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[UPDATED with Rescuers Put in Harm's Way:] Kyndall Jack and Nicholas Cendoya Saved

See Update No. 7 on page 3 about a recently concluded press conference giving a complete overview of the latest events in Trabuco Canyon.See Update Nos. 3-6 on page 2 about the man being found alive, the search resuming for the woman, Kyndall Jack being found and airlifted out and how it all happene ... More >>

[UPDATED with I.D.:] Camp Pendleton Marine Road Rager Sgt. Joshua Brightman was an Online Video Star Already

See the update at the end of page 2 with a national TV program identifying the raging Marine and confirming he's also featured in the school assembly video.ORIGINAL POST, APRIL 4, 1:29 P.M.: San Diego television news stations say they know who an unhinged Marine shown in cell phone video from a Camp ... More >>

The Amazing Race Apologizes for Pissing Off Vietnam Veterans and a Token Fox News Liberal

My colleague R. Scott Moxley recently wrote of the shitstorm kicked up after The Amazing Race had contestants visiting Vietnam watch a pro-communist musical show, recite a pro-communist poem and then gather at an anti-American military site in Hanoi. If there was increased interest (and ratings?) ... More >>

KTLA Weatherman Tricked Into Saying Nasty Name On-Air

Mediabistro captured footage of a veteran Los Angeles weatherman unwittingly falling for a prankster's ruse to get him to say a "naughty name on-air."Good-spirited KTLA meteorologist Henry DiCarlo wished a happy birthday to "Hugh Janus" on live TV.DiCarlo then stopped and looked horrified because hi ... More >>

Levon Marashlian, Noted Armenian Historian, Details TV Coverage of Karabakh Conflict

After the parliament of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast in Azerbaijan voted to unify the region with Armenia on Feb. 20, 1988, inter-ethnic fighting broke out. This devolved into a war that lasted through May 1994 and likely received little coverage on the nightly news. Here to fill us in on ... More >>

Woman Claims To Have Lost 85 Pounds By Eating All Her Meals At Starbucks

MSNBC reports that a 66-year-old woman has lost 85 pounds by eating all her meals at her local Starbucks. She has an oatmeal and coffee in the morning, and resorts to those pre-packaged boxed meals in the display fridge for her lunch and dinner. It's all about those nutritional labels, she says. It ... More >>

Watching The News Can Make You (Physically) Sick, UC Irvine Study Finds

Planes crashing into the Twin Towers. Bodies washing up on the shore after the Japan tsunami. Bloodied victims being rolled out of the Aurora movie theater.    We watch on our TVs and computers in horror and heartache. And it may be making us sick.  Researchers at UC Irvine studied ne ... More >>

Anaheim's 'Outside Agitators'?

The revolution will have to start without the residents at the riots' epicenter

Weenie Breitbart Columnist: Media Not Reporting on Kelly Thomas Murder Because He's White

I remember weenie Breitbart.com columnist Ben Shapiro when he was a precocious snotnose back at UCLA taking the Hugh Hewitt road to fame: whining he was a conservative in liberal-land, and thus getting a column in the local paper despite exhibiting little talent but a hell of a lot of weenie-ness. H ... More >>

Orly Taitz v. Fox News Anchorbot Megyn Kelly

​Timing must be everything for Orly Taitz. The Aliso Viejo lawyer/dentist/real estate saleslady/Gabor sister/"Queen of the Birthers" started going medieval on Megyn Kelly in December, when the Fox News anchorbot dared host a panel discussion on Barack Obama's presidential eligibility without invit ... More >>

Frank Caliendo on the Super Bowl, Price vs. Madonna and not Being Turrible

​ Frank Caliendo is a funny guy. Yes, he rules in the world of impressions and has been on hit TV shows, but Frank Caliendo the comic is so much more. He exudes natural wit and when he comes to the Irvine Improv this Thursday through Sunday, the humor that Frank Caliendo is bringing to the stage w ... More >>

UPDATED: Rick Santorum Backer to Women: Use Aspirin For Birth Control!

​[UPDATE: Feb. 17: About half a day after making his controversial remarks, Foster Friess did a second MSNBC interview and said he'd been joking. Doubtful most women are laughing.][ORIGINAL POST, 10:42 a.m., Feb. 16:] On MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports this morning, a major backer to Rick Santorum ... More >>

Jonah Mowry, OC Teen Who Got Support From Lady Gaga, Goes On 'Good Morning America' After His Anti-Bullying Video Went Viral

​Pop goddess Lady Gaga is also an active advocate for gay rights. In her latest move, she threw her support -- via Twitter -- behind an OC teen, whose anti-bullying video went viral this week.In the video, 14-year-old Jonah Mowry of Lake Forest uses notecards to tell his story -- a stor ... More >>

Conrad Murray Sued by Newport Beach Attorney Repping Imaging Company

​As if looking at four years in state prison for his role in the King of Pop's death is not bad enough, Dr. Conrad Murray is also facing a lawsuit brought by a Newport Beach attorney on behalf of a Poway nuclear medicine imaging systems company.The complaint against Murray, MSNBC and other media c ... More >>

Loretta Sanchez To Florida Sen. Marco Rubio: You are an Untrustworthy Poseur

Rubio: Look at the flag, not what I lie about.​Two congressional Democrats including Loretta Sanchez tag teamed Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio on MSNBC this afternoon for his fraudulent attempt to hail himself as a victim of Fidel Castro's dictatorial Cuban regime."We don't need someone wh ... More >>

Tom Hanks Namechecks Poorman on Live TV

​If everyone in showbiz was lined up one a pole--and there is no evidence they are not--one would find Tom Hanks and Jim "The Poorman" Trenton at polar opposites.And yet, on live television this morning, the Hollywood mega-star namechecked Newport Beach's most famous sad sack, who in January pulle ... More >>

Comedy Central's Colbert Report On Laguna Woods Marijuana Controversy

​The story of the Laguna Woods senior citizens who established a medical marijuana collective apparently has legs. First reported by the Associated Press and later picked up by numerous television and print outlets including our Navel Gazing blog, the story has finally earned its place in history ... More >>

Fox News Darling of Trumped-Up New Black Panther Voter Intimidation Case to Speak in Newport Beach

​J. Christian Adams, founder of the McLean, Virginia-based Election Law Center and frequent conservative media talking head, is coming to Newport Beach Wednesday to perpetuate something that has been labeled a right-wing fantasy: that New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense members intimidated P ... More >>

War on Christmas Rages in OC's Wealthiest 'Hoods

​Bill O'Reilly, Mike Huckabee and other Fox News blowhards yammer on and on about the "War on Christmas" waged by progressives who choke baby Jeebus in the cradle with their "happy holidays" chatter. Some dare call this fear mongering or lefty smearing, but those patriots are right: There is a War ... More >>

Aretha Franklin Diagnosed with Cancer

​According to Pollstar, Aretha Franklin's family confirmed that the diva has cancer that is possibly inoperable. Franklin went through surgery last week for an undisclosed illness and had canceled all appearances.

Nativo Lopez Cries 'Racist,' Appeals Court Cries 'Defamation'

[Moxley Confidential] Split decision in Overhill Farms case has chilling free-speech implications, dissenting justice asserts

What Do Pot Dispensaries, Cannabis Cowboys and "Glee" Have in Common?

​Fox's high school musical-twisted comedy Glee and segments on KCET/Channel 28's SoCal Connected on medical marijuana dispensaries and pot farm-busting law enforcement officers known as "cannabis cowboys" are among the latest winners of prestigious Peabody Awards honoring the best in electronic ... More >>

Five Recent Interesting Food News Stories To Ponder

If you'd browsed you'd also find these food stories this past week. Just in case you didn't: - Twilight-themed restaurant planned for Wash. town - Associated Press - Chinese Urbanites Drop Chopsticks for 'Western' Food - ABC News - Lawmaker Wants Oyster Policy Reversed - Food Safety News - One Hun ... More >>

Keith Olbermann Weighs in on the John Ziegler WCPAC Kerfluffle

MSNBC's top talker spent some time last night on the confrontation between John Ziegler and David Keene at the Newport Beach Radisson this past weekend: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy If you missed it, Olbermann at one point speculates that Zielger was "de ... More >>

Breaking News Shocker: Gretchen Rossi Will Not Get a Boob Job

These Real Housewives' are real!​Fox News has just broken this jaw-dropping exclusive: Gretchen Rossi will not get a boob job. REPEAT: NO NEW BOOBS FOR GRETCHEN ROSSI! Oh, the humanity! Seriously, what happened to humanity?

Friday Film Funnies: Larry "Nativo" Lopez

My email and Facebook in-box have been invaded with the news that longtime Latino activist/racialist Larry "Nativo" Lopez was arrested on felony counts of voter fraud this Wednesday. We'll see whether the charges (that he voted in Boyle Heights but lives in OC), but my only comment at this point is ... More >>

Chicago

Cerritos Center

Raving Genius

Network

Mad As Hell

Network

Pete Weitzner (and Pete Wietzner) held hostage, Day 7

Remember this post from exactly a week ago? Well, the W-I-E-T-Z-N-E-R Watch continues...Daybreak OC web peeps still haven't changed Pete's last name to the correct spelling...really, if Daybreak OC doesn't give a shit about their own people, how is Orange County expected to give a shit about thei ... More >>

Golden Nugent

Ted Nugent

Hugh Hewitt Worst Person in the World!

To tell you the truth, I haven't regularly watched Keith Olbermann since his days as a sportscaster on KTLA-TV Channel 5 and KCBS-TV Channel 2--and even as an elementary school wab, I found him annoying. I hear his MSNBC show The Countdown is pretty entertaining--but again, I find him irritating so ... More >>

California High Court Okays Prosecutor-Movie Director Deal

California's Supreme Court yesterday reversed a lower court's finding that a Santa Barbara County prosecutor should have been disqualified in the sensational Jesse James Hollywood (pictured, upper left) murder trial after forming a partnership with a movie director. Veteran deputy district attorne ... More >>

So, Lukewarm, Then?

Medium Cool

I Ask for the Journalism Gods To Rain Bad Karma

Perhaps its the Makers Mark that the Weekly's late, great Commie Girl bought me, but when someone at Pangea yelled "There's the news camera!" I sprung into action, Besides making ridiculous faces and pretending to get in a fight with Garden Grove City Council candidate Paul Lucas (who maintained his ... More >>

Comic-Con 2007: Of Paramount Disappointment, plus Jessica Alba and Peter Fonda

Damn, the lines here suck. Used to be that Comic-Con got bigger every year, and they expanded the available space to fit. Then the space ran out, and stuff kept getting bigger anyway. I wait in line half an hour for the Paramount panel, and don't even get close to getting in. Regroup. An hour later ... More >>

LBC on TV

In terms of media attention, Long Beach has always languished in the shadow of the colossus of the north, L.A. And of course, it has never provided TV networks with the hours of advertising-delighting conspicuous consumption that OC has (The OC, The Real Housewives of…, Laguna Beach). But t ... More >>

Iraq notes (Gratitude and Napoleon edition)

Two quick notes on Iraq. First, in an interview broadcast on last night's 60 Minutes, President Bush was asked "if he owes the Iraqi people an apology for botching the management of the war". His response, "Not at all", will come as no surprise to anyone who has noticed over the past six years that ... More >>

Fresh Perspective

"Fresh perspective" and "new eyes" have been Bush administration buzzwords since the nomination of Robert Gates to be Secretary of Defense was announced. Whether the eyes of Mr. Gates-- which saw no evil when he was the Number 2 man at the CIA while the Reagan administration was busy undermining th ... More >>

Crash Test Dummy

The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap

Cheeseburgers and Patsies in the White House

If it wasn't for the cheeseburgers, I might have found this morning's resignation of White House Chief of Staff Andy Card touching. Certainly the reporters– and I use that word loosely– on the various cable news stations did, but then they were just following the White House's lead and i ... More >>

Protecting California from Grannies

State Senator Joe Dunn's (D-Garden Grove) investigation into the California National Guard's spying on political activists was featured on the KGO evening news yesterday. Whether the story on San Francisco's ABC affiliate will help raise the profile of the investigation remains to be seen, but this ... More >>

The Grinch Who Stole O'Reilly

Our rootstacular music contributor, Buddy Seigal (who in another life is rootstacular musician extraordinaire Buddy Blue) sent this in to us a couple days ago, at which time we muttered into the curb, "If ever that Clockwork blog is up and ruining again, we'll share this with our vast reader." But w ... More >>

Spinning Out of Control

How Mark LeVine survived The OReilly Factor

Burning Bush

The presidents conservative critics

Faultless

Haidl team hits TV and newspapers to blame alcohol, porn, society, police and victim in alleged gang rape

Cash for Chaos

Mark Levines spring break in Falluja

Adios, Maria

As Shriver resigns from NBC News, millions wonder: Who will do the stories of rich women who cant have everything they want?

Negrology

The Glory of Soloman Burke

Anti-War Fun