Vanity Fair: "MSNBC's FOX Hunt" (or Tweety Gets a Woody)

[Snellius]

The latest issue of Vanity Fair (October 2003) includes a jaundiced look at the struggling news network MSNBC by James Wolcott. It draws some hilarious and devasting portraits of Matthews, Michael Savage, and Joe Scarborough and the whole rogue's gallery of MSNBC cretins (Only Keith Olbermann is spared). A MUST READ. Unfortunately, Vanity Fair is not online but here's a taste:


Although Matthews took an admirable stand against the Iraq war and has been irate over the W.M.D. kerfuffle, he gets as gaga as Andrew Sullivan and frequent guest Peggy Noonan over that hickory-smoked hunk of masculinity, George W. Bush. One of the more cringe-inducing TV moments in recent memory was Matthews and G. Gordon Liddy sprouting rhetorical woodies over the spectacle of Bush on the carrier deck in his flight suit, his parachute harness showcasing the presidential bulge -- or, to use Liddy's inimitable phrase, "his manly characteristic." One guy to another Liddy put Matthews wise, "You know, all those women who say size doesn't count -- they're all liars. Check it out."

Matthews: "And I've got to say why do the Democrats, as you say, want to keep advertising this guy's greatest moment?"

Liddy: "Look, he's coming across as a -- well, as women would call in my show saying, what a stud ..."

To borrow a line from the late critic Marvin Mudrick, the two of them should take a cold shower, preferably not together.

[joeybee12]

1. Hee-larious!

I must run out and buy the most recent issue!

[Sweetpea]

2. That's what they get for trying to copy Fox as oppose to trying to

come up with innovative programming.

[phaseolus]

3. Libraries make stuff available online

Check with your librarian -- I know that my library system allows cardholders to have access to the EBSCOhost database which includes the full text (but no pictures) of most magazine articles... archived for several years. I use it a lot...

On edit -- Fergit it. I just checked, and Vanity Fair's articles aren't available in full text form. Rats.

[Jack Rabbit]

4. And we thought the media was only fascinated with Clinton's penis

I guess we were wrong.

[chaumont58]

5. Hell, let'em

"To borrow a line from the late critic Marvin Mudrick, the two of them should take a cold shower, preferably not together."

I say let'em shower together. I say let'em give each other an STD, preferably one that is painful and lethal.