CBS "News" Fired Catherine Herridge As She Was Pursuing Stories About Joe Biden's Decrepitude -- And Then Seized Her Notes, Including the Names of Her Confidential Administration Sources

Jonathan Turley wrote of the suspicious timing of the firing:

The timing of Herridge's termination immediately raised suspicions in Washington. She was pursuing stories that were unwelcomed by the Biden White House and many Democratic powerhouses, including the Hur reporton Joe Biden's diminished mental capacity, the Biden corruption scandal and the Hunter Biden laptop. She continued to pursue these stories despite reports of pushback from CBS executives, including CBS News President Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews.

Nick Arama from RedState:

This concerned many that this could "chill" reporting and sources providing information to reporters. Some like Turley and journalist Brit Hume said they had never heard of anything like this before.

Now SAG-AFTRA is coming to Herridge's defense, demanding that CBS "News" give her back her notes and the names of her informants:

SAG-AFTRA strongly condemns CBS News' decision to seize Catherine Herridge's reporter notes and research from her office, including confidential source information. This action is deeply concerning to the union because it sets a dangerous precedent for all media professionals and threatens the very foundation of the First Amendment.
It is completely inappropriate for an employer to lay off a reporter and take the very unusual step of retaining and searching the reporter's files, inclusive of confidential source identification and information. From a First Amendment standpoint, a media corporation with a commitment to journalism calling a reporter's research and confidential source reporting "proprietary information" is both shocking and absurd.
The retention of a media professional's reporting materials by their former employer is a serious break with traditional practices which supports the immediate return of reporting materials. We urge CBS to return this material to Catherine in support of the most basic of First Amendment principles. We are encouraged by recent outreach by CBS News to SAG-AFTRA on this matter, and we are hopeful that it will be resolved shortly.

I would always laugh darkly when Brit Hume would claim that CBS News is a straight-shooting organization because it's run by David Rhodes, supposedly not a leftist. Just merely the brother of Obama's Brain, Ben Rhodes.

Brit Hume's sense of who is or who is not leftwing, and who is an objective or even conservative-leaning "news professional," is about as well-calibrated as Meghan McCain's.

In related media corruption, CNN anchor John Avlon is running for Congress as --

Wait, this can't be right.

It says here that John Avlon is a Democrat, and apparently a MAGA-hating liberal extremist Democrat, but I know my eyes must be deceiving me, because when he was on CNN he claimed to be an objective journalist without fear or favor for either party.

And yet... I can't shake the nagging feeling that someone is lying to me here.

Former CNN host and political analyst John Avlon is running for Congress. He announced his candidacy for New York's 1st congressional district.
He's running as a Democrat - did you have any doubts? - and it's all about saving democracy because of Trump. Are you a MAGA minion? He's coming for you.

It's official: I'm running for Congress in #NY01 because there's too much at stake for the country & community I love. Long Island families deserve someone who fights for their values, not Trump's. It's time for us all to get off the sidelines. Join Me. https://t.co/fMu8RdLyBL pic.twitter.com/RHWAam8yif
— John Avlon (@JohnAvlon) February 21, 2024

Finally, some news from last week that I missed, but a great way to start the weekend:

Ratings-disaster CNN is looking to cut $50 million from their insipid partisan propaganda-anchors' bloated salaries!

Doomed CNN, a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and violence, is looking to cut "more than $50 million" in anchor salaries.
Let's start with the current salaries. You are not going to believe how much these assholes are reportedly paid per year:
Anderson Cooper: $20 million
Wolf Blitzer: $15 million
Jake Tapper: $8.5 million
Chris Wallace: $8 million
John Berman, Kate Bolduan, Sara Sidner: $1 to $2 million

Jake Tapper might be forced to economize and hire smaller and less-skillful bulls!

My dick just said "Bitches leave" like Clarence Bodikker in RoboCop.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 02:30 PM

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1 First?!?

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at February 23, 2024 02:31 PM (pgwxJ)

2 Yeah.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at February 23, 2024 02:31 PM (pgwxJ)

3 And now, content...

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at February 23, 2024 02:32 PM (pgwxJ)

4 I don't trust the media because they are corporations who are obviously on the right and do nothing but cover for Trump without ever telling the world of his crimes.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 02:32 PM (GBKbO)

5 Nothing to see here!

Posted by: CBS janitor throwing notes into the burn barrel at February 23, 2024 02:32 PM (DgGvY)

6 Fort!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 23, 2024 02:32 PM (KU6o9)

7 Ate!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 23, 2024 02:33 PM (KU6o9)

8 Anderson Cooper: $20 million
Wolf Blitzer: $15 million
Jake Tapper: $8.5 million
Chris Wallace: $8 million
John Berman, Kate Bolduan, Sara Sidner: $1 to $2 million
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I know we don't do maths around here, but I think if you fired the top four people in this list, you might just cut $50 million from your budget...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 23, 2024 02:33 PM (7fElN)

9 IIRC she went to CBS because they offered her $$$.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 23, 2024 02:33 PM (RIvkX)

10 It's nothing to see here. Just normal practice proles.

Ignore what everyone else has ever experienced. It's the NEW normal.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 23, 2024 02:33 PM (JMAcK)

11 Shazamm Pee Wee

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 23, 2024 02:33 PM (KU6o9)

12 You can not hate the media enough.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 23, 2024 02:34 PM (wtvvX)

13 What kinda career journalismist keeps all their personal confidential files on a work computer? Better have had backups in safe deposit boxes

Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at February 23, 2024 02:35 PM (CZPkK)

14 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:35 PM (Zz0t1)

15 B*tches, leave. Great line. Kurtwood Smith was a great bad guy...

Posted by: bearski at February 23, 2024 02:35 PM (Bhsk7)

16 As you've often said, Ace -- we don't hate the media enough

Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:36 PM (eNASR)

17 Anderson Cooper: $20 million
Wolf Blitzer: $15 million
Jake Tapper: $8.5 million
Chris Wallace: $8 million
John Berman, Kate Bolduan, Sara Sidner: $1 to $2 million
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I know we don't do maths around here, but I think if you fired the top four people in this list, you might just cut $50 million from your budget...

What was left unsaid, though, is that CNN would make up their lost salaries with Green Stamps and CNN stock.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 23, 2024 02:36 PM (CsUN+)

18 Herridge seems pretty legit.

Unlike Fox News Pentagon mouthpiece Jennifer Griffin. Literally just repeats whatever the 5-sided puzzle palace tells her to.

Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at February 23, 2024 02:36 PM (pgwxJ)

19 We have taken these unprecedented steps because upon her firing and escort from the building, Catherine yelled, 'This is MAGA Country!' at several of our minority staff, causing discomfort.

Posted by: CBS News at February 23, 2024 02:36 PM (AD14M)

20 Was there any truth to the comment earlier that Tater Sexmachine is running for something as a Republican?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:36 PM (Zz0t1)

21 Ratings-disaster CNN is looking to cut $50 million from their insipid partisan propaganda-anchors' bloated salaries!

I hope they re-hire Brian Stelter just so they can fire him again...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 23, 2024 02:36 PM (wtvvX)

22 Afternoon Ace. I don't think I ever watched Avlon on CNN but I've seen clips and he seems like a smarmy little snot. I looked him up and see he's married to that RINO Margaret Hoover. Says a lot about them

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 23, 2024 02:37 PM (byGob)

23 Unlike Fox News Pentagon mouthpiece Jennifer Griffin. Literally just repeats whatever the 5-sided puzzle palace tells her to.
Posted by: GM27, SEP Field Technician at February 23, 2024 02:36 PM (pgwxJ)

Yeah, I'm no fan

Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2024 02:37 PM (Akjoo)

24 Anderson Cooper: takes it up the ______.

Posted by: Joe Mama at February 23, 2024 02:37 PM (lZVy/)

25 It's official: I'm running for Congress in #NY01 because there's too much at stake for the country & community I love. Long Island families deserve someone who fights for their values, not Trump's. It's time for us all to get off the sidelines. Join Me.

Because NY isn't communist ENOUGH.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

26 We need to clone Trump.
Living rent-free just in their heads is no longer enough punishment. We need him in every room of their house.

Posted by: DaveA at February 23, 2024 02:37 PM (FhXTo)

27 Anderson Cooper: takes it up the ______.
Posted by: Joe Mama at February 23, 2024 02:37 PM (lZVy/)

Narrator: *whispers to the audience* The password is "fartclam."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

28
This concerned many that this could "chill" reporting and sources providing information to reporters.

Could 'chill' it anymore then it already is? What is absolute zero? We're hovering half a degree over that number already.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 23, 2024 02:38 PM (nIvob)

29 Nathan Wade came to my house to get reimbursed for the tropical work cruises we happened to both attend. It always took a few hours for me to dig up the jars of cash from under my porch, and another few hours to count out the bills, then he would go home with blue balls.

Posted by: Fani call Willis at February 23, 2024 02:38 PM (CZPkK)

30 Avlon talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded. Seriously, watch his campaign announcement. Lamest and weakest shit evah.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 23, 2024 02:38 PM (iFTx/)

31 When did Sharyl Atkinson change her name?

Posted by: ... at February 23, 2024 02:38 PM (lZkXJ)

32 25 It's official: I'm running for Congress in #NY01 because there's too much at stake for the country & community I love. Long Island families deserve someone who fights for their values, not Trump's. It's time for us all to get off the sidelines. Join Me.

Because NY isn't communist ENOUGH.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:37 PM (Zz0t1)

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NY still has some wreckers and hoarders preventing utopia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 02:39 PM (GBKbO)

33 27 Anderson Cooper: takes it up the ______.
Posted by: Joe Mama at February 23, 2024 02:37 PM (lZVy/)

Narrator: *whispers to the audience* The password is "fartclam."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

Allen Ludden: "Pass, or Play?"

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 23, 2024 02:39 PM (wtvvX)

34 DropBox exists.

Why are her notes even an issue?

Posted by: Sharkman at February 23, 2024 02:39 PM (nbYK7)

35 @26

Trump doesn't just live rent-free in their heads. He's built Trump Towers.

Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at February 23, 2024 02:39 PM (AD14M)

36 Anderson Cooper: $20 million
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You know for $20 MILLION a year I would wear goofy glasses and read from a script. Hell, I will act sort of gay, too.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 02:40 PM (Hpgos)

37 She should have done what the team at WSJ does, toe the line!

Posted by: Tennessee Volunteer at February 23, 2024 02:40 PM (i+Jm0)

38 The era of paying big money to broadcast journalists is reaching the end of the line simply because the fat from advertising profits is no longer there.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 02:40 PM (XGEQ3)

39 Catherine Herridge didn't kill herself.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 23, 2024 02:40 PM (dGCAG)

40 @26

Trump doesn't just live rent-free in their heads. He's built Trump Towers.
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at February 23, 2024 02:39 PM (AD14M)
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And it drives them *insane*! It's glorious!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 23, 2024 02:40 PM (7fElN)

41 24 Anderson Cooper: takes it up the ______.
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IMAGE???

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 23, 2024 02:40 PM (2yu8s)

42 Catherine Herridge has information that will lead to the arrest of Hillory Clinton.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 23, 2024 02:40 PM (dGCAG)

43 And Then Seized Her Notes, Including the Names of Her Confidential Administration Sources
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Same folks that bleat 'Democracy dies in darkness!'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 23, 2024 02:40 PM (XeU6L)

44 36 Anderson Cooper: $20 million
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You know for $20 MILLION a year I would wear goofy glasses and read from a script. Hell, I will act sort of gay, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 02:40 PM (Hpgos)

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Yeah, but do you have Vanderbilt stories?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 02:41 PM (GBKbO)

45 OTOH, potato Steltzer is running for office as a Republican

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 23, 2024 02:41 PM (tXFoB)

46 Trump doesn't just live rent-free in their heads. He's built Trump Towers.
Posted by: Darth Chipmunk at February 23, 2024 02:39 PM (AD14M)

Rubs hands together... Soon to be mine

Posted by: Leticia at February 23, 2024 02:41 PM (Akjoo)

47 And Then Seized Her Notes,
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Pounce, did they pounce?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 23, 2024 02:41 PM (XeU6L)

48 "act"???

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 23, 2024 02:41 PM (2yu8s)

49 *sulking* I would be gay for a lot less than 20 mil. Just sayin'. *sulks some more*

Posted by: Don Lemon, primo talent at February 23, 2024 02:41 PM (PiwSw)

50
If the Democrats pull off the steal again,

I wonder how long before they consolidate power in a nearly irreversible manner, and-

start clearing out and ridding the world of their useful idiots.

The Left always seems to put them against the wall firstish.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2024 02:42 PM (nFnyb)

51 Literally just ~~repeats~~ reports whatever the 5-sided puzzle palace ~~tells her to~~ releases to the press.

Which is what "a reporter having a beat" has always meant. Sitting in the back of the class calling everything a conspiracy, making fart noises and sneering is our job. Get to work.

Lazy asses. There is no reason for reporters to be snide smart-assed teenagers when we have this place for that. You kids nowadays I tell you what. You need everything done for you?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 23, 2024 02:42 PM (zdLoL)

52
Anderson Cooper: takes it up the ______.

I said pooper!

Posted by: Zombie Brett Somers at February 23, 2024 02:42 PM (63Dwl)

53 Yeah, but do you have Vanderbilt stories?
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Not really. Both my parents were sane and responsible.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 02:43 PM (Hpgos)

54 What kinda career journalismist keeps all their personal confidential files on a work computer? Better have had backups in safe deposit boxes
Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at February 23, 2024 02:35 PM (CZPkK)

The kind who calmly announced on air that a "black swan" event could be coming.

Who thought she was so insulated, that Stalin couldn't possibly think she was a traitor.

Many many many people have only realized their error, when the Cheka shows up and knocks on their door in the middle of the might.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 23, 2024 02:43 PM (dGCAG)

55 53 Yeah, but do you have Vanderbilt stories?
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Not really. Both my parents were sane and responsible.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 02:43 PM (Hpgos)

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So...boring? Psh. Not good enough for CNN.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 02:43 PM (GBKbO)

56 When did Sharyl Atkinson change her name?
Posted by: ... at February 23, 2024 02:38 PM (lZkXJ)
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You mean Sharyl Atkisson?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 23, 2024 02:43 PM (RIvkX)

57 News Readers most overpaid profession in the world.

Posted by: Burnt Umber at February 23, 2024 02:43 PM (TSAar)

58 They, essentially, did the exact same thing to Sharyl Attkisson. And, that was CBS News as well. But, they learned from the experience. In Sharyl Attkisson's situation, she started complaining that they wouldn't allow negative reporting on Obama, and was eventually forced to resign. They secured her contacts and half-finished stories by hacking her computer(s). In Herridge's case they just confiscated her computer(s) and notes instead of any of the cloak and dagger stuff.

Posted by: Orson at February 23, 2024 02:43 PM (dIske)

59 Willowed: I've read that John Hurt based his portrayal of Caligula on that of Jay Robinson, who played him in The Robe(1953) and Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954).

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus"
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He may have; except Robinson's Caligula is mean, nasty, and sneering all the time. Hurt's version is charming, funny, even attractive - all except for the "I might have you killed horribly any minute now because I'm bored" part.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024

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One of the many character actors whose name I don't know and had to look him up. He played the ambassador aboard Kirk's ship who is supposed to "civilize" the princess Elaan in "Elaan of Troyius," and he was Julius Caesar in an episode of Bewitched too. Long career he had.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2024 02:44 PM (J2vNu)

60 I'd cut everyone under $1M...they claim that people are paid too much all the time...so why should they be paid too much? No one watches them.

I mean, they could just put their annual pay equal to their annual viewer ratings (500K people = $500K) - seems the most fair way to pay them...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 23, 2024 02:44 PM (exHjb)

61 "My dick just said "Bitches leave" like Clarence Bodikker in RoboCop."

I knew that. You didn't have to tell me that.

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2024 02:44 PM (iziT8)

62 Hey…I heard Trump would be a tinpot dictator. You know, the type who arrests people who disagree with him and doesn’t respect the sanctity of a free press. Big huge eyeroll.

Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2024 02:44 PM (ZdaMQ)

63 It says here that John Avlon is a Democrat, and apparently a MAGA-hating liberal extremist Democrat, but I know my eyes must be deceiving me, because when he was on CNN he claimed to be an objective journalist without fear or favor for either party.
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That's how they roll at CNN. Just as no one realized that Brian Stelter is a Republican. Straight arrows all.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (1bNHn)

64 Newsweek:

As the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) steps up its campaign of targeting key figures in Hamas and allied factions amid intensified operations in southern Gaza, Hamas spokesperson Bassem Naim told Newsweek that "none of the movement's leaders is thinking of leaving the Gaza Strip, whatever the cost, and will not allow Israel to establish this principle."

... I guess this means they are all in Qatar

Posted by: SMOD at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (RovqD)

65 50
If the Democrats pull off the steal again,

I wonder how long before they consolidate power in a nearly irreversible manner, and-

start clearing out and ridding the world of their useful idiots.

The Left always seems to put them against the wall firstish.
Posted by: naturalfake
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Doesn't work like that in a country with more guns than people. Forcing it will end up more like the Yugoslavian Civil War.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (XGEQ3)

66 Is Chris Wallace working somewhere?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (xcrUy)

67 I think it's rather obvious that CBS is functioning as a privatized arm of the FBI that can safely ignore all constitutional protections on search and seizure. And what better way to violate the principles of "freedom of the press" than to hire one of the biggest members of the so-called press to do it for you?

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (i9ffA)

68 Is 2:45pm too early to drink bourbon?

Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (eNASR)

69 Who was the news reader who was supposedly the spawn of Mia Farrow and Sinatra? I always get him mixed up with the Vanderbilt spawn.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (9yWhg)

70 Holy fuck-knuckles! I just saw a post about Joe and Dr. Jill's frequent, public displays of affection.

I guess when your dry and flaky, the commingling of dander performs like the ribbing in a dive bar condom.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 23, 2024 02:46 PM (EEgXH)

71 Geez $50 mil for four talking heads on basic cable delivering nowhere messaging for nobody.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 23, 2024 02:46 PM (os8zY)

72 http://tinyurl.com/3bzerhue

"The CIA apparently utilized CBS, historically, as its tool for many years. CBS’s Chairman of the Board for many years was a former Columbia University Trustee named William Paley. According to Deborah Davis’ 1979 book Katharine The Great: Katharine Graham and `The Washington Post’: “Paley’s own friendship with [former CIA Director] Allen Dulles is now known to have been one of the most influential and significant in the communications industry; he provided cover for CIA agents, supplied outtakes of new films, debriefed reporters, and in many ways set the standard for future cooperation between the CIA and the major broadcast companies.”

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 02:46 PM (i9ffA)

73 They can't let anything happen to Biden so they fire her and arrest an FBI informant who was a trusted source for over 10 years.....

Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2024 02:46 PM (Akjoo)

74 What does this have to do with Fani's snizz?

Posted by: wth at February 23, 2024 02:46 PM (v0R5T)

75 62 Hey…I heard Trump would be a tinpot dictator. You know, the type who arrests people who disagree with him and doesn’t respect the sanctity of a free press. Big huge eyeroll.

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Back in 2015 I overheard a coworker lady lamenting loudly that she was frightened what would happen if trump wins because she is Jewish, and they would round up Jews off the street.
That aged well.

Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at February 23, 2024 02:46 PM (CZPkK)

76 DNC power bottom decided to take on more official role for the party he has been servicing for years.

Posted by: Drew in MO at February 23, 2024 02:46 PM (fkYQi)

77 Hmm, I wonder what Washington comPost's Media critic, Erik Wemple, has said or tweeted about this. What? Nothing?!? It can't be! He's such a noble, even-handed journalist! /sarc

I'm actually pleasantly surprised that the Union even issued a statement. Normally they can't even be bothered to do something like that for anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders.

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (a/dOO)

78 71 Geez $50 mil for four talking heads on basic cable delivering nowhere messaging for nobody.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at February 23, 2024 02:46 PM (os8zY)

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Listen, rich people never malinvest. This is a great decision.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

79 Is Chris Wallace working somewhere?
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (xcrUy)

Under the Queensboro bridge, jerking off punks for $14 a man.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (dGCAG)

80 Those CNN salaries are ridiculous. I'm sure there are ghetto dwellers who could do just as well.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (xcrUy)

81 "This concerned many that this could "chill" reporting and sources providing information to reporters. Some like Turley and journalist Brit Hume said they had never heard of anything like this before."

So, it is doing exactly what it is intended to do.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (di6C2)

82 Is 2:45pm too early to drink bourbon?
Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (eNASR)

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Of course not, silly.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (DRSnL)

83 Whatever happened to that weird Chris Matthews asshole?

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (iziT8)

84 Is 2:45pm too early to drink bourbon?
Posted by: Doof

You, of all people, have to ask that?

Of course not.

Be better, Doof. Be better.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (9yWhg)

85 Who was the news reader who was supposedly the spawn of Mia Farrow and Sinatra? I always get him mixed up with the Vanderbilt spawn.
__________

Ronan Farrow

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (lf83v)

86 I think we expected that someone would switch overnight from "objective journalist and it's a crime against Democracy to question that" to far left congressional candidate speaking out on matters he's just covered for CNN.

But you're really going to spin your head like Regan MacNeil when Avlon loses the race and returns to his CNN gig and they insist that he's once again an "objective journalist and it's a crime against Democracy to question that."

Posted by: Alec Leamas at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (ssz2a)

87 To be fair, her work product while taking CBS' money belongs to CBS.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (RIvkX)

88 69 Who was the news reader who was supposedly the spawn of Mia Farrow and Sinatra? I always get him mixed up with the Vanderbilt spawn.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (9yWhg)

Ronan Farrow

Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (Akjoo)

89 68 Is 2:45pm too early to drink bourbon?
Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (eNASR)
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Dude. It's 7am somewhere!

Posted by: Weasel at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (JwHpX)

90 n related media corruption, CNN anchor John Avlon is running for Congress as

We need all hands on deck. It was time to activate him.

Posted by: CIA at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (qL8Uu)

91 This is a similar story to the small town Midwest newspaper where the cops closed it down and seized all the computers because someone with pull didn't like what might be reported. What ever became of that story?

Posted by: Burnt Umber at February 23, 2024 02:48 PM (TSAar)

92 Ronan Farrow. If I was him, I'd much rather be Frank Sinatra's son than Woody Allen's. (and guess who he looks like)T

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 02:48 PM (i9ffA)

93 69 Who was the news reader who was supposedly the spawn of Mia Farrow and Sinatra? I always get him mixed up with the Vanderbilt spawn.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (9yWhg)

Ronan Farrow.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 23, 2024 02:48 PM (wtvvX)

94 Back in 2015 I overheard a coworker lady lamenting loudly that she was frightened what would happen if trump wins because she is Jewish, and they would round up Jews off the street.
That aged well.
Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at February 23, 2024 02:46 PM (CZPkK)

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I had a supervisor tell me Trump was going to send my husband and son back to Mexico.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 02:48 PM (DRSnL)

95 54 What kinda career journalismist keeps all their personal confidential files on a work computer? Better have had backups in safe deposit boxes
Posted by: Chuck Hemangioma at February 23, 2024 02:35 PM (CZPkK)

The kind who calmly announced on air that a "black swan" event could be coming.

Who thought she was so insulated, that Stalin couldn't possibly think she was a traitor.

Many many many people have only realized their error, when the Cheka shows up and knocks on their door in the middle of the might.
Posted by: BurtTC
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NatSec reporters always end up in bed with the Deep State and are always confounded when the Deep State turns on them for expediency.

Long line of where the journalists are fed useful stories by the Deep State and then the Deep State finds them no longer useful and they end up ruined.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 02:48 PM (XGEQ3)

96 Yes, Ronan Farrow. Thanks, all.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 02:48 PM (9yWhg)

97

Commie gonna Commie. All day long.

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at February 23, 2024 02:48 PM (et1vG)

98 White gay guy gets the most payola for propaganda reading at CNN. Where all the black women?

Posted by: Fanny Willus at February 23, 2024 02:49 PM (17s+e)

99 Who was the news reader who was supposedly the spawn of Mia Farrow and Sinatra? I always get him mixed up with the Vanderbilt spawn.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (9yWhg)

=====

Fun fact: Timothy Olyphant is part of the Vanderbilt family.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 02:49 PM (DRSnL)

100 68 Is 2:45pm too early to drink bourbon?

Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (eNASR)

OUT: Barrel-Aged
IN: Aged in The Barrel

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 23, 2024 02:49 PM (wtvvX)

101 I said pooper!
Posted by: Zombie Brett Somers
_______________

Sooper dooper!

Posted by: John Fetterman at February 23, 2024 02:49 PM (lf83v)

102 I had a supervisor tell me Trump was going to send my husband and son back to Mexico.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 02:48 PM (DRSnL)

Was there a secret camera hidden somewhere?

Were they filming b-roll for the next "Don't Be A Racist Dick At Work" training session?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 02:50 PM (9UlRk)

103 John Avlon does not look like he is unacquainted with the taste of dick.

BTW, nice to see Captain Hate has been added to the Absent Friends.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 02:50 PM (tkR6S)

104 45 OTOH, potato Steltzer is running for office as a Republican
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 23, 2024 02:41 PM (tXFoB)

Stop...STOP...

Please say you're kidding!

***we really need a sarcasm font***

Posted by: browndog on the hunt for Karla at February 23, 2024 02:50 PM (TTAGa)

105
"So, White House Source person contestant, we have three doors on stage!

One has 'You're Fired!' behind it.

One has 'You're Indicted!'

One has ' Trip to Ft. Marcy Park!'

And, no, you don't get to choose."

Posted by: Auspex at February 23, 2024 02:50 PM (j4U/Z)

106 One thing I have thought is mighty curious, as we watch the USA implode in ever increasing bouts of absurdity piled on atrocities to insult any decent person … Batshit cray cray has to be cause for comment.

One would think the rest of the world would look on in horror, if only for reasons of self preservation. After all, a functioning US government is in their best interests. Or maybe not?

Is anybody talking about the Schizophrenic gubbmint overseas, unofficially or officially? Or is the insanity Global in scope, breadth, and depth? This seems unlikely.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 23, 2024 02:50 PM (HYyZn)

107 68 Is 2:45pm too early to drink bourbon?
Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (eNASR)

I'd say you're a few hours late...

Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 23, 2024 02:50 PM (a/dOO)

108 No sane person would leave John Avlon alone with small children. My GAYPEDODAR is redlining.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at February 23, 2024 02:50 PM (17s+e)

109 I thought this might be good. Borderlands.

http://tinyurl.com/44fa9yk4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at February 23, 2024 02:51 PM (FVME7)

110 I think it's rather obvious that CBS is functioning as a privatized arm of the FBI...
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (i9ffA)

http://tinyurl.com/3bzerhue

"The CIA apparently utilized CBS, historically, as its tool for many years...
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 23, 2024 02:46 PM (i9ffA)

I wonder how many times, somebody took someone else's parking lot, or snatched a tasty dish from the company break room. After which the full force of one agency or the other was brought down on said lasagna snatcher, only to find out later the snatcher worked for the other agency.

Boy, does that make for some awkward apologies.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 23, 2024 02:51 PM (dGCAG)

111 68 Is 2:45pm too early to drink bourbon?
Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (eNASR)

I'd say you're a few hours late...
Posted by: Virginia SoCon at February 23, 2024 02:50 PM (a/dOO)

It's always 9:30 AM somewhere.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 02:51 PM (9UlRk)

112 I'm sorry. The answer has to be in the form of a question.

We were looking for "Who is Ronan Farrow."

The Board goes to you, Sean Connery.

Posted by: Alec Trebek at February 23, 2024 02:51 PM (lf83v)

113 I had a supervisor tell me Trump was going to send my husband and son back to Mexico.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 02:48 PM (DRSnL)
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Will this affect bacon distribution?

Posted by: Weasel at February 23, 2024 02:51 PM (JwHpX)

114 Is 2:45pm too early to drink bourbon?
Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (eNASR)
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Dude. It's 7am somewhere!
Posted by: Weasel at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (JwHpX)

Thread Winner.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:51 PM (Zz0t1)

115 If Brian Stelter and Fani Willis would breed they'd produce a super Tater.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 23, 2024 02:51 PM (xcrUy)

116 112 I'm sorry. The answer has to be in the form of a question.

We were looking for "Who is Ronan Farrow."

The Board goes to you, Sean Connery.
Posted by: Alec Trebek at February 23, 2024 02:51 PM (lf83v)
=========

I'll take The Rapists for $100.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

117 Ronan Farrow
------------
They should have butched him up and named him Conan.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 02:52 PM (Hpgos)

118 NY 1st District voted for Trump in 2020. As did the 2nd.

That's LI, where I grew up*, and where my brother still lives.

*Whether I actually ever grew up is a disputed point.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 23, 2024 02:52 PM (1bNHn)

119 I saw Decrepitude open for Depeche Mode at the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in 1990.

The best part was when they threw adult diapers into the audience.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 23, 2024 02:52 PM (R/m4+)

120 What does this have to do with Fani's snizz?

Posted by: wth at February 23, 2024 02:46 PM (v0R5T)

This!

*sings*

I got me a Fani, she's as big as a whale
And we're headin' on down to the Mish Shack
I got me a Chrysler, it seats about 20
So hurry up and bring your jukebox money

The Mish shack is a little old place where
We can get together
Mish Shack, baby (the Mish Shack, baby)
...
...

Posted by: Zombie B-52s at February 23, 2024 02:52 PM (nFnyb)

121 There's 3 sides to every story.

Mine, yours and the truth. Only one is ever reported.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 23, 2024 02:52 PM (Q4IgG)

122
General Flynn is part of the 'black swan' advising group too.

We all know something is coming, but what is it this time? Who knows, but I'm sure it will be a punch in the balls.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 23, 2024 02:52 PM (nIvob)

123 115 If Brian Stelter and Fani Willis would breed they'd produce a super Tater.
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 23, 2024 02:51 PM (xcrUy)
_____

I'll be back when I stop vomiting.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 23, 2024 02:53 PM (1bNHn)

124 Whatever happened to that weird Chris Matthews asshole?
Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2024 02:47 PM (iziT

He got it bleached?

I don't know, I wasn't aware he had a weird one.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 23, 2024 02:53 PM (dGCAG)

125 >>It says here that John Avlon is a Democrat, and apparently a MAGA-hating liberal extremist Democrat, but I know my eyes must be deceiving me, because when he was on CNN he claimed to be an objective journalist without fear or favor for either party.

If you'd ever wonder how dysfunctional the NYS GOP is here you go..

The NY GOP has nominated a corrupt former cop, who donated to Latitia James and is explicitly anti-MAGA and anti-Trump, to take on Kirstin Gilebrand.

The GOP previously was going to put this guy up against George Santos before Santos was ousted.

If you want to know why we can't have nice things, between outright marxist running for office and covert marxisit running for office, this is why.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2024 02:53 PM (JIdXK)

126 Potato lives in a R district and can only win while pretending to be an R. Of course, the dopes will recognize his name and vote for him.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 23, 2024 02:53 PM (6nbos)

127 Suck it, Trebek.

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2024 02:54 PM (iziT8)

128 >>> Then Seized Her Notes, Including the Names of Her Confidential Administration Sources
-----------------------

Catherine is the type of gal to keep backup's of her backup's.'
She's also to not take CBS's treatment of her lightly.

Posted by: Braenyard at February 23, 2024 02:54 PM (0lA9i)

129 CBS won't worry about giving Cathrine her files back now, as they've most likely already taken the names of abby of her sources, and sent them over to the DoJ so that fake charges can be bought against them.

Posted by: Rbastid at February 23, 2024 02:54 PM (oms6s)

130 Is 2:45pm too early to drink bourbon?
Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:45 PM (eNASR)
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Of course not, silly.
Posted by: Jordan61
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You, of all people, have to ask that?
Of course not.
Be better, Doof. Be better.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Dude. It's 7am somewhere!
Posted by: Weasel

The Horde NEVER disappoints! I'm honored to have your day-drinking encouragement!!
*pours more Legent*

Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:54 PM (eNASR)

131 I thought Tater was running for the local schoolboard, not Congress.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 02:54 PM (9yWhg)

132 "weird Chris Mathews asshole" is redundant X3.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at February 23, 2024 02:55 PM (lf83v)

133 Anderson Cooper: $20 million
------------
You know for $20 MILLION a year I would wear goofy glasses and read from a script. Hell, I will act sort of gay, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 02:40 PM (Hpgos)
........

I'd work for 6 months, quit, and retire with $10 mil.

Posted by: wth at February 23, 2024 02:55 PM (v0R5T)

134 Will this affect bacon distribution?
Posted by: Weasel at February 23, 2024 02:51 PM (JwHpX)

=====

Never!

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 02:55 PM (DRSnL)

135 I remember when Chris Matthews guest-hosted for Rush. Weird.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (9yWhg)

136 98 White gay guy gets the most payola for propaganda reading at CNN. Where all the black women?
Posted by: Fanny Willus at February 23, 2024 02:49 PM (17s+e)
_______

Ask the AI.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (1bNHn)

137 Of course, the dopes will recognize his name and vote for him.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 23, 2024 02:53 PM (6nbos)

I'd vote for the starchy lil' bastard just for the pure entertainment value.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (9UlRk)

138 131 I thought Tater was running for the local schoolboard, not Congress.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at

He lost so he felt he should lower his sights just a little.

Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (ZdaMQ)

139 "I thought Tater was running for the local schoolboard, not Congress.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus"

Internet telephone game.

aka - forget it he's rolling.

Posted by: eleven at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (iziT8)

140 Will this affect bacon distribution?
Posted by: Weasel at February 23, 2024 02:51 PM (JwHpX)

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Never!
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 02:55 PM (DRSnL)

*douses torches*

*wipes off eyeblack*

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

141 98 White gay guy gets the most payola for propaganda reading at CNN. Where all the black women?
Posted by: Fanny Willus
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I'd imagine that CNN's demographic is old white college plus boomers from that last audience demographics I saw.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (XGEQ3)

142 $8 million for Chris Wallace. A guy who is such a nothing he destroyed an entire platform and was cancelled by his own network.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (KbCG3)

143 I'd work for 6 months, quit, and retire with $10 mil.
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Do you know how high NY and NYC income taxes are?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (Hpgos)

144 Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 23, 2024 02:53 PM (JIdXK)

NY GOP = TX DNC

Posted by: Burnt Umber at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (TSAar)

145 Posted by: Eeyore at February 23, 2024 02:52 PM (1bNHn)

I was reading through the earlier threads when I came across someone's response to a post of yours, naming you:

Sad Donkey Johnson

I've been chuckling at that ever since...lol

Posted by: browndog on the hunt for Karla at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (TTAGa)

146 What i think is starting to bleed though is--despite the assurances of CNN brass-- the smaller and smaller audiences for CNN is not wealthier.

And Bidenomics means "can't afford food, how am I gonna buy a Lexus?"
"A December to Remember" was under Trump and means not having to finance your Christmas Dinner at 18%.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 23, 2024 02:57 PM (cSaKW)

147 -----------
Do you know how high NY and NYC income taxes are?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (Hpgos)

New York CITY charges income tax?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

148 >>>The Horde NEVER disappoints! I'm honored to have your day-drinking encouragement!!
*pours more Legent*
Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:54 PM (eNASR)

=====

If this were last week I'd be one hour and three fingers ahead of you. But as it is, I’m on a late start to Lent. I should have picked soda or something.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (JfxgE)

149 If you'd ever wonder how dysfunctional the NYS GOP is here you go..

The NY GOP has nominated a corrupt former cop, who donated to Latitia James and is explicitly anti-MAGA and anti-Trump, to take on Kirstin Gilebrand.

The GOP previously was going to put this guy up against George Santos before Santos was ousted.

If you want to know why we can't have nice things, between outright marxist running for office and covert marxisit running for office, this is why.
Posted by: Thomas Bender
----------
Ed Cox is a talentless nepot lawyer. Note that California has had a series of feckless GOP state chairs as well. Almost like it is a plan or something of the Uniparty.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (XGEQ3)

150 I'm so old I remember when John Avlon was a Republican!

He would get brought on to slag George W. Bush on the news shows. As a Republican.

Posted by: blaster at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (IFNME)

151 Is 2:45pm too early to drink bourbon?

Did you pour it? Then it's time!

Posted by: t-bird at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (sj395)

152 148 If this were last week I'd be one hour and three fingers ahead of you. But as it is, I’m on a late start to Lent. I should have picked soda or something.
Posted by: Turn 2 at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (JfxgE)

=========

I gave up lunch, not drinking.

I could start...but on an empty stomach...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

153 My husband and his father were both born in the US. My husband doesn't even speak Spanish, FFS.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (DRSnL)

154 Most overpaid professions

News Readers
Actors
College Football Head Coaches
Human Resource Management

Posted by: Burnt Umber at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (TSAar)

155 Will this affect bacon distribution?
Posted by: Weasel at February 23, 2024 02:51 PM (JwHpX)

Never!
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 02:55 PM (DRSnL)

*douses torches*
*wipes off eyeblack*
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)

How about our deep fried Buc-ees ghost pepper beef jerky?? That was surprisingly good!!

Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:59 PM (eNASR)

156 My husband and his father were both born in the US. My husband doesn't even speak Spanish, FFS.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (DRSnL)

Did you call that person "f*cking stupid" to their face?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

157 New York CITY charges income tax?
-------------
Yeah. And property tax, too. Now do you understand why the swells went after Trump after he capped their SALT deductible?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 02:59 PM (Hpgos)

158 New York CITY charges income tax?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

I thought most municipalities did.

Everywhere I've ever lived has. 1% of AGI, usually. No idea what NYC rakes in.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 02:59 PM (9UlRk)

159 Most overpaid professions

News Readers
Actors
College Football Head Coaches
Human Resource Management
Posted by: Burnt Umber

Whew! We're not on the list!

Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (9yWhg)

160 How about our deep fried Buc-ees ghost pepper beef jerky?? That was surprisingly good!!
Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:59 PM (eNASR)

I actually brought that up this past weekend.

It was surprisingly NOT horseshit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

161 153 My husband and his father were both born in the US. My husband doesn't even speak Spanish, FFS.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (DRSnL)

Going to make living in Mexico kind of tough.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (KbCG3)

162 O/T but weird. A small ship was in international waters, with suspected weapons from Iran. 2 SEALS were killed during the boarding, and searching...

And now, 4 people from said boat, are being prosecuted in the US, under CIVILIAN LAW, for arms smuggling.... in international waters... from one non US place, to another.

Has the US declared US law is now universal?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (xaFKb)

163 Did you call that person "f*cking stupid" to their face?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

No, but I did laugh at him. I think he was pretty offended.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (DRSnL)

164 No idea what NYC rakes in.
-----------------
Its never enough.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (Hpgos)

165 159 Whew! We're not on the list!
Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (9yWhg)

========

"Yeah, you're deeply underpaid. Now, we're upping your dues to get you a raise."
-Teachers' Union Management

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

166 Hi I’m a Democrat. Let’s restore the middle class by making gas, food and everything else too expensive for the middle class to afford, all in the name of climate change.

Posted by: Montec at February 23, 2024 03:01 PM (bWsRe)

167 147 -----------
Do you know how high NY and NYC income taxes are?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (Hpgos)

New York CITY charges income tax?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (Zz0t1)

That, and the RENT'S TOO DAMN HIGH ...

Posted by: Jimmy McMillan at February 23, 2024 03:01 PM (TTAGa)

168
I thought most municipalities did.

Everywhere I've ever lived has. 1% of AGI, usually. No idea what NYC rakes in.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 02:59 PM (9UlRk)

I've never heard of a City Income Tax. Sales tax, sure. INCOME tax. For a city?

FRO with that shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

169 $8 million for Chris Wallace. A guy who is such a nothing he destroyed an entire platform and was cancelled by his own network.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (KbCG3)
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It's good to be a member of The Party.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 23, 2024 03:01 PM (7fElN)

170 It was surprisingly NOT horseshit.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

I don't know if I trust your opinion, knowing what you were drinking last weekend.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:01 PM (DRSnL)

171 166 Hi I’m a Democrat. Let’s restore the middle class by making gas, food and everything else too expensive for the middle class to afford, all in the name of climate change.
Posted by: Montec at February 23, 2024 03:01 PM (bWsRe)

=======

Also, by increasing the population through mass immigration which has obvious downward effects on wages.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

172 =====

No, but I did laugh at him. I think he was pretty offended.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (DRSnL)

"F*cking stupid" would've had a more direct effect.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

173 And now, 4 people from said boat, are being prosecuted in the US, under CIVILIAN LAW, for arms smuggling.... in international waters... from one non US place, to another.
-----------
The US is Coast Guard to the world.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (Hpgos)

174 I don't get those salaries. Millions of dollars to host some of the least-watched television out there.

Posted by: What gives? at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (0GDr5)

175 162 O/T but weird. A small ship was in international waters, with suspected weapons from Iran. 2 SEALS were killed during the boarding, and searching...

And now, 4 people from said boat, are being prosecuted in the US, under CIVILIAN LAW, for arms smuggling.... in international waters... from one non US place, to another.

Has the US declared US law is now universal?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (xaFKb)

I agree, they should not be tried in the US.

They should have been buried at sea.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (wtvvX)

176 *pours more Legent*

Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:54 PM (eNASR)

Ah, a gentleman of leisure who knows his bourbons.

Legent is without a doubt the best bang for your buck bourbons out there, and possibly the best bourbon out there that's not cask strength.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (nFnyb)

177 New York CITY charges income tax?
-------------
Yeah. And property tax, too. Now do you understand why the swells went after Trump after he capped their SALT deductible?
___________

What am I? Chopped liver?

Posted by: Alternative Minimum Tax at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (lf83v)

178 Catherine is the type of gal to keep backup's of her backup's.'
She's also to not take CBS's treatment of her lightly.
Posted by: Braenyard
------
She is pretty much done as an investigative reporter. Once your sources are burned, you are like a spy handler without a network and new sources are unlikely to develop a relationship with her as her card is marked.

Natsec reporting is generally acting as a spokesperson for a nat sec faction of sources feeding you a story not so much as an independent reporter.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (XGEQ3)

179 How about our deep fried Buc-ees ghost pepper beef jerky?? That was surprisingly good!!
Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 02:59 PM (eNASR)

I'm pretty stoked. We are getting a Buc-ees nearby. Gonna open this spring some time.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (xPJvm)

180 o another.

Has the US declared US law is now universal?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (xaFKb)

I am the law!!
- M. Garland

Posted by: Montec at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (bWsRe)

181 153 My husband and his father were both born in the US. My husband doesn't even speak Spanish, FFS.
-----
Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering if they were both military.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (2yu8s)

182 154 Most overpaid professions

News Readers
Actors
College Football Head Coaches
Human Resource Management
Posted by: Burnt Umber at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (TSAar)

One of those actually brings in money.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (KbCG3)

183
I don't know if I trust your opinion, knowing what you were drinking last weekend.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:01 PM (DRSnL)

That was PRIOR to the weekend, missy.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

184 I don't know if I trust your opinion, knowing what you were drinking last weekend.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:01 PM (DRSnL)

OK I gotta know. Do tell!!

Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (eNASR)

185 I gave up lunch, not drinking.

I could start...but on an empty stomach...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 02:58 PM (GBKbO)

Cheaper buzz that way

Posted by: browndog unearthing eternal truths at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (TTAGa)

186 Hey, Google Gemini, from now on draw all brothuz with massive exposed muhDicks.

Posted by: Marooned at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (kt8QE)

187 SAG-AFTRA strongly condemns CBS News' decision to seize Catherine Herridge's reporter notes and research from her office, including confidential source information. This action is deeply concerning to the union because it sets a dangerous precedent for all media professionals and threatens the very foundation of the First Amendment.

Guessing a lot of journalists will be burning their SAG-AFTRA cards soon.

I don't get why newsies would have their panties in a bunch over Herridge. It isn't like they liked her. And her work was probably anti-Biden.

Posted by: blaster at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (IFNME)

188 Heck even the podunk little township i grew up in a half hour away from "town" had a 1% income tax.

Maybe it's just a BosWash corridor thing.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 03:03 PM (9UlRk)

189 I'm pretty stoked. We are getting a Buc-ees nearby. Gonna open this spring some time.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (xPJvm)

That is some damn good news for you!

Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 03:03 PM (eNASR)

190 Avlon's "history" books can't even be called midwit. They're bad imitations of boring, charmless, pointless books by guys like John Meacham and Michael Beschloss. He's married to Herbert Hoover's granddaughter (maybe great granddaughter) who 1) is hot, and way out of his league, 2) is a vandal who made a mockery of Buckley's "Firing Line" with an updated version as stupefyingly boring as her husband's books. (But she did show off her legs. That wasn't bad.)

Posted by: occam's brassiere at February 23, 2024 03:03 PM (7PV56)

191 Fascism is big corporations doing what our federal government would do, if not for that pesky Constitution.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at February 23, 2024 03:03 PM (snyZJ)

192 174 I don't get those salaries. Millions of dollars to host some of the least-watched television out there.
Posted by: What gives?

Grifters dominate dying institutions as the institutions run through CEOs while the 'talent' is kept on burning through the money.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:03 PM (XGEQ3)

193 Nigel Farage speaking now at CPAC

Posted by: Jen the original at February 23, 2024 03:03 PM (J7JR0)

194 BREAKING: Trump says he supports IVF and calls on the Alabama legislature to protect access to the fertility treatment

“We want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder!”

Posted by: Mark1971 at February 23, 2024 03:03 PM (xPl2J)

195 Who was the news reader who was supposedly the spawn of Mia Farrow and Sinatra? I always get him mixed up with the Vanderbilt spawn.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024

***
Ronan Farrow?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (J2vNu)

196 Eggnog. Think about it. Eggs. Eggs are in eggnog! And bourbon! Bourbon’s in eggnog. And milk! Oh goody! That’s nutrition. Eggnog… coming up!

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (AZuVV)

197 John Avlon appears to have a diet high in soy.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (fs1hN)

198 188 Heck even the podunk little township i grew up in a half hour away from "town" had a 1% income tax.

Maybe it's just a BosWash corridor thing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 03:03 PM (9UlRk)

========

And yankees wonder why the south is so much better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

199 194 BREAKING: Trump says he supports IVF and calls on the Alabama legislature to protect access to the fertility treatment

“We want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder!”
Posted by: Mark1971 at February 23, 2024 03:03 PM (xPl2J)

I agree

Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (Akjoo)

200
OK I gotta know. Do tell!!
Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (eNASR)

It was unopened, and just short of expiration and I didn't have anything else.........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

201 One of those actually brings in money.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (KbCG3)

It's not the coach, actor or news reader that brings in the money. It's the industry.

Posted by: Burnt Umber at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (TSAar)

202 166 Hi I’m a Democrat. Let’s restore the middle class by making gas, food and everything else too expensive for the middle class to afford, all in the name of climate change.
Posted by: Montec at February 23, 2024 03:01 PM (bWsRe)
_______________________________

Bonus...you have 10 minutes to loot during the Cleveland total solar eclipse. So we are handing out these nifty tote bags. 3 bag maximum, although family members can acquire an additional 3. We are, also, providing additional tote bags to individuals who don't know who their daddy is. ...so everyone basically gets six tote bags. While supplies last.

Posted by: Orson at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (dIske)

203 126 Potato lives in a R district and can only win while pretending to be an R. Of course, the dopes will recognize his name and vote for him.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at February 23, 2024 02:53 PM (6nbos)

It works for a while...

Posted by: Liz Cheney at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (PiwSw)

204 John Avlon appears to have a diet high in soy.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (fs1hN)

And cock.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:05 PM (Zz0t1)

205 Has the US declared US law is now universal?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (xaFKb)

Probably some "Law of the Sea" thing.

Posted by: blaster at February 23, 2024 03:05 PM (IFNME)

206 Is Chris Wallace working somewhere?
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 23, 2024
*
Under the Queensboro bridge, jerking off punks for $14 a man.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 23, 2024

***
An oddly specific amount. Why not $15 (minimum wage)?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2024 03:05 PM (J2vNu)

207 If it looks, walks and smells like a dirty whore......

...it's CBS.

Posted by: Son of Dad at February 23, 2024 03:05 PM (8JB5s)

208 If they didn't have "security" drag her out by the ankles and bust her teeth on a concrete curb it is not a real 'firing'.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (Fk09Q)

209 I was going to say something about this Avlon and the island from the Arthurian legend but I couldn't put it together. Never-ending.
He looks like a dick.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (xcrUy)

210 It says here that John Avlon is a Democrat, and apparently a MAGA-hating liberal extremist Democrat, but I know my eyes must be deceiving me, because when he was on CNN he claimed to be an objective journalist without fear or favor for either party.

This one is easy. The FNM is not partisan or biased. It supports all valid political ideologies. From...far left national socialist to extreme left national socialist.

It isn't biased to be against anyone outside that political range because those beliefs are allowed anyway.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (ibTVg)

211 I'd work for 6 months, quit, and retire with $10 mil.
-----------
Do you know how high NY and NYC income taxes are?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 02:56 PM (Hpgos)
.......

I can't work from home in my boxer shorts?
Hell, I'd even wank it during Zoom calls if they want.

Posted by: wth at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (v0R5T)

212 Isn't it kind of too late to give her the material back. They already know what it says and have passed it on to the desiccated corpse and his minions.

Posted by: Jaimo at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (DBrN4)

213 It was unopened, and just short of expiration and I didn't have anything else.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

=====

LOL, I showed the picture to husband and he said, "oh, he's gonna have the shits."

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (DRSnL)

214 And yankees wonder why the south is so much better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

You can freely take a buck out of every hundred if it means i never have to drive anywhere near a South Carolinian.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (9UlRk)

215 My dad used to refer to CBS as Compressed Bat Shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

216 174 I don't get those salaries. Millions of dollars to host some of the least-watched television out there.
Posted by: What gives? at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (0GDr5)

Are you talking network news? They still get millions of viewers every day. It’s mainly old people, but old people buy shit too and advertisers love them. Especially pharma companies.

Posted by: Montec at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (bWsRe)

217 206 Is Chris Wallace working somewhere?
Posted by: Northernlurker at February 23, 2024
*
Under the Queensboro bridge, jerking off punks for $14 a man.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 23, 2024

***
An oddly specific amount. Why not $15 (minimum wage)?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2024 03:05 PM (J2vNu)

The guy likes jerking punks and making change.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (KbCG3)

218 Anderson Cooper works hard for the money.

Posted by: Eromero at February 23, 2024 03:07 PM (N38xc)

219 CBS won't worry about giving Cathrine her files back now, as they've most likely already taken the names of abby of her sources, and sent them over to the DoJ so that fake charges can be bought against them.
Posted by: Rbastid at February 23, 2024 02:54 PM (oms6s)

If she were smart, she'd have salted the list of "condidential sources" with a bunch of ringers.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 03:07 PM (tkR6S)

220
LOL, I showed the picture to husband and he said, "oh, he's gonna have the shits."
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (DRSnL)

HA! I only had 2 servings. No such malady occurred.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)

221 That guy that's running, he looks like a bored pedophile.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at February 23, 2024 03:07 PM (J8LnB)

222 Waiting to find out the list of sources by looking who commits "suicide" or gets "mugged and shot" while nothing is taken.

Posted by: Ryan Frank at February 23, 2024 03:07 PM (fgmuN)

223 195 Who was the news reader who was supposedly the spawn of Mia Farrow and Sinatra? I always get him mixed up with the Vanderbilt spawn.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024

***
Ronan Farrow?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
--------
Ronan barely lasted as a news reader at MSNBC but is now an independent print journalist that broke a lot of Me Too stories. Hasn't done much lately which makes one think that he was fed those stories by pols interested in removing certain individuals like Harvey Weinstein from influence.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:08 PM (XGEQ3)

224 Heck even the podunk little township i grew up in a half hour away from "town" had a 1% income tax.

In one of the blue towns near I live they are having a budget fight. The town wants more money.

Opponents of the tax increase pointed out the town shouldn't be squeezing home owners to pay for things like a sustainability engineer.

The proponents? "If you can't afford the higher taxes you should sell your house and move".

But remember...the left supports the little guy unlike the right...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2024 03:08 PM (ibTVg)

225 205 Has the US declared US law is now universal?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (xaFKb)

Probably some "Law of the Sea" thing.
Posted by: blaster at February 23, 2024 03:05 PM (IFNME)

Yeah... uh... as someone who spent literally years of his life, deployed... on Boarding Teams... often enforcing arms embargoes?

Uh... no. You seize the ship... you destroy the cargo... but bringing them back to the States to prosecute them under US Law? Never heard of it before.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2024 03:08 PM (xaFKb)

226 *
An oddly specific amount. Why not $15 (minimum wage)?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2024 03:05 PM (J2vNu)

The guy likes jerking punks and making change.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (KbCG3)

Price war.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 23, 2024 03:08 PM (xcrUy)

227 John Avlon appears to have a diet high in soy.

Protein from the spigot, you could say.

Posted by: The Interns at February 23, 2024 03:08 PM (fbFl3)

228 214 And yankees wonder why the south is so much better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

You can freely take a buck out of every hundred if it means i never have to drive anywhere near a South Carolinian.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (9UlRk)

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But...you live within spitting distance of Boston drivers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

229 You can freely take a buck out of every hundred if it means i never have to drive anywhere near a South Carolinian.
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Pro Hint - drive in western SC.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 03:08 PM (Hpgos)

230 Just because

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuntnb2keF0

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM (X4yCj)

231 SAG-AFTRA's objections are of the shakeweight variety. Once the sources were seized, the names were handed over to the WH and all are burned. Returning her materials is mostly pointless.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM (hCzfy)

232 98 White gay guy gets the most payola for propaganda reading at CNN. Where all the black women?
Posted by: Fanny Willus at February 23, 2024 02:49 PM (17s+e)

Uber-nepo baby.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM (exHjb)

233 But...you live within spitting distance of Boston drivers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

Exactly.

I'd never spit on a South Carolinian.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM (9UlRk)

234 John CNN guy most likely believes he is a moderate centrist. It’s what most leftie trees think. And when they report on how great Biden is it’s because he is also a moderate centrist, solving problems for normal Americans.

Posted by: Montec at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM (bWsRe)

235 Do you know how high NY and NYC income taxes are?

It came out a few years ago that one of the top NYT reporters had made up all of his man on the street interviews. Specifically he had interviewed his roommate.

Note - you can be the top reporter at the NYT and you still can't afford your own place.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM (ibTVg)

236 You know.

Democrats are going to have to come up with something other than stoking Trump Derangement Syndrome and abortion to win the House.

Trump will not be allowed to be president.

It

Won't

Happen

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM (WcL0J)

237 >>>You know for $20 MILLION a year I would wear goofy glasses and read from a script. Hell, I will act sort of gay, too.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 23, 2024 02:40 PM (Hpgos)
........

I'd work for 6 months, quit, and retire with $10 mil.

Posted by: wth

>For $20MM you get the full gay.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 23, 2024 03:10 PM (EEgXH)

238 233 But...you live within spitting distance of Boston drivers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:08 PM (GBKbO)

Exactly.

I'd never spit on a South Carolinian.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM (9UlRk)

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Because they're armed?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:10 PM (GBKbO)

239 189 I'm pretty stoked. We are getting a Buc-ees nearby. Gonna open this spring some time.

Nobody goes to Buc-ees anymore. It’s too crowded.

The Grand Strand is picking Nikki !

Posted by: The Real Nikki Haley at February 23, 2024 03:10 PM (pMjRw)

240 Pay Anderson 2, Wolf 5, Jake 2, Wallace 2, and you are well on you achieve $50 million in curs.

Posted by: MikeN at February 23, 2024 03:11 PM (XygMV)

241
I'd never spit on a South Carolinian.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM (9UlRk)

That's good. Spitting on someone is incredibly rude.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:11 PM (Zz0t1)

242 You know for $20 MILLION a year I would wear goofy glasses and read from a script. Hell, I will act sort of gay, too.

/Drops trou

Ok let's see your skills.

Posted by: Some news producer at February 23, 2024 03:11 PM (ibTVg)

243 I don't get those salaries. Millions of dollars to host some of the least-watched television out there.
Posted by: What gives? at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (0GDr5)
......

Satan pays well.

Posted by: wth at February 23, 2024 03:11 PM (v0R5T)

244 I assume they won't report it when the sources start dying in interesting ways.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 23, 2024 03:11 PM (lTGtQ)

245 Heck even the podunk little township i grew up in a half hour away from "town" had a 1% income tax.

Maybe it's just a BosWash corridor thing.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 03:03 PM (9UlRk)

It probably is, I've never heard of such a thing.

Posted by: pookysgirl thinks the 16th Amendment should be repealed anyway at February 23, 2024 03:12 PM (dtlDP)

246 I know we don't do math here but it's sounds worse when you say Anderson Cooper is paid 385k per week.

Posted by: Burnt Umber at February 23, 2024 03:12 PM (TSAar)

247 "Brit Hume's sense of who is or who is not leftwing, and who is an objective or even conservative-leaning "news professional," is about as well-calibrated as Meghan McCain's."

The former has spent too much time foraging for penis, and the latter, too much time slathering her back fat in bacon grease.

Posted by: Thor's Pimp Hand at February 23, 2024 03:13 PM (P++CM)

248 John CNN guy most likely believes he is a moderate centrist. It’s what most leftie trees think. And when they report on how great Biden is it’s because he is also a moderate centrist, solving problems for normal Americans.
Posted by: Montec at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM (bWsRe)

I had a friend who tried to convince me that Stephen Colbert was the uber conservative ying to Jon Stewart's liberal yang.

I laughed at him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

249 I don't get why newsies would have their panties in a bunch over Herridge. It isn't like they liked her. And her work was probably anti-Biden.

Apparently at least some of them know what happened to Trotsky and wish to avoid that fate should Kalorama consolidate permanent power.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 23, 2024 03:13 PM (TCujR)

250 218 Anderson Cooper works hard for the money.
Posted by: Eromero

Omg reminds me of the gay housekeeper in "The Birdcage."

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 23, 2024 03:13 PM (WcL0J)

251 I'm pretty stoked. We are getting a Buc-ees nearby. Gonna open this spring some time.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 23, 2024
*
That is some damn good news for you!
Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024

***
I've never had the occasion to visit a Buc-ee's. There's one on I-65 north of Birmingham on my direct path to Evansville, IN, which I plan to visit soon. Buc-ee's, here I come!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2024 03:13 PM (J2vNu)

252 Meh. All main stream media can get fucked. That is all.

Posted by: FriskyJoe81 at February 23, 2024 03:13 PM (VPbRr)

253 Hi Nurse.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 23, 2024 03:13 PM (sjdRT)

254 Anderson Cooper works hard for the money.
Posted by: Eromero at February 23, 2024 03:07 PM (N38xc)
.......

So you better treat him right.

Posted by: wth at February 23, 2024 03:14 PM (v0R5T)

255 I'll party with Cooper... live, on air... if that's what it takes.

Posted by: Jake Tapper at February 23, 2024 03:14 PM (hCzfy)

256 I don't get those salaries. Millions of dollars to host some of the least-watched television out there.

I remember some lefty analyzed the new coverage of...NBC?...after they got bought by a mega-corp. And...all negative stories about *that* mega-corp went away though all the other mega-corps were still evil capitalist pig dogs.

That got memory holed real fast though...

But you can see the same pattern with Bezos buying the post of Slim the NYT.

The "news" business isn't about news, its about marketing for its owners. This shouldn't be a surprise but...the whole left pretends that the FNM went from evil capitalist enablers to...good guy journalists...depending on what they are covering today...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2024 03:14 PM (ibTVg)

257 OT: DC's NPR affiliate, shut down its news-based website, DCist, today, laying off all 15 journos.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 23, 2024 03:15 PM (exHjb)

258 194 BREAKING: Trump says he supports IVF and calls on the Alabama legislature to protect access to the fertility treatment

“We want to make it easier for mothers and fathers to have babies, not harder!”
____

I understand both sides of this issue and I'm not committed to either one.

And I don't know why I would have to agree with everything Trump says or does anyway. He is the best chance for beginning a restoration of our republic. He'll probably fail due to the power that is arrayed against this restoration, and he seems to be hit or miss on the details for what needs to be done. But he's got my vote anyhow. We'll see how that works out

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2024 03:15 PM (fs1hN)

259 Really won't know what to think about this story until FusionGPS Jake Tapper weighs in.

Posted by: Sharkman at February 23, 2024 03:15 PM (nbYK7)

260 You can freely take a buck out of every hundred if it means i never have to drive anywhere near a South Carolinian.
---------
Mustard freaks!

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 23, 2024 03:15 PM (2yu8s)

261 Are you talking network news? They still get millions of viewers every day. It’s mainly old people, but old people buy shit too and advertisers love them. Especially pharma companies.
Posted by: Montec

Broadcast news is down to about 20 million per day M-F. Only about 3 million of those are in the 25-54 demographic so the audience for broadcast news is literally dying off. CNN is a mere rounding error at 700-800k viewers with a scant 125-150k in the 25-54 demographic.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:15 PM (XGEQ3)

262 I'm old enough to remember when News was actually news... Now it's opinion

Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2024 03:15 PM (Akjoo)

263 248 I had a friend who tried to convince me that Stephen Colbert was the uber conservative ying to Jon Stewart's liberal yang.

I laughed at him.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

========

Leftover from when he first got his own political schtick as part of The Daily Show, I guess. Colbert was presented as a cartoonish conservative in the mold of then Fox News hosts, but it was always meant satirically.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

264 Maud'dib!

Hello there, handsome! The maple trees flowing yet?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 23, 2024 03:15 PM (WcL0J)

265 Omg reminds me of the gay housekeeper in "The Birdcage."
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 23, 2024 03:13 PM (WcL0J)

=====

Hank Azaria! He was so great in that role.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:16 PM (DRSnL)

266
I had a friend who tried to convince me that Stephen Colbert was the uber conservative ying to Jon Stewart's liberal yang.

Stephen Colbert does have more conservative DNA in his colon then Jon Stewart has in his whole body...

Posted by: One of the hobos Stephen Colbert frequents at February 23, 2024 03:16 PM (ibTVg)

267 In what universe is Chris Wallace worth $8 million per year?

Posted by: mr tmz at February 23, 2024 03:16 PM (rJ48h)

268 Does Buc-ee''s sell pipe tobacco, you know, the stuff in the pouches or tubs like Sir Walter Raleigh or Prince Albert? (Cue the "PA in a can" jokes, but they don't sell it in a small tin any more.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 23, 2024 03:16 PM (J2vNu)

269 I'll party with Cooper... live, on air... if that's what it takes.
Posted by: Jake Tapper at February 23, 2024 03:14 PM (hCzfy)

Simulating fellatio is a BIG player.

Posted by: Kathy Griffin at February 23, 2024 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)

270 Ending to the DCist shut down...from wtop.com

"Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade and DNAinfo, shut down the DCist a week after the editorial staff voted to unionize with the Writers Guild of America."

Posted by: Nova Local at February 23, 2024 03:16 PM (exHjb)

271 262 I'm old enough to remember when News was actually news... Now it's opinion
Posted by: It's me donna at February 23, 2024 03:15 PM (Akjoo)

========

You're infinity years old?

Because the news has never been actually news. They just lied about it better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:16 PM (GBKbO)

272
Trump will not be allowed to be president.
It
Won't
Happen

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM

Alright class, your homework tonight is to research the 1980 Presidential race and write 200 words on how the 3rd party presidential campaign of John Anderson effected the results.

Do not use AI or enclose a dick pic.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 23, 2024 03:17 PM (nIvob)

273 Speaking of Propaganda Press, the new shiny Scare Words have dropped that will be repeated ad nauseam through the 2024 election: Christian Nationalist! (Cue screaming violin audio).

They are super scary guys, and they believe in God and stuff. So it's super OK to hate and otherize Christians because Scare Words.

Posted by: DaisyB at February 23, 2024 03:17 PM (AbL8c)

274 CORRECTION - That was from their 1st shut down - ignore 270. This was the comeback after the shutdown for unionizing...and still shut down...
https://wtop.com/local/2024/02/wamu -abruptly-shuts-down-dcist-site-lays-off-15-journalists/

Posted by: Nova Local at February 23, 2024 03:17 PM (exHjb)

275 The "news" business isn't about news, its about marketing for its owners. This shouldn't be a surprise but...the whole left pretends that the FNM went from evil capitalist enablers to...good guy journalists...depending on what they are covering today...
Posted by: 18-1
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Billionaire owners are often stingy with the help which is why WaPo, etc. keep having layoffs. Simply put, most journalists quite literally only rewrite press releases nowadays.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:17 PM (XGEQ3)

276
Leftover from when he first got his own political schtick as part of The Daily Show, I guess. Colbert was presented as a cartoonish conservative in the mold of then Fox News hosts, but it was always meant satirically.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:15 PM (GBKbO)

Having never watched either one of them with enough longevity to determine, I believe the statement was made AFTER Colbert had his own show.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:17 PM (Zz0t1)

277 The media should collectively gather in a place like Madison Square Garden and reenact Jonestown. That would only be the start of their contrition.

This may sound harsh. But when you watch every day how lives are destroyed, and ultimately our country by their lies and adherence to cult shibboleths over the truth, it's quite accurate and fair.

Posted by: Thor's Pimp Hand at February 23, 2024 03:17 PM (P++CM)

278 I understand both sides of this issue and I'm not committed to either one.

I was unaware it was even an issue and I’m afraid to Google it.

Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 23, 2024 03:17 PM (AZuVV)

279 And now, 4 people from said boat, are being prosecuted in the US, under CIVILIAN LAW, for arms smuggling.... in international waters... from one non US place, to another.

Has the US declared US law is now universal?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 23, 2024 03:00 PM (xaFKb)
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The surviving pirate from the Maersk Alabama incident was tried in the U.S.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 03:17 PM (0gvpA)

280 Hey Avlon.
What's the price of gas on Long Island?
Now tell me about values.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 23, 2024 03:18 PM (W/lyH)

281 I just got an e-mail from LnkedIn suggesting I follow someone with the title of "Chief Community Officer?"

WTF is a "Chief Community Officer?"

Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:18 PM (9yWhg)

282 Stephen Colbert does have more conservative DNA in his colon then Jon Stewart has in his whole body...
Posted by: One of the hobos Stephen Colbert frequents at February 23, 2024 03:16 PM (ibTVg)

Not what I've seen in the last few years.

Also John Stewart gave us The Audacity of Grope.

Which the Right failed to use at all.

Posted by: Burnt Umber at February 23, 2024 03:18 PM (TSAar)

283 >264 Maud'dib!

Hello there, handsome! The maple trees flowing yet?

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 23, 2024 03:15 PM (WcL0J)

The trees have run strongly the last 3 days. Today is too cold for flow, I predict. I'll be running the evaporator all day tomorrow.

How are you?

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 23, 2024 03:18 PM (sjdRT)

284 Corporations act as government, government acts as corporations… not much separation, is there?

Posted by: tubal at February 23, 2024 03:18 PM (PCK5/)

285 If she were smart, she'd have salted the list of "condidential sources" with a bunch of ringers.
____

List of Catherine Herridges confidential sources -
Hunter Biden, Merrick Garland, Kamala's husband, dog-boy nuclear waste guy, ...

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 23, 2024 03:19 PM (fs1hN)

286 Do not use AI or enclose a dick pic.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 23, 2024 03:17 PM (nIvob)

=====

You are gonna get so many dick pics.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:19 PM (DRSnL)

287
I was unaware it was even an issue and I’m afraid to Google it.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at February 23, 2024 03:17 PM (AZuVV)

Don't google anything. It is The Devil and must be destroyed. Plus, it will lie to you, unabashedly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

288 267 In what universe is Chris Wallace worth $8 million per year?
Posted by: mr tmz
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CNN online stupidity project from former CNN CEO that was banging his underling.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:19 PM (XGEQ3)

289 Because the news has never been actually news. They just lied about it better.

Also there was a lot less ideological difference.

Look at the 1960 presidential election. JFK and Nixon mostly disagreed about methods and priorities, not goals and ideology.

So of course the FNM was more "objective" - because the standard center left ideology of the time wasn't far from the center right ideology.

But...if you were someone that wanted to roll back the New Deal? Then they presented you as a fascist "insurrectionist" hell bent on destroying "our sacred democracy" just like they do MAGA people today...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2024 03:19 PM (ibTVg)

290 230 Just because

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuntnb2keF0
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM (X4yCj)

Ohhhh nooo, I was wrong ...

I thought it was gonna be the scene out of Caddy Shack where Al Czervic takes the cover off the radio in his golf bag, turns it on LOUD and proceeds to make Judge Smails lose his mind.

Posted by: browndog unearthing eternal truths at February 23, 2024 03:19 PM (TTAGa)

291 Chris Wallace: $8 million

I thought he was dead.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 23, 2024 03:20 PM (aD39U)

292 Katherine is an old school.

Bleach bit and penci/paper. Particularly since she's in court regarding sources.

If she didn't burn shit, she's stupid.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 23, 2024 03:20 PM (JkCto)

293 but a great way to start the weekend:

You know another great way to start the weekend?

A bat-filled Café tonight!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 23, 2024 03:20 PM (a3Q+t)

294 The surviving pirate from the Maersk Alabama incident was tried in the U.S.
Posted by: Captain Obvious,
-------
Too bad dropping the pirate in the broad ocean and seeing if shit floats wasn't an option.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:21 PM (XGEQ3)

295 286 Do not use AI or enclose a dick pic.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at February 23, 2024 03:17 PM (nIvob)

=====

You are gonna get so many dick pics.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:19 PM (DRSnL)

AI uses mine, but I copyrighted it...

Posted by: John Shaft at February 23, 2024 03:21 PM (TTAGa)

296
You can not hate the media enough.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 23, 2024 02:34 PM (wtvvX)

Doesn't stop me from trying though.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 23, 2024 03:21 PM (n+4am)

297 I don't trust the media because they are corporations who are obviously on the right and do nothing but cover for Trump without ever telling the world of his crimes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 02:32 PM

Cut. Jib. Blog?

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at February 23, 2024 03:22 PM (a3Q+t)

298 Just because

LETS DANCE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuntnb2keF0
Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 23, 2024 03:09 PM (X4yCj)

Hard to tuck in shorts that tight...so sorry, gonna have to change those uniforms a bit...

Posted by: The NBA soon at February 23, 2024 03:22 PM (ibTVg)

299 Is Chris Wallace the guy who looks like a gay bird watcher?

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 23, 2024 03:22 PM (xcrUy)

300 263 248 I had a friend who tried to convince me that Stephen Colbert was the uber conservative ying to Jon Stewart's liberal yang.

I laughed at him.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:13 PM (Zz0t1)

========

Leftover from when he first got his own political schtick as part of The Daily Show, I guess. Colbert was presented as a cartoonish conservative in the mold of then Fox News hosts, but it was always meant satirically.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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A show being on Comedy Central is kind of like a clue that it is not a news outlet.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:22 PM (XGEQ3)

301
Holy fuck-knuckles! I just saw a post about Joe and Dr. Jill's frequent, public displays of affection.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 23, 2024 02:46 PM (EEgXH)

Well, of course. He makes her feel like a little girl again...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 23, 2024 03:23 PM (n+4am)

302 Is Chris Wallace the guy who looks like a gay bird watcher?

For the last time Chris I'm not gay...I have a wife and eggs back home!

Posted by: The robin outside Chris Wallace's window at February 23, 2024 03:23 PM (ibTVg)

303 How are you?
Posted by: Muad'dib

I'm good! It's sunny and 48 here in downtown Seattle. My Marine was in town with his WIFE last weekend, so I got to go to Mass and break bread with both of my boys for a few days. It was awesome.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 23, 2024 03:23 PM (WcL0J)

304 299 Is Chris Wallace the guy who looks like a gay bird watcher?
Posted by: Northernlurker
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Yes. By reports, he is actually gay I think so more likely to watch twinks than birds.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:23 PM (XGEQ3)

305 "Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade and DNAinfo, shut down the DCist a week after the editorial staff voted to unionize with the Writers Guild of America."
Posted by: Nova Local at February 23, 2024 03:16 PM (exHjb)

"Of course they're malnourished, they have Ricketts."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 03:23 PM (tkR6S)

306 The sidebar on Vice crumbling to nothing is heartwarming. If only everyone on the right would stop watching CBS - be it "news", sports or otherwise we could enjoy their dissolution as well. But too many in Idiocracy World need their reality shows and precious NFL, so they continue.

Posted by: Son of Dad at February 23, 2024 03:24 PM (8JB5s)

307 Afternoon'

Just get Gemini AI to do the newz from now on. CNN is too white anyway.

CNN presented by Gemini AI; Tonight, why using the word 'pedophile' is bigoted.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at February 23, 2024 03:24 PM (sAmhv)

308 Stephen Colbert could actually be kinda funny when he started out. He had one or two good lines that my wife and I still quote.

But that was a looooong time ago.

Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:24 PM (9yWhg)

309 I thought he was dead.
-------
He's covering the McCain funeral.

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 23, 2024 03:25 PM (2yu8s)

310 I thought he was dead.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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Only his ratings. Think he has some Sunday morning show that nobody watches that gets less in ratings than your average Tik Tok influencer.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:25 PM (XGEQ3)

311 300 A show being on Comedy Central is kind of like a clue that it is not a news outlet.
Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:22 PM (XGEQ3)

=======

Tell most Millennials...20 years ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

312 I thought it was gonna be the scene out of Caddy Shack where Al Czervic takes the cover off the radio in his golf bag, turns it on LOUD and proceeds to make Judge Smails lose his mind.
Posted by: browndog unearthing eternal truths at February 23, 2024 03:19 PM (TTAGa)

Journey - Any Way You Want It. Can't hear it without recalling that scene!

Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 03:25 PM (eNASR)

313 Years ago some lefty cow-worker of mine tried to get me into Colbert. He had a clip that he said would make me LOL.

So he showed me. I had seen the same idea for the skit on some other lefty site a few weeks prior. I told my cow-worker it was funnier on that site before Colbert stole it and that the man really needed to write some of his own material or at least steal better stuff.

The cow-worker did not try to show me any more Colbert clips after that.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2024 03:25 PM (ibTVg)

314 >I'm good! It's sunny and 48 here in downtown Seattle. My Marine was in town with his WIFE last weekend, so I got to go to Mass and break bread with both of my boys for a few days. It was awesome.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 23, 2024 03:23 PM (WcL0J)

He has a wife?? That's fantastic!

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 23, 2024 03:26 PM (sjdRT)

315 I love eating cold soup straight out of the can.

Does that make me weird?

Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:26 PM (9yWhg)

316 I love eating cold soup straight out of the can.

Does that make me weird?
Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:26 PM (9yWhg)

=====

Probably. Depends on what kind of soup.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:27 PM (DRSnL)

317
You know another great way to start the weekend?

A bat-filled Café tonight!
Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 23, 2024 03:20 PM (a3Q+t)

I saw Bat-Filled Cafe open for Ozzy at the Cow Palace back in '83.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 23, 2024 03:27 PM (n+4am)

318 =====

Probably. Depends on what kind of soup.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:27 PM (DRSnL)

What? Depends?

But I just had mine changed......

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:27 PM (Zz0t1)

319 I equate the modern Left with a mashup of Nazis and Stalinists… thus itis hard to find any humor in them…

Posted by: tubal at February 23, 2024 03:28 PM (PCK5/)

320 Probably. Depends on what kind of soup.
Posted by: Jordan61

Tonight it's gonna be split pea and ham.

Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:28 PM (9yWhg)

321 319 I equate the modern Left with a mashup of Nazis and Stalinists… thus itis hard to find any humor in them…
Posted by: tubal at February 23, 2024 03:28 PM (PCK5/)

======

Maoists? It's the cultural revolution bit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

322 The surviving pirate from the Maersk Alabama incident was tried in the U.S.
Posted by: Captain Obvious,

Should have been tried in a naval court on the high seas. Does the USS Constitution sail?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 23, 2024 03:28 PM (IG4Id)

323 316 I love eating cold soup straight out of the can.

Does that make me weird?
Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:26 PM (9yWhg)

=====

Probably. Depends on what kind of soup.
Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:27 PM (DRSnL)

Ray’s Chili??

Posted by: tubal at February 23, 2024 03:28 PM (PCK5/)

324

Tonight it's gonna be split pea and ham.
Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:28 PM (9yWhg)

Party like a rock star.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 23, 2024 03:29 PM (Zz0t1)

325 Tonight it's gonna be split pea and ham.
Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:28 PM (9yWhg)
-----------
Have the Beano ready.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at February 23, 2024 03:29 PM (0gvpA)

326 Leftover from when he first got his own political schtick as part of The Daily Show, I guess. Colbert was presented as a cartoonish conservative in the mold of then Fox News hosts, but it was always meant satirically.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison
-------
A show being on Comedy Central is kind of like a clue that it is not a news outlet.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:22 PM (XGEQ3)

His whole shtick was one giant play on Bill O'Reilly. He even called him Papa Bear.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 03:29 PM (KbCG3)

327 He has a wife?? That's fantastic!
Posted by: Muad'dib

Yep! And she's lovely. Pro life, voted PDT, unvaccinated and can handle both long guns and pistols.
Plus, she acts like a young lady and not some "empowered wymyn."

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 23, 2024 03:29 PM (WcL0J)

328 Tell most Millennials...20 years ago.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
--------
Truth is that even most Millennials did not watch the show back in the day. It's reach was extended mainly by making its clips widely available on YT.

Too bored to look up Adweek ratings of Stewart era.

Truth is that most hyped cable shows fell well behind the influence of old 60's and 70's broadcast news which is why tv news is essentially disintegrating into a blob watched mainly by oldsters.

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:30 PM (XGEQ3)

329 Maoists? It's the cultural revolution bit.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

Maoists and Mau-maus.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 03:30 PM (tkR6S)

330 326 His whole shtick was one giant play on Bill O'Reilly. He even called him Papa Bear.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 03:29 PM (KbCG3)

=======

I could not remember O'Reilly's name, and I did not care enough to look it up.

But yes, that was his schtick.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

331 >Yep! And she's lovely. Pro life, voted PDT, unvaccinated and can handle both long guns and pistols.
Plus, she acts like a young lady and not some "empowered wymyn."

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 23, 2024 03:29 PM (WcL0J)

The boy was raised right.

Posted by: Muad'dib at February 23, 2024 03:30 PM (sjdRT)

332 Tonight it's gonna be split pea and ham.
Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:28 PM (9yWhg)

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Yeah, that sounds gross. Sorry.

Posted by: Jordan61 at February 23, 2024 03:30 PM (DRSnL)

333 I couldn't stand Bill O'Reilly. So maybe that's why I found the early Colbert somewhat funny.

Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:31 PM (9yWhg)

334
Those CNN salaries are pretty interesting. Talk about a gender pay gap.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 23, 2024 03:31 PM (T3es0)

335 Big Fanny and SD Honeycum...if the cell phone says dick you must convict.

Posted by: Lost in Space at February 23, 2024 03:31 PM (s8ZA+)

336 His whole shtick was one giant play on Bill O'Reilly. He even called him Papa Bear.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Never cared for Bill OReilly nor most of Fox's 'talent'

Posted by: whig at February 23, 2024 03:31 PM (XGEQ3)

337 Lentils and sausage, but NOT cold…

Posted by: tubal at February 23, 2024 03:31 PM (PCK5/)

338 Journey - Any Way You Want It. Can't hear it without recalling that scene!
Posted by: Doof at February 23, 2024 03:25 PM (eNASR)

My brother ...

***fistbump***

Posted by: browndog plays with racquets and paddles at February 23, 2024 03:32 PM (TTAGa)

339 I prefer my sausage soup body temperature and under a cute skirt...

Posted by: David French at February 23, 2024 03:32 PM (ibTVg)

340 Yeah, that sounds gross. Sorry.
Posted by: Jordan61

We'll see. I've never actually eaten split-pea like that before. But somebody mentioned split-pea soup here yesterday, so I started craving it.

Posted by: Teachers at February 23, 2024 03:32 PM (9yWhg)

341 Bill O’Reilly was utterly obnoxious..

Posted by: tubal at February 23, 2024 03:33 PM (PCK5/)

342 Should have been tried in a naval court on the high seas. Does the USS Constitution sail?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 23, 2024 03:28 PM (IG4Id)

The British hauled pirates back to London, and hanged them at Execution Dock on the bank of the Thames. Pour encourager les autres.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 23, 2024 03:33 PM (tkR6S)

343 Add Sean Hannity to the obnoxious list..

Posted by: tubal at February 23, 2024 03:34 PM (PCK5/)

344 341 Bill O’Reilly was utterly obnoxious..

Posted by: tubal at February 23, 2024 03:33 PM (PCK5/)

Gotta respect a guy who's ready to DO IT LIVE!

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 23, 2024 03:34 PM (KbCG3)

345 Oh, damn. I've been doing my whole cold soup thing under a sock? Begone, Teachers!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 23, 2024 03:34 PM (9yWhg)

346 Nood

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 23, 2024 03:34 PM (u73oe)

347 I think O'Reilly and Hannity were using Rush as a model.

But Rush's arrogance always had a smile and a wink to it. And neither of those two seemed to get that...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 23, 2024 03:35 PM (ibTVg)

348 BNO News @BNONews 2m
JUST IN: Military helicopter crashes in Prentiss County, Mississippi. No word yet on injuries - WTVA

Posted by: andycanuck (2yu8s) at February 23, 2024 03:35 PM (2yu8s)

349 Canned split pea sounds dubious. Homemade is good when done right. But you know what is really good? Mulligatawny soup. This might be dinner tonight.

https://spicedblog.com/mulligatawny-soup/

Posted by: Piper at February 23, 2024 03:36 PM (ZdaMQ)

350 216 174 I don't get those salaries. Millions of dollars to host some of the least-watched television out there.
Posted by: What gives? at February 23, 2024 03:02 PM (0GDr5)

Are you talking network news? They still get millions of viewers every day. It’s mainly old people, but old people buy shit too and advertisers love them. Especially pharma companies.
Posted by: Montec at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (bWsRe)

I don't think that accounts for it though. A. They could pay someone else far less to professionally read from a monitor and lamely ad lib when necessary. It's not a specialized skill set. Look at some of the hapless buffoons who've done it (Don Lemon, for example). B. I doubt most of these news readers have a dedicated following of any size. Oldsters might tube into primetime news, but they're going to do that no matter who is on; they don't have a rooting interest in Anderson Cooper, for example. It's much rarer for a talking head to have an audience that is passionate about the talking head himself (like say, Rush, or maybe Tucker).

Posted by: What gives? at February 23, 2024 03:38 PM (0GDr5)

351 And today's story for me right now from cheery-o Microsoft Bing, "Ten depressing and frustrating things which happen after 60." Ooookay then. I'll be sure to click on that. Uh huh.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 23, 2024 03:40 PM (Ki//m)

352 Anderson Cooper: $20 million
---
Damn. I shoulda blown him for realz.

Posted by: Kathy Griffin at February 23, 2024 03:41 PM (woPEM)

353 bMy husband and his father were both born in the US.

Why yes. In my neighborhood a "Mexican" was born in the same hospital I was, but his parents were from Texas, and -- maybe -- his grandparents from Mexico (maybe not, too). We only use the term because it's more dignified than "hispanic."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 23, 2024 03:53 PM (zdLoL)

354 Ratings-disaster CNN is looking to cut $50 million from their insipid partisan propaganda-anchors' bloated salaries!

Easy - rehire Brian Stelter at a salary of...
MINUS 50 million dollars!!

That was too easy.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 23, 2024 03:56 PM (fvaUq)

355 "Bitches leave'' is from XXX with Vin D.

Might also be Robo Cop. But it was better in XXX...

Posted by: Mr Wolf at February 23, 2024 04:09 PM (pgbTp)

356 So CBS has undoubtedly handed over the names of the inside sources to the administration to Seth Rich them -- professionally speaking.

Posted by: red speck at February 23, 2024 04:12 PM (0Id0S)

357 Sweet lord - I had no idea they were paid that much. And for what?

Posted by: Fani Banani at February 23, 2024 04:43 PM (ARlwA)

358 The big question for Herridge is: Why on earth did she trust BigMedia as a place to keep her notes and files??? Seems appallingly naive of her..... ESPECIALLY if she lacked a backup on a private server or system.... I'm guessing lotsa journos are out looking at various online backup systems and external hard drives today...

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at February 23, 2024 04:57 PM (NX5U7)

359 And yankees wonder why the south is so much better.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, having ranked all the Best Picture movies at February 23, 2024 03:04 PM (GBKbO)

You can freely take a buck out of every hundred if it means i never have to drive anywhere near a South Carolinian.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 23, 2024 03:06 PM (9UlRk)

It was pretty common during Sherman's March through Georgia for residents to complain that the army wasn't marching though South Carolina instead -- "They started it!!" They got there eventually.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 23, 2024 06:16 PM (eoQWY)

360 The big question for Herridge is: Why on earth did she trust BigMedia as a place to keep her notes and files???

In fairness, we don't know that she did, just that the Administration and CBS, birm, hoped that she did.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) muses at February 23, 2024 06:55 PM (aD39U)

361 Hі there! I ⅽould have sworn I've been to your blog before but aftеr loⲟking at a few of the ⲣosts I
realized it's new to me. Nonethelesѕ, I'm certainly pleased
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