Watch the Mooch, 'King of Idiot Mountain for 11 Days,' FaceTime His Way Onto 'Weekend Update'


Ad Age “Media Guy” columnist Simon Dumenco’s media roundup for the morning of Friday, Aug. 11:

1. “CNN severed ties with Jeffrey Lord on Thursday, hours after he ignited controversy by tweeting the words ‘Sieg Heil!’ at a prominent liberal activist,” CNN’s Brian Stelter writes in a post published at 8:47 p.m. last night about the ouster of “the first explicitly pro-Donald Trump commentator to join the network, back in August 2015, two months after Trump entered the GOP primary race.” But the most delicious detail doesn’t appear in Stelter’s post; instead, he shared it in his nightly Reliable Sources email newsletter (which hit my inbox at 10:36 p.m.):

Lord found out while a CNN-provided car service was taking him from his PA home to NYC for Thursday night’s “AC360.” The car turned around…

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