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• Political Nanny: McCain Gets Grilled on 'The View'

  The women of ABC's The View grilled John McCain in a way we haven't seen before (which, for many, is rather depressing). They did let him redirect the conversations more than once. For example, Joy had him going on having approved the ad accusing Obama of wanting Kindergartners to take part in comprehensive sex education and suddenly Barbara's talking "lipstick on a pig." But at least some of those questions have been put out there to the Senator himself.   Read More... Posted Sep 12 2008, 02:25 PM by TheNewsJunkie with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: the view, ABC, barbara walters, political nanny, John McCain, morning news

• Move Over SuperNanny Meet the SuperManny!

  Move over Jo Frost and take your British accent, sensible suits, and disapproving stares to your own fantasy land of well behaved and nicely mannered rug rats. There’s a new testosterone toting sheriff in town. Say hello to the SuperManny, a spin off of the highly rated behavior modification program... Read More... Posted Aug 22 2008, 11:32 AM by SunnyChanel with | with no comments Filed under: television, tv, ABC, supernanny, Supermanny

• Extreme Makeover Home Now In Foreclosure

  Tell me you didn't think "cha-ching!" the first (only?) time you ever watched ABC's wildly popular reality show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." I mean, come on. Families living on the edge are suddenly given more than a half-million dollar asset. You knew, we all knew, at least some of them were going to leverage all that stainless steel and terrazo and square footage into real cash money.  Well, at least one beneficiary of soul-patched Ty Pennington's crew and Sears' product placement, errr, I mean generosity, and a town's skilled workers has turned over their extremely madeover home to the bank. The exquisitely appointment mini-mansion is in foreclosure. The family is back to where they started -- broke and with nowhere to live.   Read More... Posted Jul 30 2008, 06:02 PM by TheNewsJunkie with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: ABC, foreclosure, atlanta, housing bubble, bad loans, ty pennington, poor families, rags to riches back to rags, easy credit, Extreme Makeover: home edition, the harpers

• DVD Review: Our Country, USA to Z

  With July 4th coming up in a couple of days, many of us are feeling patriotic. But in our current political climate, patriotism can be a highly charged topic. Personally, I think you should be able to love your country without buying into the ideology of a particular person or political party. More "celebrate what's great about America" and less "keep the immigrants out." "Our Country, USA to Z" (Team Baby Entertainment) is more the former than the latter. Narrated by Whoopi Goldberg in her usual slightly sleepy-voiced style, this is (mostly) politics-free patriotism. Read More... Posted Jul 02 2008, 03:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: children, television, entertainment, Ben Affleck, baby, tv, politics, babies, ABC, DVD, hillary clinton, america, Republican, abcs, democrat, Whoopi Goldberg, election, John McCain, president, Brett Singer, review, 2008, barrack obama, patriotism, political, joe mcdermot, our country usa to z, home video, patriotics, july 4th, usa, united states of america, united states, patriotic, politician, pledge of allegiance, team baby entertainment, election 08

• Attack of the Monkey Children

  When your children get older and (finally!) move out of the house, what are your plans? a)    Move to a smaller place b)    Turn their room into a casino c)    Adopt a monkey No, I didn't make that last one up. Amazingly, there are people that, when confronted with so-called "empty nest" syndrome, decide that the thing to do is to adopt a monkey. Read More... Posted Jul 01 2008, 04:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: children, television, youtube, news, tv, orlando, parents, Google, ABC, florida, wtf, pets, monkeys, boingboing, Brett Singer, surrogate, jim johnson, sentinel, monkey, lori johnson, primetime, abc news, capuchin

• Political Nanny: No Cat Fight, But Liz Sheds Some Tears

  Michelle Obama was guest co-host this morning on ABC's The View. It was her first appearance on the show. The other hosts -- well, those who didn't burst into tears (more on that in a sec.) -- we're visibly thrilled to have her on.   Read More... Posted Jun 18 2008, 05:02 PM by TheNewsJunkie with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: the view, ABC, Laura Bush, barack obama, elisabeth hasselbeck, michelle obama, barbara walters, Whoopi Goldberg, matthew broderick, michelle obama hosts the view, praise for laura bush

• Elisabeth Hasselbeck's Boobs are Hard

  The View hostess and resident babymaker Elisabeth Hasselbeck told the audience this week that her boobs were hard. Seems she's experiencing a bit of engorgement due to the weaning of her second child, son Taylor. Hasselbeck does a hint of fondling early on in a video of the segment ... Read More... Posted Jun 04 2008, 04:31 PM by TheNewsJunkie with | with no comments Filed under: the view, ABC, elisabeth hasselbeck, barbara walters, Whoopi Goldberg

• 2-Foot 9-Inch Woman Survives Pregnancy

  And you thought YOU had run out of room in your ribcage during pregnancy. Christianne Ray survived pregnancy and childbirth despite having a very rare kind of dwarfism, spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia, which left her at only 2 feet 9 inches tall.   She got pregnant at 19 and panicked, because she and her boyfriend were young. And also because she didn't know whether physically she'd be able to carry a healthy child -- and survive. The first OB/Gyn she saw recommended abortion.   Read More... Posted Feb 08 2008, 09:22 AM by TheNewsJunkie with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: ABC, teen pregnancy, little mommies, high-risk pregnancy, teenager, teen sex, teenage motherhood, little people, dwarfism

• American Academy of Pediatrics Pressures ABC To Cancel Pilot

  ABC is set to air the pilot of Eli Stone, a new legal drama, on Thursday.  But if the American Academy of Pediatrics has its way, the episode will be yanked before anyone gets a chance to see it.   Read More... Posted Jan 29 2008, 04:32 PM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: autism, ABC, american academy of pediatrics, vaccines, Eli Stone

• Mom Elizabeth Vargas Takes Blame for Faulty and Unsupportive Work Environment

  Last year, Elizabeth Vargas stepped down as co-anchor of World News Tonight with Bob Woodruff and also gave birth to her second son, Samuel Wyatt.  Some people believe she was asked to quit, but she denies it, claiming instead that her husband was concerned that the hours spent away from her first child, 3 year old son Zachary, were taking a significant toll on him.  Notice a pattern here?  Woman tries to work long hours in Type A (traditionally male) field, woman quits, worried husband/father is assuaged, company is blameless.  But come on!! Who are we kidding here, Elizabeth? Read More... Posted Jan 24 2007, 09:09 AM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: celebrity, birth, ABC, Elizabeth Vargas, World News Tonight, Charles Gibson, Marc Cohn, pregnancynancy