Janeane Garofalo: Is someone paying Herman Cain to be a tea-party token?
“The tea party is so obviously racist.” She’s quite serious, which makes this clip blogworthy even though it’s just the latest in a long, long, long line of paint-by-numbers racial demagoguery from...
View ArticleJustice Served | NYPD Officer, Anthony Bologna, Who Used Pepper Spray On...
Click through to view Sources: Police Officer Who Used Pepper Spray On Protesters To Lose Vacation Time As hundreds of “Occupy Wall Street” protesters marched to the Manhattan District Attorney’s...
View ArticleShock report: Olbermann not getting along with new network
“I was not given a legitimate opportunity to host under acceptable conditions.” Follow the timeline here. On December 29, the Times noted that he wasn’t scheduled to anchor Current’s coverage of Iowa...
View ArticleReport: Olby won’t tell Current TV whether he’ll anchor their New Hampshire...
Drama. Does anyone really care? According to the Hollywood Reporter, his Current show at 8 p.m. averaged 52,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo on December 15. Compare that to the numbers for the rest of...
View ArticleBreaking: Current TV “terminates relationship” with Olbermann, replaces him...
“The decision to dismiss Mr. Olbermann was unanimous among the senior managers of Current, the person said.” Fox, MSNBC, ESPN, and now Current. Apparently it’s impossible for a media outfit to...
View ArticleOpen thread: Sunday morning talking heads
It’s come to this. Easy choice this week. Do you want to watch Joe Lieberman spin the trophy photos in Afghanistan, Susan Collins and Peter King despair over the Secret Service sex scandal, Axelrod...
View ArticleTerrific: Blogger’s favorite team now co-owned by Bill Maher
Amazin’. All we need now is for Olbermann to buy the Jets and I can give up sports forever. I know what you’re thinking. If Rush Limbaugh’s too controversial to own a piece of the Rams, how come...
View ArticleNew savior of Al Gore’s Current TV: Joy Behar
Seriously. They hired Olby with an eye to creating an angrier, more activist, more, um, “intellectual” version of MSNBC in hopes of capturing the edgy young liberal audience for whom Lawrence...
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