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A Few Basics on TV News

Received wisdom, delineated in my Huffington blog.

Media’s Responsibility on Coverage Decisions

Television is a consultant- and advertiser-driven medium. Believe me, I know, from having both covered and worked in that business for years.
But it’s now busy pouring gas on a fire,  as I point out in  my latest fine Huffington Post piece.

Just wondering…

Does Sarah Palin tell her hubby “It’s time to re-load?”

The Same Kind of Cretins Who Cheered JFK’s Murder

The sheer ugliness and viciousness of Texas/Oklahoma-style politics was on full display in Washington this week.
Please check my Huffington Post piece.

“The Boner” Strikes Out

Andy Borowitz: “Now that health care is passed and we have health insurance, maybe John Boehner should get that skin looked at.”
You could say The Boner really got his hide tanned.

Re This Week’s GOP Talking Point

As Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have repeatedly shown this week (with comedic effect), the latest GOP line of  bullshit is that Dems “are forcing health care down our throat.”
Here’s what I’d like to force down YOUR throats: My goodam fist.
You lying pack of shitheels.
I won’t even ask “Have you no decency?” We established that [...]

Dionne: GOP Blatantly Lying About Reconciliation

Hard to believe these weasly little bastards are lying about Obama using reconcilitaion, isn’t it?
The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne, like Rachel Maddow, minces no words: They’re outright liars.
Not to mention being scumbags as well.

Ironic, Isn’t It?

That weasels like unctuous Texas Gov. Rick Perry win elections on anti-Washington platforms when it’s his party, the GOP, that’s rendered the place dysfunctional?

Mighty Mouth Signs on With Bunning

MSNBC’s Chris “The Ego” Matthews said today that Bunning had a point.
Yes, Chris, it’s the same place as yours — on top of your head.

OK, Sen. Bunning, We Give Up

You win the Perpetual Trophy for Most Miserable Prick in the Senate.
NOW are you happy?