A painful half-hour at the gym. . .
Not painful on account of the exercise, but having to see FOX "News" and CNN side-by-side for 30 minutes. My empirical observation reveals the following simultaneous stories:
CNN: US Attorney purge
FOX: Pussycat Dolls' founder reacts to sorority expulsion at DePauw (with much split-screen ass-shaking)
CNN: Coverage of Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff's remarks on "immorality of gay sex," "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law reviewed
FOX: That wacky Al Gore and the "exaggerated science" of global warming
CNN: Gonzales whines, throws chief of staff under bus, scuttles away (Ed.: Chief of staff looks AMAZINGLY like younger, skinnier Karl Rove, with additional faint resemblance to Herr Flick of the Gestapo from 'Allo, Allo!)
FOX: 6th graders have sex in school
And "The Big Story" feature on FOX this afternoon? Anna Nicole's baby daddy. Lord, but they must be desperate.
Go ahead and broadcast it, guys, but don't call it news, and don't call it "fair and balanced." Invent yourself a logo that states you're an organ of the Rethuglican party, and then I won't care anymore.
I've got to start bringing a book with me to the gym--either that or a trash can to ralph in.
--divageek
IS IT CAN BE IMPEACHMENT TIEM NOW PLEES?
March 13, 2007
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I've got to start bringing a book with me to the gym--either that or a trash can to ralph in.
Or you could bring an iPod or MP3 player. Anything to cover up the sounds coming from the "reporters" at Faux News.
My sympathies are with you, btw.
Maybe sneak in one of those cheap $10 universal remotes and then change the station to Senate and House hearings on C-Span. Then you can watch the Republicans at the gym really start to sweat.
What the hell is up with gyms and Fox News anyway? I just joined a gym, and I've got a choice of either sports or Fox News most of the time. Not really doing much to erase any sterotypical ideas about jocks being dumbasses I started forming back in high school.
I suggest books on tape or learn to speak language of your choice.
Heh. Thanks for the recommendations on how to suffer less. I have an iPod, so sound is not a problem--I don't listen to the dreck. I got all this just from literally watching--there were closed captions. It's just hard to look away, you know?
Time to bring the New Yorker along.
P.S. I love the idea of changing the channel to C-SPAN. Either that or get one of those TV-B-Gone things. . .
True story. I was at the gym on the ellipse machine, going backwards because, well, I was tired of going forwards. Hannity & Not Hannity come on. Green Day's "Jesus of Suburbia" cues up on my earphones. I notice on another teevee that the musical ep of Scrubs is on.
The instant Newt Gingrinch's face appeared alongside Hannity, Green Day started growling out "everyone's so full of shit, born and raised by hypocrites" while Zach Braff and the Scrubs crew sang the Poop Song.
It was one of the most satisfying moments I've had while riding an ellipse machine.
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