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The Best And Worst Commentators On Jason Collins' Coming Out

When NBA center Jason Collins announced that he's seven-feet, black, and gay, I knew there would be some extremely memorable responses, both pro and dumb. Among the worst of all was ESPN sportscaster Chris Broussard's rant about how Collins is a sinner, according to the bad book, I mean good book. ... More >>

"My Job Is Fucked": NY Republicans Respond To Four More Years Of "Obamunism"

New York Republican Party Chairman Ed Cox started last night's "victory party" in a ballroom at the Westin Grand Central hotel in Midtown by assuring the roughly 300 attendees that he was confident that Mitt Romney would be the country's next president.By the end of the night, Cox looked like someon ... More >>

UPDATE: The Pennsylvania Decision

Fox News has just called Pennsylvania, with 20 electoral votes, to Barack Obama. With eight percent of ballotss counted, Obama so far is up 68-30 on Mitt Romney. In the race to 270, Romney currently leads the electoral college 154-143. Though Pennsylvania was not largely thought of as a battlegroun ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Five Sons Don't Drink, Don't Smoke, And Really Love Their Dad. They're Terrifying

Mitt Romney's five adult sons have been making the cable news rounds leading up to the Republican National Convention -- which has cued TV news hosts to go to great lengths to get the men to say at least one bad thing about their old man.Despite the valiant efforts, both CNN's Piers Morgan and Fox N ... More >>

Fox News "Mole" Joe Muto Claims Manhattan D.A. Raided His Apartment

Fox News "mole" Joe Muto claims (via-Twitter) that his apartment was raided this morning by investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and several of his mole-y gadgets were confiscated. "I just got search warranted at 6:30am by a very polite crew from the DA's office. Took my iPhon ... More >>

Fox News Claims It Identified Gawker Mole; Alleged Mole Denies It. Either Way, Gawker Sucks At Anonymity

The thing about anonymity is that to remain anonymous it helps when people don't know who you are -- a concept that the blogsters over at Gawker apparently have a hard time understanding.Gawker has a bit of a history when it comes to promising anonymity to people who contribute fantastical, often re ... More >>

My Critics Think I'm "Disgusting"!

I learned that by googling myself--as I do every three minutes--and coming across my page on Philosopedia.org. It starts off really nice, mind you: "He dishes the dirt and minces no words. His use of circle endings, double entendres, catty sense of humor, and witty in-jokes brings laughter out of ... More >>

Ron Paul Has Been Abandoned!

Ron Paul is a lonely, lonely man. At least when it comes to the media. Politico reports that NBC, the last network to keep an embedded reporter on the Texas gyno/congressman's campaign trail, has decided to remove the journalist from this post. So nobody is following him. How sad! Now, you could ... More >>

How Many Cops Does It Take to Get a Squirrel Out of a CVS?

A wild squirrel walked into the CVS at 116th Street and Lenox Avenue on Monday morning and then just stayed, pigging out on delicious mixed nuts for four days, reports DNA Info. This is not only notable because there's video, but also because the squirrel entranced many a staffer and even random on ... More >>

Four Loko Is Back... With a New Can!; Vodka Marketing Is Out of Control

​If you thought you'd heard the last of Four Loko, were you ever wrong. After removing caffeine from the recipe last year, Four Loko's makers have agreed to change the label to read, "This can has as much alcohol as 4 regular (12 oz. 5 percent alc/vol) beers." That should do the trick. [FOX Ne ... More >>

Jay Shells, Etiquette Sign Artist, Says He Wanted to Make One Saying 'Fox News Lies' (on Fox News)

Via our friends at Animal NY, here's a rather hilarious, slightly awkward video of Jay Shells, the artist behind the "Metropolitan Etiquette Authority" signs peppering the streets of NYC with messages like "Pull Up Your Pants" and "Clean Up After Your Horse." He recently went on Fox News to talk ab ... More >>

Andover's Rap Crew Was Not Invited to the Obama Hip-Hop Barbecue

​In case you missed it, President Obama threw a "hip-hop barbecue" yesterday for his birthday, which somehow failed to create jobs. Or so shrieks this headline from Fox Nation, Fox News' aggregation organ. Non-hip-hop artists Stevie Wonder and Herbie Hancock performed while "Rome burned" (look ... More >>

Anonymous Members Raided by FBI; Hacker Group Claims to Have News Corp. Emails

​A day after the online sect LulzSecurity pulled their own hack on Rupert Murdoch, members of the most the widely-known hacking collective Anonymous, from which LulzSec spun off, have been raided by the FBI. (There doesn't seem to be a direct connection other than the media attention currently ... More >>

Jon Stewart Says His Fox News Bias Argument With Chris Wallace Was Edited All Wrong

"I suggest you look at the unedited version online, where my emotional states don't seem to change so arbitrarily," said Jon Stewart on The Daily Show last night, his first show since exclaiming, "You're insane!" at Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday. Stewart, of course, said more about the state ... More >>

Dick Cheney Gives "High Marks" to Obama

​Dick Cheney appeared on "Fox News Sunday" this morning and somewhat lavishly praised President Obama, and then the Fox News studio spontaneously burst into flames. "You've got to give him a lot of credit for making the decision to have SEAL Team 6 conduct the raid that got bin Laden," Cheney said ... More >>

Now Osama Bin Laden 'Shoved' Wife, Acted 'Cowardly'

​The ever-changing account of what happened when U.S. forces found and killed Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan has been updated once again. This time, an unnamed "senior U.S. official," who presumably was not there that fateful night and doesn't necessarily know more than the rest of hi ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Is Dead: Reports From Ground Zero This Morning [UPDATED]

Photos by Steven Thrasher​It was quiet and foggy at Ground Zero this morning -- the first New York had woken up to knowing Osama Bin Laden was dead -- but not entirely silent. By 5:30 a.m., the impromptu all night party was still going on in pockets, most noticeably in front of the 9/11 Memori ... More >>

Glenn Beck to Quit Fox News Show; New York Times Paywall 'Harder' For Poor People

​Though his contract is not up until December, early 2011 has seen its share of speculation about the fate of Glenn Beck and his hugely successful Fox News show. Both Beck's camp, namely his company Mercury Radio Arts, and the Fox News side have flexed in the press to prove that neither really ... More >>

Let's All Lay Off the Dog Food, Already.

Hands off, people.​Why is everyone eating dog food these days? A pair of Brooklyn women chowed down on dog chow for a month to promote their people-grade pet food. And an Ohio woman went on a dog-food diet to protest animal cruelty. Now, a University of Virginia student has been rushed to the ... More >>

Will Rupert Murdoch's Children Use the Judith Regan Scandal Against Fox News' Roger Ailes?

​Roger Ailes could have a big mess on his hands based on court documents made available today, which allege that the Fox News chairman encouraged a former employee to mislead federal investigators. The exclusive New York Times report quotes court documents indicating a taped phone call exists, ... More >>

Restaurants Love a Monday Valentine's Day; Pepsi to Launch Skinny Can to 'Honor' Women

​McDonald's is getting its chipotle on with a new Chipotle BBQ Bacon Angus burger priced at $3.99 and available through March 31. [Nation's Restaurant News] Restaurants are happy that Valentine's Day is on a Monday night because Mondays are usually slow for business. [Nation's Restaurant News ... More >>

Digitally Inclined Hookers Choose Facebook

​Just because you're a prostitute doesn't mean you're on Facebook, and just because you're on Facebook doesn't mean you're a prostitute (it doesn't!), but there does seem to be a link between the two, at least according to a sociology professor at Columbia. Sudhir Venkatesh says that 25 percen ... More >>

Keith Olbermann's Future: What Will It Be?

​Fiery Keith Olbermann is no longer at MSNBC, as you know, prompting a hailstorm of speculation about what he might end up doing, when he's contractually allowed to relocate. One report said he might consult and/or appear on an Aaron Sorkin show for HBO about cable news, which is interesting, ... More >>

Sarah Palin Schools Sean Hannity, Liberals on "Blood Libel": It's Been 'Used For Eons'

Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Sarah Palin's voice was shaky as she appeared with an ally, Sean Hannity, on Fox News Monday night to address her own prolonged victimhood, not at the hands of the Arizona shooter Jared Loughner, but everyone else not on the Fox News payroll. "Governor, I ... More >>

NYPD Would Like to Remind You That You're Still in Danger

​The NYPD issued a threat assessment yesterday, reminding New York authorities that the city is still a "highly attractive" target for "radical jihadists" within the United States after FBI agents arrested a Virginia man accused of plotting to bomb D.C. Metro subway stations. Constant vigilance!

Making Fun of Hipsters Now More Unfunny Than Ever (Video)

​Even using the word "hipster" is a slight in and of itself, in some regard: it shows the need to pigeonhole a group of people who may have very little in common under one generally misanthropic label. That obviously hasn't stopped anyone -- certainly not us -- from using it, but the "making f ... More >>

MediaFail: Like Digg, But for Compulsive Media Critics

​Brian Stelter at Media Decoder recently took a look at a new site called MediaFail, which is kind of like FAILBLOG (part of the seemingly amorphous I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER intellectual think-tank empire, that involves the word "FAIL" being posted over pictures of humanity "failing" in various, ... More >>

Stephen Colbert Solves Australia's Sperm Shortage with a Little Something He Cooked Up at the Outback Steakhouse

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cAustralian Sperm Shortagewww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorFox News There's something about a blooming onion that gets Stephen Colbert's motor running, which is lucky for those in need of baby batter Down Under. The faux pu ... More >>

Colbert Report: Republicans Suggest Bartering Chickens for Health Care

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Stephen Colbert Drops Some Knowledge on Teens Busted for Rapping at the Golden Arches Drive-Thru

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Sarah Palin's Special Not a Big Winner for Fox News, but Greta's Got Her Back

Fox News​Sarah Palin's celebrity and a week of free publicity over her planned use of canned interviews and her warlike political rhetoric didn't deliver enough viewers for her Fox News special to match the ratings of the Greta van Susteren show in the same timeslot. "Real American Stories" go ... More >>

LL Cool J Is Displeased About This Whole "Allegedly Appearing On Sarah Palin's Show" Thing

​Sarah Palin's new Fox News talk show starts Thursday. LL Cool J has been widely reported to be among her guests. (Toby Keith, too, who makes a hell of a lot more sense.) Except... maybe not? So far LL has not elaborated other than re-Tweeting this missive to everyone who asks, but it should b ... More >>

Whoops! Toby Keith Joins LL Cool J As A Totally Unwitting Participant On Sarah Palin's Fox News Show

​So, to recap: among those surprised by the announcement that LL Cool J would be among the inaugural guests on Sarah Palin's new Fox News talk show, Real American Stories, was LL Cool J himself, who proceeded to tweet angrily that the interview Fox was using to promote Palin's show dated back ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch: Won't Die Until WSJ Quenches Thirst for Sulzberger Milkshake with $100K Coffee

​ Good Media Magnate Monday Morning! screams New York's website with media reporter Gabriel Sherman's deliriously fun cover story of an old, cranky, combative, elbows-out Rupert Murdoch who basically wants to destroy the New York Times with his most recent purchase, the Wall Street Journal, be ... More >>

Brit Hume Tells Tiger Woods To Accept Christ

​I hate to even link to the Fox News Channel, so please don't play the attached video! Let me just tell you what happens on it, OK? Brit Hume, formerly a serious newsman, gives advice to Tiger Woods, saying that the fallen athlete's Buddhism doesn't really have the power of forgiveness and r ... More >>

Week in Review: And All the While, My Peers Dance and Snort Cheap Coke and Photograph Each Other for the Hundreth Time

This is why this man gets work with FOX News. Fucked Up photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week everybody dressed like some version of themselves from 15 years ago--or just said fuck it and went all in and pretended to be a giant bag of cocaine--we killed worthless punk nostalgia dead at that Vic ... More >>

Swine Flu Vaccine PANIC: Do We Have Enough, and Will It Kill Us?

Swine flu vaccines will be in New York schools next week -- unless they run out: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius admits there's not enough to go around at present. "Demand is ahead of the yield," she says; Senator Joe Lieberman says there are 30 million doses available, as oppo ... More >>

Rightbloggers Mourn Michael Jackson's Death -- As Good News for Obama, Ahmadinejad

It was no surprise to most of us when the death of Michael Jackson on Thursday took over the news, both mainstream and citizen varieties, and even the internet. Americans are suckers for celebrities, and the unexpected demise of one of the world's most famous entertainers was bound to obsess us. ... More >>

Week in Review: We Got Arrested at Your Benefit Show

In the short week that we outsourced absolutely nothing to India (not even the phoner we didn't do with the guy who plays trumpet for Cake), we got even less cosmopolitan and global when Cannes correspondent J. Hoberman came back and showed up at the office like the rest of us. Except, unlike him, w ... More >>

Man Beaten in Village, Critically Injured (Updated)

Our intrepid legman and Voice food critic Robert Sietsema writes to tell us, "There's a smear of bright red blood on the pavement, a few blood-soaked rags, some police tape connected to trash cans, and a Channel 7 Eyewitness News truck at the corner of West 10th and 7th Avenue South." From this morn ... More >>

Is Bill O'Reilly Really the New Rape Victims Support Champion?

Chris McCann Fox News motormouth Bill O'Reilly will appear at a benefit for It Happened to Alexa, a rape victims' support foundation, and some observers feel that, based on his previous on-air remarks about rape, this is akin to having Chris Brown be the spokesperson for Valentine's Day. Read and d ... More >>

Zogby Poll Says Internet, Fox "Most Trusted"; Hoax Suspected

Barnes, Kristol, Marva Call It For McCain

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Fox News Porn

Evil Empire Strikes Back

A rap-nostalgia bonanza feels like a rock show and sounds like a resurrection

Pledge Your Saturday Night to Al Gore

Nearly 100,000 promise to see 'An Inconvenient Truth'

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We Want to Get Sued Like Al Franken (but Fox Keeps Ignoring Us)!

Winter Solstice Tributes

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