Yesterday, as on every Sunday, politicians and those who obsess over them descended on television studios across the—well, across the I-95 corridor. Or at least in NYC and DC, where the various weekly talk shows are shot. And by "yesterday," we mean "taped in advance to be broadcast yesterday." Nonetheless! There was much recitation of many bullet points, and much partisan fuckery, and since we usually find ourselves parked in front of the TV on Sunday mornings trying to figure out what we did last night soaking up the rhetoric, we figured it was high time we started shining a light on the true public enemies. Yes, we're speaking of talking heads.
Sometimes they're politicians, sometimes journalists, sometimes just people who enjoy yelling, but they all have one thing in common: week after week, they make us wonder why they have jobs. We compiled the best of the bunch, and hope that this becomes a weekly endeavor. Because even if our drug use and attitudes toward people mean we can never hold public office or work for a reputable news organization, at the very least we can take a steaming crap on those who do. Especially Monica Crowley...
ROGER AILES
The Show: This Week (ABC)
The Quote:After Paul Krugman (Nobel Prize-winning economist) took the Fox News president for misleading people about the Democrats' proposed health care plans, Ailes gave a nasty little juke, implying that Krugman had called the American people stupid. And when Krugman replied, "no, they're ill-informed," Ailes said, "How many words are in the Constitution? The founding fathers didn't need 2000 pages of lawyers to hide things, then tell people it's an emergency that we get it but it won't go into effect for three years."
Our Reaction: Wait, what? You mean the Constitution, which basically boiled down to "let the states figure it out," didn't have to comprehensively overhaul a bloated industry based on greed and buck-passing? And that has to do with Fox News anchors repeatedly misrepresenting facts...how?
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