I Know Where the Bull Is

While I was trying to eat my oatmeal this morning, the good folks over at Fox News were running this show called Bulls and Bears, hosted by Brenda Buttner. It's supposed to be an opinion program about investing and economics, which is interesting to me, but somehow, the topic of conversation turned to today's Senate vote on the Iraq war resolution, previously approved by the House.

Brenda led the way, saying that it was ridiculous and a "waste of time and money" to have the Senators in the Capitol on a Saturday - when they could otherwise be watching Fox News. Two of the panel members agreed (of course), but when one did not, she was quickly silenced so that Brenda could move to another panel member who would agree with her. They fell back on the usual arguments like how it would be better if they were debating real issues and how this was better because at least the legislators weren't harming the economy by wasting their time with this ... la de da.

Then they went for the jugular. They argued that having this come up for debate sent a signal to the troops that our government was not committed to the war [bang], and this would hurt morale [ka-pow]. Another signal that Democrats are terrorist-friendly [wham] and Republicans are the only people interested in keeping us safe [ouch].

I watched another few minutes, until I started to vomit in my mouth a little, then I switched over to That's So Raven, so I could actually learn something.

When I got home this afternoon, I switched on the TV to check on the progress. CNN had a reporter in Washington and was doing live coverage from the floor. MSNBC was there, and had a live feed. Apparently, those two networks did not share Brenda's and Fox News' viewpoint, and actually dispensed people to report on the events so that their viewers would be informed as to what was happening, instead of listening to claptrap and biased opinion. Go figure.

What was Fox News doing?

They had a reporter in Florida, doing live coverage of the Anna Nicole Smith paternity issue. After that hot-button issue was resolved, they had a panel discussion over the 2003 Pizza Bomber killings.

An informed electorate is a Republican's worst enemy.