Stinque owes an apology to James O’Keefe. Where we dismissed him as a fucking retard with a video camera, we should have credited him as a fucking retard with a video camera who managed to snooker Drudge Jr., Fox News, and the United States Congress.

Our revised judgment comes in light of “Spencer,” a fellow fucking retard with a video camera who had the bright idea of hanging out at the Media Matters office and asking the drones how they felt about working for George Soros.

Neglecting to check beforehand whether George Soros funds Media Matters.

Which — please, if you have a heart condition, look away — he doesn’t.

Well, not directly.

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“Fox News chief Roger Ailes has a license to carry a firearm in New York City on his person at all times, according to the NYPD’s newly released list of handgun-permit holders. And he’s not alone among his Fox News colleagues: Prime-time shouter Sean Hannity also has a city license to carry a gun.” [Yahoo News]

We’d like to thank an unknown commenter at teabagger website “Maine Refounders” for our headline, since it’s Friday and we’re suffering Low Testosterone Cleverness, and our shadow isn’t picking up the slack. We’d also like to apologize for our use of “Tempest in a Teapot” here, but it can’t be avoided:

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If we’re done fretting about Sharia Law in America, let’s have a look in the other direction:

When Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle told a Christian news interviewer this year that “entitlement programs (are) built to make government our God,” she voiced a central tenet of Christian Reconstructionism, according to academics who study the movement.

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While we may fret about the potential desecration of Warner Bros. cartoons, we really don’t care what the studios do with the Hanna-Barbera catalog, which, while certainly a staple of American childhood, wasn’t necessarily a beloved staple.

(Do you remember the Jetsons for the gags or the gizmos? Case closed.)

We will grant that there was worse Saturday-morning fare to be consumed — anything produced by Filmation comes to mind — and we count our blessings that we escaped before the Product Tie-In Apocalypse hit the airwaves.

But Hanna-Barbera cartoons as classics? Well, no. Except for Harvey Birdman. But that was a meta afterthought.

Yogi Bear movie site [via Buzzfeed]

And I am officially old … [D-Listed]

“The United States has confirmed that the ambassador to Japan will attend a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Hiroshima atom bomb drop for the first time.” [telegraph.co.uk]