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July 21st at 12:04PM

The News News: Sunday, July 20th Edition

POSTED BY: TheInDecider

Every Sunday morning, Noah Garfinkel watches all the network news shows looking for news about the news, or "news news," and then reports his findings here the following day. Join him, won't you?

This week was an amazing week for the Sunday morning news programs. What was the cause of this? An almost unbelievable level of un-preparedness. It was as if all the pundits went on drunken summer vacation this week only to be called back at 9:00 am on Sunday and shoved in front of a camera.

Watch this moment from Fox News Sunday as Brit Hume, using mostly the word "this" and a fake punch, tries to explain the United States' diplomatic strategy.

First of all…no, Brit. Condoleezza Rice did not tell you that. And secondly, it seems unlikely that a foreign leader would be intimidated by your pantomime right jab. Watch out, Ahmadinejad, or Brit might get hungover and try to make you flinch like your big brother used to do.

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I think Hume got the right hook confused with the Jesse scrotum evisceration sequence. Of course, maybe Condi DOES gesture like that. McLaughlin is learning his moves (privately, I hear) from Barney Frank, although I personally know that Barney is much more gentle. And still has his brain between his ears. 30 years of geezer John's tight neckties...see the results? But even though Lieberman made faces, I think he was just looking at Bayh's hair and thinking what I was thinking: How much of that is a rug, and where does the part start and end?

by Biff McGuinness July 21st at 1:27PM
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July 14th at 11:53AM

The News News: Sunday, July 13th Edition

POSTED BY: TheInDecider

Every Sunday morning, Noah Garfinkel watches all the network news shows looking for news about the news, or "news news," and then reports his findings here the following day. Join him, won't you?

With the passing of journalist/commentator/press secretary Tony Snow, the Sunday Morning news shows tried to be tasteful and in doing so were very boring. So boring, in fact, that Rush Limbaugh phoned into Fox News Sunday and still nothing noteworthy happened.

One point of interest, however, was how the McCain campaign tried to get the embarrassing Phil Graham comments out of the news by sending Carly Fiorina to do Meet the Press. Unfortunately, this effort to position her as the new face of the McCain economic team had one fatal flaw -- it's impossible to take economic advice from somebody who looks exactly like Clay Aiken:

They have the same exact head. Try and see if you can even tell them apart in a side-by-side comparison:

Nope. You can't. Bad move, McCain.

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The "Other Woman" on Sunday, 7/13/08's MEET THE PRESS was SEN CLAIRE McCASKILL from MO-- and one of Obama's National Chairwomen. Yes, it's true, world. You -can- be equal parts Lady and Lambaster (with justification, thank you very much). And...I loved it.

by WriterRoss July 15th at 1:20AM
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June 30th at 2:54PM

The News News: Sunday, June 29th Edition

POSTED BY: TheInDecider

Every Sunday morning, Joe Mande and Noah Garfinkel watch all the network news shows looking for news about the news, or "news news," and then report their findings here on the following day. Join them, won't you?

The past week's news cycle was all about Obama flip-flops, McCain flip-flops, and the kind of flip-flops people wear while sandbagging a levee. The news news cycle, however, was only focused on one thing: Laugh Out Loud Moments (LOLM'S).

The big winner this week was Juan Williams, a regular panel member on Fox News Sunday. He tries to stun his fellow pundits by ending an astoundingly long soliloquy about gun control with a series of haunting, childlike rhetorical questions. And he succeeds. Absolutely crushes it. He asks so many questions.