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Ex-NBC News Chief Advocates Gumbel for 'Meet the Press
Bryant Gumbel, back to network television news? Catching up this Sunday morning with an item from my pending file originally bumped by Barack Obama's Joe Biden announcement, back in August former NBC News President Michael Gartner, who in 1991 made Tim Russert the moderator of Meet the Press, recommended that NBC now resurrect veteran left-winger Gumbel, whom he hailed as “smart” and “quick,” and…
Pew: Limbaugh and Hannity Fans Politically Smarter Than Colbert's, CNN
The Pew Research Center conducted a survey to see what the audiences of the various political shows knew about politics, and what they found goes against the conventional wisdom about whose audience is better informed about current events. With a simple three-question survey about politicians in high office, it turned out that the audiences of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity answered more…
Sarah Palin's Guest Appearance on Saturday Night Live
Video of Palin's second appearance -- on the "Weekend Update" segment -- follows below the fold:
Vogue: Biden Vice President
Has the election already taken place? No? Then somebody should tell Vogue. They’ve already declared Joe Biden as vice president. A headline on the cover and for the corresponding feature story reads, “All the Vice President’s Women," referring to what the style magazine calls “four generations of Biden beauties.” I agree the Biden women are beauties; I disagree Joe Biden is vice president (…
Bozell: Why Such Slim Cinema Pickings
Brent Bozell's culture column this week focused on his attempts to take young 11-year-old son Reid to the multiuplex on a Saturday. He was First, a gratingly long list of mediocre R-rated movies: Blindness (rated R): Completely hopeless film about people catching an infectious disease of blindness and getting rounded up in a mental asylum.Quarantine (R): Completely hopeless film about a TV news…
Cindy McCain's Attorney Sends Complaint Letter to NYT's Keller
Before the New York Times published Saturday's 2500-word, front-page hit piece about Cindy McCain, an attorney representing the wife of the Arizona senator sent a letter to executive editor Bill Keller appealing to his "sense of fairness, balance and decency" to not run "another story about her."In the correspondence, which has been posted in full by Time magazine's Mark Halperin (h/t NBer Bob Mc…
Olbermann Responds to McCain's Charity Roasting by Bashing Palin
Keith Olbermann cowardly responded to the jokes John McCain made about him at Thursday's Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner by attacking Gov. Sarah Palin.After showing some of the hysterical jibes made at the charity event by McCain and Barack Obama, the "Countdown" host on Friday picked up a microphone, and while doing an astoundingly poor impersonation of a nightclub comic, launched…