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Honour Killing

Is there anything more despicable on the face of this earth that a father who will kill his child for flirting outside the tribe?

The Bush Vector

Masquerading as a media watchdog, this complete moron has criticized retired CBS anchor Dan Rather for suggesting CBS news shouldn’t dumb-down by adding a lot of celebrity news in place of substantive coverage of the Iraq war.

Rather vociferously derided the media’s obsession with celebrities, in particular the hyperbolic coverage of the Paris Hilton affair. (This is a fair point, but it’s a little odd to be making it on MSNBC, one of the worst offenders in Hilton overkill.) For a second time in the 7:30am hour, he attacked the “superficial changes” made in his absence:

Dan Rather: “You know, she tried to change networks, which is always difficult and change the programs at the same time. They’ve done all of the usual things. They changed the set. They changed the executive producers. They changed the graphics person, lately, forced out a guy who had been there, Ned Steinberg, for many, many years. They make all those kind of the superficial changes. I do want to say that, I think, under Rick Kaplan, that they have tried to harden up the broadcast in recent days, but that is a relative phrase, harden it up. That , you know, the trend line continues, as I say, dumbing it down, tarting it up, going to celebrity coverage rather than war coverage.”

The MRC has documented Dan Rather’s long history of liberal bias. A collection of “greatest hits” can be found here.

So let me get this straight…substantive content (Iraq war coverage) in the news is “liberal bias” while celebrity coverage is…uh, what?

US Conservatives are really, really starting to sound stupid. Not that they didn’t before, but I mean they are ringing stupid, even to the mass ear. I detect that bullshit has been called on the entire Republican agenda. The recent Republican Party debates are a prime example of that. It is positively unreal what these guys will say to out-conservative each other.

Well, the history is starting to be written, and the facts are coming in. The Bush era has been one big long diversion of Air Force One, and the US state along with it. I hereby dub it the “Bush Vector”. People thought they were heading straight, but there was a massive crosswind coming out of stupid.

USians think hockey sux

Stanley Cup Finals bring record-low ratings for NBC

June 5, 2007
CBS SportsLine.com wire reports

NEW YORK — The Stanley Cup Finals have brought record-low ratings to NBC — and not just for sports.

Saturday night’s Game 3 equaled NBC’s lowest rating ever for a prime-time program. Ottawa’s 5-3 victory over Anaheim received a 1.1 national rating and a 2 share, the network said Tuesday. That matched a rerun of The West Wing on July 23, 2005, which also drew a 1.1 rating.

Saturday’s rating was down 31 percent from last year’s Game 3 between Edmonton and Carolina, which had a 1.6/3.

The national ratings for Monday night’s Game 4 declined less sharply from last year. The Ducks’ 3-2 victory received a 1.9/3, down five percent from the 2.0/3 for Game 4 in 2006.

The rating is the percentage watching a telecast among all homes with televisions, and the share is the percentage tuned in to a broadcast among those households with televisions on at the time. A ratings point represents 1,114,000 households.
AP NEWS
The Associated Press News Service

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