Category: Television

The Goode Family: The Animated, Anti-Al Gore Show

This looks like it’s going to be funny. “The Goode Family” premieres on ABC-TV on Wednesday, May 27. It was created by politically-incorrect Mike Judge, who also created King of the Hill and Beavis and Butt-head.

The Goode Family is an obsessively, compulsively politically and ecologically correct family. They live their lives the way liberals would have all of us live – reusing their shopping bags, driving hybrid cars, and recycling everything. Of course, they’re vegans, to boot.

Thanks, Mike Judge. Since the rest of the biased liberal media won’t expose the real world eco-wackos, we’re glad you did in animated form.

Source: Tim Blair/Sydney Daily Telegraph

Iranian TV reveals that swine flu was created by Donald Rumsfeld and Jewish co-conspirators

Next time NBC needs to import another comedy for its Thursday night line-up, may we suggest Iranian TV? Because these guys are hilarious.

In the embedded clip, the paranoid, neurotic, psychotic (are there any we’ve overlooked?) Iranians reveal a vast, heretofore unknown conspiracy between Donald Rumsfeld, evil Jewish pharmaceutical manufacturers, and the United States government to develop and spread swine flu. Even Barack Obama is involved in some cloudy way.

Included among the insane claims:

Rumsfeld is “an active an influential member on the board of directors of Gilead Sciences.” He’s not. Here’s the Gilead’s board of directors directly from its website.

“It should be noted that Gilead Sciences is a Jewish company…and all its shareholders are Zionists.” It’s actually a publicly held company with thousands of stockholders around the world. Donald Rumsfeld, for example, is Presbyterian, but we don’t even know if he owns stock in the company.

“It’s name in Hebrew means “holy place.” According to Wikipedia, it has several meanings in Hebrew, but none of them are “holy place.”

“It is interesting that last year (Rumsfeld) bought, if I’m not mistaken, 18 billion dollars worth of new Gilead stocks.” According to OpenSecrets.com, Donald H. Rumsfeld is worth somewhere between $57,089,104 and $174,672,011. Maybe he bought it all on margin.

Don’t miss the Iranian ComedyFest. Coming to NBC on Thursday Nights this fall.

Source: TheHill.com

Obama creates his own TV network, peeves other TV networks


“Tonight on Obama TV. Women’s basketball like you’ve never seen it before.”

If you thought our Supreme Leader was content owning his own car company, think again. Now he has his own TV network.

ABC’s Jake Tapper reports that after President Obama greeted the UConn Lady Huskies, winners of the NCAA women’s basketball championship, at the White House on April 27, he took the team to the White House basketball court to show off his “mad skills.”

This is where the story went south for the White House Press Corps. Obama didn’t allow the press to view the happenings and they protested their baffling exclusion.

Turns out the White House produced its own professionally-produced TV report on the team’s visit.

“It’s perfectly fine, of course, for the White House to put out its own version of events — but is it right to do so by preventing actual reporters from covering something? (Even something like a pickup basketball game),” Tapper asked on his ABC News blog.

”Do Obama White House officials think their media coverage isn’t flattering enough?” he continued.

“Is the goal to ultimately replace the pesky photographers who film what they want to and not what they’re told to (not to mention the annoying reporters who ask uncomfortable questions about, say, detainee policy and bank bailouts)?”

“Do you want your OTV? (I’ll bet there are a few takers out there.)”

One thing we know for sure: the Fairness Doctrine won’t apply to the Obama Television Network.

Source: ABC News

Perky Katie Couric lives in a dark, depressing world. Enter at your own risk.

The Great Depression is what you'll go into after watching Katie Couric's uplifting report
The Great Depression is what you'll go into after watching Katie Couric's uplifting report

It’s amazing that Katie Couric can maintain her eternal perkiness in such a dark, depressing world. Amazing what $15 mil a year will do for a gal.

She just started a series called “Children of the Recession” on her nightly CBS Newscast. She kicked it all off with an op-ed piece in USA Today in which she postulates that today’s kids are the “Recession Generation.” Apparently unable to settle on one generational nomenclature, she later called them “innocent victims could become the Lost Generation.”

On the CBS Evening News she harkened up images of the Great Depression and said the current recession “may be” to kids “what the depression was to an earlier generation.”

“Volunteer families stepping in during tough times is reminiscent of the Great Depression,” the perky one intoned gravely, “when parents in dire straits sent their children to live with relatives or other people in the community.”

Tom Brokaw noted that the kids who lived through the Great Depression became “The Greatest Generation,” but Couric sees kids who live through this recession as “The Lost Generation.”

Why the difference? Maybe it’s because that earlier generation didn’t have to watch depressing, grossly-distorted historical analogies on TV every night.

Source: CBS News, NewBusters.org

Filipino senator threatens Alec Baldwin with a beating

Fearing for his life, Alec Baldwin attempts to hide from Philippine Senator Ramon Revilla by disguising himself as the Cat in the Hat
Fearing for his life, Alec Baldwin attempts to hide from Philippine Senator Ramon Revilla by disguising himself as the Cat in the Hat

Annoying Alec Baldwin, star of NBC’s “30 Rock,” told David Letterman that he would love to have more children and that he was “thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point … or a Russian one.”

That didn’t sit well with Philippine Senator Ramon Revilla. He angrily responded that Baldwin’s remark was “insensitive and uncalled for.” He called it an insult to Filipinos.
The senator is a former movie star who still makes an occasional appearance on Philippine TV.

He called Baldwin “arrogant” and noted that the Philippines has a law against mail-order brides.

“Let him try to come here in the Philippines and he’ll see mayhem,” Revilla roared, implying that he would personally administer a beating to the puffy American actor.

Thrilla in Manilla II. Get your tickets now. Our money’s on Revilla.

Source: Associated Press via Breitbart.com

Katie Couric doesn’t know whether to be bubbly or have a stroke during her Saudi Arabian report

Is it just us or is there something just a little creepy about Katie Couric’s manner in this report from Saudi Arabia?

On one hand, she tries her best to be oddly bubbly. On the other hand, she acts as if she expects the Saudi religious police to swoop down on her at any moment.

And is it just us or does she seem a little too flippant about buying her daughter a mosque-shaped alarm clock?

Is Carrie Prejean backing out of Fox News hosting gig?

Miss California Carrie Prejean. Sure to increase ratings and libidos across the fruited plain (no Perez Hilton reference intended)
Miss California Carrie Prejean. Sure to increase ratings and libidos across the fruited plain (no Perez Hilton reference intended)

Rumors are running rampant that Miss California Carrie Prejean is reconsidering her decision to co-host the Fox News morning show.

Here’s how MediaBistro.com reports the story:

Fox News insiders tell TVNewser Carrie Prejean is having second thoughts about co-hosting Fox & Friends next Wednesday. “Prejean’s people emailed Friday night calling off the deal,” the insider tells us.

Prejean, the reigning Miss California who’s been in the headlines for her stand on gay marriage, is scheduled to fill in for vacationing Gretchen Carlson on Wednesday, May 27.

We hear negotiations continued through the weekend to try and salvage the booking. A Fox News spokesperson tells TVNewser Prejean is “absolutely still hosting.”

Say it ain’t true, Carrie. If you don’t appear on Fox & Friends we’ll be forced to continue watching Cops reruns on G4.

Source: MediaBistro.com

Quiznos makes up for homoerotic commercial with a “threesome” commercial

We recently published Try explaining this new Quiznos commercial to your children, featuring a Quiznos commercial featuring a deep-voiced gay oven that says, “Put it in me, Scott,” referring to the male Quiznos worker’s tasty, toasty torpedo. Judging from the reaction we and other sites showing the video received, it did not go over as well as they expected, well, maybe in the company we keep.

But, it looks like the Quiznos marketing department is paying attention. They’re making up for it with a new commercial that will appeal more to the horney heterosexual male, and the Hollywood female: It features two sexy women in bikinis fighting over that once again, tasty, toasty torpedo. It puts a just slightly different vision in one’s head than their last attempt.

What’s next we wonder? Are they going to start checking ID’s just to get into this steamy sandwich shop?

General Commander of the Iranian Army: It will take us 11 days “to wipe Israel out of existence”

While Fox News is covering car chases and missing girls and MSNBC is trying resurrect Air America on their network, much more important news is going around the world, virtually unreported, or at least underreported, by all U.S. networks. The best way to really learn what’s really going on in the world is to go to directly to the source. Yet it often requires translation. Thank God for Memri.org that non-profit organization providing translations of the Middle East media.

One recent story is a translation of the General Commander of the Iranian Army Ataollah Salehi who claims that It Will Take Us 11 Days “to Wipe Israel Out of Existence.”

Memri.org also includes a translation of the video into English, repeated here:

Following are excerpts of statements by Iranian military commanders, from a TV report which aired on LBC TV on May 3, 2009.

Continue reading “General Commander of the Iranian Army: It will take us 11 days “to wipe Israel out of existence””

Holy Moly! PBS to boot affiliates that air religious programs?

Religion is being squeezed off PBS but Obama worship will still be encouraged.
Religion is being squeezed off PBS but Obama worship will still be encouraged.

PBS likes religion about us much as Barack Obama likes auto executives.

A committee has recommended that PBS boot any affiliate stations that air “sectarian” programming.

The bottom line: Broadcast any religious programming and you’ll lose every PBS program. Sesame Street. The NewsHour. Nova. The Nightly Business Report. Everything.

Believe it or not, PBS has a fairness-and-balance policy, instituted twenty-four years ago, that says affiliates must be noncommercial, nonpartisan, and nonsectarian.

For example, WHUT has notified the Archdiocese of Washington that its “Mass for Shut-Ins” will be cancelled if the policy is approved. Oddly enough, WHUT’s general manager heads the committee that recommended the policy.

We’d have to say that this is noncommercial, nonpartisan, nonsectarian nonsense.

Source: NewsBusters.com

What are the odds: Chrysler closes 789 dealerships, but all three networks interview same dealer

Cheer up, Chrysler dealers. Be happy that you survived this 1965 model.
Cheer up, Chrysler dealers. Be happy that you survived this 1965 model.

Jim Anderer is the first guy in the last two years to get more face time than Barack Obama on the network news.

Who is Jim Anderer? He’s owns Island Jeep in Lindenhurst, New York. Island Jeep was one of the 789 dealerships across the nation that Chrysler announced that it was going to eliminate on Thursday.

Yet, with 789 dealerships to choose from ABC, CBS and NBC News all somehow ended up talking to Anderer.

If someone had wanted to buy a car at Island Jeep on Thursday, they couldn’t have. Not the way network TV news crews were mobbing the place.

As NewsBusters said, “…only Anderer, who must have had a busy day in front of film crews from the national and local media, earned the triple play on the broadcast networks. Following a piece from Chris Bury in Chicago, ABC’s World News ran a ‘1st Person’ segment with Anderer railing against Chrysler. The CBS Evening News put two bites from Anderer in a piece narrated from Atlanta by Mark Strassmann and NBC slid a clip of Anderer into a Nightly News story from Lee Cowan in Los Angeles.”

In the old Soviet Union, every store carried the same poor quality products. Not unlike the network news in 2009.

Source: NewsBusters.org

Fox News doomed: Bow-tied bozo Tucker Carlson to join network

Loosen up the bow tie, Tucker, it seems to be cutting off circulation to your brain.
Loosen up the bow tie, Tucker, it seems to be cutting off circulation to your brain.

Tucker Carlson, the ratings-challenged, bow-tied bozo who has driven away viewers from two other cable news networks, will begin working his magic at Fox News.

Here’s how MediaBistro.com reports the remarkably dull announcement:

After appearances on “Red Eye,” Tucker Carlson made it official this morning becoming a paid contributor to Fox News Channel. His first appearance, coming on his 40th birthday, was on Fox & Friends just after 7am ET.

“Life begins at 40 and your Fox career begins at 40 too,” said co-anchor Dave Briggs.

“I’ve waited a long time to get here and I’m glad to be here,” said Carlson. “We’re delighted to have you,” added Alisyn Camerota.

Carlson spent five years at CNN co-hosting “Crossfire” until its cancellation. He jumped to MSNBC in 2005 and stayed through the 2008 presidential election.

Tucker Carlson is the Typhoid Mary of cable network news. His mere appearance on the air is enough to sicken otherwise healthy ratings.

Good luck, Fox.

Source: MediaBistro.com

The Wanda Sykes’ Obama Roast:
the way it should have been

Tradition dictates that the White House Correspondents Dinner roast the president. But host Wanda Sykes could not hide her liberal leanings and after a few polite Obama jokes, tore into the Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and others on the Obama Enemy List instead. This video shows us what the “roast” would have been like in an alternate universe, one where the media treats all sides fairly.

H/T: The Big Feed

Bill Maher’s latest offensive anti-Christian rant. Forgive him father, for he knows not how unfunny he is.

Has Bill Maher ever been funny? Even once in his career? Ever?

On Friday night’s HBO show, he continued his streak of mean-spirited (Oops. If you’re in a forgiving mood, please forgive our use that left wing terminology) unfunniness with this tasteless satire on Carrie Prejean.

Source: HBO via HotAir.com

Maria Bartiromo goes bare knuckles on union goon

CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo lived up to her “Money Honey” nickname yesterday by standing up to her union goon guest and defending the American dream.

She had two guests on her CNBC show on Thursday – Steve Malanga, a senior fellow with the Manhattan Institute, and Jonathan Tasini, executive director of the Labor Research Association.

Here’s how the conversation went:

BARTIROMO: So, you want us to go the European way?

TASINI: For example, there was just a great piece in the New York Times about Norway, and explaining how it has actually expanded its coverage and protection of people. I would argue that people in Norway probably live a better standard of living than most people in this, than many people in this country.

BARTIROMO: Well, the economies of Europe have been in the dumps for, for years, even before this economic slowdown even started. You think that, you think the socialist measures have anything to do with that?

TASINI: Well, what I found interesting is both Steven and both you have ignored the two points that I’ve made which is that we have the greatest inequality that we’ve had in the last hundred years, and the most important point I tried to make was productivity. Productivity in the last 30 year is soaring. That means…

BARTIROMO: But what is redistribution of wealth going to do for productivity? What is, what is the idea of the American dream, of working hard and achieving something, and knowing that all, you know, half your wealth is going to someone who didn’t do that?

Why that’s just crazy talk, Maria. The Democrats don’t want to redistribute the wealth. They want to redistribute the poverty.

Source: CNBC via NewsBusters.org

MSNBC’s Angry Ed Schultz caught with his hypocritical pants down

MSNBC host Ed Schultz preparing for another informative show
MSNBC host Ed Schultz preparing for another informative show

We sincerely apologize for any unpleasant images that headline may have brought to mind, but it seemed appropriate.

Within the course of one hour on Monday night, MSNBC’s Ed Schultz condemned David Feherty for joking about the death of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, then turned around and praised Wanda Sykes’ for joking about the death of Rush Limbaugh.

“My thoughts on the White House correspondents dinner,” Ed said at the top of his show, “the best jokes and why I’m so glad Wanda Sykes took it to Rush Limbaugh.”

Ed rolled tape that showed Sykes’ comments. Well, most of Sykes’ comments. “Limbaugh said he hopes this administration fails. So you said, I hope America fails. I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on Oxycontin he missed his flight.

Ed conveniently edited out these offensive words: “Rush Limbaugh. ‘I hope the country fails.’ I hope his kidneys fail. How about that.”

A few minutes later, Schultz featured Feherty’s joke about killing Reid and Pelosi. He condemned Feherty and called the joke “insanity” and “sick.”

Our best guess is that Ed knows he can say any damn thing he wants, no matter how stupid or hypocritical, because he knows virtually no one is watching his show. If a tree falls in the forest and no one’s there to hear it, does it make a noise?

Source: Finkelblog.com

Bono performs his tribute to Elvis Presley exclusively for IHateTheMedia.com

Bono, the tax-evading frontman for Irish rockers U2, unveiled an odd ode to Elvis Presley on Great Britain’s Radio 4 this morning. It’s a 14-minute long…uh…poem.

If anything, it proves that U2’s music must be even better than anyone ever realized, because it had to compensate for Bono’s absurd lyrics.

The poem is titled American David. It’s a melange of odd, seemingly insulting rhymes loosely set to a music track. It also contains numerous words and phrases that many will consider offensive, such as “white nigger” and “spastic” and “shit.”

The Times UK describes it like this:

One rhyming triplet played on the singer’s long weight battle: “Elvis the bumper stickers/ Elvis the white knickers/ Elvis the white nigger ate at Burger King and just kept getting bigger.”

Another took aim at his iconic dance move: “Elvis the ecstatic/ Elvis the plastic/ Elvis the elastic with a spastic dance that could explain the energy of America.”

But other lines told of the U2 singer’s admiration, as he called the late pin-up “pharoah-like”, a “genius” and a “psalmist”.

Pardon us if we seem presumptuous, but we’d like to contribute our own lyrics:

He died on the toilet/ Covered with his own sweat/ Don’t be upset but don’t forget, closet thing America ever had to a king

Hey, it might not be great, but it’s no worse than that crap Bono’s wrote.

When do the royalties start rolling in?

Source: Times UK

Garofalo: “I do not apologize…Everybody I saw at that Tea Party are racist.”

janeane_garafalo But will she apologize for her awful grammar? “Everybody is a racist,” Janeane, “Everybody is.”

Hell, even we ignorant, redneck, racist Tea Baggers know that.

Souce: BigHollywood.com via Drudge

Wanda Sykes hypocritical TV commercial: “That’s so Limbaugh”

Irony is running rampant these days. Turns out unfunny comedienne Wanda Sykes, who insulted Rush Limbaugh at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, appeared in a recent “public service” commercial where she lectures teenage boys about how they shouldn’t use insulting language. She tells them to “Knock it off.”

After her humorless appearance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, maybe the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network should find itself a new role model who’s not so, well, insulting.

Just sayin’.

Source: Wall Street Journal

Miss California keeps title:
Trump trashes detractors, she speaks eloquently

Donald Trump defended Miss California Carrie Prejean at a press conference today and announced that she will get to keep her crown.. Then Prejean demonstrated a kind of eloquence and dignity with which Perez Hilton is obviously unfamiliar.

One of the first things Trump said at his press conference was that Carrie’s views on gay marriage are identical to those of President Obama: they both support benefits, equal rights, and civil unions for same-sex couples, but oppose a federal law allowing gay marriage.

Trump said the supposedly “racy” photos of Carrie are nothing more than standard modeling photos and that the “lurid” photos in circulation are PhotoShop phonies.

But the real highlight of the event was Prejean’s impassioned and eloquent speech on what she has been through, her values, and for her desire for free speech and the respect for diverse views by all.

We sat glued to the TV set in awe.

Let us be the first to say it: Carrie Prejean for Congress. Or Fox News. Or whatever the hell this wonderful young woman wants out of life.

President Obama and the press laugh at the thought of Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys failing

Hollywood hates conservatives. The press hates conservatives. And the worst conservative on earth is Rush Limbaugh. And President Obama loves all that. Put all these ingredients together and what do you get? Comedian and actress Wanda Sykes at the the White House Press Corps dinner last night saying she hope Rush Limbaugh’s kidneys fail, to the delight and laughter of our free press, and of course, our tolerant and very sensitive president.

Oh we know, she was just kidding. The press crops were just a little tipsy. And the president was just politely smiling along with the joke. Can’t we conservatives just lighten up?

CNN’s infamous Tea Party reporter back on the air, now covering Drew Peterson

Highly-respected reporter Susan Roesgen…hell, we can’t even say that with a straight face, so let’s start again. Partisan hack reporter Susan Roesgen is back on the air at CNN.

You may remember Roesgen as the so-called reporter who frantically attacked Tea Party participants in Chicago on April 15. Her pathetic performance drew such unanimous condemnation that Roesgen suddenly departed on a “previously-planned vacation.” A three week vacation, at that.

Roesgen is now back on the air reporting for CNN. Her assignment? The Drew Peterson arrest. And after the way she murdered her Tea Party assignment, what could be more appropriate?

Unconfirmed rumors say that Roesgen immediately caught Peterson’s eye and the dashing former detective is already planning a June wedding.

There’s not a word of truth in that previous sentence. But in our defense, you have to admit that those two deserve each other.

Source: MediaBistro.com

MSNBC’s EdShow on life support. Where’s
Dr. Kevorkian when you need him?

Where did MSNBC find a shot of angry Ed Schultz actually smiling?
Where did MSNBC find a shot of angry Ed Schultz actually smiling?

“Just give Ed Schultz time,” they said at MSNBC. “We’re happy with the numbers for his premiere show. It will build over time.”

Now that the EdShow’s been on the air for a full month, let’s review how angry Eddie’s audience is building.

Uh-oh. Look at that. Schultz is sheddding viewers faster than a snake shedding its skin. And, yes, the comparison was intentional and apt.

The EdShow premiered amid great hype and hoopla on Monday, April 6. It drew a total audience of 725,000 viewers and 247,000 in the coveted Adults 25-54 demographic.

Four weeks later, Monday, May 4, the EdShow had a total audience of just 531,000 and the Adult 25-54 demo has shriveled to just 161,000.

Believe it or not, that’s an improvement. Ed’s audience has been as low as 365,000 per night and the Adults 25-54 demographic once fell to only 75,000.

To make matters even worse, Ed’s ratings are no better than David Schuster garnered on his last night in the same time slot. Shuster’s total audience was larger at 579,000 compared to the EdShow’s 531,000. Shuster’s Adults 25-54 demographic was 153,000 compared to the EdShow’s 161,000. This has to be a huge disappointment to MSNBC after all the time and money they invested in the EdShow.

Would someone please put a mirror under Big Eddie’s nose? Find out if he’s still breathing. Because his show is dead.

Source: Nielsen Media Research via MediaBistro.com

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