'Griffin and Olbermann were at the Chicago Cubs game Saturday, separately. Olbermann also went to Sunday's game and, during a morning email exchange, Griffin suggested Olbermann should go back to New York, instead of on to St. Paul. Olbermann responded "Seriously?"' [TVN]
Taking a cue from the zombie-aliens in They Live, Amazon and TiVo teamed up to present to you the easiest way to become a mindless drone in a system of rampant consumerism.
Introducing Buy. It. Now.:
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Sarah Palin bashed Barack Obama, which most pundits didn't expect, or advise. She also lobbed some decent punchlines at the talking head class, and for that, we appreciate her. But how did the folks who are paid to over-analyze these type of things, and who were on the receiving end of her taunts, respond to her words? CONTINUED »
(Click to enlarge image of Sarah Palin during happier, poorer times)
Weren't you just thinking the other day how this Sarah Palin's teenage daughter Bristol's pregnancy scandal was totally to September what John Edwards and Rielle Hunter's love-baby was to August?
Too bad, it's not. There is a so, so much salaciously better rumor about the former beauty queen and her sexcapades that is going down.
The National Enquirer wants any fans of the Edwards/Hunter and Palin scandals to please step forward, because do they have a scoop for you: CONTINUED »
Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan realized very quickly her off-camera remarks on MSNBC — where, during a commercial break, she supposedly declared McCain's campaign "over" — would be getting her into trouble. It took just three hours before her live mic conversation during a segment break with Chuck Todd and Mike Murphy made its way to YouTube, and just a little while longer for her to pull together a half-hearted apology. Why her remarks caused a stir, she says, she "must plead some confusion." Though let us help clarify: Everyone immediately saw her for the two-faced commentator she likely is, supporting conservatives in print while bashing them behind closed doors. But that's not how it was, says Noons! And we're taking her "it's over" comment completely out of context. CONTINUED »
Yes, Rudy Giuliani's speech about the qualifications of mayors ran long, which meant the RNC had to cancel the 15-minute "Meet Sarah Palin" video it wanted to show before the VP nominee took the stage. And yes, we were all a little anxious to see what the woman who could be a "heartbeat away" from the presidency had to say. But that doesn't mean we all took the pre-released notes about what Palin would say in her speech to whip together articles about what she actually said on stage — and then whip together articles for the wires before she even began talking. But there went Reuters and AFP, distributing copy about Palin's remarks prior to her making them. Sound familiar? That's because the Associated Press pulled this stunt at the DNC, running a precursory article about Barack Obama's speech before he took over the podium, leading to a pretty inaccurate summation of what went down that evening. (The AP even got the length of the speech wrong in its preemptive report; it had to update its copy to reflect the number of minutes Obama actually spoke.) And that whole thing got Keith Olbermann all riled up.
Unable to raise enough cash to stay afloat, conservative rag The New York Sun is shuttering. Not even seven years after launch, founder Seth Lipsky finds himself closing down the daily rag, which is burning through some $1 million a month. And without new investors and a balance sheet $70 million in the red, there appears little other choice. (Maybe Bloomberg will buy it?) An announcement is expected in tomorrow's paper, but Internet wizards that they are, they've posted it online already.
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-"William Faulkner Reviews Season One of Gossip Girl" (Mcsweeney's)
There is a scene of the chortle-worthy Tropic Thunder, where Ben Stiller and Robert Downey Jr. discuss Sean Penn's Oscar-baiting performance in I Am Sam as "going full retard."
Unfortunately, Penn already booked his new role playing revolutionary gay icon Harvey Milk by the time TT came out, so now you're going to have to survive a couple of months with hearing the term "going full homo" thrown around a lot. Milk trailer, after the jump:
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[An earlier version of this item used the headline "MSNBC Forgets To Cut to Commercial, Hanging Chuck Todd & Co. Out to Dry on Palin." It turns out MSNBC did cut to commercial, but their mics were still live and recording, and that recording got leaked.]
Haven't people learned anything from Jesse Jackson?
If you're wearing a microphone, don't say anything you don't want the world to hear! MSNBC's Chuck Todd, political consultant Mike Murphy and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan all put their foots in their mouths today when, after thinking they had gone to commercial, the trio ripped on McCain's "cynical" Sarah Palin veep pick.
The conversation gets really good when Todd wonders, "Do you think the Palin pick is insulting to Democrats? Is the really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?"
Email has made the possibility of sending your grandma those nudie shots you were planning on sending to Suicide Girls far too easy. These type of "Send … OMFG WHAT DID I DO?!?!" scenarios happen to even the best airlines, and today it happened to "struggling" media agency Carat.
Some toolbag in Carat's HR mistakenly emailed the entire company a little memo that was intended for senior management only … about how everyone was getting fired.
Bad news: Mistakes are all too common when it's 4 a.m. and you are typing corporate memos while intoxicated or looking to a go to town on your bed partner.
Good news: There are some handy guides for appropriate workplace email etiquette that should help you through the rough period after all your employees stage a coup. CONTINUED »
After leaving Jann Wenner's side as the publishing maestro's No. 2, Kent Brownridge went over to Maxim, after private equity firm Quadrangle bought it and Blender from Dennis Publishing, renamed its parent Alpha Media, and appointed Brownridge leader of the lad mags. Then, heh, he got sacked last month amidst investor unhappiness. But it's not like Brownridge is just going to comb over and play dead — he's got a new gig. Richard Desmond, he of the British publishing empire Northern Shell, hired Brownridge to lead his American tabloid OK!. So much trust Desmond has in Brownridge, he's having founding and sitting EIC Sarah Ivens and publisher Tom Morrissy begin reporting to him. But it's not just that Brownridge has found another last act that firms up his shock and awe campaign — it's that his gig at OK! means he's in direct competition with his former buddy Wenner, whose Obama-leaning media empire publishes the tabloid Us Weekly. And that is awesome. How to make this do-si-do even more interesting? Mr. Brownridge: Might we suggest you getting firmly behind a one John McCain?
When litigation magnet JuicyCampus.com launched at the beginning of the year, no sex life of a member of a college student body was safe. And thanks to defamation laws that hold web publishers free from responsibility for the comments posted by other people, it flourished. Sure, Google got scared people would think it was profiting, or helping founder Matt Ivester profit, from scandalous tales and ended up pulling it advertising relationship with the site. But that doesn't mean JuicyCampus has disappeared. In fact, it's expanding. CONTINUED »
then, like, so are we! [Daily Intel]
Doesn't Tina Gaudoin know not to serve food during the talking portion of a breakfast — the portion where you want attendees to pay attention to whatever it you're going to be showing on the overhead? Perhaps that explains why the journalists at this morning's meeting to unveil the Wall Street Journal's new glossy — the obnoxiously punctuated WSJ. — weren't paying attention. Or maybe it was because Gaudoin showed them the cover of the magazine: A model wearing a dress made out of the Wall Street Journal. If the meta joke — "We crumpled together all the dignity at the newspaper and came up with this crap!" — fell flat on reporters, just think of all the readers with average household incomes of $265,000 who won't be won over.
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