Fox "News" Anchor throws "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM"-style tantrum in parking garage

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Martha MacCallum Demands Respect

http://cityfile.com/dailyfile/6622

Martha MacCallum may look like just another cutesy blonde anchor on Fox News. But it seems she has a darker side, too. A tipster tells us MacCallum threw quite the tantrum yesterday at a parking garage around the corner from the studios of Fox News when she turned up with her daughter in tow and her BMW wasn't waiting for her with the keys in the ignition. The outrage!

Infuriated that someone of her importance wasn't being treated with the the respect normally given to a B-list cable news anchors, our tipster heard her shout at the attendant, "Do you know who I am? Do you have any clue? I'm on Fox News!"

MacCallum dressed down the garage employee for a several more minutes as her teenage daughter—who looked a bit nonplussed about the meltdown—stood by. Eventually, she gave up on her war on inconsiderate parking attendants, jumped into the BMW SUV, and screeched off—leaving the garage personnel looking a bit confused.

Maybe the parking attendants prefer to get their news from CNN?

[Ron Green]

1. Don't the Blonde Newsreaders have a union or something?

For injustices such as this?

[csziggy]

18. That was the "Sisterhood of Blond Receptionists" on WKRP

Jennifer Marlowe of WKRP was a member, "I am a receptionist. Receptionists receive. They offer comfort, provide support, answer a few telephone calls. But they do not type, unless it's for a very good cause.... If you saw our minimum salary, you'd have a heart attack and die."

[Tangerine LaBamba]

48. Ohhhhh -

Thank you for that brilliant reminder of how wonderful TV comedy can be.

I miss that show, I miss those characters.

Johnny Fever. Venus Flytrap.

Jennifer.

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." The signature line to what I think is still the funniest scene in television history.

Every Sunday night, WGN runs an hour of this show, and I just melt.

Thanks for the grand remembrance...........................

[csziggy]

50. One of my favorite shows of all time - and of course, the turkey episode is the Best

But I like this bit of political philosophy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFE31-GzjaY

[Tangerine LaBamba]

52. Oh, man, Herb and Les -

they were a vision, weren't they?

Polyester Paradise whenever Herb showed up, and Les, my god, that character was perfect.

I can't remember The Big Guy's mother's name - the actress who played her - but I remember when she delivered one of my favorite lines anywhere ever, talking to her son:

"The least you could do is try to act normal."

Smart show. Just a damn smart show, and I miss it.

I'm watching a "Boston Legal" rerun right now - another smart show gone................................

[csziggy]

58. Two different actresses played Mrs. Carlson

The great Sylvia Sydney played her in the pilot episode, but when they brought the character back in for more appearances, Carol Bruce, another wonderful Broadway actress, picked up the role. Carol Bruce returned as 'Mama' Carlson for the return of the series years later.

'Mama' Carlson got some great lines!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

64. Thank you -

My mind kept kicking up "Sylvia Sydney," but it didn't seem right.

So there was another actress! Ah, that explains it. That role screamed "Sylvia Sydney," didn't it?

Thanks for the clarification. Always wonderful to find a fan....................

[csziggy]

68. I was a fan of Sylvia Sydney's because of her needlepoint book

Which I still have and still refer to. So it was a thrill when I got to see her in the pilot for WKRP, and that was part of the reason I was invested in the show from the start. Aside from the fact that it was brilliant TV, of course.

Then when they brought back 'Mama' Carlson for later episodes, I kept wondering if I mis-remembered the original. It was years later, when the internet really got going, that I finally could research and find out that they had switched actresses. I suspect that Sylvia Sydney was willing to do a 'cameo' for the pilot but was not interested in a recurring television role. She far too many opportunities for that!

Yep, been a fan since the beginning!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

53. Did you know this?

I just looked up "WKRP" on wikipedia, and found this - were you aware of it? I wasn't:

As a running gag, Nessman wears a bandage in a different spot each episode. It is suggested that these bandages are due to repeated attacks by Phil, Nessman's monstrous dog (who is never seen but is heard growling offstage in another room in Nessman's apartment). In fact, the bandages are a running in-joke. During the filming of the pilot episode, Richard Sanders bumped his head on a studio light and had to wear a bandage to cover the cut. From then on, Sanders decided, Les Nessman would always wear a bandage. (Although Les Nessman acts and sounds like a throwback to the 1950s and Johnny acts like a 1960s hippie, Sanders and Hesseman are actually the same age—both were born in 1940.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKRP_in_Cincinnati

[csziggy]

57. Yes - I had read that

And I remember noticing the bandaids during the shows' original run. As someone who is accident prone myself, I identified with Les and his bandaids.

The cool thing about WKRP is that it had such interesting "back stories" that were not really investigated but that enriched the feel of the show.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

65. Indeed -

it was smart, and it didn't pander to the lowest common denominator.

Some of Dr. Fever's and Flytrap's lines were so out there, and they just floated on up, without further comment, while I died laughing. They got away with murder. Much like "Rocky, The Flying Squirrel."

Both those actors did all right as character actors for the rest of their careers - Howard Hessman was in a "House" episode a couple of years ago, and he was excellent - but they never, at least to my thinking, exceeded what they did on "WKRP." True star turns.

And Gary Sandy just disappeared, which still amazes me....................................

[csziggy]

67. Gary Sandy did some minor TV roles, but mostly went back to live theater

According to his IMDB.com bio:

"Despite a slimness of offers, Gary maintained for a time as a TV guest star, then reverted back to his first love -- the theatre. Musical roles have since ranged from the slick and preening (The Pirate King in Broadway's "The Pirates of Penzance" and Billy Flynn in "Chicago") to playing the down-home charmer (Harold Hill in "The Music Man" and Will Rogers in "Will Rogers Follies"). During this time Gary also appeared in a few musical misfires based on critically successful plays. "Sheba", the musical adaptation of Come Back, Little Sheba, and "Windy City" based on The Front Page, went nowhere. In 2004, he even opened in a Texas musical version of Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor. Also mixed in have been straight comedy and drama, essaying roles in classic Tennessee Williams and Eugene O'Neill. Seen here and there on camera, including the horror film Mommy's Day (1997) with grown-up demonic "Bad Seed" Patty McCormack, Gary is the perfect example of an actor willing to persevere through good times and bad, closely moving in on his fourth decade of performing."
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0762466/bio

There is a more complete bio at his web site: http://www.garysandy.com/index.html

I could really see him as Harold Hill - he would certainly be better than Matthew Broderick, who I saw recently on Bravo in a new film version. While Broderick is competent, he just does not come across as the pushy flamboyant figure Harold Hill should be. Sandy could do that, I am sure!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

69. Aren't you lovely?

Thank so much!

Yep, he's DEFINITELY Harold Hill - I do not approve of Broderick in that role, not at all - remember Robert Preston? He defined Harold Hill, I think.

Sandy's a real pro. An actor's actor. Well done, Gary.

Thank you again.........................

[csziggy]

71. I luve my broadband connection ;D And right now I have loads of spare time

So I get to hunt up stuff like this.

When I read about actors like him that I liked on TV, I wish I were more willing to visit large cities to see real live theater. We get some traveling shows here, but the one venue is horrifically bad - the seating is so steep I get vertigo sitting down. And when my hubby did the first SciFi Con here, the administrators of the facility were just plain obnoxious, so I refuse to spend money there.

Oh well, maybe someday we'll get a real theater and good shows!

[Orsino]

62. I hope they will set aside their opposition to unions...

...in order to stand beside their TV prize-stroker sisters, and their sisters in the sex trade.

[JBoy]

2. Maybe the guy new exactly who she was.

[MattBaggins]

61. Best response to "do you know who I am" scream fests

Remind the individual that there are two groups of people out there.

1: Those who have no idea who you are and don't give a fuck
2: Those who know exactly who you are and don't give a fuck.

[teachableseconds]

3. Those words sound familiar...I just heard them recently...

:rofl:

But it's different now? Better watch it: you're opening yourself up for charges of hypocrisy.

[Ikonoklast]

4. You read the report written by a cop who is a liar, and put words in peoples' mouths.

And cannot keep his story straight enough even for his bosses.

But you knew that, didn't you?

[teachableseconds]

7. No, I don't know and neither do you...

But you knew that.

[Ikonoklast]

10. Actually, the report (s) are in question as to which version is the *factual* one.

But, you knew that, too.

Enjoy your brief stay.

[Name removed]

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[musette_sf]

20. "I am hoping on a long stay"

good luck with that :eyes:

:popcorn:

[Ikonoklast]

34. And then Hope died.

I miss the trolls from years before, they actually tried. This latest bunch is so bad, so amateurish, no real effort at trolling anymore.

No one values quality anymore, even when it comes to trolling. All cut-rate, lowest bid winner type of thing nowadays.

Sigh.

[glitch]

47. What do you expect from minimum wage with no benefits?

Heart and soul won't enter into it.

edit to add: and nor should it.

And that goes double for anything outsourced.

[Name removed]

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[Ikonoklast]

22. Wow. I see you and Logic are complete strangers.

You just invalidated your entire position.

Does it hurt to be that stupid?

I only enquire for my own education on the matter.

[teachableseconds]

24. I am going to ignore the insults and simply say this:

I don't like when people use their position to get away with bad behavior or to do things that mere mortals such as I cannot do. End. of. story.

[Ikonoklast]

28. Good. For. You.

I. Like. You.

Really.

You. Make. Me. Laugh.

[BlooInBloo]

17. Yah - from a lying cop.

[baldguy]

25. Hm...a dime-a-dozen idiot propagandist vs an internationally renowned scholar & educator.

No hypocrisy at all

[UTUSN]

5. K&R to undo the UnRekkk (for now)!1 n/t

[Ian David]

6. InfoBabes Gone Wild! n/t

[lisa58]

8. I would have no idea who she was...

...and when she mentioned fox news I would have fallen on the floor laughing

[dana_b]

23. me either

maybe a proper ressponse would be: "ah - so you're a professional asshole!"

[CoffeeCat]

9. Have you seen how those Fox female anchors act?

No one acts like that in real life. Those women are told to read the teleprompter like seductive
temptresses for the raging sexists who watch Fox News. Their lips are all botoxed and their
bleach-blonde hair is piled a mile high on their heads.

These women look like strippers.

You'd have to be psychotic to do that job.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

19. It's been about 2 years since I've had cable, but yes...I've seen them...

...and my overall impression of the women of Fox is that they represent "someone else's idea of an "attractive" woman.

There's a generic look, as you say...bleached hair piled sky-high...but beneath the "cute" factor there is an icy hardness, a single-minded determination to follow Rupert's orders...that turns my stomach.

How many female Fox "news anchors" do I find "attractive?"

None of them.

[pepperbear]

11. First, there's no Miss. CA crown, AND NOW THIS!?! Slippery Slope! n/t

[BlueIdaho]

12. Martha Martha Martha... nt.

[David Zephyr]

14. Shephard Smith pulled this same shit years ago in a parking lot.

Fox News. What a piece of work.

[glitch]

49. IIRC didn't he also hit someone with his car? nt

[David Zephyr]

55. I don't remember. I think it happened during the infamous 2000 recount...

but my memory blurs 'cuz I'm old.

[glitch]

56. Likewise re the old. But I think it hit the news because he actually ran into someone

who was saving the space.

[chollybocker]

15. "This is what happens to bubble-head blondes in America!"

[Uzybone]

30. LOL

[PSzymeczek]

36. Is she the bubble-headed

Bleach-blonde who comes on at 5? :)

[Joanne98]

16. She's a spoiled brat.

[baldguy]

21. Just another bleached-blond clone.

Once she gets a couple wrinkles they pop her boobs, kick her to the curb & unwrap another one from the store packaging.

[Stevenmarc]

26. No I don't know who you are, I don't watch shit TV

[SeattleGirl]

27. My response would have been, "Yeah,

You're a first class asshole.". Said softly in her ear so her daughter couldn't hear.

[Kadie]

29. Martha who? Fox what?

Sounds like a major temper tantrum.

[burning rain]

31. Unbecoming, to say the least.

But still, Martha -- I'll do anything you say. *sigh*

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

32. how would the attendant recognize her?

she wasn't sitting down with her skirt up to her crotch.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

33. "I have a PHD in Vapid, dammit!! Show me some respect!"

[JHB]

35. Poetic justice would be...

..."Hi Mom. I think you've met my new boyfriend"...

[Gold Metal Flake]

37. I would expect no less.

They are the ME party.

[BlooInBloo]

38. It wasn't a cop who reported this? So it might actually be true?

[salguine]

39. If there is a God, there will be security camera footage, and it will be all over the Interwebs.

[LuckyLib]

40. "No honey, I don't know who you are . . . you all look alike!"

I am astounded by the Barbies on CNN, Fux, etc. The only babes who look trashier are the Univision and other Spanish news networks where the boobs REALLY have it goin' on, and the skirts are short.

Edited to add, I don't have cable, so seeing them occasionally is an interesting experience.

[bullwinkle428]

41. Is it dead, Daddy? Can I poke it with a stick?

Heh-heh-heh...

[bullwinkle428]

42. As a sidebar, I'm guessing the seven y.o. that just started his own newspaper

has already established more journalistic credibility than Faux News has ever had!!!

[TheWatcher]

43. This Plastic, Irrelevant, Belligerant Piece Of Shit, This WASTE of OXYGEN

Thinks she deserves some sort of special attention?

Sure sweetie.

I'll have your car ready for you.

Right Away.

And then I'll run your ass over with it.

I'm All About giving you the attention you deserve.

:evilgrin:

[gauguin57]

44. I'd have said, "Nope. No clue who you are. Are you on "The Hills" or something?"

And then I'd probably go on to quote the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address ... y'know, all that stuff about us all being created equal 'n' stuff.

[agentS]

45. "Do you know who I am?" Me- "Aren't you Hannity's mistress?"

Yeah babe, like you got that daytime spot for your journalistic chops :roll

[rustydog]

46. Reply: "Well, you remind me of my mother's douche bag..

but we buried that with her in Montana."

[imdjh]

51. "I know what you are, but in front of your daughter?" nt

[Rex]

54. Ya he knew you were a shitstain on society, hello stupid

that is WHY he DIDN'T go get your car. Paging the clue bus. Calling captain stupid. Another shitstain blows hotair...and we care. :eyes:

Seems Fox is now getting even bigger idiots than before Georgie left.

[ColbertWatcher]

59. Just think, in a few years that will be Sarah Palin throwing the tantrum! n/t

[ck4829]

63. "I'm on Fox News!" And when she said, the guys in the garage should haven a sledgehammer to her SUV

[ecstatic]

66. Try D-list. Never heard of her

Thank goodness!

[Ilsa]

70. It's a bad idea to insult the people who handle your personal effects, food, etc.

Maybe the guy will put a dead, smelly rat in her car next time.

Too bad the parking attendant wasn't exactly like the smelly attendant from that Seinfeld episode. http://www.tbs.com/stories/story/0,,69117,00.html

[Mopar151]

72. I think that a TNT Sports talking head just did this...

(Bill Webber?)Checking in to a motel in NH, covering the NASCAR race. Big mess - they pulled his ticket on the spot, and sent his ass home. pulled from the coverage for ther rest of their races, too.

The rest of the team all moved up a notch, and got good reviews for doing so - ba-bye, asswipe!