Is Tiffany Network’s Shine Being Dulled By Obama Partisans?

By Elizabeth Coady

THINGS MUST BE AWFULLY LONELY FOR CBS’ INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER SHARYL ATTKISSON at the Tiffany Network.

Attkisson is speaking out after cyber experts confirmed that her personal and work computers were hacked, an act she calls “a very serious and disturbing matter.” She also says she knows who the culprit is, but that her lawyers have told her not to say.

The CBS veteran has been described as a “persistent voice of media skepticism” about the Obama Administration’s statements on the deadly events at the U.S. compound in Benghazi.

PAY ATTENTION

Edward Snowden: ‘Being Called Traitor By Dick Cheney Is Highest Honor’

EDWARD SNOWDEN’S Q&A continues at at The Guardian‘s website, but in one answer to a question, he says journalists need to sharpen their questions about whether the surveillance systems are responsible for halting terrorist attacks.

“Journalists should ask a specific question: since these programs began operation shortly after September 11th, how many terrorist attacks were prevented SOLELY by information derived from this suspicionless surveillance that could not be gained via any other source?,” he said. “Then ask how many individual communications were ingested to acheive that, and ask yourself if it was worth it. Bathtub falls and police officers kill more Americans than terrorism, yet we’ve been asked to sacrifice our most sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.”

PAY ATTENTION

As Edward Snowden Takes Questions, Be Aware Of ‘Sock Puppets’

By Elizabeth Coady

WE OFFICIALLY EXPECT THE INTERNET TO BREAK TODAY: NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden is answering questions live during an online an Q&A at The Guardian‘s website.

In response to a question about how many documents he has, the whistleblower tells readers, “”All I can say right now is the US Government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me,” he wrote. “Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped.”

The conversation gives the former NSA analyst direct communication with the public as pundits and political pawns of the state viciously portraying him as traitor and spy.

Make up your own mind. But there is something you should be aware of: There are people paid by the government to leave comments on websites and social media in order to confuse the public, sow doubt and obfuscate the truth. Per Wikipedia, “In 2011, a Californian company, Ntrepid, was awarded a $2.76 million contract under the auspices of US Central Command for “online persona management” operations[17] with the aim of creating “fake online personas to influence net conversations and spread US propaganda…”

UNMASKING THE TRUTH

Mad Men: Monsters

By Miz J

“THE QUALITY OF MERCY” PICKS APART those instances where a person must choose to finish their opponent or show mercy…and all the shades in between. Pete finds a way to outsmart a formidable opponent; Peggy and Don parry and thrust while showing no mercy to each other; Sally finds herself in the middle of a prep school beehive years before Pretty LIttle Liars could provide her with a playbook. Hold on to your hats, folks, we’re in for a hell of a ride.

Megan wakes, alone, and wanders into Sally’s room to find Don asleep in the tiny twin bed. “I don’t know what’s going on, but you need to pull back on the throttle, honey,” she tells him. He’s looking worse for the wear and chugs some orange juice, instead of going into the office. He lazily channel surfs between Megan’s soap, a Nixon commercial decrying the recent waves of crime, some other crap, and then he shuts off (or, rather, shuts up) the TV.

VICKI GOES MEAN GIRL

Real Housewives Of Orange County: Pissed Off & Pissed On

By Karen Malmquist

WHAT HAPPENS IN MEXICO STAYS BURNED INTO OUR MINDS FOR ETERNITY, no matter how hard we try to shake the image of the Real Housewives of Orange County getting their heads shoved into a stripper’s crotch. Bonus: Vicki wets herself.

Tamra’s bachelorette party got off to a bad start, with Gretchen and Heather getting ditched at a restaurant by Tamra, Lydia, and ringleader Vicki. After they decide they’re done waiting for their missing friends to find them, they call a cab for the hotel, leaving the limo for the lost ladies.

NEGOTIATING DOWN

Real Housewives Of New Jersey: Teetering On (Emotional) Bankruptcy

By Karen Malmquist

WHILE NO TABLES GET TOSSED BY ANY TGorga family member, Melissa and Joe’s home life is crumbling. Now before you start a prayer circle for our favorite over-sharing PDA couple on Real Housewives of New Jersey, I meant to say it is literally crumbling. The infrastructure of the house gets pulled apart by the chunks at a showing of their house. Who knew marble sinks were so fragile?

But what would an episode of this show be without the tireless family drama?

A BABY!

Kim Kardashian Pops A Baby Girl Out — And Twitter Explodes

By Elizabeth Coady

TEN FINGERS? Check. TEN TOES? Count ’em. Normal reflexes? We’re betting on it. Normal reaction to a birth announcement? No way in hell.

America’s most anticipated wee one — the first daughter of reality star Kim Kardashian and iconic rapper Kanye West — arrived early this morning at Los Angeles Cedar Sinai Hospital, and Twitter exploded.

“Kim Kardashian” was the top trending topic early in the day, reported Yahoo’s OMG.

The cherub, a Gemini, arrived five weeks early and just “under five pounds. “She has dark hair,” a source tells E! News. “She looks just like Kim.” The delivery was natural.

CALLED OUT

By Karen Malmquist

WHEN YOU’RE STARVED FOR ATTENTION AND THE bottom of the barrel doesn’t even want you scraping it, time to pack it up and go home. Yes, I’m talking to you, Farrah Abraham.

In the wake of her leaked text conversation with Charlie Sheen, the Anger Management actor has put her on blast, sarcastically congratulating her on surviving her “lobotomy” and calling her a “low-life” and a “desperate guzzler of stagnant douche agua.”

How’d she even get his number?

RAPPIN’

The Show With Vinny: Don’t *!#? My Sister

By Karen Malmquist

SIBLING LOVE HAS NEVER LOOKED CUTER than on Thursday’s The Show with Vinny, when the titular host surprises his barely-legal sister to a shirtless, frail tattooed man in her living room. Yes, MGK is in the house. Then, to balance things out, the more family-friendly Kat Graham comes over for Sunday dinner.

Vinny meets rapper MGK at a local pizza shop. MGK, fresh off the Warped Tour stage, walks in and tells Vinny how happy he was when he saw him wear an MGK “Lace Up” shirt on Jersey Shore a while back. MGK looks like a slightly more hardcore version of B-Rad from Malibu’s Most Wanted, in that he’s signed to Bad Boy Records.

CAST YOUR VOTE

Vote For Edward Snowden

By Elizabeth Coady

IN AN EDITORIAL ENTITLED, “WHO VOTED FOR SNOWDEN?,”the Wall Street Journal preposterously argues that the NSA systems analyst’s exposure of the massive U.S. surveillance system thwarts democracy.

“What he himself is doing is profoundly antidemocratic,” rails Joseph Sternberg, “in the contempt it shows for the preferences of millions of fellow citizens expressed at the ballot box—and even for those citizens’ right to have a definitive say in the matter at all.”

The claim is ludicrous — mendacious propaganda — because we expect elected officials to seek public opinion before enacting legislation. Instead, Obama, and Bush before him, at every turn have stymied reporters and criminalized whistleblowers who unveiled the NSA’s chilling surveillance machine.