Liz Lemon favors her right side. That’s because a faint scar runs across Tina Fey’s left cheek, the result of a violent cutting attack by a stranger when Fey was five. Her husband says, “It was in, like, the front yard of her house, and somebody who just came up, and she just thought somebody marked her with a pen.” You can hardly see the scar in person. But I agree with Richmond that it makes Fey more lovely, like a hint of Marlene Dietrich noir glamour in a Preston Sturges heroine.

Well, damn. Now we just love her more.

The episode's main storyline revolved around the ongoing feud between Tracy Jordan and Jenna Maroney over who has it worse, women or black people. This was largely a contrivance for Oprah's helpful advice — highlighted by Fey's reveal of Oprah's latest favorite things (sweater capes!). The rest of the episode more than made up for the gimmick, especially when Kenneth the Page impressed Jack Donaghy by being overly willing to strangle himself with his own belt to save an elevator full of people.

Hopefully the show won't have to work as hard to squeeze in forthcoming spots from Jennifer Aniston and Steve Martin. As long as we get moments like Princess Leia avoiding her American duty by confessing to her ability to read minds, we'll follow you forever, Tina.

Last week's premiere shifted all the puzzle pieces from last season back into a more familiar arrangement. In tonight's episode things are back where they should be, including Jack Donaghy knowing how to put down his inferiors as only he knows how to do.

While our favorite part of 30 Rock is the ensemble cast that creates porn video games and frustrates Liz Lemon, new viewers may be more interested in the Fey-Baldwin dynamic. And that's what we really love about the show: a boss and employee that actually enjoy working together and insulting each other...together.

In tonight's episode, Oprah plays herself running into Liz Lemon on a plane. Two more clips, including a great Tina-Alec scene, follow.

• Tina Fey was "frosty" and "awkward" with John McCain on the Saturday Night Live set. Which is weird because McCain has been so polished and friendly in all his other televised appearances. [Scoop]
• Barack Obama has sewn up the crucial Tyra Banks endorsement. Presumably, the talk-show host waited until the last minute to keep us all in suspense. [Us]
• A "snarling" Diane Sawyer is asking her gang, the Good Morning Americas, why Barbara Walters and her posse of simps at The View are moving in on GMA's territory. Page Six is forecasting a bloody turf war. [P6]
• Unsurprisingly, Shannen Doherty is not too concerned with the future of print media or of the modeling skanks at Radar's party. [P6]
• Peaches Geldof "forgot" to pay for something before removing it from a store. For the fourth time. The latest shoplifting accident was at a clothing boutique in East London. [Sun]
• While trying to reconcile with ex-husband Kevin Federline, Britney Spears is communicating with her terrible paparazzo ex, from her crazy days. "Adnan searches the Internet for photos of her and then calls and comments on her outfits and her hair, and she loves it." [National Enquirer]
• Joaquin Phoenix is acting weird. Drunk/high weird? Unclear. [P6]
• Mickey Rourke was going to kill this guy who raped his friend, but was stopped by a priest. No further details are available at this time, or probably ever. [Sun]

Highlights above, full video here.

And next week is the big Oprah Jones appearance, which ought to attract a small legion of moms, sitting tentatively on the edge of the couch, a spare Kleenex tucked in their sleeves, their brows furrowed a bit by the confusing Tracy Morgan. But who cares if they like it, as longs as they watches it. We'll have to wait til next week to see what happens, obviously, but in the meantime, below is a fun Halloween webisode, featuring Sexy Cerie!

The early reviews are already in, with mindless Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley bizarrely noting the show's "satire hews so closely to the original that it is almost mimicry" as part of her "rave." WaPo critic Tom Shales is particularly high on next week's Oprah episode. Though Shales notes that he prefers Fey's Palin to the dour Liz Lemon character, both think Fey's popular Palin impression will give 30 Rock a boost. We want to believe, but we have our doubts.

From its inception Tina Fey's show was destined to be a niche comedy that attracted SNL fans who enjoyed the insider-y view of NBC. For this third season, the network's promotional efforts have amped up. NBC is banking on the idea that Fey's Palin portrayal on a few highly rated SNLs and exposure in a modest hit film with a similar plotline in Baby Mama have given the show the exposure it needs to succeed in the high-profile post-Office timeslot.

Given that the stunt casting for this episode is Will & Grace shrillster Megan Mullally, we have to question this approach. It's hard to see how featuring Oprah as herself is going to create buzz for the show — Oprah's viewership doesn't care if she's on a comedy show about the backstage life of a comedy show past whatever episode she's on. Comedians Jerry Seinfeld and Al Gore didn't improve viewership, and a slighter higher caliber of stunt casting won't help matters.

The ongoing storyline this season will find Liz Lemon bringing a new baby boy or girl into her busy life, and it's a perplexing creative move. Artistically this didn't work out so great in the horrific Baby Mama, so consider us skeptical that it will add more viewers. And while Fey's Palin impersonation on Saturday Night Live was popular, it may not have won her friends in half the country.

That's not the say the show should have just stuck to what it was doing and hoped the audience caught on. Fox's Arrested Development died waiting for that to happen.

In the end, NBC's best way to make 30 Rock a hot ratings property may be through new media, not old. Making viewer-friendly decisions like making the premiere available on the web before tonight was a savvy move, and the show should punt DVD sales for awhile and promote its free presence on the popular Hulu service. We can't think of better advertising for 30 Rock than the show itself.

1. Arianna Huffington: Her magical celebrity safe space blog site went from a punchline to a serious force in election coverage, thanks in large part to a couple primary season scoops by "citizen journalist" Mayhill Fowler. Their traffic is way, way, way up, and they're pushing the crazy notion that someone might want to buy the Huffington Post. The traffic will plummet come November 5, but Arianna's still sitting pretty promising further expansion.

2. Tina Fey: She's a superstar! Again! Or maybe for the first time? Who knows! She was already by just about every objective measure a huge success, as head writer of SNL with a hit pre-meltdown Lindsay Lohan comedy hit film and a Thursday night NBC sitcom (though some of us found her SNL tenure to be atrocious, her Mean Girls to be a soft retread of Heathers, and her well-praised sitcom to be mostly a lighter, wackier Larry Sanders elevated by two fantastic non-Fey performers), but somehow the conventional wisdom has become that the selection by John McCain of a woman who kinda looks like Fey as his Vice Presidential nominee was the best thing to happen to Fey since ever. She got a book deal and lots of promotion for the new season of 30 Rock, which will hopefully do a little better in the ratings this year (though who knows—people really do hate New York). And speaking of:

3. Lorne Michaels: Saturday Night Live seems better now that it has been since the early '90s (to us, of course), though really not that great. Still, Lorne's never-ending sketch show became suddenly relevant again this year with cable news networks endlessly replaying their politically themed sketches. 2004 was definitely the Daily Show election. Jon (and Stephen) are still great and still influential, but they're old. SNL's wackier, less satirical parodying has always been more palatable to balance-obsessed cable news folks and a sharply divided citizenry. And honestly, the OK debate sketches did completely lock in the overarching media narratives of each debate, and everyone now assumes that "I can see Russia from my house" is something Sarah Palin actually literally said.

4. Rachel Maddow: Boy, it's been a good season for NBC, right? Fox is in the doldrums, having never liked McCain to begin with and now facing a Republican loss. CNN is just... boring. We all love Anderson Cooper way more when there's not an election going on. So MSNBC wins! But the big winner is Rachel Maddow, the pundit-turned-host, who's getting fantastic ratings, especially for a liberal. Because she's not as abrasive as Keith Olbermann, and not as crazy as Chris Matthews; she's the new palatable reasonable liberal of the Obama era. Hooray!

5. Nate Silver: The Baseball Prospectus guy built his poll analyzing website from a Kos diary to a serious challenger to the entrenched Real Clear Politics mainstay in a matter of months, and he did it by being rational and scientific while remaining unapologetically liberal (the new, calm liberals are a big force this year). If his model predicts the results even somewhat accurately, expect a book and regular cable appearances for years to come. Which is not such a bad thing, because he's likable.

Honorable Mention: MSNBC political analyst Chuck Todd, crazy Obama-loving gay conservative catholic blogger Andrew Sullivan, and Senator Hillary Clinton, who won over a lot of Americans and Media People who always, always hated her, intensely, by being the establishment white person candidate.

• Anderson Cooper's great-great-grandfather, Cornelius Vanderbilt, held as a slave cousin now owns the plantation where Michelle Obama's great-great-grandfather, Jim Robinson once worked. Cooper's cousin has invited Obama to visit her ancestor's grave. (CORRECTION: CNN said Obama's ancestor did not work for Vanderbilt. [R&M]
• Apparently trusting her awful, awful romantic instincts, Jennifer Aniston decided to resume hooking up with John Mayer, on both coasts. And apparently in an airplane. [National Enquirer]
• Following his instincts to sacrifice even a hot, gainfully-employed Italian boyfriend to his perpetual bonfire of narcissistic drama, Marc Jacobs ogled his rentboy ex Jason Preston, who has a new man. Or at least that what's the Post's tipster wants us to believe. [P6]
• Eight months after rehab for, uh, depression, Kirsten Dunst was photographed trashed in a Los Angeles bar called the "Rubbish Bin." She should have asked Tom Arnold for a good sponsor when she had the chance! [Sun]
• Lauren Bush, niece of George W., on Obama: "He seems like a strong leader." In W magazine, no less. [P6]
• Tina Fey said she won't keep impersonating Sarah Palin if John McCain wins the election. In that case, "I'm done... And by 'I'm done' I mean I'm leaving Earth." [Daily News]
• Gerard Depardieu's 37-year-old son died suddenly of pneumonia while filming a movie in Romania. [Mail]

This graph can be interpreted as a.) her Google trends, or b.) all of America getting it up for Tina.

I tell him about the SoyJoy deal. He’s troubled; he hadn’t realized that was an integration. (He also hadn’t realized it was a real brand.) But it’s the American Express podbusters that really set him off. “My wife and I get very angry. We invest in the reality of the show! And this is one of the ways they’re picking apart the idea of the narrative, keeping you from knowing if it’s a show or not.”

"...[TV executives] want to take the story apart so they can stuff it with as much revenue as they can. And ultimately what you get is a zombie, a stuffed thing—a non-show.”

...Television is a mass art, requiring compromise, pragmatism, he knows—but the line creators draw should not be about “How coolly can I do this? The most artful can be the most unethical.”

Whedon has a point, particularly when he says, elsewhere in the article, that shows like 30 Rock can only be clever about product placement — cheekily and gently mocking it — once or twice before the joke becomes stale and they have to resort to more cheesy, straight-up placements. Eventually, viewers will feel like the show is stooping. But that's easy for Whedon to say — he already has his fame and fortune. 30 Rock is still fighting for survival and most people will allow it just a little bit of selling out. They'd expect no less of Liz Lemon, in fact!

• Madonna and Alex Rodriguez had a big secret dinner at Dos Caminos Third Avenue in New York. They arrived half an hour apart, sat in the back at a quiet, "alcove-like" table and left by separate exits. Then they denied the Mexican food rendezvous to the press, since Rodriguez's soon-to-be-ex-wife has the crazy idea Madonna sneaks around with A-Rod . But Us Weekly and Page Six each has a source who saw the dinner, so it's basically confirmed.
• The other big rumor about Madonna is that she isn't eating anything at all, ever, with anyone and that her skeleton is terrifying the innocent people of Gotham. [Sun]
• It wouldn't have been a proper farewell to Steve Dunleavy if Geraldo hadn't spilled a martini on Cindy Adams' handbag at some point in the evening. [Post, bottom item]
• Instead of taking meetings with book publishers he want to advance her $6 million, Tina Fey is personally calling celebrities to beg them to do 30 Rock cameos. Salma Hayek is the latest and she's signed on for two episodes. It's not clear if she forced Fey to do her Palin impression as part of the negotiations, but she totally should have. [P6]
• Natalie Portman sold her $6.5 million West Village condo because she is "valuing her privacy more and more."
• Jennifer Aniston complained to the press that the press falsely accused her of using her relationships to get more press. This got her more press, although not as much as a celebrity relationship would. Still: Excellent flackery. [Hollyscoop]

A source said that there is no proposal and that Fey, who has made two return appearances on SNL to satirize Palin, has been too busy to meet with publishers face to face.

It's also worth noting that 30 Rock, where Fey is an executive producer and cast member, is no doubt gearing up for its season premiere at the end of October. So she is, indeed, truly busy. (And also: Since when do you need a face-to-face to buy the woman's book? Not familiar with her?)

But Fey would be well-advised to move before the country gets over its curious fascination with Palin.

THE BEST

30 Rock Takes the Evening
With wins for writing, Tim Conway's guest starring role (Carrie Fisher should have won too), Alec Baldwin's and Tina Fey's performances, and Best Comedy, the under-watched NBC sitcom was well recognized for being the most delightful and hilarious show on television. Tina Fey got a nice long plug in about the very many ways in which the show can be watched (Hulu.com, iTunes, Verizon phones, actual TV sometimes) and hopefully, unlike last year, all of these wins will drive people toward it. Though, part of me doubts it because the show is just too weird and too clever for some folks. No condescension meant there, just... you know. Different strokes for different folks.

Ricky Gervais, Steve Carell, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert Bring the Funny
The five reality show host um... hosts weren't really doing their job, so it was up to these four men to make us chortle. (Though Conan O'Brien, Amy Poehler, and Fey were also amusing). The prune joke was wonderful, and the Gervais/Carell stand-off was a hoot (if a bit too drawn out). Oh, and Steve Martin's Tommy Smuthers introduction was pretty wonderful too.

Tony Shaloub and Boston Legal Won Nothing
Yay! Finally!

Bryan Cranston's Big Upset
A longtime also-ran for Malcom in the Middle, Cranston scored big last night for his work on Breaking Bad, a small half hour long AMC drama about a dying high school science teacher who decides to start making meth in order to leave his family with some money. The award was supposed to go to Hugh Laurie or Jon Hamm, and the latter seemed surprised in a genuinely kind and excited way when Cranston's name was read. Breaking Bad has been a critical success, so here's hoping that people will actually tune in now that its star has been fabulously be-awarded.

Paul Giamatti's Acceptance Speech Oops
"I'd like to thank my wife. Not my actual wife! My fake wife. Laura. Laura Linney." Shot of his actual wife manager cringing. Where was his "actual wife"?

THE WORST

5 Reality Hosts Do Not Equal One Ellen or Conan
The five hosts—Tom Bergeron, Howie Mandel, Heidi Klum, Ryan Seacrest, and Jeff Probst (some sort of seminar lineup at the Learning Annex in Hades)—were so terrifically awful that you wanted the damn accountants to come back out and talk again. From the opening bit in which they had "nothing" planned to those awful "look! old TV show sets" bits to the Heidi Klum "this is drama" feinting thing, it was just so embarrassingly unfunny and wrong that you had to shake your head and wonder why they didn't just fill a dump truck up with money and drive it to Ellen DeGeneres' house. The whole thing was rescued only a little bit by Jimmy Kimmel's reality show competition vote off motif joke when it came time to name the winner of the Emmys' first ever reality show host award (for which all five hosts were nominated). Probst won. Meh.

"They Used Words —"
That dude who won for writing John Adams totally got cut off while trying to make a reasonable political point about old-timey politicians' knack for rhetoric that was full of substance and power. Ah well. At least they didn't cut off the hosts for making a fucking Seinfeld joke. (And, hey!, at least Laura Linney's pointed "community organizers" line got through.)

Josh Groban's TV Cabaret Hour
Josh Groban came out and wasted approximately 103 minutes of our time by singing the theme songs to many, many television shows. You can watch it here if you dare. It's really spectacularly weird and off-putting. Like Josh Groban himself!

The Wire Wins Nothing
Not even the lousy writing award which was, well, all the terrific and now-over HBO crime drama was nominated for.

The 'In Memoriam' Section Fails to Honor the Death of Entourage
I'd totally "Hi-Yo!" that one except that Jeremy Piven won yet again for doing the same yelling and swearing shtick he's been doing for four or five (who knows) seasons. Blahhh.

In An Effort to Stay Current, the Academy Gives Inexplicable Air Time to Lauren Conrad
Aside from her presenting duties, the Hills star got a whole chunk of time by herself to talk about the Emmy escort ladies dresses that she "designed." Somewhere Don Rickles made a joke about a bottle of chloroform and the backseat of a 1957 DeSoto sedan.

The Cast of Desperate Housewives
They just sincerely piss me off.

Mary Tyler Moore's Missing Sleeves
I know. It's terrible. But now I've said it. Um, dag.

So that's that. What did you like, what did you hate? Any winners you were thrilled about? Any that made you miserable (other than all of them)? Oh, and NB: They were the lowest-rated Emmys in history. Yikes! Of and if you're too busy to read all this, just click here for a really quick recap of all the awkward moments.

• So now Demi Moore is dating Michael Phelps? After all of Ashton's hard work making "Punk'd" she just trades him in for a younger model? [P6]
• Adorable Tina Fey wins three Emmys, loses her purse. [AP]
• Lindsay Lohan is supposedly buying a condo in the Dakota. [Daily Star]
• Martha Stewart fired her hairdresser over excess markup on blonde hair dye. Let that be a lesson to all you stylists looking to make a fast buck on dye! [P6]
• Miley Cyrus can't wait to be done with Hannah Montana, supposedly. [TMZ]
• Scarlett Johansson slowly pissing off everyone on the Lower East Side, starting with this bouncer. [P6]
• Dolly Parton leaps from the audience at the "9 to 5" musical to keep everyone entertained during technical difficulties. Matt Drudge was touched by her showmanship. [KTLA via Drudge]
• Mariah Carey likes to have the bathroom all to herself, thank you very much. [P6, second item]
• Kate Moss may have finally broken up with Jamie Hince. [Sun]

• The politicization of the celebrity magazines, in which Us Weekly faced a backlash for its tabloidy Sarah Palin "Babies, Lies & Scandal" cover and OK! immediately pulled a Fox News Channel and started buttering up the Palins.
• The politicization of magazine photo shoots and editor-freelancer relationships, starting with the Atlantic's messy incident with Jill Greenberg, the photographer who repurposed shots from a John McCain shoot to attack the Republican presidential candidate.
• The overpoliticization of MSNBC, where the anchors were supposed to hurl partisan attacks among each other, not toward one another.
• The fair and unfair criticism of the Associated Press' more pointed political coverage.

So pretty much wherever you are in the media food chain, you now have to work extra hard to keep everything fair and balanced, or biased to no more and no less than the degree (and direction) prescribed.

Consider that fair warning, Cute Overload!

[Times]

(NBC photo via Times)

It's former Hewlett Packard CEO and McCain adviser Carly Fiorina — yes, it is much more credible if a woman lobs such charges! — saying Tina Fey's SNL skit poking fun at the GOP's overuse of the "sexist" charge to score points with women was…no really, sexist. The full text is here! Enjoy it here, because this is the last time we will be paying attention to this meme. Did you hear how the financial system was on fire, guys? In fact, why didn't someone think to ask Carly Fiorina about that? Typical sexist media.

*Seriously I have never seen so many women with brown hair on Fox News in my life. They even formed their own group, the Party Unity My Ass-es or PUMAs, because Barack Obama called that girl "sweetie" and John McCain uses empowering terms to address females such as "cunt."

The last great era that show saw was the fall of 2000, when their political humor was at its peak. Will Ferrell and Darryl Hammond were the dynamic duo of that election season, because Al Gore and George Bush were such perfect foils for each other. The comedic possibilities for Obama/McCain are not nearly as great, but ... whoo-boy do those VPs bring a lot to the table.

I would post my favorite sketch from that era here, but NBC has stupidly not provided any clips of it on Hulu. Way to seize the moment, guys! So I'll just throw this one up there, because it's hilarious and then leave you to your own devices.

By the way, Barack Obama himself was actually supposed to appear on SNL tonight, but canceled to due to Hurricane Ike. Which brings us full circle. Yay! I'm out for the evening and someone else will walk in the sun with you tomorrow. It was fun! Thanks for having me and thanks for reading!

[Hulu; HuffPo, ABC News]

UPDATE: Bristol Palin is pregnant, and John McCain supposedly knew.

Image via Flatusyahu

When rumors surfaced Friday that John McCain's pretty new totally un-vetted running mate Sarah Palin's eldest daughter Bristol was the real mother of her Down Syndrome-afflicted infant son Trig, and that she had merely pretended — not very effectively at first! — to be pregnant with the child to cover up Bristol's terrible scarlet shame, our first thought was 1. Yeah right ha ha now get me another Black N Tan followed closely by 2. But what a rich premise for a quirky premium cable comedy on the unending travails of/unachievable demands placed on the corruption-fighting Christian mom governor from Alaska!* But someone else with better Photoshop skills thought up that same joke. Which made us realize, is the basis of this scurrilous rumor nothing but an obvious pun? As it turns out, "um probably yes"! Because we just heard from Josh Moffet, a 19-year-old Seward, Alaska resident a tipster alerted us had been involved in a car accident with Bristol when she "would" have been seven months pregnant with baby Trig. We already know her mother was not showing much bump action around that time. But was Bristol?

Via MySpace mail of course:

Hi Maureen, Honestly I was a little distracted with her safety rather than her stomach. I don't recall her being pregnant at all, she may have been wearing a coat. No one else at the scene of the accident mentioned the word pregnant so I would say that either no one noticed or she wasn't pregnant. I do find it odd, I don't support McCain, but I don't see what this has to do with him. The public should realize how bad of a politician he is, and not try to dig up dirt on everyone that he associates with. Don't you think that it's probably hard enough having a mentally challenged child (regardless who it might have come out of) to take care of.

Hmmmmm debatable but!** Anyway, here's the most obsessive thread I could find on this rumor, whose one appearance on DailyKos Friday has garnered so many "Stay Classy!" awards from the (always classy) Right-wing blogosphere I almost thought it must have been planted by the McCain campaign to remind everyone how Karl Rove had once managed to get a bunch of idiots to think his adopted daughter was OMG BLACK, which would be a pretty ingenious way to distance himself from Bush in a sort of subliminable way.*** Because, like, sure it is probably easier for a celebrated first-term governor and media darling to fake a pregnancy in Alaska than most places but isn't her line about "putting down the BlackBerry and picking up the breast pump" kind of just pushing it? (So to speak ha ha.)

And I keep coming back to that pun. It is just "too good to check," you know? When the "dust settles" or whatever I am pretty sure this rumor will be shown to have its roots in the TelevisionWithoutPity boards or something.

UPDATE: This blog has a commenter named "Sue Williams" who claims to 1. be a Republican and 2. share a doctor with Sarah Palin. She says she thinks the baby is Sarah's on account of the fact that she doesn't believe their doctor would lie on behalf of Sarah Palin because everyone in town knows that Sarah Palin is insane, that the flying with broken water thing is just an example of Palin's warped sense of judgment, and that the source of the rumor is the fact that Bristol DID get pregnant at sixteen (which everyone knows because Willow's eighth-grade boyfriend blabbed about it to everyone obvs.) and DID not only get pregnant but had a "quickie wedding" and is being currently "homeschooled," and that Sarah's popular math teacher husband who allowed their youngest to be named after the math he would never do is actually the source of Sarah's overwhelming thousand-vote margin of victory in her initial foray into electoral politics that happened three minutes ago. Oh, and also, that Sarah Palin used to have hair extensions. I don't know what to make any of this, but the haikus alone are worth a gander folks!

Daily Kos Thread
Secret's Out: Palin's Pregnant {Anchorage Daily News]
Baby News Strikes A Chord [ADN]
Sarah Palin, an Outsider Who Charms [NYT]
Related: Dowd thinks she is more like Sandra Bullock. "A zealot, but a fun zealot."

*It would be like 'Saved' meets 'Northern Exposure' meets 'Weeds', duh, with Tina Fey in the lead, playing basically the same "unlikely feminist heroine surrounded by juvenile men constantly screwing everything up" she plays on '30 Rock', only with the added twist of said men threatening to actually screw her little alpha girl daughters, a meme with its obvious basis in the indisputable fact that Palin LOOKS LIKE TINA FEY.
**Agreed, that sounds coached by someone, but what CAMPAIGN coaches a 19-year-old to use the words "do not recall" in a repsonse to a reporter's MySpace message? The campaign that realizes it has totally failed to vet the fact that its pretty running mate nomination is COMPLETELY INSANE? No, I feel like that campaign, when it starts its ex post facto vetting process, endeavors not to pull anything that would make the campaign appear actually more incompetent than it already will if said rumor turns out to be true, and coaching a nineteen-year-old vocational school student to respond to a reporter's MySpace query with the Clintonite "do not recall" phrase knowing that if the rumor at hand is true it is only a matter of time before the whole sordid tale including said media coaching effort is exposed, would actually be that. I feel like if anything it was "coached by mom," and in any case it is essentially meaningless, but hey, you know, we take these little tidbits as they come. And yes she probably WAS wearing a coat duh it being Alaska, although I feel like people don't usually wear coats while they're physically driving so it's possible she wasn't, right? Oh who knows. Let God sort it out as they say.
***So to speak, ha ha! Also it might remind everyone how there may still be two Americas but you cannot have two fathers and we still have yet to hear from Rielle Hunter's "real" baby daddy, which would distract people from this.

God I wish I could comment on your gay blog...your commenters are fucking dorks and complete retards if they thought the last couple of episodes were genius. The last episode was so poorly written I was aghast. I dont believe there was even a semblance of a joke made through out the entire episode. Plot is stupid and non-sequitur, jokes are gay and stupid, Alec Baldwin is being wasted with this crappy material, which I cant even dignify by saying its trite or hackneyed, because most of the time it doesn't even make sense...Also, whats up with all the lame ass vh1/human giant/arbitrary humor/hipster comedians that are on this show? Tina Fey's jokes are completely nerdy and the type crap gay urban liberal art school grad white people would like....fuck this show and fuck your commenters. I applaud Robert Bianco for being a contrarian in an ocean of diarrhea that is the media that loves this truly awful show. ...Yes I know its completely pathetic that I would get this angry over a tv show, but its like the time back in college when everybody on my dorm room floor thought Armageddon was good...I basically made it my project to explain to each individual scene by scene why it was so absolutely terrible. Thank you for letting me get this off my chest.

When asked about the reputation he has developed in his short time on the job as an entertainment chief who works closely with marketers, he said that’s due to the new generation of showrunners who are “friends” of advertisers.

That includes Tim Kring and Tina Fey, who head up popular NBC shows Heroes and 30 Rock, respectively, Mr. Silverman said.

“Tina Fey loves American Express. They have been inside 30 Rock, in the show. They have supported her through the Tribeca Film Festival,” he said. “Tim Kring enjoys his relationships with Nissan. He felt Nissan helped empower the growth of that show.”

It's not that anyone would really mind if Tina Fey was "friends" with her sponsors and "loved" them. 30 Rock itself has poked fun at the idea of artistic integrity in the world of TV comedy. And the excellent show has to pay the bills if it is going to survive.

It's just that Silverman statements about Fey and her sponsors are so clearly and aggressively exaggerated. Snarky Tina Fey super excited and pumped to "sacrifice some dignity" to support her show, as one commenter put it? Really? Sure she works with sponsors, but that doesn't mean she is thrilled about it.

Even if that were, somehow, true, Ben Silverman would be far wiser to keep it quiet, running, as it does, sharply counter to Fey's bankable image as something of an arch social commentator, at least as far as comic writers go.

[TV Week via TV Decoder]