It's inevitable: in the future, all story leads are going to come from Facebook. So how best to prepare for the upcoming social networkalypse, when all sources will need to be wooed with a promise of a hatching egg and several pokes? By having reputable(?) news networks set up their own stake in the virtual friend zone.
Welcome to Fox News' Facebook, you guys!
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Surprise! This one has nothing to do with John McCain or Sarah Palin or reading or believing women should have their rapist's babies. This post is purely about the idiocy of Fox News and how badly every ding dong in that place's employ understands satire and common decency.
Brad Garrett, he of the nationally-viewed prostate exam and Till Death star, dropped by Fox & Friends after-the-hours show (which only airs online) and got deep into it with the The 'Dooce, in what is perhaps the most awkward ten minutes of Fox programming ever:
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Ugh, shut up Fox News. Doocy? You're ridiculous. Kilmeade? You're barely a sidekick. We're more than fine with watching you dump on Olbermann and Matthews, but it's exhausting to listen to you talk about the "way left" MSNBC, especially in the context of "commentators … used to do actual news anchoring," when you've got Brit Hume playing nonpartisan news anchor like you're fooling anyone. Sadly, you are. [via TVN]
Ninety-one-year-old Ernest Borgnine was on Fox and Friends this morning and told the Dooce something we never wanted to hear come out of pop-pop's mouth:
Is this really the best Fox News can do with those New York Times building climbers?
The set up was lobbed Steve Doocy's way: Crazy guys climb up building filled with crazies! Or: Are people trying to get into the mental institution, or escape from it?
Angry with David Carr exposing Fox News' PR unit for its cut throat tactics, Doocy opines that when you start writing nasty things about his network, "You might start climbing the walls."
F for effort. F for execution.
VanityFair.com, the website of the magazine that's gone from bad to unreadable in just a few short years, is usually best at reposting content from Graydon Carter's print pages that is sometimes worth blockquoting. Today, it is every left-y's homepage, with the posting of a whole gallery of Photoshopped Fox News figures. This photo spread arrives, of course, after FNC manipulated two pics, of New York Times media reporter Jacques Steinberg and television editor Steven Reddicliffe, and later had Bill O'Reilly say they were merely caricatures, not intended to be passed off as the real thing to audiences. Well, then it's appropriate O'Reilly himself kicks off the inanity, followed by some of his friends. Alas, because Fox News head Roger Ailes is not an on-air personality, there is no Bar Mitzvah caricaturist rendition to bring out his neck rolls.
Fox News is getting plenty of crap for these two photos, of New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg and television editor Steven Reddicliffe, an axed ex-employee there, which were completely manipulated to make the reporters look much worse than they actually do. Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve "The Whiny One" Doocy and Brian "The Lap Dog" Kilmeade weren't happy when Steinberg's byline was on a "hit piece," ordered by "attack dog" Reddicliffe, on their cable news network, which explained how CNN and MSNBC were narrowing the gap with the ratings leader. Foreheads were lengthened or shrunk, teeth were yellowed, and chins were made into bulbous appendages. As a matter of decency, however, there were no coke dots, pee stains, or drool scrawled across them. Video of the segment below. CONTINUED »
Bill O'Reilly has made a career out of bashing MSNBC and Keith Olbermann. Now Fox News' morning show, Fox & Friends, is getting in on the action, picking up on reports that Tim Russert is fuming over Olbermann's leadership role at the network.
Bizarrely, the co-hosts' chatter sort of props up Russert, at least in a backhanded way. Even more reason to find that leak, eh? [Video via JDP]
It gets real good around the 4:20 mark, when Gretchen Carlson starts calling for Olbermann's education credentials and demands to know why Olbermann is still single, the biggest affront to a cable news host evs! And then Steve Doocy has to ruin things by whining about Olbermann picking on his son again.
In case you were wondering what Keith Olbermann will be yelling about this evening, we have a feeling. Hopefully that silly primary coverage won't get in the way of a Worst Person in the World. (Scroll to about the 2:30 mark.) [via J$]
Smartypants and Villanova University junior Peter Doocy made it to the podium during Hardball's college tour to ask John McCain about Hillary Clinton's recent shot swinging. Turns out, young Peter is the son of Fox News' Fox & Friends anchor Steve Doocy. Not that we're discouraging the offspring of media professionals to involve themselves in political debate; in fact, we encourage it. (More clips like these!)
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It's the most exciting thing on Fox News since Bill O'Reilly picked a fight with Keith Olbermann, during a live Fox & Friends broadcast correspondent David Lee Miller and his crew in Gaza take fire. Back in New York, the talking heads review what happened:
Brian Kilmeade: Clearly he's shooting at the press too. He's wearking a flack jacket that says "Press" right on it.
Steve Doocy: Yeah, but if you're somebody and you're long ways away and you just see something and you don't know who it is sometimes you just start shooting.
Brian Kilmeade: Really?
Steve Doocy: Yeah.
(via FBNY)
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