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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, October 31, 2010
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6:59 PM
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6:34 PM
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1. The good news for BROAD¢A$TER$: Candidates are spending as though they were in GUVMENT. The BETTER NEWS for BROAD¢A$TER$: They can cram still more ads down their turnips' throats! So what happens after the election? In terms of actual governance, if Republicans sweep to victory, they -- like Obama -- will likely find that change is easier to promise than it is to enact. But in terms of fundraising? "There'll be a hangover after this election," Mr. Tracey said. "There won't be a lot of cash on hand." Both sides -- and incumbents in particular -- are "basically emptying their bank accounts" on this one. Easy solution -- get the PEOPLE to fill them up! 2. It may be too late for GROUPON's IPO because everybody's doing it, and some things cannot be sold with a coupon.
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6:29 PM
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(Via ESPNCORP Network News)
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2:47 PM
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HALF-A-DOZEN OF THE OTHER: "Every dollar the government pays its employees is a dollar the government taxes away from somebody else." So let's pay them nothing, Jeff! In the modern America no problem can't be made insoluble. (Via the usual NRO)
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2:23 PM
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One more page of "The" next time!
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1:42 PM
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11:38 AM
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I can see why some in our government might "debate" that.
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11:32 AM
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Claim: Video Game Scores Are Now As Good As Movie Scores Which means video games now cost as much to make as movies, and which also means Max Steiner and Alfred Newman are dead.
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10:47 AM
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10:38 AM
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And we can't stand the REV. DR. BECK any more than we can stand the truth tellers of COMEDY CENTRAL NETWORK NEWS. In the end SUMNER NETWORK NEWS is to the left what FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEWS is to the right, the only difference that the former makes a showy pretense of being factual, and points to pictures of long dead newsmen on the wall, thinking they excuse its faults. We can count on both to mangle the truth for a cause. And for what it's worth even SUMNER'S old hardcore following has died off; Perky Katie is a distant third. The only good is the audience pie is shrinking, but 20.5 million is still too many misinformed and underinformed by all network news. Why must so much "news" reporting resemble PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING? (Via HENRY HONEST!!!!!, who loves such stories because they allow his playpen to go nuts)
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10:28 AM
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So what's the answer, con-SER-va-tives? Pro-corporate sentiments? A PLAGUE O' SUMNER! A PLAGUE O' CORPORATE AMERICA! A PLAGUE O' BOTH YOUR PARTISAN HOUSES!
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12:18 AM
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
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8:39 PM
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“In the absence of any meaningful action from the FCC, Cablevision has agreed to pay Fox an unfair price for multiple channels of its programming including many in which our customers have little or no interest....” ...meaning CABLE is now a dictionary definition of CLUELESS. (Via HENRY HONEST!!!!!)
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7:26 PM
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We'll NEVER stop doing this! More tomorrow.
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7:20 PM
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Here's betting Broc has fewer typists on THIS.
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6:34 PM
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At a local Rong-Aid, America's Most Mismanaged Drug-Store Chain, a poster boasting of its luxury boxes at IGGLES games (and twenty-two other NFL teams', no doubt): "IT'S MORE THAN FOOTBALL!!!!!" Maybe that's the problem. At the next-door Wawa, where we weekly sample Barron'S, the rag that put bull in the language, we found a disciple of GEKKO KUDLOW's named Hennessy, who smiled, "[T]he perception is companies are losing money and everyone is losing their job, when in fact companies are profitable and 90% of the nation is employed!!!!!" (Profitable overemphasis added.) This was right after a statement by a fellow wheeler-dealer named Paulsen who used a favorite Wall Street Casino euphemism, gassing the word "SECULAR" for our nation's long-term unemployment problem when he clearly meant CHRONIC. This is why many take the Wall Street Casino for kindling, and look in vain for a match. Needless to say Alan ABelSon's rag thinks the Dow will go to 200,000,000. Needless to say our unemployment rate won't budge. Nearby a poster touted a two-night stand for some FRINGE entertainment about phone sex. Given we found it on South Street this, we imagine, is FEMINIST PR0N. Feminist pr0n is pr0n with an unhappy ending; it's pr0n with a message, it's pr0n for EMPOWERMENT. In short, it's a pill that needs the pill. This one is sponsored by some sort of "501 (c) (3)" organization for prostitutes, meaning somewhere it's on the FRINGE for His Omnipotence. We well recall "PR0N STARS FOR KERRY", and though it long vanished into memory's rathole the rodent droppings remain. (Although another of its sponsors is an outfit with the droll name OhMiBod -- a maker of musical vibrators.) At a store specializing in om, where two comely ladies do an eternal yoga dance on a CRT, we spotted the Mova Earth Globe, a small political orb that rotates with invisible power, albeit not on a tilted axis (that would be neat). We stopped to see which cities were on it. Philadelphia wasn't. Columbus was. Somebody never visited Planet Earth. At the Quonset Hut, two posters, one boasting of a new work to be performed by (or despite) our Orchestra: an "Internet Symphony No. 1" ('Eroica')." (!!!!!) We imagine 200 simultaneous wrong numbers by fax machines. (This "premiered" on YouTube.) On another we learned a certain Keillor, the Mark Twain of NPNTR, and THE Mark Twain of our time until four or five other Mark Twains came along, is lectur -- appearing at the Hut a week from Monday. We would not want to be inside Mark's brain the Wednesday prior; we'd be rotisseried to death.
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3:49 PM
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1. It also highlights the mismatch between the American worker with the skills needed for tomorrow's jobs. Wait...I thought menial, low-paying jobs were the jobs of tomorrow?? How many times do we have to hear the lies about "not having the skills". Aren't these stats enough to tell you that even college "skilled" people are stuck doing unskilled work? HINT: Even skilled jobs are going to emerging markets. I think "toddd" has gotten at the heart of RENDELLISM! But more touching: 2. The individual stories of these 17 million people may be enlightening. My college-educated neighbor -- a bartender -- purchased his condo cash, works 4 days a week, and refuses management positions whenever offered. My ex-girlfriend, who went to Syracuse on a sports scholarship, is happy as a waitress and enjoys the flexibility. She used to own a successful gift shop, but felt the 16-hours per day didn't warrant the extra income. My highschool buddy finished college, and now has a job as a school-bus driver in New York State. He's happy, and prefers to spend more time with his kids and coach after-school sports while he referees hockey on the side. College ain't just about money.
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3:11 PM
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Well, to spend whatever's left of it, here's "Music to Gulp Angus Burgers By"! (Second link via the usual Romy)
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2:54 PM
by Gene
Today is the day of the Stewart-Colbert rallies in D.C., and the inside-the-beltway pundit types are discombobulated. Besides the fact that many of them have no sense of humor, they are still smarting from Colbert’s on-target skewering during the Bush years at the WH Correspondent’s dinner (covered on the blogs, ignored in the media.) Don’t think for a second that the self-important media has forgiven or forgotten. It will shape today’s coverage. As in: ![]() Yes, the self-important media have not forgotten...their self-importance! (Direct link substituted above for a TinyURL so you can get the full flavor of another heavily ironic with-it in-with-the-in-crowd uncritical RAVE)
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2:08 PM
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12:25 PM
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11:35 AM
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![]() And in light of his JERNALISTIC HEROISM, a SPECIAL NEUHARTHISM OF THE YEAR AWARD TO BROCCOLI!!!!!
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11:32 AM
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Now what can we do about Yemen? I know, BROCCOLI -- LET'S HAVE A SUMNER -- er, SANITY RALLY THERE!
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11:22 AM
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![]() Despite a threat of terrorism, however amateur, Broccoli knows HIS priorities. And yes, I would say there IS a liberal gene, and someone in ST. WARRENDOM is engaged in GENETIC ENGINEERING. Friday, October 29, 2010
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5:14 PM
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Enough! More tomorrow!
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12:08 PM
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12:03 PM
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11:17 AM
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Ncell, a subsidiary of Swedish telecom company TeliaSonera, announced Friday that they have set up seven 3G base stations in the Everest region, allowing climbers and trekkers to access wireless Internet and make video calls, for example over Skype. TRANSLATION: Same old traffic jams on Everest.
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11:14 AM
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10:01 AM
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9:09 AM
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The puppet's almost as popular as the puppet-master!
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8:36 AM
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MORE THAN 1,000 APPLY FOR STEWART/COLBERT RALLY PRESS CREDENTIALS!!!!! > "'THE DAILY SHOW' STOCK HAS BALLOONED OVER THE LAST DECADE!!!!!'" > JON FRIEDMAN: "HE'D BE AN IDEAL CHOICE TO SUCCEED COURIC!!!!!!!!!!" [Romy link; historic overemphasis added] And two doors meekly down: Claim: Boston Globe worth no more than $120 million [Romy link] And, um, uh, er.... "I'm being very generous" with that figure, media appraiser Kevin Kamen tells Jeff Bercovici. "I would say it's worth, realistically, $75 million." (He says the extra $45 million is based on the assumption that a buyer must have a notion of how to make money from it beyond "Let's buy this thing and see what happens.") The Times Co. bought the paper for $1.1 billion in 1993. [Emphasis added] We hate to harp on this but what began as another SUMNER practical joke has bloated into a national media nervous breakdown, a jackhammering beseechment in the form of an all-too-earnest agnostic's prayer that the forces of right overcome the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL of the incoming NAZIS. For that reason these four stories are related. LET'S BUY THIS THING AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS! Pfffffffffffffffffffffft!
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8:28 AM
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In a White House First, Gibbs To Call on Twitter in Press Briefing TRANSLATION: Same old answers. (Via MediaBistro) Thursday, October 28, 2010
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5:43 PM
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We're resuming TOMORROW.
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2:33 PM
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2:27 PM
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P. S. at 2:28 p. m. Out of respect for the office we will refer to Him as President DUDE.
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2:09 PM
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"They didn't touch the people who live here."
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1:51 PM
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(Via something called TekGoblin via SLASHDOT!!!!!)
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1:20 PM
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12:09 PM
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Evidently more than one person. (Via GigaOm via I Want Media)
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11:49 AM
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Hiring up, gross margin down, pricing Its iPad "aggressively" -- when does Heaven become mortal, like other retailers?
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10:56 AM
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P. S. If ED MURROW can call His Om "DUDE" we should call Him that -- yes, and "BARRY" too!
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9:48 AM
by Gene
Or a lobbyist, six of one.
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9:00 AM
by Gene
The numbers also were low in the other marquee college sport, men's basketball, where three of last season's eight NCAA regional finalists and more than one in five programs overall had four-year rates beneath 50%. It's the same old story with the same new stats: If we count badminton and tennis and lots of other less-than-full time sports of course their participants graduate; and the high-end schools will boost the average because their students may be trying to get an education; and we also suspect Title IX and the destruction of men's sports may slant the numbers; but these two BIG younuhversuhtee moneymakers will NEVER change. To be sure we should keep two things in mind: 1. How many regular students graduate at these schools? and 2. How much do the younuhversuhtees grease their athletes' skids?
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8:54 AM
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Count us...not surprised.
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8:48 AM
by Gene
![]() We said it before, we'll say it again: twenty years from now the news-hack swooning over ED and ERIC will be as mysterious and unexplainable -- and as risible -- as the girls' swooning over Rudy Vallée. (Via the usual Romy) Wednesday, October 27, 2010
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6:26 PM
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(Via Seeking Alpha)
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6:20 PM
by Gene
This is worthy of Jo-NAH except Dubya once owned them.
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6:16 PM
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WHAT'S THE POINT OF FINANCING SO MUCH JUNK TELEVISION?
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6:14 PM
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6:05 PM
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Hey NANCY! That would make a GREAT CAMPAIGN SLOGAN!
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5:54 PM
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5:38 PM
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And because HSX.com thinks definite articles should be alphabetized we have to start all over again tomorrow!
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11:48 AM
by Gene
![]() WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HERE'S CLASSIC GEKKO KUDLOWISM IF EVER WE SAW IT! And the best part is -- GUVMENT DID IT!!!!! Don't let 'em talk these markets down, GEKKO! (Oh well -- down over $8 today.)
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11:40 AM
by Gene
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10:12 AM
by Gene
(Via I Want Media)
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9:46 AM
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9:39 AM
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Why doesn't He summon His cherubim at FOXCONN to quintuple shifts?!?!? (Via Seeking Alpha)
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9:30 AM
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9:20 AM
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Well, they know this golden rule: He with the most gold rules.
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9:13 AM
by Gene
It is exasperating that only conservatives seem to care. This is the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, dammit!
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9:10 AM
by Gene
What hath Mr. Whipple wrought? (Well, Kimberly-Clark, anyway.)
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9:08 AM
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8:56 AM
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8:35 AM
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"ISN'T THIS A GOOD THING?!?!?" Mathewson said, referring to the notion that bustling, noisy downtowns signal economic success. [Noisy overemphasis added] WHAT?!? CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!!! Tuesday, October 26, 2010
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7:33 PM
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7:27 PM
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5:15 PM
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Tomorrow -- a letter that has something in common with this one!
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12:58 PM
by Gene
Some people will do anything to lose an election.
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10:32 AM
by Gene
(Via I Want Media)
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9:25 AM
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9:20 AM
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Will This Be the Lowest-Rated World Series Ever? We know two men, however, for whom this is unimportant. One is SLIME. The other is ZELIG.
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9:15 AM
by Gene
Mother Nature votes Republican?
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9:13 AM
by Gene
DOW 700 GIGAMEGAHYPERSUPER...oh, never mind.
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9:01 AM
by Gene
• Bristol-Myers Profit Beats Estimates After Cost Cuts; Revenue Falls Short
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8:41 AM
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Yes, I think these two SONS O' LEGENDARY should be very able to export more jobs. But haven't we run out? Monday, October 25, 2010
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10:05 PM
by Gene
Whatever connotations it once had, the word moderate has now come to mean liberal or even left-wing in American politics. One wonders if that's because Charles Murray called her out.
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9:46 PM
by Gene
Of the 20 richest ZIP codes in America, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, 19 gave the bulk of their money to Democrats in the last election, in most cases the vast bulk — 86 percent in 10024 on the Upper West Side. Meanwhile, only 22 percent of non-high-school educated white males are happy with the direction the country is going in. He also says in so many words that Democrats are reactionaries of the left (no surprise to us) and that Republicans are hopelessly inept managing government (no surprise to us after Dubya) -- another instance of that THING WITH TWO HEADS. (Via WeeklyStandard.com)
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9:21 PM
by Gene
![]() This enervating story should teach us that whatever their differences, when it comes to greed our political parties form The Thing with Two Heads.
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6:33 PM
by Gene
Our next letter stands for what Hollywood keeps excreting!
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11:49 AM
by Gene
![]() Here we thought SUPERADAM! was growing up last week but evidently he's campaigning for another twenty elephants -- uh, National Magazine Awards again. Look SUPER, you don't have to tell us SARAH!!!!! is screwy, but after you're through you think why does she cause mass bigmedia psychosis? (It appears John is also stroking HONORARY MAYOR MIKE's repeatedly stroked ego. Will You run for president, dammit?) Plus he gives us six pages and 4,566 WORDS on the unrequited love of SID and TINA!!!!! -- something we summed up in one line. Where's OUR National Magazine Award? By the way, ASME, are you sure the award should really be a symbol of POLITICAL EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL?
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11:22 AM
by Gene
As we've said too often before, when news hacks are right they still seem wrong as any expectation of truth is squooshed under tons of excess baggage. (Via MediaBistro)
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10:12 AM
by Gene
Does that make him a con-SER-va-tive again? The first two times we clicked on the link we got a page-not-found error. How apt.
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9:58 AM
by Gene
We were about to remark, let's hear you say that when you line up at the public trough! But then we realized, 1. His Omnipotence is detached, and 2. Lincoln "Caspar Milquetoast" Chafee is a Democrat.
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9:43 AM
by Gene
TRANSLATION: EXXONMOBIL, er, CHEVRON, er, THE THREE NETWORKS, er, CNN, er, EVERY BIG NEWSPAPER IN AMERICA CAUSED THE DISASTER!
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9:33 AM
by Gene
Don't tell me the Chinese are backing the GOP? Or does the Wall Street Casino have THAT much money, wacky uncle Joe?
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9:26 AM
by Gene
THE IDIOT HOWIE HAIRSHIRT STILL WORKS AT THE DAILY KAPLAN! ![]() A SPECIAL NEUHARTHISM OF THE MONTH AWARD TO PAUL "THE REPUBLIC WILL FOREVER MOURN THE LOSS OF JACK VALENTI" FARHI!
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9:13 AM
by Gene
And as long as UB has His job CHRISTIANE!!!!! has Hers. (Via the usual media Web sites)
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8:30 AM
by Gene
Remember -- no relation. (Disclosure moment: I know Mr. Sicha socially in a New York media sort of way, and he has written for The New York Times in the past....) Consider yourself -- disclosed. (First link via MediaBistro; second link via I Want Media) Sunday, October 24, 2010
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5:30 PM
by Gene
With only three Qs we skip tomorrow to THE MOVEE BIZ' FAVORITE LETTER! OR: Attendance has fallen 2.2 percent this year.
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1:52 PM
by Gene
![]() We did not know how to work Charles Murray's article on the Effete Snobs in, as it speaks for itself, but count on AHTSJournal to discover that Oscar Hammerstein II's grandson has a lesson for them, from the master himself: "He was quoted as saying you learn much more from a flop than a hit because it's hard to learn anything when everyone is praising you to the skies on those opening nights when everything is going well." Our ruling superiors have never known anything but success, anything but praise to the skies. That's how they can lord it over the rest of us and screw up America big-time. I might add I think our whiz kids destroyed our manufacturing base to affirm their power, and I profoundly detest EDS-'n'-MEDS talk as it's cover for that and as the effete snobs are precisely the biggest beneficiaries; and Murray has his finger on the right hot button when he mentions, quite prominently, THE FIRST AND SECOND GREATEST POP-CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE LAST QUARTER CENTURY. I'd also add what I wrote three months beforehand: "These obsessions speak to the disconnect of the ruling class as much as a love for His Omnipotence -- and they know no political bounds." [Emphasis in the original] One of these days I'm going to get Hammerstein's quote from Hugh Fordin's excellent biography about how playwrights like Tennessee Williams got on his nerves thanks to their trendy nihilism. Our ruling class was a long time being born. P. S. If you want a better picture of Hammerstein -- this is surely from his last decade, when he took up the crew cut -- look at the cover of this lyric anthology and you may not wonder that he won for his second wife a beauty named Dorothy with a strong resemblance to Lynda Carter. I think of his face as an eternal reassurance; but it's clear he had sex appeal too. (First link via, oh well, NRO)
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10:49 AM
by Gene
P. S. We couldn't help noticing given the existential threat of BLUTOS in the air, but "our" version of the guys who robbed J. P. Morgan couldn't hit; yet we must remember, with any league run by a man named SELIG, the law of diminishing returns never kicks in -- unless you're a fan. P. P. S. Some scribbler named Igel has found the problem -- and has devised a great way of solving it: [E]ven though MLB and its partners, including television, cannot control which teams reach the World Series [!!!!!], they can control the message. Why they opt to let commentators and fans do it for them is anyone’s guess. I've got an idea! Let's get Tim Mc-CAR-VER, Mike "ESPN" Lupica and MB2 to proclaim these two teams THE GREATEST WORLD SERIES COMBATANTS EVER!!!!! Bono, go back to writing dreary songs. P. P. P. S. on a no-name Dallas suburb (in the 35TH, 36TH and 37TH GRAFS): Jim Runzheimer, an Arlington lawyer and longtime critic of City Hall subsidies of sports teams, said he can't deny there is a boost in civic pride with the World Series. "But pride can only go so far," Runzheimer said, adding he hasn't seen any convincing studies showing that there is a net economic benefit to the millions invested in the Rangers' or Cowboys' stadiums. "There's been no substantial decrease in the tax rate or substantial new development," he said. "It certainly didn't prevent a $10 million budget deficit." And you can keep it!
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10:37 AM
by Gene
Ka-CHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!!!!! But here’s the punch line: None of these candidates is ahead in the polls. Two of them — Whitman and McMahon — are actually behind. Ka-CHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGED!!!!! P. S. We say the TURNIPS know this, and it's one reason the zillionaires are behind. If they can burn their money on television they can burn OUR money in Washington. They deserve to be behind. Saturday, October 23, 2010
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5:49 PM
by Gene
P's tomorrow -- as in... ![]() PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-U!
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5:39 PM
by Gene
While NPR has long bristled at accusations of liberal bias, a recent study by the Pew Research Center for People and the Press found that 61 percent of NPR's audience describes itself as progressive, while only 15 percent described themselves as tea party supporters. The difference between parties was smaller but still pronounced: 40 percent of NPR listeners described themselves as Democrats, while only 14 percent called themselves Republicans. Keach does not tell us when NPNTR has "bristled" or how, but we can see it pulling that Chevron joke. The best for NPNTR to do is meekly admit it's liberal, and say it will do better. Anything else is searing dishonesty. Friday, October 22, 2010
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11:31 PM
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5:08 PM
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O next -- as in OH, BROTHER!
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11:35 AM
by Gene
And they're prepared to choke it.
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11:02 AM
by Gene
I really do wish though it were possible to write on such a topic without hinting that despite it all videogames can cure cancer. Or to put it another way, if this typing is the norm videogame cri-TICS are displacing rock mu-SICK cri-TICKS on the bad-writing pedestal with their pretension.
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9:53 AM
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9:30 AM
by Gene
Given how Juan landed on a very soft featherbed we're not feeling especially sorry for him either.
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9:24 AM
by Gene
Thursday, October 21, 2010
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8:36 PM
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5:30 PM
by Gene
N is next -- as in NO! NO!! NOT AGAIN!!!!!
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2:46 PM
by Gene
P. S. I would note there appears to be nothing on the Web since SUPERNIKKI!!!!!'s breathless ad, so this project might be as much make-believe as on film.
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2:02 PM
by Gene
So THAT's how you came up with All in the Family!
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1:56 PM
by Gene
Nokia reports rise in profits, announces 1,800 job cuts
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1:31 PM
by Gene
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11:28 AM
by Gene
The Providence Journal to Post Excerpts Only on Web Site That should definitely drive print sales in Portland, Oregon!
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11:25 AM
by Gene
He needs to? Or rather, he needs to?
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11:10 AM
by Gene
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10:20 AM
by Gene
Thomas R. Nides, a six-figure fundraiser for Hillary Rodham Clinton during her 2008 presidential run, disclosed his compensation from Morgan Stanley in a recent filing with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. Exceptionally well-qualified! Why are such stories limited to the CONSERVATIVE GHETTO?
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10:03 AM
by Gene
At one point in the film, Sean Parker, the inventor of Napster, says of the supposed Facebook revolution he helped to promote that once people lived on farms, then in cities, but now they will live on the Internet -- which means living where there really is no such thing as the truth. I'd be sorry to think that that is the case, but it may be so. Yet I wonder if it means that, 50 or 100 years hence, Mr. Zuckerberg will have taken his place in the national pantheon alongside such old-time capitalist heroes as Thomas Edison or Henry Ford, or if his invention of yet another form of the artificial life that our age mass-produces will have been forgotten along with his (by then) ancient technology? I don't know the answer to this question, but if The Social Network has anything to do with how he is remembered, it seems unlikely by that time that anyone will care about Mark Zuckerberg one way or the other.
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9:37 AM
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9:32 AM
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Can't wait for the OMBUDSPOOP's excuses.
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9:13 AM
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9:02 AM
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8:54 AM
by Gene
Well don't forget, G000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000GLE is an international company. (Via Seeking Alpha)
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8:42 AM
by Gene
“If you ask me what could irritate the authorities about the Russian NEWSWEEK’s [SIC!] coverage, I will tell you: everything,” says Mikhail Zygar, NEWSWEEK RUSSIA’s [SIC!] news editor. 1. Couldn't some of your American readers say the same thing? 2. You have the money, Sid. Why didn't you finance a replacement? Oh, you don't have that much money?
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8:33 AM
by Gene
You mean we're throwing all that money at the Wall Street Casino for nothing?
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12:08 AM
by Gene
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
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11:52 PM
by Gene
P. S. on 10/21/2010 at 10:35 a. m. Given what the parrots are doing maybe we should have stuck with our first hunch.
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6:58 PM
by Gene
We looked hard for an apt illustration but anyone can make a greeting card these days. (Via Paper of Re-CORD.com via Seeking Alpha)
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4:56 PM
by Gene
And speaking of rhymes with credible, tomorrow is the M's -- Mmmmmmmmmmm! Tasteless!
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1:58 PM
by Gene
1. Oh -- so now it's OFFICIAL. 2. That should pay for some of LIARLIAR BROCK's salary. (Via the usual Romy, who we'd guess is quite surprised)
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1:53 PM
by Gene
The DUPES are back, or the BIG C viewers are back -- one and the same. The indexes' gains came the day after stocks posted their biggest loss in two months, suggesting investors thought Tuesday's slide was overdone. Who ever said mental illness was illegal?
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1:44 PM
by Gene
TRANSLATION: ED MURROW and ERIC SEVAREID will stage history's first CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED political rally. (Via JENNIFER!)
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10:24 AM
by Gene
Pinch's wall has a mighty big hole in it. (Via I Want Media)
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9:51 AM
by Gene
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9:41 AM
by Gene
The Fentonville Politburo members must have screamed.
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9:36 AM
by Gene
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8:49 AM
by Gene
"I wrote him a note not too long ago, but it came back. I didn't know where he was. Now I do. He's in that great acting studio in the sky."
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8:13 AM
by Gene
This would seem a little less than Kosher. Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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6:54 PM
by Gene
Headquartered where? At a Ripley's Believe It or Not museum?
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6:08 PM
by Gene
YOU'LL WISH YOU'D OWNED APPLE WHEN IT CROSSES $400!!!!!!!!!! (Let's-get-on-our-knees-and...WISH overemphasis added) By which time Its market cap will be $365,424,000,000, or $33,844,000,000 more than today's market cap of XOM. But why $400? Why not, say, $1,100 -- what STEVEDOM WILL sell for WHEN It crosses ONE TRILLION DOLLARS!!!!!!!!!! Aside from fraud, the Wall Street Casino's biggest business is BS.
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