The Hose Offers Ana Marie Cox a Job

Now that Air America is gone, former Wonkette Editor/Recent White House Correspondent/General Internet Personality/Pretty Hot Redhead Ana Marie Cox is out of a job. This is a huge opportunity for us. One we intend to capitalize on.

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The synergies are obvious. Ana Marie is a big deal, a known quantity and brings her own fanbase. She also has major balls - who else would take on the future Managing Director of Corporate Relations for Goldman Sachs in such a direct manner. The Hose could benefit greatly from her sharp political mind. For her, she gets a forum from which to continue her tough brand of political reporting.

So after much discussion with our finance team and strategy team we have agreed to extend an offer to AMC to occasionally comment on my increasingly inane posts, retweet any Hose articles she finds entertaining to her fanbase and explain teabaggers to xTian and Sparks.

AMC - please reach us on thehose@gmail.com. According to your twitter feed you have been drinking since the AirAmerica announcement. It's my hope that are you still drunk and will seriously consider this offer


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Shocker at the WSJ

Did anyone see the front page of the Wall Street Journal today? There in bold, two-inch font was the banner headline: "Colleagues Finger Billionaire."

What are we to make of this? Are we, as a country, mature enough to ignore the double entendre? Am I the only one that got a giggle out of seeing this in the conservative/financial paper of record?

I found it particularly amusing given that the paper's owner, Rupert Murdoch, married a colleague half his age who has almost certainly had to finger the old billionaire. Is this an editorial swipe at the new owner, or just Finance with a Fox Attitude?

PS - I usually like to add a photo to my posts, but typing "finger" into Google Images proved to be a treacherous experiment in workplace inappropriateness.

PPS - Update! Xtian pointed me to a good picture of the front page in question.

Bad Journalism Round Up

Entry One:
The Planet Money Guys managed to pick a fight with Congressional Bailout Monitor and Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren. They then took the interview and spliced it down so they could focus on the segments where she shrieked at dumbass correspondent Adam Davidson the loudest. They then wrapped it in a nice bow by goofing on her for ten minutes while not explaining her position while Alex Blumberg giggled approvingly. After a week's worth of listener revolt they finally put up the full interview here and asked to be left alone.

Way to make yourselves part of the story guys...The Giant Pool of Money was great but clearly you are getting too big for your britches. Go away please, we're done with you.

Entry Two:
The NY Times is still getting it blog legs under them it seems. They totally misread Jimmy Kimmel's routine at the ABC TV Upfronts as awkward and poorly received to the point where they were wondering if Jimmy was getting canned. They were the first on this story, unfortunately no one joined them. Especially after everyone remembered that Jimmy predicted the firing of the TV head at his first appearance in 2002. Jimmy bit back through proxies (Bill Simmons on Twitter and in his mailbag) and everyone had a good laugh about how off base the NY Times was.

Manolo Reads The Paper

A few days ago, xTian posted the front page of the New York Post.

Today, I give you the NY Times online version that greeted me this morning (perhaps I should clear the cookies in my browser cache).

Since we are done with American Idol, I think one of our analysts should start working on the Mark Sanchez bracket...

Everyone should look at the Jets calendar (minicamp, exhibition games, regular games) and guess when one of the NY tabloids will actually run out of single entendres and splash the back page (or front page) with "Dirty Sanchez." The actual reason doesn't matter. It could be something he does in a game or it could be something like impregnating a 16-year old American Apparel model at his next photo shoot...

The NY Post Just can't Contain themselves

Nothing interesting happened yesterday (in the WHOLE WORLD) so the NY Post ran a front page cover of Mark Sanchez with a model. The article on page 39 is under the title "Flirty Sanchez". Basically, the copy editors have so many single entendres ready for this guy they are going to waste the obvious ones in the spring before he throws a pass.

Read the article here

Meanwhile, peace out Tom Brady. Mark is one impregnation of a supermodel/B list actress away from being the king of all of footballdom.