Archive for January 29, 2010
Remember That Dog the LAPD Pulled Out of the Drainage Ditch?
The MSM is apparently, ahem, too busy with other things to follow up (as usual), but he’s alive and doing well.
Good news.
James O’Keefe to Give First Interview to…Sean Hannity
I just got a Tweet from someone I don’t want to give attention to (i.e. a link) saying that wannabe boy “journalist” James O’Keefe will give his first interview to — drum roll please — two-bit shock jock Sean Hannity on Monday.
This is so typical. Whenever a winger gets in trouble they head straight to Fox for rehab.
Jamie Oliver and Our Fat Food Nation
On March 26 at 9:00 p.m., ABC will launch a new series titled, “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution.” The show is about Oliver, a British chef and foodie, who goes to the unhealthiest city in the United States, Huntington, West Virginia, to teach them how to eat healthy food.
Here is the trailer. In it, the narrator explains that the population of Huntington is roughly 50,000 and half of the adults there are obese. It shows clips of children being fed breakfast at school; a breakfast that consists of pizza. It shows Oliver holding up a bunch of tomatoes and asking one of the kids to tell him what they are, and the kid says they’re potatoes — that’s how removed they are from what they’re eating.
As you can imagine, Oliver meets with plenty of skepticism. But, in the end, he seems to have the support of the parents of the school kids after he shows them how much fat their children eat in one year, hunks of which are brought in via a dump truck.
Should be interesting but you know the righties are going to have a fit about a foreigner coming here telling us what to do. After all, this is Amerrrrrrca.
Deranged Reaction to Obama’s Meeting Today w/House GOP Members
It’s beginning to trickle in. Check this out from Quin Hillyer at The American Spectator. A taste:
I am watching him act like a haughty, angry, self-righteous, self-reverential (insert appropriate noun) in his meeting with House Republicans right now, and he is lecturing them like they are teenagers. What an arrogant so-and-so.
It did come off a bit like Obama was lecturing them like they were teenagers, because they were acting like teenagers.
Again, C-SPAN is going to rebroadcast the event at 8:00 p.m. ET tonight.
An Amazing Indictment of How Democrats Botched Health Care Reform
TPM has put together a timeline of how the Democrats botched health care reform. Think amateur hour meets bad luck. Such an unfortunate series of events.
“Dowdy Kitchen Man”
Charlie Brooker of the BBC’s “PM Now!” put together this video explaining how and why the average television “news” report is so formulaic and boring.
This is Laugh Out Loud Funny
JoezJny is the Dutch equivalent of Jon Stewart. He appears on Dutch Comedy Central every Friday. Recently he aired a spoof video depicting George W. and Bill Clinton taping an appeal for donations to their Haiti aid campaign. That’s all I’ll say, other than it is hilarious.
Throw the Book at Roeder
Good news: After deliberating for just 37 minutes, the jury in the trial of Scott Roeder found him guilty of first degree murder in the death of Dr. George Tiller last year.
And thank goodness the trial, “never became the referendum on abortion that some abortion foes wanted…”
Abortion is legal in Kansas. Period. If you have a problem with that and you want to have a “referendum” on it, you work to change the law. You don’t go around killing people.
Beware What You Read at Politico
Hey, let’s send Politico an anonymous email telling them that John Boehner Boner has decided that he’s not going to go to tanning booths anymore. Maybe they’ll report it.
The State of “News” in America
Why is my local “news” channel airing a story about how Subway restaurants are now accepting orders via Twitter?
Is that news? Really?
