VIDEO: Introducing the founder of "The Right Network"

By GottaLaff

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Yesterday I posted about a brand spanking new network coming to you, courtesy of Comcast! (Yes, that would be the same Comcast that's trying to acquire NBC). This little endeavor is called The Wrong, er, Right Network!

I did a little digging with the help of Twitter pal JamieHarbor, and thought I'd introduce you to its founder, David "We need new program ideas" Jaget:

Here he is on Twitter:

Apparently, he's really into getting thousands of free Twitter followers... or he's oblivious to having been hacked.

Jaget mentions that he is proud to be Jewish in his Twitter bio, here at a rally in D.C. (at 1:59), and in the following video of his appearance in Lansing, Michigan. I'm not sure why he feels it necessary to emphasize that, but, well, he does:



And here he is in Wisconsin, once again, drumming up business for his new venture with Comcast, and using others to further his mission:



And finally, here's documentation of a rather modest donation to Rudy Giuliani:

It's comforting to know David, his BFF Kelsey Grammer, and Comcast are doing everything they can to "protect this country against Liberalism."

Time to switch your cable provider, if you haven't already.

UPDATE: Seems he may be a Las Vegas chiropractor who's trying to sell an $800,000 home. Or not. But if not, there are two David Jagets living in Vegas (his Facebook page references Las Vegas as his "current city"):

Dr. David Jaget and Laura Jaget have listed for sale a five-bedroom, 3.5-bath home at [xxxx xxxxxxxx Dr.] in Las Vegas for $799,900.

Dr. Jaget bought the property for $395,000 in Dec. 2000. The 3,315-square-foot house was built in 1995.

Frank Napoli of Prudential Americana Group Realtors is the listing agent for the property.

Dr. Jaget is a Las Vegas-based chiropractor and owner at Spinal Rehabilitation Center.

Mrs. Jaget is the co-owner of Spinal Rehabilitation Center.

Some digs:
Looks like they were going for the Voyeur club look.

UPDATE: Comcast denies any involvement.

VIDEO: Righties launching own network. Fox wasn't enough?

By GottaLaff

COMING THIS SUMMER to a Tee Vee Machine with bad reception near you!



Breitbart? In a promo that's supposed to draw viewers?

Kidding aside, Progressives need to do get their message out on a network of their own, as I opined the other day here and on Twitter. It's something many of us want, but nobody is funding yet, to our knowledge. Al Gore's Current TV is as close as we've come.

But this isn't just about news coverage, as you can see:

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Click on the link to see more promos of what they promise us will be wacky zany wingy Tee Vee antics.

UPDATE: Clarification, via Will Bunch:

Great stuff, but you should know there's some separation between "Comcast Corp." and Snider's "Comcast-Spectacor". That is, Comcast sunk a lot of money into Snider's Spectacor, but he has a lot of independence -- here in Philly we see the two as very separate. Comcast Corp. -- despicable as they are -- has more ties to Democrats than the GOP, actually -- Corp.'s No. 3 used to be Rendell's top aide.

So noted. Thank you, Will!

UPDATE: Comcast denies any involvement.

H/t: JamieHarbor

Networks dump Palin for Obama, plus Bonus Rightie Talking Points!

By GottaLaff

Time posted the following one-liner:

All three nets dump SRLC feed for Rose Garden remarks.

Yappy McEarSplit got three thumbs down from the Tee Vee Machine giants. How's that gratey-flakey thing goin' for ya?

And Greg Sargent saved us from linking to Drudge (which wouldn't have happened anyway) by providing a screen shot of "the state of the American right":

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1. Yappy is on that l'il list-o'-sleazebaggy quotes.

2. Yappy got crushed by the Tee Vee Networks.

Conclusion: Spreading nasty lies may not be the best way to go. Learning from mistakes can be fun.

All Three Network News Anchors To Follow Obama Overseas

By Paddy


Pretty impressive.

WASHINGTON: Senator John McCain's trip to Iraq last spring was a low-key affair: With his ordinary retinue of reporters following him abroad, the NBC News anchor Brian Williams reported on his arrival in Baghdad from New York, with just two sentences tacked onto the "in other political news" portion of his newscast.

But when Obama heads for Iraq and other locations overseas this summer, Williams is planning to catch up with him in person, as are the other two evening news anchors, Charles Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, who, like Williams, are far along in discussions to interview Obama on successive nights.

And while the anchors are jockeying for interviews with Obama at stops along his route, the regulars on the Obama campaign plane will have new seat mates: star political reporters from the major newspapers and magazines who are flocking to catch Obama's first overseas trip since becoming the presumptive nominee of his party.

The extraordinary coverage of Obama's trip reflects how the candidate remains an object of fascination in the news media, a built-in feature of being the first African-American presidential nominee for a major political party and a relative newcomer to the national stage.

Networks May Cut Coverage of Convention

By Paddy


Sounds pretty suspicious to me. Cut coverage of the first African American Presidential nominee accepting his party's nomination in front of 75k people? Yeah, not newsworthy at all.

Citing increased costs, the major television networks "are considering curtailing coverage of the Democratic National Convention after Monday's announcement that Sen. Barack Obama will accept his party's nomination in a Denver stadium," Politico reports.

The change in venue "could add hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs to already cash-strapped news divisions."

Said one CBS News executive: "It does add to the overall question of how the networks should cover what is a non-news event."