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Allen West Thinks a Lobbying Organization Is a Government Agency

​Rep. Allen West is looking for cuts to make in the federal government to spare the defense budget, so he thinks there's no reason for the Department of Commerce to exist since there's a lobbying group with a similar name.West seems a bit confused on this one.He says we need to take a hard look at ... More >>

Allen West, AKA Harriet Tubman, Sent His Own Brother to "Plantation Overseer" Maxine Waters

Harriet Tubman​As you may remember, Rep. Allen West -- the self-proclaimed "modern-day Harriet Tubman" -- said the other day that he was starting his own "underground railroad" to get black people away from the "21st-century plantation."Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters, whom West had identified as a ... More >>

Casey Anthony Getting a Bunch of Money in Jail -- Here's How to Do It

​Apparently there is a handful of people -- 17, according to ABC News -- who have sent "Tot Mom" Casey Anthony money while she sits in the Orange County Jail.While there are people out there sending her death threats, some people feel sympathy for her -- or just plain think that bad girls are hot. ... More >>

Another Palm Beach County Schools Worker Found in a Closet Without Pants

compliancesigns.comIf you like to take off your clothes or urinate behind this sign, that's a problem.​If your child goes to a school in the Palm Beach County district, you may want to consider telling him or her to never, ever open a closet at school.Just a couple of weeks removed from Bak Middle ... More >>

MSNBC: South Floridian Oil Man May Have Bribed Jordanian Officials

King Abdullah II​Last month, this blog reported that a Delray Beach oilman named Harry Sargeant III may have overcharged the U.S. government by more than $200 million while fulfilling military contracts. Now, according to MSNBC.com, Sargeant is being accused of bribing Jordanian government officia ... More >>

Joyce Kaufman Stays In Florida to be "Your Biggest Nightmare"

Flickr: ValentinaLWeisKaufman: Still talking.​"I would have been some quiet little chief-of-staff," Joyce Kaufman told listeners on her WFTL-AM (850) radio show. "It's gonna be your biggest nightmare that I didn't go quietly off to Washington." Ah, yes. The woman who urged "bullets" over ballots w ... More >>

For Polo Mogul John Goodman, Other Celebrity DUI Cases Offer Hope of Minimal Punishment

Facebook.comScott Wilson, 23, drowned in a canal after Goodman's Bentley crashed into his car.​As polo mogul John Goodman faces vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter charges for the Wellington car accident that led to the death of 23-year-old Scott Wilson, many wonder if he'll receive special le ... More >>

Allen West Gets "Special Comment" Treatment by Keith Olbermann

We showed you the offending video a few days ago, and it landed right in the wheelhouse of MSNBC's fire-breathing liberal Keith Olbermann. This moment of infamy should help West burnish his right-wing ideologue credentials, but the former Army lieutenant colonel will need to move toward the center ... More >>

On Fox News, Plane Landing in Fort Lauderdale Is Bigger Story Than Health Care Bill

An old editor I used to know gave me a line to use every time someone complained to me that journalists write only about bad news: "Would you rather read an article about a plane that landed safely or about the one that crashed?"For Fox News producers, the mere prospect of a plane crashing was indu ... More >>

George LeMieux Talking Points Get Mangled on Cable News Show

Is there anyone out there besides George LeMieux and his fellow Republicans in Congress who think that this health care issue hasn't been debated to death? To someone who was appointed to the U.S. Senate this past fall, it may seem like health care reform has sneaked up on Congress, but it's been p ... More >>

Metaphor Alert: Merry Christmas Arrested in Boynton

Flickr: DanCentury​Just because your name is "Merry Christmas" doesn't mean you can go resisting arrest during the holiday season. That's allegedly what happened in Boynton Beach, where a 44-year-old woman by that name -- who probably grows irritable every year at this time -- came out of her home ... More >>

A 4-1/2 Hour "Candid" Interview and That's All You Got?

Come on, Joe Cotchett! You had 270 minutes with the financial Osama Bin Laden and you can't even give us a hint about what you learned about his lieutenants? Following the San Francisco attorney's jailhouse heart-to-heartstone with Madoff, Cotchett talked to ABC News, and maybe they're holding back ... More >>

Anchors Away: First Kronkite Dies; Then a Silly Poll Sends Him Spinning in His Grave

time.com This past week, everybody's been talking about this Time.com poll in which the Daily Show's Jon Stewart wins most-trusted-newscaster status. Maybe it means that television news networks have become "disaffected" with network television news? Or that Americans are fed up with stuffy anc ... More >>

Wasserman Schultz Tames Fox News

In her capacity as a leading Democratic surrogate, West Broward Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has had some tense moments while appearing on the allegedly "Fair and Balanced" news network. But two weeks after revealing that in the past year she had seven surgeries to defeat breast cancer, Fo ... More >>

O'Reilly Errand Boy Chases Bloggers Now

Amanda Terkel is the winner in the Blogger-Baiting-O'Reilly Sweepstakes, and she didn't even seem to try. The Think Progress blogger wrote this post after it was announced that Fox News idiot charmer Bill O'Reilly would be the guest speaker at a fundraiser in Manalapan for the It Happened to Alexa F ... More >>

Our Top Story Tonight: Fire Bad!

WSVNGranted, "stimulus packages" sound a lot more telegenic than they actually are. But one would think that a desperate, trillion-dollar attempt to save the American economy would be a sure thing for the top spot on TV newscast. And it might have been until fire struck in Plantation (pictured).Nobo ... More >>

Floridians Brace for Boring Weather Conversations; Prisoner Escapes by Using Dullness

South Florida is under a windchill warning, and while I'm not a weatherman, it is currently so cold outside that I'm issuing a Boring Weather Conversation Alert. You're probably not familiar with the aforementioned and recently invented alert, so here's how it works: When the weather in Florida is m ... More >>

News You Can Lose

South Florida is under a windchill warning, and while I'm not a weatherman, it is currently so cold outside that I'm issuing a Boring Weather Conversation Alert. You're probably not familiar with the aforementioned and recently invented alert, so here's how it works: When the weather in Florida is m ... More >>

Morning Juice: Bees Invade Home You Can't Afford, Moguls May Slap the Dance out of Journalism

The Juice News Team. Bees Invade, Kill WienersA shocking development today in the ongoing story of South Florida's housing crisis. Killer bees that took up residence in an abandoned Riviera Beach home have murdered a neighbor's Dachshunds. While the bees have not made their demands clear, it's evide ... More >>

'Michael the Black Man' Trashes Barack Obama

The former cult member crashed a recent South Florida rally by the presidential candidate.

On The Trail Of A False Report

The former cult member crashed a recent South Florida rally by the presidential candidate.

Idiot Box

The former cult member crashed a recent South Florida rally by the presidential candidate.

Brilliant!

The former cult member crashed a recent South Florida rally by the presidential candidate.

Be Careful Out There

The former cult member crashed a recent South Florida rally by the presidential candidate.

Crash Test Dummy

The loudest, boldest comic actor around takes an endless victory lap.

Jailbait

How does a 65-year-old behavioral biologist explain being exposed as an Internet masher hot for 15-year-old girls?

Box Offices or Briefs?

A weekend of one-act plays

Our Own Smarty-pants

Yes, last week's "exclusive" was a ruse, but it still fooled a few cops and reporters

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Craig Stevens WSVN-TV (Channel 7)

Best Place to People-Watch

Broward County Courthouse

Rick Sanchez Godless Communist

In the ultimate Channel 7 report, the news team discovers a Cuban double agent in our midst.

Best TV News Anchor

Ben Mankiewicz

Best TV News Anchor

Tim Malloy

Best Weathercaster

Chris Dunn

Undercurrents

Chris Dunn

A Do-or-Di Cameraman

The death of Princess Diana had the world in an uproar over paparazzi, which may be why local TV cameraman James Strange recently spent time in jail