Daily Commentary - Friday, October 30th, 2009 - Ellen Asks a Question of Kate Gosselin … “why do people care about you?”

• Ellen DeGeneres recently interviewed Kate Gosselin on her talk show and asked, “why do people care about you?” Good question!

ESPN’s Steve Phillips Affair with mistress Brooke Hundley … Fatal Attraction, the Sequel … Pics and 911 Call

The movie Fatal Attraction comes to real life in the Steve Phillips-Brooke Hundley affair …

What is going on at ESPN? What was Steve Phillips thinking? Not only did Steve Phillips probably ruin his sports career with ESPN and elsewhere more importantly, he also ruined his marriage as his wife Marni Phillips has filed for divorce (divorce complaint). All over a three night stand. Guys might want to read this full story before ever thinking about cheating on your wife. It would appear that Steve Phillips never saw the movie Fatal Attraction.

Steve Phillips, left, Brooke Hundley, rt

46 year old Steve Phillips, ESPN baseball analyst and former GM of the NY Mets, has been implicated in a sex scandal with his 22 year old production assistant Brooke Hundley. The affair came to light as the jilted lover cyberstalked Phillips son. It’s bad enough that Steve Phillips had to have an affair, but to put his wife and family in harms way. He should be ashamed. All one has to do is listen to the 911 call below to hear the fear in Marni Phillps voice.

Hundley also contacted their 16-year-old son through the Internet, the report says. She set up a Facebook account using the name of a schoolmate and impersonated another student to reach him via AOL Instant Messenger.

“She asked specific inappropriate questions about my parents such as: ‘Do they sleep in the same bed?’” the son told cops. “‘Do you think they will be getting a divorce?’”

Then placed a very inappropriate letter to Phillips wife at her home.

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The Dana Pretzer Show On Scared Monkeys Radio - Thursday, October 15, 2009 - Special Guests: Blink on Crime, Mark Williams, Robin Sax, Carmen Mercer, Sean Burke and Diane Dimond

Listen to the Dana Pretzer Show on Scared Monkeys Radio

Tonight Dana Welcomes Special Guests:

• Blink from Blink On Crime Discussing the Haleigh Cummings and Casey/Caylee Anthony cases.
• Mark Williams, Florida Newsman and Nancy Grace regular discussing the Casey/Caylee Anthony case.
• Robin Sax Discussing her new book  “It Happens Every day”  .
• Carmen Mercer from the Minute Men Project discussing her new book and how the Obama government is trying to take power away from Sheriff Joe Arpaio
• Sean Burke Founder of The Paparazzi Reform Initiative
• ET correspondent Diane Dimond discussing Jon and Kate Plus or Minus Eight  

 The Dana Pretzer Show On Scared Monkeys Radio - Thursday, October 15, 2009 - Special Guests: Blink on Crime, Mark Williams, Robin Sax, Carmen Mercer, Sean Burke and Diane Dimond [77:10m]: | Download

More Obama Art … Art Imitating, Um, Art … Or is it Plagiarizing Art? (Watusi - L’Escargot)

Obama’s choice in art seems to snail, sorry pale in comparison to the real deal.

Who knew that “Watusi” actually translated to “L’Escargot?”  This White House certainly has an eye for detail. Oops, Mr. President … that looks an awful lot like a snail.

 “Watusi (Hard Edge),” by Alma Thomas

Art? Looks like the collage I made in the 3rd grade.

What’s up with the Obama art collection in the White House? First we have the “art of Maybe,” now we have the art of plagiarism.

From Michelle Malkin via the Free Republic comes this little artistic remake gem.  

Today, a Free Republic poster notices another of the Obamas’ curious art choices: “Watusi (Hard Edge),” by Alma Thomas, who is described by the NYTimes as “a longtime Washington resident who is an African-American painter.”

L’Escargot, left, Watusi, right

The Gateway Pundit confirms that there is a fraud in The White House. But we already knew that didn’t we? What a metaphor.

This is cool, Brian Ledbetter at Snapped Shots has an animation overlay of the two pieces of art. Glad to see someone has an eye for detail.

National Organization for Women (NOW) Blasts David Letterman Over Affair with Staff … “promoting a hostile, uncomfortable work environment”

Wow, who saw this coming? NOW goes after Letterman … promoting a hostile, uncomfortable work environment.

It appears that NOW does not find David Letterman’s affair a laughing matter.

You’ve come a long way baby, except on the David Letterman Show

NOW, the National Organization for Women has sharply criticized comedian David Letterman, accusing him of promoting a hostile, uncomfortable work environment. Yes, that’s exactly what he did by having an affair with a staffer. When one is in charge of hiring and firing, who is to say what another perceives on what is the standard into getting ahead.

NOW gets a hat tip for speaking out against Letterman.

“The latest Letterman controversy sheds new light on the widespread objectification of women in the workplace,” NOW said in a statement Tuesday. “Most women can attest to the fact that many workplaces are plagued with inappropriate behavior by men in power.”

The “Late Show With David Letterman” host admitted last week on his CBS program that he had sex with unnamed employees and had testified about those liaisons before a New York grand jury as part of an alleged extortion attempt.

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David Letterman Affair Scandal Boosts Rating … Rewarding Bad Behavior & Hypocrisy

Affair scandal is suck a ratings winner that maybe Letterman will make this a permanent piece on the show like the Top 10 List. Maybe he can call it “Stupid Dave getting Tricks”.

Hmm, how can I turn this affair into a ratings grabber?

The Letterman apology for his cheating ways with having affairs with staffers of The David Letterman Show have boosted his ratings. How sad that Letterman be rewarded for bad behavior and embarrassing his wife.

His apologies meant another big night in the ratings. The Nielsen Co.’s overnight measurement of the nation’s 56 biggest markets netted Letterman’s “Late Show” a 4.2 rating - higher than anything rival NBC had in prime-time.

Nielsen didn’t immediately have an estimate of the size of Letterman’s audience. The overnight rating was slightly less than Thursday’s show, when 5.8 million people watched Letterman say he had been the victim of a $2 million blackmail threat that led him to reveal he had sex with staff members.

ABC asks the question whether David Letterman’s apology will work. Work how? It already has in the ratings and to those in TV land, what else matters? Letterman has been public about his being a “victim” in all this, but what about the staffers? And what about his wife!

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Daily Commentary - Monday, October 5th, 2009 - Letterman and Extortion … CBS Scrubs Videos on YouTube

• Dana feels it’s inappropriate for Letterman to be cracking jokes about the man who tried to extort him over an affair with a staffer.

Keeping quiet about an apparent extortion attempt against David Letterman and “The Late Show,” CBS worked over the weekend to stamp out unauthorized copies of the late-night host’s televised explanation.

 

Copies of the segment were uploaded almost immediately to YouTube by users, but many of them were flagged by CBS for removal, citing copyright claims. The network did not provide an official copy.

 

“It’s incredibly odd to see CBS sitting on viral gold like that, especially when you consider how they spew out dozens of official clips a day,” said David Burch, a marketing director at TubeMogul, which tracks online viewership of videos.

Michael Moore’s Movie “Capitalism” Tanks at Box Office … Blame it on Capitalism

File this one under the category of it couldn’t happen to a better person. Michael Moore’s latest pro-socialist.Commie movie, “Capitalism,” tanks at the box office. Define irony, a movie by Moore called “Capitalism” that is anti-capitalist that fails miserably due to true capitalism … the ability of “We the People” to determine what we want by voting with the wallets.

As Big Government points out, a movie that crashes capitalism in a capitalist country fails, go figure. More from Steve Mason.

The biggest disappointment of the weekend is Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story (Overture). After a $57K per theatre average on 4 screens last weekend, the picture broke to a wider 962 locations with terrible results. The “documentary” only sold an estimated $1.3M in tickets to start the weekend, and it will finish at about $3.9M for a PTA of less than $4,000. That soft opening will almost certainly make Capitalism Moore’s weakest-grossing movie since 2002’s Bowling for Columbine ($21.5M domestic gross).

As the Gateway Pundit states, even after all the state run media publicity, it still tanked!

Just curious Mr. Moore, if you hate capitalism so much and you claim it is so evil, then why have you accepted the millions of dollars you have from the system of capitalism for your past movies? It couldn’t be because you are a hypocrite? If you are so anti-capitalist, why aren’t your movies and documentaries put on the Internet for free?

Michael David Barrett Arrested at O’Hare airport in Connection with Taping Nude Videos of ESPN Reporter Erin Andrews

Michael David Barrett was arrested Friday night at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport and is accused of taping nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews. Barrett, the 48 year old man from Westmont, Illinois is to appear in federal court on Saturday and is facing federal charges of  interstate stalking for taking the videos, trying to sell them to celebrity Web site TMZ and posting the videos online. Seven of the eight videos posted online were taken through a modified door peephole while the 31 year old, ESPN reporter, Andrews was alone and undressed in hotel rooms in Nashville, TN.  

FBI agents said they believe Barrett called many hotels to find out where Andrews was staying and requested a hotel room next to hers. Investigators said the eighth video was likely taken at another hotel, which Andrews couldn’t identify. Agents said Barrett, 48, also made reservations at a Milwaukee hotel where she stayed in July 2008. They found her door’s peephole similarly rigged, but he didn’t check in at that hotel and the furniture in the room did not match furniture seen on the eighth video. Barrett tried to sell the videos to TMZ, but an employee there informed Andrews’ attorneys, according to the complaint. FBI agents matched information in the e-mail to Barrett, and also examined telephone records and credit card charges from Barrett’s Nashville hotel stay. Agents also concluded that the videos of Andrews were likely recorded from a cell phone camera.

Criminal complaint filed late Friday against Michael David Barrett, aka Mark Bennett.
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Daily Commentary - Friday, October 2nd, 2009 - Wendy Murphy’s Letter to Whoopi

• Wendy Murphy addresses Whoopi’s statement regarding Roman Polanski in two thoughtful letters, which Dana reads in full.