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Well, this will go down in Liveblogging History as “the night we shouldn’t have bothered,” but what the hell, let’s wrap it up. This liveblog will continue until ALL THE VOTES ARE COUNTED, or when we go to bed, whichever comes first. Meanwhile: Is Lost Island all a hologram? Only Jim Newell knows for sure. [...]
Here is a clip of a television person, Donny Deutsch, denouncing anger in the media — an annoying and persistent story that, when brought up, is never met with a practical plan for shifting ratings incentives away from base-appealing anger. Parts of the segment, however, suggest that certain MSNBC stars may be part of this [...]
Here is one way to get fired, when you work in the cable news “talent” industry: Secretly make a pilot show with your network’s main competition! That’s what weirdo anchorperson David Shuster got caught doing, taping a secret show for CNN while allegedly being the Loyal Employee of MSNBC. And now MSNBC is all, “You [...]
There’s the real CNN we all hate, which is nothing but a bunch of political consultant hacks sitting at tables reading talking points right off their laptop screens while Wolf Blitzer staggers around yelling nonsense. And then there’s the imaginary CNN available exclusively within Ross Douthat’s skull, a network broadcasting only Hard News programming. To [...]
Did you know that the various “experts” and “guests” and “pundits” on the cable-news shows are almost all corporate shills and lobbyists for various death conglomerates? This is true, and actually kind of obvious to many skilled media observers — just these two guys, really — but The Nation would still like you to know [...]
The Twitter has coughed up this terrifying secret photo from last night’s White House Teevee Reporters’ Jeebus Day Party, in which famous Ugandan homosexual Rachel Maddow takes pity and engages in conversation with the gala’s loneliest wallflower, Fox News president and demonic slug-monster Roger Ailes. What terrible things were these powerful New York media elites [...]
Whoa hey it’s ol’ Andrea Mitchell on the teevee there dishin’ up Rush Limbaugh, and he’s just runnin’ around goin’ nuts about shit. Obama and Sotomayor are radical “reverse-racists” because of whatever, the firefighters, bwah bwah bwah…
