As part of last night’s Daily Showsegment on the Republicans’ smarmy, insincere response to the State of the Union, Jon Stewart took a moment to address Rep. Michael Grimm, who threatened to throw NY1 reporter Michael Scotto “off this fucking balcony” after Scotto attempted to ask a question about Grimm’s shady campaign finances. “To be fair, ‘I will throw you off this fucking balcony’ is a relatively standard and traditional Staten Island goodbye,” Stewart quipped, before launching into a passionate rant about NY1’s myriad virtues. It all starts at about 5:02 in the clip above
The most exciting part of last night's State of the Union broadcast came after the speech itself, on NY1. During a post-SOTU interview, reporter Michael Scotto asked Staten Island Republican Rep. Michael Grimm a question regarding his campaign finances, which are currently under federal investigation. Grimm didn't like that, and stormed…
On Friday, Rep. Michael Grimm's attorney announced he was facing federal criminal charges, and this morning, the Staten Island Republican surrendered to the FBI and was arrested. The charges against Grimm apparently relate to Healthalicious, the Upper East Side restaurant he had a stake in before running for office --…
Is that it will give many more people access to everyone's favorite local news channel, NY1. According to Capital New York, the terms of Comcast's 2011 buyout of NBCUniversal dictate that it must make any cable channels it owns available to the other providers at a fair rate. Because Time Warner owns…
