We got excited when we saw the headline. Then we read the story and found out he was eventually coming back. Don’t tease us that way, Drudge.
Source: DrudgeReport
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Larry King vs Ashton Kutcher. Wake us up when it’s over.
Ditzy actor/producer/boytoy Ashton Kutcher is now competing with CNN for 1,000,000 followers on Twitter. It’s a death match.
“I find it astonishing that one person can actually have as big of a voice online as what an entire media company can on Twitter,” Kutcher said. “I just thought that was kind of an amazing comment on the state of our media.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcewDFh42Ps “Are you kidding,” asked CNN’s Larry King. “Do you think you can take on an entire network? Do you know how big we are? Do you know what CNN is? Kutcher, you’re playing out of your field. You’re in another time zone. This ain’t gonna work. CNN will bury you!”
Two thoughts:
First, who in their right mind would want to follow either of these boneheads? Second, can you remember a phonier, more obviously-rehearsed publicity stunt?
But what the hell. If it works, it works. We officially challenge NewsBusters.org to see which of us can be first to get 5,000 Twitter followers. Are you with us or against us? Hey, they’re ten times older and ten times bigger, but we hope our dedicated viewers will get behind us and push us over the top. Go IHateTheMedia.com.”
Source: WilshireAndWashington.com
Enough about taxes. Let’s pause briefly for a little media nudity.
So there’s a magazine out there called Allure. Or so we’ve been told.
One of the IHateTheMedia.com wives describes it as “sort of a cross between Shape and Vogue with lots of fashion and make-up and stuff like that.”
So the May issue of the magazine is called “The Nude Issue.” It features Top Chef host (and former wife of Salmon Rushdi) Padma Lakshmi, E! talk show host Chelsea Handler and “Dollhouse” star Eliza Dushku stripped down to…well…nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Rest assured, this is tasteful nudity. Artistic, one might even say. And as supporters of the arts, they’re right up our tasteful alley. Our review of the art can be summed up in a word:
Va-va-voom.
“I tend to sleep in the nude… I’m a sensual-leaning woman,” Padma said. “You have to use the word ‘leaning’ or it sounds like I’m boasting.”
When asked about her favorite body part, Chelsea said: “My boobs are good. They’re real and perky.”
Eliza: “I’ll strip down to my underwear and my Ugg boots when I eat lunch in my trailer.”
We just have one question. What time is lunch?
Source: Allure via HuffingtonPost.com
Iraqis bury victims of Saddam genocide, American media yawns
In case anyone in the American media is interested, here’s how Iraq’s Aswat Aliraq News reported it:
Ceremonies on Tuesday were held in Kurdistan’s southern area of Kermyan to mark the burial of the remains of 187 victims of al-Anfal campaign in the presence of thousands of local residents.
The coffins carrying the bodies were wrapped in the Kurdistan region’s flags and prayers were offered for the souls of the victims in the midst of an increased security presence.
The Kermyan mayor, Tareq Rasheed, had told Aswat al-Iraq news agency that the remains of those victims will be buried in the area of Dibin in Kermyan on Tuesday (April 14) in ceremonies to be attended by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Iraqi Kurdistan Region President Massoud Barazani.
Representatives of the two presidents attended the ceremonies.
The former Iraqi regime launched a series of campaigns codenamed Anfal during the early 1980s, which resulted in the death of thousands of Kurds, most of them were buried in mass graves all over Iraq.
According to figures released by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), more than 182,000 persons were killed in the Anfal campaign.
Sad that the American media thinks Barack Hussein’s dog is more important than Saddam Hussein’s 180,000 innocent victims.
Source: GatewayPundit
Obama’s presidential approval rating is slipping, watch out below
According to Rasmussen’s daily Presidential Tracking Poll released on Sunday, President Obama has slipped to the lowest approval rating of his presidency.
“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Sunday shows that 34% of the nation’s voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-two percent (32%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of +2, his lowest total to date.”
For God’s sake, man, this guy just got a puppy and he named it Bo. And the media reported it with more enthusiasm than when he named his Secretary of State. The damn dog will probably give him a bounce in tomorrow’s poll.
Pro-al Qaeda magazine released in United States. Wait until you see Miss June.
“Jihad Recollections” is published in Charlotte, North Carolina by Samir Khan. The magazine’s 70-pages are jampacked with same type of lunacy you might expect from the al Qaeda bad boys themselves.
The premiere issue offers links to al Qaeda-produced videos. It includes two English feature length articles by al Qaeda’s top dogs – “Four Practical Steps to Expand the Global Jihad” by Osama bin Laden and “Have We Forgotten Who Is America?” by Ayman al-Zawahiri and Nasir al-Fahd.
Want to see if for yourself? Download a PDF version here.
We wish Samir well. But things are tough in the publishing business these days. We think he needs to tweak his magazine a bit to make it appeal to the average al Qaeda member.
We can sum up our recommendation in one word: Centerfolds.
Obviously, we are publishing geniuses. Jann Wenner, give us a call. We have some ideas for Rolling Stone, too.
Source: TheJawaReport
Comcast airs Girls Gone Wild commercial during Vatican’s Good Friday service, sales skyrocket
So there you are in Philadelphia, wrapped up all nice and toasty in your Snuggies at 2 a.m. You’re watching the Vatican’s Good Friday service and what does your local Comcast cable system accidentally show? A commercial for “Girls Gone Wild’s Search for the Wildest Bar in America.”
It might have been Good Friday, but this was bad. Real bad.
“A spokesman for the cable company said the ad was aired inadvertently due to a test of the Emergency Alert System, during which the channel airs regular programming — which in this case included an advertisement for “Girls Gone Wild’s Search for the Wildest Bar in America” DVD.”
Now Girls Gone Wild head honcho Joe Francis says sales skyrocketed in Philadelphia.
“We may have tapped into a whole new market,” he said. “It seems that many of the same people interested in the Pope’s message are also interested in ours.”
Based on that statement, it looks like Joe Francis found the Wildest Bar in America. Now would someone do him a favor and get him a taxi. He’s in no shape to drive.
Source: TheLiveFeed
Cannibalism: NY Times attacks LA Times over ads disguised as news
One day after catching holy hell for disguising a front age ad for a new TV show as a news story, the LA Times did it again.
An ad in Sunday’s Calendar entertainment section ran alongside a four-page ad for a new movie called “The Soloist.” The four pages are designed to look like a news.
A Paramount Pictures spokesperson said the Times approached them with the idea. The complete advertising package included an online contest and promos that ran on KTLA, which is a Times sister company.
“You dress an ad up to look like editorial content precisely because you think it will make it more valuable,” said Geneva Overholser of the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. “Fundamentally, that’s an act of deception.”
This is shocking. No, not the deception on the part of the Los Angeles Times. Everyone knows that. What’s shocking is that Overholser seems surprised by it.
Source: New York Times
Saturday Night Live acknowledges the painfully obvious: Joe Biden is a pompous blowhard
Top 8 tax protest songs of all time
Here are our favorite tax songs and tax protest songs, at least those with audio and video.
Love may have inspired more songs than any other subject, but the subject of taxes inspires tax songs that are just as heartfelt. Singers and songwriters seem to be just like the rest of us – you work hard, you do the best you can, and pow! The better you do, the deeper the IRS digs into your pocket.
Tax Protest!
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Are you suffering from global warming? Henry Waxman wants to pay you $75,000.
California Democrat Congressman Henry Waxman is at it again and the compliant mainstream media is doing its best to keep it under wraps.
A provision quietly inserted in a House climate bill would allow “victims” of global warming to sue the federal government and businesses.
The Washington Times says that Waxman and fellow Democrat Rep Edward Markey of Massachusetts slipped it into their climate bill.
The provision would set grounds for plaintiffs who have “suffered” or expect to suffer “harm” so that they can somehow blame on government inaction. “Harm” is defined as “any effect of air pollution (including climate change).” Each plaintiff could walk away with as much as $75,000 a year in government payouts. Ahhh, but don’t you worry your pretty little head. Waxman the Watchdog is watching out for you. His bill says no one can get more than $1.5 million in lifetime payouts.
Where do we sign up? We’re already expecting to suffer some harm from global warming. A starving polar bear could wander down from Alaska and ate our lunch.
Bingo. When can we expect the check?
Source: Washington Times via Fox News
Janet Napolitano is watching you
She believes America’s conservatives are more dangerous than Islamo-Fascist radicals.
She just issued a report in which she breathlessly tells the nation’s law enforcement agencies to watch out for you. “You” meaning anyone who doesn’t like President Obama, disgruntled veterans, states rights advocates, people who are suffering in the recession, and really successful talk show hosts.
She wants to put you in jail. But thanks to President Obama’s policy of renaming existing government programs, jail is no longer called jail.
Henceforth, it will now be called “President Obama’s Housing Program for Conservatives.”
Today is April 15, or as the Democrats like to call it, Thanksgiving
It’s the joyous annual holiday on which Democrats gather with their families, feast at the government trough, and give thanks for all the taxes they “forgot to pay” or “overlooked” or “got incorrect advice from their tax preparer” or “missed because of a glitch in TurboTax.”
Tom Daschle. Tim Geithner. Hilda Solis. Ron Kirk. Kathleen Sebelius. And half the other people nominated for positions in the Obama administration will be celebrating today. And they will offer this simple prayer: “We thank you, FDR, for the bounty you have given us. And for all those phony Schedule C deductions, too.”
Remember President Obama’s pledge to simplify the tax code? What he meant, obviously, was “It’s simple to cheat on your taxes and get away with it. Especially if you’re a Democrat.”
Military commanders met with resistance when they tried to get the troops to meet with Obama
We all saw the photos. We all saw the new clips. President Obama went to Iraq and the troops greeted him warmly.
“Army officers had intended to have at least 1,500 troops from Camp Victory and nearby Camp Liberty,” The Wall Street Journal reported, “but the secret trip happened faster than expected, beating most of the troops by a couple of hours. Only 600 made it.”
But was the enthusiasm real or was it staged? Here’s how one sergeant who was on the ground in Iraq reports it.
“We were pre-screened, asked by officials “Who voted for Obama?” And then those who raised their hands were shuffled to the front of the receiving line. They even handed out digital cameras and asked them to hold them up.”
GatewayPundit notes that all the soldiers in the AP photo are using the same model camera, which seems to validate the sergeant’s claim.
C’mon, they were enhancing the moment, like when Hillary stuffs her face with Botox. And with the same result. A much better photo op.
Source: Chisum via GatewayPundit
Guilt by association by Associated Press
Tim Blair, the opinion editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph, is a man who recognizes hypocrisy when he sees it.
In fact, he does a better job covering the hypocrisy of American journalism than most American journalists do. Blair’s blog featured this item recently:
In the tradition of the mother of the boyfriend of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s daughter:
A half sister of Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband is accused of breaking into the same home two times with the intention of stealing money.
Both pieces from Associated Press, specialists in association.
How many degrees of separation does it take before Associated Press thinks a story isn’t newsworthy? Could someone please look that up in the AP Style Guide.
Source: TimBlair
Detroit has more registered voters than residents, an inspiration to other liberal cities
Detroit’s current population is estimated to be about 853,000. That includes 603,000 people over 18, which is about 30,000 fewer than the city’s total of registered voters over 18.
Sadly, those phantom voters do not pay taxes. They’re just too damn busy voting.
Source: GatewayPundit
Code Pink plans to disrupt Tea Party in People’s Republic of Santa Monica.
Ahhh, it’s just Code Pink trying to disrupt the Santa Monica Tea Party. Here’s what they say about it on their website:
The Santa Monica Tea Party of 2009 and Tea Parties all across America are being organized by friends of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly, all about getting less funding for government. Let’s show up with a better message: STOP funding wars and Wall Street, and start funding the needs of the people — health care, education, and a green economy. Join us as we crash their party.
Santa Monica Tea Party
Wednesday, April 15th 2009
4:00–5:00 PM
Santa Monica, CA
Location:
Santa Monica Pier
100 Colorado Ave.
Santa Monica, CA
90401
Contact:
Audrey
[email protected]
Send Audrey an email. Plan to attend. What could possibly be more fun than a bunch of Code Pink lunatics protesting people who are protesting taxes?
Dutch TV show finds Osama bin Laden “Not Guilty.” IHateTheMedia.com finds the Dutch “Not Rational.”
The Netherlands public TV network runs a show called “Devil’s Advocate.” On its Wednesday night show, a five-member jury and the studio audience listened to all the evidence and concluded that there wasn’t enough proof to convict bin Laden of being the brains behind the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. This, of course, is despite the fact that bin Laden has repeatedly, proudly taken credit for the attacks.
The show features famed Dutch defense attorney Gerard Spong defending some of the world’s worst criminals. The silver-tongued Spong convinced the jury that bin Laden’s connection to Sept. 11 was merely “Western propaganda.”
While they were at it, the jury also concluded that there was insufficient evidence to prove bin Laden is the top dog in al-Qaida.
Next week on Devil’s Advocate, the jury will decide that black is white, up is down, and global warming causes global cooling.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Liberal anti-Tea Party sets record for lowest turn-out
Oh, how we wish we’d been in Washington, DC last Saturday.
That’s when a liberal group staged an anti-Tea Party that was attended by 120,000 people. Oh, wait. We misread the news report. The actual attendance was 12 people. No, that’s not a typo. Twelve sad, pathetic, lonely people showed up.
Twelve. Twelve thousand. Twelve million. Who cares? As we’ve seen with the economic “stimulus” mess, a few more zeroes mean absolutely nothing to liberals.
In an attempt to explain away this embarrassing lack of interest, liberal blogger Jane Hamsher announced that the far more successful conservative Tea Parties are “financed by Fox News” and are attended by “just a bunch of people on the conservative end who are pissed off that they’re not the ones stealing right now.”
So she’s in favor of higher taxes. And she’s in favor of stealing as long as the thieves are liberal.
The only surprise here is that she got eleven other lunatics to attend her little protest.
Source: FrankStrategies.com
Uh-oh, Oprah: Children in her private school held in solitary confinement
Damned if this doesn’t sound like an episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show. Maybe even the Rikki Lake Show.
A few weeks ago, four students at Oprah’s prestigious Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa were accused of sexual misconduct. Sexual assault, to be precise. Now they’ve told a South African newspaper that academy officials held them in solitary confinement for two weeks before booting them out the door of the prestigious boarding school.
Security guards were positioned outside their rooms, they were forbidden to attend class or communicate with their friends, and meals were brought to their rooms.
Unfortunately, the girls were just too darned upset to eat. “I asked myself, ‘What’s the point?'” said one of the girls. “I’m going to be expelled anyway.”
Oprah’s spokesperson said the girls were punished with “in-school suspension.” And those security guards? Well, they were there simply to assure the girl’s safety.
We say the little hussies got off easy. They’re lucky Oprah didn’t fly down to South Africa with her best friend Gail and a cat o’ nine tails just to give ’em a lesson they won’t get anywhere this side of a Robert Mugabe’s prison camp.
But that’s just us.
Source: New York Post
President Obama says he is “resolved to halt the rise of privacy”
Somewhere in Texas, George Bush is wondering when the media will start calling Barack Obama stupid.
Lib talker Stephanie Miller was hilarious on CNN. Unintentionally hilarious.
Stephanie Miller showed up on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” about ten days ago and hinted at a nefarious plot on the part of conservative radio station owners to bring down the “highly successful” lib talk juggernaut.
“Well, you know – I just did a panel on the Fairness Doctrine,” the unfunny Miller said. “I have to tell you, I brought ratings information. And people like me and Ed Schultz are consistently beating conservative shows in many, many markets. And yet – there is 10 percent liberal radio in this country. Ninety percent of the stations are conservative. You just cannot argue anymore it’s because liberal radio can’t compete.”
That would be impossible – and she knows it – for one very simple reason: neither Miller nor Schultz air in “many, many markets.” If the information on her website is up-to-date:
- Miller has affiliates in just 50 markets (a dreadful total after years of flogging this dog in syndication)
- She has affiliates in only nine of the Top 50 markets.
- Eight of those nine have ratings below 1.0 (again, dreadful is the only appropriate word)
- Three of her Top 10 market affiliates have zero ratings.
- Eight of her 50 affiliates air her program only on weekends.
- Thirteen of her 50 affiliates air only a portion of her program or air it at odd hours (or both).
- Twenty of her 50 affiliates are in markets ranking #120 or smaller
- Twelve of her affiliates are in markets too small to be rated.
Even worse for Miller, her syndication efforts are going full speed in reverse. She’s lost a startling 62.5% (15 of 24) of the Top 50 affiliates she once had and her problem seem to be accelerating. In the last few months she’s lost affiliates in Miami, Phoenix and Columbus and gained none.
The bottom line is pretty clear:
Stephanie Miller’s talk show is a ratings disaster. Instead of blaming “conservative” station owners, she should put the blame where it belongs. On herself.
AN ADDED NOTE: Is it our imagination or is Miller beginning to look just like Gloria Allred?
Source: NewsBusters
TV reporter arrested after plowing into NYPD horse
A former New York City police detective who is now a TV news reporter for Fox affiliate WNYW was charged with DUI after his car crashed into a police horse on Monday night.
Police reported that 60-year-old Michael Sheehan refused a breathalyzer test which resulted in the automatic suspension of his license.
Thomas Monaghan, Sheehan’s attorney, said police had the story backwards and that the horse had actually slammed into Sheehan’s car and “not the other way around.”
Damn lying horses.
Source: WCBS-TV
Al Gore’s media empire melting down even faster than Greenland’s glaciers.
Times are tough and the Goracle’s nascent media empire – built around the Current cable TV network – and has cancelled plans for a $100,000,000 public stock offering.
“In light of current market conditions, the registrant has determined not to proceed at this time with the public offering,” Current said in an SEC filing. “All activity regarding the proposed public offering has been discontinued.”
Current Media owns Current TV and youth-oriented website Current.com. Gore’s concept was that viewers would submit content to the network and website.
Poor Al Gore. Who else would be dumb enough to invest in a TV network that does the same thing YouTube does? Seriously, it’s such a dumb idea that it’s hard to believe it came from the same guy who invented the internet.
Source: Breitbart
The commercial Islamic radicals don’t want you to see. New and improved.
Some time back, a great commercial showed up on the internet. It was supposedly created by a South African ad agency to promote Honda’s hybrid.
We say supposedly because the commercial was so simple and so powerful and so controversial that it just seems doubtful that any major advertiser would have the guts to run it. Honda denies any involvement. So does the ad agency that is credited with having created it.
The commercial became an internet sensation. It got millions of views. Then an Islamic activist group got its panties in a wad and demanded that the commercial be pulled off the internet. YouTube caved in and pulled the commercial. It’s now very difficult to find online.
We love the commercial. So we got our hands on a copy, did a little editing, removed any reference to Honda, and put a new ending on it.
We think new version is more powerful than the original. And more timely, too.
If you enjoy it, please tell everyone you know to see it at IHateTheMedia.com.
