We enjoy WorldNetDaily because they provide a concise digest of Wingnut talking points — one-stop shopping for the idiocy du jour. Led by Joseph Farah, whose rug runner doesn’t match his drapes, WND saves us the trouble of paying attention to Rush, Malkin, Fox, NRO, and the guy on the corner who shouts at us as we’re driving to the coffeehouse.

Typical example: “gay” is always rendered in scarequotes. Gotta love ’em.

WND is still running polls and updates on Barry’s birth certificate. And, flogging an issue that dumbfounded us a couple weeks back, they’re still on the warpath against a federal policy that was dropped a generation ago: the Fairness Doctrine.

As you’ll recall, that was the broadcast equal-time rule: If you give an hour to Michael Savage, you’re obligated to resurrect Vladimir Lenin for an opposing viewpoint.

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Dunno what made me think of this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER-2dqd1h3I

Dr. Frank C. Baxter. One of my childhood heroes.

Rick Perry has fans

Ha ha.  Several Republican Governors are considering turning down the state funding from the stimulus package.   These American heroes don’t want to save their economies because it conflicts with their Conservative/Toddler ideology.  Instead, they are hoping to destroy their already piss poor economies, thus further embittering the voters in these poor, backwards, red-necked wonderlands.  Of course, the creation of more bitters only further helps the Republican Party, because if there’s anything we learned from the last election, it’s that the poor white bitter vote will win the election for the Republicans every time (Whoops Pennsylvania!)

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Who cares that the economy is fucked and that we’re fighting two wars – what’s important is protecting Blastocyst-Americans:

North Dakota appears intent on triggering another round of litigation in the hopes of overturning Roe v. Wade. North Dakota’s House of Representatives has voted 51-41 to declare that a fertilized egg has all the rights of any person. The vote would make abortion murder.

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World hero Muntathar al Zaidi faces trial in Baghdad this morning on charges of throwing truth to power, or as Iraqi prosecutors call it, “assaulting a foreign head of state”.

Zaidi has been kept in custody since December 14, when he greeted George W. Bush as a liberator. His lawyer reports that Zaidi has been beaten, presumably by American journalists enraged that he went off script. Conviction could bring a fifteen-year sentence.

Whatever Zaidi’s fate, all that remains of his world-historical shoes is videotape. Police destroyed the Freedom Footwear after testing for chemicals and explosives.

After praise, poetry, Iraqi shoe thrower faces trial [McClatchy]

Scooter-pie Has the Goods On Cheney. When Will He Talk?

Insane genocidal maniac Dick Cheney is living in obvious terror that Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby is going to fuck him over big-time for not securing the presidential pardon that was obviously part of the deal for Scooter-pie to take the fall for outing Valerie Plame, one of the largest and most damaging breaches of intelligence security in modern history as, no shit, Plame’s brief was nuclear non-proliferation, arguably relevant now that the Taliban are one short war away from securing a nuclear party favor of their own.

Anyway, here’s the deal. Cheney was quite used to a very orderly deliberative process in the executive branch. Petroleum company executives, lunatics from the Project for a New American Century, the American Enterprise Institute or sundry fascist front think-tanks and his old employers at Halliburton would call and tell him how they could make some easy money together or advance some lunatic ultra-rightist fantasy. Cheney would get up from his desk, march into Caligutard’s office, wake him from his usual drunken stupor, lift his penis and command Caligutard to chew the smegma from his genitals.

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As promised on the previous thread: a post about programs on the teevee that have no place in an advanced society.  My nomination:

Dateline NBC.  Seriously.  NBC is an honest-to-goodness news gathering organization.  And yet they devote two hours of primetime every week to fluff pieces.  Waste of time — as is CBS’s 48 Hours: Mystery and ABC’s 20/20.  Times are tough, people.  Hard news or GTFO.

Your suggestions for ejection from U.S. American television most welcome.