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Rush: If Fox Is Talk Radio, CNN Is Kiddie Porn

lol Actually he calls MSNBC pornography and CNN child porn in a very short clip.

MSNBC: Sorry, Reverend Black Guy

I don't know what's more priceless in this short clip via Gawker - Jackson's eyes dropping down marking his displeasure with being called Sharpton, the indignant, scolding manner in which he brought it to the anchor's attention, or her patronizing, almost motherly response in apology.

Oh man.I think his tone knocked her for a loop and she was caught between being testy over his making a big deal out of it, or realize she was playing with offending one of the nation's most notable race baiters. Nah, she wasn't rising to that bait. He sure is arrogant for such an oppressed fellow.

They All Look Alike: MSNBC Mistakes Jesse Jackson for Al Sharpton

Unproductive GOP Dialogue

Especially unproductive near the end.

Marc Lamont Hill Out At Fox

Okay, have at it if you want. Full disclosure - I didn't even know he was in. I simply don't watch much TV. Please don't take my conservative ID away!!

NEW YORK -- Rupert Murdoch continued Fox News Channel's duel with the White House on Friday while also announcing the termination of the network's left-leaning analyst Marc Lamont Hill.

Asked about the White House's recent suggestion that Fox News is acting like an arm of the Republican Party, Murdoch simply said at a shareholders meeting that the criticism has "tremendously increased their ratings."

White House officials have recently stepped up pointed criticism of Fox News in blog postings and media appearances.

Murdoch also said that Hill has been fired. He revealed the move after a shareholder had raised the question of how Hill was hired, citing his "reputation of defending cop killers and racists."

Hill, a frequent guest on "The O'Reilly Factor" and other Fox News shows, has been the target of increasing criticism on the blogosphere for alleged sympathies to controversial figures including Assata Shakur and Mumia Abu-Jamal. Though Hill bills himself as an expert on hip-hop culture, he also drew fire for serving as a liberal foil for various Fox News personalities on subjects far from his stated area of expertise.

What Will Meghan McCain Reveal Next? The World Awaits

Come on, you know it's coming. How long before Meghan McCain inks a deal to add body, though not necessarily substance, to the latest celebrity on the slide to nowhere playground of cable or broadcast TV? You have to admire a self-centric young twist who can manage to put down "flat-chested" women for not being as "sexual" as she's allegedly seen to be, then going on to bemoan a double standard when it comes to men without a blink.

Yes, Meghan McCain wants so badly to be taken seriously in politics, she felt it was time to start tweeting her tweats. Does that take one account, or two? Or perhaps more in the oh so sexual Meghan McCain's unfortunate case? Are you noticing how she usually makes news when she's playing the victim of someone, or something? What an inspirational young woman this is.

I suppose there are several ways to look at her issues, though I'd just as soon pass on her temporary tweat-icon. I didn't find it embarrassing, or sexual myself. If it reminded me of anything, it was Anna Nicole Smith at her worst, someone I always found more tragic, than sexual, to be blunt.

You see, all this time Meghan has been showing everyone everything, in her words, what she's "doing every minute of every day". (yawn) But no one seemed to be paying much attention to young Meghan. Ah, but now that she's shown us her tweats... Meghan's world is apparently, well, ... just okay - after all, she is yet once again just a viktum. Should we be surprised at this point? Really? And how special, ... how sexual, is all this? Thank God for her sake she isn't a B cup. She might not have even gotten her full fifteen minutes squeezed into that little thing.

On Wednesday, I posted a hastily taken self-portrait on Twitter—which I thought was funny and silly—and within a few hours I had caused a minor media scandal. I spent most of the next day thinking about what exactly was so shocking about the picture, why there was such an immediate and nasty overreaction. After all, it’s not like I was caught making a sex tape. I certainly didn’t pose nude for Playboy. And I hadn’t even exposed a nipple.

For years I have struggled to accept the fact that the way I look in a tank top comes off more “sexual” than a flat-chested woman. And once again I was reassured by the media that someone with my cup size should always be covered up. Or what, I’ll be seen as a slut? It’s pathetic we can come so far in so many ways, but when Rep. Aaron Schock or Rep. Jeff Flake post pictures of themselves without their suits on—and their shirts, for that matter—they are proclaimed “hotties.” But put me in a tank top and I am suddenly an embarrassment to the Republican Party and women everywhere. The double standard is infuriating.

As those of you who follow me on Twitter know, I live my life very openly. I will happily tell you what I'm doing every minute of every day. I will tell you what songs I'm listening to, what movies I've seen, and what books I've read. (That’s Arthur Danto’s new biography of Andy Warhol in the photo, by the way.) I love reading other people's Tweets to me.

Audio: Limbaugh Pimp Slaps Mourning Joey

Dayum! Rush doesn't usually play this rough. He must be unhappy with Scarborough. Joe is what's known as a BC, or Beltway Conservative. That's a Republican who wants to grow government slower than a Democrat and convince people they can do it better.

As for Scarborough being neutered? Geez, he's in what, third or fourth seat behind Olbermann and Maddow at that network? Of course he's neutered. How else could he survive? Audio below.

Limbaugh said Scarborough was doing his "best impression of a neutered chickified moderate" when he spoke out against him.

"This can't be helpful for our political process for Limbaugh to be laughing with glee that Obama failed in Copenhagen," Limbaugh said breathlessly, imitating Scarborough.

 

Crotch Watch: Levi Johnston

Here's a thought. Maybe he could use a few bucks from his posing fee to help buy diapers for his kid.

Well, at least the kid will get to see his Father, now, once he grows up. Will he be paid by the inch, or would he do better with a lump sum? I'm telling you, the guy is on his way to doing tricks on the Strip. Or, maybe he'll just stay in Wasilla and screw moose for mullah? He might get good bucks for that, sort of a reverse on a south of the border theme - though environmentalists may insist the moose use a condom at this point. Wouldn't want them to be endangered, or anything.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Levi Johnston is going for the ultimate theme exposure—his bare body. Posing nude for Playgirl is next for the 19-year-old father of Sarah Palin's grandchild. Johnston's attorney, Rex Butler, said Wednesday that a formal agreement has not been reached with the online magazine but adds it's a "foregone conclusion" it will happen.

Letterman's "Little" Office Affair

Geesh, I didn't realize the one girl he was fooling around with was so young. She's just a kid. First time I've seen her. Once you get a look at her it's pretty clear he took advantage of the difference in age and power, etc. Another intern fetishists, I guess.

HuffPo Is Partly Correct On Beck

Well, the headline, that Murdoch will fire Beck, is ridiculous. They've no way of knowing that. And while JWF may be right as regards Beck's 5 PM ratings, the larger picture is unknown. But what's at issue isn't 5 PM. It ain't Prime Time, baby. Believe it or not, I've heard that Scarborough beat Beck in NYC radio ratings recently. At the very least, that suggests a very loyal smaller following without the kind of reach that's needed to actually arrive.

I'm not talking ideology here, folks - so get over it. I'm talking business. I don't agree with all of this from HuffPo - Beck may do just fine at 5 PM for a long time. But his ego is going to want more than that. Whether he gets it, or not, is going to depend on advertising. He may moderate some in terms of rhetoric - no more Obama hates white people for instance. And that might allow him to climb. But he's going to have to drive advertising before he gets beyond 5 PM opposite Blitzer and local news. And in the grand scheme of cable TV, that just ain't all that. Them's the facts. 

Murdoch most likely understands this, and is probably crunching numbers to see how viable Beck is to Fox News in the long run. In financial terms, Beck could most aptly be compared to a derivative; indecipherable and immensely profitable in the short term, but ultimately a ticking time bomb and fast track to disaster.

I don't watch his advertising. So, I've no way of knowing. But if he isn't attracting the big guys specifically for his show, he can't break out of the non-Prime Time slot. That's just the way of TV. It's always dollars in the end before anything else.

Andy Sullivan Pwn3d By The Huffington Post

This is rich. HuffPo claims that the Internets are freaking out because of a not new newly discovered video of Glenn Beck applying vapor rub to elicit tears for a photo shoot.

Internet Finally Discovers Glenn Beck Photo shoot Video, Freaks Out Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/02/internet-finally-discover_n_307972.html

Andy Sullivan bites, or plays along, who knows - along with several other lib blogs:

The leader of the current GOP base reveals his instant sadness:Background - and a useful piece of his previous posturing - here.

Media Bistro had the clip on Sept. 18. So what? It was for a magazine cover. You're going to have to do better than that, guys. If that's all ya got, the Left is in more trouble than I thought.