PLEASE SOMEONE LET ME KNOW WHEN IT'S SAFE TO WATCH CNN AGAIN-- IF EVER. FOR NOW CNN IS BANISHED TO FOX STATUS

Last September I wrote a little piece about some fringe right wing fanatic named Glenn Beck called "The Republican Concept of Taking Responsibility-- Blaming the Victims." Today Media Matters is reporting that Beck just got his own prime time TV show on CNN. Yeah, that's what the U.S. airwaves needs desperately-- more loudmouthed, ill-educated, right wing imbeciles screeching versions of GOP talking points they get from Dei Partei! Thanks CNN-- and good-bye.


WEDNESDAY MORNING UPDATE: CNN BOYCOTT GROWS

My pal Jim informed me that I'm not the only one calling for a boycott of CNN. I may have done it first (yesterday) but R.J. Eskow did it a lot more elegantly. "Enough's enough. CNN's a business, if not a well-run one, and they've crossed an ethical line with the hiring of Glenn Beck. The continued cheapening of American journalism, symbolized by the hiring of Anderson Cooper as the Pat Boone of broadcast news, was bad enough. They've been piling on the right-wing hacks for some time, but Beck is an offense to decent human discourse. He's in David Duke-land. It's time for a boycott."

I wonder if R.J. has already figured out an alternative place to get cookie recipes on tv.