Sometimes the jokes just write themselves:
While grappling with MSNBC and CNN for viewers, Fox News has also been battling a smaller, more insidious enemy closer to home: bed bugs in its Midtown Manhattan newsroom. In an interview on Monday, Warren Vandeveer, senior vice president for operations and engineering at Fox News, said the cable channel had realized it had a problem a few weeks ago, when an employee “caught a bug and showed it to us.” An exterminator determined that the incursion was limited to a “very small area in the newsroom.” But the source of the bugs was not determined until the exterminator inspected the homes of about 20 employees. Mr. Vandeveer said the exterminator later described one employee’s home as having “the worst infestation he had seen in 25 years in the business.”
Open Thread below… and rest in peace, Anthony Minghella and Arthur C. Clarke.
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O’Reilly you filthy Paddy, clean your clothes man……
I was thinking the same thing…
Hey, wrapping yourself in duct tape and plastic wrap does have its drawbacks.
Too bad it wasn’t crab lice…
Now that Karl Rove is in the building, suddenly the place is riddled with bugs.
Not the first time.
B
Now when are they going to get to work on removing all the dung beetles from in front of the cameras ?
Fox News will give each bug a tiny flag pin and will call it another Republican national Convention.
As I commented on TP, this is a job for Tom Delay!!
I think we’re all on the same page here as to who is the likely candidate for the infestation.And ,by the way Verdillac, there’s no reason to rule out crabs. Always hope for the best.
“Did I strongly disagree with many of his political views? Absolutely - just as I’m sure many of you have heard remarks from your pastors, priests, or rabbis with which you strongly disagreed. …
In the end, then, what is called for is nothing more, and nothing less, than what all the world’s great religions demand - that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Let us be our brother’s keeper, Scripture tells us. Let us be our sister’s keeper.”
That says it ALL, folks.
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com.....html#links
Maybe BillO can lend someone a loofah to try to clean up the bugs.
Fox News apparently now gives a crab comb and a tube of Kwell with their swag baskets.
-GSD
This helps to explain why so many Foxoids act like they have a bug up their ass.
Roark77 Hussein @ 9:
I know a surefire solution. Bill shaves half his pubic area and soaks the other half with lighter fluid. He sparks it up and stabs the little bastards with an icepick when they run for it. I’m sure it will work.
I was absolutely transfixed by Arthur C. Clarke’s Mysterious World when I was a child. R.I.P. Sir Clarke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzrkkTBbob0
Jess @ 13:
ACC trivia question….How did HAL, the naughty 2001 computer get his name?
“I can no more disown (Rev. Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother,” Obama said, “a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe.”
What a beautiful and courageous speech by Barack today.
Maybe Michelle Malkin left a pregnant bed bug queen behind when she got canned!
Peter G @ 12:
I don’t know Peter, Bill IS a pretty big dick, I imagine he has a pubic area that could carpet a large room. even lighting up half of it…well, let’s just say that fire could be the final straw in global warming.
Peter G @ 12:
He could have Hannity and Colmes do commentary on the event. Just to tie it all together.
Roark77 Hussein @ 18:
And It would be the first and only Fox News show that I would pay to watch
Oh and Heuristically programmed Algorithmic Computer.
Faux should have fingered the person with scabs and scratching a lots.
I have long been a supporter of Mr. Obama. I have talked to friends and family members about him and his message of “change”, alas after hearing Barack’s rhetoric regarding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict I am ashamed of myself and ashamed of having been a staunch supporter of his.
I have just formed a letter alerting all my friends, colleagues and fellow workers, as well as congregation members of the remarks he made today. It seems that Mr. Obama is either not familiar with the facts surrounding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict or is simply choosing to ignore them because he has sold his soul to the highest bidder.
Obama’s comments are a slap in the face to all Israelis and Palestinians alike who have been trying to achieve a lasting peace in the middle east. It is a slap in the face to all the moderates who support his message of change. Yet, it seems the only change he has in mind is limited to the United States. And as he continues the failed policies and hateful and ignorant rhetoric of his predecessor, G.W. Bush, he fails thousands in the Middle East who work hard to find common ground between fellow Jews, Muslims and Christians alike.
Mr. Obama ignores Israel’s continued settlement expansion and arrogant disregard for countless UN resolutions condemning its actions in the West Bank and Gaza. Mr. Obama, it seems, has adopted the narrative of the Israeli right wing Likud party, just like G.W. Bush has done.
I work as a public relations officer at NY based human rights organization and have very colleagues who are prominent members among the Arab/Muslim community. Those Palestinians who have supported and have been instrumental in brining peace to the region have been painted today with a broad brush by Mr. Obama, as hateful and perverse radical Muslims.
This kind of rhetoric will not unify moderates from both sides or bring them together, but it will further alienate them from each other and from a just and lasting peace. Mr. Obama has failed himself today, as well as many Muslims, Arabs and Palestinians. From now on, I will do my best to inform as many voters as I can that Barack Obama is a politician who is pandering to the highest bidder, one who is no different than the current commander in chief, one who is not about honest change as he so eloquently likes to claim.
Shame on you, Senator.
seevee @ 14:
H+1 = I
A+1 = B
L+1 = M
ferrofluid Hussein @ 22:
from memory, btw first computer I used was built by me from components and we used teletype for input output and punched paper tape storage
raise your hand if you give a shit?
previously banned @ 24:
Repug much!
Sometimes, the jokes just write themselves.
WhenIsItEnough @ 26:
agreed, Faux the ‘infested news’ channel
just too hilarious to not think about, wonder who gets to pay child support at Faux.
killthepoor @ 15:
Go Obama!
Go USA!
ferrofluid Hussein @ 23:
Well Done!
I work in the Fox News Building. I hope it doesn’t spread to my office.
BTW, if you can stomach looking at this picture, this is what I have staring down at me every morning when I am waiting for my elevator.
too bad it’s not the plague
Not O’Reilly.
That would have been a STD/VD epidemic
It must have been John Gibson.
Tommykey @ 30:
condolences, our thoughts go out to you.
Cost of Iraq war passes Vietnam
Top economists: Iraq price exceeded only by WWII; 7 of 10 Iraqis want US out.
Jay Severin Has a Small Pen1s @ 32:
if it was oLIElly, it would have been loofa bruises.
Real Change? @ 21:
I watched the whole speech. WTF are you talking about.
Real Change? @ 21:
Whats that expressions? “Lay down with dogs, get up with fleas?”
I guess if you lay down with Fox, you get up with bed bugs.
Real Change?@21
Is this a chain letter? You message is full of hate and confusion. You bark about you being an Obama supporter, I doubt that you were.
You are dense and absolutely off your rocker.
I’m happy to support Obama and his vision of change.
STFU
Go Obama!
Go USA!
When are the Canadians going to get sick of us and invade already?
Firm’s threats stall e-voting analysis
Sequoia warned Princeton professors and New Jersey state election officials.
Roark77 Hussein @ 37:
hey! that’s Ron your talking about. or is it swishbuckler or is it obob?
it’s so hard to tell with these progressive types.
Jared @ 40:
If you go near the border and listen carefully, you’ll hear them sharpening their skates as they plot the invasion.
It is my understanding that Billo’s body language expert found that was Billo that was spreading the bugs.
And the employee was bringing the bugs into the studio how? in his/her lunchbox/sack?
in their clothes? as eggs stuck all over their clothes? I bet nobody at Fox will accept a dinner invitation from them. I bet for 10 minutes the Fox crew stopped talking about Obama.
Cheech @ 1:
thats bordering on racist, not very nice.
Ron@36 A troll Ron. A giant bandwidth sucking troll. For the purposes of further discussion please refer to him as Sillybugger@21
BaScOmBe whose saying “NO REPUGS” @ 42:
They change the nick once in awhile so that people don’t realize that they’re hearing the same crap all the time. It’s kind of like that one Clinton supporter that does nothing but rip on Obama and insult men while she does it.
It is nice to have a troll in the open thread. It gives us something to talk about (sometimes anyway).
Peter G @ 47:
He probably read something on Red State or Free Republic and decided to spread the truthiness.
Peter G @ 47:
The first thing I like to ask these idiots is,”Where did you get your information.” Sometimes not in those words, but it works almost everytime.