Posted 1:36 PM by Gene

If Tunisia and Egypt could create chaos from nothing what does that say for the Arab world's social cohesion?

Posted 1:33 PM by Gene

A weird juxtaposition on Yahoo!'s home page:

Posted 1:22 PM by Gene

How apt that the company that thought it could get away with financing one of SUMNER's greatest triumphs is now being sued for not putting enough beef in its tacos. This may be just another lawsuit -- or it may be Corporate America doing business as usual. We wouldn't count on one of BIGMEDIA's biggest friends not engaging in the latter.

And of course SUMNER has it both ways as He's unleashed one of His "invaluable satirical critics" against His cowardly sponsor. I preferred the days when our corporate villains played it straight.

Posted 11:46 AM by Gene

Reading this we are a little more optimistic the boom-booms won't take over in Egypt -- although the thug may have sent his sons packing to London, so they're out...maybe -- but we wonder if for all the cries of freedom the Arab world will merely know military dictators for as far as the eye can see.

Posted 10:42 PM by Gene

The Secretary of EHDYUKAYSHUN admits the EVERY CHILD A DILBERT ACT has led to the "dumbing down" of ehd, meaning it's back to square one -- again.

Posted 5:53 PM by Gene

At least the home of the pharaohs is safe.

Posted 5:46 PM by Gene

ARCHDaily!



Dear Dear design [sic]: If I had $50 million to burn I could build "a shoe store in less than 25 square meters" too.

Posted 5:35 PM by Gene

The U.S. State Department said that the situation was of "deep concern," adding that "reform is vital." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appealed for the government to allow peaceful protests and for the people on the streets to "refrain from violence."

Still -- uh, disengaged.

We yet think the thug Hosni can ride this one out but it doesn't seem the sure thing it was a week ago. The big question now is -- who takes over after the man who rid Iran of nukes?

We should remember too that many were killed and injured in the rebellions in Iran -- and the regime lived.

Posted 5:32 PM by Gene

NBC's Engel: Private jets leave Cairo airport [MESS front page video link]

The kleptocrats have voted.

Posted 5:30 PM by Gene

President Mubarak asked government to resign and says will ask for a new government on Saturday.

TRANSLATION: NOT MY FAULT!

P. S. at 5:38 p. m. Or to put it another way, this is the owner firing the coach.

Posted 11:16 AM by Gene

Speaking of the ASSPress (and NewsMAX!!!!!):

Rush Limbaugh's mock imitation of the Chinese language has stirred a backlash among Asian-American lawmakers at the state and federal level.

California state Sen. Leland Yee, a Democrat from San Francisco, is leading a fight in demanding an apology from Limbaugh.

In recent days, the state lawmaker has rallied civil rights groups in a boycott of companies such asa [sic] Pro Flowers [sic], Sleep Train, and Domino's Pizza that advertise on Limbaugh's talk show.

During a Jan. 19 program, Limbaugh said there was no translation of President Hu Jintao's speech during a visit to the White House. He launched into a 20-second imitation of the Chinese leader's dialect.

Shortly after condemning Limbaugh's remarks, Yee says he received racist death threats to his San Francisco and Sacramento offices.

1. When PILLHEAD speaks -- morons listen! 2. PILLHEAD has trouble enough with English, especially when He uses DEMOCRAT AS AN ADJECTIVE. 3. Is a boycott of ProFlowers and Sleep Train going to help?

P. S. at 5:41 p. m. Yes, yes, we know, liberals specialize in professional outrage, but if PILLHEAD hadn't decided to incite them -- or must we go through the mind-numbing debate of the last three weeks all over again?

Posted 11:10 AM by Gene

AP NEWSALERT!!!!!

WASHINGTON (AP) -- US: Egypt situation of 'deep concern,' urges government to reform and allow peaceful protests

Roger wilco!

Posted 10:27 AM by Gene

Well we know the protesters are young, and poor, and angry -- but aren't those the usual ingredients for radical too?

Posted 10:25 AM by Gene

Speaking of hard-hitting:

[T[here was speculation by MPTF activists that Carter, who in recent years has abandoned hard-hitting reporting about the movie industry in favor of softer interviews and gauzy retrospectives, had balked at taking on such a contentious issue.

Since WHEN?

(Via MediaBistro)

Posted 10:23 AM by Gene

Middle East unrest spreads
WSJ's Jerry Seib reports the Middle East has fallen into a storm of violence, and the U.S. must delicately advise leaders and activists.

Boy I sure am glad I subscribe to The Wall Street Journals!

Posted 10:19 AM by Gene

Russia considers color-coded terror threat alerts

Hey Russians! Why are you doing what we just abandoned?

Posted 8:12 PM by Gene

We hate to harp on this, but if news hacks hadn't called them GENIUSES maybe the showoffishly iconoclastic scribblers at GRATE.COM wouldn't ask people like HEF and WOODSTER the PERV to "GO".

Posted 6:41 PM by Gene

Obama's expedient evasion is the opposite of presidential leadership. It maximizes short-term approval ratings while running long-term risks. A loss of investor confidence could trigger a chaotic flight from Treasury bonds and the dollar. One economist recently wrote in the Financial Times: "I hope it does not ultimately require a crisis to restore fiscal [responsibility] . . ., but I fear it will." That was Peter Orszag, Obama's first budget chief. Sobering.

Thankfully Benny and the Wall Street Casino will figure a way to save us. Pffffffffffffffffffffft!

Posted 6:33 PM by Gene

The former PEOPLE WARNER typist who descended into the basement of Kooky Uncle Joe's residence will see the light of day as His Omnipotence's spokespoop!

Carney will not hold the type of counselor role to the president that Gibbs has formed over years by serving as a top aide to Obama from the time the president was a state senator in Illinois and all through his run for the White House. But Carney will be given every access he needs to the president and other decision-makers within the White House so he is in position to speak with full authority, a White House official said.

Sure Mac, sure.

Since switching to the other side Carney has gained a reputation among Washington reporters, many of whom he’s known for years, for having a short fuse and being fiercely protective of his boss’ image.

Hey! He might still be fun!

Posted 6:17 PM by Gene

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted 6:10 PM by Gene

The lunatical up of NETFLIX!!!!! and the lunatical down of AMAZON.COM!!!!! show incontrovertibly whoever or whatever's trading in stocks isn't doing so on fundamentals, it's doing it on fantasies.

Posted 6:07 PM by Gene

The fount of courage who rid Iran of nukes could be a figurehead if he acquires power -- that is, if he continues to show the same courage, which seems all to likely with a man who gained his fame as a League of Nations functionary.

And no one seems to know just who the Egyptian protesters are, except that they spend almost as much time Facebooking and Tweeting as we must; but we can guess, alas, who they could become -- if the template's anything like Iran's.

Posted 2:27 PM by Gene

Elsewhere in the adtalk world: it should not take an advanced degree in ADVERTISING to know that when you spend money on celebrity endorsements you may as well spend it on "Tiger Woods and Brett Favre."

Celebrity endorsements are the moral equivalent of "sponsoring" the Super Bowl.

Posted 2:11 PM by Gene

Here's the contest all those foot-propping cigar-smoking expense-account-wasting CEOS in the luxury boxes really enter:

Worst Super Bowl Ad Ever? You Decide

Meantime a Denny's executive notices something:

The Super Bowl is a big splash and a way of getting noticed, but we've really found that our guests want consistent appreciation over time.

TRANSLATION: The Super Bowl has NOTHING to do with CUSTOMERS, except of BIGMEDIA and AD AGENCIES.

Posted 2:00 PM by Gene

[T]he Kochs are becoming targets for the left in the same way the billionaire financier George Soros, a founding Democracy Alliance donor, has long been vilified by conservatives.

1. Choose your poison. 2. THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED!!!!!

Posted 1:53 PM by Gene

Speaking of press releases:

Sean Connery immortalized with Estonian bust

This one has a certain ring to it.

Posted 1:39 PM by Gene

The NEW! IMPROVED!! DVFORBESLISTBLOG!!! runs a press release copied from a press release about a "survey" conducted by an advertising arm of CONCAST NETWORK ENTERTAINMENT tying into a cross-promotion for a popular stupid social game that made women think MICKEY D'S SERVES HEALTHY FOOD!

BONO! Sell it NOW! TURN OUT THE LIGHTS NEEDS YOU!

Why does a press release become legit when a "reporter" rewrites it?

Posted 7:21 PM by Gene

What's the difference between the SOTU and Davos, aside from the scenery? None: a bunch of people who lucked out in life get to cheer bromides.

Posted 5:40 PM by Gene

"I'D RATHER BE RIGHT!!!!!"

That's the title of a 1937 Rodgers-and-Hart musical starring George M. Cohan as FDR. (Cohan hated FDR, and staged some insubordination toward the authors -- which helped the box office.) It's also BIGMEDIA's motto, as one can too plainly see in these two exasperating stories. "I'd rather be right" means not producing for a general audience because I'D RATHER BE RIGHT!!!!! It means being an effete snob for a cause. It means doing something that gives your ENEMIES heartburn and puts a halo over your head. HARVEY WHINER wanted His hero-future king to utter 500 F-words in an egregious scene rather than edit His film for an wider crowd and now this idiot wants to do that? Of course SUMNER would rather make a scene than make profits, especially if it helps Him live to be 300; He was as surely responsible for this maddening publicity stunt as the one at the Super Bowl. "I'D RATHER BE RIGHT!!!!!" is a big reason our culture stinks. Or to put it another way our media masters' hatred for us is incandescent with their self-esteem, and we should return the favor clicking some of their switches OFF.

And there is ample evidence SCREAMING AT YOUR AUDIENCE may NOT help with the ratings, or the box office.

Posted 5:14 PM by Gene

Bernanke gets 66% approval from investors in poll

Ka-CHINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!!!!!!!!!!

Investors don't have the same positive regard for the Federal Reserve's actions, particularly the decision in November to inject $600 billion of stimulus into the financial system. A plurality of respondents, 35%, say that policy, know as quantitative easing, hasn't had any significant effect on the economy; another 33% say the asset purchases risk a rise in inflation to dangerous levels. Just 27% say the plan to buy Treasuries is working as intended to help reduce unemployment and boost growth.

Knock it off, "investors" -- it's OUR MONEY!

Posted 2:24 PM by Gene

BULLETIN Fed leaves target rate unchanged, says economy's progress is "disappointingly slow"

DOW 1 BILLIONTRILLIONZILLION...never mind.

Posted 1:28 PM by Gene

GOP to look at federal gun laws

...and turn the other way?

Posted 1:16 PM by Gene

TRANSLATION: So long as terrorism doesn't strike at the ruling clique Russia doesn't have to do anything about it. (See also here.)

Posted 1:14 PM by Gene

We would not bet against this latest Wall Street Casino fad; on the other hand we would not bet against this new love of fads doing to the Casino what that other love of fads did over a decade ago.

Posted 1:12 PM by Gene

Oscar Nominations 2011: Why Does Hollywood Hate Hollywood?

It's only doing what most of the rest of us already do.

Posted 12:10 PM by Gene

Gee, THANKS, FREE-EN-TER-PRISE SYS-TEM, for turning classical-music radio into a ward of the state!

(Via the usual AHTSJournal)

Posted 11:55 AM by Gene

In the next ten minutes, if He hasn't done so already, PILLHEAD will bloviate, "THE ECONOMIC MELTDOWN WAS THE POOR PEOPLE'S FAULT!!!!!" We have reason to think that just because Democrats say otherwise doesn't mean they're not right.

Posted 11:45 AM by Gene

SLIME gets hot and bothered because CONCAST has installed a new vulgarian at its new network, but the vulgarity doesn't sound that new:

Greenblatt has greenlighted a romantic comedy, "I Hate That I Love You," about two lesbians who are introduced by a straight couple, fall in love and immediately get pregnant.

Within a year, we predict, DA POST!!!!! will run stories about the CONCAST NETWORK execs who can't stand their Philly superiors, and vice versa. Look, gouging the turnips was never that easy.

Posted 11:39 AM by Gene

The Daily Kaplan mourns the former -- butler of Meet the Press, and while he no doubt did a very fine job for the already pampered guests we wonder if there aren't people out there who deserved a DaKa obit who might not have inspired a slight bit of annoyance, which wasn't the butler's fault.

Elsewhere we mourn Milton Levine, inventor of the Ant Farm, who imprisoned untold millions of ants in see-through plastic cases so the kids could make google-eyes at them, but no one ever complained -- this was before PETA -- and he was called "Uncle" too.

(First link via the usual Romy)

Posted 10:21 AM by Gene

10:15a BREAKING
Deficit to hit nearly $1.5 trillion in 2011: CBO

10:19a BREAKING
Dow industrials top 12,000 first time since 2008

ALFRED E. NEUMAN RULES AMERICA!

Posted 7:37 PM by Gene

SLICK talks so much ROGER "SHUT UP!" AILES wouldn't have Him on His network?

That's TALKING!

Posted 7:35 PM by Gene

Hey BONO! Now that you've ruined YOUR WEB SITE why don't you sell your stake so you can raise more money for SPIDERMAN: TURN OUT THE LIGHTS?

Posted 7:00 PM by Gene

"The Center for Voting and Democracy, a nonprofit group chaired by John Anderson and based in Takoma Park, Md., has come up with an ingenious gimmick to promote its campaign against winner-take-all elections" that TIMMY parrots into "GRAWK! The Oscar nomination process encourages much more diversity than those for the Tonys, the Grammys, or the Emmys! GRAWWWWK!! Weehoo!!"

By our best calculations NINE of the TEN Os-CARRRRRRRRRRR®!!!!! nomineees are AHTHOUSE pictures -- and given its CRI-TI-CAL ACCLAIM the TENTH is an HONORARY one.

P. S. John Anderson? Isn't he the guy GRATE.com would have been foolish enough to endorse had it been foolish enough to exist at the time?

Posted 5:37 PM by Gene

SEC Gives Shareholders Vote on Pay for Companies’ Top Executives

All together now! KUDLOWS! PILLHEADS! CONSERVATIVES OF EVERY STRIPE! One, two, three:

COMMIES!!!!!

Posted 5:29 PM by Gene

ARCHDaily!



Another gigantic HVAC system in Dallas!



The world's biggest fly screen!



Located in Herington, Kansas the new office for Hodgdon Powder Company utilizes a Quonset hut system of construction....

Only most quonset huts don't cost that much!

P. S. at 6:52 p. m. OoooooOOOOOPS! Don't believe we should have said that:

Hodgdon -- The Gun Powder People [G000,000,000GLE link; loaded emphasis added]

Posted 5:22 PM by Gene

And we doubt His Omnipotence's cuts will come to anything as they amount to a haircut on a bald man.

Posted 5:16 PM by Gene

We doubt the Egyptian rioting will come to anything. Egypt is not Tunisia and it is billions in wasted U. S. aid. In the unlikely event the thug Mubaraks flee the country (as the damfool HENRY HONEST BRIGADE was ABSOLUTELY SURE they did), that could lead to an ISLAMIC REPUBLIC. And whether we like it or not ISLAMIC REPUBLICS seem to have NO existential crises, though their existence is empty in a different way.

The United States, a close ally of Egypt and major aid donor, called for restraint from all sides to avoid violence.

"Our assessment is that the Egyptian government is stable and is looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters in Washington.

Either HILLARY!'s winging it or she's being typically clueless, and we can't tell the difference.

Posted 5:10 PM by Gene

How bone-wearying to forever hear our age is "important". These sudden whines that the SOTU is a PITA (pardon my acronym) merely say hacks always juice up this puppet show and now they've been caught with their hands in the puppets. And of course it MUST come the same day as the Os-CARRRRRRRRRRRR®! nominations, a self-important act pimping self-important films for self-important awards. That an animated cartoon's been nominated for BEST PIC-TYURE says how trivial the gag is. And that monument to the ages the SUPER BOWL!!!!! is less than two weeks away. And to top it off we get this piece yelling practically all the "coverage" of the Tucson catastrophe wasn't news. This is like complaining that Coke has high-fructose corn syrup. What can one expect when the news biz' m. o. is SCRIBBLE -- and MORE SCRIBBLE?

Our alleged civilization faces an existential crisis -- and we know this because the principal mental state of our time is ennui. When "important" things happen they tend to be largely photogenic or anti-climax. Even Communism's downfall two decades back seems a historical pittance as it merely led the oppressed nations into a clique that justifies itself by spending and spending. If life is consumerism what is its purpose?

Posted 3:16 PM by Gene

Here's one for the KUDLOVIANS: Last month Michigan's unemployment rate fell by 2.8 PERCENTAGE POINTS!!!!!!!!!!

[T]he December decline “primarily reflected a reduction in the number of unemployed individuals seeking jobs.”

Oh.

DOW EIGHT HUNDRED GIGAHYPERMEGASUPERZILLION!!!!!

(Via Seeking Alpha)

Posted 2:20 PM by Gene

The U.N. chief says a U.N. appointed expert on Palestinian rights made preposterous remarks when he alleged an apparent cover-up by U.S. authorities involving the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

How preposterous can they be when the human-rights fightin' members of the "Human Rights" Council insist they're true? -- like Cuba...or LIBYA?

The only solution to the League is to relocate its HQ to Nouakchott.

Posted 8:56 AM by Gene

EDDIE!!!!! gets his dream job!

Maybe HE can replace Keith O -- as a kinder, nicer Keith O!

He'll be GREAT for comedy!

Posted 9:04 PM by Gene

The GOP would like to defund the unspeakable League of Nations "Human Rights" Council -- but there's a catch:

[D]efunding the UNHRC would be mainly a symbolic act, since the U.S. allocates money to the entire UN, not specific parts of it. Because of that, we could withhold a budgetary amount that’s equal to the cost of the UNHRC, but it appears that there’s no way of knowing whether the money will be spent on the council or not.

Sounds like TV ADVERTISING, n'est-ce pas?

Posted 8:49 PM by Gene

Okay GARF, TV as we know it will be around in a thousand years. Just one problem: with the numbers you and your fellow hacks wave like American flags the audience may not be.

Posted 6:02 PM by Gene

TRANSLATION: Will Uncle Ben's Trickle Down finally work?

Posted 5:41 PM by Gene

Back in '58 (we think) ED MURROW I nearly ran for a Senate seat in New York (guess which party) but thought better of it. Keith, of course, may have no compunctions, but we'd recommend against it for one reason: it will lower his income.

We wouldn't be surprised though if this is another PILLHEAD mind game. We wouldn't do that, PILL. You helped get "HUSSEIN!!!!!!!!!" in the White House.

Posted 12:01 PM by Gene

We are truly sorry Jack LaLanne didn't make it to 100, but it wasn't for lack of trying, and his long life demonstrated most people don't try hard enough.

Posted 11:53 AM by Gene

We have A DOUBLE MASSACRE RALLY TODAY!!!!!

Posted 8:36 PM by Gene

The fact these NFL players are screeching about some quarterback's injury says too many people screech, and it's not just politicians and cable pundits.

And then we wonder why some players are almost total CRIPPLES at middle-age.

It's football, NOT rocket science! Oh, I forgot. It IS.

Posted 8:15 PM by Gene

OoooooOOOOOOooooooh, TONY of the NINE FINGERS is getting into bed with con-SER-va-tive Congresspoops, and....

At best, Scalia's appearance can be viewed as a pep talk. At worst, it smacks of a political alliance.

TRANSLATION: How many such stories read, if it were OUR SIDE....Nine Fingers confirmation hearings are blisteringly dishonest because the candidates dance around their politics for no good reason. The public is wise: There is no separating justice from politics, and the more forthright the NINE FINGERS are about their PREJUDICES the better.

Posted 5:12 PM by Gene

His Omnipotence bows again!

No wonder he hates foreign policy.

(Via -- oh well -- CommentaryMagazine.com)

Posted 2:36 PM by Gene

With its inventor no longer at the levers of power, RENDELLISM is dying. We've mentioned before how such hacks thought...GAMING was a means of limitless wealth; but with every last hack thinking that the time would come when hardly anybody's making money on it. We should not...bet the...GAMING biz is down for the count but we do note Atlantic City is convincing itself it can be reborn 35 years after it was supposedly reborn. No, when even the house can't win the time has come for our ruling superiors to give up on...GAMING as a cash cow.

Posted 1:56 PM by Gene

Can someone tell us why we're supposed to pay any attention to what GEN. LEAK TWOFACE says?

This is like Henry the K popping up everywhere: his sexy rep has far outlasted his limited usefulness -- or his sexiness.

The Oval may be the most CW news Web site there is -- and how apt it's run by the rag that employs THE GANG OF 27.