So is Fox still running with this whole "fair and balanced" schtick? You can hardly argue anything but the opposite now that this story has broken.

Let's just put the shoe on the other foot, mkay? Had MSNBC, or CBS even, decided to turn down the freakin' President of the United States for air time just because they were sick of pre-empting life-changing shows like "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?" or "Don't Forget the Lyrics!", we would have heard about it for weeks to come a la Rush and Bill.

Gotta hand it to Fox for staying true to their belief of feeding the masses all the bullshit they can digest. Apparently, when there is a lack of crap to shovel you just take your ball and go home.

*note: I realize that they also chose not to run one of Bush's speeches in November of 2001. I'm sure he didn't have anything important to say two months after 9/11 either. "American Idol" or an update on the biggest national tragedy of the decade? what to do, what to do...

Keeping pace with their history of reporting a load of crap,

Fox News boasts this lovely headline today on a "story" that

grabs the headline, but consists of just five sentences:

Is Obama the Divider-in-Chief?

I think my favorite part of this layout is the tag line "Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:" Yes, that is exactly what I would call this drivel. Fresh. New. Steaming even.

Hold on a second...are we supposed to believe that the GOP is really concerned about bipartisanship or the lack thereof? Since January 21st, it seems that the main objective of the Goofy Old Poots is to block any kind of efforts at bipartisanship. They have done nothing to work together, make strides, listen openly, or even attempt to make decisions based on what is good for the country. tap tap...psst...bipartisanship doesn't mean you get your way. It means you compromise.

So today they are claiming that the Obama administration is going to kill bipartisanship if it uses methods to push legislation through via the fastrack. I hate to break it to you bunch of blowhards, but there were no bipartisanship efforts to kill. You've made sure of that. Nice try.

this just in: to prove my point further

Most likely while the first link in this post was being reported to the press via some grandiose announcement, the second link was actually making news. Worried about bipartisanship, huh?

It's about time!

Can we please run this during American Idol, Dancing with the Stars, Grey's Anatomy, and Survivor? Someone besides fellow MSNBC geeks like me need to see this and connect the dots!

...and stock in Crayola just went through the roof

cause he'll use...crayons...to...write it...anyone? anyone?

This Just In...

Rush Limbaugh is a dumbass.

Too vague? Ok, Rush Limbaugh is a drug-addicted jerk who can't resist letting his big mouth overload his ass. Still not giving you any new info?

Then take a look at this story being covered today detailing Rush's understanding of a commonly used format called a pdf.

On Friday's show regarding the stimulus bill Limbaugh claimed that Democrats "have reformatted the bill -- they've made it a PDF [Portable Document Format, created by Adobe Systems] file when they posted it. Now, for those of you that don't use computers, basically what that means is that it cannot be keyword searched. A PDF file is essentially a picture of a page. And, so, you can read every page, but you cannot keyword search it. It's not a text file as legislation normally is as posted on these public websites. They don't want anybody knowing what's in this."

Actually Rush, you computer-illiterate-pill-popping-loudmouth, a pdf file is searchable in many forms if you cared to do a little research prior to spouting off massive amounts of false information to your equally as ignorant listeners who don't have gumption enough to actually research what you tell them and make an informed judgement for themselves. Am I to infer from your comments that you are disappointed for your party because the bill is in a protected form, and therefore unable to be altered and released on Fox News as further fodder for neo-cons to chew on for the next week or month or four years? Too bad. We are smarter than that. And that being said, I am back to my original declaration. Care to join me?

OK all together now, Rush Limbaugh is a dumbass. See?

Pokey

Bush Library Struggling to Raise Funds

Seriously now, how much do Golden Books cost nowadays?

Whip out your best George W. Bush impersonation and enjoy these doozey quotes from the last few months:

"Information is moving -- you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007

(yes, he is still saying "Internets" as of this May!)

"The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear -- I'm a commander guy." --George W. Bush, who apparently is no longer "The Decider," Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007

"Either we'll succeed, or we won't succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not no violence." --George W. Bush, on Iraq, Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007

"And so, what Gen. Petraeus is saying, some early signs, still dangerous, but give me -- give my chance a plan to work." --George W. Bush, in an interview with Charlie Rose, April 24, 2007