Despite ex-veep candidate and ex-gov Sarah Palin’s deep-rooted hatred of the media (”Quit makin’ things up!”), she is being quietly shopped around as a possible radio or cable TV show host.
It’s not going so well. According to Broadcasting & Cable, mega-radio giant Clear Channel passed on an opportunity to have Palin host a radio [...]

To truly enjoy the vampire remix of the Glenn Beck freakout on July 15, you have to sit through the original broadcast. It’s painful but it makes the remix so much funnier.
First, the real deal:

This guy needs health care, all right. He needs MENTAL health care.
And now, the remix:

Facing a potentially brand-killing boycott of Rockstar Energy Drink by key sectors of its target demos — nightclubbing young gays and their non-gay, socially liberal cohorts — CEO Russ Weiner and his mother, CFO Janet Weiner — issued a statement last week in which they sought to distance themselves from the unabashedly homophobic views [...]

“Let’s hope that the key conferences aren’t when she’s menstruating or something, or just before she’s going to menstruate.”
— G. Gordon Liddy, convicted felon and rightwing radio host, commenting on Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Liddy went on to translate a phrase from Sotomayor’s other language, which he referred to as, “Illegal Alien.”
Thanks [...]

Local news here in Southern California is reporting that upwards of 1 million people have been evacuated because of the fire storms. Last night, when the number was about half that, Keith Olbermann suggested that this could be the largest forced migration of Americans since the Civil War.
“I am very confident in our ability to [...]

Most of the 300,000 Evacuees Are from Republican Enclaves
On his radio gabfest yesterday, CNN’s resident rightwing crackpot Glenn Beck implied that because residents of Malibu, Calif., “hate America,” they were therefore unluckily suffering the loss of their homes to wildfires:
I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a [...]

Rush Limbaugh phoned into the Oct. 18, 2007, edition of “Hannity & Colmes” on Fox News to deny charges he’d attacked 12-year-old Graeme Frost, the boy who dared to speak out against Pres. Bush’s veto of the health insurance program for children. But in denying he attacked Graeme, Limbaugh trashed him again. He imitated the [...]

While it may have been common knowledge in the Dittohead universe that Rush Limbaugh was nominated for the Nobel Prize this year, the story went largely unreported out here in the real world.
Rush is so busy smearing 12 year olds and wounded veterans that he probably wouldn’t have had time to go to Norway to [...]

Keith Olbermann believes the controversy over Bill O’Reilly’s racism-embued comments about Sylvia’s Restaurant in Harlem have pushed O’Reilly to the edge of sanity:
“I think he‘s on the verge of having a breakdown. I think he needs psychiatric help.”– Marvin Kittman, O’Reilly biographer
O‘REILLY on his radio show: I‘m going to hunt you down, and I [...]

We welcome a new addition to our blogroll, er, sorry Jon, “web sites list.” This one was discovered by Buck during his live reporting from Florida’s “Serve to Preserve” global warming conference.
Ecorazzi bills itself as The Latest in Green Gossip, with current features on Rob Lowe’s testimony in Washington on behalf of hybrids, Courtney Cox’s [...]