CNN May Fire Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper to Make the Company More Attractive for a Buyer

CNN is making so much money for Warner Discovery that the company is looking to spin it off into another company called "Loser Deadweight Ratings Poison Networks LLC" if my facts are correct. Update: My facts weren't correct. It will be called "Global Networks" or something gay and vague like that.

They will be reviewing the exorbitant salaries they're paying proven ratings-disasters like Anderson Cooper. No one wants to buy a dying company until management gets serious about making it at least plausibly profitable in the future.

CNN is reportedly paying anchor Anderson Cooper $18 million a year -- an eye-popping sum that could be in the crosshairs when the ratings-challenged network is spun off by its debt-ridden parent company.
Cooper, the face of the network and host of its primetime show at 8 p.m., along with other anchors like Kaitlan Collins and Jake Tapper face an uncertain future following Monday's stunning announcement by Warner Bros. Discovery boss David Zaslav about the looming split, according to the Puck newsletter.
Zaslav tapped WBD Chief Financial Officer Gunnar Wiedenfels to take over CNN and other cable assets including TNT, TBS, HGTV as part of a new company called Global Networks.
A source told The Post that CNN staffers are worried about Wiedenfel, who they say has a reputation for ruthlessly cutting costs.
"Gunnar news is not good," the person said. "He is slash and burn."
Puck media writer Dylan Byers singled out Cooper and his $18 million salary as a possible target, considering the network remains mired in last place in the ratings.
"Why, for instance, would Gunnar pay Anderson Cooper $18 million a year when Kaitlan Collins draws the same ratings at roughly a fifth of the salary?" Byers wrote.
According to the latest Nielsen ratings, "Anderson Cooper 360" drew 647,000 total viewers on Tuesday -- or about $27 per viewer.

LOL. I see Podcast Opportunities in zis future.

Posted by: Ace at 12:22 PM

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1 LOL

Posted by: It's me donna at June 13, 2025 12:21 PM (VE6XX)

2 Gad, I love this.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:22 PM (s8j++)

3 I thought Tapper was already fired ...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 13, 2025 12:22 PM (VE6XX)

4 "Why, for instance, would Gunnar pay Anderson Cooper $18 million a year when Kaitlan Collins draws the same ratings at roughly a fifth of the salary?" Byers wrote.

And there's always the possibility that Kaitlan will take her shirt off. Nobody wants to see Anderson shirtless.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:23 PM (s8j++)

5 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 13, 2025 12:23 PM (+qU29)

6 > No one wants to buy a dying company until management gets serious about making it at least plausibly profitable in the future.
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Good luck with that...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 13, 2025 12:23 PM (Q4IgG)

7 Tapper? Maybe. He did his job of setting the press up for a constant drumbeat of incompetence claims against Trump, and he can now be put out to pasture.

Cooper, though? A gay Vanderbilt? I doubt it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:23 PM (6bTRc)

8 Keep them on the payroll.

Let the TV side of the WB/Discovery divestiture die out slowly.

Sell pay per view access for the final day where everyone has to show up to work but the doors are locked behind them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)

9 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

I'd bet it hasn't been a very good afternoon for the ayatollahs.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:24 PM (s8j++)

10 There aren't enough hours in the day for all these podcasts.

Posted by: Overwhelmed at June 13, 2025 12:24 PM (G5+As)

11 >>>"Loser Deadweight Ratings Poison Networks LLC"

VDH felt a tingle in his nethers.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 13, 2025 12:24 PM (i24o9)

12 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

13 "Can we keep the piss boy over there?"
"That's Brian Stelter."
"I know what I said."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 13, 2025 12:24 PM (lXoJ5)

14 Then who will host New Year Eve on TV?!?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

15 They could combine CNN, Huffington Post and USA Today and make a news media empire.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 13, 2025 12:25 PM (Vh9CX)

16 DURING PRIDE MONTH??!!!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 13, 2025 12:25 PM (PiwSw)

17 A source told The Post that CNN staffers are worried about Wiedenfel, who they say has a reputation for ruthlessly cutting costs.

"Gunnar news is not good," the person said. "He is slash and burn."
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Good, if it happens.

But "slash-and-burn" is done for a *reason.* Brazil doesn't clear-cut jungle just to get rid of it, it clear-cuts jungle so it can do something else with the land - usually agriculture.

So what is Wiedenfel planning to do with it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:25 PM (6bTRc)

18 According to the latest Nielsen ratings, "Anderson Cooper 360" drew 647,000 total viewers on Tuesday -- or about $27 per viewer.

LOL. I see Podcast Opportunities in zis future.

Posted by Ace

I'd pay $27/month to subscribe to Anderson Cooper's podcast!

Posted by: No One Ever at June 13, 2025 12:25 PM (ycI94)

19 It's truly astonishing that it was only 3 years ago when CNN actually thought people would pay for a CNN subscription service.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:25 PM (s8j++)

20 I suggest we all clean out our couch cushions, cars, and change cups, pool it and put our offer in.

Posted by: Piper at June 13, 2025 12:25 PM (p4NUW)

21 Probably get a hell of a write-off, with or without its "major talent."

Posted by: huerfano at June 13, 2025 12:25 PM (n2swS)

22 Proof that capitalism is brutal.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 13, 2025 12:25 PM (L/fGl)

23 The Iranian High Command wishes they were signed to do podcasts.

Posted by: Over and Out at June 13, 2025 12:26 PM (G5+As)

24 >>>"Why, for instance, would Gunnar pay Anderson Cooper $18 million a year when Kaitlan Collins draws the same ratings at roughly a fifth of the salary?" Byers wrote.

Max Headroom AI news readers would do it without such extravagant salary.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 13, 2025 12:26 PM (i24o9)

25 "I'll buy that for a dollar!"

Guy who bought Newsweek. For a dollar.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at June 13, 2025 12:26 PM (lHAAk)

26 LOL. I see Podcast Opportunities in zis future.

Posted by: Ace at 12:22 PM

HA!

VDH grins.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:26 PM (Zz0t1)

27 24 >>>"Why, for instance, would Gunnar pay Anderson Cooper $18 million a year when Kaitlan Collins draws the same ratings at roughly a fifth of the salary?" Byers wrote.

Max Headroom AI news readers would do it without such extravagant salary.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 13, 2025 12:26 PM (i24o9)

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Randos on Youtube do it for ad revenue without overhead costs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

28 CNN, 2028: "And now, at the top of the hour, the Topless News!"

Posted by: Profitable CNN Universe at June 13, 2025 12:26 PM (qUkBO)

29 don't mess with a dude named Gunnar !

Posted by: runner at June 13, 2025 12:26 PM (g47mK)

30 >>And there's always the possibility that Kaitlan will take her shirt off. Nobody wants to see Anderson shirtless.

Well.

Not Nobody.

Posted by: E. Jean Carrol at June 13, 2025 12:27 PM (QIh6T)

31 A 1000W am station in the middle of a cornfield specializing in cattle auction reports and Friday night HS football. "So you boys have experience. Which one is the queer?"

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 13, 2025 12:27 PM (gm9Sb)

32 Update: My facts weren't correct. It will be called "Global Networks" or something gay and vague like that.

They should spin it off into "cnn.substack.com" and live off of user contributions.

Posted by: t-bird at June 13, 2025 12:27 PM (GUvny)

33 LOL. I see Podcast Opportunities in zis future.
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All of the people described are erudite, intelligent, well-informed and well-connected as well as being likable and approachable. All know not only how to do the hard, heavy research work but also how to make it relatable and comprehensible to the audience.

Podcasts are an option, but their true new home is probably Substack. Their long-form written content will surely bring in subscribers by the busload.

What? Why are you laughing?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:27 PM (6bTRc)

34 F*ck it. File for bankruptcy. Fire everyone.

Cut your losses and close the doors. Sell the naming rights to Al-Jazeera.

It's a commie f*ck network anyway.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:27 PM (Zz0t1)

35 What's left of CNN after you trash those dudes? I mean, its such a damaged brand already, who would pay for CNN when cable news is a dead concept anyway?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:27 PM (e7kz6)

36 $18 million a year. Good grief.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:28 PM (6bTRc)

37 "CNN May Fire Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper to Make the Company More Attractive for a Buyer"

Ace, this makes no sense to me. If CNN can in fact fire these two twatlers -- I don't know what their contracts say -- then any new buyer can do that as well. Obviously, any potential buyer will review the contracts and know exactly what it can and can't do.

I don't see why CNN would fire them now, rather than let any new buyer do whatever it wants with them. That buyer might want to keep them on at reduced pay, etc. Or the deal may be that CNN pays a certain portion of their salaries even after the sale, sorta like some sportsball trades where the team trades away an expensive contract but remains on the hook for part of it.

Put another way, it makes more sense to keep these twats on to give the buyer more options.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 13, 2025 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

38 What's a CNN?

Posted by: Most people at June 13, 2025 12:28 PM (lIgBp)

39 Then who will host New Year Eve on TV?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

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That other gay Andy dude.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 13, 2025 12:28 PM (q8Jo4)

40 Afternoon ace, happy Friday. $18m for Anderson Vanderbilt shows a main reason why the propaganda ministries are dying. Cooper never seemed too bright but he was a celebrity. You could pay someone less than Collins to do the same , or better, job than Vanderbilt

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 13, 2025 12:28 PM (akw+7)

41 Common sense Gunnar control.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 13, 2025 12:28 PM (63Dwl)

42
That other gay Andy dude.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 13, 2025 12:28 PM (q8Jo4)

Dick?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

43 Since when does an oil change run over $100?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (1FgDd)

44 37 Ace, this makes no sense to me. If CNN can in fact fire these two twatlers -- I don't know what their contracts say -- then any new buyer can do that as well. Obviously, any potential buyer will review the contracts and know exactly what it can and can't do.

I don't see why CNN would fire them now, rather than let any new buyer do whatever it wants with them. That buyer might want to keep them on at reduced pay, etc. Or the deal may be that CNN pays a certain portion of their salaries even after the sale, sorta like some sportsball trades where the team trades away an expensive contract but remains on the hook for part of it.

Put another way, it makes more sense to keep these twats on to give the buyer more options.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 13, 2025 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

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Firing prima donas before I buy? Yes please.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)

45 I don't see why CNN would fire them now, rather than let any new buyer do whatever it wants with them.

One assumes because CNN wants to run a profit, or at least less of a deficit, before negotiating a sale price.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (s8j++)

46 You know who isn't listed in these firings and is still on CNN?

He'll be back in your face 24/7...........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

47 CNN sucks but MSNBC is worse...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 13, 2025 12:30 PM (VE6XX)

48 "Why, for instance, would Gunnar pay Anderson Cooper $18 million a year when Kaitlan Collins draws the same ratings at roughly a fifth of the salary?" Byers wrote.

Or, for a two-hundreth of the cost, you could get the same rating with a V-Tube avatar and AI voice...

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 13, 2025 12:30 PM (ycI94)

49 You know who isn't listed in these firings and is still on CNN?

He'll be back in your face 24/7...........

Hitler?

Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:30 PM (s8j++)

50 Since when does an oil change run over $100?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (1FgDd)

When union labor is involved.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

51 Is Anderson Cooper blackmailing CNN executives?

Posted by: mr tmz at June 13, 2025 12:30 PM (rJ48h)

52 The name CNN is the only asset with value, and that barely.

Posted by: toby928 at June 13, 2025 12:30 PM (jc0TO)

53 Went to school with a fellow Finn named Gunnar. Middle name Oskar. Went by Ozzie. Guy drank a lot.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 13, 2025 12:31 PM (gm9Sb)

54 Randos on Youtube do it for ad revenue without overhead costs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

While doing a superior job, which is a root cause of CNNs current predicament.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 13, 2025 12:31 PM (i24o9)

55 51 Is Anderson Cooper blackmailing CNN executives?
Posted by: mr tmz at June 13, 2025 12:30 PM (rJ48h)

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As a Vanderbilt, he probably has very powerful friends.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

56 Hope this drags out, publicly, for a while. The humiliation factor needs to be considered. Recriminations aired. Maybe some sort of emotional breakdown too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 13, 2025 12:31 PM (Q4IgG)

57 54 Randos on Youtube do it for ad revenue without overhead costs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:26 PM (GBKbO)

While doing a superior job, which is a root cause of CNNs current predicament.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 13, 2025 12:31 PM (i24o9)
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The entire news media apparatus' problem, actually.

Nightly news gets a fraction of the share it used to.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)

58 What baffles me is that top end, AAA advertisers keep buying time on CNN at high prices despite it having lower ratings than My Mother the Car. Its like corporate welfare.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:31 PM (e7kz6)

59 CNN, 2028: "And now, at the top of the hour, the Topless News!"
Posted by: Profitable CNN Universe

"No, Brian. You're going to do that either."

Posted by: NR Pax at June 13, 2025 12:31 PM (lXoJ5)

60 Since when does an oil change run over $100?
Posted by: nurse ratched

It’s the Ayatollah special. They’re just getting ahead of the curve.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 13, 2025 12:32 PM (Jh9Au)

61 Good afternoon, ace.

Strong work this week. Why don't you finish out the noon to 6 pm shift and then take the rest of the week off?

Posted by: muldoon at June 13, 2025 12:32 PM (/iMjX)

62 Podcasts are an option, but their true new home is probably Substack. Their long-form written content will surely bring in subscribers by the busload.

What? Why are you laughing?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:27 PM (6bTRc)

When you say busload, that's dozens, sooo, sounds about right.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 13, 2025 12:32 PM (pIfcn)

63
He'll be back in your face 24/7...........

Hitler?
Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:30 PM (s8j++)

I'll give you a hint.........

Sex Machine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:32 PM (Zz0t1)

64 Hope this drags out, publicly, for a while. The humiliation factor needs to be considered. Recriminations aired. Maybe some sort of emotional breakdown too.

What ever happened to Don LeMon's lawsuit? Come to think of it, I think all of them have sued at one time or another.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:32 PM (s8j++)

65 Podcasting: it's the new learning to code.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 13, 2025 12:32 PM (jGGMD)

66
Then who will host New Year Eve on TV?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

*Kathy Griffin flashes saggy tits*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 13, 2025 12:32 PM (y9nCu)

67 No one wants to buy a dying company until management gets serious about making it at least plausibly profitable in the future.

If that were possible, wouldn't they want to keep it? Maybe this is some sort of liability dodge.

Posted by: t-bird at June 13, 2025 12:32 PM (7bp2g)

68
Or, for a two-hundreth of the cost, you could get the same rating with a V-Tube avatar and AI voice...
Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 13, 2025 12:30 PM (ycI94)

Make Max Headroom Great Again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:33 PM (Zz0t1)

69 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Randos on YouTube that do a better job for only ad revenue at June 13, 2025 12:33 PM (lIgBp)

70 Since when does an oil change run over $100?

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (1FgDd)

Since your stupid state mandated $20+/hr for low/no skill labor.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 13, 2025 12:33 PM (i24o9)

71 Dick?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

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That might actually be entertaining. No, the one with the wonky eye. Cohen.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 13, 2025 12:33 PM (q8Jo4)

72 67 No one wants to buy a dying company until management gets serious about making it at least plausibly profitable in the future.

If that were possible, wouldn't they want to keep it? Maybe this is some sort of liability dodge.
Posted by: t-bird at June 13, 2025 12:32 PM (7bp2g)

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It's why companies do everything possible to make their books as good as possible as they try to sell. It's a common practice, and it oven dovetails into outright accounting fraud.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:33 PM (GBKbO)

73 Good afternoon, ace.

Strong work this week. Why don't you finish out the noon to 6 pm shift and then take the rest of the week off?

Yeah, I'm going to need you to work this weekend, 'kay. That'd be great.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:33 PM (s8j++)

74 Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT
Israel's attack on Iran, clearly intended to scuttle the Trump Administration's negotiations with Tehran, is further evidence of how little respect world powers - including our own allies - have for President Trump.

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Proof of Murphy's law, if something can go wrong and stupid, Chris Murphy will find a way.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 13, 2025 12:33 PM (L/fGl)

75 How much money are they going to flush down the toilet to try and get someone else to decide "hey, I've got a few billion just sitting around that I'd like to set on fire"?

Shoot it in the head and walk away smiling.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 12:34 PM (ExV1e)

76 That other gay Andy dude.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 13, 2025 12:28 PM (q8Jo4)

Dick?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

Well, obviously, but what's his name?

Posted by: Dr. T at June 13, 2025 12:34 PM (jGGMD)

77 Anderson Cooper pulls about 600k viewers per night. Let's be generous and call it 650k and pretend that 'The Demo' doesn't exist and so total viewers are what counts.

Assuming they tune in regularly (likely), CNN is paying Anderson Cooper almost $28 *per viewer* he brings in.

Compare that to Jesse Watters on Fox News. he brings in about 4.1 million viewers on average, and is paid $16 million per year. Fox News is paying Jesse Watters around $4 per viewer.

Relatively, Anderson Cooper earns 7x more Jesse Watters. Anderson Cooper is grossly overpaid.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:34 PM (6bTRc)

78 Then who will host New Year Eve on TV?!?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:24 PM (Zz0t1)

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That other gay Andy dude.
Posted by: Jordan61 at June 13, 2025 12:28 PM (q8Jo4)

I dunno, if that muzzie gets elected mayor in NYC, the networks might pull their "talent" out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 12:35 PM (ExV1e)

79 Gloria Vanderbilt Jr. talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:35 PM (Zz0t1)

80 Again, actors. Just hire actors. Hire attractive people who can read a prompter and have them vomit out the propaganda for pennies on the dollar. If they get ambitious and demand too much money, just fire them and replace them with new actors.

These people aren't valuable for anything other than screen presence, and that isn't hard to find.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:35 PM (6bTRc)

81 We are not that far off from our own version of the CGI China news. Release the Chakras!

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 13, 2025 12:35 PM (Gcn+Q)

82 I saw Captain America Brave New World last night. I have to say, it was ... pretty good.

I went in with very low expectations, given the poor reviews, box office flop, and poisonous woke bullshit. But I thought it was one of the better Marvel movies of the last 5 years. No, that ain't saying much. But it was far from the catastrophe most people said it was.

Yes, it was woke, but the two best characters were white: President Ross and the Israeli lady. The lead character (black) was whiny and a terrible soldier who let personal vendettas get in the way of his job. His latino sidekick was annoying.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

83 *Kathy Griffin flashes saggy tits*

MY EYES! THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!!!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (e7kz6)

84 Since when does an oil change run over $100?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (1FgDd)

Did they put premium air in the tires?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (ExV1e)

85 80 Again, actors. Just hire actors. Hire attractive people who can read a prompter and have them vomit out the propaganda for pennies on the dollar. If they get ambitious and demand too much money, just fire them and replace them with new actors.

These people aren't valuable for anything other than screen presence, and that isn't hard to find.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:35 PM (6bTRc)
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Or, hear me out on this:

Fold up shop and end the 24/7 cable news model because it's broken and broke.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)

86
CNN May Fire Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper to Make the Company More Attractive for a Buyer

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Decades of fudgepacking experience, discarded without a thought.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (ES1Rb)

87 Hard hitting journalist, Anderson Cooper.

https://is.gd/nZwLgH

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

88 What are we having for lunch today? Make me proud, y’all.

Posted by: Piper at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (pZEOD)

89 Murphy is one smart cookie ! nothing gets past him!

Posted by: runner at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (g47mK)

90 Learn to Podcast!

Posted by: Inogame at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (53oGX)

91 "Anderson Cooper 360" drew 647,000 total viewers on Tuesday -- or about $27 per viewer."

$27 per viewer ... for a year of viewing, or ~250 views. So about $0.11/show. But what is the real value to advertisers? idk, I can't think of anything I've bought due to seeing a commercial, and I usually mute them.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (vbXSk)

92 Or, hear me out on this:

Fold up shop and end the 24/7 cable news model because it's broken and broke.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (GBKbO)
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Oh, sure. But my statement applies more generally.

24/7 cable news, nightly news, local news programming, etc. - it's all the same. Just hire actors.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:37 PM (6bTRc)

93 You could. try our business model.

Posted by: Naked News at June 13, 2025 12:37 PM (lIgBp)

94 And there's always the possibility that Kaitlan will take her shirt off. Nobody wants to see Anderson shirtless.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:23 PM (s8j++)

Are we sure a lot of people want to see Kaitlan shirtless? I mean, that is one *very* distracting jawline.

Posted by: Dr. T at June 13, 2025 12:37 PM (jGGMD)

95 Again, actors. Just hire actors. Hire attractive people who can read a prompter and have them vomit out the propaganda for pennies on the dollar.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:35 PM (6bTRc)

Two words:

Big boobs and skimpy outfits.

It's a proven winner.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 13, 2025 12:37 PM (i24o9)

96 58 What baffles me is that top end, AAA advertisers keep buying time on CNN at high prices despite it having lower ratings than My Mother the Car. Its like corporate welfare.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:31 PM (e7kz6)

As with the Big Pharms, those advertisers are paying to insure that anything negative about them never reaches the broadcast phase.

Posted by: kbdabear at June 13, 2025 12:37 PM (zBOzm)

97 92 Oh, sure. But my statement applies more generally.

24/7 cable news, nightly news, local news programming, etc. - it's all the same. Just hire actors.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:37 PM (6bTRc)
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Well, they're certainly not hiring reporters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:37 PM (GBKbO)

98 What are we having for lunch today? Make me proud, y’all.
Posted by: Piper at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (pZEOD)

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I'm still trying to figure out what I'm having for breakfast.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 13, 2025 12:38 PM (q8Jo4)

99 >>> Did they put premium air in the tires?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (ExV1e)

I always have them put mostly nitrogen in my tires. Almost 80%!

Posted by: banana Dream at June 13, 2025 12:38 PM (cduTK)

100 $100 is a little high but not totally out of line for a synthetic/high-mileage oil change at a chain service center. If it's a conventional oil change, that's a ripoff.

Posted by: Everything's expensive these days at June 13, 2025 12:38 PM (TbWk/)

101
Again, actors. Just hire actors. Hire attractive people who can read a prompter and have them vomit out the propaganda for pennies on the dollar. If they get ambitious and demand too much money, just fire them and replace them with new actors.

These people aren't valuable for anything other than screen presence, and that isn't hard to find.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:35 PM (6bTRc)

CNN Headline News tried that decades ago with Andrea Thompson and her epic Ilsa She-Wolf of the SS rack, but the world wasn't ready. Might be worth trying again.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 13, 2025 12:38 PM (y9nCu)

102 Hire attractive people who can read a prompter and have them vomit out the propaganda for pennies on the dollar.

And it would pay better than them waiting tables.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 13, 2025 12:38 PM (lXoJ5)

103 Jeffrey Toobin is available

Posted by: Jupiter no rings mofo at June 13, 2025 12:38 PM (bCQL5)

104 What baffles me is that top end, AAA advertisers keep buying time on CNN at high prices despite it having lower ratings than My Mother the Car. Its like corporate welfare.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:31 PM (e7kz6)
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It's almost all big pharma. Why? It's in their interests to keep the propagandists on their side. Plus, lots of old people with medical problems, so maybe the demo distribution makes some sense.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:38 PM (6bTRc)

105 What are we having for lunch today? Make me proud, y’all.
Posted by: Piper

I'm not eating it for lunch, but I have a 7 lb pork butt on the smoker. It'll turn into pulled pork this weekend.

I love retirement.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:39 PM (s8j++)

106 Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian 43s
A ballistic missile has been launched from Yemen at Israel, the military says.

Sirens are expected to sound in southern Israel in the coming minutes.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 13, 2025 12:39 PM (2yoRf)

107 Jeffrey Toobin is available
Posted by: Jupiter no rings mofo at June 13, 2025 12:38 PM (bCQL5)

Lil' Toob wants a contract too......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

108 CNN Sucks

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 12:39 PM (SGpb+)

109 Put another way, it makes more sense to keep these twats on to give the buyer more options.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 13, 2025 12:28 PM (iFTx/)

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Firing prima donas before I buy? Yes please.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (GBKbO)
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These two are the only "marquee" names CNN has. A new buyer might want to keep them on as reduced pay. Who knows? Let the buyer decide. This isn't the same as cleaning up accounting books prior to a sale. Those can't be "changed" by a buyer. The talent can be.

Oh, and I'm not sure this has anything to do with a sale. It's not uncommon for companies to spin off junk into a junk company just to get the junk off the main company's books.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 13, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

110 I always have them put mostly nitrogen in my tires. Almost 80%!
Posted by: banana Dream at June 13, 2025 12:38 PM (cduTK)
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I got my oil changed this morning and it was about $100, but I also had the air filter replaced. The guy showed it to me and said "This looks pretty bad."

I said: "It looks terrible! Someone ought to replace it"

It took him a moment to get the joke.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 13, 2025 12:40 PM (ZOv7s)

111 It's almost all big pharma. Why? It's in their interests to keep the propagandists on their side. Plus, lots of old people with medical problems, so maybe the demo distribution makes some sense.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:38 PM (6bTRc)

Who benefited from OfuckstickCare. Now it all makes sense.

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 12:40 PM (SGpb+)

112 24/7 cable news, nightly news, local news programming, etc. - it's all the same. Just hire actors.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Well I coulda' been an actor, but I wound up here.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 13, 2025 12:40 PM (ITkJX)

113 Learn to coal.

Posted by: The West Virginia Employment Commission at June 13, 2025 12:40 PM (lIgBp)

114 I'm not eating it for lunch, but I have a 7 lb pork butt on the smoker. It'll turn into pulled pork this weekend.

I love retirement.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:39 PM (s8j++)

Did someone say pulled pork?!?!

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at June 13, 2025 12:40 PM (jGGMD)

115 Anderson Cooper and Don LeMon could team up to start their own news program:

Men On News

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 13, 2025 12:40 PM (PiwSw)

116 MSN had such a lame headline on the little thumbnail in the browser that I had to read it.

The title was “Iranian commander-in-chief’s haunting final speech just hours before his assassination”

Basically he just said that Iran was ready for anything. Lol!

But because MSN’s gotta MSN, here’s what they say about the IRG: Since it was established, it’s evolved from a paramilitary, domestic security force to a transnational force that has come to the aid of Tehran’s Allie’s in the Mideast, from Syria and Lebanon to Iraq.”

Wow, no word on terrorist activities or killing Americans or Israelis or other Jews.

You can’t hate the MSM enough.

Posted by: haffhowershower at June 13, 2025 12:40 PM (Jh9Au)

117 Are we sure a lot of people want to see Kaitlan shirtless? I mean, that is one *very* distracting jawline.
Posted by: Dr. T at June 13, 2025 12:37 PM (jGGMD)

Bottomless Kaitlan might end up being CNN's version of The Crying Game

Posted by: kbdabear at June 13, 2025 12:40 PM (zBOzm)

118 83 *Kathy Griffin flashes saggy tits*

MY EYES! THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING!!!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:36 PM (e7kz6)

You need our Anti-peril Sunglasses.

Posted by: Sirius Cybernetics at June 13, 2025 12:41 PM (6k8Dh)

119 ***They will be reviewing the exorbitant salaries they're paying proven ratings-disasters
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Not getting that 3rd hand burn money from the U.S.G. puts a crimp in the budget.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 12:41 PM (IU1e3)

120 As with the Big Pharms, those advertisers are paying to insure that anything negative about them never reaches the broadcast phase.

I think there is something to that. Because God knows they aren't earning anything from their investment. How many ad campaigns are Progressive Insurance running at the same time now? Like 8?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:41 PM (e7kz6)

121
Jeffrey Toobin is available
Posted by: Jupiter no rings mofo at June 13, 2025 12:38 PM (bCQL5)

Lil' Toob wants a contract too......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:39 PM (Zz0t1)

Just wait until Cooper samples the Toob steak on live TV.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 13, 2025 12:41 PM (y9nCu)

122 CNN May Fire Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper to Make the Company More Attractive for a Buyer
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CNN and more attractive don't fit in the same sentence. Less unattractive makes more sense.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 13, 2025 12:41 PM (Dv3i1)

123 Okay, I'm going to take a victory lap here. Last week I bought an IMI Jericho online for $200.

Same make and model are $369 today. Timing is everything!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 13, 2025 12:41 PM (ZOv7s)

124

"Why, for instance, would Gunnar pay Anderson Cooper $18 million a year when Kaitlan Collins draws the same ratings at roughly a fifth of the salary?"

Homophobia, sexism and transphobia in one sentence! Plus mustachophobia!!!

This is horrible! DURING PRIDE MONTH!

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at June 13, 2025 12:41 PM (et1vG)

125 Who benefited from OfuckstickCare. Now it all makes sense.
Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 12:40 PM (SGpb+)

And who benefited from COVID. Now it all makes even more sense.

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 12:41 PM (SGpb+)

126 Well, cable went from being cutting edge to irrelevant rather quickly.

Posted by: Buggy Whip Manufacturer's Association at June 13, 2025 12:41 PM (G5+As)

127 109 Oh, and I'm not sure this has anything to do with a sale. It's not uncommon for companies to spin off junk into a junk company just to get the junk off the main company's books.
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 13, 2025 12:40 PM (iFTx/)

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The TV company getting most of the debt is the indication that it's the primary motivator for the split.

Leave the movie/streaming side free of debt (relatively), let the TV side die.

Doesn't preclude the idea of trying to sell off assets, including brands, from the TV company, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:42 PM (GBKbO)

128 Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian @manniefabian 43s
A ballistic missile has been launched from Yemen at Israel, the military says.

A new contestant has entered the game.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 12:42 PM (ExV1e)

129

Just wait until Cooper samples the Toob steak on live TV.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 13, 2025 12:41 PM (y9nCu)

Kathy Griffin tried to sample his one NYE broadcast, but was rejected as her moustache wasn't thick enough.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:42 PM (Zz0t1)

130 Hmmm. This could be a paradigm shift. Television news from established faces to shoe-leather on-the-spot reporting by random people on X or YouTube or other places accessible by the general public.

Or perhaps television news full of lies to more truthful or less obviously deceptive reporting.

Hmmmm.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at June 13, 2025 12:42 PM (rF2iL)

131 96 58 What baffles me is that top end, AAA advertisers keep buying time on CNN at high prices despite it having lower ratings than My Mother the Car. Its like corporate welfare.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:31 PM (e7kz6)

As with the Big Pharms, those advertisers are paying to insure that anything negative about them never reaches the broadcast phase.

Posted by: kbdabear
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Ding, ding, we've got a winner.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 12:43 PM (IU1e3)

132 The title was “Iranian commander-in-chief’s haunting final speech just hours before his assassination”

All the usual suspects are changing their flags to Iranian ones now

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:43 PM (e7kz6)

133 The title was “Iranian commander-in-chief’s haunting final speech just hours before his assassination”

Wouldn't his next speech be the haunting one?

Posted by: toby928 at June 13, 2025 12:43 PM (jc0TO)

134 The title was “Iranian commander-in-chief’s haunting final speech just hours before his assassination”

All the usual suspects are changing their flags to Iranian ones now
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:43 PM (e7kz6)
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What are they gonna do about the pesky little fact that Iran is in bed with ... Russia Russia Russia????

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 13, 2025 12:44 PM (iFTx/)

135
Posted by: kbdabear
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A nick good to see becoming more regular again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:44 PM (Zz0t1)

136 And there's always the possibility that Kaitlan will take her shirt off. Nobody wants to see Anderson shirtless.

You'd be surprised...yo, Anderson. Let's talk.

Posted by: OnlyFans at June 13, 2025 12:44 PM (ycI94)

137 The title was “Iranian commander-in-chief’s haunting final speech just hours before his assassination”

All the usual suspects are changing their flags to Iranian ones now
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:43 PM (e7kz6)
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Did they cut out all the "DEATH TO AMERICA" parts? I'm sure those were very moving.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 13, 2025 12:44 PM (ZOv7s)

138 So, you're saying Cooper might get screwed over in the end?

Posted by: RGallegos at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM (JVh4R)

139 As with the Big Pharms, those advertisers are paying to insure that anything negative about them never reaches the broadcast phase.

The only people who remain ignore as a result of this strategy are leftists and Congress (BIRM).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM (ExV1e)

140 A new contestant has entered the game.
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Houthi do you mean??

Posted by: andycanuck at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM (2yoRf)

141 Why, for instance, would Gunnar pay Anderson Cooper $18 million a year when Kaitlan Collins draws the same ratings at roughly a fifth of the salary?"

I don't understand the amount of money news anchors make. It makes no sense to me

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM (SXxzC)

142 Good morning. I pray we’re not in the early stages of WW3

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM (eZwyX)

143 Sure you can fire me...but first you let me blow you.

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM (guNKm)

144 CNN is reportedly paying anchor Anderson Cooper $18 million a year
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That's a helluva lot of Truvada.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM (YqDXo)

145 Good morning. I pray we’re not in the early stages of WW3
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM (eZwyX)
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Well, since it started in 2001....no.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 13, 2025 12:46 PM (ZOv7s)

146 That's a helluva lot of Truvada.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM (YqDXo)
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Roll it up. We're done here.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:46 PM (6bTRc)

147 Is it bad when a broad has a punchable face? I mean, as a guy?

Women should be teeing off on it......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:46 PM (Zz0t1)

148 We were talking about golf earlier.

Hammerhead shark falls from sky onto disc golf course in South Carolina

https://shorturl.at/tOiiB

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 13, 2025 12:46 PM (L/fGl)

149 142 Good morning. I pray we’re not in the early stages of WW3
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM (eZwyX)

It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine

Posted by: Feeling way better than usual at June 13, 2025 12:46 PM (TbWk/)

150 What are they gonna do about the pesky little fact that Iran is in bed with ... Russia Russia Russia????

The same way they handled Ukraine having a real honest to God Nazi brigade with swastikas: ignore it and pretend it never happened.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:46 PM (e7kz6)

151 Zaslav tapped WBD Chief Financial Officer Gunnar Wiedenfels to take over CNN and other cable assets including TNT, TBS, HGTV
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"Assets." Good one.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 12:46 PM (YqDXo)

152 139 As with the Big Pharms, those advertisers are paying to insure that anything negative about them never reaches the broadcast phase.

The only people who remain ignore as a result of this strategy are leftists and Congress (BIRM).
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM (ExV1e)

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Leftist used to know this in their bones.

Big Pharma advertising was prima facie evidence that major network news was bought and paid for by the big corporations, in addition to the fact that they were owned by big corporations, creating a cartel of news organizations deeply tied to Republican politics because corporations are Republican.

They now say similar things except the shit about big pharma because Pfizer saved them from covid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)

153 Good morning. I pray we’re not in the early stages of WW3
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM (eZwyX)

We've been in that for years.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:46 PM (Zz0t1)

154 Now that they are not being subsidized by the American taxpayer, I think those outlandish salaries are an albatross.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (lTGtQ)

155 I was surprised to learn FUBO doesn't carry CNN. It took 6 years to find this out. oh well

Posted by: DanMan at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (8uzBS)

156 Live! Still Alive!! Bernie Sanders!!! on the Senate floor Right Now
Exposing Trump Corruption to the World.

youtube.com/watch?v=LTtn5BYetFY

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (IU1e3)

157 CNN May Fire Anderson Cooper and Jake Tapper to Make the Company More Attractive for a Buyer
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It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and CNN has to hold a bake sale to buy a news anchor

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (Dv3i1)

158 I'm not a podcast 'guy' as a rule, but my oncologist suggested one to me featuring a diabetes expert that was a "fascinating deep dive". I gave it a listen. By 5 minutes my ears had glazed over and I bailed.

Blah, blah, blahbbety blah...

Posted by: muldoon at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (/iMjX)

159 You people hiring others to change your oil make me wretch. Do you pay someone to blow your nose, too?

Posted by: Self-Starter at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (G5+As)

160 >>>>Loser Deadweight Ratings Poison Networks LLC

wow, sounds like a great opportunity!

Posted by: Private Equity MBA at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (jGJov)

161 156 Live! Still Alive!! Bernie Sanders!!! on the Senate floor Right Now
Exposing Trump Corruption to the World.

youtube.com/watch?v=LTtn5BYetFY
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (IU1e3)

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Is he wearing deodorant?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (GBKbO)

162 It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and CNN has to hold a bake sale to buy a news anchor
Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (Dv3i1)

Start using news anchors as boat anchors.

Posted by: At least then they'd be useful at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (TbWk/)

163 Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran...

Posted by: The Ghost of John McCain at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (Ea+Az)

164 CNN is reportedly paying anchor Anderson Cooper $18 million a year...
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These people live in a different world. $18 Million a year ? I do not believe that I could meaningfully expend even 5% of that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (XeU6L)

165 They won't be starving anytime soon either way

Posted by: Skip at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (+qU29)

166
Hammerhead shark falls from sky onto disc golf course in South Carolina

https://shorturl.at/tOiiB
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 13, 2025 12:46 PM (L/fGl)

You asked for it..........

https://youtu.be/QWes2iW6y14

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (Zz0t1)

167 CNN is making so much money for Warner Discovery that the company is looking to spin it off into another company called "Loser Deadweight Ratings Poison Networks LLC"
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Nah. They're going to call it "Test Pattern LLC."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (YqDXo)

168
Okay, I'm going to take a victory lap here. Last week I bought an IMI Jericho online for $200.

Same make and model are $369 today. Timing is everything!
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 13, 2025 12:41 PM (ZOv7s)

About 7-8 years ago, a bunch of Israeli police trade-in SA only Jerichos were imported into the US, and I snatched one. Complete with 6 sided star in the roll marks. CZ75 clone, GREAT SA trigger, accurate as hell, virtually no muzzle flip because of the weight (it's actually heavier than my 1911).

I call it my Joo-Blaster.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (y9nCu)

169 74 Chris Murphy @ChrisMurphyCT
Israel's attack on Iran, clearly intended to scuttle the Trump Administration's negotiations with Tehran, is further evidence of how little respect world powers - including our own allies - have for President Trump.

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Proof of Murphy's law, if something can go wrong and stupid, Chris Murphy will find a way.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 13, 2025 12:33 PM (L/fGl)

75 How much money are they going

That's some quality new England gibberish right there. Ayuh.

Posted by: Arthur Treacher at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (OA79/)

170 Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at June 13, 2025 12:46 PM (ZOv7s)

Touché

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (eZwyX)

171 Cooper is one of the few people I have hated. He worked for Channel One, which basically had a captive teen audience for advertising (Nike shoes) and made pre-packaged news that presented violent young militants as glamorous. He was a known liar (including fake credentials) before he got the CNN gig.

And he got the CNN gig at a time when young journalists had to do unpaid internships for months - with a binding no-comp to boot.

He's been drunk on-air, vulgar on air, and shamelessly deceptive. Thanks to him, the nation learned that his aged mother really like cunnilingus and it's hard to talk when you're sucking another guy's testicles.

That's to say nothing of his off-camera life. The slimy, demented bastard.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 13, 2025 12:49 PM (fxCK2)

172 158 I'm not a podcast 'guy' as a rule, but my oncologist suggested one to me featuring a diabetes expert that was a "fascinating deep dive". I gave it a listen. By 5 minutes my ears had glazed over and I bailed.

Blah, blah, blahbbety blah...
Posted by: muldoon at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (/iMjX)

Anyone using the term "deep dive" to anything other than actual prolonged submersion 30 feet or more beneath the surface of a large body of water spend a night in the box.

Posted by: We'll regroup on that offline at June 13, 2025 12:49 PM (TbWk/)

173 These people live in a different world. $18 Million a year ? I do not believe that I could meaningfully expend even 5% of that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Let me introduce you to my dealer and my, uh, escort service. They'll help with that.

Posted by: Hunter B at June 13, 2025 12:50 PM (Dv3i1)

174 Use CNN for the Two Minute Hate. Top of every hour.
Run video of boots on citizen's faces. Firemen setting houses on fire. Hat tip to Mr. Bradbury IIRC.

Posted by: Zombie George Orwell at June 13, 2025 12:50 PM (guNKm)

175 @TrumpUpdateHQ . 58m

Iran just called President Trump! Looks like they finally bent the knee.
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Trump should tell them, call me in a week.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 12:50 PM (IU1e3)

176 156 Live! Still Alive!! Bernie Sanders!!! on the Senate floor Right Now
Exposing Trump Corruption to the World.

youtube.com/watch?v=LTtn5BYetFY
Posted by: Braenyard

Which dacha is Bernie retiring to this weekend?

Posted by: Zil Limousine Service at June 13, 2025 12:50 PM (G5+As)

177 The only thing that can make the bomb Iran situation better, is Iranian people overthrowing the psychotic, murderous , terrorist regime that's been a PITA for 45 long years.

Posted by: runner at June 13, 2025 12:50 PM (g47mK)

178 Is Tehran hiring?

Pretty sure Anderson Cooper would fit right in.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 13, 2025 12:50 PM (8gejw)

179 164 CNN is reportedly paying anchor Anderson Cooper $18 million a year...
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These people live in a different world. $18 Million a year ? I do not believe that I could meaningfully expend even 5% of that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (XeU6L)

If i had 18 mil Inna bank I'd never have to work again. If I got 18 mil a year to sniff my farts like Andy Vanderbilt, I'd never quit.

Posted by: Arthur Treacher at June 13, 2025 12:50 PM (OA79/)

180 Nah. They're going to call it "Test Pattern LLC."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (YqDXo)
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If they bring back the classic Indian head test pattern, it will piss off the Left and may pick them up some "hate views." That, combined with the low cost of production, may end up being a net positive for the network despite viewership approaching zero...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:50 PM (6bTRc)

181 "No one wants to buy a dying company until management gets serious about making it at least plausibly profitable in the future."

Trump should announce that the IRS is monitoring CNN to make sure they don't overvalue themselves when it goes on the market, since that's a crime now.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 13, 2025 12:51 PM (M0V4/)

182 Anderson Cooper pulls about 600k viewers per night.

And, boy are my hands tired!

Posted by: Anderson Cooper at June 13, 2025 12:51 PM (tPOKY)

183 I call it my Joo-Blaster.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (y9nCu)

You make it sound like you use it to shoot Jews. Maybe a JewPew is a little less ominous?

Posted by: Are freedom seeds kosher? at June 13, 2025 12:51 PM (TbWk/)

184

Anderson, Pooper and Don Lemonparty should do a gay proncast.

Apparently that stuff is extremely popular with AWFLs.

It would monetize.

Posted by: Dirty Frank at June 13, 2025 12:51 PM (nWm3w)

185 Anderson Cooper pulls about 600k viewers per night.

And, boy are my hands tired!
Posted by: Anderson Cooper at June 13, 2025 12:51 PM (tPOKY)

LMMFAO

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:51 PM (Zz0t1)

186 I'm not available right now. Please leave a message after the beep.

Posted by: Donald J. Trump, First of His Name at June 13, 2025 12:51 PM (jc0TO)

187 LOL. I see Podcast Opportunities in zis future.

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Old Busted: The Mob Caste.
New Hotness: The Pod Caste.

Posted by: ShainS -- Looking forward to The Graveyard Dead summer tour at June 13, 2025 12:51 PM (Gj43Z)

188 If they bring back the classic Indian head test pattern, it will piss off the Left and may pick them up some "hate views." That, combined with the low cost of production, may end up being a net positive for the network despite viewership approaching zero...

I mean that's the alternative to Jimmy Kimmel and Steven Colbert at night. But these shows still sell advertising, so I guess they will keep running.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:52 PM (e7kz6)

189 Anderson, Pooper and Don Lemonparty should do a gay proncast.

Apparently that stuff is extremely popular with AWFLs.

It would monetize.
Posted by: Dirty Frank at June 13, 2025 12:51 PM (nWm3w)

Golk golk golk all night long.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 12:52 PM (Zz0t1)

190 Anderson's mommy got him the job.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 13, 2025 12:52 PM (HGXBy)

191 181 "No one wants to buy a dying company until management gets serious about making it at least plausibly profitable in the future."

Trump should announce that the IRS is monitoring CNN to make sure they don't overvalue themselves when it goes on the market, since that's a crime now.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 13, 2025 12:51 PM (M0V4/)
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Pitting the IRS on Hollywood studios with antagonistic agents and auditors could be amusing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:52 PM (GBKbO)

192 175 @TrumpUpdateHQ . 58m

Iran just called President Trump! Looks like they finally bent the knee.
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Trump should tell them, call me in a week.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 12:50 PM (IU1e3

What? Negotiate? Only your exit strategy to a nice place in haiti.

Posted by: President Richard Punch at June 13, 2025 12:52 PM (OA79/)

193 Bing:

The United States has deployed at least 12 warships to the Middle East, including the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, amphibious assault teams, and over 4,000 Marines and sailors, in response to escalating tensions in the region following the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military chief Fuad Shukr12.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 12:52 PM (IU1e3)

194 The only thing that can make the bomb Iran situation better, is Iranian people overthrowing the psychotic, murderous , terrorist regime that's been a PITA for 45 long years.

Lots of Iranians are decent folks. I wish them well.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:52 PM (s8j++)

195 Mr Trump is indisposed at the moment. Who should I say is calling ?

Posted by: runner at June 13, 2025 12:52 PM (g47mK)

196 191 181 "No one wants to buy a dying company until management gets serious about making it at least plausibly profitable in the future."

Trump should announce that the IRS is monitoring CNN to make sure they don't overvalue themselves when it goes on the market, since that's a crime now.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at June 13Haiti.

Golf clap.

Posted by: President Richard Punch at June 13, 2025 12:53 PM (OA79/)

197 This blonde in a one-piece has a nice smile and teeth and wants CNN to know that she will happily - and photogenically - man one of their news desks for a mere $1m per year:
http://tiny.cc/zzum001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:53 PM (6bTRc)

198
I do not believe that I could meaningfully expend even 5% of that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (XeU6L)

Eastern European hookers, blow and fast cars are expensive.

The rest I'd just waste.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 13, 2025 12:53 PM (y9nCu)

199 84 Since when does an oil change run over $100?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (1FgDd)

Did they put premium air in the tires?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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That and the blinker fluid.

Posted by: scampydog at June 13, 2025 12:53 PM (41CYW)

200
The horny granny ads are getting disturbing.

Posted by: Auspex at June 13, 2025 12:53 PM (j4U/Z)

201 Anderson Cooper pulls about 600k viewers per night.

And, boy are my hands tired!
Posted by: Anderson Cooper at June 13, 2025 12:51 PM (tPOKY)
++++
*snort*

Well done.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:53 PM (6bTRc)

202 Frankly it amazes me that Anderson Cooper pulls in that many a night. Granted, its global but still: they don't even have the Airport contracts any longer. I get it, a lot of old people still watch TV news but most of them watch network still.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:54 PM (e7kz6)

203 Isn't this exactly like Trump embelishing the value of his property?
In peach!!!

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 13, 2025 12:54 PM (HGXBy)

204 195 Mr Trump is indisposed at the moment.
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He's hanging out with whig?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 13, 2025 12:54 PM (Dv3i1)

205 Cooper could do OnlyFans.

Posted by: torabora at June 13, 2025 12:54 PM (guNKm)

206 144 CNN is reportedly paying anchor Anderson Cooper $18 million a year
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That's a helluva lot of Truvada.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 12:45 PM

That right there is what keeps me coming back. You guys make me laugh.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 13, 2025 12:54 PM (xHmR4)

207 Iran just called President Trump! Looks like they finally bent the knee.

"Dave's not here..."

Posted by: WH at June 13, 2025 12:55 PM (tJ2Kx)

208 Trump should announce that the IRS is monitoring CNN to make sure they don't overvalue themselves when it goes on the market, since that's a crime now.

That would be a hilarious classic move

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:55 PM (e7kz6)

209 Is Tehran hiring?

Pretty sure Anderson Cooper would fit right in.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 13, 2025 12:50 PM (8gejw)

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Tehran Andy is the Baghdad Bob of Tokyo Roses.

Posted by: ShainS -- Looking forward to The Graveyard Dead summer tour at June 13, 2025 12:55 PM (Gj43Z)

210 82 I saw Captain America Brave New World last night. I have to say, it was ... pretty good.

I went in with very low expectations, given the poor reviews, box office flop, and poisonous woke bullshit. But I thought it was one of the better Marvel movies of the last 5 years. No, that ain't saying much. But it was far from the catastrophe most people said it was.

Yes, it was woke, but the two best characters were white: President Ross and the Israeli lady. The lead character (black) was whiny and a terrible soldier who let personal vendettas get in the way of his job. His latino sidekick was annoying.

Harrison Ford is a f**king sellout. He's allowed every character that made him a star to be ridiculed and c*cked.

Anthony Mackie can s*ck it ever since he became a terrorist apologist in Falcon and the Winter Soldier.

F*ck that movie. I would only see it if i got to roll Feige down a flight of stairs in his office chair.

Posted by: Nelly at June 13, 2025 12:55 PM (cHLus)

211 4 migrants escape from Newark ICE detention facility, DHS official confirms

https://tinyurl.com/mv3cmeyp

Posted by: redridinghood at June 13, 2025 12:55 PM (NpAcC)

212 200
The horny granny ads are getting disturbing.
Posted by: Auspex at June 13, 2025 12:53 PM (j4U/Z)

Are these the boner-enhancing ads or the dating over 50 site ads?

Posted by: You know what else helps ED? Wifey losing weight and attitude. at June 13, 2025 12:55 PM (TbWk/)

213 Frankly it amazes me that Anderson Cooper pulls in that many a night. Granted, its global but still: they don't even have the Airport contracts any longer. I get it, a lot of old people still watch TV news but most of them watch network still.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:54 PM (e7kz6)
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I would not be at all surprised to find that most of his viewers are women are 45. He's decently attractive, and a Vanderbilt, and gay, and a prog.

If anything, I'm surprised his ratings aren't higher. He has to be close to the suburban wine Karen's totem animal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:56 PM (6bTRc)

214 This just in: White Star lines is going to fire Captain James Smith and rename the Titanic as "Ice Floe Adventure Line."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 12:56 PM (YqDXo)

215 And there's always the possibility that Kaitlan will take her shirt off. Nobody wants to see Anderson shirtless.
Posted by: Archimedes

He a gay, vain, conceited news reader. 50/50 odds he's relatively buff.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 13, 2025 12:56 PM (2J/Lj)

216 "An Israeli security official told Fox News on Friday afternoon that Israel was able to eliminate Iran’s top air force commanders by tricking them into gathering at the underground facility that was subsequently targeted in a precision strike...We carried out specific activities to help us learn more about them, and then used that information to influence their behavior,” the official told the outlet. “We knew this would lead them to meet — but more importantly, we knew how to keep them there." do tell! actually , the less you tell the better.

Posted by: runner at June 13, 2025 12:56 PM (g47mK)

217 209 Is Tehran hiring?

Pretty sure Anderson Cooper would fit right in.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 13, 2025 12:50 PM (8gejw)

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Tehran Andy is the Baghdad Bob of Tokyo Roses.
Posted by: ShainS -- Looking forward to The Graveyard Dead summer tour at June 13, 2025 12:55 PM (Gj43Z)

Could be Faghdad Bob

Posted by: Such cute little nicknames! at June 13, 2025 12:56 PM (TbWk/)

218 What are they gonna do about the pesky little fact that Iran is in bed with ... Russia Russia Russia????

I think that as long we don't get officially involved, Russia will stay out of it. No doubt the MIC is arguing for boots on the ground as we speak.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 12:56 PM (ExV1e)

219 was ObamaCare all about bailing out the unions? My hunch is they had no money to pay the retirement funds and healthcare they promised their retired and unemployed members.

Posted by: DanMan at June 13, 2025 12:56 PM (8uzBS)

220 Iran just called President Trump! Looks like they finally bent the knee.

but... but... I was told by Chris Murphy that Trump failed and Israel attacked Iran out of disrespect!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:57 PM (e7kz6)

221 Cooper could do OnlyFans.

Posted by: torabora at June 13, 2025 12:54 PM (guNKm)

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Is there an OnlyFan site?

Posted by: ShainS -- Looking forward to The Graveyard Dead summer tour at June 13, 2025 12:57 PM (Gj43Z)

222 ... Harrison Ford is a f**king sellout. He's allowed every character that made him a star to be ridiculed and c*cked. ...
Posted by: Nelly at June 13, 2025 12:55 PM (cHLus)
++++
He doesn't write the characters, he reads from his script so long as he gets paid enough.

Clearly, they paid enough.

He could have refused to be in the movie, sure, but that would mean no paycheck.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:57 PM (6bTRc)

223 211 4 migrants escape from Newark ICE detention facility, DHS official confirms

https://tinyurl.com/mv3cmeyp
Posted by: redridinghood at June 13, 2025 12:55 PM (NpAcC)

Nobody puts migrants in a corner. Migrants gotta migrate.

Posted by: Cu at June 13, 2025 12:57 PM (OA79/)

224 Is there an OnlyFan site?
Posted by: ShainS -- Looking forward to The Graveyard Dead summer tour at June 13, 2025 12:57 PM (Gj43Z)

For guys in retail HVAC

Posted by: Whoa, check out the handler on THAT at June 13, 2025 12:57 PM (TbWk/)

225
Iran just called President Trump!

Prince Achmed is in the can.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 13, 2025 12:58 PM (63Dwl)

226 222 He doesn't write the characters, he reads from his script so long as he gets paid enough.

Clearly, they paid enough.

He could have refused to be in the movie, sure, but that would mean no paycheck.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:57 PM (6bTRc)

======

He did an interview around the film's release where he told actor's to stop crawling up their butts about working in comic book movies and take the paychecks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 12:58 PM (GBKbO)

227
I call it my Joo-Blaster.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (y9nCu)

You make it sound like you use it to shoot Jews. Maybe a JewPew is a little less ominous?
Posted by: Are freedom seeds kosher? at June 13, 2025 12:51 PM (TbWk/)

Nah. I mean, I see where you're coming from and I'm sympathetic but I know what I mean, and I don't particularly care what anyone else thinks. Which is a VERY Israeli attitude, if you've ever worked with them.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 13, 2025 12:58 PM (y9nCu)

228 225
Iran just called President Trump!

Prince Achmed is in the can.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 13, 2025 12:58 PM (63Dwl)

Is your Quds Battalion running?

Posted by: Sharif he don't like it at June 13, 2025 12:59 PM (TbWk/)

229 Did they put premium air in the tires?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I love that stuff! 79% nitrogen with a touch of argon (that's a Noble Gas, by the way)... Tough to find a station that has it, but worth every penny.

Posted by: t-bird at June 13, 2025 12:59 PM (4/l8P)

230 Cooper could do OnlyFans.

Posted by: torabora at June 13, 2025 12:54 PM (guNKm)
________________

Shouldn't that be OnlyFags?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 12:59 PM (YqDXo)

231 156 Live! Still Alive!! Bernie Sanders!!! on the Senate floor Right Now
Exposing Trump Corruption to the World.

youtube.com/watch?v=LTtn5BYetFY
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (IU1e3)

That's a shame. You'd think two real estate moguls would have some things in common and get along better.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at June 13, 2025 12:59 PM (pIfcn)

232 Cooper? Afuera!
Tapper? Afuera!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 13, 2025 01:00 PM (O7YUW)

233 I mean that's the alternative to Jimmy Kimmel and Steven Colbert at night. But these shows still sell advertising, so I guess they will keep running.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 12:52 PM (e7kz6)

Oh oh oh ohhhhzempic..

Posted by: Reforger at June 13, 2025 01:00 PM (6k8Dh)

234 No doubt the MIC is arguing for boots on the ground as we speak.

Lindsay Graham was practically masturbating last night over the attacks on Iran. You know he is envisioning millions of US soldiers marching on Tehran as defense contracts roll across his desk

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:00 PM (e7kz6)

235 Cooper could do a gay porn video--The Newscaster and the Tater.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 13, 2025 01:00 PM (SXxzC)

236 221 Cooper could do OnlyFans.

Posted by: torabora at June 13, 2025 12:54 PM (guNKm)

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Is there an OnlyFan site?

Posted by: ShainS -- Looking forward to The Graveyard Dead summer tour at June 13, 2025 12:57 PM (Gj43Z)
_____________

In his case it should be LonelyFan.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 01:01 PM (YqDXo)

237 I love that stuff! 79% nitrogen with a touch of argon (that's a Noble Gas, by the way)... Tough to find a station that has it, but worth every penny.
Posted by: t-bird at June 13, 2025 12:59 PM (4/l8P)

Sorry, it can't contain that pollutant, CO2. Not allowed.

Posted by: The EPA at June 13, 2025 01:01 PM (PiwSw)

238 Somehow I don't think shedding faces like Tapper and/or Cooper is going to salvage CNN's reputation as a leftist propaganda shill for Democrats. Whoever buys CNN, if anyone does, is buying it because it is a leftist propaganda shill for Democrats.

Just worth a lot less than anyone's willing to pay.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 13, 2025 01:01 PM (Q4IgG)

239 and I don't particularly care what anyone else thinks. Which is a VERY Israeli attitude, if you've ever worked with them.

==

I guess after absorbing centuries of irrational , primitive, ignorant hate, they learned to ignore what others think of them.

Posted by: runner at June 13, 2025 01:02 PM (g47mK)

240 Cooper could do a gay porn video--The Newscaster and the Tater.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 13, 2025 01:00 PM (SXxzC)
______________

Not catchy enough. It should be the NewCatcher and the Love Spud.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 01:02 PM (YqDXo)

241 These people live in a different world. $18 Million a year ? I do not believe that I could meaningfully expend even 5% of that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (XeU6L)

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I mean, he's got kids to buy.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 13, 2025 01:02 PM (q8Jo4)

242 Cooper could do a gay porn video--The Newscaster and the Tater.
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 13, 2025 01:00 PM (SXxzC)
++++
:: vomits ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 01:02 PM (6bTRc)

243 Live! Still Alive!! Bernie Sanders!!! on the Senate floor Right Now
Exposing Trump Corruption to the World.

youtube.com/watch?v=LTtn5BYetFY
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 12:47 PM (IU1e3)

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Is he wearing deodorant?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Have they finally invented an edible deodorant?

Posted by: ShainS -- Looking forward to The Graveyard Dead summer tour at June 13, 2025 01:02 PM (Gj43Z)

244 Anderson's mommy got him the job.
Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at June 13, 2025 12:52 PM (HGXBy)

https://youtu.be/oOmk_cbHxZk?t=22

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 01:02 PM (ExV1e)

245
Is your Quds Battalion running?
Posted by: Sharif he don't like it at June 13, 2025 12:59 PM (TbWk/)

Standard procedure for being attacked with Israeli bombs is to fly 200 feet into the air...

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 13, 2025 01:02 PM (y9nCu)

246 Since when does an oil change run over $100?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (1FgDd)

Cost me nearly 60 bucks for the oil and filter when I do it myself. Some cars, nearly 80 bucks, depending on oil sump capacity.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 13, 2025 01:03 PM (5xuJ/)

247 I mean, he's got kids to buy.

Yeah those NDAs and the payoffs to silent victims really pile up after a while.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:03 PM (e7kz6)

248 Not catchy enough. It should be the NewCatcher and the Love Spud.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 01:02 PM (YqDXo)
++++
You see, this is why brainstorming is so useful.

The *original* working title was "The Bug Chaser and the Obese Retard" - and while that is admirably honest, it isn't exactly appealing or catchy!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 01:03 PM (6bTRc)

249 Podcasting for Anderson Cooper?

Little Gloria's Manlet, happy at last!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 13, 2025 01:03 PM (wtvvX)

250 If it's even a tiny bit "woke" I'm not interested. I don't watch entertainment to be condescended to by vicious hateful liars.

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 01:03 PM (SGpb+)

251 250 If it's even a tiny bit "woke" I'm not interested. I don't watch entertainment to be condescended to by vicious hateful liars.
Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 01:03 PM (SGpb+)

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Avoid Seven Days in May.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

252
If anything, I'm surprised his ratings aren't higher. He has to be close to the suburban wine Karen's totem animal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:56 PM (6bTRc)

I think some women have fantasies about turning a gay man into a straight man. That's why they watch. They think he's a silver fox. I don't see it but here we are.

Posted by: CaliGirl at June 13, 2025 01:04 PM (xHmR4)

253 Is he wearing deodorant?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

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Have they finally invented an edible deodorant?
Posted by: ShainS
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Give us a call!

Posted by: Mando ad, running on CNN at June 13, 2025 01:04 PM (XeU6L)

254 Hello new talent!!

Posted by: MSNBC at June 13, 2025 01:04 PM (0xo8i)

255 Avoid Seven Days in May.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 01:04 PM (GBKbO)

Thank you.

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 01:05 PM (SGpb+)

256 Iran just called President Trump! Looks like they finally bent the knee.

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BREAKING: US District Clown Judge Bozoberg Has Blocked Iran From Calling President Trump. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Looking forward to The Graveyard Dead summer tour at June 13, 2025 01:05 PM (Gj43Z)

257 I love that stuff! 79% nitrogen with a touch of argon (that's a Noble Gas, by the way)... Tough to find a station that has it, but worth every penny.
Posted by: t-bird at June 13, 2025 12:59 PM (4/l8P)

I'm trying to talk my work into letting put a quick disconnect on their nitrogen system so I can do my tires with it.

Posted by: Reforger at June 13, 2025 01:05 PM (6k8Dh)

258 246 Since when does an oil change run over $100?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (1FgDd)

Cost me nearly 60 bucks for the oil and filter when I do it myself. Some cars, nearly 80 bucks, depending on oil sump capacity.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 13, 2025 01:03 PM (5xuJ/)

I just paid $91 for an oil change and tire rotation on my 2019 Civic hatch. Granted, it was at the stealership, but not that much more than my usual place.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 13, 2025 01:05 PM (wtvvX)

259 HGTV is probably the only one of those networks that is profitable and that's likely because Big Pharma advertises 16 million times a day on their streaming properties.
If RFK Jr bans ads from Big Pharma (yes, please!), HGTV is toast.

Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (zdYK9)

260 If anything, I'm surprised his ratings aren't higher. He has to be close to the suburban wine Karen's totem animal.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:56 PM (6bTRc)

Cable news demo skews older, like 50+

the younger AWFLs get their news from TikTok

Posted by: kallisto at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (dCxaZ)

261
"Why, for instance, would Gunnar pay Anderson Cooper $18 million a year when Kaitlan Collins draws the same ratings at roughly a fifth of the salary?" Byers wrote.

This should be inducing major side-eye in Kaitlan Collins.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (wbZPZ)

262 Harrison Ford is a f**king sellout. He's allowed every character that made him a star to be ridiculed and c*cked. ...
Posted by: Nelly at June 13, 2025 12:55 PM (cHLus)
++++
He doesn't write the characters, he reads from his script so long as he gets paid enough.

Clearly, they paid enough.

He could have refused to be in the movie, sure, but that would mean no paycheck.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:57 PM (6bTRc)
______

Take the money. Besides, as I said about, Ford's character is the best in the movie, and not a cuck at all. Just the opposite. He's a patriot who's willing to make the hard choices to keep America safe. Meanwhile, it's the Captain America character who's a cuck and gets people killed because of his personal issues.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (iFTx/)

263 The opening shot to wwiii was fired from Wuhan in 2019. It's globalists vs everyone else.

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (SGpb+)

264 Live! Still Alive!! Bernie Sanders!!! on the Senate floor Right Now
Exposing Trump Corruption to the World.

Reminds me of James Brown, the hardliest working man in Congress.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, And You're Not at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (L/fGl)

265 ++++
:: vomits ::
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 01:02 PM (6bTRc)

Here and I was expecting "This scantily clad bespectacled lady in a bikini perishes the thought......."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (Zz0t1)

266 An Orificer and a Genitalman.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (VoAdT)

267 BREAKING: US District Clown Judge Bozoberg Has Blocked Iran From Calling President Trump. Developing ...
Posted by: ShainS -- Looking forward to The Graveyard Dead summer tour at June 13, 2025 01:05 PM (Gj43Z)

One ringy dingy......

Posted by: Judge Boasberg at June 13, 2025 01:07 PM (SGpb+)

268 Cable news demo skews older, like 50+

the younger AWFLs get their news from TikTok
Posted by: kallisto at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (dCxaZ)
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Right. I said 45+, but close enough.

And there are tons of older X and Boomer AWFLs...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 01:07 PM (6bTRc)

269 Since when does an oil change run over $100?
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 13, 2025 12:29 PM (1FgDd)
__________

[Laughing hysterically]

-- Exotic Car Dealers

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 13, 2025 01:07 PM (iFTx/)

270 >>> 4 "Why, for instance, would Gunnar pay Anderson Cooper $18 million a year when Kaitlan Collins draws the same ratings at roughly a fifth of the salary?" Byers wrote.

And there's always the possibility that Kaitlan will take her shirt off. Nobody wants to see Anderson shirtless.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 13, 2025 12:23 PM (s8j++)

*nods*

Only 4 comments until it becomes a BOOB thread.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 13, 2025 01:07 PM (ULPxl)

271 These people live in a different world. $18 Million a year ? I do not believe that I could meaningfully expend even 5% of that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
________

I'm sure every lottery win had the same thoughts before waking up in a dumpster.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 13, 2025 01:07 PM (ITkJX)

272 Here and I was expecting "This scantily clad bespectacled lady in a bikini perishes the thought......."
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
:: whistles nonchalantly ::

Posted by: Comment 197 at June 13, 2025 01:08 PM (6bTRc)

273 268 ++++
Right. I said 45+, but close enough.

And there are tons of older X and Boomer AWFLs...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 01:07 PM (6bTRc)

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"Trump is trying to steal my Social Security and deport me!"
-67 year old boomer in Massachusetts who was born in Boston

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 01:08 PM (GBKbO)

274 Only 4 comments until it becomes a BOOB thread.

*types 58008 in his calculator and turns it upside down*
*giggles*

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:08 PM (e7kz6)

275
>>the ratings-challenged network is spun off by its debt-ridden parent company.

I keep wondering HOW organizations like CNN persist year after year, 8-figure salary after 8-figure salary. Of course, the parent company was pouring in cash from elsewhere.

So Warner Bros. Discovery is debt-ridden now? Well, let's see some action.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 13, 2025 01:08 PM (wbZPZ)

276 -67 year old boomer in Massachusetts who was born in Boston

dude they all think "it starts with the illegals and then I'm going to be disappeared"

drama fucking queens

Posted by: Black Orchid at June 13, 2025 01:09 PM (Pv3Rg)

277 Only 4 comments until it becomes a BOOB thread.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 13, 2025 01:07 PM (ULPxl)

We have standards to uphold.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

278 275 I keep wondering HOW organizations like CNN persist year after year, 8-figure salary after 8-figure salary. Of course, the parent company was pouring in cash from elsewhere.

So Warner Bros. Discovery is debt-ridden now? Well, let's see some action.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 13, 2025 01:08 PM (wbZPZ)

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WB was debt ridden. And then Discovery bought them, and the debt never went away.

The merger is considered one of the largest blunders in American business history.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)

279 >>Since when does an oil change run over $100?

Hmm. Maybe since they gotta pay the numbnuts $25/hour, and you're paying for 4 of them at 1/3 hour each, plus taxes, UI ins, supplies and all the *recycling fees*?

Upcharge for synthetic...

And watch out that they don't overtighten drain plug, stripping the pan threads...

Posted by: JQ at June 13, 2025 01:10 PM (rdVOm)

280 Can they be traded to MSNBC the way baseball players get traded?

Posted by: Avi at June 13, 2025 01:10 PM (ptlW1)

281 US shifts military resources in Mideast in response to Israel strikes and possible Iran attack

USS Thomas Hudner,...sailing from western Mediterranean toward eastern Mediterranean and ...a second destroyer to begin moving forward so it can be available if requested...

Trump is meeting with his National Security Council principals Friday [so, he hasn't told Israel to back off]

USS Carl Vinson is in the Arabian Sea, USS Nimitz is in the Indo-Pacific, USS George Washington just left its port in Japan
_www.kron4.com

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 01:10 PM (IU1e3)

282 So Warner Bros. Discovery is debt-ridden now? Well, let's see some action.

They are billions in debt with a "B" and somehow still are open and in business, making movies. Word is Superman cost over 300 million to make.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:10 PM (e7kz6)

283 Cable news demo skews older, like 50+

the younger AWFLs get their news from TikTok

Posted by: kallisto at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (dCxaZ)
_____________

Yeah, TikTok is a much more reliable news source.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 01:10 PM (YqDXo)

284 276 dude they all think "it starts with the illegals and then I'm going to be disappeared"

drama fucking queens
Posted by: Black Orchid at June 13, 2025 01:09 PM (Pv3Rg)

They know it's bullshit, but if they keep repeating it enough, it will gin up mass hysteria anyway.

And that's what the want, constant mass hysteria.

Posted by: XTC at June 13, 2025 01:10 PM (UnA8+)

285 ++++
:: whistles nonchalantly ::
Posted by: Comment 197 at June 13, 2025 01:08 PM (6bTRc)

This is a 'what have you done for me lately' world.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:11 PM (Zz0t1)

286 282 They are billions in debt with a "B" and somehow still are open and in business, making movies. Word is Superman cost over 300 million to make.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:10 PM (e7kz6)

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Highest presales in Fandango's history over the first few days, from what I read.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 01:11 PM (GBKbO)

287 Clearly, they paid enough.

He could have refused to be in the movie, sure, but that would mean no paycheck.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:57 PM (6bTRc)

Keeping Ally McBeal happy isn't cheap.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at June 13, 2025 01:11 PM (eb5mD)

288 95 Again, actors. Just hire actors. Hire attractive people who can read a prompter and have them vomit out the propaganda for pennies on the dollar.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 12:35 PM (6bTRc)

Two words:

Big boobs and skimpy outfits.

It's a proven winner.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 13, 2025 12:37 PM (i24o9)

If there was ever a good use for AI-generated performers, "newscaster" is it.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 13, 2025 01:11 PM (wtvvX)

289 I keep wondering HOW organizations like CNN persist year after year, 8-figure salary after 8-figure salary. Of course, the parent company was pouring in cash from elsewhere.

So Warner Bros. Discovery is debt-ridden now? Well, let's see some action.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 13, 2025 01:08 PM (wbZPZ)

=======

WB was debt ridden. And then Discovery bought them, and the debt never went away.

The merger is considered one of the largest blunders in American business history.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)
______

They're basically undoing the merger only a few years later

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 13, 2025 01:11 PM (iFTx/)

290 I used to have a weird crush on Kate Bolduan.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 13, 2025 01:11 PM (AaY6N)

291 Some numbers are so staggering that the defy traditional attempts to minimize. Like Anderson Cooper making $18 *million* dollars a year while pulling no ratings to speak of. "Traditional" thinking would lead one to say "Oh, we should cut that by 25%?". But instead I'm left wondering why ANYONE would make even $1 million a year that has no ratings to speak of???

Posted by: Ethyl Merman at June 13, 2025 01:11 PM (TN0g+)

292 Well if we're WWIII'ing it, I suppose I'll top shelf it on my stop at happy store tonight

Posted by: jsg at June 13, 2025 01:11 PM (qMnM9)

293 270 *nods*

Only 4 comments until it becomes a BOOB thread.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 13, 2025 01:07 PM (ULPxl)

Would you prefer a MOOB thread?

Posted by: XTC at June 13, 2025 01:12 PM (UnA8+)

294 Maybe the news networks should have a salary cap.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at June 13, 2025 01:12 PM (SXxzC)

295 >>> 277 Only 4 comments until it becomes a BOOB thread.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 13, 2025 01:07 PM (ULPxl)

We have standards to uphold.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 01:09 PM (ExV1e)

And we do it well!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 13, 2025 01:12 PM (ULPxl)

296 So Warner Bros. Discovery is debt-ridden now? Well, let's see some action.

They are billions in debt with a "B" and somehow still are open and in business, making movies. Word is Superman cost over 300 million to make.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:10 PM (e7kz6)
__________

"Meh"

-- The Marvels

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 13, 2025 01:12 PM (iFTx/)

297 These people live in a different world. $18 Million a year ? I do not believe that I could meaningfully expend even 5% of that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 13, 2025 12:48 PM (XeU6L)
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Eh, a big enough house can chew up $900k a year in upkeep.

But it is a *lot* of money. Six months of his salary as cash in the bank is "luxury retirement" territory. At 4.5% return - achievable in safe instruments - $9 million returns $405k. Send half of it to Uncle Sam and you have about $200k left. That's fancy-pants, farting-through-silk retirement.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 01:12 PM (6bTRc)

298 Avoid Seven Days in May.

Which ones?

Posted by: Oddbob at June 13, 2025 01:12 PM (/y8xj)

299 “The Friends, Partners, Allies Program.”

U.S. will deploy its Typhon missile launchers, which can fire multi-purpose missiles up to thousands of kilometers, in the Philippines if Manila agrees to the deployment, a US defense official said.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 01:13 PM (IU1e3)

300 Highest presales in Fandango's history over the first few days, from what I read.

I dunno, they claimed so many Fantastic Four tickets were bought that it crashed the site. We will see, although Superman generally does really well in theaters. I bet that dumb dinosaur movie beats it though, for some reason those always make money no matter how idiotic they are.

I would love for Superman to be wonderful and uplifting and fun and heroic and make a kajillion dollars. I just don't expect it to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:13 PM (e7kz6)

301 289 They're basically undoing the merger only a few years later
Posted by: Elric Blade at June 13, 2025 01:11 PM (iFTx/)

======

And Zaslav became a target of hate despite he was betting very big on non-IP material for years, the exact sort of thing that people say they want from Hollywood.

He'll get no credit for Sinners, biggest original film in 15 years, but he'll get all the hate for cancelling Batwoman the movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 01:13 PM (GBKbO)

302 The merger is considered one of the largest blunders in American business history.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)

Their CEO is talking about getting involved in a land war in Asia while simultaneously going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 01:13 PM (ExV1e)

303 Keeping Ally McBeal happy isn't cheap.
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Did she ever hit puberty? She has no tits.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 13, 2025 01:13 PM (FmapG)

304 They are billions in debt with a "B" and somehow still are open and in business, making movies. Word is Superman cost over 300 million to make.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:10 PM (e7kz6)
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WBD has less debt than it did at the beginning, IIRC. Zazlav is doing his thing. It's a very big, very slow, very ugly and very stupid ship to turn.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 01:14 PM (6bTRc)

305 "Global Networks" sounds like one of those fake-ass one-person "news channels' on YouTube that's just an AI voice reading headlines over stock images.

"To-day in San Anton-
Io a man was arrested for a-
Tttemped murder after a shootout with po-
lice."

(Stock image of a long-maned pony eating grass in a field.)

Posted by: zombie at June 13, 2025 01:14 PM (pMi6S)

306 Interesting

“Our commitment to Israel must be absolute and I fully support this attack,” Fetterman wrote on X. “Keep wiping out Iranian leadership and the nuclear personnel.”

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 13, 2025 01:14 PM (NtVYv)

307 "Meh"

-- The Marvels

You think that was bad?

Reports are that Andor's second season was six hundred million dollars to make.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:14 PM (e7kz6)

308 Did she ever hit puberty? She has no tits.
Posted by: pudinhead at June 13, 2025 01:13 PM (FmapG)

She's also not attractive. At. All.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

309 307 You think that was bad?

Reports are that Andor's second season was six hundred million dollars to make.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:14 PM (e7kz6)

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Both seasons cost that much. Reporting has been sloppy around that number.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 01:14 PM (GBKbO)

310 If RFK Jr bans ads from Big Pharma (yes, please!), HGTV is toast.
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (zdYK9)

Hopefully that goes for the Food Network, too.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at June 13, 2025 01:14 PM (k9OZB)

311 ... The merger is considered one of the largest blunders in American business history.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 01:09 PM (GBKbO)
++++
Bull and shit.

Stay in your own lane, and out of mine.

Posted by: AOL-TimeWarner at June 13, 2025 01:15 PM (6bTRc)

312 Cooper gets $18 mil for working 5 nights a week? I get $25 mil for not working 4 nights a week. Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah.

Posted by: Rachel CashCow at June 13, 2025 01:16 PM (UHILh)

313 Groomer boomer has thoughts on doxxing Federal agents who arrested Padilldo

@TheRickWilson 21h
Time ot ID every one of these guys. Internet, do your thing. x.com/BillMelugin_/s…

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 13, 2025 01:16 PM (mlg/3)

314 306 Interesting

“Our commitment to Israel must be absolute and I fully support this attack,” Fetterman wrote on X. “Keep wiping out Iranian leadership and the nuclear personnel.”

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 13, 2025 01:14 PM (NtVYv)

Fetterman's handlers have apparently thrown in the towel.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 13, 2025 01:16 PM (wtvvX)

315 313 Groomer boomer has thoughts on doxxing Federal agents who arrested Padilldo

@TheRickWilson 21h
Time ot ID every one of these guys. Internet, do your thing. x.com/BillMelugin_/s…
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 13, 2025 01:16 PM (mlg/3)

=====

"True conservatism."
-Bill Kristol, with a tear in his eye

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, reflecting on change and permanence with Ozu at June 13, 2025 01:16 PM (GBKbO)

316 > This blonde in a one-piece

Elizabeth Turner

Posted by: bonhomme at June 13, 2025 01:16 PM (lIio7)

317 Weirdest crush. Man that's a great subject for a Friday afternoon.

Mine was probably a blonde on The Weather Channel in the 90s. I'm not even certain she was actually good looking. But at the time I would have probably got a semi looking at a particularly sleek toaster.

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 01:16 PM (SGpb+)

318 And take their hundreds of fans to their podcasts. Oh and also spend more time with family and other homos.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 13, 2025 01:16 PM (17s+e)

319 @TheRickWilson 21h
Time ot ID every one of these guys. Internet, do your thing. x.com/BillMelugin_/s…
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 13, 2025 01:16 PM (mlg/3)

Time to dig under the pile of kiddie cock and make an arrest.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)

320 303 Keeping Ally McBeal happy isn't cheap.
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Did she ever hit puberty? She has no tits.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 13, 2025 01:13 PM (FmapG)
__________________

Leave Greta Thunberg out of this.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 13, 2025 01:17 PM (YqDXo)

321
Posted by: zombie at June 13, 2025 01:14 PM (pMi6S)

==============

lol

AI is killing YouTube.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 13, 2025 01:17 PM (wbZPZ)

322 USS George Washington departs Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, June 10, 2025. ...coincides with Chinese naval activity in Pacific
(Akifumi Ishikawa/Stars and Stripes)

On Saturday, the Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning and three other warships entered Japan’s easternmost exclusive economic zone, roughly 185 miles southwest of Minamitorishima, according to a Sunday news release from Japan’s Joint Staff.

Also on Saturday, five additional Chinese warships, including the aircraft carrier Shandong, were spotted about 340 miles southeast of Miyako Island in Okinawa prefecture, the Joint Staff reported Monday.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 01:18 PM (IU1e3)

323 Weirdest crush. Man that's a great subject for a Friday afternoon.

Martha Plimpton, from the Goonies and other stuff. She's just not objectively very pretty and is awkward but for some reason she really appealed to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:18 PM (e7kz6)

324 >>> 313 Groomer boomer has thoughts on doxxing Federal agents who arrested Padilldo

@TheRickWilson 21h
Time ot ID every one of these guys. Internet, do your thing. x.com/BillMelugin_/s…
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 13, 2025 01:16 PM (mlg/3)

I would say he ought not to draw attention to himself, since he might get punched in the face, but no one knows who he is either.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 13, 2025 01:18 PM (ULPxl)

325 If RFK Jr bans ads from Big Pharma (yes, please!), HGTV is toast.
Posted by: Little Larry Sellers at June 13, 2025 01:06 PM (zdYK9)

Hopefully that goes for the Food Network, too.

Posted by: hobbitopoly
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I'll be hurting too!!

Posted by: Game Show Network at June 13, 2025 01:18 PM (17s+e)

326 I would say he ought not to draw attention to himself, since he might get punched in the face, but no one knows who he is either.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 13, 2025 01:18 PM (ULPxl)

Someone should remember who he is and act accordingly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:19 PM (Zz0t1)

327 Groomer boomer has thoughts on doxxing Federal agents who arrested Padilldo

@TheRickWilson 21h
Time ot ID every one of these guys. Internet, do your thing. x.com/BillMelugin_/s…

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 13, 2025 01:16 PM (mlg/3)

It's hilarious that these creepers think that they have clout.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at June 13, 2025 01:19 PM (i24o9)

328
Missouri governor activates National Guard and declares a State of Emergency in advance of the weekend's festivities.

Posted by: four seasons at June 13, 2025 01:19 PM (3ek7K)

329 Weirdest crush. Man that's a great subject for a Friday afternoon.

Martha Plimpton, from the Goonies and other stuff. She's just not objectively very pretty and is awkward but for some reason she really appealed to me.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:18 PM (e7kz6)

Ray Ramano’s wife in everybody loves Raymond

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 13, 2025 01:19 PM (/suuz)

330 Maybe the news networks should have a salary cap.
Posted by: Northernlurker
________

CNN is over the cap. They'll have to trade Tapper and throw in a sixth rounder in next year's draft.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 13, 2025 01:20 PM (ITkJX)

331
I'll be hurting too!!
Posted by: Game Show Network at June 13, 2025 01:18 PM (17s+e)

You'll still have the supplemental Medicare plans.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:20 PM (Zz0t1)

332 328
Missouri governor activates National Guard and declares a State of Emergency in advance of the weekend's festivities.
----------------
Is this cuz of St. Louis or KC?

Posted by: pudinhead at June 13, 2025 01:20 PM (FmapG)

333 Lunch? Powerade and goldfish. I'd have Spam if there was any in the house.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at June 13, 2025 01:20 PM (iNp3L)

334 Bing:

The United States has deployed at least 12 warships to the Middle East, including the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, amphibious assault teams, and over 4,000 Marines and sailors, in response to escalating tensions in the region following the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Hezbollah military chief Fuad Shukr12.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 12:52 PM (IU1e3)

-----
What unmitigated crap that statement is.
The dead are casualties of war, not assassinations.
Those US military assets didn't just pop up there through a portal; we've had assets in the region for a while now.
Did they get anything right?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at June 13, 2025 01:20 PM (FCbAQ)

335 "I'm not. Shooting down. MY WINGMAN."

- LT Maverickski

https://tinyurl.com/yeytewj6

Posted by: Don Black at June 13, 2025 01:21 PM (AOsQT)

336
I have to admit, I've had to recalibrate my cynicometer (pronounced si-ni-KAH-meh-ter) watching giants like Chuck Todd and Joy Reid get fired and... not snapped up by another network. I really thought the musical chairs would continue until the end of civilization as we know it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 13, 2025 01:21 PM (wbZPZ)

337
Ray Ramano’s wife in everybody loves Raymond
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 13, 2025 01:19 PM (/suuz)

Couldn't watch that show. They were always yelling at each other.

Why on EARTH would I want to watch a TV show that reminded me of my childhood?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)

338 $18M???

Daayyum.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at June 13, 2025 01:21 PM (YTjJV)

339
pudinhead,

I'm not sure why. I would think the big cities are a concern.

Posted by: four seasons at June 13, 2025 01:21 PM (3ek7K)

340 Weirdest crush. Man that's a great subject for a Friday afternoon.

Heh. My daughter.

What?

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 13, 2025 01:21 PM (s8j++)

341 317 Weirdest crush. Man that's a great subject for a Friday afternoon.

Mine was probably a blonde on The Weather Channel in the 90s. I'm not even certain she was actually good looking. But at the time I would have probably got a semi looking at a particularly sleek toaster.

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 01:16 PM (SGpb+)

Lori Tucker, who anchored the news on WOAI (then KMOL) in San Antonio back in the 80's.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 13, 2025 01:21 PM (wtvvX)

342 323 Weirdest crush. Man that's a great subject for a Friday afternoon.

Martha Plimpton, from the Goonies and other stuff. She's just not objectively very pretty and is awkward but for some reason she really appealed to me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:18 PM (e7kz6)

Rules of Engagement, not the one who was supposed to be the hot one. Megyn Price.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 13, 2025 01:22 PM (KbCG3)

343 I used to enjoy the gardening shows on hgtv. Now there aren't any. Just shows about how much the homo couple can spend to buy/renovate a new/older but upgradable house/condo in some stupidly expensive location.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at June 13, 2025 01:22 PM (2J/Lj)

344 Janine Turner, Nothern Exposure

*mic drop*

Posted by: Captain Obvious. Laird o' the Sea at June 13, 2025 01:22 PM (6YdsJ)

345 339
pudinhead,

I'm not sure why. I would think the big cities are a concern.
-----------------
Odd that a state that is largely comprised of Jesse James country has any problems at all.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 13, 2025 01:23 PM (FmapG)

346 Lori Tucker, who anchored the news on WOAI (then KMOL) in San Antonio back in the 80's.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 13, 2025 01:21 PM (wtvvX)
++++
San Antonio is pretty far west for having a W callsign. Weird.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 01:23 PM (6bTRc)

347 Nude RFK

Posted by: Donald J. Trump, First of His Name at June 13, 2025 01:23 PM (jc0TO)

348 323 Weirdest crush. Man that's a great subject for a Friday afternoon.

Dana Delaney

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 13, 2025 01:23 PM (NtVYv)

349 March 21,Hegseth signed orders on Thursday to keep the USS Harry S. Truman in the Middle East for at least an additional month.
_www.wkrg.com/
---------------------------

So, using tankers, we have four carriers within flight range of China and Iran. Wouldn't that be four carrier groups? Which in itself is one of the biggest navies in the world.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at June 13, 2025 01:23 PM (IU1e3)

350 Couldn't watch that show. They were always yelling at each other.

Why on EARTH would I want to watch a TV show that reminded me of my childhood?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)

Yeah, it did get old fast. But the wife was hot in a strange way…. And the uncouth grandpa yelling holy crap made me chuckle

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 13, 2025 01:24 PM (JhTRg)

351 I can see why you think it's weird Linus but it's probably not weird

https://is.gd/P7p2gy

Martha Plimpton yes

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 01:24 PM (SGpb+)

352 Lori Tucker, who anchored the news on WOAI (then KMOL) in San Antonio back in the 80's.

I remember her. Also Karen Gallagher on KENS.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 13, 2025 01:25 PM (/y8xj)

353 San Antonio is pretty far west for having a W callsign. Weird.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 01:23 PM

Some are grandfathered in, like WACO in, well, Waco.

Posted by: toby928 at June 13, 2025 01:25 PM (jc0TO)

354 How are objectively hot women a "weird crush???"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 13, 2025 01:25 PM (e7kz6)

355 Their CEO is talking about getting involved in a land war in Asia while simultaneously going in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 13, 2025 01:13 PM (ExV1e)

This is about me isn't it?

Posted by: Shits per week map from the ONT at June 13, 2025 01:25 PM (6k8Dh)

356 Oil change? Shop charges $150/hour so $75 for half hour labor, $25-30 oil, $10 filter. And $5 for "environmental disposal". Easy peasy.

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at June 13, 2025 01:26 PM (iNp3L)

357
don't mess with a dude named Gunnar !
Posted by: runner

===============

Messages from him should come with a trigger warning.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 13, 2025 01:26 PM (wbZPZ)

358 I could start a channel of fat old men dancing the Monkey, and get better ratings than CNN.

Posted by: XTC at June 13, 2025 01:26 PM (UnA8+)

359 Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 13, 2025 01:23 PM (NtVYv)

Oooh she was smoking when she was young

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 01:26 PM (SGpb+)

360 336
I have to admit, I've had to recalibrate my cynicometer (pronounced si-ni-KAH-meh-ter) watching giants like Chuck Todd and Joy Reid get fired and... not snapped up by another network. I really thought the musical chairs would continue until the end of civilization as we know it.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at June 13, 2025 01:21 PM (wbZPZ)

If you've ever read Sarah Hoyt's Rolling in the Deep theory, I think we're at the point where there's nowhere left for them to go.

https://tinyurl.com/3m5j3djr

Posted by: jsg at June 13, 2025 01:26 PM (qMnM9)

361 Time was that when a war began I'd immediately go to CNN to get the latest reports and interviews. Now CNN is one of the last sources I would think of watching. Change!

Posted by: Gref at June 13, 2025 01:26 PM (aBgBM)

362 My wife mowed the lawn yesterday. I was gob smacked.

Posted by: pudinhead at June 13, 2025 01:27 PM (FmapG)

363 In Columbia S.C. , the radio/television broadcast company was WIS. It stood for Wonderful Iodine State. No foolin’.

Posted by: Eromero at June 13, 2025 01:28 PM (jgmnb)

364
Dana Delaney
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at June 13, 2025 01:23 PM (NtVYv)

That's not weird. she was smokin.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

365 Weird Crush does NOT equal hot broads on TV.

That's missing the point, methinks.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

366 365 Weird Crush does NOT equal hot broads on TV.

That's missing the point, methinks.
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Who here never thought of banging Wednesday Adams?

Posted by: pudinhead at June 13, 2025 01:31 PM (FmapG)

367 How sad is it that Joe Biden seems to have gotten the 'weird crush' thing correct?

Cuz that's f*ckin' weird.......AND sick.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:31 PM (Zz0t1)

368 ---------------
Who here never thought of banging Wednesday Adams?
Posted by: pudinhead at June 13, 2025 01:31 PM (FmapG)

She seemed quite young........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

369 368...Christina Ricci? She's on the list.

The 18+ version, I ain't no Democrat.

Posted by: Kareem of Wheat at June 13, 2025 01:34 PM (AaY6N)

370 Basically someone you think everyone else would think is homely at best. Or like alien features which I think my weather channel chick had.

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 01:34 PM (SGpb+)

371 346 Lori Tucker, who anchored the news on WOAI (then KMOL) in San Antonio back in the 80's.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 13, 2025 01:21 PM (wtvvX)
++++
San Antonio is pretty far west for having a W callsign. Weird.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 13, 2025 01:23 PM (6bTRc)

Yep. I THINK it's the furthest one west, maybe the first. There are one or two others west of the Mississippi; I think one is in Kansas??

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 13, 2025 01:34 PM (wtvvX)

372
Yep. I THINK it's the furthest one west, maybe the first. There are one or two others west of the Mississippi; I think one is in Kansas??
Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 13, 2025 01:34 PM (wtvvX)

WBAP in Dallas.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at June 13, 2025 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

373 366 365 Weird Crush does NOT equal hot broads on TV.

That's missing the point, methinks.
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Who here never thought of banging Wednesday Adams?
Posted by: pudinhead at June 13, 2025 01:31 PM (FmapG)
Was that Summer Glau?

Posted by: Eromero at June 13, 2025 01:35 PM (jgmnb)

374 323 Weirdest crush. Man that's a great subject for a Friday afternoon.

Lady Aberlin on Mr Rogers Neighborhood

Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 13, 2025 01:38 PM (Dv3i1)

375 Posted by: Chuck Martel at June 13, 2025 01:38 PM (Dv3i1)

That's a good one and fits the brief but honestly she's cute

Posted by: ... at June 13, 2025 01:39 PM (SGpb+)

376 Oil change? Shop charges $150/hour so $75 for half hour labor, $25-30 oil, $10 filter. And $5 for "environmental disposal". Easy peasy.
Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at June 13, 2025 01:26 PM (iNp3L)

Doing it myself:
35.99 for 5qt 5W20 blend
8.39 for 1 qt " " " (6 qt sump)
13.99 for filter.

Total 58.37 plus tax.

Autozone prices. Advance nearly the same.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at June 13, 2025 01:46 PM (5xuJ/)

377 215 And there's always the possibility that Kaitlan will take her shirt off. Nobody wants to see Anderson shirtless.
Posted by: Archimedes

Really?

Well, decent rack, so worth it.

Posted by: RGallegos at June 13, 2025 02:06 PM (JVh4R)

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Posted by: Brooklyn Eye Doctor at June 14, 2025 02:11 AM (M4yTD)

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