Taking Out The Trash

We bring you Mediaite’s recent story of FNC’s Shepard Smith very lightly mocking Bill O’Reilly’s “F–k it, We’ll Do it Live!” clip from “Inside Edition” because it’s worth watching repeatedly.

Watch it here.

In case you were curious about Bill Maher of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” and his comments on MSNBC Wednesday, here they are.

Maher’s remarks fantastically encompass Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), health care and President Obama’s smoking.

“Thank God you are here,” remarked host Lawrence O’Donnell.

Then O’Donnell asked: “Are you gay?”
“If I was, I would be better looking,” Maher replied.

In the course of the interview, O’Donnell asks Maher about snorkeling in the Navy. Maher wasn’t in the Navy,he explained. “I’ve never heard of snorkeling,” the comedian said. ..”It does sound dirty.”

More Wedding Bells are Ringing: Politico congressional reporter Lisa Lerer got enagaged to boyfriend Marcus Bleyer. h/t Playbook

HuffPo & Higher Powers: Huff Post launched a new section featuring wide-ranging discussion about religion and the ways it influences our lives. Check it out here.

Slate Gets Cozy with the New America Foundation: The two announced a new partnership, focusing on emerging technologies and their transformative effects on society and public policy. Central to the partnership is the “Future Tense” event series.

Yikes. The New York Daily News reporting today about CNN correspondent Jeffrey Toobin’s love child.

New York newspapers always know how to make a splash. The headline?

CNN legal eagle Jeffrey Toobin in baby mama drama – with daughter of CBS News’ Jeff Greenfield

An excerpt:

“One of the media elite’s most whispered-about scandals went public Wednesday when married CNN correspondent Jeffrey Toobin squared off with a woman who says he’s the father of her baby.

Yale-educated lawyer Casey Greenfield – the daughter of eminent CBS News analyst Jeff Greenfield – had a chilly faceoff with Toobin in Manhattan Family Court.

The ex-lovers barely spoke in the waiting area before joining their lawyers behind closed doors with a court referee to hash out custody and money issues.”

Read the full item here.

This is one hell of a lot of attacking for one story.
The Hill’s Washington Scene reports today the trash talking of radio talk show host Tony Kornheiser against MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.

“Nobody likes Chris Matthews,” Kornheiser said referring to the verbose “Hardball” host.

The attack-filled Kornheiser was incensed that Matthews attacked D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty for the city’s recovery (or lack thereof) from the recent blizzard.

Then in another attack-filled move, Kornheiser brought in a WaPo opinion piece in which Jo-Ann Armao also attacks Matthews. “Matthews is even more unlikeable than the mayor,” she attacked.

Read the full attack here.

FNC’s newest contributor Sarah Palin has thoughts on journalism and she voiced them on Oprah’s “Friday Live” show.

Palin believes in a bare bones style of journalism. She emphasized the “who, what, when, where and why” aspects of reporting that she says she learned when she studied journalism. “Just the facts,” Palin told Oprah, “gathering that information and letting the reader decide … ratcheting back to the simplicity of journalism.”

Palin plans to host an occasional program on FNC called “Real American Stories.”

In an unrelated note, Bristol Palin, who appeared alongside her mother, has the same “ing” issue as her mom — she’s not fond of tagging g’s onto her ing-words.

“Hi, how’s it goin’?” Bristol said, greeting Oprah.
The young woman then described a typical day in life:
“Gettin’ Tripp ready, giving him a bath…goin’ off to work, workin’, comin’ home, giving him another bath, gettin’ him ready for bed, feedin’ him.”

Oprah then asked the most dire question of the hour: “Are babies really that dirty?”

Politics Daily columnist Walter Shapiro offers a fascinating take on forcing himself to watch 60 hours of cable news in five days.

It has left him with some troubling results:

1. He has lost interest in leaving his apartment.
2. He’s snapping at his wife.
3. He’s sleep deprived.

An excerpt:

What will haunt me for weeks was [Anderson] Cooper’s tightly produced depiction of the amazing rescue of a 13-year-old girl in a purple shift who had been trapped under concrete, with only one leg protruding, for 18 hours. Afterwards, the girl bravely said in French, “I wasn’t scared. I wasn’t scared of anything.”

In frightening contrast, Larry King built his Wednesday night show around a hitherto underreported and underappreciated aspect of the tragedy — the emotional reactions of celebrities with ties to Haiti. “With us in the studio here in Los Angeles is the lovely Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon,” King proudly announced at the top of the broadcast.

Read the full story here.

We had some technological problems yesterday that I wouldn’t even be able to begin to explain to you, so you might not have seen our news about CNN’s Rebecca Sinderbrand heading to the Big Apple or The Weekly Standard’s/Daily Caller’s Matt Labash’s recent foray into Dear Abby territory.

We apologize for the error, but here they are again.

In Politico’s Patrick Gavin’s latest “Game Changer” feature, he plays a game of popping champagne corks with radio talk show host Bill Press.

Gavin swigs alcohol-free champagne in the process (he doesn’t
realize initially that it’s sans alcohol).
“I’m going to beat his ass,” Press warned.
Gavin shot back, “I’m a pretty good drinker.”

Watch the video below.

The funniest part of Washington Whispers columnist Paul Bedard’s videos is the laughter he sometimes can’t contain while he reports on topics such as “Dueling Mustaches” at Fox Business Network. The network now includes the mustachioed duo of John Stossel and Geraldo Rivera, the U.S. News & World Report gossip columnist reports.

Rivera, who perhaps has the more interesting mustache, has been Stossel’s mentor ever since Rivera brought Stossel to ABC’s “20/20″. Bedard discusses the “great whiskers debate” over which gentleman has the better mustache.