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Eric Burns vs. Glenn Beck?

icn2 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:15:22 +0000

Former Fox News Watch host Eric Burns writes on the Huffington Post about Glenn Beck. This ought to get interesting to see what wing of FNC gives Burns the smackdown…

I speak out now because it is the time of year when one is supposed to count blessings. I have several. Among them is that I do not have to face the ethical problem of sharing an employer with Glenn Beck.

Actually, Beck is a problem of taste as well as ethics. He laughs and cries; he pouts and giggles; he makes funny faces and grins like a cartoon character; he makes earnest faces yet insists he is a clown; he cavorts like a victim of St. Vitus’s Dance. His means of communicating are, in other words, so wide-ranging as to suggest derangement as much as versatility.

He is Huey Long without the political office.

He is Father Coughlin without the dour expression.

He is John Birch without the Society.

He is an embarrassment to all true conservatives, men and women who believe sincerely, thoughtfully and sensibly that the role of government in American life should be limited.

Gretchen: Casey Who?

jakeho — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:28:40 +0000

Fox & Friends co-anchor Gretchen Carlson scored an impressive interview with Derek Jeter, World Sports Illustrated’s “Sportsman of the Year.” As she basked in the glow of her catch this morning, she failed to share a little fact with her audience: Her hubby is Casey Close, a long-time agent of the World Series champion New York Yankee co-captain Jeter.

From the moment the interview began, an enraptured Gretchen seemed to almost have her own Chris Matthews “thrill up [the] leg” moment. Gretchen introduced Derek with a glowing litany of his accomplishments and, subsequently, asked him such probing questions as to what he would do after baseball and whether he would go back to school (since he left college as a freshman). After effecting his apparent apotheosis, she sympathetically queried, “Twenty-four seven the microscope is on you: How difficult is it to live your life so perfectly?”

Even after the interview clip had run, Grethen continued to lavishly laud her husband’s client. She told her co-anchors Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy that she had also asked, “So many people think that you are this perfect guy–which he doesn’t like that label–I said, ‘Do you have any flaws, like, do you make your bed in the morning?” [He does not.]

Apparently, even the producers realized that Gretchen’s questions were more than a tad power puffish. Right before the segment ended, Brian, ratcheting Derek’s divinity down to demigod, remarked, “Here’s the thing about Derek. Great job! He’s not the best in the league; he’s not the best shortstop; he might not even be the best on his team. But, yet everybody wants to be like him, right? Even his enemies seem to respect him. It’s amazing!”

Mighty Casey did not show up today but his man sure did. And, thanks to Gretchen’s pitching, there will assuredly be joy in Closeville tonight.

Kucinich: Afghanistan is Also War Against the American People Through Tax Theft (Video)

Little Alex — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:30:00 +0000

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and Fmr. Sen. Rick Santorum on “On the Record” at FOX News discussing the prolonged Afghan occupation, which will be announced by President Barack Obama tonight. Mr. Kucinich does a good job of smashing down the ‘those on the left-those on the right’ stupid-people rhetoric – 27 Nov 09 (6:28):

There is some hypocrisy to Mr. Kucinich, which shouldn’t be ignored. Odious debt and generational theft is always immoral and authority asserting itself to do so delegitimizes itself and the individuals within that authoritative body should be held liable for their damages.

Odious debt is a crime of the Afghan occupation, but pales in comparison to the crimes against humanity and the crimes of aggression committed by the Bush and Obama Administrations against the Afghan people and their natural resources.

An additional crime against people outside of Afghanistan is the ‘world leaders’ violating their oath to protect civilians of the territories they govern when the inevitable blowback occurs in the cycle of violence. Cheerleaders of the Afghan occupation point to 9/11, but their warmongering displays that 9/11 taught them nothing.

(h/t: Marc Parent)

Huddy: Know Tiger, No Fan

jakeho — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:04:52 +0000

FNC anchor Juliet Huddy revealed on Red Eye this morning that she knows Tiger Woods personally and she is no fan. When discussing the latest in the golf giant’s saga (as to his wife, alleged girlfriend, and his driving accident) with host Greg Gutfeld and his second banana Bill Shultz, Juliet opined, “The sportswriters for years and years and years…just buoyed this guy, lionized this guy. I blame the sportswriters a lot for creating the royalty out of this because he was a drip.”

Then going for the jugular, Juliet cattily continued, “I hung out with him personally–we were talking about this– back in 1999. No personality. Not friendly. Zero warmth.”

If the viewer had any doubt, Bill later encapsulated Juliet’s perspective by channeling her hair extension. Holding up the loose blond strands in his hand, he asked, “What say you, Juliet Huddy’s hair extension?” Speaking like a ventroliquist, Shultz answered, “I think he’s a no good scumbag.” To which, Juliet heartily laughed.

Juliet (and Red Eye guys), beware of the Eye of the Tiger!

Steely Dan-ica Patrick

jakeho — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:53:12 +0000

Today on America’s Newsroom, Danica Patrick, IndyCar’s first female winner and Sports Illustrated model, showed why she is GoDaddy.com’s prized possession. When AN co-anchor Bill Hemmer hammered her with questions about whether she would join the IndyCar circuit full-time, there was no beating around the bush with her. Although a tad exasperated, she patiently answered his queries and then got the interview back on track.

When Hemmer finally mentioned her historical Indy Japan 300 victory (first female Indycar winner), he asked, “What is it like to compete in a man’s sport?” Picking up her man-eating persona, Danica declared, “I don’t know any different: You know, it’s how I grew up. I grew up with a bunch of boys in Go-Karting, and now I’m with a bunch of men in Indycars.” She added, “I enjoy it, actually. Men think simple. You guys are easy and obvious….Whatever is on you mind is what you’re thinking. Whatever is obvious.”

Subsequently, Hemmer queried Danica about her GoDaddy-sponsored IZOD IndyCar Series car. Seamlessly seguing into her role as GoDaddy.com spokesmodel, she pointed to its phallic-shaped nose and purred,”You got to start from the front because I have…a chrome horn or chrome nose. I’m hoping it’s filled with, like, something really solid and. Then she racily added, “Never mind! I won’t go there. But, yeah, we’re all GoDaddy now.”

Yes, it’s Steely Danica and her car. It’s name? Chromy Dan-ica, perhaps. She can certainly crush the men on the field and off.

Been reading Burroughs‘ Naked Lunch lately, Danica?

Beck Advertiser Boycott: Update...

icn2 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:50:46 +0000

MediaPost’s Wayne Friedman writes about what the status of the Beck Advertiser Boycott is…

Four months after major advertisers abandoned Fox News Channel’s “Glenn Beck” show — as a result of Beck’s calling President Obama a “racist” — the network has seen little change in marketers’ media strategy toward the controversial program.

Beck’s ratings pull in hefty daytime audiences — 2.8 million viewers — and the show retains middle and small-level daytime advertisers, according to media executives.

There is still no sign of top-drawer, higher-valued daytime TV advertisers, such as Procter & Gamble, Geico, Clorox, UPS Stores and Progressive Insurance. Their ads had previously appeared on the program.

A recent late November airing of “Glenn Beck” offered advertisers pushing gold and silver financial investments and services, older-skewing products and fringe nutritional products.

F&FW: Deja Vu

jakeho — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:35:02 +0000

Former Fox & Friends Weekend headlines reporter Courtney Friel returned to the show Saturday to the delight of her admirers and the discomfit of her detractors. In the final fifteen minutes of the program, the blond beauty reviewed Thanksgiving weekend movies with co-anchors Dave Briggs and Clayton Morris. Then in the final segment, it was F&FW deja vu.

There sat Courtney on the curvy couch with the crew, Dave, Clayton, Rick Reichmuth, and Alisyn Camerota. The salient differences: she was no longer in the retinue of F&FW’s queen, and it was a different queen. (Aly had regained her throne from Ainsley Earhardt.) Recognizing the new reality, Courtney paid the new ruler homage by aping but not rivaling Aly’s regal garb: she wore a very similar beautiful burnt-red dress with decolletage and long-sleeves yet with a longer, less flattering hemline.

As the proverbial credits began to roll, Courtney waved a hopeful goodbye. A hint that FNC Senior VP of Programming Bill Shine is ending his “one-girl” F&F policy? Be she Courtney or another Fox News femme, let us hope so.

Clayton's Chyron: "Mile-High" Mystery

jakeho — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:45:26 +0000

Naughty Northwest pilots? If the viewer was too riveted to Fox & Friends Weekend co-anchor Clayton Morris this morning, one might have missed what he seemed to really say. Or, in this case, didn’t say. Especially, if her eyes did not glance down upon the “telling” banner at the bottom of the screen.

In Clayton’s preview of an upcoming segment on the Northwest pilots who missed their Minneapolis landing strip by 150 miles, he asked, “What exactly was distracting them, and, do we really want to know?” Co-host Alisyn Camerota guffawed loudly, and co-anchor Dave Briggs animatedly answered, “Yes!”

During the segment itself, audio transmissions between the pilots and traffic controllers were aired. After listening to the pilots refuse to fully elaborate as to the nature of the cockpit distractions that got them off course, Aly opined, “They are covering some rear ends.” Clayton commented, “They did go on to say… [that they talked about] company issues…crew restructuring.” Dave declared, “You can’t tell me that they were that concerned by these [sic] scheduling program that they forgot about the 150 people behind them. Overtly, the trio said little more: However, a suggestive chyron proclaimed, “Mile-High Distraction: Audio of Runway Overshoot Released.”

[For viewers of Live Desk or Studio B with Shepard Smith, this banner repeated speculation a month old. For the bawdy banter between Shep and LD's co-anchor, Trace Gallagher and Martha MacCallum, and Shep, cf. Carpe Diem's "Shep: ‘Mile-High Club Pilots?“

Rick's Cooking: Sub Rosa Comment

jakeho — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:56:07 +0000

Something spicy was cooking this morning on Fox & Friends Weekend, and it was not just the turkey leftovers. In Rick Reichmuth’s “Talking Turkey” segment with Chef Alex Guarnaschelli (host of Alex’s Day Off on the Food Network), Alex complimented Rick’s skills in the kitchen. When she asked him to spoon the hash he was mixing into her pan with frying eggs, she exclaimed, “Oh, fantastic! Look at you! I think you have a future. I think you have a calling. Let me know if you ever need a new gig, you know.”

Joking, Rick rejoined, “I very well might.” Off camera, someone jested something unintelligible to the audience but heard by both Rick and Alex. When Rick laughed heartily in response, Alex, apparently, abashed with arched eyebrows and a raised palm, asserted, “I’m not going to touch that one. I’m just here to cook eggs and talk about leftovers.” Rick chuckled knowingly.

As Amy Vanderbilt might say, “It’s not polite to whisper.” Sub rosa Rick, care to share?

*Fox & Friends Weekend (11/28/09) – @7:42 a.m. ET

Single F&F Female

jakeho — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:43:19 +0000

Is that all it takes? If viewers enjoyed Fox & Friends yesterday a little more than usual, they may be asking themselves, “Why?” Perhaps, it is because FNC which proudly embraces the “Fox” in its name was forced to be less miserly in meting them out. With co-anchor Gretchen Carlson in Florida interviewing former gov Sarah Palin, FNC Senior VP of Programming was “forced” to add a second main femme, Alisyn Camerota, to the almost “all boy” club at F&F.

It was a refreshing return to better days when both Aly and Gretchen graced the show daily. The audience was reminded of the time when F&F, weekday and weekend, was more gender proportionate. Then Shine had not yet replaced F&FW’s Ainsley Earhardt with Aly and, subsequently, pared the prominent position of newsreader (which had been aptly held by a female to help balance the second lad on the F&F curvy couch). It was before there was just one girl Gretchen to the duo of F&F boys, Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade and only one lass, Aly, to the F&FW trio of lads, Clayton Morris, Dave Briggs, and Rick Reichmuth.

Bill, a bit more sex parity, please. It’s time to make it Foxes and Friends once again!

Ok, This was Funny...

icn2 — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:18:07 +0000

When I read about “Spill O’Reilly” last night appearing on the Factor, I wasn’t sure how well that would go down. But I have to say it was pretty funny…

Delusions of Grandeur...

icn2 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:31:52 +0000

Let me get this straight. O’Reilly believes that a two year old ambush interview everyone except O’Reilly has long forgotten is the reason Bill Moyers is leaving PBS? OOOOOOOOOOOOOkay…(via Gawker)

Carlson: Senator Landrieu "Bribed"

jakeho — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:31:58 +0000

This morning Fox & Friends co-anchor Gretchen Carlson made an incredibly inflammatory accusation against Senator Landrieu of Louisiana: Bribery. Yes, you read right. Bribery!

Carlson asserted, “There is a lot of bribing going on, specifically, in the state of Louisiana for Senator Mary Landrieu.” She explained, “Why? Because, apparently, [Senate Majority Leader] Harry Reid was able to get her $300 million to help fix up stuff from Hurricane Katrina. And, that is what bought her the vote, or, bought him, the vote. By giving her $300 million of pork, she then decided to vote for health care reform for his bill.” Carlson continued, “And a lot of people this morning are saying, ‘Yeah, we know these kind of political things happen all the time on Capitol Hill.’ But, for health care reform, something that’s this serious to this country, should we allowing these kind of bribes for votes?”*

Even with that caveat, from this Louisiana author’s perspective, Carlson’s rhetoric bordered on the reckless. When one uses the term bribery in the same breath as a public official, the listener often envisions its primary dictionary denotation. E.g., the first definition in Webster’s Third International Dictionary is “A price, reward, gift, or favor bestowed or promised with a view to pervert the judgment or corrupt the conduct esp. of a person in a position of trust (as a public official). In that context, “bribery” is a serious offense and a federal crime.

While “bribery” has a secondary sense, a more benign definition, i.e., an inducement to grant a favor, it does not resound as resonantly in the listener’s ear. Obviously, any Senator or Representative would be “guilty” of this “crime.” As any politico worth his/her salt knows, such wheeling and dealing is de rigueur in the legislative process on both the state and federal level.

Landrieu’s “deal” has been derisively dubbed, perhaps, aptly, the Louisiana Purchase by opponents of the Democratic bill. However, to go one step further and use the incendiary term “bribery” seems clearly over the line. Especially, for one employed by the “Fair and Balanced” news network.

*Fox & Friends (11/23/09) – @8:02 a.m. ET

FNC Wants Quality Control?

icn2 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:40:18 +0000

FishbowlDC has an internal memo from somewhere inside FNC (odd that the sender’s name is not mentioned. This is atypical for leaked memos to not properly source them) regarding “getting serious” about gaffes like the wrong Palin B-Roll video incident.

The memo warns that those involved in future “mistake chains” will receive “warning letters to personnel files, suspensions, and other possible actions up to and including termination.”

Well I’m all for quality control but this is bullying people for accidents that you can’t completely stamp out no matter how hard you try. It’s live TV. Mistakes have always happened and always will happen. Intimidation and threats are not the solution. Cleaning up the process is. I disagree that the number of “mistakes” have increased greatly in the past few months as the mysterious memo writer states. I see no marked uptick. I do see a marked uptick in the high profile nature of the gaffes, meaning they got wider media circulation, but that’s not the same thing.

I’d really love to know why FishbowlDC redacted the sender’s name. This suggests this is an unofficially official leak.

"Cougar" Carlson: Saved by the Bell?

jakeho — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:28:19 +0000

Rowrrr! With baby-faced beefcake “Extra” weekday host Mario Lopez on the Fox & Friends curvy couch, co-anchor Gretchen Carlson appeared ready to pounce. Thoughts of her very own “Saved by the Bell” boy toy seemed to permeate the atmosphere as she and her co-host, Brian Kilmeade and Steve Doocy, interviewed Lopez and even into the show’s subsequent block.

Before the segment, Brian gave his sportscast and named Minnesota Viking quarterback “forty-year old Brett Favre” as his choice as his weekly “Brian’s Best Player.” In an aside, he joked, “Hey, forty-year olds get off the couch, put on a uniform and the eye black. You can still play!” Before he segued to Lopez’ interview, the forty-three old Gretchen groused, “You make Favre and forties sound like it’s ancient.” Brian deadpanned, “it’s very old.”

During Lopez’ interview, Brian asked, “Am I right [that] you were never a dancer until you gave it a shot on Dancing with the Stars [2006].” After Lopez said that he had not danced since he was a child of five or six, Gretchen racily remarked, “Well, let me just tell you, you still have the moves!”

Later, when the F&F producers put up a pic of Lopez donning ladies’ lingerie, a Merry Widow variant, for FOX’s Nip/Tuck series, Gretchen oohed, “Aww, man! She suggestively added, “I understand the inside story on this was that you didn’t like the way your feet looked in the shoes but that some people liked you butt.” Reddening, Lopez asked, “Wait, what inside story is that?” Before she could answer, Brian interjected, “Yeah, what is going on, Gretchen? What are your sources?” Undeterred, Gretchen continued, “That’s what I read. I read the chicks are envious of your butt.” Apparently, rather ready to move on, Lopez deflectively declared, “I did not know that but…I was surprised they found heels…for a size eleven shoe.”

However, in the very next block, Gretchen was still purring. As she and Steve discussed mammogram and self-exams in a health care segment with Dr. Mehmet Oz (the host of the Dr. Oz Show” jested, “By the way, Mario Lopez is back in the green room trying to learn from me how to examine breasts.” Randily, Gretchen exclaimed, “I think he knows!” Finally, as the segment concluded, Gretchen lustily eyed the camera and cooed, “I’m not kidding, ladies.”

Ainz May Freeze Her Eggs

jakeho — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:31:49 +0000

Fox and Friends Weekend guest co-host Ainsley Earhardt may not have any children yet but she certainly seems more than willing to try. In a segment on a New York doctor’s innovation to allow women to have children later in life, Ainsley discussed with her co-hosts Dave Briggs and Clayton Morris her childless state and how she might remedy her situation in the future.

Earlier, the three co-anchors conversed about in vitro fertilization and older women’s growing prospects of birthing babies. Dave declared, “The question…when is it too old to have your eggs frozen? When is it too old to give birth to children?” To which, Ainsley then replied, “Freezing the eggs, I have friends that are doing this…in their late thirties, their early forties. They’re freezing their eggs because they’re not married yet.” Co-anchor Clayton Morris interjected, “Fertility drops after forty years old.” “Exactly,” responded Ainsley. She continued, “So when they’re ready to use these eggs, then they’re available. It’s very expensive, though: I want to say its like $20,000 a pop.”

Wisely, Dave said, “As a man, I have a hard time telling a woman when it’s too old to have children. Clayton agreed but added, “At some point, it becomes about you rather than the children.” Dave declared, “But, these women in their mid-to late-forties, I say go for it.”

Ringless, Ainsley responded, “I agree. Hey! I’m not going to knock it ’cause…I’m no spring chicken and I don’t have kids. If I get to be forty years old and I don’t have my kids, then, yeah, I might consider freezing my eggs. We’ll see.”

Chuckling, Clayton jested, “Please keep us updated on that.” Smiling abashedly, Ainsley answered, “I will: I’ll let you know.” Dave chimed, “Yeah, please do!”

Ainsley’s new favorite song? Ice, Ice, Baby!

Sisterhood of the Traveling Panties?

jakeho — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:39:13 +0000

The sisterhood of the former Fox & Friends Weekend co-hosts Kiran Chetry and Alisyn Camerota appears to still be going strong. They may not have bought pants from a thrift store that will help them stay together as they thrive on separate cable news networks but they seem to have found some granny panties that will. Or are they something else?

Friday the “traveling panties” showed up on Kiran Chetry, the co-host of CNN’s American Morning. As the Nepalese lovely interviewed New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter on Oprah’s post-broadcast future, her charcoal skirt inched upward to reveal a rather snug black undergarment. Granny panties? Perhaps. But possibly something else. As the faithful AM viewer will recall, Kiran revealed that she was wearing her “emergency biking shorts” under her skirt the day that Richard Simmons had a sudden urge to literally kiss her foot.

By Saturday, Kiran seemed to have sent her hubby Chris to personally deliver the magical netherwear to Aly at the now verboten F&FW studio. Beginning in the show’s first segment, the granny panties (or “emergency biking pants”) peeked out from underneath Aly’s red dress. When they did, they seemed to take on a pinkish hue in a futile attempt to go unnoticed.

Regardless of the nature of the lingerie, Kiran and Aly appear to be at one. Perhaps, they can help their respective audiences cross the political aisle as well. Of course, for their male admirers, it might be easier if there were less fabric involved.

Clayton: History Buff or Bluff?

jakeho — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:13:31 +0000

As loyal Fox & Friends Weekend fans know, co-anchor Clayton Morris fashions himself a history buff. However, today he appeared to be more the dilettante of the American narrative in an F&FW interview of Governor Mike Huckabee. During that segment (on Obama’s hinting that he might not run again in 2012), Clayton asked about one-term President Gerald Ford.

Clayton commented, “Let’s talk about Gerald Ford for a second from a history perspective because I’m fascinated by that moment.” (Perhaps, he should not have.) Confounded, Clayton disjointedly declared, “He ran but he knew by pardoning Nixon, by taking some of those bullets. And, of course, famously even featured in Profiles in Courage, you know, the Kennedy book later for having courage to stand up and take sort of a bullet for the country as a result of the Nixon impeachment proceedings. Is that what President Obama is saying here?”*

In the past, Clayton has confused the nineteenth century caning of a would-be assassin by our seventh President “Old Hickory,” Andrew Jackson, with the beating of Senator Charles Sumner by Rep. Preston Brooks more than two decades later. Such an error about the arcane Congressional record is one thing. However, not remembering President Gerald Ford’s 1974 pardon of the disgraced Richard M. Nixon occurred almost twenty years after President John F. Kennedy penned his 1955 Profiles in Courage is another altogether. [N.B. Gerald Ford did receive the 2001 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage award (named after JFK's book) for his pardon of Nixon.]

The dangers of being a self-dubbed “buff”! In the future, Clayton may well want to consult the country’s chronicles before opining on its past beyond the current news cycle. The author does not doubt that he will learn from another of his avocations and get better with age.

*Fox & Friends (11/21/09) – @8:49 a.m. ET

F&FW Guest: Obama's "Mussolini Pose"

jakeho — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:23:55 +0000

An allusion too far? Lt. Col. Ralph Peters (ret), FNC strategic analyst, was as outspoken and controversial as ever this morning on Fox & Friends Weekend. When F&FW co-anchor Dave Briggs asked the author of the War after Armageddon what Americans obtained from President Obama’s trip to Asia and the “deference that he is showing all these countries around the world,” Peters did not hold back.

Brusquely, Peters replied, “The answer is nowhere.” He added, “We have a runaway President. He doesn’t seem to like to be in the Oval Office facing tough decisions….[He] thrives on applause: He’s hooked on it.” Then going for the proverbial jugular, he continued, “He loves to go abroad and, you know, lift his jaw in that sort of Mussolini pose he does and stir us with his rhetoric. But, there are no results.”*

Wow! If Peters did not go over the edge in comparing Obama’s oratorical carriage to that of Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, he certainly skated right up to it. Had he likened Obama’s rhetorical skills to Mussolini’s German Axis partner, would there be any doubt?

*Fox & Friends Weekend (11/21/09) – @7:48 a.m. ET

Aly: Ailes' New Bunny

jakeho — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:33:16 +0000

With his Energizer bunny Megyn Kelly away on maternity leave, Roger Ailes seems to have picked Alisyn Camerota to fill in the void. Not only did Aly perform her duties on Fox & Friends Weekend last weekend but she also guest-hosted on American’s Newsroom this week and subbed as a Cultural Warrior on the O’Reilly Factor last night. According to her AN co-anchor Bill Hemmer, Aly will be on F&F as usual this weekend. Ailes has definitely upped her profile.

Today one began to wonder if FNC was trying to put a too serious newsperson spin on Aly. Instead of AN’s customary full-figure views as the show begins each hour, the cameraperson cropped Ms. Camerota from the waist up basically. Apparently, someone called the offending producer to account toward the end of the show: After 100 minutes without any real stem shots, the camera captured three in the last twenty minutes.

Aly: a real FNC journalist and a busy Ailes bunny to boot.

Gretchen: 2 "Close" 4 Comfort?

jakeho — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:06:47 +0000

“Get off our golden boy’s case” seemed to be the message Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson had this morning for her colleague Brian Kilmeade this morning as he sported about the highly prized client of sports agent and hubby, Casey Close. After Brian’s first sports segment at the blue wall, he went back to the curvy couch and asked to “go off script just a little bit.”* Thereafter, he began to express sympathy for a certain someone in the news who was “going through a tough time.”

However, when he named the “poor chap” as New York Yankee star Derek Jeter and showed the New York Post cover pic of him cavorting with his gorgeous girlfriend actress Minka Kelly on the beach at St. Barts, Gretchen seemed slightly chafed. As Brian “encouraged” the 2009 World Series champion marooned on the isle with his bikini babe that things would get better, Gretchen shook her head, smirked, and crossed her arms tightly against her chest. Appearing more than a moit agitated with Brian’s puckish play, she put her right forefinger to her temple as if she had a headache and snugly wrapped her left arm defensively around her waist.

When Brian finally finished his elfin tomfoolery, a relieved Gretchen leaned forward, looked straight ahead, and placed her hands more comfortably in her lap. While co-anchor Steve Doocy introduced the next story, Brian turned to Gretchen and smiled impishly. Like an annoyed school teacher, Gretch gave him the eye for a moment and then looked away with a slight air of irritation.

F&F: NSFSC (Not Safe for Sacred Cows)

* Fox & Friends (11/19/09) – @6:36 a.m. ET

Inside FNC's Obama Interview...

icn2 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:40:45 +0000

The AP’s David Bauder writes about yesterday’s Major Garrett interview of President Obama…(via TVNewser)

It was the president’s first interview with Fox since the summer. In the meantime, the network and administration were in a well-publicized fight after the White House’s then-communications director, Anita Dunn, called Fox “a wing of the Republican Party.”

While on his Asian trip on Wednesday, Obama also gave interviews to CNN, NBC and CBS.

Garrett, Fox’s senior White House correspondent, described the backstage atmosphere as “very calm, very rational, very relaxed.

“Look, I wasn’t going to litigate whatever it was that was going on between Fox and the White House,” Garrett said. “Whether it was a war or not, I was always a conscientious objector in the conflict.”

November 2009

strevolution — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:49:43 +0000

If you has stopped every young person (and a few older ones!) leaving church on the first Friday night of October, you’d have found most if not all of them were carrying a small piece of cardboard, torn from a box. It’s one of those things that seems mad to someone on the outside but makes perfect sense to someone who was there.

That was a very interesting evening indeed; once again we were challenged by God to trust Him and take a risk.

Early in the evening, Ralph stood at the front and produced a box. He then asked anyone who was called to be a worshipper of God, a psalmist, to come and stand on the stage. They did. At this point there were more people off the stage than on it.

Then Ralph asked us if we trusted him.

There was a moment where you could see the wheels in people’s heads turning, and then they answered ‘yes.’ He grinned. ‘Then I want everyone on stage to swap places with everyone off the stage.’

He tricked us! With much laughing and chatting, we all swapped places. Now the stage was packed full. Carmel’s largest and most reluctanct choir. And that was just the start of the evening.

What came after that was an evening of unplanned, spontaneous worship. While that sounds the same as so manyof our services, it wasn’t. That’s the thing about spontaneous worship; two services are never the same. The choir performed admirably, ignoring the fact that they were surrounded by their friends and just being with God; singing, praying and pretty much doing anything.

The box did not survive the evening; during the dancing people started ‘thinking outside the box’; getting in and then jumping (sometimes leaping) out of it, and it was destroyed during a particularly exuberant display of freedom. The evening ended with everyone taking a piece of the box home with them as a reminder; that you while you can’t put God in a box, you shouldn’t put yourself in one either.

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Bret Baier Interview

icn2 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:57:47 +0000

TVLifer has the first of a three part series on FNC’s Bret Baier…

Baier is now among the elite news broadcasters in the nation. But, Baier’s climb to the top was marked by many of the same challenges that face aspiring anchors and reporters today. Not the least of which is where and how to start. “I was always interested in journalism. I had interned at WSB in Atlanta and became fascinated with the business,” said Baier from his office in the Fox News Washington Bureau.

O'Reilly vs. Hannity?

icn2 — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:55:17 +0000

The Wrap’s Dylan Stableford suggests there may be more than meets the eye regarding that Palin teaser video that O’Reilly put out yesterday…

But it appears Bill O’Reilly went rogue, putting a teaser of his interview with Palin (above) up on his own YouTube channel – a pre-emptive strike, if you will, against Hannity’s exclusive. (A Fox News insider characterized O’Reilly’s reaction as “a hissyfit” when he learned Palin’s interview with the third-rated Hannity would air first – which, you know, is hard to imagine.)