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Gross Out Humor

GiggleSugar — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:00:00 -0700

Those television anchors are at it again! This video is not for the squeamish, but I find it hilarious on so many levels. It's in a foreign language, the sexy television host does something shocking (let's just say I was surprised her head didn't spin around afterwards), and she has like a two second recovery time. Now that's what I call professionalism!

Television Personality Freaks Out During Earthquake

GiggleSugar — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:16:17 -0700

During a taping of Cosmos Gal during which this woman with a plunging neckline reads horoscope predictions, the not-so-big one hit. My favorite part is when, out of frame, you hear her say, "Get in the f*cking doorway, Andy!" She wanders back, only to wonder if they're still recording and to announce it's her first earthquake. Ha! Thanks for sharing, Cosmos Gal, now get back to work! What were you saying again about Venus in my 12th house? (This one's for lilsugar!)

TV Anchors Away!

GiggleSugar — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:02:00 -0800

I've lost count of how many crazy tv anchor videos we've shown you. Losing it on live tv must be an occupational hazard. What's in the coffee mugs those tv anchors are always sipping out of? Moonshine?

TV Host Misreads Teleprompter

GiggleSugar — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:00:00 -0700

Stop, Hammertime! Olivia Munn, host of G4's Attack of the Show, hits the nail off the head when reading the teleprompter and reporting on the has-been status of a favorite '90s rap star. She makes an honest mistake, but it's a good example of how history gets rewritten. R.I.P. McHammer. (Thanks, eBaum's World!)

Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?

LibertySugar — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:30 -0700

Last year Americans named fake-news host Jon Stewart their fourth most admired news anchor, tied with Brian Williams, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, and Anderson Cooper.

A recent New York Times article tried to figure out how a comedian became a trusted news source. The article noted that The Daily Show does things other news programs can't like, "speaking truth to power in blunt, sometimes profane language, while using satire and playful looniness to ensure that their political analysis never becomes solemn or pretentious."

Jon Stewart gets to interview politicians and world leaders outside their comfort zones, pass on digestible scoops from a range of experts, and filter each day's big news stories in a humorous way. While Jon makes his opinions known (he says he's looking forward to the end of the Bush Administration "as a comedian, as a person, as a citizen, as a mammal"), it's not Republicans that Jon dislikes. He claims contempt for the empty rhetoric of both conservative and liberal politicians. I think his critique of talking points makes many Americans tune-in for an alternative to television's usual partisan shouting match. What do you think?

Fox News's Chris Wallace Unleashes Hell on Rove Questioners

CitizenSugar — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:01:38 -0700

Fox News's Chris Wallace may have misunderstood the point of doing PR when he snapped in front of a crowd of reporters at the Television Critics Association in LA moments ago. Our intrepid Buzz was front and center for the giant meltdown and besides sending texts saying "Rove's wearing a green tie! It's too long!" then she says things rapidly got even uglier. Joined on a panel by Howard Wolfson, John Moody, and Karl Rove, here's how the spin hit the fan:

Let's begin at the end, when the explosion happened. The Fox folks were ready to wrap up, and Wallace said basically, "no. I have something else to say."

Wallace then launched into a stern tirade that he thought there was a huge bias in the questions being asked of Karl Rove - especially regarding the controversy about him not testifying in front of Congress. He raged on why that would have any impact on his ability to work for Fox News, which is an independent news organization. Wallace then asked that he'd be curious to know if a conservative Congress had subpoenaed James Carville, if the reporters would be sitting there asking CNN whether it undermined their credibility to have him as a commentator. The general response from the reporters assembled was says Buzz, "uh, YEAH we would." Wallace fired back essentially, "oh, you would? Well, I'd be very curious to see that." The out-of-context blowup was according to Buzz, about a Richter 8 on the tension scale.

To see more questions and answers, including those leading up to the rant and the response to the NY Times photo-doctoring story, read more.

Does having Karl Rove as a commentator, given the whole testifying debacle, undermine the credibility of Fox News?
John Moody: "Mr. Rove is a certified authority on the electoral process, on politics. His track record speaks for itself. His current difference of opinion with Congress is between him and Congress."

A while later, Rove clarified:
"It is not between me and Congress. I have not asserted any personal privilege. It's between the White House and Congress."

Were those NY Times doctored photos justified?

Chris Wallace: "My feeling is that news organizations ought to run regular pictures of people, not doctored."
John Moody: "Fox and Friends is an entertainment show that does some news. . . . It's certainly there for a big bunch of humor."

And what about the other rival, MSNBC?
Chris Wallace: "MSNBC in its coverage of this campaign went so far over the line in terms of being in the tank to Barack Obama that it lost a lot of credibility. There's a reason why Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity don't anchor election night on Fox."

How does Hillary's former adviser Wolfson feel about being on Fox News?
Wolfson: "I want to be in a position to offer analysis from the left, from a progressive perspective. That's how I've lived my whole life. I'm not going to check my politics at the door."

What about Obama's religion?
Does Karl Rove believe Barack Obama is a Muslim: No. Does he believe there's anything un-American about him? No. But he said he did think Obama made a mistake saying what he said about the lapel pin after Sept. 11. "I think it went one step too far to say that wearing a flag lapel pin is not true patriotism."

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