Fox News infested by bed bugs.
By on Mar 18th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Fox News infested by bed bugs.
Fox News’s senior vice president for operations and engineering, Warren Vandeveer, admitted to the New York Times yesterday that Fox’s Midtown Manhattan newsroom was recently infested with bed bugs. “An exterminator determined that the incursion was limited to a ‘very small area in the newsroom,’” but added that the home of the employee who brought the pests into work had “the worst infestation he had seen in 25 years in the business.” Vandeveer says the bugs have now been “totally eradicated.” (HT: HuffPo)
Update A source at Fox News told ThinkProgress that the employee with the bed bugs infestation is no longer with the network.
Update TV Newser first reported on Fox's bed bug problem back in November.
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Quick! This is a job for Tom Delay!
March 18th, 2008 at 2:46 pmO’Reilly is bringing his vermin to the studio, too?
March 18th, 2008 at 2:46 pmDon’t make too easy.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:46 pmVandeveer says the bugs have now been “totally eradicated.”
… and added, “Steve Doocy will be sorely missed.”
March 18th, 2008 at 2:47 pmIt’s probably a great place to pick up herpes, too.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:49 pmDid they mention crabs?
March 18th, 2008 at 2:49 pmFox has bed bugs.
NYC is infested with them.
Next topic please.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:49 pmThose aren’t the only bugs in that place.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:49 pmWait, those were not bed bugs, they were the newscasters.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:50 pm…. Nah, too easy.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:51 pmgood_golly Says:
March 17th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
There have undoubtedly been phenomelal improvements, but there is obviously still work to be done.
(bingo!)
March 18th, 2008 at 2:51 pmThey’re not bed bugs, they’re guest pundits
March 18th, 2008 at 2:51 pmVandeveer says the bugs have now been “totally eradicated.”
But just to be sure, they’ll continue nit-picking Hillary and Obama.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:51 pmIf you lie down with dogs and get fleas, who/what do you have to lie down with to get bed bugs?
March 18th, 2008 at 2:52 pm“…who/what do you have to lie down with to get bed bugs?”
anyone and everyone
March 18th, 2008 at 2:54 pmIf only those were the most destructive creatures at Fox.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:54 pmShouldn’t a$$es like the Paster Hagee be saying this is a sign of the second coming…or that FOX News is the TRUE anti-christ?! If he’s a man of god, he’s gotta call’em by the interpretations or he’s just another loudmouth.
Wait a minute….!!!!!
March 18th, 2008 at 2:54 pmWait, those were not bed bugs, they were the newscasters.
Friendly correction. FoxSnooze doesn’t have any newscasters. It only has washed-up mediocre weather-casters who have been promoted to their level of incompetence.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:55 pmA plague on the House of FOX!
March 18th, 2008 at 2:55 pmWhy does God hate neocon water carriers?
Why was Karl Rove not properly deloused before entering FOX Headquarters?
How did the exterminater kill all the bugs without harming all the cockroaches that work there?
These stories and more about Barak Obama’s middle name at the top of the hour…
It’s a plague sent by God to punish the evildoers.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:55 pmVandeveer says the bugs have now been “totally eradicated.”
Let me guess, they invited Anne Coulture over, she dropped her panties, whistled an eerie tune and they all climbed back into their nest. Crisis averted!
March 18th, 2008 at 2:57 pmBut, were the bedbugs homosexual?
As noted above, Pastor Hagee is right; vermin, varmints, & other
pests frequent that newsroom. SSDD.
March 18th, 2008 at 2:59 pm“…she dropped her panties, whistled an eerie tune and they all climbed back into their nest.”
The Dark Side of the Moon
March 18th, 2008 at 3:00 pmVandeveer says the bugs have now been “totally eradicated.”
I guess we now know the real reason why John Gibson got canned.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pmFox News infested by bed bugs.
Now that’s an improvement…..
Cheers,
March 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pmWhen was the last time Gannon was at Fox?
March 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pmVandeveer says the bugs have now been “totally eradicated”…along with any integrity, ethics, or professionalism required for a news network.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:02 pm“Fair, balanced, and scratches the surface…”
Southern Man
Ah ha ha! Good one!
SCRATCHES!
I gave you an attaboy for that one,Clem
Tell us more! Tell us more!
March 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pmI’m guessing you might our resident expert on infestations.
#21 I want to thank you for that hilarious comment.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pmAh — a silly thread. I assume the snarkers will take it over any moment.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:04 pmBe’s are not considered an infestation, which is why I did not include it in the last sentence of my last post.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:05 pmIs this why they had to fire Gibson?
Oh sorry bed bugs? I only read “the worst infestation he had seen in 25 years in the business.”
March 18th, 2008 at 3:05 pmHappy to be here, missmolly…
March 18th, 2008 at 3:07 pmDid this originate on the Onion or is this real? It’s hard to tell these days.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:09 pmYou can’t make this stuff up, can you?
March 18th, 2008 at 3:11 pmWhat about the dung beetles posing as “journalists/reporters” there ?
March 18th, 2008 at 3:12 pmOFF TOPIC BUT GOOD
US oil giant loses Venezuela case
A London judge has suspended a court order that froze $12bn of Venezuelan assets awarded to US oil giant ExxonMobil in a dispute over oil interests.
Judge Paul Walker said ExxonMobil had “no good arguable case” that Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA), Venezuela’s state oil company, had acted unjustifiably in taking control of two of its operations.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/BF6E6BAB-16E5-4AA9-8625-E9EB63FB596F.htm
March 18th, 2008 at 3:12 pmIt’s a little less than fair payback, for Faux’s infestation of the public airwaves. They truly deserve worse.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:13 pmi thought bed bugs were parasites of WARM blooded animals?
March 18th, 2008 at 3:13 pmI’m sure there will be a lot of internal memos going around the Fox News workplace outlining basic hygiene rules. And I’m sure those will leak out as well.
More fodder for the late night comics…
March 18th, 2008 at 3:13 pmVandeveer says the bugs have now been “totally eradicated.”
What are they waiting for to get started on the (fake)newsroom ?
March 18th, 2008 at 3:15 pmKansasLiberal Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
You’re more than welcome. Just as easily could have read:
…the last time John Bolton was on as a guest in our studios several interns commented on his continually scratching his mustache during commercial breaks. We reviewed our security tapes and discovered footage of Mr. Bolton in the greenroom releasing his minions into the couch cushions and compelling them to do his bidding. The bedbugs then proceeded to morph into Young Republican interns. This tape has since gone missing, however FOX is happy to report that they have seen no “bedbugs” since the incedent was first uncovered. Nothing to see here, move along…
March 18th, 2008 at 3:16 pmFox News infested by bed bugs. Sometimes there IS poetic justice.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:18 pmWho Who Who let the bugs out?
March 18th, 2008 at 3:20 pmIn related item, an infestation of vipers,asps, and hyenas were found by the exterminator as well. When he attempted to exterminate them he was informed they were the on air staff.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:21 pmSpeaking of nit-picking Hillary…..I just found out that she was President of the Young Republicans at Wellesley College and volunteered as a Goldwater Girl!!!!
Now who in their right mind came of age in the sixties and joined the Young Republicans and loved Barry Goldwater!?!
Will any of you who have access to blogs in the future primary states, starting with Pennsylvania, blog this important information, please?
The democratic party, as well as the entire country, need a progressive candidate with good judgement, and I don’t think that’s Hillary!
March 18th, 2008 at 3:23 pmIt was the NSA…they have bugs in everyone’s office.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:33 pmDid they call in the “The Bug Man” Tom Delay?
Tom and bugs have this understanding, you know.
Buck Fush
March 18th, 2008 at 3:37 pmAt FOX, I would rather see the bed bugs stay and the human infestation eradicated.
twocents, come on! Many current progressives/Democrats started college as Republicans, myself included, because that’s the political environment they grew up in. They then “progressed” politically. There is nothing more potent than a “reformed” anything.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:38 pmThey fired the person because they had a bed bug infestation!!!! WOW! That seems more than excessive and is that legal?
March 18th, 2008 at 3:38 pmPLC, I would not be surprised if “twocents” turned out to be another fake-progressive in the tradition of our semi-literate “pile of stones” friend.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:40 pmBUG Nutwork Noize
March 18th, 2008 at 3:40 pmMr. Llama, you may be right, as you often are.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:45 pmI would also not be surprised if “twocents” gets outed as a direct reincarnation of one of our array of multi-named trolls.
they gots cooties!
March 18th, 2008 at 3:51 pmWho knew that bed bugs were into falafel.
Ya learn something new every day!
March 18th, 2008 at 3:52 pmFux Noose should have their on-air “talent” sign off with, “Good Night, and don’t let the bed bugs bite!”
March 18th, 2008 at 3:53 pmNo, MsJ, they were in the loofah.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:54 pmCpnJustice Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
They fired the person because they had a bed bug infestation!!!! WOW! That seems more than excessive and is that legal?
———————————
Perhaps they were found to be progressive bedbugs?
March 18th, 2008 at 3:56 pmOh, boy!!!
BOILS are next!!!
(I can’t wait!)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
March 18th, 2008 at 3:56 pmThis thread has been a great mood lifter. I am really smiling for the first time today….thanks all.
The referenceds to Tom Delay were gold
I’m with Ralph in post #10
March 18th, 2008 at 4:00 pm…. Nah, too easy.
Sorry, I am absolutely not a troll. I’m not even sure why you would think that I am!
I am two years younger than Hillary and happened to work for McGovern back then. I’m sorry if I find it disturbing that she was a member of the Young Republicans! This is the Nixon, Viet Nam, Beatles, Chicago Convention, protests, etc., era for crying out loud.
Young Republicans!!!!
March 18th, 2008 at 4:02 pmBarry Goldwater!!!!
Come on!!!!
FWIW, twocents – the Republicans back in Goldwater’s day were most certainly NOT today’s scary right-of-Attila-the-Hun evangelical theofascists.
If Barry Goldwater was around today, the current Repukes would be deriding him as “a liberal.”
Besides, *I* used to be a Republican. Yes, it’s true. I voted for Nixon. The only excuse I can offer is that I was only 18 at the time, and I’m *much* wiser now. Older, too.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:13 pmbush jogging, see’s little boy with box…
March 18th, 2008 at 4:22 pmBush: What’s in the box?
kid: republican puppies
next day bush and cheny jogging(use imagination)
bush see’s the same little boy asks him to tell cheny what is in the box.
kid: democratic puppies
bush: I thought you said they were republican puppies
kid: their eyes have opened
Dumb Question: How can Faux News exterminate the vermin without killing the anchormen ?
March 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pm66 – Fred…indeed. ;o)
~A
March 18th, 2008 at 4:34 pm“…I find it disturbing that she was a member of the Young Republicans!”
twocents Says
So do I, yet I’m somehow not surprised.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:36 pmHillary is not a true leader.
She is simply ambitious, and will hop any freight train she can catch.
Southern Man Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Where is everyone? Everyone go on vacation at the same time?
We’re all on our way to a trashy hurricane prone cottages-on-stilts beach near you!
March 18th, 2008 at 4:39 pmThere is a God!
March 18th, 2008 at 4:44 pmWhere is everyone? Everyone go on vacation at the same time?
My college kids just left the house….spring break in Padre….Watch out for them Wayne.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:50 pmAn infestation… of blood-sucking vermin… at Faux News?
Is this real? I mean, we are getting close to April Fool’s Day…
And if it IS real… then all I can say is…
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAAHHA… whew… I t’ink I hurt myself.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:51 pmL. Hussein Annie says:
“NOT today’s scary right-of-Attila-the-Hun evangelical theofascists.”
Where were you in the sixties? We had Jerry Falwell, Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, and countless other evangelical whack jobs! Granted Nixon/Agnew look like milquetoast compared to the even more corrupt Bush/Cheney! But those were very polarizing and divisive times as well. I was sick to death to have my friends come back in body bags. Many a dinner was disrupted because of arguments with my right-wing republican father. It was an emotional time, and to find out that Hillary the head-nodder was “one of them” Young Republicans just drives me further into the Obama camp, thank you very much!
March 18th, 2008 at 4:54 pmBring your bug spray!
I always do.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:00 pmI also plug all the drains at night with a scrubbie, it keeps out the cockroaches.
We had Jerry Falwell, Oral Roberts, Pat Robertson, and countless other evangelical whack jobs!
Don’t forget the leader of the pack, Billy Graham.
March 18th, 2008 at 5:02 pmRead some of his latest writings, he really backs away from a lot of his early life. Seems he has serious doubts now about his afterlife………….
“I also plug all the drains at night with a scrubbie, it keeps out the cockroaches.”
I think they prefer to call them Palmetto bugs. Sounds more Jimmy “Buffetity”
March 18th, 2008 at 6:11 pmIf they eradicated all the bloodsucking vermin at Faux Snooze, how are they going to air the O’Biley show?
March 18th, 2008 at 6:19 pmLike I said in previous posts, thee are called BedBuglicans. They creep arpund in the middle of the night, suck your blood while you are asleep, and are extremely difficult to get rid of.
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/20/alberto-uf/
March 18th, 2008 at 6:37 pm
I forgot….they like to hide in crevices.
March 18th, 2008 at 6:42 pmThis is just too funny. The potential for jokes here is endless. I think I will just start at the top and read my way down.
March 18th, 2008 at 7:20 pm“the employee with the bed bugs infestation is no longer with the network.”
another Fox Lie! everyone who works or watches or has anything to do with Fox news gets infested with lice.
March 18th, 2008 at 7:33 pmGotta feel sorry for the bed bugs.
March 18th, 2008 at 7:53 pmSouthern Man Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Bush turns to the bartender and says, ‘See,
I told you, no one gives a $h*t about the
140 million Muslims’.
Bartender looks at Bush and says, ‘Nah, we care- we’re just so used to you saying such batshit crazy racist drivel that it just don’t even register anymore…’
March 18th, 2008 at 7:59 pmrepublicans hate facts Says:
“Then you’re crazy”
“you’re just in rejection of yourself”
“Obama, you mean the racist, homophobic man”
“how sad”
Yeah, how sad! Because you sound so typically negative Clinton-esque.
March 18th, 2008 at 8:03 pmI like “Pile of stones”. LOL
March 18th, 2008 at 9:43 pmHeh. Best laugh I’ve had allllll day. :-D
March 18th, 2008 at 11:19 pm#52..PatrioticLiberalChristian Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
At FOX, I would rather see the bed bugs stay and the human infestation eradicated.
Reformed? no… anything you meant… nothing right? In which case is yes. Granted Some progress but in her case regress fits better. I like the joke part though, so far the thread earns the entertaining award.
March 24th, 2008 at 8:41 pmrepublicans hate facts Says:
March 18th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
As for Obama, you mean the racist, homophobic man that bought a house for 300k less than it was worth from a contributor? Yeah, there’s nothing – republican – about that! At least Clinton lost money in whitewater, Obama just found 300k in the street!
I’m sick and tired of Hillbillies bringing up this nonsense. The only thing they find is a made-up story of a useless barren piece of dirt to complaint about. Comparing that to White Water and all Ms.former young republican has done is like saying an employee took a roll of scotch tape from the office and this is as important and of such critical value as the ceo embezzeling millions of dollars from inverstors and 401ks frpm the company. Give it a rest, open your eyes and learn the full story. Go post in billary imaginary artificial site.
March 24th, 2008 at 9:01 pm