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The Road to Confusion

So apparently Glenn Beck is pitching The Road to Serfdom.

I think watching a cross-section of Glenn Beck viewers hammer out their thoughts on this book would make for pretty entertaining television.

This is fun

Newsbusters crows the success of Sarah Palin's new show thus:

While mainstream media members continue to belittle her at every opportunity, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin attracted huge audiences in her first two official appearances as a Fox News Channel contributor.

And goes onto lists stats proving that Fox News consistently destroys everyone else in the ratings (it does)

8PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
The O’Reilly Factor – 3,954,000 viewers (993,000) (1,786,000)
Campbell Brown – 999,000 viewers (284,000) (363,000)
Countdown w/ K. Olbermann – 906,000 viewers (271,000) (510,000)
Coca-Cola: The Real Story – 179,000 viewers (116,000) (91,000)
Nancy Grace – 704,000 viewers (271,000) (351,000)

5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 3,175,000 viewers (852,000) (1,413,000)
Situation Room—1,310,000 viewers (424,000) (610,000)
Hardball w/ C. Matthews —524,000 viewers (101,000) (249,000)
Fast Money —257,000 viewers (a scratch w/37,000) (100,000)
Prime News —288,000 viewers (126,000) (156,000)

So doesn't that mean Fox is the mainstream media?

Burn poor people, burn

Fox News ridicules ACORN for giving smoke detectors to poor people.

Chris Matthews is fucking insane

Matthews just asked Michael Rubin,

"is it possible for Israel to do some Entebbe-style assault and go into Iran and kill 6 or 7 top guys?"

This like asking your dog if he's a good boy and wants a treat. Rubin practically clapped his hands and started to wheeze. This is because (a) bombing Iran gives everyone at the American Enterprise Institute, including the women, a boner and (b) it made Rubin's response, whatever it may be, sound sane by comparison.

Though Rubin gave it a shot,

"What's more feasible is if Iran has buried nuclear materials in underground facilities, [the Israelis] don't have to blow up the facilities, they just have to blow up the entrances."

So there's your false choice. The Israelis can either conduct a raid of the Evil Iranian Hideout and kill the 6-7 top leaders (we presume they hang-out together) or, more prudently, we can bomb the exterior of their nuclear facilities.

Paraphrasing,

"should we invade, or just bomb?"

"great question, Chris."

No, but seriously...

Glenn Beck is batshit

I wonder if Fox News will weigh in on this one

DES MOINES, Iowa - The Des Moines Regional Transit Authority has suspended a driver who refused to drive a bus bearing an ad for an atheist group.

[...]

Shiel says the message is against her Christian faith.

Good thing she's suspended, she'll need the free time to appear on Huckabee.

I don't even like to think it, let alone say it...

But if these assholes keep comparing Obama to Goebbels and Hitler and impressing upon people the immediacy of their cause (whatever that is) and these assholes keep showing up at Obama events with fucking assault rifles.

Well, the likelihood of someone doing something really fucking horrific slowly approaches 1.

Maddow on MTP

I haven't seen any "reviews" of Rachel Maddow's MTP debut, but I thought she handled herself really well.

She took it to Dick Armey (with actual, like written evidence) and didn't for the most part, appear intimidated.

That being said, I was struck how when Rachel would confront Armey or [other RW panelist] Tom Coburn with verifiable evidence that they were liars or fomenting violent protest, she would look at the desk, or the table, or anywhere but their face.

Meanwhile, old pros Armey, Corburn and Tom Daschel, can just look at each other and smile while calling them a lying, murderous asshole.

That says to me that politics is nothing but theater, or their sociopaths, or both.

MTP summary, in case you missed it.

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