Cattle Ranching inside 7/11

Watch it HERE.

CNN gets Boo'd

Watch it HERE.

Xenophobic Lou Dobbs Spreads Stupidity

CNN is separating itself from the radio commentary of one of its lead hosts, Lou Dobbs.
The LATimes' calls out Dobbs for a recent thread that's been coming up on his radio show, and that Dobbs has not sufficiently shot it down: the validity of Barack Obama's birthplace. One caller to Dobbs' radio show said Obama would soon be exposed as having been born in Kenya. "Certainly your view can't be discounted," replied Dobbs.
more HERE

...another treasonous a-hole getting rich by spreading unsubstantiated rumor, right-wing propaganda and basically promoting the advancement of hate in America...

The Coverage

Here's how the networks and cable will cover the Michael Jackson service, via TVNewser:

• ABC: Charlie Gibson will anchor live coverage "Remembering Michael Jackson" at 1pmET, joined by "Nightline" anchor Martin Bashir. Some updates: Diane Sawyer, in NY, and Barbara Walters, at the Staples Center, will co-anchor a special edition of "20/20" at 9pmET. Sawyer and Elizabeth Vargas will also co-anchor "Primetime: Family Secrets," a report on Michael Jackson's children at 10pmET. Cynthia McFadden will also anchor "Nightline" from the Staples Center.
• CBS: Maggie Rodriguez and Harry Smith will anchor the "Early Show" from the Staples Center tomorrow. Katie Couric will anchor special coverage of the memorial at 1pmET and the CBS "Evening News" from the Staples Center. Couric will also do "48 Hours" at 10pmET.
• NBC/MSNBC: NBC will televise the memorial service at 1pmET, anchored by Brian Williams. Chris Jansing will anchor MSNBC's live coverage. Meredith Vieira will broadcast live tomorrow at the Staples Center for "Today" and Williams will anchor "Nightly News" from LA Tuesday.
• CNN: Anderson Cooper, Larry King, Don Lemon and Soledad O'Brien will host coverage live from LA, with Campbell Brown and Roland Martin anchoring live from New York, starting at NoonET on CNN and simulcast on CNN International.
• HLN: Robin Meade, A.J. Hammer and Jane Velez-Mitchell will anchor live coverage for HLN.
• Fox: Shepard Smith will anchor live coverage of the memorial service on Fox News starting at 1pmET. Megyn Kelly will anchor live coverage of the memorial on FOX broadcast also beginning at 1pmET. Greta Van Susteren will also be in LA on Tuesday, and will host her show from there Tuesday night.

No word if the Home Shopping Network, the Disney Channel, QVC or Nickelodeon will be breaking from their regular broadcast schedules yet...

Basically it'll be the opposite of the Billy Mays coverage...

Michael Jackson Haunts Larry King Live

Obamatronic

He looks like President Barack Obama, speaks like him, and even gestures like him, but he is not exactly the president of the United States.
This president is an audio-animatronic Obama surrounded by the 42 other U.S. presidents at Walt Disney World's newly revamped Hall of Presidents in Orlando, Florida.
CNN report w/video HERE

Palin's Perplexing Political Pull Out

It's not even safe to go to a July 4th weekend barbecue without a big news story breaking, in this case the surprising, some might even say bizarre news that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has up and quit her job in Alaska with a year and a half left in her term.
From her rambling remarks, Palin seemed to be saying she decided she wouldn't stand for re-election and when she decided that, she figured she might as well quit now so she wouldn't be a lame duck.
She said, "Many just accept that lame duck status, and they hit that road. They draw a paycheck. They kind of milk it. And I'm not going to put Alaskans through that."
HUH?
NPR report w/CNN video HERE

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Alaska's governor Sarah Palin to resign, dooming her presidential pipe dream
Palin: shades of Nixon's 'this is my last press conference' speech
Columnists name Palin 'Sitting Duck'

By the Way...

While Americans attention is fixed on trivial celebrity deaths...
North Korea test fires four missiles
North Korea test-fired a fourth short-range missile off its east coast Thursday.
Thursday's reported test comes amid heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula. North Korea conducted a nuclear test in May, fired test rockets and threatened U.S. and South Korean ships near its territorial waters.
A U.S. intelligence official confirmed the test firings and said there are "no indications whatsoever" of an impending long-range missile test.
CNN report HERE

Jackson's Death Winners & Losers

Sales of Michael Jackson's music have outstripped the demand for material by Elvis Presley and John Lennon following their untimely deaths.
more HERE
Web traffic caused by the news of Michael Jackson's death Thursday caused a flurry of crashes and slowdowns across the Internet.
more HERE
CNN Wins With Michael Jackson News HERE

Related:
Despite Passing of TV Legends, Networks Fail to Win Viewers Over Weekend
Coverage of celebrity deaths intensifies
Michael Jackson's Design Legacy: Patented Anti-Gravity Shoes

Networks Go ALL MICHAEL JACKSON

Here are some of the highlights, all times EDT:

• MTV airs "A Celebration of Michael Jackson on MTV" at 10 p.m. Saturday, followed by "King of Videos: Michael Jackson" at 11 p.m. The latter is also scheduled for MTV2 at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Jackson was one of MTV's seminal artists from the days it was music-focused.
  
• TV One will show the five-hour miniseries "The Jacksons: An American Dream" at 7 p.m. Saturday. A one-hour documentary "The Life & Times of Michael Jackson" will air Sunday at 7 p.m.
  
• Fuse will air a continuous Michael Jackson tribute Saturday during daytime hours until 5 p.m.
  
• CNN's Don Lemon anchors a documentary "Michael Jackson: Man in the Mirror" that will air both Saturday and Sunday at 8 p.m., 11 p.m. and 2 a.m.
  
• The Biography Channel will show its Jackson biography at 10 p.m. Saturday.
  
• Fox will repeat its "American Idol" show that featured Jackson's music at 8 p.m. Monday.
• E! Entertainment is preparing a one-hour Jackson documentary that will air Wednesday at 10 p.m.
  
• Sirius XM Satellite Radio is devoting two channels that will air Jackson music continuously over the weekend through Monday night. They will be located on Sirius channel 51 and XM channel 62.

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Related:
Jackson Music Dominates Digital Sales

CNN Goes Shopping for Pot

CNN Punk'd

ATLANTA, Georgia -- The scene was more reminiscent of a Hollywood production than an elaborate prank by the Punk'd-master himself.
Ashton Kutcher, along with his wife, Demi Moore, dropped by Atlanta, Georgia's CNN Center on Wednesday to fulfill his promise to "ding-dong-ditch" CNN founder Ted Turner's house after winning last April's race to attract 1 million followers on the micro-blogging site Twitter.
more HERE

More on teabagging...at CNN

Ashton Kutcher Trumps CNN ...on Twitter

Ashton Kutcher single-handedly conquered CNN. On Twitter, anyway.
Kutcher, the clownish actor and startlingly savvy new-media entrepreneur, edged past the cable news network late Thursday to become the first Twitter user to have 1 million people signed up to follow his tweets. It marked a milestone in the explosive growth of the young company.
more HERE

Protocol & Political Positioning

The White House briefing room grew a bit chilly on Thursday after CNN reporter Dan Lothian asked press secretary Robert Gibbs to explain the current cause célèbre of the conservative movement: whether President Obama bowed down to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.
Actually, the stunning twist of irony is that conservatives didn't make a peep about the proximity of the Bush family and King Abdullah for the past eight years but now, seemingly, are filled with outrage over a symbolic gesture of respect.
more HERE
Sean Hannity had a field day, stating that the gesture has made the world less safe and reminding his jaundiced listeners that many of the terrorists who have killed Americans in the last 20 years have ties to — now wait for it — Saudi Arabia.
Of course, he never mentioned the Bush Administration's relationship with the Saudi Royal familiy...questionable events that occurred directly after 9/11 and the billions of dollars of weapons sent to Saudi Arabia in 2008 and 2007
The National Republican Senatorial Committee Executive Director Rob Jesmer even tried using the issue as a propaganda ploy posted on youtube as well as the NRSC website.

Dalmation Dingleberry Surprize

The Rapid Rise of Racism

The number of hate groups active in the United States rose by 54 percent between 2000 and 2008, the Southern Poverty Law Center said Thursday.
The study identified 926 hate groups -- defined as groups with beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people -- active in 2008. That's a 4 percent jump, adding 38 more than the year before. What makes this year's report different is that hate groups have found two more things to be angry about -- the nation's first African-American president and an economy that is hemorrhaging jobs. For the past decade, Latino immigration has fueled the growth of hate groups.
Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard, Don Black claims the number of registered members and readers on his white nationalist Web site surged to unprecedented levels in recent months.
On the day after Obama's historic election, more than 2,000 people joined his Web site, a remarkable increase from the approximately 80 new members a day he was getting, Black said. His Web site, which was started in 1995, is one of the oldest and largest hate group sites. The site received so many hits that it crashed after election results were announced. The site boasts 110,000 registered members today.
CNN report HERE

Related:
Gun Sales Skyrocket. Obamafear?

Soapy Lesbians

Lavish weddings on soap operas are commonplace -- beautiful, wealthy characters united amid copious tears, heaps of flowers and exquisite attire.
Monday's ceremony on ABC's "All My Children" was much the same, except for the couple: Eden Riegel's Bianca Montgomery and Tamara Braun's Reese Williams, both wearing designer dresses, united in daytime television's first lesbian wedding.
AMC's expression of devotion and same-sex rights was implemented gracefully in a series with millions of faithful viewers.
Riegel's Bianca --Susan Lucci's Erica Kane's lesbian daughter -- has been breaking new ground for lesbian relationships in Daytime for several years.
CNN report w/video HERE
The View had something to say about it too...see HERE

Greg Behrendt Is Totally Into You

Asked about part of the entertainment business he particularly enjoys, Greg Behrendt -- stand-up comedian, author, TV writer and producer -- had an unusual answer.
"My instrumental punk and ska band called the Reigning Monarchs," he said with a laugh. "There's seven guys in the band. ... We play shows around Los Angeles."
But the co-author of "He's Just Not That Into You," now a film starring Jennifer Aniston, Scarlett Johansson and Ben Affleck, admits that stand-up comedy remains a longtime passion. In fact, it led -- in a roundabout way -- to "He's Just Not That Into You."
CNN interview is HERE
official website HERE

The 'ole kidney through the vagina trick...

Surgeons remove healthy kidney through donor's vagina...
In what is being heralded as a "first-ever procedure," surgeons removed a healthy kidney through a donor's vagina.
Although the procedure has been previously done to extract cancerous and nonfunctioning kidneys that threatened a patient's health, the January 29 surgery was the first time it was done for donation purposes.
CNN report HERE