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Posts Tagged ‘cable news’

31% of Americans Have No Idea Who’s Running the Country

Monday, April 16th, 2007

'The lesson is, Never try.' - WonketteNearly a third of Americans don’t know Dick Cheney is vice president, according to a sad new survey by the Pew Research Center. While people can certainly be forgiven for “forgetting” Cheney is actually running the USA, other poll questions revealed that Americans are just getting dumber overall.

For example, 74% could name the governor of their own state in 1989; only 64% hold such precious knowledge today.

After the jump, feel good about yourself for reading Wonkette!

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Fox’s Most, Least Attractive Anchors Hook Up

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007

This photoillustration proves it! - WonketteRadar reports a rumor today that is so poorly sourced, so speculative, and so hilarious that we wish we’d make it up first: Fox News’ Megyn Kendall Kelly is having an affair with Brit Hume. MORE »


Shepard Smith: No Tony Snow

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

While we’re waiting for the Tony Snow press conference to start, you can watch Snow’s former coworker Shepard Smith, despondent over being passed over for the White House gig, wandering, unloved and depressed, to the Hoover Dam, where, in a final humiliation, he… well, just watch:


Brando’s Dead, This Is the Next Best Thing

Monday, April 24th, 2006

larryking.jpgWe’re taking bets now — which 100-year-old dementia sufferer will be less coherent? MORE »


Rumors on the Internets: Expect the Expected

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

* The ABA likes its lawyers all white and WASPy. [The Volokh Conspiracy]
* Texas just might lasso the next hurricane camped in the Gulf. [Off the Kuff]
* Cross-multiply, carry the 1 . . . yeah, it’s more like 1.9 million children left behind. [Captain's Quarters]
* Gore in ‘08: Pink Lungs For All. [Crooks and Liars]
* What do we want?! Less skewed and sensational presentation of news events! When do we want it?! Eh, slot it after Nancy Grace. [Eschaton]


For SoledadCam, You Gotta Tune In to “CNN Pipeline After Dark”

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

We just went to the CNN Pipeline video thing to maybe catch a few minutes of the President’s speech to the Small Business Administration, but, uh, they seemed to have preempted it in favor of this:
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Yeah, MilesCam. From Miles O’Brien’s office webcam. We’re assuming Miles O’Brien’s office is in one of CNN’s headquarters, so you might think they’d have, like, real cameras, but that wouldn’t be as plugged in as a webcam. Yes, CNN Pipeline: Catchin’ up with 1996! MORE »


BREAKING: TUCKER CARLSON STOPS WEARING HIS STUPID TIE, YET YOU STILL SORTA WANT TO KNOCK HIS BOOKS OUT OF HIS HAND OR KNOCK HIM INTO A LOCKER OR SOMETHING

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

It’s true! It’s all true! Carlson has stopped wearing the bowtie on TV (yet, presumably, still in the bedroom — right, Tucker?).
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Wow, now that’s shocking — wait a minute, TUCKER CARLSON IS STILL ON TV?! MORE »


The Supernatural Powers of Cable TV News Hosts

Monday, April 10th, 2006

Maybe Chris Matthews has “almost transparent knowledge of your soul.” But can he predict the future, like Wolf Blitzer? MORE »


Free Live Helicopter Mountain Footage!

Thursday, March 30th, 2006

CNN Pipeline is Free today! You know what CNN Pipeline is, right? It’s live streaming video direct from CNN. Though not actually of CNN. Of other things, that CNN cameras are at. Kind of like C-Span, but not as tightly-edited. This, for example, is currently on Pipe 3:
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That screenshot isn’t really lacking anything the live feed offers, except the occasional throat-clearing from an unnamed reporter. We just turned off the sound and cranked some Philip Glass — very thought-provoking. MORE »


Paris Protests Continue to Be Awesomer Than Ours

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

sybadmoon.jpgWe are just going to second TVNewer’s call for screengrabs (or clips, better yet!) of this (quoting Brian Williams): MORE »


CHRIS MATTHEWS (AND HIS FRIENDS) KNOW WHAT YOU’RE UP TO

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

CHRIS MATTHEWS HAS THE SHINING

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Chris Matthews, yesterday, to Hillary Clinton spokesperson Glover Park Group Consultant (same diff –ed) Howard Wolfson: MORE »


From the Desk of Chris Matthews (and Friends)

Friday, March 10th, 2006


Ladies and Gentlemen, the letter to Kim Eisler from Chris Matthews, in all its glory. But you’re hereby warned: Chris Matthews’ friends are going to laugh at you.

(transcription available after the jump)

Earlier: Chris Matthews’ Friends Are So Not Going To Sit With You At Lunch Anymore

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Bob Novak’s Birthday: Last Sunday, Apparently

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006