TV Buzz Do you love The Simpsons? Like, really love The Simpsons? Then maybe — just maybe — you could actually break the current Guinness World Record for the longest continuous television viewing: 86 hours, 6 minutes and 41 seconds. That’s a lot of TV.
TV Buzz NBC debuted a promotional spot called “The Brotherhood of Man” over the weekend and while it was cool to see Ron Swanson, Jack Donaghy, Andy Bernard, and Brian Williams performing a musical ditty together, it also caused many rolled eyes and raised eyebrows. Not to worry, internet! TV networks have been churning out these silly ads — in which all of the network's biggest stars put on a song and dance in one long extended commercial — for decades.
TV Buzz And he does it in 10 words, no less! Poor Kenn in Aurora, CO. :(
Politics Buzz Ever since Fox News’ Megyn Kelly attacked Andrew Sullivan for raising doubts about Sarah Palin’s maternity, while blurring out his name Sullivan has been battling the network — which refuses to have him on. Today, he upped the ante with a tweak to the logo of his own blog.
TV Buzz Faux cable news show “Gut Check With Homer Simpson” provides the best Glenn Beck impression I've ever seen.
Politics Buzz On “Fox News Sunday,” Rick Perry defended his lack of knowledge on the Supreme Court by suggesting that Americans don't want a robot to be president. Was that a veiled reference to Mitt Romney?
Culture Buzz Megyn Kelly, pretty hate machine at Fox News, gained some attention for saying that pepper spray is a food product, essentially. Internet, start internetting.
It's a completely standard and seemingly inevitable procedure these days for celebrities to go under the knife in order to achieve perfection. Transformers star Meghan Fox is no exception. Do you think she looks better before or after?
Culture Buzz Here are screen shots of MSNBC, CNN and Fox from roughly the same time this afternoon. If an Obama foreign policy success falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it help his reelection chances?
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Last week, Fox News weirdly lashed out at Gawker, apparently because Gawker was working on a story that would make someone at Fox look bad. Now that story is here; it alleges that Bill O'Reilly used his clout to get the cops to investigate the guy he suspected his wife was having an affair with (who was also a cop). The (very!) long story here.
Thank you, Shepard Smith. To be fair (and balanced), check out the big story from this morning's Today Show on NBC.
An almost spit take-inducing moment of candor. Fox News contributors Greg Gutfeld and Bob Beckel, while on Fox News, say they pull their punches about Sarah Palin because she's a co-worker and it might jeopardize their paychecks. They later said they were just joking. Even if so, in comedy veritas.
Celebrity Buzz Following her fierce counter-attack to the shaving foam heard round the world, Wendi Deng has stepped out from behind husband Rupert Murdoch to become an international celebrity in her own right. Deng is 37 years Murdoch's junior and a former employee of the embattled mogul. Thanks to her pie-slapping skills, Deng has become a national hero in her native China, affectionately referred to as Tiger Woman. Here are a bunch of photos of Ms. Deng-Murdoch, plus video of her discussing Tiger Mother techniques with Charlie Rose.
Rupert Murdoch took out full page ads in all of Britain's major newspapers today to apologize for the phone hacking scandal which is threatening to bring down his media empire. Initial reaction falls squarely under “too little, too late.”
Culture Buzz The FBI has reportedly opened an investigation into allegations that employees of Rupert Murdoch attempted to bribe New York City police officers in order to obtain personal information of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This opens up the possibility of even more criminal liability in the United States for Murdoch's News Corp., who may also face charges for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by bribing London officials in order to spy on the Royal Family. The news comes a day after Murdoch was forced to abandon his attempted acquisition of British Sky Broadcasting as a result of the massive phone hacking scandal.
Culture Buzz Keith Olbermann returned from televisual exile with the debut of his new show on Current TV. It's pretty much exactly the same as his defunct MSNBC show, but with an extra dollop of Michael Moore. Here's the intro, his mini-Special Comment and Worst Persons.
At first watch you may think New Girl is a Funny or Die sketch gone wrong, but no—it's a new show coming to FOX this Fall that stars Zooey Deschanel as an alarmingly ditzy girl (seriously, don't let her operate heavy machinery) who moves in with three Zoolanderesque guys after her boyfriend cheats on her. Together they affirm countless negative stereotypes about men and women, making me wish I could unwatch the trailer before it even finished. [Cuts up Zooey Deschanel Fan Club card, throws it into the river.] (via Casey Jarman)
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He's mastered the bouncy ball…like a fox!