May 14, 2012

NBC Anchor a Keynote Speaker at Conservative Fundraiser

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Elder statesman of the NBC News Department Tom Brokaw has a very specific notion of how the people in the news division should comport themselves. He was so unhappy with what he perceived as the degradation of NBC News' objectivity that he demanded that Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews not be allowed to do any more live coverage of election events in 2008, actually offering himself up as a diplomatic liaison to the McCain campaign, smarting from some Olbermann barbs. Later, he played a key role in seeing that MSNBC rid themselves of Olbermann once and for all (not that Olbermann's actions endeared him to the NBC/MSNBC suits).

Oddly enough, Brokaw seems to have little issue with his Nightly News replacement spoofing the NBC News department on 30 Rock or participating in a Black Eyed Peas lipdub. That doesn't detract from the gravitas of the position at all.

The rest of the article and the video is at Crooks & Liars. How strange no words from Brokaw about this..LOL

http://crooksandliars.com/

May 14, 2012

Howard Kurtz: Tamron Hall Was Wrong To Cut Tim Carney's Mic During On Air Clash

CNN host and Newsweek/The Daily Beast columnist Howard Kurtz laid into MSNBC anchor Tamron Hall for cutting off a guest's mic on her Friday show.

Hall asked guest Tim Carney to weigh in on the report of GOP candidate Mitt Romney's bullying incidents in prep school. Before answering the question, Carney charged that Hall and her colleagues in the media were hyping up the story. That set Hall off. After smacking him down for a minute, she cut off his mic. "You're not gonna come on and insult me," she said to Carney.

After replaying the clip, Kurtz defended Carney, saying that all he did was "challenge her coverage of the report on Mitt Romney." Kurtz added, "It was Tamron Hall who was being insulting by silencing him."

Kurtz believed that it was "perfectly acceptable" for Carney to state that in his opinion, the story was being hyped up by the media. "Does Hall only want guests that agree with her handling of every story?" Kurtz wondered.


If you want to see a video of Kurtz, and who wouldn't????...LOL. Anyway, here's the link:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/14/howard-kurtz-tamron-hall-tim-carney-mic_n_1514250.html

May 14, 2012

Allen West Compares Riding His Motorcycle To 'Touching My Wife'

Do you want to know how nutty Allen West is?????

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) spent part of Mother's Day weekend talking about motorcycles -- and how if someone went for a ride on his bike, it would be like that person was "touching [his] wife."

West was talking about his plans to ride his motorcycle to the Republican convention in Tampa this summer when, during an interview with a California radio show, the host asked West if he could take a ride on West's Honda VTX 1800R retro.

"That would be like touching my wife," West said, according to a report in Sun-Sentinel, a South Florida newspaper.

When the radio show host said it wouldn't be quite the same thing, West doubled down.

"Yes," he said. "It would be."

A request for clarification by West's spokeswoman was not immediately returned.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/14/allen-west-motorcycle-wife_n_1514695.html

May 14, 2012

Is anyone thinking or going to buy any shares of Facebook when it becomes

public on Friday? I believe it opens at around $35. Just curious, was thinking about putting a few bucks there for a while and see how it plays out.

May 14, 2012

Joey Scar's panties in a wad early this morning. The new Obama campaign ad has hit

home and hard re Bain Capital. It is a tough and to the point ad with former workers and they tell the story of how Bain, under Romney, came in and dumped the company. Employees lost their jobs, etc. Joey is just so outraged that the campaign would select this story for an ad against Romney. It's capitalism and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and on and on. The ad is spot on, very powerful and made Joey very upset. I liked it very much.

May 11, 2012

An in-depth and well written piece on the Hollywood event last night.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/barack-obama-george-clooney-fundraiser-robert-downey-jr-323198

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Obama addressed the crowd shortly after 7 p.m.. He thanked Katzenberg for putting the event together and Clooney for hosting it at his house, according to a pool report. The president noted that he spotted a “Hope” poster, by Shepard Fairey, hanging in Clooney’s house.

“People don't realize that the photograph of me is actually me sitting next to George” at an event when Clooney was advocating on behalf of Darfur, the president told the crowd. “We struck up a friendship,” he said, and then he joked, to much laughter: “This is the first time that George Clooney has actually been photo-shopped out of a picture. Never happened before, will never happen again.”

Obama added: "But the wonderful thing is the artist actually sent George -- some of you have seen this -- a print with my picture and his picture right next to each other with the same -- in the same format. Why he said at the bottom, 'Dope and Hope' I don't know. I don't think that's fair."

As for the record-breaking evening, Obama said: "We raised a lot of money because everybody loves George. They like me, they love him. And rightfully so. Not only is he an unbelievable actor, but he is one of those rare individuals who is at ease with everybody. He seems to occupy a constant state of grace, and uses his extraordinary talents on behalf of something truly important.”

May 10, 2012

Thank you Mika! A limited amount of voices would like to "blame" VP Biden for jumping the time line

for the President to announce his support for gay marriage just prior to the convention. Mika commented to those around the table, David Gregory asked the question on MTP and Joe Biden gave his honest answer. What was Joe supposed to do? Lie? Everyone agreed there is no blame here and the time line is a non-issue. The media, for the most part that I have seen is very positive about the President's decision to announce this now. prior to the convention.

May 9, 2012

VP Biden to Appear on "Jeopardy"..Not as a contestant..

Biden to Appear on "Jeopardy"

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Politico reports that Vice President Joseph Biden will deliver one of the categories on Wednesday night.

Posted: Wed, May 09, 2012, 1:05 PM

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May 9, 2012

Think Progress Thank You Letter to the President.

http://thinkprogress.org/take-action/thank-obama-lgbt-b/

This is the link to send a thank you to the President for his decision to support gay marriage. Even though I'm straight, this is a way to show our appreciation for his stance on civil rights for all Americans.

May 8, 2012

One more of many reasons to love Cher..

"Thank God I got the half that thinks," she writes in response to an assertion that a series of tweets -- now deleted -- has cost her 50 percent of her fans.

Cher went on an anti-Republican tirade early Tuesday morning that went viral courtesy of the Drudge Report, and by noon she had deleted the offending tweets.

“If ROMNEY gets elected I don’t know if I can breathe same air as Him & his Right Wing Racist Homophobic Women Hating Tea Bagger Masters,” the entertainer tweeted referring to Mitt Romney, the Republican's likely nominee for president.

After some criticism -- some of it profane -- Cher tweeted: “TOO HARSH? That’s me Holding BACK! They care nothing about the POOR The OLD The SICK The HUNGRY CHILDREN & People striving 4 a Better LIFE ! –"

Complete fun article at: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cher-anti-romney-twitter-rant-reactions-right-wing-republican-321635