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Booked!

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:00:08 -0400

No need to channel surf! Here's a list of notables on late night tonight. We'll post each weekday, for your convenience!

The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:30pm): Michael J. Fox, musical guest The Fray.

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm): Gwyneth Paltrow, Joel McHale, musical guest John Mayer Trio (rerun).

Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, 12:05am): Ty Pennington, writer David Sedaris, musical guest The Jonas Brothers (rerun).

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC,...

Booked!

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:44:44 -0400

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The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:30pm): Jessica Biel, Zach Galifianakis, musical guest Steve Earle.

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm): Tom Hanks, musical guest Green Day (rerun).

Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, 12:05am): Paris Hilton, Ken Jeong, musical guest Blink 182 (rerun).

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 12:35am): Ice-T, Elmo, Morgan...

Booked!

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:11:22 -0400

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The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:30pm): Actor Johnny Depp, actress Megan Fox.

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm): Sacha Baron Cohen as "Bruno,” Cirque du Soleil.

Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, 12:05am): Actor Shia LeBeouf, actress June Diane Raphael, musical guest Eric Hutchinson.

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC, 12:35am): Tiger...

Booked!

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 07:50:50 -0400

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The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:30pm ET): Phoenix (promoting their CD, “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix”).

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm ET): Eva Mendes, musical guest The Dead Weathe.

Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, weeknights 12:05am ET): Actress Kathy Griffin (My Life on the D-List), actor Ramon Rodriguez (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen), musical...

Booked!

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:30:57 -0400

No need to channel surf! Here's a list of notables on late night tonight. We'll post each weekday. for your convenience!

The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:30pm): Actor Ryan Reynolds (The Proposal).

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm): William Shatner, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, musical guest Incubus.

Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, weeknights 12:05am): Actor Ryan Kwanten (True Blood), Roseanne Barr (Roseanne).

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS, 12:35am): Jeff Foxworthy, Gavin DeGraw.

Late...

Booked!

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:27:52 -0400

No need to channel surf! Here's a list of notables on late night tonight. We'll post each weekday. for your convenience!

The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:30pm): Actress Michelle Pfeiffer (Cherie), musical guest Ian McLagen & the Bump Band (promoting their CD, “Never Say Never”).

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm ET/PT): Larry David, Lauren Conrad, musical guest Gavin Rossdale.

Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, 12:05am): TV host Ty Pennington (Extreme Makeover: Home Edition),...

Booked!

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:39:31 -0400

No need to channel surf! Here's a list of notables on late night tonight. We'll post each weekday. for your convenience!

The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS, 11:30pm):

Actor Jack Black (Year One), Dr. M. Sanjayan (Lead Scientist for The Nature Conservancy).

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien (NBC, 11:35pm):

Joe Torre, musical guest Spinal Tap.

Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC, 12:05am):

Actor David Spade (Rules of Engagement), actress Zoe Saldana (Start Trek), musical guest Black...

Newsweek Turns to Tina Tricks: Meet Guest Editor … Stephen Colbert!

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:29:23 -0400

In the two weeks since Newsweek has redesigned, the magazine’s editors have sent out a statement that they intend to sever any and all connection to the turgid, dusty newsweekly of yore. And Jon Meacham, the magazine’s editor, is trying to recapture that age-old magazine editor’s trick for his newly conceived book: buzz.

For the next issue that hits newsstands on June 8, Comedy Central funnyman Stephen Colbert will be Newsweek’s guest editor, The...

Verbose Meredith Vieira Shows Why Men Aren't the Only Virile Ones in News Biz

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:47:24 -0400

Shortly before taking the podium at the 2009 Matrix Awards ceremony honoring women in communications at the Waldorf Astoria on Monday, April 27, event emcee Meredith Vieira of NBC’s Today was explaining to the Daily Transom what female news anchors have over their male counterparts.

“You can’t totally stereotype it,” Ms. Vieira began, as if to soften the point she was about to make. “But there are some men that have a lot of sensitivity...

Webby Award Nominees: From Daily Beast to Digg, NYTimes.com to Salon.com

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:25:15 -0400

The Webby Awards just announced their nominees for their 13th annual awards show. No surprise that NYTimes.com got 13 nominations, including the "Newspaper" category (The New York Observer was also nominated, along with the UK's The Guardian and The Independent). NBC.com and TheOnion.com also received multiple nods, along with The Daily Beast, which received two nominations in the "Best Practices" (maybe it was for the three-part advertorial about handbags?) and "News" categories. There...

Hamburger, He's Good: 'Barest Shadow of a Person' Alan Colmes Plays Co-Host to Stephen Colbert

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:23:24 -0500

Just weeks after The Daily Show with Jon Stewart enlisted Hall & Oates to send off Alan Colmes—lyrics included, "Anytime you need a token liberal/ Nothing but a body to fill the chair/ The barest shadow of a person/ Alan Colmes is always there"—Stephen Colbert has enlisted the former Hannity sidekick as co-host of his Comedy Central show. (For a day anyway.)

The new show—renamed Colbert and Colmes—features a credit sequence in...

Claim: 'Chris Matthews Once Put a Potato in a Blond Wig at His Desk For A Week and No One Noticed'

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:15:47 -0500

Last night on Comedy Central's Colbert Report, host Stephen Colbert teed up a segment called Fallback Position with the following shocking claim: MSNBC's Hardball host Chris Matthews "once put a potato in a blond wig at his desk for a week and no one noticed."

As amazing as that claim is, Mr. Colbert did offer photographic proof....

Colbert Tells Maddow to Fake Awards Like O'Reilly

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:11:26 -0500

On Thursday, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow appeared on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, where she discussed such things as the new king of Bhutan and her lack of Peabody Awards.

"Just for the record, how many Peabody's do you have?" Mr. Colbert asked her at the outset. "I don't have any Peabodys," Ms. Maddow answered.

"I've got a couple," Mr. Colbert boasted before suggesting that she, like Bill O'Reilly, just claim she...

At Comedy Central, Fans In Hats Get Psyched for the Jon and Stephen Show

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:36:38 -0500

Before they started "loading people in" to Comedy Central's "Indecision 2008" special with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, 200 people were lined up outside. Network folks were passing out water and popcorn. The first in line, Siobhan McCarthy, 25, and Valerie Addonizio, 25, had set up shop at 2:45 in the afternoon. Ms. McCarthy and her sister, Fiona, 23, an investment banker, was there too, and they went to the same high school as...

Aaron Sorkin, Times Columnist by Proxy

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:38:20 -0400

Yesterday in her New York Times op-ed column, Maureen Dowd presented one of her signature imaginary dialogues. But instead of imagining her own little Sunday morning playhouse production about the head of Lehman Brothers talking to the Monopoly Guy on a bread line or whatever, she outsourced the effort to her ex-boyfriend, West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin.

This isn't the first time Ms. Dowd has relied on someone else to write her column: On October...

Stephen Colbert's Big Xmas Gift to Us!

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:08:47 -0400

News now from Comedy Central (via Stereogum) that the Colbert Report will be puttin’ on one hell of a Christmas special this year. The November 23rd show will feature Feist, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Willie Nelson, even “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue” Toby Keith—all singing tunes written by Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger. Except for Feist and Keith, each will sing accompanied by Colbert himself, and all will take part in the...

Paterson and the National (Fake) News Spotlight

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:02:14 -0400

Governor David Paterson is set to appear on the Colbert Report tomorrow, according to his official schedule.

Paterson's predecessor Eliot Spitzer appeared on the show, and tried to out-funny the faux-conservative anchor, leading to a profoundly unamusing segment.

In practical terms, it should be a chance for Paterson to grab some of the national exposure he sort of missed out on at the Democratic convention last week, at which a) Chuck Schumer forgot to introduce him...

Stephen Colbert's Tribute to Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:16:30 -0400

Last week, Media Mob offered a flashback of the late Stephanie Tubbs Jones appearance on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. In presenting that clip, we praised Congresswoman Tubbs Jones for her good comedic timing in her interview with Mr. Colbert.

Last night, Mr. Colbert paid tribute to the late Congresswoman by showing some great footage of her improvising an imaginary courtroom show called Judge Tubbs with him. In the bit, a defendant named...

Flashback: Stephanie Tubbs Jones on Colbert

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:38:10 -0400

Stephanie Tubbs Jones, Democratic representative of Ohio's 11th district, died yesterday from a ruptured brain aneurysm at age 58. The Associated Press, CNN, CBS, Fox News and The Washington Post jumped the gun, reporting that Congresswoman Tubbs Jones had died several hours before her doctors confirmed the news.

On Nov. 3, 2005, Congresswoman Tubbs Jones appeared on Comedy Central's then-nascent Colbert Report in the third part of his 435-part series, "Better Know a...

Helen Thomas Goes Prime Time: It's Not CSPAN ... It's HBO

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:04:52 -0400

Tonight, HBO will air a documentary by Rory Kennedy about White House press room mainstay Helen Thomas called Thank You, Mr. President. While less sexy than other HBO fare such as Heidi Fleiss: The Would-Be Madam of Crystal and probably less controversial than Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, it promises to offer journalism buffs some insight into Ms. Thomas' incredible 47-year (and still going strong) career.

The New York Times' Susan Stewart says:

Ms....

O'Reilly Calls Portion of Colbert Audience 'Complete Dunderheads'

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:25:53 -0400

Last night, Bill O'Reilly tried to prove that viewers of The O'Reilly Factor are more intelligent than those of his satirical nemesis Stephen Colbert's Colbert Report.

"Little Stevie Colbert's ratings have been flat lately, even though he's gotten increasingly nasty. And a recent article in The San Francisco Chronicle that Colbert's audience is smarter than the Factor audience," Mr. O'Reilly said. "Of course, that is false."

As Mr. O'Reilly continued, "According...

Maloney to Colbert: 'You Need to Read the Book, Stephen'

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:23:16 -0400

Representative Carolyn Maloney was the lucky guest on Stephen Colbert's recurring feature, "Better Know a District," talking about accents, Central Park, and her new book, Rumors of Our Progress Have Been Greatly...

Stephen Colbert Proud of Self for Not Mocking Robert Novak

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:01:22 -0400

Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert waxed Keith Olbermannian and earnestly refused to mock Robert Novak for his hit-and-run assault on a homeless pedestrian because the syndicated columnist has been diagnosed with a brain tumor.

"Wow," the host said after wishing Mr. Novak well. "I'm pretty impressed with myself right now." Adding, "I am deeply moved by me."

With the time blocked out for a segment about Novak, Mr. Colbert...

Nas on Colbert: 'I Think O'Reilly is Afraid of Me'

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:10:50 -0400

Yesterday, The Observer's Bharat Ayyar reported on MoveOn.org and rapper Nas' protest outside of Fox News headquarters in Manhattan.

Last night, Nas appeared on The Colbert Report to explain himself. When asked by Mr. Colbert why he thinks Fox is racist, Nas (real name Nasir Jones) said, "It's obvious. Everybody that has eyes and ears can see that this guy [Bill O'Reilly] is out of control. He knows what he's doing, you know...

Barbara Ehrenreich is Fighting Back

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:06:23 -0400

Author Barbara Ehrenreich appeared on The Colbert Report last night to promote her book, This Land Is Their Land and offered a rallying cry for class warriors the world over. "I'm fighting back," she said. "But the other side started the war."

"We've had too many employers, say like Wal-Mart, who've made huge amounts of money by squeezing down their workers, not letting them form unions, for example, holding down their wages."

...

James Joyce's Roman Candle Extinguished!

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:48:00 -0400

Today is Bloomsday, that time-honored literary commemoration involving college professors, former English majors, and Irish people of the date on which all of the action of James Joyce’s Ulysses takes place (June 16, 1904). In New York City every year since 1981, Symphony Space has hosted a marathon Bloomsday event featuring all sorts of famous actors reading from the text, and radio station WBAI has broadcast the performances live on 99.5 FM. But The...

Stephen Colbert Gets 'Vanity' Award From Princeton

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:07:38 -0400

Today marks the 261st commencement ceremony at Princeton University. Yesterday marked the day the esteemed Ivy gave an award to Stephen Colbert.

The Associated Press reports that Mr. Colbert was presented with “The Great Princeton Class of 2008 Understandable Vanity Award,” which was mounted on a mirror, during the university’s annual Class Day festivities yesterday in front of an area of the school where George Washington defeated the British in the Battle...

White House Correspondents' Dinner: A Look Back in Laughter (hic!) [sic.]

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:01:45 -0400

Tomorrow night marks the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C. Members of the press corps (including some Media Mob contributors who are already on their way—note low posting rate today!) will have a chance to clink glasses with the president and his cabinet and remind themselves that despite five years of war, an economy some are already calling a Depression, and a painful slog of an election season, it's all in good...

MSNBC's Matthews Seeks 'The Colbert Bump' in Penn.

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:29:25 -0400

Is Chris Matthews serious about running for Arlen Specter's Senate seat? When asked if he planned to run for office on last night's Colbert Report, the host of MSNBC's Hardball was uncharacteristically at a loss for words. In fact, to watch the video, he looked momentarily stricken.

The Huffington Post quotes Mr. Matthews as telling Mr. Colbert, "Did you ever want to be something your whole life, besides this? When you grow up, some kids...

Senator Spitzer?

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:52:38 -0500

In case you missed it, here's Eliot Spitzer on the Colbert Report Monday night, taking some advice about who to appoint to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat if she is elected...

Writers Guild To Picket Comedy Central's Daily Show and Colbert Report

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 19:28:50 -0500

Tonight, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report are set to return to Comedy Central, albeit without their writers, who remain out on strike.

And without certain guests, such as Katrina vanden Heuvel and Naomi Klein who recently turned down invitations to appear on the show.

Those authors, actors, and politicians who do accept invitations to be on the shows on Monday will be forced to cross a picket line. ...

Author Naomi Klein Says 'No' to The Colbert Report

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:51:48 -0500

The Media Mob has learned that Naomi Klein, the liberal Canadian author (most recently of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism) recently turned down an invitation to appear on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, which is set to return to the air, sans striking writer, on Monday, Jan. 7.

Yesterday, we reported that Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation, had likewise refused to cross the picket lines to appear...

Nation Editor Rejects Invitation to Appear on The Colbert Report, Citing 'Solidarity' with Writers

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:46:01 -0500

On Monday, Jan. 7, following in the footsteps of Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, and Conan O'Brien, Comedy Central's Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will return to the airwaves without their shows' writers, who remain on strike. Which guests will cross the picket line to appear on the first night back for The Daily Show and The Colbert Report?

Not Katrina vanden Heuvel, the editor of The Nation, who this afternoon told Media Mob that...

W.G.A. Members Stewart and Colbert to Return Without Writers

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:48:02 -0500

Now we can truly witness how clever Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are on their cable news satire shows. They'll be returning to their daily recordings on Jan. 7. The announcement arrives just days after their network predecessors announced their return to late-night on Jan. 2.

The New York Times reports:

Both hosts are Writers Guild of America members. The guild, in a statement, accused Comedy Central of forcing the two hosts back to...

Late-Night Shows Could Be Back Soon

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:15:57 -0500

There may be no end in sight to the writers strike, but the late-night shows could soon be back on the air anyway.

The Writers Guild said over the weekend that it would be willing to sign individual agreements with media companies, and the independent company that owns The Late Show with David Letterman said it plans to take advantage of that move to work towards a deal, according to several reports. ...

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert Plunge in Repeats

Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:05:09 -0500

Ouch!

TV Decoder reports that the writers' strike has already delivered a nasty lashing to Comedy Central’s smirk-some duo, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

Both 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' and 'The Colbert Report' with Stephen Colbert were forced into repeats on Nov. 5. Since then, in the demographic of viewers ages 25-to-54, 'The Daily Show' is down 35 percent and 'The Colbert Report' is down 28 percent versus the prior fourth quarter...

Lieve for the Moment! Glamour Editor Cindi Welcomes Lebowitz, Colbert, Ephron to Mag’s Big Night

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:56:51 -0500

It felt like a huge sorority reunion at the party before Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year Awards at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday, Nov. 5—but for the comfortingly pantsuited presence of Vanity Fair contributing writer Fran Lebowitz. Did she have an opinion about her colleague Christopher Hitchens’ infamous declaration that most women weren’t funny? “Dorothy Parker was funnier than almost any man alive,” said Ms. Lebowitz, who was there to introduce Toni Morrison,...

Stephen Colbert Goes Glam, Writers' Strike Be Damned

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:21:36 -0500

Last evening, as the writers' strike got into full swing and late-night talk shows halted production, one comedian found a venue for his work. Stephen Colbert was tapped to introduce House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at Glamour's Women of the Year awards, where she received special recognition from the Conde Nast title. So for one night, the only people watching Mr. Colbert were in the packed Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. Mr. Colbert's introduction--in...

Better on the Box: Colbert Book Bombs

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:44:31 -0400

I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!)
By Stephen Colbert
Grand Central, 230 pages, $26.99

As cultural phenomenon and confused little man, Bill O’Reilly has never been more hopelessly endearing than when he went public a few weeks back with the discovery that colored folks chew and swallow when they eat.

“This is what white America doesn’t know,” he explained in that now-infamous radio broadcast, “They think the...

Klein Passes the Colbert Test

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:19:23 -0400

Schools Chancellor Joel Klein was on the Colbert Report last night talking about the city's plan to pay public school students for academic success. The controversial issue was put through the critical analysis that only Comedy Central can offer. You can watch the video over here.

Colbert: You can invest that money in nerds to do your term paper in eighth grade.

Klein: I have a better idea....

Pow! Whap! Ka-Ching! The Comic Con Report

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:00:00 -0500

Before Gary Coleman arrived for autographs, before Wonder Woman waylaid Stephen Colbert, before a troupe of Jedi Knights performed what can only be described as an interpretive light-saber dance—before all this and the million other oddities of the second New York Comic Convention, there were the fanboys, the culture industry’s most valued consumer. “We’re in!” shouted Mickey Silberstein, an earnest and, yes, lightly pimpled 17-year old, when he arrived at the Comic Con on...

The Illusionist

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 04:49:54 -0500

If you missed Bill O'Reilly's appearance on the Stephen Colbert Show last night, here's a snippet of the exchange towards the end. BO I'm not a tough guy. This is all an act. SC You're breaking my heart. BO You know, I'm sensitive, I'm - SC If you're an act, then what am I? More of that surreal interview here. -- Azi...

Fake News, Real Smears

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 05:22:07 -0400

Here's a clip of John Hall's appearance on last night's Colbert Report. About half-way through the interview, host Stephen Colbert told the novice politician, "You have actually got a shot in this race. You might actually win. And I oppose everything you stand for. But you were willing to talk to me and your opponent, Sue Kelly, was not. So let's move your numbers right here. Let's smear your opponent." That's when the "smear cards"...

Major Owens Gets the Colbert Treatment

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:44:07 -0400

The Colbert Report's Better Know a District segment profiles New York's 11th, and while funny, our only complaint is that Major Owens didn't drop a rhyme for us. —Nicole...

Letters

Sun, 21 May 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Two Presidents Do Not Make a Right To the Editor: Bruce Feirstein’s “Message From Mahmoud! Dear President Bush: We’ve Got Lots in Common” [New Yorker’s Diary, May 15] is truly trying to be funny, while comparing rotten apples with ripe California oranges. I read the letter from the President of Iran, and frankly, I didn’t think there were any people left with a measure of pure common sense and ordinary decency. But the letter...

Letters

Sun, 14 May 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger

To the Editor: I enjoyed Chris Lehmann’s critique of Stephen Colbert’s performance at the White House correspondents’ dinner [“The Smarmies of the Night,” May 8]. I think that he got closer to the reality of what went on than most that covered the event. I think he may have missed the essential point, though. Mr. Colbert wasn’t really interested in making anyone in...

Letters

Sun, 14 May 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Tip of the Hat, Wag of the Finger To the Editor: I enjoyed Chris Lehmann’s critique of Stephen Colbert’s performance at the White House correspondents’ dinner [“The Smarmies of the Night,” May 8]. I think that he got closer to the reality of what went on than most that covered the event. I think he may have missed the essential point, though. Mr. Colbert wasn’t really interested in making anyone in the room laugh:...

The Smarmies of the Night

Sun, 07 May 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Stephen Colbert was asked, just after the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on April 29, how the President and First Lady received his evening’s routine. He launched into an account of the pre-party they hosted before the dinner, the highlight of which was his opportunity to introduce one of his right-wing brothers to the President. The brother then turned to the Comedy Central star and said, “You’re the family martyr.”

Right, but how...

The Smarmies of the Night

Sun, 07 May 2006 20:00:00 -0400

Declaration of War Against Salon

Thu, 04 May 2006 09:12:11 -0400

BEGUN AND HELD IN THE TRANSOM'S TINY MESSY OFFICE AT 915 BROADWAY, 9TH FLOOR, ON THE FOURTH OF MAY, TWO THOUSAND AND SIX. WHEREAS, for too long, beer-sharing, staff-crossover (we're looking at you, Rebecca Traister and Suzy Hansen) and mutual liberal head-nodding has taken place between the staffs of the New York Observer and Salon.com, and; WHEREAS, Salon.com Editor in Chief Joan Walsh thinks that Observer D.C. correspondent Chris Lehmann eats babies, or at least is...