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THE NEWS HACK'S CREED: I know more than you. I make lots more money than you. I'm smarter than you. I'm sexier than you. I appear on TV all the time. I work ten minutes a day. I rule the universe. I'm going to live forever. You are an idiot. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 2: A lie isn't a lie when it tells THE TRUTH. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 3: I've come to realize that the looseness of the journalistic life, the seeming laxity of the newsroom, is an illusion. Yes, there's informality and there's humor, but beneath the surface lies something deadly serious. It is a code. Sometimes the code is not even written down, but it is deeply believed in. And, when violated, it is enforced with tribal ferocity. --JOHN "OMERTA" CARROLL. THE NEWS HACK'S CREED, No. 4: News isn't news when we don't report it. PERMALINKS: THE NEWS HACKS' DICTIONARY THE EUGENE DAVID GLOSSARY AMERICA'S MOST UNINTENTIONALLY FUNNY WEB SITE! Blogroll Me! |
Sunday, January 31, 2010
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8:06 PM
by Gene
Studio executives argue that comparing the performance of films today with those of decades past is an unfair comparison.... But it's a comparison studios brought on themselves, says Paul Dergarabedian of Hollywood.com. "Hollywood has always liked to beat its chest," he says. It's a wonder PAUL DRECK has chest bones. ![]() Nonetheless, for his devoted use of another of America's great PR kings, A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO SCOTT!
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10:18 AM
by Gene
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9:59 AM
by Gene
BREAKING NEWS: Accused 9/11 plotter likely to be executed — White House spokesman But BOB, what if we have that CIVILIAN TRIAL your Chief Social Engineer has the hots for -- and we find TWELVE IGNORAMUSES who are willing to give him LIFE -- or maybe even ACQUIT HIM? What THEN? We know one thing: your TONGUE will get us out of any jam, BOB. Saturday, January 30, 2010
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9:39 PM
by Gene
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5:28 PM
by Gene
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5:21 PM
by Gene
Well, we suppose the PD could protect the courtroom with ten cops and three barricades, and God knows New York's finest haven't always been, and perhaps (as the ASSPress hacks insinuate with these loaded words) some pols came up with convenient numbers to challenge a politically nauseating act, but let us remember His Omnipotence started the ball rolling by saying in so many words MILITANTS were common criminals in disguise, and by appointing a Chief Social Engineer eagerly looking for excuses to avoid his duty to the people.
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5:11 PM
by Gene
Even when these new movies are adapted from highbrow literary works, they cry out for better writing. Older movies were smart to employ many novelists and playwrights who honed their craft in other art forms. Perhaps today's producers need to cast a wider net in luring more gifted writers to try their hand at screenwriting. These 21st century film technicians are more wizardly than ever, but the art of graceful, light-fingered storytelling has been lost on the road to a 3-D, digitized Oz. Consider 10 high-profile movies -- all eagerly anticipated, some likely to be in the Oscar race when nominations are announced Tuesday -- that are strikingly reminiscent of better movies from the past. In some instances these new pictures pale in comparison to classics from Hollywood's golden age. But in other cases, today's movies falter when placed against films from just a few years ago. Somebody said that in LALA?!?!? Or is this just another alibi for praise? This artistic and commercial drought is partly due to production cutbacks. After flooding the market with too much schlock for much too long, the studios are releasing 40% fewer films than they did last fall. But it also reflects a feeling, widely shared by filmmakers and industry veterans, that Hollywood's production apparatus has broken down. Most movies presently manufactured by the studio process are as compromised, bloated and misshapen as they are—even in its darkest days General Motors knew that a car required four wheels and an engine—because the thinning ranks of executives at most studios no longer know how to make feature films that please broad segments of the audience. An alibi. This hand-wringing sounds so damned FAKE -- perhaps because we've heard it all before, just as we've heard the concomitant RAVES WAY TOO OFTEN before.
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4:50 PM
by Gene
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9:06 AM
by Gene
Nice going, Howie Hairshirt. So if a rag chose a known left-leaning editor you wouldn't notice. Nor would BROCCOLI. Yes, we know it's Rev's paper. But yours is 18-percent owned by GOD. ![]() I say it's BROCCOLI, and I say the hell with it! (And I LIKE broccoli.) Friday, January 29, 2010
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7:40 PM
by Gene
'Underemployment' tops 20 pct in 3 states But we can improve the BCS.
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7:38 PM
by Gene
How did that become politically incorrect?
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6:09 PM
by Gene
Was he eight years old?
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6:05 PM
by Gene
![]() A reader sent us this quite unusual project. We don’t know where it is or who designed it, so if you know please do tell us. What do you think it is? My guess, something related with music… Who knows -- maybe even your readers are ashamed?
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5:57 PM
by Gene
SUPER BOWL ADS ARE OUR PROFIT CENTER!!!!!!! (Via MICHAEL, who'd perfectly fit in the USA OKAY!!!!! luxury suite on days like these)
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3:17 PM
by Gene
Two bowls of wet noodles -- in two directions! (Via FinViz)
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1:07 PM
by Gene
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10:31 AM
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9:13 AM
by Gene
We'll drink to that! (HIC!) At least now it's safe to criticize one of SLIME's gifts to man in The Weekly Standard.
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9:06 AM
by Gene
(Via the usual Romy)
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8:54 AM
by Gene
And how little sense do His Omnipotence and His Chief Social Engineer have? Even DEMOCRATS are opposed. Thursday, January 28, 2010
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7:14 PM
by Gene
Isn't the whole recent history of pop "music" a rip-off?
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7:08 PM
by Gene
Nick Dorken and WALTER WINCHELL!!!!! Why am I not surprised?
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6:59 PM
by Gene
Bunny Mellon, the widow of banking heir Paul Mellon, began sending checks "for many hundreds of thousands of dollars" hidden in boxes of chocolates, according to "The Politician" by former Edwards aide Andrew Young. Casanova's going to JAIL!
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3:08 PM
by Gene
HORRORS!
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3:02 PM
by Gene
(Via JPOD)
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11:50 AM
by Gene
Is one of those whizzy computers up to some trading?
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11:24 AM
by Gene
SUPER BOWL ADS ARE OUR PROFIT CENTER!!!!!!!
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10:28 AM
by Gene
![]() Can you recall a CEO leading his charges in a pep rally? Maybe if a few of the overstuffed seat warmers left their executive suites -- but then the only way they'll leave their suites is if they're fired.
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8:55 AM
by Gene
Must've been busy counting the billions for ESPNCORP. If you took company men like MB2 and SHARON out of media you couldn't have media.
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8:45 AM
by Gene
WHINER COMPANY IS NEXT! When we think of the movies that defined the latter part of the 20th century - the movies that mattered, that stories that hit pop culture like a hammer and left a dent – more often than not they came from Miramax. “The Piano.” “Pulp Fiction.” “Sex, Lies and Videotape.” “Clerks.” “The English Patient.” (See slideshow) All too often, we may find ourselves saying: Why doesn’t Hollywood make those movies anymore? We're lucky it can't! But Sharon, you can always get a job with HARVEY -- and we hope the company goes bust the next day! Wednesday, January 27, 2010
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11:18 AM
by Gene
But what can you expect from interns who can write 913 WORDS on SLIME's Major Bowes act?
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10:35 AM
by Gene
What if he's made of thin air?
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10:28 AM
by Gene
And isn't it about time?
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10:23 AM
by Gene
I don't know exactly how tone-deaf the man who tried variety TV 32 years ago is, but I'd wager it's up there.
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10:20 AM
by Gene
I see GanNETtoids convincing themselves again if they plug Super Bowl ads hard enough they too can land a luxury suite.
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10:15 AM
by Gene
What would happen to ESPNCORP if Its machinery broke down?
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10:09 AM
by Gene
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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8:48 PM
by Gene
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5:36 PM
by Gene
NUTS! Humble P. S. at 8:28 p. m. ANTI-NUT NUTS.
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12:16 PM
by Gene
Hey Bill Buckleyson! That would be a great title for your next BRILLIANT satirical novel!
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11:09 AM
by Gene
Meaning after two years we're nearly back where we started!
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10:58 AM
by Gene
TRANSLATION: Now the news hacks REALLY have an incentive to plug Stevedom! (Via MediaBistro)
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10:53 AM
by Gene
Oops! Wrong link. I told you not to believe SUPERNIKKI!!!!!
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10:47 AM
by Gene
Anyway, the family tree shows the offspring of Eleanor and FDR. They had five children who survived childhood (and one who didn't). Between them, these five children had 19 different spouses. So? Monday, January 25, 2010
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6:37 PM
by Gene
Hi! My name's God and I'm running for president.
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10:59 AM
by Gene
Iran opposition leader recognizes Ahmadinejad ...well, more than usual.
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10:18 AM
by Gene
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10:10 AM
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9:53 AM
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9:39 AM
by Gene
[E]ducation and health care employment in Massachusetts grew by more than 20 percent over the past decade. Leisure and hospitality, which includes restaurants and hotels, grew by almost 12 percent. But average wages in education and health care, more than $900 a week, are a third lower than manufacturing’s average of nearly $1,300 a week, according to state statistics. The average weekly wage in leisure and hospitality, about $400, is two-thirds lower than manufacturing. Meantime manufacturing stinks because a previous version of RENDELLISM stated HIGH-TECH!!!!! was the thing. Does anyone in GUVMENT know his rear end from a hole in the ground?
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9:04 AM
by Gene
Once a crank, always a crank. P. S. We didn't click on the link because we can read such stories in our head, and the Web increasingly decreases in its utility because we can read ever more stories in our head.
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8:53 AM
by Gene
Obama is the first truly wired president, the first to have Internet access at his desk and to converse regularly via e-mail. This fingertip access sends him "constantly" online, said one senior adviser, and the information he finds there influences his thinking and some of his deliberations. He also "uses the Internet like a normal adult," said another aide, "reading news articles, checking sports scores." You mean now we have to blame the BUGMEISTERS and the Dalai Lamas of Mountain View? Sunday, January 24, 2010
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10:41 PM
by Gene
Have you considered doing another Broadway show? Not really. Broadway is too much of an asphalt jungle. Not that I can’t handle myself in the infighting. It’s now fairly well-known how they tried to dump me from the cast of How to Succeed. The songs I had been given were corny and almost amateurish, which was the way composer Frank Loesser had intended them to be for my role as the tycoon, J. B. Biggley. Nobody understood that I didn’t need any rehearsal of these simple songs. I had introduced songs on my radio shows, to twenty million listeners, that sometimes I had only run over once, and I refused to sit in a small, hot rehearsal room and sing the goddamned songs for three or four hours steadily, which was what Loesser had all the cast do with his songs. Loesser started the ouster, and about two weeks before the out-of-town tryouts in Philadelphia, I got the word that they wanted me out of the show. My contract was for fifty-seven weeks, which figured out to around ninety thousand dollars. They offered me forty thousand to get out. I knew that if I insisted on full payment of the contract, I couldn’t legally work at anything else for a year. But I was terribly hurt and humiliated. They had chased me for months to do it. “Nuts!” I told my agent. “I want the full fifty-seven weeks. I’ll take it and sit on my ass. The hell with them.” I don’t know whether it was the thought of paying me all that money or what, but they decided to let me stay. When the show opened and people started asking what casting genius had picked Rudy Vallée for the role of old J. B. Biggley, they all bowed their heads graciously. No, they don't make stars the way they used to. P. S. This is the same Frank Loesser who was so insistent on reprising his songs in Guys and Dolls his director George S. Kaufman retorted, "If you reprise the songs I'll reprise the jokes." They don't make composers and directors the same way either.
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3:23 PM
by Gene
![]() "2 Sisters House"? Would it be sexist to call them -- it ugly? OR: ![]() Four white Monopoly houses! Saturday, January 23, 2010
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6:41 PM
by Gene
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6:37 PM
by Gene
Why does G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE need customer service? Can't the customers G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE? PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!
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6:30 PM
by Gene
Guadalajara withdraws Youth Olympics bid ...but thankfully it gives you all the news you don't.
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5:56 PM
by Gene
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3:17 PM
by Gene
But when our FRIENDS do it it's FREE SPEECH!!!!! John, you should have quit while you were ahead.
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1:26 PM
by Gene
![]() So...Paul Har-VEH parroted the FBI when not parroting his sponsors. Needless to say we are hardly astonished at this. A good bit of Har-VEH's act was faking verisimilitude reading commercials. He was also, let it be said, a PATRIOT. Besides news hacks of every stripe parrot somebody. Har-VEH parrots J. Edgar, Walter Duranty parrots Stalin, Thomas L. Friedman parrots the Chinese Politburo, real-estate writers parrot realtors, show-biz flacks parrot moguls -- the rare news hack isn't for sale sometime, and some hang out the for-sale sign more than others. Paul Har-VEH sold himself full-time.
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1:20 PM
by Gene
DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.... (Via WeeklyStandard.com) Friday, January 22, 2010
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5:54 PM
by Gene
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2:43 PM
by Gene
It's an even older story: some people would like to see us dead.
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2:27 PM
by Gene
It didn't look too sluggish on Tuesday.
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10:35 AM
by Gene
WASHINGTON, DC— Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA) today introduced legislation that urges the Senate to amend its rules to ensure that use of the filibuster doesn’t prevent the Senate from voting on legislation or amendments. Rep. McDermott argued that the filibuster gives each individual Senator power far beyond what the framers of the Constitution intended. The resolution has already garnered 25 original co-sponsors and complements legislation that Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA) has indicated he will soon introduce. “The framers of our Constitution thought that the filibuster was such a critical part of our democracy that the word appears in the Constitution exactly zero times,” Rep. McDermott said. “The filibuster has created minority rule. It wasn’t the intent of the framers to give any one person or the minority party the power to bring the legislative process to a halt, which is exactly what the filibuster does. The filibuster gives each Senator the power to silence the will of the majority that voters have chosen through the electoral process.” Why do I think Tom Harkin has some practice in avoiding the bathroom?
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9:57 AM
by Gene
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9:51 AM
by Gene
Thursday, January 21, 2010
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5:43 PM
by Gene
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11:00 AM
by Gene
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10:26 AM
by Gene
Okay, we stand slightly corrected, it says here corporations and union can't contribute directly to candidates; but in the real world what's the practical difference? The money goes to the candidates whether directly or not. CORRUPTION RULES!
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9:48 AM
by Gene
![]() If our extremely rough math is correct this means maybe these two zillionaire mouths got an audience of 16 to 17 million on Tuesday, or just over five percent of the population -- and that's probably overstating it as a lot of people sleep at that time even in TV households...or use their sets as night lights. (That 18-49 number for Ladies' Man seems to prove it.) And let us not forget these clods have seen a sudden population explosion, and when the headache is gone Ladies' Man and Jut-Jaw will go back to being sleeping pills. This is the most preposterous story in recent show-biz memory, but one only has to look at the principals to see how it got that way. Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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10:48 PM
by Gene
Good luck to the New York Times Co. on policing its wall. But if I were Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., I'd be spending more time improving Web advertising to capitalize on the 40 million unique users his corporation-wide sites reach each month. For the first time ever I raise my first in the air for Grate.com and yell, "Hallelujah, brother!" PINCH! IT WON'T WORK.
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10:39 PM
by Gene
Thankfully the sugar-daddy advertisers haven't noticed -- and they never will.
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10:28 PM
by Gene
It's close, but a new Nielsen viewer survey shows that just over half (51 percent) of respondents enjoy the Super Bowl more for the ads than the game. Strangely enough we've yet to see any of USAOKAY!!!!!'s sales pitches for the sales pitches, but it is just a matter of time before America's Flack Sheet does what only it can do: personally insult its readers. God knows that's its specialty.
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5:05 PM
by Gene
![]() This cost $47,500? Not bad, considering. (See! We don't think ALL Modern architecture is junk.)
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5:02 PM
by Gene
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4:59 PM
by Gene
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11:00 AM
by Gene
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9:13 AM
by Gene
This is the sort of question that almost doesn't need an answer.
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8:44 AM
by Gene
You work for SUMNER. MORON. Also USAOKAY!!!!! insisted on running something like this. We know, we know, GanNETt's heading back to $90 -- but is it really worth driving your turnips insane? ![]() A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO GARY -- AND HIS ASSISTANT GARY!
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8:41 AM
by Gene
December housing starts fall 4%; 2009 starts drop 39% to record-low 554,000 DOW 40 -- forget it.
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8:29 AM
by Gene
Kaiser: First Drop For Real-Time TV Viewing Among Youth The bad news: They're slaves to every other gadget. Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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10:21 PM
by Gene
"There is only one guarantee - that if we don't pass something the notion of trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again is a real long shot," said Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., son of the late senator. "If you understand the legislative process, it's a lot easier to pass something and fix it later." TRANSLATION: Let's pass this Yugo now -- we'll get the Rolls later! Or better yet -- let's pass this splintered eggshell now and we'll get the chicken later!
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9:40 PM
by Gene
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9:38 PM
by Gene
Oh ye of little faith in -- God!
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9:23 PM
by Gene
Can we go home now?
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9:02 PM
by Gene
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8:45 PM
by Gene
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7:58 PM
by Gene
President Barack Obama is likely to name a special commission to come up with a plan to curb the spiraling budget deficit under an agreement forged with top Capitol Hill Democrats.
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6:36 PM
by Gene
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5:26 PM
by Gene
And how much of the BULL MARKET rides on a gale of HOT AIR?
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12:33 PM
by Gene
It used to be rookies never played the Bob Hope Classic because so many spots were taken by top players. This year, the tournament went 32 deep into the Nationwide/Q-school category to fill its field. Another way of saying that once you get below a certain level golf is full of high-end amateurs.
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12:14 PM
by Gene
Monday, January 18, 2010
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7:46 PM
by Gene
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7:26 PM
by Gene
We are now in the third year of a depression.
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4:52 PM
by Gene
![]() This must pass for glamour in this glamour-starved age, but however cute America's Sister may be we'd still prefer America's Lover.
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4:41 PM
by Gene
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4:28 PM
by Gene
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4:26 PM
by Gene
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4:23 PM
by Gene
Because of Jerry Jones' edifice complex, the city of Dallas will get a Super Bowl next season. The Cowboys just won't be in it. At least not until they learn to protect their quarterback, cover anyone named Rice and act like they cares [SIC!] about having the ball. We all make mistakes; but we are more likely to make mistakes going blahblahblah, like too many of our print sentinels. And this mistake sticks out because sports hacks more than most go blahblahblah. Sunday, January 17, 2010
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7:57 PM
by Gene
Exzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzciting!
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7:37 PM
by Gene
And don't news hacks hand out these awards?
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7:02 PM
by Gene
...and DAVID "NON" GERMAIN says "inflation" in the fifteenth graf, or three grafs after his weekly sound byte from PAUL DRECK. Okay, this is "just" show biz. But if hacks can play around with trivial numbers what prevents them from playing with our budget-deficit numbers? Or business numbers? Or health-care numbers? Nothing, which is why the more hacks boast of BOX-OFFICE RECORDS!!!!!!!!!! the less we should trust any of their numbers. ![]() A NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO NON!
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5:01 PM
by Gene
1. People keep saying the age of throwing money down the sports toilet is at an end. Why? CEOs still apply the scissors to the big bucks come Super Bowl time; Mickey D is busy building a fiscal bonfire in Vancouver; plenty of companies will still prove they can keep up with the CEO Joneses. Who is to say this isn't a cyclical thing? We doubt it otherwise for a sudden jolt in the economy would surely bring the ad prima-donnas back. It would be sensible if these morons whittled down the ad wastage in sport; but business is NOT sensible. 2. Or to put it another way, if WE weren't shelling out zillions for a sixty at the Bowl would people complain? 3. "We all know what 2009 brought to most people, and 2010 is still challenging. But as viewers and advertisers we attempt to be optimistic, and I think that can translate to a new schedule," said Jon Stimmel, senior VP-group client director for Publicis' MediaVest. TRANSLATION: Besides, there are other things to waste our customers' hard-earned money on, and we intend to waste it. 4. Overall, Michael Niemira, director-research at the International Council of Shopping Centers, said he expects the vacancy rate could actually rise in the coming year. He said store closings are likely to moderate but store openings may be weaker, given that companies were faced with making those plans in the depths of the recession. The ICSC says 4,763 stores closed in 2009, much fewer than the roughly 6,913 closures in 2008 and on par with 2006 and 2007 closure rates. TRANSLATION: Too many stores still chase too few customers. 5. And SUMNERs and their bean counters are spending even more time with focus groups, meaning their excretions will only get worse regardless of what cri-TICS say.
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11:28 AM
by Gene
![]() PaperofRe-CORD.com is going pay again. Good luck -- again! (Via HENRY HONEST) Saturday, January 16, 2010
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7:12 PM
by Gene
On another site (again, no link for obvious reasons -- it's a valuable repository of old soundtracks) I found haunting music from a Columbia B flick called Forbidden Island, one of the last scores by a Hungarian composer named Sandor Laszlo, of whom IMDB.com wrote: Diagnosed with leukemia in 1955 and given only two years to live, he continued his work in music, and lived fifteen more years. Such a line is eloquent because it marks the value of perseverance before long odds.
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11:14 AM
by Gene
No lifetime salary or benefits for Congress Meaning they'd really be paid by lobbyists. Brilliant!
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11:08 AM
by Gene
(Via Seeking Alpha)
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11:00 AM
by Gene
We hate to flog a horse that is not merely dead but was turned to glue long ago but where does this $80 million come from? From US, through the tax collectors called advertisers. And what has this money (plus the assorted other hundreds of millions in supposed production costs) gotten the advertisers? A deadly self-satire. Oh, they can say, the ratings have gone up. Letterman's ratings went up when he was noted as a ladies' man. This is hundreds of millions incinerated for sheer spectacle, and at least a 3D movie has CGI. And this article delivers the double-whammy of bringing back Bill Zehme. If ever any writer auditioned to be the next Larry King, it's Bill. Why unearth the guy?
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10:08 AM
by Gene
And why should we keep the keys with the guys who'd hire two million workers to shovel the ditch away? Friday, January 15, 2010
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5:08 PM
by Gene
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5:00 PM
by Gene
![]() TRANSLATION: SLIME and JIM's MASTERPIECE has just launched a CGI arms race with which luck will produce all sorts of unwatchable 3D movies and bankrupt the biz. Remember CLEOPATRA! (Via MICHAEL)
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2:35 PM
by Gene
There goes that profit center. Whatever can be pirated, will be pirated.
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2:30 PM
by Gene
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12:06 PM
by Gene
Quarterly profit soared to $3.3 billion, topping Wall Street expectations, but analysts had been hoping for signs that the bank's credit costs were leveling off or even starting to fall. In a conference call with investors, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said, "We don't know when the recovery is." A God doesn't know when the recovery is?!?
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9:38 AM
by Gene
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9:19 AM
by Gene
We wonder why JonBoy didn't do this all along, what with his well-noted infatuation. And the best part is with the fifty people who'll write this for His Omnipotence he can temporarily increase his staff! (First two links today via MediaBistro) Thursday, January 14, 2010
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7:35 PM
by Gene
GASP! Twitter is another form of SPAM?!?!?
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6:32 PM
by Gene
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6:16 PM
by Gene
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6:03 PM
by Gene
OR: ![]()
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3:38 PM
by Gene
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3:34 PM
by Gene
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3:21 PM
by Gene
These three clowns have ratcheted it up to a new level of tiresome.
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10:43 AM
by Gene
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!
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9:00 AM
by Gene
Ivan Reitman Calling 'Ghostbusters 3'
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8:40 AM
by Gene
A lot of good that bowing and scraping did.
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8:29 AM
by Gene
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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5:04 PM
by Gene
After being outmaneuvered for nearly 30 minutes, [Murrow] grudgingly admitted that he was "not very equipped to handle the discussion." It was a sobering reminder that for years, a mostly pliant press has allowed a comedian to do a reporters' job. Yesterday, we were reminded how inadequate a solution that really is. Perhaps a mostly pliant press would do more if it STOPPED WATCHING TELEVISION. (Second link via, alas, Jo-NAHDOM)
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2:08 PM
by Gene
![]() Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? We are Gods!
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1:54 PM
by Gene
Rail Traffic in 2009: Lowest since at least 1988 City Budgets under Stress [sic] MBA: Mortgage Purchase Applications Flat DOW 30...oh, never mind.
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1:24 PM
by Gene
You tell him, Bob! And too rich. (Via MediaBistro)
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11:58 AM
by Gene
“While ‘Avatar’ is likely a watershed for digital and 3-D technology,” they wrote, “it does not tell us that the underlying economics of the film business have changed.” TRANSLATION: SLIME and JIM's mammoth piece of video machinery is not The Jazz Singer.
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11:23 AM
by Gene
P. S. Our friends in Mountain View do it again: ![]() (Via Seeking Alpha)
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8:58 AM
by Gene
This is one of the very few justifications for world government, or even the League of Nations -- and even the most well-intentioned relief efforts find a way to screw up.
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8:37 AM
by Gene
1. ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? 2. Defense, and...oh, defense should be enough. 3. Spending umpteen gazillion more on our dreams should justify the spending cuts. Hold on: Any spending cuts would probably not apply to the Defense Department or entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare. They would be concentrated in the roughly 20 percent of government spending that goes to scientific research, education, transportation infrastructure or other domestic programs that are funded by Congress each year. TRANSLATION: Penny wise, meaningless, or both. Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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6:28 PM
by Gene
(Via Seeking Alpha)
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3:24 PM
by Gene
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2:33 PM
by Gene
![]() Here is the most potent symbol of the Wall Street Casino: Anyone who's ever had to shop in A&P stores will know how bad they are (and in the DARK SHADOWS chain they've perfected a new kind of high-end bad); but the people who play the Casino don't know, nor would they want to (although that kerflumph in May might have given them pause). Today GAP announced a $559.6 million quarterly loss and a virtual total writedown of its Pathmark acquisition, but as GEKKO KUDLOWS will gladly tell you, today is just a slight -- pause.
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2:14 PM
by Gene
The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, running in New York through this weekend, was established as an outlet for shows considered too marginal for the main stage. I contend that in these permissive days, an adversarial theater has become undistinguishable and redundant.
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11:59 AM
by Gene
Nominees For Editors' ACE Eddie Awards (First link via HENRY HONEST, whose name I've let pop up here too often)
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11:33 AM
by Gene
That's helped a lot!
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11:21 AM
by Gene
Why am I supposed to care! You've been doing this too much HENRY HONEST!
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11:16 AM
by Gene
Airlines put on high security alert over weekend: Transport Canada
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11:12 AM
by Gene
The appropriate response to the failed Christmas attack is not to open yet another military front but to wind down our wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan and emphasize those things that make America an integrated society of many races, faiths and ethnicities. TRANSLATION: The appropriate response is lock the doors and close the shutters and hope the boogeyman goes away. If His Omnipotence doesn't read The Nation He should, if only to be honest.
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11:10 AM
by Gene
You loony leftists are picky.
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10:30 AM
by Gene
...are in the top 100 in Alexa and Quantcast. PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!!!!
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9:34 AM
by Gene
Further translation: The age gets the leaders it deserves.
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8:23 AM
by Gene
And who'll pay the fees? The banks! Your usual brilliance, Your Omnipotence. Monday, January 11, 2010
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2:20 PM
by Gene
He once said you can tell it’s summertime at the Capitol “because you can smell the visitors, [who] stand out in the high humidity, heat, and they sweat.” He called President George W. Bush a “loser,” Justice Clarence Thomas “an embarrassment” and Bill Frist, his predecessor as majority leader, “amateurish.” He referred to Alan Greenspan as a “hack.” And he had to backtrack after saying the U.S. was “losing” the war in Iraq. And that's why he should stay as Senate majority leader! Anyone who can tick off that many must be good!
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10:11 AM
by Gene
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9:59 AM
by Gene
But it sure did help politicians! (Via Seeking Alpha)
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9:51 AM
by Gene
"Jonah Hex" is saddling up again, this time for additional shooting. Warner Bros. [a marque of DC Comics Pictures] and Legendary are assembling Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox and Michael Fassbender for a roughly 10-day shoot in the Los Angeles area for the movie, beginning at month's end. Although no test screenings have taken place, the studio has decided to work on story and action during the shoots, working in 12 pages of additional script mixed in with some re-shoots. Jimmy Hayward, who co-directed "Horton Hears a Who!" and is making his live-action debut with the movie, remains in the director's chair. He will be joined by "I Am Legend" helmer Francis Lawrence, who was brought in last month to act as a consultant. ("Crank" filmmakers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, who wrote the "Hex" script, were initially on board to direct the movie back in its early stages but were dismissed because of creative differences with Brolin. Brolin told MTV News at the time he thought the script was "awful" but fell in love with the challenge of doing "the most awful movie I can find" if he could put the people he wanted into key positions.) The movie originally was scheduled to open Aug. 6, 2010, but was then moved up to June 18--the middle of the summer tentpole season. Some insiders said the new infusion of scenes and money was designed to fix certain problems with the movie; others have said it's being done to beef up the moderately budgeted pic so that it can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the big-budget tentpole crowd. "Hex" is based on the DC Comics comic book, a Western featuring a scarred-faced bounty hunter. The movie centers on the gunslinger enlisted to track down a former Confederate general who is raising an army of the undead and bent on liberating the South. Akiva Goldsman and Andrew Lazar are producing.
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9:21 AM
by Gene
In a sense, the TV biz is going backwards, but then in a sense the pipe is merely catching up with the sewage it conveys.
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8:55 AM
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8:48 AM
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