Category: Television

Shep Smith goes apesh*t on the air, screams “We are America. We don’t f*cking torture.”

Shephard Smith probably wishes he could take back an exchange he had yesterday on Fox News. The anchor got, shall we say, a little heated during a discussion with Trace Gallagher and Andrew Napolitano.

He said, and we quote, “We are America! I don’t give a rat’s ass if it helps! We are America! We do not f*cking torture!”

Immediately after the outburst, Shep got very quiet. We imagine his director must have been screaming some equally color language into his earpiece.

We have one question for you, Mr. Smith. If torture is not allowed in America, how does Keith Olbermann stay on the air?

Source: Fox News via NewsBusters.com

GE shareholders erupt in anger over MSNBC’s leftwing bias

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GE shareholders gather outside MSNBC's headquarters. Keith Olbermann cowers in fear inside.
GE shareholders gather outside MSNBC's headquarters. Keith Olbermann cowers in fear inside.

Anger erupted at GE’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday. “The crowd was angry with MSNBC because of its leftward tilt,” one person observed. “Some former employees said they were embarrassed by it.”

The complaints came hot and heavy. During the question-and-answer period, shareholders repeatedly asked executives about political views expressed on MSNBC and CNBC.

They were pissed about the report that GE honcho Jeff Immelt and NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker reportedly held a dinner meeting at which they told top CNBC executives and and on-air talent to take it easy on President Obama.

They were steamed that MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann didn’t challenge of lunatic Janeane Garofalo’s lunatic ramblings in an interview last week.

It went on and on. The angry questioners refused to be silenced. GE finally resorted to shutting off their microphones, which angered them even more.

“My biggest surprise was the open hostility to MSNBC,” noted one shareholder. “It was noticeable and loud. I don’t remember any of this going on last year.”

A few weeks ago, President Obama told a group of executives, “My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”

Looks like President Obama was right about the pitchforks. But this isn’t quite the way he had envisioned them being used.

Source: HollywoodReporter.com

UPDATE: AUDIO TRACK OF CROWD BOOS WHEN GE CEO’S DEFENDS MSNBC

“O’Reilly Factor” producer Jesse Watters attended Wednesday’s annual GE shareholder meeting as both a GE shareholder and producer of “The O’ReillyFactor.”

He asked asked GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt if Janeane Garofalo’s comments on MSNBC qualified as hate speech.

The other shareholders booed the CEO’s answer.

Source: FoxNation.com

Mia Farrow to begin hunger strike for Darfur

mia_farrow “On April 27th I will begin a fast of water only in solidarity with the people of Darfur and as a personal expression of outrage at a world that is somehow able to stand by and watch innocent men, women and children needlessly die of starvation, thirst and disease.”

We’re surprised to learn Farrow’s beginning a hunger strike. But only because we thought she’d always been on one.

Source: Huffington Post

Associated Press attacks Bobby Jindal’s travel expenses even though they’re not illegal

When didn't Bobby Jindal do anything illegal and when didn't he do it. The AP demands to know.
When didn't Bobby Jindal do anything illegal and when didn't he do it. The AP demands to know.

The libs must be worried about Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal. They sent the attack dog Associated Press out to do a hit piece about the popular Republican’s travel expenses.

Please allow us to save you some time. Just review the first three paragraphs and the last four paragraphs and ignore the nine meaningless ones in between. Here’s the AP’s opening:
Continue reading “Associated Press attacks Bobby Jindal’s travel expenses even though they’re not illegal”

Is Miss California being recruited by Fox News?
If not, why not?

Carrie Prejean, the California beauty who would have won the Miss USA title had it not been for the militant gay egomaniac Perez Hilton, showed up on Neil Cavuto’s Fox program on Tuesday.

She was fabulous. Warm. Gracious. Intelligent. Well-spoken. Amazingly, she appears to genuinely hold no ill will toward Perez Hilton. And she seems to have all the right points of view to qualify for a job at Fox News.

Here’s one brief exchange between Cavuto and Parjean.

Cavuto: (wondering how she would have answered the question posed to Miss Arizona) What do you think of the bailouts?
Carrie: I don’t feel that taxpayers’ money should be used for bailing out companies. I don’t. Do I agree that they should be used for welfare? No. I don’t.

But then Cavuto got the heart of the matter – Prejean’s plans for the future:

Cavuto: What do you want to be?
Carrie: You know, I’m not sure. I’m continuing my modeling career and I’m not sure how far that’s going to lead me. Maybe get into politics, you never know.
Cavuto: You know, half of ‘em want to get into TV news.
Carrie: No, I don’t think I want to get into that. Definitely not. Maybe motivational speaking.
Cavuto: (Whistles) Whew. Breathe a sigh of relief there. OK, good. Because I don’t need the competition. I just want to avoid that.
Carrie: I know.

Carrie Prejean. Smarter than Perez Hilton. More attractive than Paris Hilton. And vice versa, too.

Source: Fox News via HotAir.com

Get Tim Robbins a valium, Showtime passes on his pharmaceutical drama

Bull Durham. From back in the days when Robbins made <s>non-political</s> good movies.
Bull Durham. From back in the days when Robbins made non-political good movies.

“Showtime on Friday passed on Tim Robbins’ well-regarded pharmaceutical-drama pilot ‘Possible Side Effects.’”

That’s how Reuters announced the death of Robbins’ latest project.

The series was to be written and directed by Oscar winner Robbins. He had already signed top talent including Ellen Burstyn. Insiders say the pilot tested well and was considered a sure thing for Showtime’s schedule.

Of course, liberal conspiracy theorists immediately concluded that the project was killed because of its subject matter. “Possible Side Effects” takes a caustic look at the pharmaceutical drug industry.

“Like several other pilots rejected by Showtime, ‘Side Effects’ might be shopped elsewhere,” Reuters said.

Maybe Robbins should take it over to Current TV. Al Gore’s network is pretty desperate. They’ll run damn near anything.

Source: Reuters.com

Miss California defends herself on the Today Show

Miss California Carrie Prejean, who most agree lost the Miss USA 2009 title Sunday Night because, in response to judge Perez Hilton’s question on gay marriage, claimed that marriage should only be between a man and a woman, defended herself on The Today Show this morning. Matt Lauer gave her a chance to revise her answer. No revision necessary, she says:

“The way that I answered might have been offensive … but for me, it was being biblically correct.”

Now this is a strong woman. More of a woman than Ms. Perez Hilton can ever hope to be.

Miss California loses Miss USA title because she doesn’t believe in gay marriage

For some unknown reason, Donald Trump invited offensive and flamboyantly gay Hollywood blogger Perez Hilton to be a judge at the Miss USA pageant last night. He probably won’t be invited back.

It was bad enough that his question to Miss California was, “Vermont recently became the 4th state to legalize same sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?”

She gave a well-reasoned, well-spoken answer. We always thought that was the basis on which contestants were judged in the question and answer segment. Apparently not. Perez Hilton judged the content of her answer and came to the conclusion that it didn’t match his beliefs.

Miss California, who had already won the swimsuit and evening gown portions of the competition, lost the crown to Miss North Carolina when she had the nerve to express herself honestly:

“In my country, in my family, I think that I believe a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there, but that’s how I was raised.”

Hilton’s face froze tighter than Nancy Pelosi’s after a botox injection. As soon as the competition was over, he rushed back to his hotel room and posted this video blog to his followers.

“Miss California lost not because she doesn’t believe in gay marriage. Miss California lost because she was a dumb bitch.” He continued, “If that girl would have won Miss USA, I would have gone up on stage, I shit you not, I would have gone up on stage, grabbed that tiara off her head, and run out the door. And then I would have probably been arrested, but so what.”

It might not be much consolation, but we have a tiara here and we’d like to present it to Miss California and officially name her “Miss IHateTheMedia.com.”

Source: PerezHilton.com

Daily Show uses deceptive editing in attempt to embarrass Fox News

Cody Williard, host of Fox Business News’ Happy Hour, is not your average business news reporter. Think of him as Rick Santelli’s geeky younger brother. But that genetic-ish link to Santelli means he speaks up when he thinks he’s been wronged.

Cody saw Jon Stewart use a little deceptive editing to make it appear that Williard had said something different than what he actually said. So Williard fought back:

“So I think you guys know I try to keep it pretty real with you around here on Happy Hour, continually calling out and calling on you to fight the Republican and Democrat fascists – yes fascist regime. Jon Stewart last night said I dropped the F-bomb on Obama. It wasn’t just on Obama, it was on Obama, Bush and everyone.”

Watch it for yourself to see just how deceptive Stewart’s editing was.

Source: Breitbart.tv

Jackie Chan not sure if freedom is good, says Chinese people need to be controlled

Too many blows to the head = too much freedom.
Too many blows to the head = too much freedom.
Poor Jackie Chan. We now have proof that the Hong Kong movie star has taken too many blows to the head.

Chan made the following moronic comments while taking part in a panel discussion before an audience of Chinese business people.

“I’m not sure if it’s good to have freedom or not,” the actor said. “I’m really confused now. If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic. Taiwan is also chaotic.”

“I’m gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled,” he added. “If we’re not being controlled, we’ll just do what we want.”

This sounds very strange coming from a guy who’s worked hard and made millions of dollars. But we think we’ve figured it out.

There is no Jackie Chan. It’s really just Margaret Cho in drag.

source: Associated Press via Earthlink

Birth of a controversy: Chinese pissed off at Mao condom ad

To the Chinese, this condom ad is pregnant with meaning.
To the Chinese, this condom ad is pregnant with meaning.
China’s official media protested a German condom ad that shows revolutionary leader Mao Zedong as a sperm cell. The campaign includes other ads featuring Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.

The People’s Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, devoted a full page to the controversy and demanded that the condom company apologize to China.

Grey Worldwide, one of the world’s largest ad agencies, created the safe sex ad for Doc Morris Pharmacies. They’ve reportedly sent a letter of apology to the Chinese consulate in Frankfurt.

Not all Chinese seem quite so angry, though. “I am a former worker who is now 70,” said one comment on the sina.com website. “I have thought about it a lot and I still cannot understand why these people defend Mao so strongly.”

He is survived by his wife, three children and seven grandchildren (all boys).

Source: Breitbart.com

Happy birthday: Harry Reid’s greatest stupidity is now two years old.

Can someone explain why Harry Reid is the leader of the United States Senate? For God’s sake, man, is this really what passes for a leader in today’s America?

Nevertheless, this Caspar Milquetoast of a man decided two years ago today that the war in Iraq was lost. He announced it to the world.

If you’re still in an explaining kind of mood, can someone please explain why this clip wasn’t shown time after time after time on every TV network and independent station in America during the last election?

Yes, we hate the media.

Joe the Plumber lays pipe on Bill Maher

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EACX65yggPQ

Six months ago Joe the Plumber was just Joe the plumber. Then Barack Obama knocked on his door, quickly followed by opportunity knocking on his door.

Love Joe or hate Joe, you have to give the guy credit. He walked into the lion’s den (otherwise known as Bill Maher’s show on HBO) and held his own.

Maher, of course, does everything he can to make Joe look like a bonehead, but Joe gave as good as he got. Not bad for a guy who was unclogging drains not too long ago.

Source: BigHollywood.com

Another sign of the apocolypse: TV Land premieres “cougar” reality dating show

"Hey, Jimmy, was that your mom I saw whoring herself out for a bunch of young guys on TV Land last night?"
"Hey, Jimmy, was that your mom I saw whoring herself out for a bunch of young guys on TV Land last night?"

If you thought taxes were the worst thing to happen on April 15, think again.

TV Land premiered a new reality dating show called “The Cougar,” in which a 40-year old single mother of four searches for a younger man. A much younger man.

In case you aren’t familiar with the term, the Urban Dictionary defines a cougar as “A 35+ year old female who is on the ‘hunt’ for a much younger, energetic, willing-to-do-anything male. The cougar can frequently be seen in a padded bra, cleavage exposed, propped up against a swanky bar in San Francisco (or other cities) waiting, watching, calculating; gearing up to sink her claws into an innocent young and strapping buck who happens to cross her path.”

Twenty single men will compete to win the affections of this woman who’s twice their age. Week by week, young studs will be eliminated as a result of various weekly challenges.

“The Cougar” is produced by the same geniuses who brought you “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette.”

The company is reportedly exploring additional dating shows for gay midget quadriplegics, left-handed Irish transsexuals, and hermaphrodites named Ann and Andy. Stay tuned for more information after these words from our sponsor.

Source: CultureAndMediaInstitute.org

Memo to the lovely and gracious Janeane Garofalo:

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To: Janeane Garofalo
From: An outraged conservative
Re: Republican racists
Date: April 17, 2009

Earlier today we published the story Angry activist, actress Janeane Garofalo announces that you’re a racist where she told Keith Olbermann that tax protesters are nothing but a bunch of racist white power wackos.

Well, Janeane, here’s one of those racist Republicans at a Tea Party in Santa Ana, California, right in the heart of whitebread Orange County.

Oh, wait. That woman appears to be black. A black woman had the nerve to tweak Barack Obama’s America-bashing overseas statements on one side of her sign, then tweak Michelle Obama’s ’08 campaign comment on the other (“For the first time in my adult life I’m proud of my country”).

Being in Orange County, she probably isn’t authentically black. But take our word for it, she is authentically outraged.

Update: For some reason our Digg It button not working in this article. You can Digg it here. That is, if you want to send Garofalo the memo.

Tea Party coverage leads to surge in Fox ratings

April 15, 2009 (Tea Party Night) Cable News RatingsEveryone’s ratings were up on the night of the Tea Parties, but the ratings at Fox were in the stratosphere. They can’t even see MSNBC in their rear view mirror anymore.

The Comedy Network’s Daily Show and Colbert climbed into the top ten at the expense of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and CNN’S Larry King.

The ratings for Ed Schultz’ EdShow were so abysmal that MSNBC may rename it “Weekday at Bernie’s.” And all that talk about “teabagging” caused Anderson Cooper to suck. Or maybe we should have said his ratings sucked. Yeah, that’s what we should have said.

Source: Neilsen Media Research via Media Bistro

Angry activist, actress Janeane Garofalo announces that you’re a racist

Janeane Garofalo and Keith Olbermann are complete opposites. She’s angry and nuts, but he’s nuts and angry. Watching their alternate reality is like being dropped into some parallel universe where everything is twisted about 180 degrees.

Here are a few choice comments from Garofalo on Olbermann’s Thursday show. Amazingly, she knows things about you and the Tea Parties and Fox News that no one else has ever known. Or ever will know.

“Racism straightup. Nothing but a bunch of teabagging racists.” Blah-blah-blah. “These guys hate that a black guy is in the White House.” Blah-blah-blah. “Fox News loves to foment this anti-intellectualism because that’s their bread and butter.” Blah-blah-blah. “The Republican hyphen conservative movement has crystalized into the white power movement.”

Olbermann actually treats this lunatic like she’s a rational human being. Of course, that would be the pot calling the kettle black.

Hey, that wasn’t a racist comment. No matter what Garofalo says.

Update: Please read our subsequent Memo to the lovely and gracious Janeane Garofalo:

Source: HotAir.com

PBS to carry al Jazeera propaganda news program. Network to be renamed al PBS?

Introducing al PBS\' new correspondent in Afghanistan. Or maybe Pakistan.
Introducing al PBS' new correspondent in Afghanistan. Or maybe Pakistan.

PBS, the national broadcasting network funded with our tax dollars and your tax dollars and the coerced donations of America’s corporations, has plumbed new depths in its anti-American news coverage.

The network’s WorldFocus program now carries reports from Al Jazeera’s English channel, leading some lawmakers and a lot of citizens to object.

“It is a professional institution but it is a militant institution that wants to convey an ideological Jihadi message,” Walid Phares, a terrorism expert for Fox News, said about al Jazeera.

“My concern is that the American people should be pretty darn upset about the fact that their tax dollars are going to fund this,” said North Carolina’s Republican Rep. Sue Myrick said. “I mean, they’re already upset about what their tax dollars are going to fund, and now they’re funding propaganda.

WorldFocus responded with this statement:

“Though many people who have not seen Al Jazeera English think of it as a propaganda machine for Islamic extremist causes, much of what it produces is not ideological. We also believe Al Jazeera English does sometimes offer us and our viewers a unique perspective from various parts of the world where it has access that others don’t.”

In other news, PBS has announced that it will offer a whole new line of al Jazeera logo items during its next fundraiser. Products include authentic-looking dynamite vests for the dashing about town, stylish burkhas for the liberal lady who wants that chic “international” look, and the much requested “Bush Is Hitler” notepads.

Call now. Operators are standing by.

Source: Fox News

CNN reporter demonstrates exactly why Rupert Murdoch founded Fox News

Back when Rupert Murdoch founded Fox, he said he was doing it because CNN was biased, out of touch and ignored a major part of the audience.

Murdoch’s wisdom was never more evident than during yesterday’s Tea Parties.

First, a CNN reporter asks a man why he’s at the Tea Party, interrupts his answer, and raves about the state of Illinois gets $50 billion in “stimulus” money.

We could excuse it as the emotional excesses of a single reporter. Except for one thing: the YouTube video of the segment is titled “CNN Reporter Roughed Up at Chicago Tea-Party” despite the fact that there was no physical confrontation whatsoever. The bias is simply endemic at CNN.

This one simple clip demonstrates why Fox has higher ratings than the other cable news networks combined.

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

Iraqis bury victims of Saddam genocide, American media yawns


Thousands of Kurds attended the burial ceremony for victims of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi genocide.
Thousands of Kurds attended the burial ceremony for victims of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi genocide.
Saddam Hussein slaughtered more than 180,000 Iraqis during the early 1980s. Iraqi Kurds recently held a ceremony to bury 187 of his victims, but the American media was so busy reporting on the new first dog that they missed the ceremony.

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

Comcast airs Girls Gone Wild commercial during Vatican’s Good Friday service, sales skyrocket

girls_gone_wild 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

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