Scarborough and Stossel Slam Al Gore and Global Warming
ABC’s John Stossel was a guest on MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country” Wednesday, and it is quite safe to say that he’s not buying into any of the recent alarmism concerning global warming. As a result, he and host Joe Scarborough had a lot of fun at Al Gore’s expense (video link to follow).Scarborough began: “…for Al Gore and Bill Clinton to say it`s causing flooding and causing hurricanes and it may…
Chung, Rather Show How Not to End a Career
Reality often is stranger than fiction, the saying goes. An author writing the story of former anchor partners Dan Rather and Connie Chung's lives would never have had the temerity to have them both get canned within a week of each other. Not after the two's well-known history of bickering and fighting with each other. Yet that's exactly what happened. Seattle Post-Intelligencer TV critic Melanie…
Connie Chung, In Evening Gown, Sings Goodbye to MSNBC Audience
It's not especially newsworthy that Connie Chung and Maury Povich's Saturday program on MSNBC, which debuted in January, has been canceled. Perhaps no more newsworthy, but definitely more amusing, is that on the show's final episode this past weekend, Chung, as she danced on top of and around a piano, bade her audience farewell in song, to the tune of "Thanks for the Memories." (Hat tips: Drudge…
Keith and the Cover
Staring hard at the forthcoming cover of Olbermann's book "The Worst Person in the World," doesn't it appear, oh so poetically, that the cover seems to be applying that honor to Olbermann himself?
Olbermann Follow-Up: Keith Curses at His Viewers
On Wednesday, NewsBusters reported how MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann sent an e-mail message to a viewer in which he debased colleague Rita Cosby as well as his boss at the time. Lloyd Grove of the New York Daily News (hat tip to NB reader John in CA) reported Thursday that Olbermann has been responding to his likely voluminous hate mail with…hate mail:“Keith Olbermann's vacation isn't going so well. “…
New York Post Columnist Asks ‘Do We Need MSNBC
Don Kaplan of the New York Post has a great column today about the failing cable station MSNBC, and quite appropriately asks why we need it (hat tip to TV Newser):“‘It's really running third in a two-horse race,’ says Reese Schoenfeld, who co-founded CNN. “He questions whether MSNBC is even in the same league as Fox News Channel and CNN. ‘Everybody compares MSNBC to Fox and CNN - when its real…
Olbermann Claims Rita Cosby is ‘Dumber Than a Suitcase of Rocks
Apparently, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann doesn’t play well with others – color me shocked.According to Lloyd Grove of the New York Daily News (hat tip to TV Newser), MSNBC’s Olbermann sent an e-mail message to one of his three fans that aren’t related to him that included a rather derogatory comment about his colleague, Rita Cosby:“‘Rita's nice,’ Olbermann wrote to a fan from his MSNBC E-mail…
Media Owe Rove an Apology -- or at Least a Few Hugs
In America, people are innocent until proven guilty, unless of course they are Republican.No finer example of such legal relativism has occurred in recent memory than the case of President Bush’s top advisor, Karl Rove. For months, virtually every mainstream media outlet proclaimed his guilt regarding the Valerie Plame Wilson affair, or what has been not so affectionately named the CIA-leak case.…
