Dominican Paper Apologizes for Using Alec Baldwin Photo for President Trump
Posted: February 12, 2017 Filed under: Global, Humor, Mediasphere, White House | Tags: Alec Baldwin, Dominican Republic, Donald Trump, Newspapers Leave a comment
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[VIDEO] NBC Thinks NBC Is Hilarious
Posted: February 10, 2017 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Alec Baldwin, comedy, Free Beacon, media, Media bias, NBC, Network News, SNL, Supercuts, video Leave a comment
Trump Sets Dizzying White House Pace
Posted: January 26, 2017 Filed under: History, Politics, White House | Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Achilles' heel, Alec Baldwin, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Executive Office of the President, George W. Bush, Oval Office, White House, Winston Churchill 1 Comment
Trump’s pace is frantic, and many of his daily events are being captured by television cameras in his first week in office.
Amie Parnes reports: In his first days in office, President Trump is taking on a dizzying schedule that is decidedly different from those of his immediate predecessors.
Trump is in the Oval Office to take meetings earlier than President Obama, and he’s worked through dinner to stay in the West Wing later than President George W. Bush, who would generaly return to his residence at 6 p.m. sharp.
Trump doesn’t like to read books, those who know him say. And he doesn’t work 
out because he believes it’s an energy drain, according to the 2016 book “Trump Revealed.”
“When you’re making speeches for 25,000 people and shouting and screaming and having fun with everybody and making America great again, you get a lot of exercise,” he told People magazine last summer.
Trump does like to watch TV, and he is partial to cable news. On Tuesday night, he tweeted about sending help to Chicago shortly after Fox News host Bill O’Reilly’s show aired a segment about crime in the city.
One Trump ally familiar with the president’s routines said his White House schedule is similar to the one he’s held for years, and described him as “a late-night guy and early morning riser.”
“His body clock is one that is very conducive to running on little sleep,” the ally said, adding that Trump is known to get up before 6 a.m.
The White House has to adapt to each new occupant, including their management styles and lifestyles.
Obama sent a clear message to aides early on that he intended to be home for dinner with his family. But after dinner, the self-dubbed “night guy” would make his way into his personal office in the Treaty Room and resume work, tweaking his speeches and sending emails to staff.
[Read the full story here, at TheHill]
Bush, also an early riser, started his day by getting his wife, former first lady Laura Bush, her coffee and reading the morning papers.
He told his advisers he wanted to be in the Oval Office at 7 a.m. on the dot. But he indicated he wanted downtime in the evenings to exercise and liked to be in bed no later than 10 p.m. and often earlier, Bush’s aides recalled. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Saturday Night Live’ Writer Katie Rich Suspended Over Barron Trump Tweet
Posted: January 23, 2017 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: ABC News, Alec Baldwin, Barron, Beck Bennett, CNN, Cold open, Donald Trump, Donald Trump presidential campaign, Felicity Jones, Kate McKinnon, NBC, Saturday Night Live, Sketch comedy, SNL, Twitter Leave a comment
Katie Rich, the writer for Saturday Night Live‘s “Weekend Update” who sparked a backlash with a tweet targeting President Donald Trump’s 10-year-old son Barron, is no longer working on NBC’s veteran late-night
sketch comedy show. In an ill-conceived joke, she wrote on Friday — the day of Donald Trump’s inauguration attended by the boy — that “Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter.”
She deleted the tweet hours later, but the controversy already was swirling and did not subside over the weekend, with many demanding an apology and calling on NBC for the writer’s dismissal.
SNL has not commented on the issue, but a person familiar the situation tells Deadline that Rich was suspended from the show immediately after her tweet and the suspension is indefinite. She was not listed in the credits for the episode that aired on Saturday. Meanwhile, Read the rest of this entry »
Miller’s Alleged Affair with Transition Aide A.J. Delgado Led To White House Rejection
Posted: December 26, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: -elect, ABC News, Alec Baldwin, Associated Press, Donald Trump, Electoral College (United States), Hillary Clinton, Trump Tower (New York City), Twitter, White House Leave a comment
Phillip Stucky reports: Campaign staffer Jason Miller for Donald Trump recently turned down a job working as Director of Communications, but new information has surfaced that could explain Miller’s decision, according to a Politico report Monday.
Miller allegedly had an affair during the course of the campaign, according to Politico’s report. The allegations come from transition aide A.J. Delgado, who tweeted congratulations to the “baby-daddy” for his promotion, calling Miller the “2016 version of John Edwards.”
“When you try to put a brave face and tweet about nonsense to distract, your feed looks like @JasonMillerDC’s,” Delgado wrote Twitter. “When people need to resign graciously and refuse to, it’s a bit … spooky.” Delgado then clarified who she was talking about, “Jason Miller, who needed to resign … yesterday.” Read the rest of this entry »
The Cult of Clinton: That’s How it Crumbles, Cookie-Wise
Posted: November 20, 2016 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: A Tribe Called Quest, Alec Baldwin, Bullshit, Cult, Dave Chappelle, Donald Trump, Emmy Award, Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song), Hillary Clinton, Kate McKinnon, Leonard Cohen, religion, Saturday Night Live 2 Comments
Brendan O’Neill continues:
…By the Cult of Hillary Clinton, I don’t mean the nearly 62 million Americans who voted for her. I have not one doubt that they are as mixed and normal a bag of people as the Trumpites are. No, I mean the Hillary machine—the celebs and activists and hacks who were so devoted to getting her elected and who have spent the past week sobbing and moaning over her loss. These people exhibit cult-like behavior far more than any Trump cheerer I’ve come across.
“Maybe she is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself…Hillary is Athena,” Heffernan continued, adding that “Hillary did everything right in this campaign… She cannot be faulted, criticized, or analyzed for even one more second.”
— Virginia Heffernan
Trump supporters view their man as a leader “fused with the idea of the nation”? Perhaps some do, but at least they don’t see him as “light itself.” That’s how Clinton was described in the subhead of a piece for Lena Dunham‘s Lenny Letter. “Maybe [Clinton] is more than a president,” gushed writer Virginia Heffernan. “Maybe she is an idea, a world-historical heroine, light itself,” Nothing this nutty has been said by any of Trump’s media fanboys.
“Hillary is Athena,” Heffernan continued, adding that “Hillary did everything right in this campaign… She cannot be faulted, criticized, or analyzed for even one more second.”
[Read the full story here, at Reason.com]
That’s a key cry of the Cult of Hillary (as it is among followers of L. Ron Hubbard or devotees of Christ): our gal is beyond criticism, beyond the sober and technical analysis of mere humans. Michael Moore, in his movie Trumpland, looked out at his audience and, with voice breaking, said: “Maybe Hillary could be our Pope Francis.”
Or consider Kate McKinnon‘s post-election opening bit on SNL, in which she played Clinton as a pantsuited angel at a piano singing Leonard Cohen‘s “Hallelujah,” her voice almost cracking as she sang: “I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool ya.” Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] How SNL Spiked the Football Too Early on Hillary Clinton
Posted: November 16, 2016 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Alec Baldwin, Hillary Clinton, media, NBC, Presidential Election 2016, Saturday Night Live, SNL, video Leave a comment
Ang Lee Predicts China Box Office to Dwarf Hollywood
Posted: October 30, 2016 Filed under: Asia, China, Economics, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: A-Yo, Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray, Crying (Roy Orbison song), Donald Trump, Hillary Lindsey, Kate McKinnon, Ron Howard, Saturday Night Live, Tom Hanks Leave a comment
Taiwanese-born filmmaker Ang Lee predicted Friday that the Chinese film market was about to explode, not only overtaking but dwarfing the American box office in a matter of years.
The two-time Oscar winner said executives in the world’s second economy used to rely on him as a bridge to Hollywood, but the newly-confident Chinese film industry no longer finds it necessary.
“It’s huge, it’s going to be bigger in a few years,” the 62-year-old told reporters on the red carpet at the glitzy BAFTA Britannia Awards in Beverly Hills.
“In a few years it’s probably going to be bigger (than the US) and then in the years to come a lot bigger. They’ve got many people and, most importantly, film has been lacking in the past in the culture, so it’s still fresh.”
PricewaterhouseCoopers projects China’s box office will rise from $4.3 billion in 2014 to $8.9 billion in 2019, outstripping the US.
Hollywood studios have been looking to capitalize on the burgeoning market through partnerships with Chinese companies.
Meanwhile, Beijing has ambitions to increase China’s “soft power,” unleashing a wave of Chinese money into Hollywood.
Real estate developer turned media conglomerate Wanda bought “Jurassic World” creator Legendary Entertainment for $3.5 billion earlier this year. Read the rest of this entry »
Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Friction: Director Calls Cops ‘Murderers’: New York Daily News
Posted: October 27, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Alec Baldwin, Allison Anders, John Travolta, media, New York, New York City, New York Daily News, news, Newspaper, NYC, NYPD, pulp fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Tabloid, Toronto International Film Festival Leave a comment
Quentin Tarantino has some pulp friction with the NYPD commissioner.
Front page of the New York Daily News for October 27, 2015 Bill Bratton on Tarantino. Headline: “Inglorious Bastard”
[VIDEO] ‘Saturday Night Live’ Documentary Trailer With Chris Rock, Tina Fey
Posted: April 11, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment | Tags: Alec Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Amber Rose, Amy Poehler, Golden Globe Award, Lorne Michaels, media, Saturday Night Live, Sketch comedy, Television, Tina Fey, Tribeca Film Festival, TV 1 CommentFor Variety, Maane Khatchatourian writes: The first trailer for the documentary “Live From New York!” — which chronicles the iconic NBC sketch comedy show’s cultural and historical impact — has debuted, offering old footage from the series and a new look at the behind-the-scenes magic that goes into putting it on week to week.
“It’s the only form where everyone is necessary to the end. We don’t go on because we’re ready, we go on because it’s 11:30.”
— Creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels
“They said it would be a cross between ’60 Minutes’ and ‘Monty Python,’” former cast member Laraine Newman (1975-1980) says in the trailer. Read the rest of this entry »
[VIDEO] ReasonTV: Gary Oldman’s New Commercial [Post-Scandal Remix]
Posted: June 27, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Humor | Tags: Alec Baldwin, Anti-Defamation League, Associated Press, Gary Oldman, Jews, Mel Gibson, Playboy, Simon Wiesenthal Center 1 Comment[VIDEO] REWIND: Early Morning Local News Show Finds Guest Tracy Morgan Not Quite Sober Yet, Goes Disco Bananas on Live TV
Posted: April 16, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Humor | Tags: 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin, MSNBC, New York Times, Saturday Night Live, Television, Tracy Morgan, YouTube Leave a commentThis is from 2007, but still as funny as the day it unfolded on live TV. Watch as host Robert Holguin giggles his way through a very admirable professional effort to manage the unexpected turn of events. Highlight: Tracy sends out a message to parents, suggesting he’s gonna impregnate the daughters off the show’s unsuspecting early morning viewers. Did the phones light up at the station that morning? You bet!
Tracy Morgan of Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock is interviewed on morning television by Robert Holguin of KVIA. The live interview goes wildly out of control when the whacked out comedian takes off his shirt.
Is Tracy Morgan Wasted on Live TV – YouTube
President Obama is Now the Most Powerful Insurance Salesman in the Free World
Posted: March 14, 2014 Filed under: White House | Tags: Alec Baldwin, Barack Obama, Between Two Ferns, Glengarry Glen Ross, Obama, President of the United States, United States, Zach Galifianakis 3 Comments
Obama, left, with actor-comedian Zach Galifianakis during an appearance on “Between Two Ferns,” the digital short with a laser focus on reaching people aged 18 to 34. (AP/Funny Or Die)
Philip Klien writes: President Obama’s approval rating is at or near record lows. His foreign policy has been feckless. And his recent budget proposal was virtually ignored because his domestic agenda is going nowhere in Congress. So with 2014 looking like an increasingly grim year for Democrats seeking re-election, the role of the most powerful leader of the free world has been reduced to that of an insurance salesman.
In the final weeks before the March 31 deadline for individuals to enroll in an insurance plan through his health care program without facing a penalty, Obama is going everywhere 
and anywhere to make his pitch. He has started to sound like an overeager junior salesman — the type who watches Alec Baldwin‘s “always be closing” monologue from “Glengarry Glen Ross” every morning to get psyched.
Appearing on an online video comedy skit with “Hangover” co-star Zach Galifianakis, Obama urged Americans to visit healthcare.gov “or call 1-800-318-2596,” where, “they can get coverage all for what it costs to pay your cell phone bill.”
During an appearance on Spanish-language television, Obama was asked to respond to a viewer who said he struggled to find affordable health care options for his family through the law.
Combat Ready: Michelle Malkin Gears Up for 2014 GOP Warfare
Posted: February 9, 2014 Filed under: Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Alec Baldwin, American Crossroads, Chamber of Commerce, Main Street Republicans, Malkin, Michelle Malkin, Pete Sessions, Ted Cruz, Twitter 1 Comment
Malkin is focusing on backing politicians challenging establishment Republicans. | AP Photo
Mackenzie Weinger writes: Michelle Malkin doesn’t run away from fights, she runs toward them. And she’s running faster than ever headlong into the 2014 Republican primary battles on behalf of upstart conservative candidates who are mounting insurgent challenges to the GOP old guard.
[Malkin’s Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild at Amazon]
Twitter is Malkin’s weapon of choice. Battles with her almost always devolve into wars, and those who follow the conservative social media scene know she has a proven formula online: Taunting quips from foes bring out the full force of her Twitter arsenal, with snappy replies, catchy hashtags and the mobilization of a legion of energized followers.
[Malkin’s Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies]
Malkin, 43, says she’s using her influence — and her confrontational approach — on behalf of candidates she deems worthy of it in this year’s midterm.
Holiday Survival: How to Fly in Comfort
Posted: December 19, 2013 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Global, Humor | Tags: Aircraft Rental and Instruction, Alec Baldwin, Boarding pass, Business, Fixed Wing, Flight attendant, Gavin McInnes, United States 2 Comments
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Gavin McInnes writes: About 44.3 million Americans are going to be flying this holiday season, which is a million more than last year. This is ironic because flying becomes about a million times worse every year. Here are ten ways to make it easier to hurl through the sky at 600 miles an hour and get there ten times faster than you would by any other means.
1. PRINT OUT YOUR BOARDING PASS
If you’re not checking bags (why are you checking bags anyhow—don’t you have sweaters at your mom’s?), having a boarding pass in hand means there is almost no limit to how late you can check in. When it’s a small airport that I know won’t have a big line, I’ll show up as the plane is boarding and still make it with plenty of time to do a couple of shots before the flight.
2. GET WASTED
The space you’re provided has shrunk to POW-in-a-bamboo-cage size, so you need to rub numbing cream all over the inside of your body to survive. That means getting to the bar fast and piling in as much hard liquor as your body can hold. That also means no hogging the bartender’s time with girl drinks like blackberry margaritas. If you time it right, you’ll slump down in your seat right as your body turns out the lights.
If they delay the flight, you will fall asleep at the gate and miss your flight. This happened to me once. Waking up at 2AM in an abandoned LAX is about as depressing as it gets.
3. TOLERATE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS
Anyone who’s ever flown first class knows that when Alec Baldwin got thrown off that plane, he’d been dealing with some of the biggest cunts the service industry has to offer. It takes years of “service” to get that gig, so the stewardesses who finally make it have entitlement issues out the wazoo.
The ones in coach are better, but what’s with the eye rolling when you push that button asking them to bring you a drink? The icon on the button is a stewardess bringing you a drink. I’ve noticed they’ve recently begun announcing, “We are here for your safety but we can also provide assistance if need be.” No, bitch, it’s the other way around. “You ain’t nothin’ but a waitress in the sky.”
However, as with cops, being a dick is only going to bite you in the ass, so kiss their butts and stay as calm as possible. Start all drink requests with “I hate to bother you, but…” and keep smiling. Sliding a male steward $20 usually garners a 200% return on your investment, although it doesn’t work with stewardesses. Male stewards will swipe their card to buy you movies and bring you enough free drinks to fill your briefcase. I’ve never asked for a hand job, but I don’t think it would be out of the question.
BREAKING: Martin Bashir to Replace Phil Griffin as President of MSNBC NBC News
Posted: December 1, 2013 Filed under: Breaking News, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: Alec Baldwin, Bashir, Breaking news, CNN, Fox, Fox News Channel, Martin Bashir, media, MSNBC, Prime time, Sarah Palin, Twitter 5 Comments
In a surprise move, controversial commentator Martin Bashir has been tapped to lead NBC in 2014 as the network’s new President. “I couldn’t be happier”, said Bashir, “I think as a news organization, we’re on the right track, heading in the right direction. An NBC spokesman confirmed the transition. “We think Martin’s a great choice to bring dynamism and creativity to the network. We’re proud to have Mr. Bashir take on these new responsibilities.” Read the rest of this entry »
The Problem of Selfishness
Posted: November 30, 2013 Filed under: Law & Justice, Politics, Think Tank, U.S. News | Tags: Alec Baldwin, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Kevin D. Williamson, Magic Johnson, Obama, Shepard Fairey, United States 1 Comment
Political self-interest is no less selfish than economic self-interest.
Kevin D. Williamson writes: Barack Obama’s moral exhortations are almost without exception unseemly. When the nation was giving him the hairy eyeball over his longtime association with the crackpot racist grotesque Jeremiah Wright, Senator Obama responded by lecturing the nation about racism, as though we, rather than he, had a problem. On the eve of Thanksgiving, the president, a guest of Magic Johnson’s, chided the nation on how “selfishly” it conducts its politics.
That’s our president: sensitive to criticism but immune to irony.
Barack Obama is if not the most selfish man in American public life then a contender for the title and a shoo-in hall-of-famer. Along with such titans as Donald Trump and Alec Baldwin, he is the possessor of an epic sense of self, a Jörmungandr of ego reaching around the world to embrace — what else? — himself. The man is mired in self, positively suffocating in self: self-importance, self-regard, self-aggrandizement. Though one wonders how much substance there is within the balloon of the presidential ego: This is a man who has, after all, conscientiously reduced himself to a logo and a slogan, not a man for all seasons but a man for a single season ending in early November. The Barack Obama made available for public consumption is, like those Shepard Fairey “hope” posters seen around election time, a millimeter deep but ubiquitous. Whether the private Obama is a more substantial entity is the subject of some speculation.
Alec Baldwin: ‘If the show dies, its fate ends up being no different than the vast majority of start-up TV programming’
Posted: November 17, 2013 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, U.S. News | Tags: 30 Rock, Alec Baldwin, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Baldwin, Broadcast programming, CNN, Ellen Barkin, MSNBC 1 CommentMy MSNBC Show Might Not Return
The morning after MSNBC announced a two-week suspension of Alec Baldwin‘s late night show, the actor has expressed uncertainty if the program will return at all.
“Whether the show comes back at all is at issue right now,” the 30 Rock star wrote on his Huffington Post blog, adding: “But if the show dies, its fate ends up being no different than the vast majority of start-up TV programming, and so be it. We do take a small amount of pride in knowing that we beat CNN in the ratings each of our nights. (I forget who they had on at that time.)”
[Alec Baldwin Forced to Live with Elderly White Christian Idaho Couple During Suspension]
Baldwin had been under fire for hurling gay slurs at a photographer during a confrontation earlier in the week that were caught on camera and widely circulated online. Read the rest of this entry »
