This gave me a scare: Fox News eyes O’Reilly for election night. “Sources within Fox News say the channel is planning to spice up its coverage of the Texas and Ohio primaries next Tuesday night by putting its popular conservative talker Bill O’Reilly in the anchor seat.” That’s from the Crain’s New York web site. [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Feb 27
The Torture Playlist
From Mother Jones: “Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, “prolong capture shock,” disorient detainees during interrogations-and also drown out screams. Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose.” [...]
Feb 27
The Myth Of Maverick McCain
John McCain’s image, as propounded by his spinners (aka: the Media) is that of a maverick who shuns political opportunists and slaps the hands of greedy, special interest self-promoters. It’s an image that gets projected repeatedly by pundits and lazy journalists whose writing seems to be on auto-pilot. They reason that if it was said [...]
Feb 22
Fox News Contributor Karl Rove Becomes The Story
This coming Sunday 60 Minutes will broadcast a report on Alabama’s former governor Don Siegleman. Siegleman is presently serving a seven year jail term for a bribery conviction that is considered suspicious by Democrats and Republicans alike. Many believe that the case was politically engineered by some familiar names in the Dirty Tricks business: “A [...]
Feb 20
Bill O’Reilly’s Lynching Party
In what seemed to begin as a defense of Michelle Obama, Bill O’Reilly still manages to stick his foot in his fat racist mouth. A caller to his radio program started to offer some uncorroborated gossip about Ms. Obama’s personality. O’Reilly stopped her, saying that whatever she was about to say was unfair because it [...]
Feb 20
Bill O’Reilly Brings His Freak Show To Los Angeles
Bill O’Reilly is broadcasting his “O’Reilly Fester” from Los Angeles all this week. We don’t particularly want him, but hey, it’s a free country – despite O’Reilly’s best efforts to promote authoritarian rule via his bullying brand of demagoguery. The question I have is, “Why is he here?” Seeing as Billo is unlikely to return [...]
Feb 20
Pundit Population Explosion?
Paul Farhi of the Washington Post penned a column today that looks at what he describes as an overpopulation of political pundits on television: “With the cable news networks ramping up wall-to-wall political coverage, the demand for people to analyze, comment upon and speculate wildly about the presidential race has expanded accordingly. The nation’s economy [...]
Feb 19
Tucker Carlson’s New Election Analyst: Roger C.U.N.T. Stone
It is well known that Tucker Carlson’s program resides in the lowest lying, scum-ridden depths of TV punditry. He consistently loses to his competition and he is the lowest rated program on his own network (see Tucker Carlson: A Ratings Black Hole). That may explain the trouble he is having booking guests who are not [...]
Feb 15
The News Corpse Oscar Nominees For 2008
The News Corpse Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is proud to present its Oscar nominees for 2008. News Corpse would like to congratulate the nominees and remind them that they are already winners.: Atonement – The story of a country and a political party finally trying to make amends for a history of [...]
Feb 14
The Clinton/Shuster Affair Winds Down
Word has it that David Shuster, who was suspended for using a common colloquial that is even featured in the title of a popular television show on MTV, will be returning to the air on February 22. What’s more, Hillary Clinton, who has been railing about Shuster’s comment, and threatening to boycott MSNBC, has confirmed [...]
Feb 14
The News Corpse Oscar Nominees On YouTube
This is my first YouTube video. It’s a little rough around the edges but, hey, you have to start somewhere. Also available in Widget form.
Feb 14
A Valentine For John McCain
On this special day, Republican presidential candidate, Senator John McCain, can look back fondly on a lifetime of love and romance. And isn’t that what life’s really about? Candy McCain’s Valentine’s Day Card: Whether it’s President Bush, Governor Schwarzenegger, Mayor Giuliani, or some poor sap at a rally, Johnny sure loves to pour on the [...]
Feb 13
Microsoft, News Corp, and Yahoo, Oh My
The armies of consolidation are on the march. Last week, Microsoft made a surprise $44 billion bid for Yahoo. Microsoft is desperately trying to shore up its exposed Internet flank, which Google is battering brutally. Snatching up Yahoo would go a long way toward putting Microsoft back in the online game. Enter News Corporation. Rupert [...]
Feb 12
The Presidential Beer Bowl
One of the most annoying measures of electoral appeal is the moronic notion that a candidate’s company at a beer bust speaks to his/her qualifications for office. The implication is that a drinking buddy will be someone who is more like me and, therefore, more acceptable to represent me. Bullshit! If I’m looking for somebody [...]
Feb 12
Fox Business Network Jinxes The Markets
Dow Jones announced today that it will be adjusting the components of its Dow 30 stock index. This is the first change since Dow Jones, parent of the Wall Street Journal, was purchased by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, parent of Fox News and the recently launched Fox Business Network. The index will be replacing the [...]
Feb 10
Chris Wallace Is Even Dumber Than George Bush
Chris Wallace is rocketing to the front of the hack pack in television journalism. His bias and arrogance is thrusting him to new heights of disrepute. The latest embarrassment occurred during an interview with President Bush for Fox News Sunday. In an exchange revolving around the Bush administration’s use of torture and wiretapping, Wallace sought [...]
Feb 08
Hillary Clinton’s Hypocritical Pimped Out Rage
[Updated with new Clinton response] First things first. when David Shuster asked, “…doesn’t it seem like Chelsea’s sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?” he couldn’t have been more wrong. It was inappropriate, demeaning, and unprofessional. In the wake of those remarks, he has apologized on air twice, expressed his regrets [...]
