“I’m not an idiot. If Rupert Murdoch sat me down tomorrow and said, ‘We want to put you on the Fox network in primetime.’ … Well, I’m not stupid.”
Fired CNN host Piers Morgan.
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Fox News — perhaps the one place in the world where Piers wouldn’t be the biggest a-hole in the building, not by a long shot.
“Everything is cyclical. So I just enjoy the good times. And when the bad times come, I know it isn’t forever. It’s happened to me three or four times in my life. But I moved forward.”
Joan Rivers
The Washington Post‘s conservative blogger Jennifer Rubin is calling for John Kerry to resign.
As Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC’s Morning Joe headed to a commercial break after interviewing Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer, she said, “Keep it right here on Morning Jew.”
Isn’t it great how other TV folks pick up the slack when SNL is on summer break?
“I am not going to subscribe to Sarah Palin’s $9.95 per month [TV channel]. I got all the Sarah Palin I need for one lifetime.”
Meghan McCain
Andy Coulson was found guilty, but Rebekah Brooks was acquitted in the British phone hacking case!
Leo, the NYT computer model for Senate races, currently gives Dems a 56% chance of keeping their majority.
Leo really doesn’t like Scott Brown. He [It?] gives Brown only a 3% chance of beating Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire.
As the election season draaaags on, it will be interesting to compare Josh Katz and his Leo with Nate Silver and his FiveThirtyEight.
Dean Baquet, who has replaced Jill Abramson as the executive editor at the NYT, told owner Arthur Sulzberger that Sulzberger had to choose between them. If Sulzberger didn’t fire Abramson, Baquet, the first African American managing editor at the paper, would quit, claiming “humiliation” over the job offer to Janine Gibson, who was going to become co-managing editor for digital.
Sulzberger, knowing he had to face a firestorm over an African American or a woman, decided to fire the woman. He may have rationalized his choice by telling himself that women aren’t really a “minority,” like African Americans. But when it comes to getting jobs like executive editor of the Times, women sure as hell are a minority.
The latest explanation coming from the NYT about Jill Abramson’s firing as executive editor is that she deceived owner Arthur Sulzberger. Specifically, Sulzberger believed that Abramson told managing editor Dean Baquet (now Abramson’s successor) that she had offered a job to Janine Gibson to become co-managing editor for the digital side of the paper. But Abramson had told Baquet only that she was thinking about offering Gibson a job and hadn’t told him the job title, which would make Gibson his equal.
Where this story makes no sense to me is the part where Abramson sent Baquet to have lunch with Gibson on May 5, with Gibson already having been offered a co-managing editor position, and Baquet not knowing. Supposedly he found out what was going on from Gibson, complained to Sulzberger, and Abramson got fired.
If Abramson was trying to keep Baquet in the dark, why on earth would she have arranged for him to meet with Gibson? How could she possibly think this would go well for her?
In an interview with CNN, RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer says he doesn’t understand why on earth Cliven Bundy has been tied to the GOP. He finds this linkage just “ridiculous.” Really, where could it possibly be coming from?
Is it possible Spicer doesn’t watch his house propaganda organ Fox News? Or doesn’t keep an eye — and ear — on Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and Rick Perry and Dean Heller, to name just a few. That he doesn’t follow conservative publications and web sites and talk radio?
Embattled Farmers 