American Thinker:
It turns out that lots of AT readers and I despise a number of lefty TV news readers for excellent reasons beyond their bias. Mike and Chris Wallace, Diane Sawyer, Chris Cuomo, Katie Couric, and others are exposed for being miserable human beings in the new memoir by former 60 Minutes and ABC News producer Ira Rosen, titled, Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes. Mary Kay Linge, writing in the New York Post, dishes a lot of gossip taken from the book, which is due out on February 16.
From what she excerpts, the biggest a-hole sounds like Mike Wallace, but that may be a function of the years author Ira Rosen spent working as a producer at 60 Minutes. Here are some highlights, but if your taste runs to reveling in evidence that your disgust at certain TV figures is abundantly justified, read the whole thing. One of the least acceptable but common abuses of the rich and famous media divas is their tendency to indulge in tantrums toward their less powerful underlings. After a guest unexpectedly cancelled a pending interview with the senior Wallace, Rosen recounts that Wallace flew into a rage while being driven in.
“Mike went crazy,” Rosen writes, grabbing fistfuls of documents from Maraynes’ [another 60 Minutes producer] briefcase and hurling them into his face as he struggled to keep the vehicle on the road. more
h/t Not at all confused.
And who is surprised?
But Dan Rather was a brave, courageous newscaster
I would rather read the service manual for the 1996 Dodge Neon.
Mike just needed another trip to Epstein’s island.
Al, that Dodge Neon had heated seats, a continuously variable transmission, and LCD digital display.
Please don’t disrespect…
Maybe 30 or 40 years ago this book would have been a blockbuster tell-all that knocked media stars off their pedestals. However, now this is a huge yawn. We know they’re sh!t and don’t need confirmation of it.
Said she, who worked with several of these azzholes for far too long.
“I tuned him out,” his colleague explained wearily. “If you are going to listen to everything he says, you will go crazy, so I figured out a way to go into a cone of silence.”
Kind of like marriage.
Mike Wallace, huh?
Chris is proof that a turd falls due south of the anus.
@LocoBlancoSaltine — What percentage of ’96 Neons are still on the road today?
I just wanted to say, I attended a party this evening and the host insisted upon watching the Half-Time extravaganza.
With it’s “Black National Anthem” promoting racial harmony, the multitude of cut-out attendees, the diversity of the entire half-time show performers with their jock strap masks and message of unity, I declare that POTEMKIN BOWL 1 was a complete success!!!!
Television is raw sewage… I have not had it for a long, long time and every time I watch it, I know why.
Al, how long does it take to drive 120,000 miles?
Uncle Al, axe your boy:
https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog
Not quite my expertise.
Now tequila and PLC/automation questions I’m your boy…
No wonder Chris Wallace is such a charmer. *eye Roll*
Damn MJ, where you been? I got the FUNK fever and have been posting classic Lakeside and Whispers jams….lately been bumpin ZAPP and Roger.
Figure I’ll burn the fever out by….like…April?
In the meantime….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwXlTqjyf54
Was that… Ben carson at :57???
MJA, please understand Aaron had an out of body AOC experience earlier tonite…
Fucker is lucky to be alive…Jesus avatar or not
Oh I’m fine…..just….sorta’ have this perpetual stone cold funk groove in my head. Like having your own soundtrack.
Currently in slow down mood before bed and immediately cued this up in my mental jukebox…now you can all enjoy it to.
The DRAMATICS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsRKQ9hcTi8
Do you know who my Petey B thinks is the biggest asshole in real life? My unbleached elastic starfish!
These people are all despicable assholes. The particular details may vary from person-to-person, but the practical effect in the same in all cases. And we’ve already known that for quite some time now…
I miss Krauthammer
Aaron, about six months if you’re the only driver, pace your amphetamine intake, have a fanny pack full of benjamins, and have a firm foam rubber donut pillow.
Old SNL Andy Rooney spoof, via Joe Piscopo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKvHH07IUH8
Well… well… it’s not easy being better than us!
Well, neons are only good for around 120 thousand miles….
But I tell ya’ Al, if you DIDN’T pace your amphetamine intake, I bet you could drive that 120K a whole lot faster than in 6 months.
Arrogant, entitled, ingorant Assholes.
Some go into politics. The better looking ones go into the Bought & Paid For, Knee-Pad Media!!
“New tell-all book by network TV news producer exposes disgusting private behavior of many lefty ‘talented TV a–holes’
LMAO! Someone wrote a book telling us all the liars, etc., in the news media? No one needs to read a book telling us what we already know. I have found that these “tell all” books tell us nothing at all other than you were stupid to buy it in the first place. /just saying
Four of the St Martin’s Press authors joined the petition against a Trump staffer ever being allowed to publish. That’s close enough to say no thanks. Broad brushes sweep in two directions.