Nick Broomfield, the director of the Kick Start-ed doc Sarah Palin: You Betcha!, notes an unusual brand of hospitality in post-Sarah Palin Wasillia. “The people there were very reluctant, but also very hospitable,” he shared with Page Six, inquiring of his 11 weeks as a local. The British muckraker was there in search of an inside scoop on the town’s notable export, but what he found instead was a lot of moose meat.

During an appearance on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Keith Olbermann casually amplified completely unsubstantiated rumors about House Speaker John Boehner, rumors which have thus far avoided repetition by most reputable news organizations. During a conference call Friday morning to discuss the unveiling of Countdown II: Electric Boogaloo, Olbermann talked about the benefits of freedom from a corporate behemoth, saying that when preparing for the new show, he had to “stop myself from stopping myself.”

After a weekend when CBS had, arguably, the best 60 Minutes story in recent memory–along with other notable stories–the boss at CBS News was not pleased with the way the network lost momentum Monday morning. In an email obtained by the New York Post‘s Page Six, recently-appointed CBS News president David Rhodes slammed staffers at CBS’ Early Show for a “bad Monday morning” after a big weekend. “We broke major news,” the paper quotes Rhodes. “Let’s get with it. Where’s our reporting? Make sure it’s in our show.”

This morning, Page Six published an item entitled “John King’s magical wall sent him over the edge just days before the election.” The story goes that a malfunction involving the “magic wall,” CNN’s giant touch screen, caused King to have an “onset meltdown” which led to a private reprimanding Turner Broadcasting System CEO and chairman Phil Kent. King has released a statement calling the report a “fantasy” – but he was clearly pissed about something that day.

NY Post‘s Page SIx column reports today that Mediaite founder and NBC/MSNBC Chief Legal Analyst Dan Abrams has a deal with Abrams Books to publish a book that makes the case for the superiority of woman, titled Man Down: Proof Beyond A Reasonable Doubt That Women Are Better Cops, Drivers, Gamblers, Spies, World Leaders, Beer Tasters, Hedge Fund Managers, and Just About Everything Else. Following is a Q&A with the author.

Seriously, people, who took Ed Schultz‘s stapler?

New York Post‘s Page Six reports the MSNBC host, whose 6pmET show features a segment called “Psycho Talk,” had an epic meltdown earlier this month after being left out of MSNBC promos about the election coverage.

Oh, that irascible Steven Slater! Not only is he working on his big reality show, he’s also living it up! Page Six reported that Slater had a wild night this weekend, partying on a cruise for a big birthday bash for the VP of marketing for Playgirl. The only problem is, the eagle-eyed folks over at Gawker realized that the guy in the picture kind of doesn’t look that much like Slater. Damn! Will these Slater news stories stop ruining all of our dreams?

MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann weighed in on the Monday announcement his longtime Executive Producer Izzy Povich was moving to Lawrence O’Donnell‘s future 10pmET show.

On Twitter last night, he responded to the “conspiracy theory” by saying the new job is a “PROMOTION” for Povich.

John King, anchor of John King, USA, is “doomed” says the New York Post‘s Page Six today.

Meanwhile, Newsmax has a different take: “King, of CNN” says the headline of a lengthy, glowing profile of King. So, what is it?

Reviewing Mediaite’s Power Grid ranking of the top Print and Online Columnists is loke looking at the modern day Journalistic Hall of Fame. Familiar bylines – from business models old and new – peacefully coexist next to one another: Krugman and Kruathammer pleasantly reside in the same canon as Huffington and Hitchens. But one of these things is not like the other: NY Post columnist Richard Johnson, whose Page Six column not only redefined “gossip” in the new millenium, but also maybe one of the most influential and underrated media critics of our time.

A book review in today’s New York Times examines Shocking True Story, the new history of original gossip magazine Confidential. And reading about the early celeb rag’s conquests — from Lucille Ball to Joe DiMaggio — it’s impossible not to be reminded of today’s gossip leaders, from Gawker to Perez Hilton. It’s a comparison Gawker boss Nick Denton would not only be proud of, but made himself.

Last week, Gawker announced that Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis had won its “douche of the decade” poll. The post in question also initially called Francis a “rapist” — leading him to threaten to sue Gawker. At the time, some observers wondered how serious the threat was. When Mediaite contacted Francis, we received a response from his publicist to the effect that he still plans on suing, and that the suit will be filed on Monday:

Did your New York Post look stranger than usual this morning? Rumors have been swirling for a while now that the Yes Men, those fun folks who brought us last year’s fake New York Times, were cooking up something new. Turns out it was a fake New York Post, which was handed out this morning to commuters city-wide. We have a slide show of the contents.

The money’s not coming into Condé Nast like it used to, and the company’s days of lavish spending have to end. Will Graydon Carter, who reportedly makes over $2 million a year, be able to survive at the company in his current incarnation?

Welcome to a fun new feature at Mediaite called “Who Said It?” where we find fun, funny and semi-outlandish stuff in the media and make you guess who made that claim. We’ll give you a few clues, and then reveal the identity of the speaker. When in doubt, pick Glenn Beck.

So: Who called Bill Clinton a “misogynistic sociopath?” We’ll give you a hint: It wasn’t Glenn Beck.

This morning’s New York Post report that Bernie Madoff was dying of pancreatic cancer spread like wildfire through the news, based only on quotes from anonymous inmates. As it turns out, the Post‘s “jailbirds” were far from reliable sources. The Federal Bureau of Prisons responds with an unequivocal rejection.

Consummate try-hard American redneck badass Kid Rock — the recently minted brewmaster of American Badass Redneck Lager (ok, we get it) — has had a Twitter account since May, but he hasn’t used it much. He’s only posted 18 tweets to date. Our favorite: “No, I’m not rock. No, I’m not country. I am the white american badass – I am my own genre,” 1:26 PM July 22nd.

What’s more surprising about the news that longtime Page Six gossip columnist, and now best-selling author, Paula Froelich is leaving her job? That someone has opted out of a steady journalism gig, or that books are actually selling? The real question now, however, is who will replace her?