Soupy Sales:

I’m not a mainstream media basher. By and large, I have great respect for the media. But I do have a pet peeve with some in the media, particularly columnists, who, enamored of a story, fail to get all the facts. Take a trivial, but evocative example appearing in newspapers all across the country today. In Newsday, Verna Gay has a column about Soupy Sales, the comedian who passed away yesterday. (I’m...

What’s the Obama administration’s problem with Fox? asks Joe Klein:

Life imitates and irritates art as leading musicians join a Freedom of Information suit to discover how loud rock was used as an instrument of torture against Guantanamo detainees. Members of REM, Pearl Jam and Nine Inch Nails want to know details of when and how their work was employed to break down terror suspects, although the CIA insists that the sounds were “not for punitive purposes–and at...

Pie-throwing TV Golden Age comedian Soupy Sales has died at 83 — one more tidbit of news that signifies an end of an era for Baby Boomers but also the end of a personal story about an entertainer who had a rare gift: he did a show ostensibly aimed at kids that was loved and adored by many teens, college age kids and adults. And his adult fans included some of the biggest movers and shakers of show biz...

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Just watch this video of 4 Year-Old hip hop dancer Miles Brown on the Ellen Show: Of course hip hop music is popular with ALL ages. Here’s a senior choir performing a medley of hip-hop:

I am not saying this is that big of a  deal, the script said Al Sharpton and I can easily see where when you are used to reading the words on the page you can make a mistake. We’re all human and I’ve certainly been looking at a friend and for no reason in particular called them by the wrong name. But imagine if this happened on Fox, how would the left have reacted ?

That’s the headline for an article in today’s Columbus Dispatch. I write about it, and the general objectification of women, in a piece called Boo-ring on my blog.

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The production of a Hollywood film on the romance between Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, and Lady Edwina Mountbatten, wife of the last British viceroy of India, has been temporarily halted. The Indian government wants an assurance that the movie, Indian Summer, starring Cate Blanchett and Hugh Grant, would not contain physically intimate scenes. (Nehru’s name was also romantically...

The silly fabricated spat between the Obama Administration and FOX News is just that. For many years, most Americans have understood that Fox was the Republican mouthpiece. The Democrats need to wrestle complete control over NBC, CBS or ABC news and move on with their own dedicated mouthpiece. Some may argue that either MSNBC or PBS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the DNC, but with each having about 1 or...

At my moving away party, when I left NYC after 28 years to come live in Middle Georgia, my partner and I did a rousing rendition of the “Green Acres” theme song. (I sang Eva/Lisa’s part.) Now it’s my ringtone. Vic Mizzy, the man who wrote it — he also wrote the ‘Addams Family’ theme song — died Saturday at his home in Bel-Air. The LATimes: For his theme song,...

Couldn’t get it out of my head today, so here it is:

It came as no surprise to me when I read a recent article “Saudi jailed for ‘bragging’ about sex”. You see, like an average man (or MCP) I, too, never lose an opportunity to brag…well, about everything!!! So, when I landed in Jeddah in the late-1970s to take up my journalistic assignment, my friends warned me to be very, very careful about two subjects — drinks and women...

As Joe Windish noted this morning, Shepherd Fairey, the artist responsible for the “HOPE” portrait of President Obama, has admitted to tampering with and manufacturing evidence in a lawsuit related to the portrait. The Associated Press claims that Mr. Fairey owes them compensation, since the portrait was based on an AP photo of Obama. I’m curious to know whether Obama will get a question about...

Via Romenesko: “In an attempt to conceal my mistake, I submitted false images and deleted other images,” says the artist, who has been involved in countersuits with the AP. “I take full responsibility for my actions, which were mine alone.” NYTimes: Mr. Fairey told The A.P. — and his own lawyers — that he used a shot from an event about Darfur at the National Press Club in Washington...

If you were a fan of Luis Miguel Rocha’s best-seller The Last Pope, here’s the good news and the bad news about his latest thriller, The Holy Bullet: THE GOOD NEWS It’s a fast-paced amusement park ride for the mind — fast-paced with an intricate plot. It’s another great book from the Portugal-born Rocha. THE BAD NEWS: It’s a book you won’t want to put down. You’ll...

Fats Waller was one of the greatest jazz performers and showmen of the early-mid 20th century. Here he is performing his song “This Joint Is Jumpin” And one of his most delightful songs: “Your Feets Too Big”: Even though he died of double-pneumonia while on a train trip in 1943, he left a substantial recorded legacy that we can still enjoy.

Here are two different views from cartoonists on Rush Limbaugh, the NFL and the Rams: John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune Bill Schorr, Cagle Cartoons These cartoons are copyrighted and licensed to run on TMV. Unauthorized reproduction prohibited. All rights reserved.

For anyone who is, like me, a Monty Python fan, this is a DVR alert. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the legendary group and over on the Independent Film Channel they will be airing a 6 part documentary which will offer a look at the best of the best and the story behind the story. It starts this Sunday the 18th and continues all week. So get those DVR’s set and put the Spam on the stove ! Until...

GENIE ASKS UNCLE SAM: ‘WILL IT BE A MILITARY BASE, A COCA BASE OR A DATA BASE?’ How do Colombians feel about the seven military bases the United States intends to build on their nation’s land? According to this off-color tongue-in-cheek column by Colombian writer and art professor Lucas Ospina, it’s alright with him – with one important proviso. For Colombia’s Semana newspaper...

I would like to invite all writers, editors, commentators and readers to make some major predictions for the future that they believe will transpire by or around certain future dates. I ran this idea by Joe Gandelman last week who told me to run with it. These “revelations” can concern science, technology, environment, wars and militaries, climate change, healthcare, religion, politics, economics, business,...

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