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LIVE AT FIVE – 11.08.10

TOP NEWS Qantas Finds Anomalies In Airbus Engines, Keeps 380s Grounded Mechanics find oil where oil shouldn’t be. Olbermann Suspension Ends Tuesday Last link to msnbc.com this year President Fields Tough Questions From Kids In Mumbai Maybe we could outsource the White House press corps to Mumbai? POLITICS President May Be Open To Extending All […]

Finally, PJTV Discovers Rule 5

Video is a visual medium. So if you want people to watch your videos, try a little eye candy. Stephen Kruiser is a great guy, but definitely not “eye candy.” Ergo, he adds a 25-year-old hottie sidekick, Kinsey Schofield. (Click the image to watch the video.) “She’s a great writer,” says Kruiser. Yeah. She’s another […]

Approaching 5 Million Hits

Smitty has pointed out that this blog will pass the 5-million-hit mark sometime this week — probably Tuesday — and we must consider how to celebrate this occasion in appropriate fashion. I’m thinking about compiling a “greatest hits” post. If readers have any classic moments they’d like to nominate for such a compilation, feel free to do […]

MSNBC Self-Immolation Watch UPDATE: Olbermann’s ‘Indefinite’ Suspension? Yeah, One Entire Show

The Keith Olbermann suspension evidently provoked former Obama administration official Susan Crawford’s paranoid streak: Crawford, whose Twitter handle is @scrawford, tweeted on Saturday: “someone should find out whether any comcast connection to olbermann fracas – and remember Quiz Show plot line.” . . . She has previously raised concern that the merger might give Comcast the […]

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Admits: ‘I Am a Socialist. And, Yeah, I Checked Out Those Demi Lovato Bikini Pics, Too.’

Wait. Maybe I need to double-check that quote: O’Donnell was arguing on “Morning Joe” with Glenn Greenwald, who accused him of “trying to blame ‘the Left’ and ‘liberalism’ for the Democrats’ political woes.” O’Donnell responded: “Glenn, unlike you, I am not a progressive. I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word […]

Congressional And Media Probes Into The Obama Admin Promise To Be Un-Boring

by Smitty The Constitution Club reports that, while the cat is away in India, the mice are playing a game of circle the mixed metaphorical wagons: Expect the trickle of leaks to go a-gusher in the coming days. Now that Obama has lost his rainmaker mojo and earned much enmity within his own party (not […]

Report: Keith Olbermann Refuses to Apologize for Giving Money to Democrats and Looking at Demi Lovato Bikini Pics

But mainly it was the giving-money-to-Democrats thing: Network sources tell Playbook that Keith Olbermann was suspended because he refused to deliver an on-camera mea culpa, which would have allowed him to continue anchoring “Countdown.” Olbermann told his bosses he didn’t know he was barred from making campaign contributions, although he is resisting saying that publicly. […]

Obligatory: ‘Hey, Did Anybody Notice That Allen West and Tim Scott Are Black?’

Video via The Right Scoop: Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Quoted at The Hill: “So I think that the — the liberal progressives saw the strength of the grass-roots movement that we call the Tea Party which stands for ‘taxed enough already’ and they tried to turn against it,” Rep.-elect Allen West (R-Fla.) said […]

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