Wow. What I miss by not having cable news.

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A friend of mine just forwarded me the URL to a Scandinavian site that has posted a bunch of video clips of right-wing talking heads bloviating about the US and Canada during Bush's recent trip up there. Most of them are from Fox and feature Ann Coulter, but some are from CNN and feature Tucker Carlson.

You know, I've never seen or heard either of these individuals before, because I don't have cable, and unlike many of my fellow-DUers I don't have some kind of masochistic desire to put myself through this. So this was actually my first sight of cable news 'pundits.' And here is my first reaction:

Holy shit, this is COMMENTARY? No wonder we're getting creamed in the media if THIS bullshit is what passes for news programming. Fuck "balance" and "bias"--how about some THOUGHT? Ann Coulter is not a pundit; she's a diva who's figured out that the best way to get her face on national television is to say shit that would never come out of the mouth of any other human being who retains even one microfiber of decency because that one microfiber would trigger a gag reflex that would leave said human being vomiting for a week. Meanwhile, I don't know what Tucker Carlson thinks he's doing or why he needs a Poindexter bowtie to do it in, but things he's definitely not doing include a) making sense b) imparting vaulable information c) expressing a coherent and valid opinion and d) having a conversation.

Why would anyone on the other side go on one of these shows? All that's going to happen is that you sit in your remote location, where any access you have to the actual viewers is completely controlled by the producers, and get steamrollered by the loud, obnoxious, brainless, bloviating asshole who's sitting in the studio. I think it would really make more sense for the non-extremist wing of American politics to do a complete boycott of crap like this. Let them bloviate at each other. Their viewers aren't going to see anything the producers don't want them to see anyhow, and we wouldn't have the added humiliation of getting a public whipping at the hands of these flailing brainless lunatics.

Yeesh, I tell you. YEESH! Turn it off! Stay away! Start your own cable network! Avoid avoid avoid!!

:scared:

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