OK, so we're on vacation in a foreign country and as soon as our plane touches down, we get the news that while we were on our 14 hour journey, Michael Jackson died. Try processing that shocking news after an arduous, sleep-deprived journey while staring blankly at a train schedule in a language you don't understand.
Of course, coverage of the death of Jackson has been wall to wall (radio stations are streaming his music 24/7), with celebrities and news personalities sharing their past experiences with the King of Pop. Even Anderson Cooper chimed in on his show last night to reveal that he was hanging out with Jackson as an innocent 10 year old - at the infamous Studio 54!
"When I was 10, for some odd reason, I went to Studio 54 with Michael Jackson and a bunch of people and I had no idea who he was and I saw him dance and I was like, 'oh, that guy is a really good dancer.'"
Erica Hill of course asked the obvious question - did the dance-resistant Coop boogey down as young boy? Nope.
Replied Erica: "Even then you wouldn't dance - even with Michael Jackson." Too bad he missed his one chance. RIP sequined white gloved one.
Watch the short clip of their chat after the jump.
Friday, June 26, 2009
A Kid Anderson Cooper Once Partied Down With Michael Jackson
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Vacation Is All I Ever Wanted...
Just like Soup Cans faves David Muir and Anderson Cooper, we've gone in and out of LAX more times than we can count on all of our fingers and toes during our time in LA. Well, we'll be at it again and this time we're packing our bags, hopping on a jet plane and ditching the land of the free while we travel internationally.
As for posts, we'll give it the ol' college try and attempt to write some while we're on the road, but we can't make any promises (after all, we will be on an an honest to God VACATION). Regardless, we'll be back on July 5th! Have a great Independence Day!
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
And That's The Way It Is: Christiane Amanpour Kidanpped Our Hearts a Long, Long Time Ago
- Christiane Amanpour has asked Lesley Stahl and not Anderson Cooper or anyone else over at CNN to report on her kidnapping, which has yet to even (or ever!) happen.
- We hope all of you closeted newscasters take heed of Rachel Maddow's words of wisdom: "It is better to be out than be closeted" and "the more people that come out, the better."
- Bill O'Reilly says he appreciates Meghan McCain's "spunk," which we think more closely resembles everyday post-collegiate naiveté.
- Greg Gutfeld says that "you're not anti-gay if you can't stand (Perez Hilton), you're just anti-horse's ass." We never thought it would happen but finally something we and GG agree with!
- How much does a one-bedroom, one-bath, 685-square-foot condo in Trump Palace cost you these days? Well it cost Keith Olbermann 810,000 of his MSNBC money.
- Glenn Beck points out a new villain we should all be fearful of: Barbie dolls.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Picture of the Day: Greta Van Susteren Is Not a Fan of Softballs
GVS, wearing her own team jersey, throws out the first pitch at the Mets game over the weekend.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Quote Of The Day: In Bed With Politicians
"It wasn't easy coming up with fresh material for this dinner. A few nights ago, I was up tossing and turning trying to figure out exactly what to say. Finally, when I couldn't get back to sleep I rolled over and asked Brian Williams what he thought." -- President Barack Obama joking about BriWi during his speech at this past weeekend's Radio & TV Correspondents Dinner.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Rick Sanchez Finally Gets Properly Spoofed
The dramatic pauses, the passionate speeches and his crazed obsession with every social networking website in existence - Rick "Twitter" Sanchez has been ripe for satire from the first day he stepped into the CNN studios. So we're not surprised that some unknown comedy troupe named Plan C Comedy has taken on the Spanish-speaking anchor in a very "Saturday Night Live" kind of way. Except it's funnier than anything SNL (Sarah Palin skits aside) has put out this year.
Sanchez himself is so stoked about the attention that he's calling for more people to submit their best impressions of himself. Just so long as everyone does a good job replicating his uninspired 50's era hairdo.
Watch the Plan C Comedy skit below.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Katie Couric Surprises One of Her Many Gay Fans
FOX 9 entertainment reporter and radio host Jason Matheson owns a kitschy (and awesome) Dallas commemorative plate, has a Brokeback Mountain magazine cover tacked up on his cubicle wall and the screen saver of his iPhone is of Katie Couric's gay-friendly mug. Matheson is pretty obsessed with the CBS newsgal and admits to keeping a "Silence of the Lambs-type" shrine devoted to her at his house. Sounds a little creepy, yes, but when you hear Matheson talk about his obsession, it actually comes across as pretty endearing.
Matheson's co-workers arranged for Couric to surprise him with a phone call into his radio show where he confessed to her that he's "just a simple little gay boy with a crush on Katie Couric." And here we thought we were the only ones.
Couric shot back with:
"Get in line. For whatever reason, I have some gay fans. I am very flattered my gay friends enjoy my work. Gay, straight, I'll take anybody at this point, hermaphrodites."
Couric, being the good sport that she is, agreed to do a couple of funny promos for her fan's radio show. She recorded the following:
"Hi, this is Katie Couric, you're listening to the Jason Matheson show on 107.1. He's hot" and "Hi, this is Katie Couric, Jason's radio wife. Honey, can you pick up some bread on the way home?"
Couric's such a good sport. Sounds like she made one gay man's dream. We only wish Matheson's obsession was Charlie Gibson. We would have done anything to hear a promo of Gibson jokingly refer to him as his "radio wife."
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Shep Smith is Cordial
Shep Smith, who has always struck us as the most liberal-thinking anchor at Fox News, explains how one should act around those you don't necessarily see eye to eye with at your place of employment. He says:
"There are all kinds of people in families. Mine, at least, we all get along great. There are some ideologues around here. People have different political backgrounds and all of that, but I don't play on that field. I just do the news."
Good advice you can apply anywhere really, even at your own job. It might even work when you get together with those unfriendly family members during Christmas.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Picture of the Day: Rachel Maddow Gives Hosts the Finger(s)
Rachel Maddow gives Diggnation hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht an extra pair of ears each.
Monday, June 15, 2009
And That's The Way It Is: Glenn Beck Will Drag You Into His Own Personal Fights
- Glenn Beck wants you, his fans, to know that statements made by the New York Times's Paul Krugman criticizes him, he's "not attacking just me, it's attacking you." That means you should be just as pissed off as he is.
- Apparently, deciding whether to eat a live fish or undergo extreme torture is a very easy decision to make, even for news anchors.
- Al Roker conducts a hard-hitting interview with Heidi Montag and and Spencer Pratt. A for effort but we would rather have seen an aggressive interview with someone who actually has something substantial to say.
- Joe Scarborough has a very specific type.
- Bret Baier says this about himself as an anchor: "I have a lot of people tell me they establish a relationship with an anchor. It is about believability and trust. It is about inviting that person into your home, into your living room, every night," Let's hope some of his fans don't take him literally.
- Anne Pressly's accused killer will not undergo a mental evaluation but, according to his lawyer, the "unwillingness to participate in the examination is not the result of mental disease or defect."
Friday, June 12, 2009
Joy Behar Will Never Run Out of Things to Talk About
We're pretty excited to see Joy Behar's new show on HLN. While we have our own personal reasons for not watching the View (we'll explain some other time), Behar has always been a joy (we know, we're groan-inducing) to watch.
We've seen her do her thing filling in for Larry King a bunch of times now and she's good. Quite good. She's candid, funny and, unlike the suspender-wearing CNN softballer, asks important questions that usually lead to an engaging debate. And furthermore, she's a Renaissance woman. She tells the Huffington Post what to expect from her upcoming show. From HP:
"I have a lot of interests. It's not just politics," she said. "I'm interested in so many different things and I'd like to cover a lot of territory. I'm trying to see my show as the Sunday Times. You have the Arts & Leisure section, you have the Op-Ed page, you have the Book Review...even the Style section has those wonderful essays about relationships. I love that topic -- I've been married, I've been divorced, I've been dating for 27 years -- I have lots of stuff to talk about. So there's all sorts of relatable topics and I hope that my audience comes over to my new show."We haven't been this excited about a new cable show since Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow were both awarded their own chatfests - for different reasons, of course.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
So Then It's All Sean Hannity's Fault?
Ever wonder what makes everyone think that Fox News, they being "Fair and Balanced," is a right-leaning news network? Could it be combination of an anti-same sex marriage Bill O'Reilly, A Palin-crazy Greta Van Sustern and a talking head who accuses our democratic president of babbling in communism simple due to the choice of his condiments.
Megyn Kelly settles it for us once and for all in the latest issue of Haute Living Magazine. Says she:
“There is no question that Hannity is a conservative,” she says. “But I can tell you from personal experience after having worked with O’Reilly for years now, you never know where he is going to come out on an issue. He definitely leans right when it comes to certain social, traditional value issues, but he’s all over the board on certain other issues. And Greta-nobody knows exactly what her stripes are. I think [the conservative reputation is] really because of Hannity.”
Sorry, we're not buying this one. The conservative reputation is really because of...well...all of the above. The one surprising exception these days? Shepard Smith.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Quote Of The Day: Robin Meade Stoked About Jumping Out of a Plane with an Elderly Man
“Anchoring four hours of live television is an adrenaline rush most days, but this tandem jump with President Bush will be a new level of excitement, I'm sure.” -- Robin Meade about her upcoming skydive with Bush the Senior, who we're sure is pretty excited about being so up close and personal with the HLN anchor.
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Rachel Maddow Talks About 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Rachel Maddow had a thing or two to say about Barack Obama and the Supreme Court's recent decision to uphold the ridiculousness that is the 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy. See her talk about it and question whether or not our president is a "fierce advocate' for gay rights" after the jump.
Monday, June 08, 2009
And That's The Way It Is: This is What an Apology From Bill O'Reilly Sounds Like
- Why do Bill O'Reilly's "apologies" always make him sound like a spoiled 3rd grader who says the words "my bad" only when he's been caught red handed?
- Remember last year when Charlie Gibson interviewed Sarah Palin? Well, he was actually interviewing Joe Biden.
- NBC continues to invest in its rising star Erin Burnett who will be playing Meredith Vieira all week long.
- Journos Laura Ling and Euna Lee have been sentenced to a North Korean hard labor camp for 12 years for illegally entering the country. Unnecessarily harsh, but we predict they'll be back in US soil by the end of the month.
- Candy Crowley's old boss, who told her "that audiences would never accept a woman’s voice as the voice of authority," is probably eating his oafish words a this very minute.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Megyn Kelly Not Happy About Making this Top Ten List
Megyn Kelly rips Playboy and one of its writers Guy Cimbalo a new one. Cimbalo wrote an article for Hugh Hefner's cash cow titled "So Right, It's Wrong" which lists prominent conservative women (Kelly being one of them) liberal minded (straight!) men would "hate fuck." Not a very pleasant sounding term, no. Crude? Oh, yeah.
The intro to the article reads:
"Obama promised us the dream of post-partisanship—a cuckoo land where party affiliation and factional animosity were forgotten. Turn on cable news or open any newspaper, however, and you’ll quickly discover that the dream has yet to materialize. But there is a way to reach across the aisle without letting principles fall by the wayside. We speak, naturally, of the hate fuck. We may despise everything these women represent, but goddammit they’re hot. Let the healing begin."
We haven't been able to read the entire article, only this very limited cached version. Kelly refers to it as a "rape list."
So what did Cimbalo write about the Fox anchor? Said he: "You need to flagellate your genitals for wanting to fuck this woman."
You can watch Kelly's angry reaction to the piece over at Johnny Dollar's Place.
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Anderson Cooper's One Minute-Long Surprise Party
Anderson Cooper turned 42 yesterday and still looks pretty youthful despite his trademark prematurely greyed hair. Naturally, his birthday was celebrated live on the air and, even more naturally, two celebrities showed up to surprise him for the occasion: Kathy Griffin and Suze Orman.
His New Year's Eve partner in crime, Griffin, presented him with a cake riddled with Crayola candles but it was Suze Orman who seemed to be into the celebration the most, going so far as to attempt to asphyxiate him (no, really) with her gifts of festive balloons.
Also, we don't know why we've never noticed this before (possibly because we're always a little too focused on the CNN matinee idol himself), but Cooper's desk is actually heart-shaped. See for yourself when you scroll to minute 1:11 after the jump.
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Take A Bow?
Matt Drudge wants you to believe that the "liberal media" (that is all media outlets save for the "fair & balanced" Fox News) have a constant hard-on for Barack Obama.
The fedora-wearing journo presents further "proof" that we're all Obama-worshippers by presenting a still from a clip of a recent intervew of the preseident by Brian Williams. At the end of his interview with the president, Williams, while saying goodbye, leans forward. Drudge wonders aloud if the NBC anchor actually "BOWS BEFORE PRESIDENT?"
Williams clearly leans his head in Obama's direction, but was it really a bow? Well, he certainly doesn't drop to his knees, shoot his arms in the air and exclaim "Praise you Jesus-Obama!"
We've watched the video a few times now and it looks like it was more of an acknowledging head nod than a full on bow. And even if it was a small bow, does that mean that Williams (who has met leaders all over the world) worships him? Nope.
This is simply another example of Drudge making something into something it isn't. Judge for yourself after the jump.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
The Return of Randy Price
Remember when Randy Price was ousted from his job at WHDH earlier this year? We were pretty certain that America's first out gay anchor would pop back into the news scene and today we get word that he is indeed returning to he broadcast airwaves in Beantown.
Price's new gig is with WHDH competitor WCVB. According to a press release put out by the news station "Price will begin co-anchoring the EyeOpener newscast with Bianca de la Garza Monday, June 8" and "will also contribute to breaking news and major event coverage for WCVB, the market’s news leader."
Says Price about his new job:
“I am totally excited about getting back to work. I miss the news business, you know. Sitting at home watching the news is not the same as being there and participating in the process.”
Welcome back to the never-ending roller coaster ride that is the news business, Randy!
Quote Of The Day: Because One Never Tires of Sarah Palin Jokes
"Coming here was a real no brainer! After all, I can see New Jersey from my house!" -- Katie Couric, who is keeping alive her little feud with Sarah Palin, to graduates at Princeton University.
Monday, June 01, 2009
And That's The Way It Is: GVS Cleans Up Her Act
- Greta's blog gets a new, cleaner look, though we're totally not digging the picture of her with pronounced elongated arm on the banner.
- A news anchor presents some words to live by in every part of your life: Never give up and never take no for an answer.
- Joe Scarborough gets an official sponsor: Starbucks. And here you thought that the ubiquitous coffee giant couldn't get anymore in your face.
- Alycia Lane's Yahoo account better watch out. Larry Mendte is now a free man.
- As we're sure you've already hear, abortion doctor George Tiller was gunned down by a fanatical anti-abortionist. So did Bill O'Reilly's relentless mentions of a "jihad against Tiller" contribute to his death? Maybe, maybe not, but it certainly didn't help.
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