Tucker's Back!
Very, very tanned conservative pundit guy Tucker Carlson will launch his "Conservative HuffPo," to be called "Daily Caller," on January 11. Here is the party invite!
Tucker Carlson Compares Kids' Obama Song To Khmer Rouge
Formerly bow-tied assclown and teenage gaybasher Tucker Carlson may have given up his bowties, but he's still dedicated to the art of assclowning. Story: some kids sing song about Obama at school. Sean Hannity rages. And Carlson starts to speak.
Twitter, CNN, Fox News & Facebook
• How is Twitter going to make money? With a reality TV series, naturally. The show will involve "putting ordinary people on the trail of celebrities in a revolutionary competitive format," in case you were wondering. [Variety]
• The primetime lineups for next year "are chockablock with shows meant to make…
Bow Ties Are Gonna Happen, Goddammit!
Bow ties are so fetch, have you heard? Christina Binkley of the Wall Street Journal reports that everyone from David Beckham to the Jonas Brothers are wearing them.
Conservative Movement Enjoys Snack While Staying Snuggily Warm
It's "funny/horrifying political photo funnies Friday" here at Gawker HQ! This is Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurzelwhatever wearing one of those popular "Snuggie" things.
Jon Stewart Haunts Tucker Carlson's Restless, Bitter Nights
Poor Tucker Carlson. His career was sidelined by Jon Stewart in a cruel sneak attack five years ago, and he's never gotten over it. Now he's trying to start a beef with his former tormentor.
Conservatives Now Jeering Tucker Carlson, Too
Liberals snickered at Tucker Carlson after his 2004 questioning of Jon Stewart on Crossfire. Now conservatives are booing the MSNBC talking head for praising the New York Times. Maybe he wants a column?
Arianna Huffington and Her Mysterious Private Eye Enrage Chris Matthews
MSNBC pundit Chris Matthews apparently takes blog mogul Arianna Huffington's criticisms a little too seriously! "I will not be in the same fucking picture as Arianna Huffington!! Not a chance of that!" he allegedly screamed during a photoshoot for Portfolio at MSNBC's DC studio Tuesday. Then he stormed out. Oh, and…
Spiked Clinton Story Finds Home At Author's Own Magazine
Atlantic editor Josh Green was writing a mildly unfavorable GQ piece about the Clintons until the Clintons said they'd pull Bill from the mag's cover if it ever ran. So they killed it. (For real this time, not like that old Vanity Fair rumor.) And Green took it to The Atlantic. The story is about how ousted campaign…
'NYO' Readers Are "Most Brightest," Says Paper's Flustered President
Oh my. You really must watch this video, after the jump, of an addled NYObserver president Robert Sommer explaining to MSNBC host Tucker Carlson why his peachy paper endorsed Barack Obama this week. Our favorite line? "We like to view our readers as some of the smartest, most insensitive-most-Some of the most…
T.V. pundit Tucker Carlson has recast the story he told last night on MSNBC about roughing up a guy who hit on him in a public toilet. His latest version: "In the mid-1980s, while I was a high school student, a man physically grabbed me in a men's room in Washington, DC. I yelled, pulled away from him and ran out of…
Tucker Carlson Beats Up Gay Men With His Friends
Comedy ensued on MSNBC last night when pundit Tucker Carlson happily admitted that when a guy hit on him in a men's room in Georgetown, he went back with "someone I knew and grabbed him... and hit him against the stall with his head." Then the cops came and arrested the gay dude. But not Tucker! The laughs just keep…
Media Bubble: Procter & Gamble Killed Imus
ThemTube: Spinning Tucker's Bow Tie
While the rest of us are drinking and snoozing, the television is trying to transmit important information into our homes. Today, our special correspondent for T.V. punditry catches us up on the week in chat shows. Because we totally wouldn't watch that shit if you paid us. Get your tinfoil hats on!
Media Bubble: What Would Jesus Expense?
• You ever get so incapacitated by the incredible number of jokes that you could possibly do about a story that you just bury it in a linkdump? Because sometimes we do. [FBW]
• The dog ate the Times' and the Trib's homework. [NYT]
• Network television as we know it is apparently dead. This is what happens when you put…
Remainders: In Reluctant Defense of Britney Spears
• Though we spent all morning weeping for the beacon of bad parenting that is Britney Spears, we might now be able to dry our eyes. Turns out, she was doing nothing wrong — other than going out in curlers. [Jalopnik]
• Original Survivor Richard Hatch gets 51 months in jail for failing to pay taxes on his earnings.…
Tucker Carlson In Trouble! (Says Random Dude.)
A reliable pal passes along this bit of cable-news programming gossip:
MSNBC Will Trade Phonesex for Viewers, It Seems
We're not one of the three people nationwide who watch MSNBC, so we have no idea if this is new or not. But this tip just came in, and the female emailer was so excited she prefaced the news with at least two exclamation points and an OMG:
