Me: "The writer is telling me that I see a dog named Spot running."See?
Chris: "The crazy right-wingers are trying to milk votes from idiots by pandering to their belief that our extremely classy president is secretly a dog."
I'll say this, though: Whoever writes TV programming certainly believes that liberals are smarter than conservatives. As bad as Hardball is at parsing reality, at least Chris uses polysyllabic words in his lies. If you switch the channel over to Fox & Friends, running at the same time, 50 points of IQ gets sucked from the room every time one of those vacuous bubbleheads opens their cakehole to coo over some pointless human interest story. Seriously, the US government is apparently considering deploying military forces to yet another desert full of jerks who hate us, and you're wasting my time telling me about how firefighters saved a cute three-legged doggie by giving it CPR? Apparently the powers-that-be at Fox have decided that their target audience consists of the kind of people who have flocks of plaster ducks hanging on the wall.
Good Job! Equal Opportunity Snark!
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TV? TV is for watching some car racing, some college football and I vaguely recall there was something else, but I forget what.
ReplyDeleteMultitudes of straight-news sources around the innerweb. The problem is that at my age, the headlines are all that are of interest. I already read the same crap, thirty, forty or fifty years ago. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty.
Tv is for sports...period.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the tingle Chrissy Has been experiencing is the dog humping His leg?
ReplyDeleteRegarding TV news, I've pretty much given up on it.
The new media is where it's at.
ANN (Althouse news network) yes, cnn, no.
Tam, that's the punishment for watching the TV so early in the morning. Listen to some music instead. It might just make you feel better.
ReplyDeleteWhat's cool is hearing someone use what you've always thought was an obscure, but significant-to-you, movie quote. Let's you know there are kindred souls out there on the intertubes.
ReplyDeleteI'm gonna have to watch Red Dawn again now.
Plaster ducks? Man would I have loved to visit your aunts. Mine all had plaster floral arrangements.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting to see how taste change over time factoring in technology.
Your time would be better spent sniffing airplane glue.
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If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you're misinformed.
ReplyDelete- Mark Twain
My favorite Chris Matthews moment ever was when Zell Miller challenged him to a duel. Good times, good times.
So what you are saying is that Oprah wasn't on?
ReplyDeleteIf it's any comfort to you Tam, Sunday morning is pretty much the intellectual zenith in the teewee programming; typical daytime fare is much worse.
ReplyDeleteMy job often takes me to banks to repair various bankster machines. I generally remove myself and the machine to the break room so as not to offend tender sensibilities. There is usually a tv on, and I've learned not to comment nor request nor initiate a channel change, lest I "draw back a nub". Would that there be something as enlightening as "Oprah" or "The View" holding the bank employee's rapt attention. The commercials are of the "Yes, we believe you REALLY are that dumb" variety.
My productivity has improved, as I hope to get out of the room before I'm overcome with Teh Stupid.
And these people are handling your money.
Me, I get off work in the morning get home watch me some DVR'd RedEye do some 'light' commenting, fall a sleep irritated.
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Josh
W.V. Is prickgu.
I think you word verification is trying to tell me something.
Hmmmm....
Yeah, but it keeps me warm.
ReplyDeleteWe of the unleft need all the votes we can get, and Joe Sixpack plus family need basic instruction in even the most primitive forms of logical thinking, which is making Glenn Beck rich.
ReplyDeleteThat being said, the commentary panel lead by Brit Hume is usually pleasant, with people of the center left and center right discussing subjects in a conversational tone.
I suspect Mara Eliason is actually a lot further left that she presents on Fox, but she does cool the rhetorical jets when she's with Hume.
Otherwise, what Desertrat said.
Because of the poor quality of network news, I get my current events from Drudge, Instapundit, and VFTP.
ReplyDeleteSo I can be informed with minimal time.
No TV in my house for over 4 years. I do however have a plaster polar bear sitting on my CD shelf.
ReplyDeleteWasp, Where Is Thy Sting, or coincidental?
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ReplyDeleteFlorence King, but I think I was drawing on Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye?
The essay that had Bea in it...
ETA: Yup. That was it. "Confessions of a Bloom & Hirsch Girl".
ReplyDeleteI'm usually going to the BBC to try to keep tabs on what the Barbarians are up to, Fox for the news crawler on the screen bottom when the Brits break for tea, and in the early morning hours, the Business Channels that cover the Asian Markets seem to have the latest skinny. But the Lamestream Media and their local outhouses? Weather and Traffic only. Of course, if there's anything I REALLY MUST KNOW, I look to the View from the Porch.
ReplyDeleteSaving the three-legged dog was good. It will at least be appreciative. The desert dwellers, they will take our food medical care and protection and in return will kill more of our finest.
ReplyDeleteGotta say Fox News is an embarrassment. When the blond "bimbo", the one with the Phd in real life starts to explain what 3 syllable words mean cause she doesn't know, I get all antsy and start throwing things.
ReplyDeleteGet all my news from the internet now. Smaller screen so it's harder to hit when Michael Moore comes up. Also less expensive to replace when I'm on target.
Bubblehead Les - BBC really?
ReplyDeleteloren - if some "blond "bimbo"" is explaining 3 syllable words it's because they want people like you to understand what they are saying. There are quite a few blond on FNC so when you are disparaging (this means talking bad about someone) someone inteligence it helps to give a name.
Like: loren = idiot.
:-D
Josh
You mean you don't feel a tingle up your leg every time you see Chris Matthews?
ReplyDeleteIt was going along nicely until the plaster ducks bit. It always has to come down to the plaster ducks with some people, doesn't it? Plaster ducks this, and plaster ducks that... -- Lyle
ReplyDeleteLyle,
ReplyDeleteEver since that Florence King essay, I've never looked at plaster ducks the same way. I'm sorry! :o
Ma'am, you remind me of one of my favorite Kinks tunes. I think it goes something like;
ReplyDelete"Quack quack, ducks on the wall!
Quack quack, hanging on the wall!"
I forget most of the rest of it, but I do remember:
"The ducks have got to go!"
No plaster ducks, but I do have a painting of a duck...but only one such painting. Do I still qualify?
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