Tuesday open thread

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on October 3, 2006 at 1:36 pm

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  1. Drewsmom says:

    I subbed today in high school, my students were good for a change, will wonders never cease.b-)

  2. Severian says:

    In sad sad news today:

    Beer Supply In Trouble!

    :-ss

  3. Mwalimu Daudi says:

    Katie Couric has leaped into 3rd place among the MSM “news” anchors.

    She had 7.5 million compared to NBC’s Brian William’s 8.2 million and Charles Gibson’s 7.6 million. Wow. Let’s party. Yipee.

  4. G Monster says:

    Mwalimu…These numbers tell me there are 23.2 million people that watch the network news. Couldn’t you put anyone in the chair and still get the same results.

    I believe if you put Angelina Jolie or somewhat hot in the position of News Anchor, then you would see a serious shift in viewers.

  5. G Monster says:

    Also, does anyone remember Kathie Lee Gifford being voted the most beautiful woman in the world?

    Not to pick on KLG but the media, people magazine, whoever, are always selecting the most beautiful person in the world.

    I’m not saying they don’t sometimes pick an attractive person, but they forget that they are picking the most beautiful person on thier television.

    If they were to go to any mall in America, or any mall in any country, there are many beautiful people. But I guess your average Joe or Jane doesn’t exist to the elite media.

    I only use mall as an example. There’s beautiful people at the grocery store. The gas station, etc.

  6. Mwalimu Daudi says:

    G Monster:

    Personally I would put Nichelle Nichols in the anchor chair at CBS, Beyonce at NBC, and Kimberly Elise at ABC. Let them talk about anything except the news. Viewership would hit 50 million plus. Give the public pure eye candy rather than the pro-al Qaeda sludge that Gibson, Couric and Williams shovel out every day, and the public will eat out of your hand. Also, the IQ of these networks would automatically rise with the departure of Gibson, Williams and especially Couric (talk about a one-woman walking and talking blonde joke!).

    If we want eye candy plus accurate and intelligent news reporting, then I would put Michelle Malkin at CBS, Harris Faulkner at NBC, and ST at ABC. Viewership would hit 100 million plus.

  7. forest hunter says:

    MD!!!=d> Too bad they don’t listen to you man. They could actually start televising news, as opposed to whatever they refer to their daily crapatus quo!

  8. forest hunter says:

    Wow Sev! I just checked out the link. Can you say DARK beer?

  9. G Monster says:

    Mwalimu,

    Glad we both agree. But really, all the 3 anchors really do is read the news to us. I can read. These people are overpaid.

  10. MG (ret) Frank J Schober Jr says:

    Every day our media our filled with stories that attempt to put our soldiers in the worst possible light. Following is from a recently retired Army Sergeant Major…who pulls no punches..in telling his fellow Americans what he feels. I am confident that most of your blogship will agree with him.
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    Insight of a Sergeant Major (The author, J.D. Pendry, is a retired Army
    Command Sergeant Major who writes for Random House.)

    NO PUNCHES PULLED HERE

    Jimmy Carter, you’re the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the
    Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home and then lacked the spine
    to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people
    hostage. You’re the Runner-in-Chief.

    Bill Clinton, you played “ring around the Lewinsky” while the terrorists
    were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia, and then
    you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses embolden the killers. Each time
    you failed to respond adequately they grew bolder, until 9/11.

    John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute. You lied about
    American Soldiers in Vietnam. Your military service, like your life, is
    more fiction than fact. You’ve accused our Soldiers of terrorizing women
    and in Iraq. You called Iraq the wrong war, wrong place, wrong time… the
    same words you used to describe Vietnam. You’re a fake. You want to run
    from Iraq and abandon the Iraqis to murderers just as you did the
    Vietnamese. Iraq, like Vietnam is another war that you were for, before you
    were against it.

    John Murtha, you said our military was broken. You said we can’t win
    militarily in Iraq. You accused United States Marines of cold-blooded
    murder without proof. And said we should redeploy to Okinawa. Okinawa,
    John? And the Democrats call you their military expert. Are you sure you
    didn’t suffer a traumatic brain injury while you were off building your war
    hero resume? You’re a sad, pitiable, corrupt and washed up politician.
    You’re not a Marine sir. You wouldn’t amount to a pimple on a real Marine’s
    ass. You’re a phony and a disgrace. Run away John.

    Dick Durbin, you accused our Soldiers at Guantanamo of being Nazis, tenders
    of Soviet style gulags and as bad as the regime of Pol Pot who murdered two
    million of his own people after your party abandoned South East Asia to the
    Communists. Now you want to abandon the Iraqis to the same fate. History
    was not a good teacher for you, was it? See Dick run.

    Ted Kennedy, for days on end you held poster-sized pictures from Abu Grhaib
    in front of any available television camera. Al Jazeera quoted you saying
    that Iraqis torture chambers were open under new management. Did you see
    the news this week Teddy? The Islamic Nazis demonstrate real torture for
    you again. If you truly supported our troops, you’d show the world
    poster-sized pictures of that atrocity and demand the annihilation of it.
    Your legislation stripping support from the South Vietnamese which led to a
    communist victory there. You’re a bloated fool bent on repeating the same
    historical blunder that turned freedom-seeking people over to homicidal,
    genocidal maniacs. To paraphrase John Murtha, all while sitting on you
    wide, gin-soaked rear-end in Washington.

    Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Carl Levine, Barbara Boxer, Diane Feinstein, Russ
    Feingold, Hillary Clinton, Pat Leahy, Chuck Schumer et al ad nauseam. Every
    time you stand in front of television cameras and broadcast to the Islamic
    Nazis that we went to war because our President lied. That the war is wrong
    and our Soldiers are torturers. That we should leave Iraq, you give the
    Islamic butchers – the same ones that tortured and mutilated American
    Soldiers – cause to think that we will run away again and all they have to
    do is hang on a little longer.

    American news media, the New York Times particularly. Each time you publish
    stories about national defense secrets and our intelligence gathering
    methods, you become one with the sub-human pieces of camel dung that
    torture and mutilate the bodies of American Soldiers. You can’t strike up
    the courage to publish cartoons, but you can help Al Qaeda destroy my
    country. Actually, you are more dangerous to us than Al Qaeda is. Think
    about that each time you face Mecca to admire your Pulitzer.

    You are America’s axis of idiots. Your collective stupidity will destroy
    us. Self-serving politics and terrorist abetting news scoops are more
    important to you than our national security or the lives of innocent
    civilians and Soldiers. It bothers you that defending ourselves gets in the
    way of your elitist sport of politics and your ignorant editorializing.
    There is as much blood on your hands as is on the hands of murdering
    terrorists. Don’t ever doubt that. Your frolics will only serve to extend
    this war as they extended Vietnam. If you want our Soldiers home, as you
    claim, knock off the crap and try supporting your country ahead of
    supporting your silly political aims and aiding our enemies. Yes, I’m
    questioning your patriotism. Your loyalty ends with -self. I’m also
    questioning why you’re stealing air that decent Americans could be
    breathing. You don’t deserve the protection of our men and women in
    uniform. You need to run away from this war and this country. Leave the war
    to the people who have the will to see it through and the country to people
    who are willing to defend it.

    No Commander in Chief, you don’t get off the hook either. Our country has
    two enemies. Those who want to destroy us from the outside and those who
    attempt it from within. Your Soldiers are dealing with the outside force.
    It’s your obligation to support them by confronting the axis of idiots.
    America must hear it from you that these people are harming our country,
    abetting the enemy and endangering our safety. Well up a little anger
    please, and channel it toward the appropriate target. You must prosecute
    those who leak national security secrets to the media. You must prosecute
    those in the media who knowingly publish those secrets. Our Soldiers need
    you to confront the enemy that they cannot. They need you to do it now.

    This is long but this retired CSM lets it all hang out! This should be sent
    to every person in the USA and that includes the President and the rest of
    our countries leaders… I could have not said it better myself!! It’s time
    we as Americans stood together!

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