such things, because I might actually do that.

In the clip after the jump, Olbermann and guest Rachel Maddow talk about what those who were cheerleaders for the war were talking about on their ridiculous radio and TV shows. Limbaugh, the gang and Newswhore Newscorp, particularly Bill-O, and the rest.

Maddow mentions an Australian news story where a robot built by some guy actually shot the guy, and that link is here, for those interested.

Yes, Bill-O, There Are Homeless Veterans, Watch the Clip

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I think someone owes John Edwards an apology. I don't think it will happen. It would happen if Bill O'Reilly was a real man, but he's an asshole.

MSNBC Projects Hillary, CNN & Fox Pee All Over It

So I'm sitting here when Olbermann is interrupted (and I love Keith, but I also know he hates being interrupted, by anything!) by the news that MSNBC is projecting Hillary Clinton, and you can see the "wha-a-a-a-t?" in Keith's face because the conventional wisdom is that Obama will carry the college election districts big time and come back.

And it's soooo close right now.

So I immediately click over to CNN and Wolf Blitzer has just gone into this rap about how they aren't going to project Hillary because they want to be very very sure. And then Candy Crowley says the same thing, and you know they've just heard in their earpieces that MSNBC just projected Hillary.

Then AP projects Hillary and I decide to hold my breathe and click over to Fox News, which you know I never ever do. And they are saying that AP is projecting Hillary and the reporter (off camera, I don't know a lot of the voices well enough to tell you who it was) is saying how they have all the same data and they aren't projecting Hillary and anyone who is is just wrong (wrong might not have been the word they used).

It's now 7:46 at now Blitzie is announcing the Hillary projection. Well, so much for this post.

MSNBC called it first. Must have had something to do with the exit polling they did.

My Sunday Open Letter to Best Week Ever's Frangela

You know them as Frangela, they are Frances Callier and Angela Shelton, and they are pictured above.

I said:

Frances and Angela,

Been loving you on KTLK on Saturdays (my progressive talk/Air America station-JB). More than on BWE, in fact, where they keep cutting away from you two and to Christian Finnegan, who's fine but he's no Frangela.

Quick note -- that mention of Fox News Channel on your homepage needs to be gotten rid of. You're not appearing there anymore, are you? Because you don't wanna get too close to the O'Reilly loofah patrol.

Also, have you suggested that Frangela visit Salt 'n Peppa on their show and provide some perspective on the world for those two, because they need it.

Actually, just about every VH1 show could do with a visit from Frangela, especiallly that ho New York and those idiots at America's Most Smartest Model.

But stay away from that Drew Pinsky rehab show, I got a feeling that everyone connected with that trainwreck is going down.

Here they are talking about Sherri Shepherd, and I'm sure they had more to say than this.

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All the Footage You See in the Video Aired on the Fox News Channel.

From Brave New Films & Robert Greenwald's new site, FoxNewsPorn.com.

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Jon Stewart on Fox & Friends: "Traffic, Weather and Crazy"

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Yes, black haired guy on Fox & Friends that is not Steve Doocy, it's all Barbara Eden's fault.

Holy shit, this guy Brian Kilmeade is such a horse's ass that I gotta believe that they send a car for him every morning or else he'd never find the studio. I also bet he's constructed an underground facility with those News Corp. dollars where he stores his seriously kinky porn in hermetically sealed vaults and has some strange fetish that involved stress positions and wearing ballet toe shoes.

And maybe a tutu.

Fox Lies, Dan Abrams at MSNBC Shows You The Truth

You gotta see this. Abrams says it must stop "for the troops' sake."

Watch Bill-O, Dick Morris, and the black haired guy who isn't Steve Doocy (hat tip to Colbert) all lie about casualties in Iraq.

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If Abrams keeps this up, I just might let him keep the timeslot after Keith instead of forcing him by just my force of will to give it to Rachel Maddow.

Mad Money's Jim Cramer: "It Is Really Important to Destroy and Mutilate Them!"

You go, Jim Cramer!

Broadcasting & Cable:

“This is not the NFL where people mingle at the end of a game,” he says. “I’m not collegial. It’s personal.”

To prove his point, Cramer drops the word “turncoat” when referring to Liz Claman, who jumped ship from CNBC to Fox Business this month. I was actually a little scared to ask if he’d ever do the same thing. I’ve heard the stories from his trading days.

Cramer calls himself a “suck-up” to NBC and parent company General Electric. He claims GE shouldn’t spin off the network -- a move many expect could happen after next year’s Olympic Games.

Cramer also has more opinions about Fox Business. He had the new network on when I called him late last week. He says he gets what they are trying to do.

“The babe model has always intrigued me, too,” he says.

The thing I'm worried about with Fox Business, of course, is that Rupert Murdoch will try to game the financial systems of the world in the same way he attempts to game the news business. And he doesn't just do that here in the US at Fox News, he does it anywhere he does business. He's playing fast and loose with the facts in order to polish the rep and add to the bank account of one Rupert Murdoch.

Always.

There are Three Articles Up at Variety.com About Pat, Vanna and Wheel

But you know what story about Pat Sajak you'll never see up at any entertainment press site? It's this one (Sourcewatch.0rg):

Pat Sajak is a director of Eagle Publishing, the parent company of the conservative publishing house, Regnery Publishing.

"For the past twenty years, Pat Sajak has been the host of television's Wheel of Fortune -- the number one rated program in syndicated television for twenty years running. Pat is also joining Fox News Channel as host of Pat Sajak Weekend, a one-hour celebrity and newsmaker driven talk show," his biographical note states.

This mention is a bit dated and I don't know if Sajak still has a relationship with Fox News, but you need to know what Regnery Publishing is and does (from About.com):

Regnery Publishing was founded by the Regnery family, a family intimately connected to White Supremacism.

Oliver Willis quotes the Southern Poverty Law Center

William Regnery II, an heir to the Regnery publishing fortune who's a prime mover and shaker in white nationalism publishing, is moving into a new line of business: match-making for "heterosexual whites of Christian cultural heritage." In an appeal to potential investors titled "Population is Destiny," the famously reclusive Regnery wrote this March that the Caucasian dating service would be no ordinary money-making opportunity, but a chance to ensure "the survival of our race," which "depends upon our people marrying, reproducing and parenting."

Regnery published the book that was the basis for the Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry during the 2004 Presidential race, click over there for more if you're interested.

So go ahead, watch what some call the most insipid game show on the face of the earth so that you can feel better about yourself after not answering any of the Jeopardy questions. In my book, if you watch Wheel you're supporting stuff like this.

Stephen Colbert Acknowledges That the Brown-Haired Guy Who's Not Steve Doocy ...

... is, in fact, the black-haired guy who's not Steve Doocy.

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MSNBC's Countdown Surging -- Variety

From the article:

Fox News Channel has finished another dominating quarter in cable news, but the growth story continues to be MSNBC, up 53% in primetime from a year ago on the strength of its 8 p.m. anchor "Countdown With Keith Olbermann."

(snip)

MSNBC's primetime growth is driven by Olbermann's "Countdown," which averaged 744,000 viewers, a 73% increase from the same period last year.

For a weekly snapshot of the battle for 8 PM ET in the cable news wars, a great place to look is our friends at TVByTheNumbers.com, which is covering this clash on a weekly basis.

Congrats to Keith and the Countdown crew. Not only are they gaining, but they do the best hour of news on cable, hands down.

Bill-O Says He's Being Smeared Over Racial Comments

Which is just what someone who didn't understand how racist he is and how remarkably bigoted his comments were would say.

AP:

O'Reilly told The Associated Press that Media Matters had "cherry-picked" remarks out of a broader conversation about racial attitudes. He had told listeners that his grandmother — and many other white Americans — feared blacks because they didn't know any and were swayed by violent images in black culture.

Hey, Bill-O, you're 59 years old. Assuming your grandmother is or was at least 40 years older than you, exactly what violent images in the media are you referring to?

Because she would have been in her prime media consumption years before the golden age of television and I can't think of any violent images in Black culture from that day. In fact, Black culture wouldn't have been available to your grandmother at all.

Can any of you? Or is this just another O'Reilly lie?

Bill-O, Mouth, Foot, Instruction to Insert Daily Included in This Package

What a tool! What a frickin' tool.

AP:

After eating dinner at a famed Harlem restaurant recently, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly told a radio audience he "couldn't get over the fact" that there was no difference between the black-run Sylvia's and other restaurants.

"It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun," he said. "And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all."

More from the transcript of the discussion at Media Matters for America:

There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, "M-Fer, I want more iced tea."

What in hell is wrong with this man? He lives in New York and he's never been in a social situation with African-Americans before? I know for a fact that he lives not 15 minutes away from a part of Long Island with a large African-American population. He sees Fox contributor Juan Williams most every week.

What planet does Bill O-Reilly travel to from work where saying stuff like this doesn't make you look like an ...

... asshole!

Oh, Keith, it's Like Shooting Fish in a Barrel

But it's still fun. More Worst Person ..., more Bill-O, and more ratings news from the evening cable news wars.

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The Countdown home page is right here, just click.

Keith's "Worst Person" Comes With a Ratings Report

And, if you are an adult 25 to 54 that watches cable news from 8 to 9 ET, there's a good chance that you are changing your habits.

Bill-O takes the crown for last night on his first day back form vacation. Keith has details.

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Right Wing Attempt at Humor Shelved at Fox Noise Channel

I am not talking about The O'Reilly Factor. That show, despite being very funny, is not an attempt at humor. It just turns out that way.

I'm talking about The 1/2 Hour News Hour, a creation of TV torture porn pioneer Joel Surnow (actually, his goal was not to tittilate, it was to desensitize us to the issue post-Abu Ghraib) which has ended its 15 episode run as of September 16, no doubt in order to try and make light of the attacks of 9/11 because these guys know comedy!

Sixteen whole episodes, that's almost four weeks worth of Daily Show eps!

TVNewser (a blog which is one of the Metatu.be top ten -- we are still at #6) has all the details and the memo that was so obviously written for public consumption about the end of the series.

Go there and read it and tell me what "we are considering ways to retool the show for future scheduling needs" means.

Oh, also funny on FNC? Former LA local newsman John Gibson, who just lets the hate fly daily, so much so you would swear it's a joke.

Oh, and there's Neil Cavuto, who just loooooooves the President. Watch as Jon Stewart explains:

You know, once I get rolling on these guys, I just can't stop.

And Yet Again, for Your Emmy Consideration, Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, D.F.A.

Because America is stronger with an Emmy in the hands of Stephen Colbert.

Hey, I've been in a room with Markos from Daily Kos and he didn't give me a Nazi salute.

Joel McHale Invades the Home Shopping Network

If you didn't see this on Friday night (or on one of the many many many replays -- you must watch them all!) you didn't see The Soup's inimitable host go wild down in Florida at HSN HQ.

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I am now unofficially deeming the comments section of this post as the repository for all suggestions for other TV studio sets that Joel should invade.

My suggestion is, of course, Fox & Friends. Please please please ...

Pam at Americablog on O'Reilly and Gun-Toting Lesbian Gangs

Click over to read the whole thing. This is just classic Bill-O:

Faux News "Crime Analyst" Rod Wheeler and Billo had to admit the inaccuracies and exaggerations in the show's unbelievable report that claimed a pink-pistol-toting lesbian gang "epidemic" was sweeping the country. Here's one of the outlandish exchanges:

O'Reilly asked, "Now, when they recruit the kids, are they indoctrinating them into homosexuality?"

"Yes," Wheeler answered. "As a matter of fact, some of the kids have actually reported that they were forced into, you know, performing sex acts and doing sex acts with some of these people."

Bill-O Doesn't Need Help to Be That Way -- Olbermann, with Video

And Keith gives a shoutout to our pal Joel McHale at The Soup.

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And let me say for the record that my Daily Kos page is right here, although with all the writing here I have been ignoring it for a long while.

I am hardly the Klan or a Nazi.