“Obama has produced his birth certificate. There were announcements that ran in two contemporaneous Hawaiian newspapers at the time. The head of the Hawaiian medical records has announced, ‘I have seen the long form you all want.’ I don’t know why the long form is considered more credible than the short form. They’re both from the same office. The State Department accepts the short form or as we call it, the birth certificate,” Ann Coulter on FOX News.
March 23rd, 2011
All Glenn Beck, All The TIme
Writer, philosopher, historian, snake handler, and part-time talk show host Glenn Beck is looking into starting his own cable channel. If this comes to fruition, we’ll no longer need to survive on only one hour a day of chalkboard rants and conspiracy theories. Plus, I can’t control myself in anticipation of the daily four hours of late night GoldLine infomercials.
Mr. Beck has been contemplating a cable channel of his own for more than a year, according to the people who have spoken with him about it, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Mr. Beck may not be able to actively pursue such an arrangement until his Fox contract is up.
Presuming he leaves, Mr. Beck could follow a road paved by Oprah Winfrey when she started OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network in January. He could schedule his own talk show and the shows of others on one of the many cable channels seeking a ratings jolt. Or, following Martha Stewart’s road to the Hallmark Channel, he could start smaller, taking over a few hours of a channel’s schedule.
But a cable channel takeover, even in part, carries enormous risk, as Ms. Winfrey and Ms. Stewart can attest — they have more real estate now, but the ratings comparisons are not favorable. For Mr. Beck, the risk may be heightened by the fact that many advertisers have shunned him on Fox, in part because of a boycott that started after he called President Obama racist in 2009.
February 27th, 2011
Oops, Roger Ailes Might be in Trouble
Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, needs to follow the rule of Jimmy Conway…never use telephones. According to the New York Times:
Ms. Regan had once been involved in an affair with Mr. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner whose mentor and supporter, former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, was in the nascent stages of a presidential campaign. The News Corporation executive, whom she did not name, wanted to protect Mr. Giuliani and conceal the affair, she said.
Now, court documents filed in a lawsuit make clear whom Ms. Regan was accusing of urging her to lie: Roger E. Ailes, the powerful chairman of Fox News and a longtime friend of Mr. Giuliani. What is more, the documents say that Ms. Regan taped the telephone call from Mr. Ailes in which Mr. Ailes discussed her relationship with Mr. Kerik.
It looks like Mr. Ailes will be facing a federal indictment very soon and is clearing his calendar in response.
June 8th, 2010
Israelis aren’t funny
There’s been a medium-sized uproar concerning this video throughout the web over the past week. Supposedly, it is tasteless and demeaning. Humor is at its best when it takes you out of your comfort level and makes you think and, hopefully, laugh. Sometimes you need to be tasteless and demeaning to do that. No, the real problem is that this isn’t funny and not thought provoking. Instead, it is derivative and inane.
It reminds me of the “comedy” show Fox News tried out to go against The Daily Show.