Current mood:	amused
Entry tags:	hypocrisy, politics, stupidity

Mind Benders from Minder-Binder
The other day on The Daily Show they played a clip from maybe a year or two ago of an economist on FOX news predicting that the real estate bubble would burst and we'd plunge into a recession. The FOX guys were literally laughing at him. Ben Stein just stared at him with that almost facial expression of his and said "you're wrong." I guess Ben Stein knows as much about economics as he does about biology.

In other news from the Kool-Aide Party (well, the Republicans did want to rebrand themselves...) Jon Voight's apparently getting more and more attention. You may recall that he's the actor who told people they shouldn't listen to what actors have to say about politics.

Then there was the Charles Krauthammer column this weekend that condemned Obama as a liar for his big middle eastern speech. The article then failed to actually point out any actual lies in Obama's speech, just policy differences. Golly, Chuck, if you accuse someone of lying and can't point out a single lie, some of us might come to the conclusion that you're lying yourself, libelling the presidents character with malicious acusations you know are false. After all, if there was something in there you really thought was a lie you'd have mentioned it in your article, yes? Of course I don't know for a fact that Krauthammer is guilty of libel. He might just be crazy. Or stupid. Or both. Maybe he, Michelle Malkin and Anne Coulter have a pool going on who can tell the most ridiculous lie without getting called on it by right-wing bloviators like Pat Buchanan and George Will.

There was also that barbie-doll newscaster FOX has who tried to condemn Obama for being popular in the Middle East and realizing in mid-tirade that she didn't know how to spin that to sound like a bad thing. The best she could manage was a sarcastic "well I guess that sounds good on the face of it..." Come on, FOX. Seriously?

In more important news, Stephen Colbert is in Iraq. Yes, we've reached the point where Comedy Central news coverage and political commentary is more significant than what the allegedly serious guys are doing. More people are realizing it, too. Colbert's gotten two former presidents, Senator McCain and his running mate, Joe Biden and President Obama to get involved in this project. He's done an interview with the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq. With FOX only good for a laugh and Comedy Central putting world leaders on their broadcasts it's like the world has gone crazy. Or maybe it's more accurate to say the world was already crazy and this is a sign we're coming back to reality.