Chyron of the Day

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: CNN Takes a Lesson from Hamas

August 15, 2008 - Remember when conservatives got all up in arms over Hamas TV implying that our president was the anti-christ? Apparently, they don't care at all as much when CNN uses the same exact chyron for...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: It Only Counts if You're White

May 19, 2008 - Morehouse College had its first white valedictorian this year, and that's the kind of story FOX News loves: The kind that exposes the past intolerance of the black establishme...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: Listen Up, Obama

May 13, 2008 - FOX News is trying very hard to give you the advice you need to win, Barack Hussein Obama, so heed their advice: flag pins...everywhere...no such thing as too many. Also, if you could figure out how to get the little spotlight they use here to follow your flag...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: The Wearing of the Green

March 17, 2008 - Yeah, okay, we get it, it's St. Patrick's Day and even though no one would don mouse ears for a foreign policy speech on Halloween, or wear a yarmulka on Good Morning America d...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: Bill Cunnigham: Not Crazy, Just Excitedly Flirtateous

February 27, 2008 - FROLIC verb (frolicked, frolicking) • (of an animal or person) play and move about cheerfully, excitedly • play about with someone in a flirtatious or sexual way: he denied allegations that he frolicked with a secretary. noun (often frolics) • flirtat...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: Beware of Fat People

February 20, 2008 - So the Today Show found a zaftig lady who rides the bus with a fake book cover reading "Fat Is Contagious: How Sitting Next to a...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: The Today Show Makes Us an Offer We Can't Refuse

February 12, 2008 - Okay, Today Show, calm down. We get that you saw The Godfather for the first time last night and got all excited and started telling people not to ask you about your business in a bad-Brando accent, but I think you took it one s...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: Alliteration Happy

February 6, 2008 - It's okay not to do this; not everything has to start with the same consonant. We'll still read your chyrons--we have to--we're at the gym and can't hear what you're saying...and the guy at the front desk lost the remote so we...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: What FOX News and Hamas Have in Common

January 14, 2008 - I feel like there's some subliminal answer suggested to this question, Hamas TV, but I'm just not getting it. I do like that even terror groups have learned the FOX News trick (that...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: The U.S. Navy Is Full of Pussies

January 9, 2008 - How could they not blow up those Iranian ships? They were there, they were Iranian, what's the problem...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: Go Huck Yourself

January 3, 2008 - Media outlets can't resist screwing with Mike Huckabee's name. Like bugs to those lamps that kill bugs, they flock, desperate to bask in the glow of their own wit. While FOX News was the only outlet to use the candidate's name in lieu of a dirty word...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: We Report, You Decide (Again)

December 6, 2007 - Welcome to another edition of 'We Report You Decide'--a socially important, scientifically accurate poll that determines which FOX News chyron is the most viscerally offensive for the day in ques...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: Christmas Makes People So Lazy

December 11, 2007 - Christmas is sort of about tradition, but it's mostly about television. Watching those awesome old holiday flicks that look like they pre-date animation, screaming at Fli...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: Black People Get Their Hair Done

November 30, 2007 - Good Morning America--always a bastion of open-minded racial discourse--has begun to refer to black women in the south as the 'hair salon vote.' They totally saw Beauty Shop wit...

From The Room: Chyron of the Day: France Wants to Be U.S.'s Baby Daddy, U.K. Not Down

November 15, 2007 - Maybe it's that FOX News thinks of all Europeans as sex-crazed fops, or maybe John Gibson and Heather Nauert have been watching too much Jerry Springer, but either way this chyron makes me want to call someone "son," and watch an old Brenda-Kelly-Dylan episode of 90210...