23/6 - Media

From The Feed: Wolf Blitzer: Master of the white man's overbite

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:07:09 -0500

Words cannot express:

From The Room: Pop Quiz: CNN Anchor or Dashiell Hammett Character?

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:18:58 -0500

From The Feed: Mike Huckabee is not your average weekend talk show host

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:07:06 -0500

Here's a new routine to start your Monday: a cup of coffee, a grapefruit and the sweet sounds of Mike Huckabee shredding on his bass from last night's show.

From The Room: The Fox News Version of Obama

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 07:30:17 -0500

It's 2009. I know this because of the many lists circulating around the internet: the best so-and-so of 2008 and the worst. In a Venn diagram version of these lists, I have one thing that falls directly in the middle, the Fox News version of Obama.

  I don't know what disappoints me more: tha

From The Room: Does Caylee Anthony Coverage Suppress Our Urge to Kill Children?

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:37:46 -0500

Interviewer: I am speaking with Joseph Tankreadton, Missing and/or Dead Children Programmer of the Constant Cable All News Network (CCANN). What exactly is your job as Missing and/or Dead Children Programmer?

Tankreadton: My crack team of journalists and journalis

From The Room: Excerpts from the Holiday Cards of 2008's Brightest Stars

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:47:34 -0500

From: John Edwards and family

Dear friends and family,

Greetings from Elizabeth, Cate, Emma-Claire, Jack and that weird-looking bastard kid I fathered. First off, let me explain what kind of weird that kid is. Man, she looks like she has a giant toe for a nose. That's the best way

WATCH (and vote): Is "Huckabee" the worst show on television?

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:09:19 -0500

Watch this montage of last week's show, then vote if Fox New's "Huckabee" is indeed the worst show on TV.'

23/6 Video: "Huckabee" is the worst TV show of 2008

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:14:29 -0500

At the end of the year, we asked you to vote on whether Fox News program "Huckabee" was the worst show on television in 2008.

Overwhelmingly, you voted YES (more than 80% of the vote). So congr

23/6 Video: Joe and Noah: Why is This Happening?

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:14:13 -0500

From The Room: The Audacity of the Vatican

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:23:55 -0500

Remember back in November when lots of Black people were on TV saying that they would continue to tell their children that they could grow up to be anything they wanted to be, except now they'd really mean it?

Well

From The Room: Extra Special Holiday Specials

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:02:54 -0500

In 1966 in New York City, WPIX started showing The Yule Log, a film loop of a burning log that never actually burns, creating a tradition that has enthralled both Christmas fans and stoners alike.

From The Room: Media Drunk Tank: O'Reilly's Unhappy New Year

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:25:52 -0500

Bill O'Reilly's Worst Year Ever

2008 has not been a very good year for Bill O'Reilly. And while there's no definitive proof that there is a God, we offer up the following pieces of empirical evidence:

1. Paul Krugman wins the Nobel Prize
This had to drive Bill nuts. There

From The Room: Yay! Racism Is Over!

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:45:55 -0500

We elected a black guy! Pretty sweet.

When I turned on the news after Barack Obama won the election, I saw white people tripping over each other to declare that racism was over.   Nothing makes me happier than seeing rich white pundits shed a bit of their white guilt in their multimillion doll

From The Feed: Fox News passes the baton to President-elect Obama

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:05:48 -0500

Oh, the symbolism. Fox News uses a split screen to show President Bush speaking about the economy, and President-elect Obama's podium. It is clear that Fox is using Bush to kill time. Obama steps to the podium, to announce his SEC chairperson, Mary Shapiro. Anchoress Megyn Kelly announces that Fox

From The Feed: Mika Brzezinski mugged in Washington

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:44:49 -0500

Mika, the golden light of my morning TV, got mugged in Washington. Sad, and here's the video of her trying desperately to move the show along while the frat party around her harps on the incident: