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More proof that Tampa Bay Times' bias is showing: intentionally-misleading faux headlines in blog posts: "Marco Rubio's grandfather ordered deported"
Yes, in 1962 -nine years before Marco Rubio was born.
Yes, rather than someone at the The Times doing the right thing and put the year in the headline, they intentionally left it out knowing THAT headline would provoke more hits and visits to the website. Once again, telling the truth would've ruined what the Mainstream Media thought was a clever idea.
As I've stated here before, The Buzz blog has degenerated from one of the best places to find out useful information in the state to the number-one site for creepy political Internet trolls from the Kos Kooks Army, which is why I and so many people I know around the state no longer bother leaving comments there, esp. information that is not controversial. No matter what you say, you get attacked.
At least when Greg Gutfeld on Fox News'Red Eye does his funny, intentionally-misleading made-up bits, say, something like this, "George Clooney is dead... tired of people asking him when he first realized he was good-looking," everyone gets why it's funny. http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/index.html
I must admit that before Monday night/Tuesday morning, I'd never heard of comedian/writerMike Birbiglia, who appeared on ABC-TV'sJimmy Kimmel Live and made me laugh from the word go.
In retrospect, that might've been the funniest thing I've seen on TV this year, other than perhaps the video clips of "Jeff from Tallahassee" on Fox News Channel'sRed Eye program, a subject of a previous post on January 18th: The funniest discovery of the new year: "Jeff from Tallahassee" on Red Eye; reminds me of the Steve & Garry, Don & Mike comic genius I miss http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/funniest-discovery-of-new-year-jeff.html
What I heard and saw proved to be both true-to-life and very, very funny -a virtual reservoir of comic gold to mine. I would definitely see this show if it ever came to South Florida. Watch the clips and I think you'll agree.
The Village Voice My Girlfriend's Boyfriend--Better Off Wed Mike Birbiglia returns with another comic one-man show By Alexis Soloski Wednesday, Apr 6 2011
Is there a comedian cuddlier than Mike Birbiglia? His girth and dress sense suggest a fraternity brother gone to seed, but his pleading eyes and plangent voice give him the air of a little boy lost. During his new show, My Girlfriend's Boyfriend at Barrow Street Theatre, his disclosure of past humiliations elicited volleys of sympathetic sighs. When he took his bows at the end, some women in the audience seemed to barely restrain themselves from rushing the stage and subjecting him to a mass embrace.
Read the rest of the review at: http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-04-06/theater/my-girlfriend-s-boyfriend-better-off-wed/
A storyteller of great candour, Mike Birbiglia forges a stand-up, theatre hybrid
By Jake Coyle, The Associated Press http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iOqq_xgdI4uDI-qZWLKsDDgDopzg?docId=6543244
Mike Birbiglia's new CD Sleepwalk With Me Live will be released by Comedy Central Records on April 19 http://www.playbill.com/news/article/149724-Mike-Birbiglias-Sleepwalk-With-Me-Live-Will-Be-Released-by-Comedy-Central-Records
The funniest discovery of the new year: "Jeff from Tallahassee" onFox News Channel'sRed Eye, broadcast weekdays at 3 a.m. http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/index.html See the video at: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4497479/red-eye-answers-viewer-mail/ No matter how many different video clips of "Jeff" that I see on must-watch Red Eye, he cracks me up every time with his deadpan delivery of not-so-pithy comments. This guy is a gold mine of comedy satisfaction. Even when you know what he's going to say.
For me, listening to his droll comments recalls the very best times from the kind of 'Old School' radio I prefer, and of my listening everyday for hours toSteve Dahl & Garry Meier in Chicago onWLS-AM and thenWLUP-AM, then FM, while living in Evanston and Wilmette in the mid-'80's, often crying from laughter at work or on the walk from the El station to my home and then once in the house. I knew their bits and routine better than I knew my neighbors.
Their insightful observations and repartee with guests, esp. Joe Walsh of The Eagles, plus the best collection of "bumpers" ever assembled, as comedian/actor Richard Lewis was always quick to mention whenever he was a guest of theirs, ensured hours of amusement for their loyal listeners throughout Chicagoland, NW Indiana and southern Wisconsin.
Their hysterical satirical stories about guys-on-the-make flying dates to Palwaukee Airport-in Wheeling- were classic, and always sure to ensure comic paralysis. Listen to those broadcasts at:http://wn.com/steve_dahl,_airport
There were SO MANY times I'd end up staying at an Elstop rather than get in the train car, even when it was absurdly cold, because I just had to hear the very end of the segment or bit they were doing before they went to a commercial break. If I had a dollar for every time that happened... I actually preferred listening to Steve & Garry out in the bleachers at Wrigley Field when I went to Cubs games during the week than I did listening to the game broadcast on WGN-AM. I could always tell that many other fans in the bleachers were doing the same thing, because when I took out my earphones, I could hear so many people laughing at the same exact time.
I once was walking down N. Michigan Avenue near their studio and heard them say something incorrect about a subject I knew quite a bit about, so I took the elevator at the Sears Tower up to their office intent on writing a short note with the correct info and passing it on to one of their producers. Or so I thought...
In all the time it had taken me to finally catch an elevator to get upstairs, the duo had gone in to a commercial break and once I walked thru the door, who do I spy but Steve in the lobby wearing one of his Hawaiian shirts. Naturally, he asked me what I was doing there.
I explained the whys and wheres, he listened intently to me and eventually agreed I was right, so he said he'd mention the correction on-air later, shook my hand and went back towards the studio.
I was so casual about the whole thing it wasn't until I was at the Main El stop at the Chicago-Evanston city line, where I had to change over to another train that took me up to the Linden Avenue stop in Wilmette where I lived, just a block from Lake Michigan, that it all sunk in. If only I'd had a digital cameras back then! Audio: 1/9 - Steve Dahl &Garry Meier - December 1987 - WLUP AM 1000 Chicago, Illinois http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P5MH29RquQ December 5, 2008 Steve Dahl out at CBS' WJMK-FM http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/towerticker/2008/12/steve-dahl-out.html Years later, while living for 14 years in the Washington, D.C. area, I'd be as devout a listener to the Don & Mike -Don Geronimo & Mike O'Meara- onWJFK-FM, even while I'd also try like crazy in the wintertime to get Steve & Garry on my AM radio after they switched stations, because of the seasonal "skip" that allowed me to start getting distant AM stations around 5 p.m. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_and_Mike_Show In the future I hope to have a separate post or two about the Don & Mike Show, but this honest 2005 Washington Postarticle I think gives you some insight into what made them so ridiculously popular and the number-one show in the very competitive Washington, D.C. market, as well as some other cities around the country where they were syndicated.
With both duos, I made dozens of audio-cassette recordings of them on my Sony cassette recorder, a sort of "Best of" mix tape if you will.
I'd take 3-4 of them with me to listen to while away on business trips or flights down here at the holidays, so if I got bored, I'd have something to amuse me or to fall asleep at night in hotels. Something familiar!
Red Eye: New Yorkers rip Bloomberg over Snow Removal, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlUR2u63atQ Red Eyeairs onFox News ChannelMonday-Friday at 3 a.m. and is hysterical.
A Slow NYC Snow Cleanup - New York Post http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEdZA7u545Q ------ New York Post Sanit bigs boozed amid snow chaos: witnesses By Reuven Blau and Brad Hamilton Last Updated: 9:19 AM, January 2, 2011 Posted: 2:10 AM, January 2, 2011
EXCLUSIVE Instead of plowing, they got plowed.A group of on-duty Sanitation supervisors is under investigation for allegedly buying booze and chilling in their cozy department car for hours Monday night after the blizzard stranded a bus and three snowplows blocks away.
The city Department of Investigation is probing the incident after witnesses said four snow blowers blew off their duties to get blitzed, buying two six-packs of beer from a Brooklyn bodega. The workers then walked five blocks to their car, which was in 20 inches of snow in the middle of 18th at McDonald avenues near the F train entrance, passing the stuck bus and idle plows on 18th Avenue between Third and Fourth streets.
Read the rest of the post at: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/slushed_sloshed_fX907nPJIEevDILBvlYAtK
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Did Unions Intentionally Delay Snow Cleanup in NYC? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9skEQJzGHUo -----
Below, some other politically-oriented or current events-themed YouTubeChannels you may want to peruse or subscribe to, like yours truly.
I'm still subscribed to The Hotline TV and Sayfie Review, butneither has posted anything new in one month and four months respectively. http://www.youtube.com/user/HotlineTV http://www.youtube.com/user/sayfiereview
Red Eye RecapYouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/RedEyeRecap Website: http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/index.html Red Eye airs weeknights at 3am ET, 12am PT, on Fox News Channel. I'm always saying here that "seeing is believing" -yes, you can quote me on that- but since so many South Florida print/TV reporters I've talked to in the past have expressed interest in shedding a well-needed light on some of these problems, often after hour-long, in-person conversations at their studios, news rooms or over at Panera's, only to actually do nothing about making that story idea a reality, more direct action is necessary. Well, I'm eliminating the middle-man -the South Florida news media. After Thanksgiving, as part of some changes and additions I'm making to the blog and to the Hallandale Beach BlogYouTube Channel, which I have greatly under-utilized thus far, I will finally get those videos I've been promising here since... well, quite a while ago. I plan on finally posting key highlights (or low-lights) of not only Hallandale Beach and Hollywood City Commission/CRA meetings, Broward County Commission meetings, and the myriad South Florida civic meetings I hit, but also video of some longstanding Quality-of-Life problems throughout SE Broward and NE Miami-Dade that have proven troublesome or irritating to local citizen taxpayers, and which in many cases, have largely been ignored by the appropriate authorities, or incompetently managed. No more.
While that will principally be in Hallandale Beach, Hollywood, Aventura and the odd world north of North Miami Beach, Home of the Chargers, I will also be posting video of what I observe and find troubling in Miami, Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale and other parts of South Florida as well.
Please check back there again soon: http://www.youtube.com/user/HallandaleBeachBlog
Now one of my favorite TV shows, Red Eye airs on the Fox New Channel at 3 a.m. Mon. -Fri. Meanwhile, in FL-22, which includes part of Hallandale Beach...
BrowardPalmBeach NewTimes Halloween Contest Shows Ugly Side of Politics By Bob Norman, Wed., Oct. 20 2010 @ 8:35AM
Talk about scary politics.
Republicans are throwing a Halloween party in Pembroke Pines next Friday night.
As part of the festivities, they will be holding a U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz look-alike contest that the invitation says "could scare the devil himself." The winner gets $100.
Meanwhile, this summer, the beautiful and beguiling Courtney Friel of Fox News Channel frequently appeared on Red Eye to gamely read aloud Glenn Beck's novel,The Overton Window.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaqkMr-FuyY See also: http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/broward_politics/ www.dailygut.com http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/red-eye/index.html http://www.youtube.com/user/RedEyeRecap http://jedediahbila.com/
Nanny State Run Amok? The Orlando Sentinel reportswhile"Red Eye" investigates in their usual way, you decide: Florida may ban chocolate milk in schools, not as punishment, but as policy. Orlando Sentinel State may ban sugary drinks from public schoolsThe Board of Education seeks expert advice, will take up issue in December September 21, 2010 By Denise-Marie Balona, Orlando Sentinel
The Board of Education has agreed to move forward on a plan to eliminate sugary beverages and make Florida the first state in the nation to ban chocolate milk in public schools.
Board member John Padget, a former schools superintendent from South Florida, has been pressing his colleagues for a year to cut out most beverages besides water, pure juice and white, low-fat milk to help fight childhood obesity.
Read the rest of the story at: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2010-09-21/news/os-soda-in-florida-schools-092210-20100921_1_board-member-public-schools-board-meeting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bYogXBmoQM
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