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As noted by Gawker.com, on the
November 12 edition of Fox News' The
O'Reilly Factor, radio
host Dennis Miller stated of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R): "I think the left hate her -- mostly women on
the left hate her, because to me, from outside in, it appears that she has a
great sex life." He continued, "I think she has non-neurotic sex
with that Todd Palin guy. I think most of the women on the Upper
East Side, their husbands haven't been aroused since [Norman] Mailer signed copy of The Executioner's Song at Rizzoli's back
in the early '70s." Miller also said in reference to the Palins,
"[T]hat snowmobile looks like mechanized foreplay to me, and
that's why people are fascinated by it." Moments later, host Bill
O'Reilly asked, "You think that because she looks like a happy,
wedded mom with not so much neurosis, that these people are going, 'We
have to hate her'?" Miller responded, in part: "It's like
Tina Fey's movie Mean Girls.
Women are mean to other women. They look at her, she
looks happy, a lot of them aren't, and they're cranky about her."
Later in the discussion, after Miller said that
President-elect Barack Obama "ought to flatten these punks at AIG
[American International Group]," O'Reilly stated, "OK, and
then arrest [Rep.] Barney Frank
[D-MA], correct?" As the blog Think
Progress noted,
Miller replied, "Barney might want to be arrested." In response,
O'Reilly said, "Oh, jeez.
Ugh," and shuddered. He continued, "OK,
Dennis Miller, everybody. I told you to hide the kids." Before going to a
commercial break, O'Reilly added, "Next up, a
viewer warning -- I'm sorry I didn't give you one before Miller."
From the November 12 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
O'REILLY: Now, the Sarah Palin
hysteria. I mean, can you believe she's getting more
ink now than the president-elect is getting? Didn't she lose? It looks like she
won.
MILLER: Listen, she's a great dame. People
are fascinated by her because the left hate her. I think the left hate her --
mostly women on the left hate her, because to me, from outside in, it appears
that she has a great sex life. All right? I think she has non-neurotic sex with
that Todd Palin guy. I think most of the women on the Upper
East Side, their husbands haven't been aroused since Mailer signed copy of The
Executioner's Song at Rizzoli's back in the early '70s.
So they look at her, and they hate
her. I think that snowmobile looks like mechanized foreplay to me, and that's why people are fascinated by it.
O'REILLY: So you think that -- cutting through all of the
metaphors that even I don't even understand. Rizzoli's used to be a bookstore.
You think that because she looks like
a happy, wedded mom with --
MILLER: Yeah.
O'REILLY: -- not so much neurosis, that
these people are going, "We have to hate her"? It's -- what, it's schadenfreude? Is that -- how
do you say that?
German?
MILLER: It's called schadenfreude.
O'REILLY:
Schadenfreude. [unintelligible]
MILLER: The Germans
concocted it. It's one's vague pleasure in another's discomfort. Leave it to
the Germans, by the way, to concoct an intricate glossary of pain terminology.
But I think
people have -- I think people have schadenfreude about her. It's like Tina
Fey's movie Mean Girls. Women are
mean to other women. They look at her,
she looks happy, a lot of them aren't, and
they're cranky about her.
Plus, you know, she's still viable to me. Katie Couric is not going to be the interlocutor
that turns me off Sarah Palin. For God's sakes, does
anybody remember Katie Couric during
her first month on the job? Bill Paley and Ed Murrow were turning over in their
graves so fast that they resembled the twin screws on the Thunderball boat, the Disco Volante, when
they threw it into hydrofoil mode.
O'REILLY: I guess
that's a James Bond reference there?
MILLER: I don't even -- Billy, I have no idea.
Help me. Help me, for
God's sake.
O'REILLY: Miller, I hate
to say this, but I think you may be beyond help. I think Bordello of Blood was it.
Now, you've been reassessing in the
last -- in the last eight days the presidential vote. And what conclusions,
Miller, have you come to?
MILLER: Well, two. I'm kind of happy now that it's
over. Because when they showed Grant Park that night and I saw the looks on the
face of some of the
black elders looking up,
who had been pushed aside to lunch counters and bathrooms, and I saw that
catharsis, I thought, well, I intellectualized this would be good for the
country in that way. I had no idea the depth of feeling. It pleases my heart.
I'm happy for them.
Also, the guy looks so smart to me.
I didn't believe anything he said when he was running. But now I know he's so smart
that when two dim, mindless magpies like [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid [D-NV] and [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi [D-CA] trundle down there to sell their tired
Willy Loman wares, he's
going to pay them lip service. The moment they split, he's going to look at [incoming White House chief of staff] Rahm
Emanuel and go, "Sharp elbows, dull intellects. We're not listening to
those cats. Do you think I worked this hard to get to this point that I'm going
to parrot what those two idiots say?" So I like the fact that he's really
smart.
And you know something? He's my
president now. And I am not going to do what the left did to Bush. I find it
unbecoming. I hope that Barack Obama does so well that four years hence, I am
salivating to vote for him. I want this all to work, because I love my country.
At some point, I make Lee Greenwood look like the Rosenbergs. And I hope he does great.
But I will not turn my back on
George Bush. Today,
2,619 days since a domestic terror attack on this soil. Thank you to my commander
in chief, and thank you to the troops
for providing us the safety to have an election like that.
O'REILLY: Absolutely.
Now, how skeptical are you going to -- I think your sentiment is noble, by the
way. And particularly in this dangerous economic time when people are really
suffering, you've got to root for Obama to get the economy back on track and
lessen suffering.
But how skeptical are you going to
be? And how -- and what is my watchdog role? See, I'm setting myself up to
watch Barack Obama. You know, and I'm
going to be fair about it. There's no doubt I'll be fair. But I'm going to very
-- you know, watch him closer than I watched Bush because I didn't watch Bush
close enough. I didn't. I admit it. I should have.
So, how skeptical are you going to be about
Obama? Are you going to bring a skepticism in from the beginning?
MILLER: I'm always skeptical about
guys who want to be president, because it seems like its own form of madness to
me. But I'll tell you,
if he wants to earn my goodwill and the goodwill of a lot of people, he ought
to flatten these punks at AIG who keep taking -- these guys party. They make Caligula look like a
shut-in. Enough is enough. We just gave them $150 billion.
We've got to follow them around with
hidden cameras. Take it all back, let them go
away. It's economic Darwinism. If they want to spend like that, they should go
under. Forget the parties, you guys. And I think that he ought to come down
hard on them right now.
O'REILLY: OK, and
then arrest Barney Frank, correct?
MILLER: Barney might want to be
arrested.
O'REILLY: Oh, jeez. Ugh. [shudders] OK, Dennis Miller, everybody. I told
you to hide the kids.
Next up, a viewer
warning -- I'm sorry I didn't give you one before Miller.
Published: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:54:37 GMT - Source: Mediamatters.Org - Read the articleEuropeYouTube in talks with Hollywood to show free full-length films
The video website YouTube is preparing to link up with Hollywood to show full-length films for free over the internet, it has emerged.The site - already used by millions of people every day to watch short video clips - confirmed that it was in negotiations with major studios as it gets ready to launch an online movie service. "Our goal is to offer maximum choice for our users, partners and advertisers," the company said in a statement.Free films, running with advertising, would mark a radical advance for the video-sharing website as it looks to profit from its massive popularity.It is not clear which Hollywood studios are involved in the discussions. But one report from the CNET news website suggested a YouTube movie service could arrive within 90 days.The development is part of a drive to increase profits at the video website, which has struggled to meet financial expectations since Google bought it for $1.65bn in 2006. YouTube contributors can now run advertising over their videos or add links to music and DVDs sales from iTunes and Amazon. A movie deal would also build on a recent agreement with the TV network CBS whereby the broadcaster's shows are screened online, with advertising, in return for a share of the revenue.The decision to link up with the film industry is also driven by rival moves by websites which already show full-length films and high-quality TV. The BBC's iPlayer has shown more than 160m programmes in the past year, and Hulu, a website backed by the American networks NBC and Fox, which has a vast library of TV programmes and films, has rocketed in popularity since it launched last year.The internet retailer Amazon has also started streaming some films on IMDb.com, the UK-based online film database that it bought 10 years ago. The developments tap into the move towards on-demand viewing rather than traditional scheduling, according to Jon Gibs, vice president of the ratings company Nielsen Online. "Consumers are increasingly relying on the web to catch up on content they missed when it aired on television, and the networks are beginning to capitalise on this trend." He said, as an example, that "anyone who didn't see Tina Fey's impersonation of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live had to log on and watch it or risk having nothing to say around the proverbial water cooler".For Hollywood, the change reflects shifting patterns of behaviour. Although DVD sales remain relatively strong, with sales worth more than £2bn in the UK last year, recent figures from the research group Ipsos suggest that TV now accounts for just 55% of all video watched by teenagers. Not all of Hollywood is likely to be joining forces with YouTube, however. Paramount and DreamWorks are unlikely to sign up since the website is locked in a billion-dollar lawsuit with their parent firm, Viacom, over allegations that YouTube encouraged copyright infringement.YouTubeDigital mediaUnited Statesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
Published: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:04:31 GMT - Source: Guardian.Co.Uk - Read the articleEurope7 days 7 questions
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